Dean's Distinguished Lecture/Herbert Sherman Memorial Lecture
"Improving Health Care Quality: National Policy and Local Practice"
Monday, May 8
4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Kresge G-2
Speaker: William L. Roper, MD, MPH
Dean of the School of Medicine
University of North Carolina
CEO of UNC Health Care
GPTW Community Forum
"Are You Happy? What Makes You Happy?
Health and Happiness in Rural China"
Speaker: Winnie Yip
Associate Professor of International
Health Policy and Economics
Thursday, May 18
12 p.m. to 1 p.m.
Kresge G-2
Lunch will be provided.
RSVP to deansoff@hsph.harvard.edu.
Faculty Awards
Marie McCormick, Sumner and Esther Feldberg Professor of Maternal and Child Health, will receive the Douglas K. Richardson Award for Perinatal and Pediatric Healthcare Research at the 2006 annual meeting of the Society for Pediatric Research in San Francisco, CA, on April 30. McCormick has devoted her career to researching and raising awareness about children's health issues. She is a pioneer in research related to low birth weight infants and their health outcomes and was co-principal investigator of the National Healthy Start Program.
The Douglas K. Richardson Award is made annually by the Society for Pediatric Research and provides an honorarium and plaque.
Michelle Mello, associate professor of health policy and law, has been named the 2006 winner of the Alice S. Hersh New Investigator Award from AcademyHealth. The award is given annually to the person designated as the most outstanding scholar still in the early part of his or her career. AcademyHealth is the major professional organization nationally for health services and policy research and has nearly 4,000 members. Mello's work will be featured in a special session at the Annual Research Meeting of AcademyHealth on Sunday, June 25.
Hersh was the founding executive director of the Association for Health Services Research.
Ashish Jha, assistant professor of health policy and management, has been selected as one of 15 physicians to be the first class of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Physician Faculty Scholars Program. The program is intended to strengthen the leadership and academic productivity of junior medical school faculty who are dedicated to improving health and health care. The awards are up to $300,000 over three years in 2007 to help young physicians develop their careers in academic medicine.
Jha has focused his work on health care quality and on health care for underserved populations. He is a physician at HMS, Boston Healthcare System, and Brigham and Women's Hospital.
Poster Day Winners Announced
The Faculty Council has chosen the winners of the HSPH Poster Day.
There was a tie in the category for a student, or a team on which a student was first author and presenter:
Katy Wellen, "Coordination of Nutrient and Inflammatory Responses by STAMP2 Is Essential for Metabolic Homeostasis," and Jennifer Adibi, "Placental Gene Expression as a Novel Biomarker in Reproductive Epidemiology: Preliminary Results."
The category for a postdoctoral fellow, or a team on which a postdoctoral fellow was first author and presenter, was won by Xavier Trepat for "Fluidization of the Living Cell by Stretch."
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