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Worthy of note: Honors, awards, appointments, etc.
Jay Dunlap, Ph.D., a professor and
chair of genetics, received the
first Robert L.
Metzenberg
Award from
the Genetics
Society of
America, for
his contributions
to understanding
the genetics of the fungus
Neurospora; the award was
presented at the annual Fungal
Genetics Conference.
Allen Dietrich, M.D., a professor
of community and family medicine,
received the 2005 Curtis G.
Hames Research Award. The
award honors
dedication to
research in
family medicine;
the recipient
is selected
by the Society
of Teachers of
Family Medicine, the American
Academy of Family Physicians,
the North American Primary-
Care Research Group, and the
Hames Endowment.
Surachai Supattapone, M.D., Ph.D.,
an assistant professor of biochemistry,
was named a member of the
Clinical Neuroimmun- ology
and Brain Tumors Study
Section of the
National Institutes of Health.
Nancy Speck, Ph.D., a professor of biochemistry, was appointed chair of the Hematopoiesis Study Section of the National Institutes of Health.
Gilbert Fanciullo, M.D., an associate
professor of anesthesiology, was elected to the board of the American Pain Society.
James Bernat, M.D., a professor of medicine, testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions about end-of-life issues and advance directives. He is former chair of the American Academy of Neurology's ethics committee.
Ronald M. Green, Ph.D., an adjunct professor of community and family medicine, was recently awarded a fellowship by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. The fellowship will support his examination of ethical, religious, and literary perspectives on genetic enhancement.
Patricia Ernst, Ph.D., an assistant professor of genetics, received a Kimmel Scholar Award from the Sidney Kimmel Foundation.
Nicholas Shworak, M.D., Ph.D., an
assistant professor of medicine,
was selected as
the American
Heart Association's
Lobby
Day representative
for New
Hampshire.
One researcher
was chosen from each state to
exemplify the objectives of the
association's funding process.
Andrew Pomerantz, M.D., an associate professor of psychiatry, based at the White River Junction, Vt., VA, was honored as Manager of the Year and Federal Employee of the Year by the
Federal Association of Vermont.
Dean Seibert, M.D., an associate professor of medicine emeritus, was elected to the DMS chapter of Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA), the national medical honor society. Three third-year DMS students were also elected to AOA: Lisa Ernst, Greg Fuhrer, and John Raser.
Jeffrey Barrett, a fourth-year medical student, was awarded a Minority Medical Student Travel Scholarship by the American Psychiatric Association.
Karen Skalla, A.R.N.P., received the Oncology Nursing Society Pat McCue/New Orleans Chapter End-of-Life Nursing Career Development Award. She is an oncology nurse practitioner at the Claremont, N.H., Valley Regional Hospital, part of DHMC's Regional Cancer Program.
Dartmouth Medical School was again
ranked among the top 50 medical
schools in the nation by
U.S. News & World Report.
DMS was 35th
in the research
category and
34th in a category
that factors
in the percentage of
graduates who
go into primary care. DMS was
also 17th in the "Rural Medicine"
specialty category. The
rankings are based on reputation,
research funding, student selectivity,
and faculty/student ratios.
The DHMC Adult Diabetes Self- Management Program was recently accorded recognition as an "outstanding program" by the American Diabetes Association.
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