Accolades

Four U-M nurses recently won 2005 Scholarships from the Michigan Nurses Association (MNA): Melinda Thacker and Sally Straub who each won $500; and James Hay and Maureen Goode Giacomazza who each won $750. Thacker is attending the U-M School of Nursing and expects to receive her Nurse Practitioner degree in December. Straub works full time at the U-M Cancer Center. Hay is a clinical coordinator. Giacomazza is a nurse ethicist.

John D. Piette, U-M researcher and associate professor in internal-general medicine, has received a grant of nearly $300,000 from the American Diabetes Association to study problems diabetics have with medication costs. He will study 800 diabetes patients in the Flint area with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes and complete the research in December 2007.

Dr. Peter A. Ward and Dr. Arul Chinnaiyan, both of the U-M Department of Pathology, received awards at the recent Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology's Experimental Biology Meeting in San Diego, Calif. Ward, professor in the Department of Pathology and director of General Pathology, received the Chugai Mentorship Award, which recognizes requires outstanding mentorship and outstanding scholarship. Chinnaiyan, associate professor of pathology and urology, S.P. Hicks Collegiate Professor of Pathology and director of the Pathology Microarray Center and director of the Tissue/Informatics Core of the U-M Prostate Specialized Program in Research Excellence, received the Amgen Outstanding Investigator Award. The award is presented to a member under the age of 43 for meritorious research in experimental pathology.

Appointment

Dr. Kenneth A. Jamerson, professor of Internal Medicine and medical director of the Program for Multicultural Health, has been named 2005-07 vice president for the International Society on Hypertension in Blacks, Inc., a unique, professional medical society that established the first ever guidelines for treating hypertension in African Americans. Jamerson has served as coordinator and principal investigator for numerous multi-center clinical trials sponsored by the National Institutes of Health and industry. His current basic research addresses the role of sympathetic tone on the metabolism of glucose in human skeletal muscle.

Ron Gilgenbach, Professor of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences, College of Engineering, was elected an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Fellow Nov. 13, effective Jan. 1 2006. The IEEE announcement cited his contributions to high power microwave vacuum-electron devices.

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