Brigham and Women’s/Faulkner Hospitals has selected Mairead Hickey as the company’s new executive vice president and CEO. Hickey, previously the chief nursing officer and senior vice president of patient care services, has worked at Brigham and Women’s since 1992, holding various leadership positions in patient care, research and quality management services. She has also held adjunct faculty appointments at HMS, HSPH and Boston College School of Nursing.
Vadim Gladyshev, HMS lecturer on medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and director of the Center for Redox Medicine, has been awarded the EUREKA grant from the National Institute on Aging. The research supported by this grant focuses on understanding the basic mechanism of aging by indentifying the nature of senescence factors in budding yeast.
Wasim Malik, HMS instructor in anesthesia at Massachusetts General Hospital, has been awarded the CIMIT Miles and Eleanor Shore Fellowship for 2011. The award is given to an early career HMS faculty member who represents the CIMIT values of academic excellence. Malik, also a member of the Neuroscience Statistics Research Lab at MIT, will receive up to $50,000 to carry out research in the field of neural prosthetics. He will focus on designing a new generation of brain–machine interfaces to restore function in patients with limb loss or paralysis.
