524 Millennium - A Marquis Who’s Who Magazine HEALTH AND WELLNESS excelled as a professor at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, where she continues to serve as a mentor and advisor to students, residents and other faculty members. In addition to her work in academia, Dr. Major operates as the vice president and director of development for the educational technology venture Physcira. She is also a board member of numerous organizations, including the Kerry Murphy Healey Center for Health Innovation and Entrepreneurship, The V Foundation, and the Roundup River Ranch camp (as part of the SeriousFun Children’s Network). Dr. Major remains passionate about educational equity, STEM education, and creating pathways for the next generation of physicians and medical innovators. In the coming years, she plans to continue her philanthropic work with a special emphasis on The V Foundation, which she hopes to build into one of the top cancer research funding organizations in the industry. Dr. Nancy M. Major has been crafting the future of the medical profession for more than 25 years as a researcher and educator. Becoming a doctor was her childhood dream, and so she began her professional journey by earning a Bachelor of Science in biochemistry at Stony Brook University in 1983. She subsequently continued her studies and achieved an MD at the Tufts University School of Medicine in 1988. Dr. Major ultimately received certification in radiology at the University of California, San Francisco in 1995, and she completed a fellowship in musculoskeletal radiology at the Duke University School of Medicine in 1997. Dr. Major developed an interest in academia as a medical resident, and she received early recognition for her work on MRI and injury prevention. In 1999, she became an associate professor of musculoskeletal radiology at Duke University, adding evolutionary anatomy to her course load in 2004. She received three consecutive Outstanding Teacher Awards at Duke University before stepping down in 2009 to become chief of musculoskeletal radiology at Penn Medicine. Since 2016, Dr. Major has NANCY M. MAJOR, MD PROFESSOR University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus Aurora, CO
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