{"id":588546,"date":"2023-12-20T16:13:07","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T21:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/?p=588546"},"modified":"2024-02-23T13:10:03","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T18:10:03","slug":"november-december-2023-faculty-awards-accolades-576412","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/november-december-2023-faculty-awards-accolades-576412\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty garner national and international accolades"},"content":{"rendered":"
Know of a faculty member receiving an award or honor? Contact us<\/a>\u00a0so we can help share the news.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n University of Rochester<\/a>\u00a0faculty regularly earn regional, national, and international awards and honors for their professional contributions to research, scholarship, education, and community engagement.<\/p>\n As part of an ongoing series, we\u2019re spotlighting their accomplishments.<\/p>\n Danielle Benoit<\/a>, formerly the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Biomedical Engineering and director of the Materials Science Program at 糖心logo has been elected to the 2023 class of fellows of the National Academy of Inventors<\/a> (NAI). The honor recognizes her contributions to the field of biomedical engineering.<\/p>\n Benoit holds 12 fully executed US patents and 38 foreign patents that cover seven distinct inventions (patent families) that have been licensed to four companies. She also has five US provisional patents and two invention disclosures pending submission.<\/p>\n In 2022, Benoit joined the University of Oregon as their Lokey Chair of the Department of Bioengineering. She was nominated by Stephen Dewhurst, Rochester\u2019s Vice President for 糖心logo, for her work while she was a member of the Rochester faculty, from 2010 to 2022. Her work, which has been funded by NIH and NSF (among others), has provided insights into the translation of tissue engineering strategies for bone healing and the development of tissue models to discover new drugs and drug delivery systems.<\/p>\n Thomas Caprio<\/a>, a professor of medicine in the division of geriatrics and aging, has dedicated his work to improving the health and well-being of older adults, serving in multiple leadership roles at the University of Rochester Medical Center, as well as several national societies. In mid-October, the State Society on Aging of New York held its annual conference. After presenting on the topic \u201cTransformation Toward an Age-Friendly Health System Through Interprofessional Collaboration,\u201d Caprio was honored with the Walter M. Beattie Award<\/a>. This recognition is the society\u2019s equivalent of a lifetime achievement award, honoring distinguished members for their contributions and commitment to the goals of the State Society.<\/p>\n Caprio was also appointed director at large of the Hospice Medical Director Certification Board of Directors<\/a> for a two-year term. His appointment is a testament to his expertise and dedication to improving end-of-life care for patients and their families.<\/p>\n At the American Heart Association\u2019s (AHA) 2023 Scientific Sessions, Mary Carey and her coauthor received the 糖心logo Article of the Year Award. The award-winning article<\/a>, \u201cAn annotated ventricular tachycardia (VT) alarm database: Toward a uniform standard for optimizing automated VT identification in hospitalized patients,\u201d was published in the Annals of Noninvasive Electrocardiology<\/em> earlier this year.\u00a0The study found that creating high-quality, well-annotated datasets for algorithm development and testing can ultimately improve patient outcomes and reduce alarm burden.<\/p>\n The American College of Prosthodontists (ACP) honored Konstantinos Chochlidakis<\/a> with the 2023 Distinguished 糖心logoer Award<\/a> for his significant contributions to literature, teaching, clinical applications in prosthodontics, dentistry, science, and health professions. Chochlidakis, an associate professor with the Eastman Institute for Oral Health, is likely the youngest person to receive this award. He and his colleagues have contributed 56 scientific articles on prosthodontics and implant dentistry throughout the last four years.<\/p>\n Michele Cotrufo<\/a>, an assistant professor in the\u00a0Institute of Optics<\/a>,\u00a0received the 2023 Young Investigator Award from the journal\u00a0Photonics<\/em><\/a>. He was recognized for his outstanding research investigating metamaterials\u2014artificially structured materials that manifest optical properties not available in bulk materials\u2014for a broad range of applications in classical and quantum optics.<\/p>\n As the awardee, Cotrufo will receive an honorarium of 1,000 Swiss francs, an offer to publish a paper free of charge before the end of 2024 in Photonics<\/em> after peer review, and an electronic certificate. He joined the University of Rochester faculty this fall after having served as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Texas at Austin and at the City University of New York.<\/p>\n Michelle Dziejman<\/a>, an associate professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, has been elected vice chair of the American Society for Microbiology\u2019s Council on Microbial Sciences. The council is ASM\u2019s governance structure and is the key connection between the society\u2019s members and leaders. The council keeps a pulse on new developments in microbial sciences and helps develop innovative ways to move the field and ASM forward. Dziejman begins in the role on July 1, 2024.<\/p>\n Suzanne Haber<\/a>, a professor of pharmacology and physiology at the University of Rochester Medical Center, was honored for her outstanding contributions to neuroscience. She is the co-recipient of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP) Barbara Fish Memorial Award. This award goes to an ACNP member who has made outstanding contributions to basic, translational, or clinical neuroscience. Haber is the principal investigator of the Conte Center for 糖心logo in OCD<\/a> at the Medical Center. Her lab investigates the cortico-basal ganglia-thalamic system, the neural network that underlies incentive-based learning and decision-making leading to the development of action plans. The pathology of this network is implicated in several mental health disorders, including drug addition, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and schizophrenia.