The Honorary Graduands E. Dale Abel
Professor E. Dale Abel is the William S. Adams Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Medicine of the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA. An endocrinologist, his work focusses on the molecular mechanisms that underpin cardiac failure in diabetes.
A Fellow of the American Heart Association and the American College of Physicians, he is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and the National Academy of Sciences. Professor Abel completed his undergraduate studies at The UWI in medicine and his doctoral research in physiology at the University of Oxford. Since then he has been on a continuing trajectory, particularly in the area of diabetes. While on the faculty at Harvard, he was appointed Co-Director of the fellowship programme at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He was recruited to the faculty at the University of Utah in 2000, first as Assistant Professor rising to Professor of Medicine. He moved to the University of Iowa in 2013 to direct the F.O.E. Diabetes Research Center and served as Chair of Medicine until 2021. He has received many awards and honours, including the 1986 Rhodes scholarship at the University of Oxford and continuing to the present with the presentation of the 2018 African American Museum of Iowa History Makers Award and, in 2020, being named as one of the most inspirational Black scientists in the United States.
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