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Dr. Olveen Carasquillo, P&S assistant professor of medicine, has been awarded a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation as part of its Generalist Physician Faculty Scholars Program. The program awards up to $240,000 for four years to one outstanding junior faculty member in family medicine, general pediatrics, or general internal medicine. The scholars will serve as role models and mentors for medical students considering careers as generalist physicians. The grants will allow the scholars to enhance their research productivity and participate in the design and implementation of primary care education initiatives.
Steven M. Papp has been appointed to the new position of associate vice president for mental health administration at Health Sciences. Mr. Papp will continue to be in charge of the administration of the Psychiatric Institute, a position he has held since 1982, and he will be responsible for the administrative coordination of programs of the institute and the Department of Psychiatry.
Dr. Lorraine S. Symington, associate professor of microbiology at P&S, has accepted an invitation from the National Institutes of Health to serve as a member of the Microbial Physiology and Genetics Study Section 2, Center for Scientific Review. Selected on the basis of demonstrated competence and achievement in their field, members of study sections are involved in the review of grant applications submitted to the NIH, making recommendations on these applications to the appropriate NIH national advisory council or board, and surveying the status of research in their fields of science.
The June 1999 issue’s Reporter At Large section listed the P&S members of the National Academy of Sciences. Missing from the list were Dr. Seymour Leiberman, professor emeritus of biochemistry and molecular biophysics, special lecturer in obstetrics and gynecology, and associate director for the Office of the Provost; Dr. Erwin Chargaff, professor emeritus and special lecturer in biochemistry and molecular biophysics; Dr. David Sprinson, professor emeritus and special lecturer in biochemistry and molecular biophysics; and Dr. Harold Ginsberg, professor emeritus and special lecturer in microbiology and medicine. Also mentioned in the Reporter At Large was the election of Dr. Margaret Wood, E.M. Papper Professor and Chair of Anesthesiology, as the first president of the Association of University Anesthesiologists. It should have read that she is the first female president of that organization. |R |
Dr. Arnold P. Gold, P&S professor of clinical neurology and clinical pediatrics and founder and president of the Arnold P. Gold Foundation, has been elected to the American Medical Association’s newly constituted Board of Directors. While the AMA’s Board of Trustees will continue to oversee the organization, the Board of Directors will administer and develop AMA programs, especially in the areas of service and support of medical schools, physicians, researchers, and students. 
Dr. H. Thomas Lee, fellow in the P&S Department of Anesthesiology, has been selected to receive the American Society of Critical Care Anesthesiologists’ Young Investigators Award. He is being honored with this award for his abstract titled “Protective Effects of Renal Ischemic Preconditioning and Systemic Adenosine Pretreatment: Role of A1 Adenosine Receptor.” 
Dr. Charles J. Lightdale, P&S professor of clinical medicine, was honored by the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy with the 1999 Schindler Award. The award is given annually and recognizes lifetime achievement in endoscopic research, teaching, and service that best exemplify the standards and traditions established by Dr. Rudolph Schindler, the founder of endoscopy. Applying novel endoscopic methods for the prevention of cancer in Barrett’s esophagus and colorectal adenomas is the latest of Dr. Lightdale’s research. He edited the peer-reviewed journal Monthly Endoscopy for eight years and currently edits Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Clinics of North America.
Dr. Donald O. Quest, vice chairman of the P&S Department of Neurological Surgery, has been elected chairman of the American Board of Neurological Surgery. Dr. Quest has served on the board for five years and has been its secretary for the past three years. The primary purpose of this organization is to certify candidates as specialists in neurological surgery who have satisfactorily completed the board’s requirements, including passing examinations in the field. 
Martha Wells has been promoted to director of anniversary class giving for the P&S Alumni Association and the Dean’s Office. Ms. Wells’ promotion comes after three years as P&S development associate. Her new duties will include identification and solicitation of prospects, recruitment of alumni volunteers, and development of special anniversary class events.