Naji N. Abumrad (born 1944) is a Lebanese-American surgeon, currently the John L. Sawyers Professor of Surgery, and formerly the Paul W. Sanger Professor from 1984 to 1992, at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Abumrad graduated with a B.S. in Biology and an M.D. in Medicine at the American University of Beirut in 1971.[1] In 2014, he was elected to the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[2][3]
In 2020, the singer Dolly Parton donated one million dollars towards research into a COVID-19 vaccine in honor of Abumrad – the pair having become friends after she was treated at Vanderbilt for minor injuries resulting from an October 2013 automobile accident.[4]
He is the father of public radio host Jad Abumrad.[5]
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