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Two doctors honored as MacArthur fellows
NEWS IN BRIEF — Posted Oct. 15, 2012
Two physicians were among 23 individuals named as fellows by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Oct. 2. Recipients included a pediatric neurosurgeon, a geriatrician, a marine ecologist and a stringed-instrument bow maker (link).
“These extraordinary individuals demonstrate the power of creativity,” said MacArthur President Robert Gallucci, PhD. Fellows receive $500,000 over five years with no stipulations.
Geriatrician Eric Coleman, MD, MPH, professor and head of the University of Colorado at Denver’s Division of Health Care Policy and Research, was honored for his work to improve transitions in care. He developed the Care Transitions Intervention, which reduces hospital readmissions and has been adopted by Medicare and health care institutions around the world.
Pediatric neurosurgeon Benjamin Warf, MD, was honored for revolutionizing treatment of hydrocephalus and other intracranial diseases in young children. As founder of a children’s hospital in eastern Uganda, he developed a one-time treatment for hydrocephalus. Now associate professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School and director of the Neonatal and Congenital Anomaly Neurosurgery Program at Boston Children’s Hospital, he has worked to educate physicians around the world about the treatment and pediatric neurosurgical diseases.
Note: This item originally appeared at http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2012/10/15/prbf1015.htm.
