May 8, 2008
Awards and upcoming events
Foege honored for global health work
UW School of Medicine alumnus William Foege, senior fellow at the Gates Foundation, has received the 2008 Advancing Global Health Award from the Seattle Biomedical Research Institute (SBRI).
The award honors people with connections to the Puget Sound area who have demonstrated a long-term commitment to improving health around the world. It was presented last week at SBRI’s annual Passport to Global Health Celebration.
Foege earned his medical degree from the UW and a master’s in public health from Harvard. He worked in the U.S. Public Health Service and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and was one of the public health leaders who helped eradicate smallpox. He served as director of the CDC under President Jimmy Carter, and later directed the Task Force for Child Survival and Development, a nonprofit organization aimed at improving global health.
In 2006, the UW honored its alumnus by naming a new building on the south end of campus the William H. Foege Building, home of the Departments of Genome Sciences and Bioengineering.
Foege has also recently received Research!America’s 2008 Raymond and Beverly Sackler Award for Sustained National Leadership. The award honors the nation’s top advocates for medical and scientific research. Research!America is a not-for- profit public education and advocacy alliance working to make health research a higher national priority.
Leadership awards go to Grinstein, Jewell
Two members of the UW Medicine Board have been recognized for their outstanding work by the Seattle-Northwest Chapter of the National Association of Corporation Directors. Gerald Grinstein, former CEO of Delta Air Lines, received a lifetime achievement award from the chapter. Sally Jewell, president and CEO of REI, Inc., received an award for not-forprofit director of the year.
Grinstein served as chair and CEO of Western Airlines before it merged with Delta, and as chair and CEO of the railroad company Burlington Northern Inc. He was a partner in the law firm Preston, Thorgrimson, Ellis and Holman, and served as chief counsel to the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee and administrative assistant to former Sen. Warren G. Magnuson.
Jewell worked in executive leadership in the banking industry before joining REI, a national retail cooperative with 3 million members. The company is a leader in the outdoor retail industry, an active promoter of environmental stewardship in local communities, and one of FORTUNE magazine’s 100 best companies to work for. She also serves on the UW Board of Regents, and on the boards for the Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust, the National Parks Conservation Association, and the Initiative for Global Development.
Kristi Anseth to lecture on tissue regeneration
Kristi Anseth, distinguished professor of chemical and biological engineering at the University of Colorado, will discuss her groundbreaking work developing hydrogels for medical and biological applications from 4 to 5 p.m. Monday, May 12, in room A110 of the Physics Astronomy Building.
This lecture, titled Swell Gels: Materials-based Regulation of Cell function, is part of UW Chemical Engineering’s Spring 2008 Seminar Series. All faculty, staff and students are welcome. For more information, contact Caryl Lynch at lynch52@u.washington.edu.
Faculty development workshop May 13
UW School of Medicine faculty are invited to attend a free faculty development workshop on Creating Quality Test Items: Nuts & Bolts, from 8:30 a.m. to noon Tuesday, May 13, at the UW South Campus Center, room 316R.
Dr. Jennie Dorman, interim associate director of the Center for Instructional Development and Research, will lead the workshop. Topics to be covered include the relationship of testing to teaching and learning, guidelines for writing multiple choice items and methods to evaluate reasoning and problem solving.
The workshop is presented by the Department of Medical Education and Biomedical Informatics and the Office of Faculty Development. To register, visit www.mebi.washington.edu/facdev.html.
Harborview trauma conference June 2-3
Harborview’s 19th annual trauma conference will take place June 2-3 at the Seattle Sheraton Hotel.
The program covers the continuum of trauma care, from pre-hospital, emergency and critical care to acute care and rehabilitation.
Topics for special talks by national and local experts include War Stories: Lessons Learned from the Iraqi War and The Alaska Cold Injuries Treatment Guidelines.
The conference is geared to nurses, physicians, paramedics, social workers, program managers and other health care providers. For more information, refer to the conference brochure and registration form at www.harborview.org.
