Juanita L. Merchant
Personal Information
Country of Birth: USA
Nationality: USA
Ethnicity: Black
Education
Stanford University BS Biology 1977; Yale University Svhool of Medicine MD &PhD 1984
Professional Life
Field of Study: Gastroenterology, Specializes in gastric & colon pre-cancer
Institution/Corporation: University of Michigan; University of Arizona
Degrees & Memberships: Member: National Academy of Medicine (2008), National Institutes of Health (NIH) Council of Councils (2008-2016), Board of Scientific Councelors for the National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases (2016), Alpha Omega Alpha (1984),American Society for Clinical Investigation (1998), National Academy of Medicine Governing Council (2019-2022)
Awards & Achievements
Awards: 2017, Distinguished Achievement Award on Basic Science, American Gastroenterological Association )AGA_; 2014, AGA Institute Research Mentor Award; 2014, Sarah Goddard Pollard Award, University of Michigan; 2012, Harold P. Johnson Award for Diversity, university of Michigan; 2012, Duty Ogg-Campus on GI Stem Cells with Sir Nicholas A. Wright, Barts Cancer Institute, London School of Medicine, UK; 2008-2018, H. Marvin Pollard Professor of Gastrointestinal Sciences in Internal Medicine, University of Michigan; 2008, Outstanding AGA Women in Science, Honoree, AGA; 2002, Special Recognition Award, Women of Color in Health, Career Communications Group, Baltimore; 1998, Jerome W. Conn Award for distinguished Research by a Junior Faculty Member in Internal Medicine, University of Michigan; 1998, AGA Rober & Sally Funderburg Award for Gastric Cancer; 1994, Faculty Career Development Award, University of Michigan; 1992, Munn Endowment Cancer Award, University of Michigan; 1987, Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program Award, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; 1984, Medical Scientist Award, Yale University School of Medicine; 1984, Henry J. Kaiser Award, Yale University School of Medicine; 1977, Damon runyon-Walter Winchell Research Award, Stanford University; 1977, Honors & Distinction in Biological Sciences, Stanford University
Achievements: 1991, Clinical Fellow in Gastroenterology, UCLA; 1990, Clinical & Research Fellow Harvard School of Medicine; 1994, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator; 2022, University of Arizona Regents Professor