| ...in
the spotlight
From the University of Maryland School of Medicine:
Angela Brodie, Ph.D., has been awarded the Brinker International
Award for Breast Cancer Research from the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer
Foundation. William T. Carpenter, M.D., is a co-recipient of the
National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression's Lieber
Prize for Outstanding Research in Schizophrenia. Robert C. Gallo, M.D.,
has been designated an honorary member of the International AIDS Society.
Saul M. Genuth, M.D., professor of medicine
at Case Western Reserve University, was awarded the Charles H. Best Medal
for Distinguished Service in the Cause of Diabetes by the Amercian Diabetes
Association.
Scott Whittemore, M.D., the Henry D. Garretson
professor and vice chair for research in neurological surgery at the University
of Louisville, will head a team of researchers in developing methods to
repair or replace damaged spinal cord and central nervous system tissue
funded by an $8.5 million National Institutes of Health grant. The grant
will launch five research projects at the university's Kentucky Spinal
Injury Research Center.
...in
the news
Stephanie Boykin, M.D., instructor in the
University of Maryland School of Medicine's Department of Family Medicine,
was recently profiled in Female Physician magazine.
Edward A. Ross, M.D., director of the University
of Florida College of Medicine's End-Stage Renal Disease Program, was featured
in Associated Press and Reuters articles Sept. 19, discussing his research
on lead levels in calcium supplements.
From Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center:
Robert P. Schwartz, M.D., was featured in articles in the Washington
Post, Los Angeles Times, and U.S. News & World Report, discussing his
research on the re-emergence of rickets in infants. Curt D. Furberg,
M.D., Ph.D., and Marco Pahor, M.D., were featured in a New York
Times article on antihypertensive drugs.
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...on
the move
Vanessa Northington Gamble, M.D., Ph.D.,
vice president for the AAMC Division of Community and Minority Programs,
has been re-appointed to the National Advisory Council for the Agency for
Healthcare Research and Quality.
J. Richard Gaintner, M.D., chair of the
AAMC Council of Teaching Hospitals and Health Systems, has announced his
retirement as CEO of Shands HealthCare, effective next April.
Dan Jones, M.D., has been appoint- ed associate
vice chancellor for health affairs at the University of Mississippi Medical
Center, effective Jan. 1, 2001.
Jerry Lewis has been named assistant vice
president for communications at the University of Miami School of Medicine.
Ora Hirsch Pescovitz, M.D., has been named
executive associate dean for research affairs at the Indiana University
School of Medicine.
From Case Western Reserve University School of
Medicine: Robert Ratcheson, M.D., was elected to a second term as
president of the Neuro- logical Society of America. Roland W. Moskowitz,
M.D., has been named president-elect of the International Osteoarthritis
Research Society. Mark A. Malangoni, M.D., was named president of
the Surgical Infection Society.
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