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Dr. Katherine Luzuriaga, a vice provost at UMass Medical School and the director of its Center for Clinical and Translational Science, is a candidate to lead the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Luzuriaga, who is Filipino-American, is among three women of color to make an expanded list of FDA candidates, according to The Wall Street Journal. Acting FDA Commissioner Janet Woodcock is not considered a candidate for the post permanently, the Journal reported.
Luzuriaga declined to comment to the Worcester Business Journal about the report on her candidacy.
Luzuriaga is an internationally renowned physician and scientist who investigates ways to improve human health, according to her faculty profile. She joined the Worcester school s faculty in 1990 and has served in a number of leadership roles, including division chief of pediatrics infectious diseases and the founding director of the medical school s Office of Global Health. She s been the director of the school s clinical and tr
Vaccination disparities across race and ethnicity persist in Mass. communities most affected by COVID-19
By Deanna Pan Globe Staff,Updated April 16, 2021, 1 hour ago
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Cynthia Torres and other La Colaborativa staff members and volunteer doctors went door-knocking in Chelsea s hardest hit neighborhoods to educate residents about the COVID-19 vaccines and help them address their many urgent needs.Craig F. Walker/Globe Staff
Despite efforts to ensure the COVID-19 vaccines are distributed equitably across Massachusetts, predominantly Black and Latino communities, where the risk of infection is greatest, still have among the lowest inoculation rates in the state, according to a new analysis by physicians and researchers at several Boston-area institutions.
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CAMBRIDGE, MA Dr. Manorama Saini, first woman president of the Indian Medical Association of New England, passed away on Monday, April 12, 2021 at her home in Cambridge, MA, surrounded by her family. She was 93, alert and independent until the very end and expired peacefully.
She was born in Jalandar, India, in 1928 where her parents Narain Singh Banwatt and Vidya Vati were practicing physicians. Not surprisingly, she followed her parents’ footsteps and entered Lady Hardinge Medical College at the age of 16, graduating in 1949.
She trained to become a Radiologist in India, Canada and US and for over 30 years served on the faculty of Tufts University School of Medicine, attaining the academic rank of Assistant Professor of Radiology specializing in bone radiology at the Boston VA Medical Center.
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