Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, MPH, director of the International Center for AIDS Care and Treatment Programs at the Mailman School, has been named to the World Health Organization’s Strategic and Technical Advisory Group on Tuberculosis. Dr. El-Sadr is among 20 international TB experts selected to serve on the group, which will advise the WHO on its range of global TB control activities.
KRISTINE M. GEBBIE, RN, DRPH, the Elizabeth Standish Gill Professor of Nursing, has received the 2008 Balderson Lifetime Public Health Leadership Award from the National Public Health Leadership Development Network.
J. JOHN MANN, MD, the Paul Janssen Professor of Translational Neuroscience (in psychiatry and radiology) in P&S, and Ezra Susser, MD, DrPH, the Anna Cheskis Gelman & Murray Charles Gelman Professor and chair of epidemiology (Mailman) and professor of psychiatry (P&S) were selected by the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression, known as NARSAD, for its Distinguished Investigator Award. NARSAD also has selected 19 Columbia scientists to each receive a 2008 Young Investigator Award.
GARY STRUHL, PHD, professor of genetics & development, and CAROL PRIVES, PHD, the DaCosta Professor of Biology at Morningside and a member of CUMC’s Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, were selected for membership in the National Academy of Sciences.