Worthy of note: Honors, awards, appointments, etc.
Harold Sox, M.D., the Huber
Professor and chair of medicine,
has been appointed editor of the
prestigious Annals of Internal
Medicine by the American College
of Physicians-
American
Society of
Internal Medicine.
He leaves
DHMC for his
new position
in May. He was
also recently appointed chair of
the Medical Device Resolution
Panel, which mediates scientific
disputes between manufacturers
and the Food and Drug Administration
Center for Devices and
Radiologic Health.
Barry Smith, M.D., an associate
professor and chair of obstetrics
and gynecology,
was awarded
the March
of Dimes Tribute
to Excellence
Award
for 2000. It was
presented at
the New Hampshire Health
Leadership Awards Luncheon by
national March of Dimes President
Jennifer Howse, M.D.
Robert Santulli, M.D., an assistant professor of psychiatry, was elected to a second term as president of the New Hampshire chapter of the National Alzheimer's Association.
Paula Schnurr, Ph.D., a research professor of psychiatry, was elected to the board of directors of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies.
George Little, M.D., a professor of
pediatrics and of obstetrics and
gynecology,
was appointed
to an expert
panel on pregn
ancy and
neonatal care;
the group's primary
goal is to
develop performance measures
for three organizations: the
American Medical Association,
the National Committee for
Quality Assurance, and the Joint
Commission on Accreditation of
Healthcare Organizations.
D. David Glass, M.D., a professor and chair of anesthesiology, was recently elected to the Accreditation Council of the Graduate Medical Education Executive Committee.
Glenn Johnson, M.D., an associate professor of surgery, recently received the Honor Award from the American Academy of Otolaryngology in recognition of his service to the organization.
Ronald L. Green, M.D., a professor
of psychiatry, received honorable
mention for Creativity in Psychiatric
Education,
in recognition
of an
innovative
method, developed
in collaboration
with
the pathology
department, for teaching the
neurological basis of emotions.
Annmarie McDonagh-Coyle, M.D., a research assistant professor of psychiatry, was recently named Psychiatrist of the Year by the New Hampshire chapter of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill.
Two assistant professors of psychiatry have been elected of- ficers of the New Hampshire Psychiatric Association: Lisa Mistler, M.D., as newsletter editor and Sarah Ricketts, M.D., as secretary.
Walter Noll, M.D., a professor of
pathology, was named to the
Molecular and Genetic Testing
Panel of the Food and Drug Administration's
Center for Devices
and Radiologic
Health.
The panel will
provide advice
on the appropriate
scientific
criteria to use in approving diagnostic
tests for human genes.
Marilyn Bedell, R.N., director of oncology patient-care services, won the 2001 Linda Arenth Excellence in Cancer Nursing Management Award.
Angeline Andrew, a graduate student in pharmacology and toxicology, received the Karen Wetterhahn Memorial Award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. The award honors Dartmouth chemistry professor Karen Wetterhahn, Ph.D., who died in 1997.
Paul Yang, a third-year M.D.- Ph.D. student, received a National Research Service Award fellowship from the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
Elliot Hospital in Manchester, N.H., and DHMC have signed an agreement to evaluate opportunities for joint planning and program development in areas ranging from primary care to geriatrics. And Frisbie Memorial Hospital in Rochester, N.H., made an agreement with DHMC's Norris Cotton Cancer Center to provide enhanced oncology services to Rochester-area patients.
Corrections: Regrettably, several errors made their way into the Winter 2000 issue. On page 20, the feature on medicine in the media identified as being by Associated Press (AP) a headline on a newspaper story about a DMS researcher's work. The headline, however, was the work not of AP but of the newspaper that ran the story. Also, an article on page 8, about the identifi- cation of a new genetic disorder, contained this statement: "The foundation for this achievement was laid at DHMC in the 1960s, when Richard Hoefnagel, M.D., now a professor emeritus of pediatrics, established a chromosome analysis lab to look for genetic causes of birth defects." But Hoefnagel says that although he was instrumental in establishing the clinical genetics initiative at Dartmouth, the chromosome analysis lab was actually started by Kurt Benirschke, M.D., a former professor of pathology; also, Hoefnagel's full first name is Dick, not Richard. And on page 13, the "Media Mentions" section noted that Dr. Brian Remillard was interviewed on CNN about a kidney condition suffered by pro basketball player Alonzo Mourning; the disorder in question was actually "focal sclerosis," not "focal scoliosis." We strive for accuracy in Dartmouth Medicine, and we regret very much that these shots fell short of the basket.
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