Graduate school dean moves to Yale College

Former Cancer Center director honored with professorship

Faculty members selected as fellows of AAAS

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Graduate school dean moves to Yale College

Psychology professor Peter Salovey replaces Richard Brodhead as dean of the undergraduate school.

A little over a year after he was appointed dean of the graduate school, Peter Salovey, Ph.D. ’86, has taken on a new post as dean of Yale College. He replaces Richard H. Brodhead, Ph.D., who left Yale to become president of Duke University.

Peter Salovey

Salovey, the Chris Argyris Professor of Psychology, is deputy director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS based at the School of Public Health, where he is also a professor. His work on message framing has explored the effectiveness of health promotion campaigns designed to reduce risky behaviors that can lead to infection with HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases. He has conducted similar work on health communications targeting cancer prevention behaviors.

In more than 200 publications he has reported on human emotion and health psychology. His research has explored the psychological consequences of the arousal of emotion, especially the ways in which mood and emotion influence autobiographical memory and social interaction. With John D. Mayer, Ph.D., Salovey developed the theory of emotional intelligence, showing that people have a wide range of measurable emotional skills that profoundly affect their thinking and action.

Salovey has served on the National Science Foundation Social Psychology Advisory Panel and the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Behavioral Science Working Group, and is presently a member of the NIMH National Advisory Mental Health Council. He was a recipient of the National Science Foundation’s Presidential Young Investigator Award and of the 2001 National Cancer Institute’s CIS Partner in Research Award.

Salovey has been chair of the psychology department and director of undergraduate studies and graduate studies. He has won the William Clyde DeVane Medal for Distinguished Scholarship and Teaching at Yale College and the Les Hixon ’63 Prize for Teaching in the Social Sciences.

Jon Butler, Ph.D., chair of the Department of History, professor of religious studies and the William Robertson Coe Professor of American Studies and History, will replace Salovey as dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

—John Curtis

Vincent DeVita

Former Cancer Center director honored with professorship

Vincent T. DeVita Jr., M.D., has been named the Amy and Joseph Perella Professor of Medicine in recognition of his contributions to cancer research and treatment.

The chair was endowed in December with a gift of $2.5 million to strengthen the Yale Cancer Center’s ability to develop translational research and new treatments. Joseph R. Perella, a member of the cancer center’s advisory board, is chair of The Institutional Securities Group at Morgan Stanley. His wife, Amy Perella, is a survivor of Hodgkin’s disease.

Following DeVita’s tenure the chair will be renamed the Vincent T. DeVita Professor of Medicine and will support a physician at the cancer center with a strong clinical research background in the treatment of cancer.

DeVita, a former director of the National Cancer Institute, was director of the Yale Cancer Center from 1993 until last July. He now chairs the Yale Cancer Center Advisory Board and is a professor of medicine and epidemiology and public health. He serves on the editorial boards of numerous scientific journals and is the author or co-author of more than 450 scientific articles.

Faculty members selected as fellows of AAAS

Three members of the Yale University faculty with medical school affiliations were named fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) in May.

Donald M. Engelman, Ph.D. ’67, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Bio-chemistry, uses X-ray diffraction, neutron scattering, electron microscopy, optical spectroscopy and biochemical methods to determine how the primary sequences of membrane proteins determine their three-dimensional structures and how they function.

Paul A. Fleury, Ph.D., dean of the Faculty of Engineering, is the Frederick William Beinecke Professor of Engineering and Applied Physics. At Yale he has been a catalyst in the emergence of engineering as a cohesive link between the physical and biomedical sciences.

Susan Hockfield, Ph.D., provost of Yale University, is the William Edward Gilbert Professor of Neurobiology and former dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. She studies the development of the mammalian brain and the progression of the deadly glioma type of brain tumor. She has written more than 90 scientific publications and is the primary author of Molecular Probes of the Nervous System: Selected Methods for Antibodies and Nucleic Acid Probes.

