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Mehmet Cengiz Öz [a] (/ m ə ˈ m ɛ t ˈ dʒ ɛ ŋ ɡ ɪ z ɒ z / meh-MET JENG-gihz oz; Turkish: [mehˈmet dʒeɲˈɟiz øz]; born June 11, 1960), also known as Dr. Oz (/ ɒ z /), is an American television presenter, physician, author, professor emeritus of cardiothoracic surgery at Columbia University, and former political candidate.
Whilst working at the Harlem Hospital Center Williams established the Stroke Center of Excellence. [4] Williams founded the Hip Hop Stroke programme, a National Institutes of Health funded initiative which developed a school-based stroke education programme to teach children about stroke. [3] [5] The school programme reached 12,000 children. [6]
He was a founder of the Old Blue Rugby Football Club, [4] one of the leading amateur rugby clubs in America. In 1964, he obtained a master's degree in education from Teachers College, Columbia University. [5] He was head coach of Columbia's football team, the Columbia Lions from 1974 to 1979.
Morita, who loved to play golf and tennis, [23] suffered a stroke in 1993, during a game of tennis. [10] The stroke weakened him and left him in a wheelchair. [24] On November 25, 1994, he stepped down as Sony chairman. On October 3, 1999, Morita died of pneumonia at the age of 78 in a Tokyo hospital, where he had been admitted since August ...
He was the Je Tsongkhapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University, before retiring in June 2019. [1] He was the first endowed chair in Buddhist Studies in the West. [1] He also is the co-founder and president of the Tibet House US New York. He translated the Vimalakirti Sutra from the Tibetan Kanjur into English.
Nancy Wexler (born 19 July 1945) [1] FRCP is an American geneticist and the Higgins Professor of Neuropsychology in the Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, best known for her involvement in the discovery of the location of the gene that causes Huntington's disease.
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Julius Sachs (1867), founder of Dwight School, professor at Teachers College, Columbia University and scion of the Goldman–Sachs family William Milligan Sloane (1868), historian, president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and founder of the United States Olympic Committee