Dr. Abdul Rao Was Associated With USF Health

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Dr. Abdul Rao Was Positively Associated With USF
Health
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USF Health has as its core three colleges of
Public Health, Nursing and Medicine which also
includes a school of Physical Therapy as well as
the healthcare delivered by its clinicians. It
aims to ameliorate health in the wider
environment, in communities and for individuals.
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Dr. 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 of Medicine. At USF
Health, Abdul Rao was the leader of the research
for the three USF Colleges. He helped to
seamlessly bridge research across USF and its
campuses.
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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. Here he served as a professor of
Biology. He also served as the Chair of the
Research Council for the Tennessee Board of
Regents -The sixth largest higher education
system in the United States.
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About Dr. Abdul Rao 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.