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2015 Class of AGU Fellows Announced

The 2015 American Geophysical Union Class of Fellows has been selected and will be recognized at the annual Fall Meeting in San Francisco, Calif.

"The City of the Hospital": On Teaching Medical Students to Write.

“The City of the Hospital” is a creative nonfiction writing workshop for medical students, which the author has conducted annually since 2002. Part of the required preclinical Narrative Medicine curriculum at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, this six-week intensive workshop includes close readings of literary works and in-class assignments that are then edited by fellow class members and rewritten for final submission. Over the years, students have produced a wide range of compelling essays and stories, and they describe the class as having an effect that lasts throughout their further medical training. This special section includes selected works from class members.

Collective Bargaining in Higher Education: Observations from an ACE Fellow

The author, a member of the 2013-2014 American Council on Education Fellows Class, offers observations and synthesis on factors affecting the viability and execution of collective bargaining in higher education. Building on the history of the academy, and taking into account environmental factors such as technology and social trends, the author proposes that greater senior leadership involvement, transparency, and flexibility may be needed for collective bargaining units in colleges and universities to be successful, as change continues to assail higher education.

AP-S Members of 2015 Class of IEEE Fellows Announced [Report of the Fellow Committee

AP-S Members of 2015 Class of IEEE Fellows Announced [Report of the Fellow Committee

ASM News for September 2014

Abstract News about ASM members, chapters, events, awards, conferences, affiliates, and other society activities. Topics include: ASM's 2014 Class of Fellows; ASM Indian Institute of Metals announces 2014 recipients of two Visiting Lecturer Programs; Brian Wright named 2014 Kishor M. Kulkarni Distinguished High School Teacher.

AGU Union Fellows Elected for 2014

The Union Fellows Selection Committee is proud to present the 2014 class of AGU Fellows. Established in 1962, the Fellows program recognizes AGU members who have attained acknowledged eminence in the Earth and space sciences as valued by their peers and vetted by a Union‐wide committee of Fellows. Primary criteria for evaluation in scientific eminence are a major breakthrough or discovery, paradigm shift, or sustained impact.

IEEE MTT-Society Fellows of 2014

In 2014, the IEEE will mark its 50th Fellow class. This represents five decades of honoring IEEE Fellows whose extraordinary accomplishments have changed the world. The IEEE grade of Fellow was born in 1964 out of the merger of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers (AIEE) and the Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE). The emphasis on the elevation was and still is reserved for select IEEE Members who have contributed importantly to the advancement of engineering, science, and technology, bringing the realization of significant value to society. IEEE Fellow is the highest grade of membership and is recognized by the technical community as a prestigious honor and an important career achievement.

I&M IEEE Fellows Class of 2014 [Societynews

I&M IEEE Fellows Class of 2014 [Societynews

IEEE Fellows—Class of 2014 [Society Briefs

Lists the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society members who were elevated to the status of Fellow in 2014.

Applauding 50 Years of Fellows [GRSS Member Highlights

In 2014, IEEE will mark its 50th Fellow Class. It represents decades of honoring IEEE Fellows whose extraordinary accomplishments have changed the world. The IEEE grade of Fellow was born in 1964 out of the merge of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers (AIEE) and the Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE). The emphasis on the elevation was and still is reserved for select IEEE members who have contributed importantly to the advancement of engineering, science, and technology, bringing the realization of significant value to society. Only one-tenth of one percent of the total voting membership can be elevated in any one year. Over the last fifty years, IEEE has elevated roughly 10,000 members to this honor. This is a very small percentage compared to the total membership.

Meet OSA’s 2014 Fellows

OSA is pleased to announce the 2014 class of Fellows. This distinction was awarded to 71 OSA members for their significant contributions to the advancement of optics and photonics. The selection of these candidates was confirmed by the Board of Directors at its meeting in October 2013.

