People & Places

As originally published in The Physiologist
Volume 46, Number 3, June 2003, pages 125-126

Haddy Receives Mayo Clinic Distinguished Alumni Award

Rickles Named FASEB Executive Director

APS Members Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Haddy Receives Mayo Clinic Distinguished Alumni Award  

  Mayo Clinic honored three physicians for their contributions to medicine, research and education.
Francis J. Haddy, Gertrude M. Tyce, and Jack P. Whisnant, were presented Mayo Foundation Distinguished Alumnus Awards on Saturday, May 17, 2003, during commencement ceremonies for the Mayo Medical School and Mayo Graduate School in Rochester, MN. The awards recognize alumni of Mayo Clinic education programs who have achieved significant national and international distinction in their fields. 
    Haddy was honored for his contributions to physiology and medicine.
    Haddy earned his medical degree from the University of Minnesota and later completed a fellowship in internal medicine at Mayo Clinic. He went on to earn his PhD in physiology from the University of Minnesota Medical School.
    He has published over 150 papers in peer-reviewed journals. Haddy has also published 112 reviews and 367 abstracts. These publications concerned cardiovascular physiology and cardiovascular disease, particularly the roles of sodium, potassium, and digitalis-like substances in low renin hypertension. He taught 45 classes of medical students and chaired three departments of physiology (University of Oklahoma, Michigan State University, Uniformed Services University). He has been on the editorial boards of a number of journals, including the American Journal of Physiology, Circulation Research, Hypertension and the Journal of the American College of Nutrition.
    Haddy has served on advisory committees and as a member of the boards of trustees for the National Hypertension Association, American College of Nutrition, American Association for Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care (AAALAC), and Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB). He has made Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) site visits, including one to the Mayo Medical School. He is a past president of the American Physiological Society. Haddy administered the grant application peer review program in the cardiopulmonary, integrated physiology, and clinical areas for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and currently serves as a consultant to NASA Life Sciences. 

Rickles Named FASEB Executive Director

    Frederick Rickles has been selected as the new executive director of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB). Robert Wells, FASEB president-elect and chair of the executive director search committee, describes Rickles as “an outstanding leader who brings a rich background of administrative, clinical and research accomplishments to his new duties.”
    Rickles currently serves as associate vice president for health research, compliance and technology transfer at the George Washington University medical center. From 1993-1998 he was the deputy chief of hematologic diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as well as professor of medicine and pediatrics at Emory University in Atlanta.
    In addition, Rickles is a former director of the Thrombosis Research Laboratory at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. His research interests are in the area of hematology; specifically in blood clotting, inflammation and tumor biology.
    A member of the American Society of Hematology, the American Heart Association and the American Association of Immunologists, Rickles has served on several study sections at the National Institutes of Health and 
the Department of Defense, as well as the American Cancer Society and the American Heart Association.
    In announcing the selection, Wells, who also is Director of the Center for Genome Research at the Institute of Biosciences and Technology at Texas A&M University System Health Science Center, acknowledged the contributions of retiring executive director Sidney Golub. “I also wish to take this opportunity to express my gratitude to Dr. Golub for his dedicated service as the executive director over the past three-year period. Sid has played an important role in the Federation’s recent growth and progress.” 

APS Members Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

    The American Academy of Arts and Sciences announced the election of 187 new fellows and 29 foreign honorary members for 2003. Among those elected are six APS members: Peter Agre, Dennis Ausiello, Barry Brenner, Jerome Posner, Rae Silver, and Samuel Silverstein
    Agre is a professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
    Ausiello is the Chief of Medical Services at the Massachusetts General Hospital. 
    Brenner is the Samuel Levine professor of Medicine/Director Emeritus at the Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA.
    Posner is the Chairman at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Department of Neurology, New York, NY.
    Silver is a professor in the Department of Psychology at Barnard College, New York, NY.
    Silverstein is a professor and Chairman at Columbia University.

Nicholas Ralph DiPaola recently joined the Department of Surgery and Transplantation, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. Prior to his new affiliation, DiPaola was associated with the Department of Cardiology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH.

Marcelo Febo has affiliated with the Department of Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts School of Medicine, Worcester, MA. Febo was previously associated with the Department of Physiology, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR. 

Lynn A. Heinel accepted a position with the Department of Mathematics, Science and Technology, Montgomery County Community College, Blue Bell, PA. Heinel had been affiliated with the Department of Neurosurgery, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, 

Wissam H. Joumaa has affiliated with the Laboratory Physiology Generale, Lecomest, Beirut, Lebanon. Joumaa formerly was associated with the Laboratory Physiology Generale, Nantes University Faculty of Science, Nantes, France. 

Timothy R. Koch recently moved to the Division of GI Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI. Koch was associated with the Department of GI Medicine, West Virginia University Health Science Center, Morgantown, WV. 

Kathryn E. Meier is presently affiliated as Professor and Chair with the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, WA. Meier was formerly with the Department of Pharmacology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC.

Kevin D. Monahan is currently with the Division of Cardiology, Penn State College of Medicine, Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA. Monahan had been affiliated with the Department of Kinesiology and Applied Physiology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO. 

Hiroaki Oda recently accepted the position of Director, Oda Medical Clinic, Hiroshima, Japan. Oda was formerly affiliated with the Department of Medicine, Kure National Hospital, Kure, Hiroshima, Japan.

Peter Marc Piermarini has joined the Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT. Piermarini was formerly with the Department of Zoology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. 

Ashok Kumar Saluja has joined the Department of Surgery, Pancreatic Diseases Center, University of Massachusetts Medical School. Worcester, MA. Formerly, Saluja was affiliated with the Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. 
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Richard J. Traystman has been appointed Associate Vice-President for Research Planning and Development, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR. Traystman had been District Research Professor and Senior Vice Chair Research, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.

Tetsuro Urushidani is presently Head of the Department of Cell and Molecular Toxicology, National Institute of Health Sciences, Tokyo, Japan. Formerly, Urushidani was associated with the Laboratory of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Science, Tokyo, Japan. 

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