Around the Institutes
Satish Kalhan, MD, Digestive Disease Institute, was honored with the 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award for research in diabetes from the Diabetes Association of Greater Cleveland …
Tommaso Falcone, MD, chair of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Women’s Health Institute, was president of the Society for Reproductive Surgeons. The book, Hysteroscopy: Office Evaluation and Management of the Uterine Cavity, co-authored by Dr. Falcone and Linda Bradley, MD, was published in print and DVD by Mosby Inc …
James M. Goldfarb, MD, is president-elect of the Society of Assisted Reproductive Technology …
Karen Cooper, DO, Bariatric & Metabolic Institute, the only primary care physician practicing bariatric medicine at Cleveland Clinic, is one of the few in the country who adjusts laparoscopic bands placed by bariatric surgeons …
Susan Albers Bowling, PsyD, Women’s Health Center, Wooster Family Health Center, published Eat, Drink & Be Mindful: How to End Your Struggle with Mindless Eating and Start Savoring Food with Intention and Joy with New Harbinger Publications …
The Imaging Institute’s Gopal Saha, PhD, won the Vikram Sarabhai Memorial Oration Award given by the Society of Nuclear Medicine (India), for significant contribution to nuclear medicine science and teaching…
William Seitz, MD, Orthopaedic & Rheumatologic Institute, completed his 15th New York City Marathon less than two years after having his Achilles tendon repaired by the Institute’s Brian Donley, MD, using a radiofrequency coblation technique, now also being studied by Dr. Seitz for severe tennis elbow. Says Dr. Seitz, “I experienced essentially no pain following my surgery and was back running within six months” …
Joe G. Hollyfield, PhD, Cole Eye Institute, was chosen to receive the Proctor Medal by the Board of Trustees of the Association for Research in Ophthalmology (ARVO), the oldest and highest honor given by ARVO to honor non-clinician or clinician scientists …
Robert DiLaura, DBA, Lerner Research Institute, is co-author of Defining Key Health Information Technology Terms, for the United States Department of Health and Human Services Office of the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology …
Anil Jain, MD, Medicine Institute, managing director of eResearch, eCleveland Clinic, has been appointed to serve on the State of Ohio Health Information Partnership Advisory Board …
The ACGME’s Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach Award recognizes program directors who find innovative ways to teach residents and to provide quality healthcare, including (this year) the Glickman Urological & Kidney Institute’s Drogo Montague, MD …
2008 saw Gary Hoffman, MD, of the Orthopaedic & Rheumatologic Institute, keynoting at the Norwegian Society of Rheumatology, delivering the Ira Goldstein Memorial Lecture at NYU, serving as Edward Boland visiting professor at Mayo Clinic, visiting Harvard as part of the Leaders in Rheumatology Visiting Professor program, and at the University of Pittsburgh, where he was the Pfizer visiting professor. The ORI’s Brian Mandell, MD, was chair of the American College of Rheumatology’s annual scientific meeting …
Steven Campbell, MD, and Brian Rini, MD, Glickman Urological & Kidney Institute, are co-editors of 100 Questions and Answers About Kidney Cancer, published this year by Jones and Bartlett, along with Brian Lane, MD, PhD, now a fellow at the Institute … The law firm of Jones Day has endowed a chair in Medical Education at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, to be held by Alan L. Hull, MD, PhD, associate dean for Curricular Affairs …
To help increase the number of minority physicians in the oncology community, Derek Raghavan, MD, PhD, chair, Taussig Cancer Institute, as joint chair of the Diversity Task Force of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, has collaborated with the Susan G. Komen Foundation For The Cure to create the Komen/ASCO Diversity in Oncology Initiative, which will provide training opportunities and loan repayments to minority physicians in this field …
Delos M. Cosgrove, MD, CEO and president of Cleveland Clinic was named among Modern Healthcare’s 100 Most Powerful People and 50 Most Powerful Physician Executives in Healthcare …
The Glickman Urological & Kidney Institute now keeps track of staff and employees in clinical areas using radio-frequency identification technology. All personnel wear tags that indicate their precise location in rooms or hallways on computer-accessible floorplans …
The discovery by Ashok Agarwal, PhD, Glickman Urological & Kidney Institute, that cell phone use was related to sperm quality, became one of the most widely reported news stories of the year, with mentions in and on Google News®, CBS Early Show®, CNN Headline News®, USA Today®, Newsweek®, ABCNews.com®, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno® and 33 broadcast mentions in the top 10 national television markets. In total, it generated 2,000 media stories reaching 700 million people, according to the Department of Media and Public Relations …
The staff of the Taussig Cancer Institute have secured a grant from the Ralph Lauren Center for Cancer Care and Prevention Foundation and Harlem Hospital to support patient navigation in cancer care at Huron Hospital and the Taussig Cancer Institute for minority patients …