Commencement 2007

HMS/HSDM CLASS DAY

Martin Offers Grads Guides for Listening and Leading

Joseph Martin culminated his decade as dean of the Faculty of Medicine with a Class Day address titled “Leading by Listening.” After commenting on the visceral importance of stories in patient care, he described six qualities of leadership at the heart of doctor–patient interaction.

“Your ability to communicate—listening and telling—will determine in large measure your gift for healing,” he said.

Though offered to the new physicians and dentists as a framework for future practice, Martin’s points also appeared to illuminate his own guiding principles as leader of HMS.

The first of the qualities, which he referred to as quotients, or Qs, was IQ. Martin said, “IQ implies ability to innovate, to think outside the box, and to construct new and novel scenarios.”

Yet intelligence alone is not sufficient for effective leadership. “Individual brilliance may result in earth-shaking concepts, discoveries, and Nobel prizes, but of leaders we expect even more.”

The next Q was EQ, Emotional Quotient. Put simply, Martin said, this is “the ability to listen and to discern beneath the surface what the other person is really saying.”

Elaborating, he said, “EQ includes sufficient temerity and curiosity to want to understand another’s perspective. It includes wanting to learn from another in order to ‘put right’ one’s own views and impressions. EQ is learning to lead by listening and observing.”

But such gravitas occasionally needs a break, and this is where HQ, or Humor Quotient, comes in. “It encompasses the ability to use self-deprecation to accomplish an end, to exude a sense of lightness of being and charisma, of good cheer and hope. It is the ability to detoxify a situation by humor or self-effacement, to know how to relax the tension with a comment, a story, or a well-told joke. It is the ability to bounce back after an untoward event.”

Following naturally from humor was number 4, the CQ—Contentment Quotient. “This is the ability to view things for the best possible outcome—it’s the glass half full, not half empty—optimism, not pessimism. It is to feel good about oneself and the role one plays. It balances good will and good cheer with an appropriate balance of anxiety to set things on course and to toe the line toward an end.”

Martin’s number 5 was GQ—Generosity Quotient. “In many ways a singularity of leadership success is epitomized in the term ‘vicarious living.’ Simply put, it is the joy and satisfaction that comes from watching the success of others.

“In an organizational setting or an effective office practice, it implies freely giving credit where credit is due, recognizing that ‘there is no end to what can be accomplished if one does not care who gets the credit.’

“There is another aspect of the Generosity Quotient, the ability to forgive and forget,” he said.

Finally, number 6 was WQ—or Wisdom Quotient. “This is the ability to sum things up, to look at a set of circumstances and know when to act, to know when the vectors are aligned to take the next step toward the end game.”

He continued, “It includes the ability to understand and know when to apply Machiavellian principles to reach a good end for the circumstances. But WQ also applies the principles of fairness, of reaching the decision that is the best for the most, characterized by equity and equality when possible. Wisdom is sound judgment, a great skill in clinical medicine.”
Martin concluded, “Each of the areas I have emphasized: intelligence, emotional connectivity, good humor, happiness, generosity, and sound judgment can be enhanced by good listening.

“I’m not implying that these traits or attributes are necessarily quantifiable as quotients. But I do hope they’ll form a framework or set of guideposts as you carry on with the great journey of life.”

—Robert Neal

Grads Take a Look at the Bigger Picture

Class Day’s three student speakers reflected on their years studying medicine and dentistry, but also reminded graduates of the bigger purpose they are about to serve, in the lives of individual patients, as players in the medical and dental community, and as citizens with new confidence and perspective.

HSDM grad Padraig Dennehy, in a speech titled “Possibilities and Probabilities,” urged graduates to reflect on the paths that led them to Harvard and on the people who helped them get there. “I have no doubt that the stories are as diverse and amazing as the people who stand before me,” he said, adding that the sacrifices they’ve made have left them well-deserving of their hard-earned degrees. With this honor, however, comes great responsibility, Dennehy said. He urged his fellow graduates to instill a sense of duty into their burgeoning careers.

“There are rewards in life far greater than being able to upgrade your Boxster to a 911 Twin Turbo,” Dennehy told his classmates. He acknowledged that he and his fellow grads are “truly lucky” to be entering a career that enriches others’ lives while also providing personal satisfaction and fulfillment.

