Sentences with phrase «medical school chair»
Professor of Microbiology & Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School Chair & Professor; Department of Cancer Immunology & Virology, Dana - Farber Cancer Institute
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«The current state of affairs is a free - for - all,» said Angela McArthur, who directs the body donation program at the University of Minnesota Medical School and formerly chaired her state's anatomical donation commission.
He serves on the board of the following non-public companies and not - for - profit and other organizations: Duke - NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore, LinHart Group PTE Ltd. (Chairman / Director), Manulife US Real Estate Management Pte Ltd. (Chair), National University of Singapore Business School (Management Advisory Board), Singapore Institute of Management (Member of Governing Council) and Singapore Institute of Management Pte Ltd..
Christina Economos is co-Founder and Director of ChildObesity180, the New Balance Chair in Childhood Nutrition, and a Professor at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy and the Medical School at Tufts University.
«Among breast - feeding advocates, this has always been a thorn in our side,» says Melissa Bartick, an instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School and chair of the state's breast - feeding coalition.
A breastfeeding room doesn't have to be fancy, but should have a table, chair and outlet for plug - in pumps, said Dr. Melissa Bartick of Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts Breastfeeding Coalition.
Science and Technology — Subject: Clinical trials Witness (es): Professor Karol Sikora, Medical Director of Cancer Partners UK and Dean, University of Buckingham Medical School and Simon Denegri, NIHR National Director for Public Participation and Engagement in Research and Chair, INVOLVE; Tracey Brown, Managing Director, Sense About Science and Dr Helen Jamison, Deputy Director, Science Media Centre; Sir Kent Woods, Chief Executive,, Dr Janet Wisely, Chief Executive, Health Research Authority, Bill Davidson, Acting Deputy Director and Head of Research Standards and Support, Department of Health and Peter Knight, Deputy Director, Head of Research Information and Intelligence, Department of Health Location: Room 8, Palace of Westminster
Clifford B. Saper, professor of neurology and neuroscience at the Harvard Medical School and chair of the Department of Neurology at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center said that «99 percent of scientists agree — a loss of sleep is deleterious.»
«While biotechnology is being pursued primarily for beneficial and legitimate purposes, there are potential uses that are detrimental to humans, other species, and ecosystems,» said Michael Imperiale, professor and associate chair of microbiology and immunology at the University of Michigan Medical School and chair of the committee that wrote the interim report.
In a new study published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Paller, the Northwestern Medicine chair of dermatology, together with Dr. Emma Guttman - Yassky of Mount Sinai Medical School, discovered that an arm of the immune system — the Th17 pathway — in these patients is way too active, and the higher its activity, the worse the disease severity.
Jake has the ambition and talent to tackle this challenging line of research, and succeeded in demonstrating a potential new strategy to fight metabolic disease,» said Rodney E. Kellems, Ph.D., chair of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at McGovern Medical School.
Endowed Chair in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at McGovern Medical School.
When Zhiqiang An joined The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) Medical School as professor of molecular medicine, Robert A. Welch Distinguished University Chair in Chemistry, and director of the Texas Therapeutics Insti - tute, he had spent 11 years at Merck as a director and had authored two books.
Shatz, then 52, had just been hired by her alma mater, Harvard Medical School, as the first woman to chair the neurobiology department.
The ombudsman office can also help with less formal options, such as reporting a complaint in an anonymous letter to a department chair, says Melissa Brodrick, an ombudswoman at Harvard Medical School.
«The gene has been cloned, and we know it interferes with the production of toxic amyloid fragments,» says Ralph Nixon, a professor of psychiatry and cell biology at New York University School of Medicine and a past chair of the Medical and Scientific Advisory Council of the Alzheimer's Association.
Competing athletes are at the peak of their careers and have trained and practiced for years to be able to participate in the games at a high level,» said lead author Ali Guermazi, M.D., Ph.D., professor and vice chair in the Department of Radiology at Boston University School of Medicine, in Boston, Mass., and musculoskeletal radiologist at Boston Medical Center.
«This research shows how technology can be used to dramatically change the way preventive services are delivered and improve preventative health care,» says senior author Grant M. Greenberg, M.D., M.H.S.A., M.A., assistant professor and associate chair for information management and quality at the Department of Family Medicine at the U-M Medical School and member of the U-M Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation.
