Courtney Fitzhugh facts for kids
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Courtney Fitzhugh
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Los Angeles, California, U.S.
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| Alma mater | University of California, Los Angeles University of California, San Francisco |
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| Fields | Hematology |
| Institutions | National Institutes of Health |
Courtney D. Fitzhugh is an American doctor and scientist. She specializes in two areas: hematology (studying blood and blood diseases) and oncology (studying cancer). Dr. Fitzhugh is also a physician-scientist, which means she treats patients and does scientific research.
She works as a clinical researcher at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. There, she leads a special lab that focuses on preventing serious problems for young people with sickle cell disease.
About Dr. Courtney Fitzhugh
Dr. Fitzhugh was born in Los Angeles, California. She went to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and graduated in 1996 with high honors (magna cum laude).
She then earned her medical degree (M.D.) from the University of California, San Francisco in 2001. While in medical school, she joined a special training program at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). During this time, she studied at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI).
After medical school, Dr. Fitzhugh completed a joint residency program at Duke University Medical Center. This program trained her in both internal medicine (for adults) and pediatrics (for children). In 2005, she finished a fellowship at the NIH and Johns Hopkins Hospital. A fellowship is advanced training in a specific medical field, in her case, adult and pediatric hematology-oncology.
Her Work and Research
In 2007, Dr. Fitzhugh returned to the NHLBI. She became an assistant clinical investigator in 2012 and a clinical tenure track investigator in 2016. This means she became a permanent researcher there.
She is now a Lasker clinical research scholar. She leads the NHLBI lab that works to prevent early deaths from sickle cell disease. Her lab studies sickle cell disease and also looks into hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. This is a treatment that can help people with certain blood disorders.
Dr. Fitzhugh is also a member of the American Society of Hematology. This is a group for doctors and scientists who study blood.
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