• Claflin Award helps women establish scientific careers
  A review of the first nine years of the Claflin Distinguished Scholar Awards, which provide research funding to women junior faculty at the MGH, finds the program has helped recipients stay in academic research and establish the groundwork for securing future research funding. The report from a team at the MGH Office of Women's Careers (OWC) and published in the Feb. 27 Archives of Internal Medicine — finds that 90 percent of recipients remained at the MGH, and more than half received academic promotions at Harvard Medical School (HMS), an accomplishment that relies heavily on research productivity.

• Innovation key to Bowditch Prize
  The Nathaniel Bowditch Prize is given annually to an MGHer who has made significant contributions towards increasing the quality of care at the hospital while reducing costs. At its core the award fosters a culture of creativity, innovation and collaboration at the MGH. This year, the selection committee, chaired by Surgeon-in-Chief Andrew L. Warshaw, MD, selected Lee H. Schwamm, MD, vice chairman of the MGH Department of Neurology, as the winner.

• RSERT to the rescue
  Consider this scenario: In the single-digit temperatures of a January morning, a call comes into the MGH Emergency Department (ED). An industrial accident in South Boston involving radioactive materials has overwhelmed local emergency rooms, and victims are en route to the MGH for decontamination and treatment. Can MGH responders handle it?

• Eighth annual Partners Physicians Day
  A record number of physicians from across the Partners HealthCare system attended the eighth annual Partners Physicians Day Feb. 10 at the Boston Sheraton Hotel. James J. Mongan, MD, president and chief executive officer of Partners, began the day with a Partners update. He was followed by world-renowned AIDS expert Bruce D. Walker, MD, director of the Partners AIDS Research Center, who gave the keynote address, "The AIDS Crisis: Twenty-five Years and Counting."

• March is Deep Vein Thrombosis Awareness Month
  Few people know that deep vein thrombosis (DVT), a condition that refers to a blood clot in a vein of the upper or lower extremity, kills more people in the United States than AIDS and breast cancer combined. Serious complications can occur when the blood clot travels to the lungs and blocks a pulmonary artery or one of its branches, causing a pulmonary embolism (PE). Each year, nearly 300,000 Americans die from DVT-related conditions and up to 600,000 are hospitalized for its complications.

• Mail Services at your fingertips
  MGH Mail Services recently launched a new website for the MGH community, offering users convenient access to up-to-date information about the department's many services and resources. The new site can be found at www.massgeneral.org/mailservices.

• Pamela J. Ellis Award
  Nominations currently are being accepted for the 2007 Pamela J. Ellis Memorial Secretarial Award. The award was established in 1997 in memory of Pamela J. Ellis, who served as an executive secretary at the MGH from 1992 to 1996.

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