• MGH researcher garners three prestigious awards
  MGH geneticist and endocrinologist David Altshuler, MD, received three prestigious awards this month in recognition for his work in applying genomics to complex diseases such as diabetes.

• An Arrow Through the Heart: An MGH patient shares her story
  One day five years ago without any warning, Deborah Daw Heffernan's world turned upside down. During a rather mellow yoga class and with no family history of heart disease or other cardiac risk factors, she suffered a massive, near-fatal heart attack.

• MGHers awarded patient safety fellowship
  As improving patient safety becomes a top priority at hospitals around the country, three MGHers were selected for a national fellowship program to advance the process of creating cultures of safety in health care organizations.

• Small change adds up to help fight children's cancers
  For 8-year-old Emma Carey, the Boston Marathon brings out special feelings of success. Emma didn't run the famed race, but thanks to her unusual fundraising efforts, she and her classmates raised more than $6,000 for the MassGeneral Marathon Team.

• Durante Awards honor MGH's finest
  Gloria Niles of the Cancer Center Phlebotomy Lab and Jyl Baker-Dedier, RN, of the Cancer Center Infusion Unit, received the 2002 Susan and Arthur Durante Award for Exemplary Care and Service with Cancer Patients May14 at a special ceremony in the Haber Room.

• Another milestone reached at the Institute of Health Professions
  The 22nd commencement of the MGH Institute of Health Professions, held May 5 on the Quad of Harvard Medical School, marked the conferral of the first doctor of physical therapy degree to 22 graduates.

• MGH 2002 now available
  The hospital magazine, MGH 2002, which includes the 2000 and 2001 annual reports, now is available.

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