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BULLETIN Two Deans Named to Admissions Photo by Steve Gilbert Robert Mayer, HMS professor of medicine at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, has accepted the position of associate dean for admissions and Darrell Smith, HMS assistant professor of radiology at Brigham and Women's Hospital, has accepted the newly created position of assistant dean for admissions. "Drs. Mayer and Smith possess all the qualities that embody the standards of HMS--impeccable leadership ability, a passion for medical education and the practice of medicine, and devotion to students and cultural diversity," said Malcolm Cox, HMS dean for medical education. "Their guidance and support will also prove invaluable in the transition to our new curriculum, scheduled for full implementation two years from now." Photo by Jeff Cleary Mayer is currently the vice chair for academic affairs in the Department of Medical Oncology at DFCI and has served on the committee on graduate education, the committee on continuing education, and the admissions review committee. Smith is the director of the Breast Magnetic Resonance Imaging program at BWH and serves on both the HMS admissions committee and the intersociety multicultural fellows committee. "I am confident that Bob and Darrell will maintain and enhance the high standards of excellence that have become a trademark of the HMS Office of Admissions, in particular, under the leadership of Jules Dienstag for the past six years," said HMS dean Joseph Martin.   Three Appointed for Program in Medical Education David Urion has been named faculty director of enrichment programs at HMS. An HMS associate professor of neurology at Children's Hospital Boston, Urion will provide faculty leadership of the Office of Enrichment Programs, oversee public service work done by HMS students in domestic and international settings, define the academic and professional standards for the work done by these students, and expand enrichment opportunities and funding sources. Laurie Raymond, HMS assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Cambridge Hospital, has been appointed faculty director of the Office of Advising Resources within the Office of Student Afffairs, where she has been the part-time director for the past five years. In her expanded role, she will chair the newly established remediation committee and coordinate a system of academic remediation for preclinical and clinical medical and dental students. Raymond will also cochair the University Health Service health representatives committee for the Longwood Medical Area. Celina Garza Mankey, HMS instructor in medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, has been appointed assistant dean for student affairs and assistant director for the Office of Recruitment and Multicultural Affairs at HMS. She will also serve as vice chair of the intersociety multicultural fellows committee. In her new role, she will work with students and their organizations by serving as a faculty advisor. Mankey also will assist in the implementation of programs aimed at recruitment and retention of students of color within the Harvard Medical community.   Joslin Director Receives Bristol-Myers Award Ronald Kahn, director of Joslin Diabetes Center and the Mary K. Iacocca professor of medicine at HMS, has been given the fifth annual Bristol-Myers Squibb Freedom to Discover Award for Distinguished Achievement in Metabolic Research. Kahn was recognized for his contributions to the field of diabetes, which include discoveries that have defined the molecular and cellular mechanisms of insulin action and insulin resistance in obesity and diabetes. His work, spanning 30 years, has focused on the mechanisms of insulin signaling at the cellular level and how the network of signaling is converted into actions in the body, which affect metabolism and growth. His laboratory was the first to demonstrate the alterations that occur in insulin receptors in disease states. Recently, he and his colleagues have linked liver tissues, beta cells, and brain cells to the development of type 2 diabetes and have shown a connection between insulin action in fat and longevity.   Leaders Honored for Mentoring On June 23, the HMS and HSDM community gathered for the Excellence in Mentoring awards. Gary Gottlieb (right), president of Brigham and Women's Hospital, HMS professor of psychiatry, and chairman of the Partners Psychiatry and Mental Health System, presented the keynote address. The honorees included Ronald Arky, the Charles S. Davidson distinguished professor of medicine at HMS, and Reed Larsen, HMS professor of medicine at BWH, who were both given the William Silen Lifetime Achievement in Mentoring Award. Additional honorees receiving the Clifford Barger Excellence in Mentoring Award included Anthony D'Amico, HMS professor of radiation oncology at BWH; Anne Klibanski, HMS professor of medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital; Stanley Korsmeyer, the Sidney Farber professor of pathology at HMS and Dana-Farber; Diane Mathis, HMS professor of medicine at Joslin Diabetes Center; and Lucila Ohno-Machado, HMS associate professor of radiology at BWH. (Photo by Liza Green, HMS Media Services)   The new HMS/HBS joint MD-MBA program will be directed by Stan Finkelstein, HMS senior lecturer on health care policy, a member of the faculty of the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, and chair of the task force that developed the new program (see Focus, May 14, 2004). Beginning in September 2005, the program aims to develop outstanding physician leaders, skilled in both medicine and management. Finkelstein also holds appointments at the Sloan School of Management, where he serves on the Biomedical Enterprise Program steering committee. He has held government and public service positions, including membership on the Drug Utilization Panel and the Therapeutic Decision Making Panel of U.S. Pharmacopoeia.   Alumni Bulletin Wins CASE Grand Gold The Harvard Medical Alumni Bulletin has won the Robert Sibley Magazine of the Year Award from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). This national grand gold award, which includes a $2,000 prize, is judged by the editors of Newsweek. The first graduate school magazine to win the Sibley Award since 1994, the Bulletin was automatically entered into the competition based on its recent gold medal in the professional and graduate school magazine category. Edited by Paula Byron, the magazine also won a silver medal from CASE in the periodical special issues category for its report on the neurobiology of the arts.   