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• Abdel A. Abdel-Rahman, PhD, FAHA
  Distinguished Professor and Vice Chair
  ;Dr. Abdel-Rahman joined ECU in March 1985 as assistant professor of pharmacology. He was promoted to associate professor with tenure in 1989, and to full professor in 1994. He received ECU’s Lifetime Achievement Award and Distinguished Professorship in 2000 and later received Brody’s Master Educator Award.
  He has been vice chair of the department of pharmacology and toxicology since 2006 and has served on many departmental, school and university committees. He serves on the editorial boards of many journals, a member of over 10 professional societies (named Fellow of the American Heart Association, FAHA) and has served on many review panels including the NIH and American Heart Association.
  ;Dr. Abdel-Rahman has been continuously funded by the NIH since 1988 through 2023 (2 overlapping R01 grants totaling 40 years of funding, >12 million dollars). He earned his Pharmacy and master’s degrees at the University of Alexandria, Egypt, and his Ph.D in Pharmacology at Leeds University, England. He has conducted diverse research in the areas of neural control of circulation, estrogen modulation of cardiac function in health and disease, diabetes and cannabinoids. These research projects resulted in 150 scientific publications and have results in the training of 16 graduate students and 17 postdoctoral scholars.