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Heros
of Health Care
Emory
Healthcare and Woodruff Health Sciences Center swept the
Atlanta Business Chronicle’s 2007 Health-care Heroes
Awards.
JEFFREY
SALOMONE, chief of general surgery and surgical infectious
disease at Grady, won the Physician Hero award. In his 11
years at Grady, he’s been involved in high-profile
trauma events, including the 1996 Olympic Park bombing,
the Buckhead day-trader shootings, the 2005 Atlanta courthouse
shootings, and the Bluffton University bus crash. He sees
between 150 and 200 injured police officers a year in his
voluntary role as police surgeon.
LYNN
SIBLEY, director of the Center for Research on Maternal
and Newborn Survival at the School of Nursing, was named
the allied health professional hero. A certified nurse midwife
with a PhD in anthropology, she has created an initiative
to reduce mother and infant mortality rates during childbirth
in developing countries.
OTIS
BRAWLEY, an Emory oncologist who directs the Georgia
Cancer Center for Excellence at Grady, won the military
hero distinction. An inactive reservist in the Public Health
Service Commissioned Corps, he was called into active duty
in March 2006 and dispatched to St. Bernard Parish in Louisiana.
He served for two months as senior medical director of an
urgent care center that saw an average of 160 patients a
day, seven days a week, in an area still suffering from
the effects of Hurricane Katrina.
SUSAN
ALLEN, a global health professor in the Rollins School
of Public Health, won the Community Outreach Hero award.
Her research in Rwanda and Zambia in couples where one spouse
is HIV-positive and the other is negative has led to testing
and counseling programs that have dramatically decreased
HIV transmission.
Other Emory finalists in the
annual competition were OWEN SAMUELS,
director of neurointensive care at Emory Hospital, psychiatrist
LEONARD HOWELL, a CORE scientist
and research professor at Yerkes National Primate Research
Center, and AMY DUNN, assistant
professor of pediatrics.
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ALBERT
BLACKWELDER has been appointed COO for Wesley Woods
Center. Formerly COO of Emory Crawford Long Hospital, he will
continue to serve as interim COO at the midtown hospital until
a successor is named.
Emory
Eye Center researcher JEFFREY BOATHRIGHT
is a newly elected trustee of the Biochemistry and Molecular
Biology section of the Association for Research in Vision
and Ophthalmology.
WRIGHT
CAUGHMAN, SOM, is the new vice president for clinical
and academic integration in the WHSC, where he will coordinate,
implement, and manage four core strategies of the Vision 2012
strategic plan: implementing Emory Clifton Corridor and Emory
Midtown master facility plans, developing key multidisciplinary
centers of excellence, promoting a patient-focused service
culture, and insuring maximal integration of translational
research, education, and training missions in clinical programs.
He also will continue to direct The Emory Clinic and serve
as executive associate dean for clinical affairs.
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JEANNE
CHARLES,
rehabilitation medicine, will receive the 2007 Gayle G. Arnold
Award for Best Scientific Paper from the American Academy
for Cerebral Palsy and Development Medicine for her publication
on hand-arm intensive bimanual training in children with hemiplegic
cerebral palsy.
Emory University presented CARLOS DEL
RIO, SOM, with the Marion V. Creekmore Award for Internationalization,
awarded annually to a faculty member who excels in the advancement
of the university’s commitment to global health education,
research, and training.
WILLIAM FOEGE, SPH, received
the Lautenberg Award from the University of New Jersey Medical
and Dental School for outstanding contributions in public
health. He also received the Stephen Smith Award for Lifetime
Achievement in Public Health from the New York Academy of
Medicine.
ROBERT HATCHER, SOM, received
the 2007 Kenneth J. Ryan Physician Leadership Award from Physicians
for Reproductive Choice and Health, given annually to a doctor
who exemplifies leadership in reproductive health.
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LISA
TEDESCO, SPH, vice provost for academic affairs/graduate
studies and dean of Emory’s Graduate School of Arts
and Sciences, received the 2007 Distinguished Service Award
from the American Dental Education Association.
ARTHUR
YANCEY, SOM, received the 2007 Jeff Clawson Leadership
Award from the National Academies of Emergency Dispatch for
a significant contribution to the profession.
