Congratulations to these BIDMC staff on their accomplishments.

Harry Bauer, M.D., BID-Needham, was honored by that hospital’s board of trustees for his nearly 50 years as an internist with a subspecialty in cardiovascular disease. Bauer is the former chief of medicine and president of the medical staff at BID-Needham, and former director of medical education and coordinator for medical students’ teaching programs. Bauer was also named Community Clinician of the Year by the Massachusetts Medical Society’s Charles River Division.

Bruce Bistrian, M.D., Ph.D., internal medicine and primary care, received the 2004 Joseph B. Goldberger Award in Clinical Nutrition from the American Medical Association.

Rafael Campo, M.D., general medicine, was inducted into the Gold Humanism Honor Society. Campo also gave a closing keynote lecture at a conference at the University College in London and a reading for the annual endowed Starr Lecture at Vassar College.

BIDMC received a $50,000 grant from the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation to help uninsured hospital-based patients transition to primary care providers at community health centers, in light of the new Critical Access regulation of the MA Division of Health Care Finance and Policy. BIDMC-affiliated Joseph M. Smith Community Health Center received $20,000 for outreach, enrollment and coverage retention for the uninsured. Another BIDMC affiliate, Fenway Community Health, received $15,000 to expand outreach to MassHealth patients and streamline financial assistance services for low-income patients.

Boston MedFlight was named program of the year by the Association of Air Medical Services and achieved full accreditation from the Commission on Accreditation of Medical Transport Systems for meeting the commission’s most rigorous best-practice standards. Boston MedFlight is an independent, non-profit organization created in 1985 by BIDMC and six other Boston hospitals.

CareGroup Health Care Systems, BIDMC’s parent company, was rated among the top 50 U.S. innovators in information technology by CMP Media LLC’s Information Week 500, a prestigious listing of the most innovative users of information technology in the nation. CareGroup ranked #1 among state health and hospital systems. CareGroup was also named both one of the “Most Wired” and one of the “Most Wireless” U.S. health and hospital systems by the 2004 Most Wired Survey and Bench-marking Study, released by Hospitals & Health Networks Magazine.

Charles Day, M.D., orthopaedic surgery, was appointed to the Young Physicians Section of the American Medical Association by the American Society for Surgery of the Hand.

Thomas L. Delbanco, M.D., general medicine, was a visiting professor at NYU School of Medicine and gave a grand rounds lecture entitled “Through the Patient’s Eyes: Time, Secrets, and Flickering Screens.” He also gave a teleconference for the Scottsdale Institute on “Patients and Clinicians: Joint Owners of a Fully Transparent, Electronic Medical Record” and a kick-off address at Partners, where they are evaluating a PatientSite-equivalent called Patient Gateway.

Armin Ernst, M.D., interventional pulmonology, was listed as a top doctor in pulmonology in Castle Connolly’s 2004 edition of Top Doctors in America. Physicians are nominated by their colleagues for inclusion.

Sara B. Fazio, M.D., general medicine, was named chair of the Curriculum Committee for the Clerkship Directors in Internal Medicine (CDIM).

Mita Goel, M.D., M.P.H., general medicine, presented her project examining “Immigration, Obesity and Clinician about Diet and Exercise” at the plenary session of Midwestern Society of General Internal Medicine. As a result of her work and that of her division colleagues, Christina Wee, M.D., M.P.H., Ellen McCarthy, Ph.D., and Russell S. Phillips, M.D., all of general medicine, Goel won the Best Trainee Abstract Award, the highest honor for a fellow’s research abstract.

Ary L. Goldberger, M.D., cardiovascular disease, with Albert C.C. Yang, M.D., and C.K. Peng, Ph.D., were joint recipients of the Fifteenth Calvin & Rose G. Hoffman Prize for their submission. “The Marlowe-Shakespeare Authorship Debate: Approaching an Old Problem with New Methods.” The Calvin & Rose G. Hoffman Marlowe Memorial Trust, which awards the prize, is a charity dedicated to research into the life and work of Christopher Marlowe.

John Halamka, M.D., information systems, was named one of the “2004 Power 50” by Network World magazine, a national list of information technology leaders.

Grace Huang, M.D., general medicine and Shapiro Institute, recently assumed a formal leadership role in representing computer-based patient simulation programs around the country to the Association of American Medical Colleges in the context of its partnership with Health Education Assets Library.

Ted J. Kaptchuk, O.M.D., general medicine, presented the keynote address on cross-cultural education at a conference at Shanghai University of Traditional Medicine, Shanghai, China.

Lissa Kapust, DriveWise, spoke and presented the DriveWise program at a major conference sponsored by the VA Hospital (Bedford) called “Giving Older Drivers the Green Light: Assessing and Managing Aging-Related Risks.”

A proposal by Principal Investigator Gila R. Kriegel, M.D., general medicine, and general medicine co-investigators Russell S. Phillips, M.D., David P. Delaney, M.D., and Saul N. Weingart, M.D., Ph.D., titled “Designing a Computerized System for Follow-up of Abnormal Cancer Screening Tests” was accepted for funding by the Risk Management Foundation and Healthcare Research Safety Institute. The project will develop a computer-based system that will track follow-up tests and remind physicians when follow-up has not been completed.

Margot Kruskall, M.D., blood banking/transfusion medicine pathology, received the President’s Award from the American Association of Blood Banks.

