COLUMBUS, OH, November 02, 2016 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Dr. Harris Taylor has been included in Marquis Who's Who. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
After graduating Phi Beta Kappa from Queens College of The City University of New York in 1961, Dr. Taylor attended medical school at the University of Chicago where he remained to do his medical internship. Subsequent to two years with the Peace Corps in Cali, Columbia, he and his wife Donna moved to Cleveland in 1968 where he finished his residency in Internal Medicine as Co-Chief Resident at Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital. After then completing his training in Endocrinology at the Cleveland Clinic in 1972, he moved to the Kaiser Foundation Cleveland where he served as consultant in Endocrinology until 1986 and to Lutheran Medical Center, now part of the Cleveland Clinic hospital network. There he developed and ran the Endocrinology - Radioimmunoassay laboratory, and later became the Director of the Internal Medicine Residency Training Program from 1985-1994. Subsequently, he maintained his affiliation with the Residency Program as Director of Resident Research until his retirement in 2013. Until 2003, he maintained an active practice of Endocrinology and served as President of the Diabetes Association of Greater Cleveland from 1982-1984. In 2003 he moved to the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and the Cleveland Veterans Administration hospital as Clinical Professor of Medicine (Endocrinology), having been on the faculty since completing his residency. While there, he was responsible for teaching residents and fellows in Endocrinology as well as serving as the site principal investigator for the National Institutes of Health in the multi-center ACCORD trial. The landmark study was designed to assess the importance of tight glucose and blood pressure control in high risk patients with type 2 diabetes.
Over the course of his career, Dr. Taylor has authored or co-authored some 48 peer reviewed papers and 5 book chapters. The former have garnered over 1000 citations. He is a diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine and its subsection of Endocrinology and Metabolism, a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and the American College of Endocrinology, and a member of the Endocrine Society and American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists. He is the recipient of the Ohio chapter of the American College of Physicians Master Teacher Award in 2001 and was named to the Best Doctors in America in 1998, 2002 and 2004.
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