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Noted chemist is named provost
New finance officer crosses
country to assume post at Yale
Three named to endowed professorships
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Noted chemist is named provost
Andrew Hamilton becomes second scientist named to Yale’s top
academic post.
Ask Andrew D. Hamilton, Ph.D., Yale’s new provost, if it’s
an accident that both he and his immediate predecessor are scientists,
and he chuckles. He points out that it took three centuries for the university
to name its first scientist, Susan Hockfield, Ph.D.—who left Yale
to become president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in December—as
provost.
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Andrew Hamilton
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“Two scientists in 300 years is not a flood,” Hamilton said.
“But, yes, I do think it represents a recognition by the institution
that we need to place a very major focus on science, engineering and medicine
in order to maintain Yale’s place at the very top ranks of universities
worldwide.”
To that end Yale has embarked on a $1 billion building and renovation
project for facilities in science, engineering and medicine, both on the
central campus and at the medical school. But that’s only the beginning.
“My hope is that we will be able to use these new buildings to attract
some of the very best scientists in the world to ply their trade at Yale,”
Hamilton said. “At the same time, we must maintain those traditional
strengths of Yale University, which reside in the humanities, the social
sciences and the professional schools.”
Hamilton joined the Yale faculty in 1997. He became chair of the chemistry
department in 1999, where he is currently the Benjamin Silliman Professor
of Chemistry. He was appointed deputy provost at Yale in 2003. Before
coming to Yale he taught at Princeton and at the University of Pittsburgh.
A native of the United Kingdom, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society
last May.
His studies of small molecules that influence biological processes have
provided insights into drug design and cancer therapies. He has also studied
neglected diseases such as malaria, Chagas disease and African sleeping
sickness.
As provost, Hamilton is advancing President Richard C. Levin’s vision
of Yale’s role in the world. Hamilton recently traveled to China
with medical school faculty members to establish and cement relationships
with Chinese scientists and universities.
Hamilton is also keeping his eye on relationships within the university.
“I think there are many opportunities for collaboration in research
between scientists and social scientists on this side of campus and researchers
at the medical school,” he said. “I hope, with my scientific
background, to be able to further those connections.”
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Jaclyne Boyden
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New
finance officer crosses country to assume post at Yale
Jaclyne W. Boyden, a senior administrator at the University of
California, San Francisco (UCSF), has been named deputy dean for finance
and administration at the School of Medicine, effective November 1.
Boyden, who served as vice dean of administration and finance at the UCSF
School of Medicine from 1992 until last year, has worked in academic medicine
for more than 30 years, serving as associate dean at the State University
of New York at Stony Brook from 1988 until 1992. At Yale, Boyden will
oversee a financial operation that totaled more than $750 million in income
and expenditures for the year ending June 30, 2004. She comes to New Haven
from a slightly larger, public institution with an operating budget of
$893.7 million in 2003.
“I am absolutely delighted to have Jackie join us in this new role,”
said Robert J. Alpern, M.D., dean of the medical school and Ensign Professor
of Medicine. “She possesses strong financial skills and has gained
considerable experience in her similar position at UCSF.”
Boyden said her focus will be on supporting the school’s three missions
of research, education and clinical care and on helping to realize goals
set by Alpern and President Richard C. Levin. “My job here will
be to make sure there is an administrative infrastructure in place to
support the missions and make improvements possible,” she says.
“On the financial side, there is seldom enough money to do everything
that we might want to, but it will be my priority to ensure that the dean
has accurate and reliable information so we are able to match resources
with his strategic vision.”
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Robert Alpern
Roberta Hines
Margaret Hostetter
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Three named
to endowed professorships
The university named three members of the faculty at the medical school
to endowed professorships in 2004.
Robert J. Alpern, M.D., who became the 16th dean of the medical
school in June, was named Ensign Professor of Medicine. Alpern came to
Yale from the University of Texas Southwestern School of Medicine, where
he was dean. He studied medicine at the University of Chicago and trained
in internal medicine at Columbia University and in nephrology at the University
of California, San Francisco.
Roberta L. Hines, M.D., HS ’77, was named the Nicholas M.
Greene Professor of Anesthesiology. She joined the faculty in 1982 and
became chair of anesthesiology in 1995.
Margaret K. Hostetter, M.D., was named the Jean McLean Wallace
Professor of Pediatrics. She also serves as chair of pediatrics and is
a professor of microbial pathogenesis. From 1998, when she joined the
faculty, until 2002, when she was named department chair, she directed
the Yale Child Health Research Center.
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Notes
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Charles Cha
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Charles H. Cha, M.D., assistant professor of surgery (gastroenterology),
has received a two-year, $200,000 Dennis W. Jahnigen Career Development
Scholars Award from the American Geriatrics Society. Cha will investigate
the effects of aging on tumor angiogenesis and growth.
