Fink receives National Pharmacy Leadership Award
...as special assistant to the president for academic affairs at UK. He was associate vice chancellor for academic affairs at UK from 1988 to 1996. He was assistant dean of the UK College of Pharmacy from 1981 to 1988 The K...ACP and ACP Foundation launch 3-year effort to improve diabetes care
...e vice president for clinical research and medical affairs in endocrinology. He added, "We strive to be the preferred partner for patients, healthcare providers, associations and others who share our vision and plans to defeat diabetes. A clear example of this is our partnership with ACP, as this highly resp...Ralph Horwitz, M.D., to receive Society of General Internal Medicine's highest honor
... School of Medicine and vice president for medical affairs at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, will receive the Robert J. Glaser Award from the Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM) May 12 during the organization's annual meeting in New Orleans. SGIM's highest honor, the Glaser Award recog...Case finds oral health of residents in nursing homes needs more attention
...," states Marsha Pyle, associate dean for academic affairs at the Case School of Dental Medicine and the study's lead author. Pyle collaborated with T. Roma Jasinevicus, Case associate professor of dental medicine; Danny R. Sawyer, Case professor and chair of oral diagnosis and radiology; and Jason Madsen,...Parkinson's medication appears to trigger excessive gambling
...y (increased interest in pornography, extramarital affairs or increased sex drive bothersome to the spouse). Dr. Ahlskog cites anecdotes of patients such as a seemingly responsible, married professional who had never gambled before, but began watching gambling shows on television and then gambling on the I...Medical students at risk for influence from pharmaceutical companies' marketing efforts
...researchers conducted a national survey of student affairs deans to measure the prevalence of school-wide pol...ese relationships. In a national survey of student affairs deans, among the 99 who knew their policy status, only 10.1 percent reported having school-wide poli...Healthgrades study: New hospital ratings show wide 'quality chasm'
...hor of the study and the vice president of medical affairs at HealthGrades, the leading healthcare ratings company. "Overall, mortality rates are declining at our nation's hospitals. However, there's still a lot of work to be done because our findings support that we're not making much headway in closing the...Sirolimus-eluting Coronary Stent outperforms paclitaxel eluting stent in seven study meta-analysis
...dent of worldwide clinical research and regulatory affairs for Cordis Corporation. "This rigorously conducted meta analysis establishes the highest level of scientific evidence of the relative performance of these two drug-eluting stents. The CYPHER Stent's strong clinical performance across these trials is...Grant will fund study of tics and Tourette syndrome
...ho is also the acting associate dean for scholarly affairs at the School of Nursing. Tourette syndrome is a neurological disorder characterized by enduring motor and vocal tics. Motor tics are usually rapid and darting movements of face, head, neck and shoulders. However, the tics in TS may also involve th...Nursing home quality stagnates, says HealthGrades
...id Samantha Collier, MD, vice president of medical affairs for HealthGrades, the leading healthcare ratings company. "But we did discover some interesting facts that will help people make a smarter decision, including the finding that the top ten nursing homes in each state tend to have nearly half as many b...State board-disciplined physicians more likely to have shown unprofessional behavior in med school
...ornia, San Francisco and associate dean of student affairs at UCSF School of Medicine, led the research team. Study findings are reported in the December 22 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. The researchers looked for early warning signs during medical school that were associated with a higher ...Bank of America grant to expand community-based childhood immunization program in northern Manhattan
..." said Anne Finucane, director of global corporate affairs at Bank of America. Established in 1999 to reduce childhood disparities in immunization rates, The Northern Manhattan Start Right Coalition has its base in the Mailman School of Public Health's Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health and...GlaxoSmithKline funds $1.65 million effort for UNC-Duke public health care partnership
...s Dr. Victor J. Dzau, Duke's chancellor for health affairs and president and chief executive officer of the Duke University Health System; and Dr. William L. Roper, UNC's vice chancellor for medical affairs, UNC Health Care's chief executive officer, and dean of the UNC School of Medicine. "By funding this p...Research links coverage by top current affairs programme to rise in adverse drug reports
... three editions of the BBC's award-winning current affairs programme Panorama explored increasing concerns ab...norama is the BBC's award-winning flagship current affairs programme. First broadcast in 1953, it is the longest-running public affairs TV programme in the wor...USF College of Public Health one of 12 institutions named to Kellogg Foundation initiative
...aid Karen Liller, PhD, associate dean for academic affairs at USF College of Public Health. "We are proud to be part of this initiative and look forward to involving faculty, staff, students, and our surrounding communities in education and research initiatives to eliminate racial and ethnic health dispariti...American Association for Dental Research presents awards, recognitions
... has given exemplary service in the area of public affairs by consistently promoting the interests and activities of oral health research to a wide constituency. The award is supported by the AADR and consists of a plaque. Previous recipients of the Award are Jack W. Hein (1996), Gertrude Quigley (1997), Chr...UPMC joins Italian government to create $398 million biomedical research center in Sicily
...d Gianfranco Miccich, deputy minister for economic affairs and finance for Southern Italy, at a press conference today in Rome. For their part, UPMC and the School of Medicine, which comprise one of the leading biomedical research and academic medical centers in the United States, will oversee operations of ...Tunnell Consulting awarded contract to fight avian flu
...evelopment, manufacturing, scale-up and regulatory affairs to the Pandemic Influenza Program. Tunnell personnel will be supported from the Washington D.C. office of Tunnell's Government Services Group which administers its MOBIS contracts. "We are pleased to be chosen by ORDC to support Secretary Leavitts ef...Five surprising facts about starvation that could change the international agenda
...utrition, and Patrick Webb, PhD, dean for academic affairs at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University, discuss five facts about world hunger, children and wasting, a condition that represents severe malnutrition. Wasting is defined by a low weight-to-height ratio; it is visib...Embargoed materials for Complementary & Integrative Medicine Conference
NOTE: The HMS public affairs office is extending the media materials below on behalf of the North American Research Conference on Complementary & Alternative Medicine, which is sponsored by the Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine. The chair of the con...