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July 24, 2001
Exhibit on Women's
UCLA's Birnbaumer Named NIEHS Scientific Director
Blackman Is First
Workshop Prompts New Ways of Thinking for Extramural
Community
Bioengineering Consortium Holds Symposium
NIGMS Holds Diversity Workshop
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By Rich McManus
Dr. Marcia Angell is a compact reddish-haired woman in whom a
certain ferocity resides; perhaps it is the arch of her eyebrows that
contributes to this perception. Formerly editor-in-chief of the New
England Journal of Medicine — with which she was
associated for 21 year — and currently senior lecturer in the
department of social medicine at Harvard Medical School, she was
able to confer arched brows on an audience assembled for the
fourth annual James A. Shannon Lecture May 22 in Masur
Auditorium.
Learning from Bedside's Best By Carla Garnett
Dr. Paul Plotz, chief of NIAMS's Arthritis and Rheumatism Branch,
recently made a discovery that had little to do with his research as a
rheumatologist: He found that he was...hungry. Not for food, but for
the rush he had as a physician just beginning his practice. There is
an interaction with patients and with other doctors that belongs
uniquely to clinicians, Plotz notes, and as he became more involved
with his narrow corner of medicine and research, he found himself
farther and farther from general clinical practice.
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