Briefs

• Brown, Bondy named to Susan G. Komen Scientific Advisory Board
• Lomax honored for professionalism
• Wehrens named Keck Foundation Young Scholar
• Two BCM physicians named to brain injury task force

Brown, Bondy named to Susan G. Komen Scientific Advisory Board

Powel Brown, M.D., Ph.D., and Melissa Bondy, M.D., have been appointed to the new Susan G. Komen for the Cure scientific advisory board. Members were chosen for their "demonstrated leadership and insight into the world of breast cancer research and clinical work."

Brown is a professor of medicine at Baylor College of Medicine and serves as associate director of Cancer Prevention, Outreach and Health Services and director of Cancer Prevention and Population Sciences program in the Dan L. Duncan Cancer Center. He also serves as associate director for research in the Lester and Sue Smith Breast Center at BCM. Bondy is a professor of epidemiology at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and director of the Childhood Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention Center, a collaborative program between BCM, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and Texas Children's Hospital.

Lomax honored for professionalism

James Lomax, M.D., is the 2007 recipient of the Ben and Margaret Love Foundation Bobby Alford Award for Academic Clinical Professionalism. The award recognizes a Baylor College of Medicine physician with the highest level of professionalism in patient care, clinical research and/or education with humanism and characteristics that include altruism, caring, compassion, empathy, cultural sensitivity, and respect for the individual. Lomax is professor and vice chair of psychiatry and behavioral sciences.

Wehrens named Keck Foundation Young Scholar

Xander Wehrens, M.D., Ph.D., was selected as one of five researchers to receive the W.M. Keck Foundation Distinguished Young Scholars in Medical Research award for 2007. The award of up to $1 million over five years will support Dr. Wehrens' research to define the mechanisms of specialized protein complexes in excitable cells, such as heart muscle. He is the first BCM researcher to receive this prestigious award. Wehrens is an assistant professor of molecular physiology and biophysics.

Two BCM physicians named to brain injury task force

Two Baylor College of Medicine physician-investigators, Claudia Robertson, M.D., professor of neurosurgery, and Clay Goodman, M.D., professor of pathology, have been invited to serve on a task force reporting to a National Institutes of Health Traumatic Brain Injury Classification Workshop to be held Oct.16 and 17. The meeting has been convened by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.

The product of this workshop will be the first major modernization of TBI classification since the 1970s and will facilitate clinical trial and basic investigations in neurotrauma.