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Accolades
Appointments
Wisdom (Photo by John Grybas, HFHS)

 

 

Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm appointed Dr. Kimberlydawn Wisdom, assistant professor of medical information, the state's first Surgeon General Feb. 5 during the State of the State address. Wisdom also serves as director of the Institute of Multicultural Health at Henry Ford Health System and an emergency medicine physician at Henry Ford Hospital.

 
Awards

Linda Gregerson, professor of English language and literature, has received the $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the largest cash prize for a single literary work in the United States. The award, given to Gregerson for her 2002 collection "Waterborne," is sponsored by Claremont Graduate University (CGU) for a single book of poetry by an American, published in the United States. According to CGU, the prize is given for a work by an emerging poet.
Gregerson (Photo courtesy Dept. of English

"One criterion for this award is that the poet must not have reached the pinnacle of her career. Having read Linda's poetry and heard her read it, I cannot imagine the heights that that pinnacle will represent," U-M Provost Paul N. Courant says. "Her work is simply stunning. Linda has always been a vigorous speaker for the proposition that the University should produce art as well as discuss it and criticize it. She lives that proposition. To have faculty of her skill, dedication and vision makes us all proud."

 

 

 

Griffith

John Griffith, the Andrew Pattullo Collegiate Professor of Health Management and Policy, and Jeffrey Alexander, senior associate dean for academic affairs, School of Public Health, and the Richard Carl Jelinek Professor of Health Management and Policy, are recipients of the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) 2003 Edgar C. Hayhow Award. The award, which will be presented March 18 in Chicago at the ACHE Congress on Healthcare Management, honors Griffith and Alexander for the article "Measuring Comparative Hospital Performance," which appeared in the January/February 2002 issue of the Journal of Healthcare Management. (Photos courtesy School of Public Health)

Alexander

 

Kales (Photo courtesy UMHS Public Relations)

The American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry on March 1 honored Dr. Helen Kales, assistant professor of psychiatry, with its 2003 Junior Investigator Award. Kales was selected to receive the award, which recognizes the best unpublished, original research by an emerging leader in the research field, for her paper "Effect of Race and Gender on Psychiatrists' Diagnosis and Treatment of Major Depression in the Elderly."

 
Morrison (Photo courtesy Neuroscience Program)

WIRED magazine has named Sean Morrison, assistant professor ofinternal medicine in the Division of Medical Genetics and assistant investigator in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Scientist of the Year in its annual Rave awards. The award, which recognizes Morrison's work in stem cell biology, celebrates innovation and individuals transforming commerce and culture.

 
 
 
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