Eugene P. Orringer, M.D.

Dr. Eugene P. Orringer has served as Executive Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Faculty Development in the UNC School of Medicine since 1999.

Previously, he served as the Program Director of UNC’s General Clinical Research Center (GCRC) from 1989 to 1999. He first joined the UNC faculty in 1975 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine, after completing his residency training and earning an A.B. in Zoology from the University of Michigan and an M.D. from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

In addition to his own research activities, Dr. Orringer has long been involved in the training of young researchers. In 1995, Dr. Orringer became Director of UNC’s MD-PhD training program. In addition, Dr. Orringer developed and currently directs two institutionally-funded junior faculty development programs: the Simmons (Minority) Scholar Program and the UNC Program in Translational Science.

In addition to these training programs, Dr. Orringer and Dr. Marilyn Telen, his counterpart at Duke University, together direct the combined Duke-UNC Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center.

Dr. Orringer has served as a member and Chair of the National Institutes of Health’s Sickle Cell Disease Advisory Committee, as a member of the NIH GCRC Study Section, and as the President of the National GCRC Program Directors' Association. He is Treasurer and a member of the Steering Committee Clinical Research Forum. He currently serves as a member of two NIH Advisory Committees: the Sickle Cell Disease Branch of the NHLBI and the Office of Research on Women’s Health.

In 2006, Dr. Orringer received the Philip Hench Award, an honor given to an individual selected by the School of Medicine of the University of Pittsburgh as its most distinguished alumnus of the year.