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

President of Mass Geriatrics Society and on advisory board for "Annals of Long-Term Care."

J. Rencic

CDIM Planning Committee for 2007 National Meeting

CDIM Resident as Teacher Task Force Committee Member

SGIM Clincal Care Committee

Infectious Diseases

H. Boucher

Antimicrobial Availability Task Force for the Infectious Disease Society of America.

S. Gorbach

Editor of Clinical Infectious Disease

Editorial Board: The Journal of Infection

Editorial Board: Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

S. Hadley

Council for Massachusetts ID Society

D. Snydman

Editor (Infectious Diseases portion) of Yearbook of Medicine

Editorial Board: Transplantation and Mayo Clinic Proceedings

Editorial Advisory Committee for Clinical Infectious Diseases

Ken Kaplan Clinician Award from Massachusetts ID Society

Emanual Wolinsky Award from the Infectious Disease Society of America

Sherwood L. Gorbach the Alexander Fleming Prize from the Infectious Diseases Society of America.

C. Wanke

Associate Editor of Clinical Infectious Disease

Editorial Board: AIDS

Hematology/Oncology

H. Klingemann

Editorial Board of Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplant

S. Levy

Serves on President Bush’s National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity

R. Schwartz

Deputy Editor, New England Journal of Medicine

R. Van Etten

Editorial Board of Blood and Leukemia;

Contributing editor for UpToDate;

Chair: Dept. of Defense CML Research Program Integration Panel

ECOG Leukemia Committee

Nephrology

V. Balakrishnan

Received the Clinician Scientist Award from the National Kidney Foundation in 2006

A. Levey

Editor in Chief of American Journal of Kidney Disease

Associate Editor for Kidney and Hypertension Section of Annals of Internal Medicine

Chaired the Kidney Disease Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) Controversies Conference on Chronic Kidney Disease as a Global Public Health Problem: Approaches and Initiatives.

Co- chair of CDC and Prevention technical expert panel on Comprehensive Public Health Strategies for Preventing the Development and Progression of Chronic Kidney Disease.

Appointed to an NHLBI Expert Panel on Hypertension Treatment Trial Initiative to make recommendations for a large-scale trial of blood pressure in nondiabetic adults, with special attention to CKD.

Participated in the Acute Kidney Injury Network Consensus Conference to discuss the definition and classification of acute kidney injury and its relationship to chronic kidney disease.

Participated in and NHLBI Vascular Disease and Hypertension Workgroup to make recommendations for future research directions related to kidney disease and hypertension.

K. Meyer

Received Boston Gift of Life Outstanding Physician Nephrology Award in 2006

Board of Directors of the Forum of End-Stage Renal Disease Networks.

Consultant to the Food and Drug Administration’s Gastroenterology and Urology Devices Panel.

R. Perrone

Received Boston Gift of Life Outstanding Physician Nephrology Award

Chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee for the Polycystic Kidney Disease Foundation

Member of editorial board of the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.

Appointed PKD editor of UpToDate.

M. Sarnak Member of the Annual Meeting Program Planning Committee for the 2007 National Kidney Foundation’s Spring Clinical Meeting.

Member of Kidney Disease Education Program Evaluation Committee.

Member of editorial board of the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.

K. Uhlig

Directs evidence reviews for the development of clinical practice guidelines commissioned by the National Kidney Foundation

D. Weiner

Deputy Editor in Chief : American Journal of Kidney Disease

Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine

C. Dambrosio

Chair of Membership Committee for Sleep-Related Breathing Disorders for the American Academy of Sleep Medicine.

B. Fanburg

Chair of the Heart, Lung and Blood Institute DSMB at the NIH

American Thoracic Society Achievement Award

Member, Association of American Physicians

Member, Society of Clinical Investigation

Member, Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Member, American Heart Association Council

MTS Chadwick Award

Tufts Distinguished Faculty Award

Chair, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute Data Safety Monitoring Board

Member, LAM Scientific Board

Gordon Conference Pulmonary Vascular Research Award

G..Finlay

Clinical Science Chair for national LAM symposium

N. Hill

Eli Lilly Distinguished Scholar Award

Chadwick Award from Massachusetts Thoracic Society

Associate Editor, Chest

Editorial Board Journal on Noninvasive Mechanical Ventilation, Chronic Respiratory Disease, and Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

I. Preston

Editorial board of: Advances in Pulmonary Hypertension and I. Gan American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Standards of Practice Committee Member

Rheumatology

T. McAlindon

Chair of NIH/NIAMS Osteoarthritis Initiative Publications Committee

Best Doctors

Members of the Department cited by Boston Magazine among Best Doctors in Boston in 2007 as determined by peer evaluations by Best Doctors in America

Allergy

John Ohman

Cardiology

David DeNofrio

            Mark Estes

            Carey Kimmelstiel

            Marvin Konstam

            Mark Link

            Deeb Salem

            Jim Udelson

            Andy Weintraub

Endocrinology

Michael Rosenblatt

            Ron Lechan

Gastroenterology

Marshall Kaplan

Infectious Diseases

Susan Hadley

            Deb Poutsiaka

            David Snydman

General Medicine

Dineli Ahearn

            David Fairchild

            Richard Kopelman

            John Wong

Nephrology

Andrew Levey

Pulmonary

Erik Garpestad

            Nicholas Hill

            Alex White

Hem/Onc

Andreas Klein

            Ken Miller

            Gary Strauss