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Nigel Key, MB, ChB, FRCP has been awarded a 5-year, $2.2 million T32 grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI). Now closely aligned with the benign hematology research areas of focus in the Blood Research Center (hemostasis, thrombosis and sickle cell disease), the program will continue to...

Following is a conversation with a faculty member who is a past-President of the American Heart Association (AHA) and who twice met with US Presidents in the Oval Office to discuss health matters. He is prominent in national and world health, and served as Chair of the World Heart and...

Joshua Niznik, PharmD, PhD was recently accepted into the AGING Initiative MCCs Scholars Program. As one of twelve MCCs Scholars, Dr. Niznik will attend an in-person workshop in Washington D.C. this spring. In addition, he will attend 6 webinars during his scholarship year.

大象传媒 will have a big role in a new National Institutes of Health (NIH) study to advance precision nutrition. The University recently received two of 14 awards as part of the NIH Common Fund鈥檚 of Nutrition for Precision Health, powered by the All of Us Research Program (NPH).

Ron Falk, MD, chair of the Department of Medicine, announced today that Janice Jin Hwang, MD, MHS, has been named Chief of the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism effective September 1, 2022. Hwang will join 大象传媒 from the Yale School of Medicine where she has served as an assistant professor...

Jennifer Maguire, MD, assistant professor of medicine in the division of pulmonary diseases and critical care medicine, has been appointed Director of the Critical Care Selective, a聽required course for every medical student in their final year of undergraduate medical education.聽Sofia Aliaga, MD, who previously held the appointment, is the newly...

Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Honey Jones, DNP, ACNP-BC, MBA, was awarded funding from the Clinical Investment Committee for the 鈥淐ritical Care Advanced Practice Provider Support Program鈥� (CCAPPS). Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology The Osteoarthritis Action Alliance聽received a $100K/one-year grant聽from the NextFifty Initiative.聽Leigh Callahan, PhD, is Director...

In the still overhanging shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic 鈥� Black communities must look to the past to provide the light for our future, by embracing the rituals, traditions and healing modalities of our ancestors. These ways of knowing require a decolonization of thought and practice. 聽(from the聽Association for the...

Klara R. Klein, MD, PhD, fellow in the division of endocrinology and metabolism and trainee in the 大象传媒聽Physician Scientist Training Program, and John Buse, MD, PhD, chief of the division of endocrinology and metabolism, are authors of a new study published in BMJ Open Diabetes Research and Care. Hemoglobin glycation...

Ischemic heart disease is rarely reported in people with cystic fibrosis despite multiple potential risk factors. In a paper published in the聽Journal of Cystic Fibrosis,聽Jennifer Goralski, MD, Sirisha Thambuluru, MD, Katherine (Alex) Despotes, MD, and聽Deepa Kirk, MD, report on two cases of ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), both in young...

Pediatric chronic kidney disease聽(CKD) results from a variety of health conditions that reduce kidney function. CKD can progress to end-stage kidney disease (ESKD), which requires dialysis or kidney transplant.聽While CKD in adults is common and mainly caused by hypertension and diabetes, CKD in children is relatively rare, and caused primarily...

Nephrology Grand Rounds Emily Chang, MD, assistant professor of medicine in the division of nephrology and hypertension, presented Nephrology Grand Rounds in January. The topic was prompted by her own experience with a dialysis patient while working through several medical issues. 鈥淎s an adult nephrologist whose practice consists of a...