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December 15, 1998
NIH Adopts New Time-Saving Timekeeping System
Prevention Conference Takes Topics from Headlines
Chris Denney
Quality of Work Life
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services |
An 'Endangered Species' Rosenberg Decries Decline of Physician/Scientist By Rich McManus
When Dr. Leon Rosenberg came to NIH in 1959 to begin a 6-year
stint at the National Cancer Institute's metabolism service, he was a
newly minted M.D. who was arriving at the Mecca of his
profession: a burgeoning pinnacle of biomedical research crafted
largely by the influence of then NIH director Dr. James A. Shannon,
a physician/scientist whose "intelligence, vision...and political
acumen...produced a powerful magnetism" that attracted Rosenberg,
and many others among the best and brightest in medicine in that
era, to NIH. "We were all eager to prove we had the right stuff," he
recalls.
Overcoming 'Barriers Beyond Language' Ugarte Takes on New Hispanic Communications Initiative By Carla Garnett
Years ago, when Carlos Ugarte was a "young, idealistic health
educator" in Miami, he began a field project wherein he would head
out into a community armed with a clipboard and what he deemed a
well-designed survey. He intended to ask Spanish-speaking folks at
hospitals and clinics about their views on cancer, health, health care
and other medical service issues. The results would eventually, he
hoped, lead to development of better ways to get health messages to
the nation's Hispanic population. So, he approached a woman in a
waiting room at one of the local hospitals. Enthusiastic about this
initiative and about addressing people directly, Ugarte launched into
his spiel.
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Carlos Ugarte