Jean Burrows celebrated as 9 Who Cares volunteer
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| Jean Burrows, right, with Gary Shapiro and Kathy Sabine of 9News. Burrows was chosen as the 9 Who Cares volunteer of the month for September 2005. |
Jean Burrows has volunteered at University of Colorado Hospital since
1970 -- contributing more than 39,000 hours. After time spent volunteering
in the Emergency Room and Pediatrics, Burrows now runs the hospital's gift
shops.
In September 2005, Burrows was selected as the 9 Who Cares volunteer
of the month.
Channel 9 held a ceremony and dinner in June for all of the award winners.
The ceremony was broadcast June 24th at 6:30 p.m. and June 25 at 4 p.m.
on Channel 9.
Congratulations, Jean -- and thanks for all of your incredible volunteer
efforts.
Dr. Rhett Murray named president of
Colorado Dental Association
Rhett Murray, DDS, CU School of Dentistry clinical assistant professor,
has been named the new president of the Colorado Dental Association.
Murray is a general dentist and has a private practice in Aurora, where
he has
practiced since 1977.
In addition, Murray is the chair of the Colorado Dental Association Ethics
Committee and a consultant to the Colorado State Board of Dental Examiners.
He is a member of the Denver Academy of Clinical Dentistry, Colorado
Prosthodontic Society, International College of Dentists and Pierre Fauchard
Academy.
Murray has served as president of the Metropolitan Denver Dental Society,
the Colorado Prosthodontic Society and the Denver Academy of Clinical
Dentistry.
The Colorado Dental Association is an organization committed to supporting
organized dentistry in Colorado, serving more than 2,800 members.
Dr. Robert Rutherford honored for excellence
Robert Rutherford, MD, FACS, FRCS, emeritus professor of Surgery at the
CU School of Medicine, received the second annual Julius H. Jacobson
II MD Award for Physician Excellence given by the Vascular Disease Foundation.
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| Robert Rutherford, MD, FACS, FRCS |
The award was presented to Rutherford at the 2006 Vascular Annual Meeting
in Philadelphia.
In addition to his work as an educator and editor, Rutherford is best
known for his efforts in developing uniform standards for reporting practices
while serving as chairman of the Committee on Reporting Standards of
the Society for Vascular Surgery and the American Association for Vascular
Surgery.
He has published more than 400 articles and book chapters and six textbooks
including the well-known Vascular Surgery 6th ed. (W.B. Saunders,
2005), in addition to editing the quarterly review, “Seminars in Vascular
Surgery” for almost two decades and co-editing the “Journal
of Vascular Surgery.”
Rutherford came to the School of Medicine in 1970 as a professor of surgery
and later became chair of vascular surgery.
He has been president of four professional societies, notably the Western
Vascular Society and the American Association for Vascular Surgery. He
has served as a director of the American Board of Surgery and chaired its
Vascular
Surgery Committee. A former member of the board of the Vascular Disease
Foundation, Rutherford recently co-chaired the Transatlantic Consensus
on Peripheral Arterial Occlusive Disease and in 2005, was the recipient
of
the first Lifetime Achievement Award given by the Society of Vascular
Surgery.
John Sladek accepts position at California Lutheran University
John Sladek, PhD, vice chancellor for research at the University of Colorado Denver, has been named president and chief
executive officer at California Lutheran University. He will begin official
duties Aug. 15.
A renowned researcher and a successful administrator, Sladek’s scholarly
work is in the field of neurology and anatomy. He has served as vice
chancellor of research and professor of psychiatry and neuroscience since
2001.
Previously,
he held faculty leadership positions at Chicago Medical School (1991-2001)
and University of Rochester (1982-1991).
An undergraduate alumnus of Carthage College, with degrees in biology
and chemistry, Sladek received his master of science in biostructure
from Northwestern University Medical School in 1968. He went on to receive
his
doctorate in anatomy from Chicago Medical School in 1971. His teaching,
researching and publishing career began at Chicago Medical School and
continued at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry.
He is currently involved in the construction of a new 400-acre, $2 billion
campus while overseeing the consolidation of the Health Sciences Center
and Downtown Denver campuses to create an urban university of distinction
with a liberal arts component. He has also been charged with developing
a new office that oversees all research for a nationally ranked biomedical
enterprise.
In Memoriam
Dr. John Janeway Conger
John J. Conger, PhD, died June 24 at his home in Denver. Conger dedicated
his life to the children of Colorado and the nation.
Born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, on February 27, 1921, he attended
the Asheville School for Boys, received his BA from Amherst College and
his PhD in psychology from Yale University.
