Penn Faculty Page
- About Penn Faculty & Global Health
the link above leads to a listing of Penn faculty with global interests and for information on how you can be added to the list
- For Penn Faculty: Inviting International Medical Students to Penn
the link above leads to information about how students from international medical schools can pursue clinical electives at Penn
- For Penn Faculty: Registered Postdoctoral Fellowship Candidates
the link above leads to find information about our international postdoc recruiting program and to access a table of available postdoc candidates
- For Penn Faculty: Funding Opportunities for Global/International Projects & Experiences
the link above leads to information on grants and fellowships that may facilitate faculty pursuit of personal global health interests or those of students they may wish to engage in their global projects
About Penn Faculty & Global Health
Many Penn faculty are engaged in exciting and worthwhile global health endeavors throughout their careers. If you are interested in learning more about who is doing what in global health at Penn, you may wish to peruse our list below. If you are a faculty member who should appear on this list, please contact Global Health Programs.We will be happy to add or modify your information at any time.
For Penn faculty: Funding Opportunities
- Abramson Cancer Center Funding Opportunities
- Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Grand Challenges Explorations
an initiative that encourages unconventional global health solutions - Hewlett Award for Innovation in International Offerings
- McCabe Fund
for junior faculty at the SOM/SVM - Office of International Programs: General International Funding
includes information on funding for sabbatical years - Penn Medicine Pilot & Seed Grants
Many centers & institutes sponsor pilot & seed grant programs with deadlines that vary from year to year; some may fund international initiatives. See above link for current information. - Penn's Global Initiatives Fund
- University Research Foundation
Daniel Albert, MD Rheumatology HUP
Email: albertd@mail.med.upenn.edu
Area of Global Health interest: direct patient care and education
Global Health experiences/contacts: Worked with Care, Americares, Health Volunteers Overseas, Global Volunteers, and Helping Hands Nepal in Afghanistan, Armenia, Uganda, Rwanda, Ecuador and Nepal.
Richard Aplenc, MD, MSCE
Email: raplenc@ceb.med.upenn.edu
Telephone# 215-573-0259
Area of Global Health interest: former Yugoslavia
Global Health experiences/contacts: Slovenia, Bosnia, Macedonia with IM and IRC. Torture evaluations with MDM
Paul Axelson, MD
Email: axe@pharm.med.upenn.edu
Global Health experiences/contacts: Worked as an infectious disease consultant for large expatriate groups in Papua New Guinea and in Bangalore, India
Scott Bartlett, MD Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, CHOP/HUP
Email: scott.bartlett@uphs.upenn.edu
Global Health experiences/contacts: Volunteer projects in Poland and Russia; Project Hope
Last updated: 2006
Bernard Bloom, PhD
Email: bsbloom@mail.med.upenn.edu
Area of Global Health interest: health services research, decision-making, resource allocation, value in education (benefit/risk and benefit/cost tradeoffs)
Global Health experience/contacts: All of Western Europe, Columbia, South America
Research projects/programs: multiple
Charles Branas, PhD
Email: cbranas@cceb.med.upenn.edu
Telephone# 215-573-5381
Area of Global Health interest: injuries, trauma, and emergency health services, especially with respect to violence
Global Health experience/contacts: Guatemala, Nigeria, South Africa, Taiwan, United Kingdom
Last updated: 2006
Kent D.W. Bream, MD
Email: bream@mail.med.upenn.edu
Global Health Experiences: Clinical work in Swaziland and Venezuela, research in Malawi, contacts in England, Italy, Malawi, South Africa, Swaziland, and Venezuela, political asylum and torture evaluations with Physicians for Human Rights. Area of Global Health Interest: Direct patient care, resource allocation and policy, clinical training and education, intercultural exchanges. Research Interests: Newborn and Maternal Health, education Geographic Area of Interest: Africa and Latin America
Last updated: 2005
PJ Brennan MD Infectious Disease, HUP
Email: pj.brennan@uphs.med.upenn.edu
Area of Global Health interest: TB
Global Health experience/contacts: CDC/ATS
Research projects/programs: Director, TB Control, Philadelphia Dept. of Health
Lawrence W. Brown, MD
Email: brownla@email.chop.edu
Telephone# 215-590-1719
Area of Global Health interest: Pediatric medicine
Global Health experience/contacts: Visiting Professor at Westmead Children’s Hospital (Sydney, Australia), Sarai Hospitals (Brasilia and Bahia, Brazil), CHOP China mission (lectures in Beijing and Shanghai, China)
Research projects/programs: Development of additional international training, clinical and research programs under the auspices of CHOP.
