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April 12, 2002 Vol. 26, No. 28
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Outstanding faculty mentors receive awards, recognition

There is more to teaching than just teaching. Full story

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Demonstrating diagnostics

At a course about pain syndromes of the low back, hip and knee, Shirley A. Sahrmann, Ph.D. demonstrates diagnostic techniques on Priscilla Hawley. View in full

Scott Fraser to give Oliver Lowry lecture April 17

Scott E. Fraser, Ph.D., director of the Biological Imaging Center at the Beckman Institute of the California Institute of Technology, will present the 2002 Oliver Lowry Lecture in Bioorganic Chemistry at 4 p.m. April 17 in Moore Auditorium. It is located on the first floor of the North Building, 4580 Scott Ave. Full story

Siteman Cancer Center co-sponsoring race

The Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine is co-sponsoring the June 22 Komen St. Louis Race for the Cure. If Washington University students, employees, family and friends register as members of the Siteman Race Team by May 28, they receive a Siteman Team T-shirt, the Komen Race packet and pay a discounted registration fee of $16. Those who register for the race as Siteman Team members also will be automatically registered in a drawing for a $250 gift certificate at the St. Louis Galleria. Full story


Nerbonne and Ornitz named alumni endowed professors

Jeanne M. Nerbonne, Ph.D., and David M. Ornitz, M.D., Ph.D., each have been named an Alumni Endowed Professor of Molecular Biology and Pharmacology in the School of Medicine.

Alumni professorships combine unrestricted gifts from medical alumni and former house staff with gifts from friends of the School of Medicine. Full story


Patient-safety effort includes School of Medicine, BJC

The School of Medicine and BJC HealthCare are participating in a national research initiative to reduce medical errors and improve patient safety.

The $50 million initiative by the Department of Health and Human Services is funding 94 projects throughout the country. It represents the federal government's largest single investment to address patient deaths related to medical errors. Two of those grants, totaling $3.3 million, were awarded to the University and BJC. The one-year grants were provided by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to fund the first phase of a multi-year effort. Full story


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