In Brief

Noted author Tom Clancy dedicates JHM professorship
With gifts to Johns Hopkins totaling $2 million, one
of the world's best-selling authors, Tom Clancy, has funded
a new professorship in ophthalmology at Johns Hopkins
Medicine. Terrence P. O'Brien was named the inaugural Tom
Clancy Professor of Ophthalmology at the
Wilmer Eye
Institute during a dedication ceremony held April 8 in
the School of Nursing Auditorium.
Clancy, the literary master of such million-selling
thrillers as The Hunt for Red October, Patriot Games
and many others, is one of O'Brien's patients and a
longtime supporter of the Wilmer Eye Institute.
"Mr. Clancy has created a legacy that will benefit
generations to come," said Peter J. McDonnell, director of
the Wilmer Eye Institute. "The endowment will provide a
distinguished faculty member with the resources necessary
to pursue research into effective treatments and cures for
ocular diseases."
O'Brien is an internationally recognized expert in
refractive eye surgery with extensive experience in
performing PRK, LASIK and newer procedures to correct
refractive errors. He is the medical director of the
refractive surgery service, Ocular Infectious Diseases
Service and Ocular Microbiology Laboratory, a
multidisciplinary group of scientists investigating rapid
diagnostic techniques and improved treatments for severe,
potentially blinding eye infections.

Dean campaign manager to speak at Internet Strategies
class
Joe Trippi, campaign manager for Howard Dean's
presidential campaign, political and technology consultant,
MSNBC contributor and author of The Revolution Will Not
Be Televised: Democracy, the Internet and the Overthrow of
Everything, will be speaking and taking questions at
the Washington Center, room 405, from 5:15 to 7:15 p.m. on
Tuesday, April 12.
Trippi will be speaking to Adam Segal's Internet
Strategies course.
This class session is open to everyone in the Johns
Hopkins community. Space is limited, so students/visitors
must RSVP to
adamjsegal@jhu.edu.

KSAS colleagues to raffle handmade quilt honoring Suzy
Bacon
To honor a beloved colleague and friend who died last
fall, the staff of the Krieger School's Dean's Office will
raffle a handmade quilt, the proceeds of which will be
donated to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation.
Suzy's Quilt, made by systems administrator/programmer
Mimi Guest, measures 76 inches square and reverses to pink
ribbons. Guest made the quilt in memory of Suzy Bacon,
coordinator of the
Woodrow Wilson Undergraduate Research Program, who died
in September at the age of 47 after a prolonged battle with
cancer. The Dean's Office paid tribute to Bacon's
commitment to the program by creating the Suzy Bacon Fellow
of the Woodrow Wilson Undergraduate Research Program, an
award bestowed annually on someone who manifests the
qualities of commitment, caring and scholarship that Bacon
embodied.
Raffle tickets for the quilt may be purchased for $1
each, or six for $5. A winner will be drawn on May 20. For
more information and to see the quilt, stop by 237
Mergenthaler on the Homewood campus. Tickets can also be
purchased by contacting Guest at 410-516-7946 or mimig@jhu.edu or Sonia
Guggenheim at 410-516-8220 or soniag@jhu.edu.

Black Student Nursing Assoc. holds inaugural
conference
The Black Student Nursing Association at Johns Hopkins
will hold its inaugural conference, Nursing: Beyond Color,
Beyond Culture, on April 22 and 23 at the School of
Nursing.
Senior LaTonya Jackson, president of the BSNA, said
the conference will bring nursing students and nursing
professionals together to address the issues of
diversification, pursuit of higher degrees and research in
nursing. Through informative and motivational sessions, she
said, the group's ultimate goals are "to encourage
professional growth and to provide a layout for bridging
the gap of health disparities."
The keynote speaker is Alicia Georges of the Lehman
College Department of Nursing. An educator, practitioner
and community activist, Georges was the president of the
National Black Nurses Association from 1987 to 1991 and is
currently president of the National Black Nurses Foundation
and secretary-treasurer of the board of the International
Society on Hypertension in Blacks.
Participants will be able to attend sessions on a
variety of topics including research opportunities,
diversity within nursing and increasing participation in
student nursing organizations. The two-day conference also
includes a meet-and-greet, a panel discussion on health
disparities, poster presentations and a multitude of
vendors.
All nurses and nursing students are invited to
participate. Registration is $15 for students and $25 for
professionals who register by April 19. To register, go to
www.son.jhmi.edu/groups/bsna/docs/regform05.pdf or
contact Cassandra Jones at cjones@son.jhmi.edu
or 410-955-7548.

HBO's 'Something the Lord Made' receives Peabody
Award
The HBO-told story of two Johns Hopkins medical
pioneers in the Jim Crow South — Alfred Blalock and
Vivien Thomas — last week received a prestigious
Peabody Award. Blalock, an ambitious white surgeon, and
Thomas, a gifted black lab technician, defied racial
structures to pioneer the field of heart surgery in
1944.
Peabody Awards do not recognize specific categories
but are given to productions considered the best in
electronic media for the given year.
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