Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing

May L. Wykle, dean and Florence Cellar Professor of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University's Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, has been named to the Ohio Commission on Minority Health and has been awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Black Nurses Association.

Marion Good, associate professor, and Gail McCain, associate professor and associate dean for community affairs, have been named fellows of the prestigious American Academy of Nursing.

Bobbie Berkowitz, who holds a doctorate from Case, has been elected to the Group Health Cooperative's Board of Trustees.

Professor Claudia Coulton, co-director of the Center on Urban Poverty and Social Change at the Case Western Reserve University Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, will deliver the Aaron Rosen Endowed Lecture at the January 2004 conference of the Society on Social Work Research in New Orleans.

Jose Camerino, adjunct faculty and field education adviser, published an article with Kay Levine, senior instructor at the Case School of Medicine, in a recent issue of "Psychoanalysis in Cleveland" titled, "Psychoanalytic Presence Following the Case crisis May 2003."

Kathleen Farkas, associate professor, has been invited to attend the Social and Behavioral Sciences Working Group on Human Research Protections, has been named to the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Center for Bipolar Disorder at Case/University Hospitals of Cleveland and has been appointed to the editorial board of the "Journal of Social Work Practice in the Addictions."

Professor Mark Fleisher has a new book, "Crime and Employment: Critical Issues in Crime Reduction for Corrections," and has completed a new book chapter entitled, "Lost Youth and the Futility of Deterrence" to be part of an edited volume from a Guggenheim research conference.

Professor Terry Hokenstad has delivered the closing plenary, "The Madrid International Plan of Action on Aging: Implementing Care Management Action Recommendations," at the International Conference on Care Management in an Aging Society.

Aloen Townsend, associate professor, has been appointed to the Advisory Board of the Social Work Series in the "Journal of Palliative Medicine;" has published, with other researchers, an article in "Personality and Individual Differences;" and has received funding to establish a Geriatric Social Work Research Training Institute.

The Center for Health Affairs has presented the Meritorious Service Award to Ralph Horwitz, dean of the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine; Edward M. Hundert, president of Case; Floyd Loop, CEO and chairman of the Board of Governors at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation; Fred Rothstein, president and CEO of University Hospitals of Cleveland; and Terry White, president of the MetroHealth System, for their collaborative efforts in medical education in Northeast Ohio.

Edith Lerner, associate professor and vice chair in the department of nutrition, has received the Edward F. Meyers Outstanding Trustee Award from the Center for Health Affairs.

Case alumni Paul Berg, Julie L. Gerberding and James F. Rambasek have received awards from the Case Medical Alumni Association. Gerberding received the Distinguished Alumni Award, Rambasek was honored with the Clifford J. Vogt, M.D. '34, Alumni Service Award and Berg received the Special (Medical Alumni Association) Board of Trustees Award.

Dawn Osterholt, a member of the medical Class of 2006, has been chosen as a participant in the American Medical Student Association Universal Health Care Task Force.

Gjumrakch Aliev, assistant professor of pathology and co-director of the Microscopy Research Center, has been honored with the 2003 International Peace Prize of the United Cultural Convention.

Laszlo Sogor, associate professor of reproductive biology at Case and University Hospitals of Cleveland, was recently appointed as president of the Cleveland OB/GYN Society.

Ali Askari, professor of medicine and chief of the division of rheumatology in the department of medicine at Case and University Hospitals of Cleveland, was awarded a $100,000 unrestricted educational grant from the National Sjogren's Syndrome Association to help support the funding for a Sjogren's Syndrome Patient Support Center at University Hospitals.

The Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation has selected Eckhard Jankowsky, assistant professor in the department of biochemistry and the Center for RNA Molecular Biology, as one of this year's five recipients of the prestigious Scholar Award.

Esa Davis, assistant professor of family medicine, received the President's Award at the 31st Annual Meeting of the North American Primary Care Research Group.

