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VOL. 24. NO.2 SEPTEMBER 23, 2003

Names and faces

CONGRATS

Samuel Kaplan, professor emeritus of pediatric cardiology, and Hillel Laks, professor and chief of cardiothoracic surgery and director of the Heart and Heart-Lung Transplant Program, were honored as pioneers in the field of congenital heart disease at an annual dinner hosted by the Hertz Investment Group and philanthropist Judah Hertz. The sixth annual event raised $155,000 for the Ahmanson/ UCLA Adult Congenital Heart Disease Center.... Leonard Apt, professor emeritus of ophthalmology and founding chief of the Division of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus, has established the Leonard Apt Endowed Fellowship that will be available in perpetuity and awarded to exceptional clinical fellows in pediatric ophthalmology and strabismus at the Jules Stein Eye Institute. Apt is a pioneer in the field of pediatric ophthalmology.... William D. Warren, Connell Professor Emeritus at the School of Law, received the Senator William Proxmire Lifetime Achievement Award from the American College of Consumer Financial Services Lawyers. He was cited for his pioneering work in consumer credit law.

KUDOS

The law school’s Class of 2003 chose Law Professor David Sklansky Professor of the Year, an honor he also won in 1996. Sklansky’s scholarship has focused on issues of criminal justice. He served as associate dean in 2002-03.... Eric W. Fonkalsrud, emeritus professor of surgery, has been elected to the Johns Hopkins University Society of Scholars. Fonkalsrud and 14 other scientists, clinicians and social scientists were honored by the society, which inducts former postdoctoral fellows and junior or visiting faculty at Johns Hopkins who have distinguished themselves in the humanities or in the physical, biological, medical, social or engineering sciences.... The UCLA Foundation has named Herbert Kawahara its president-elect. Kawahara, who will succeed Peter J. Taylor as president, serves on the foundation’s Board of Directors as well as its Diversity, Investment and Venture Capital Funds committees. He is former president of the Pacific Exchange and a 1951 graduate of UCLA.

TAKE NOTE

Sherin Devaskar, professor of neonatology at the David Geffen School of Medicine and chief of neonatology at Mattel Children’s Hospital, has been named editor-in-chief of Pediatric Research, the official journal of the American Pediatric Society, the European Society for Pediatric Research, the Society for Pediatric Research and the European Society for Pediatric Hematology and Immunology. The newly appointed associate editors are Edward McCabe, physician-in-chief of Mattel Children’s Hospital; Pinchas Cohen, professor and chief of endocrinology; Yvonne Bryson, professor and chief of pediatric infectious diseases; Christopher Denny, professor of pediatric hematology and oncology; Martin Martin, associate professor of pediatric gastroenterology; and Isidro Salusky, professor of pediatric nephrology and director of the Clinical Research Center.