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Darrell A. Campbell Jr., M.D. (Residency 1978), is one of only two recipients of the 2007 Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Award for Individual Achievement, given by the National Quality Forum, a public-private organization which includes members from all health care sectors and The Joint Commission, the nation’s leading health care accreditation and quality organization. Campbell, who holds the Henry King Ransom Professorship in Surgery and serves as chief of staff and senior associate director of the Hospitals and Health Centers, has worked nationally to make surgery safer for patients, and leads a broad patient-safety and quality-improvement campaign at the U-M to make the Health System the safest medical center in America.
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Susan Dorr Goold (M.D. 1987, Residency 1992), associate professor of internal medicine and one of the founders of the U-M Bioethics Program, has been named to the American Medical Association’s Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs. Goold is the only trained bioethicist on the panel, which includes six leading physicians from various specialties and two physicians-in-training. Practicing doctors, clinical affairs leaders, accrediting bodies, state boards, the courts, media and the public all turn to the AMA Code of Medical Ethics for guidance. The council maintains and updates the code, which dates back 160 years.
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Daniel F. Hayes, M.D., professor of internal medicine and clinical director of the Breast Oncology Program, was recently named the first recipient of the annual Gianni Bonadonna Breast Cancer Award by the American Society of Clinical Oncology and the ASCO Foundation. The award recognizes Hayes’ clinical and laboratory work which has advanced the management of breast cancer worldwide.
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Timothy R.B. Johnson, M.D. (Residency 1979), Bates Professor of the Diseases of Women and Children and professor and chair of obstetrics and gynecology, has been admitted as a fellow ad eundem of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in London. Johnson was also made an Honorary Fellow of the Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons and presented a lecture entitled “The Road to Achieving Excellence in Maternal Fetal Medicine” at the college’s Annual Scientific Meeting in Accra, Ghana. Johnson also assumed the editorship of the International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics in February. The September issue, his first as editor, was a special edition titled “Women’s Health and Safe Motherhood: Celebrating the Twentieth Anniversary of the Safe Motherhood Initiative.”
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Anna Lok, M.D., professor of internal medicine, has been selected to receive the Hepatitis B Foundation’s 2008 Distinguished Scientist Award. The award is the highest scientific honor conferred by the foundation, and recognizes Lok’s outstanding contributions to the science and medicine of hepatitis B, as well as her advocacy for hepatitis B research and care.
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Howard Markel (M.D. 1986), Ph.D., was elected to the American Clinical and Climatological Association, one of the oldest and most prestigious medical societies in the nation. Founded in 1884 by a group of physicians and scientists to improve medical education, research and practice, its initial focus was tuberculosis and its treatment by residence in a suitable climate; over time, the association expanded its field of interest to all aspects of medicine. Members are selected on the basis of leadership and excellence in their chosen field. Markel is the George E. Wantz Professor of the History of Medicine, director of the Center for the History of Medicine, and a professor of pediatrics and communicable diseases and of psychiatry.
The American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation has awarded the Michigan Spinal Stenosis Study Team the Education Research Fund Best Paper Award, the highest research award in the field, for the best research in physical medicine and rehabilitation this year. The team also received the best paper award from the Association of Academic Physiatrists this year, and has compiled more than a dozen other research awards. Members of the team include Anthony Chiodo, M.D. (Residency 1987), Michael Geisser, Ph.D., Andrew Haig, M.D., Jennifer Miner, Douglas Quint, M.D. (Residency 1986), Karen Yamakawa, John Yarjanian, M.D. (Fellowship 2004), and the late Julian Hoff, M.D.
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Don Nease Jr., M.D., associate professor in the Department of Family Medicine, is serving a two-year term as president of the American Balint Society. The society is a collaboration of clinician-teachers who promote the use of intellect, emotion and self-reflection in the doctor-patient relationship, as well as its therapeutic potential. Nease also is serving a two-year term as vice president of the International Balint Federation.
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Erika Newman, M.D., house officer in the Department of Surgery, was chosen by the Association of Women Surgeons to receive the 2007 Outstanding Woman Resident Award in recognition of a remarkable career in training as well as outstanding potential to contribute to the profession in the coming years.
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The Michigan Academy of Family Physicians selected Eric Skye, M.D., to receive the Family Medicine Educator of the Year Award, presented annually to the family physician who has excelled in medical education and contributed to the continuing health of Michigan citizens. Skye is an assistant professor of
family medicine and director of the Family Medicine Residency Program, and also teaches in the Family Centered Experience, a program which pairs first- and second-year medical students with patients to learn how family, environment, culture and lifestyle play a part in an individual’s health.
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M. Catherine Spires, M.D. (Residency 1992), associate professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation and associate chair of clinical affairs in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, is among 48 senior women faculty nationwide selected for the 2007-08 class of the Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) Program for Women. ELAM is the only national program dedicated to preparing senior women faculty for leadership at academic health centers.
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Assistant Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology Xian-Zhong Shawn Xu, Ph.D., has been named the University of Michigan’s only Pew Scholar for 2007. Xu and 19 other exceptional researchers were selected as 2007 Pew Scholars in the Biomedical Sciences. The program, funded by Pew through a grant to the University of California, San Francisco, invests in early- to mid-career scientists; each scientist receives support for his or her research over a period of four years and gains inclusion into a unique community of scientists that encourages collaboration and exchange of ideas.
The following faculty members were recently appointed or reappointed, for five-year terms, to endowed professorships within the Medical School: David A. Bloom, M.D., the Jack Lapides Professor of Urology; Darrell A. Campbell Jr., M.D. (Residency 1978), the Henry King Ransom Professor of Surgery; Gerard M. Doherty, M.D., the Norman Thompson, M.D., Professor of Surgery; Sid Gilman, M.D., the William J. Herdman Professor of Neurology; John F. Greden, M.D., the Rachel Upjohn Professor of Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences; Steven L. Kunkel, Ph.D., the Pathology Research Endowed Professor; Howard M. Sandler, M.D., the Newman Family Professor of Radiation Oncology; Thomas W. Wakefield, M.D. (Residency 1984, Fellowship 1986), the S. Martin Lindenauer Collegiate Professor of Vascular Surgery; Jeffrey S. Warren, M.D. (Residency 1988), the Aldred Scott Warthin Professor of Pathology.
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