Fellows / Mentors

Charles Andrews, associate vice president for space planning and construction, WHSC / Frank Stout, vice president for research, Emory

Arnold Barros, director, anesthesia services, Emory Hospitals / Shari Capers, director, strategic planning, Emory Healthcare

Erica Dian Brownfield, co-director, medicine clerkship, SOM / Stuart Zola, director, Yerkes

Elizabeth Clark-Morrison, associate general counsel, Emory / Robert Rich, executive associate dean for research and strategic initiatives, SOM

Patricia Fraley, director, Center for Rehabilitation Medicine, Emory Hospitals / Rein Saral, director, The Emory Clinic

Mary Galinski, infectious diseases, Yerkes / Sylvia Wrobel, associate vice president, health sciences communications, WHSC

Richard Gitomer, medical director, primary care, The Emory Clinic / Claudia Adkison, executive associate dean for administration and faculty affairs, SOM

Lucky Jain, neonatology, SOM / Tom Gordon, associate director, scientific programs, Yerkes

Marlene Kelley, chair, family and community nursing, SON / John Fox, president and CEO, Emory Healthcare

Fadlo Raja Khuri, medical director, Winship Cancer Institute; hematology, SOM / Bob Bachman, senior associate administrator, Emory Hospitals; COO, Emory University Hospital

Christian Larsen, director, Emory Transplant Center / Jeff Koplan, vice president for academic health affairs and associate director, WHSC

Douglas Lowery, medical director, Emergency Department, Emory University Hospital / Kent Alexander, senior vice president and general counsel, Emory

Margery McKay, director of major gifts, corporations and foundations, WHSC / Jim Curran, dean, RSPH

Ana Murphy, director, reproductive endocrinology and infertility, SOM / Marla Salmon, dean, SON

Kathy Parker, director, Center for Study of Symptoms, Symptom Interactions, and Health Outcomes, SON / John Henry, CEO, Emory Hospitals

Jesse Roman, director, pulmonology, SON / Al Blackwelder, senior associate administrator, Emory Hospitals; COO, Emory Crawford Long Hospital

Ron Sauder, director, media relations, health sciences communications, WHSC / Ronnie Jowers, vice president for health affairs and CFO, Emory Healthcare

Daniel Smith, chief, general and GI surgery, SOM / John Temple, executive vice president and COO, Emory University

Lance Waller, biostatistics, RSPH / Jane Jordan, chief health counsel and associate general counsel, Emory University

Roseanne Waters, program director, health policy and management, RSPH / Don Brunn, COO, The Emory Clinic

With the help of Data Description Inc., an educational multimedia development firm, Kleinbaum developed the electronic textbook to bring epidemiology to people at all levels of experience -- from medical students and researchers to public health professionals in the developing world. The CD-ROM and its companion text can be used in on-campus courses, distance learning programs, or for self-paced learning. Several RSPH professors plan to incorporate ActivEpi and its companion text into their classes. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which helped fund the development of ActivEpi, will use it to help train public health professionals in the United States and abroad.

In his book Does Stress Damage the Brain? Understanding Trauma-Related Disorders from a Neurological Perspective, Douglas Bremner draws on 10 years of research, reflection, and observations as a clinical psychiatrist. The director of the Center for Positron Emission Tomography also heads mental health research at the Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center.

The Institute for Scientific Information recognized pharmacologist Raymond Dingledine as among the top 1% of cited researchers in both neuroscience and pharmacology in the past decade.

Founding director of the Division of Medical Genetics, Louis Elsas, has retired from his 32-year career at Emory to join the University of Miami as the director of a new center for medical genetics.

Nathan Flacker, chief of geriatrics at Grady, was key in organizing the Aging Atlanta partnership, which was recently awarded one of 13 Robert Wood Johnson Community Partnerships for Older Adults grants. The goal of this academic, community, business, and governmental partnership is to improve Atlanta's long-term care delivery systems and increase understanding of the impact of an aging society.

