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Barger Awards Honor Outstanding Mentors, Silen Award Recognizes Lifetime of MentoringThe 2000 A. Clifford Barger Excellence in Mentoring Awards will be presented at a March 1 ceremony to recognize this year's recipients. A keynote presentation on leadership will be given by Ronald Heifetz, director of the Center for Public Leadership at the Kennedy School of Government. Established to underscore the importance of mentoring in faculty development and to honor HMS and HSDM faculty for their outstanding efforts, the award is named in memory of the former HMS faculty member known for his generous support and encouragement of others. Recipients of this year's awards are Anne Alonso, HMS clinical professor of psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital; Elliott Antman, HMS associate professor of medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital; Walter Guralnick, HSDM professor emeritus of oral and maxillofacial surgery at MGH; Janet Hall, associate professor of medicine at MGH; and Joanne Ingwall, professor of medicine (physiology) at BWH. This year, the HMS Faculty Council established the William Silen Lifetime Achievement in Mentoring Award, named in honor of the first dean of faculty development and diversity, who stepped down in January. Silen, the Johnson and Johnson professor emeritus of surgery, has been a longtime exemplar of the mentor and will be the first recipient of the award. The ceremony will take place from 4:00 to 5:30 p.m. in the Carl Walter Amphitheater in the TMEC. Candidates Sought for HMS Dean for Continuing EducationHMS dean for medical education Daniel Lowenstein announced that Stephen Goldfinger will step down as the faculty dean for continuing education. "HMS is indebted to Steve for his extraordinary and devoted contributions to the continuing education of health professionals both locally and throughout the world. Our CME programs have flourished in large part because of his ability to maintain the highest standards of quality, and his integrity as a leader," Lowenstein said. The Medical School is seeking a highly qualified individual who will lead the HMS continuing education program, the largest academically based endeavor of its kind in the world. The position requires oversight of all activities of the Department of Continuing Education, which is responsible for marketing, enrollment, and fiscal transactions for all courses, as well as course evaluation and educational consultation with faculty. The dean is expected to maintain a standard of excellence for all offerings bearing the HMS brand, sound fiscal policies germane to all CME initiatives, and administrative policies that are equitable to all academic units of HMS. The individual will chair the HMS Committee on Continuing Education, prepare the annual report of the activities of the department, maintain ACCME accreditation of HMS CME programs, and represent HMS within major national CME organizations and societies. The person is also expected to encourage effective research pertaining to the field of continuing education; to create new offerings, including programs that will promote problem-based learning oriented to identified needs of practitioners and Internet-delivered curriculum to engage clinicians in HMS-branded distance learning; and to integrate CME activities with new Medical School initiatives dedicated to lifetime learning. Candidates must hold an MD or PhD in a field relevant to biomedical sciences or education and be of associate professor rank, though professor rank is preferred. The candidate must have substantial experience in CME, including an understanding of the pedagogical underpinnings, policies of the ACCME, and administration and management of a broad range of programs. He or she should also have a record of substantial accomplishments as an educator within CME or other related programs. Prospective candidates should submit a letter of interest and complete curriculum vitae by March 1st to Daniel H. Lowenstein, MD, Dean for Medical Education, Harvard Medical School, Gordon Hall, Room 103, 25 Shattuck Street, Boston, MA 02115 or e-mail daniel_lowenstein@hms.harvard.edu. Electronic submission is encouraged.
Brian and Ryan Turner are kung-fu masters in the second-year show "Corporate Looteum: The MEC Shall Inherit the Earth," performed Feb. 15 to 17. This annual tradition of poking fun at preclinical faculty had students singing, dancing, and even rapping a scatologicial "tribute" to their instructors. The plot of the HMS/HSDM Class of 2003 production has senior dean for alumni relations and clinical teaching Daniel Federman successfully franchising HMS worldwide. Photo by Steve Gilbert HSPH Holds Poster, Exhibit DayThe 15th annual HSPH Poster and Exhibit Day will be held on Thursday, March 8, from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. in the Kresge cafeteria. The event is an opportunity to learn more about the research and service activities of the HSPH community. This year, the HSPH Faculty Council will award a $500 prize for the best poster or exhibit prepared by a student or by a team including students. For more information and to register for the event, visit www.hsph.harvard.edu/academicaffairs/posterday or contact Deanna Paquet at 432-4533 or dpaquet@hsph.harvard.edu Women's Health Conference Seeks to Increase Participation of Minority Women in Clinical TrialsThe HMS Center of Excellence in Women's Health will hold a daylong conference for Harvard researchers on March 9, "Recruiting Minority Women into Clinical Research Trials: The Intersection of Race, Ethnicity, Gender, Community, and Academia." Because minority women's participation in clinical research has been minimal, the conference will address minority women's concerns, barriers to participation, models for recruitment and community involvement, institutional strategies for improving recruitment, and benchmarks to track HMS's success at increasing minority representation in research. Speakers include keynoter Shiriki Kumanyika from the University of Pennsylvania, Roberta Rosenberg from the Multicultural Center on Aging, Bettina Beech from the University of Memphis Prevention Center, Ming Hui Chen from Brigham and Women's Hospital, and James Breitmeyer from the Harvard Clinical Research Institute. The conference will be held at the Inn at Longwood Medical from 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. and is cosponsored by the Dana–Farber/Harvard Cancer Center Risk Reduction Program and Massachusetts General Hospital's Mallinckrodt General Clinical Research Center. For more information or to RSVP, contact Stephanie Mandell at (617) 432-4371 or e-mail smandell@hms.harvard.edu. HST Events Highlight Biomedical Technology, Student ResearchThe Harvard–MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology is hosting a hands-on symposium, "Experiencing the Frontiers of Biomedical Technology," on March 12 and 13 in the TMEC. The presentations will allow participants to experience firsthand the biomedical technologies becoming part of successful health care delivery. Workshops will be led by HST, HMS, and MIT faculty and others from industry on tissue engineering and microdevices, drug delivery systems, human–machine systems, and informatics. Registration and a fee are required. For more information and to register, visit http://hst.mit. edu/mempsymp or contact Betsy Tarlin at 258-8759 or e-mail btarlin@mit.edu. The 2001 HST Forum, an annual event at which HST students present and discuss their current research, takes place March 11 from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. at the Westin Hotel in Copley Square. The forum is an opportunity for members of the Harvard and MIT communities and others to learn about the research being conducted in the division. |
