"I am very much looking forward to joining this wonderful University, Medical Center, and community," says Schor, who officially begins January 1, 2007. "I will work to maximize the health and wellbeing of our children and to ensure that tomorrow's children will enjoy a level of health care that surpasses the best we can offer today."
Schor, who trained in pediatrics and neurology at Boston Children's Hospital of Harvard University, has been an attending physician in child neurology at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh since 1986 and has won numerous awards, including several for teaching. She succeeds current chair Elizabeth McAnarney, who will continue to be actively involved at the Medical Center as professor of pediatrics in adolescent medicine and chair emerita.
"Under Dr. McAnarney, Golisano Children's Hospital at Strong has become a leading pediatric care and research institution for children across upstate New York and northern Pennsylvania. With that strong foundation, Dr. Schor will be able to continue to build the hospital into an unparalleled organization," says C. McCollister Evarts, Medical Center CEO. "In addition, Dr. Schor's background in neurology will strengthen the Medical Center's efforts in the neurosciences."
"Nina Schor, succinctly said, is one of the finest young pediatric academicians in the country with an impeccable academic pedigree and deep integrity," says McAnarney. "She has skillfully navigated the academic worlds in both neurology and pediatrics with great aplomb."
Schor will be the seventh chair of the Department of Pediatrics since its inception 80 years ago. She is nationally recognized for her research on neuroblastoma (the most common tumor of the nervous system in children), and degenerative disease and oxygen radical damage in the nervous system. She currently holds the Carol Ann Craumer Endowed Chair for Pediatric Research at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and is chief of the Division of Child Neurology, director of the Pediatric Center for Neuroscience, and associate dean for Medical Student Research at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
"Dr. Schor's career embodies and celebrates the academic clinician. Not only is she widely recognized as a superb investigator, clinician, and educator, but she has managed to weave these skills together to create a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts," says Dean of the School of Medicine and Dentistry David Guzick. "Her demonstrated leadership and administrative skills, as well as her ability to engage the community in children's health, will be a great asset to the University and to the region."
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Med Center selects new pediatrics chair
fter a yearlong search, the Medical Center has found its new leader in pediatrics, reaching into one of America's top-rated children's hospitals. Nina Schor, who is currently chief of the Division of Child Neurology of Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, will assume the post as chair of the Department of Pediatrics, pediatrician-in-chief of Golisano Children's Hospital at Strong, and professor of pediatrics at the Medical Center.
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