Abdul Rao Played A Positive Role At USF Health

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Dr. Abdul Rao Played A Positive Role At USF Health
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Dr. Abdul S. Rao, M.D., M.A., D.Phil has served
as the Senior Associate Vice President for
Research and Graduate Studies at USF Health. He
has also served as the Vice Dean for Research and
Graduate Studies for the College of Medicine.
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Dr. Abdul Rao at USF Health was the leader of the
research for the three USF colleges- namely,
Medicine, Nursing and Public Health. He has
excellently helped in seamlessly bridging
research across USF and USF Health campuses.
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USF Health has been aiming to ameliorate health
in the wider environment for communities and for
specific individuals. It has to its core three
main colleges, Public Health, Nursing and
Medicine. It also includes a School of Physical
Therapy as well as the healthcare delivered by
its clinicians.
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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 worked as a Professor of
Biology. Other than that, he served as the Chair
of the Research Council
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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.