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Dr. Nadim Cortas is Vice President for Medical Affairs and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and the Medical Center at the American University of Beirut (AUB). Dr. Cortas is internationally known in academic medicine. He received his MD degree at AUB in 1967, followed by a two-year residency training in Medicine at AUB Medical Center, and three years of postdoctoral fellowship in Pharmacology and Endocrinology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. In 1972, he joined the Faculty of Medicine at AUB as an Assistant Professor of Pharmacology and Medicine, to be promoted to Professor in 1985. Dr. Cortas held the position of Visiting Associate Professor of Biochemistry at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University (1984-1986), followed by Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine at the Department of Medicine. He also served as Director of the Parenteral Nutrition Service at the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center (1990-1994). In 1994, Dr. Cortas returned to AUB as Associate Dean for Research and Development at the Faculty of Medicine. He has been responsible for setting up the cutting edge Core Research Laboratories in the Basic Medical Sciences and has been a key player in the Inter-Faculty Environmental Sciences program. Since 1999, as Vice President for Medical Affairs and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and the Medical Center, Dr. Cortas has been working tirelessly and passionately in restructuring the Faculty of Medicine that includes the Schools of Medicine, Nursing, the University Health Services and the Medical Center and in establishing centers of excellence in cancer, neuroscience, cardiovascular disease, women’s health and ambulatory medicine. He extended the Community Outreach Programs at AUBMC and recruited a large number of highly credentialed academic physicians. Dr. Cortas has established a distinguished research record in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and has received a number of research awards. He is also a member of a number of professional organizations and societies. He has been on committees of the Ministry of Health, Republic of Lebanon, and served as a World Health Organization (WHO) consultant outside Lebanon in 1983.