Lan X. Chen, MD., PhD. Rheumatology Presbyterian/VA
Email: chenlx@mail.med.upenn.edu
Telephone# 215-662-8233
Area of Global Health Interest: Rheumatologic conditions in Asia vs. the West; integrated care and the philosophical approach to rheumatic disease; acupuncture
Global Health experience/contacts/projects: Shanghai, Beijing, Chengdu
Last updated: 2004
Paul Dabrowski, MD Surgery; General Surgery, Trauma, & Critical Care, HUP & Philadelphia VAMC
Email: dabrowsp@uphs.upenn.edu
Telephone# 215-662-7323 Cell# 215-260-1135
Area of Global Health interest: Surgery and trauma in the international setting
Global Health experience/contacts: Extensive experience and contacts in Sweden and new contacts in Norway, England, Australia, and Portugal.
Last updated: 2005
John Esterhai, MD Orthopaedics HUP
Email: john.esterhai@uphs.upenn.edu
Telephone# 215-662-3340
Area of Global Health interest: Orthopaedic mission work
Global Health experience/contacts: Past work with Orthopaedics Overseas in St. Lucia; Medical Missions International in Jamaica and the Dominican Republic.
Rodney Finalle, MD, FAAP
Email: finalle@email.chop.edu
Telephone# 215-476-2223
Area of Global Health interest: Pediatric and community health efforts, sustainable health care development in developing countries in the Caribbean, Central and South America
Global Health Experience: Clinical Director for The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Alliance for International Medicine, a pediatric primary care outreach program partnering CHOP professional staff, residents, nurses, and medical students with local communities in the developing countries of the Caribbean. Current contacts in the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and Jamaica. Previous work in Brazil, Guatemala, and Peru.
Last updated: 2005
John Hansen-Flaschen, MD Pulmonary Critical Care HUP
Email: jflah@mail.med.upenn.edu
Telephone# 215-662-6003
Area of Global Health interest: Educational outreach to physicians in developing countries
Global Health experience/contacts: Member of UPHS Oversight Committee for Philadelphia International Medicine and the Global Health Committee of the American Thoracic Society; Physician contacts in Bombay, India and Barcelona, Spain as well as the Minister of Health, Qatar
William W. Fox, MD Neonatology, CHOP
Email: fox@email.chop.edu
Area of Global Health interest:
Global Health experience/contacts: Extensive experience in Latin America, especially Bolivia
Harvey M. Friedman, MD Chief, Infectious Disease HUP
Email: hfriedma@mail.med.upenn.edu
Web site: www.harveymfriedman.com
Telephone# 215-662-3557
Area of Global Health interest: HIV/Botswana
Global Health experience/contacts: Botswana
Research projects/programs: Antiretroviral therapy- effectiveness, predictors of failure and success
Stephen Gluckman, MD Infectious Disease HUP
Email: stephen.gluckman@uphs.upenn.edu
Telephone# 215-349-5600
Area of Global Health interest: travel/tropical medicine; HIV; parasitic diseases, general medicine issues in resource poor parts of the world.
