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BULLETIN HMS Dean Puts Priority on Clinical Education After the Alumni Day Symposium, HMS dean Joseph Martin (right) addressed the gathered alums, noting that June marks his fifth anniversary at the School. He took the occasion to review the past five years and look ahead to the next five. Among his initial priorities were strengthening basic science research and broadening the School's relationship with the affiliated hospitals. He pointed to the recruitment of two new department chairs, the new research building, the Institute of Chemistry and Cell Biology, and the Institute of Proteomics as central to boosting basic science. He singled out the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center, the Harvard Center for Neurodegeneration and Repair, and the HMS Division of AIDS as examples of collaborative success. In contrast, he said, "Of all the ambitious goals and dreams we are seeing realized every day here in the Harvard medical community ... it is our core educational mission that is most chronically compromised and placed in jeopardy--in particular, the clinical training of our third- and fourth-year students." The crisis, due largely to a squeeze on teaching time caused by changes in the health care system, is being addressed by the Academy at HMS, the dean said. This program has pulled together educators from across the Harvard medical community who are committed to innovation in clinical education. "Among the top priorities," Martin explained, "are redirecting resources to support education and raising new educational resources through grants and philanthropy." (Photo by Steve Gilbert)   Klausner Speaks to HST Grads Richard Klausner, executive director of global health for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, delivered the keynote speech at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology graduation on June 5. Klausner, also a special adviser on counterterrorism to the presidents of the National Academies and former director of the National Cancer Institute, drew on the theme of the new book by Kennedy School professor Gerhard Sonnert, Ivory Bridges: Connecting Science and Society, and told the new graduates, with their training in both technology and medicine, that they are themselves bridges. "The very essence of the HST program is to cross gaps that separate our disciplines, that separate science from engineering, and both from medicine," he told them. "Your charge, as bridges, is to push the transformation of our approach to human health by shrinking the distance between science and its application."   New Appointments to Full Professorships These faculty members were appointed to a full professorship in February. Stanley Ashley Professor of Surgery Brigham and Women's Hospital Ashley is a gastrointestinal surgeon with interests in hepatic and pancreaticobiliary disease, inflammatory bowel disease, and gastrointestinal oncology. His research has focused on the physiology of intestinal adaptation and of pancreatitis. He is the program director of the General Surgery Residency at Brigham and Women's Hospital. Dennis Brown Professor of Medicine Massachusetts General Hospital Brown, a cell biologist, is director of the Program in Membrane Biology at Massachusetts General Hospital. His research examines mechanisms and pathways of vesicle transport and protein trafficking in epithelial cells. He has established the role of phosphorylation, the cytoskeleton, and accessory proteins in the regulated recycling of physiologically important membrane transport proteins in the kidney. He is director of the HST110 Renal Pathophysiology course and is a faculty member in the HMS Biology and Biological Sciences PhD program. He will serve as editor in chief of the American Journal of Physiology: Cell Physiology beginning in July.