Inside Duke Medicine
Snyderman gift helps fight childhood obesity
posted September 26th, 2008
Chancellor Emeritus Ralph Snyderman, M.D., James B. Duke Professor of Medicine, has given $100,000 to the Duke Department of Pediatrics to develop a fellowship to study how best to battle the global epidemic of childhood obesity.
The fellowship is designed to produce a world leader in prevention and early intervention of childhood obesity.
The Duke fellow will be named by the end of the year and will be learn the fundamentals to research childhood obesity prevention under Sarah Armstrong, Alex Kemper, M.D., and Thomas Kinney, M.D.
The gift was made through the Snyderman Foundation.
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