Julie Parsonnet
{{Short description|American infectious disease expert}}
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| birth_place = New Jersey, US
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| education = Harvard University (BA)
Weill Cornell Medicine (MD)
| thesis_title = John Dewey and social pragmatism in China
| thesis_year = 1979
| spouse = {{married|Anthony Alfrey|1993|2015|end=died}}
Dean Winslow
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| website = {{URL|eaglefundtrust.org}}
| workplaces = Stanford University School of Medicine
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Julie Parsonnet is an infectious disease expert. She is a Fellow of the National Academy of Medicine and American Society for Clinical Investigation.
Early life and education
Parsonnet grew up in Millburn, New Jersey, alongside father Victor Parsonnet and attended Millburn High School.{{cite news |title=Marriage of Parsonnet |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/77988381/marriage-of-parsonnet-malzberg/ |access-date=May 19, 2021 |publisher=The Item of Millburn and Short Hills |date=February 4, 1993 |location=Millburn, New Jersey|via=newspapers.com}} Following high school, she graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in history and science.{{cite news |title=JULIE PARSONNET |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/77988445/julie-parsonnet/ |access-date=May 19, 2021 |publisher=The Item of Millburn and Short Hills |date=June 14, 1979|via=newspapers.com}} As a sophomore at Harvard, she spent a summer as an intern with Senator Clifford P. Case.{{cite news |title=SUMMER INTERNSHIP |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/77988470/summer-internship/ |access-date=May 19, 2021 |publisher=The Item of Millburn and Short Hills |date=September 21, 1978|via=newspapers.com}}
Following Harvard, Parsonnet enrolled at Cornell University for her medical degree. Upon graduating in 1983, she had received the John Metcalf Polk Prize for General Efficiency as a student with the highest academic standing over four years, the Clarence C. Coryell Prize in Medicine for having the highest average in medicine through the junior year, the Alfred Moritz Michaelis Prize Endowment for Efficiency in General Medicine, and the American Medical Women's Association Scholarship Citation.{{cite news |title=Julie Parsonnet heads medical school class |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/77988357/julie-parsonnet-heads-medical-school/ |access-date=May 19, 2021 |publisher=The Item of Millburn and Short Hills |date=July 28, 1983|via=newspapers.com}} Following Cornell, Parsonnet completed her residency and fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital from 1984 until 1989.{{cite web |title=Julie Parsonnet |url=https://profiles.stanford.edu/julie-parsonnet?tab=bio |website=profiles.stanford.edu |access-date=May 19, 2021}}
Career
Upon completing her formal education, Parsonnet accepted an assistant professor position at Stanford University School of Medicine. In 1991, she received a 2-year, $60,000 grant from the Infectious Diseases Society of America to support her research into a possible association of gastrointestinal infection by the bacterium Helicobacter pylori, with the onset of gastric cancer.{{cite news |title=Society awards research grant to Dr. Parsonnet |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/77988565/society-awards-research-grant-to-dr/ |access-date=May 19, 2021 |publisher=The Item of Millburn and Short Hills |date=February 14, 1991|via=newspapers.com}} As a result of her work, she was elected a Member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation in 1998.{{cite web |title=Julie Parsonnet, MD |url=https://www.the-asci.org/controllers/asci/ListingController.php?action=page&year=1998&page=37 |website=the-asci.org |access-date=May 19, 2021}} Parsonnet married Anthony Alfrey in 1993 and they had one daughter together.{{cite web |title=Anthony Alfrey Ph.D. |url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/mercurynews/obituary.aspx?n=anthony-alfrey&pid=175330406 |website=legacy.com |access-date=May 19, 2021}}
Alongside her new husband Dean Winslow, they created The Eagle Fund of the Silicon Valley Community Foundation in 2015 to provides aid to middle eastern and central American refugees.{{cite web |title=Dean Winslow |url=https://profiles.stanford.edu/dean-winslow |website=profiles.stanford.edu |access-date=May 19, 2021}}{{cite web |last1=Kearly |first1=Kendyl |title=Drs. Julie Parsonnet And Dean Winslow Are A Pandemic-Fighting Team |url=https://mlsiliconvalley.com/drs-julie-parsonnet-dean-winslow |website=mlsiliconvalley.com |access-date=May 19, 2021 |date=November 19, 2020}} A few years later, Parsonnet was elected to the National Academy of Medicine for "elucidating how infectious agents cause chronic disease and research on H. pylori’s roles in malignancy and in modulating host immunity that are widely cited in the field of gastric cancer."{{cite web |title=National Academy of Medicine Elects 100 New Members |url=https://nam.edu/national-academy-of-medicine-elects-100-new-members/ |website=nam.edu |access-date=May 19, 2021 |date=October 1, 2019}}
References
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External links
- {{Google Scholar id | EWW74ycAAAAJ}}
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Category:Millburn High School alumni
Category:People from Millburn, New Jersey
Category:Physicians from New Jersey
Category:Members of the National Academy of Medicine
Category:Members of the American Society for Clinical Investigation
Category:Harvard University alumni
Category:Weill Cornell Medical College alumni