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Awards & Honors

Dr. Denise Aberle (RES ’85), professor of radiology and bioengineering and vice chair for research in radiological sciences, was elected to the National Academy of Medicine. Dr. Aberle also received the Joseph W. Cullen Prevention/Early Detection Award from the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer.

Dr. Susan Bookheimer, the Joaquin M. Fuster Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and director of the UCLA Intellect and Developmental Disabilities Research Center at the Jane and Terry Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA, received the 2020 Zenith Award from the American Alzheimer’s Association.

Dr. Steven Dubinett (RES ’84), professor of medicine, pathology and laboratory medicine, and molecular and medical pharmacology, received the 2019 William S. Middleton Award from the Veterans Health Administration and the Biomedical Laboratory Research and Development Service.

Dr. David Glanzman, professor of neurobiology, was named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Dr. Shafali Jeste, associate professor of psychiatry, neurology and pediatrics and director of the UCLA Care and Research in Neurogenetics Clinic, received the 2019 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

Dr. Amar Kishan (RES ’17), vice chair of clinical and translational research and chief of the genitourinary oncology service at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, received the 2019 ASTRO — PCF Career Development Award to End Prostate Cancer from the Prostate Cancer Foundation.

Dr. Linda Liau (RES ’97, FEL ’98, PhD ’99), chair of neurosurgery, was appointed chair of the American Board of Neurological Surgery, the first woman to lead the organization in its 80-year history.

Dr. Carol Mangione, Barbara A. Levey & Gerald S. Levey Professor of Medicine and Public Health and chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, was elected to the National Academy of Medicine.

Dr. James McGough (FEL ’91), codirector of the ADHD Clinic at the Stewart and Lynda Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital at UCLA, received the Elaine Schlosser Lewis Memorial Award for Research on Attention Deficit Disorders from the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

Dr. Antoni Ribas (FEL ’98, ’01), director of the tumor immunology program at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, received the 2019 William B. Coley Award from the Cancer Research Institute.

Dr. Jeremy Shelton (RES ’11), assistant professor of urology, received the 2019 Igor Tulchinsky — PCF VAlor Young Investigator Award from the Prostate Cancer Foundation.

Dr. Stephen Smale, vice dean for research at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and Distinguished Professor in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, was named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.


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  • Father’s X Chromosome May Yield Clues to Higher Rates of Autoimmune Disease in Women
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  • Targeted Therapy Drug Extends Lives of Women with Aggressive Breast Cancer
  • Can a “Battery Leak” Trigger the Onset of Type 2 Diabetes?
  • Molecular Changes in Cells of Eye’s Lens Predict Future Cataracts
  • UCLA Addresses Increasing Demand with New Master’s in Genetic Counseling
  • Truth Seeker
  • Sherm
  • Repairing and Reversing Damage Caused by Huntington’s Disease
  • Cells’ Mitochondria Work Much Like Tesla Battery Packs
  • The Who and Friends Rock Private Show for UCLA Health and Teen Cancer America
  • A Confounding Case
  • Body Image Concerns Are Universal
  • “We Do Better with Diversity”
  • Annual UCLA Health System Board Meeting Turns Its Focus to Cardiac Care
  • UCLA Operation Mend Cheered on at New York City Veterans Day Parade
  • A Decade in Review: 7 Exciting Health Care Breakthroughs
  • MRI May Help Doctors Differentiate Causes of Memory Loss
  • On the Road to Health Care Equality
  • Learning To Listen
  • Photo Synthesis
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  • Dr. Hans Gritsch Named Inaugural Chair in Kidney Transplantation
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