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.

Applied Physics Laboratory
Alvin Eaton, a senior fellow working on special
assignments and former associate director, was
among a small group presented with the Missile Defense
Agency's Technology Pioneer Award at the
sixth annual U.S. Missile Defense Conference, held March 31
in Washington, D.C. Eaton, whose work
has spanned more than 60 years, was honored for his
"overwhelming breadth and depth of technical
contributions to ballistic missile defense" and his
"leadership that contributed directly to the success
of the Standard Missile, and the Patriot and THAAD
(Terminal High Altitude Area Defense) missile
interceptors" used in missile defense today.

Bayview Medical Center
Alicia Arbaje, assistant professor of medicine
in the Division of Geriatrics, has received the
Merck/AGS 2008 New Investigator Award and also been named a
Harold Amos Faculty Development
Scholar by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The Amos
scholarship, a four-year postdoctoral
research award, is named for the first African-American to
chair a department at the Harvard
Medical School. It is given to physicians of minority
backgrounds who are committed to developing
careers in academic medicine and to advancing the
understanding and elimination of health disparities.
Cynthia Boyd, assistant professor of medicine
in the Division of Geriatrics, received the Career
Development Award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Physician Faculty Scholars Program
for her research project "Treatment Burden in Older Adults
with Multi-Morbidity."
Joe Carrese, associate professor of medicine in
the Division of General Internal Medicine,
received the National Award for Scholarship in Medical
Education at the annual meeting of the
Society of General Internal Medicine.
Merhan Habibi, assistant professor of surgery,
has received a three-year appointment from the
American College of Surgeons' Commission on Cancer as the
CoC's liaison to Bayview's cancer program.
He will spearhead CoC initiatives within the program,
collaborate with local affiliates of such agencies
as the American Cancer Society and facilitate quality
improvement initiatives utilizing data submitted
to the CoC's National Cancer Database.
Hendree Jones, associate professor in
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and director of
research for the Center for Addiction and Pregnancy, has
been named the 2008 recipient of the
Joseph Cochin Young Investigator Award from the College on
Problems of Drug Dependence. A
psychologist, Jones is a leading expert on the
pharmacotherapies used to treat drug dependence
during pregnancy and the impact of prenatal exposure to
these medications and drugs of abuse. She
also has created and tested novel behavioral interventions
to help prevent relapse to drug use in
pregnant women. The CPDD, founded in 1929, is the oldest
group in the United States addressing
problems of drug dependence and abuse. Cochin is its former
director.
Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa, assistant professor
of neurosurgery and oncology and director of
the Brain Tumor Program at Bayview, has been named a
Physician Hero by The Daily Record,
Maryland's legal newspaper. Quinones-Hinojosa's award
recognizes the significant impact he has had on
health care in the region.
George Wang, a fellow in geriatric medicine,
has received the T. Franklin Williams Research
Scholars Award, which will provide support for his research
project "Immunologic Disregulations and
Inflammation in the Pathogenesis of Frailty of Old Age: The
Role of CMV Infection."

Bloomberg School of Public Health
Daniel Scharfstein has been promoted to
professor, with tenure, in the Department of
Biostatistics.

Krieger School of Arts and Sciences
Maurice Bessman has been appointed professor
emeritus in the Department of Biology,
effective July 1.
Jennifer Culbert has been promoted to associate
professor, with tenure, in the Department of
Political Science, effective July 1.

Multidisciplinary
Nancy Kass, the Phoebe R. Berman Professor of
Bioethics and Public Health and professor of
health policy and management in the Bloomberg School, and
Sean Tunis, adjunct professor in the
School of Medicine, will be honored June 7 with the Nina
Wood Collier Arts Champion award at Taste
the Arts III. Taste the Arts is the annual fundraiser for
the Maryland Chapter of Young
Audiences/Arts for Learning, a nonprofit organization
devoted to enriching the lives and education of
Maryland's youth, educators and families. Kass and Tunis
sponsor more than 25 projects that actively
engage Baltimore City students in arts education programs
through their Alison Rose Tunis Fund at
Baltimore Community Foundation.

Peabody Institute
Faculty artist Larry Williams, horn, has been
endorsed as a Yamaha Performing Artist by the
Yamaha Corp. of America. He joins a group of elite
professional musicians chosen for this distinction
and will immediately begin representing the corporation
nationally through performances and clinics.
He also will be featured on the Yamaha Global Artist Web
site. Williams chairs the Preparatory Brass
and Winds Department, directs the Adult and Continuing
Education program and coaches chamber
music for the Peabody Conservatory.

School of Education
Four researchers at the Center for Research and Reform
in Education were honored at the
89th annual meeting of the American Educational Research
Association, held recently in New York.
Robert E. Slavin, center director, and researchers
Bette Chambers, Nancy A. Madden and Anne M.
Chamberlain received the Palmer O. Johnson Memorial
Award for their September 2007 article in the
AERA Journal. The article reported on the outcome of a
federally funded evaluation of the Success
for All program, which showed that students who attend
Success for All schools for three years
gained substantially more in reading skills than similar
students in other schools. The award, named in
honor of a pioneer in educational research and methodology,
represents the highest quality of
academic research published in one of AERA's four
publications.

