Awards and Honors

Congratulations to these BIDMC staff on their accomplishments. See more announcements on the BIDMC general Web portal.

 

 

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center was selected as a 2005 award winner of the “Solucient 100 Top Hospitals: National Benchmarks for Success,” one of only 15 major teaching hospitals in the country honored. The Solucient study is based on objective measurement in five critical areas: clinical outcomes, patient safety, operational efficiency, financial stability and growth. Winning hospitals display balanced organizational performance – an ability to provide sustainable and reliable health care services to their communities.

2006-2007 Rabkin Fellows
The Carl J. Shapiro Institute for Education and Research is pleased to announce the academic year 2006-2007 Rabkin Fellows in Medical Education. BIDMC physicians Susan Burgin, MD, dermatology; Todd Eisenberg, MD, psychiatry; Diane Sliwka, MD, medicine; and Charles Vollmer, MD, surgery, were selected as fellows, along with Laura Hu, MD, medicine, MGH; and Patricia O’Sullivan, MD, gerontology, Hebrew SeniorLife. Named for Mitchell T. Rabkin, MD, Distinguished Scholar in Residence at the Shapiro Institute, this annual fellowship helps faculty develop expertise in medical education and/or academic administration.

Mary Anne Badaracco, MD, chief of psychiatry, recently gave an address as outgoing president at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Massachusetts Psychiatric Society.

Fifteen community resource specialists have received the Bernice K. Snyder Award for Clinical Excellence in Social Work. As integral members of the social work department and patient care team, these honorees help patients, staff and others in the BIDMC community access health care, financial assistance and other concrete resources. They are:

• Liza Berkowitz
• Colleen Bilello
• Lauren Gabovitch
• Pedro Gonzalez
• Shandon Halland
• Kriss Jacobson
• Amy Lam
• Jeanne McCarthy
• Carolina Nunez
• Jennifer Schwartz
• Andrew Shlesinger
• Terry Smith
• Glady Thomas
• Samantha Tryon
• Andrea Williams

BIDMC was recognized by the AIDS Action Committee of MA for being the “Top Fundraising Hospital Team” for AIDS Walk Boston 2005.

More than 120 physicians affiliated with BIDMC appear on the Best Doctors in America list for 2005-06. Please visit www.bestdoctors.com to view the physicians on this widely respected list.

At the recent meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), Carolyn Bonaceto, RT, R, MR, was elected president-elect of the Section of Magnetic Resonance Technologists, an organization with nearly 2,500 members worldwide.

Matthew Chase, a 15-year-old sophomore at Dover-Sherborn High School, was awarded the President’s Volunteer Service Award from the President’s Council on Service and Civic Participation for his volunteer service at BID-Needham. Board of Trustees Chairman Christoph Hoffmann presented Chase with the award.

The Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology (CIMIT) announced that James Ellsmere, MD, is one of the 2006 CIMIT – Johnson & Johnson Young Clinician Research Award recipients. A minimally invasive surgery fellow, Ellsmere is developing a device to safely access subcutaneous ports to improve the care of patients with laparoscopic adjustable gastric bands. It is expected that the device will also be helpful for patients with other types of ports.

Leonor Fernandez, MD, general medicine and primary care, has been promoted to assistant professor at Harvard Medical School.

Harvey Goldman, MD, vice chairman of pathology, has been awarded the Distinguished Pathologist Award by the U.S. and Canadian Academy of Pathology (USCAP). For nearly 50 years, Goldman has made major contributions to the pathology and gastrointestinal pathology communities in the roles of teacher, author, researcher and chairman.

Julie Graham, a sonography student from Bunker Hill Community College interning at the BIDMC echocardiography laboratory, was awarded the first Vaia Nutter Memorial Scholarship. The laboratory established this award in memory of their long-term sonographer colleague, Vaia Nutter, who died in June 2004.

The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness by Jerome Groopman, MD, chief of experimental medicine, and The Courage Muscle: A Chicken’s Guide to Living With Breast Cancer by BIDMC patient Monique Doyle Spencer, have been named to the list of recommended books for patients and family members by the Pancreatic Cancer Alliance.

Lisa Hartwick, LICSW, participated in “Women, War and Violence,” a Symposium held in March sponsored by the Women’s Studies Department at Northeastern University and the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center.

Stephanie B. Jones, MD, anesthesia, residency program director, and Daniel B. Jones, MD, FACS, chief, section of minimally invasive surgery and director of obesity management and weight loss surgery, have received a grant from the Controlled Risk Insurance Company/Risk Management Foundation (CRICO/RMF) to develop an online bariatric surgery educational module.

Lissa Robins Kapust, LICSW, social work, recently gave a talk following a screening of the film “Iris.” The film chronicles the life of Iris Murdoch, a British novelist suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and her husband/caregiver John Bayley. Kapust spoke about her professional work with patients and caregivers, and highlighted themes, struggles, challenges and opportunities for caregivers.

Seth Karp, MD, surgery/transplantation, and assistant professor of surgery in the division of transplantation, has received the 2006 American Society of Transplant Surgeons Vanguard Prize which recognizes and honors outstanding contributions by its junior members for best papers published within the preceding academic year.

Sarah Keates, PhD, gastroenterology, has received a Research Scholar Award from the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) Institute and its Foundation – the Foundation for Digestive Health and Nutrition – to investigate “Helicobacter Pylori-Mediated Plasminogen Activator Inhibitor-1 (PAI-1) Upregulation in Gastric Carcinogenesis.”

