Larry Jameson | |
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President of the University of Pennsylvania | |
Acting | |
Assumed office December 12, 2023 | |
Preceded by | Liz Magill |
Personal details | |
Education | University of North Carolina,Chapel Hill (BS,MD,PhD) |
J. Larry Jameson is an American physician-scientist and academic administrator serving as the interim president of the University of Pennsylvania since December 2023. [1] He has served as the dean of the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania since 2011. [2] He is the Robert G. Dunlop professor of medicine and an executive vice president of the University of Pennsylvania Health System. [2]
Jameson earned a BS in Chemistry in 1976 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He also earned both an MD and a PhD in biochemistry from Chapel Hill in 1981. [3]
The Perelman School of Medicine,commonly known as Penn Med,is the medical school of the University of Pennsylvania,a private research university in Philadelphia,Pennsylvania. Founded in 1765,the Perelman School of Medicine is the oldest medical school in the United States and one of the seven Ivy League medical schools.
The University of North Carolina School of Medicine is a professional school within the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It offers a Doctor of Medicine degree along with combined Doctor of Medicine / Doctor of Philosophy or Doctor of Medicine / Master of Public Health degrees.
John Quinn Trojanowski was an American academic research neuroscientist specializing in neurodegeneration. He and his partner,Virginia Man-Yee Lee,MBA,Ph.D.,are noted for identifying the roles of three proteins in neurodegenerative diseases:tau in Alzheimer's disease,alpha-synuclein in Parkinson's disease,and TDP-43 in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal degeneration.
Joel D. Cooper,F.A.C.S.,a thoracic surgeon,is known for having completed the first successful lung transplant and the first successful double lung transplant.
The University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing is an undergraduate and graduate institution at the University of Pennsylvania,located in Philadelphia. According to U.S. News &World Report,the School of Nursing at Penn is among the top-ranked undergraduate and graduate nursing schools in the United States. The School of Nursing receives approximately $480 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health,making it among the most highly funded nursing schools in the country.
Mary Elizabeth Magill is an American legal scholar and academic administrator. She served as the 9th president of the University of Pennsylvania from 2022 to 2023,executive vice president and provost of the University of Virginia from 2019 to 2022,and dean of Stanford Law School from 2012 to 2019.
James M. Wilson is a biomedical researcher with expertise in gene therapy. Wilson graduated from Albion College and the University of Michigan . He completed residency training in Internal Medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at the Whitehead Institute.
Jayaram K Udupa is an Indian-American imaging scientist and academic. He serves as a professor in the Department of Radiology at Perlman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Udupa has worked in the fields of medical image science,image processing,and physics analysis of medical imaging and medical diagnostic procedures since the 1980s. He is known for his contributions in image processing and its applications in various fields of science,medicine,and engineering.
Han-chiao Isaac Chen is a neurosurgeon at the Presbyterian Medical Center of Philadelphia and the Veteran's Administration Medical Center. The Chen Laboratory works to "develop novel methods for restoring the function of the brain after it has been damaged by combining aspects of stem cell biology,neural tissue engineering,and neural interface technologies."
Shelley L. Berger is the Daniel S. Och Professor of cell and developmental biology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Her research focuses on epigenetics.
Donald M. O'Rourke is an American neurosurgeon and the John Templeton,Jr.,MD Professor of Neurosurgery at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He graduated from Harvard University with an A.B. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in 1983,and attended medical school at the University of Pennsylvania where he also completed neurosurgical residency training. He established the institution's human brain tumor tissue bank in 2001. An elected member of the American Academy of Neurological Surgery,his research at the Translational Center of Excellence in the Abramson Cancer Center focuses on Glioblastoma Multiforme,especially the design and investigation of Chimeric Antigen Receptor immune therapies.
Roy Hamilton is professor in the departments of Neurology,Psychiatry,and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at University of Pennsylvania (Penn). He is the Director of Penn's Laboratory for Cognition and Neural Stimulation (LCNS),and launched the Brain Stimulation,Translation,Innovation,and Modulation Center (brainSTIM) at the University of Pennsylvania in 2020.
Sara R. Cherry is an American microbiologist who is John W. Eckman Professor of Medical Science and Professor of Microbiology in Biochemistry and Biophysics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research involves genetic and mechanistic studies of virus–host interactions. During the COVID-19 pandemic,Cherry looked to identify novel therapeutic strategies.
Rinad S. Beidas is an American clinical child psychologist and implementation scientist. She is currently the chair and Ralph Seal Paffenbarger Professor of the department of Medical Social Sciences at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. She was formerly professor of Psychiatry and Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania;Director of the Penn Implementation Science Center (PISCE@LDI);and Director of the Penn Medicine Nudge Unit. She is currently an Associate Director at the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics.
Drew Weissman is an American physician and immunologist known for his contributions to RNA biology. Weissman is the inaugural Roberts Family Professor in Vaccine Research,director of the Penn Institute for RNA Innovation,and professor of medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn).
Rachel Michele Werner is an American physician-economist. She is the first woman and first physician-economist executive director of the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics. In 2018,Werner was elected a Member of the National Academy of Medicine for her investigation into the unintended consequences of quality improvement incentives.
Michael L. Perlis is an American clinical research scientist in insomnia and behavioral sleep medicine. He is Director of the Behavioral Sleep Medicine Program at the University of Pennsylvania,where he is also an associate professor of Psychiatry and Nursing.
Susan Charlene Taylor is an American dermatologist. She is the Bernett L. Johnson,Jr.,M.D. Professor and the vice chair of Diversity,Equity,and Inclusion in the department of dermatology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the 84th president of the American Academy of Dermatology,the first African-American in the role.
Jonathan A. Epstein is an American cellular biologist,cardiologist,and academic administrator serving as the interim executive vice president of the University of Pennsylvania Health System and dean of the Raymond and Ruth Perelman School of Medicine since 2023.
David A. Asch is an American physician-scientist and academic administrator serving as the senior vice dean for strategic initiatives at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the John Morgan professor of medicine.