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Gary Wind - 2007 AACA Honored Member
Gary G. Wind, MD, FACS (above left) is pictured with Dr. Art Dalley (award presenter) at the AACA Awards Banquet in Las Vegas on June 19th, 2007. Dr. Wind, is Vesalius.com's Director of Art and Education, and is responsible for developing original digital illustrations, animations, 3-D anatomical models, and narratives for the Vesalius Clinical Folios. Dr. Wind is a staff surgeon at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, where he has practiced general and laparoscopic surgery since 1980 and has been awarded the Golden Apple teaching award. He is Professor of Surgery at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS), where he holds a joint appointment in the Department of Anatomy and serves as Director of the Microsurgery Course. Dr. Wind has authored and illustrated five surgical texts, the most recent of which is Laparoscopic Anatomy: Abdomen and Pelvis, available now from Williams and Wilkins. Prior to joining USUHS, Dr. Wind served as staff surgeon with the US Air Force at Malcom Grow Medical Center from 1976-1980. During 1970-1976, Dr. Wind performed his residency in surgery at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York. Dr. Wind received a BA degree from Rutgers University in 1966, and an MD degree from Temple University in 1970. Student Presentation Awards Named The AACA Student Platform and Poster Presentation Awards now carry the names of Association members who have worked diligently to involve students, residents, and/or interns in the AACA Annual Meeting. Executive Council voted to name the student platform presentation award after Ralph Ger, one of the founding fathers of the AACA and active student supporter. The student poster presentation award will be named for Sandy Marks for his years of AACA involvement at all levels as well as his demonstrated support for student involvement in the AACA. Due to the typical predominance of poster presentations at any given meeting, Council, in conjunction with the Career Development Committee, voted to have three poster awards, one each for the best posters in basic science, clinical science and education. Beginning at the 2005 New York City joint AACA/BACA meeting, these awards were officially named: The Ralph Ger Student Platform Presentation Award and The Sandy C. Marks Jr. Student Poster Presentation Award. Each award will continue to carry a value of $600. U.S. and a certificate suitable for framing, and a one year's electronic subscription to Clinical Anatomy. 2007 AACA Pre-Doctoral Award Winners This year's predoctoral award competition in Las Vegas proved to be a ifficult task choosing a single outstanding platform (The Ralph G. Ger Student Platform Presentation Award) and a poster (Sandy C. Marks Jr. Student Poster Presentation Award) winner from the group. The Career Development Committee played a critical role in judging and decided that since posters form the bulk of the student presentations, that the AACA should offer 3 poster awards - one for the best poster in basic science, clinical science and education. The Association is grateful for the efforts of the CDC members as it is a now a big job to get around to evaluating all the platform and poster sessions involved in these two competitions at our annual meeting. Each of the award winners received a check for $600, to offset travel costs to the meeting, a certificate, and a year's free membership (including electronic access to Clinical Anatomy) to the AACA.
Soo Y. Kim (above right) accepted the 2007 Sandy R. Marks Student Poster Presentation Award - Basic Science from Mrs. Julia Marks. Soo, a platform presentation winner in Milwaukee in 2006, presented a poster entitled: "Development of an ultrasound protocol to investigate the static and dynamic in vivo musculotendinous architecture of the supraspinatus." Soo is a Physical Therapist and is currently pursuing her PhD in Anatomy at the University of Toronto. She is interested in pursuing a career in clinically-related anatomy and obtaining a faculty position. Her research is focused on the musculotendinous architecture of the rotator cuff muscles. Her mentor is Anne Agur in the Division of Anatomy of the Department of Surgery at the University of Toronto. The winner of the 2007 Sandy R. Marks Student Poster Presentation Award - Clinical Science was Michael Dingeldein, MD a surgical resident from Chicago. His poster was entitled: "Bilateral intrathoracic kidneys associated with posterior diaphragmatic hernias ." Michaels' mentor is Mark J. Holterman, a surgeon and past Councilor of the AACA.
The 2007 Ralph Ger Student Platform Presentation Award was given to Mayoorendra Ravichandiran (right) pictured here with Dr. Ralph Ger. His presentaion was entitled "Three-dimensional contractile muscle model of mandibular elevation based on digitized data from human cadaveric sopecimens." Mayoorendra is a doctoral candidate in the Division of Anatomy in the Department of Surgery at the University of Toronto. His mentor is Dr. Anne Agur. Anatomy Classes Face Faculty Shortage The abstracted statement below from Science, Vol. 299:5611, 28 February
2003, page 1309, as well as an AAMC document from 2005 both warn about faculty shortages to teach gross anatomy in the very near future. The first-year class, which includes about 170 hours of human dissection, has lost its appeal for those headed for a research career--the traditional source of instructors -- in part because anatomy has become increasingly molecular, focusing on cells rather than organs. And even properly trained researchers often don't want to teach the class, because it demands roughly twice as much time as other courses, according to the survey conducted by the American Association of Anatomists. But most agree that for medical students, those long hours are essential. Substitutes, such as virtual anatomical imaging, can never fully replace the real thing, says Robert McCuskey of the University of Arizona, Tucson: " I certainly wouldn't want a surgeon working on me who'd never actually touched a gallbladder. " Keith L. Moore
- Lippinicott, Williams & Wilkins Presidential Address - 2007 In May of 2004, Keith L. Moore (center) and Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins (Betty Sun - left of Dr. Moore - and her group from LWW) agreed to jointly sponsor a new Keith L. Moore - Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins Presidential Address. The monies contributed annually for this lecture will offset the costs incurred in bringing a high profile speaker to an annual meeting to present the Presidential Address.
