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Week of 18 September 1998 |
Vol. II, No. 6 |
Bulletin
Board
Shannon Fellowship Dinner
Political commentator Mark Shields will be the special
guest at a gala celebration of the Boston University William
V. Shannon Memorial Fellowship in the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in
Boston on Tuesday, September 22. The Fellowship, established
in 1991 in memory of Shannon, a University Professor, New
York Times journalist, and former U.S. ambassador to
Ireland, enables an Irish student to pursue a course of
study at Boston University. The evening opens with a
reception at 6 p.m. followed by dinner at 7 p.m. Tickets are
available by calling 353-2238.
Top BMC appointment
Dr. John Chessare has been named senior vice president and
chief medical officer at Boston Medical Center. He has also
been appointed associate dean for clinical affairs at the
School of Medicine, a newly created role giving him
responsibility for coordinating, directing, and enhancing
the voice of physicians and ensuring their participation in
major decisions affecting BMC. He will also serve as chair
of the Medical Management Council.
Before coming to BMC, Chessare served as vice president for clinical process improvement at Albany Medical Center, where he was responsible for leading the clinical improvements of an acute care general hospital. He received his medical degree from the University of Rome and his master's degree in public health from the University of Michigan School of Public Health. He served his residency at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield, Mass., and at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center. He also completed a fellowship in ambulatory pediatrics at Children's Hospital, Boston.
Chessare succeeds Patricia Barry, who served as interim senior vice president and chief medical officer.
New physical therapy head named
Professor Robert Wagenaar has been appointed chairman of the
SAR department of physical therapy. Wagenaar previously held
the position of head of research of the department of
physical therapy at the Vrije Universiteit Hospital in
Amsterdam and was lecturer in rehabilitation psychology and
rehabilitation research at the Free University there. He
also served as coordinator of research groups on dynamics of
movement disorders and effects of rehabilitation physical
therapy at the Dutch Organization for Scientific Research.
Wagenaar has published widely in the field of international
rehabilitation literature on the topic of human movement
sciences, the effectiveness of rehabilitation interventions,
and research methods.
Cosmetic eye surgeon joins BMC
Boston resident Dr. Susan M. Tucker has been named
director of oculo-plastic and orbital surgery for Boston
University Eye Associates at Boston Medical Center, a newly
created position. Tucker is also assistant professor in the
division of ophthalmology at the School of Medicine.
Tucker performs cosmetic surgery such as laser resurfacing for the treatment of wrinkles, removal of excess eyelid skin, correction of droopy eyelids, and eyebrow lifts. She also specializes in the removal of benign lesions or cancers of the eyelids, the management of patients with excessive tearing, traumatic blowout fractures, thyroid eye disease, and orbital tumors.
Prior to her appointment at BMC, Tucker served as director of oculo-plastic and orbital surgery at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine since 1994.