Goldgraber Fellowship
Program Description
The University of Chicago’s commitment to excellence has made us a leader and innovator in medicine for over seventy-five years. Our scientists and physicians have earned worldwide recognition for the outstanding quality of their research, teaching and patient care. Of the 87 Nobel Prize winners associated with the University, twelve were honored for accomplishments in physiology or medicine; 40 current faculty members
have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. The University of Chicago Medical Center is consistently ranked among the finest medical institutions in the nation.
The Section of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition exemplifies the University’s strengths in biomedical research and patient care. It is among a handful of programs at the forefront of G.I. genetics research and a leader in the development of new therapies and clinical protocols for the treatment of inflammatory bowel diseases. The Section includes renowned investigators and clinicians who participate in vigorous research and patient care programs in immunology, liver diseases, gastrointestinal cancers, and nutritional disorders.
The Dr. Moshe B. Goldgraber Advanced Fellowship Training Program in Digestive Diseases and Related Disorders provides unique opportunities for talented young Israeli physicians and scientists to pursue clinical or basic research in the Section of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition at the University of Chicago. The Fellowship, which offers candidates active involvement in the specialized research methods and clinical expertise needed to become independent investigators and clinicians, will fund advanced study in gastroenterology at the University of Chicago for up to two years depending on the candidate’s research interests and the commitment of the sponsoring institution. This fellowship will honor the most promising young researchers and physicians. These young people, who are the future of gastroenterology care, will return to Israel to share their training with others and make significant contributions to advance the research and treatment of gastroenterology disorders. The Section’s clinical programs have consistently ranked in the U.S.News and World Report top 10 annual Best Hospital rankings.
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FELLOWSHIP GUIDELINES
- The Fellowship is offered to Israeli citizens who have an MD, a PhD, or both degrees.
- All citizens of Israel, regardless of gender or religion, are eligible for the Fellowship.
- Candidates with an MD degree who have already completed their Internal Medicine training and gastroenterology training with clinical research experience are preferred. Candidates whose sole interest is clinical gastroenterology (i.e., those who do not have research interests) will also be considered.
- Candidates with a PhD degree need not have prior research experience in the field of digestive diseases, but must have an interest in pursuing digestive disease related research at the University of Chicago (i.e., diet and pharmacology).
- Applicants from each of the five medical schools in Israel, as well as the Weizmann Institute, may be nominated for the Fellowship.
- Proficiency in written and spoken English is required.
- Fellowship recipients are expected to return to Israel after completing their fellowship.
APPLICATION PROCESS
Individuals interested in this Fellowship should submit the following:
• A letter of recommendation from the Dean or department head of the institution with which the candidate is currently affiliated;
• A second letter of recommendation from a direct supervisor personally familiar with the candidate’s research if this individual is someone other than the Dean or department head;
• A letter from the candidate outlining his or her current interests and work, career goals and the professional and personal benefits he or she seeks from the Fellowship;
• The candidate’s curriculum vitae and bibliography;
• A photocopy of the appropriate identifying page from a valid Israeli passport.
Click here to download the application form, which may be returned electronically or by postal mail. You must have Adobe Acrobat to open this document.
PLEASE SEND APPLICATIONS TO:
Stephen B. Hanauer, MD
The University of Chicago Medical Center
MC 4076
5841 S. Maryland Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60637
or email to: shanauer@uchicago.edu
THE APPLICATION DEADLINE IS JANUARY 15, 2012 FOR THE ACADEMIC YEAR BEGINNING AUTUMN 2012.
Clinical research applicants will be sponsored by the University of Chicago Medical Center’s Graduate Medical Education Office via the ECFMG Program. Basic research applicants will be sponsored by the University of Chicago in order to obtain a J-1visa. Final candidates will be chosen by a Peer-Review Selection Committee.
The University of Chicago Section of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition Department of Medicine Full-Time Faculty
Andrew Aronsohn, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Marc Bissonnette, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
David Boone, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Eugene B. Chang, MD
Martin Boyer Professor of Medicine and Director, Digestive
Disease Research Core Center
Russell D. Cohen, MD
Professor of Medicine, Co-Director, IBD Center
Ira Hanan, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Director, Physician Directed
Practice
Stephen B. Hanauer, MD
The Joseph B Kirsner Professor of Medicine and Clinical
Pharmacology and Section Chief
Bana Jabri, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine and Pathology and Co-Director of the
Digestive Disease Research Core Center
Donald M. Jensen, MD
Professor of Medicine and Director, Center for Liver Diseases
Karen E. Kim, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Vani J.A. Konda, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Sonia S. Kupfer, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
John H. Kwon, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Yan Chun Li, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Andreas Mykoniatis, MD
Clinical Associate
Joel Pekow, MD
Instructor of Medicine
Nancy Reau, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Gautham Reddy, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
David T. Rubin, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine and Co-Director,
IBD Center, and Program Director, Fellowship in
Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition
Carol Semrad, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Helen Te, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Irving Waxman, MD
Professor of Medicine and Surgery, Director of The Center
for Endoscopic Research and Therapeutics (CERT)
Leslie Wallene Yang, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Dr. Moshe B. Goldgraber was born in Zamosc, Poland and received his medical education at the University of Padua in Italy. He graduated from medical school just as the Nazi armies overran Poland. Unable to return home to his family, he made his way to Palestine in 1939.
His medical career began on Mount Scopus at HadassahHospital’s Institute of Pathology under Professor Herman Zondek. Later, in the 1940’s, he moved to the Tel-Aviv area and began his specialization in internal medicine at Beilinson and Assuta Hospitals. With the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, he joined the team of physicians who laid the foundations of the fledgling government hospital system. His own clinical base became the wellknown Tel-Hashomer Hospital near Tel-Aviv.
In 1952 Dr. Goldgraber was a member of Israel’s first team of physicians sent to the U.S. for specialized training in their chosen fields. On arriving in Chicago in 1952, he contacted the section on gastroenterology of Billings Hospital at the University of Chicago, initiating what would become an illustrious collaboration over more than a decade with Drs. Walter L. Palmer, Joseph B. Kirsner, and other staff members.
During his years at the GI Section, Dr. Goldgraber, in collaboration with Dr. Kirsner, demonstrated the capacity of the colon to react immunologically and helped define some of its immunological potential. These observations sparked an expansion of experimental and clinical research in the area that continues to this day. Dr. Goldgraber also helped to define the classic histological features of the tissue reaction in ulcerative colitis, particularly, the nature of granulomatous inflammation of the colon, characteristic of inflammatory bowel disease.
In 1965 Dr. Goldgraber returned to the Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem and to the Hebrew University Medical School, continuing his work in internal medicine as well as heading the Department of Allergy, until his retirement in 1982. In addition, he took on the remarkable task of being the attending physician at the renowned Hansen (Leprosy) Hospital in Jerusalem, to which he had been devoted for more than 30 years. Dr. Goldgraber was active in medicine well into his 80s. In November 2007, he passed away in Jerusalem.