Global Health experience/contacts: worked/taught in Liberia, Afghanistan, Haiti, China, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Botswana, India. Presently best contacts in Botswana and India
Research projects/programs: General Clinical/Teaching experiences in Botswana (establishing a PENN firm at the major public hospital). HIV care and the national HIV program in Botswana
Vicente H. Gracias MD, FACS, FCCP Traumatology & Surgical Critical Care HUP
Email: graciasv@uphs.upenn.edu
Telephone# 215-662-7323
Area of Global Health Interest: Trauma/Surgical Critical Care Systems
Last updated: 2005
Robert Gross, MD MSCE General Medicine HUP; Epidemiology, CCEB
Email: rgross@cceb.med.upenn.edu
Telephone# 215-898-2437
Area of Global Health interest: HIV/AIDS
Global Health experience/contacts: University of Witswatersrand, Johannesburg; Chris Hani Baragwaneth Hospital, Soweto; South Africa HIV research group
Research projects/programs: Clinical trial of antiretroviral therapy; trials of approach to community use of antiretroviral therapy
Prabodh Gupta, MD
Email: gupta@mail.med.upenn.edu
Telephone# 215-662-3258
Area of Global Health interest: Infectious disease; India
Global Health experience/contacts: Worked for United Nations, WHO and as faculty in New Delhi, India
Research projects/programs: early cervical cancer
Robert W. Hurst, MD Radiology, Neurosurgery, and Neurology HUP
Email: hurst@oasis.rad.upenn.edu
Telephone# 215-662-3083
Area of Global Health interest: Training and transfer of clinical procedures to less developed countries
Global Health experience/contacts: Catholic Medical Foundation- experience in performing interventional neuroradiology procedures in Croatia/Bosnia
Nayyar Iqbal, MD Endocrinology HUP, CCEB
Email: nayyar.iqbal2@med.va.gov
Telephone# 215-823-4190
Area of Global Health interest: Obesity; High prevalence of type 2 diabetes in developing countries; metabolic syndrome
Global Health experience/contacts: worked extensively with Pakistan community on public health projects such as vaccinations, prevention/control of diarrheal epidemics in the 80’s and 90’s. Now at PENN completing training in clinical epidemiology. Working to initiate a collaborative project with local authorities in Pakistan to study the prevalence of diabetes and associated risk factors in that part of the world.
Last updated: 2005
Malek Kamoun, MD, PhD Pathology and Laboratory Medicine HUP
Email: malekkam@mail.med.upenn.edu
Telephone# 215-662-4022
Area of Global Health interest: Laboratory medicine and clinical immunology
Research projects/programs: Human Immunology, autoimmunity, transplantation
Steven Larson, MD Emergency Medicine HUP, Assistant Dean Global Health Programs
Email: larsonst@mail.med.upenn.edu
Telephone# 215-662-3904
Area of Global Health interest: community health in global underserved populations
Global Health experience/contacts: Extensive experience and contacts throughout Mexico and Central America.
Last updated: 2005
Jianghong Liu, PhD
Email: jhliu@nurisng.upenn.edu
Telephone# 215-898-8293
Area of Global Health interest: nutrition, environmental toxicity (lead exposure), and prenatal factors on children’s behavior and violence prevention.
Global Health experience/contacts: Current interdisciplinary and collaborative project in China, previous work in Africa.
Research projects/programs: kindergarten cohorts in Southeastern part of China
Last updated: 2008
Jack Ludmir, MD Obstetrics & Gynecology; Maternal Fetal Medicine Pennsylvania Hospital
Email: jaludm@pahosp.com
Telephone# 215-829-3934
Area of Global Health interest: Obstetric Care for Hispanics and in Latin America
Global Health experience/contacts: Close relationships with several hospitals and medical schools in Peru. Active exchange program with residents.
Last updated: 2004
Rob Roy MacGregor, MD Infectious Disease HUP
Email: macgregr@mail.med.upenn.edu
Telephone# 215-662-3565
Area of Global Health interest: Control of HIV epidemic; interaction with TB
Global Health experience/contacts: Recently worked in Gabarone, Botswana teaching and caring for HIV infected patients
Research projects/programs: While in Botswana, began project examining immunologic effects of active TB on course of HIV infection.
Maureen Maguire, Ophthalmology HUP
Email: maguirem@mail.med.upenn.edu
Telephone# 215-615-1501
Area of Global Health interest: eye disease throughout the world
Global Health experience/contacts: Contact with the Dana Center for International Epidemiology and Preventative Ophthalmology
Research projects/programs: Chair of a data and safety monitoring committee of a clinical trial on surgery for trachoma in Ethiopia (not directly engaged in research in this area but has a solid knowledge of the issues)
David Metzger, PhD Director, Center for Studies of Addiction, HUP
Email: dsm@mail.med.upenn.edu
Telephone# 215-746-7346
Area of Global Health interest: HIV Prevention among drug users
Global Health experience/contacts: An HIV Prevention Trials Network: 22 sites in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, North America and South America. The Network is supported by the NIH and conducts trials of behavioral and biomedical prevention interventions using sero-incidence as an outcome.
