Sentences with phrase «also chair of the department»

Siau is also the chair of the department.

Instead of dilating and increasing blood flow to the heart during stress, in women the tiny blood vessels are constricted, leading to areas of reduced blood flow,» said Vaccarino, who is also chair of the department of epidemiology at the Emory University School of Public Health.

Not exact matches

Yet, while Shelley Hwang, chief of breast surgery at Duke Cancer Institute and vice chair of research at Duke University's Department of Surgery, agrees in principle, she also has concerns about all the new diagnostic potential that will come with precision medicine.

Corzine also chaired a presidential commission on capital budgeting for Bill Clinton and served as Chairman of the U.S. Treasury Department's borrowing committee.

Rich Barton participated in PAGE kick - off meetings in Washington, D.C., chaired by U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker that also involved President Obama and other senior - level officials from the U.S. Department of State and U.S. Agency for International Development.

In addition to almost two decades in the classroom, she has served as department chair, both academic and also grade level Dean, a parent and faculty educator, and a leader of curriculum reform.

Legislator Dixon also met with Dr. Bonaccio and Dr. Christine Ambrosone, Chair of the Department of Cancer Prevention and Control, to hear an update on Roswell's research and screening efforts to prevent and treat breast cancer, helping more women beat this terrible disease.

Committee chair Frank Field wanted to know if the department for work and pensions collected data not just for the total number of people who waited longer than six weeks but also how many waited eight, nine or even ten weeks.

The suit also alleges that former Mayor Bloomberg's 11th - hour appointment in December of former Department of Investigation Commissioner Rose Gill Hearn to chair the Board was done illegally by «circumventing» a selection process outlined in the City Charter.

The commission is under the leadership of Chair Carl Weisbrod, who is also the commissioner of the city's Department of City Planning and serves at the discretion of the mayor.

Attending last week's meeting were Murphy, Jim Malatras, director of state operations, Tom Congdon, the executive deputy at the Department of Public Service, Assemblywoman Amy Paulin, who chairs the chamber's Energy Committee and Assemblywomen Sandy Galef, a Democrat who also represents the area around Indian Point, among others.

You just can not,» says Rachubinski, who is also chair of the U of A's Department of Cell Biology.

According to Srikumar P. Chellappan, Ph.D., chair of the Department of Tumor Biology at Moffitt, «these cells can also contribute to the metastasis of tumors as well as the reappearance of tumors after they have been eliminated from the body.»

«While these patients also suffer heart attacks and strokes, hospitalizations for heart failure represent their predominant problem, which is also a major burden to society,» said Eldrin Lewis, MD, advanced heart failure specialist, BWH Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, who chaired the TOPCAT Clinical Endpoints Committee.

That's positive news for educators, said Michael Weisberg, professor and chair of Penn's philosophy department, also in the School of Arts and Sciences.

Professor Don Levitan, chair of the Department of Biological Science, writes in the latest issue of Marine Ecology Progress Series that bleaching — a process where high water temperatures or UV light stresses the coral to the point where it loses its symbiotic algal partner that provides the coral with color — is also affecting the long - term fertility of the coral.

I also have had extremely supportive department chairs over the years who, for example, provided additional start - up funds as my lab expanded and did not allow me to put my salary support in the budgets of my first grants (which left more money in those grants to pay for research).

«We found bazedoxifene binds to the estrogen receptor and interferes with its activity, but the surprising thing we then found was that it also degrades the receptor; it gets rid of it,» said senior author Donald McDonnell, PhD, chair of Duke's Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology.

Rangnekar, a professor in the department of radiation medicine, also holds the Alfred Cohen Endowed Chair in Oncology Research.

«When we looked at data for the people who had never smoked, we also found evidence that having severe periodontal disease was related to an increased risk of lung cancer and colorectal cancer,» said Elizabeth Platz, Sc.D., deputy chair of the department of epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and co-leader of the Cancer Prevention and Control Program at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center.

Mikulski, a long - time booster of science, is also chair of the Senate spending panel that funds NSF, NASA, and the key research agencies within the Department of Commerce.

It also helps that the chair of UCLA's human genetics department, Kenneth Lange, was trained as a mathematician.

He also chaired the United Kingdom's Medical Research Council between 1996 and 2004, and was head of the departments of Physiology, Anatomy, and Genetics at Oxford University.

«Drinking alcohol has a number of effects on your body that can impact your skin,» says board - certified dermatologist and study author Abrar A. Qureshi, MD, MPH, FAAD, chair of the department of dermatology at Brown University in Providence, R.I. «While alcohol has been linked to a variety of skin disorders, including psoriasis and acne, our research suggests that it's also associated with the development of rosacea in women.»

Also appearing at the press conference was Carol Greider, a 2009 Nobel Prize winner in physiology or medicine who chairs the department of molecular biology and genetics at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.

The research team, led by Nicola C. Partridge, PhD, professor and chair of the Department of Basic Science and Craniofacial Biology at NYU Dentistry, had previously found that MCP - 1 is important in producing an anabolic effect of PTH, in which bone formation is increased, and they wanted to know if it was also important in causing a catabolic effect, in which bone is broken down.

I am also proud to acknowledge that LSU has become the nation?s leading producer of African - American PhDs in chemistry during my tenure as a faculty member and chair of the chemistry department.

He also chairs the policy board for the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, the Department of Energy's high - performance computing center for scientific research.

