{"id":39783,"date":"2011-07-06T08:07:56","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T12:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=39783"},"modified":"2011-07-13T10:22:23","modified_gmt":"2011-07-13T14:22:23","slug":"board-of-trustees-honors-laurencin-with-title-of-university-professor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2011\/07\/board-of-trustees-honors-laurencin-with-title-of-university-professor\/","title":{"rendered":"Board of Trustees Honors Laurencin with Title of University Professor"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_29308\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29308\" style=\"width: 265px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/laurencin_t.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-29308  img-responsive lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/laurencin_t.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"265\" height=\"265\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/laurencin_t.jpg 270w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/laurencin_t-150x150.jpg 150w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 265px) 100vw, 265px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 265px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 265\/265;\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29308\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Cato T. Laurencin, in his lab at the UConn Health Center. (Lanny Nagler for UConn)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The University\u2019s Board of Trustees voted recently to bestow upon Dr. Cato T. Laurencin, the distinguished title of University Professor. This honor is reserved for scholars who are widely recognized for contributions in their respective fields.<\/p>\n<p>Laurencin is a prominent orthopaedic surgeon, bioengineering expert, administrator, and professor. He is a member of both the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering.<\/p>\n<p>Laurencin <a href=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/blog\/2011\/06\/health-center-leadership-change\/\">recently transitioned from his role as vice president<\/a> for health affairs and dean of the School of Medicine to chief executive officer of the Connecticut Institute for Clinical and Translational Science (CICATS).<\/p>\n<p>In addition, he continues to lead the Institute for Regenerative Engineering, holds the Albert and Wilda Van Dusen Distinguished Chair in Orthopaedic Surgery, and sees patients through his orthopaedic surgery practice.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The title is recognition of Dr. Laurencin\u2019s outstanding contributions to his field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[179,1],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[40],"class_list":["post-39783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uconn-health","category-uncategorized"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-04 14:44:36","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39783"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39821,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39783\/revisions\/39821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39783"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=39783"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=39783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}