People / Les gens
Canadian Medical Association Journal 1996; 154: 1571
Dr. John Wallace, a professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics and chair of the Intestinal Diseases Research Group, University of Calgary, is 1995 recipient of the Michael Smith Award for Excellence. The $50 000 research award was established by the Medical Research Council of Canada to honour the Nobel laureate. The award recognizes Wallace's contributions in the field of gastroenterology, which include a new form of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug and findings that could lead to the development of new drugs to treat inflammatory bowel disease.
Hoechst Marion Roussel Canada has awarded $300 000 to Groupe de recherche des maladies rhumatismales du Québec Inc. to establish the Centre of Excellence for Osteoarthritis Research at Hôpital Notre-Dame de Montréal. Dr. Jean-Pierre Pelletier is head of the hospital's Arthritis Division and director of the Rheumatology-Osteoarthritis Research Unit.
Chedoke-McMaster Hospitals of Hamilton, Ont., and the Université de Montréal will use a $425 000 grant from Janssen-Ortho Inc. to establish a centre to educate more than 1500 family doctors and specialists throughout Canada about motility problems and functional bowel disorders. The centre will use a unique system of computer-based work groups to pass on information about leading research and refinements in treatment and diagnosis.
Dr. Barry Smith, associate chair of pediatrics at the University of Toronto, has been named dean of medicine at Queen's University, replacing Professor Duncan Sinclair. The 5-year appointment begins July 1. Smith has an international reputation for his research in the cellular and molecular biology of lung development.
L'Association canadienne de gastroentérologie a remis, lors de son dernier congrès annuel, son Prix pour mérite exceptionnel 1995 au Dr Florent Thibert. Le Dr Thibert oeuvre à l'hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont de Montréal depuis 1954. Ce prix prestigieux souligne sa carrière bien remplie et sa contribution à l'association.
Dr. Philip Seeman of Toronto, who has made fundamental contributions to the understanding of dopamine-receptor systems in the brain, has been awarded the $50 000 Killam Prize for the Health Sciences. "Philip Seeman is one of the most important neuroscientists in this century," the selection committee concluded. "His outstanding scientific contributions have been of a pioneering nature and have shaped the direction of neuroscience and psychiatry." Candidates for the award, which recognizes distinguished lifetime achievement, must be nominated by specialists in the nominee's field.
Dr. Pawan Singal of Winnipeg has been elected president of the International Society for Adaptive Medicine, which has a goal of developing understanding of the processes of adaption of the body (at the cellular and molecular levels) to environmental factors and other stressful conditions. His work at the St. Boniface General Hospital Research Centre has included study of the pathogenesis of heart failure due to use of antitumour drugs.
| CMAJ May 15, 1996 (vol 154, no 10) /
JAMC le 15 mai 1996 (vol 154, no 10) |