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Excellence in Mentoring Awards Presented
The eighth annual Excellence in Mentoring Awards were presented on June 18 with a keynote address by Harvard University provost and HMS professor of neurobiology Steven Hyman. Discussing constructive and destructive influences, Hyman said the worst kind of mentoring occurs when the mentor seeks to create a personal clone out of the mentee. Rather, what is needed is "giving advice in the context of the life that the person is interested in having." The faculty honored at the event for their mentoring success were John Potts and Ernesto Gonzalez of Massachusetts General Hospital, David Bor of Cambridge Hospital, Michael Cahalane and the late Douglas Richardson of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Marsha Moses of Children's Hospital, and Richard Platt of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care. The awards included five for excellence, one for special recognition given posthumously to Richardson, and a Silen lifetime achievement award given to Potts. On accepting his excellence award, Bor (above) said, "If there were ever an award that I would aspire to have, this is it." (Photo by Liza Green, HMS Media Services)