Research projects/programs: We are a site in the network and have several protocols in the field at the moment.
Mary F. Morrison, MD MS Psychiatry HUP/Merck
Email: mary_Morrison@merck.com
Telephone# 484-344-3477
Area of Global Health interest: women?s health; mental health
Global Health experience/contacts: At Merck we have international trials in all parts of the world; spent clinical time in the Philippines
Ramachandran Murali
Email: murali@xray.med.upenn.edu
Telephone# 215-573-9256
Area of Global Health interest: Cancer
Irving Nachamkin
Email: nachamki@mail.med.upenn.edu
Telephone# 215-662-6651
Area of Global Health interest: diarrheal diseases
Global health experience/contacts: WHO consultant specializing in Campylobacter infections in the developing world.
Research projects/programs: developing method for easy detection of fluoroquinolone resistance in Campylobacter that can be used in the developing world. Studying Campylobacter infections and the development of Guillain-Barre syndrome in Northern China and Mexico City.
Kwaku Ohene-Frempong, MD Hematology, CHOP
Email: ohene-frempong@email.chop.edu
Area of Global Health interest: Sickle Cell Disease
Global Health experience/contacts: Runs a sickle cell clinic in Ghana; has sent numerous students to Africa
Graham Quinn, MD, MSCE CHOP
Email: quinn@email.chop.edu
Telephone# 215-590-2791
Area of Global Health interest: childhood blindness; retinopathy of prematurity
Global Health experience/contacts: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; Lima, Peru; Guayaquil, Ecuador; Rio de Janiero, Brazil; Hyderabad, India; Eastern Europe; WHO
Research projects/programs: ROP (retinopathy of prematurity) screening programs in Latin America; workshops on preventing childhood blindness in Latin America, Caribbean, and Eastern Europe sponsored by Christoffel Blindenmission and Institute Child Health in London
Last updated: 09 2006
Timothy Rebbeck
Email: trebbeck@cceb.med.upenn.edu
Telephone# 215-898-1793
Area of Global Health interest: prostate cancer in West Africa
Global Health experience/contacts: urology and oncology collaborators in Dakar, Senegal, and Accra, Ghana
Research projects/programs: Genetics of prostate cancer in Dakar
Milton Rossman MD Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care HUP
Email: rossmanm@mail.med.upenn.edu
Telephone# 215-573-9890
Area of Global Health interest: occupational lung disease-particularly chronic beryllium disease
Global Health experience/contacts: UK, Canada and Brazil
Research projects/programs: direct one of five laboratories in the US that does beryllium proliferation testing, clinical evaluation of cases and research on chronic beryllium disease
Scott D. Cook-Sather, MD Anesthesia, CHOP
Email: sather@email.chop.edu
Telephone# 215-590-1447
Area of Global Health interest: pediatric anesthesia in developing countries
Global Health experience/contacts: Health Volunteers Overseas
Research projects/programs: North American Director, Anesthesia Overseas, Peru
H. Ralph Schumacher, MD Rheumatology, HUP/VA
Email: schumacr@mail.med.upenn.edu
Telephone# 215-823-4244
Area of Global Health Interest: Education on chronic rheumatic diseases; epidemiology and management of gout; complimentary and alternative therapies; reactive arthritis role of infection
Global Health experience/contacts/projects: Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou; India, Latin America, Turkey
Last updated: 2004
Steven J Sondheimer, MD OB/GYN HUP
Email: ssondheimer@obgyn.upenn.edu
Telephone# 215-662-3120
Area of Global Health interest: contraception, fertility, and infertility
Global Health experience/contacts: JHPIGO/Engender Health led programs on IUDs and contraception including sterilization in Turkey and Kyrgyzstan.
Research projects/programs: grants on mood and the menstrual cycle and various contraceptive trials; also infertility and polycystic ovarian syndrome
David Spiegel, MD
Email: spiegeld@mail.med.upenn.edu
Telephone#215-590-1524
Area of Global Health interest: Children's musculoskeletal disability, trauma care
Global Health experience/contacts: Have been to Nepal 8 times, and serve as consultant at the Hospital and Rehabilitation Centre for Disabled Children in Banepa. Involved in Orthopaedics Overseas, was Nepal program director. Involved in WHO global initiative for emergency and essential surgical care, the Global Clubfoot Interest group (teaching in China and Nepal), and in Global-HELP (desktop publishing, free teaching manuals for developing countries).
