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The
head nurse
SUSAN GRANT, is
the new chief nursing officer (CNO) at Emory Healthcare.
Previously she served as senior associate administrator
for patient care services and CNO at the University of Washington
Medical Center, where she also handled inpatient operations
of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center.
Grant has certification as
a nurse administrator advanced. Her 20+-year career includes
tenure in nursing and nursing administration at Kershaw
County Hospital in South Carolina, the Medical University
of South Carolina, and the Dana Farber Cancer Institute
in Boston. She is experienced in long-term rehabilitation
care, cancer/oncology, and coronary care. Currently a Robert
Wood Johnson executive nurse fellow at the University of
California, San Francisco Center for the Health Professions,
she previously was a Johnson & Johnson executive fellow
with the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Grant follows ALICE
VAUTIER, who recently retired as associate administrator
for patient services and chief CNO at Emory Healthcare after
more than 11 years.
Vautier found her life’s
calling early. She was just a preteen when she watched nurses
care for her mother following a stroke, but that original
interest led to a 45-year career in nursing. One of Vautier’s
first challenges when she joined Emory in 1995 was to merge
three nursing and pharmacy departments at Emory’s
acute care hospitals. The successful merger came about with
her strategy to standardize patient care, policies, and
procedures to make the new department function seamlessly
as one system—no small undertaking.
In 2003, she tackled average
length of stays in hospitals, using a manufacturing model
to increase efficiency. Longer length of stays results in
higher costs and rate of complications. In the first year
of a new strategy, Vautier’s team saved 30,000 patient
days. The next year, the effort yielded 50,000 days saved.
Patients were always at the
forefront of all Vautier’s efforts. As she recently
told a reporter for the Atlanta Journal Constitution,
nurses need to remember that “we save people’s
lives every day.”
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CLAUDIA
ADKISON, executive associate dean/administration &
faculty affairs, SOM, is a founding member and the first national
chair of FOCI-Academe (Focus on Conflict of Interest in Academia).
FOCI is a national organization that shares information and
strategies on conflict of interest issues among its members
who are administrators, research deans, and vice presidents
from more than 70 medical schools in the United States. FOCI
is affiliated with the AAMC. Adkison also was recently named
to the steering committee of the AAMC Group on Business Affairs.
Neurologist
MAHLON DELONG, SOM, is the first
recipient of the annual Dean’s Distinguished Faculty
Lecture and Award. Among the most prestigious and celebratory
honors bestowed by the SOM, the award and lecture come with
a substantial financial award. Faculty recipients are judged
on the significance and impact of their scholarly work, the
academic ideals embodied by their careers, and their ability
to deliver an exemplary lecture with broad appeal.
Health
educator KAREN GLANZ, RSPH, has
been appointed to the Task Force on Community Preventive Services
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OLIVER DEIGNI, SOM, is one of
only 10 medical students in the county to receive a 2006 Minority
Scholars Award from the American Medical Association Foundation.
The award, which comes with a $10,000 scholarship, recognizes
excellent medical students who show outstanding promise for
a future career in medicine. Deigni, who is from Cote d’Ivoire,
is an active volunteer in his church, participating in programs
such as Habitat for Humanity and Meals on Wheels. He has traveled
to Haiti as part of a medical mission, and this summer he
completed an internship in Tanzania, where he worked on early
infant diagnosis and treatment of HIV and counseled youths
on reproductive health and family planning.
Hematologist, oncologist, and professor of medicine
JAMES ECKMAN,SOM, Winship
Cancer Institute, was publicly honored in the Senate Chambers
of the Georgia General Assembly with a special resolution
on March 30 for his dedication, leadership, and contributions
to sickle cell care by establishing a sickle cell program
at Grady Hospital and Emory School of Medicine.
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CEO
MICHAEL JOHNS, a resident in
physical medicine and rehabilitation, SOM, received the American
Medical Association Foundation’s 2006 Leadership Award,
which provides medical students, residents/fellows, young
physicians, and international medical graduate physicians
special training to develop skills as future leaders in organized
medicine. Lal’s recent accomplishments include serving
as a medical expert for development of the amuputee center
for civilians, police, and military in Baghdad, Iraq. She
also has organized and volunteered for surgical and medical
mission trips to Peru and Haiti.
Geneticist
PENG JIN, SOM, (right) and neuroscientist
ASTRID PRINZ, SOM, are among
116 young scientists and economists to be selected as 2006
Sloan Fellows, representing national faculty who show the
most outstanding promise of making fundamental contributions
to new knowledge.
