Dr. Tin Maung Oo
- Occupation: Medical director of the Howard County General Hospital Hospitalist program in Columbia
- Achievement: Oo, a native of Myanmar who most recently implemented a hospitalist program at St. Mary’s Hospital in Jefferson City, Mo., was selected as medical director of Howard Hospital’s hospitalist program. Hospitalists are physicians who specialize in the care of hospitalized patients and whose practice is in the hospital, not in an office. A hospitalist is assigned to care for a patient who doesn’t have a primary care physician.
Dr. Mordecai Blaustein
- Occupation: Professor of physiology and medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore
- Achievement: Blaustein was given the Novartis Award for Hypertension Research, one of the highest honors in the hypertension research field. The award recognizes his discoveries of the biological mechanism underlying how salt causes high blood pressure, which could lead to new treatments.
“I feel lucky and honored to be representing the [Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference] at a national level. Through my appointment and participation on the NCAA Division I Student Athletic Advisory Committee, I hope to benefit my fellow student athletes and make sure that their concerns are addressed and their voices are heard.”
Eryn Crane
- Occupation: Junior at Loyola College in Baltimore
- Achievement: Crane recently was named to the NCAA Division I Student-Athlete Advisory Committee as a representative of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference. Crane, a two-year letter winner for the Greyhounds’ swimming and diving team, is expected to begin her two-year term on the national SAAC this fall, during which she will serve as student-athlete liaison among the happenings on campus, conference and national levels. She is a communications major with a specialization in journalism.
Chimamanda Adichie
- Occupation: Novelist
- Achievement: Adichie, who earned a master’s degree from the writing seminars in the Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins University, won a MacArthur Fellowship, the so-called “genius grant” worth $500,000 given to people who demonstrate exceptional creativity and promise in their chosen field. Her writing explores the personal and the public by placing her characters within the larger social and political forces in contemporary Nigeria. She wrote “Purple Hibiscus,” which earned her the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and “Half of a Yellow Sun.” Adichie is one of 25 winners anonymously nominated for the award.
Dr. Charles Boult
- Occupation: Director of the Roger C. Lipitz Center for Integrated Health Care in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore and professor of public health in the Johns Hopkins University Schools of Medicine and Nursing
- Achievement: Boult received the 2008 UCLA David H. Solomon Award, which is given annually to recognize influential leaders in the field of geriatrics. Boult is a geriatrician who has focused his career on developing and testing novel approaches to organizing, financing and delivering health care to older populations. His research includes Guided Care, a multidisciplinary model of primary care for people with multiple chronic conditions that improves access to clinical information and support for self-management, and facilitates patients’ access to community services. The award is named in honor of Dr. David Solomon, former chairman of medicine and professor emeritus at University of California, Los Angeles.
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