VERITAFor the Faculty and Staff of the University of Mi: March-April 1997 VolumSe 39 Number 6 Seven to receive honorary degrees oted architects Denise Scott sy-nthesis of nucleic acids. He is the Bethune-Cookman College and Florida affiliated with a number of the great Brown and Robert Venturi. a recipient of numerous other awards, Memorial College, chairman emeritus medical institutions in the United Nhusband-wife team, will be including the Max Berg Award for Pro­ of the United Protestant Appeal, and States, including Cornell Medical Col­ honored at this year's Commencement longing Human Life and the Scientific vice president of the Black Archives lege, the Mayo Clinic, and the Univer­ on May- 9, along with a host of famous Achievement Award of the American Research Foundation. Among his many- sity of Pittsburgh. His books and achievers including Sarah Caldwell; Medical Association. honors are the Greater Miami Urban teachings have influenced the way mil­ William H. Gray III; a\rthur Romberg; Garth C. Reeves, reporter, editor, League's Distinguished Service Award, lions of children were raised. Garth C. Reeves, Sr.; and Benjamin publisher, banker, entrepreneur, and the American Jew-ish Committee's Robert Venturi. a Philadelphia McLane Spock. In addition to receiving community activist, attended Dade Human Relations Award, the Boy- native, graduated from Princeton Uni­ an honorary- doctorate. Reeves will County Public Schools and received Scouts Silver Beaver award and the Sil­ versity. His firm. Venturi, Scott Brown deliver the Commencement address. his bachelor's degree from Florida ver Medallion of the National Confer­ and Associates, Inc., has made its mark Denise Scott Brow-n, a principal A&M College. Publisher emeritus of ence for service to humanity. Reeves on modern architecture with works with the Philadelphia architectural firm The Miami Times and recipient of The was named three times the National including art museums, medical Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates, Miami Heralds 1996 Spirit of Excel­ Newspaper Publishers Association's research laboratories, government Inc., studied in South Africa and lence Award, Reeves w-as the first Publisher of the Year and has been a buildings, resort facilities, and many- London before receiving two master's African-American to serve on the Pulitzer juror. more throughout the United States, degrees from the University of Penn­ Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce, Benjamin McLane Spock. the France and Japan. His numerous sylvania. The recipient of an honorary- the South Florida Council of Boy- renowned baby- doctor, was trained at awards include, among others, the doctorate in fine arts from her alma Scouts, and the United Way. He also is Yale University and Columbia Universi­ National Medal of .Arts, 1992. Venturi mater, Scott Brown has received the first African-American trustee of ty w-here he received his medical has served as assistant and associate numerous awards during her 32-year Miami-Dade Community College and degree in 1929. A noted specialist in professor of architecture at the Univer­ career, including the National Medal of Barry University, a former t pediatric psychiatry-, Spock has been sity of Pennsylvania. .Arts (1992). She has been a visiting professor at the University of California at Berkeley, Yale University-, and the University of Pennsylvania. UM sweeps CASE awards competition Sarah Caldwell, opera producer, conductor, stage director, and adminis­ he University- of Miami recently- cial Merit Awards for the cate­ trator, has conducted or directed many was recognized with a record gories of public affairs programs, of this country's premier orchestras Tnumber of top awards in this news story, feature story-, and and opera companies including the year's CASE (Council for the Advance­ video new-s releases. Top honors New- York Metropolitan Opera, the ment and Support of Education) Dis­ for institutional relations programs Dallas Civic Opera, and the New York trict III competition, according to Roy were awarded to the Office of Philharmonic Orchestra. Trained at the J. Nirschel, Jr., vice president for uni­ Medical Public Relations for link­ University of .Arkansas and the New- versity advancement. ing its day-to-day media relations, England Conservatory of Music, Cald­ Grand Aw-ards, the highest achieve­ publications, marketing communi­ well directed the Boston University- ment, were given to UM for: cations, and special events activi­ Opera Workshop in the 1950s and later • Publications Program ties to the School of Medicine's founded what w-as to become the • Alumni Relations Program goals and objectives. Opera Company of Boston. • Institutional Relations Program for "These awards reflect the William H. Gray III, president and the Office of Medical Public Relations esteem in which the University— chief executive officer of The College • aAnnual Reports and its Advancement Division—is Fund UNCF. has led The College Fund "Seven Decades of Achievement," held by its peers," Nirschel says, to new- fundraising records