Background
Nabel, Elizabeth Guenthner was born in 1952.
Nabel, Elizabeth Guenthner was born in 1952.
Bachelor summa cum laude, St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota, 1974. Student, Union Theological Seminary, New York City. Student, Columbia University, New York City.
Doctor of Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 1981. Doctor of Science (honorary), University Leuven, Belgium, 2001. Doctor of Science (honorary), Mount Sinai School Medicine, New York, 2006.
Doctor of Science (honorary), University Glasgow, Scotland, 2008.
Intern/resident internal medicine Brigham & Women's Hospital-Harvard Medical School, Boston, 1981—1984, clinical research fellow cardiovascular division, 1984-1987. Assistant professor internal medicine University Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1987-1991, associate professor internal medicine, 1991-1994, director Cardiovasc. Research Center, 1992—1999, professor internal medicine & physiology, 1994—1999, director division cardiology, 1997-1999.
Science director clinical research National Heart, Lung & Blood Institute (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute), National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, 1999—2005, director National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, 2005—2009. President Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, since 2010. Member science advisory board Vical Inc., San Diego, 1992—1996, Keystone Symposia, Silverthorne, Colorado.
President North America Vascular Biology Organization, 1996—1997. Distinguished visiting professor Molecular Cardiology Research Institute, Tufts-New England Medical Center, 2004. Physician-in-chief pro tempore, department internal medicine Brigham & Women's Hospital, 2006.
Sampson visiting professor University California, Los Angeles, 2007. Bulfinch visiting professor Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, 2008.
Fellow: American College Cardiology, American Heart Association (board directors 1996-1997, Russell Ross Memorial Lectureship in vascular biology 2005, Distinguished Achievement award 2005, Eugene Braunwald Academic Mentorship award 2008). Member: American College of Physicians, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Institute Medicine (council member), American Academy Arts & Sciences, American Society Gene Therapy (board directors 1996), American Society Investigative Pathology, American Federation Clinical Research, American Society Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (Amgen-Science Achievement award 1996), Association American Physicians, American Society Clinical Investigation, Alpha Omega Alpha, Phi Beta Kappa.