The Reporter: February 1996, Vol.7, No.1
Reporter at Large

Dr. Arthur Bank, P&S professor of medicine and of genetics and development, and Dr. Jurg Ott, P&S professor of psychiatry, were named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. They will be presented with official certific ates and association pins at the AAAS annual meeting this month.

Dr. Arthur Bank

Pfizer Inc. has named Dr. Thomas A. Pearson, director of the Bassett Healthcare Research Institute, the Pfizer Visiting Professor in Cardiovas-cular Medicine for 1996. Dr. Pearson, who is also the Jane Forbes Clark Chair in Health Research, will visit Mor ehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta to exchange ideas about preventive cardiology. Also, Dr. Pearson was one of seven scientists to represent the United States at a U.S.-Italy joint symposium on clinical trials in Rome, Italy, last November. He spoke on the potential for collaborative studies to reduce disability and death in patients who have suffered heart attacks and coronary artery disease.

The biotechnology incubator facility of the Audubon Business and Technology Center has been selected by Progressive Architecture magazine as one of 1995's most innovative laboratory designs. William N. Bernstein & Associates designed the facility, whi ch will be shown in the February issue of Progressive Architecture.

Eight P&S and Public Health faculty won funding in a competition sponsored by the American Cancer Society. The ACS Institutional Research Grant provides seed funding for innovative research. Faculty awarded grants were Dr. Habibul Ashan, associate res earch scientist in epidemiology; Dr. David Cobrinik, assistant professor of medical oncology; Dr. Peter Cserjesi, assistant professor of anatomy and cell biology; Dr. Pam Factor-Litvak, assistant professor of epidemiology; Dr. Jean Gautier, assistant prof essor of genetics and development and of dermatology; Dr. Scott Kahn, assistant professor of radiation oncology; Dr. Ramon Parsons, assistant professor of pathology and of medicine; and Dr. Takaaki Sato, assistant professor of otolaryngology.

Dr. Donald F. Tapley, alumni professor of medicine, has been named a Bassett Hospital Trustee.

Dr. Donald F. Tapely

Dr. David N. Cannadine, the Moore Collegiate Professor of History at Columbia, delivered the Dean's Distinguished Lecture in the Humanities earlier this month. Dr. Cannadine's lecture was titled "Mobilizing the English Language: Winston Churchill's Orator y Anatomised and Dissected." Dr. Cannadine's lecture was part of the 1995-96 Dean's Distinguished Lecture Series, which is in its 15th year.

Dr. James S. Lieberman, the Corning Professor and chairman of rehabilitation medicine at P&S, and Dr. Mary O. Mundinger, the Centennial Professor in Health Policy and dean of the School of Nursing, have been elected to the Institute of Medicine.

Dr. James S. Lieberman	Mary O. Mundinger

Dr. Richard M. Garfield, assistant professor of clinical nursing, has been appointed the Henrik H. Bendixen Professor of Clinical International Nursing.

Dr. Kristine Gebbie, assistant professor of nursing, has been appointed the Elizabeth Standish Gill Assistant Professor of Clinical Nursing. The professorship honors the fifth dean of the School of Nursing from 1961 to 1968.

The American Association for Women Radiologists has elected Dr. Karen S. Fountain, P&S associate clinical professor of radiation oncology, to its national board of directors. She will serve a one-year term as radiation oncology member-at-large.

Dr. Karen S. Fountain

The Department of Radiation Oncology is now affiliated with the Nassau Radiation Oncology Center of Garden City, N.Y. CPMC will be the main referral site for Nassau County patients requiring specialized cancer treatment unavailable at the Nassau Radiation Oncology Center. In addition, the agreement established the Nassau Radiation Oncology Center as a site for graduate and undergraduate medical education as well as participation in CPMC clinical trials.

The Young Men's Clinic, which the School of Public Health and Presbyterian Hospital co-sponsor, was honored at the 29th New York Urban League Annual New Year's Reception Jan. 14. Dr. Bruce Armstrong, associate clinical professor of public health and clini c founder and director, and Dr. Alwyn Cohall, clinic physician, received the league's Building Brick Award.

Dr. Herbert Pardes, vice president for Health Sciences and dean of the Faculty of Medicine, has been awarded the New York State Office of Mental Health Paul Hoch Distinguished Leadership Award for Outstanding Contributions to Psychiatry and Psychiatric Re search. The award was presented in Albany in December 1995.

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