In his speech, “The Good Samaritan,” Atul Kamath recounted a time not long ago when, while on a flight to California for residency interviews, an announcement came over the intercom asking if any doctors were on board. He hesitantly pressed his call button and, after a moment of uncertainty, realized that he had “taken the next step” toward being a physician.

Kamath noted that uncertainty is built into the field of medicine. “Medicine is this unknown, this uncomfortable feeling. Medicine brings problems we are not able to solve in the here and now,” he said, adding that even bigger challenges are yet to come, “problems that will force us to address issues beyond the individual patient,” like health insurance disparity and scientific progress. Returning to the theme of transition, Kamath surmised that the short white coats medical students wear are more than symbols of their inexperience, but symbols of the transformation they are undergoing.

Joe Wright’s speech, titled “Found Down,” began with a story: a man is “found down,” for no apparent reason. Different versions of this story happen hundreds of times a day, but “this is its essence,” Wright said. “A person falls, and in small and large ways, a huge network of people begins to pick him up again.” Each of these stories is a version of the same question, Wright said. “When we see suffering, do we look away, or do we go towards it?” He cautioned his fellow grads not to forget they will be just one part of a web of nurses, paramedics, social workers, and others who all must respond to this question, day after day.

“In small or large ways, most of us have come to sit here today partly because of people like this, people who taught us how to behave in the face of suffering: teachers, friends, family,” Wright said, adding that this lesson is often taught by example. “They’ve seen us fall,” he said. “In one way or another, they have found us down and helped us up, sometimes many times.”

This Class Day, 189 MDs and 30 DMDs were conferred to the Class of 2007. Approximately half of the graduates were women and half men. Underrepresented minorities made up a quarter of the new graduates.

-Emily Lieberman

HSPH CLASS DAY

Health Care Is a Right, Asserts Former Mexico Health Minister

Health care is not a commodity or a privilege, but a social right, said Julio Frenk, former Minister of Health for Mexico, who delivered the commencement address at HSPH on June 7 in the Countway Courtyard.

“The premise here is that all human lives have the same value and that health systems must represent instances where everybody, regardless of gender, race, national origin, or socioeconomic status, must receive similar treatment for similar needs,” he said. “Since the great majority of health deficits are involuntary, it follows that no type of discrimination in access to health services can be morally valid.”

While he was health minister, Frenk led a major reform of the Mexican health care system that helped provide care for about 50 million impoverished Mexicans. He is now a visiting professor at HSPH.

Frenk described several overarching paradoxes facing health care worldwide. Never before has the power of science been greater, yet millions die unnecessarily from preventable and treatable diseases. Many countries have rural communities without doctors, while urban communities have doctors without jobs. Unprecedented sums of aid are flowing into developing countries, but that aid is rendered ineffective when the resulting intellectual capital emigrates. And while health is a key factor in the fight against poverty, health care itself is so expensive that it can impoverish people.

These conundrums can be addressed by developing evidence-based policies and by transforming ideals into what Frenk called “the integrity base” for coherent action.

Taking a broad view of public health during his address, HSPH dean Barry Bloom noted that public health has emerged as a front-burner issue on national and international agendas due to issues such as bioterrorism, HIV/AIDS, and extremely drug-resistant (XDR) tuberculosis.

“Perhaps for the first time, you, our graduates, will not have to explain what public health is to your families and friends,” he said. “We are entering a time of heightened awareness about public health and a recognition that, as our former President Larry Summers once said, ‘There is probably no other area of human endeavor in which the application of thought and resources can make so profound a difference in as many people’s lives as the world of public health and biomedical science.’”

The School awarded 473 graduate degrees in public health this year, including 404 master’s degrees, 17 PhDs, and 52 other doctoral degrees. More than half of the graduates were women and one quarter of the students came from countries outside the United States. MPH recipient Joel Kase delivered the student speech, and Mark Clanton, a chief medical staff officer of the American Cancer Society, provided greetings on behalf of the alumni.

A short video, webcast, photo gallery, and transcripts are available at http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/commencement/index.html.

—Christina Roache

HMS FACULTY SYMPOSIUM

Getting to the Molecular Heart of Heart Disease

Even though cardiovascular disease ranks first among deadly pathologies, clinicians still have difficulty predicting who will get the disease and why. At the HMS Faculty Symposium on June 7, HMS alums and others had a chance to hear about the latest research on the causes of cardiovascular disease and how these findings can be moved into the clinic.

