Marschall S. Runge

Marschall S. Runge, is currently Chairman of the Department of Medicine at the University of North Carolina. (http://www.unc.edu) He, his wife Susan and their five children live in Chapel Hill, N.C. Dr. Runge was born in Austin, Texas, graduated from Vanderbilt University with a B.A. in General Biology and a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology. He graduated from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and trained in Internal Medicine at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. He was a cardiology fellow and junior faculty member at Harvard's Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Runge's next position was at Emory University where he was an Associate Professor of Internal Medicine and Cardiology and directed the Cardiology Fellowship Training Program. He then moved to the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston (UTMB) where he was Chief of Cardiology and Director of the Sealy Center for Molecular Cardiology. He came to the University of North Carolina in 2000 as Chairman of the Department of Medicine.

Dr. Runge is board certified in Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Diseases. He has published 150 medical and scientific articles and given 200 invited presentations at national and international meetings and medical schools across the U.S. and Europe over the past 15 years. He is editor for four new major medical texts: Netter's Internal Medicine (June, 2003) and Netter's Cardiology (March, 2004) to be published by Medimedia/ICON Learning Systems, Principles of Molecular Cardiology (December, 2003) and Principles of Molecular Medicine (June, 2004) to be published by Humana Press.

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Keeping Current in Medicine: "Netter's Internal Medicine"
"medicine is not all process, nor is it all science. It is an art buttressed by knowledge..." (My apologies article is in English only)