School of Medicine
Thomas Brushart, professor of orthopedic
surgery, received the Hanno Millesi Award from the
World Federation of Neurological Societies at its March
meeting in Vienna, Austria. The award, named
in honor of the pioneering peripheral nerve surgeon who
developed modern techniques of nerve
grafting, recognizes Brushart's "outstanding contributions
to peripheral nerve research."
Peter Burger, professor of pathology, has been
given the 2007 Fred Waldorf Stewart Award
from the Department of Pathology at Memorial
Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. The
award recognizes Burger's contributions to understanding
human disease.
Hal Dietz, professor of genetics and medicine,
received the Hero with a Heart Award at the
National Marfan Foundation's annual benefit, Heartworks:
The Marfan Gala, last month. Dietz is part
of the team, originally headed by Victor McKusick, that
identified the gene for Marfan syndrome in
1991 and is researching a medication for the disorder,
which affects the connective tissue of the
heart, blood vessels, eyes, joints, bones and lungs.
Jim Erickson has been named executive director
of finance. Erickson joined Johns Hopkins as a
senior cost analyst in the Controller's Office in 1987.
Since 1992, he has been senior director of
financial affairs. In his new job, Erickson aims to
stabilize HopkinsOne by improving training, reporting
and transactions. He also hopes to develop strategies to
build reserves and diversify revenue streams.
Edbert Hsu, associate professor of emergency
medicine, has received a 2008 Leadership Award
from the American Medical Association Foundation. The honor
provides its recipients with the
opportunity to receive special training to develop their
skills as future leaders in medicine and
community affairs. Hsu serves on the leadership group of
Johns Hopkins' Office of Critical Event
Preparedness and Response and is associate editor of the
AMA's Journal of Disaster Medicine and
Public Health Preparedness.
Richard Johns has been appointed University
Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of
biomedical engineering and professor emeritus of biomedical
engineering, retroactive to Sept. 1, 2006.
Thomas Lloyd, resident in neurology, has
received the American Academy of Neurology's 2008
S. Weir Mitchell Award for his research in amyotrophic
lateral schlerosis. Lloyd's studies, funded by
Johns Hopkins' Packard ALS Center and conducted in the
laboratory of Alex Kolodkin, involved
genetically engineering fruit flies to mimic the effects of
ALS. The new technique will help future
researchers study ALS and similar neurodegenerative
disorders using an animal that is relatively easy
to work with and quick to produce results.
Elizabeth Montgomery has been promoted to
professor in the Department of Pathology, with a
secondary appointment in Oncology.
Srinivasa Raja, professor in the Department of
Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine and
director of pain research and the Division of Pain
Medicine, has been honored with the 2008 Wilbert
E. Fordyce Clinical Investigator Award by the American Pain
Society. This award recognizes individual
excellence and achievements in clinical pain scholarship
and is presented to a professional whose total
career achievements have made outstanding contributions to
the field of clinical pain research and/or
practice.

School of Nursing
Dennis W. Jones, clinical instructor in Acute
and Chronic Care, was awarded the JHH
Department of Nursing 2008 Shirley Somer Award for his
research proposal "An Investigation to
Determine Best Practice for the Care of the Critically Ill
Morbidly Obese Patient During Air Medical
Transport." This research is reflective of Jones' role as a
critical care flight nurse with the Johns
Hopkins Lifeline Ground and Air Medical Transportation
Department.
Joan Kub, associate professor in the Department
of Community Public Health, and graduate
student Sonya Emmerson have been inducted into Delta Omega,
an honorary society for faculty and
those pursuing graduate studies in public health.
Sarah Langford, a traditional student
graduating this week, has co-authored a children's book,
Grandfather's Story Cloth. The book speaks about love,
remembrance and Alzheimer's disease and is
written in both English and Hmong. Langford collaborated on
the project with Linda Gerdner, a
researcher whose expertise involves family care-giving
issues for Hmong elders with dementia. Story
cloth is a Hmong traditional handcrafted visual depiction
of a family's history and in this instance is
used to provide information about Alzheimer's.
SOURCE (Student Outreach Resource Center) Community
Service Awards were recently
presented to Carmalyn D. Dorsey, clinical instructor
in Community Public Health Nursing, Faculty
Award; Melissa Latorra, traditional student,
Individual Award; JHU chapter of the National Student
Nurses' Association, Student Group Award; and Programa
Salud, Tri-School Student Group Award.

Whiting School of Engineering
Susan Hohenberger, assistant professor in
Computer Science, has received a $200,000
Microsoft Research New Faculty Fellowship to support her
project "Cryptographic Challenges in
Verifying Authenticity of Incoming Messages and Encrypting
Outgoing Ones in Energy-, Data- and
Time-Constrained Applications, Computer Security,
Algorithms and Complexity Theory."
Peter Searson has been appointed first holder
of the Joseph R. and Lynn C. Reynolds
Professorship, effective July 1.
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