In General

Allan Goldstein, MD, of the MassGeneral Hospital for Children, received the 2007 Foundation Scholar Award from the American Pediatric Surgical Association (APSA). The one-year, $25,000 grant is designed to support a pediatric surgeon performing clinical or laboratory research in an area relevant to pediatric surgery. Goldstein will use the grant to study the development of the intestinal nervous system.

Anand Viswanathan, MD, PhD, of the MGH Stroke Service and Memory Disorders Unit, received the Young Investigator Award at the European Stroke Conference. The award is presented for the best abstract submitted throughout the year by early career investigators. Viswanathan also received the Young Investigator Research Fellowship from the International Society for Vascular Behavioral and Cognitive Disorders for his research on the impact of stroke and small vessel brain disease on dementia. The work was part of an ongoing collaboration between the MGH Stroke Service and the Neurology Department at Hôpital Lariboisière in Paris.

Ronald Dixon, MD, MA, of the MGH Department of Medicine, and Rajiv Gupta, MD, PhD, of MGH Radiology, have been named recipients of CIMIT Career Development Awards. CIMIT (Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology) presents the awards in recognition of a doctor’s potential to develop his or her research into meaningful contributions to medicine. Gupta will use the award to study low-cost, disposable telerobotic manipulators for image-guided interventions. Dixon plans to use the funding to explore alternative methods of patient-centered health care delivery with a focus on access to primary care.

MGH Patient Care Services (PCS) received first place awards in two categories at the Publicity Club of New England’s annual Bell Ringer Awards ceremony. PCS won top honors in the Annual Report category for its 2005 annual report, “Healing-Leadership-Global Action,” and for the PCS Diversity logo in the Graphic Identity category.

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute awarded Early Career Awards to provide support for early career research to Aram Hezel, MD, of the MGH Cancer Center; Farouc Jaffer, MD, PhD, of the MGH Cardiology Division; and Sridhar Ramaswamy, MD, of the MGH Cancer Center. The five-year, $375,000 awards allow recipients to devote at least 70 percent of their time to research.