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Penn Medicine researcher awarded prestigious Grand Prix Scientifique by the Institut de France

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Contact: Karen Kreeger karen.kreeger@uphs.upenn.edu 215-349-5658 University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

PHILADELPHIA Garret FitzGerald MD, FRS, chairman of the Pharmacology Department and director of the Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, has been awarded the 2013 Grand Prix Scientifique by the Institut de France.

FitzGerald shares the prize with Carlo Patrono MD, chairman of Pharmacology at the Catholic University, Rome. The award is based on the recommendation of the International Scientific Council of the Board of Directors of the Lefoulon-Delalande Foundation, Paris. The prize will be awarded under the presidency of the Chancellor of the Institut de France and the President of the French Academy of Sciences on June 5th, 2013. The Grand Prix Lefoulon-Delalande, valued at 500,000 euros ($650,000) is one of the largest prizes for scientific accomplishment and is considered the world's most prestigious prize for cardiovascular research.

FitzGerald and Patrono share the prize for their development of low-dose aspirin for the prevention of cardiovascular disease. Their work used novel approaches to assess the formation of short-lived fats in the body called prostaglandins that play a key role in the development of blood clotting. They discovered how lower doses of aspirin than had been previously used to treat pain and inflammation act on blood cells called platelets to shut down their role in blocking arteries to cause heart attacks and strokes. Low-dose aspirin is now used for this purpose throughout the world and has saved the lives of tens of millions of people.

"I am delighted to receive this honor," said FitzGerald. "However, it reflects the creativity, focus and hard work of so many people with whom I have been privileged to work. It is a particular pleasure to share this prize with Carlo, with whom I have collaborated and competed, but most importantly, shared a special friendship for more than 30 years."

Aside from his work on aspirin, FitzGerald was the first to predict and then mechanistically explain the cardiovascular hazards from such nonsteroidal antinflammatory drugs as Vioxx and Celebrex. His laboratory has discovered novel indices of oxidant stress and was the first to describe the molecular clock in the cardiovascular system. Among his awards in the past year have been the Scheele Award from the Swedish Academy of the Pharmaceutical Science and the Lucian Award from McGill University.

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Penn Medicine is one of the world's leading academic medical centers, dedicated to the related missions of medical education, biomedical research, and excellence in patient care. Penn Medicine consists of the Raymond and Ruth Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (founded in 1765 as the nation's first medical school) and the University of Pennsylvania Health System, which together form a $4.3 billion enterprise.

The Perelman School of Medicine has been ranked among the top five medical schools in the United States for the past 16 years, according to U.S. News & World Report's survey of research-oriented medical schools. The School is consistently among the nation's top recipients of funding from the National Institutes of Health, with $398 million awarded in the 2012 fiscal year.

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Audio-Digest Foundation Announces the Release of Emergency Medicine Volume 30, Issue 04: Obstetric and Pediatric …

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Rachel Chin, MD, Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, presented on E.D. Deliveries with Complications, and Peggy S. Weintrub, MD, Clinical Professor of Pediatrics and Chief, Pediatric Infectious Diseases, University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, presented on Clinical Controversies: Use of Steroids in Pediatric Infections.

Glendale, CA (PRWEB) April 13, 2013

The goal of this program is to improve the emergency department management of pregnant patients and children with acute infections. After hearing and assimilating this program, the clinician will be better able to:

1. Determine the etiology of hypertension in pregnant patients.

2. Diagnose and treat acute abdominal pain in pregnant patients.

3. Resolve complications during labor and delivery.

4. Reduce the risk for hearing loss associated with meningitis.

5. Improve the long-term outcome of patients with septic arthritis.

The original programs were presented by Robert A. Wiebe, MD, Clinical Professor, Pediatric Emergency Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, and Lalit Bajaj, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, and Research Director, Section of Emergency Medicine, Childrens Hospital, Denver.

Audio-Digest Foundation, the largest independent publisher of Continuing Medical Education in the world, records over 10,000 hours of lectures every year in anesthesiology, emergency medicine, family practice, gastroenterology, general surgery, internal medicine, neurology, obstetrics/gynecology, oncology, ophthalmology, orthopaedics, otolaryngology, pediatrics, psychology, and urology, by the leading medical researchers at the top laboratories, universities, and institutions.

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