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Congratulations to Dr. Kathleen Finn for being appointed the Louisa C. Endicott Professor of Medicine by the Tufts University Board of Trustees! Dr. Finn joined the Department of Medicine at Tufts Medical Center and Tufts University School of Medicine this past June as Vice Chair of Education, Program Director for the Medicine Residency Program, and Associate Professor.
Congratulations to Dr. Suriya Jeyapalan for receiving the 2022 Louis Lasagna, MD Outstanding Institutional Review Board (IRB) Member Award!
Congratulations to Dr. Sarwat Salim, professor of ophthalmology, Director of Glaucoma Service, and Vice Chair of Clinical and Academic Affairs, on her election to lead the Massachusetts Society of Eye Physicians and Surgeons (MSEPS)!
Many women faculty members received research funding recently, including Dr. Chloe Bird, Dr. Gigi Hirsh, Dr. Paige Lin, Dr. Nanguneri Nirmala, Dr. Erika Werner, and Dr. MyDzung Chu. Congratulations!
Congratulations to Dr. Kathryn Huber for her grant from the Yawkey Foundation to support enhanced and personalized radiation cancer treatment through language-free visual guidance!
Congratulations to Dr. Wendy Mccallum on the receipt of a K23 to support her project entitled, Relation between acute changes in kidney function with clinical outcomes among patients with heart failure!
Congratulations to Dr. Lesley Inker, who was elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation, a prestigious medical honor society focused on the special role of physician-scientists in research, clinical care, and medical education, as well as leadership positions in academic medicine and the life sciences industry!
Congratulations to all of our women physicians named as “Top Doctors” by Boston Magazine!
Congratulations to Dr. Shira Doron, who was newly appointed Chief Infection Control Officer for Tufts Medicine!
Congratulations to Dr. Gabriela Andujar Vazquez, who is now serving as Tufts Medical Center’s Medical Director of Antimicrobial Stewardship!
Congratulations to Dr. Knarik Arkun on her two Springboard Research Awards for “Do Atypical Astrocytes Exist in the Aged Human Brain?” and “Toward a Medical Treatment for Spinal Stenosis: Elucidating the Role of Amyloid and Inflammatory Markers Associated with Ligamentum Flavum Thickening”!
Congratulations to the following researchers who recently got grant funding: Dr. Chole Bird (NSF), Dr. MyDzung Chu (JPB Foundation), Dr. Lidija Covic (NIH), and Dr. Susan Parsons (ASH).
Congratulations to Drs. Angie Rodday, Susan Parsons, and Jenica Upshaw for their simultaneous oral presentation at the American Society of Hematology meeting and publication in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, The Advanced-Stage Hodgkin Lymphoma International Prognostic Index: Development and Validation of a Clinical Prediction Model From the HoLISTIC Consortium
Thanks to Dr. Deb Blazey-Martin who has served as Division Chief of General Internal Medicine for the past 7 years. She will be leaving Tufts for a new position at UMass Medical Center. Dr. Blazey-Martin was also one of the founding members of WiMS and we are immensely grateful for her support and guidance over the years.
Congratulations to Dr. Sucharita Kher, Vice Chair for Clinical Operations and Quality, who will be serving as interim Division Chief of General Internal Medicine, and Dr. Kim Schelling who will be serving as interim Associate Division Chief of General Internal Medicine.
Congratulations to Dr. Helen Boucher, who has been named as the permanent dean of TUSM and chief academic officer for Tufts Medicine!
Congratulations to all of the women faculty members who were honored at the TUSM Annual Faculty Awards Ceremony on October 3rd!
Congratulations to Dr. Sara Ross on her recent promotion to Associate Professor of Pediatrics (Clinical/Educator Prototype) at TUSM!
Congratulations to new chairs of WiMS Subcommittees: Dr. Amanda French is now chair of the Leadership & Benefits Subcommittee, and Dr. Mithila Vullaganti is now chair of the Wellness & Work-Life Balance Subcommittee!
Congratulations to Dr. Mary Wallingford and her lab member, Vineetha Mathew (MS3 at TUSM). Dr. Wallingford attended the International Vascular Biology Meeting (IVBM) to present her lab's placenta vascular biology research studies, while Ms. Mathew received a Young Scholar travel award to attend the International Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia (HTT) Scientific Conference where she presented the lab’s work on HTT in pregnancy. This work was partially supported by a WiMS Seed mentorship award.
