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Faculty notes James J. Abrahams, M.D., associate professor of diagnostic radiology and surgery (otolaryngology), presented an abstract titled Augmentation Procedures of the Jaw in Patients with Inadequate Bone for Dental Implants: Radiographic Appearance, at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America in Chicago in December. Gerard N. Burrow, M.D. '58, the David Paige Smith Professor of Medicine (endocrinology) and special advisor to the president for health affairs, was among the speakers at a Smithsonian/Hoffman-LaRoche Symposium held in September at the National Museum of American History in Washington. Dr. Burrow's talk was titled Preparing for the Information Age in Health Care. Liza Cariago-Lo, M.S., Ed.D., has been named director of the Office of Multicultural Affairs and will work under the direction of Assistant Dean Forrester A. Lee, M.D. '79. J.G. Collins, Ph.D., professor of anesthesiology and lecturer in pharmacology, and D. Helaine Patterson, director of medical school public information, are among seven individuals selected to become the first fellows of Connecticut United for Research Excellence Inc. (CURE). Dr. Collins was recognized for his efforts, inspiration, leadership and vision as a past chair of CURE and his role as founding father of BioRAP, a life sciences learning publication for middle school students sponsored by CURE. Ms. Patterson was recognized for her public relations advice and editorial oversight on many CURE publications. James P. Comer, M.D., HS '64-67, the Maurice Falk Professor in the Child Study Center and Department of Psychiatry and director of the School Development Program, was one of three recipients of the Camille O. Cosby World of Children Award in November. The award, given by the Judge Baker Children's Center in Boston, is named in honor of the wife of entertainer Bill Cosby and recognizes outstanding achievement in improving the lives of disadvantaged children. The other two recipients were children's advocate Tipper Gore and BankBoston CEO Chad Gifford. Vincent T. DeVita, M.D., director of the Yale Cancer Center and professor of medicine (oncology) and epidemiology and public health, received the Key to the Cure Award at the Cure for Lymphoma Foundation's third annual Cabaret for a Cure dinner in November at the Plaza Hotel in New York City. He was also presented the Presidential Award from the New England Cancer Society at its annual meeting this fall in New Haven. John Elefteriades, M.D. '72, professor and chief of cardiothoracic surgery, was named College Governor-Elect for Connecticut by the Board of Trustees of the American College of Cardiology. After a one-year term, he will become College Governor for the state until the year 2002. Dr. Elefteriades also served as visiting professor in August in Japan, where he spoke on minimally invasive cardiac surgery and left ventricular remodeling by aneurysmectomy and Batista operations. Janine Evans, M.D., assistant professor of medicine (rheumatology), has been appointed medical director of the Yale-New Haven Physician Hospital Organization and the Yale-New Haven Medical Staff Independent Practice Association (IPA). In this dual role, Dr. Evans will collaborate with Yale University, Yale Faculty Practice and community physicians on the IPA to coordinate effective medical management, utilization and quality assurance in the delivery of health care. She will also work with physicians to develop programs and policies that support high-quality, cost-effective health care to the patients who are covered through health plans that have contracted with the Yale New Haven Health System. |
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Bruce C. Fichandler,
PA-C '73, physician assistant in surgery, lecturer in surgery (plastic), and director
of admissions for the Yale Physician Associate (PA) Program, was presented the Second
Annual Alumni Award at PA graduation ceremonies in August. He also received the Jack
Cole Society Award for his significant contributions in support of the physician
associate profession. Society namesake Jack W. Cole, M.D., former chair of surgery
and a founder of the PA Program, gave the Commencement address. Myron Genel, M.D., associate dean for government and community affairs and professor of pediatrics, was re-elected to the American Medical Association's Scientific Council and named to its executive committee by the AMA House of Delegates at the annual meeting in June. |
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Gerhard H.