Conger’s remarkable career started with commanding a destroyer escort
(the USS Tweedy) in WWII and becoming the first chief psychologist of
the U.S. Naval Academy.
At the University of Colorado, he served as professor of clinical psychology,
dean of the School of Medicine, vice-president for medical affairs, and
acting chancellor of the University of Colorado Denver. Conger received three
honorary doctoral degrees and the University of Colorado Medal.
Conger was honored with Distinguished Service Awards from the Denver
and Colorado Medical Societies, the Colorado Psychological Association,
the University of Colorado, the American Psychological Association, and
the Society for Research in Child Development.
An eminent scholar and researcher, Conger was a best-selling author of
numerous books on child psychology. He also served as president of the
American Psychological Association. He was involved in philanthropy as
vice-president of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation,
and served on the
National Advisory Council of the Hogg Foundation.
Conger served on three presidential commissions and numerous charitable
and scientific boards and advisory councils. He also published “The
Shape of the Tree” (a book of poetry) and was an accomplished jazz
drummer.
He is survived by his wife of 62 years, Trista Kline Conger, his sons
Steven (wife, MaryCatherine) of Carbondale, and David (wife, Harriett)
of Denver, his granddaughters Chloe and Eleanor, his sister, Mary Conger,
of
Gainesville, Fla., and his nephew Christopher Kline of Brooklyn.
A memorial service is being planned for the University of Colorado Denver.
Donations,
in lieu of flowers, can be made to Doctors Without Borders, the Children’s
Defense Fund, or the Dr. John J. Conger Memorial Fund at the Denver Public
Schools Foundation.
Fitzsimons Redevelopment Authority names executive
director
The Fitzsimons Redevelopment Authority (FRA) has named Jill Sikora Farnham
as executive director. Farnham has served as the Authority’s acting
executive director since February 2004 and as director of finance and
business operations since 1997.
Prior to joining the FRA Farnham was the director of finance for a commercial
real estate developer and a certified public accountant with Deloitte & Touche.
Farnham will continue to oversee the FRA’s operations as it moves
forward with a proposed long-term partnership with Forest City Enterprises
to act as the master developer for the Colorado Bioscience Park Aurora at
Fitzsimons. She also will oversee on-going transactions with the Veterans
Administration for a new hospital at Fitzsimons, and with the Pauls Corporation
for The Square at Fitzsimons Commons, a residential/mixed-use complex. In
addition, Farnham will continue to advance the FRA’s bioscience business
development initiatives, including the Fitzsimons BioBusiness Incubator.
The FRA is a partnership between the City of Aurora and the University
of Colorado created to plan, manage, and oversee redevelopment at the
former Fitzsimons Army Medical Center.
FRA’s site partners — University of Colorado Denver, University of Colorado Hospital, and The Children’s
Hospital — manage the development of their locations at Fitzsimons
and operate cooperatively with the FRA. The FRA manages the commercial
development at Fitzsimons, including the Colorado Bioscience Park Aurora
and the Fitzsimons
Commons. For information about the FRA, call 720-859-4100 or visit the
web site at www.colobio.com.
UCD receives grants for disease prevention programs
Twenty grants, totaling nearly $4.5 million, have been awarded to health
care organizations and health departments across Colorado to establish
new and expanded programs for the prevention and treatment of cancer,
cardiovascular and pulmonary disease. The grants are funded by revenues
from Colorado’s tobacco tax.
The Department of Public Health and Environment’s Cancer, Cardiovascular
Disease and Pulmonary Disease Program administers the program.
UCDH received five of the grants, totaling more than $1 million:
• $237,604 for expansion of pharmacy-based programs to improve patient
health outcomes related to diabetes in rural areas of the state;
• $416,313 for America On the Move programs in Aurora and Broomfield in
Arapahoe and Broomfield counties. Needs of the Latino population in both
communities will be addressed by providing culturally competent materials
and staff;
• $286,683 for a statewide training program for community health workers
and patient navigators. The proposed project builds on an existing extensive
curriculum for community health workers that was developed at Denver
Health in 2002 and is currently available through the Community College
of Denver;
• $90,219 for expansion of an existing statewide, evidence-based, elementary
school nutrition education program that targets fruit and vegetable intake;
and
• $225,379 for development and implementation of a new curriculum on prevention
of cardiovascular disease beginning in the first year of medical school
and offering the Family Medicine Clinical Training Block and the new
Rural and Care of the Ambulatory Adult Clinical Training Blocks in the
third year.
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