Montana INBRE

Dr. Turner's current research study on Health Disparities and the Stress Hypothesis is funded by the National Institute on Aging and OBSSR. The study approaches health disparities from a lifespan perspective in an effort to understand potentially modifiable social factors implicated in racial and socioeconomic status health disparities.

Dr. Turner has earned numerous awards and honors during his career including the 2009 Distinguished Research Professor Award while the Marie E. Cowart Professor of Sociology and Epidemiology at Florida State University. A past Chair of the Medical Sociology section of the American Sociological Association, he has been honored with the Leo G. Reader Award for Distinguished Contribution to the Field of Medical Sociology in 2002 and the Lifetime Scholarly Contribution in Mental Health Award from the American Sociological Association in 1998.

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Regenerative Engineering of the Musculoskeletal System

Friday, November 4, 2011
Reception with complimentary appetizers, 6:45 p.m., Lobby, Museum of the Rockies
Talk to begin at 7:30 p.m., Hager Auditorium, Museum of the Rockies

Cato T. Laurencin, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Connecticut Health Center

Dr. Laurencin, M.D., Ph.D., is Chief Executive Officer of the Connecticut Institute for Clinical and Translational Science, Director of the Institute for Regenerative Engineering and the Van Dusen Endowed Chair in Orthopaedic Surgery.

He previously served as the University of Connecticut Health Center's Vice President for Health Affairs and Dean of the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. Prior to his arrival at the University of Connecticut Health Center, Dr. Laurencin was the Lillian T. Pratt Distinguished Professor and chair of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Virginia, as well as the Orthopaedic Surgeon-in-Chief at the University of Virginia Health System. In addition, he was designated as a University Professor at the University of Virginia, one of the university's most prestigious titles, and held professorships in Biomedical Engineering and Chemical Engineering.

Dr. Laurencin is an expert in shoulder and knee surgery and an international leader in tissue engineering research. He is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and the American College of Orthopaedic Surgeons, is widely published in scholarly journals and holds more than 20 U.S. patents.

President Obama named Dr. Laurencin a 2009 winner of the Presidential Award for Excellence, awarded to science, math and engineering mentors. Additionally, Dr. Laurencin was recently honored by Scientific American Magazine as one of the top 50 innovators for his groundbreaking technological work in the regeneration of knee tissue. He was also recently named among "100 Chemical Engineers of the Modern Era" by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, and is the 2009 winner of the Pierre Galletti Award, the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering's highest honor. Dr. Laurencin was the first to receive the University of Connecticut School of Medicine's student body "Leaders in Medicine" award.

Among his many national responsibilities, Dr. Laurencin has served as Speaker of the House of the National Medical Association, and currently serves as Chair of the Board of the National Medical Association's W. Montague Cobb Health Institute. He has been a member of the National Institutes of Health National Advisory Council for Arthritis, Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases and the National Science Advisory Board for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. He currently sits on the National Science Foundation's Engineering Directorate Advisory Committee.

This event is co-sponsored by the Molecular Biosciences Program at MSU and Montana INBRE.