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staff on their achievements:

The following faculty members from BIDMC were nominated for the 2003-2004 Excellence in Mentoring Award, given by Harvard Medical School:

Carol Bates, M.D., medicine
Lewis C. Cantley, Ph.D., medicine
Jonathan F. Critchlow, M.D., surgery
Douglas P. Kiel, M.D., medicine
Daniel Levy, M.D., medicine
John B. Pawlowski, M.D., Ph.D., anesthesia
Charalabos Pothoulakis, M.D., medicine
Seward B. Rutkove, M.D., neurology
Helen M. Shields, M.D., medicine
Gerald Smetana, M.D., medicine
Robert S. Stern, M.D., Carl J. Herzog Professor of Dermatology
Mary E. Wilson, M.D., medicine

Tata Agwo, systems integration engineer, information systems, recently published his book, “The Mysterious Virtues of Paul Abanda.” Featuring an introduction by BIDMC’s Senior Vice President of Network Integration, Stanley Lewis, M.D., the book examines how indigenous African tribal cultures influence the formulation of techniques to eradicate HIV/AIDS in that region of the world. Agwo is donating 25 percent of royalties to HIV/AIDS research, education, prevention and treatment. A launch party for the book was held in Boston.

The Bowdoin Street Health Center received an Environmental Merit Award from the Environmental Protection Agency for its exceptional work in the LeadSafeHomes Project, which provides access to a user-friendly Web site to help neighborhood residents assess the danger of lead in their homes, and provides residents with links to resources to help remediate lead-related issues if problems are identified. Bowdoin Street’s Angelo Nogueira Sanca, community health, accepted the award on behalf of the Center. Project partners included Lead Action Collaborative, Dorchester Environmental Health Coalition, National Center for Healthy Homes and ABT Associates. Environmental Merit Award Ceremony

Rafael Campo, M.D., general medicine/Healthcare Associates (HCA), was the doctor of literature honorand at Amherst College Commencement 2004. Campo also gave a plenary talk at a conference at Duke University entitled “Vital Lines, Vital Signs: A Conference on Poetry and Medicine” and was the keynote speaker at Stanford Medical School’s “Medicine and the Muse” Literature, Arts, and Medicine Symposium.

Greg Ciottone, M.D., director, division of international disaster and emergency medicine, was one of two Americans appointed to the faculty of the European Master in Disaster Medicine, for which he will help conduct large-scale disaster exercises in Europe. Ciottone also presented on “History of Disaster Medicine: Lessons for the Future” at a dinner for area emergency medical technicians sponsored by Nashoba Valley Medical Center. Sara Fazio, M.D., general medicine/HCA, was named SGIM (Society of General Internal Medicine) co-chair of the national SGIM/CDIM Core Medicine Clerkship Curriculum Guide Revision Committee, and received the New England SGIM Medical Educator Award at the NE Society of General Internal Medicine Regional Meeting. Fazio was also awarded a grant from the Harvard Medical School Academy to continue work on her assessment reform project for the third year internal medicine clerkship, and was invited to serve on the NIH Consensus Conference on Celiac Sprue.

Greg Fenton, M.D., and Susan Fitzgerald, N.P., medical providers at Sidney Borum Jr. Health Center, and Ediss Gandelman, director of community benefits, received BIDMC’s Gay and Lesbian Achievement Award, given annually for dedication and commitment to providing culturally competent health care, and for creating a welcoming environment for gay, lesbian, bi-sexual and transgender employees and patients.

Pat Folcarelli, R.N., M.A., director of professional practice development, patient care services, earned a Ph.D. from the Steinhardt School of Education’s division of Nursing at New York University. Richard Foran, community health coordinator, Bowdoin Street Health Center, received the first annual Fernando Miranda Award for his work in community organizing and outreach.