Research projects/programs: developing low cost publications for developing countries, teaching Ponseti clubfoot method overseas, research projects with the residents at HRDC (clubfoot, neglected trauma, infection)
Last updated: 05 2006
Nicolas Stettler, MD MSCE Pediatrics, Epidemiology CHOP
Email: nstettle@upenn.edu
Telephone# 215-590-1686
Area of Global Health interest: child nutrition; obesity, epidemiological transition
Global Health experience/contacts: the Gambia, Seychelles, Congo, Senegal
Research projects/programs: Prevalence and risk factors for obesity and hypertension in children from Seychelles.
Last updated: 03 2007
Richard Stone, MD
Email: stone@mail.med.upenn.edu
Telephone#215-898-6950
Area of Global Health interest: refractive error
Global Health experience/contacts:
Research projects/programs: I have a number of active collaborations with ophthalmic researchers in Asia and Europe, to clarify the epidemiology of refractive errors in general and myopia in particular and to identify novel mechanisms underlying the development of refractive errors.
Jerome F. Strauss, III, MD, PhD OB/GYN HUP
Email: jfs@mail.med.upenn.edu
Telephone# 215-898-0147
Area of Global Health interest: Reproductive and women’s health
Global Health experience/contacts: Co-Chair, Indo-US Working Group on Contraception and Reproductive Health; Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Global Health Initiative grantee; Chair Reproductive Scientists of North America; P.I. Fogarty International Center Collaborative Research Award
Research projects/programs: various basic and clinical research projects in Chile, Mexico, and India
Brian Strom, MD, MPH Chair Biostatistics and Epidemiology HUP
Email: bstrom@cceb.med.upenn.edu
Telephone#215-898-2368
Area of Global Health interest: clinical epidemiology
Global Health experience/contacts: We have former trainees all over the third world, who have graduated from the INCLEN program
Weijing Sun, MD Hematology-Oncology HUP
Email: weijing.sun@uphs.upenn.edu
Telephone# 215-662-6681
Area of Global Health interest: China, Asia
Global Health experience/contacts: Some contacts with Beijing University Medical Center, Fudan University, and Namtong Medical College in China
Research projects/programs: Medical oncology (mainly focusing on treatment and development of new drugs for gastrointestinal malignancies)
Raymond Townsend
Email: townsend@mail.med.upenn.edu
Telephone# 215-662-2638
Area of Global Health interest: kidney failure and diabetes
Global Health experience/contacts: research contacts only
Research projects/programs: chronic renal insufficiency cohort study (CRIC) NIH/NIDDK sponsored longitudinal study of kidney disease and heart-related disease
Barbara J Turner, MD, MSEd
Email: bturner@mail.med.upenn.edu
Telephone# 215-898-2022
Area of Global Health Interest: HIV, women’s health, prenatal care, adherence to treatment, traditional vs. western medicine
Global Health experience/contacts: Kenya- program run by Indiana University
Research projects/programs: currently only in the United States but now trying to put together Center for International Research on Women’s Health with Susan Gennaro.
