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Dr. Juanita L. Merchant, MD, PhD
Dr.
Merchant is a Professor of Internal
Medicine and Molecular and
Integrative Physiology at the
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
She is also a faculty member in the
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Program. She received her B.S.
degree with distinction in
Biological Sciences from Stanford
University and her M.D. and Ph.D.
degrees from Yale University. She
completed residency in Internal
Medicine and a research fellowship
in molecular Gastroenterology at the
Massachusetts General Hospital in
Boston and clinical fellowship in
Gastroenterology at UCLA.
Dr. Merchant is a
member of the Editorial Boards for
Journal of Clinical Investigation,
Digestive Disease Sciences and
Physiological Reviews. She serves on
the national advisory boards for the
Harold Amos (formerly Robert Wood
Johnson) Minority Faculty
Development Award, NIDDK Council and
the advisory boards for three P30
Center Grants. Over the course of
her education and throughout her
faculty tenure, Dr. Merchant has
received numerous prestigious awards
and honors. She is a member of nine
national professional associations,
including the American Society for
Clinical Investigation (ASCI), The
Association of American Physicians (AAP),
and the American Gastroenterological
Association (AGA). As a part of her
administrative responsibilities with
the University of Michigan, she is a
member of the Organogenesis and
Cancer Centers and the executive
committee of the University of
Michigan Digestive Disease Center
(P30) and the committee on
Strategies and Tactics for
Recruiting to Improve Diversity and
Excellence (STRIDE). She has
recently become an associate
director of the Medical Scientist
Training Program (MSTP).
Dr. Merchant’s
primary research interests include
transcriptional control mechanisms
regulating cell growth and
differentiation and microbial-host
interactions in the upper GI tract.
Dr. Merchant has co-authored
numerous primary research
publications, book chapters and
abstracts in such journals as the
Journal of Clinical Investigation,
Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences,
Gastroenterology, Journal of
Biological Chemistry,
Molecular and Cellular Biology,
American Journal of Physiology,
Infection and Immunity.
Several press releases have covered
her work on the role of gastric
infection in the development of
peptic ulcer disease and gastric
cancer. |
