David Gozal, MD, MBA, PhD (Hon)
Dean
gozal@marshall.edu

Biography

Dr. Gozal is currently the Dean of the Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine and Vice-President for Health Affairs at Marshall University in West Virginia, a position he assumed in July 2023. He received his M.D. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and MBA degrees from Georgetown University and ESADE, completed his pediatric residency at the Haifa Medical Center in Israel, and then spent 2 years in Cameroon, West Africa, developing rural healthcare networks, for which he received the title of “Knight of the Order of Merit”. He then completed his pediatric pulmonology and sleep medicine training at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and joined the faculty at the University of Southern California and UCLA. From there he served in leadership roles at various leading universities including University of Chicago, Tulane, University of Louisville and University of Missouri.

He is Past President of the American Thoracic Society and was the third pediatrician to be elected to such high office, was a member of the Board of Directors of the Sleep Research Society 2014-2016. is Senior Deputy Editor-in-Chief for the journal Sleep, and Associate Editor for European Respiratory Journal, Pediatric Pulmonology, and several other journals including AJRCCM. Among his many awards and accolades, he was the recipient of the ATS Amberson Lecture in 2002, the William C. Dement Academic Achievement Award by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine in 2013, and the 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award of the National Sleep Foundation. He has also been bestowed two honorary doctorates from the University of Barcelona and University of Lleida in Spain.  His research work has been continuously supported by grants from the NIH since 1992, has published more than 930 peer-reviewed original articles carrying a H index of 147 and more than 95,000 citations (one of the top 1,000 most cited scientists and one of the top ranked investigators in Medicine in the world), along with nearly 200 book chapters and reviews, edited 7 books including the reference textbook in pediatric sleep medicine, presented more than 1,250 scientific abstracts, and has extensively lectured all over the world.

The approaches applied in my laboratory include molecular, cellular, and integrative methodologies. These methods include west blot, real-time PCR, mass spectrum, microRNA sequencing, nanosight tracking analysis (NTA), flow cytometry, etc. Animal surgery methods (MCAO, telemetric probe, osmotic minipump, microinjection) are also used in my research. The animal models used in my research include a spontaneous hemorrhagic stroke model induced in the rennin/angiotensinogen double transgenic (R+A+) hypertensive mice, collagenase-induced focal hemorrhagic stroke model, middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAO)-induced ischemic stroke, the db/db and STZ-induced diabetic mouse models. Additionally, I use clinical samples from translational studies of diabetes and stroke patients through collaboration with clinicians.