Deans
James L. Madara
Vice President for Medical Affairs
Dean, Biological Sciences Division and the Pritzker School of Medicine
Chief Executive Officer, University of Chicago Medical Center
950 East 59th Street, S106
Albert Merritt Billings Hospital
Chicago, IL 60637
Phone: 773.702.3004
Fax: 773.702.1897
jmadara@uchicago.edu
James L. Madara, M.D., one of the nation's foremost academic pathologists and an authority on epithelial cell biology and on gastrointestinal disease, was named Dean of the Division of the Biological Sciences and the Pritzker School of Medicine and Vice President for Medical Affairs at the University of Chicago, on July 1, 2002.
Madara was most recently the William Patterson Timmie Professor and Chairman of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Emory University Medical School, in Atlanta, Georgia. He graduated from Hahnemann Medical College in Philadelphia in 1975, completed residency and research training in pathology at Harvard Medical School's New England Deaconess and Peter Bent Brigham Hospitals, and joined the faculty at Brigham and Women's Hospital in 1980, serving as director of the division of gastrointestinal pathology. In 1993 he was appointed professor of pathology at Harvard Medical School, and from 1994 until 1997, when he left Harvard for Emory, he served as director of the Harvard Digestive Diseases Center.
Madara has made important contributions to understanding the biology of the cells that line the digestive tract. He has elucidated, at the molecular level, how these cells permit the absorption of nutrients while serving as a barrier to intestinal bacteria, and how these cells help regulate the immune response to normal and disease-causing bacteria. This research has been crucial to understanding infectious diseases that affect the intestines, to treating inflammatory disorders such as ulcerative colitis or Crohn's disease, and to improving drug delivery.
In recognition of his research, Madara received the 1990 Warner-Lambert/Parke-Davis Award from the American Association of Pathologists, the 1991 Physician Scientist Award from the American Gastroenterological Association, and the 1994 International State-of-the-Art Lectureship by the British Society of Gastroenterology. In 1997 he was elected to the Association of American Physicians and received a prestigious MERIT Award from the National Institutes of Health. He currently serves on the editorial boards of several scientific journals and is the editor in chief of the American Journal of Pathology.
Madara is married to Vicki M. Madara, a respected architect. They have two children: Alexis and Max.
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