{"id":20329,"date":"2022-01-03T08:30:38","date_gmt":"2022-01-03T14:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aae.org\/specialty\/?p=20329"},"modified":"2021-12-23T12:57:41","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T18:57:41","slug":"endodontist-named-acting-nih-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aae.org\/specialty\/endodontist-named-acting-nih-director\/","title":{"rendered":"Endodontist Named Acting NIH Director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As reported in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/healthcare\/585110-becerra-names-incoming-acting-nih-director?fbclid=IwAR0lClpbDnncx7mG3IASzwzHBEQxrRhMamdedYQSSS-WB6ha3Fd49L3zWXA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Hill<\/a>, the Department of Health and Human Services has named Lawrence Tabak, DDS, PhD, &#8220;the incoming acting National Institutes of Health (NIH) director slated to fill in for Francis Collins.&#8221; Dr. Tabak, &#8220;who currently serves as the principal deputy director at NIH, will take on the acting position starting on Dec. 20, while the administration searches for Collins&#8217;s permanent replacement, the HHS secretary said in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hhs.gov\/about\/news\/2021\/12\/09\/hhs-secretary-becerra-names-dr-lawrence-tabak-acting-director-of-nih.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announcement<\/a>.&#8221; Dr. Tabak &#8220;has held positions at NIH since 2000, including as principal deputy director and deputy ethics counselor for the past 11 years,&#8221; and &#8220;before that, he served as the director of the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial research for a decade.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/publichealthpolicy\/washington-watch\/96101\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MedPage Today<\/a> reported that &#8220;before joining NIH, Tabak was a professor of Dentistry and Biochemistry &amp; Biophysics at the University of Rochester in New York,&#8221; and &#8220;his research, which is ongoing, focuses on the structure, biosynthesis, and function of glycoproteins.&#8221; Dr. Tabak, &#8220;who is a member of the National Academy of Medicine, received his undergraduate degree from City College of New York, his DDS from Columbia University, and a PhD in endodontics from the University at Buffalo.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-nih-director\/u-s-health-department-names-lawrence-tabak-as-nih-acting-director-idUSL4N2SU3BV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters<\/a>\u00a0(12\/9)\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-scientist.com\/news-opinion\/lawrence-tabak-tapped-to-serve-as-interim-nih-head-69511\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scientist<\/a>\u00a0(12\/10, Williams)\u00a0also reported.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Tabak has AAE and <em>Journal of Endodontics<\/em>\u00a0ties, having authored a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jendodon.com\/article\/S0099-2399(05)60091-X\/fulltext?fbclid=IwAR1_E2imqvmI32sXsNHXaK_FStMsJhz5GisRCdghvtCRFM2o8S-OXASWqr0\">review<\/a>\u00a0that is considered to be timeless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As reported in\u00a0The Hill, the Department of Health and Human Services has named Lawrence Tabak, DDS, PhD, &#8220;the incoming acting National Institutes of Health (NIH) director slated to fill in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[217],"tags":[],"feature":[202],"class_list":["post-20329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-member-news-and-profiles","feature-communique"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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