Dr. Ronald Crystal, chairman of genetic medicine, the Bruce Webster Professor of Internal Medicine, and a professor of genetic medicine and of medicine, was an invited speaker at the University of Alabama in Birmingham on Sept. 22 for its Eminent Speaker Series. His lecture was on "Airway Basal Cells: The Smoking Gun of COPD."
Dr. Klaus Kjaer, an associate professor of clinical anesthesiology and of anesthesiology in clinical obstetrics and gynecology, and was awarded the 2014 Physician of the Year Award from the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Department of Nursing on Nov. 3. An anesthesiologist has been selected for this award in six of the last seven years.
Dr. Marcus M. Reidenberg, a professor of pharmacology, of medicine and of healthcare policy and research, was appointed to the United States Pharmacopeial Convention's Nominating Committee, which is tasked with nominating the new president and members of the board of directors for five-year terms. The mission of the U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention is to improve global health through public standards and related programs that help ensure the quality, safety and benefit of medicines and foods.