Michael Gimbrone and Guillermo Garcia-Cardena detailed emerging science about the relationship between blood flow and blood vessel identity in health and disease. Gimbrone, the Elsie T. Friedman professor of pathology at HMS and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, recounted research in his lab showing that the force of blood flow helps determine where atherosclerotic plaques form. His team discovered that different types of fluid force could actually turn genes on and off in the endothelial lining of blood vessels and “with that, came an epiphany, quite frankly, for us as vascular biologists.” Atherosclerotic plaques form in areas with turbulent flow, while areas with smooth flow are protected from plaques. By identifying genes that are switched on in the two regions, his team has shown that understanding tissue mechanics can lead to molecular pathology insights—and point the way to novel therapeutic agents.

Garcia-Cardena, HMS assistant professor of pathology at BWH, spoke about a fundamental question of cardiovascular science: what’s the difference between arteries and veins? His lab has found that different types of blood flow in arteries and veins shape the physical arrangement of endothelial cells and surrounding smooth muscle, triggering different patterns of gene expression. Garcia-Cardena added that the science sheds light on what happens during coronary bypass grafts, in which a piece of vein is inserted into an artery and must adopt the characteristics of the arterial wall.

To demonstrate how new scientific findings can affect the clinic, Paul Ridker began his talk by pointing to a slide that he shows to medical students—a photograph of a severely atherosclerotic artery paired with an image of hands misshapen from arthritis. Research has shown that the two diseases, though very different in nature, “are remarkably similar at a pathophysiological level,” said Ridker, the Eugene Braunwald professor of medicine at BWH. He detailed a string of studies over the past decade showing that C-reactive protein (CRP), a marker of inflammation, may also function as a predictor of heart attack and stroke. He said that CRP or similar inflammatory markers could help clinicians better predict a person’s risk of developing heart disease.

Clinicians still lack tools to rapidly diagnose and treat acute injuries to the heart, said Robert Gerszten. He noted that emergency departments across the country receive five million visits per year for chest pain, yet there are no biomarkers in the blood to determine whether someone is experiencing myocardial ischemia or is in the very earliest stages of a heart attack. Gerszten, HMS associate professor of medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, is applying the new approach of metabolomics to the problem, which involves characterizing the metabolites in human plasma and the ways they change with disease. To find out what happens to patients during a heart attack, his team has been analyzing metabolites in people undergoing planned myocardial injury as part of a treatment, as well as patients undergoing stress tests. Metabolites are good indicators of acute disease, he said, because their levels change well before any shifts in gene expression. The varying patterns of metabolites might hold biomarkers of an ailing heart or targets for therapeutic manipulation.

—Courtney Humphries

CLASS SYMPOSIUM

Class of ’82 Recounts Paradigms Passed

Three hundred million years ago, when reptiles ruled the Earth, sex was determined by an egg’s temperature as it incubated. X and Y chromosomes did not yet exist. Then a mutation arose that kept an ordinary chromosome from properly recombining with its partner. The chromosome began to lose genes. Some have predicted that the now puny swatch of genetic material will someday self-destruct.

“These are not the only sort of insults hurled at the Y chromosome,” said David Page, director of the Whitehead Institute. He was speaking at the symposium of the HMS 25th reunion class of 1982, which was held on June 7. Page has spent the last 25 years “defending the honor of this little guy in the face of innumerable threats to its character.” He was not the only speaker on a mission. Members of the HMS Class of 1982 have embarked on all manner of quests, professional and personal. They recounted their exploits, engagingly and often humorously, in the daylong symposium.

“We want to hear what touches, moves, and inspires you,” said symposium moderator, Abraham Morgentaler, HMS associate clinical professor of surgery at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, at the opening of the morning session. (For an account of the afternoon session, see companion story). Several speakers pointed to former dean for medical education Daniel Federman as an important influence on their lives. Federman pointed right back. “Your class was my inspiration,” he said. Federman gave up a chairmanship at Stanford University to become dean the year the HMS Class of ’82 arrived. “I was unsure about it until the first day I met your class,” he said.