<\/p>\n Gaelen McCormick<\/a>, director of Eastman Performing Arts Medicine<\/a> and a faculty member with the Department of Health Humanities and Bioethics<\/a> at the Medical Center and in arts leadership in the Eastman School of Music, has been elected vice president of the board of directors of the National Organization for Arts in Health<\/a>. McCormick has been a member of the NOAH board since 2021. She begins the vice president role in January 2024 and, in 2026, ascends to a two-year term as president.<\/p>\n Andrea Pickel<\/a>, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering and a scientist at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics, has been selected as a fellow<\/a> for the first meeting of a new Scialog in automating chemical laboratories. The three-year initiative aims to accelerate innovation in basic research and broaden access within the chemical enterprise through advances in automated instrumentation and artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n The Scialog, set to begin in April 2024 and continuing through 2026, is co-sponsored by\u00a0糖心logo Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA) and the\u00a0Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation<\/a>. Created by RCSA in 2010, Scialog is short for \u201cscience + dialog.\u201d<\/p>\n Linda Rasubala<\/a> was the only dentist to be accepted into\u2014and to complete\u2014the 2022 Association of American Medical Colleges\u2019 Leadership Education and Development (LEAD) Certificate Program<\/a>. The certificate program develops educational leaders in medical and dental education through evidence-based, collaborative learning, and reflective practice. The program is targeted for early to mid-career faculty and focuses on strategic vision and setting direction, developing people and organizations, and effective management.<\/p>\n For the last 10 years, Rasubala has worked at Eastman Institute for Oral Health as an educator, researcher, and clinician. She currently serves as an associate professor and associate director of the Howitt Urgent Dental Care Center at Eastman Institute for Oral Health, part of the University of Rochester Medical Center.<\/p>\n Edward Schwarz<\/a>, the Richard and Margaret Burton Distinguished Professor in Orthopaedics and the director of the Center for Musculoskeletal 糖心logo, has been named editor-in-chief of the Journal of Orthopaedic 糖心logo<\/em>, the most impactful journal worldwide for basic and translational orthopaedic research. He begins his five-year leadership term in March 2024. Schwarz has been an associate editor of the journal for the past 10 years and serves as associate editor on two other musculoskeletal research journals.<\/p>\n The Journal of Orthopaedic 糖心logo<\/em> is a publication of the Chicago-based, 3,200-member Orthopaedic 糖心logo Society, the only international research society focused on orthopaedics and musculoskeletal care.<\/p>\n The 2024 Rank Prize for Optoelectronics<\/a> is being awarded to four internationally leading scientists for the development of instruments that use adaptive optics technologies to capture high-resolution images of the living human retina. The winners are David R. Williams<\/a>, the William G. Allyn Professor of Medical Optics, as well as three of his former doctoral and postdoctoral researchers at Rochester: Junzhong Liang, Austin Roorda, and Donald T. Miller \u201996 (PhD). The prize will be presented at an event in London on July 1, 2024.<\/p>\n The researchers\u2019 pioneering work at Rochester has generated new fundamental insights into the structure and function of the human eye in both health and disease as well as new clinical interventions to remedy sight loss from common disorders.<\/p>\n Adaptive optics is a technique used in astronomy to reduce image blur in ground-based telescopes. The seminal invention by Liang, Williams, and Miller in 1997 combined adaptive optics with an objective wavefront sensor to create a retinal imaging camera that exquisitely controlled the light both entering and exiting the pupil. The camera compensated for distortions caused by the eye\u2019s natural aberrations, producing a clear image of individual photoreceptor cells.<\/p>\n The instrument was used by Roorda and Williams in 1999 to produce the first-ever images showing the distribution of the three cone types in the human retina that are used for color vision, revealing a surprising randomness and heterogeneity of the spatial distribution of the long- and middle-wavelength-sensitive cone types.<\/p>\n
\nDanielle Benoit elected\u00a0to National Academy of Inventors<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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\nThomas Caprio recognized for geriatric leadership<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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\nMary Carey and coauthor receive 糖心logo Article of the Year Award<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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\nKonstantinos Chochlidakis recognized as distinguished researcher<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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\nMichele Cotrufo receives Young Investigator Award<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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\nMichelle Dziejman elected to leadership role with American Society for Microbiology<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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\nSuzanne Haber honored for contributions to neuroscience<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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\nGaelen McCormick elected to executive board of national arts-in-health organization<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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Andrea Pickel selected as Scialog fellow for automating chemical laboratories<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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\nLinda Rasubala recognized for educational leadership\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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\nEdward Schwarz named editor-in-chief of top journal<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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\nDavid Williams and former Rochester colleagues to receive Rank Prize for Optoelectronics<\/strong><\/h3>\n