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Vid Persaud - 2008 AACA Honored Member
T. Vidhya.. N. (Vid) Persaud, M.D., Ph.D., D.Sc. (right) is pictured with Dr. Keith Moore (award presenter) at the AACA Awards Banquet in Toronto on July 17th, 2008. Dr. Persaud was honored for his prominent career in the anatomical sciences - including teratology research and publications, teaching at various university levels and textbook authorship in the field of embryology. His career stretches from British Guyana, to London, England and finally to Winnipeg, Manitoba. Having taken early retirement from Chair of Anatomy at the University of Manitoba Dr. Persaud retains his activity in teaching at various schools in the Caribbean. His many service-related activities included a tenure as Councilor in the AACA. Congratulations Vid! A full biography of Dr. Persaud can be found on the Honored Members page of this site. 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. 2008 AACA Pre-Doctoral Award Winners This year's predoctoral award competition in Toronto proved to be a difficult task for the judging panel to select a single outstanding platform (The Ralph G. Ger Student Platform Presentation Award) and the three poster categories (Sandy C. Marks Jr. Student Poster Presentation Award) from the group. The Career Development Committee again played a critical role in judging and managed to select a single platform and three poster awards - one each 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 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.
Jonathon Staidle, (right) pictured here with Mrs. Julia Marks (center) - wife of the late Sandy Marks - for whom the award was named, and Anne Gilroy (Chair, Career Development Committee) is a medical student at the American University of the Caribbean in Sint Maarten. He was awarded the 2008 Sandy R. Marks Student Poster Presentation Award - Basic Science. The title of Jonathon's poster was "The surgical relevance of significant variations within a sample population of cadaveric biceps brachii muscles." One of his mentors on this project was AACA member - Quentin Fogg.
David Cantelmi (above right) accepted the 2008 Sandy R. Marks Student Poster Presentation Award - Clinical Research from Mrs. Julia Marks. David presented a poster entitled: "The contribution of the cerebellum in the neurocognitive sequelae of posterior fossa tumor treatment." One of David's mentors on this project was AACA member Anne Agur in the Division of Anatomy of the Department of Surgery at the University of Toronto.
The winner of the 2008 Sandy R. Marks Student Poster Presentation Award - Education was Alan J. Detton (center) - from the Division of Anatomy, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University. His poster was entitled: "Simultaneous presentation of anatomy and radiology using interactive object movies." Alan's mentor is AACA member - Robert M. DePhilip.
The 2008 Ralph Ger Student Platform Presentation Award was given to Nicholas Desy (above right) pictured here with Dr. Ralph Ger (left) and Anne Gilroy (Chair of the Career Development Committee). Dr. Desy's presentation was entitled "The clock face guide to fibular intraneural ganglion cysts: critical 'times' and sites for accurate diagnosis." Nicholas is an Associate member of the AACA and a resident in orthopedic surgery at McGill University in Montreal. 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 - 2008 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 Toronto meeting, this award funded the lecture entitled "The Way We Work: Building a Body Book" by David Macauley pictured below.
The Toronto attendees were treated to a series of his sketches used in the forthcoming (October 2008) book on the human body "The Way We Work". Even the least technically-minded reader is offered a window of understanding into the complexities of the human body. As anatomical professionals, attendees were amazed by the skill and understanding that went into his depictions of each of the body systems - both structurally as well as functionally. The majority of the attendees will be pre-ordering this new book - for use in lecture! 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 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 of the AACA in July 2005. 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.
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. Brion Benninger Wins Teaching Awards at Oregon Health and Science University Brion Benninger, MD, MS of the Department of Oral Maxillofacial Surgery at Oregon Health and Science University recently received two prestigous teaching awards. One was from Medical School - The 2008 Teaching Excellence Award, while the second was the 2008 "White Coat" Award in the Dental School. Further, Brion was the first anatomist and basic science faculty member to win the White Coat Award. Brion entered medical school in England with degrees in chemistry and exercise physiology. During his medical training he did residencies in orthopedics and trauma and became staff physician and lecturer of anatomy at Guys Hospital in London. He later received a MS degree in sports medicine from the University of Nottingham. With his training in sports medicine be became a physician to both professional and amateur athletes and was a member of the British Olympic Team of Physicians. He is also a member of the American College of Sports Medicine. Brion is currently a faculty member in the Department of Integrative Biosciences at Oreon Health and Science University School of Dentistry as well as the Anatomy Department of the School of Medicine. At the Dental School he is responsible for the teaching clinical anatomy to the undergraduate dental students and he also participates in advanced anatomy instruction for resident students. Neil Norton awarded the ADEA/GlaxoSmithKline Sensodyne Excellence in Teaching Award. The American Dental Education 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. Peter Abrahams Wins WATE 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. Honored Members and Adkins Service Award Recipients are Recognized at 25th Anniversary Meeting of the Association in Toronto.
The 25th Anniversary meeting of the Association was an excellent time to recognize our past Honored Members and R. Benton Adkins Jr. Service Award recipients. A special acrylic plaque engraved for each of the individuals was presented at the Awards Banquet on July 17, 2008 at the Delta Chelsea in Toronto. Among those present to receive their plaques were from the left: Dr. Art Dalley, Dr. Robert Acland, Dr. Ralph Ger (Honored and Adkins Award member), Dr. Keith Moore, Dr. Dan Graney, Dr. David Whitlock (foreground), Dr. Tatsuo Sato, Dr. Ian Whitmore, Dr. Peter Abrahams, and Dr. Gary Wind. All those unable to attend received their plaques by mail. First Marion and Keith Moore Blue Box Award Recipient Named.