Paul Levy, BIDMC president and CEO, is the co-chair for the Jewish Alliance for Law and Social Action (JALSA) tribute dinner honoring Donald M. Berwick, MD, founder, president, and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI). JALSA is a Boston-based organization committed to protecting civil liberties. Making patient care both effective and equitable are areas of vital concern to IHI and JALSA.

Howard Libman, MD, general medicine and primary care, has been named director of the Vietnam-CDC-HMS AIDS Partnership (VCHAP). Established in 2002, VCHAP’s goal is to train and support Vietnamese clinicians to provide and teach HIV/AIDS care in both urban and rural areas.

William Maisel, MD, MPH, cardiology, received the 2005 Career Development Award. Founded by Stafford Cohen, MD, cardiology, this award is funded by patients and families to support honorees’ research and academic pursuits.

CIO Magazine has selected Larry Markson, MD, director of development in information systems, to receive the 2006 CIO Ones to Watch award. The award recognizes the top 20 “rising stars” in the national IT field, and honorees are considered to be the successors of today’s top CIOs.

Shari Pasley, RN, OR resource nurse for vascular/endovascular surgery, received the “Excellence in Nursing Award” from the New England Regional Black Nurses Association (NERBNA). Awardees from local hospitals were nominated by their peers to recognize contributions to their departments and institutions as well as qualities demonstrating excellence.

Eileen Reynolds, MD, internal medicine, director of graduate medical education for medicine, has been nominated to run for president of the Society of General Internal Medicine. Reynolds and a team of faculty also successfully applied to the Residency Review Committee for Internal Medicine for the “Educational Innovation Project.” Being accepted into the EIP will allow BIDMC to re-engineer ward rotations, putting residents into geographically localized teams focused on improving the quality of patient care. Of 400 internal medicine residency programs in the United States, 77 were eligible to apply and 17 were selected.

Recently elected to the board of managers of the Beth Israel Deaconess Physician Organization (BIDPO) are:

• Stuart A. Rosenberg, MD, CEO of Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians (HMFP) and rheumatologist, elected as president. Rosenberg has been a member of the BIDPO board for nearly two years.

• Stanley M. Lewis, MD, senior vice president for Network Integration and cardiologist, re-elected as vice president

• Jordan Busch, MD, internist, Personal Care Physicians, Inc.,
re-elected as a primary care physician representing Affiliated Physicians, Inc. (API)

• David Campbell, MD, vascular surgeon, re-elected as a specialist, representing API

• Dana Fugelso, MD, general surgeon, re-elected to the board as a specialist representing API

• James Heffernan, MD, medical director of Health Care Associates and internist, re-elected as a representative of HMFP Primary Care

• David Ives, MD, medical director of Affiliated Physicians Group (APG) and internist in Lexington, newly elected representing HMFP Primary Care

• Amy Ship, MD, internist, Health Care Associates, newly elected as a representative of HMFP Primary Care

Joyce Sackey-Acheampong, MD, general medicine and primary care, along with her husband, Kwaku J. Acheampong, ACMA, CPA, were honored in May at the annual Empowerment Breakfast. The couple was recognized for their work in the local community as well as internationally through FAR (Foundation for African Relief). The creator of the Empowerment Breakfast series, Carole Copeland Thomas, is a BIDMC overseer. Sackey was also the subject of an article published in the Winter 2005 issue of Dartmouth Medicine. The article details her childhood in Ghana and traces her career including her international HIV work.

Richard Schwartzstein, MD, pulmonary and critical care medicine, and vice president for education, recently served as a visiting professor at the Imperial College of Medicine in London, England. He gave medical grand rounds at the Brompton Hospital on the topic: “A Clinical Dyspnea Center: Bringing Physiology to the Bedside,” and education grand rounds at the Charing Cross Hospital.

The Colorectal Cancer Screening Advisory Committee recently convened to update and simplify the Controlled Risk Insurance Company/Risk Management Foundation (CRICO/RMF) Colorectal Cancer Screening Algorithm. Helen M. Shields, MD, gastroenterology, is the chairman of the committee and Erin Jospe, MD, internal medicine, is a member of the committee.

At the recent meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) in Seattle, Daniel Sodickson, MD, PhD, was awarded the Society’s Gold Medal for his development of parallel imaging techniques that have revolutionized MRI. He shared the award with Klaas Pruessman of Zurich, Switzerland.

BIDMC is one of seven institutions in the United States participating in HALT PKD, a clinical research study to halt the progression of polycystic kidney disease. Theodore Steinman, MD, nephrology, is the principal investigator of the study.

Terry Strom, MD, internal medicine/nephrology/transplant center, was selected to receive the 2006 Homer Smith Award from the American Society of Nephrology. Established in 1964, this award recognizes one of the major intellectual forces in renal physiology per year.

Jesse L. Wei, MD, radiology, has been named the recipient of a 2006 Massachusetts Medical Society Information Technology Award for creating “Virtual Patients,” three-dimensional, high-resolution models that help radiology trainees understand the anatomic relationships of organs and other structures.

Augustus White, III, MD, PhD, orthopaedics, received the “Candle in Medicine” at the Morehouse College 2006 Candle in the Dark Gala on February 18th. White was recognized for his achievements in orthopaedics as well as his work to promote diversity in the medical profession. White was also recognized by the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons with the 2006 Diversity Award, honoring White for his commitment to culturally competent care and promoting diversity in orthopaedics.

Michael T. Wong, MD, received the “Distinguished Service Award” from the American Academy of HIV Medicine (AAHIVM). This award recognizes Wong’s outstanding leadership and counsel to drive national public policy issues. Recently, Wong’s work brought him to Washington D.C. to testify at a congressional subcommittee hearing for Reauthorization of the Ryan White CARE Act, which would continue federal support for a range of HIV services.

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