Dr. Abdul Rao

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Dr. Abdul Rao was the Senior Associate Vice
President for Research and Graduate Studies at
USF Health
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USF Health aims to ameliorate health in the wider
environment, in communities, and for individuals.
USF Health has, as its core, the three colleges
of Public Health, Nursing and Medicine, including
a School of Physical Therapy, as well as the
healthcare delivered by its clinicians.
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Abdul S. Rao, MD, MA, DPhil, served as the Senior
Associate Vice President for Research and
Graduate Studies at USF Health, and Vice Dean for
Research and Graduate Studies for the College of
Medicine. At USF Health, Abdul Rao was the leader
of the research for the three USF colleges of
medicine, nursing and public health.
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He helped to seamlessly bridge research across
USF and USF Health campuses. Dr. Abdul Rao said,
"I am very excited about this opportunity to work
with faculty, staff, and students at USF Health
to enhance its research capacity and to continue
to improve the quality of its graduate programs.
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There is an enormous potential for growth of
basic, translational, and clinical research at
USF Health and the prospect of developing
productive collaborations between faculty and
students in the College/Schools at USF, the
Moffitt Cancer Center, the All Children's
Hospital, and many other local and regional
affiliates.
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Dr. Abdul Rao has been the Vice Provost for
Research and Sponsored Programs and Dean, College
of Graduate Studies at the Middle Tennessee State
University, where he was a Professor of
Biology. He also served as the Chair of the
Research Council for the Tennessee Board of
Regents -
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The sixth largest higher education system in the
United States, with over 180,000 students
enrolled in 45 universities, community colleges,
and technology centers.
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Dr. Abdul S. Rao did his medical degree from Dow
Medical University, Karachi, Pakistan, in 1983.
After completing his residency training in
Orthopedic Surgery, Abdul Rao joined the
Department of Physiology, Boston University
School of Medicine and graduated in 1989 with a
M.A., in Physiology.
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He completed a year of post-doctoral Research
Fellowship in the Department of Neurology,
Harvard Medical School. Dr. Abdul Rao joined the
Nuffield Department of Surgery, University of
Oxford, Oxford, UK, as a Clinical Instructor from
1990-1993. He graduated from the University of
Oxford with a D.Phil., (Doctor of Philosophy) in
Transplantation Immunology in 1993.