Victor J. Dzau
Victor Joseph Dzau (Chinese 曹文凱, born October 23, 1946 in Shanghai ) is a Chinese - American cardiologist . Since July 2014, Dzau has been President of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM, formerly Institute of Medicine , IOM).
Life
Dzau's family fled Shanghai to Hong Kong in 1950 when the father's chemical plant was nationalized. Victor Dzau was later sent to Canada to study medicine, graduating from McGill University in Montreal with an MD in 1972 . He then worked as an intern at the Cornell Medical Center of the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City , before moving to the Brigham and Women's Hospital at Harvard University in Boston , Massachusetts in 1973 . In 1984 he took over the management of the department for angiology and atherosclerosis there . Between 1990 and 1996 he headed the Department of Internal Medicine at Stanford University in Stanford , California before returning to Harvard University in 1996 as Head of Internal Medicine . Since 2004, he has worked at Duke University's University Hospital in Durham , North Carolina . Until 2014 he was Chancellor for Health Matters, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the University Medicine and Professor of Internal Medicine and Director of the Institute for Molecular and Genomic Vascular Medicine. He has been President of the National Academy of Medicine since 2014 .
Dzau is married and has two daughters.
Act
Dzau does translational research . He has presented fundamental work on the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAAS) and is considered a pioneer in the treatment of heart failure and arterial hypertension , especially with regard to the use of ACE inhibitors . Dzau develops gene therapy and cell therapy methods for the treatment of coronary heart disease (CHD). In particular, attempts are made to protect the veins that are used to create a coronary artery bypass against recurrent atherosclerosis . Dzau was the first to decoy DNA (DNA decoy) to block unwanted transcription began.
Dzau runs initiatives to improve the health situation of socially disadvantaged people. To this end, he founded at the Brigham and Women's Hospital , a Department of Social Medicine and Health differences (Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities) and installed on the entire Duke University, an interdisciplinary health initiative for local, national and international improving health care of disadvantaged people.
Awards (selection)
- 1998 member of the Institute of Medicine
- 2000 membership in the Academia Sinica
- 2004 Max Delbrück Medal
- 2012 member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Membership in the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
- six honorary doctorates
literature
- Who's Who in America. 66th Edition, Volume 1: A – L. Marquis Who's Who, Berkeley Heights 2011, ISBN 978-0-8379-7031-8 (Volume 1), ISBN 978-0-8379-7035-6 (Complete Works ), ISSN 0083-9396 , p. 1218
Web links
- National Academy of Medicine - NAM Leadership. In: nam.edu. Retrieved February 7, 2016 .
- Previous Chancellors - Duke Medicine. In: corporate.dukemedicine.org. Retrieved February 7, 2016 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Victor J. Dzau at the Academia Sinica (sinica.edu.tw); Retrieved June 22, 2011
- ^ Victor J. Dzau from Duke University Awarded Max Delbrück Medal at mdc-berlin.de; accessed on May 21, 2019.
- ^ Members of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (euro-acad.eu); Retrieved June 22, 2011
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dzau, Victor J. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dzau, Victor; 曹文凱 |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Chinese-American cardiologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 23, 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Shanghai |