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PRESS ADVISORY
DR. DONALD A. FISCHMAN NAMED RECIPIENT OF MAURICE R. GREENBERG DISTINGUISHED
SERVICE AWARD
WHAT: The 19th Annual Maurice R. Greenberg Distinguished
Service Award
WHEN: Wednesday, May 12, 1999
6:30 p.m. Reception
7:30 p.m. Dinner
WHERE: American Museum of Natural History
Central Park West at 79th Street
HONOREE: Donald A. Fischman, M.D.Harvey Klein Professor
of Biomedical Sciences
New York, NY (March 1999)--Dr. Donald A. Fischman, a noted educator,
administrator, and authority in the field of biomedical sciences, has been
named recipient of The 19th Annual Maurice R. Greenberg Distinguished Service
Award.
Dr. Fischman will receive the coveted award, which includes a $50,000
check made possible through an endowment from Maurice R. Greenberg, Chairman
of the American International Group, for his many years of outstanding
service to New York Presbyterian
Hospital and Joan and Sanford I. Weill Medical College of Cornell University.
Dr. Fischman, Harvey Klein Professor of Biomedical Sciences at Weill
Medical College, has previously served as Dean of Cornell University’s
Graduate School of Medical Sciences (GSMS), Associate Dean for Research
in the medical college and Chairman of the Department
of Cell Biology and Anatomy.
He is a cell and developmental biologist whose research has focused
on the morphogenesis of skeletal and cardiac muscle. His recent work
has utilized eplication-defective
retroviral vectors for analyzing cell lineage and gene transfer in
the developing heart and coronary vessels.
Dr. Fischman has had a long standing interest in medical education.
As Dean of the Graduate School of Medical Sciences, he spearheaded the
sucessful expansion of the Graduate School. It was through Dr. Fischman’s
leadership that the reputation and name of the GSMS has
come into national prominence. He has been active in the American
Association of Anatomists (President, 1993), the Association of Anatomy,
Cell Biology and euroscience Chairpersons (President, 1988). He is
a member of the Board of Directors of the Federation of American Societies
for Experimental Biology, former chair of the Research Council of the New
York Affiliate of the American Heart Association, a former member of the
Scientific Advisory Board of the Muscular Dystrophy Association, and former
chair of the Molecular Cytology Study Section, NIH.
© 1999 New York Presbyterian
Hospital
Weill Medical College of Cornell
University
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