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Distinguished
cancer scholars
The Georgia Cancer Coalition (GCC) has named 13 scientists
as 2007 distinguished cancer scholars, including five scientists
at Emory. Each of the scholars will receive between $50,000
and $150,000 annually for five years to support their research.
The Emory awardees are SUSAN BAUER-WU,
SON, who studies psychobehavioral interventions such as
meditation, music, and writing to address cancer patients’
symptoms and treatments; GEORGIA
ZHOU CHEN, WCI, a hematologist
and oncologist who studies lymph node metastasis; JING
CHEN, WCI, who researches the cause, development,
and effects of leukemia and melanoma; EDWARD
MOCARSKI, Woodruff Professor of Microbiology and
Immunology, who investigates the biologic properties of
cytomegalovirus; and HAROLD SAAVEDRA,
a radiation oncologist, who is studying how breast cancer
initiates and develops. Since its inception in 2001, the
GCC has named 91 distinguished scholars, with 36 from Emory.
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CHRIS
LARSEN,
SOM, Carlos and Marguerite Mason Professor of Surgery, was
awarded the 2007 Thomas E. Starzl Prize in Surgery and Immunology
by the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
WALTER ORENSTEIN, SOM, received
the 2007 Dr. Charles Merieux Award for Achievement in Vaccinology
and Immunology from the National Foundation for Infectious
Diseases.
LARRY PICKERING, SOM, was awarded
the 2007 Pediatric Infectious Disease Society’s Distinguished
Physician Award for his contributions and accomplishments
in pediatric infectious diseases. A clinical faculty member
in pediatrics, he also is senior adviser to the director of
the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases
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Celebrating
great teachers
The recipients of the SOM 2007 teaching awards are
WHIT SEWELL (pathology), LISA
BERNSTEIN(medicine), GORDON
CHURCHWARD (microbiology), MICHAEL
HART (medicine), TAMMIE QUEST
(emergency medicine), JANE GILMORE
(neurology), DAVID PALLAS (biochemistry),
FERNANDO HOLGUIN (medicine),
LISA FLOWERS (OB/GYN), and
MICHAEL JOHNS III (otolaryngology).
KARL SAXE (cell biology and
anatomy) received the Special Teaching Award before leaving
to pursue a career at the American Cancer Society. The 2007
Dean’s Distinguished Faculty Lecture and Award was
given jointly to RAFI AHMED,
director of the Emory Vaccine Center, and HARRIET
ROBINSON, a researcher at the Vaccine Center, for
exemplary scientific accomplishments in immunology and vaccine
development.
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KATHERINE HEILPERN, SOM, acting
chair of Emergency Medicine, has been named president-elect
of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine.
ARTHUR KELLERMANN, SOM, SPH,
received the 2007 John G. Wiegenstein Leadership Award from
the American College of Emergency Physicians.
ALLAN KIRK is the new scientific
director
of the Emory Transplant Center and a Georgia Research Alliance
Eminent Scholar. A surgical scientist and expert on transplant
immunology, he has served as chief of the transplantation
branch at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive
and Kidney Diseases since 2001 and is founding director of
the NIH Intramural Organ Transplant Program.
FADLO KHURI, SOM, WCI, is the
first physician scientist from Emory’s hematology and
oncology section to be elected to the American Society of
Clinical Investigation.
ATHENA KOURTIS, SOM, a senior
fellow at the CDC’s National Center for Chronic Disease
Prevention and Health Promotion, received the 2007 Outstanding
Scientific Achievement Award from the Federal Executive Board
for her work on perinatal and pediatric HIV/AIDS. The award
is the board’s highest honor awarded to a scientist
working in the federal sector.
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Leadership
for clinical trials
The
SOM’s Clinical Trials Office has appointed two administrators,
ROBIN GINN and DAVID
MCLEAN, to oversee operations, improve efficiency,
and make more clinical trials available. Ginn, as executive
director, has worked in health care for 27 years, including
at Vanderbilt, where she was executive director of research
informatics and regulatory affairs. McLean, associate executive
director, is an Atlanta attorney with 17 years of corporate
health care experience. The appointments are part of an ongoing
initiative to invest in research infrastructure and quality
improvement in the School of Medicine. |
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