Taking to heart a long-ago remark by Federman—that “you have the ability to take what we teach you and morph it somehow”—Roger Macklis described his quest to develop an antidote to radiation poisoning. His interest was piqued in 1985 when he came across a story from the early 1930s about William Bailey, a Harvard dropout who was amassing a fortune bottling radium water—thought to have therapeutic effects—until a wealthy Yalie, Eben Byers, “drank many cases of the water and died a terrible death.” When an article Macklis wrote on the story was picked up by the media, a reporter asked whether a radiation antidote had been developed. “I had never considered the possibility,” said Macklis, chairman of radiology at the Cleveland Clinic.

Michael Mendelsohn undertook his own odyssey in 2002 when the Women’s Health Initiative reported that hormone replacement therapy leads to higher rates of cardiovascular disease in older postmenopausal women. Yet his research, and that of others, had shown that estrogen receptors are required for healthy blood vessel function, which led to a conundrum: how can estrogen lead to both health and disease? He hit upon a solution in 2004 when he discovered evidence that older, already sclerotic blood vessels respond differently to estrogen than young healthy ones. “The answer, like lots of things in life, is timing,” said Mendelsohn, professor of medicine and physiology at Tufts University School of Medicine.

Neurologists have been in thrall to a timing hypothesis of their own, said Ramon Gilberto Gonzalez, namely that the clot-busting drug TPA can only be given during the first three hours of a stroke. In fact, some strokes may be arrested as many as nine hours after they start. On the other hand, even within the three-hour period, TPA may do more harm than good. “In stroke, we’re at a point of crisis. We’re treating all strokes as if they’re the same,” said Gonzalez, HMS professor of radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital. As a student, he had a passion for imaging and has since used MRI and other methods to reveal the physiological basis of different strokes which, in turn, has led to life-saving treatments. “We need to shift from using time as a parameter to using physiology,” he said.

Dogma had an equally contrary and positive effect in the case of Kent Ucel. He had no idea what he wanted to do when he left HMS. In 1987, during an imaging fellowship, he was told that MRI would never be good for imaging blood vessels. “That finally gave me a little guidance,” he said. Several years later, he injected contrast medium during an actual scan and got surprisingly good results. His approach was developed by others and is now routinely used to image aneurysms and other conditions.

“None of this work was grant supported—it was done as an adjunct to clinical practice,” he said. In the ’80s the pace of medicine was different. “You could really play around without worrying about reimbursement rates,” said Ucel. “I worry about the future of translational research. How can we know what we haven’t got because we gave away that time?”

—Misia Landau

Alums Share 25 Years of Adventure, Inspiration

Eight alums from the HMS Class of ’82 came forward to share their experiences and insights on the afternoon of June 7 as part of the Alumni Week Class Symposium titled “Inspiration after 25 Years.” About 150 people gathered at Walter amphitheater in the Tosteson Medical Education Center to hear the stories of their classmates.

James O’Connell began the session by recounting his adventures as president of the Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program, which he helped found in 1985. “I have the best job in the world, believe it or not,” said O’Connell, telling anecdotes from his rounds throughout Boston, administering physical exams and giving out medication to the homeless. Though the stories were heartwarming, O’Connell informed his classmates that in the seven years he and his colleagues followed a cohort of 119 homeless people (with an average age of 45), 44 of them died. “That’s the highest mortality rate of any subpopulation in the United States,” he said.
After O’Connell finished his talk, the audience gave him a standing ovation. “Jim O’Connell is our saint … [his talk] was just astounding,” said classmate Linda Dagi, an instructor in ophthalmology at Children’s Hospital Boston.

Following this presentation, Michael Glafkides spoke about his experiences in plastic surgery for breast cancer patients, and Robert Yancey, an orthopedic surgeon in Oregon, took the audience on a whirlwind tour of his time as a medical volunteer in third-world countries. “Just the feeling of taking care of these people who have nothing, their feeling of friendship, and how much they appreciated what we were doing, really kept [us] going,” said Yancey.

The host of the event, Abraham Morgentaler (an HMS associate clinical professor of surgery and a urologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center), discussed his work on testosterone. “My confession is, I’m obsessed with sex,” he joked. While keeping a humorous tone, Morgentaler described his serious finding—that, contrary to the dominant theory, high testosterone levels do not increase the risk of prostate cancer. Just as he finished, a man from the audience stood and addressed the crowd, commending Morgentaler’s dissident discovery. “This work, inside an academic institution—with grants and promotions on the line, that’s bravery,” he said.

