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« Mass. adults second-leanest, but youth overweight rates rank in the middle | Main | More state residents covered by insurance » Monday, August 27, 2007Harvard leader named dean of Duke medical school
Dr. Nancy C. Andrews (left), dean for basic sciences and graduate studies at Harvard Medical School, is the first woman to fill the position, Duke said. She will succeed Dr. R. Sanders Williams, who was promoted to senior vice chancellor for academic affairs at Duke. Andrews, 48, is a pediatric hematologist/oncologist at Children's Hospital Boston and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. She previously directed the Harvard/MIT MD/PhD program. A member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, she was a Howard Hughes Investigator from 1993 to 2006. Andrews earned bachelor's and master's degrees in molecular biophysics and biochemistry from Yale University, a Ph.D. in biology from MIT, and an MD from Harvard Medical School. She completed her residency at Children's and a fellowship in pediatric hematology/oncology at Children's and Dana-Farber. Posted by Elizabeth Cooney at 02:51 PM
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A Harvard Medical School physician-scientist has been named dean of the Duke University School of Medicine, the North Carolina school announced today.