August 8, 2003

Ausiello named to Academy of Arts and Sciences

Dennis Ausiello, MD, physician-in-chief of the MGH, recently was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Ausiello was among the 187 fellows and 29 foreign honorary members recognized for their contributions to sciences, scholarship, public affairs and the arts.

The Academy has two main functions: to elect to membership men and women of exceptional achievement, and to conduct a varied program of projects and studies responsive to the needs and problems of society. New fellows and foreign honorary members are nominated and elected by current members of the Academy in five categories: mathematics and physics; biological sciences; social sciences; humanities and arts; and public affairs and business.

Ausiello will be formally inducted into the Academy at the House of the Academy in Cambridge, Mass. in October.