Carolyn Baum, Ph.D., the Elias Michael Director of the Program in Occupational Therapy and professor of occupational therapy and of neurology, received an honorary doctorate from the University of Haifa in Israel June 4 in recognition of her extensive scientific achievements in occupational therapy and translational research; for advancing the field of occupational therapy to the forefront of rehabilitative medicine; for fostering young research and for integrating researchers from Israel and the University of Haifa into the international academic arena. …
Tammie L.S. Benzinger, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of radiology, was named the 2008 American Roentgen Ray Society/Elio Bracco scholar. She plans to use the scholarship to build collaborations between WUSTL and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign that will bridge multiple clinical and basic research disciplines to apply MRI to better understand the microstructural environment of the central nervous system. …
J. Perren Cobb, M.D., professor of surgery, has received a three-year, $450,000 grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences for research titled “U.S. Critical Illness and Injury Trials Group.” …
Kerri Morgan, instructor in the Program in Occupational Therapy, was named to the U.S. Paralympic Track Team. She is among 27 men and 17 women who will compete on the track team in the 2008 Paralympic Games in Beijing Sept. 6-17. In the team trials June 12-15 in Tempe, Ariz., Morgan placed third (second American) in the 100-meter event and second (first American) in the 200-meter event. More than 4,000 elite athletes from around the world with a physical disability are expected to compete in the 2008 Paralympic Games.