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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.
Bloomberg School of Public Health
Elizabeth Johnson, research associate and
doctoral candidate, has received the June B. Culley Award,
which honors outstanding achievement on the Department of
Biostatistics second-year exam.
Susan Milner, a graduate student at Johns
Hopkins and a senior health policy analyst with the
Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, has
received a Fulbright Scholar grant. She will lecture in
2005 at Paraguay's National University of Asuncion on the
topic "Using Population-based Outpatient Measures at the
Plan and Regional Level for Health Care Quality Measurement
and Improvement."
Siobhan Sutcliffe, master's candidate in
biostatistics and doctoral candidate in epidemiology, has
received the Glaxo SmithKline Award, which is sponsored by
Glaxo SmithKline to encourage interest in the field of
biostatistics and to honor outstanding achievement on the
Department of Biostatistics first-year exam.
Health Divisions Administration
Collaborators from the School of Medicine led by
principal investigator Nancy K. Roderer, interim
director of the Division of Health Sciences Informatics and
director of the Welch Medical Library, were recently
awarded a three-year research grant from the National
Library of Medicine to conduct a randomized clinical trial
evaluating the potential patient benefits from the use of
information services tailored to individual needs versus
the standard information routinely made available by the
health team during a new patient consultation. An extension
of a pilot program conducted in the hospital's pediatric
units, the study will first target breast cancer patients
during their initial consultation in the Department of
Oncology Breast Center and then will evaluate information
services offered to parents of children newly diagnosed
with leukemia.
Five publications produced by the Office of Corporate
Communications have won prestigious awards from the
Association of American Medical Colleges' Group on
Institutional Advancement. Hopkins Medical News (now
Hopkins Medicine), Dome and a Brain
Sciences case statement were all named the top
entries in their field and won cash awards. Awards of
Excellence went to Hopkins Medical News, edited by
Edith Nichols, in the External Publications category;
Dome, edited by Anne Bennett Swingle, in Internal
Publications; and, in Single Issue Publications, a case
statement titled "Opening Windows Into the Brain," a
project managed by Nichols and designed by David Dilworth.
In addition, Awards of Distinction went to Hopkins
Nurse, edited by Lindsay Roylance, and to writer
Marjorie Centofanti for "Blues Brothers," an article that
appeared in the winter 2004 issue of Hopkins Medical
News.
Johns Hopkins Bayview
Richard Bennett, vice president for medical
affairs, has been promoted to senior vice president for
medical affairs. Bennett will continue providing oversight
for clinical department administrators and act for JHBMC
President Gregory Schaffer when he is away from the
hospital.
Lisa Shirk, residency program coordinator for
the house staff program in internal medicine, has received
the Award for Excellence in Graduate Medical Education from
the School of Medicine.
The Division of Geriatric Medicine and
Gerontology has received a Reynolds Foundation grant of
$3 million to train clinical educators in geriatric
medicine over the next six years.
Krieger School of Arts and Sciences
Catherine Jeeyun Choi, a junior majoring in
neuroscience, has been awarded the National Society of
Collegiate Scholars' annual Merit Award. The award
recognizes new members who show outstanding academic
success early in their careers and who are committed to
community service and leadership activities.
William E. Connolly, professor of political
science, has received a Fulbright Scholar grant for 2005.
He will be a Distinguished Lecturer at the Kyoto American
Studies Summer Seminar and visit various other institutions
in Japan.
School of Medicine
Charles W. Cummings, professor of
otolaryngology/head and neck surgery, has received the
American Laryngological Association's James E. Newcomb
Award for his contributions to the art and science of
laryngology and rhinology and dedication to the American
Laryngological Association.
Christine Haenggeli, a neurology research
fellow, has been awarded the Milton Safenowitz Postdoctoral
Fellowship for ALS Research by the ALS Association. Milton
Safenowitz died of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in 1998,
and the fellowship is made possible by a grant from the
Milton and Marilyn Safenowitz Family Foundation.
Ada Hamosh has been named clinical director of
the McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine.
Hamosh's association with Genetic Medicine started in 1989,
when she began her fellowship in medical and biochemical
genetics. She was appointed assistant professor in Genetic
Medicine in 1992 and associate professor in 2000. Hamosh
served twice as the acting clinical director for the
institute, first in 2002 and again in 2004.
Murray A. Kalish, assistant professor of
anesthesiology and critical care medicine, has been elected
vice chairman of the Mid-Atlantic Caucus of the American
Society of Anesthesiologists. He also serves as the
Maryland director on the American Society of
Anesthesiologists' board of directors.
Tom Kirsch, assistant professor of emergency
medicine, has been appointed deputy director of the Office
of Critical Event Preparedness and Response. Kirsch has
held numerous leadership roles in disaster management,
including national physician adviser for the Disaster
Health Services of the American Red Cross and disaster
consultant for the federal Centers for Disease Control.