This award goes to the best student-authored paper in any given year (volume) of Clinical Anatomy. While this was the first year for the award to be given by the AACA in conjunction with Dr. Moore (see above), the competition was suprisingly strong with over 50 papers entered. John was very honored to have been selected and emphasized that both he and his wife had used Dr. Moore's textbook in medical school and were very familiar with the "blue boxes". Congratulations John! AACA Academic Emplyment Survey The Career Development Committee of the AACA is currently issuing their first Academic Employment Survey. The goals of the survey are to examine (a) the qualifications an applicant is expected to possess in order to successfully attain an academic position in the field of anatomical sciences and (b) current trends in anatomical education,
with specific focus on human gross anatomy. The survey will be issued to department chairs and
directors of health-related programs. We kindly ask for your participation so that the AACA can
continue to produce and support quality anatomy instructors and researchers. –For more
information, regarding the survey, please contact Kate Kryger. For information regarding the Career Development Committee, please contact Rebecca Pratt. Bob Leonard Wins AMSA Teaching Award This national award recognizes a U.S. medical school professor who has
made an exceptional impact on the educational value that medical Bob was the AACA's initial R. Benton Adkins Jr. Distinguished Service Awardwinner in 2004 for the many years of dedicated service he contributed to the Association. Bob will travel to the annual AMSA convention in Arlington, Virginia in March 09 to receive the award. The Association congratulates Bob on this superb achievement. Visible Human Sculpture Unveiled
Back in the early 1990s David Whitlock and Vic Spitzer constructed the Visible Human Project, which called for the development of total digital databases for both adult human male and female cadavers. The projected was completed in 1996 and the databases are now used extensively by many institutions around the world for various purposes. In 2000 the University of Colorado Medical Center in Denver relocated to the huge old Fitzsimons army base in Aurora Colorado. Since then there has been massive construction of all kinds of buildings, out patient clinics, hospitals, medical and dental schools, library, etc. on the old army base. Now the entire University of Colorado Health Science Center operation has moved to Aurora and its new location is up and running. Very large funding for many of these changes was donated by Philip Anschutz, one of Colorado’s billionaires and an avid art collector, stimulated the idea that all this new construction should be suitably decorated with objects of art.
David Whitlock (an AACA Honored Member) states that "as a long time teacher of human anatomy, I can tell you that human anatomy has not always enjoyed a high reputation for scientific contribution among the 'cutting edge' basic sciences of medicine. Yet it, the oldest of the academic disciplines of medicine, is still the first one that every physician must know as they commence to analyze our health. Therefore, the sculpture's positioning at the very gates of one of the most essential halls of learning for medicine seems appropriate".
New Postgraduate Certificate in Applied Anatomy Dr. Donal Shanahan, Senior Lecturer at Northumbria University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, England is developing a postgraduate certificate in applied anatomy. This programme will consist of two online modules and a one week summer school based at Northumbria University in June 2010. The exact dates for the one week on-site experience will be set by August 2009. This programme is aimed at health professionals or those involved in anatomy education. The programme will have an effective strating date of September 2009. Anyone interested in more detail on this unique offering can download this word document on the structure of the postgraduate certificate that can also be accessed from School's homepage. |
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David Macauley is an architect and interior designer but is best known for his creative books - specifically the award-winning international bestseller "The Way Things Work". This brilliant and highly accessible guide to the workings of machines was expanded and updated in 1998 and renamed "The New Way Things Work". The New York Times dubbed this text a"a superb achievement" and it went on to become a New York Times bestseller. 
One of the AACA's Honored Members, and long time supporter, Dr. Peter Abrahams was honored recently by being named a recipient of a 2007-2008 Warwick Awards for Teaching Excellence (WATE). These annual awards reconize and celebrate those at Warwick University whose teaching is of particularly high standard. Peter has very recently moved to Warwick University and has the distinction of being recognized this quickly as one of the University's best teachers. He is still a Fellow of Girton College Cambridge and does two days a week as an NHS family practitioner. Peter has published over 15 new student text books on aspects of clinical anatomy and radiology in over 60 language editions as well as a dozen different CDROM and DVDs in similar fields. Among his major contributions are the McMinn "Atlas of Human Anatomy" now in its 6th edition and with Weir "Imaging Atlas of Human Anatomy" in its 3rd edition. The award carries with it a cash value of ~$10,000. Congratulations Peter!
The first Keith and Marion Moore Blue Box Award recipient was named at the 25th Anniversary meeting of the AACA in Toronto, July 17, 2008 - John S. Reach, Jr., M.Sc., M.D. Dr. Reach is from the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation at Yale University School of Medicine. His paper was entitled "Anatomic Compartments of the foot: A 3-Tesla magnetic resonance imaging study" published in Clinical Anatomy, Volume 20(2): 201-208.
Dr Robert Leonard, Professor of Anatomy and
Neurobiology at the University of Caloifornia, Irvine - and long-time AACA member - has been awarded the prestigious 2009 National Golden Apple for Teaching Excellence Award by the American Medical Student Association.
The great atrium at the entrance to the new library building, a unique reconstruction of our Visible Human Male was created and displayed. The piece, created by Rae Douglas of Oakland California, is composed of a massive bundle of 3/4 inch wide metal strips stretched under tension from the 25 foot high ceiling to the floor in which is depicted in his own colors on the strips a 16 foot tall recreation of the Visual Human Male. On December 13, 2008 the sculpture was unveiled at Light Ray Studios, Inc. in the San Francisco Bay area (see photo right).