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Baylor ranked 12th on national list of medical schools |
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Faculty named to endowed chairs |
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McKnight Endowment Fund awarded to Baylor professor |
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Baylor Neurologist Honored for ALS Research |
Baylor ranked 12th on national list of medical schools
Baylor College of Medicine in Houston ranked 12th among all U.S. medical
schools in an annual survey published by U.S. News & World Report.
Baylor, which tied with Weill Medical College of Cornell University, moved
up one position from its 13th ranking last year.
Only one other Texas medical school made the top 50 list for research-intensive
schools, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical School at Dallas,
which ranked 16th in a tie with the University of California-San Diego.
The University of North Texas Health Science Center was listed 20th for
the primary care category. The medical school rankings are one component
of U.S. News & World Report’s annual publication, America’s
Best Graduate Schools.
In programs, Baylor ranked 10th in nursing-anesthesia, and seventh for its physician assistant program. In addition, Baylor was listed as 26th in primary care. Primary care includes internal medicine, family practice and some specialties such as pediatrics.
The annual survey included 125 medical schools fully accredited by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education, plus the 19 schools of osteopathic medicine fully accredited by the American Osteopathic Association. The rankings are based on a weighted average of seven “indicators” that includes average undergraduate GPAs, average MCAT (Medical College Aptitude Test) scores, acceptance rate, NIH research grants, faculty-to-student ratio, out-of-state tuition and fees, and total medical school enrollment. In addition, peer-assessment surveys of medical and osteopathic school deans, deans of academic affairs, and heads of internal medicine or directors of admissions rate program quality on a scale of one-to-five.
Faculty named to endowed chairs
The board of trustees at Baylor College of Medicine named six faculty members to the following endowed chair positions recently:
- Dr. Mark Entman, the William J. Osher Chair in Cardiovascular Research in the Department of Medicine.
- Dr. Glen O. Gabbard, the Brown Foundation Chair of Psychoanalysis in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.
- Dr. Lauren B. Marangell, the Brown Foundation Chair of the Psychopharmacology of Mood Disorders in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.
- Dr. Brian J. Miles, the Distinguished Cullen Chair in Urology.
- Dr. C. Kent Osborne, the Dudley and Tina Sharp Chair for Cancer Research.
- Dr. Kevin Slawin, the Dan Duncan Chair in Prostate Disease.
Entman joined Baylor as an assistant professor of medicine in 1970 and recently served as principal investigator and scientific director at the DeBakey Heart Center at Baylor and The Methodist Hospital. He was formerly a Howard Hughes Investigator and has been the recipient of numerous academic awards and honors including the Outstanding Research Award from the International Society of Heart Research.
Gabbard is joint editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis and the author of 16 books in the field of psychiatry. He has received numerous awards and honors, including the Sigourney Award for outstanding contributions to psychoanalysis.
Marangell joined Baylor in 1994 and is currently the director of clinical psychopharmacology and the Mood Disorders Center. She has received numerous awards including the Laughlin Fellowship of the American College of Psychiatrists and the Young Investigators Award from the National Alliance for Research in Schizophrenia.
Miles joined Baylor in 1992 and has served as director of education in
the Scott Department of Urology since 1994. In 2000, he was listed in
America’s Top Doctors on the basis of a national selection process
of peers from around the nation.
Osborne, a world-renowned breast cancer researcher, has served as the
director of the Baylor Breast Center since 1999 and is a member of the
Association of American Physicians, the Endocrine Society and the American
Association for Cancer Research.
Slawin is director of the Baylor Prostate Center and is a leader in prostate
cancer research and clinical care. He has been designated among the Best
Doctors in America in 2001-2002 and was named “Eminent Scientist
and Outstanding Scholar of the Year 2001” by the International Research
Promotion Council.
McKnight Endowment Fund awarded to Baylor professor
The McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience will fund seven research projects across the country, including a three-year, $300,000 award to Ronald Davis, PhD, vice chairman for research in the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Baylor College of Medicine. He will work in collaboration with Lauren Marangell, MD, director of the Mood Disorders Center at Baylor.
The award is given to researchers studying new approaches to diagnosing, preventing, and treating injuries or diseases affecting the brain and spinal cord.
Davis' work has focused on the genes associated with learning and behavior, specifically in the fruit fly and the mouse. He will be investigating whether humans with mood disorders have changes in the seven genes found in those model organisms.
The McKnight Endowment Fund created the Neuroscience of Brain Disorders Awards to help translate basic laboratory discoveries in neuroscience into clinical benefits for patients.
Baylor Neurologist Honored for ALS Research
Stanley H. Appel, MD, professor and chairman of the department of neurology at Baylor College of Medicine, was awarded the 2003 American Academy of Neurology Sheila Essey Award for ALS Research on April 2.
Appel received the award during the American Academy of Neurology’s 55th Annual Meeting in Honolulu for his research “Inflammation in Neurodegenerative Disease: Lessons from Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis.”
The Sheila Essey Award recognizes individuals who have made significant contributions in research in the search for the cause, treatment, prevention and cure for ALS. The award, supported through the philanthropy of the Essey family, is presented by the American Academy of Neurology and the ALS Association.
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