September 6, 1996-Honors & Awards
Honors & Awards
- Children's Hospital ranked first in pediatric medicine in
the August 12 U.S. News & World Report "America's Best
Hospitals" ranking. It is the seventh year in a row that
Children's has ranked number one.
- The Harvard School of Dental Medicine has appointed Bjorn
Olsen to head the Harvard-Forsyth Department of Oral
Biology. In addition, he will be director of the new joint
Harvard-Forsyth Center for Craniofacial Anomalies Research
and director of research at the Dental School. Olsen will
maintain his appointment as Hersey Professor of Cell Biology
at HMS, a position he has held since 1993.
The announcement was made in July by R. Bruce Donoff,
dean of the Harvard School of Dental Medicine, and James E.
Mulvihill, president of the Forsyth Dental Center.
- Anne Hallward, a fourth-year student at HMS, was chosen by
the Nicholas J. Pisacano, M.D., Memorial Foundation as one
of five scholars to receive the Pisacano Scholarship. The
scholarships, valued at up to $50,000 each, go to
outstanding medical students who have made a commitment to
enter family practice. Hallward graduated magna cum laude
from Harvard College and has founded or cofounded several
groups including the St. Paul's Drop-In Center for the
homeless; the Creative Expressions Program for cancer and
AIDS patients; and Alternative Medicine, a holistic-health
interest group.
The foundation is the philanthropy of the American
Board of Family Practice, named after the board's founding
director.
- Three certificates of achievement and commendation for renal
care in Boston's "community of color" were presented to
William F. Owen by the Boston City Council, the mayor, and
the state senate. Owen is assistant director of Dialysis
Services at BWH and assistant professor of medicine at HMS.
"The BWH Renal Division has always had a leadership role in
targeting and teaching high-risk populations," Owen said.
- Joan Claria, research fellow in anesthesia at BWH, will
receive the 1996 Bayer International Aspirin Award on
November 29 for her research regarding a new mechanism of
action in aspirin. The paper, "Aspirin triggers previously
undescribed bioactive eicosanoids by human endothelial cell-
leukocyte interactions," was published in the Proceedings of
the National Academy of Sciences in October 1995. ClĂria
conducted the research in conjunction with Charles Serhan of
the Center for Experimental Therapeutics and Reperfusion
Injury at BWH.