Dr. Phyllis August, the Ralph A. Baer Professor of Medical Research, professor of medicine in obstetrics and gynecology and professor of medicine, delivered the opening session lecture at the seventh annual Symposium CKD: The Cardiac-Kidney-Diabetes-Connection, hosted by the National Kidney Foundation on April 4 in New York. This full-day symposium focused on the latest information in the treatment of chronic kidney disease as it relates to diabetes and cardiovascular disease. The National Kidney Foundation is the leading organization in the nation dedicated to the awareness, prevention and treatment of kidney disease for hundreds of thousands of health care professionals, millions of patients and their families, and tens of millions of Americans at risk.
Dr. Joy Gelbman, assistant professor of clinical medicine, received the 2014 Go Red for Women Luminary of Heart Award from the American Heart Association. Go Red For Women encourages awareness of the issue of women and heart disease, and also action to save more lives.
Dr. Lia Logio, the Herbert J. and Ann L. Siegel Distinguished Professor of Medicine and professor of medicine (education), was selected president-elect of the Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine for a term beginning July 1. The association is the organization of departments of internal medicine represented by chairs and appointed leaders at medical schools and affiliated teaching hospitals in the United States and Canada and is a part of the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine.