The National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements has chosen S. James Adelstein, the Daniel C. Tosteson University Professor and professor of pathology, to give the 24th Taylor lecture at its 36th annual meeting in April. McLean Hospital has named James Chu, HMS associate professor of psychiatry, as chief of hospital clinical services. In his new position, Chu, a nationally known expert in trauma and dissociation, will oversee all patient services. In April, Paul Barreira, currently the deputy commisioner for clinical and professional services at the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health, will become McLean's chief of community clinical services and director of public and community psychiatry for Partners Psychiatry and Mental Health system. Walter Willett, the Fredrick John Stare professor of epidemiology and nutrition at HSPH and HMS professor of medicine, and Leona Samson, HSPH professor of toxicology in the Department of Cancer Cell Biology, will be honored at the American Association for Cancer Research 91st annual meeting in San Francisco at the beginning of April.
Application is open to medical faculty with preference given to junior or new investigators.
The deadline is May 1.