Congratulations to three Tufts MC doctors who were recognized for cardiac research. Dr. Kay Everett took first in the Jay Cohn New Investigator Competition at the Annual Heart Failure Society of America (HFSA) Conference in Washington, DC. Dr. Lija Swain received the Young Investigator Award for her study of cardiac metabolism and Dr. Xiaoying Qiao earned the Travel Award for the Acute Cardiac Unloading and Recovery (A-CURE) Meeting to be held in association with the forthcoming American Heart Association Scientific Sessions.
Congratulations to the new WiMS Committee Members and Chair-Elect , Aarti Grover, MD, Medical Director of the Center for Sleep Medicine, Program Director for the Sleep Medicine Fellowship and an Assistant Professor at Tufts University School of Medicine. An active member of the Tufts WiMS Committee since 2019, Aarti has served as the Chair of the WiMS Wellness and Work-Life Balance Subcommittee. We are also pleased to announce that as of October 1st, the WiMS Chair will be Angie Mae Rodday, PhD, Associate Director of the Clinical and Translational Sciences Graduate Program, a Biostatistician within the Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Research Design Center, and a faculty member within the Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies. Finally, we are pleased to introduce a new WiMS Committee Member: Imrana Qawi, MD; Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care.
Congratulations to Tara Lavelle, PhD for receiving the ISPOR Award for Excellence in Health Economics and Outcomes Research Application. This award recognizes honorees for their outstanding practical application of HEOR in healthcare decision making. The publication of her work is “Quantifying the Burden of Hyperphagia in Prader-Willi Syndrome Using Quality-Adjusted Life-Years;” [Clin Ther. 2021;43(7):1164-1178]
Congratulations to Miaofen Hu, MD, PhD for being promoted at Tufts University School of Medicine to Research Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine.
Congratulations to Dr. Alysse Wurcel for being elected a Fellow of the Infectious Disease Society of America.
Congratulations to Dr. Shira Doron for being elected a Fellow of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA).
Congratulations to Jenica Upshaw, MD for being promoted to Associate Professor Clinician/Investigator, in the Department of Medicine.
Congratulations to Alysse Wurcel, MD for being promoted to Associate Professor, Clinician/Investigator, in the Department of Medicine and the Department of Public Health and Community Medicine.
Congratulations to Dr. Amanda Vest, for nbeing selected by students as an Outstanding Tufts University School of Medicine Lecturer, 2021-2022. Just 20 faculty members - out of nearly 250 lecturers - met the criteria established to receive this honor.
Congratulations to Dr. Alysse Wurcel. Her project Engaging Stakeholders in New England to Improve Antibiotic Stewardship Practices in Jails and Prisons was selected to receive TUSM Springboard Funds.
Congratulations to Chloe Bird, PhD, FAAAS, FAAHB, for being appointed the Sara Murray Jordan Professor of Medicine and the Director of the Center of Health Equity Research at Tufts Medical Center.
Congratulations to Lesley A. Inker, MD MS for receiving the Milton O. Zucker, MD, FACS, and Natalie V. Zucker Award. This honor is awarded annually to a woman scientist on the Tufts University School of Medicine (TUSM) faculty for outstanding career achievements in research and is made possible by a generous donation from the Zucker family.
Congratulations to Caroline M. Hus, MD MS, newly minted faculty member in the Division of Nephrology and former research fellow, for receiving a Tufts Clinical and Translational Science Institute KL2 career development award. Her project "Predictors of Peritoneal Dialysis Technique Survival in the setting of PD-associated peritonitis" will use both quantitative and qualitative methods to assess the reasons why people switch from PD to HD.
Congratulations to Dr. Helen Boucher, MD on being named to a new, joint position as dean ad interim for Tufts University School of Medicine and chief academic officer for Tufts Medicine!
Congratulations to Dr. Tamara Vesel who received a Tisch College and Tufts University School of Medicine Community Service Learning Faculty Award
Congratulations to our newest members of WiMS: Drs. Elizabeth Figuracion, Amanda French, Haiyun Gong, Jana Leary, Michelle Richardson, Majd “Soubani” Alsoubani, Chayanin “Jing” Foongsathaporn!
