• Austen to step down as MGPO chairman and CEO
  W. Gerald Austen, MD, has announced that he will step down from his position as chief executive officer and chairman of the Massachusetts General Physicians Organization (MGPO) Sept. 30.

• Pamela J. Ellis award honors excellence on Secretary's Day
  Mary Bozzi, secretary of the Mental Health/Social Service Unit at MGH·Charlestown HealthCare Center, received this year's Pamela J. Ellis Memorial Secretarial Award presented at MGH's Secretary's Day luncheon April 22.

• Advertising may influence physicians’ choice of blood pressure drugs
  The increase in the use of calcium channel blockers and ACE inhibitors to treat hypertension – a 10-year trend that is not supported by national treatment guidelines – has been paralleled by a marked increase in advertising such drugs to physicians, says an MGH research group.

• Take Our Children to Work Day
  MGHers celebrate Take Our Children to Work Day April 22.

• MGH head of Dietetics honored for food service
  Helen Doherty, RD, FMP, director of MGH Dietetics, was named "Restaurateur of the Year" by the Massachusetts Restaurant Association, the first time either a woman or an institution has earned the honor.

• MGHer wins Young Investigator Award
  Thomas Buck, MD, of the MGH Cardiac Unit, won first prize in the Young Investigator Award competition at the recent Scientific Sessions of the American College of Cardiology.

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