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Georgia Governor Zell Miller received the Robert Woodruff Health Sciences Medal for his leadership and support of biological research and development in the state. Miller has been a strong advocate for the Georgia Research Alliance, a partnership between Georgia's research universities, corporations, and state government. The GRA received $42 million from the state last year. The GRA also supports funding of Georgia residents enrolled in medical school. Miller also established the HOPE scholarship, which enables 300,000 Georgia students to attend college, including 2,500 Emory medical students. The Woodruff Medal is presented at the discretion of the director of the Woodruff Health Sciences Center, Michael Johns. Mahul Amin, who is nationally recognized for his contributions in genitourinary pathology, is the new director of surgical pathology at Emory. |
 Gov. Zell Miller |
John Blohm is the new senior associate vice president for health sciences development and will strategically shape fund-raising efforts for the schools of medicine, nursing, and public health, as well as Emory Hospitals and Yerkes Primate Research Center. He will oversee major gifts, prospect development, and alumni activities, and manage the efforts of development officers working in the key components of the health sciences center. He comes to Emory from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where he had served for the past two years as associate vice president for major fund development. The National Library of Medicine has selected Molecular Vision, the country's first peer-reviewed life sciences journal published entirely on the World Wide Web, to appear in its highly regarded database of scientific publications. Molecular biologist Jeffrey Boatright, ophthalmology, is the journal's founding editor. William Casarella, chief of radiology, will be president of the American Roentgen Ray Society in the year 2000. Four school of medicine researchers recently won awards from the Faculty Research Commercialization Program, which helps faculty develop commercial products based on their university research. Winning one-year awards of $30,000 to $100,000 were Emory radiation oncologists Ian Crocker and Tim Fox for their new iPlan software designed to help physicians prevent blood vessels from reclosing after angioplasty; neurologist Alan Levey, whose team is developing a diagnostic blood test for Alzheimer's disease; and interventional cardiologist Neal Scott, whose start-up company will manufacture catheters that will allow physicians to treat arteries of all sizes. Penny Castellano, medical director of Emory Clinic North, has served as interim chief medical officer of primary care for Emory Healthcare since William Winkenwerder left Emory in September to take a leadership position in Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Massachusetts. New associate medical directors for primary care are physicians William Aronstein, Richard Gitomer, and Dipak Vashi. Raymond Dingledine, chair of the department of pharmacology, has received a Jacob K. Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. These competitive awards come with a commitment for seven years of support for neurological research. Mary Segars Dolan has been named section chief of primary care at The Emory Clinic. This past June she was named co-editor of Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology. Peggy Duke, associate chief of anesthesiology at Crawford Long Hospital, was recently named the first woman president of the Georgia Society of Anesthesiologists. Erica Frank will be principal investigator of the "Healthy Doc" project, a national study of the effect of encouraging healthy behaviors in medical students in their personal and clinical practices. She also received the Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award from the Rollins School of Public Health. Judith Fridovich-Keil was recently named director of the graduate program in biochemistry, cell, and developmental biology. Randy Hanzlick is now medical examiner for Fulton County. This marks the beginning of a formal relationship between Emory and Fulton County, which has contracted with The Emory Clinic to provide forensic pathology services. The Emory pathologist also recently received the National Association of Medical Examiner's Outstanding Service Award. Robert Horsburgh will chair the Tuberculosis Treatment Consortium, a CDC-funded nationwide 29-site network for clinical research in TB. Bernadette Leite, community outreach coordinator at the Institute for Minority Health Research at the Rollins School of Public Health, received the Jefferson Award for Public Service from the American Institute for Public Service as well as a 1998 11 Alive Community Service Award for her innovative approach to violence prevention. After the shooting death of her son, Khalil, she helped create Kids Alive and Loved, a community initiative aimed at supporting youth survivors of violence. Richard Lewine, recognized