Accolades
Leichtman chair of UNOS committee Dr.
Alan Leichtman, medical director of kidney and transplantation and
associate professor of nephrology, has been appointed chair of the
United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS)/Kidney Transplantation Committee.
Leichtman had been vice-chair since 2000. The committee also serves
the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN). The committee
is charged with considering medical, scientific and ethical aspects
related to kidney and pancreas organ procurement, allocation and
sharing. In addition to his UNOS duties, Leichtman has served as
an expert member on the State of Michigan Certificate of Need Transplant
Service Ad Hoc Committee and the Michigan Department of Community
Health Certificate of Need Ad Hoc Advisory Committee on Pancreas
Transplantation.
Business researchers net NSF grant
Joni L. Jones, assistant professor in the School of Business Administration,
along with four other researchers, has been awarded a National Science
Foundation Information Technology Research Grant. The group’s
$1.5 million project, “Multiattribute Negotiation for Dynamic
Supply Chains,” runs from 2002–06 and will focus on multiattribute
negotiation mechanisms and decision support tools for dynamic, multi-level
supply chains.
Robillard given pediatric award
Dr. Jean Robillard, professor and chair of the Department of Pediatrics
and Communicable Diseases, has been presented with the Founders’
Award by the Midwest Society for Pediatric Research. The award recognizes
Robillard’s advances in pediatric research and his contributions
to the career development of pediatricians. His research has focused
on developmental renal physiology, regulation of blood pressure
during development, and the mechanics of arterial and cardiopulmonary
reflexes. In 1998, Dr. Laurence A. Boxer, professor and associate
chair of Pediatrics-Hematology/Oncology, was honored with the award,
making the U-M Health System the only institution in the Midwest
with two faculty members as recipients of the Founders’ Award.
Robillard also was elected recently to serve a six-year term on
the board of directors of the American Board of Pediatrics.
Masten in “Who’s Who” of economics
Scott Masten, professor in the School of Business Administration,
has been selected for inclusion in “Who’s Who in Economics,”
a book that lists influential economists worldwide from the year
1700 to the present, including approximately 1,200 living economists
selected on the basis of the usefulness of their research as measured
by the Social Science Citation Index.
Spreitzer joins editorial board
Gretchen Spreitzer, clinical professor in the School of Business
Administration, has been invited to join the editorial board of
Organizational Science, one of the top journals in organizational
studies. She also was elected to become the incoming program chair
for the Organization Development and Change Division of the National
Academy of Management meetings. In addition, Spreitzer had a paper
accepted in the Journal of Organizational Behavior titled, “To
Stay or Go: Voluntary Survivor Turnover Following an Organizational
Downsizing.”
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