Dr. Nancy Fugate Woods, dean of the School of Nursing, has been named president of the North American Menopause Society and chair of its 2000 Scientific Committee. She was founding director of the nursing school’s Center for Women’s Health Research and is one of the foremost authorities on women’s health care. With colleagues at the UW and Duke University, she conducted the first study of the prevalence of perimenstrual symptoms in American women and has provided national leadership in developing women’s health as a field of study in nursing science.
Dr. Rodger Haggitt, professor of pathology and director of anatomic pathology at UW Medical Center, has been invited to present the Maude Abbott Lecture at the next meeting of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, to be held in New Orleans next March. Previous lecturers include some of the most distinguished pathologists in the country. Haggitt is internationally recognized for his diagnostic and research work in gastrointestinal pathology.
Dr. Leighton Chan, assistant professor of rehabilitation medicine, is the recipient of the 1999 Association of Academic Physiatrists Young Academician Award, which honors an academic physiatrist who has demonstrated outstanding performance in teaching, research or administration. An expert in health policy, Chan has worked as a visiting scholar for U.S. Rep. Jim McDermott on health-care reform issues. He is a medical epidemiologist for the Health Care Financing Administration in Seattle, co-director of the UW Medical Center’s Pulmonary Rehabilitation Program, and an attending physician at UWMC and Harborview Medical Center. His research interests include legislative issues in rehabilitation and payment systems for rehabilitation, disability and primary care. Chan earned an M.D. from UCLA School of Medicine in 1990. As a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar, he received a master’s in public health at the UW in 1996.
Dr. Jack Berryman, professor of medical history and ethics, has been named acting chair of his department. An expert in the history of exercise and sports medicine, Berryman came to the UW in 1975 and joined the Department of Medical History and Ethics in 1984. Berryman has designed courses in the evolution of sports medicine and organized one of the nation’s first master’s level programs in the history of sport, exercise and medicine.Dr. Jim Whorton, professor of medical history and ethics, had been acting chair since Feb. 1. He is on sabbatical leave in France at the Universite Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg, where he plans to complete a book on the history of alternative medicine. Dr. Albert Jonsen, former chair, retired this past year.
The Digital Anatomist project by the UW Structural Informatics Group has been named one of Popular Science’s “50 Best Of The Web.” The annual award recognizes the Web site for providing an intriguing visual experience of science. Winning sites are featured in a special nine-page section in the magazine’s September issue and are listed in a directory on the Popular Science Web site: http://www.popsci.com/context/features/bow99/
The Digital Anatomist Web site is: http://sig.biostr.washington.edu/projects/da/
Ruth Ballweg, director of MEDEX Northwest, the UW’s physician assistant program, has accepted a three-year appointment to a committee formed to advise U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala on policy and program development for training in primary-care medicine and dentistry. The 23-member committee also will submit a report describing its activities, including recommendations made to Secretary Shalala, to committees in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. Ballweg has directed MEDEX Northwest since 1985.
Dr. George Stamatoyannopoulos, professor of medicine and genetics and head of the Division of Medical Genetics, has the honor of an annual lecture being named after him by the American Society of Gene Therapy. The first lecture was given by Nobel Prize-winning immunologist Dr. Peter Doherty at the society’s second annual meeting this summer in Washington, D.C. Approximately 2,500 people attended. Stamatoyannopoulos founded the organization in 1996 to promote basic science research and clinical investigation on gene therapy and to provide a forum for young investigators and postdoctoral fellows in the field.
Dr. Lee Ann Campbell, professor of pathobiology in the School of Public Health and Community Medicine and graduate program advisor for the Department of Pathobiology, has been elected a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology. Fellows of the academy are elected for scientific achievement and leadership. The 1,600 fellows form the honorary leadership group within the American Society for Microbiology, the world’s oldest and largest life sciences organization. ¶