Newsmakers: March 2017
Joshi named Next Gen Innovator by publication
Cardiology Today has selected Dr. Parag Joshi, Assistant Professor at UT Southwestern, as one of its 2017 “Next Gen Innovators.” The journal annually recognizes a group of early career cardiologists who are doing innovative work and are expected to make strong contributions across their careers.
The Next Gen Innovators will be announced in the April 2017 issue of Cardiology Today. These upcoming leaders are selected by the Cardiology Today editorial board, and they are individuals who are expected to make strong contributions in education, research on novel strategies to advance cardiovascular care, and innovations in clinical care. Next Gen Innovators in turn are invited to contribute ideas and to guide editorial content for the journal.
Dr. Joshi earned his medical degree at Texas Tech University Health Science Center. He completed his residency in internal medicine at Emory University School of Medicine and his preventive cardiology fellowship at Piedmont Heart Institute in Atlanta. He then performed a four-year fellowship in cardiovascular diseases at Johns Hopkins Medicine, serving for two of those years as the Pollin Fellow in Cardiovascular Prevention at the Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Heart Disease.
His research interests include assessing heart attack and stroke risk, coronary calcium scoring, cholesterol, and coronary CT angiography, and his work has been published in more than 50 scholarly articles and invited publications.
Rubin selected as holder of education professorship
Dr. Craig D. Rubin, Director of the Mildred Wyatt and Ivor P. Wold Center for Geriatric Care, has been selected to hold the Sinor/Pritchard (Katy Sinor and Kay Pritchard) Professorship in Medical Education Honoring Donald W. Seldin, M.D.
Dr. Rubin, a Professor of Internal Medicine, specializes in geriatric medicine and also holds the Margaret and Trammell Crow Distinguished Chair in Alzheimer’s and Geriatric Research, the Seymour Eisenberg Distinguished Professorship in Geriatric Medicine, and the Walsdorf Professorship in Geriatrics Research.
Dr. Rubin earned his medical degree in 1982 from the University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey. He completed his residency training in internal medicine at UT Southwestern before joining the faculty in 1985.
In 1989, Dr. Rubin helped found the Geriatrics Section at UT Southwestern, which evolved into the Division of Geriatric Medicine in 2013. During that time he recruited faculty, developed ambulatory and housecall clinical geriatrics programs, established UT Southwestern’s geriatric fellowship program, and in December 2014 opened an ACE unit at William P. Clements Jr. University Hospital.
Dr. Rubin has studied and published extensively in the areas of geriatrics medical education, comprehensive geriatric assessment, osteoporosis, and Alzheimer’s disease. His research interests include age-related osteoporosis and functional MRI in the assessment of Alzheimer’s disease. He has made numerous trips to Capitol Hill to promote funding for the Geriatrics Health Professions Education and Training Programs under Title VII and to support expanding aging research at the National Institute on Aging.
Zhou selected for Ashworth pathology professorship
Dr. Ming Zhou, Professor of Pathology, has been selected to hold the Dr. Charles T. Ashworth Professorship in Pathology.
Dr. Zhou, who joined the UT Southwestern faculty in November, is an internationally known genitourinary surgical pathologist who previously served at New York University School of Medicine. At UT Southwestern, he is leading the Department of Pathology’s anatomic pathology division.
Dr. Zhou received his medical degree in 1989 from Shanghai Medical University, then completed a Ph.D. in molecular biology at the University of Cincinnati.