Giebisch, M.D., Sterling Professor of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, was
awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Vienna in June. The award was
given in conjunction with a symposium entitled Renal Electrolyte Metabolism Physiology
and Pathophysiology, on the occasion of Dr. Giebisch's 70th birthday. The event
was organized by John P. Geibel, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of surgery
(gastroenterology) at Yale, and Jurg Graf, M.D., of the department of general and
experimental pathology at the University of Austria. Speakers from Yale included
Walter F. Boron, M.D., Ph.D., professor and chairman of cellular and molecular
physiology, and Peter S. Aronson, M.D., C.N.H. Long Professor of Internal
Medicine (nephrology) and of cellular and molecular physiology, and chief of the
section of nephrology. Thomas M. Gill, M.D., assistant professor of medicine (geriatrics), was one of 10 junior faculty to receive the Paul Beeson Physician Faculty Scholars in Aging Research Award from The American Federation for Aging Research. This $450,000 award is funded by the John A. Hartford Foundation, the Commonwealth Fund, and the Alliance for Aging Research on behalf of donor friends. He also received a $240,000 Generalist Physician Faculty Scholars Award from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the nation's largest philanthropy devoted exclusively to health and health care. Both awards will support Dr. Gill's research on identifying the precipitating events leading to new dependence in activities of daily living among frail, community-living elderly persons. "This research," says Dr. Gill, "will lead to an improved understanding of the disabling process and, in turn, will enable investigators to better design effective and efficient strategies to prevent, slow or reverse functional decline." |
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Caleb Gonzalez,
M.D., professor of ophthalmology, was one of five pediatric ophthalmologists to receive
the Honor Award from the American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus
(AAPOS) at its annual meeting in April in Charleston, S.C. This award is to recognize
outstanding achievement and distinguished service to the AAPOS. Dr. Gonzalez received
a similar honor in 1992 from the American Academy of Ophthalmology. Martin E. Gordon, M.D. '46, clinical professor of medicine and chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Associates of the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library, was one of the three Deans of the Academy, finalist judges for more than 600 entries to the American Medical Association's 1997 International Health and Medical Film Competition in November in San Francisco. Dr. Gordon was a John Muir Film Festival winner in 1976 and has received numerous other awards as a director/producer of medical films. Charles A. Greer, Ph.D., professor of neurosurgery and neurobiology, organized and chaired the joint meeting of the International Symposium on Olfaction and Taste XXI and the Association for Chemoreception XIX meeting in San Diego. The joint meeting, which occurs every 12 years in the U.S., was the largest to date and included 652 presentations from around the world. Pasko Rakic, M.D., chairman and Dorys McConnell Duberg Professor of Neurobiology, was honored during the meeting with the 19th Givaudan-Roure Lectureship. Donald W. Kohn, M.D., clinical professor of surgery (dental) and pediatrics, and chief of dentistry at Yale-New Haven Hospital, was named president of the International Association of Pediatric Dentistry at the Association's XVI Congress in Buenos Aires in September. Keat-Jin Lee, M.D., associate clinical professor of surgery (otolaryngology), spoke on the Advanced Points of Ear Surgery at the annual Chilean Congress of Ear, Nose, Throat Conference in Chile in November. He is also Secretary-Treasurer of the American Academy of Otolaryngology until 1999. |
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Richard H.
Mattson, M.D. '53, professor of neurology and vice chair for academic affairs,
was honored with the 1997 Clinical Investigator Award by the American Epilepsy Society/Milken
Family Foundation Epilepsy Research Award Program. The award was given in Boston
in December for his epilepsy research over a 35-year period. In another presentation,
Dr. Mattson was awarded the Novartis Epileptology Prize for 1997 at the 22nd International
Epilepsy Congress in Dublin last July. The prize was given in recognition of his
outstanding achievements in the field of epilepsy with a particular interest in researching
the optimal use of anti-epileptic drugs. Dr. Mattson was also selected as the Hans
Berger Lecturer at the 25th Hans Berger Symposium in June. This honor was based on
early work on sleep deprivation, as well as on intensive CCTV/EEG monitoring studies. The Albert Schweitzer Institute for the Humanities sponsored James R. Merikangas, M.D., lecturer in psychiatry and attending in psychiatry and neurology at Yale-New Haven Hospital, to present seminars in child psychiatry and neurology to the faculties of Vilnius University Center for Children with Developmental Disorders in Lithuania and the universities of Tartu and Tallinn in Estonia. These seminars, funded by the Open Society Institute/Soros Foundation, were held from June 27 to July 3, 1997. Marvin Moser, M.D., clinical professor of medicine, was recognized for outstanding contributions to hypertension treatment and control by the National Heart, Lung & Blood Institute at the 25th anniversary dinner of the National High Blood Pressure Education Program in November in Washington. Dr. Moser has been the senior medical consultant to the national program for 24 years. Eric J. Nestler, M.D. '83, Ph.D. '82, professor of psychiatry, neurobiology, and pharmacology, and Benjamin S. Bunney, M.D., the chair and Charles B.G. Murphy Professor of Psychiatry and professor of pharmacology, participated in the Consensus Development Conference on Effective Medical Treatment of Heroin Addiction in November at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. Herbert S. Sacks, M.D. '52, clinical professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at the Child Study Center, became president of the 42,000-member American Psychiatric Association in July. Dr. Sacks will use his office to speak out on behalf of children and for reforms in the juvenile justice system. Gerald I. Shulman, M.D., Ph.D., professor of medicine (endocrinology), and of cellular and molecular physiology, was one of two researchers awarded the Boehringer Mannheim and the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation International Diabetes Care Research Award for 1997. The $100,000 prize, presented at the International Diabetes Federation Meeting in July in Helskini, is awarded to stimulate innovation in the field of diabetes research leading to practical advances in prevention, detection, treatment and cure for diabetes and its complications. Scott W. Wolfe, M.D., associate professor of orthopaedic surgery and director of the orthopaedic and rehabilitation department's hand and upper extremity service, is the recipient of the 1997-1998 Bunnell Traveling Fellowship in Hand Surgery, awarded annually by the American Society for Surgery of the Hand. This award provides funds for travel to international and/or domestic medical centers to pursue educational interests in the study of the hand. Dr. Wolfe will report on his educational experience at the 1997-1998 residents and fellows conference and annual meeting of the society. Eiji Yanagisawa, M.D., clinical professor of surgery (otolaryngology), was guest of honor at the 77th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Broncho- Esophagological Association in Scottsdale, Ariz., last May. He also served as one of two judges from the United States at the World Video Festival held in conjunction with the XVIth World Congress of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery in Sydney, Australia, last March. In February 1997, he was guest lecturer at the International Symposium on Endoscopic Surgery in Otolaryngology in Mexico City. < back | top of page | next >  Originally published in Yale Medicine, Winter/Spring 1998. Copyright © 1998 Yale University School of Medicine. All rights reserved. |
