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Lawrence (skip) F. Brass

Lawrence (skip) F. Brass MD, PhD

Medicine
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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Lawrence (Skip) Brass, MD PhD is a graduate of Harvard College and Case Western Reserve University, where he received his MD and a PhD in biochemistry. After residency training in internal medicine, he became a fellow in Hematology-Oncology at the University of Pennsylvania where he served as Vice-Chair for Research in the Department of Medicine from 2004 to 2007 and is currently Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology. Dr. Brass became Associate Dean for Combined Degree and Physician Scholars Programs and Director of Penn’s Medical Scientist Training Program in 1998. He has been active at the national level in the development of training programs for physician-scientists and has served as President of the National Association of MD-PhD Programs, Chair of the AAMC GREAT section on MD-PhD training, and was a member of the NIH Physician-Scientist Workforce advisory group in 2013-2014.

He is also a practicing hematologist whose research interests are in the fields of hemostasis and vascular biology. He has been continuously funded by the NIH HLBI since the mid-1980’s, has been elected to membership in the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the Association of American Physicians, was an Established Investigator of the American Heart Association and is a recipient of the Distinguished Career Award from the International Society of Hemostasis and Thrombosis, the Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching from the University of Pennsylvania, and numerous teaching awards from students at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine.
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