Naji N. Abumrad (born 1944) is a Lebanese-American

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, currently the John L. Sawyers Professor of Surgery, and formerly the Paul W. Sanger Professor from 1984 to 1992, at

Vanderbilt University Medical Center The Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) is a medical provider with multiple hospitals in Nashville, Tennessee, as well as clinics and facilities throughout Middle Tennessee. VUMC is an independent non-profit organization, but maintains acad ...

. Abumrad graduated with a B.S. in Biology and an M.D. in Medicine at the

American University of Beirut The American University of Beirut (AUB) ( ar, الجامعة الأميركية في بيروت) is a private, non-sectarian, and independent university chartered in New York with its campus in Beirut, Lebanon. AUB is governed by a private, aut ...

in 1971. In 2014, he was elected to the

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. In 2020, the singer

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donated one million dollars towards research into a

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in honor of Abumrad – the pair having become friends after she was treated at Vanderbilt for minor injuries resulting from an October 2013 automobile accident. He is the father of public radio host

Jad Abumrad Jad Nicholas Abumrad ( ar, جاد نيكولاس أبومراد; born April 18, 1973) is an American radio host, composer, and producer. He is the founder and former host of the syndicated public radio program ''Radiolab'' with Latif Nasser and ...

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* 1944 births Living people Vanderbilt University faculty American surgeons Lebanese surgeons American people of Lebanese descent 20th-century American physicians 20th-century surgeons 21st-century American physicians 21st-century surgeons American University of Beirut alumni Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science {{Lebanon-bio-stub