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Email|Link|Comments (0) Posted by Elizabeth Cooney March 14, 2008 09:12 PM

Dr. Charles A. Czeisler, director of sleep medicine at Harvard Medical School and chief of sleep medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, has won a lifetime achievement award from the National Sleep Foundation.

Dr. Martin S. Hirsch of the Massachusetts General Hospital Infectious Disease Unit and the Partners AIDS Research Center was honored with the Maxwell Finland Award for Scientific Achievement from the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases.

Dr. John A. Parrish, director of the Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology, and Dr. R. Rox Anderson, director of the Wellman Center for Photomedicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, received the 2007 Discovery Award from the national Dermatology Foundation.

Dr. Nawal M. Nour of Brigham and Women's Hospital, founder of a center devoted to the medical needs of African women who have undergone female genital cutting, will receive an honorary degree June 1 from Williams College.

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Elizabeth Cooney is a former health reporter for the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, where she also was a business reporter and an editor. Earlier in her career, she edited medical books and journals at Little, Brown, and worked for Boston magazine.