Dr. Andrew I. Schafer gave the Keynote Address at the spring meeting of the Royal College of Physicians in London on Feb. 27, 2015, to an audience that included HRH Princess Anne. In his address, Dr. Schafer talked about the future of academic medicine, comparing and contrasting the situations in the U.S. and the United Kingdom and Europe, in areas such as medical education and research funding. Following the lecture, the Academy of Medical Sciences of England sponsored a series of brief presentations delivered by promising young clinical investigators from throughout the U.K.
Dr. Schafer, Professor of Medicine in the Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology and a former Chair of the Weill Department of Medicine, is the Director of The Richard T. Silver Center for Myeloproliferative Neoplasms at Weill Cornell. He is a member of the IOM, co-editor of the Cecil Textbook of Medicine, and has been the Principal Investigator of NIH-funded research projects for more than 30 years.
Dr. Schafer speaks with HRH Princess Anne at the spring meeting of the Royal College of Physicians in London