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Dandona to receive UB presidential award
Paresh Dandona, UB Distinguished Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, has been selected as the recipient of the 2010-11 Presidential Award for Faculty Excellence.
The award was established by President John B. Simpson to recognize a UB faculty member who has achieved the highest degree of excellence as a scholar, community citizen and educator.
A public awards ceremony and presentation by Dandona will take place at a date to be announced.
In announcing his choice of Dandona as this year’s award recipient, Simpson explained that the longtime faculty member exemplifies the qualities that are intended to be recognized with the award: “a combination of outstanding and high-impact interdisciplinary scholarship that is making a significant difference in improving knowledge and people’s lives,” as well as a commitment to using one’s research and talents to serve the public and one’s profession, “while educating and mentoring a new generation of physicians, medical researchers and scientists.”
One of the world's leading experts in the treatment of diabetes and vascular disease, Dandona also is founder and director of the Diabetes-Endocrinology Center of Western New York. He joined the UB faculty in 1991 after 16 years at the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine at the University of London, England.
His current research interests include insulin resistance, inflammation and atherosclerosis; pro-oxidative and pro-inflammatory effect of macronutrients; anti-oxidative and anti-inflammatory effect of insulin and insulin sensitizers, TZDS; and the use of insulin infusion in reducing inflammation and increasing cardioprotection and cerebroprotection in heart attack and stroke.
Head of the Division of Endocrinology in the medical school and chief of endocrinology at Kaleida Health, he has authored or co-authored more than 450 publications and has presented at numerous conferences on diabetes and endocrine disorders.
He also serves as a consultant endocrinologist at Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Erie County Medical Center, VA Medical Center, Lakeside Memorial Hospital in Brockport and Lakeshore Healthcare Center in Irving, as well as for Kaleida.
Dandona is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (UK), the American College of Physicians, the American College of Cardiology and the American College of Endocrinology.
He earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Allahabad University, a medical degree from All India Institute of Medical Sciences and a doctorate from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.
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