The Jackson Heart Study confronts the heart of an epidemic.Dodgen Lecture February 19, 2004 Dr. Herman A. Taylor, Jr., currently serves as Director and Principal Investigator of the new Jackson Heart Study, a landmark project sponsored by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute and the Office of Research on Minority Health of the National Institutes of Health. In that capacity, he holds appointments at Jackson State University Jackson State University, often abridged as Jackson State or by its initials JSU is a historically black university located in Jackson, Mississippi founded in 1877. , Tougaloo College, and the University of Mississippi Medical Center University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMC) is the health sciences campus of the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss). Located in Jackson, Mississippi (USA), it houses the Schools of Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing, Health Related Professions, and Graduate Studies in the Health (Professor of Medicine). He received his undergraduate training at Princeton University and his medical degree from Harvard Medical School Harvard Medical School (HMS) is one of the graduate schools of Harvard University. It is a prestigious American medical school located in the Longwood Medical Area of the Mission Hill neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. . Before completing his residency in internal medicine, he served 3 years in the Commissioned Corps of the Public Health Service in Miami, Florida. His work among the multiethnic population of inner city Miami solidified his career goal of working for improved health of American minority populations. After completing training in Internal Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a public, coeducational, research university located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States. Also known as The University of North Carolina, Carolina, North Carolina, or simply UNC and a cardiology fellowship at University of Alabama at Birmingham UAB began in 1936 as the Birmingham Extension Center of the University of Alabama. Because of the rapid growth of the Birmingham area, it was decided that an extension program for students who had difficulties which prevented them from studying in Tuscaloosa was needed. (UAB), he was appointed to the UAB faculty. At UAB he served as Attending Cardiologist at the University Hospital, the Birmingham Veterans Medical Center and the Cooper Green Hospital. Prior to his present appointment, he was Associate Professor of Medicine and Director of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine. During his 9 years on faculty at UAB, he established interests in preventive cardiology, acute coronary syndromes, and ethnic disparities in cardiovascular health. He also founded Heart to Heart--a non-profit organization, which provides cardiac surgical services for children from the developing world. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Dr. Taylor has published numerous research articles in renowned journals such as Hypertension, The New England Journal of Medicine The New England Journal of Medicine (New Engl J Med or NEJM) is an English-language peer-reviewed medical journal published by the Massachusetts Medical Society. It is one of the most popular and widely-read peer-reviewed general medical journals in the world. , American Journal of Cardiology, American Journal of Epidemiology, Achieves of Internal Medicine and Circulation to name a few. During his career, Dr. Taylor has received several prominent recognition awards. The most recent awards include the Preventative Cardiology Academic Award from the National Heart, Lung and Blood (NIH "Not invented here." See digispeak. NIH - The United States National Institutes of Health. , 1995), The American Heart Association American Heart Association (AHA), n.pr a national voluntary health agency that has the goal of increasing public and medical awareness of cardiovascular diseases and stroke, and thereby reducing the number of associated deaths and disabilities. Distinguished Service Award (1997-1998), the Best Doctors in America Award (2001-2002) and most recently the prestigious Daniel Savage Award for Excellence in Research (2003). As leader of the Jackson Heart Study, he envisions helping create a better understanding of CVD CVD Cardiovascular disease, see there among African-Americans as a guide to effective strategies to improve health and eliminate disparities. Furthermore, the Heart Study will improve the research capacity of its partner institutions while helping train future leaders in the sciences of health. Dr. Taylor resides in the Jackson, MS area with his wife, Jasmine Pugh Taylor, and their 3 children: Mathew, Johnathan and Jaylen. The Dodgen lecture is named in honor of Charles L. Dodgen, University of Mississippi Medical Center. Dodgen joined the Academy in 1959. He became executive officer in 1972, a post he held until his death in 1980. Herman A. Taylor, Jr., M.D., F.A.C.C., F.A.H.A., Professor of Medicine |
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