Dr. Palmer Bessey, professor of surgery, was named the Aronson Family Foundation Professor in Burn Surgery in recognition of his lifelong commitment to the care of burn patients, his dedication to education in burn pathophysiology and outcomes.
The Cornell Institute for Disease and Disaster Preparedness, co-directed by Dr. Nathaniel Hupert, associate professor of public health and associate professor of medicine, and Professor John A. Muckstadt of the Cornell University School of Operations Research and Information Engineering, has become a founding partner of a new international scholarly network on Complexity Science for Health Systems, which will be affiliated with the newly-designated World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Complexity Science for Health Systems in the Division of Mathematical Modeling at the University of British Columbia (Canada) Centre for Disease Control. The WHO Collaborating Centre for Complexity Science for Health Systems aims to build and maintain an international trans-disciplinary network of expert groups and institutions to develop new decision-support tools to address serious global health issues.
Dr. Costantino Iadecola, director of the Brain and Mind Research Institute and the Anne Parrish Titzell Professor of Neurology, was an invited speaker at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting Feb. 15 in Boston, Mass. During the meeting, Dr. Iadecola presented, "Great expectations: The promise of the neurovascular unit for stroke therapy." The Association is an international non-profit organization dedicated to advancing science around the world by serving as an educator, leader, spokesperson and professional association.
Dr. Ravinder Mamtani, professor of public health (education), was appointed to the U.S. Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduate's Global Education in Medicine Exchange program Advisory Committee. The exchange program aims to facilitate and promote international exchange in medical education in order to improve health care around the world.
Several members of the Department of Urology, including faculty, residents, fellows and those who have secondary appointments in the department, won awards from the European Association of Urology. They received the awards at the Association's annual Congress March 15-19 in Milan, Italy.
- Dr. Shahrokh Shariat, director of Urothelial Carcinoma Outcomes and Translational Research, associate professor of urology and associate professor of medicine; Dr. Scott Tagawa, associate professor of clinical urology and associate professor of clinical medicine; Dr. Douglass Scherr, the Ronald Stanton Clinical Scholar in Urology and associate professor of urology; Dr. Evanguelos Xylinas, a fellow; Dr. Eugene Cha, a resident; and former fellows Dr. Michael Rink and Dr. Harun Fajkovic will receive the Prize for the Best Paper published on Clinical Research in the Urological Literature in 2012. The prize is for the paper, "Pathologic Nodal Staging Score for Bladder Cancer: A Decision Tool for Adjuvant Therapy After Radical Cystectomy," published in European Urology.
- Dr. Shariat; Dr. Richard Lee, assistant professor of urology and assistant professor of public health; Dr. Scherr; Dr. Cha; Dr. Rink; Dr. Farjkovic; and Dr. David Green, a fellow, will receive the Prize for the Best Scientific Paper published on Clinical Research in European Urology by a young urologist in 2012 for the paper, "Stage-Specific Impact of Tumor Location on Oncologic Outcomes in Patients With Upper and Lower Tract Urothelial Carcinoma Following Radical Surgery," published in European Urology.
- Dr. Shariat and Dr. Cha will receive the Resident's Corner Award for the Best Scientific Paper published in European Urology by a resident for the paper, "Immunocytology Is a Strong Predictor of Bladder Cancer Presence in Patients With Painless Hematuria: A Multicentre Study."
Dr. Jonathan Victor, director of the Division of Systems Neurology and Neuroscience, the Fred Plum Professor of Neurology, professor of neurology and neuroscience and professor of neurology, will serve on the National Institutes of Health's National Science Foundation Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience panel in March. The panel is a joint program of the National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation that, since 2002, has supported integration of theoretical and experimental neuroscience through collaborative research projects.
Submit your awards and honors to WCMCAwards@med.cornell.edu.