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BULLETINFreeman and ICOHRTA Fellows Announced in Department of Social MedicineThis fall, the HMS Department of Social Medicine welcomed five fellows to two of its fellowship programs. The Freeman Foundation Chinese and Southeast Asian Fellowship Program, now in its sixth year of funding, has traditionally brought faculty members from Asian universities to spend nine months in the department for research training in medical anthropology. Last spring, a new fellowship program was initiated, the Fogarty International Center- International Clinical, Operational, and Health Services Research and Training Award (ICOHRTA). This new program was developed to address the serious problems of mental health and neuropsychiatric disorders challenging China and the region. The 2002-2003 Freeman and ICOHRTA fellows are: Xie Bin (Freeman), a forensic psychiatrist and professor of psychiatry at Shanghai Second Medical University. Xie has an interest and career-long involvement in mental health policymaking and legislation. He drafted the recently enacted Shanghai municipal mental health regulations and has been assigned to lead a national committee of experts charged with conducting research and further study to expedite the process, ongoing since 1998, of amending and adopting the Chinese National Mental Health Act. During his fellowship year, Xie is examining the pressing concerns of modern forensic psychiatry and mental health legislation in China, among them such controversial issues as confidentiality, consent, restraint and seclusion, and voluntary vs. involuntary hospitalization. Mahar Agusno (Freeman), a senior lecturer in the Department of Psychiatry at Indonesia's Gadjah Mada Medical School and deputy director of the mental inpatient installation at Sardjito General Hospital. He is interested in cultural and social psychiatry and is developing a project proposal that aims to address the needs of children suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder as a result of war, displacement, and violence. Carla Raymondalexas Marchira (Freeman), a senior resident in the Department of Psychiatry at Gadjah Mada Medical School. Marchira was formerly the head of a government-run community health center in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. She is working on a proposal for a study that would observe and assess the knowledge and quality of mental health workers in Indonesian community health centers. The ultimate goal of the study would be to facilitate needed change in the way mental health services are put in priority and delivered in Indonesian primary health care settings. Irmansyah (ICOHRTA), a research coordinator and staff member of the Department of Psychiatry in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Indonesia in Jakarta. Irmansyah is also the chairman of the section on schizophrenia of the Indonesian Psychiatric Association. His goals for the fellowship year at Harvard include developing a family empowerment program, which would address and help reduce the effects of stigma and other social issues that challenge both mental health patients and the field of psychiatry. Xu Yong (ICOHRTA), the head psychiatrist of the psychosomatic ward at Shanghai Mental Health Center. He also practices medical psychological counseling at both Zhongshan Hospital and Shanghai Mental Consultation Center. As a fellow, he has begun research that will help identify ways of improving the detection and treatment of anxiety and depressive disorders. In particular, he is developing a project for his return to Shanghai that will bring to light the number and frequency of misdiagnoses of these disorders in China today. His ultimate goal is to identify practicable methods of improving the rate of accurately diagnosing these disorders.
The Academy at HMS Honors Innovation Recipients of recent awards from the Academy are (clockwise from left) Steven Simon, David Hirsh, Zaldy Tan, Joseph Betancourt, Emily Jean Davidson, and Peter Reese. (Photo by Liza Green, HMS Media Services) At a reception on Dec. 9, George Thibault, director of the Academy at HMS and a professor of medicine, presented Academy awards to six faculty members. Thibault said the projects that the recipients will undertake represent a revolutionary approach to medical education. HMS dean Joseph Martin gave introductory remarks. Named Morgan-Zinsser Fellows of the Academy were Joseph Betancourt, instructor in medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, whose project will be the development and integration of a cross-cultural curriculum at HMS; Emily Jean Davidson, instructor in pediatrics at Children's Hospital, whose project is titled "Creating Future Leaders to Care for People with Disabilities: A Service Learning Model"; and Steven Simon, assistant professor of ambulatory care and prevention at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, who will develop a new curriculum in patient safety and error reduction. Peter Reese, instructor in medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Zaldy Tan, instructor in medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, were named Curtis Prout Fellows of the Academy. Reese's project is titled "Home Visits by Medical Students: Social Insights and Bedside Skills" while Tan's project will be the integration of a geriatrics theme into the HMS curriculum. David Hirsh, instructor in medicine at Cambridge Hospital, was named the Suzanne W. Fletcher Academy Scholar. Hirsh's projects are a proposal to plan and implement an integrated core clerkship in Cambridge and a pilot for integration of the Patient-Doctor sequence.
Postdoc Fellowship at HSPH Renamed After Alonzo Smythe YerbyThe Minority Postdoctoral Fellowship Program at HSPH has been renamed the Alonzo Yerby Postdoctoral Fellowship, in memory of the School's first African-American department chair, who led the Department of Health Services Administration, the predecessor of the Department of Health Policy and Management, from 1966 to 1975. Applications are currently being accepted for 2003-2004. The Yerby Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, based at the Division of Public Health Practice, aims to increase the number of underrepresented minorities who enter academia. Part of the program's mission is to train postdoctoral fellows for faculty positions and retain them at HSPH. Fellowships carry an annual stipend of $50,000 plus benefits and are renewable for a second year. An application can be requested at www.hsph.harvard.edu/php/postdoc/downloadApp.htm. The deadline to apply is March 1, 2003. For more information, contact Betty Johnson at 617-496-8064 or by e-mail.
Cell Press Journals Now Available on Digital LibraryCountway and other Harvard libraries have recently licensed full-text journals from Cell Press, which include Cancer Cell, Cell, Developmental Cell, Immunity, Molecular Cell, and Neuron. Full-text access to these journals is available through the HMS intranet, the Countway Digital Library, and the Harvard Libraries portal. Please note that full-text access for articles is available after clicking on the "abstract" link.