Lachlan Forrow, M.D., director, ethics support services, received the Harvard Medical School 2004 AAMC Humanism in Medicine Award for his “dedication to mentoring future physicians and for serving as a pillar upholding the principles of humanism in medicine.” Geoffrey Gilmartin, M.D., pulmonary and critical care, was one of four recipients of a Pickwick Postdoctoral Fellowship in Sleep by the National Sleep Foundation. His fellowship, sponsored by J. Woodrow Weiss, M.D., chief, division of pulmonary and critical care medicine, Harvard Medical School, will help evaluate the effects of sleep-disordered breathing and hypoxia on vascular control mechanisms and insulin sensitivity in patients with OSA in normal human volunteers and in animal models.

John Halamka, M.D., chief medical information officer, received the Computerworld/Smithsonian medal for innovation in education. Hester Hill, L.I.C.S.W., chief of oncology social work, received the 2003 Pat’s Friend Award by the M. Patricia Cronin Foundation to Fight Ovarian Cancer on May 12. The Simmons College School of Social Work also named her the winner of the Harriet Bartlett Award for her book “After Breast Cancer: A Common Sense Guide to Life After Treatment.”

Bruce Landon, M.D., general medicine/HCA, was promoted to associate professor at Harvard Medical School, and received the National SGIM Junior Investigator Award at the Society’s 27th Annual Meeting. Paul Levy, president and CEO, has been named vice chair of the Council of Boston Teaching Hospitals (COBTH), a coalition of Boston’s 12 teaching hospitals.

Joseph Li, M.D., associate director, hospitalist program, and Nicholas Mitsiades, M.D., house staff, presented a poster at the NE regional meeting of the SGIM entitled “Ulceroglandular Tularemia.” Howard Libman, M.D., general medicine/HCA, became a member of the International Committee of the American Association of HIV Medicine. Libman also presented talks on “Infectious Disease Cases” and “HIV Disease: Essentials for the Primary Care Provider” at PriMed South, HMS Department of Continuing Education.

Harvey Makadon, M.D., led a two-day HIV program in Xian, China, sponsored by Harvard Medical International (HMI), AIDS Clinical Care, the New England Journal of Medicine and the China Medical Tribune. Along with leadership and participation by Makadon, Howard Libman, M.D., general medicine/HCA lectured on “HIV Counseling and Testing.” Non-BIDMC faculty involvement included Keith Henry, M.D., from the University of Minnesota School of Medicine, Raymond Powrie, M.D., from Brown University, and faculty from China. This is the first of what is hoped will be a series of programs in China addressing clinical issues in the prevention and treatment of HIV.

Marjorie Mills, family advocate, Bowdoin Street Health Center, received the Outstanding Outreach Educator Award from the Community Health Education Center (CHEC). The award is given for “dedication, perseverance, resourcefulness and exceptional ability to engage and connect clients to needed services.”

Lawrence Mottley, M.D., emergency medicine, BIDMC/chair of New York State Department of Health’s Trauma Advisory Commitee, was named the New York State Trauma Physician of Distinction, the first emergency medicine physician to achieve the award. This committee has implemented a population-based trauma registry for New York State, and categorizes and verifies trauma centers for approval by the Department of Health.

Ken Mukamal, M.D., M.P.H., general medicine/HCA, received a grant award for “Alcohol and Chronic Disease in Vulnerable Populations” for the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. He will serve as principal investigator of the BIDMC subcontract for the five-year grant. Mukamal also gave a talk at the Hans Fisher Symposium on alcohol at Rutgers University, and was interviewed for an internet (webcast) teaching video entitled “Rethinking the Demographics of Addiction: Helping Older Adults Find Recovery,” sponsored by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

Lori R. Newman, manager, educational programs and curriculum development, general medicine/Carl J. Shapiro Institute for Education and Research, has won the annual Wiczai Award. The award is presented to the administrative staff member who has done the most or contributed most thoughtfully to fostering the educational association between Harvard Medical School’s affiliated institutions and the school. The award was presented at the Faculty Teaching Awards event on May 20.

Russell S. Phillips, M.D., division chief, general medicine/Healthcare Associates, has been named full professor at Harvard Medical School.

