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Scientific Advisory Committee

The Morgan Foundation Scientific Advisory Committee is charged with the review and oversight of all basic and clinical research projects sponsored by the Foundation, as well as all research-related activities of the Foundation.  The Committee is comprised of basic and clinical scientists from The University of Tennessee Health Science Center and successful research hepatologists from other institutions.  This Committee reviews all research proposals submitted to the Morgan Foundation and makes funding recommendations.  This group is also responsible for all Morgan Foundation strategic planning related to the creation and sponsorship of future PSC research initiatives.


Gene Whitington, M.D.

Chair
Pediatric Gastroenterology, P.C.

Dennis Black, M.D.

Co-Chair
Professor of Pediatrics and Physiology, UTHSC, and Scientific Director, Children’s Foundation Research Center of Memphis
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Russell Chesney, M.D.

Professor and Chair, UTHSC
Department of Pediatrics

B. Keith English, M.D.

Professor of Pediatrics, UTHSC,
and Division Chief, Section of
Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Max Langham, M.D.
Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics, UTHSC, and
Chief, Division of Pediatric Surgery

Nicholas LaRusso, M.D.

Professor of Biochemistry/Molecular
Biology and Medicine, Chair, Department of Internal Medicine,
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
[External member]

Tony Marion, Ph.D.
Professor of Molecular Sciences, UTHSC

Radhakrishna Rao, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Physiology UTHSC


Caroline Riely, M.D.

Professor and Director of Adult
Hepatology, UTHSC Department of
Medicine
Board Member Emeritus

Benjamin Shneider, M.D.

Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Director of Pediatric Hepatology and Liver Transplantation, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine
[External member]
Pamela Sylvestre, M.D.
Associate Professor of Pathology, UTHSC,
Director of Gastrointestinal and Hepatobiliary Pathology,
Duckworth Pathology Group, Inc.
Robert Wyatt, M.D.
Professor of Pediatrics,
Chief, Division of Pediatric Nephrology and Assistant Director UTHSC General Clinical Research Center
 


Ae-Kyung Yi, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Molecular Sciences, UTHSC

 

 

 

 

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