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The E. Hugh Luckey Distinguished Professor of Medicine
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Schafer, Andrew I
 (212) 746-4816  (212) 746-8793
Upon completion of his fellowship at Harvard, Dr. Schafer remained on the faculty. After rising through the ranks at Harvard to Associate Professor of Medicine, he moved to Houston in 1989 to become Chief of Medicine of the Houston VA Medical Center and then Chairman of the Department of Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine. In 2002 he became the Frank Wister Thomas Professor and Chairman of the Department of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He assumed his current position in May, 2007, as the E. Hugh Luckey Distinguished Professor and Chairman of the Department of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College and Physician-in-Chief of the New York Presbyterian Hospital.
Dr. Schafer authored over 200 original articles and is the editor of 5 textbooks in the field of hemostasis, thrombosis and hematology. He also made original contributions to our understanding of normal platelet biology and metabolism, abnormalities of platelet function in the myeloproliferative disorders, platelet-vascular call interactions, the role of hemodynamic forces on platelets and vascular endothelial and smooth muscle cells, and the nitric oxide synthase/nitric oxide and the heme oxygenase / carbon monoxide systems in vascular cell biology. He has been the principal investigator of NIH grants for almost 30 consecutive years, and served on the NHLBI Board of Extramural Advisors. Dr. Schafer has been elected to membership in the American Society for Clinical Investigation (for which he served as Secretary-Treasurer), the Association of American Physicians, and fellowship in the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is currently President of the American Society of Hematology and is President-elect of the Association of Professors of Medicine for 2010-2011.
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