Serdar H. Ural MD OBGYN/HUP
Email: sural@obgyn.upenn.edu
Telephone# 215-662-6913
Area of Global Health interest: Turkey, Switzerland
Global Health experience/contacts: Multiple universities/professors in the above countries
Research projects/programs: prenatal care, contraception, pregnancy
David B. Weiner, PhD Pathology and Laboratory Medicine HUP
Email: dwweiner@mail.med.upenn.edu
Telephone# 215-349-8591
Area of Global Health interest: HIV vaccine development
Global Health experience/contacts: Walter Reed US Military; WHO-CANVAC
Research projects/programs: Development of DNA vaccine for HIV
Jeffrey Weiser, MD Microbiology and Pediatrics
Email: weiser@mail.med.upenn.edu
Telephone: 215-573-3511
Area of Global Health interest: vaccine development; infectious disease
Global Health experience/ contacts: collaboration in Malawi, Africa with PATH (and Gates Foundation); previous experience working in Cambodia
Research projects/programs: lots
George Woodward, MD
Email: woodwardg@email.chop.edu
Telephone# 215-590-4988
Area of Global Health interest: education
Global Health experience/contacts: Latin America, Hungary, Bulgaria
Donald S. Young
Email: donaldyo@mail.med.upenn.edu
Telephone#: 215-662-3435
Area of Global Health interest: clinical laboratory testing
Global Health experience/contacts: President of the International Federation of Clinical Chemistry (1985-1990) with contacts in clinical laboratory field in many developed and developing countries. WHO consultant in clinical laboratory since 1992
Research projects/programs: optimizing use of the clinical laboratory; efficiency in laboratory testing and use of laboratory resources
Eric Zager, MD Neurosurgery HUP
Email: zagere@uphs.upenn.edu
Telephone# 215-662-3497
Area of Global Health interests: education
Global Health experience/contacts: Lead a neurosurgery group our of the People’s Republic of China, June ‘02; Recently joined the Federation for International Education in Neurosurgery (FIENS) and plan to travel to Honduras.
Jun (Jay) Zhu, PhD Microbiology
Email: junzhu@mail.med.upenn.edu
Telephone: Office: 215-573-4104/Lab: 215-573-4105
Global Health experience/contacts: China and Bangladesh
Websites: http://www.med.upenn.edu/micro/faculty/zhu.html
http://www.med.upenn.edu/camb/faculty/mv/zhu.html
Last updated: 10 2005
For Penn Faculty: Inviting International Medical Students to Penn
We would like to alert faculty to the fact that Penn Medicine has guidelines regarding students from international medical schools who wish to do clinical or research rotations at Penn. There are stringent restrictions on the clinical rotations available and there are a number of requirements which must be met before an international medical student can be accepted for one of those limited rotations. Please review the School of Medicine policy on this subject (see below). You may also wish to access the webpage we devote to these international medical students. If you have questions or concerns, please contact Global Health Programs.
- Policy Document [download pdf, 36 KB]
For Penn Faculty: Registered Postdoctoral Fellowship Candidates
Global Health Programs has established a program to help Penn faculty fill already funded postdoctoral openings in their laboratories. This program was created in response to requests from Penn faculty who recruit about 200 international postdoctoral fellows each year. We have created a clearinghouse to respond to this need, based on partnerships with leading academic and research institutions around the world. Interested doctoral students from our international partner institutions register with us, and we then circulate registrant information to Penn faculty with programs relevant to the interests of the postdoctoral candidate.
You can access information about currently registered candidates from the table below (there is a second table with information about candidates who have succeeded in obtaining fellowships at Penn). Complete registration information, including abstract from doctoral thesis and Curriculum Vitae can be accessed by clicking on the candidate's last name (please note that those links are inactive when a candidate is actively negotiating with Penn faculty). If interested, please enter into direct correspondence with the candidate. We ask that you stay in touch with Global Health Programs about the progress you are making so that we know which candidates still need positions and so that we can monitor the value of the program. Before making a final decision, we highly recommend an interview. If this is not possible in-person, we may be able to assist you in arranging a distance interview, via videoconferencing.
Once you determine that you would like to recruit a candidate, the Business Administrator in your department, center, or institute is responsible for processing the appointment, including immigration requirements. If you cannot identify the appropriate Business Administrator for your needs, please contact Tara O'Connor in the Office of Biomedical Postdoctoral Programs. If you require any additional advice that cannot be provided by your Business Administrator, please contact Mary Anne Timmins, 215-573-4332, Director of Administration at Biomedical Postdoctoral Programs. When you make an offer that is accepted, please contact Global Health Programs so that we can remove the candidate from our posted list.
