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Vital Signs
Worthy of note: Honors, awards, appointments, etc.
Constance Brinckerhoff, Ph.D., the Nathan
Smith Professor of Medicine,
has been named a master
by the American
College of
Rheumatology.
One of the organization's
highest honors,
mastership
recognizes outstanding
contributions to the
field of rheumatology through
scholarly achievement and service
to students and the profession.
See this issue's "Faculty Focus" for more on
Brinckerhoff's career.
John Wennberg, M.D., M.P.H.
(below), the Peggy Y. Thomson
Professor of the
Evaluative
Clinical Sciences
and director
emeritus
of the Dartmouth
Institute
for Health
Policy and Clinical Practice, and
Elliott Fisher, M.D., M.P.H. (below),
a professor of medicine and the
director of the
Center for
Health Policy
Research, were
named to a
new Working
Group on
Medicare Reform
convened by the Century
Foundation, a nonpartisan public
policy research organization.
The group, made up of prominent
health-policy experts from
around the country, will assess
the state of Medicare and make
recommendations to reform and
strengthen the program. Dartmouth
is the only institution
represented more than once on
the 11-member group.
William Hickey, M.D., a professor of pathology, was elected a governor of the College of American Pathologists.
Paula Schnurr, Ph.D., a research
professor of psychiatry, received a
Ladies' Home
Journal Health
Breakthrough
Award, in recognition
of her
research on
post-traumatic
stress disorder
in female military personnel.
A teaching tool called the
Computer-assisted Learning in
Pediatrics Program (CLIPP) was
presented with the 2008 Academic
Pediatrics
Association's
Outstanding
Teaching
Award. CLIPP
was created by
Leslie Fall, M.D.
(at left), and
Norman Berman, M.D. (below); both
are associate professors of pediatrics.
A web-based software program,
CLIPP is
designed to be
used by thirdyear
medical
students during
their pediatric
clerkships. It is now
used by more than 80 of the 129
U.S. medical schools.
Robert McLellan, M.D., an associate professor of medicine, received the 2008 Innovative Research Award from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health and the Mountain and Plains Education and Research Center.
Gregory Tsongalis, Ph.D., an associate professor of pathology, was elected a member of the Council of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology.
Camilo Fadul, M.D., an associate professor of medicine, received the Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award from the Arnold P. Gold Foundation.
James Aubuchon, M.D., a professor of pathology, received the 2008 College of American Pathologists' Distinguished Service Award.
Matthew Reilley, a third-year DMS student, was named a 2008 Research Scholar by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the National Institutes of Health.
Amanda Thornton, a third-year DMS student
(as well as a former editorial intern at Dartmouth Medicine),
received honorable mention
in the William Osler
Medal essay contest, administered
by the American
Association for the
History of Medicine. Her
essay was titled "Coerced
Care: Thomas Thistlewood's
account of medical
practice on sugar plantation slaves in colonial
Jamaica, 1751-1786."
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center was included
among the nation's top hospitals by U.S.
News & World Report. The magazine evaluated
5,453 hospitals all
across the country, and
only 170 (just over 3% of
the total) made the top 50.
Dartmouth-Hitchcock was
included among the top 50
in three of the 16 specialties
that were ranked—cancer; ear, nose, and throat medicine; and
gynecology. This is the seventh year in a row
that DHMC's Norris Cotton Cancer Center
has appeared in the U.S. News ranking.
The DMS Family Medicine Interest Group received a Program of Excellence Award from the American Academy of Family Physicians. The group also won the award in 2007.
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