A brochure produced to help raise funds for medical student scholarships and an issue of the "Medical Bulletin" magazine memorializing the late dean emeritus of student affairs at the medical school, John L. Caughey Jr., have won awards in the investor relations and institutional relations categories, respectively, of the Public Relations Society of America, East Central District's 2003 Round Up Awards competition. Lois A. Bowers, assistant director of the medical school public affairs office, is editor of the "Medical Bulletin" and coordinated and wrote the text for the scholarship brochure.

Jessica Berg, associate professor, has published "You Say Person and I Say Property: Does it Really Matter What We Call an Embryo?" in the "American Journal of Bioethics" and made a presentation on "Emerging Fields: Bioethics and Law" for the Midwest Association of Pre-law Advisers. She also conducted a workshop on "Everything You Want to Know About Law but are Afraid to Ask" for the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities Annual Meeting and presented on "Ethics and E-Medicine" at the Cleveland Clinic Department of Psychiatry Grand Rounds.

Alumni Milton A. Marquis, a partner at Dickstein Shapiro Morin and Oshinsky in Washington, D.C., and James R. Willis, a partner at Willis Blackwell and Watson in Cleveland, have been named to the "Black Enterprise" list of America's Top African-American Lawyers in antitrust and criminal law, respectively.

Instructor Thomas Hausman's article, "Mixing Marketable Securities and Family Partnerships," has been published in
" Tax Notes."

Sharona Hoffman, associate professor, moderated a panel on bioethics education at the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities annual meeting. Her article "Corrective Justice and Title I of the ADA" was published in the "American University Law Review" and "Legislation and Genetic Discrimination" was published in the "Journal of Law and Health."

Professor Katherine Hessler conducted a workshop, which was sponsored by the City of Cleveland's Departments of Aging and Consumer Affairs and other organizations-including the Milton A. Kramer Law Clinic Center-on avoiding predatory lending and home repair fraud for Cleveland senior citizens.

Jeffrey Dillman, associate professor, led a workshop for Cleveland senior citizens on avoiding predatory lending and home repair fraud.

Professor Henry T. King Jr. has been reappointed U.S. chair of the ABA/CBA/Barra Mexicana Joint Working Group of the Section of International Law, has been appointed senior councilor for the Northern Ohio District Export Council and has addressed an audience at Kent State University on "Personal Reflections on the Nuremberg Tribunal and the International Criminal Court."

Law alumnus Donald Lee Korb has been nominated by President George W. Bush to be chief counsel for the Internal Revenue Service and an assistant general counsel in the Department of the Treasury.

Jonathan Adler, assistant professor, attended the Harvard Law School Environmental Law Conference, where he spoke as part of a panel on the Bush Administration's land-use and natural resource policies. He also participated in the Federalist Society National Lawyer's Convention, where he gave a speech on the constitutional limits of federal environmental regulation.

Professor Andrew P. Morriss chaired a session, served as a commentator for two other sessions and delivered a paper at the Southern Economic Association meeting.

Professor Ann Southworth will join the editorial board of "Law and Social Inquiry: Journal of the American Bar Foundation" for a three-year term beginning January 1 and will present a paper, "Communication Networks Among Conservative Lawyers," at the Institute for Policy Research.

Timothy M. Dodd, associate dean for undergraduate studies, has been named president elect of the Center for Academic Integrity. In his three-year term, Dodd will serve as president elect in 2003-2004, president during 2004-2005 and past president for 2005-2006. He has been a member of the center's board of directors for two years.

Sue Harris, interim director of the publications office, has been recognized for her design of an issue of the "Medical Bulletin" magazine memorializing the late dean emeritus of student affairs at the medical school, John L. Caughey Jr. The issue won an award in the institutional relations category of the Public Relations Society of America East Central District's 2003 Round Up Awards competition.

Jeanne Madison, assistant director of corporate and foundation relations, has been honored by the Northern Ohio Minority Business Council for epitomizing the "spirit of supplier diversity." Madison serves as the university's corporate liaison to the council.