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June 25, 2002
Pilot Program Invites Hispanic Participants
NIH Educates Public
Seinfeld's 'George'
IntraMall Holds Third Summer Showcase
NCRR Celebrates
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Zerhouni Welcomed, Kirschstein Lauded at 84th ACD Meeting By Carla Garnett
Just moments after 8:30 a.m. on June 6 and a scant 2 ½ weeks
after his first day on the job, new NIH director Dr. Elias Zerhouni
was formally handed the gavel at the 84th meeting of the advisory
committee to the director (ACD), which he now chairs as head of
the agency.
'Biosocial' Approach to Public Health By Rich McManus
Dr. Paul Farmer embodies a number of interesting paradoxes that make him a provocative speaker and a thorn in the conscience of public medicine. Tall, clean-cut and patrician, with a rapid-fire, fact-backed speaking style — "Next slide, please" — that would certainly have served him well had he elected a career on Wall St., he is as at home in an overcrowded Siberian prison or the slums of Haiti or Lima, Peru, as he is in the halls of Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, where he also practices medicine as a Harvard professor. In fact, he says, the people are sometimes friendlier in impoverished rural Haiti than they are in Washington or Geneva, from which he flew in the night before giving a lecture in Masur Auditorium May 24. M O R E . . . |
