Breakfast with Dr. Elias Zerhouni
Elias Zerhouni, M.D., former director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), speaks at the Baker Institute.
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Dec 12, 2008 08:00 AM
Dec 12, 2008 10:00 AM
Dec 12, 2008 from 08:00 am to 10:00 am |
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| Where | Rice University's Baker Institute |
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- Event Description
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Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D. was appointed the director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) by President George W. Bush in May 2002 and served in that capacity until October 2008. Zerhouni led the nation’s medical research agency and oversaw NIH’s 27 institutes and centers, with more than 18,000 employees and a fiscal year 2008 budget of $29.5 billion. Prior to joining NIH, Zerhouni served as the executive vice dean of The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, the chair of the Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, the Martin W. Donner Professor of Radiology, and a professor of biomedical engineering. Before that, he was vice dean for research at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
This is the inaugural lecture in the “Medicine, Research and Society” public policy issues series, a joint project between the Baker Institute Science and Technology Policy Program and The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center.
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- Elias Zerhouni
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