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Medical School Dean Selected as Fulbright Senior Specialist Scholar
Anthony J. Silvagni, D.O., Pharm.D., M.Sc., FACOFP dist., professor and dean of NSU’s College of Osteopathic Medicine
Anthony J. Silvagni, D.O., Pharm.D., M.Sc., FACOFP dist., professor and dean of Nova Southeastern University’s College of Osteopathic Medicine, was selected to serve as a Fulbright senior specialist scholar. The Fulbright Specialists Program, created in 2000 to complement the traditional Fulbright Scholar Program, promotes linkages between U.S. academics and professionals and their counterparts at universities abroad. The program is designed to award grants to qualified U.S. faculty and professionals, in select disciplines, to engage in short-term collaborative two- to six-week projects at higher education institutions in over 100 countries worldwide. International travel costs and an honorarium are funded by the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, while participating host universities cover grantee in-country expenses or provide in-kind services.
Silvagni is the third NSU-COM administrator to be accorded this honor. In 2009, Leonard Levy, D.P.M., M.P.H., professor and associate dean of education, planning, research, and Naushira Pandya, M.D., CMD, professor and chair of the Department of Geriatrics, were chosen for this honor. Levy and Pandya traveled to Slovakia to serve as Fulbright senior specialist scholars at Comenius University Faculty of Medicine in Bratislava; Silvagni’s travel plans are yet to be decided.