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Dr. Welsh is also Professor of Internal Medicine and of Physiology and Biophysics at the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City. He earned his M.D. degree from the University of Iowa College of Medicine, where he completed his residency. He held clinical and research fellowships in pulmonary disease at the University of California, San Francisco, and did postgraduate research in physiology and cell biology at the University of Texas, Houston. He then returned to the University of Iowa as a faculty member. Dr. Welsh served as president of the American Society of Clinical Investigation and the Association of American Physicians. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the National Academy of Sciences.
RESEARCH ABSTRACT SUMMARY:
Michael Welsh's research is focused on the pathophysiology of airway disease in cystic fibrosis and on the DEG/ENaC family of Na+ channels.
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