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Mark Fleming, MD, DPhil, has been named pathologist-in-chief of Children’s Hospital Boston. He served in that role on an interim basis since June of last year. Dr. Fleming plans to expand the scope of anatomic pathology diagnostic services and translational investigation to meet increasingly complex and diverse molecular modalities to diagnose and monitor childhood diseases.
Thomas Kulik, MD, has returned to Children’s as the director of the Pulmonary Hypertension Program. Dr. Kulik has unique experience as a leader in pediatric cardiology, having been the director of the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit at C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital in Michigan and, most recently, at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital.
Audrey Marshall, MD, has been named chief of Invasive Cardiology. Dr. Marshall received her medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia, and came to Children’s for her residency and Cardiology fellowship. She has been at Children’s ever since.
Carlos Estrada, MD, assistant in Urology, is the Children’s recipient of the 2009–2010 Harvard Catalyst Program for Faculty Development and Diversity Faculty Fellowship. The fellowship, sponsored by the Catalyst and the HMS Office for Diversity and Community Partnership, is a two-year program that provides $100,000 in funding for clinical or translational research for junior faculty.
Louis Kunkel, PhD, chief of the Division of Genetics and a Howard Hughes Medical Investigator, received the 2009 March of Dimes Prize for his pioneering work in discovering genes involved in muscular dystrophy and explaining the molecular and biochemical mechanisms of the disease in order to help design new treatments for it.
Janice Ware, PhD, a specialist in developmental psychopathology and pediatric psychology at Children’s, was appointed to Governor Deval Patrick’s Commission on Mental Retardation and will participate in the development of public policy related to people with disabilities. She has an expertise in autism and will play an important role in advising the Department of Developmental Sciences as it moves forward with its new Autism Division and the provision of services to children with autism spectrum disorders.
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