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Edward T. H. Yeh, M.D., standing, right, discusses stem cell research during the Jan. 27 visit to The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston by a group of Harvard University Fellows from the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. The Office of Public Affairs and the Office of International Programs hosted administrators from the Institute of International Education and the Harvard fellows, who included 18 international policy makers from all over the world – senior diplomats, military officers, politicians, journalists, civil servants, business leaders and non-governmental officials.
Yeh is director of the Research Center for Cardiovascular Diseases at the Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine for the Prevention of Human Diseases (IMM) and professor and chairman, Department of Cardiology, UT M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. Also standing is Eric Boerwinkle, Ph.D., professor and director of both the Human Genetics Center at the UT School of Public Health at Houston and the Research Center for Human Genetics at the IMM. He spoke about human genetics. Both Yeh and Boerwinkle also hold faculty appointments in the UT Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Houston.
Sitting, from left, are: Gina Grosso, United States; Pasi Patokallio, Finland; Donald A. Molony, M.D., professor of medicine-renal diseases, UT Medical School at Houston; Gerhard Kuentzle, Germany; Mónica Aparicio-Smith, Colombia; and Caroline Dumas, France.
Other speakers were L. Maximilian Buja, M.D, executive vice president for academic affairs; Hui-Ming Chang, M.D., associate vice president for international programs and special advisor to the president; and Denton A. Cooley, M.D., president and founder of the Texas Heart Institute and professor of cardiothoracic and vascular surgery at the UT Medical School at Houston.