while cut­ the University's 70th anniversary- cele­ adding that UM competed with ting costs and expanding programs bration, won an Award of Excellence many- fine, long-established uni­ and services. A former U.S. Congress­ for Institutional Relations Programs. versities for these honors. man who served as chairman of the In addition to the Grand Award for "The awards are a tribute to Democratic Caucus, Gray was the Publications Program, the Office of the quality- of people we attract highest ranking African-American ever University- Communication receiv-ed and retain in University Advance­ to serve in Congress. He has been a Awards of Excellence for Miami maga­ ment." Nirschel continues. "The Seated: Chris Dudley, assistant vice president professor of history- and religion at zine in the alumni magazines category, publications we produce do a for medical communication (left), Jerry Lewis, Jersey City State College, Montclair and the 1996 President s Report and wonderful job of reflecting student executive director of university communication State College, Eastern Baptist Theologi­ 1996 Financial Report in the editorial and academic issues and research (right); Standing (left to right): Paula J. Musto, cal Seminary, and Temple University. design category. Miami magazine also activities. On the alumni side, the assistant vice president for university relations; Gray is a graduate of Franklin and received a Special Merit Award for deans and everyone involved with Roy J. Nirschel, Jr., vice president for Marshall College with master s degrees design. admissions, career counseling, the university advancement; Jeffrey L. Newton, from Drew Theological Seminary and The Division of University Advance­ athletic program, student affairs, assistant vice president for development and Princeton Theological Seminary. ment won a Special Merit Award in the and many others are as integral to alumni relations. Not pictured: Kathy Uitvlugt, Nobel laureate Arthur Kornberg. educational fundraising category for our alumni relations program as is executive director of alumni relations. one of the premier biochemists of our the Lowe An Museum 2000 Campaign. the alumni staff. Thus, w hile we time, has been a professor at Stanford Additionally, the Office of Medical receive these awards, we do so on aw ards programming director for the L'niversity since 1959 where he served Public Relations, which shared Grand behalf of everyone who promotes and Washington. D.C.-based organization. as chairman of the Department of Bio­ Award honors with the Office of Uni- represents the University." "These awards recognize excellence in chemistry for ten years. Kornberg v ersity Communication for the "The CASE Awards Program is the field of advancement and hold the shared the Nobel Prize in Medicine in Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Cen­ designed as an educational service for winners up as models of exemplary- 1959 for his work on the biological ter Annual Report, received five Spe­ our members." says Joanne Cadett. work for others to learn from." 'Harvey' enables physicians to grasp full spectrum of heart disease e is a strapping specimen, the breathing, pulses, heart sounds, and type who might shop at the murmurs. Harvey trains some 20,000 Hbig and tall man specialty- medical learners a y-ear at 45 medical shops, and his wide chest is heaving centers in the United States and kvith distress. His blue-gray ey-es stare around the world. impassionately- at the ceiling. Harvey, celebrating 20 years of A group of University of Miami operation, was the brainchild of *. medical students huddle around the Michael S. Gordon, M.D.. professor of patient, comparing his pulse to the clinical cardiology-, who conceived the "whoosh" of turbulent blood flow they idea based on his experience of treat­ hear with stethoscopes poised over the ing airline pilots for would-be heart ailing patient's heart. .All signs point to conditions. a leaky aortic valve, or aortic regurgita­ "I wouldn't fly in an airplane with a tion, a condition often requiring pilot who wasn't trained in a simula­ lm surgery. tor," he asks. "Would you?" Alarmingly enough, however, only The director of the Medical Training Michael S. Gordon, M.D. (center), professor of clinical cardiology, uses "Harvey" to the day before he exhibited signs of and Simulation Laboratory (MTSL) teach medical school students. coronary artery disease, add to that applied the same learning-by-doing hypertrophic myopathy, and a host of principles when he set out to build in to sharpen his clinical skills, he met patients from too much ex other cardiac conditions. 1967 a surrogate patient, the first of its W. Proctor Harvey, the renowned car­ The Harvey method pays off, says What's a soul to do? Fortunately, type, for medical students and physi­ diologist, and within months had Gordon. A national multi-center study our good patient, "Harvey," is a cardi­ cians to hone their bedside diagnosis changed his career aspirations to that demonstrated that students trained on ology patient simulator who lays claim skills.