JFK/UMass Shuttle Now PermanentAfter a trial period, MASCO and its member institutions have decided to make the JFK/UMass shuttle a regular service. The shuttle is a free service for employees and students and departs across the street from Vanderbilt Hall. The schedule remains the same.
HMS Faculty Council 2002-2003Listed below are the members of the 2002-2003 HMS Faculty Council.
Joseph Martin, Chairperson, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine *Docket Committee members are indicated by an asterisk. Members of the faculty are encouraged to contact any of them, or any Faculty Council member, to comment on future agenda items or to share issues or concerns that might benefit from Faculty Council consideration.
Honors and AdvancesHealth and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson named Joan Reede, dean for diversity and community partnership at HMS, who is an HMS assistant professor of medicine and HSPH assistant professor of maternal and child health, to a 13-member advisory committee on genetics, health, and society. The committee will consider the clinical, ethical, legal, and societal implications of genetic testing and other technologies. In December, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation awarded its 2002 Distinguished Clinical Scientist Award to five physician-scientists, including HMS faculty members D. Gary Gilliland, associate professor of medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Daniel Haber, professor of medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. Each will receive up to $1.5 million to be used over five to seven years to support the translation of the latest scientific advances into new ways to prevent, diagnose, treat, or cure cancer, AIDS, blood disorders, or cardiovascular disease. Second-year HMS student Amar Dhand has been awarded a Rhodes Scholarship. He will pursue a doctorate in education at Oxford University. Marc Lipsitch, HSPH assistant professor of epidemiology, was named as one of two 2002 Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy Young Investigators by the American Society for Microbiology. Lipsitch was honored for his achievement in theoretical and experimental research that has increased understanding of the processes responsible for the evolution and persistence of resistant bacteria. The Massachusetts Medical Society honored three HMS faculty members at the meeting of its governing body. JoAnn Manson received the Henry Ingersoll Bowditch Award. Manson, HMS professor of medicine and chief of the Division of Preventive Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, was recognized for her leadership in the field of public health. Edward Khantzian, HMS clinical professor of psychiatry at Cambridge Hospital, was presented with the Award for Excellence in Medical Service for his demonstrated compassion and dedication to the medical needs of patients and the public. The Award for Distinguished Service to the society went to Ronald Arky, the Charles S. Davidson distinguished professor of medicine and master of the Peabody Society. Arky has served as chair of the committee on medical education, the committee on publications, the accreditation review committee, and the search committee for the editor in chief of the New England Journal of Medicine. He currently serves as a member of the House of Delegates. Frank Castronovo, HMS associate professor of radiology and director of the Health Physics and Radiopharmacology Department at Brigham and Women's Hospital, has been elected a fellow of the American College of Radiology. Michael Carroll, HMS professor of pediatrics (pathology) at the Center for Blood Research, has received a new program project grant from the NIH for $7.5 million over the next five years to study the protective role of innate immunity in autoimmune disease. Project leaders in addition to Carroll are Klaus Rajewsky, HMS professor of pathology at the Center for Blood Research; Diane Mathis, HMS professor of medicine at the Joslin Diabetes Center; Christophe Benoist, HMS professor of Medicine at Joslin; and Alan Ezekowitz, the Charles Wilder professor of pediatrics at Massachusetts General Hospital. The Belmont Historic District Commission has nominated the McLean Hospital Campus to the National Register of Historic Places. The Massachusetts Historic Commission approved the nomination and has forwarded it to the National Park Service for approval. The hospital is also offering some of its buildings to parties willing to pay to have them relocated. For more information, call Cathie Bowen at 617-855-3450. The Gordon Hall skylight project at HMS has been recognized with an award for design from the American School and University magazine Educational Interiors Showcase 2002.
News BriefsGeorge Moriarty, a partner at the Boston law firm of Ropes & Gray, was appointed chairman of the board for Brigham and Women's and Faulkner hospitals. Moriarty has served on the BWH board of trustees since 1992. He assumed his new role on Jan. 1.The Carl J. Shapiro Institute for Education and Research is accepting applications for the Rabkin Fellowship in Medical Education. The one-year fellowship is open to faculty at all HMS-affiliated clinical institutions. The goal is to assist faculty in enhancing their skills as clinician-educators, provide opportunity to conduct scholarly research affecting medical education, and support fellows as educational leaders. The deadline is Jan. 31. Applications may be downloaded.
In Memoriam
Martin Berezin, HMS clinical professor emeritus of psychiatry at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, died Nov. 18. He was 90. A native of Norwood, Berezin received his undergraduate and medical degrees from Boston University. He headed army medical services on Guadalcanal during World War II. Berezin had a national reputation for his work in geriatric psychiatry and helped dispel negative perceptions of sexuality among the elderly, who he said have normal desires for affection. He was a cofounder of the Boston Society for Geriatric Psychiatry, a former editor of the Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, and the author of articles on the emotional problems of the elderly as well as co-author of Geriatric Psychiatry: Grief, Loss, and Emotional Disorders in the Aging Process. He retired from teaching and became emeritus in 1979, having served part-time at HMS for 33 years at Beth Israel and McLean. Berezin received the Jack Weinberg Memorial Award from the American Psychiatric Association for his work with elderly people. He was also active in the American Psychoanalytic Association, serving as secretary from 1973 to 1975. He was predeceased by his wife, Evelyn, and leaves two sons, Robert of Lexington and Charles of Los Angeles; a daughter, Jane Lashaw of Pearl River, N.Y.; a brother, Norman of Auburndale, Mass.; two sisters, Ruth Weiner of Chestnut Hill and May Drezner of Los Angeles; and seven grandchildren. |
