April 11, 2002
Health Sciences News Brief
Recognition awards
Dr. Emily Wong, assistant professor of medicine, and Mae Mar Chin, clinical associate professor of dentistry, are receiving 2002 Women of Color in Health, Science and Technology Special Recognition Awards from Career Communications Group. The national award recognizes career accomplishments of minority women and their commitment to helping others succeed. Wong, a graduate of the UW School of Medicine, directs the UWMC-Roosevelt Women’s Health Care Center and the UW Center of Excellence in Women’s Health. Chin works with the DECOD clinic and Dental Public Health Sciences in the School of Dentistry. The awards are being presented at a conference in Nashville this week.
Melatonin and body rhythms
The UW Center for Women’s Health Research is seeking mothers and their new babies for a research study of melatonin and body temperature biorhythms. Mothers must be between 18 and 40, with babies less than 10 weeks old. The women should also be first-time parents who did not have a Caesarian birth, do not use medications such as ibuprophen or aspirin on a daily basis, have not been treated for depression within two years and do not take melatonin or a beta-blocker medication. The study involves urine collection, 24-hour temperature recording, and sleep records. Participants who complete the study will be paid $150. For more information, call Dr. Karen Thomas in the Department of Family and Child Nursing, 543-8231.
Named to advisory panel
Dr. Paul G. Ramsey, vice president for medical affairs and dean of the School of Medicine, has been named to a four-year term as a member of the National Advisory Research Resources Council of the National Institutes of Health. The group advises the secretary of Health and Human Services and the director of the National Center for Research Resources.
