Catarina Kiefe, MD, PhD, has been named director of the Medical Scientist Training Application at UMass Chan Medical College.
Her appointment was announced by Terence R. Flotte, MD, the Celia and Isaac Haidak Professor, govt deputy chancellor, provost and dean of the T.H. Chan College of Medicine Anne Larkin, MD, affiliate professor of medical procedures and vice provost for academic affairs and Mary Ellen Lane, PhD, dean of the Morningside Graduate College of Biomedical Sciences.
“Our software is vibrant, highly productive and going in a quite beneficial course. It is a wonderful honor to have been specified the opportunity to step into the shoes of its earlier director,” reported Dr. Kiefe, the Melvin S. and Sandra L. Cutler Chair in Biomedical Investigation and professor of population & quantitative wellbeing sciences. “This application is just one of the jewels of UMass Chan and I take into consideration our MD/PhD pupils to be a person of the most amazing, dynamic and academically promising groups of early-stage health practitioner-scientists that I have ever fulfilled.”
Kiefe succeeds Silvia Corvera, MD, the Endowed Chair in Diabetic issues Analysis and professor of molecular medication. Jonathan Kay, MD, the Timothy S. and Elaine L. Peterson Chair in Rheumatology and professor of drugs, will continue to serve as affiliate director.
The target of the UMass Chan MD/PhD application is to teach physician-scientists who will make considerable contributions to wellbeing treatment and tutorial drugs. It is a single of only 53 MD/PhD programs nationwide supported with Healthcare Scientist Teaching System funding from the Countrywide Institutes of Well being, symbolizing recognition of its excellence and rigor.
Kiefe started the UMass Chan Department of Inhabitants & Quantitative Wellbeing Sciences in 2009 and led it for 10 decades, serving because 2019 as main scientific officer. All through her job she has combined the objectivity of mathematics with the human desires of clinical medication to make improvements to health treatment results for men and women and populations. She has been funded by NIH as a principal investigator for more than 30 years and has much more than 300 peer-reviewed publications.
Most noticeably for her new function, Kiefe has been a principal mentor to extra than 100 young professionals, ranging from undergraduates as a result of junior faculty and which include medical and MD/PhD learners. She is also the founding principal investigator of a number of NIH-funded training grants.
“The two factors I really like most in educational drugs are nurturing the future era of experts and medical professionals, and building new know-how,” she explained.
“I am pretty thrilled to perform with Dr. Kiefe in this job,” reported Dean Lane. “She delivers a long time of experience as a doctor-scientist, a successful observe document with training grants, and a sturdy commitment to the students, faculty, staff members and leadership of UMass Chan. We are pretty very pleased of our MD/PhD software and I am confident that we will continue to bring in and train gifted future health practitioner scientist leaders.”
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