Emory Eye Center ophthalmologist Enrique Garcia-Valenzuela is one of 10 inaugural Jahnigen Career Development Scholars. Garcia-Valenzuela's proposal, "Stem Cell Therapy for Age-Related Retinal Disease," won one of the program's competitive two-year, $200,000 awards.

The W. M. Keck Foundation has named pharmacologist Randy Hall as the 2002 Keck Distinguished Young Scholar in Medical Research. The award includes a $1 million grant over five years to the School of Medicine to support Hall's research on neurotransmitters and hormone receptors in the brain and cardiovascular systems.

Debra Houry, assistant professor, emergency medicine, and associate director of the Center for Injury Control, received the American Public Health Association's 2002 Jay Drotman Award.

Emory physicians Christopher Iverson, Natalie Levy, and Nomi Traub have established a hepatitis C clinic at Grady to educate and treat patients diagnosed with this chronic liver disease.

Michael Johns, executive vice president for health affairs, now chairs the board of directors of the Association of Academic Health Centers.

Fadlo Raja Khuri has joined Emory as associate director for clinical and translational research for the Winship Cancer Institute (WCI). The internationally recognized investigator will oversee coordination of basic science research with clinical applications throughout the WCI.

Thomas Insel, former director of the Center for Behavioral Neuroscience at Emory, now leads the National Institute of Mental Health.

Medicine Dean Thomas Lawley was honored by Canisius College with the 2002 Distinguished Alumni Award for outstanding career achievement and by the State University of New York at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences with the 2002 Distinguished Medical Alumnus Award.

Jack Mandel is the new chair of epidemiology in the Rollins School of Public Health and has a joint appointment to the Winship Cancer Institute.

Reynaldo Martorell, chair, international health, RSPH, and Charles Nemeroff, chair, psychiatry and behavioral sciences in the School of Medicine, are among the new class of 65 leading figures in the health sciences announced by the Institute of Medicine (IOM). Members study issues such as microbial threats to health, protection of human subjects in research studies, and the consequences of not having health insurance for both individuals and society.

Other Emory IOM members include James Curran, dean, RSPH; William Foege, presidential distinguished professor of international health; Michael Johns, executive vice president for health affairs; Arthur Kellermann, director of emergency medicine; Jeffrey Koplan, vice president of academic affairs; Mark Rosenberg, executive director of the Task Force for Child Survival; Marla Salmon, dean of the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing; Luella Klein, Charles Howard Candler Professor of obstetrics and gynecology; and Asa Yancey, former associate dean of the School of Medicine and former medical director of Grady Hospital.

The IOM's Committee on Health Literacy has selected associate professor of medicine and Grady internist Ruth Parker as one of its 12 members. The committee will examine how health illiteracy prevents many people from identifying and receiving appropriate health care when needed.

Rebecca Pentz, professor of hematology and oncology research ethics at the Winship Cancer Institute, was appointed to the American Society of Clinical Oncology Ethics Committee.

Physician assistant Allan Platt, program coordinator at the Georgia Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center at Grady and clinical instructor in Emory's physician assistant program, co-authored Hope and Destiny: A Patient's and Parent's Guide to Sickle Cell Disease and Sickle Cell Trait, along with New York physician Alan Sacerdote. Other contributors from Emory were physicians James Eckman, Lewis Hsu, and Melanie Jacob.

In his latest book, Your Body, Your Health, Emory physician Neil Shulman advises consumers on how to get the most out of a doctor's visit and encourages patients to become partners with their doctors. The book is co-authored by local physician Rowena Sobczyk.

Shanthi Sitaraman, digestive diseases, received a Regal Award sponsored by Johnson and Johnson in recognition of excellence in research related to intestinal inflammation.

Nanette Wenger, chief of cardiology, Grady Memorial Hospital, chaired the National Institutes of Health Expert Panel and was senior editor of the monograph Women's Health and Menopause: A Comprehensive Approach. The monograph says there is no definitive evidence-based rationale to recommend hormone replacement therapy for the prevention of coronary heart disease and that HRT has not been consistently linked to stroke protection, as previously believed.

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New picture of health

Big idea on a nanoscale

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On point:
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