The Medical Foundation Division News

Bernardo Sabatini, M.D., Ph.D.
June 4, 2011 - On May 24, The Medical Foundation Division of HRiA organized the 10th Scientific Poster Session and Dinner for the Smith Family Awards Program for Excellence in Biomedical Research....
Dr. Joan Miller
January 27, 2011 - Dr. Joan Miller was given HRiA's 2011 Life Sciences Award for her leadership role as the Chair of the Scientific Review Committee for the Edward N. and Della L. Thome Memorial Foundation,...
Dr. Charles Sawyers, Goldhirsh Foundation Award Recipient
January 28, 2010 - Imagine a time when all patients struck by leukemia recover fully. Charles Sawyers, M.D., at New York City's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, has worked to make this a reality by...
Margaret Hamburg, MD, FDA Commissioner and Sally McNagny, MD, MPH, The Medical Foundation division.
September 28, 2009 - Sally McNagny, MD, MPH of The Medical Foundation, a division of HRiA, co-chaired the planning committee for the Health Research Alliance (HRA) meeting at the Howard Hughes Medical...
Scientific Poster Session and Dinner, Harvard Club of Boston
May 28, 2009 - The Medical Foundation, a Division of Health Resources in Action, organized the Scientific Poster Session and Dinner for the Smith Family Awards Program for Excellence in Biomedical...
May 22, 2009 - The Medical Foundation, a Division of Health Resources in Action, is proud to be a founding member of the Health Research Alliance (HRA), an organization of nonprofit, non-governmental...
H. Robert Horvitz, Ph.D.
April 17, 2009 - H. Robert Horvitz, Ph.D., stepped down as Chair of the Scientific Review Committee for the King Trust Postdoctoral Fellowship Program in April after three years on the committee. Dr....
Sally McNagny Sally McNagny, MD, MPH, FACP
Vice President
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Bio
Sally McNagny Since 2001, Dr. McNagny has served as vice president of HRiA's Medical Foundation division, where she oversees biomedical research grant making and life sciences consulting. Dr. McNagny also serves on the faculty of Harvard Medical School, in the Brigham and Women's Hospital Department of Medicine, and is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians.

Dr. McNagny holds a BS in biology from Stanford University, an MD from Harvard Medical School, an MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health, and completed her medical residency at the Brigham and Women's Hospital. She served on the faculty at Emory University School of Medicine for 12 years, where she was principal investigator for the Emory site of the NIH Women's Health Initiative and other clinical research trials in the field of postmenopausal hormone replacement therapy. She also conducted health services research studies in access to care, high blood pressure management, and smoking cessation. Her research articles have been published in leading journals including the Journal of the American Medical Association, the New England Journal of Medicine and the Annals of Internal Medicine.

Currently, Dr. McNagny serves on the Board and is Chair-Elect of the Health Research Alliance, a membership organization of non-governmental funders of medical research and training whose members award more than $1.5 billion annually.
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