Eileen Reynolds, M.D., general medicine/HCA, was appointed to the residency review committee, which is part of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education.

Allison Rosen, M.D., general medicine/HCA, won the Lipkin Award for best abstract presented by a fellow for her SGIM plenary paper, “Medicare First Dollar Coverage of ACE-Inhibitors for Beneficiaries with Diabetes Saves Money and Lives,” showing that first dollar coverage of ACE-inhibitors for patients with diabetes over 65 years of age would save Medicare 9.2 billion dollars over 10 years.

Joyce Sackey, M.D., general medicine/HCA, has assumed the role of coordinator for cultural competency education for the Center of Excellence (CoE) in Women’s Health. As coordinator, Sackey will work with the education leadership of the CoE in Women’s Health in a review of undergraduate curriculum at Harvard Medical School to identify gaps in cultural competence education in women’s health and opportunities to remedy them.

Daniel Sands, M.D., M.P.H., clinical director of EPR and communications, taught five sessions at the annual American College of Physicians meeting in New Orleans. Sands also presented at the University of Miami’s 2004 Conference on Ethics and Health Information Technology on the ethical issue of the use of IT in health care; co-presented a session in New Orleans called “You’ve Been Asked to Give a Presentation - Now What?” for the American Gastroenterology Association’s Digestive Disease Week; and chaired a session on electronic communication in patient care and presented on “Sharing Records with Patients Online” at TEPR (Towards Electronic Patient Records).

Gerald W. Smetana, M.D., general medicine/HCA, gave talks on hypertension and preoperative cardiac evaluation for PriMed in Fort Lauderdale, and received the National SGIM Clinician-Educator Award for Scholarship in Medical Education at the Society’s Annual Meeting. He has been invited to direct a series of CME courses in Switzerland over the next year entitled “Advances in Clinical Practice, Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment,” sponsored by HMI.

Daniel Tarsy, M.D., chief, Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders Center and vice chairman, department of neurology, was invited to give a series of lectures on movement disorders at a Movement Disorders Course and International Botulinum Toxin Workshop in Neurology held at Sri Ramachandra Medical College and Research Institute in Chennai, India. Sri Ramachandra is an affiliate of HMI. He also spoke at the annual meeting of the Massachusetts Neurological Association on “Parkinson’s disease: Is Medical Treatment Still Relevant?”

Anjala V. Tess, M.D., has been awarded a Morgan-Zinsser Academy Fellowship in Medical Education for academic year 2004-2005. Tess will focus on her project entitled, “Hospitalists Collaborating to Enrich Medical Student Education.” The fellowship supports the early career development of junior faculty who have demonstrated excellence in medical education and teaching. In addition, Tess and Sarah Bonkovsky, M.D., medical house staff, had their research poster, “Clinicians’ Perspectives on Work-Hour Restrictions and House Officer Errors” accepted for presentation at the Society of Hospital Medicine annual national meeting.

Lisa Tieszen, L.I.C.S.W., program leader, social work, was the recipient of the “Extraordinary Contributions to Community Victim Services Award” from the Massachusetts Office for Victim’s Assistance. The award was given at the Massachusetts Annual Victim Rights Conference.

Christina Wee, M.D., M.P.H., general medicine/HCA, has been invited to serve on the editorial board of the Journal of Clinical Outcomes Management. Wee also received the New England SGIM Clinical Investigator Award, at the NE SGIM Regional Meeting.

The following staff presented papers at the annual statewide National Association of Social Workers (NASW) symposium:
Hester Hill, L.I.C.S.W., - “Working with Women Who Have Breast Cancer”
Stephen O’Neill, L.I.C.S.W., - “Clinical Ethics and the Interface with Duty to Warn”
Barbara Sarnoff Lee, L.I.C.S.W. - “To See or Not to See: Pregnancy Loss Interventions and Best Practices”
Jay Warren, L.I.C.S.W. - “Mad in America: Rethinking Paradigms of Major Mental Illness”

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