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News from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Harvard Geriatrician Joins UAMS Faculty
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MAY 9, 2002 | A
geriatrician from Harvard University Medical
School has joined the faculty of the College of Medicine at the
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS).
Jeanne Yichen Wei, M.D., Ph.D., is the new executive vice
chairman of the Donald W. Reynolds Department of Geriatrics.
David A. Lipschitz, M.D., Ph.D., announced her appointment
today.
Dr. Wei will join the faculty at UAMS July 1. Dr. Wei has held
an appointment as associate professor of medicine at Harvard
since 1987. She
also holds the post of senior physician at Beth Israel Deaconess
Medical Center.
“We intended the Reynolds
Department of Geriatrics to become a magnet that would attract
outstanding researchers and geriatricians to the faculty, and
this new academic appointment is proof of our new ability to
recruit top talent to Arkansas,” Dr. Lipschitz said.
“I’m
delighted to join a ‘Top 10’ department,” Dr. Wei said,
referring to the recent designation of the UAMS department by
the news magazine U.S. News & World Report. “I
believe the program in Arkansas will continue to advance in
stature and national recognition, and I look forward to being a
part of it.”
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Jeanne Wei, M.D., Ph.D.
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Dr. Wei holds several licenses and certifications, including
that of Diplomate, Certificate of Added Qualification in
Geriatric Medicine from the American Board of Internal Medicine.
She is a sought-after speaker and visiting professor, and has
won many honors during her career, including that of Daniel D.
Federman Outstanding Clinical Educator from the Harvard Medical
School Class of 2000, keynote speaker at the 42nd
annual meeting of The Japan Geriatric Society, and nomination
for the S. Robert Stone Award for Excellence in Teaching from
Harvard Medical School.
She has been active in many regional and national
professional organizations and committees, focusing in recent
years on geriatrics. She has served on the editorial boards of
many journals and as an editorial consultant. She is the author
or co-author of 121 medical research reports, six books,
including Aging Well: The Complete Guide to Physical and
Emotional Health (Wiley, 2000); and more than 50 reviews.
Also an inventor, she holds two medical-related U.S. patents.
Her major research interests are the effects of age on
cardiovascular homeostasis, biology of aging, and mechanisms of
cardiac dysfunction.
Two colleagues of Dr. Wei in Boston will join her in the
department at UAMS. Xiaomin Zhang, M.D., Ph.D., an instructor at
Beth Israel Deaconess and Harvard Institutes of Medicine, holds
degrees from Nantong Medical College and Zhejiang Medical
College in China and University Montpelier II in France. Ying
Zhong, M.D., a research assistant in the Laboratory of Nutrition
and Metabolism in the Department of Surgery at Beth Israel
Deaconness Medical Center in Boston, is a graduate of Nantong
Medical College in China.
Links on This Page
UAMS Geriatrics Program: http://www.uams.edu/today/2002/041802/usnews.htm
Schmieding Center: http://www.uams.edu/today/2002/041102/schmieding.htm
UAMS Scientists First: http://www.uams.edu/today/2002/013102/peterson.htm
Department of Geriatrics: http://www.geriatrics.uams.edu/default.asp
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