September 23, 2004

Faculty honors

Andrea Dunaif, M.D., has been named president of the Endocrine Society for 2005-06 and is currently serving as president-elect. Kelly E. Mayo has been elected to the society’s governing council.

Dunaif is the Charles F. Kettering Professor of Endocrinology and Metabolism; professor of medicine; and chief of the division of endocrinology, metabolism and molecular medicine at the Feinberg School of Medicine. Her research focuses on the genetics of polycystic ovary syndrome, the most common endocrine disease in premenopausal women.

Mayo is the recipient of the Endocrine Society’s Ernst Oppenheimer Award, an Outstanding Investigator Award from the Pituitary Society, a National Institutes of Health Career Development Award, and a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award. He teaches a summer laboratory course, Frontiers in Reproduction: Molecular and Cellular Concepts, at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass.

Mayo’s research focuses on cellular signaling and gene regulation in the mammalian neuroendocrine system.

Prem Kumar, the SBC Professor of Information Technology and professor of electrical and computer engineering and of physics and astronomy, has been awarded the 2004 5th International Quantum Communication Award by Tamagawa University, Tokyo.

Kumar was selected for the contribution of challenging work on experimental quantum communication and quantum cryptography for the real world.

Neil Stone, M.D., professor of clinical medicine at the Feinberg School of Medicine, has been elected president of the Midwest Lipid Association, the newest chapter of the National Lipid Association.

Stone is a faculty member of the division of cardiology at the Feinberg School and is an internist, cardiologist and lipidologist at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.

He was a member of the first and third National Cholesterol Education Program Adult Treatment Panels. A past chairman of the American Heart Association Nutrition Committee and Clinical Affairs Committee, he recently served on the AHA Expert Panel on Population and Prevention Science.

Linda Van Horn, professor of preventive medicine, has received the Dannon Institute/ American Society for Clinical Nutrition Award for Excellence in Medical Dental Nutrition Education.

The award is presented in recognition of an outstanding career in medical and/or dental nutrition education and is administered by the society.

Van Horn, who recently was named editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American Dietetic Association, is recognized locally, nationally and internationally for her excellence in medical nutrition education.