David Gordon, Md

Biography

 Dr. Gordon is currently the Dean for the School of Health Professions and Studies, at the University of Michigan-Flint campus. As such he oversees departments of Nursing, Physical Therapy, Public Health and Health Sciences, and their outpatient clinic: the Urban Health and Wellness Center which focuses on the care of underserved and disadvantaged patients from Flint. He is also a professor of pathology, with a clinical focus on cardiovascular pathology and autopsy pathology.  He joined the faculty at the University of Washington as a human diagnostic and experimental cardiovascular pathologist, and was recruited to the University of Michigan in 1991, where his focus has been on human atherosclerosis biology and gene therapy for vascular diseases. He also served as an Assistant Dean for Faculty Affairs for the University of Michigan Medical School. From 1997 to 2001 he was with Pfizer’s Cardiovascular Therapeutics pre-clinical division where his group did further pre-clinical work on gene therapy for therapeutic angiogenesis. He returned to the University of Michigan full time in 2001, in his current capacity, and is also active in pathology teaching and clinical service. Dr. Gordon received a BA in Chemistry from Amherst College, and then his M.D. degree from Harvard Medical School. While at Harvard he also did a vascular biology research fellowship with Dr. Karnovsky. He then did a year of internal medicine internship at University of Massachusetts (Worcester, MA), before being trained in anatomic pathology at the University of Washington in Seattle.

Research Interest

 Gene therapy for therapeutic angionesis; Atherosclerosis