Radiation oncologist PETER JOHNSTONE,
SOM, has been inducted as a fellow in the American College
of Radiology. He serves as director of the Cancer Survivorship
Program at Winship Cancer Institute and is a Georgia Cancer
Coalition Distinguished Scholar.
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Dean
THOMAS LAWLEY, SOM, received
the 2006 Stephen Rothman Memorial Award from the Society for
Investigative Dermatology, the society’s highest honor,
presented annually for distinguished service to the specialty
of investigative dermatology. Award recipients are selected
based on their scientific achievement, commitment to teaching
and to recruiting the next generation of scientists, and impact
on the course and image of dermatology.
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Nursing
firsts: New appointments at the School of Nursing
are strengthening its research and education programs.
KENNETH
HEPBURN, the school’s first Associate Dean for
Research, is leading a burgeoning research program. In addition
to recruiting new faculty and developing current research
faculty, he will work with the Center for Research on Symptoms,
Symptom Interactions, and Health Outcomes, one of nine exploratory
nursing research centers funded by the National Institutes
of Health. Previously, Hepburn held a similar role at the
University of Minnesota, where he developed a research program
in nursing. His own research areas include studies on caregivers
for family members with dementia, geriatric team care, education
and evaluation issues, and change of practice behavior.
SUE
DONALDSON is the first Distinguished Professor of Nursing
and Interdisciplinary Science with a primary appointment in
the SON and a secondary appointment in physiology at Emory
School of Medicine. A member of the Institute of Medicine,
she previously served as dean of nursing and on the nursing
and medical faculty at Johns Hopkins. At Emory, she will advance
interdisciplinary training and research opportunities for
nurses in the basic sciences, and she will lead a new initiative
to advance nursing as an interdisciplinary and collaborative
science interfaced with the health sciences, basic sciences,
and biomedical engineering.
MARSHA
LEWIS, a veteran teacher of 24 years, joined the School
of Nursing in August as the first Associate Dean for Education.
Previously, she served as director of graduate programs at
the University of Minnesota’s School of Nursing Twin
Cities campus. She also has served on the Board of Commissioners
for the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education and its
Accreditation Review Committee. Lewis’s current research
focuses on interventions for family caregivers of patients
with dementia, including development of a prototype for an
Internet version of the Savvy Caregiver Program. |
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The
Atlanta Business Chronicle honored several health
sciences faculty and divisions in its 2006 Health Care Heroes
awards, which recognize excellence in the field of medicine.
Internist and renal medicine specialist ROBERT
FRANCH, SOM, won the Lifetime Achievement Award. Pathologist
CHRIS HILLYER, SOM, received
the Community Outreach Award. And primary care nurse MAUREEN
KELLEY, (above) SON, received the Health Care Hero
Award for Allied Health Professional. Yerkes Director STUART
ZOLA and liver transplant surgeon THOMAS
HEFFRON also were finalists in the annual competition.
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Emory Healthcare Infection Control Director BETSY
HACKMAN was one of a select group invited to join a
World Health Organization panel in Geneva, Switzerland, to
discuss a rapid response strategy in the event of global influenza
pandemic.
DAVID KLEINBAUM, RSPH, will receive the Abraham Lilienfeld
Award for excellence in teaching epidemiology from the American
Public Health Association at its annual meeting in November.
Psychiatrist WILLIAM MCDONALD,
SOM, director and J.B. Fuqua Professor in the Fuqua Center
for Late-Life Depression, has been named chief of the Division
of Geriatric Psychiatry.
WALTER ORENSTEIN, associate director
of the Emory Vaccine Center, received an honorary doctor of
science degree from Wake Forest in May. That same month, he
also delivered the Stanley A. Plotkin Lecture in Vaccinology
at the annual meeting of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Society.
SHYAM RELE, SOM, was selected
as one of the most promising early-career scientists by the
American Chemical Society to represent the United States in
a workshop held in India. Its focus was on advances in organic
chemistry and chemical biology. One of only nine representatives
from the United States and at 32, the youngest, Rele presented
research on glycodendrimeric heparinoids.
RICHARD SALTMAN, RSPH, is the
newly named chair of the International Advisory Committee
of the Israel National Health Policy Institute, which includes
members from France, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom,
and the United States.
MICHAEL WINDLE, RSPH, is the
new chair of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education. He
joins Emory from the University of Alabama-Birmingham, where
he held a joint appointment in pediatrics and health promotion
and directed the Center for Advancement of Youth Health and
the Comprehensive Youth Violence Center.
BILL WOODS, director of pediatric
hematology/oncology, SOM, is president of the American Society
of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology.
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