The Advisory Committee for the Minority Medical Faculty Development Program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has selected MUSC's Eddie L. Greene, M.D., to receive a four-year postdoctoral research fellowship.

The award offers fellowship assistance to minority physicians who have demonstrated superior academic and clinical skills and who are committed to careers in academic medicine.

Greene, who is among up to 12 recipients nationally, will receive an annual stipend of $50,000, complimented by a $25,000 annual grant toward support of research activities. Greene will study and conduct research in assciation with a senior faculty member. He is expected to spend up to 70 percent of his time in pursuit of research activities.

The Minority Medical Faculty Development Program seeks to increase the number of minority faculty who can achieve senior rank in academic medicine and who will encourage and foster development of succeeding classes of minority physicians.

An assistant professor of medicine at MUSC, Greene holds an M.D. degree from the University of Minnesota, where he also completed his residency and a fellowship. He is board certified in internal medicine and nephrology. Greene's special interests include the role of oxidants in acute and chronic renal failure, hypertension and diabetes, and chronic progressive renal disease.