Peter J. Provonost, associate professor of
anesthesiology and critical care medicine and medical
director of the Center for Innovation and Quality Patient
Care, has received the annual John M. Eisenberg Patient
Safety Award for Research Achievement from the National
Quality Forum and the Joint Commission on Accreditation of
Healthcare Organizations. The award honors research
initiatives that have led to dramatic improvements in the
safety and quality of care in intensive care units.
Myron Weisfeldt, chairman of the Department of
Medicine, has won the 2004 James B. Herrick Award of the
Council on Clinical Cardiology of the American Heart
Association. This is the most prestigious award the council
bestows and is given annually in recognition of
extraordinary contributions to the field.
School of Nursing
Jacqueline Campbell, associate dean for faculty
affairs, has received the 2004 National Award for Advocacy
in the Field of Family Violence from the Family Violence
Sexual Assault Institute and will be presented with the
2004 Maryland Network Against Domestic Violence Education
Award on Oct. 28.
School of Professional Studies in Business and
Education
Michael Haigh, instructor of derivitive
securities in the Graduate Division of Business and
Management, received the 2004 Financial Management
Association's Competitive Paper Award in the area of Market
Microstructure.
University Administration
Cheryl-Lee Howard, assistant provost for
University Research Projects Administration, is a recipient
of the National Council of University Research
Administrators' Distinguished Service Award. The award,
which is given to individuals who have made sustained and
distinctive contributions to the organization, will be
presented at NCURA's 46th Annual Meeting, to be held Nov. 1
in Washington, D.C.
Whiting School of Engineering
Robert Dalrymple, professor of civil
engineering, has been appointed to a three-year term on the
Marine Board, which is part of the National Academy of
Sciences under the Transportation Research Board.
Howard E. Katz has joined the Department of
Materials Science and Engineering as a professor, coming
from Bell Laboratories-Lucent Technologies, where he was a
Distinguished Member of the technical staff. Katz earned a
bachelor's degree in chemistry at MIT and his doctorate at
UCLA. His most recent work has emphasized nontraditional
device fabrication, surface chemistry and multifunctional
device design and has led to ongoing collaborations with
multiple outside companies and a range of universities. His
inventions have been incorporated into more than 30 patents
and recognized by two R&D 100 Awards.
Michael Kazhdan has joined the Department of
Computer Science as an assistant professor. Kazhdan
received his doctorate from Princeton in 2004 with a thesis
titled "Shape Representations and Algorithms for 3-D Model
Retrieval." His areas of research include computer
graphics, 3-D shape analysis and 3-D shape matching.
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BME Doctoral Students Take Top Spot
in Prominent Biotech Competition
Blanka Sharma, David Noren,
Raymond Cheong and Saurabh Paliwal
PHOTO BY HPS/WILL KIRK
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By Phil Sneiderman
Homewood
By preparing a business plan for an imaginary company
that could help doctors detect eye diseases before they
cause blindness, four biomedical engineering doctoral
students from Johns Hopkins have won the North American arm
of a prominent biotechnology competition based in the
United Kingdom.
The students competed against three other finalists
from universities in the United States and Canada in the
Biotechnology Young Entrepreneurs Scheme, an academic
business plan contest designed to raise awareness among
postgraduate students and postdoctoral scientists about how
to commercialize ideas from the biosciences.
For the event, the students invented a company called
Innovative Clinician Unlimited, which would market a
medical technology that may become practical in the near
future. The team outlined how use of an automated device to
image the retina could allow primary care physicians to
diagnose potentially blinding diseases before patients lose
their sight.
The team recently traveled to Edinburgh, Scotland, to
present its business plan to a panel of judges. During the
event, the students also attended workshops led by leading
figures in the British biotechnology industry. Their plan
was judged against those of teams from the Georgia
Institute of Technology, the University of Toronto and the
University of California, San Francisco.
As winners of the competition, the Johns Hopkins
students took home $1,000 in prize money from the British
Council USA, which sponsored and administered the North
American initiative. In addition, the students will receive
an all-expense-paid trip to London in December to be
showcased alongside the final eight competing British
teams. The Johns Hopkins students will present their
business plan and will be eligible for additional prizes.
Entering the contest proved to be a great learning
experience, said David Noren, the Johns Hopkins team
captain. "If you're involved in technology-related
research, it's often beneficial to consider
commercialization, but none of us had any experience in
developing a business," Noren said. "During our preparation
for this contest, we talked to people at Johns Hopkins
who'd had experience in commercializing their research.
That was a big help in developing our plan."
Noren graduated from the University of Rochester
before entering the BME doctoral program at Johns Hopkins.
The other team members were Blanka Sharma, a graduate of
the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada; Raymond
Cheong, a graduate of the University of Maryland, College
Park, and now a student in the Johns Hopkins M.D.-Ph.D.
program; and Saurabh Paliwal, a graduate of the Indian
Institute of Technology.
The team formed in the summer after hearing about the
competition. All four graduate students are conducting
their research on the Homewood campus in the Clark Hall
labs supervised by Andre Levchenko and Jennifer Elisseeff,
assistant professors in the Department of Biomedical
Engineering.
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