Dr. Madelon Finkel, a professor of clinical healthcare policy and research, gave the keynote address at the "Coal Seam Gas, Fracking, and Health: Environmental and Health Impacts/The Lessons for Australia from the US" conference, sponsored by the University of Sydney, that took place on Nov. 24 in Australia. Dr. Finkel's talk was titled, "The Environmental and Health Impacts of Fracking: Lessons from the U.S. Experience."
Dr. Anne Moore, a professor of clinical medicine, was elected president of the American Clinical and Climatological Society in October. The association is interested in all scientific and clinical aspects of medicine and its specialties, epidemiology, preventive and environmental medicine, and the influence of global climate changes on health and disease.
Dr. Antonio Bernardo, an associate research professor of neurological surgery, won the Clinical and Translational Science Center's 2014-15 3D Printing Novel Technology Award. The purpose of the award is to encourage the development of novel biomedical products using three-dimensional printing technology. The award will allow Dr. Bernardo to investigate the feasibility of creating on-demand intra-operative cranial prostheses.