Chiefs Named for General Internal Medicine
and Molecular Medicine
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| Olveen Carrasquillo, M.D. |
The Department of Medicine has named Olveen Carrasquillo, M.D., a nationally recognized expert on health disparities, chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine, and Peter Mundel, M.D., a leading physician-scientist, chief of the newly formed Division
of Molecular Medicine.
Carrasquillo was a member of
the faculty at Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons
for 12 years prior to joining the
Miller School last spring. During his tenure at Columbia, he also served
as director of The Columbia Center
for the Health of Urban Minorities,
an $8 million NIH-funded Center
of Excellence on Minority Health and Health Disparities Research.
“As a Puerto Rican-born physician who was raised in the Bronx, I have a special interest
in the areas of minority health, access to care among Latinos, and other types of disparities,” says Carrasquillo. “There are very few cities as
well suited
as Miami to develop the
type of community-based participatory research programs we hope to put
in place.”
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| Peter Mundel, M.D. |
Carrasquillo has served as principal investigator on more than a dozen government- and foundation-sponsored research and training grants in the areas of minority health, health disparities, community-based participatory research, and access to care. He has
also published a series of studies detailing the health insurance crisis
and other access-to-care barriers among the Latino community in the U.S.
In addition to his new division chief title, Mundel, professor of medicine and cell biology and anatomy, will also serve as the Department of Medicine’s vice chair for research. Previously he was director of the Basic Research Program in the Division of Nephrology and Hypertension. Mundel joined the faculty in April 2008 from Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York.
“Dr. Mundel brings extraordinary research success and enthusiasm to these jobs and will be critical to help further enhance a series of research initiatives and recruitments both in this newly formed division and the department as a whole,” says Marc E. Lippman, M.D., professor and chair of medicine.
Mundel’s research helped to define cellular systems that are regarded as gold standards in renal research and helped to catalyze molecular studies of renal diseases. In 2003 he was awarded the esteemed American Society of Nephrology Young Investigator Award and is a member of the prestigious American Society of Clinical Investigation.
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