June 27, 2002
Heath Sciences News Briefs
Dr. Thomas R. Martin has been installed as president of the American Thoracic Society for a one-year term. He is a UW professor of medicine, vice chair of the Department of Medicine, and chief of primary and specialty medicine at the Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System. Martin has been a member of the Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Division at the UW for 22 years and directed the Pulmonary and Critical Care Research Training Program from 1990 to 2000. At the VA Puget Sound Health Care System, he founded the Pulmonary Research Laboratories, where multidisciplinary research is conducted on the mechanisms of inflammation, injury, and host defenses in the lungs. A University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine graduate, Martin completed his internal medicine residency and a fellowship in pulmonary and critical care medicine at the UW.
Dr. Gerald Glickman, professor and chair of the School of Dentistry’s Department of Endodontics, has been elected president of the American Board of Endodontists. His one-year term began in April He has been one of nine board directors and also chair of the group’s Educational Affairs Committee, which is completing a project to offer computerized board examinations online at regional testing sites beginning this November. Glickman is also vice president of the American Dental Education Association’s Council of Sections and a member of the ADEA board of directors.
Dr. James Bassingthwaighte, professor of bioengineering and radiology, has been elected to the board of directors for the National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI). He is the originator of the Human Physiome Project, a large-scale international program for developing database and biological systems models to understand genetic and medication effects on human physiology. Numerous other UW faculty members and investigators from a dozen other institutions are involved with the project. The UW is one of 12 research institutions that are part of the NSBRI, which is funded by NASA to find solutions to health concerns facing astronauts on long missions. Bassingthwaighte is also director of the National Simulation Resource Facility.