The senior authors are Dr. Baozhong Shen, Harbin Medical University Professor of Radiology, Dr. Sanjiv Sam Gambhir, Professor & Chair of Radiology, Stanford University, School of Medicine and Dr. Zhen Cheng, Associate Professor of Radiology, Stanford University, School of Medicine.
Then, this past April, she teamed up with three other scientific superstars — Bruce Alberts, former president of the National Academy of Sciences and former editor - in - chief of Science; Marc W. Kirschner, founding chair of the Department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School; and Harold Varmus, Nobel laureate, former director of NIH, and current director of the National Cancer Institute — to publish «Rescuing US biomedical research from its systemic flaws,» a critique and call for reform that seems already to have altered the course of the workforce debate, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
The university has named Samuel Hawgood, chair of the department of pediatrics and physician in chief of UCSF Children's Hospital, as interim dean of the medical school.
«Many of those traditional Chinese medicine supplements are such adventurous mixtures of multiple ingredients that, quite frankly, nothing surprises me about them,» says Edzard Ernst, chair in complementary medicine at Peninsula Medical School in Exeter, UK.
Physicians now have robust data to help them counsel patients and make informed decisions regarding treatment options,» says study co-author Lloyd P. Aiello, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School, Director of Joslin's Beetham Eye Institute, co-head of Joslin's Section of Vascular Cell Biology, and founding chair of the DRCR Network.
Daniel Sulmasy, Appointee for Member, Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues Dr. Daniel Sulmasy, a Franciscan Friar, holds the Kilbride - Clinton Chair in Medicine and Ethics in the Department of Medicine and Divinity School and is associate director of the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago.
One factor is that the goals of obtaining a grant and making a breakthrough discovery are increasingly at odds, warn Bruce Alberts, former president of the National Academy of Sciences and former editor - in - chief of Science; Marc W. Kirschner, founding chair of the Department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School; Shirley Tilghman, former president of Princeton University; and Harold Varmus, Nobel laureate and former director of the National Cancer Institute, in a highly publicized critique of U.S. biomedical research that was published in April 2014.
But this shouldn't be used as an excuse to skip dreaded physician's visits, cautions Michael LeFevre, a family physician at the University of Missouri medical school and co-vice chair of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, a group of independent experts that evaluates the benefits of preventive measures.
Women make up only 15 percent of permanent department chairs in medical schools and barely 16 percent of medical school deans.
«We've known anecdotally for some time that African Americans are not as successful at getting R01s,» the type of NIH grant typically held by independent investigators, says Wayne Riley, president of Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee, and chair of the Association of Minority Health Professions Schools.
Dr. John D. Scott, professor and chair of pharmacology at the University of Washington School of Medicine and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, along with Dr. F. Donelson Smith of the UW and HHMI, led this study, which also involved Drs. Claire and Patrick Eyers and their group at the University of Liverpool.
According to Professor Coffey, the Foundation Chair of Surgery at UL's Graduate Entry Medical School and University Hospitals Limerick, mesenteric science is its own specific field of medical study in the same way as gastroenterology, neurology and coloprocMedical School and University Hospitals Limerick, mesenteric science is its own specific field of medical study in the same way as gastroenterology, neurology and coloprocmedical study in the same way as gastroenterology, neurology and coloproctology.
But this is a different disease and the treatments that work in sun - caused melanoma don't work in non-sun melanoma,» says William A. Robinson, MD, investigator at the CU Cancer Center and the Rella and Monroe Rifkin Endowed Chair of Medical Oncology at the CU School of Medicine.
«Knowledge of the 3 - D structure of these channels is required to understand the molecular basis of channel opening and closing, and how this process is controlled by a wide variety of endogenous molecules and pharmacological modifiers,» said Rodney Kellems, Ph.D., professor and chair of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at UTHealth Medical School.
«The benefit we saw was remarkably consistent across the individual components of the endpoint and in all the major subgroups of patients,» said Marc S. Sabatine, M.D., M.P.H., chair of the TIMI Study Group, a senior physician in the Cardiovascular Division at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, and the study's principal investigator.
