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Avrum I. Gotlieb,
MDCM FRCPC |
Professor Avrum I. Gotlieb, Chair of the Department of
Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology (LMP), Faculty of Medicine, University
of Toronto, obtained his BSc in Psychology and Physiology, with first class
honors, (1967) and his MDCM (1971) from McGill University. He continued his
training in medicine and anatomic pathology at the teaching hospitals of
McGill University. He obtained his Fellowship from the Royal College of
Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in Anatomic Pathology (1975) and
certification from the American Board of Pathology (1976). He pursued
research training in the Department of Biology, University of California San
Diego with Professor S.J. Singer, supported by a Medical Research Council
Fellowship.
Professor Gotlieb held administrative appointments in two educational areas
in LMP: Coordinator of Graduate Studies and Course Director, Pathobiology of
Disease, Undergraduate Medicine. An educational program initiated by
Professor Gotlieb in 2000 was an innovative and unique undergraduate arts
and science Specialist Program in Pathobiology. Professor Gotlieb has also
been championing the role of clinician-scientists in academic laboratory
medicine.
Professor Gotlieb's research interests include atherosclerosis and valvular
heart disease. He has published on blood vessel repair especially on the
role of the cytoskeleton in endothelial repair. His group is one of the few
worldwide that is studying how heart valve cells repair valves after they
have been injured. He has published over 100 peer reviewed papers, and 35
reviews and book chapters. He edited three books, including the
comprehensive textbook Cardiovascular Pathology, edited with colleagues M.D.
Silver, University of Toronto, and F.J. Schoen, Harvard Medical School. He has
received peer reviewed funding from the Heart and Stroke Foundation of
Ontario and the Medical Research Council (now Canadian Institutes of Health
Research), CIHR.
Professor Gotlieb is currently the co-Editor of Cardiovascular Pathology, a
journal of the Society for Cardiovascular Pathology dedicated to basic,
clinical, and applied cardiovascular science published by Elsevier. He
serves on the Editorial Board of The American Journal of Pathology (AJP) and
Laboratory Investigation.
Professor Gotlieb is a former President of the American Society for
Investigative Pathology (ASIP) and past President of the Canadian Society of
Atherosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology (CSATVB) and the Society
for Cardiovascular Pathology (SCVP). He was a member of the Board of the
Federation of American Societies of Experimental Biology (FASEB). He is an
elected Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. |