The
Clinical Center takes the cake:
A July 9th party began a year of
celebration that culminates in summer 2004 with the opening of the
Mark O. Hatfield Clinical
Research Center.
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CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF CLINICAL RESEARCH AND PATIENT CARE |
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The
Clinical Center takes the cake:
A July 9th party began a year of
celebration that culminates in summer 2004 with the opening of the
Mark O. Hatfield Clinical
Research Center.
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A Proud Circle: (left to right) CC Director John Gallin, NIH Director Elias Zerhouni, and Deputy Director for Intramural Research Michael Gottesman are in fine humor before opening the festivities. During his talk later, Gottesman revealed to the world at large the kinds of items Gallin keeps in his office, including a walking hamburger, two windup Godzillas, an ambulatory purple dinosaur, two wind-up mice, a lounging frog and a hopping frog, two cool-dude raisins, and a walking nose. Why? Because Gallin exchanges toys with his pediatric patients when he goes on rounds—another way to care for them. |
Institutional
Memory:
For more than 30 years, Harvey
Alter (right) has been divining the nature of elusive infectious enemies
from his post in the CC’s Department
of Transfusion Medicine—and the world has witnessed the disappearance
of post-transfusion hepatitis because of it. "I’ve enjoyed every
moment," he said–that is, he added, until John
Gallin (CC director, at left) asked him to reflect at this kickoff
50th-anniversary celebration. But Alter managed to get past his reluctance
to take the stage by sprinkling his talk with bits of his tongue-in-cheek
poetry—an ode to his then-arch nemesis that was neither hepatitis
A nor hepatitis B, another to an old collegial rival, and a third—more
recent and a bit more sentimental—to none other than the Clinical
Center.
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The
Bad Business Blues Band:
Beating back the rain for the CC celebration, David
Rubinow (far right), NIMH clinical director, chief of the behavioral
endocrinology section, lead (1963 Les Paul) guitar, and major warbler,
with bandmates of 20+ years Richard Loewenstein on harmonica, Howard Feinstein
on keyboard, Gary Gott on bass, and—sitting in for Rubinow’s
wife, Carly—Thomas Lombardo on drums.
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