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Important Reminder
All offers to postdoctoral candidates should be consistent with the Penn postdoctoral policy. It may be advisable to attach a copy of the policy to your letter of offer in the interest of full disclosure. If you are considering making an offer to a postdoctoral candidate, please contact Mary Anne Timmins, 215-573-4332, Director of Administration at Biomedical Postdoctoral Programs (BPP), and she will be happy to advise you on how to make an offer that is consistent with Penn policy while helping the postdoctoral candidate to feel welcome and to make a smooth transition. Note that compliance with postdoctoral policy at Penn requires that initial offers be made for no more than one year, even though the great majority of fellowships last 2-3 years. BPP will advise you how best to present this to your candidate. Faculty who utilize this international postdoctoral recruiting program are expected to encourage each postdoctoral fellow to take full advantage of the training offered by BPP for the conduct of research and research skill building. In addition, they will be required to attend a BPP orientation session with the recruited fellow. Before reappointment can be approved, they will also be asked to complete a BPP questionnaire designed to evaluate the progress of training and mentoring. More detailed information about the appointment process, including sample offer letters, can be found on the BPP website.
We very much appreciate your keeping us informed to allow us to monitor the value of this program and how to improve it. If you have any comments or questions, please contact Global Health Programs.
| CANDIDATES REGISTERED FOR POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS |
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Name |
Degree + (Completion Date) |
Institution Awarding Degree |
Degree Discipline |
Discipline Sought for Fellowship |
Registration Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
PhD (9/2007) |
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven |
Pharmaceutical Sciences (Radiopharmacy) |
Radiopharmacy, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine |
April 29 2008 |
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PhD (8/2007) |
Centre for Cellular & Molecular Biology |
Cancer Biology |
Cancer Biology |
April 29 2008 |
|
PhD (8/2006) |
Centre for Cellular & Molecular Biology |
Molecular Microbiology |
Gene Regulation |
April 17 2007 |
|
PhD (5/2007) |
King's College London |
Developmental Biology |
Neurodevelopment or Neurobiology |
March 7 2007 |
|
PhD (7/2006) |
Peking University Health Science Ctr |
Cardiology |
Cardiology or Cardiovascular Disease |
March 1 2007 |
|
PhD (7/2006) |
Shanghai Jiao Tong University |
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology |
Molecular Biology |
July 18 2006 |
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PhD (6/2006) |
Shanghai Jiao Tong University |
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology |
Genetics or Neuroscience |
June 9 2006 |
|
PhD (7/2006) |
Peking U Hepatology Institute |
Infectious Disease |
Virology |
March 31 2006 |
|
PhD (6/2006) |
Peking U Neuroscience Research Institute |
Neuroscience |
Neuroscience |
March 30 2006 |
|
MD/PhD (7/2003) |
Nanjing Medical University |
Endocrinology |
Diabetes & Endocrinology |
October 14 2005 |
PLACEMENT OF INTERNATIONAL POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS |
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Last Name & Degree |
Institution Awarding Degree |
Degree Discipline |
Mentor @ Penn or Other Institution |
Date Registered with Global Health Programs |
Date of Fellowship Offer |
Agata, Hideki, PhD |
Nagoya University |
Medicine (Oral & Maxiollofacial Surgery) |
Regea Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Finland |
March 2008 |
May 2008 |
Niens, Marijke, PhD |
University of Groningen |
Genetics/Medical Biology |
