Thomas Arthur,
Lamar Professor of Law
AB:
Duke University
JD:
Yale University
Arthur specializes in antitrust, federal civil procedure and administrative
law. He serves on the executive committee of the antitrust section
of the Association of American Law Schools, and he also is a member
of the American Law Institute.
Lawrence Barsalou,
Winship Distinguished Research Professor of Psychology
BA: University of California, San Diego
PhD:
Stanford University
Barsalou’s research addresses the sensory-motor bases of higher
cognition, situated conceptualization, categories constructed to
achieve goals, and dynamic representations of concepts. His research
increasingly explores the neural mechanisms that underlie these
abilities.
Stanley Berry,
Willaford Leach/ Armand Hendee Chair in Obstetrics and Gynecology
MD:
Mayo Medical School
Residency:
St. Louis University Hospital
Berry is a diplomat of the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology
and has subspeciality certification in maternal-fetal medicine.
He currently serves as professor and chief of service at Crawford
Long Hospital.
Grant Carlson,
Wadley R. Glenn Chair of Surgery
BA:
Georgia Institute of Technology
MD:
Emory University School of Medicine
Carlson is widely recognized for his expertise in treating melanoma,
head and neck, and breast cancer patients. He is chief of plastic
surgery at the Atlanta V.A. Medical Center and chief of surgical
services at Crawford Long.
Cathy Caruth, Winship Distinguished Research Professor of Comparative
Literature and English
PhD:
Yale University
Caruth’s research interests include German and English romanticism,
trauma theory, literary theory and psychoanalytic theory. She has
served as director of the Psychoanalytic Studies Program and currently
is director of the Program in Comparative Literature.
Sheila Cavanagh,
Massee-Martin NEH Distinguished Teaching Professor of English
AB:
Georgetown University
PhD: Brown
University
Cavanagh teaches a number of courses focused on Renaissance literature
and writing. She also is an associated faculty member in the Women’s
Studies Program and a member of the core faculty in the Violence
Studies Program. Cavanagh serves as the Emory liaison to the Folger
Institute in Washington and as director of the Emory Women Writers
Resource Project.
Elliott Chaikof,
John E. Skandalakis Chair of Surgery
BA:
John Hopkins University
MD:
John Hopkins University
PhD:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Chaikof is currently a member of the editorial boards of the Journal
of Vascular Surgery, Annals of Vascular Surgery and
Cardiovascular Biology, and a member of scientific study
sections for the NIH and the AHA. His current research interest
is in endovascular treatment of abdominal aortic aneurysms, aortic
surgery and problems at the interface of medicine and engineering.
Wright Caughman,
Alicia Leizman Stonecipher Chair in Dermatology
AB:
Davidson College
MAT:
University of South Carolina at Columbia
MD: Medical
University of South Carolina
Caughman has received numerous national and international awards
for his contributions in research, education and clinical service.
In 2000, he won the Joseph von Plenck Award from the Austrian Society
in Dermatology. Caughman has served on the editorial boards of the
Archives of Dermatology and the Journal of the American
Association of Dermatology, and currently is associate editor
of the Journal of Investigative Dermatology.
Dwight Duffus, Goodrich C. White Professor of Mathematics and Computer
Science
BA:
University of Regina
PhD:
University of Calgary
Duffus has served as chair of mathematics & computer science
at Emory since 1991. He has directed or co-directed several honors
and masters theses, six doctoral students, and he received the Emory
Williams Award in 1986 for excellence in graduate teaching.
Robyn Fivush, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Psychology
BA:
State University of New York at Stony Brook
MA:
The New School for Social Research
PhD:
The City University of New York
Fivush served as director of the Institute for Women’s Studies
at Emory from 1997-2000. She also is an associated faculty member
at the Institute for Women’s Studies and the Violence Studies
Program. Her work focuses on early memory with an emphasis on social
construction of autobiographical memory and the relations among
memory, narrative, trauma and coping.
