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The Association of American Physicians (AAP) has elected three Cleveland Clinic researchers to its 2007 class
The inductees are Stanley Hazen, MD, PhD, Cell Biology and Section Head for Preventive Cardiology and Rehabilitation; Steven Nissen, MD, Chair, Cardiovascular Medicine; and Richard Rudick, MD, Chair, Division of Clinical Research. Dr. Nissen has a joint appointment in Molecular Cardiology, and Dr. Rudick holds a joint appointment in Neurosciences.
Election into this prestigious honor society is highly competitive, and the successful inductees are senior academic physicians who are recognized for outstanding biomedical research.
AAP is a nonprofit, professional organization founded in 1885 by seven physicians for "the advancement of scientific and practical medicine." The association is comprised of approximately 1,000 active members and 550 emeritus and honorary members from the United States, Canada and other countries.
The organization’s goals include the pursuit of medical knowledge, and the advancement through experimentation and discovery of basic and clinical science and their application to clinical medicine. Members have included Nobel Laureates and members of the National Academy of Science and the Institute of Medicine.
Other Lerner Research Institute faculty who are AAP members include Charis Eng, MD, PhD, Chair, Genomic Medicine Institute; Serpil Erzurum, MD, Chair, Pathobiology; Richard M. Ransohoff, MD, Neurosciences; and Roy Silverstein, MD, Chair, Cell Biology. Additionally, Michael Levine, MD, Pediatrics and Biomedical Engineering, is a member.
About Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute
The Lerner Research Institute is home to all laboratory-based research at the Cleveland Clinic. Its mission is to understand the causes of human diseases and to develop new treatments and cures. The Lerner Research Institute is ranked among the top 10 in NIH funding among all U.S. research institutes for 2005. More than 1,100 people work in research programs focusing on cardiovascular, cancer, neurologic, musculoskeletal, allergic and immunologic, eye, metabolic, and infectious disease. The Institute also is an integral part of the new Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University — training the next generation of physician-scientists.
About Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland Clinic, located in Cleveland, Ohio, is a not-for-profit multispecialty academic medical center that integrates clinical and hospital care with research and education. Cleveland Clinic was founded in 1921 by four renowned physicians with a vision of providing outstanding patient care based upon the principles of cooperation, compassion and innovation. U.S. News & World Report consistently names Cleveland Clinic as one of the nation’s best hospitals in its annual "America’s Best Hospitals" survey. Approximately 1,500 full-time salaried physicians at Cleveland Clinic and Cleveland Clinic Florida represent more than 100 medical specialties and subspecialties. In 2005, there were 2.9 million outpatient visits to Cleveland Clinic. Patients came for treatment from every state and from more than 80 countries. There were nearly 54,000 hospital admissions to Cleveland Clinic in 2005.
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