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Finalists Named for International Teaching Award
The Klaus Peter International Teaching Award, given each year to an HMS faculty member distinguished in international medical education and mentoring of international students, residents, and fellows at HMS, has named four finalists for the 2004 award. The honor is named for Klaus Peter, dean of Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, which has a six-year alliance with HMS that includes a student exchange program.
The nominees are:
Andrew Colin, HMS associate professor of pediatrics at Children's Hospital, who clinically trains fellows overseas through a formal fellowship in the Pulmonary Division at Children's. He works with the Department of Pediatrics at Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University Medical School in Bangkok, and Kwong Wah Hospital in Hong Kong.
Paul Cusick, HMS instructor in medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and the medical director of the Promesa project. The project offers medical services to remote areas in the mountains of Honduras, where along with HMS faculty and students, Cusick performs fieldwork for three months every year. He is also a mentor in the Hispanic Medical Students program.
Lena Dohlman, assistant professor of anesthesia at MGH, who has volunteered for 20 years in Indonesia, Vietnam, and St. Lucia, teaching anesthesia and trauma management. For the past seven years, she also has organized anesthesia residents from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and MGH to travel to Tanzania for teaching fellowships.
Joyce Sackey, HMS assistant professor of medicine at BID, who created an international program in care of patients with HIV and inaugurated a fellowship training program for visiting physicians from Ghana at HMS and BID. She also cofounded Foundation for African Relief, a nonprofit organization that funds the work of scholars returning to Ghana.
Harvard Medical International invites HMS faculty, students, residents, and fellows to submit a vote for one of the candidates above, as well as nominations for the 2005 award to Teresa Cushing by April 3. The recipient will be announced at HMS graduation on June 10.