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t m c » p u l s e | s e p t e m b e r 2 0 1 6 36 ACCOLADES AMY ARRINGTON, M.D., PH.D., medical director of Texas Children's Special Isolation Unit at Texas Children's Hospital, was recently named one of Healthcare Design magazine's 4th Annual HCD 10, an elite group of design and architect professionals who represent the most influential health care work of the previous year. Arrington was recognized under the clinician category for her work in the development and design of Texas Children's Special Isolation Unit, which opened November 2015 and is the only one of its kind in Texas and the southwest region. DAVID BASKIN, M.D., vice chair of the department of neurosurgery and director of the Kenneth R. Peak Brain and Pituitary Tumor Treatment Center at Houston Methodist Hospital, has been recog- nized by his patients as one of America's Most Compassionate Doctors by Vitals, a company that works to provide tools to engage patients in their health care. This is the fifth year in a row Baskin has received this honor. WAYNE J. FRANKLIN, M.D., director of the Adult Congenital Heart Disease Program at Texas Children's Hospital, has been accepted into the sec- ond class of The Aspen Institute's Health Innovators Fellowship. Franklin is among 21 health care leaders who will participate in the two-year fellowship designed to strengthen innovation across the U.S. health care ecosystem and create new approaches that will improve the well-being of Americans. JAMES LANGABEER II, PH.D., professor at the School of Biomedical Informatics at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, has been asked to chair the national committee that will implement Guideline Advantage, a comprehensive quality improvement tool for analyzing digitized electronic health records. The tool, developed by the American Heart Association in conjunction with the American Diabetes Association and the American Cancer Society, emphasizes chronic diseases, including cardiology, neurology, endocrinology and oncology. ANTONIOS MIKOS, PH.D., the Louis Calder Professor of Bioengineering and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and director of the J.W. Cox Laboratory for Biomedical Engineering and of the Center for Excellence in Tissue Engineering at Rice University, has been elected to the Academy of Athens—Greece's national academy and highest research establishment—as a corre- sponding member in the Section of the Sciences. EMILY SEDGWICK, M.D., associate professor of radiology in the section of breast imaging at Baylor College of Medicine, has been named the 2016 recipient of the Ben and Margaret Love Foundation Bobby Alford Award for Academic Clinical Professionalism, an honor given annually to a Baylor physician who best exemplifies professionalism in the practice of medicine. Throughout her career, Sedgwick has been dedicated to improving health care and making the breast cancer treatment pro- cess more streamlined and less intimidating for patients. MARGARET SPITZ, M.P.H., professor in the NCI-designated Dan L. Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center at Baylor College of Medicine, has been appointed by President Barack Obama to the National Cancer Advisory Board. An expert in molecular epidemiology, Spitz has a long-standing interest in genetic susceptibility to lung cancer. The primary task of the 18-member advisory board is to advise the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the director of the National Cancer Institute on a range of issues aecting the nation's cancer program and NCI operations. GREGORY WILLIAMS, PH.D., a member of the senior administration team in the department of OB/GYN at Baylor College of Medicine, will release his first book, Shattered in the Darkness, in December 2016. The book, which will be published by Thomas Nelson Publishing Company, encour- ages discussion, education and awareness of child abuse.

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