Mark Battle – May Employee of the Month
Officer Mark Battle of the University Police, was named Employee of the
Month for May.
“
Officer Battle comes to work every day and tries to make the campus a
safe and friendly environment for everyone,” said Sgt. Deana LoSasso. “He
is a dedicated employee who is willing to do anything asked of him, and
uses good observation and communications skills while performing his job.”
“
Officer Battle routinely gives excellent service to the members of the
campus community. I frequently receive positive feedback on his service
orientation,” said UCD Deputy Chief of Police Doug Hayes.
CHA/PA program honored with awards
For the second year in a row, a poster from Child Health Associate/Physicians
Assistant Program (CHA/PA) has won the Association of American Medical
College's Western Group on Educational Affairs Educational Innovation Award.
Congratulations
to Anita Glicken, Gerald Merenstein, MD, and Joyce Nieman for “Student
Clinical Tracking of Psychiatric and Behavioral Diagnoses in Primary
Care.”
In addition, Glicken was elected this year to serve as president-elect
of the Physician Assistant Education Association, the educational association
that represents the 136 PA programs nationwide.
Also, the Silver Society, the University of Colorado chapter of the Student
Academy of the American Academy of Physician Assistants, received Honorable
Mention in the 2005-2006 Outstanding Student Society Awards. The award
recognizes student societies for outstanding service to the PA profession
in the areas of public education, community service, promotion of diversity,
and professional involvement.
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| Anita Glicken | Gerald Merenstein, MD | Joyce Nieman |
Ellie Greenberg receives Colorado MESA Service
Award
Ellie Greenberg received the MESA Service Award from Colorado MESA at
the fifteenth annual MESA Awards Banquet in May, held at the Denver Museum
of Nature and Science. More than 400 students, parents and teachers attended.
The keynote speaker was Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger, a NASA astronaut
and MESA alumna from Ft. Collins, Colorado.
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| Ellie Greenberg |
Greenberg serves on the MESA Board of Directors and its Resource Development
Committee. She is responsible for establishing the pilot MESA/AHEC Health
Careers Initiative, in partnership with the statewide Colorado Area Health
Education Center (AHEC) System. The pilot program began in three middle
schools on the Western Slope. Since 1996, Greenberg has been affiliated
with the Colorado AHEC System, based at the University of Colorado Health
Sciences Center at Fitzsimons. She has also been instrumental in assisting
MESA in acquiring funding support.
Colorado MESA is a 27-year old successful statewide, nonprofit organization
designed to support after-school PreK-12 programs for underrepresented,
minority and female students interested in engineering, math and science
careers. The MESA pre-collegiate program emphasizes a rigorous set of
academic standards and challenges students to meet them.
There are more
than 140 MESA schools throughout Colorado serving more than 3000 students.
100 percent of MESA high school students graduate; 90 percent go to college
and do not need remediation; approximately 85 percent are from low and
moderate income families; 60 percent are from ethnic minority groups;
and 53 percent are female.
At the awards banquet, twenty outstanding MESA students, from the 5th
to the 12th grade, were honored; each received a medallion and a computer
donated by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management and the Microsoft Corporation.
Four MESA high school seniors received scholarships. Four MESA schools
and their teachers were recognized for exceptional service along with
other community leaders and sponsoring organizations.
Sue Hagedorn a
Nightingale Award recipient
Sue Hagedorn, RN, PhD, associate professor at the UCD School of Nursing,
was named one of six recipients of the 2006 Nightingale Awards for
Excellence in Human Caring.
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| Sue Hagedorn, RN, PhD |
Frances Crighton, charge nurse at the Tony Grampsas Urology Oncologic
Clinic at the University Colorado Hospital, Anschutz Cancer Center, was
a finalist.
Hosted by the Colorado Nurses Foundation, the 21st annual event was held
May 6 at the Renaissance Denver Hotel. There were 277 nurses in Colorado
who were nominated for the prestigious award. Kim Christiansen, anchor
for 9NEWS, served as master of ceremonies.
The Nightingale event was established in 1985 as a tribute to the professional
excellence of Colorado’s registered nurses. Nominations are sought
throughout the state by the Colorado Area Health Education Centers system
and the Colorado Springs Committee.
Denise Stelzner receives Veritas Award
Associate Professor Denise Stelzner, PT, MBA, was selected as the recipient
of the 2006 Veritas award. This award is given by the Center for Bioethics
and Humanities and acknowledges her commitment to the educational mission
of the humanities in the health care at UCD and for her commitment
to professionalism.
Johns Hopkins University names
Donald Gilden to Society
of Scholars
Donald Gilden, MD, the Louise Baum Professor and chair of neurology at
the University of Colorado Denver, has
been elected to The Johns Hopkins University Society of Scholars. Gilden
and 14 other esteemed scientists and clinicians were honored during the
society's 37th induction ceremony on May 24, and again at the university's
Commencement Ceremony on May 25.
The Society of Scholars was created on the recommendation of former president
Milton S. Eisenhower and approved by the university board of trustees
on May 1, 1967. The society - the first of its kind in the nation - inducts
former postdoctoral fellows and junior or visiting faculty at Johns Hopkins
who have gained marked distinction in their fields of physical, biological,
medical, social, or engineering sciences or in the humanities.
