With more than 200 scientific publications, Dang is the editor of a special issue of Genes & Cancer, “MYC: A Far-Reaching Cancer Gene,” published last year. He has been senior editor and associate editor of Cancer Research, associate editor of the Journal of Molecular Medicine, and scientific editor of Cancer Discovery. Born in Saigon, Viet Nam, Dang earned his Ph.D. degree in chemistry at Georgetown University, with distinction. Four years later, he received his M.D. degree from Johns Hopkins University, where he was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. Following his internship and residency in medicine at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Dang took a fellowship in hematologyoncology at the Cancer Research Institute of the University of California at San Francisco. In 1987, he was appointed assistant professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins, where he remained until joining Penn Medicine. The inaugural recipient of the Johns Hopkins Family Professorship in Oncology Research, Dang is also an elected member of the Association of American Physicians and of the Institute of Medicine, and he is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He has served as president of the American Society for Clinical Investigation. Timothy R. Dillingham, M.D., M.S., has joined Penn Medicine as chair of the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. He had been chairman and professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation at the Medical College of Wisconsin. His research interests include the rehabilitation and long-term outcomes for amputees, especially when the amputations are caused by a limb’s poor vascular status. He is also recognized as an expert in the electrodiagnosis of patients with limb symptoms and musculoskeletal disorders. Dillingham has
Welcome to the Academy Amita Sehgal, Ph.D., Jonathan A. Epstein, M.D., and Katherine High, M.D., were elected members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Sehgal, the John Herr Musser Professor and vice chair of the Department of Neuroscience, serves as co-director of the Comprehensive Neuroscience Center. She studies the molecular and genetic components of sleep and circadian rhythms using a fruit fly model. Sehgal is also a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator. Epstein, the William Wikoff Smith Professor of Cardiovascular Research, is
Timothy R. Dillingham, M.D., M.S.
served as associate editor of the American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation as well as a referee for several other journals. He was an editor of two volumes of Rehabilitation of the Injured Combatant, published by the Office of the Surgeon General. Among Dillingham’s many honors is the Distinguished Researcher Award from the American Association of Neuromuscular and Electrodiagnostic Medi-
chair of the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology. He is known for his studies of the molecular mechanisms of cardiovascular development and their role in understanding human disease. High, the William H. Bennett Professor of Pediatrics, is widely recognized as a hematologist and researcher. She is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator and serves as director of the Center for Cellular and Molecular Therapeutics at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Founded in 1780, the Academy selects top experts in areas such as academia, the arts, business, and the sciences to support the independent policy center’s research.
cine. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and has been honored for his teaching. Dillingham earned his medical degree from the University of Washington and took his internship and residency there while also earning his M.S. degree in rehabilitation medicine. From 1990 to 1994, he was a clinical instructor and then assistant professor in the Department of Neurology at the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences in Bethesda, Md. He then joined the Johns Hopkins University as an assistant professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation. Dillingham joined the Medical College of Wisconsin in 2003. Commissioned as a second lieutenant in the United States Army in 1982, Dillingham eventually rose to major. In 1994, he received the Meritorious Service Medal for exemplary performance of duties at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, where he had served as staff physiatrist and director of research for PM&R; he was honorably discharged that same year. 2011/FALL ■ 9