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Dr. Rosenfeld received his B.A., summa cum laude, from Columbia University in 1968 and his M.D. with Honors from Stanford University in 1973. He stayed at Stanford as intern, resident and chief resident in Pediatrics and, thereafter, as a post-doctoral fellow in pediatric endocrinology. He joined the faculty at Stanford in 1980, was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 1985 and to Professor in 1989. In 1993, he left Stanford, to accept the position of Chairman of Pediatrics at Oregon Health Sciences University, where he served for nine years. In 2003, he returned to Stanford as the Senior Vice-President for Medical Affairs of the Lucile Packard Foundation, overseeing the transfer of $500,000,000 to Stanford University and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital. Having stepped down from that position at the end of 2008, he established STAT5, LLC, to provide specialized consultation services in endocrinology and pharamacogenomics, while continuing to maintain his research laboratory at OHSU. He has also served as Founder, President and CEO of ProteoGenix, Inc., a company that has pioneered the use of genomic and proteomic technologies to develop noninvasive tests for monitoring pregnancy and fetal health. Dr. Rosenfeld is an internationally renowned authority on the endocrine basis of growth and development and has been at the forefront of understanding the biology of growth hormone and growth factors for over 30 years. His work has elucidated the physiological, pathological, cellular and molecular aspects of mammalian growth, as well as the role of growth factors and their receptors in the fetus, newborn, child and adult in health and disease. The author of over 600 publications, 8 edited books and 2 plays, Dr. Rosenfeld has received numerous awards, including a Mellon Foundation Fellowship, Basil O’Connor Award from the March of Dimes, an NIH Career Development Award, and 30 years of continuous NIH grant support. He is the recipient of the Kaiser Award for Excellence in Teaching at Stanford, the Joseph St. Geme, Jr. Award from the Society for Pediatric Research for pediatric education, the Ross Award for Research from the Society for Pediatric Research, The Clinical Endocrinology Trust Medal from the Royal Society of Medicine, the Maureen Andrew Mentor Award from the Society for Pediatric Research, the 2008 Transatlantic Medal as the outstanding North American endocrinologist from the Society for Endocrinology, and the 2008 Robert H. Williams Distinguished Leadership Award from the Endocrine Society. He has been active on many editorial boards and study sections, and served as Chair of the Endocrinology Study Section of the NIH and as Chair of the Clinical Research Advisory Board of the March of Dimes. In 1997, he served as President of the Lawson Wilkins Pediatric Endocrine Society.
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