Cato T. Laurencin
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Cato T. Laurencin, MD, PhD (19__ - ) is currently the Lillian T. Pratt Distinguished Professor, and Chairman of the Department Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Virginia, Orthopaedic Surgeon-in-Chief of the University of Virginia Health System, and University Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Professor of Chemical Engineering in the College of Engineering at University of Virginia.
Clinical:
He is one of only 3 practicing orthopaedic surgeons in the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.
Dr. Laurencin won the Nicolas Andry Prize (highest award from the Association of Bone and Joint Surgeons). It is considered a lifetime achievement award of the profession.
He was named to the IOM Roundtable on Evidenced Based Medicine (his specific designation on the roundtable is representing the interests of all physician providers).
Clinical Firsts:
Dr. Laurencin was the first Orthopaedic Surgeon to achieve University Professor level rank in the Country.
Dr. Laurencin is the first Surgeon in the US to be elected to the Third World Academy of Sciences (of the six US members elected in the last two years, one third are Nobel prize winners).
New:
This year (2008), Dr. Laurencin was elected Chair of the Board of the National Medical Association-Cobb Health Institute, dedicating to addressing health disparities. He was named one of "America's Leading Physicians" by Black Enterprise Magazine.
Research: Hunter Lecturer at Clemson Mallory-Coleman Lecturer at Ohio State Alvin Poussaint Lecturer at Harvard Discovery Lecturer at Vanderbilt Chair Amer Inst Medical Biol Engineering College of Fellows Keynote Symposium Speaker Eight World Congress on Biomaterials Clemson Award for Contribution to the Literature from the Society for Biomaterials
Service:
To our knowledge, we believe Dr. Laurencin is the first and only individual to serve on senior advisory boards for all the major research and regulatory advisory board (NSF Directorate of Engineering Advisory Board, NIH National Advisory Council (Arthritis Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases) and FDA. (National Science Advisory Board).
He recently served on the [www.AAAS.org AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science)] committee on journalism awards.
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