Robert Smith, professor of biochemical pharmacology at St Mary's Hospital Medical School in London and chairman of Britain's Horserace Scientific Advisory Committee, is to chair the new European body.
The four authors are Bruce Alberts, former president of the National Academy of Sciences and former editor - in - chief of Science; Marc Kirschner, founding chair of the Department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School; Shirley Tilghman, former president of Princeton University; and Harold Varmus, Nobel laureate and current director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI).
«More and more research has shown that the USDA pyramid is grossly flawed...» Walter Willett, chair of Harvard University's School of Public Health's Department of Nutrition, and Meir Stampfer, a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, wrote back in 2003,»... the pyramid provides misleading guidance.»
«We found that intensive doses of statins carry the potential for clearing up the lipid debris that can lead to vision impairment in a subset of patients with macular degeneration,» said Joan W. Miller, M.D., the Henry Willard Williams Professor and Chair of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School and Chief of Ophthalmology at Massachusetts Eye and Ear and Massachusetts General Hospital.
As for therapeutics, Xavier, who is also the Kurt Isselbacher Chair in Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Co-Director of the Center for Microbiome Informatics and Therapeutics at MIT, says that knowing which species are absent and which are flourishing in the gastrointestinal tract of children with T1D may help make it possible to slow progression of the disease after onset by revealing ways to manipulate the microbiome and, in turn, microbiome - induced immunoregulation.
Christina Economos, PhD, is a Professor and the New Balance Chair in Childhood Nutrition at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy and Medical School at Tufts University.
«I believe Dr. Landers makes some excellent, thought provoking recommendations,» said Alfred Tallia, MD, MD, MPH, professor and chair of Family Medicine and Community Health at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, «The Home Visit Service at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical Group has experienced an explosive increase in demand for services, and Dr. Landers» recommendations would go a long way to helping us better serve patients in the home, which is where patients prefer to be, and where costs can be significantly less than in other settings.»
The 2015 - 2016 Newcomb Cleveland Prize Selection Committee includes Jeremy Berg, Chair, editor - in - chief, Science; Gyorgy Buzsaki, New York University School of Medicine; Jennifer Doudna, University of California, Berkeley; Harinder Singh, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center; and Maria Zuber, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Maureen G. Phipps, MD, holds the Chace - Joukowsky professorship, is chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and is assistant dean for Teaching and Research on Women's Health at Alpert Medical School.
Dr. Aiello is Director of the Beetham Eye Institute at Joslin Diabetes Center, and Professor of Ophthalmology and Vice Chair of the Department of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School.
He held academic posts at the University of Iowa, Brown University and was Stanley Cobb Professor of Psychiatry and Chair of the Harvard Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Harvard Medical School, prior to coming to UCSD.
A local newspaper reports she may be the only female department chair of a U.S. medical school.
Dr. Stuart H. Orkin, the David G. Nathan Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School and chair, Department of Pediatric Oncology at Dana Farber Cancer Institute, will kick off the meeting as the honorary Mary Sue & Kenneth Coleman Life Sciences Lecturer.
Dr. Martin served as co-director of the UCLA - Caltech Medical Scientist Training Program from 2005 - 2013, Chair of the Department of Biological Chemistry from 2010 - 2015, Chair of the Neuroscience Research Theme Committee from 2013 - 2015 and Chair of the David Geffen School of Medicine Basic Science Chairs from 2012 - 2015.
BETHESDA, MD — The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) has named Edward R.B. McCabe, MD, PhD, Distinguished Professor Emeritus and Inaugural Mattel Executive Endowed Chair of the Department of Pediatrics at the UCLA School of Medicine, and Inaugural Physician - in - Chief at the UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital, and former Chief Medical Officer of the March of Dimes, as the 2017 recipient of the Advocacy Award.
Sagar Lonial, MD, FACP Professor, Emory School of Medicine Chair, Department of Hematology & Medical Oncology Chief Medical Officer Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University Atlanta, GA
If effective, this treatment could be helpful to a huge segment of stroke patients to reduce their disability,» said James C. Grotta, M.D., Roy M. and Phyllis Gough Huffington Distinguished Professor of Neurology and chair of the Department of Neurology at the medical school.