Connection | Palmetto Profiles

Search Result Details

Back to Search Results

This page shows the details of why an item matched the keywords from your search.

Search Results

Rockey, Don

One or more keywords matched the following properties of Rockey, Don

Property	Value
overview	Don C. Rockey, M.D. joined MUSC as Professor and Chairman of our Department of Medicine effective September 1, 2012. A native of Florida, Dr. Rockey’s medical career has taken him from coast to coast. In 1980 he received his bachelor's degree in biology (summa cum laude) from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and he earned his M.D. from the Medical College of Virginia, winning numerous awards for academic excellence during his four years in Richmond. Dr. Rockey completed his internship, residency and fellowships in gastroenterology at the University of California San Francisco, and he served his first academic appointments on the UCSF faculty. In 1997 Dr. Rockey returned to the Southeast, joining the faculty at Duke University Medical Center as Chief of Hepatology and Director of the DUMC Liver Center in Durham, North Carolina. In 2005 he moved to Dallas, Texas to head the Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases at the University of Texas Southwestern, and he was named to the Dr. Carey G. King Jr. and Dr. Henry M. Winans Sr. Chair in Internal Medicine. Dr. Rockey’s research efforts have been supported by the National Institutes of Health since 1989 and his current NIH funding includes grants totaling more than $3 million. He has also been very successful in securing research funding from other sources including foundations, associations and major medical corporations. The general focus of his basic science teams has been the study of wound healing using the liver as a model system. His clinical research interests revolve around establishing management strategies for patients with common gastrointestinal problems, especially GI bleeding, and the overall direction of these studies has been to help establish national patient management guidelines. He has authored more than 200scientific papers dealing with GI-related topics and has presented many invited lectures at gastroenterology and hepatology symposia around the United States and throughout the world. Dr. Rockey has served in a wide variety of positions with the major professional associations in his field. A member of the American Association of Physicians, the American Association for the Study of Liver Disease, the American Gastroenterological Association, and the American College of Physicians, he currently serves as president of the Association of Specialty Professors. He has served as a member of many NIH study sections including the Hepatobiliary Pathophysiology Study Section, and he has worked as Associate Editor for the liver-focused journals, Hepatology and Liver International. He provides editorial and reviewer services to 25 major medical publications including Nature, Science, JCI and the New England Journal of Medicine.

Property

Value

overview

Don C. Rockey, M.D. joined MUSC as Professor and Chairman of our Department of Medicine effective September 1, 2012. A native of Florida, Dr. Rockey’s medical career has taken him from coast to coast. In 1980 he received his bachelor's degree in biology (summa cum laude) from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and he earned his M.D. from the Medical College of Virginia, winning numerous awards for academic excellence during his four years in Richmond. Dr. Rockey completed his internship, residency and fellowships in gastroenterology at the University of California San Francisco, and he served his first academic appointments on the UCSF faculty. In 1997 Dr. Rockey returned to the Southeast, joining the faculty at Duke University Medical Center as Chief of Hepatology and Director of the DUMC Liver Center in Durham, North Carolina. In 2005 he moved to Dallas, Texas to head the Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases at the University of Texas Southwestern, and he was named to the Dr. Carey G. King Jr. and Dr. Henry M. Winans Sr. Chair in Internal Medicine. Dr. Rockey’s research efforts have been supported by the National Institutes of Health since 1989 and his current NIH funding includes grants totaling more than $3 million. He has also been very successful in securing research funding from other sources including foundations, associations and major medical corporations. The general focus of his basic science teams has been the study of wound healing using the liver as a model system. His clinical research interests revolve around establishing management strategies for patients with common gastrointestinal problems, especially GI bleeding, and the overall direction of these studies has been to help establish national patient management guidelines. He has authored more than 200scientific papers dealing with GI-related topics and has presented many invited lectures at gastroenterology and hepatology symposia around the United States and throughout the world. Dr. Rockey has served in a wide variety of positions with the major professional associations in his field. A member of the American Association of Physicians, the American Association for the Study of Liver Disease, the American Gastroenterological Association, and the American College of Physicians, he currently serves as president of the Association of Specialty Professors. He has served as a member of many NIH study sections including the Hepatobiliary Pathophysiology Study Section, and he has worked as Associate Editor for the liver-focused journals, Hepatology and Liver International. He provides editorial and reviewer services to 25 major medical publications including Nature, Science, JCI and the New England Journal of Medicine.

One or more keywords matched the following items that are connected to Rockey, Don

Item Type	Name
Academic Article	Management of small polyps detected by screening CT colonography: patient and physician preferences.
Concept	Physicians
Concept	Practice Patterns, Physicians'
Academic Article	The physician-scientist: a new generation or the last?
Academic Article	Endoscopic hemostasis in nonvariceal upper gastrointestinal bleeding: comparison of physician practice in the East and the West.
Academic Article	Clinical judgment does not circumvent the need for diagnostic endoscopy in upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage.
Academic Article	Physician knowledge and appropriate utilization of computed tomographic colonography in colorectal cancer screening.
Academic Article	Managing anticoagulation and antiplatelet medications in GI endoscopy: a survey comparing the East and the West.
Academic Article	U.S. Physician-Scientist Workforce in the 21st Century: Recommendations to Attract and Sustain the Pipeline.
Academic Article	Best Practices for Physician-Scientist Training Programs: Recommendations from the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine.
Academic Article	Treatment of hepatitis C by primary care providers.
Academic Article	When Do Clinicians Follow-up Abnormal Liver Tests in Primary Care?
Academic Article	Physician-scientists at risk.
Concept	Physicians, Primary Care
Academic Article	Pearls of wisdom for aspiring physician-scientist residency applicants and program directors.

Search Criteria

Physicians