Medicine In Brief

Fellowships awarded

Jyoti Mayadev has been awarded the Frederick C. Robbins and Gloria Aggrey
and Shrusan Gray jointly have been awarded the Janet S. and Thomas M. Daniel student
travel fellowships.

These fellowships were endowed by gifts of friends of Robbins and by the Daniels. They are awarded annually to fourth-year medical students after review by a committee of proposals submitted by the students.

Mayadev will travel to India to attend a six-week course in Ayurvedic medicine at the Gujurat Ayurved University. Ayurvedic medicine is an ancient, traditional medical discipline that is viewed as complementary to allopathic medicine. Among other aspects, it emphasizes circadian rhythms and herbal remedies, including those with antioxidant properties.

Aggrey and Gray will go to Jamaica to work in programs of the Jamaican Ministry of Health, the University of the West Indies Faculty of Medicine and Jamaican AIDS and Support to study the beliefs and attitudes of adolescents in rural St. Catherine with respect to HIV infection and AIDS.

Dorr G. Dearborn

Dearborn appointed to Swetland professorship

Dorr G. Dearborn has been named the Mary Ann Swetland Professor of Environmental Health Sciences. The professor of pediatrics at Case and University Hospitals of Cleveland has been with the University since 1974.

The board established the professorship in 1989. The holder also serves as the director of the Mary Ann Swetland Center for Environmental Health, which serves as a focus for the University's educational, public health, clinical and research initiatives in environmental health.

The professorship and center honor the late wife of David W. Swetland, a friend of the University.

Peds interim chair named

Avroy A. Fanaroff, has assumed the administrative duties of the Case School of Medicine department of pediatrics as interim chair.

Ellis D. Avner, chair of pediatrics, began a one-year sabbatical earlier this month to devote himself to his academic work as director of the Rainbow Center for PDK (polycystic kidney disease) Research.

Fanaroff has led the division of neonatology for the last 30 years. Currently, he is the Eliza Henry Barnes Professor of Pediatrics
and a professor of neonatology in reproductive biology at the Case School of Medicine.

Publications, writers cited
Communication projects originating in the medical school's public affairs office have earned six awards. An issue of the medical school's magazine, the "Medical Bulletin," received a merit award in the 2003 Vision Awards competition of the International Association of Business Communicators, Cleveland Chapter. It also won an Award of Excellence in the international Apex Awards competition sponsored by Communications Concepts.

Lois A. Bowers, the medical school's assistant director of public affairs, is the editor of the magazine, and Sue Harris in the Case publications office is the graphic designer. Also in the Vision Awards competition, a "Medical Bulletin" article about alumna Julie Gerberding, written by Bowers, earned an honorable mention. In addition, the article won an honorable mention in the international American Society of Professional Communicators 2003 Masters Communications Awards competition.

A brochure-conceptualized by Carrie Higginbotham, who at the time was director of leadership programs in the medical school's development and alumni affairs office, and written by Bowers-received two 2003 Vision Awards, honorable mentions in writing and for the overall publication. The brochure was produced to help raise funds for medical student scholarships

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