House Resolution 1544
By: Representatives Williams of the 168th, Prince of the 132nd, Myles of the 126th, Howard
of the 129th, and Newton of the 127th
A RESOLUTION
Recognizing and commending Neal Weintraub, M.D.; and for other purposes.
WHEREAS, Neal Weintraub, M.D., a native of Albany, Georgia, is a distinguished academic
and cardiovascular researcher ; and
WHEREAS, he serves as the Georgia Research Alliance Herbert S. Kupperman, M.D.,
Eminent Scholar Distinguished University Endowed Chair in Cardiovascular Medicine and
the Medical College of Georgia, and as associate director of the Vascular Biology Center,
where leads and mentors to faculty, trainees, and research teams; and
WHEREAS, he earned his medical degree from Tulane University, completed his internal
medicine training at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Emory University,
and further specialized through a fellowship in cardiovascular diseases; and
WHEREAS, Dr. Weintraub has made a profound impact on medical education, teaching
more than 225 courses for future physicians and physicians-scientist, and contributing to
more than 250 peer-reviewed publications that have advanced understanding of
cardiometabolic disease; and
WHEREAS, he helped launch the cardio-oncology program at the Medical College of
Georgia, funded by the American Heart Association, to investigate the bidirectional
relationship between cardiovascular disease and cancer, strengthening the medical school and
its teaching hospital's leadership in the field; and
WHEREAS, Dr. Weintraub's scientific accomplishments have been sustained by a long and
successful history of funding from the National Institutes of Health, including multiple
federally supported research grants that have advanced fundamental and translational
discoveries in cardiovascular medicine; and
WHEREAS, it is abundantly fitting and proper that this outstanding Georgian be
appropriately recognized.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES that
the members of this body recognize and commend Neal Weintraub, M.D., and extend best
wishes for continued health, happiness, and success.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Clerk of the House of Representatives is authorized
and directed to make an appropriate copy of this resolution available for distribution to Neal
Weintraub, M.D.