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In a ceremony held Sept. 10, the Anne E. Dyson professorship in women's cancers in the Department of Surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital was formally established, and Dirk Iglehart (center, holding folder), professor of surgery at BWH, was named the first incumbent. Iglehart was most recently the Richard E. Wilson professor of surgery at BWH. The professorship was established in memory of the former president of the Dyson Foundation. With Iglehart above are (l to r) Anne's nephew Chris Dyson; Michael Zinner, chair of the Department of Surgery at BWH; Anne's brother Robert Dyson, president and director of the foundation; HMS dean Joseph Martin; Anne's husband Michael Kramer; and Eric Winer of the Division of Breast Oncology at the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute. Photo by Liza Green, HMS Media Services
Countway Mounts Exhibit of 15th and 16th Century PublicationsA new exhibit showcasing the Countway Library of Medicine's incunabula, the first examples of books, pamphlets, and broadsides printed with moveable type, will be on view in the L2 display area from Oct. 10 through April 1. With more than 800 items, the Countway holds the largest collection in the country and one of the finest in the world of medical incunabula. These books are sometimes referred to as "fifteeners" from their first appearance in the fifteenth century, which continued through the first half of the next century. The famous names and rare editions of the great early works in medicine are all well represented in the collection. Books on virtually every facet of medical knowledge, along with works on pharmacy, botany, natural history, witchcraft, alchemy, astrology, poetry, and philosophy, are included. This exhibit of a sampling of the library's holdings is being mounted in conjunction with a project to describe and fully catalog its holdings of incunabula. The effort will include online descriptions of these items, making them accessible to scholars and researchers for the first time. Some of the more unusual items on display are Thucydides' description of the fifth century B.C. plague at Athens, the first German edition of the lavishly illustrated Nuremberg Chronicle, a 1494 almanac predicting solar and lunar eclipses, the first full-length illustration of muscle dissection, the first printing of a medical treatise in Hebrew, and the first Latin edition of the Hippocratic Oath. For further information on The Fifteeners: Incunabula at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, contact Jack Eckert, reference librarian, at 617-432-6207 or jack_eckert@hms.harvard.edu.
Volunteers Needed to Visit, Escort ElderlyMATCH-UP Interfaith Volunteers is seeking individuals who would like to assist the elderly in Boston, either through a weekly visit or by accompanying them to medical and other appointments. One-time assistance is also needed. The organization has been matching volunteers with otherwise isolated seniors for the past 17 years. For more information, call 617-536-3557.
HMS Hosts Women's Health Research ConferenceThe HMS Center of Excellence in Women's Health is holding a Women's Health Research Day Conference on Oct. 25 from 12:00 to 5:00 p.m. at the Inn at Longwood's Galleria conference center. The conference will have three sessions: a poster session of investigations currently supported by the HMS Fund for Women's Health awards; a panel discussion about the role mentoring plays in advancing research and career development; and presentations by four HMS researchers involved in discoveries that have direct implications for women's health. For more information or to register, call Michele Saunders at 617-432-4371 or e-mail michele_saunders@hms.harvard.edu.
HST Offers New Bioinformatics Training ProgramThe Harvard–MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology has been awarded an NIH grant to provide predoctoral training in bioinformatics and functional genomics, establishing the new Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics Program (BIG). Its mission will be to train quantitative scientists in the biology, engineering, and information science of genomics. "The BIG program will provide the next generation of biological scientists with the analytical tools necessary to best use the data to gain insights and make discoveries that will transform how biomedical research is conducted, and that will lead to new therapies in the first half of the 21st century," said HST codirector Joseph Bonventre. Students with strong backgrounds in quantitative sciences are encouraged to apply. Students in the BIG program will receive three years of graduate tuition and stipend support, complemented by funding from individual laboratories for additional years. Applications for enrollment are being accepted for spring 2002. For more information, contact HST's Academic Office at 617-253-2307.
Memorial Service to Be Held for Former HMS Dean of Student AffairsA memorial service for Joseph Gardella, former HMS dean of student affairs, will be held at Memorial Church in Cambridge on Friday, Oct. 5 at 3:00 p.m. Donations to the Joseph W. Gardella, MD Memorial Fund to benefit the John D. Stoeckle Center for Primary Care Innovation may be made out to Massachusetts General Hospital and sent to the MGH Development Office, 100 Charles River Plaza, Suite 600, Boston, MA 02114-2792.
Honors and AdvancesNine students from HMS, HSDM, and HSPH have been named 2001–2002 Albert Schweitzer Fellows. During their fellowship, students design and carry out health-related community service projects to assist individuals or communities that lack adequate health services. The fellows and the organizations they will be working with are HMS students Oni Blackstock and Ann Chang, Prevention Now! Lead Girl Power; HMS student Julie Chen, Hepatitis B Initiative; HMS student Tarayn Grizzard, Whittier Street Health Center; HSPH student Brian Grossman, Gay Men's Domestic Violence Project; HMS student Alisa Land, MGH Chelsea Health Clinic; HSDM student A.J. Ortega, Boys and Girls Clubs of Boston; HMS student Joel Sawady, Haitian Health Institute/Soldiers of Health; and Sarvenaz Zand, PROMESA at Brigham and Women's Hospital. Martin Teicher, HMS associate professor of psychiatry and director of the developmental biopsychiatry lab at McLean Hospital, has been awarded an independent investigator grant from the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression. Teicher will use the $100,000 to study adolescent depression.
News BriefsThe McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience invites applications for the 2002 McKnight Scholar Awards. Awards are given to exceptional young scientists in the early stages of establishing an independent laboratory and research career. Six awardees will be chosen and will receive $75,000 a year for three years. The application deadline is Jan. 2, 2002. For more information, visit www.mcknight.org/neuroscience or call 612-333-4220. The HMS/HSDM staff committee on diversity and the Office of Faculty Development and Diversity invite nominations for the Harold Amos Faculty Diversity Awards and Sharon P. Clayborne Staff Diversity Awards. Nominations are due Oct. 12. For more information, contact Tamara Suttle at 432-2096 or tamara_suttle@hms.harvard.edu. |
