Naji Abumrad | |
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Occupation |
Surgeon, medical researcher, university teacher
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Children |
Jad Abumrad
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Website |
https://wag.app.vanderbilt.edu/PublicPage/Faculty/Details/28348
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Naji N. Abumrad (born 1944) is a Lebanese-American surgeon, currently the John L. Sawyers Professor of Surgery, and formerly the Paul W. Sanger Professor from 1984 to 1992, at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Abumrad graduated with a B.S. in Biology and an M.D. in Medicine at the American University of Beirut in 1971. [1] In 2014, he was elected to the American Association for the Advancement of Science. [2] [3]
In 2020, the singer Dolly Parton donated one million dollars towards research into a COVID-19 vaccine in honor of Abumrad – the pair having become friends after she was treated at Vanderbilt for minor injuries resulting from an October 2013 automobile accident. [4]
He is the father of public radio host Jad Abumrad. [5]