Kudos & Quotes

This section is devoted to sharing words of wisdom, offering inspiration through powerful quotations, and recognizing the tremendous accomplishments of faculty leaders in academic medicine. Please contact Valarie Clark, vclark@aamc.org, to have a colleague listed in the Kudos section.

Kudos:

The University of Colorado School of Medicine has appointed Dr. Robert Anderson chair of the department of medicine. Dr. Anderson has served as interim chair of the department since October 2002 and as head of the division of general internal medicine since 1995. A Denver Business Journal article on the appointment is available online.

Jeffrey Anglen, M.D. has been named Chair of the Indiana University Department of Orthopaedic Surgery. He will begin his new duties in early 2005. Dr. Anglen currently is a Clinical Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Missouri Health Sciences Center.

Lee Lee Doyle, Ph.D. is the newly elected President of the Board of Directors for the Association of Reproductive Health Professionals, a 2500 member organization committed to providing reproductive health services or education, conducting reproductive health research, and influencing reproductive health policies.

Craig Greven, M.D., Professor of Surgical Sciences - Ophthalmology, has been named Chairman of the Department of Ophthalmology and Director of the Wake Forest University Eye Center, part of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center.

Valerie Parisi, M.D., Chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will join the University of Texas Medical Branch - Galveston as Dean of Medicine on October 1, making her the 12th woman Dean of a U.S. Medical School.

Claire Pomeroy, M.D., M.B.A., Executive Associate Dean of the University of California-Davis School of Medicine and an expert in infectious diseases, has been named Vice Chancellor for Human Health Sciences and Dean of the School of Medicine at the University of California-Davis.

Elisabeth Quint, M.D. was recently appointed to Assistant Dean of Clinical Faculty in the Office of Faculty Affairs at University of Michigan Health System.

Joan Reede, M.D., Dean for Diversity and Community Partnership at Harvard Medical School was awarded Boston's Trailblazers of Color Award for the development and management of a comprehensive program that provides leadership, guidance, and support to promote the increased recruitment, retention, and advancement of under-represented minority faculty.

Carolyn Robinowitz, M.D. is the newly elected National Treasurer for the American Psychiatric Association.

Judith Rodin, Ph.D, former President of the University of Pennsylvania, was named president of the Rockefeller Foundation. She will assume her new position in March 2005 and succeeds Gordon Conway, who will retire at the end of the year. The Rockefeller Foundation has $3 billion in assets and provided $135 million in grants and programmatic investments in 2003. A press release on Dr. Rodin's appointment is available on the Rockefeller Foundation Web site.

Patience White, M.D. is the first Chief Public Health Officer for the Arthritis Foundation. She will guide the public health role to improve the lives of the 70 million Americans with arthritis.

The AAMC Council of Deans recently selected three leaders (Jasjit Ahluwalia, M.D., M.P.H., M.S.; Mark Batshaw, M.D.; Anne Taylor, M.D.) for the 2004-2005 Council of Deans' Fellowship Program. For the next year, the leaders are paired with their respective mentors (Deborah Powell, M.D., University of Minnesota Medical School; Edward Miller, M.D., Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Arthur Rubenstein, MBBBCh.., University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) to design a research project.

Powerful Quotes:

"You didn't get there alone; pass it forward."
- Advice from Dr. Lois Nora, president and dean of NEOUCOM, in her address to the Mid-Career Women Faculty Development conference, July 2004

"Comprehensive faculty development empowers faculty members to excel and to create vibrant academic communities."
- Wilkerson and Irby 1998

"Faculty Vitality means the ongoing realization of goals. This is a career-long journey, not a destination."
- Thomas Viggiano, M.D., Dean of Faculty Affairs at Mayo Medical School leading session at Harvard Macy Institute

"Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"When you're following your energy and doing what you want all the time, the distinction between work and play dissolves."
- Shakti Gawain

"Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one. You cannot make any useful contribution in life unless you do this."
- Eleanor Roosevelt

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