nationally for his work in elucidating gender differences in schizophrenia, received the 1998 Mental Health Professional Award from the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill. Alan Lumsden has been appointed chief of vascular surgery at Emory. Urologist Fray Marshall is the first chair of the School of Medicine's new department of urology. Marshall came to Emory in November from Johns Hopkins, where he was division director of adult urology. Donald McCormick chaired a Joint Food and Agriculture Organization/WHO Expert Consultation on Human Vitamin and Mineral Requirements in Thailand. Robert McKeon is president-elect of the Society for Neuroscience, Atlanta chapter. Charles Moran will serve as acting chair of microbiology during the one-year sabbatical of Chair Richard Compans. Fertility specialist Ana Murphy is program director of the Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility Fellowship. Charles Nemeroff chairs the Scientific Advisory Board of the National Depressive and Manic-Depressive Association and will serve a four-year term on the NIH's National Advisory Mental Health Council. Nancy Newman is serving a ten-year term on the Princeton Board of Trustees. Lisa Peacock, director of benign gynecology, received the 1998 Council on Resident Education in Obstetrics and Gynecology National Faculty Award for Excellence in Resident Education. Keith Phillips has been appointed director of the medical school's division of pediatric allergy and immunology. Paul Plotsky, psychiatry, has been named SmithKline Beecham Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Alan Plummer chairs the Medical Association of Georgia's Board of Directors. John Rock has been elected president of the Society of Gynecologic Surgeons. For the second time, Cyril Spann has received the Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics Excellence in Teaching Award. The inaugural John K. Spitznagel Lecture on Antimicrobial Host Defense honored the Emory geneticist, who pioneered research into the genetics and structure of antimicrobial peptides. Earlier this year, the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences awarded a lifetime membership to Spitznagel. |
 John Blohm |
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Crawford Long Hospital's Gerald Staton has been named president of the state board of directors of the American Lung Association. Staton, who is division director of pulmonology at the School of Medicine, was also named 1998 board member of the year. John Steinhaus, anesthesiology professor emeritus, has published Anesthesia Education at Emory, 1958-1985, a history of the department and a personal memoir of his long association with Emory. Emory ophthalmologist Paul Sternberg, director of vitreoretinal surgery and disease at the Emory Eye Center, recently received the Research to Prevent Blindness Lew R. Wasserman Merit Award to further his research into promising treatments for retinal disorders. Gerald Teague is director of respiratory medicine in the School of Medicine. Rajeshwar Tekmal, associate professor of gynecology and obstetrics, has been appointed to a four-year term with the National Institutes of Health's Reproductive and Endocrinology Study Section, Center for Scientific Review. Geriatrician Joyce Tenover is a new member of the NIH's Geriatrics and Rehabilitative Medicine Study Section. |
 Gerald Staton |
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Stephen Thomas, associate professor in the school of public health, has been selected by US Surgeon General David Satcher to join a panel of experts charged with improving understanding of how to eliminate racial and ethnic disparities in health status among US citizens. The Atlanta Business Chronicle in July recognized several medical school faculty and alumni as "Health Care Heroes." Included were cardiologist Nanette Wenger and Sickle Cell Director James Eckman. Neurology Chair Mahlon DeLong was a finalist in the "Health Care Innovations" category, and cardiologist and former Chair of Medicine Willis Hurst was nominated in the "Lifetime Achievement" category. DeLong was also honored at the inaugural Celebration of Hope dinner of the Huntington's Disease Society of America - along with neurologists Steven Hersch and Timothy Greenamyre - for commitment to movement disorders research and treatment. Louis Wilson, professor of ophthalmology at Emory for 25 years, died August 28 of pulmonary fibrosis. Wilson's extraordinary career included international recognition for his work in corneal/external disease, ocular microbiology, and contact lenses. He served for 18 years as medical director of the Georgia Lions Eye Bank and was instrumental in organizing the country's first national computer service for the placement of corneal tissue for transplantation. Among his many professional honors, he is to date the only American ever to win the prestigious William MacKenzie Medal from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons. |
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