Gilbert H. Glaser, M.D., Sc.D., professor
emeritus of neurology, received honorary-member status in the American
Neurological Association in October. The honor is awarded to those who
have made unique contributions to neurology and neuroscience as investigator
and teacher.
Roberto J. Groszmann, M.D., professor
of medicine and director of the Section of Digestive Diseases at the VA
Connecticut Healthcare System in West Haven, received the 2004 Ismar Boas
medal from the German Society of Digestive and Metabolic Diseases in September
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Susan Hardy
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Susan E. Hardy, M.D., FW ’04,
instructor in geriatric medicine, has received a 2004 Pfizer/AGS Foundation
for Health in Aging Junior Faculty Scholars Award for Research on Health
Outcomes in Geriatrics. Hardy will receive $130,000 over two years to
continue her research into transitions between disability and independence
among community-dwelling older persons. Janet B. Henrich, M.D., associate professor
of medicine and of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences, received
a 2004 Scholarship in Medical Education Award, in the category of Scholarship
of Integration, from the Society of General Internal Medicine.
Judith H. Lichtman, Ph.D., M.P.H.
’88, assistant professor of epidemiology in the Division of Chronic
Disease Epidemiology, has received a three-year, nearly $959,000 Health
Protection Research Initiative grant from the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention for a study of the burden of cardiovascular disease in
the elderly.
Albert C. Lo, M.D., Ph.D., HS ’01,
assistant clinical professor of neurology, received a Presidential Early
Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from the White House Office
of Science and Technology Policy at a reception at the White House in
September. Lo was honored for his contributions to new therapeutic strategies
to restore function in people with multiple sclerosis.
Susan T. Mayne, Ph.D., professor of epidemiology
in the Division of Chronic Disease Epidemiology, was appointed to the
nutrition subcommittee of the Food Advisory Committee of the Food and
Drug Administration’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition. |
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John A. Persing, M.D., professor of surgery (plastic)
and neurosurgery, will begin his term as chair of the American Board of
Plastic Surgery in May. Persing, who is just finishing his term as president
of the American Association of Academic Chairmen in Plastic Surgery, has
been chief of plastic surgery at Yale since 1992.
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Marina Picciotto |
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Marina R. Picciotto, Ph.D., associate professor
of psychiatry, pharmacology and neurobiology, has received a $100,000
Independent Investigator Award from the National Alliance for Research
on Schizophrenia and Depression for a project on new antidepressant targets
in the brain. Picciotto will study the antidepressant effect of blocking
the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor. |
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Teresa A. Ponn, M.D., assistant clinical professor
of surgery, has been named associate director for breast surgery at the
Yale-New Haven Breast Center. In a private practice in the New Haven area
since 1985, Ponn has focused on caring for patients with breast malignancies.
A symposium in September honored the lifetime work of
Charles M. Radding, M.D., professor of genetics and molecular biophysics
and biochemistry, who retired last fall. During his 37 years at Yale Radding
focused his research on recombination, making major contributions to both
theory and experimentation. Radding is a member of the National Academy
of Sciences and an editor of the Proceedings of the National Academy
of Sciences. |
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Sally E. Shaywitz, M.D., professor of pediatrics
and a member of the Child Study Center, received the Townsend Harris Medal
from her alma mater, the City College of New York, in November. The medal
honors distinguished alumni. Robert S. Sherwin, M.D., FW ’74, the C.N.H.
Long Professor of Internal Medicine, has received the Long-Standing Achievement
Award from the Novartis Pharmaceutical Corp. for his role in developing
insulin pump therapy, a crucial advance in diabetes care. He received
the award in September in Munich, Germany, at the 40th annual meeting
of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes. Stephen G. Waxman, Ph.D., M.D., professor and
chair of neurology, pharmacology and neurobiology, has been named the
first recipient of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society’s Stephen
C. Reingold Award for 2004. The award recognizes the contributions of
Stephen C. Reingold, Ph.D., who, until his recent retirement, was responsible
for the society’s national research and training programs. |
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Barry Zaret |
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A symposium, “Advances in Cardiovascular Medicine
and Surgery,” was held in October to honor Barry L. Zaret,
M.D., the Robert W. Berliner Professor of Medicine, who stepped down last
year as chief of the Section of Cardiovascular Medicine after 26 years. Heping Zhang, Ph.D., professor of public health
(biostatistics), has received two grants totaling $1.5 million over five
years from the National Institute on Drug Abuse. He will use the grants
to develop statistical methods for identifying candidate genes for nicotine
dependence, drug use and psychiatric conditions. |
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