Worthy of note: Honors, awards, appointments, etc.
Two associate professors of psychiatry were named presidentselect of national specialty societies —Thomas McAllister, M.D., of the American Neuropsychiatric Association, and Steven Bartels, M.D., of the American Association of Geriatric Psychiatrists. And three assistant professors of psychiatry were elected to state leadership posts: Robert Santulli, M.D., as president of the New Hampshire Alzheimer's Association; Rebecca Neal, M.D., as president of the New Hampshire Psychiatric Society; and Alexander de Nesnera, M.D., as president- elect of the same group.
Harry Bird, M.D., professor of
clinical anesthesiology emeritus
and former
New Hampshire
secretary
of health, was
presented with
the American
Society of Anesthesiologists'
Distinguished Service Award —
the highest award the group can
bestow on an individual.
John Baldwin, M.D., dean of DMS, was named chair of the Harvard Board of Overseers' committee on natural sciences.
Harold Sox, M.D., the Joseph M. Huber Professor and chair of medicine, was appointed to the National Research Council's research review committee, as well as to the Health Care Financing Administration's Medicare coverage advisory committee.
Michael Spinella, Ph.D., an assistant professor of pharmacology and toxicology, has received the National Institutes of Health's Howard Temin Award.
Jay Buckey, M.D., a research associate
professor of medicine, is
president of the American Society
for Gravitational
and
Space Biology
and a member
of the National
Academy of
Sciences-National Research
Council committee on
space biology and medicine.
Two Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic physicians were recognized for service to the community and to medicine. John Elliott, M.D., of the Clinic's Lyndonville, Vt., branch, received the Vermont Medical Society's 1999 Community Service Award, and John Fothergill, M.D., of the Indian Stream Clinic in Colebrook, N.H., received the New Hampshire Hospital Association's Medical Staff Award.
Diane Kittredge, M.D., an associate professor of pediatrics, chairs the Ambulatory Pediatrics Association's Continuity Directors' Special Interest Group.
Julie Fago, M.D., an associate
professor of medicine and of
community
and family
medicine, was
one of just seven
physicians
nationwide selected
to receive
a Geriatric
Academic Career Award
from the Public Health Service.
Robert Chamberlin, M.D., M.P.H., an adjunct professor of pediatrics, received the Excellence in Prevention Award from the New Hampshire Prevention Association, as well as the Franklin Rogers Award from the New Hampshire Pediatrics Society. Both recognized his work developing family resource centers.
Laurie Storey-Manseau, director of public affairs and marketing for DHMC, has been elected chair of the American Cancer Society's New England division.
Susan Camp, a supervisor of patient relations and information, was elected to a two-year term as president of the New England Society for Health Care Consumer Advocacy.
Achilles Papavasiliou, M.D., a resident
in neurosurgery, received
the New England
Neurosurgical
Society's
Resident
Award for a paper
on using
calcium channel
blockers to
treat subarachnoid hemorrhage.
John Mengshol, DMS '00, received the American College of Rheumatology's Medical Student Achievement Award for an abstract on collagenase.
Erratum: In the Fall 1999 issue, we mistakenly said that neurologist Colin Allen, M.D. (whose career was being recapped upon his attainment of emeritus status), had served as a consultant in urology back in the early '70s. He did not drop one specialty for another, but we had the . . . well, nerve to drop the "ne" from the latter reference to his field.
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