Tufts Medical Center - Recent Achievements of Department

Recent Regional and National Honors and Leadership Positions

Chairmans Office

Cardiology

Clinical Care Research

Clinical Decision Making

Geographic Medicine - Infectious Diseases

Hematology-Oncology

Nephrology

Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep

Rheumatology

Boston Magazine Best Doctors 2007

Chairman’s Office

D. Salem

Member of Publications Committee for Massachusetts Medical Society overseeing New England Journal of Medicine

Recipient of Paul Dudley White Award from the American Heart Association Received Lifetime Achievement Award from Boston Business Journal

J. Kassirer

Editor Emeritus of the New England Journal of Medicine.

Member of Institute of Medicine, Association of American Physicians and American Academy of Arts and Science

R. Kopelman

Head of University Program Directors Assembly in Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine.

Member of National Task Force Overseeing Reorganization of Fellowship Application Process

M. Mendelsohn

Member of Association of American Physicians, Association of University Cardiologists, American Society of Clinical Investigation

S. Pauker

Regent of American College of Physicians.

Member of Institute of Medicine, Association of American Physicians and American Society for Clinical Investigation

Cardiology

R. Blaustein

2005 Pfizer Atorvastatin Research Award

D. DeNofrio

Editorial Board of Journal of Cardiac Failure

Region 1 Representative to the UPTN/UNOS Thoracic

Committee

Education Committee, Heart Failure Society of America

N. Estes

Associate Editor of Journal of Interventional Electrophysiology

Editorial Boards: Heart Rhythm, American Journal of

Cardiology, Pacing and Cardiac Electrophysiology,

Journal of Cardiovascular Physiology,

Hellenic Journal of Cardiology

Elected to Association of University Cardiologists

President- Elect- Heart Rhythm Society

Chairman- Elect-Council of Clinical Cardiology, AHA

National Committees: AHA/ACC/HRS Guidelines for Pacemaker and Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator 2006; AHA/ACC/HRS Atrial Fibrillation Performance Measures (Co-Chair 2005-6)

ACC Bethesda 36^th Guidelines for Participation in Athletics

AHA Scientific Publishing Committee 2003-2006

R. Karas

Editorial Board of Atherosclerosis

Established Investigator of the American Heart Association.

Chairman: National Molecular Signaling 1 Study Section of the American Heart Association.

Editorial board: Endocrinology.

Member : North American Menopause Society Hormone Therapy Advisory Panel.

Ad hoc member of Vascular Cell and Molecular Biology Study Section; National Institutes of Health

C. Kimmelstiel

Editorial board of the Journal of Thrombosis and Thrombolysis

M. Konstam

Recent president of Heart Failure Society of America

Member of Clinical Practice Guideline Committees for Heart Failure Society of America, American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association, Consultant to US FDA

2007 President of the Association of Professors of Cardiology

J Kuvin

ACC Emerging Faculty Program Award

M. Link Editorial Board of Heart Rhythm and Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology

ACC Bethesda 36^th Guidelines for Participation in Athletics

National AHA ACLS Guidelines Committee

N. Pandian

Received Pioneer Award in Echocardiology from Mayo Clinic

J. Udelson

Recent president of American Society of Nuclear Cardiology

Associate Editor, Circulation

Board of Trustees, American College of Cardiology

Editorial Board and Guest Editor of Journal of Nuclear Cardiology and Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Elected to Association of University Cardiologists

ACC Bethesda 36^th Guidelines for Participation in Athletics (2005) Consultant to US FDA

Clinical Care Research Division

J. Griffith

Statistical Editor: Clinical Infectious Disease

J. Lau

Elected to Association of American Physicians

Editorial Board: Clinical Evidence (BMJ/ACP-ASIM

publication)

Biomed Central, Medical Research Methodology

H. Selker

Elected to Association of American Physicians

Associate Editor: Journal of Investigative Medicine

Received the Society of General Internal Medicine John M. Eisenberg Award for Career Achievement in Research.

Co Chair: NIH, NHLBI, National Heart Attack Alert Program, Working Group on Technologies for Identifying Acute Cardiac Ischemia and Acute Myocardial Infarction

Co Chair : NIH, NHLBI, National Heart Attack Alert Program, Chest Pain Center Position Paper Writing Group

Association for Clinical Research Training, Advocacy Committee, Chair

I. Wilson

Chair: Research Committee, Society of General Internal Medicine,

American Academy on Communication in Healthcare, Research Committee, Member

Clinical Decision Making

J. Wong

Past president of Society for Medical Decision Making

Decision analysis editor for Annals of Internal Medicine

Member: Practice Guidelines Committee of American Association for the Study of Liver Disease

Past Member: Health Care Technology Study Section. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Invited Member, AMA, AGA, ASLD, Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement. Work Group on Hepatitis C

S. Pauker

Lifetime achievement award from Society for Medical Decision Making

Clinical Nutrition

J. Mason

Editorial Board: Nutrition in Clinical Care and Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition

R. Russell

Recent Chair, Food and Nutrition Board of Institute of

Medicine

Recent Chair, United States National Committee to the International Union of Nutritional Sciences

Received Triennial DSM Human Nutrition Award for Research

Editor in Chief, Nutrition Reviews

Editor, Present Knowledge in Nutrition

Fellow, American Society of Nutrition

Endocrinology

B. Dawson-Hughes

Advisory Board, U.C. Davis NIH BIRCWH Program

North American Menopause Society’s Award for calcium research

Board of Trustees of International Osteoporosis Foundation

Editorial Board: Bone

C. Fekete Organizing Committee for the International congress of Neuroendocrinology

A. Greenberg

Named the Dr. Robert C. and Veronica Atkins Professor in Metabolism and Nutrition at Tufts University School of Medicine

Co-Director, Boston Obesity Nutrition Research Center

Chair, Organizing Committee of the 2007 Annual Meeting of the North American Association for the Study of Obesity

Editorial Board: Adipocyte

R. Lechan

Distinguished Academic Achievement Award from University of Vermont School of Medicine

Plenary Speaker, New England Thyroid Club 2007

Founding member of The American Pituitary Association

Editorial Board: Endocrinology and Endocrine Pathology

M. Rosenblatt

Dean’s Distinguished Lecturer, U. Arkansas Medical School

Member, Scientific Advisory Board, Hebrew Rehabilitation Center

R. Siegel

Member, Committee on Nutrition of the Massachusetts Medical Society

Advisory Board, Visiting Nurses Association of Boston

R. Toni

Elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, Bologna, Italy

Editorial Board: Acta Biomedica, Medical Science Monitor

Gastroenterology

P. Bonis

Section editor in Gastroenterology and Hepatology for

UptoDate

Publications Committee: American Gastroenterological

Society

I. Gan

American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Standards of Practice Committee Member

M. Kaplan

Received Mentors Research Scholar Award from the American Gastroenterological Society

Master of the American College of Physicians

Section editor in Hepatology for UptoDate

Member: American Association of Physicians and American Society for Clinical Investigation

A. Plaut

Member: American Association of Physicians, and American Society for Clinical Investigation, and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

J. Weinstock

Microbiology Section Editor, Journal of Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Member, American Society of Clinical Investigation;

Member, NIH Gastrointestinal Mucosal Pathobiology (GMPB) Study Section

General Medicine

D. Fairchild

Named Editor-In-Chief of the on-line publication “Physician’s First Watch” a new publication of the New England Journal of Medicine.

R. Dupee