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"Empathy and the Practice of Medicine," a collection of essays emphasizing the importance of compassion in the practice of medicine edited by three School of Medicine faculty members, has won two awards from the American Medical Writers Association. The book, published by Yale University Press in 1993 and reissued in paperback in 1996, captured both a Will Solimene Award of Excellence in Medical Communication and the Ralph A. Deterling Pyramid for Distinction in Medical Communication. The volume was prepared under the auspices of the Program for Humanities in Medicine by Dr. Howard Spiro, director of the program and professor of medicine; Dr. Mary McCrea Curnen, clinical professor of epidemiology and pediatrics; Dr. Enid Peschel, former codirector of the Program for Humanities in Medicine and assistant professor of internal medicine; and Deborah St. James, supervisor of editorial services at Bayer Pharmaceutical Division.

Michael Thurston, assistant professor of English, is one of three recipients of the first George Watt Memorial prize awarded by the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives ALBA. The award is for the best undergraduate and graduate papers on the Spanish Civil War, the anti-fascist struggles of the 1930s or the lifetime struggles and contributions of the Americans who fought in Spain 1937-39. Professor Thurston received the award for his work "`The Responsibilities of the Medium': Edwin Rolfe's Political Poetry and Politics," which he completed as a graduate student at the University of Illinois. The $500 award honors the memory of Abraham Lincoln Brigade veteran George Watt 1914-94 for his anti-fascist record, his wartime service in Spain and his role as symbol of other American men and women who participated in the struggle.

President Richard C. Levin has announced the appointment of two faculty members as directors of University centers for research in economics. John Geanakoplos, the James Tobin Professor of Economics, has been named director of the Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, while T.N. Srinivasan, the Samuel C. Park Jr. Professor of Economics, will serve as director of the Economic Growth Center. Professor Geanakoplos, who was appointed to a three-year term, succeeds Professor Alvin Klevorick, who led the Cowles Foundation for 12 years. Professor Srinivasan, also appointed to a three-year term, succeeds Professor T. Paul Schultz, who was an advocate for research on developing countries during his tenure as director of the Economic Growth Center.

The College of American Pathologists CAP Foundation has awarded a $25,000 fellowship to Dr. Deborah Dillon, a fellow in molecular pathology, as part of its 1996-97 Scholars Award Program. The national scholarship program provides fellowships for advanced training in the science of pathology. Dr. Dillon, who received her medical degree from Yale in 1992 and completed a four-year residency in anatomic pathology here, will focus her research on the detection of tumor DNA in the blood of patients with tumors of the colon and pancreas. Her goal is to make possible earlier detection of residual or recurrent tumors.

Another member of the medical school community was also recently honored. Gary P. Naegel, the administrator of the department of pharmacology, has been elected president-elect of the Northeast Section of the Society of Research Administrators. Mr. Naegel assumed the post in May; he will become president of the society at its annual meeting next June.

Joel Allison, associate clinical professor of psychiatry, and Ira Moses, assistant clinical professor of psychiatry, will be the featured speakers at the Connecticut Society of Psychoanalytic Psychologists, fall conference, which will examine the topic "Issues Working with Male Patients." Professors Allison and Moses will offer comparative psychoanalytic viewpoints and will include discussion of countertransference difficulties as well as case material. The conference is being held on Saturday, Sept. 21, 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. at the New Haven Lawn Club, 193 Whitney Ave. Registration is $30 for members if postmarked before Sept. 13 $40 after that date, $40 for nonmembers, $5 for student members; and $10 for student nonmembers. For more information, call Virginia Shiller, conference registrar, at 776-3681.

Art works by two members of the faculty and their sons will be showcased in an exhibition benefiting the Neighborhood Music School in New Haven. Acrylic paintings, a painted door and a painted cello by Aldo Parisot, the Samuel Sanford Professor of Music at the School of Music, and landscapes in oil by Dr. Barry L. Zaret, the Robert W. Berliner Professor of Medicine and chief of cardiology at the School of Medicine, will be featured along with the works of Ricardo Parisot, a metal sculptor, and Elliot Zaret, a 1992 graduate of Yale College and a painter. The exhibition, titled "Yale Fathers and Sons: Art, Heart and Sound," will be on view at the Greene Art Gallery & New England Sculptor's Guild, 29 Whitfield St. in Guilford. An opening reception will take place on Thursday, Sept. 5, 4-7 p.m. at the gallery and on the grounds of its sculpture and botanical garden. During the opening, Professor Parisot's painted cello will be the source of musical improvisations. For more information, call 453- 5995.

The Yale Center for British Art has appointed 11 fellows for the 1996-97 academic year. These grants enable scholars engaged in postdoctoral or equivalent research related to British art to study the center's holdings of British paintings, drawings and rare books, and to make use of its photograph archive and art reference library. Fellows enjoy full access to Yale's libraries and are encouraged to make contact with University departments in their areas of specialization. This years fellows are Giorgi Galletti, director of the Office of Villas, Parks and Gardens in Florence, Italy; Marc Gottlieb, assistant professor of art history at Emory University and faculty- curator of prints and drawings at Emory's Carlos Museum; Miles Bredin, a freelance journalist; Barbara Arciszewska, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto; Jane Fenlon, research coordinator in the Office of Public Works in Dublin, Ireland; Kay Dian Kriz, assistant professor of art history at Brown University; Miguel Gutierrez, curator of Italian, British and American paintings at the National Museum of Havana, Cuba; Robert Peck, a fellow of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia; Dana Arnold, lecturer in the department of fine art at the University of Leeds, England; Stephen Wood, keeper at the Scottish United Services Museum in Edinburgh; and Heather McPherson, associate professor of art history at the University of Alabama.


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