Newswise — Oct. 26, 2022 – George Alba, MD, of Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard has been named the inaugural American Thoracic Society/American Lung Association/American College of Chest Physicians-Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program Scholar.
“I americium immensely grateful to the American Thoracic Society, the American Lung Association and the American College of Chest Physicians for partnering with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to money this initiative,” said Dr. Alba. “I started my inferior module vocation arsenic a physician-investigator successful pulmonary and captious attraction medicine connected the eve of a planetary viral respiratory pandemic that strained our community, laid bare long-standing inequities successful medicine, and underscored the captious request to foster a divers world aesculapian workforce.”
Lauded arsenic an exceptional campaigner by the Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program (AMFDP) Advisory Committee, Dr. Alba volition officially go a student connected July 1, 2023. He volition person $420,000 implicit 4 years to enactment his research.
“This grant comes astatine a captious clip for my career: it ensures I tin proceed my probe connected pulmonary vascular thrombosis portion allowing maine the flexibility to widen the enactment into acute respiratory distress syndrome,” said Dr. Alba. “I look guardant to moving connected this task with my section mentors portion receiving further layers of mentorship and sponsorship from the distinguished members of the Harold Amos National Advisory Committee.”
“After reviewing an awesome radical of candidates, Dr. Alba stood retired arsenic an outstanding applicant deserving of this scholarship,” said David Wilkes, MD, nationalist manager of the Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and a subordinate of the American Thoracic Society and the American College of Chest Physicians (CHEST). “I americium looking guardant to witnessing his maturation implicit the adjacent 4 years arsenic helium continues to augment our cognition successful pulmonary medicine. The aboriginal of lung illness probe is successful bully hands.”
"We are highly arrogant that our partners successful respiratory medicine person joined with america to talk with a corporate dependable astir the value of diverseness successful our tract and to put successful the AMFDP,” said ATS President, Gregory Downey, MD, ATSF. He added: “The tract volition astir surely payment from Dr. Alba’s contributions successful accelerating probe portion rising to the juncture arsenic a relation exemplary for different inferior researchers from historically-marginalized backgrounds.”
“The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated however broadly colonisation wellness could amended with much progressive discoveries in, and caller knowing of, acute respiratory disease,” says David Schulman, MD, MPH, FCCP, president of the American College of Chest Physicians. “Projects similar those being led by Dr. Alba volition let america to proceed to beforehand respiratory medicine, portion simultaneously improving diverseness and inclusion wrong wellness care. This volition not lone pb to improved outcomes for our patients but volition besides amended the spot that the nationalist has successful the wellness attraction system.”
"It is captious to the advancement of lung wellness and the attraction of patients to person physicians and scientists from divers backgrounds, truthful we are honored to supply enactment for Dr. Alba and summation diverseness successful pulmonary medicine,” said Harold Wimmer, president and CEO of the American Lung Association. “We invited Dr. Alba to the American Lung Association Research Team and look guardant to seeing however his probe improves lung wellness for each Americans.”
Developed to summation the fig of module from historically marginalized backgrounds pursuing careers successful medicine, dentistry, oregon nursing, the AMFDP invites applicants to use each twelvemonth to assistance signifier medicine into a much equitable, much accessible practice.
Interested successful applying successful 2023? Register here.
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