Winter 2008-2009 - Mayo Clinic

Peter Gloviczki received the
President’s 2008 Leadership Award
at the 10-year celebration of the
Vascular Disease Foundation in
Washington, D.C. He also delivered
the Robert R. Linton Distinguished
Address at the Annual Meeting of
the New England Society for Vascular
Surgery in Newport, R.I.
Todd Golde selected by Jacksonville
Business Journal as a 2008 Health
Care Hero.
Thomas Grys certified a diplomate
of the American Board of Medical
Microbiology.
Peter Harris received the 2008 Homer
Smith Award from the American
Society of Nephrology.
Judith Kaur appointed by President
George Bush to the National Cancer
Advisory Panel to advise the
director of the National Cancer
Institute on cancer priorities.
Rajiv Kumar received the 2008 Louis
V. Avioli Founders Award from the
American Society of Bone and Mineral
Metabolism.
Donald Layton received the Patient
Volunteer-Advocate Award for
Distinguished Service in Cancer
Education.
Carlos Mantilla received a Teacher
of the Year Award from the Mayo
Graduate Student Association.
Kay Medina received a Teacher of the
Year Award from the Mayo Graduate
Student Association.
Michael Mohseni received a Mayo
Clinic Florida clinical research grant
to continue the “Runners Science”
study for a second year.
Steven Moran received the 2009
Sterling Bunnell Award, the highest
honor bestowed on a hand surgeon
by the Hand Society.
Justin Nguyen named interim chair
of the Division of Transplant Surgery,
Department of Transplantation, Mayo
Clinic Florida.
Stephen Riederer served as president
of the 20th meeting of the MR
Angiography Society in Graz, Austria.
Juan Romero received the 2008
Novartis Award for Hypertension
Research.
William Rupp named CEO of Mayo
Clinic Florida.
Joseph Sirven appointed editor-inchief
of epilepsy.com.
Elson So chaired the National Institute
of Neurologic Disorders and Stroke
Workshop on Sudden Unexpected
Death in Washington, D.C.
Latha Stead received the Emergency
Medicine Residents’ Association
Mentorship Award from The American
College of Emergency Physicians.
She was the 2008 inaugural Visiting
Professor of Emergency Medicine at
Harvard Medical School, the first
invitation for a Mayo Clinic physician.
Nilufer Taner selected by Jacksonville
Business Journal as a 2008 Health
Care Hero.
Michael Wallace selected by
Jacksonville Business Journal as a 2008
Health Care Hero.
Susan Wilansky named one of
America’s Top Doctors for Women
in Women’s Health magazine.
Obituaries
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Professor Dr. med Rudolf Juchems, 79,
died Sept. 5, 2008. He received his
medical degree from the University
of Bonn in 1956 and completed his
residency in Wuerzburg, Germany,
in 1962 after a fellowship in internal
medicine at Mayo Clinic in 1961. In
1970, he was appointed professor and
chair of the Department of Internal
Medicine in Aschaffenburg, retiring in
1996. He was a founding and honorary
member of the Mayo Alumni German
Speaking Chapter and hosted the first
scientific meeting of this society in
Bonn in 1996. A cardiologist
specializing in internal intensive care
medicine, he was a member and
participated in scientific societies in
Germany and abroad. He was a
member of The Doctors Mayo Society
and Plummer Society and honorary
member of the European Council
of Emergency Medical Care and
Resuscitation Medicine. Professor
Juchems received the Bundesverdienstkreuz
am Bande, one of the highest
civil orders of the Federal Republic of
Germany. He is survived by his wife,
Olga, and five children.
Norman Christensen, 93, died
Nov. 18, 2008, in Sun City, Ariz.
Dr. Christensen received his medical
degree from Rush Medical College,
University of Chicago, and completed
a Mayo Clinic residency in internal
medicine in 1947. He was a physician in
the U.S. Navy during World War II.
Dr. Christensen joined Mayo Clinic’s
Department of Internal Medicine in
1947 and led the Mayo Clinic “Tetanus
Team” until he retired in 1976.
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