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honors & awards
| Honors/awards In November, Eric C. Greene, Ph.D., assistant professor of biochemistry & molecular biophysics, received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, which honors the nation’s most promising researchers. Wahida Karmally, Dr.PH, director of nutrition, Irving Institute for clinical and Translational Research, and associate research scientist and lecturer, the College of Dental Medicine, was elected to the American Diabetes Association’s national board of directors. Petra Kaufmann, M.D., the Florence Irving Assistant Professor of Neurology, received the Lea Rose Spinal Muscular Atrophy Research Award at the World Muscle Society Meeting in October for her presentation, “The Natural History of Spinal Muscular Atrophy.” Dr. Kaufmann’s work is funded by the SMA Foundation. To honor the memory of James S. Lieberman, M.D., the late chairman of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, the department established the James S. Lieberman, M.D. Summer Fellowship to begin in the summer of 2008. Dr. Lieberman’s friends, family, patients and colleagues endowed the fellowship, to be offered to P&S students who are about to enter their second year and who show an interest in clinical research training in rehabilitation and neurology, with an emphasis on stroke. Arnold Lisio, M.D., assistant professor of clinical medicine-cardiology, is co-recipient of a lifetime achievement award from the Manhattan-based Health Care Chaplaincy, a multi-faith center for pastoral care, education, research, and consulting. Dr. Lisio was honored for his commitment to the Chaplaincy’s mission of caring for the whole person – spirit, mind, and body – and for his longstanding work with the organization. He shares the honor with his wife, Weill-Cornell physician Anne Moore, M.D. Dennis Mitchell, D.D.S., M.P.H., associate dean for diversity and multicultural affairs and assistant professor of clinical dental medicine, received the American Academy of Periodontology’s clinical research award for a 2006 NEJM paper on the treatment of periodontal disease and the risk of preterm birth. Milan Stojanovic, Ph.D., assistant professor of medicine-nephrology, was one of five winners of the New York Academy of Sciences Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists, which honors tri-state area scientists and engineers who are early in their careers and have contributed significantly to interdisciplinary research. |
