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Pamela B. Davis, M.D., Ph.D. (2015)

Pamela DavisPamela B. Davis was named dean of the School of Medicine and vice president for medical affairs at Case Western Reserve University in 2007, after serving as interim dean since 2006.

Previously, Davis was chief of the Pediatric Pulmonary Division at Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital and director of the Willard A. Bernbaum Cystic Fibrosis Research Center. She is the Arline H. and Curtis F. Garvin, M.D., research professor and chair at the School of Medicine and also is a professor of pediatrics.

Davis has published more than 130 original articles and holds seven U.S. patents. She has brought novel anti-inflammatory therapies and gene therapy strategies into clinical testing for cystic fibrosis. She currently serves as principal investigator for Case Western Reserve University’s Clinical and Translational Science Award. Davis also has served on the National Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases Advisory Council and the Working Group for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Eligibility Review at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.

Davis has received the Paul Di Sant’Agnese Award from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, the Rosenthal Prize for academic pediatrics, and the Smith College Medal. She has been named regularly in "Best Doctors in America" and "Top Doctors." She received her medical degree and doctorate in physiology and pharmacology from Duke University.