Appointments to Full and Named Professorships The following full professors were appointed in April. Walter Frontera Earle P. and Ida S. Charlton Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital Frontera is chairman of the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R) and chief of the PM&R service at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Brigham and Women's Hospital. His research focuses on the mechanism of sarcopenia and the use of exercise to enhance functional capacity in the elderly. His clinical interest is the rehabilitation of patients with injuries to the musculoskeletal system. Frontera is also editor in chief of the American Journal of PM&R. Katia Georgopoulos Professor of Dermatology Massachusetts General Hospital Georgopoulos conducts her research on the mechanisms that support cell fate and lineage decisions. Her group is engaged in delineating how the Ikaros gene family of nuclear regulators control both differentiation and homeostasis in the hematopoietic system. She is a member of the committee on immunology at HMS and director of the ES Cell and Mouse Transgenic Core Facilities at MGH. Jill Goldstein Professor of Psychiatry Massachusetts Mental Health Center Goldstein is the director of research for the Connors Center for Women's Health and Gender Biology, Division of Women's Health, Departments of Medicine and Psychiatry at Brigham and Women's, and a consultant in neuroscience at Massachusetts General Hospital. Goldstein directs a program of research called the Clinical Neuroscience of Sex Differences in the Brain, in which studies are elucidating normal sex differences in brain structure and function in relation to sex differences in psychopathology in order to understand how the brain goes awry in men and women with major neuropsychiatric disorders. John Hartwig Professor of Medicine Brigham and Women's Hospital Hartwig's research is on the formation and function of blood platelets and mechanisms that remove platelets from the blood. His laboratory focuses on defining the mechanics of platelet cytoskeletal assembly and the signals and proteins that generate and activate platelets. Most recently, he has become interested in how normal and diseased platelets are removed from blood and have defined changes in the platelet surface that lead to recognition and ingestion by liver macrophages. Larry Seidman Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry Massachusetts Mental Health Center Seidman is the associate department chairman (research), HMS Department of Psychiatry at MMHC; director of the Commonwealth Research Center of Excellence for Clinical Neuroscience and Psychopharmacological Research, Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Mental Health; and director of neuroimaging studies at the Pediatric Psychopharmacology Program at Massachusetts General Hospital. His research interests include the neurobiological understanding of the premorbid vulnerability and onset of schizophrenia and the neurodevelopmental understanding of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Ellice Lieberman Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology Brigham and Women's Hospital Lieberman, who is also director of the Center for Perinatal Research at BWH, conducts research on pregnancy, labor, and birth in low-risk women. She is interested in the effect of labor management practices, particularly the use of epidural analgesia, on the course and outcome of labor. Lieberman is also a member of the Department of Society, Human Development, and Health at HSPH. Mara Lorenzi Professor of Ophthalmology Schepens Eye Research Institute Lorenzi, also a senior scientist at SERI, researches the vascular complications of diabetes, with a concentration on retinopathy. The work has focused on the cellular toxicity of high glucose, the changes in gene expression that mark the effects of diabetes on a particular tissue, and the processes that contribute to human diabetic retinopathy. Lorenzi is the George and Frances Levin scholar in diabetic retinopathy at SERI and principal investigator and director of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Center on Diabetic Retinopathy. Richard Maas Professor of Medicine Brigham and Women's Hospital Maas conducts research on the genes and genetic pathways that control key steps in mammalian organ formation. These genes include members of the Paired box (Pax) and Homeobox (Hox) gene families that function in the formation of the eyes, kidneys, and craniofacial tissues. His research relies heavily on both naturally occurring human developmental defects and on genetically engineered mouse models that permit the elucidation of fundamental developmental mechanisms in organogenesis. Mass is also the chief of the Division of Genetics in the Department of Medicine at BWH. Francis Moore, Jr. Professor of Surgery Brigham and Women's Hospital Moore is chief of the Division of General and GI Surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital and maintains a busy and innovative clinical service in endocrine surgery. As a result of a research fellowship with K. Frank Austen in 1981, Moore has pursued lung investigations in the serum complement system and is currently principal investigator of the Trauma Center Program Project at BWH. Moore is the president of the Massachusetts Chapter of the American College of Surgeons, where he also serves as a governor. Clare Tempany Professor of Radiology Brigham and Women's Hospital Tempany's research interests are body, pelvic, genitourinary and gynecologic MRI, oncoradiology, and image-guided therapy. Her work has focused on prostate cancer imaging, diagnosis, staging, and treatment. In image-guided therapy, she has developed an MR-guided prostate intervention program for biopsy and brachytherapy. Recently, her research has been in MR-guided focused ultrasound surgery for uterine leiomyomas. She is also director of clinical MRI and clinical focused ultrasound at BWH. The following named chair was appointed in July 2003. Isaac Kohane Lawrence J. Henderson Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Health Sciences and Technology Children's Hospital Boston Kohane is the director of the Children's Hospital Informatics Program. He leads multiple collaborations at HMS and its hospital affiliates in the elucidation of regulatory networks of genes and the interaction between genotype and phenotype using a variety of bioinformatics techniques. His work involves applications in tumorigenesis, type 2 diabetes, neurodevelopment, neuro-endocrinology, and transplantation biology.