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Raif S. Geha, MD, chief of Immunology at Children's Hospital Boston, recently received the AAI Award in Human Immunology Research from the American Association of Immunologists (AAI). This award honors a deserving AAI member for a career of significant professional achievement and scientific contributions that have advanced our understanding of human immunology and have clinical application.
Kathleen M. Gura, PharmD, BCNSP, Pharmacy team leader, received the 2009 Drug Therapy Research Award from the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists for her paper, "Safety and Efficacy of a Fish-Oil-Based Fat Emulsion in the Treatment of Parenteral Nutrition-Associated Liver Disease." The award recognizes an outstanding contribution to the biomedical literature of research involving drug efficacy and safety in humans.
Five physician-scientists from Pediatric Hematology/Oncology are among 48 nationwide who will be elected this year to the prestigious American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI), an honor society for clinical researchers age 45 or younger.
1) Scott Armstrong, MD, PhD, 2) Andrew Kung, MD, PhD, 3) Charles W. Roberts, MD, PhD, 4) Kimberly Stegmaier, MD, and 5) Loren D. Walensky, MD, PhD, will join more than 2,800 ASCI member researchers from the upper ranks of academic medicine and industrial health care. They were chosen for significant research accomplishments.
Lucinda Brown, director of Occupational Health Services, was recently honored for work on sharps injury prevention. The award, given by the International Sharps Injury Prevention Society, in conjunction with Managing Infection Control magazine, honors those who have helped spread the message of sharps injury prevention to health care workers and employers around the world.
Jessica Henderson Daniel, PhD, ABPP, director of Training in Psychology, won the 2009 Harold Amos Faculty Diversity Award from Harvard Medical School.
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