Faculty Achievement Recognition
The 2007 Honorees
Faculty Achievement Recognition
The 2007 Honorees
Veena Antony
Professor and Chief
Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine
College of Medicine
2003
Degrees earned:
M.D., Christian Medical College, India, 1974
B.S., Panjab University, India, 1968
Dr. Veena Antony is chief of the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine. During her three-year tenure, she has elevated the prominence of the division in all its missions. She is the principal investigator of four grants (totaling more than $3.5 million) and co-investigator of two grants (totaling more than $1.5 million). She has been continuously funded by the NIH and the US Department of Veterans Affairs for 20 years, and she is the program director of a James and Esther King Team Science grant ($1 million) from the State of Florida for tobacco-related research. She has initiated work that has led to an NIH-funded collaboration ($1 million) with investigators in India to establish an outpost of UF-funded laboratories investigating the nexus of HIV and tuberculosis. Dr. Antony was recently awarded a $7.5 million grant from the Center for Disease Control for a Regional TB Training and Medical Consultation Center. She also has initiated a multidisciplinary collaboration involving investigators from the colleges of Engineering and Medicine to define early biomarkers of lung disease and develop biosensors to detect these markers. She has established a multidisciplinary Adult Cystic Fibrosis program that has received funding from the State of Florida. Dr. Antony is the author of more than 100 publications and is cited as one of Castle Connolly’s top doctors in America.