Dr. Kunle Odunsi is the deputy director of the Roswell Park Cancer Institute, where he also serves as the chair of the Department of Gynecologic Oncology, the executive director of the Center for Immunotherapy, and the co-Leader of the Tumor Immunology and Immunotherapy research program.

-- Two new basic science department chairs joined the faculty: James Broach became chair of Biochemistry and Microbiology in January and also serves as director of the Institute for Personalized Medicine, and Aron Lukacher became chair of Microbiology and Immunology in February.

From 1999 until 2010 he chaired the Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology at the University of Ioannina School of Medicine in Greece, as a tenured professor since 2003, and he has also held adjunct professor appointments at Harvard, Tufts, and Imperial College.

«In theory, it could lower the dose for cure for many cancers, which is great progress because any amount we can reduce the radiation means fewer complications,» said study co-author Ralph Weichselbaum, the Daniel K. Ludwig Distinguished Service Professor and chair of the Department of Radiation and Cellular Oncology, «and we also hope that the potential activation of the immune system may help us treat tumors that we just can't reach today.»

He also is Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar and Chair in Cancer Research there, Lawrence W. Davis Professor and chairman of the Department of Radiation Oncology for the Emory University School of Medicine and associate vice president for cancer for Emory's Woodruff Health Sciences Center.

He has also been named the Helen M. Ranney Endowed Chair, the school's first faculty - funded endowed chair, founded in 1991 in honor of the department's second cChair, the school's first faculty - funded endowed chair, founded in 1991 in honor of the department's second cchair, founded in 1991 in honor of the department's second chairchair.

He is also Professor and Chair of the Department of Gynecologic Oncology, the M. Steven Piver Endowed Professor of Gynecologic Oncology at RPCI, and the Executive Director of the Center for Immunotherapy at RPCI.

«Chuck was highly respected by his research and clinical colleagues and was a popular mentor, not only for many medical students and pediatric residents, but also for fellows and junior faculty,» said John Cunningham, MD, Donald N. Pritzker Professor and interim chair of the Department of Pediatrics at the university.

Stenseth is also Professor and Chair of the Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis, which is based at the Department of Biology, University of Oslo, and is dedicated to the integration of interdisciplinary scientific fields to study ecological and evolutionary processes.

George Holden, chair of Southern Methodist University's department of psychology in Dallas, also urges parental intervention.

A doctor can also fail to get enough of a tissue, blood, or urine sample or take a sample from the wrong place, perhaps giving a false - negative result when disease is present, explains David S. Wilkinson, MD, PhD, professor and chair of the department of pathology at Virginia Commonwealth University, in Richmond, Va., and chair of the quality - practice committee for the College of American Pathologists, which accredits U.S. and foreign labs.

Dr. Walter Willett, the chair of the Department of Nutrition at Harvard School of Public Health, also thought this was a reasonably done study, but he added it is difficult to make conclusions about the risk of heart disease from a study so small and short.

Once he arrives in Binghamton, Keith meets several of his fellow professors, including the sentimental department chair, Dr. Lerner (J.K. Simmons), who's also a former Navy Seal; his next door neighbor, Jim (Chris Elliott), who's a Shakespeare - reciting professor; and a sensitive women's studies professor, Mary Weldon (Allison Janney), who's easily insulted by the screenwriter's approach to both his professional and personal lives.

We at the Learning First Alliance recently interviewed two representatives of ABC to find out: Richard Saldana a high school teacher and department chair who also serves on the executive board of the ABC Federation of Teachers, and Tanya Golden, a sixth grade teacher who also serves as a teacher leader.

Most teachers described their department chairs as being in charge of the departmental budget; they also said that teacher leaders have a responsibility to attend team - leadership meetings called by the principal.

He also chaired the Independent Advisory Panel of the National Assessment of Career and Technical Education for the U.S. Department of Education, and currently chairs the National Research Council's Board on Science Education.

Others also dropped by, including my department chair and the dean of girls, who both gave encouragement and guidance to improve my performance.

If you are so inclined, you may also want to read the recent Washington Post (10.24.16) article, entitled «The big problem with the Obama administration's new teacher - education regulations», in which the chair of Connecticut College's Education Department co-wrote that the «academy provisions» which were incorporated into ESSA (after initially being developed by the two charter lobbyist organizations New Schools Venture Fund and Relay Graduate School of Education) would exempt «entrepreneurial «start - up programs» (i.e. teacher preparation «academies»)... from many of the requirements that states will enforce for other programs — such as hiring faculty who hold advanced degrees or conduct research, holding students to certain credit hours or course sequences, or securing accreditation from the field's accrediting bodies.»

Dr. David Francis, Ph.D., is a Professor and Distinguished Chair of Quantitative Methods in the Department of Psychology at the University of Houston, where he also serves as Director of the Texas Institute for Measurement, Evaluation, and Statistics.

In addition to the aforementioned responsibilities, the CFO also serves as the Vice Chair of the Department's Credit Council.

Dr Sal Severe is currently the Clinical Director of Flor del Sol alternative school in the Cartwright School District in Arizona, where he also chairs the Psychological Services Department.

She also serves as the Chair of the Shelter Standards Task Force of the Association of Shelter Veterinarians and as Adjunct Assistant Professor of Shelter Medicine in the Department of Pathobiology at the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine.