The featured speaker is Sherry Wilson, LMSW, and Work-Life Coordinator and Interim Coordinator of the Academy for Professional Development, PeopleWorks. AWF encourages attendance by both female and male faculty, fellows, students and staff. Buja is being honored for outstanding contributions to studies on cardiac muscle and ischemic heart disease. The honor of being elected a Fellow of AAAS began in 1874 and is acknowledged with a certificate and rosette. There will be a cook-off for beans, ribs, fajitas and chicken on Saturday, November 1 as well as a visit by Houston Police Department canines, horses and helicopter.
Live music is scheduled for both days.
Ward is Director for the Center for Clinical Effectiveness, and Health System Chief for Clinical Informatics Research and Development at the Henry Ford Health System in Detroit. He is also the Associate Medical Director for Clinical Policy Analysis for Health Alliance Plan. The speaker, an M.D. and an M.B.A., graduated from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine and Graduate School of Business in 1990. Previously he worked as a financial analyst at the University of Chicago Hospitals and managed a systems consulting business. He led a Board of Governors' Subcommittee to develop a Clinical Policy Plan for the Henry Ford Health System, defining the philosophy, methods and organizational structures needed for Ford's practice guideline and clinical quality improvements efforts.