After the break, the final four speakers focused on personal experiences and choices. Vicki Heller (who practices obstetrics and gynecology in Wellesley Hills) mixed humor with heartfelt emotion as she discussed her battle with tongue cancer. “I think there are good things in every bad thing that happens to you…. I found new ways of understanding…. I think and I listen more,” she said. “I am happier.”

E. Richard Clark, an anesthesiologist practicing in Oregon, followed up with a talk about his tree farm and the future of medicine. “Now I know this is one of many lectures you’ve heard about tree farming and medicine parallels, so I’ll try not to repeat myself too much,” he said to a ripple of laughter from the audience.
Tally Lassiter, now chief of orthopedic surgery at Durham Veterans Administration Medical Center in North Carolina, spoke of his life’s ups and downs as a husband, a father, and a Division I sports team physician.

Finally, Cynthia Reyes, who practices general and pediatric surgery in Pensacola, Fla., described her journey from Harlem to Harvard. As she described those in her life who inspired her, Reyes included her HMS classmates. “Friendship,” she said, surveying the room, “is the inspiration for this reunion.”

-Lauren Cahoon

ALUMNI SYMPOSIUM

HMS Initiative Urged to Break Implementation Bottleneck

Ten million people around the world die needlessly every year because proven remedies are not reaching them, said Jim Kim, head of the Social Medicine Department at HMS, during the Alumni Day Symposium on the Quad.

The bottleneck may be most extreme for poor people or those in developing countries, but it can affect people’s health everywhere, Kim said. A mere 3 percent of African children have access to the pesticide-impregnated bed nets that protect them against deadly malaria-spreading mosquitoes, for example. On the other end of the spectrum, only about two thirds of U.S. patients receive beta blockers within 24 hours of admission to a hospital with chest pain.

“We are in the midst of an implementation bottleneck,” said Kim, who proposes that Harvard launch a new field of health care delivery science. “Many people are working on new tools, which is terribly, terribly important,” he said, “but what about getting the things we already have out to the people who need them?”

A common thread in the long list of bottlenecks is complexity, said Kim. Many people make the mistake of fixating on one aspect of multidimensional problems whose solutions require many different approaches, none of which is sufficient by itself. For example, the billions of dollars from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for discovering and developing new drugs and vaccines to combat diseases in poor countries is vitally important, he said, but an implementation bottleneck remains a huge barrier to delivering the improved health care to the people who need it.

“There has to be a way to capture the complexity, learn the important lessons, and then train leaders in global health delivery,” he said. “I fear that it’s not going to happen unless Harvard Medical School takes a leading role in doing it.” Kim, a co-founder of Partners In Health (PIH), envisions a cadre of people with the skills of two other symposium speakers who trained on PIH projects in Haiti, Peru, and Russia.

Sonya Shin, now an HMS assistant professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, joined PIH at its new outpost in northern Lima, Peru, during her third year at HMS 11 years ago. An initial door-to-door survey of health issues, combined with the death of a relief worker colleague from multidrug resistant tuberculosis upon his return to Boston, quickly focused their efforts on the growing number of TB cases resistant to all first-line therapies.

First the organization had to overcome the prevailing dogma of the World Health Organization, which considered Peru a model country for TB treatment and balked at programs to treat resistant cases. Then, Shin faced the same problem on a smaller scale, a patient whom the local hospital wanted to declare ineligible for treatment because of her history of no-shows. The patient, Paulina, was so sick she could not walk to the hospital to complete the procedures necessary for treatment.

“Patients were dying of the policy, not the disease per se,” said Shin, who de-cided to treat Paulina while the admin- istrative delays were being overcome.

Another PIH colleague, David Walton, described his efforts in expanding HIV and TB treatment in Haiti from the central hospital to Lascahobas, an inland town of 55,000. “The secret was to raise the level of primary care and integrate [treatment] into the larger paradigm of creating access to care for those who didn’t have anything,” said Walton, who just graduated from the Howard Hiatt Residency in Global Health Equity and Internal Medicine, based at BWH.

