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Vital Signs
Worthy of note: Honors, awards, appointments, etc.
John Wennberg, M.D., the director of
Dartmouth's Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences, was
once again
named to Modern
Healthcare
magazine's annual
list of the
"50 Most Powerful
Physician Executives in
Health Care." He was ranked
43rd on the list this year.
James Weinstein, D.O., a professor
and chair of orthopaedic
surgery, received the Wiltse Lifetime
Achievement
Award
from the International
Society
for the
Study of the
Lumbar Spine.
The award
goes to a scientist, clinician, or
researcher who has made major
contributions to the advancement
of knowledge in the field of
spinal disorders.
William A. Nelson, Ph.D., an associate
professor of psychiatry, was
granted an
honorary doctorate
of humane
letters by
Elmhurst College
in suburban
Chicago.
A 1968 graduate
of Elmhurst, Nelson was recognized
for his teaching and
scholarship in health-care ethics.
Murray Korc, M.D., a professor of medicine and chair of the Department of Medicine, was recently elected to membership in the American Association of Physicians; the group is considered the premier society for physician-scientists.
Allen Dietrich, M.D., a professor of
community and family medicine, received the Best Research
Paper Award from
the Society of Teachers in
Family Medicine. His paper,
published in the British
Medical Journal, was titled
"Re-engineering Systems
for the Treatment of Depression
in Primary Care:
Cluster Randomised
Controlled Trial." (See the article "Phone is key to novel psychiatric approach" from the Winter 2004 issue of Dartmouth Medicine for more about Dietrich's work.)
David Robbins, Ph.D., an associate professor of pharmacology and toxicology, was appointed to the editorial board of the Journal of Biological Chemistry.
Lori Arviso Alvord, M.D., an assistant professor
of surgery and associate dean of student and
multicultural affairs, was
the keynote speaker at
three medical school commencement
ceremonies in
2006: the University of Illinois
at Chicago College of
Medicine, Drexel University
College of Medicine in
Philadelphia, and the Sophie Davis School
of Biomedical Education in New York City.
Jason Moore, Ph.D., an associate professor of genetics, served as program chair for the Fourth European Workshop on Evolutionary Computation and Machine Learning in Bioinformatics in Budapest, Hungary.
Mae Jemison, M.D., an adjunct professor of
community and family medicine, received an
honorary doctor of science
degree at the 2006 Dartmouth
College Commencement
exercises. Jemison,
the first black woman
astronaut in the U.S., is
now active worldwide in
science literacy and sustainable
development. She has founded two
companies that are devoted to integrating
science and technology into society, as well
as an annual international science camp that
aims to build critical-thinking skills.
Leslie Fall, M.D., and Norman Berman, M.D., both associate professors of pediatrics, received the 2006 Innovation in Clinical Medical Student Education Award from the American Association of Medical Colleges' Northeast Group on Educational Affairs, for their work on the
Computer-assisted Learning in Pediatrics Project.
Christopher Connor, M.D., an associate professor of surgery (ophthalmology), received a 2006 Best Paper award from the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery. His paper was titled "Lensotomy: Phaco Initiated 2-Stage Capsulorhexis."
Martin Palmeri, M.D., a second-year resident in internal medicine, received a 2006 Leadership Award from the American Medical Association Foundation.
Kristin Wallace, Ph.D., a research associate and postdoctoral fellow in biostatistics and epidemiology, received a student award from the American Association for Cancer Research for a presentation on selenium and bladder cancer.
Crystal Piffath, a doctoral student in molecular and cellular biology, was among a select group of graduate students nationwide granted a three-year fellowship by the National Science Foundation.
Abigail Proffer, a second-year medical student, was elected as the northeast regional delegate for student affairs to the Association of American Medical Colleges' Organization of Student Representatives.
The Dartmouth-Hitchcock Community Health Center was one of 36 family medicine practices from all across the country chosen to participate in the TransforMED National Demonstration Project. TransforMED is an initiative of the American Academy of Family Physicians. The project intends to help practices apply a new model of family medicine that puts the patient first and that emphasizes effective and efficient care.
Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital was recently recognized as being among the U.S. hospitals with the most complete and compliant coding practices. MHMH ranked 28th among the 239 major teaching hospitals that were analyzed and was the only New England hospital recognized in this category. The analysis was performed by HSS, a company in the coding and reimbursement field.
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