The ongoing evolution of the core curriculum of a clinical fellowship in pathology informatics

The Partners HealthCare system's Clinical Fellowship in Pathology Informatics (Boston, MA, USA) faces ongoing challenges to the delivery of its core curriculum in the forms of: (1) New classes of fellows annually with new and varying educational needs and increasingly fractured, enterprise-wide commitments; (2) taxing electronic health record (EHR) and laboratory information system (LIS) implementations; and (3) increasing interest in the subspecialty at the academic medical centers (AMCs) in what is a large health care network. In response to these challenges, the fellowship has modified its existing didactic sessions and piloted both a network-wide pathology informatics lecture series and regular “learning laboratories”. Didactic sessions, which had previously included more formal discussions of the four divisions of the core curriculum: Information fundamentals, information systems, workflow and process, and governance and management, now focus on group discussions concerning the fellows’ ongoing projects, updates on the enterprise-wide EHR and LIS implementations, and directed questions about weekly readings. Lectures are given by the informatics faculty, guest informatics faculty, current and former fellows, and information systems members in the network, and are open to all professional members of the pathology departments at the AMCs. Learning laboratories consist of small-group exercises geared toward a variety of learning styles, and are driven by both the fellows and a member of the informatics faculty. The learning laboratories have created a forum for discussing real-time and real-world pathology informatics matters, and for incorporating awareness of and timely discussions about the latest pathology informatics literature. These changes have diversified the delivery of the fellowship's core curriculum, increased exposure of faculty, fellows and trainees to one another, and more equitably distributed teaching responsibilities among the entirety of the pathology informatics asset in the network. Though the above approach has been in place less than a year, we are presenting it now as a technical note to allow for further discussion of evolving educational opportunities in pathology informatics and clinical informatics in general, and to highlight the importance of having a flexible fellowship with active participation from its fellows.

Applauding 50 years of fellows

In 2014, IEEE will mark its 50th Fellow Class. It represents decades of honoring IEEE Fellows whose extraordinary accomplishments have changed the world.

Teaming up for better hospital medicine

FigureFigurePhysician assistants (PAs) are a valuable part of the hospitalist team, and the Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) has recognized that by expanding its popular Fellows program to include PAs. Hospital medicine is the fastest growing specialty in the history of American medicine. The forces that have fueled this rapid growth include the pursuit of higher-quality patient care among a higher acuity patient population, hospitals' realization of the financial advantages of hospitalists managing their patients, and the relative decrease in resident workforce as a result of duty hour restrictions by the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education. These are not likely to abate soon, so the demand for practitioners of hospital medicine will intensify. PAs are and will continue to be called upon in increasing numbers to fulfill this growing need. Conceptually, PA-based teams have a lot to offer the field of hospital medicine, which has embraced the value of a team-based approach in caring for complex and severely ill patients. A variety of models for the hospitalist physician-PA team has emerged, each adapted to the unique requirements and characteristics of the clinical environment. This nascent landscape of PA-based hospitalist teams brings with it challenges and opportunities-–two sides of the same coin. A rigorous evaluation urgently is needed to quantify the promise of the synergistic addition of value to patient care by PA-based teams. The various models of these teams need to be described and best practices established to guide their deployment. Simultaneously, PAs must become active in hospital medicine program leadership and design. In November 2012, we at SHM expanded the eligibility for our Fellow in Hospital Medicine (FHM) program to include PAs, NPs, and hospital medicine practice administrators. The program, which has inducted more than 1,100 Fellows and Senior Fellows since 2009, is designed to recognize clinicians who have demonstrated a commitment to hospital medicine, the Society's Core Competencies, system change, and quality improvement principles.1 The expansion of the program exemplifies SHM's philosophy that team-based collaboration is a cornerstone of quality healthcare. In the words of SHM Immediate Past President Shaun Frost, MD, SFHM, “The standards by which SHM Fellows are measured promote the highest quality of patient care and system efficiency. And they can be equally applied to physicians, PAs, NPs, and administrators within the hospital medicine specialty.” Candidates for the SHM Fellows designation submit applications that demonstrate experience, organizational teamwork and leadership, and a dedication to lifelong learning. The most recent Fellow in Hospital Medicine (FHM) and Senior Fellow in Hospital Medicine (SFHM) classes were inducted at SHM's 2013 Annual Meeting last May. This group included the inaugural class of PA Fellows. SHM has long aspired to be a “big tent” society, and this extension of Fellow recognition, unique among medical professional organizations, proves that we are serious about it. For more information about the program and qualifications for candidacy, visit http://www.hospitalmedicine.org/fellow.