Walton also has literally raised a new building, constructed with local unskilled workers and staffed mostly with Haitian physicians and health staff, to serve the rapidly growing 350 to 450 outpatients every day, plus tripling the 15-bed inpatient capacity of the old clinic.

—Carol Cruzan Morton

YEAR END AWARDS

Student, Faculty, and Staff Honors for 2007

HMS/HSDM
Class of 2007


Sheila Naghshineh, Richard C. Cabot Prize
Jennifer Rose Siegel, Richard C. Cabot Prize
John Travis Hinson, Henry Asbury Christian Award
Andrea Vashti Jackson, Community Service Award
Jennifer Rose Siegel, Robert H. Ebert Primary Care Achievement Award
Benjamin Daniel Sommers, Robert H. Ebert Primary Care Achievement Award
Roberta Capp, Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Excellence in Emergency Medicine Award
Hector Luis Rivera, The Gerald S. Foster Award
Grace Jean-Yee Chan, Bemy Jelin ’91 Prize
Kanu Marting Okike, Risha Reneé Irby, Viviany Rodrigues Taqueti, Christopher Charles Selhorst, Tiffany Rhea Jackson, Multiculturalism Award
Jennifer Rose Siegel, Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award
Jenny Stillwaggon Radesky, The New England Pediatric Society Prize
Phyllis Alexandra Binnie, Leon Reznick Memorial Prize
Lisa Maher Zakhary, Dr. Sirgay Sanger Award
Benjamin Daniel Sommers, Rose Seegal Prize
Jay Ashok Shendure, James Tolbert Shipley Prize
Viviany Rodrigues Taqueti, PASTEUR Award

Faculty and Staff Awards

David Cardozo, assistant professor of neurology, Best Preclinical Instructor
Helen Shields, associate professor of medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Best Preclinical Instructor
Sara Fazio, assistant professor of medicine at BID, Best Clinical Instructor
Joel Katz, assistant professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Best Clinical Instructor
Carolyn Bernstein, assistant professor of neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital, Leonard Tow 2006 Humanism in Medicine Award
Ronald Arky, the Charles S. Davidson distinguished professor of medicine, Overall Class Support
Growdon Whitfield, Best Teaching Resident

Health Sciences and Technology Teaching Awards

Christopher Shera, associate professor of otology and laryngology and health sciences and technology at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Irving M. London Teaching Award
Robert Rubin, the Gordon and Marjorie Osborne professor of health sciences and technology at HMS and BWH, Thomas A. McMahon Mentoring Award

HSDM Faculty, Staff, and Student Awards

Srinivas Murthy Susarla, Harvard Dental Alumni Association Gold Medal
Nathan Cannon Dewsnup, Harvard Dental Alumni Association Silver Medal
Ezz Dean Azzeh, James H. Shaw Award
Mohamed Ibrahim Masoud, Joseph L. Henry Award
Frances Mira Kim, James M. Dunning Award
Kelly Ann Norris, Dr. Norman B. Nesbett Medal
Robert Genco, visiting professor of medicine at BWH and Joslin Diabetes Center, Goldhaber Award
Hiroe Ohyama, instructor in restorative dentistry and biomaterials sciences, Distinguished Junior Faculty Award
Sheldon Peck, associate clinical professor of developmental biology, Distinguished Senior Faculty Award

HSPH Prizes and Awards
Class of 2007


Jesse M. Rohde, Albert Schweitzer Award
Monisha Machado, Charles F. Wilinsky Award
Jill Roncarati, Fang-Ching Sun Memorial Award
Adam MacNeil, Edgar Haber Award in Biological Sciences
Genevieve Daftary, Cynthia Mesh, and Jennie Wei, Gareth M. Green Award for Excellence in Public Health
Rajeev Ayyagari and Lee Dicker, Robert B. Reed Prize for Excellence in Biostatistical Science
Cassandra Okechukwu, Student Recognition Award
Trong Thanh-Hoang Ao, Uwe Brinkmann Memorial Travel Award

Faculty

Julie Buring, professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Roger L. Nichols Excellence in Teaching Award
Saidi Kapiga, associate professor of reproductive health, Mentoring Award
William Hsiao, K.T. Li professor of economics, and Immaculata DeVivo, associate professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Teaching Citation
Megan Othus, Teaching Assistant Award