Departments
Bulletin Board
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Week of 9 October 1998 |
Vol. II, No. 9 |
Bulletin
Board
BUSM's Alpert wins Primary Care Achievement
Award
On September 24, Joel Alpert, a professor of pediatrics and
public health at the Boston University School of Medicine,
won the Pew Health Professions Commission's 1998 Primary
Care Achievement Award in the education category.
Alpert, who is president-elect of the American Academy of Pediatrics, has been an internationally recognized leader of primary health care and its education since he coauthored the seminal report The Education of Physicians for Primary Care more than three decades ago. Alpert helped shape a residency program at BUSM that was an early model for training students in primary care.
The Primary Care Awards program is funded by a grant from the Pew Charitable Trusts and administered by the Center for the Health Professions at the University of California, San Francisco. Each award carries with it a $5,000 prize.
"Primary care is the cornerstone of our health-care system, and its practitioners are increasingly responsible for meeting people's health needs," says former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, president of the Pew Health Professions Commission. "Too little commendation is accorded primary care leaders because primary care, by design, isn't glamorous or revolutionary. But it is absolutely indispensable to the well-being of every one of us."
Sproull named to National Research Council
post
SMG Professor of Management Systems Lee Sproull has been
named to a three-year term as a member of the Computer
Science and Telecommunications Board at the National
Research Council. The board advises the federal government
on technical and public policy issues relating to computing
and communications.
Sproull's research centers on the social and organizational implications of computer-based technologies that augment human communication. She has conducted research for Fortune 500 firms, scientific communities, municipalities, universities, software development teams, households, and electronic groups. She is also a director of the Computer Museum in Boston.
Free flu shots for faculty and staff
BU faculty and staff can get free flu vaccine from the
Occupational Health Center, located across from the Armory
in the Commonwealth Medical Group Building, 930 Commonwealth
Ave. (West). Vaccines will be administered from 10 a.m. to
noon and from 2 to 4 p.m. on Friday, October 16, Tuesday,
October 20, Thursday, October 22, Monday, October 26, and
Wednesday, October 28. BU identification cards are required
at the time of the appointment. Employees should fax their
name, department, and work number to 353-6848 along with the
date and time they would like to go in. They should include
their fax number if they would like a confirmation,
otherwise the Occupational Health Center will contact them
only if their requests cannot be accommodated. To request an
appointment time not listed here, call 353-6630.
Archaeology prof honored by National
Geographic
Kathryn Bard, assistant professor in the CAS department of
archaeology, will receive the National Geographic Society's
Chairman's Award at ceremonies in Washington, D.C., next
month. Bard was honored for her work on the Boston
University/Istituto Universitario Orientale archaeological
project in Axum, Ethiopia. She has also received a BU
Humanities Foundation grant to bring a colleague from the
Istituto Universitario Orientale in Naples, Italy, to teach
a course here with her during the spring semester.