Robert Berne, PhD, New York University’s senior vice president for health and professor of public policy and financial management at the University’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, has been elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS). The AAAS, one of the most prestigious honorary societies in the country, is made up of about 4,000 recognized national leaders in science, scholarship, business, public affairs, and the arts. The University’s principal liaison with NYU Langone Medical Center, Dr. Berne works with deans and other University leaders on long-term academic, financial, and operational strategies for the full range of health activities at the Medical Center and NYU’s College of Dentistry and College of Nursing. A nationally recognized expert on educational finance and policy research, he served as dean of the Wagner School from 1994 to 1997.
Douglas Phillips, CPA
Douglas Phillips, CPA, managing partner of the accounting and consulting firm Weiser LLP and a trustee of both NYU Langone Medical Center and NYU Langone’s Hospital for Joint Diseases, has received the 2009 Distinguished Trustee Award from the United Hospital Fund. The award honors trustees of hospitals throughout the New York City area for their leadership, generosity, and extraordinary service. In addition to leading Weiser into the ranks of New York City’s top 10 accounting and consulting firms, Phillips has been a member of the NYU Langone board since 2007, serving on the audit and compliance committee and as vice chairman of the audit committee.
Harold Koplewicz, MD
Harold Koplewicz, MD, the Arnold and Debbie Simon Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, chairman of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and professor of pediatrics, has received the 2009 Agnes Purcell McGavin Award for Distinguished Career Achievement in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry from the American Psychiatric Association (APA). The McGavin Award, one of the most prestigious awards in child and adolescent mental health, recognizes physicians for outstanding contributions in the field of child and adolescent psychiatry.
Dr. Koplewicz is the founder and director of NYU Langone Medical Center’s Child Study Center, established in 1997. Under his leadership, it has developed one of the nation’s premier research programs in pediatric neuroscience, prevention science, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, childhood anxiety disorders, and mood disorders. It also has one of the country’s largest training programs in child and adolescent psychiatry and psychology, and its clinical service evaluates children and adolescents from around the world.
Adina Kalet, MD, MPH
Adina Kalet, MD, MPH, associate professor of medicine (general internal medicine) and surgery (administration) and the founding director of NYU School of Medicine’s Primary Care Public Health Scholars Program, has been awarded a Gold Professorship by the Arnold P. Gold Foundation. The Gold Foundation was established in 1988 to promote compassionate medical care through advances in medical education. The award provides $150,000 in funding over the next three years to support Dr. Kalet’s ongoing research into new approaches to medical students’ professionalism and clinical skills development. Dr. Kalet, a nationally recognized expert in medical education, holds numerous educational leadership positions at NYU School of Medicine. Among other accomplishments, she led the design and implementation of the Merrin Bedside Teaching Program, a faculty development initiative in the Department of Medicine. This program helps clinician-educators pursue advanced study that will enhance the quality of bedside teaching.
K. Heran Darwin, PhD
K. Heran Darwin, PhD, assistant professor of microbiology, has received a Burroughs Wellcome Fund 2009 Investigator in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease Award. Conferred on tenure-track researchers at the assistant professor level, the five-year, $500,000 grant supports multidisciplinary approaches to investigating the interactions between bacterial, viral, fungal, and parasitic infectious agents and their human hosts. Dr. Darwin studies ubiquitin-like proteins in bacterial pathogens, particularly Mycobacterium tuberculosis, a type of mycobacterium that infects nearly one-third of the world’s population and is a leading cause of death.
Joel Ernst, MD, Edward Fisher, MD, PhD, MPH and Judith Hochman, MD, MA
Joel Ernst, MD (left), the Jeffrey Bergstein Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases and Immunology) and professor of microbiology and pathology; Edward Fisher, MD, PhD, MPH (center), the Leon H. Charney Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine and professor of pediatrics and cell biology; and Judith Hochman, MD, MA (right), the Harold Snyder Family Professor of Cardiology, have been elected to the Association of American Physicians. The association, a nonprofit professional organization founded in 1885, which elects no more than 60 new members per year, has some 1,200 active and 550 emeritus and honorary members. Its members are elected on the basis of their having excelled both in the pursuit of basic and clinical research and in the clinical application of this research. Dr. Ernst has also been appointed by the National Institutes of Health Center for Scientific Review as chair of the Host Interactions with Bacterial Pathogens Study Section, for a two-year term ending in 2011.
Robert Berne, PhD, New York University’s senior vice president for health and professor of public policy and financial management at the University’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, has been elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS). The AAAS, one of the most prestigious honorary societies in the country, is made up of about 4,000 recognized national leaders in science, scholarship, business, public affairs, and the arts. The University’s principal liaison with NYU Langone Medical Center, Dr. Berne works with deans and other University leaders on long-term academic, financial, and operational strategies for the full range of health activities at the Medical Center and NYU’s College of Dentistry and College of Nursing. A nationally recognized expert on educational finance and policy research, he served as dean of the Wagner School from 1994 to 1997.
Douglas Phillips, CPA, managing partner of the accounting and consulting firm Weiser LLP and a trustee of both NYU Langone Medical Center and NYU Langone’s Hospital for Joint Diseases, has received the 2009 Distinguished Trustee Award from the United Hospital Fund. The award honors trustees of hospitals throughout the New York City area for their leadership, generosity, and extraordinary service. In addition to leading Weiser into the ranks of New York City’s top 10 accounting and consulting firms, Phillips has been a member of the NYU Langone board since 2007, serving on the audit and compliance committee and as vice chairman of the audit committee. 
Harold Koplewicz, MD, the Arnold and Debbie Simon Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, chairman of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and professor of pediatrics, has received the 2009 Agnes Purcell McGavin Award for Distinguished Career Achievement in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry from the American Psychiatric Association (APA). The McGavin Award, one of the most prestigious awards in child and adolescent mental health, recognizes physicians for outstanding contributions in the field of child and adolescent psychiatry.
Adina Kalet, MD, MPH, associate professor of medicine (general internal medicine) and surgery (administration) and the founding director of NYU School of Medicine’s Primary Care Public Health Scholars Program, has been awarded a Gold Professorship by the Arnold P. Gold Foundation. The Gold Foundation was established in 1988 to promote compassionate medical care through advances in medical education. The award provides $150,000 in funding over the next three years to support Dr. Kalet’s ongoing research into new approaches to medical students’ professionalism and clinical skills development. Dr. Kalet, a nationally recognized expert in medical education, holds numerous educational leadership positions at NYU School of Medicine. Among other accomplishments, she led the design and implementation of the Merrin Bedside Teaching Program, a faculty development initiative in the Department of Medicine. This program helps clinician-educators pursue advanced study that will enhance the quality of bedside teaching. 
K. Heran Darwin, PhD, assistant professor of microbiology, has received a Burroughs Wellcome Fund 2009 Investigator in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease Award. Conferred on tenure-track researchers at the assistant professor level, the five-year, $500,000 grant supports multidisciplinary approaches to investigating the interactions between bacterial, viral, fungal, and parasitic infectious agents and their human hosts. Dr. Darwin studies ubiquitin-like proteins in bacterial pathogens, particularly Mycobacterium tuberculosis, a type of mycobacterium that infects nearly one-third of the world’s population and is a leading cause of death. 
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