Notables
Karleen Habin, clinical nurse supervisor of the breast oncology research program at Massachusetts General Hospital's cancer center, has won the American Cancer Society's Lane Adams Quality of Life Award. Habin is the author of many published articles on cancer survivorship and symptom management.
Dr. Peter Black, chair of neurosurgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital, has been named president-elect of the World Federation of Neurological Societies. The organization represents about 25,000 neurosurgeons worldwide.
Dr. Julian B. Marsh, a visiting scientist at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University and head of the Lipoprotein Metabolism Section of the Atherosclerosis Research Laboratory at Tufts, has won a lifetime achievement award. The Northeast Lipid Association is honoring him for his career in lipidology, which is the study of fats and cholesterol in human metabolism.
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Elizabeth Cooney is a former
health reporter for the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, where she also was a
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