Cato T. Laurencin (born 1959), a professor and a surgeon, is the Dean of the University of Connecticut School of Medicine and the Vice President for Health Affairs at the University of Connecticut.
He is one of only 3 practicing orthopaedic surgeons in the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. Laurencin was the first Orthopaedic Surgeon to achieve University Professor level rank in the country. He is the first surgeon in the US to be e...
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Cato T. Laurencin (born 1959), a professor and a surgeon, is the Dean of the University of Connecticut School of Medicine and the Vice President for Health Affairs at the University of Connecticut.
He is one of only 3 practicing orthopaedic surgeons in the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. Laurencin was the first Orthopaedic Surgeon to achieve University Professor level rank in the country. He is the first surgeon in the US to be elected to the Third World Academy of Sciences (of the six US members elected in the last two years, one third are Nobel prize winners).
Laurencin earned his undergraduate degree in chemical engineering from Princeton University and his medical degree from Harvard Medical school where he was a magna cum laude graduate. During his medical school, he also earned his Ph.D in biochemical engineering from the MIT.
Laurencin joined the University of Connecticut Health Center from the University of Virginia where he was the Lillian T. Pratt...
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