Of note
Melvin S. Blanchard, M.D., associate professor of medicine and chief of the Division of Medical Education in the Department of Medicine; Lannis E. Hall-Daniels, M.D., assistant professor of clinical radiation oncology; and Cherilynn Shadding, Ph.D., director of the outreach program in The Genome Center at Washington University, each received a 2008 Excellence in Health Care Award from the St. Louis American Foundation. They were among 12 area health-care professionals and one organization honored at the Salute to Excellence in Health Care Awards May 3. …
R. Gilbert Jost, M.D., the Elizabeth E. Mallinckrodt Professor of Radiology and director of the Edward Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, has been named to honorary membership in the European Society of Radiology. Jost was one of three physicians to receive the honor at the society’s annual meeting in Vienna, Austria, in March. The society has more than 30,000 members. …
F. Scott Kieff, J.D., professor of law, has been named to a secondary appointment as professor in the Department of Neurological Surgery at the Washington University School of Medicine. At the medical school, Kieff will be working on legal, business and ethical issues relating to health-care innovation and will serve as a member of the Governance Committee and of the founding faculty of the Washington University Center for Innovation in Neuroscience Technology. …
Tim Lempfert, associate director of the Office of Residential Life, has been named 2008-09 president-elect of the Missouri College Personnel Association (MOCPA). MOCPA promotes the learning and development of students enrolled in institutions of postsecondary education through the ongoing professional development of college student affairs administrators and student development educators in accord with the purposes of the American College Personnel Association. …
Andrew D. Martin, Ph.D., professor of law and of political science in Arts & Sciences, and Matthew Gabel, Ph.D., associate professor of political science, have received a two-year, $76,635 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “Collaborative Research: A Cross-National Study of Judicial Institutionalization and Influence.” Also leading the study are Clifford J. Carrubba, Ph.D., and Jeffrey K. Staton, Ph.D., both of Emory University, and Gretchen Helmke, Ph.D., of the University of Rochester.
Thalachallour Mohanakumar, Ph.D., the Jacqueline G. and William E. Maritz Professor of Surgery and professor of pathology & immunology, received the American Society of Transplantation/Astellas Basic Science Established Investigator Award during the American Transplant Congress in Toronto, May 31-June 4. The Astellas Award honors investigators at the professor level who have made substantial contributions to the field of transplantation medicine. …
Daniel O’Neill, graduate student in political science in Arts & Sciences, has received a $7,500 grant from the Smith Richardson Foundation for research titled “China’s Outward Foreign Direct Investment as a Tool of Stagecraft.”
Speaking of
Jeffrey I. Gordon, M.D., the Dr. Robert J. Glaser Distinguished University Professor and director of the Center for Genome Sciences, was a keynote presenter at the Society of Biomolecular Sciences 14th Annual Conference in St. Louis April 6-10. Gordon’s talk was titled “The Human Microbiome Project: Exploring the Microbial Side of Ourselves.”