March 30, 2009

UCSF Founders Day Banquet to Honor 10 Working to Advance Health

Dorothy Bainton

All members of the UCSF community are invited to attend the annual Founders Day Banquet on Wednesday, April 15, which will honor recipients of the prestigious UCSF Medal as well as various faculty research, teaching and mentoring awards. The event will be held at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in San Francisco and will mark the official presentation of this year’s four UCSF Medals, the University’s highest honor and the equivalent of an honorary degree. See the invitation. (pdf) This year’s recipients are:

Dorothy Bainton, MD, a UCSF professor emerita, researcher and administrator who was the first woman to head a department in the UCSF School of Medicine and who has long been a champion of increased leadership roles for women in academia;
William K. Bowes Jr., a Bay Area venture capitalist and founder of US Venture Partners, who has channeled many of his investments and philanthropic donations toward advancing medical research and improving health care;
Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the United Farm Workers of America, labor leader and organizer, and tireless advocate of farmworkers’ rights; and
Robert S. Langer, ScD, a world-renowned inventor and biomedical engineer known as the father of controlled drug delivery and tissue engineering.

In addition, the banquet will honor the recipients of several other major awards bestowed annually by the UCSF Academic Senate: the Faculty Research Lecturer, the Distinguished Clinical Research Lecturer, the Distinction in Teaching Awards, and the Distinction in Mentoring Awards — a new award created this year. Those recipients are:

Faculty Research Lecturer: Elizabeth Blackburn, PhD, the Morris Herzstein Endowed Chair in Biology and Physiology in the School of Medicine.
Distinguished Clinical Research Lecturer: Bernard Lo, MD, a professor of medicine and director of the UCSF Program in Medical Ethics.
Academic Senate Distinction in Teaching Awards: Barbara Drew, RN, PhD, a professor of physiological nursing in the School of Nursing and a clinical professor of medicine in the School of Medicine’s Division of Cardiology; and Conan MacDougall, PharmD, an assistant professor of clinical pharmacy in the School of Pharmacy.
Academic Senate Distinction in Mentoring Awards: Priscilla Hsue, MD, an assistant adjunct professor of medicine in the School of Medicine; and Lisa Bero, PhD, a professor of clinical pharmacy in the School of Pharmacy.

The black tie-optional Founders Day Banquet will begin at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, April 15, at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in San Francisco. The cost of the event is $100 per person. Those interested in attending are instructed to print out the attached invitation and return it to the UCSF Office of Special Events. For more information, contact Debi Ham at 415/502-4337.

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