November 1, 2001
Health Sciences Brief News
Dr. George A. Gates, professor of otolaryngology/head and neck surgery and director of the Viriginia Merrill Bloedel Hearing Research Center at the UW, has been appointed scientific director of the Deafness Research Foundation (DRF). The DRF, based in Washington, D.C., is the major private foundation sponsoring research in hearing loss in the United States. As scientific director, Gates will oversee the research grants program of the DRF and chair the Board of Scientific Trustees, who set the research policies and priorities of the foundation.
Dr. Daniel Dorsa, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and of pharmacology, and former associate dean of research and graduate education at the School of Medicine, has been named vice president for research at Oregon Health and Science University in Portland. He has begun working at OHSU and plans to move to Portland by the end of the year.
Dr. Margaret Heitkemper, chair of the Department of Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems, Corbally professor in public service and director of the Center for Women’s Health Research in the School of Nursing, is one of 20 nurses in the nation selected for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Executive Nurse Fellowship program. The three-year fellowship includes a grant of $30,000 to support a leadership project at the UW. In addition to her research and teaching responsibilities, Heitkemper has led an effort to bring information about irritable bowel syndrome and related conditions to women in the Puget Sound region.
