Renowned preterm commencement adept to pb efforts to amended women’s wellness and amended and empower women researchers
- New York, NY
- (November 15, 2022)
Michal A. Elovitz, MD, a renowned person successful maternal-fetal medicine and adept successful preterm birth, has been named Dean for Women’s Health Research and Director of the Center for the Advancement of Female Biology astatine the Icahn School of Medicine astatine Mount Sinai. She volition articulation the schoolhouse connected Wednesday, March 1, 2023.
In these caller positions, Dr. Elovitz volition beforehand probe into women’s wellness and pistillate biology crossed each large departments and institutes wrong Icahn Mount Sinai, which includes launching caller multidisciplinary studies related to women’s wellness and sex-specific and pistillate biology, and collaborating with The Blavatnik Family Women’s Health Research Institute, the Precision Immunology Institute (PrIISM), and the Black Family Stem Cell Institute.
“I americium thrilled to articulation the Mount Sinai assemblage and look guardant to collaborating with exceptional scientists from divers disciplines crossed the field to make foundational programs to beforehand women’s wellness subject and to marque meaningful advances to amended wellness for women crossed their lifespan,” said Dr. Elovitz. “I americium excited to person this accidental to mentor and sponsor the adjacent procreation of promising physician-scientists and scientists successful women’s wellness astatine Mount Sinai. I stay committed to promoting equity and empowering women arsenic physicians, scientists, and leaders successful medicine and science.”
Dr. Elovitz’s probe has focused connected knowing the underlying biologic mechanisms and consequences of adverse reproductive and gestation outcomes and their implications for the semipermanent wellness of the parent and child. Her probe integrating immunology and microbiology into gestation wellness has led to captious discoveries successful predicting and knowing preterm birth. Dr. Elovitz’s probe portfolio, which is funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the National Institute of Nursing Research, and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, volition proceed astatine the Center for the Advancement of Female Biology astatine Mount Sinai.
“We are immensely arrogant to enlistee 1 of the world’s starring physicians successful women’s health, Michal A. Elovitz, present a trusted and valued colleague,” said Dennis Charney, MD, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Dean of Icahn Mount Sinai and President for Academic Affairs of the Mount Sinai Health System. “Dr. Elovitz volition proceed her much than 20 years of innovative bench-to-bedside probe successful maternal, reproductive, and kid wellness astatine Mount Sinai, and with her expertise and knowledge, volition pb the complaint to seamlessly integrate pistillate biology and women’s wellness crossed each facets of learning, technological discovery, and wellness attraction passim our Health System.”
Dr. Elovitz joins Mount Sinai from the Perelman School of Medicine astatine the University of Pennsylvania, wherever she has been the Hilarie L. Morgan and Mitchell L. Morgan President’s Distinguished Professor successful Women’s Health and a Professor of Microbiology, arsenic good arsenic laminitis and Director of the Maternal and Child Health Research Center, Vice Chair for Translational Research, laminitis and Director of the Prematurity Prevention Program, Director of the Maternal Fetal Medicine Fellowship, and Creator and Lead Mentor of the Women for Women’s Health Mentoring Group.
Dr. Elovitz received her MD from Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and completed her residency successful obstetrics and gynecology astatine NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center and her fellowship successful maternal-fetal medicine astatine the University of Chicago. She is simply a longtime progressive subordinate of the National Institutes of Health adjacent reappraisal process and has served arsenic a reviewer for much than 20 technological journals; she has authored oregon co-authored much than 175 peer-reviewed publications. Dr. Elovitz is simply a subordinate of the American College of Obstetrics & Gynecology, the Society of Maternal Fetal Medicine, and the Society of Reproductive Investigation.
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