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José Belizan, MD, PhD
José Belizan, MD, PhD
Adjunct Professor
Department of Maternal and Child Health
Dr. Belizan's major research and training focus is on evidence-based medicine, randomized controlled trials and implementation science, with a specialization in maternal health and its effect on the progeny. He runs many collaborative randomized clinical trials showing the efficacy of interventions for maternal and neonatal care. These trials involve the collaboration of researchers form many countries, including Latin American, African and Asian sites.
He has been an overseas mentor for more than 10 years via various NIH-funded grants. He is the co-director of the Fogarty International Clinical Research Fellows site in Argentina, which offers one-year mentored clinical research training experience for doctoral students and post-doctoral candidates in health-related professions from the U.S. To date, he has hosted two scholars and nine fellows at IECS in association with the program. Additionally, he has hosted 12 scholars via the MHIRT program.
Dr. Belizan holds an MD, two PhDs (in reproductive biology and medicine), an MSc in epidemiology and an OB/GYN certification.
Honors and Awards
Hope Award2010, Preeclampsia Foundation
Roberto Caldeyro-Barcia Prize2006, 5th World Congress on Perinatal Medicine
Heraldry Order of Cristóbal Colon in the degree of Knight2001, President of Dominican Republic
First Annual Lawton Chiles International Lecture on Maternal and Child Health in the Americas2000, National Institutes of Health
Lecturer at the XII Berzelius Symposium1999, The Swedish Society of Medicine
Golden Medal “Prof. Adelda L. de Moraes”1992, Brazilian Center of Population Dynamics and Human Reproduction
Superior Researcher1995, Argentinean National Council of Scientific Research
Editor of the year. BioMed Central, London2015, Journal Reproductive Health
Carlos Slim Health Award2021, Research Career Award Category
Teaching Interests
Global maternal health research and the role of implementation science
Research Activities
Global maternal health research seeking and testing interventions to improve maternal health outcomes
Service Activities
Mentoring pre- and postdoctoral students in their dissertations, thesis and research activities
Practice Activities
Mentoring on finding research subjects and on the process of research projects, from the protocol to the final publication
Education
Certification of Specialty, Obstetrics, College of Physicians, Sante Fe, Argentina, 1975
PhD, Medicine, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Agentina, 1975
PhD, Biology of Reproduction, Universidad del Salvador, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1974
MD, Medicine, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina
