Charles H Hennekens MD Named Adjunct Professor at Meharry Medical College
FAU Sir Richard Doll Research Professor Named Adjunct Professor at Meharry Medical College.
- (1888PressRelease) April 30, 2013 - Charles H. Hennekens, M.D., DrPH, the first Sir Richard Doll Research Professor as well as first recipient of an endowed chair in the new Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine at Florida Atlantic University, has been appointed as Adjunct Professor and Family and Community Medicine at Meharry Medical College. This appointment formalizes the long standing collaborations between Hennekens at Florida Atlantic University and Professor Robert S. Levine, MD, and his colleagues at Meharry Medical College to reduce racial disparities in health. Both institutions recognize that these collaborations are vital as well as consistent with their missions.
While Hennekens has noted that "Death is inevitable but premature death is not", he and Levine have documented the persistence of racial disparities in health and mortality during the last 50 years in the United States that have resulted in about 4.4 million premature deaths among African-Americans.
Hennekens and Levine and colleagues at Meharry believe that reducing disparities in access to healthcare as well as its utilization are necessary but will not be sufficient. They advocate further research, teaching, and training in preventive medicine with a particular focus on minority health.
The collaborations of Hennekens and Levine and their colleagues at Meharry have resulted in 46 peer reviewed publications. According to Science Watch, Hennekens was the third most widely cited medical researcher in the world from 1995-2005, and five of the top 20 were his former trainees and/or fellows. Hennekens has been ranked #81 in the history of the world by Science Heroes for saving over 1 million lives.
About Charles Hennekens -
Currently serving as the first Sir Richard Doll Research Professor at the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida, where he resides. He is also Voluntary Professor of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and Meharry Medical College, Clinical Professor of Preventive Medicine at Nova Southeastern University, and Visiting Fellow at Green College and the Clinical Trial Service and Epidemiology Studies Unit (CTSU) at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom where he spent a year studying with Sir Richard Doll and Sir Richard Peto while funded by a Research Career Development Award from the US NIH. He is also Chair or a member of numerous independent Data and Safety Monitoring Boards for large-scale randomized trials. Can be found on a variety of Social Media sites including Facebook, YouTube, Pinterest and Twitter by searching Charles Hennekens.
About Florida Atlantic University -
Florida Atlantic University, established in 1961, officially opened its doors in 1964 as the fifth public university in Florida. Today, the University serves more than 29,000 undergraduate and graduate students on seven campuses and sites. FAU's world-class teaching and research faculty serves students through 10 colleges: the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, the College of Business, the College for Design and Social Inquiry, the College of Education, the College of Engineering and Computer Science, the Graduate College, the Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College, the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, the Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing and the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science. FAU is ranked as a High Research Activity institution by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
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