"As a physician, arsenic an educator, arsenic a scientist...all the close attributes, the dispositions. We consciousness incredibly fortunate," said University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) Provost, Sr. Executive Vice President and Graduate School Dean Roger J. Ward, JD, EdD, MPA, MSL to a crowded Westminster Hall audience. All were gathered to formally greet and induct Mark Gladwin, MD, arsenic Dean of the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM), the John Z. and Akiko K. Bowers Distinguished Professor, and Vice-President of Medical Affairs astatine the University of Maryland, Baltimore.
Ward and Institute for Genome Sciences Director Claire Fraser, PhD, co-chaired the nationwide hunt to find a replacement for erstwhile Dean E. Albert Reece, MD, PhD, MBA, who remains connected module astatine UMSOM. The hunt was long, Ward told the audience, but we recovered the "best idiosyncratic to instrumentality america to the adjacent level," helium said.
Before taking the reins of UMSOM successful July, Gladwin served arsenic the Jack D. Myers Distinguished Professor and Chair, and Chairman of the Department of Medicine astatine the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, wherever helium besides served arsenic the Associate Dean for Physician-Scientist Mentoring and Associate Vice Chancellor for Science Strategy, Health Sciences.
Gladwin received his MD from the University of Miami and performed his residency successful the Oregon Health Sciences University Department of Internal Medicine and served arsenic a captious attraction chap astatine the Warren G. Magnuson Clinical Center astatine the National Institutes of Health (NIH) successful Bethesda.
At NIH helium served arsenic captious attraction fellow, elder probe fellow, conception caput for the sickle cell/nitric oxide therapeutic and vascular therapeutic sections, subdivision main for pulmonary and vascular medicine branches, and manager of the Functional Genomics Core of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.
In 2008 Dr. Gladwin joined the University of Pittsburgh arsenic a tenured prof of medicine successful the part of pulmonary, allergy, and captious attraction medicine and manager of the Pittsburgh Heart, Lung, and Blood Vascular Medicine Institute – a presumption helium held until 2019.
He besides served arsenic the co-director of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center’s Heart and Vascular Institute, and arsenic seat of the school’s section of medicine, subordinate vice chancellor, and subordinate dean.
At the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Gladwin worked to found objective programs to summation diligent entree to prime care, and developed signature objective programs successful objective analytics, telemedicine, specialty consultation services, corruption prevention and treatment, multi-disciplinary objective centers of excellence, and more. And arsenic section of medicine chair, helium besides supported the improvement of a precise agelong database of probe centers of excellence, including successful aging, the microbiome, antibody therapeutics, hypertension, behavioral health, palliative care, and sickle compartment probe – which has a been a absorption of Gladwin’s ain probe for implicit 20 years.
Following Ward astatine the podium were 2 UMSOM module members who person worked with Gladwin astatine the University of Pittsburgh and astatine NIH.
"It was a existent grant to spot the technological achievements Dr. Gladwin has had implicit the people of his career," said Nirav Shah, MD, Co-Director of the DC-Baltimore Critical Care Educational Consortium, Assistant Dean for Curriculum, and Associate Chief for Education and Faculty Development astatine UMSOM. "It was not hard to cognize astatine that clip erstwhile Mark was going to bash large things based connected his energy, intelligence, connection skills and passion."
Another colleague, Andrea Levine, MD, present adjunct prof successful the section of medicine, was mentored by Gladwin during a captious attraction fellowship astatine the University of Pittsburgh. Levine described Gladwin arsenic a consummate mentor, a "dreamer, whose words inspired and comforted" her. Gladwin, she said, supported her objective passion, and "never erstwhile asked maine to bash thing different than beryllium the astir genuine and dedicated mentation of myself."
Before receiving the medal from UMB President Bruce E. Jarrell, MD, FACS, signifying his position, Gladwin praised his colleagues and expressed his enthusiasm and optimism for the enactment to come.
"What I've noticed successful my clip present is conscionable the unthinkable pridefulness of our alumni," Gladwin told the audience. "And the unthinkable partnership, which is precise antithetic betwixt infirmary strategy enactment and the University." "So it's conscionable an unthinkable family," helium added. "And it's precise apparent, the thrust each of you person astatine this instauration is truly infectious. And truthful present I convey each of you for your mentorship and guidance arsenic we spell forward. And I precise overmuch look guardant to that impact, serving our patients successful advancing innovative science, gathering the champion prime attraction and grooming aboriginal generations astatine aggregate levels of education."
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