{"id":117102,"date":"2021-12-16T09:42:32","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T14:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=117102"},"modified":"2021-12-17T17:22:26","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T22:22:26","slug":"honorary-doctor-of-science-degree-presented-to-boonshoft-school-of-medicine-professor-abdul-wase-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2021\/12\/16\/honorary-doctor-of-science-degree-presented-to-boonshoft-school-of-medicine-professor-abdul-wase-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Honorary doctor of science degree presented to Boonshoft School of Medicine professor Abdul Wase in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_117114\" style=\"width: 270px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2021\/12\/16\/honorary-doctor-of-science-degree-presented-to-boonshoft-school-of-medicine-professor-abdul-wase-in-india\/abdul-wase-1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-117114\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-117114\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-117114\" src=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2021\/12\/Abdul-Wase-1-260x286.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"286\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-117114\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Abdul Wase, professor of internal medicine at the Boonshoft School of Medicine<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Abdul Wase, M.B.B.S., professor of internal medicine at the <a href=\"https:\/\/medicine.wright.edu\/\">Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine<\/a>, has received a D.Sc. (honoris causa) degree in India.<\/p>\n<p>The degree was conferred on Wase on Dec. 15 at the University of Science and Technology, Meghalaya, following recommendations by the university&#8217;s board of governors and the state governor.<\/p>\n<p>The university\u2019s primary focus is invention, entrepreneurship and creating a workforce to spur economic and social development in northeast India.<\/p>\n<p>Wase is a triple board-certified cardiac electrophysiologist who works at Premier Cardiovascular Institute, Miami Valley Hospital, in Dayton.<\/p>\n<p>Wase was the director of the Cardiovascular Fellowship Program at the Boonshoft School of Medicine for 16 years, where he used innovative techniques and hands-on tools in imparting training and education. He is actively engaged in clinical research.<\/p>\n<p>In 2006, Wase received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the World Congress of Clinical and Preventive Cardiology. The award was presented at Mount Abu, Rajasthan, India, by A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, the president of India.<\/p>\n<p>Follow Wase on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EPDocWase\">@EPDocWase<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abdul Wase, professor of internal medicine, received a D.Sc. (honoris causa) degree from the University of Science and Technology, Meghalaya. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2021\/12\/16\/honorary-doctor-of-science-degree-presented-to-boonshoft-school-of-medicine-professor-abdul-wase-in-india\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":117118,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[722,725,2016,715],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics","category-home-news-sidebar","category-medicine","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117102"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117246,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117102\/revisions\/117246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}