For the Record: Cheers
Cheers is a monthly listing of honors and
awards received by faculty, staff and students plus recent
appointments and promotions. Contributions must be
submitted in writing and be accompanied by a phone
number.
Academic and Cultural Centers
Winston Tabb, Sheridan Dean of University
Libraries, vice provost for the arts and director of
JHU Museums, has been selected by the American Library
Association executive board to serve as
the ALA representative to the Board of the American Library
in Paris from 2008 to 2010. Tabb has
also been chosen president-elect of the Digital Library
Federation for 2010. The DLF is a consortium
of more than 40 libraries and related agencies that are
pioneering the use of digital information
technologies to extend collections and services.
The Sheridan Libraries' 2007 Dean's Report,
edited by Pamela Higgins, special assistant to the
Sheridan Dean for external relations, took top honors in
the American Library Association's 2008
Best of Show competition. More than 360 entries were
submitted from across the United States and
Canada in the annual report category for large public,
academic and research libraries. The award was
presented at the ALA Library Administration and Management
Association division's Best of Show
Awards Ceremony on June 29 at the ALA annual convention in
Anaheim, Calif.
Bayview Medical Center
Joseph Brady, professor of behavioral biology
and neuroscience, has been named the recipient
of the 2008 Mentorship Award from the College on Problems
of Drug Dependence, the oldest
organization for the scientific study of drug dependence
and addictions. Brady, director of the
Behavioral Biology Research Center for more than three
decades, is being cited for the exceptional
influence he has had on advancing the careers of young
addiction-research scientists.
Hendree Jones, associate professor of
behavioral biology and research director in the Center
for Addiction and Pregnancy, will receive the 2008 Joseph
Cochin Young Investigator Award from the
College on Problems of Drug Dependence. Jones' work is
unique in its goal of designing randomized
controlled trials to examine addiction therapies and
interventions that consider the welfare of the
newborn as well as the mother.
Carey Business School
Heather Tillberg-Webb has been appointed an
instructional designer in the Office of Learning,
where she will assist faculty in further developing their
skills as educators. Tillberg-Webb has taught
courses in media design, production, print publications and
graphic design at Elizabethtown College and
in digital media at the Corcoran School of Art & Design.
She holds a master's degree in linguistics
from the University of Massachusetts, Boston and a
doctorate in instructional technology from the
University of Virginia.
Johns Hopkins Health System
Ronald R. Peterson, president of the Johns
Hopkins Health System and The Johns Hopkins
Hospital, has received the 2008 Most Valuable PAC Player
Award from the American Hospital
Association in recognition of his efforts to help the
association's political action committee, the
Health Policy Leadership Alliance, reach its fund-raising
goal of $31,200. The AHA uses the funds to
support national candidates who are committed to issues of
importance to hospitals and health care
systems, ranging from Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement
to work force and patient safety issues.
Krieger School of Arts and Sciences
Stephen Nichols, chair of German and Romance
Languages and Literatures, has been elected the
recipient of a Humboldt Research Award. The award is
conferred on eminent foreign researchers at
the peak of their academic careers by Germany's Alexander
von Humboldt Foundation in recognition of
lifetime achievement, and awardees are invited to carry out
research projects of their choice in
cooperation with specialist colleagues in Germany. Nichols
will be hosted by the Free University in
Berlin and based at the new Dahlem Humanities Center, with
which Johns Hopkins serves as an
international partner institution, and by the University of
Cologne. He will use the time to finish his
book on the enigma and exasperation of laughter.
Nitze School of Advanced International
Studies
David P. Stewart, professorial lecturer, has
been elected by the countries of the Organization
of American States to the Inter-American Juridical
Committee. The committee, headquartered in Rio
de Janeiro, advises the OAS on the development and
codification of international law norms, and the
harmonization of the domestic law of Western Hemisphere
countries. Its 11 members are chosen by
OAS member states at the annual OAS General Assembly.
Stewart is currently assistant legal adviser
in the Office of the Legal Adviser in the U.S. Department
of State, where he has had primary
responsibility for fields including international human
rights, United Nations affairs, investment
disputes and private claims.
School of Medicine
Norm Barker, associate professor of pathology
and of art as applied to medicine, and director
of Pathology Photography and Graphics, has received the
2008 Louis Schmidt Award from the
BioCommunications Association. The highest honor bestowed
by the 78-year-old group, the award
recognizes Barker's outstanding contributions to the
progress of communications in the life sciences.