Bruce E. Landon, M.D., M.B.A., general medicine, was asked to serve on the Tufts Health Plan Expert Panel to assist in the development of their tiering system for physicians.

Anna Legedza, Sc.D., general medicine, presented at the 2004 Joint Statistical Meeting in Toronto on “Confidence Intervals for Duan et al’s Two-Step Expenditure Estimation Method in the Presence of Weights.” The work was co-authored by Christina Wee, M.D., M.P.H., and Roger B. Davis, Sc.D., both of general medicine.

Sidney Levitsky, M.D., cardiothoracic surgery, BIDMC, and David W. and David Cheever Professor of Surgery at HMS, received the 2004 Surgery Mentoring Award from the American Heart Association.

Joseph M. Li, M.D., R.Ph., and David B. Feinbloom, M.D., both of general medicine, provided a session panel at HealthMart 2004 called “Process Improvement/Reducing Medical Errors.”

Howard Libman, M.D., general medicine, was appointed as a member of the HMS Admissions Committee. Libman was also named to the Editorial Advisory Board of the Indian Journal of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprology, and made faculty of the regional AIDS Training Center & Network for India.

Jill London, R.D., L.D.N., nutrition services, received the 2004 Preceptor Award. London was chosen from over 40 preceptors as the most proactive in educating dietetic interns in a positive and challenging manner.

Harvey Makadon, M.D., general medicine, was awarded the first Michael Tye Leadership Award for his support of Fenway Community Health (FCH). The award recognizes Makadon’s work to develop a strong relationship between FCH and BIDMC, and his leadership in improving medical care for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. Makadon recently became director of professional education and development at FCH. He was also made a visiting professor at Sri Ramachandra Medical Centre and Research Institute in Chennai, India.

Marie McCormick, M.D., neonatology, received the David Rall Medal in honor of her work as chair of the Institute of Medicine Immunization Safety Review Committee.

Murray Mittleman, M.D., cardiology, and Ken Mukamal, M.D., M.P.H., general medicine, received a grant from the National Institutes of Health to support the “Tea’s Effects on Atherosclerosis (TEA) Pilot Study.”

Mark A. Peppercorn, M.D., gastroenterology, was selected to deliver the 2004 Ginzburg-Oppenheimer lecture, “Advances in the Drug Therapy for Inflammatory Bowel Disease,” at Mt. Sinai Medical Center in New York.

Russell S. Phillips, M.D., general medicine, and general medicine co-investigators Roger B. Davis, Sc.D., Mary B. Hamel, M.D., M.P.H, Gloria Y. Yeh, M.D., M.P.H., David M. Eisenberg, M.D., and Ted Kaptchuk, O.M.D., with Ary L. Goldberger, M.D., cardiovascular disease, and Ellen McCarthy, Ph.D., general medicine, received a National Institutes of Health grant for the study, “Tai Chi for Patients with Heart Failure.”

Jennifer E. Potter, M.D., general medicine, was accepted to present her workshop entitled “Female Sexual Function: Assessing Satisfaction and Addressing Problems,” at the Society of General Internal Medicine 28th Annual Meeting.

Eileen E. Reynolds, M.D., general medicine, was a visiting professor at Legacy Health System in Portland, Oregon, and gave five talks during her three-day visit.

David M. Rind, M.D., general medicine, was inducted into the American Medical Informatics Association by the votes of fellows and international associates.

Joyce A. Sackey, M.D., general medicine, was one of four speakers invited to participate in the first annual Great Issues in Medicine and Global Medicine Symposium, co-sponsored by Dartmouth College and Dartmouth Medical School.

Daniel Z. Sands, M.D., M.P.H., general medicine, spoke at the Emerging Technology in Healthcare Innovations Conference in Washington, D.C. about the benefits of electronic prescribing to patients, physicians and payors. He was also an invited expert at the National Health Information Infrastructure meeting in Washington, D.C.

Steven C. Schachter, M.D., neurology, was presented with the Soundararajan Endowment Lecture Award at the World Epilepsy Day Symposium in Chennai, India. He was also the keynote speaker and guest of honor.

Gerald Smetana, M.D., general medicine, directed a CME course for Harvard Medical International in Lucerne, Switzerland, entitled “Advances in Cardiology: Prevention, Diagnosis, and Treatment.” Earlier this year he gave talks on hypertension and preoperative cardiac evaluation for “Update and Intensive Review of Internal Medicine” (CME) at Columbia University in New York City, and a video conference lecture entitled “History Taking in Primary Headache Diagnoses” to Medical Grand Rounds at Sri Ramachandra Medical School in Madras, India.

C. Christopher Smith, M.D., general medicine, was promoted to assistant professor at HMS.

Anjala V. Tess, M.D., general medicine, lectured at the American Osteopathic Association Medical Education Leadership Conference on “Building a Patient Safety Curriculum for Residents: A Blueprint for Educators.” Tess also ran a workshop at the conference on creating a patient safety curriculum for residents.

Fredericka Veikley, research finance, was honored at a public ceremony by Boston Mayor Thomas Menino and city residents for spearheading the development of Ramler Park in the west Fenway neighborhood. Veikley convinced a local landowner to donate land for the park.

Simcha Weller, M.D., and Julian Wu, M.D., both of neurosurgery, were recognized as Boston’s Top Doctors by the Center for the Study of Services, based on physician surveys. The awards were published in Boston Consumers’ Checkbook.

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