Dr. Theresa C. Hemsworth-Peterson completed her Ph.D and conducted postdoctoral studies at National Institutes of Health, in the National Institute of Child Health and Human development in the Developmental Pharmacology lab. She is an Affiliate Scientist at the QEII in Halifax and a Professor of Medicine in the GI Division at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada. She is past Chair of the Dalhousie Medical Research Foundation SAC and holds several US patents and has published extensively in reputed journals and serves on their editorial boards and in Nov. 2011, was nominated for a Canadian Progress Women of Excellence Award in Research. Dr. Theresa C. Hemsworth-Peterson completed her Ph.D and conducted postdoctoral studies at National Institutes of Health, in the National Institute of Child Health and Human development in the Developmental Pharmacology lab. She is an Affiliate Scientist at the QEII in Halifax and a Professor of Medicine in the GI Division at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada. She is past Chair of the Dalhousie Medical Research Foundation SAC and holds several US patents and has published extensively in reputed journals and serves on their editorial boards and in Nov. 2011, was nominated for a Canadian Progress Women of Excellence Award in Research.

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