Environmentalist, philanthropist, media mogul, and sportsman Ted Turner received the Woodruff Medal for his contributions fighting the world's increasing health and environmental problems. As the featured Future Makers Lecturer in February, Turner called for the "same kind of commitment to environmental health that we made to get to the moon or to fight the Germans. If we fail . . . we deserve to be a short-lived species." Emory trustee David Allen was elected to the board of directors of the Georgia Chamber of Commerce. The senior managing partner of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Associates also sits on the boards of the Woodruff Health Sciences Center, Emory Healthcare, Wesley Woods, and the Emory Children's Center. Six physicians and their teams have won the 1999 Physicians Small Grants Program awards of Emory Healthcare's Clinical Integration Steering Committee: Wayne Blount, family and preventive medicine, (improved screening for diabetic retinopathy); Donald Davis, primary care, (pharmacist-directed anticoagulation clinic); anesthesiologist Beverly Gregory (surgical antimicrobial prophylaxis); Amelia Langston, medicine/hematology/oncology (improving transitions in care for autologous stem cell transplant patients); neurologist David Hewitt (improving patient satisfaction and clinical outcomes by implementing a comprehensive headache questionnaire); cardiologist Andrew Smith, medical director, Center for Heart Failure Therapy, (effects of early education in the hospitalized congestive heart failure population). Scott Boden received the Young Investigator Award from the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. Donna Carson, who heads Project Prevent at Grady Hospital, was among 10 women recognized at the Children's Legacy Luncheon in Atlanta for her contribution to the health and well-being of children. Elliot Chaikof, assistant professor of surgery, has been appointed director of the Vascular Biology Research Unit. The American Society for Cell Biology named Robert DeHaan as the first recipient of the Bruce Alberts Award for Science Education in recognition of an innovative science program he developed to make science education exciting and relevant for elementary school students. Ralph DiClemente, chair of behavioral sciences and health education at the Rollins School of Public Health, is the Society for Adolescent Medicine's 1999 Organon Visiting Professor in Adolescent Health Research. Kathy Griendling, associate research professor of medicine, is a member of the Experimental Cardiovascular Sciences Study Section of the NIH's Center for Scientific Review. Emory Hospitals CEO John Henry is serving another two-year term on the board of directors of the Georgia Hospital Association and was re-elected to the board of the Georgia Chamber of Commerce. Michael Johns, executive vice president for health affairs of the Woodruff Health Sciences Center, is on a blue-ribbon committee charged with a worldwide search for a new editor of JAMA. And Georgia Trend named Johns as one of the 100 most powerful and influential Georgians. Harry Keyserling chairs the Infectious Disease Committee of the Georgia Chapter of the American Board of Pediatrics and the Georgia DHR Vaccine Registry Advisory Committee. Athena Kourtis has won the 1999 Young Investigator's Award of the American Academy of Microbiology for her work on pediatric immunology and HIV/AIDS. Arthur Kellermann has been named chair of the new department of emergency medicine. Transplant surgeons Chris Larsen and Tom Pearson and a team of Emory investigators, including Fadi Lakkis of the Veterans Administration Medical Center and Rafi Ahmed of the Emory Vaccine Center, have received a five-year, $7.5-million NIH grant to continue their research on establishing true immune tolerance in patients who receive organ transplants. The Winter 1999 issue of Emory Medicine features their research in its cover story. Andre Nahmias received the Bristol Myers Corporation's Bristol Award for outstanding scientific contribution to biomedical research. Alan Otsuki is the new director of the medical school's office of continuing medical education and biomedical media. Professor Sampath Parthasarathy received the 1998 Special Recognition Award from the Council on Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology. The medical school's new office of postdoctoral education is directed by Susan Rich, who arrived at Emory last fall from Baylor College of Medicine.

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Abraham Rosenberg, psychiatry and behavioral sciences, is guest professor at the University of Kiel, Germany, where he is working with four independent laboratories on the fundamentals of neuron development in fetal alcohol syndrome. Chris Stock, chief of anesthesia services at Emory Hospital, is president-elect of the Association of Anesthesia Clinical Directors. Alan Stoudemire will receive the American Psychiatric Association's Seymour Vestermark Award as 1999's outstanding psychiatric educator. Assistant nursing professor Laura Strange received the 1998 Wyeth-Ayerst Section Award from the Association of Women's Health, Obstetric, and Neonatal Nurses, Georgia Chapter, for promoting nursing practices that improve the health care of women and newborns. Dale Strasser is now chair of the medical school's department of rehabilitation medicine. Andrew Yeager was co-organizer for the Third International Congress on Pediatric Transplantation and has been appointed associate editor of the Journal of Pediatric Transplantation.

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