At the Las Vegas meeting, this award funded the lecture entitled "What you see is what you get " by Gary G. Wind, MD, FACS pictured below.
Adkins Distinguished
Service Award - 2007
The 2007 Las Vegas AACA meeting marked the third time the newly created Distinguished Service Award - named after Dr. R. Benton Adkins, Jr. has been awarded by the Association. This award recognizes outstanding service to the Association by a member or affiliate. Dr. Ralph Ger (middle) is pictured receiving the award from Todd Olson (left, president-elect) and Peter Abrahams (right). More on Dr.Ger's contributions to the Association can be found on the Awards page of this site. Chinese Visible
Human Project Presented
Robert Trelease Receives UCLA Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award Dr. Robert Trelease, Professor of Anatomy, recently received the "UCLA Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award." This very prestigious UCLA campus-wide award recognizes Bob's unique and outstanding contributions in the areas of instructional innovation and effectiveness as demonstrated through teaching evaluations, educational impact, and diversity. Bob was recognized for initiating the “virtual anatomy” concept first published in Clinical Anatomy and for providing the first computer-based lectures at UCLA on an Amiga and video projector, a decade before Windows and Powerpoint became common tools for lecture presentations. As Associate Director of the Instructional Design and Technology Unit, Bob has been instrumental in the development and management of Web-based educational resources for all 4 years of the pre-MD curriculum as well. Quite notably, Bob's award is the first conferred on a Health Sciences instructor at UCLA since 1999. Larry Ross Receives the Class of 2010 Best Teacher Award in Gross Anatomy at UT-Houston Larry Ross, MD, PhD, was honored by the class of 2010 at the University of Texas Medical School - Houston, by being selected as Best Teacher in both Developmental Anatomy and in Gross Anatomy. This teaching appointment is Larry's post-retirement activity. He is also the current President of the AACA. Great work Larry! Neil Norton awarded the ADEA/GlaxoSmithKline Sensodyne Excellence in Teaching Award. The American Dental Educatioin Association and GlaxoSmithKline Sensodyne Excellence inTeaching Award is presented to individuals who demonstrate exemplary standards and promote excellence in dental education through scholarship and innovation and show a clear commitment to excellence and the scholarship of teaching and learning. The ADEA’s selection criteria include a commitment to principles of lifelong learning, a demonstrated creativity in curriculum design or innovations in the delivery of education to students, motivation of students to study and master subject matter, reputation among peers as an excellent educator, exemplary mentoring skills, student-centered approach to education that shows concern for growth and development, identifiable impact on student learning, and demonstrated creativity in curriculum design or innovations in the delivery of education to students. Norton is an associate professor of oral biology in the Creighton School of Dentistry and is the recipient of numerous awards, including Creighton’s prestigious Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Award for Teaching Achievement, the highest teaching recognition offered by the university. Norton has written numerous articles on anatomical topics related to dentistry. New Journal - Anatomical Sciences Education (ASE) Created An exciting new publishing venue for anatomy educators, the Anatomical Sciences Education, is a new international journal covering the most exciting developments in education in the anatomical sciences. The journal is now accepting manuscript submissions at www.asejournal.com. The new journal, published by the American Association of Anatomists (AAA) in cooperation with the American Association of Clinical Anatomists (AACA) and the Human Anatomy & Physiology Society (HAPS) will debut in early 2008, appearing six times per year in print and online via Wiley Interscience. According to journal co-editors Richard L. Drake, Ph.D., Director of Anatomy at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, and Wojciech Pawlina, M.D., Chair of Anatomy at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, the ASE mission is to disseminate new ideas, innovations, and research in a way that emphasizes the quality, depth, and scope of activities and developments in the field of anatomy education. ASE will encompass all levels of anatomical sciences education—undergraduate, allied health, medical (both allopathic and osteopathic), dental, graduate and post-graduate programs—and cover the major disciplines of the anatomical sciences: gross anatomy, embryology, histology, and neuroscience. To ensure that relevant and significant information regarding educational advances reaches the users as quickly as possible, ASE’s editorial team is committed to maintaining AAA’s reputation for fast, fair and friendly peer review, with a rapid turn-around time of approximately four weeks from manuscript submission to initial editorial decision. AAA, AACA, HAPS and BACA (British Association of Clinical Anatomists) members will receive complimentary electronic subscriptions in 2008. Qualified institutions will also be eligible for complimentary print and electronic subscriptions. Anatomical Sciences Education is now ready to accept your manuscript submission! Be sure to tell your colleagues about this exciting new publishing opportunity for anatomy educators. Keith Moore honored with Henry Gray/Elsevier Distinguished Educator Award