Long after a bout of the chicken pox fades, the varicella-zoster virus
that causes the illness lingers in the human nervous system. Gilden studies
the impact of the latent virus. A second important project led by Gilden
uses a molecular approach to understand and define immune system responses
in multiple sclerosis; the ultimate goal is to pinpoint the antigens
responsible for the disease.
A native of Baltimore, Gilden came in 1969
to the Department of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene
and Public Health (now the Bloomberg School of Public Health), where
he spent two years as an NIH postdoctoral fellow.
The Committee of the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars elects the scholars
from among nominations made by Johns Hopkins faculty members. At induction,
the scholars are presented with a diploma and with a medallion on a black
and gold ribbon, to be worn with their academic costumes. This year's
inductees will bring the total number of society members to 490.
Kathryn Mueller receives Workers’ Compensation
Awards
Kathryn Mueller, MD, MPH, FACEP, FACEOM, recently received two prestigious
awards from the Department of Labor and Employment during its annual
awards banquet in April. Mueller is an emergency medicine physician at
University of Colorado Hospital, an associate professor at the CU School
of Medicine, and medical director of the Colorado Division of Workers’ Compensation.
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| Kathryn Mueller, MD, MPH, FACEP, FACEOM |
“
I extend my congratulations to Kathryn,” said Rick Grice, executive
director of the Department of Labor and Employment. “The programs
and services of the Division of Workers’ Compensation have a tremendous
impact on businesses, communities and families. We appreciate the many
contributions she has made to the division and to the workers’ compensation
system in Colorado and we appreciate that her peers share our gratitude
for her accomplishments.”
At the organization’s awards banquet, Mueller was honored with
the Al D’Antonio Award and the President’s Award. The Al
D’Antonio Award is given to an individual, usually in government,
who best exemplifies the traits of the award’s namesake. “Mr.
D’Antonio worked for many years in administering and enforcing
workers’ compensation law in this state,” explaines Hugh
Macauly, the 2005 president of Professionals in Workers’ Compensation. “He
was one of those rare individuals who was able to find common ground
between folks with seemingly irreconcilable differences. Kathryn Mueller
shares that quality. She is able to move through a maze of competing
interests and find the most direct pathway to a solution.”
Mueller also received the President’s Award from Professionals
in Workers Compensation, given each year to the individual who best represents
the interests of occupational medicine and workers’ compensation
in Colorado.
“Kathryn has achieved so much to bring about comity
among all the competing factions. This was clearly an award she was meant
to have,” Macauly said. He added that it is virtually unheard of
for one individual to be honored with both prestigious awards in the
same year. “Rarely, an individual will be recognized in sequential
years but I can’t remember anybody ever getting these two major
awards in the same year.”
“
I am honored to join the distinguished group of previous award winners
and to be recognized by my peers,” said Mueller. “I am proud
of my long-standing involvement in Colorado’s workers’ compensation
system and I hope that I continue to serve in a way that everyone appreciates.
I am absolutely delighted to receive these awards but they really belong
to everybody who has helped build a system in which we can all take a
lot of pride.”
UCH receives Outstanding Employer Award
University of Colorado Hospital was recognized as the Outstanding
Employer of 2005 by Professionals in Workers’ Compensation,
the state’s largest workers compensation organization.
“
University of Colorado Hospital was recognized for excellence in providing
care to injured employees,” said Diann Eason, RN, an occupational
health nurse and a board member of Professionals in Workers’ Compensation.
“
The hospital’s occupational health program is integrated and involves
the participation of employees and managers from various departments,
including safety and infection control,” Eason said. “The
PWC recognized our outstanding outcomes, which have reduced the frequency
of injuries, the severity of injuries and the very low number of lost
work hours.”
Eason said employees and mangers consistently have given the hospital’s
occupational health program high ratings when it comes to customer service.
“
The excellent outcomes have resulted in a significant cost savings for
the hospital in insurance premiums,” she added.
CU Regents appoint
Bud Peterson as CU-Boulder chancellor
The Board of Regents appointed G. P. Bud Peterson as the chancellor of
the University of Colorado at Boulder. His appointment will be effective
July 15.
“
Bud is an outstanding scholar and administrator who will play a key role
in taking the Boulder campus to a new level,” said CU President
Hank Brown.
Bud Peterson is currently the provost at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
in Troy, New York. At Rensselaer, he has been instrumental in the institutional
transformation currently underway, and has played a key role in the dramatic
improvement in the quality, size and diversity of the faculty.
Prior
to joining Rensselaer in 2000, Peterson had worked extensively in the
sciences, particularly in engineering. He spent time with NASA as a research
scientist at the Johnson Space Center. He then held faculty and administrative
posts at Texas A&M, which is a member of the prestigious American
Association of Universities. The Boulder campus has been an AAU member
since 1966.
“
I am honored to have been selected to lead the University of Colorado
at Boulder during this important time of new opportunities,” said
Peterson. “President Brown has shown tremendous leadership in establishing
a new direction for the University of Colorado, and I look forward to
having the chance to work with him and the campus’ academic and
research communities.
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