June 23, 2000

Charles J. McCabe, MD, associate chief of Emergency Services at the MGH, was awarded a Daniel D. Federman Outstanding Clinical Educator Award. The award is presented to Harvard Medical School (HMS) faculty who have devoted their professional lives to academic and clinical teaching. McCabe was one of 65 HMS faculty to receive this award.

Charles A. Welch, MD, director of Somatic Therapy Consultation Services at the MGH, recently was elected vice president of the Massachusetts Medical Society (MMS). Welch will serve a one-year term as vice president of MMS, the statewide membership organization for physicians and medical students. The MMS is the oldest continuously operating medical society in the country, with more than 17,000 physicians and student members.

Kurt J. Isselbacher, MD, of MGH Medicine and director of the MGH Cancer Center, recently was awarded the Kober Gold Medal of the Association of American Physicians for the year 2001. The Kober Gold Medal has been awarded annually since 1925 for outstanding contributions to academic medicine, including science, scholarship and service of medicine.

Anne W. Phillips, MD, the first woman to perform a surgical operation at the MGH and formerly a member of MGH Surgical Research for 26 years, received the American Burn Association's annual Burn Prevention Award for her work in teaching fire prevention and how to increase chances of survival in case of fire.