New Education Track PhD in Anatomy Created at Indiana University The Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology at the Indiana University School of Medicine is pleased to announce the creation of an Education Track PhD Program for individuals who desire careers in anatomical teaching and educational scholarship. This new career track is justified by the growing demand in the nation's health professional schools for highly-qualified educators in Gross Anatomy and the other anatomical disciplines. The goal is to create a cadre of doctoral-level anatomy educators who are capable of teaching all of the anatomical disciplines to undergraduate, graduate, or professional students, and who are capable of producing the high-quality educational research and other scholarly work necessary for promotion and tenure. Developed in cooperation with the Indiana University School of Education, this five-year program will provide students with extensive training in the anatomical sciences, coupled with coursework in pedagogy, curriculum development, learning theory, educational assessment, and statistics. Students will participate in supervised teaching experiences in Gross Anatomy, Histology, and Neuroscience. After admission to doctoral candidacy, students will complete a rigorous dissertation in medical education research. Additional information is available on the Department's website: http://www.anatomy.iupui.edu. The new Keith and Marion Moore "Blue Box" Award
Dr. Keith L. Moore, a founding member of the AACA and well-known anatomy textbook author, has established an annual award for graduate and medical students - the Keith and Marion Moore Blue Box Award. The "Blue Box" is used in his textbooks as an indicator of clinical significance, and is quite familiar to students. The award is for the best student paper published in Clinical Anatomy during a given calendar year/Journal volume. The awardee must be the first author on the Clinical Anatomy paper. The award will consist of a plaque and a check for $500. It is open to graduate and medical students worldwide, even those who have received their PhD or MD's in the year that the paper is published. The student would be nominated by the student's supervisor or anatomy professor. A Blue Box Award Committee of 3-5 AACA members will be appointed by the AACA President, with the Editor-in-Chief of Clinical Anatomy being a member of the committee. The Award may not be presented each year, if a qualified student paper has not been published. The award would be announced and presented at the Annual AACA Meeting Banquet.
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April D. Richardson, (right) pictured here with Mrs. Julia Marks - wife of the late Sandy Marks - for whom the award was named, is a doctoral graduate student in Anatomy and Neurobiology at the University of Kentucky. She was awarded the 2007 Sandy R. Marks Student Poster Presentation Award - Education. She and her co-presenter, Nathan F. Johnson, were mentored by Dr. Jennifer Brueckner. The title of April's poster was "Evaluation of podcasting as a learning tool for independent study of cross-sectional anatomy." The poster focused on using evolving technology to create a value-added instructional technology to two of the dissection-based human gross anatomy courses at the University of Kentucky where the student is expected to study the cross-sections on their own. April is a new member of the AACA in 2007. 
Dr. Gary Wind is a staff surgeon at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, where he has practiced general and laparoscopic surgery since 1980 and has been awarded the Golden Apple teaching award. He is Professor of Surgery at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS), where he holds a joint appointment in the Department of Anatomy and serves as Director of the Microsurgery Course. Dr. Wind has authored and illustrated five surgical texts, the most recent of which is Laparoscopic Anatomy: Abdomen and Pelvis, available now from Williams and Wilkins. He is also the driving force behind the much accessed Vesalius.com web site. 
The AACA was
honored to have Shao-Xiang Zhang, Dean of the College of Medicine
(and Professor of Anatomy) at the Third Military Medical University in
Chongqing, China attend the New York meeting. Dr. Zhang presented the
Chinese Visible Human Project. The visit was arranged and coordinated
through the Editor's Office of the AACA/BACA official journal - Clinical
Anatomy. The Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Stephen Carmichael (on the right
in the photo) facilitated this special presentation appropriately occurring
at the 4th Joint AACA/BACA meeting in New York City.
One of the AACA's founding members, Dr. Keith L. Moore was honored at the 2007 FASEB meeting by being presented with American Association of Anatomists (AAA) newest educator award. Keith was honored with the first Henry Gray/Elsevier Distinguished Educator Award. This award is the AAA's highest honor, recognizing exceptional achievement as an anatomical educator by an AAA member. As any anatomist is aware, Keith has a long history in anatomy education and he is best known - worldwide - for this many textbooks. Clinically Oriented Anatomy, now in it's 5th edition (co-authored with Art Dalley) is the leading anatomical textbook in the world. Keith has previously been awarded the AACA's Honored Member Award (in 1994) and has many other awards and honors way too numerous to mention. The AACA is extremely proud of Keith's accomplishments and values his continued input to the Association's activities (for only one example 