Dr. Carlyle Miller, clinical instructor in medicine and associate dean of student affairs and equal opportunity programs, has been elected Northeast region MAS chair-elect of the Association of American Medical Colleges' Group on Student Affairs-Minority Affairs Section (GSA-MAS). The MAS was established in recognition of the essential role minority issues play within academic medical centers. The purpose of the GSA-MAS is to serve in an advisory and resource capacity, to all facets of the AAMC, on issues of minority concern at national and regional levels. Dr. Miller will serve for a two-year term as chair-elect under the assumption of automatic progression to the chair.
Dr. Mark Souweidane, associate professor of neurological surgery and neurological surgery in pediatrics, will be honored on Aug. 3 by the Edward & Kelley McCarthy and Children's Brain Tumor Foundation at the first annual "Margaritas by the Bay" benefit. The event, held at Bellport Country Club in Long Island, honors Dr. Souweidane's commitment to research, clinical care and advocacy for children with brain and spinal cord tumors.
Dr. Joseph Fins, chief of the Division of Medical Ethics in the Departments of Public Health and Medicine and professor of medicine, public health and medicine in psychiatry, testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Veteran's Affairs hearing on traumatic brain injury. The July 18 testimony offered recommendations on ways to provide improved treatment for traumatic brain injury (TBI).
Dr. Fins has also been appointed by Gov. Eliot Spitzer to the Governor's Task Force on Life and the Law. The group was established in 1985 under the Cuomo administration to address ethical issues in medicine at the intersection of clinical practice, research and law, including the development of public policy on a host of issues arising from medical advances, including the withholding and withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment, assisted suicide and euthanasia, assisted reproductive technologies, and organ and tissue transplantation. The Task Force members include leaders in the fields of law, medicine, nursing, philosophy and bioethics, as well as patient advocates and representatives of diverse religious communities.
July 30, 2007
