Cheers ----------------------------------------------------------------- Cheers recognizes achievement of consequence among faculty, staff and students. A separate section records some promotions and new hires. We welcome contributions submitted in writing accompanied by a telephone number. Submissions may be edited for length, clarity and content. In addition, items not included for reasons of space will be published in the next Cheers. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Honors, awards and appointments Public Health Floyd Bryant, associate professor of biochemistry, has been appointed to serve as a member of the Biochemistry Study Section, Division of Research Grants, in the Department of Health and Human Services. Ruth Faden, professor of health policy and management, has been elected to the Institute of Medicine. Candidates are chosen for their major contributions to health and medicine, or to such related fields as social and behavioral sciences, law, administration and economics. Susan Gross, a doctoral candidate in Maternal and Child Health, has received the 1994/95 Donald A. Cornely scholarship to support outstanding work in maternal and child health. Gross' research focuses on the eating attitudes and behaviors of young women with chronic illnesses and disabilities. John Santelli, adjunct assistant professor of maternal and child health, was elected chairman of the American School Health Association's editorial board for a three-year term. Alyson Shupe, a doctoral candidate in Maternal and Child Health, has received the 1994/95 John and Alice Chenoweth-Pate Fellowship to support the training of women who will make major contributions to maternal and child health. Shupe investigates the experiences of low-income women, and the development and health of the fetus and newborn. Barbara Starfield, Distinguished Service Professor and head of the Division of Health Policy, was selected from a field of 16 nominees to receive a Primary Care Achievement Award in Research from the Pew Charitable Trusts. Changing places, new faces Mohammed Afifi has been appointed visiting scholar in Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at the School of Public Health. Kyle Bickel has been appointed assistant professor in the Division of Plastic Surgery at the School of Medicine, with a joint appointment in the new orthopedic hand service at Hopkins. William R. Bishai has been appointed assistant professor, Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, in the School of Public Health. Thomas Burke has been promoted to associate professor, Health Policy and Management, in the School of Public Health. Kurt Campbell has been appointed assistant professor of surgery and director of the Intermediate Care Unit at the Medical Institutions. Terence Cunningham, a veteran of more than 27 years in hospital administration for the U.S. Air Force, has been appointed vice president of administration at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. For the last two years, Cunningham has been chief executive officer of the 1,000-bed Willford Hall Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas, a university-affiliated, worldwide medical referral facility for the Air Force. Michele Fizzano has joined The Johns Hopkins Children's Center as assistant director of Public Affairs. She was previously a senior media relations representative for the Medical Institutions. Mark Hefferman has been appointed director of the Corporate Services Office at JHPIEGO, where he will direct the provision of administrative and management support to JHPIEGO's business operations. Robert H. Johnson has been appointed executive vice president and director of the JHPIEGO Corporation, where he will oversee all aspects of JHPIEGO's reproductive health initiatives and will strengthen the organization's capability to meet current and future health training needs. Julie Lange has been appointed assistant professor of surgery with special interests in surgical oncology at the Medical Institutions. Stephen Mann, who served as a physician's assistant in an east Los Angeles hospital emergency room before forsaking a medical career for a life of ecclesiastical service, has been appointed director of chaplaincy services at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. Mann comes to Hopkins from the University of Texas Health Sciences Center, where he had been director of pastoral care service since 1986. Edward McCarthy has been named associate professor of pathology, with a joint appointment in orthopedic surgery, at the Medical Institutions. Previously, Dr. McCarthy was attending pathologist at Sinai Hospital, where he had practiced since 1977. Kim J. Nickerson has been appointed assistant professor, Mental Hygiene, in the School of Public Health. Laurice Royal has joined the Legal Department of the Johns Hopkins Health System. Her principal duties will be to oversee all legal aspects of employment-related matters, working closely with Human Resources. Harshadkumar Sanghvi has been appointed senior medical adviser at JHPIEGO, responsible for providing overall guidance in the development and writing of reproductive health training materials. G. Daniel Shealer Jr., senior counsel for corporate and regulatory affairs at the Johns Hopkins Health System Corp. and the Johns Hopkins Hospital since 1993, has been appointed deputy general counsel in the Legal Department. Richard Sullivan has been appointed director of the training office at JHPIEGO, with responsibility for the design and development of new training programs including the introduction of new educational approaches and technologies for distance education. Terrence Whitson has been appointed senior media adviser at JHPIEGO, charged with developing JHPIEGO's media programs through design and production of video and related promotional materials. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Irwin Book Honored by Phi Beta Kappa and MLA John Irwin's most recent book, The Mystery to a Solution: Poe, Borges, and the Analytic Detective Story, has won two literary prizes: the 1994 Christian Gauss Award by the Phi Beta Kappa Society and the second annual Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies presented by the Modern Language Association. The Gauss Award, which carries with it a $2,500 prize, recognizes an outstanding book in the field of literary scholarship or criticism. It will be presented on Dec. 2 to Dr. Irwin, the Decker Professor of the Humanities and chairman of The Writing Seminars. Hopkins faculty who also have earned the Gauss prize include Larzer Ziff and Peter Sacks. The MLA's $1,000 Scaglione Prize will be presented to Dr. Irwin on Dec. 28 during the association's annual convention. ----------------------------------------------------------------- --compiled by Mike Field