Tag: Elizabeth Nabel
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Nation & World
On the cusp of new transplant era
With the advent of new techniques and anti-rejection drugs, organ transplantation stands on the threshold of a new era, where once-radical surgeries such as face transplants will seem routine, says Bohdan Pomahac, the Brigham and Women’s Hospital surgeon and Harvard Medical School professor who led recent face transplant surgeries.
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Nation & World
NIH Heart Institute Director Heading for Harvard
Elizabeth Nabel; director of the $3 billion National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute; told staff in a memo today that with “bittersweet emotions” she is leaving at the end of this year to become president and CEO of the Harvard University-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Faulkner Hospital in Boston…..