Four U-M staff members have been selected to receive The Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions Award for Excellence in Research, presented annually by the Alliance for Continuing Medical Education, the Society for Academic CME, and the Council on CME, Association for Hospital Medical Education. The award is given to authors of the best research article published in the journal during the previous year. The award recipients are R. Van Harrison, professor of medical education and director of continuing medical education, Medical School; Dr. Connie Standiford, associate medical director, ambulatory care services, director of academic programs, medical school administration and clinical associate professor; Dr. Lee Green, associate chair for information management and professor in the Department of Family Medicine; and Dr. Steven Bernstein, professor of internal medicine, Medical School and research scientist, Health Services management and policy, School of Public Health. They were honored for their study, "Integrating Education into Primary Care Quality and Cost Improvement at an Academic Medical Center."

Third-year graduate student Charles Fairbanks has been awarded a U.S. government Jacob Javits Fellowship, based on superior academic ability, demonstrated achievement, financial need and exceptional promise. These fellowships are granted for the duration of a graduate student's program, up to 48 months.

The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) has awarded fellow status to Letha Chadiha, associate professor of social work. GSA fellows represent the highest class of membership and are recognized by peers for outstanding contributions to the field of gerontology.

Dr. Daniel F. Hayes, clinical director of the Breast Oncology Program and professor, Department of Internal Medicine, an oncologist and cancer researcher whose work in clinical and laboratory studies has advanced the management of breast cancer worldwide, was recently named the first winner of the annual Gianni Bonadonna Breast Cancer Award. Supported by a multi-year grant of more than $1.3 million from GlaxoSmithKline Oncology, the $10,000 award will be presented on Sept. 7 by the American Society of Clinical Oncology and The ASCO Foundation at the Breast Cancer Symposium in San Francisco.

Dr. Terry Kowalenko of the Department of Emergency Medicine has been awarded the American College of Emergency Physicians National Emergency Medicine Faculty Teaching Award for 2007. This award honors outstanding educators in emergency medicine and recognizes superior teaching activities including didactic lectures, clinical instruction, the development of innovative educational programs, as well as endorsement by faculty, residents and students. Kowalenko will be honored in October at the ACEP annual scientific meeting in Seattle.