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Nordenholz

The Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) has selected Kristen E. Nordenholz, M.D., of the School of Medicine at the University of Colorado Denver to receive the award for Best Faculty Presentation, "The Likelihood of Acute Pulmonary Embolism in ED Patients is Not Lower Among Patients Taking Warfarin," at the SAEM annual meeting June 3-6 in Phoenix. Their decision was based on reviews of the abstract, manuscript and presentation at the meeting. Nordenholz will be recognized and presented an award plaque during the business meeting at the SAEM annual meeting in Boston in June 2011.

... Jennifer Armstrong-Wells, M.D., and Stacie Daugherty, M.D., of the Center for Women's Health Research at the University of Colorado Denver have received major grants, respectively, from the American Heart Association and the National Institutes of Health. Both are training grants and will further support the building of their research careers. Daugherty's grant is "Gender Disparities in Invasive Cardiovascular Disease Procedure Use: The Role of Provider Bias"; Armstrong-Wells' is "American Heart Association Clinical Research Grant." The two grants bring in more than $800,000.

...Thomas Cech, Ph.D., received an honorary degree from Harvard University and delivered the commencement address at Harvard's spring 2010 ceremony. Cech is director of the Colorado Initiative in Molecular Biotechnology (CIMB), and a Distinguished Professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Borgstede

... The American Board of Radiology has named James P. Borgstede, M.D., to its Board of Trustees for a two-year term. An associate professor of radiology and vice chair of the department of radiology at the University of Colorado Denver, Borgstede has been a trustee since 2005. Board trustees participate in leadership and decision-making to carry out the board's mission and set standards for certification.