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Cato Laurencin
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Medical Stalwart
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Cato T. Laurencin is a professor and surgeon of St. Lucian heritage. He served as dean of the University of Connecticut, School of Medicine and the vice president for Health Affairs at the University of Connecticut (UConn) from 2008 through 2011. He is currently the chief executive officer of the Connecticut Institute for Clinical and Translational Science. Previously, he served as director of the Institute for Regenerative Engineering and founding director of the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Center for Biomedical, Biological, Physical and Engineering Sciences at UConn.
Laurencin grew up in North Philadelphia and graduated from Central High School. He earned his undergraduate degree in chemical engineering from Princeton University and his medical degree from Harvard Medical School where he was a magna cum laude graduate. During medical school, he also earned his PhD in biochemical engineering from MIT.
He joined the University of Connecticut Health Center from the University of Virginia where he was the Lillian T. Pratt distinguished professor and chair of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, as well as the Orthopaedic Surgeon-in-Chief at the University of Virginia Health System. In addition, he was designated as a university professor, one of the university's most prestigious titles, and held professorships in Biomedical Engineering and Chemical Engineering.
Prior to his service at the University of Virginia, Laurencin was at Drexel University School of Medicine and Hahnemann Hospital in Philadelphia where he served as the Helen I. Moorehead Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering, vice chairman of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, clinical professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and director of Shoulder Surgery.
He is one of only three practicing orthopaedic surgeons in the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. Laurencin was the first orthopaedic surgeon to achieve University Professor level rank in the country. He is the first surgeon in the United States to be elected to the Third World Academy of Sciences (of six U.S. members elected in the last two years, one third are Nobel prize winners).
Dr. Laurencin is active in science and health policy. He has been a member of the National Science Foundation's Advisory Committee for Engineering (ADCOM), and has served both on the National Science Board of the FDA, and the National Advisory Council for Arthritis, Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases at the NIH. He currently holds appointments by the Secretary of Health and Human Services to the National Advisory Council for Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, and the Advisory Committee to the Director of the National Institutes of Health.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cato_T._Laurencin
http://nemsi.uchc.edu/physicians/bios/laurencin.html
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