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New director plans conciergestyle
service for NUCATS
Written by:
Cheryl SooHoo
Photography by:
Peter Barreras
Preventive Medicine Chair Donald Lloyd-Jones, MD, has a head
for wearing different “hats”: farmer, minister, and, most recently
and importantly for Northwestern University Feinberg School of
Medicine, top research concierge.
The agricultural hat comes from serving as president of
Lloyd-Jones Farms, Inc., a 440-acre corn and soybean farm in
Warren, Indiana, founded by his great-great-great-great
grandfather in 1836. The clergy hat arrived when he completed
a five-minute online credentialing course with the Universal Life
Church so he could officiate at his college roommate’s wedding
ceremony several years ago. Last June, Dr. Lloyd-Jones donned
the concierge hat when he became the new director of the
Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Sciences
(NUCATS) Institute. He replaces NUCATS founder Philip Greenland,
MD, Harry W. Dingman Professor of Cardiology, who
launched the institute in 2007 with a $30 million Clinical and
Translational Science Award (CTSA) grant from NIH. Dr. Lloyd-
Jones, also named senior associate dean for clinical and
translational research this summer, plans to take the institute
into its next phase — “NUCATS 2.0,” as he calls it.
“Now possessing the capacity built by Dr. Greenland and his
team, NUCATS is ready to provide full-service support to
investigators across the entire spectrum of biomedical research
— from very early discoveries to implementation in
ward rounds Fall/Winter 2012 — p.15