Department of Medicine at the
University of
Colorado Denver
First Quarter 2009 News
Not many individuals have a 50-year professional relationship with a single institution. The year 2009 will mark the 50th year that Bill Brown, Professor of Medicine (GI/Hepatology) has been making significant contributions to the Health Sciences Center. Bill started here in 1959 and his tenure has included being a houseofficer, Chief Medical Resident, faculty member (Instructor through Professor), Section Head (VA), Division Head and many other stops along the way.
The year 2009 will also mark the 51st year of Bill Robinson’s (Medical Oncology) relationship with the Health Sciences Center. Bill started medical school at the University of Colorado School of Medicine in 1958. Bill was subsequently a resident, Chief Medical Resident, faculty member (Assistant Professor through Professor), Program Director and Division Head here along with stays at the Massachusetts General Hospital, in India and at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne, Australia. Both Drs. Brown and Robinson continue to be very active, valuable contributors to our clinical, educational and scholarly pursuits.
Each year, the Division of General Internal Medicine presents the Elaine Cleary Award, based upon a vote by the medical student body and housestaff, to one of the more than 100 faculty members within the Division. This award is for a faculty member that best exemplifies the qualities of empathy and compassion in the care of patients as well as educational excellence. This year’s awardee is Eva Aagaard. The two other finalists were Larry Feinberg and Adam Trosterman.
The Department’s more than 130 PhDs are key elements in our scholarly, educational and translational medicine success. One of our PhDs (Taras Lyubchenko, Rheumatology, mentor Mike Holers) is the recent recipient of a five year NIH KO1 Career Development Award.
Virginia Borges (Medical Oncology) was one of three individuals awarded a Breast Cancer Research Foundation/AACR Award for Translational Research for 2009-2010. This highly competitive (3 awards from about sixty applications, other awardees from Dana Farber and Penn), two year award ($247,000) is for a project entitled “Targeting the Inflammatory Milieu of Pregnancy-Associated Breast Cancer.”
Tom Denberg (General Internal Medicine) is the recipient of a Health Literacy Award/Grant from the American College of Physicians for his project entitled “A Medical Home-Based Low Literacy Tool to Improve Informed Decision-Making in Prostate Cancer Screening.”
Greg Everson (Gastroenterology/Hepatology) co-authored a recent (2008;359:2429-2441) New England Journal of Medicine article examining the effects of long-term therapy on Hepatitis C disease progression (Prolonged Therapy of Advanced Chronic Hepatitis C with Low-Dose Peginterferon).
Mike Bristow (Cardiology) has been named the 2008 Scientist of the Year by the Colorado Chapter of the Achievement Rewards for College Scientists Foundation.