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Sharon Inouye	Susan Hardy

Sharon K. Inouye, M.D., M.P.H. ’89, professor of medicine (geriatrics), associate clinical professor of nursing and co-director of the Yale Program on Aging, received the Ewald W. Busse Research Award in Biomedical Sciences at the Gerontological Society of America’s 56th meeting in San Diego, Calif. Inouye was recognized for her contributions to advancing the scientific understanding of delirium and functional decline. At the same meeting, Susan E. Hardy, M.D., postdoctoral fellow in geriatric medicine and a Ph.D. candidate in investigative medicine, was awarded the Person-in-Training Award. Hardy was honored for her paper “Predictors of Recovery of Independent ADL Function Among Newly Disabled Community-Dwelling Older Persons.”

Patton

Two members of the medical school faculty have been named to a re-established Minority Advisory Council (MAC). The MAC will advise President Richard C. Levin on the appropriateness of policies related to minority groups.

The medical school faculty members are Liza D. Cariaga-Lo, Ed.D., assistant dean of diversity at the graduate school and assistant clinical professor at the Child Study Center, and Curtis L. Patton, Ph.D., professor of epidemiology (microbiology) and director of International Medical Studies.

Three Yale faculty members were honored in April by the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) of Connecticut with the Pioneers in Transplantation Awards: Margaret J. Bia, M.D., professor of medicine (nephrology), Marc I. Lorber, M.D., professor of surgery (transplantation), and Bernard Lytton, M.B.B.S., the Donald Guthrie Professor Emeritus of Surgery.

Sidney J. Blatt, Ph.D., professor of psychiatry and psychology and chief of psychology in the Department of Psychiatry, is the recipient of the 2004 award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions from the Division of Clinical Psychology of the American Psychological Association.

Comer

James P. Comer, M.D., M.P.H., HS ’66, the Maurice Falk Professor of Child Psychiatry in the Child Study Center, was honored with the seventh annual John P. McGovern Behavioral Sciences Award by the Smithsonian Institution. The award, presented in January by Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.), recognizes individuals in the behavioral sciences, literature and other professions who have made outstanding contributions to furthering the understanding of the family in America.

Joseph E. Craft, M.D., HS ’77, professor of medicine and immunobiology, has been named director of the Investigative Medicine Program at Yale. Craft replaces Keith A. Joiner, M.D., M.P.H. ’03, who left in February to become dean of the University of Arizona College of Medicine. The Investigative Medicine Program provides rigorous research training for physicians in laboratory science or patient-oriented research leading to the awarding of a Ph.D. degree.

Elena L. Grigorenko, Ph.D. ’96, associate professor of psychology and associate professor of child studies in the Child Study Center, has won the 2004 American Psychological Association (APA) Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contribution to Psychology (Developmental). This award is given once every three years to an outstanding young scientific investigator less than 10 years post-Ph.D.

Michael Kashgarian, M.D. ’58, HS ’63, professor of pathology and molecular, cellular and developmental biology, received the Jacob Churg Award of the Renal Pathology Society in March at the meeting of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology in Vancouver, British Columbia. The Jacob Churg Award is presented annually to an individual who has made major contributions to the field of nephropathology.

Marvin Moser, M.D., clinical professor of medicine and editor in chief of the Journal of Clinical Hypertension, has received the International Society of Hypertension Award for Outstanding Contributions to Clinical Research and Treatment in the Management of Hypertension.

Susan S. Spencer, Ph.D., professor of neurology, has received the Clinical Investigator Award from the American Epilepsy Society/Milken Family Foundation, to recognize her contributions to epilepsy research. She received the award in December 2003 at the annual meeting of the American Epilepsy Society in Boston.

V. Robin Weersing, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Child Study Center, was one of six researchers named a William T. Grant Scholar in April by the William T. Grant Foundation. A $300,000 five-year grant will support her research on developing and disseminating effective interventions for depression and anxiety in youth.

Barry L. Zaret, M.D., the Robert Berliner Professor of Medicine, chief of the Section of Cardiovascular Medicine and professor of diagnostic radiology, received a 2004 Ellis Island Medal of Honor in May for his outstanding contributions to American medicine. The medal was created in 1986 “to honor the many ancestral groups who through struggle, sacrifice and success helped build this great nation.” Presidents, senators, congressional leaders and Nobel Prize winners are among those to receive the medals. Zaret’s family is from Belorussia, an area also known as White Russia that was once part of the Russian Empire.