Darshan Dalal, a researcher in the Cardiology
Division's Reynolds Cardiovascular Clinical
Research Center and its Leducq Foundation research program
at the Johns Hopkins Heart Institute,
has received a two-year $300,000 grant from the Paris-based
Leducq Foundation to pursue research
into sudden cardiac death. Dalal, who will complete his
doctorate in the Bloomberg School this summer,
is one of only four Leducq Foundation Fellows named this
spring.
Todd Dorman, associate dean and director of
Continuing Medical Education, has been elected
vice president of the Society for Academic Continuing
Medical Education. A professor in the
departments of Anesthesiology/Critical Care Medicine,
Medicine, Surgery and Nursing and vice chair
for Critical Care, Dorman also is a founding member of a
consortium of leaders of CME that includes
Johns Hopkins, Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania,
Duke and the University of California, San
Francisco.
Jed W. Fahey, faculty research associate in
Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences and in
International Health, has been awarded a Prevent Cancer
Foundation Grant titled "Bioavailability of
Anticarcinogenic Glucosinolates." This $40,000 grant is for
a two-year period beginning July 15.
Ulrike Hamper, professor of radiology, urology
and pathology and director of the Division of
Ultrasound, has been named a fellow in the American College
of Radiology. The 32,000-member
organization of radiologists, radiation oncologists,
interventional radiologists, nuclear medicine
physicians and medical physicists is the leading
radiological organization. Hamper also is the treasurer
of the Society of Radiologists in Ultrasound and recently
completed a term on the board of governors
for the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine.
Dorry Segev, assistant professor of surgery,
has received a Clinical Scientist Development
Award from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. The
$400,000 award, one of only a few given
annually to researchers, will fund a study of the role that
frailty plays in clinical decision making for
patients over the age of 65 who are undergoing dialysis and
considering kidney transplantation.
Dou Alvin Zhang, a fellow in Cardiology, has
received the division's 2008 Howard L. Silverman
Research Award for his proposal "Therapeutic Exploration of
SHP2 in Cardiovascular Diseases." The
prize, named for a former cardiology fellow and faculty
member who died in 1996, is awarded to a
second-year fellow by a panel of faculty judges who assess
research proposals for creativity,
originality, feasibility and potential impact.
School of Nursing
Nancy Glass, associate professor in Community
Public Health, has received a $2.9 million grant
from the National Institute of Occupational Safety and
Health for research into the prevention of
violence in the workplace, especially among home care
workers. The grant, which will be allocated over
the next five years, represents a unique research
partnership between the Johns Hopkins School of
Nursing, Oregon Health & Science University, the Service
Employees International Union,
WomenStrength and the Labor Education and Research Center
at the University of Oregon. Jacquelyn
C. Campbell, professor in Community Public Health, and
Linda Rose, associate professor and director of
the Baccalaureate Program, are co-investigators on the
grant.
Sharon Olsen, assistant professor in the
Department of Acute and Chronic Care, and colleagues
have received $185,000 in funding from the Susan G. Komen
for the CURE Maryland to develop a new
model for coordinated long-term care for breast cancer
survivors. The collaborative initiative, "A
Survivorship Program for Breast Cancer: A Transition for
Patients and Providers," spans the schools
of Nursing and Medicine. The model focuses on the patient
as a whole person instead of the label of
"cancer" and will engage in a broader education of nurses,
doctors and patients themselves about the
process of survivorship.
Cynda Rushton, associate professor in Health
Systems and Outcomes and director of the
Harriet Lane Compassionate Care Program at Johns Hopkins
Children's Center, has received more than
$50,000 from the Women's Board of The Johns Hopkins
Hospital to support the creation of a
Pediatric Palliative Care Network within Maryland. The JHCC
program is taking the lead in establishing
an innovative regional program aimed at improving access to
and resources for pediatric palliative care.
The funding supports the creation of a centralized resource
and referral center, education for health
care professionals in pediatric palliative care and
palliative care for infants across Maryland.
University Administration
Cheryl-Lee Howard, assistant provost for
research administration, has been selected to receive
the 2008 Award for Outstanding Achievement in Research
Administration from the National Council
of University Research Administrators. The award, which
will be presented Nov. 3 at NCURA's 50th
Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., recognizes her
distinguished career, which includes mentoring and
training other administrators, conducting training
conferences and her involvement in NCURA, as well
as her exemplary work at Johns Hopkins.
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