Lamar Fleming, Robert P. Kelly Chair in Orthopaedics
MD:
Medical School of Georgia
Residency: Parkland
Memorial Hospital in Medicine
Fleming served as a U.S. Navy flight surgeon from 1967-70. He also
has served as president of the Atlanta Orthopaedic Society, the
Georgia Orthopaedic Society and the Eastern Orthopedic Society.
In 2004, Fleming will serve as president of the Southern Orthopaedic
Society for one year.
Carl Holladay, Charles Howard Candler Professor of New Testament
BA:
Abilene Christian University
MDiv:
Abilene Christian University
ThM:
Princeton Theological Seminary
PhD:
University of Cambridge
Holladay taught at Yale Divinity School before coming to Emory in
1980. He served as associate dean of Candler School of Theology
from 1983-91, acting dean in 1985 and dean of the faculty and academic
affairs from 1992-94. Holladay received a Fulbright Senior Scholar
Award in 1994. His current research focuses on New Testament introduction,
Luke-Acts, and Judaism in the Graeco-Roman world.
Xiaoping Hu, Georgia
Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Medical Imaging
BS: University
of Science and Technology of China
MS:
University of Chicago
PhD:
University of Chicago
Hu’s current research focuses on the development and application
of biomedical magnetic resonance techniques, including functional
brain imaging (fMRI), high field MRI, in vivo magnetic resonance
spectroscopy, and molecular imaging. He is particularly recognized
for developing methods that remove unwanted physiological fluctuations
in fMRI data and for investigation into the mechanism of fMRI.
Dalia Judovitz, National Endowment for the Humanities Professor
of French and Italian
BA:
Brandeis University
PhD:
Johns Hopkins University
Judovitz served as chair of the French and Italian department from
1988-90 and from 1994-2000, and as director of the Program in Comparative
Literature from 1992-93. Her research interests include 17th century
French literature and philosophy, critical theory and aesthetics.
Robert Kovac, John D. Thompson Chair of Gynecologic Surgery
MD:
University of Missouri
Residency: Barnes Hospital in St. Louis
Kovac served as a major in the U.S. Army and was a general surgeon
and co-hospital commander in Vietnam. He was awarded the Bronze
Star, the Combat Medic Badge and the Vietnam Paratrooper Wings.
Kovac has been an active inventor in pelvic reconstructive surgery,
holding many patents for instrumentation and operative techniques.
He also has received a commendation from Congress for teaching cost-effective
hysterectomy procedures.
Christian Larsen, Carlos and Marguerite Mason Professor of Surgery
MD: Emory
University School of Medicine
PhD:
Oxford University Larsen has focused his scientific research on
the biology of transplant rejection and the development of transplantation
tolerance. He has published widely in such journals as the Journal
of Cellular Biochemistry and the Journal of American
Society of Nephrology. He is director of the Emory Transplant Center
and an active clinical transplant surgeon.
Clinton Lawrence,
Augustus J. McKelvey Chair in Lung Transplantation Medicine
BA:
University of Texas at Austin
MD: University
of Texas-Southwestern Medical School
Lawrence performed immunology research at the National Cancer Institute,
National Institutes of Health, where he developed an interest in
the lungs’ immune system. His current research focuses on
determining the mechanisms of acute and chronic rejection following
lung transplantation and developing alternative medical treatments
for end-stage lung diseases.
Frank McDonald,
Winship Distinguished Research Professor of Chemistry
BA: Texas A&M
University
PhD:
Stanford University
McDonald has received the Camille and Henry Dreyfus New Faculty
Award, Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, National Sciecne Foundation
Young Investigator Award, Eli Lilli Grantee in Organic Chemistry,
Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, and the Novartis Award in
Support of Synthetic Organic Chemistry. His research interests include
concern with the synthetic, medicinal and organometallic aspects
of organic chemistry.
Nancy Newman,
LeoDelle Jolley Chair in Opthalmology
MD: Harvard
University School of Medicine
Newman is a diplomat of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.
