Congratulations to the following faculty for their recent achievements:
Dean Antonio Gotto was honored by Vanderbilt University with the 2000 Distinguished Alumnus Award. A "double" Vanderbilt alumnus, he received his B.A. in 1957 and his M.D. in 1965.
Dr. Pengbo Zhou was named a 2000 Kimmel Scholar by the Sidney Kimmel Foundation for Cancer Research.
Dr. Marcus M. Reidenberg will receive the 2001 Alumnus of the Year Award from Temple University School of Medicine in May 2001.
Dr. Isadore Rosenfeld received the 2000 Distinguished Medical Service Award from the American Physicians Fellowship for Medicine in Israel.
Dr. Robert Leahy will serve as president of the International Association for Cognitive Psychotherapy, a two-year term that begins in January 2003.
Dr. Murray F. Brennan received the American College of Surgeons Distinguished Service Award for his achievements in increasing our knowledge of tumor biology.
Dr. Susan E. Browne received a grant award from the Huntington's Disease Society of America for her research project, "The Role of Energy Metabolism in Pathogenesis in Transgenic Mouse Models of Huntington's Disease and Another CAG Repeat Disorder.
Dr. Michael I. Posner, director of the Sackler Institute, with his colleague Dr. Marcus E. Raichle of Washington University School of Medicine, received the prestigious Neuropsychiatry Award from the Robert J. and Claire Pasarow Foundation.
Dr. Edgar Carvalho, an adjunct professor of medicine and an expert on infectious diseases and parasitology in Brazil, was named a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Scholar.
Dr. E. Darracott Vaughan Jr. is the new president-elect of the American Urological Association. Dr. Vaughan was also recently honored by the National Kidney Foundation of New York/New Jersey, which has established the E. Darracott Vaughan Young Investigator Award to increase the understanding of renal disease and to help achieve its mission of eradicating kidney, urologic and hypertensive diseases.
Dr. Dix Poppas, the Richard Rodgers Family Assistant Professor in Pediatric Urology, is the first recipient of the E. Darracott Vaughan Young Investigator Award.
Dr. Jeffrey S. Borer gave the Thomas W. Smith Memorial Lecture at the opening ceremony of the International Society of Heart Failure at its 7th World Congress in Vancouver this past July.
Sanford I. Weill, chairman of the Board of Overseers, was presented in October with the Health Care Leadership Award by the United Hospital Fund in recognition of his commitment to the advancement of biochemical research and medical education in New York City.
Dr. Jorge Lopez-Ovejero began a four-year term on the Wagner College Board of Trustees this autumn.
Mark E. Funk, head of Collection Development at Weill Cornell Medical Library, has been elected to the Board of Directors of the Medical Library Association.
Dr. Thomas Maack was recently elected to the Brazilian Academy of Sciences.
Dr. Manikkam Suthanthiran, editor of Transplantation, has moved its North American editorial office to the New York Weill Cornell Medical Center.
December 11, 2000