Congressional Fellows, Class of 2012–13

Congressional Fellows in the class of 2012–13 Amir Fairdosi and Joshua Huder made contributions to this issue ofPS; in the July issue of PS, Anthony Madonna, also class of 2012–13, contributed toPS. Here they are, with the entire class of Congressional Fellows.

ASM News for September 2013

Abstract News about ASM members, chapters, events, awards, conferences, affiliates, and other society activities. Topics include: ASM's 2013 Class of Fellows; 2014 ASM/TMS Distinguished Lectureship in Materials & Society; Emerging Professionals.

International Society for Computational Biology Welcomes Its Newest Class of Fellows

Computational biology and bioinformatics have grown into cutting-edge interdisciplinary fields essential to every realm of basic research in this age of modern genomics and open-source software. In light of this, the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) saw a need to estabish a program for the organization that recognized its members who made significant contributions to the fields, as well as service to the Society. A task force led by Mona Singh was formed to develop a program to recognize and honor this unique group of researchers. In early 2009, ISCB established its Fellows Program. The first group elected into this distinguished group were past recipients of the ISCB Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award, which was established in 2003. Since then, Fellows have been identified through a rigorous process involving a call for nominations from the ISCB membership and selection by the Fellows Selection Committee, which in past years has included the ISCB Board of Directors and previously selected Fellows. The distinction of an ISCB Fellow is based on: Nomination by an ISCB member submitting a short endorsement for the nominee, a detailed half-page statement of motivation justifying the nominee, and a CV of the nominee. Nominees must have demonstrated excellence in research, service to the ISCB community, education, and/or administration. Nominees must have been a member of the Society for at least three of the last six years. Selection of new Fellows each year is limited to half of one percent of the previous year's membership and includes the Senior Scientist Award winner. The 2013 ISCB Fellows epitomize the mission of ISCB to advance scientific understanding of living systems through computation and clearly fulfill the goals of the Fellows Program. Each Fellow has made outstanding contributions to computational biology through research, teaching, and service to the scientific community. On behalf of the ISCB Board of Directors and Fellows Committee, congratulations!

AGU Fellows Elected for 2013

The Union Fellows Selection Committee is proud to present the 2013 class of AGU Fellows. Established in 1962, the Fellows program recognizes AGU members who have attained acknowledged eminence in the Earth and space sciences as valued by their peers and vetted by a committee of Fellows. The primary criterion for evaluation of scientific eminence is a major breakthrough or discovery, paradigm shift, or sustained impact.

2013 CSS Fellows Class [Member Activities

The IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS) Member Activities Board (MAB) consists of the chairs of the standing committees and of the ad hoc committees for special events. The overall purpose of the MAB is to promote membership within the CSS and to provide IEEE resources to members through committee activities. While the MAB has many agenda items on its table, one of the most fulfilling efforts and initiatives is to help elect CSS members to IEEE Fellow grade. On behalf of the MAB and members of the Society, I would like to extend my heartfelt congratulations to the eight IEEE Fellows elected in 2013 for their outstanding achievements in the advancement and application of engineering, science, and technology. In addition, these Fellows contribute to the mission of the IEEE, namely, to advance global prosperity by fostering technological innovation, enabling members' careers, and promoting community worldwide. A biography for each new Fellow is provided.

IEEE Fellows-Class of 2013 [Society Briefs

Lists the IEEE Fellows class of 2013.