| ...in
the spotlight
Miriam Blitzer, Ph.D., professor of pediatrics
at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, was elected president
of the American Board of Medical Genetics.
Robert C. Gallo, M.D., director of the
Institute of Human Virology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine,
received the Frank Annunzio Award in the Science and Technology Field from
the Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation.
George Ojemann, M.D., professor of neurological
surgery at the University of Washington, was one of the recipients of the
2000 K.J. Zulch Prize from the Max Planck Society and the Gertrud Reemtsma
Foundation.
Charles C. Wunder, Ph.D., professor emeritus
at the University of Iowa, was awarded the 2000 Founders Award at the Annual
Meeting of the American Society of Gravitational and Space Biology.
...in memorium
Ramzi S. Cotran, M.D., chair of pathology
at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Children's Hospital Boston, died Oct.
23.
John E. Ultmann, M.D., professor of medicine
and former director of the University of Chicago Cancer Research Center,
died Oct. 23.
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...on
the move
John S. Kovach, M.D., executive vice president
for medical and scientific affairs at City of Hope National Medical Center,
has been named founding director of the Cancer Institute of Long Island
at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
...in the
news
Wylie Burke, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor
of medicine at the University of Washington, authored an Oct. 11 Journal
of the American Medical Association editorial about oral contraceptives.
He was quoted widely in the national news media, including the New York
Times and National Public Radio.
Stanley M. Mohler, M.D., professor and
director of aerospace medicine at Wright State University School of Medicine,
was featured on the Oct. 23 "Nightly News with Tom Brokaw," discussing
"Economy-Class Syndrome."
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