December 1, 2005
Health Sciences briefs
Open House next spring
The 2006 Health Sciences Open House is set for Friday and Saturday, April 28 and 29. The event will offer participants a hands-on look at the latest advances at one of the leading research, training and health-care facilities in the world. New exhibitors, as well as those who have taken part in the past, will be recruited for the event. Jennifer Johnson has been named Open House coordinator and is working in the Health Sciences/UW Medicine News and Community Relations Office. She can be reached at 206-543-5070 or by e-mail at jenjo@u.washington.edu.
Gift Shop opens
UW Medical Center’s Gift Shop is now open again in its renovated space just off the main hospital lobby. The shop has been closed since early summer as part of the lobby area renovation.
Video on KCTS
KCTS-TV, Ch. 9, plans to broadcast a video that follows the ups and downs of a Eugene, Ore., young man diagnosed with leukemia and treated at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance and UW Medical Center. The broadcast is scheduled for 8 a.m., Thursday, Dec. 15, with a studio discussion planned immediately afterward. The video is called A Brand New Life: TJ Reed’s Battle with Leukemia and was produced and directed by Michelle Mansfield of Leaping Media.
French Food Award for Drewnowski
Dr. Adam Drewnowski, who heads the UW Program in Nutritional Sciences and the Center for Public Health Nutrition, is the 2005 recipient of the Science Trophy, a French Food Spirit Award. The award is made in recognition of. Drewnowski’s contributions to nutrition research in France, his work with French scientists, and his studies on health disparities, diet quality and diet cost. The award ceremony and reception will take place on Dec. 7 at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Quai d’Orsay, Paris.
Davis joins NCI Board
Dr. Scott Davis, chair of the Department of Epidemiology in the School of Public Health and Community Medicine, has joined the National Cancer Institute’s Board of Scientific Counselors and will serve until 2010 on the subcommittee for clinical services and epidemiology. The board evaluates the performance of NCI scientists and the quality of their research programs, and advises the NCI leadership on scientific program policy and the progress and future direction of research programs.
VA Clinical Award
Dr. Cynthia Dougherty, research associate professor of biobehavioral nursing and health systems, has received the 2005 Excellence in Clinical Practice Award from the Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System, recognizing her leadership in advanced clinical practice for managing a group of patients with severe heart disease. Dougherty started a clinic at the Seattle VA last year for people with an implantable cardioverter defibrillator, a pacemaker-like device that is inserted in the chest to monitor the heart rhythm and deliver a corrective shock if needed. Dougherty and her colleague Dr. Merritt Raitt formed the clinic to follow up with patients involved in an earlier clinical trial.
Rheumatology awards
Dr. Basia Belza, associate professor of biobehavioral nursing and heath systems, has received the President’s Award and the Star Award from the Association of Rheumatology Health Professionals (ARHP), a division of the American College of Rheumatology. The President’s Award honors a member of the organization for outstanding service in the current year; Star Awards were given for contributions to the field and the organization over the group’s 40-year history. Belza studies the dissemination of community-based exercise interventions for older adults with arthritis.
Book award for Fausto
The British Medical Association has selected a pathology text co-authored by Dr. Nelson Fausto, chair of the UW Department of Pathology, for its first-place award in the category of Basic and Clinical Sciences for the 2005 Book Competition. The book, Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease, 7th Edition, was revised and expanded by Fausto, Dr. Vinay Kumar, chair of pathology at the University of Chicago, and Dr. Abul Abbas, chair of pathology at the University of California, San Francisco. In part, the judges noted: “This seventh edition represents the evolution of the best single volume textbook on general pathology and the editors are to be congratulated in having resisted the temptation to overturn the book’s familiar order in the name of innovation.”
