Jan 9
NIH deputy director Nina Schor, M.D., Ph.D., is next VITALS speaker
Nina F. Schor, M.D., Ph.D., deputy director for intramural research for the National Institutes of Health, joins VITALS at noon Thursday, Feb. 1, via Zoom.
VITALS | Visionary Health Leadership in Action is NEOMED’s monthly health leadership speaker series presented in collaboration with University Hospitals.
As deputy director since August 2022, Dr. Schor is responsible for oversight of research conducted by the 27 institutes and centers of NIH.
Previously, she served as deputy director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS).
Before joining NIH, Dr. Schor spent 20 years on faculty at the University of Pittsburgh, ultimately becoming the Carol Ann Craumer Professor of Pediatric Research, chief of the Division of Child Neurology in the Department of Pediatrics, and associate dean for medical student research at the medical school.
In 2006, Dr. Schor became the William H. Eilinger Chair of the Department of Pediatrics, and pediatrician-in-chief of the Golisano Children’s Hospital at the University of Rochester, posts she held until January 2018, when she joined NINDS.
For 27 years in academia, her research on neural crest development and neoplasia was continuously funded by NIH. At NINDS, she led the Division of Intramural Research and the Ultra-Rare GENe-targeted Therapies (URGenT) Network and strategic planning and career development programs.
She currently serves as a member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.
