October 2009
Welcome to UNC Health Care's Awards and Honors page for October 2009. If you or your colleagues at UNC Health Care have won an award or received an honor, send your information to Tom Hughes at tahughes@unch.unc.edu .
October 30
Vickie M. Brown, APIC-NC Practitioner of the Year. Congratulations to Vickie for being selected the NC Association for Professional in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) Practitioner of the Year Award. This Award is given annually to a North Carolina Infection Preventionists for their important infection prevention contributions in the areas of education, research, service and clinical activities. At UNC Health Care, she has coordinated several projects that have dramatically reduced healthcare-associated infections at UNC Health Care and, through publication of these projects, an impact throughout the state and nation.
The Association of Professional Chaplains (APC), has appointed the Reverend Darryl I. Owens BBC, UNC Health Care Women's Services chaplain and grief counselor, as board member at-large. Chaplain Owens today begins the second year of his term as board member at-large of the association, which has about 4,000 members and is the chief certifying body of the chaplaincy profession.
Charles S. Ebert, Jr., MD, MPH, will be presented with the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Honor Award during the Opening Ceremony of the annual meeting on October 4th, held in San Francisco this year. This prestigious award is given to members in recognition of their volunteer contributions to the Academy and its Foundation.
The National Pharmaceutical Association (NPhA) has awarded Pharmacy Clinical Manager Jimmy Barnes, RPh, MPH the 2009 NPhA Health Systems Practitioner Award. This award recognizes contributions made to health systems pharmacy as a staff pharmacist or manager while providing significant improvements in the provision of pharmaceutical care.
October 19
Champa Chaudhury, MD, received a TraC$2K award for her research entitled Association of VEGF and Preeclampsia.
Dr. RK Hanna, Dr. KM Malloy, Dr. C Zhou, Dr. PA Gehrig and Dr. VL Bae-Jump received the 2009 Mid-Atlantic Gynecologic Oncology Society Fellow's Award on Genistein and soy extract inhibit proliferation of endometrial cancer cells by G2 cell cycle arrest at the 2009 Mid-Atlantic Gynecologic Oncology Society Annual Meeting.
Shelby Addison, 3rd year Medical Student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has received the ACR REF/Abbott Medical/Graduate Student Achievement Award in recognition of significant work in the field of rheumatology. This award provides outstanding students with the opportunity to attend the ACR/ARHP Annual Scientific Meeting. Ms. Addison will be presenting a poster at the 2009 ACR/ARHP Annual Scientific Meeting, Oct. 16 - 21, entitled “Toenail Selenium and Biomarkers of Joint Tissue Metabolism in a Community-Based Cohort: The Johnston County Osteoarthritis Project.” This abstract is co-authored by Xiaoyan Shi, PhD, Todd A. Schwartz, PhD, Virgina B. Kraus, MD, PhD, Thomas Stabler, MS, Charles G. Helmick, MD, and Joanne M. Jordan, MD, MPH.
Joanne M. Jordan, MD, MPH, Director of the Thurston Arthritis Research Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will receive this year’s Excellence in Investigative Mentoring Award at the 2009 ACR/ARHP Annual Scientific Meeting to be held in Philadelphia on Oct. 16 - 21, 2009. This award recognizes the importance of the mentor/mentee relationship and honors an active ACR or ARHP member for their contributions to the rheumatology profession through outstanding and ongoing mentoring.
Lauren Abbate, MSPH, recently completed a PhD in Epidemiology and is currently completing an MD at UNC-Chapel Hill has been awarded the American College of Rheumatology - Research Education Foundation’s Abbott Medical Student Research Preceptorship. This award will support Lauren as she continues her work under the mentorship of Dr. Joanne Jordan at the Thurston Arthritis Research Center on the Johnston County Osteoarthritis Project. Lauren’s research is looking at how body shape and weight affect the development and progression of knee arthritis.
Joshua Knight, a first year medical student at UNC-Chapel Hill has been awarded the American College of Rheumatology – Research Education Foundation’s Abbott Medical Student Research Preceptorship. This award will provide support for summer work under Dr. Leigh Callahan at the Thurston Arthritis Research Center. Joshua’s work will be focusing on how social determinants act as predictors of arthritis disability as part of the Johnston County Osteoarthritis Project.
Amanda Nelson, MD, of the Thurston Arthritis Research Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has been selected to receive one of the 2009 American College of Rheumatology Distinguished Fellow Awards. The awards are given to clinical and research fellows in rheumatology fellowship training programs in recognition of their meritorious performance throughout their training. Dr. Nelson will receive her award at the 75th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American College of Rheumatology in Philadelphia on October 16, 2009.
October 15
Kathy Sulik, PhD, professor in the department of cell and developmental biology and director of the fetal toxicology division in the Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies, was the recipient for the 2009 Henry Rosett Award. The award, presented in June at the Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Study Group (FASDSG) in San Diego, CA, honors individuals for outstanding long-term contributions to research in the field of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders.
The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute has awarded Thomas M. Egan, MD, a professor of surgery at the University of North Carolina, a $1.47 million, two-year grant for research on perfusion and ventilation of lungs outside the body before transplant. The research could lead to a significant increase in the number of lungs available for transplant.
Benjamin Philpot, PhD, was recently awarded a research grant from the Angelman Syndrome Foundation. Dr. Philpot’s research will focus on identifying pharmacological interventions that up regulate the paternal expression of UBE3A through a large scale drug screen, which could yield the prototype of therapy for Angelman Syndrome (AS). This grant is one of eight grants awarded by the Angelman Syndrome Foundation this year totaling more than $1 million for 2009.
October 5
Benson Wilcox, M.D., professor of surgery in the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, was honored recently by The Thoracic Surgery Directors Association. TSDA has renamed its Resident Award the Benson Wilcox Award for Best Resident Paper in honor of Benson R. Wilcox, M.D., former president of the association. Dr. Wilcox is a professor of surgery at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is emeritus chief of the UNC Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery. The Best Resident Paper award is presented annually at The Society of Thoracic Surgeons' annual meeting for the best scientific abstract submitted by a cardiothoracic surgery resident.
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