She has been elected to the American Neurological Association and
is a principal investigator in the Ischemic Optic Neuropathy Decompression
Trial. Newman’s current academic interest includes teaching
and clinical research in the field of neuro-opthalmology, with a
focus on diseases of the optic nerve.
Thomas Pearson,
Livingston Distinguished Chair of Surgery
BA: Juniata
College
MD:
Emory University School of Medicine
PhD:
Balliol College, Oxford University
Pearson was appointed co-director of the Kidney/Pancreas Transplant
Program at Emory in 1994. He is currently professor of surgery,
director of Emory’s Kidney Transplant Prorgam and an affiliate
scientist at the Yerkes Division of Pathobiology and Immunobiology.
Pearson’s interests include transplantation immunology and
translational and clinical research to achieve transplantation tolerance.
Hugh Randall, Leach Endowment Chair in Gynecology and Obstetrics
BA:
Emory University
MD:
Emory University School of Medicine
Randall currently serves as a professor of gynecology and obstetrics,
chief of the gynecology and obstetrics service for the Grady Health
System, director of the Gynecology and Obstetrics Integrated Residency
Training Program, and medical director for the Grady nurse-midwifery
service. He served as president of the Georgia Obstetrical and Gynecological
Society in 1994 and as chairman of the Council on Maternal and Infant
Health of the State of Georgia from 1998-2000.
Walter Reed, William Rand Kenan Jr. University Professor in Emory
College
BA: Yale University
PhD: Yale
University
Reed came to Emory in 1987 as professor and chair of English. He
has served as director of undergraduate studies for the comparative
literature program and was the founding director of the Center for
Teaching and Curriculum in Emory College. In July 2002, Reed was
named Director of the Graduate Institute for Liberal Arts.
Jay Shanken, Dean’s
Distinguished Professor of Finance
BS:
State University of New York at Stony Brook
MA:
Cornell University
MS:
Carnegie-Mellon University
PhD: Carnegie-Mellon
University
Shanken received the Roger F. Murray Prize from the Institute for
Quantitative Research in Finance in both 1996 and 1999. His current
research interests include the theory and testing of asset-pricing
models and market efficiency, the predictability of stock returns,
asset allocation and portfolio management, investment performance
evaluation, and Bayesian econometrics.
Bradd Shore, Goodrich C. White Professor of Anthropology
BA:
University of California at Berkley
PhD: University
of Chicago
Shore currently serves as director of the Emory Center for Myth
and Ritual in American Life (MARIAL Center). His research interests
include symbolic and psychological anthropology in the regions of
Oceania and Polynesia and more recently in the United States. Shore
also is currently researching the creation and reproduction of family
cultures through family rituals in Southern middle-class families.
Charles Staley, Holland M. Ware Teaching Professorship in Surgery
BA:
Emory University
MD: Dartmouth
Medical School
Staley came to Emory in 1995 as assistant professor and became associate
professor of surgery in 2002. From 1996-98, he was ad hoc Veterans
Administration oncology grant reviewer. Staley’s clinical
and research interests include the treatment and study of gastrointestinal
and liver cancer.
Claire Sterk,
Charles Howard Candler Professor of Public Health
PhD:
Erasmus University, University of Utrecht
Sterk came to Emory in 1995 as an associate professor of behavioral
sciences and health education and the acting director of the Women’s
and Children’s Center at the Rollins School of Public Health.
She served as a member of the team that investigated the syphilis
outbreak in Georgia’s Rockdale County and was interviewed
for “The Lost Children of Rockdale County,” a program
that aired on PBS’s Frontline in October 1999.
Byron Williams,
Martha West Looney Chair in Medicine
MD:
University of Florida
Residency:
Charlotte Memorial Hospital
Williams is a fellow in the American College of Cardiology and a
member of the Society of Nuclear Medicine. He specializes in clinical
research related to non-invasive cardiology and coronary-artery
disease. Williams has received the J. Willis Hurst Award for teacher
of the year in cardiology, and he serves on the University of Florida
School of Medicine Alumni Board.
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