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WILLIAM
CASARELLA,
professor and former chair of the Department of Radiology,
Emory University School of Medicine (SOM), received the 2005
Gold Medal from the American Roentgen Ray Society, the nation’s
oldest radiology society. The Gold Medal is the society’s
highest honor, given to reflect a lifetime of achievement
in the field.
Emeritus Presidential
Distinguished Professor of International Health, WILLIAM
FOEGE, Rollins School of Public Health (RSPH), has
received the most prestigious award given by the National
Academy of Sciences, its Public Welfare Medal. Established
in 1914, the medal is presented annually to honor extraordinary
use of science for the public good. The academy chose Foege
for his dedication to eradicating global disease and his leadership
in redefining the scope of public health policy in the United
States. Foege also received additional recognition this spring
as the recipient of the Thomas Francis Jr. Medal in Global
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Geneticist PENG JIN has received
a Beckman Young Investigator award from the Arnold and Mabel
Beckman Foundation of California. This award helps provide
research support to the most promising young
faculty members in the early stages of their academic careers
in the chemical and life
sciences.
SUNIL KRIPALANI, assistant director
for research in the hospitalist program at Grady Memorial
Hospital, received the Society of Hospital Medicine’s
2005 Young Investigator Award. The society is a national group
of physicians whose primary focus is the care of hospitalized
patients. The award recognizes Kripalani for his outstanding
achievements and promise as a young researcher in
hospital medicine.
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Emory
urologist MUTA ISSA
has been awarded the prestigious Ellis Island
Medal of Honor. The award recognizes Americans of diverse
origins for their outstanding personal and professional contributions
to the United States. The Ellis Island Medals of Honor are
sanctioned by Congress, and recipients’ names are listed
in the Congressional Record.
Issa pioneered radiofrequency
thermal therapy for disorders of the prostate and was the
first urologist in the United Stated to perform the procedure
in 1994.
RICHARD LEVINSON, professor and
executive associate dean, RSPH, received the 2005 Thomas Jefferson
Award presented annually by the student body to an administrator
or faculty member for significant service in the areas of
teaching, scholarship, university advancement, community service,
and work with students.
ELIZABETH
HALLORAN,
RSPH, has been appointed to a four-year term on the National
Institutes of Health’s study section on biostatistical
methods and research design.
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BHAGIRATH
MAJMUDAR,
professor of pathology and associate professor of gynecology/obstetrics,
received the Evangeline Papageorge Distinguished Teaching
Award for 2005. The award, which was established in 1993 by
the Emory Medical Alumni Association to recognize excellence
in medical education, is one of the most prestigious awards
presented by the medical school.
Nursing professor LYNDA NAURIGHT
has been elected president of the Georgia Nurses
Foundation, an nonprofit, philanthropic organization related
to the Georgia Nurses Association.
Nursing professor KATHY PARKER
has been appointed to the Institute of Medicine Committee
on Sleep Medicine and Research, an influential advisory body
in the burgeoning field of sleep studies. She is the only
nurse to serve on the 15-member, multidisciplinary committee.
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Health
literacy expert RUTH PARKER Ruth
Parker has been appointed to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s
Non-Prescription Drug Advisory Committee. The committee is
responsible for providing recommendations on whether current
prescription drugs should be sold as over-the-counter drugs
without a prescription. She will serve on the 12-member committee
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Radiology
professor KAY VYDARENY received
the Gold Medal of the American College of Radiology for her
lifetime of leadership in the field of diagnostic radiology.
Vydareny is past president of the Association of University
Radiologists, the American College of Radiology, the American
Association of Women Radiologists, and the American Roentgen
Ray Society.
Emory nursing student REBECCA WHEELER
has been elected president of the 45,000-member National Student
Nurses Association (NSNA), out-polling two other candidates
to become the group’s first female president in five
years. As one of her first official duties as president, she
represented the NSNA at the annual meeting of the International
College of Nurses in Taipei, Taiwan in May.
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Emergency medicine physician TAMMIE
QUEST has earned board certification in hospice and
palliative care medicine from the American Board of Hospice
and Palliative Medicine. Quest is only the third full-time,
practicing emergency physician in the country to achieve board
certification in this area, and she is the only physician
at Grady Memorial Hospital to do so.
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Emergency medicine professor DONALD
STEIN Donald Stein has been appointed to serve on the
National Advisory Child Health and Human Development Council
for a four-year term. The 17-member advisory
council serves the National Institute of
Child Health and Human Development, a branch of the National
Institutes of Health. Stein is the first Emory faculty member
within the past two decades to be appointed to this council.
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Pathologist SHARON WEISS, vice
chair of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
has been nominated by U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson as a Georgia
Local Legend for her contributions to the health of the state’s
citizens. The honor is bestowed on women physicians who are
recognized by their congressional representatives for demonstrating
“commitment, originality, innovation, or creativity”
in their specialties.
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Former
assistant professor of medicine TAMI
FISK, 39,
died of melanoma on March 4, in Colorado. Fisk
held a faculty appointment in the Division of
Infectious Diseases and practiced at the Travel
Well Clinic at Emory Crawford Long Hospital. She
was known for her work in global health, spending
time teaching mid-level health practitioners and
village health workers in China before accepting
a fellowship in infectious diseases at Emory.
One of her last projects was traveling to Thailand
as a visiting scientist in collaboration with
that country’s Ministry of Public Health
and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
THOMAS FULMER, 79,
former chief of psychiatry at the Atlanta Veterans
Affairs Medical Center, died February 27 of complications
of Parkinson’s disease. A veteran of World
War II, Fulmer was a pioneer in the diagnosis
and treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder
in veterans.
ROBERT GUNN, 65, professor
and chair of the Physiology Department at Emory
University School of Medicine, died on June 26
of lymphoma. Gunn came to Emory in 1981 and served
as chair for more than 23 years. He directed the
MD/PhD program for 13 years and the Fellowships
in Research and Science Teaching until his death.
Gunn was an internationally recognized authority
on the molecular mechanisms of ion transport across
cell membranes. He received the Kenneth Cole Award
for his work on anion transport across red blood
cells and just days before his death was awarded
the 2006 Distinguished Service Award by the Biophysical
Society.
EUGENE STEAD, 96,
died at his home on June 12. Stead received both
his undergraduate and medical degrees from Emory
University and returned to become a medical professor
and the youngest chair of the Department of Medicine
in 1942. He was named dean of the School of Medicine
in 1946 but left after one year to become a professor
of medicine and chair of the Department of Medicine
at Duke University, a position he held for 20
years. Stead is considered a founder of the physician
assistant (PA) profession, starting the first
formal PA education program at Duke in 1965. By
coincidence, National PA Day is celebrated each
year on his birthday, October 6.
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