Jordan Dunitz, MD. Adult Cystic Fibrosis Center Director received notice that the Minnesota Cystic Fibrosis Center has been selected as one of the 2010 recipients of the annual Cystic Fibrosis Foundation’s Quality Care Award: Recognizing Outstanding Quality Improvement Processes and Accomplishments.
Criteria for selection include:
actively using clinical outcomes data to identify opportunities for improvement and documenting results of efforts
measurable improvement in important clinical outcomes which can be linked to changes in process
consistently and actively involving patients and families in planning for and implementing improvement efforts
innovative approaches to patient care
Vitaly Polunovsky, PhD, is co-editor of a new book in the Cancer Drug Discovery Series, published by Humana Press in August 2010: mTOR Pathways and mTOR Inhibitors in Cancer Therapy.
Bryan Williams, MD PhD, cystic fibrosis research faculty member in the Pulmonary and Critical Care Division, was among 100 individuals chosen to attend a press conference convened by Vice President Joe Biden at the Eisenhauer Office Building in Washington DC on August 24. He and four other recipients of NIH-sponsored economic stimulus-related funding to enhance research capacity in US institutions were invited, along with representatives of renewable energy, efficient mass transit and small business. Vice President Biden’s remarks were titled, “The Recovery Act: Transforming the American Economy Through Innovation.”
On April 29, 2010 New York fashion photographer Rick Guidotti, founder of “Positive Exposure,” an organization committed to challenging stereotypes and changing the stigma associated with genetic differences, presented a video and slideshow at Mayo Auditorium. Invited guests included individuals living with cystic fibrosis and their families, whom he has featured in his Cystic Fibrosis Series photographs. Joanne Billings, MD, MPH, from the University of Minnesota’s Cystic Fibrosis Center, and Marshall Hertz, MD, Director of the Center for Lung Science and Health, invited Mr. Guidotti to speak and coordinated this life-affirming event.
Peter Bitterman, MD, has been appointed Vice Chair for Research for the Department of Medicine. He recently received a Lifetime Achievement Award from pulmonary medicine's national professional organization, The American Thoracic Society.
Conrad Iber, MD, received the Nathaniel Kleitman Award from the Associated Professional Sleep Medicine Society.
Marshall Hertz, MD was recently awarded the Judith and John Murphy Professorship in Advanced Lung Disease. He is also the Medical Director of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation Transplant Registry.
A NIH clinical site and Data Coordinating Center for COPD Clinical Trials Network was recently created.
