Dr. Wendy B. Bollag,cell physiologist in the Institute of Molecular Medicine and Genetics, has been appointed to a four-year term on the National Institutes of Health Arthritis, Connective Tissue and Skin Sciences Study Section. The section reviews research applications regarding biology and diseases of the joints, connective tissue and skin.

Dr. Pamela J. Fall, associate professor of medicine, has been elected to the Membership Committee of the American Society of Hypertension, Inc. She also co-chairs the Public Policy/Hypertension Specialist Committee of the society’s Carolinas and Georgia Chapter.

Dr. Stil E. Kountakis, vice chair of the Department of Otolarygology-Head and Neck Surgery and director of the Division of Rhinology, has co-edited the first comprehensive reference book on surgical techniques for the nose, sinuses and sleep apnea: Rhinologic and Sleep Apnea Surgical Techniques (Springer, 2007).

Dr. L. Michael Prisant, professor of medicine and director of the MCG Hypertension and Clinical Pharmacology Unit, has been elected to the Continuing Education Committee of the American Society of Hypertension, Inc. He is completing a two-year term as president of the society’s Carolinas and Georgia Chapter and a second term on the national society’s Nominating Committee.

Dr. Kapil D. Sethi, director of MCG’s Movement Disorders Program and National Parkinson Foundation Center of Excellence, has been appointed to the 15-member Medical Advisory Board of the International Essential Tremor Foundation. He is also treasurer of the American Academy of Neurology.

Dr. Jeffrey A. Stone, chief of interventional neuroradiology, has been elected vice president of the American Society of Spring Radiology. Over the next three years, he will become presidentelect, then president, of the society that promotes clinical and scientific expertise in spine-imaging and intervention.

Dr. Martha K. Terris, professor of urology and chief of the Augusta Veterans Affairs Medical Center Section of Urology, has been appointed to the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education Residency Review Committee for Urology. Dr. Terris, who directs MCG’s urology residency training program, will serve a three-year term.

Dr. Hadyn T. Williams, chief of nuclear medicine, has been elected president of the American College of Nuclear Physicians. He recently completed an eight-year term as president of the Georgia Society of Nuclear Medicine and is the Georgia Network Representative to the Society of Nuclear Medicine Commission on Health Care Policy.