Claire Pomeroy is the president and chief executive officer of the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation. She is a professor emeritus at the

University of California Davis The University of California, Davis (UC Davis, UCD, or Davis) is a public land-grant research university near Davis, California. Named a Public Ivy, it is the northernmost of the ten campuses of the University of California system. The institut ...

. During her academic career, her research focused on

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Education

Pomeroy received her B.S. and M.D. degrees from the

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. She then did a residency in internal medicine and a fellowship in

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at the

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. She earned an

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from the

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Career

Pomeroy is currently the president and chief executive officer of the

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. She is also a member of the board of trustees for

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, a member of the board of directors of the Science Philanthropy Alliance, and a member of the

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's Advisory Committee on Research on Women's Health. Pomeroy joined the faculty at UC Davis in 2003 as executive associate dean. She then served as vice chancellor and dean of the

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from 2005 to her retirement in 2013. In June 2013, she became president of the Lasker Foundation. Pomeroy was elected to the

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in 2011. The

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awarded her an honorary doctorate of science in 2016. She was elected as a fellow of the

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in 2019. Pomeroy has published more than 100 articles and book chapters.

References

External links

Nature Medicine: An interview with Bill and Melinda Gates, Interviewed by Claire Pomeroy
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