Recent MCG Health, Inc. promotions include Michael
Dixon, vice president of professional services; Robert
McVicker, associate vice president for decision support and
business planning; and Teri Perry, vice president of
adult patient care services.
Dr. Stephen M. Black, cell and molecular physiologist in the
Vascular Biology Center, has been named to the National Heart,
Lung and Blood Institute’s Board of Scientific Counselors. He
also has been named to its Program Project Review Committee,
which supports multidisciplinary research regarding the heart,
blood vessels, lungs and blood as well as transfusion medicine,
blood resources and sleep disorders.
Dr. Darrell W. Brann, associate director of the Institute of
Neuroscience, has been named director of the neuroscience
graduate program. He played a key role in the design and
administration of the neuroscience graduate education curriculum
and is co-director of a five-year National Institutes of Health
training grant in neurodegenerative diseases and neural repair.
Dr. Peter Buckley, chair of the Department of Psychiatry and
Health Behavior, will help review applications for a National
Institutes of Health initiative to ensure adequate numbers of
well-trained scientists working in biomedical behavioral and
clinical research.
Dr. David M. Pollock, professor in the Vascular Biology
Center, has been named Hypertension’s top editorial board
reviewer. Dr. Pollock, an editorial board member since 2003, was
cited in the journal’s annual report to the board for the period
Sept. 1, 2005-Aug. 31, 2006. The journal also cited Dr. Pollock
as an Outstanding Reviewer in its previous fiscal year.
Dr. Shirley Quarles, associate professor of health
environments and systems in the School of Nursing, has been
appointed chair of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Advisory Committee on Women Veterans. Her tenure will run
through 2008.
Dr. Sandra B. Sexson, chief of the Section of Child,
Adolescent and Family Psychiatry, received the 2006 American
Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry’s Catcher in the Rye
Award for leadership in her field. She also has been named chair
of the American Psychiatric Association’s Council on Medical
Education and Lifelong Learning.
Fatima Cody Stanford, a fourth-year medical student,
published her first book, Deja Review: Behavioral Science, in
October. The book, published by McGraw-Hill Medical Publishing,
is part of a series to help prepare medical students for Step 1
of the U.S. Medical Licensing Examination. Ms. Stanford was
chosen to write the review book for behavioral science because
of her experience with standardized exams as an instructor for
The Princeton Review and as a reviewer for McGraw-Hill.
Drs. Jennifer Sullivan and Jeffrey Olearczyk, instructor and
postdoctoral fellow, respectively, in the Vascular Biology
Center, have received Merck New Investigator Awards from the
Council for High Blood Pressure Research and the Council on the
Kidney in Cardiovascular Disease. The awards honor 10 new
investigators who presented abstracts at the American Heart
Association’s 60th Annual Fall Conference and Scientific
Sessions of the Council for High Blood Pressure Research.
Dr. Wen-Cheng Xiong, Weiss Research Professor, has been named
to the editorial board of the Journal of Biological Chemistry.
