The Emory Medical Care Foundation Research Committee has awarded one-year research grants up to $25,000 to 11 medical school faculty, who spend at least 50% of their time at Grady: Rony Adam, gynecology and obstetrics; Charles Harper, Harold King, and Brita Lundberg, medicine; Mario Mosunjac, pathology; Athena Kourtis, pediatrics; and Marietta Collins, Glen Egan, Stephen McDaniel, Susan Reviere, and Geraldine Scheller-Gilkey, psychiatry and behavioral sciences. Claudia Adkinson, the School of Medicine's executive associate dean for administration and faculty affairs, has been named the Emory Women's Center 2000 Unsung Heroine in the administration category.

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In Tricking and Tripping: Prostitution in the Era of AIDS (Social Change Press, 2000), RSPH professor of behavioral sciences and health education Claire Sterk takes readers into the taboo world of prostitution in Atlanta and New York.

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Urologist James Bennett is featured in The Best Medicine (St. Martin's Press, 1999) -- histories of doctors and patients who worked together to face health challenges. Phil Brachman, professor, international health, Rollins School of Public Health (RSPH), received the American Public Health Association Abraham Lilienfeld Award for excellence in teaching epidemiology during his career. Disproportionate health problems among African-Americans are addressed in Building Health Coalitions in the Black Community (Sage Publications, 2000), co-authored by Ronald Braithwaite, RSPH professor of behavioral sciences and health education. Sheryl Heron, emergency medicine, serves on a new Institute of Medicine committee that focuses on training health professionals to detect and refer victims of family or acquaintance violence. Emory psychologist Nadine Kaslow is training to be a leader in primary care public policy through a yearlong fellowship sponsored by the Health Resources and Services Administration of the Department of Health and Human Services. Lisa Lepine is one of 20 scholars selected for the Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics/Solvay Pharmaceuticals Educational Scholars Development Program. Timothy Mapstone is the new chief of neurosurgery at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston and chief of pediatric neurosurgery at Emory School of Medicine. Una Newman, director of marketing for Emory Healthcare, is on the board of the Founders Council for the Alliance for Healthcare Strategy and Marketing. Monica Parker, medical director of the Emory Clinic at Social Circle, received the Walton Tribune Reader's Choice Award for best health care provider.

Emory faculty will have a conduit into national research policy with the election of Robert Rich as president-elect of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB). Representing more than 60,000 scientists, FASEB is the nation's largest coalition of biomedical research associations and one of the most influential scientific organizations in the world. While representing FASEB, Rich, who is executive associate dean for research and strategic initiatives in medicine, will look for new opportunities to support research at Emory and enhance Emory's national image as a place where important research is happening. He also wants to improve the quality of the research partnership between the federal government and universities. Nursing Dean Marla Salmon is a founding member of the editorial advisory board for Nursing and Health Policy Review. She also was named to the editorial board of the Journal of Nursing Scholarship. As the new assistant vice president for research and director of the Office of Technology Transfer, Mary Severson will manage the rapidly expanding effort to help Emory scientists move their discoveries from the laboratory to the marketplace.

Robert Rich will lead FASEB, one of the most influential scientific organizations in the world.

Douglas Wallace, director of the Emory Center for Molecular Medicine, was one of three winners of Metropolitan Life Foundation's highest awards for medical research in Alzheimer's disease. Medicine fellow Daiana Weiss was one of 12 research scientists to receive the fifth annual AstraZeneca Cardiovascular Young Investigators Award for work in basic science. Atlanta Women in Law and Medicine presented its Shining Star Award to cardiologist Nanette Wenger for her contributions to cardiology and women's health issues. She is also the first recipient of the Council on Clinical Cardiology's Women in Cardiology Mentoring Award.

In Memory Richard Blumberg, Francis Winship Walters professor of pediatrics, emeritus, died January 26. As the first full-time chair of the department of pediatrics, he grew a small group of volunteer faculty to more than 50 full-time pediatric subspecialists serving three hospitals. He also started Emory's pediatrics residency program. Alan Stoudemire, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and prolific author, died February 2 after a long struggle with cancer. Among his many accomplishments was a program on ethics and care in older adults and the dying. He was lead editor of the second edition of the international standard reference, Psychiatric Care of the Medical Patient (Oxford University Press, 1999).

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