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Bennett J. Cohen Educational Leadership Award
Robert H. Bartlett, MD, FACS Dr. Robert H. Bartlett received his MD from the University of Michigan Medical School in 1963. In 1968, he was the Chief Resident in Thoracic Surgery at Peter Bent Brigham and Children's Hospital in Boston and the following year served as its Chief Resident Surgeon. While at Brigham, he was a Research Fellow in Surgery, named the Arthur Tracy Cabot Teaching Fellow in Surgery, and became a Harvey Cushing Fellow. He also was a National Institutes of Health Trainee in Academic Surgery at Harvard Medical School. In 1970, he joined the faculty at the University of California, Irvine, as an Assistant Professor of Surgery. Over the next decade, Dr. Bartlett served as the Assistant Director of Surgical Services and the Director of the Burn Center and rose to the rank of Professor of Surgery. In 1980, he returned to the University of Michigan Medical Center, where he became the Director of the Surgical Intensive Care Unit, Director of Graduate Education, and Chief of the Trauma/Critical Care Division. As Professor of Surgery in the Sections of General and Thoracic Surgery, he developed a Surgical Critical Care Fellowship and the Extracorporeal Life Support Program. Dr. Bartlett has been busy saving lives in a variety of areas in medicine but his greatest impact has been as the result of his work on developing the extracorporeal membrane oxygenation machine, or ECMO. The ECMO is essentially an artificial lung that can oxygenate the blood of those who have had acute lung or heart failure. In 1975, this then little know device was successfully used to treat an infant girl named by the nurses Esperanza, meaning "Hope". Following this medical breakthrough, ECMO gained worldwide acceptance and has continued to help save the lives of literally tens of thousands of patients, from infants to adults. Dr. Bartlett has held leadership roles in most of the professional societies associated with critical care and the development of artificial organs. He has been president of both the American Society for Artificial Internal Organs and the International Society for Artificial Organs. He has served on the editorial boards of 10 major medical journals and written more than 300 articles in peer-reviewed publications. His commitment to the American College of Surgeons includes being Co-Chair of the Postgraduate Course on Fluids and Electrolytes and a key member of the Pre- and Postoperative Care Committee. In 1996, the received the College's prestigious Sheen Award for Research, and two years ago he gave the I.S. Ravdin Lecture in the Basic Sciences. His contributions to surgery have been recognized by numerous awards, including a Medial of Special Recognition from the National Academy of Surgery of France, the McGraw Medal of the Detroit Surgical Association, the Medallion for Scientific Achievement from the American Surgical Association, and election to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Science.
Joseph C. Dunbar, Ph.D. Dr. Joseph C. Dunbar is Chair of the Department of Physiology at Wayne State University School of Medicine. He received his Ph.D. in physiology and pharmacology from Wayne State University in 1970 and was then named to the faculty in the Department of Physiology. Throughout his more than 30 years of commitment to the Department and his discipline of Physiology, he has demonstrated a devotion to teaching young undergraduate, graduate, medical and postdoctoral students the elegance of the endocrine system, particularly the regulation of glucose metabolism. Dr. Dunbar has maintained an active NIH funded research laboratory during this entire time where he studies diabetes, obesity and central nervous system regulation of appetite and the cardiovascular response to these metabolic changes. He has mentored numerous students in this capacity, many of whom now also hold faculty positions in medical schools or are engaged in research in the pharmaceutical industry. His research and educational activities are particularly notable and in line with the mission of MISMR, in that he epitomizes the proper use of animals in the study of human disease with the goal of improving human health. Dr. Joseph C. Dunbar is Chair of the Department of Physiology at Wayne State University School of Medicine. He received his Ph.D. in physiology and pharmacology from Wayne State University in 1970 and was then named to the faculty in the Department of Physiology. Throughout his more than 30 years of commitment to the Department and his discipline of Physiology, he has demonstrated a devotion to teaching young undergraduate, graduate, medical and postdoctoral students the elegance of the endocrine system, particularly the regulation of glucose metabolism. Dr. Dunbar has maintained an active NIH funded research laboratory during this entire time where he studies diabetes, obesity and central nervous system regulation of appetite and the cardiovascular response to these metabolic changes. He has mentored numerous students in this capacity, many of whom now also hold faculty positions in medical schools or are engaged in research in the pharmaceutical industry. His research and educational activities are particularly notable and in line with the mission of MISMR, in that he epitomizes the proper use of animals in the study of human disease with the goal of improving human health. Dr. Dunbar's work has been recognized throughout his career. He was named an NIH Diabetes Trainee from 1970 through 1974. In 1989, he received the Minority Achievement Award and in 1992, he was named the Charles Gershenson Distinguished Faculty Fellow. He was Chairman of the Detroit Task Force for Diabetes Detection for the City of Detroit. Even more importantly, as recognition of his longstanding dedication to educating minority students in the health sciences, Dr. Dunbar has held a minority training award for numerous years and was named Outstanding Graduate Mentor in 1996. He is well recognized by his scientific colleagues and reviews manuscripts for Diabetes, Cancer, Acta Diabetologica, Hormone and Metabolic Research, and The American Journal of Physiology, Endocrinology, and Metabolism. Dr. Dunbar sits on the Board of Directors of the American Diabetes Association and also on many scientific review panels for the National Institutes of Health.
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