Worthy of note: Honors, awards, appointments, etc.
William Wickner, M.D., the James
Chilcott Professor of Biochemistry,
was recently elected a fellow
of the American Academy
of Arts and Sciences. Among the
other new fellows
and foreign
honorary
members this
year were Kofi
Annan, secretary-general of
the United
Nations; journalist Walter
Cronkite; and Nobel Prize-winning
physicist Donald Glasner.
Wickner was recognized for his
studies on cell membranes and
protein movement.
John Wennberg, M.D., the Peggy
Thomson Professor of the Evaluative
Clinical Sciences and director
of DMS's Center for the
Evaluative Clinical Sciences, received
the 2003 Health Quality
Award from the National Committee for
Quality Assurance; it recognizes
contributions made toward improving
the quality of health care
through research, public policy,
or public education.
Thomas Oxman, M.D., a professor of psychiatry and of community and family medicine, was elected to the board of directors of the American Association of Geriatric Psychiatry.
Frances Friedman, M.D., an assistant professor of medicine emerita, was one of 40 physicians nationwide to receive a Laureate Award from the American College of Physicians, for her work for the ACP.
Robert Racusin, M.D., an associate
professor of psychiatry and of
pediatrics, was the recipient of the 2003
Psychiatrist of the Year Award for
New Hampshire. It is presented by the
state's chapter of the National
Alliance for the Mentally Ill.
William Boyle, M.D., a professor
of pediatrics, was recently selected
as the recipient of the
Granite State's 2003 Pediatrician
of the Year Award.
The award is
presented annually
by the New Hampshire
Pediatric Society.
Catherine Pipas, M.D., an associate
professor of community and
family medicine,
was elected cochair of the National
Steering Committee for the Society of
Teachers of Family Medicine's Predoctoral
Education Committee.
Robert Harbaugh, M.D., a professor of surgery and of radiology, was selected by the American Stroke Association, a division of the American Heart Association, to serve as a member-at-large of the Stroke Leadership Committee.
Six faculty members were
honored as the inaugural recipients
of Dean's Faculty Awards
a new DMS award recognizing
excellence in four different areas.
The Senior Faculty Award was
presented to Donald St. Germain, M.D.
(pictured), a professor
of medicine
and of physiology
as well as
acting chair of
the Department
of Medicine.
Honored for basic science
was George O'Toole, Ph.D., an assistant
professor of microbiology
and immunology; for clinical investigation,
Lisa Schwartz, M.D., and
Steven Woloshin, M.D., both associate
professors of medicine and of
community and family medicine;
for teaching and clinical care,
Joshua Lee, M.D., an assistant professor
of medicine; and for translational
research, John Hwa, Ph.D.,
an assistant professor of pharmacology
and toxicology.
Peter Silberfarb, M.D., the Raymond
Sobel Professor of Psychiatry
and a professor
of medicine,
was honored
for his 16
years of service
as chair of the
Department of
Psychiatry
with the establishment of the Peter
Silberfarb Distinguished Lectureship
in Psychiatry.
Jonathan Ross, M.D., an associate professor of medicine and of community and family medicine, has been named the Almy Clinical Scholar. The post is a threeyear appointment that allows a senior faculty member to put extra time into developing new clinical teaching programs. It was funded in honor of the late Thomas P. Almy, M.D., former chair of medicine at Dartmouth. See the feature on page 32 for insight into one of Ross's educational efforts.
Kenneth Arndt, M.D., an adjunct professor of medicine, received the Leon M. Goldman Memorial Award from the American Society of Laser Medicine and Surgery. The award recognizes demonstrated longitudinal excellence in performing clinical laser research.
Eugene Lariviere, M.D., an adjunct assistant professor of pediatrics, was named Citizen of of the Year by the Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce. He was instrumental in founding the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinics in Manchester and Bedford.
Elizabeth Eisenhardt, a first-year medical student, was the sole medical student representative at a national symposium to create strategies for increasing the role of the arts in health care. The symposium was hosted by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Society for the Arts in Health Care.
Eight first-year Dartmouth medical students were selected as Schweitzer Fellows for 2003- 2004: Joseph Dwaihy, Elizabeth Eisenhardt, Krista Heydt, Christopher Jons, Katrina Mitchell, Shirin Sioshansi, Emily Walker, and Roy Wade. In the Schweitzer Fellowship program, participants engage in interdisciplinary activities in the community that emphasize values and leadership.
Anthony Perrone, a third-year medical student, was elected regional chair for legislative affairs of the American Medical Association's Organization of Student Representatives.
Kim O'Hara, a graduate student in pharmacology and toxicology, received the Society of Toxicology's Taylor & Francis Graduate Student Award, Metals Specialty Section.
In the 2003 U.S. News &
World Report ranking of the
country's 125 medical schools,
Dartmouth Medical School was ranked
35th on a scale
emphasizing
research activity
and 27th on
a scale emphasizing
the percentage of
graduates who
enter primary-care specialties.
The rankings are based on grant
funding, reputation, test scores,
and student-faculty ratios.
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
was named by Business NH Magazine
and the
New Hampshire
Association
of Chamber
of Commerce
Executives
as the
Health-Care
Business of the Year for 2003.
Factors considered in making the
award were impact on the industry
and the community.
DMS's Patient Partnership Program was selected by the Fetzer Institute as a finalist for the 2002 Norman Cousins Award. Cousins was a writer and humanitarian who focused attention on the importance of relationships to health and healing.
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center was the recipient of two recent environmental awards: the 2002 H2E Environmental Leadership Award for its overall environmental practices, and the Making Medicine Mercury Free Award for eliminating mercury from the facility. Both awards were presented by Hospitals for a Healthy Environment (H2E), a national group sponsored jointly by the Environmental Protection Agency and the American Hospital Association. DHMC has been mercury- free since 1997, has eliminated the use of the toxic disinfecting agent ethylene oxide, and recycles 38% of its waste stream.
DHMC's PainFree Program received a VHA Leadership Award from VHA, Inc., a nationwide network of community-based health-care organizations. DHMC was one of six health-care organizations nationwide to receive the award. The recipients are chosen based on clinical effectiveness, operational performance, supply-chain management, and community health.
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