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Research Highlights
VA Physician Receives British Award
Taken from the Veterans Health Administration Highlights dated March 1, 2002
His Royal Highness Prince Andrew visited the British Consulate in San Francisco to award the Order of the British Empire (OBE) to SFVAMC physician and researcher Teresa Wright, MD, on Wednesday, Feb. 27. The OBE is an honor bestowed by the British government to recognize exceptional service or achievement. Dr. Wright, a British citizen, was honored for her "brilliant research in pioneering therapies that have saved hundreds of lives" of patients with liver disease and viral hepatitis.
Dr. Wright, Chief, Gastroenterology Section at SFVAMC, was born in South Africa and raised in Great Britain. She is a graduate of St. Hilda's College, Oxford and the Oxford University Medical School. Dr. Wright is one of the foremost experts in the world on liver disease and viral hepatitis and has been instrumental in the development of new therapies for hepatitis B and C. She was one of the first physicians to alert the medical community to the problem of hepatitis C infection among liver transplant patients and people with HIV.
Under her guidance, SFVAMC hosts one of four VA Centers of Excellence in Hepatitis C Research and Education. The center is involved in more than 20 clinical trials of treatments for hepatitis C.
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