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Honors and Awards
Ralph Steinman ’68 was one of three doctors to be awarded the 2009 Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research, the largest award in medicine nationally. Paul Farmer ’90 has been named the recipient of the 2009 Lois Pope LIFE International Achievement Award. The honor, which comes with a $100,000 research award, is presented annually by the Lois Pope LIFE Foundation at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. The most recent novel of Stephen Bergman ’73, The Spirit of the Place, won USA Book News’s 2008 National Best Book Award in the General Fiction and Literature Category. Carl Taylor ’41 received the inaugural Global Health Council Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of his dedication to improving the health of marginalized people through community-based interventions. Taylor is professor emeritus of international health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Neil Powe ’80 was named a University Distinguished Service Professor by the Johns Hopkins University Board of Trustees. He is currently a professor of epidemiology and medicine at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and director of the Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research. Brent Hale ’96 was named a 2008 Hero of Emergency Medicine by the American College of Emergency Physicians. The award recognizes his work as a battalion surgeon with the 19th Special Forces 1st Battalion in Afghanistan during Operation Enduring Freedom. He also received the Combat Medical Badge and Bronze Star for his service there. Hale is an attending physician and a clinical instructor at Oklahoma University Medical Center. Constance Chu ’92 was chosen as the recipient of the Albert B. Ferguson Jr., MD, Endowed Chair in Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Chu is the director of that school’s Cartilage Restoration Program in its McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine. David Blumenthal ’74 received the 2008 Distinguished Investigator Award from AcademyHealth, an organization that promotes interaction across the health research and policy arenas, in June 2008. Blumenthal is director of the Institute for Health Policy in Boston, Massachusetts. Jordan Cohen ’60 was named the recipient of the 2008 Richard and Barbara Hansen Leadership Award and Distinguished Lectureship at the University of Iowa College of Public Health. Cohen is a professor of medicine and public health at George Washington University and president emeritus of the Association of American Medical Colleges. Pardis Sabeti ’06 was awarded the David and Lucile Packard Foundation’s Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering. The $875,000 fellowship will be paid over five years beginning in November 2008. Sangeeta Bhatia ’99 has been named the first recipient of the Millipore Seed Grant Fellowship, which was established in partnership with the Harvard Stem Cell Institute. Walter Stamm ’71 will be presented with the 2008 American Society for Microbiology Sanofi-Aventis Award at the 48th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy/46th IDSA Annual Meeting on October 25, 2008, in Washington, DC. The award honors outstanding accomplishments in antimicrobial chemotherapy. Merrill Feldman ’52 was among six Massachusetts veterans of the invasion of France who were honored on July 14, 2008, when Boston’s French consul general bestowed on them France’s highest military decoration, the Legion of Honor. Samuel Katz ’52, a Duke University pediatrician and co-developer of the measles vaccine, received the North Carolina Children’s Lifetime Achievement award on June 18, 2008. D. Holmes Morton ’83 received an honorary degree from Haverford College on May 18, 2008. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is investing $15 million over five years to support William Thomas ’86 and his vision of “Green Houses,” an effort to replace large nursing homes with small, homelike facilities for 10 to 12 elderly residents. The Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation named Andrew Chan ’97 one of five new Damon Runyon Clinical Investigators for 2008. Harvard Medical School student Jordan Amadio ’10 is the author of two award-winning poems: “Boyhood on the Coast of Italy” and “Vision” won second place and honorable mention respectively in the 2008 William Carlos Williams Poetry Competition for medical students, which is sponsored by the Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine. Former Harvard Medical School Dean Daniel Tosteson ’48 was one of 11 honorary degree recipients at Harvard University’s commencement in June 2008. Christopher Rose ’74 has been selected to receive the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology 2008 Gold Medal, the highest honor that ASTRO bestows. Robert H. Brown, Jr. ’75 received an honorary degree from Amherst College in May 2008. Eric Chivian ’68 was recently named one of Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World. Past honorees include Jim Yong Kim ’86 and Andrew Weil ’68. Alice Chen-Plotkin ’03 has received a Career Award for Medical Specialists from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. She also recently received the 2008 Clinician-Scientist Development Fellowship award from the American Academy of Neurology Foundation and The ALS Foundation. Chen-Plotkin is currently a postdoctorate fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research. Judith Lieberman ’81, HMS professor of pediatrics and senior investigator of the CBR Institute for Biomedical Research, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences 2008 Class of Fellows. The American Academy of Neurology awarded the 2008 Norman Geschwind Prize Award in Behavioral Neurology to Andrew E. Budson ’92, with the Bedford V.A. Hospital in Bedford, Massachusetts, for his research to better understand how memory distortion occurs in Alzheimer’s patients. Budson is the Director of the Geriatric Research Educational Clinical Center at the Bedford V.A., and is also part of the Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Center. |
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