The Jackson Laboratory, Maine |
February 8 2007 |
September 1 2007 |
Hao, Yi, PhD |
Pasteur Institute PhD |
Immunology |
Michael Cancro |
June 10 2007 |
Aug 1 2007 |
Rowlands, David, PhD |
King's College London |
Molecular Biology/Physiology |
Columbia University |
Mar 6 2007 |
June 2007 |
Starr, Anna, PhD |
King's College London |
Pharmacology |
Novartis, UK |
Mar 29 2007 |
May 2007 |
Zhang, Sujiang , MD/PhD |
Shanghai Second Medical University/Nanjing Medical University |
Hematology |
John Kim Choi, M.D., Ph.D., (PENN ) |
Oct 8 2005 |
Mar 19 2007 |
Oommen, Deepu, PhD |
Centre for Cellular & Molecular Biology |
Biochemistry |
Nov 13 2005 |
Nov 29 2006 |
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Lu, Bingfeng, PhD |
Peking University |
Immunology |
UK |
July 18 2006 |
Nov 28 2006 |
Hadj Belgacem, Yesser PhD |
Universite Paris Sud 11 |
Neurobiology/ Physiology |
University of California, Davis |
Aug 31 2006 |
Nov 14 2006 |
Liu, Jiangying PhD |
Peking University |
Cell Biology |
Dr. Doris Stoffers, Asst Professor, Endocrinology, Diabetes, & Metabolism (PENN/HUP) |
July 12 2006 |
Sep 23 2006 |
Wang, You PhD |
Peking University |
Biology |
Brandeis University |
July 12 2006 |
Sep 15 2006 |
Jin, Genglin PhD |
Peking University |
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology |
Duke University |
April 2 2006 |
Sep 10 2006 |
Ohashi, Norifumi MD/PhD |
Nagoya University |
Surgical Medicine |
Mayo Clinic, Transplantation, Dr. Justin Nguyen |
Oct 4 2005 |
June 29 2006 |
Wang, Tengke MD/PhD |
Peking U Health Sciences Center |
Physiology & Pathophysiology |
Mayo Clinic |
May 15 2006 |
June 21 2006 |
Wong, Max PhD |
King's College London |
Nutrition |
referred to Hopkins Center for Human Nutrition |
Jan 19 2006 |
May 31 2006 referred |
Ploquin, PhD |
Paris 7/Institut Pasteur |
Microbiology/ Fundamental Virology |
Brown |
Oct 28 2005 |
Apr 1 2006 |
Zhang, Haoqian, PhD |
Nagoya University |
Biochemistry |
withdrew to acquire additional experience |
Nov 21 2005 |
Mar 21 2006 withdrew |
Shams Dilmaghani, PhD |
King's College London |
Electrical Engineering |
Stanford University |
Sept 30 2005 |
Mar 15 2006 |
Dujardin, Helene, PhD |
Pierre & Marie Curie/Institut Pasteur |
Immunology |
Hannover Medical School |
Dec 27 2005 |
Mar 6 2006 |
Zhou, Linfu, MD/PhD |
Nanjing Medical University |
Respirology/Cell & Lung Biology |
Dr. Michael Grunstein, Professor, Pediatrics (PENN/CHOP) |
Oct 6 2005 |
Mar 2 2006 |
Karmouty Quintana, PhD |
King's College London |
Pharmacology/Imaging |
McGill University |
Oct 10 2005 |
Feb 14 2006 |
Banno, MD, PhD |
Nagoya University |
Endocrinology |
Dr. Kendra Bence, Veterinary Medicine (PENN) |
Aug 22 2005 |
Dec 27 2005 |
Kluiver, PhD |
University of Groningen |
Medical Biology |
Stanford |
Oct 7 2005 |
Dec 20 2005 |
Li, Xiaoyu, MD, PhD |
Nanjing Medical University |
Pathophysiology |
Dr. Daniel Rader, Assoc Prof, Medicine (PENN) |
Oct 10 2005 |
Dec 12 2005 |
Reddy, PhD |
Centre for Cellular & Molecular Biology |
Molecular Microbiology |
University of Aberdeen |
Aug 25 2005 |
Nov 21 2005 |
van Zalen, PhD |
University of Groningen |
Molecular Biology |
Dr. Steven Liebhaber, Professor, Genetics (PENN) |
Aug 1 2005 |
Oct 28 2005 |
Oquendo, DPhil |
Oxford University |
Biochemistry |
Dr. Kate Nathanson, Asst Prof, Medical Genetics (PENN) |
Mar 30 2005 |
Oct 25 2005 |
Fujii, MD, PhD |
Nagoya University |
Oncology |
Harvard |
June 23 2005 |
Oct 04 2005 |
Lagal, PhD |
Université de Paris V/ Institut Pasteur |
Microbiology |
Albert Einstein College of Medicine , NYC |
May 03 2005 |
June 2005 |
Pawlak, MD |
Poznan University of Medical Sciences |
Neurology |
Dr. Elias Melhem, Assoc Prof, Radiology (PENN) |
Apr 19 2005 |
May 02 2005 |
Narayanan, Sathish, PhD |
Christian Medical College, Vellore India |
Basic Medical Sciences (Microbiology) |
Dr. Yan Yuan, Assoc Prof, Microbiology, School of Dental Medicine (PENN) |
Jan 07 2005 |
Feb 02 2005 |
Last updated: June 2, 2008
