{"id":68069,"date":"2024-09-09T15:53:26","date_gmt":"2024-09-09T19:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/?p=68069"},"modified":"2024-09-09T15:53:26","modified_gmt":"2024-09-09T19:53:26","slug":"journeys-are-made-by-the-people-you-walk-with-gaurav-dave-reflects-on-becoming-full-professor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/journeys-are-made-by-the-people-you-walk-with-gaurav-dave-reflects-on-becoming-full-professor\/","title":{"rendered":"Journeys are Made by the People You Walk With: Gaurav Dave Reflects on Becoming Full Professor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Journeys give us lots of time to reflect. Getting to your destination is also a time to reflect on your journey.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15248\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-15248 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cher\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1048\/2024\/09\/DaveG_promotion-WEB-225x300.png\" alt=\"Gaurav Dave in a suit and tie\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Gaurav \u2018G\u2019 Dave<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Our co-director, Gaurav \u2018G\u2019 Dave, got the official word in July. He\u2019s now a Research Professor in the ºÚÁÏÍø.<\/p>\n<p>Promotions can be destinations. For G, it\u2019s part of an ongoing journey. His focus is working with community partners to address adverse social conditions that hinder optimal disease management.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy community and research partners should receive equal credit for all our accolades and awards,\u201d G said. The credit for his recent achievement is for them. \u201cI\u2019m not the superstar in my story. I may be in the lead role, but there are many other superstars,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<h2>Getting to medical school<\/h2>\n<p>G grew up in India. That\u2019s also where he finished medical school in 2002. The parts in between weren\u2019t always smooth, though.<\/p>\n<p>Various challenges in his early life sometimes made it hard to see a path forward. G said he couldn\u2019t always be sure about some of life\u2019s basics. Challenges, though, kept him grounded.<\/p>\n<p>His recent achievement brings him back to his roots: gratitude to \u201cso many people\u201d who \u201csupported his life in different ways.\u201d He said, \u201cThis promotion is more \u2018personal achievement\u2019 than professional.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Coming to the US and getting to ºÚÁÏÍø<\/h2>\n<p>G came to the US in 2004. In 2011, he joined ºÚÁÏÍø. In 2014, he became a faculty in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Department of Medicine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He received his first R01 award in 2020 \u2013 which aimed to integrate medical and social care through robust clinic-community networks in rural eastern North Carolina. This project led him to work with community-academic coalitions like Project GRACE (Growing, Reaching, and Advocating for Community Empowerment). He credits Project GRACE with helping him get where he is today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithout Project GRACE, we [CHER] would not be where we are. They closely work with us in planning and implementing programs in their communities,\u201d G said.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, G joined CHER. He\u2019s worked on more than 50 projects with the Center. He is the founder and director of \u2018Abacus Evaluation\u2019 \u2013 a Research Service Center at the ºÚÁÏÍø. Abacus provides program evaluation and data solution services to clients within and outside ºÚÁÏÍø.<\/p>\n<p>G is a CHER co-director, leading five federally-funded projects as a principal investigator.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cher\/2024\/09\/journeys-are-made-by-the-people-you-walk-with-gaurav-dave-reflects-on-becoming-full-professor\/\">Read the full story on the Center for Health Equity website.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Journeys give us lots of time to reflect. Getting to your destination is also a time to reflect on your journey. Gaurav \u2018G\u2019 Dave Our co-director, Gaurav \u2018G\u2019 Dave, got the official word in July. He\u2019s now a Research Professor in the ºÚÁÏÍø. Promotions can be destinations. 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