Eight faculty members were honored Oct. 21 by the Academic Women’s Network at Washington University School of Medicine. A reception was held at the Randall Gallery to honor women who hold endowed professorships at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and WUSM. Below are the honorees.
| Nada A. Abumrad, Ph.D. Dr. Robert C. Atkins Professor of Medicine and Obesity Research |
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Nada Abumrad is a renowned cellular lipid physiologist. As the nation’s first endowed chair in obesity research, Abumrad translates advances made in the Center for Human Nutrition into clinical application. The center is one of only eight NIH-funded nutrition centers in the nation. |
| Dora E. Angelaki, Ph.D. Alumni Endowed Professor of Neurobiology |
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Dora Angelaki has published a number of works about the processing of visual and spatial information and how such information is used to generate a representation of space and time in the brain. In 1996, Angelaki received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. Her research receives funding from both the National Institutes of Health and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. |
| Carolyn M. Baum, Ph.D. Professor and Elias Michael Director of the Program in Occupational Therapy |
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Carolyn Baum’s research focuses on enabling older adults to live independently. She has studied populations ranging from Alzheimer’s patients to adults recovering from stroke. She has received the top two honors of the American Occupational Therapy Association: the Eleanor Clarke Slagel Lectureship and the Award of Merit. She also served on the National Institutes of Health committee that ultimately established the National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research. She is currently the President of the American Occupational Therapy Association. |
| Anne H. Cross, M.D. Manny and Rosalyn Rosenthal and Dr. John L. Trotter MS Center Chair in Neuroimmunology at BJH |
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The primary research of Anne Cross involves how immunologic disorders affect the central nervous system. Her team focuses mainly on multiple sclerosis. She was given the Harry Weaver Neuroscience Scholar Award of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society in 1990. |
| Victoria J. Fraser, M.D. J. William Campbell Professor of Medicine |
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Victoria Fraser’s primary research concerns epidemiology studies, including the study of hospital-related infections such as those incurred after surgery. Her team studies risk factors as well as outcomes and costs of these infections as well as how to prevent them. Fraser developed the grant proposal for the Helena Hatch Special Care Center, which meets comprehensive health care needs of adolescent and adult women living with HIV. |
| Alison M. Goate, Ph.D. Samuel and Mae S. Ludwig Professor of Genetics in Psychiatry |
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Alison Goate’s research focuses on the genetics of psychiatric diseases. Her lab studies primarily Alzheimer’s disease and alcohol dependence. Goate is internationally known for her discovery of the first genetic mutation linked to an inherited form of Alzheimer’s disease. |
| Susan E. Mackinnon, M.D. Sydney M. Shoenberg Jr. and Robert H. Shoenberg Professor of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery |
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Susan Mackinnon serves as chief of the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. Among her areas of surgical expertise are peripheral nerve injuries, brachial plexus injuries, carpal tunnel syndrome, facial palsy and nerve transplantation. She has received the Medal Award in Surgery from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and nine Plastic Surgery Education Foundation Prizes from the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons. She has an NIH funded laboratory that investigates nerve injury. |
| Jeanne M. Nerbonne, Ph.D. Alumni Endowed Professor of Molecular Biology and Pharmacology |
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Jeanne Nerbonne’s research focuses on defining the molecular mechanisms that control electrical activity in the heart and the changes that occur in heart disease. Nerbonne has also pioneered efforts to exploit molecular and biochemical approaches to probe these mechanisms in the cardiovascular and nervous systems. She is the recipient of several prestigious awards from the American Heart Association and the National Institutes of Health. |