Reporter Volume 25, No.17 February 17, 1994

medicine
Named to College of Physicians Board:
James P. Nolan, professor and chair of the Department of Medicine, has
been elected to a one-year term as chair of the American College of
Physicians Board of Regents.
	Nolan has served on the 26-member board since 1989 and was
vice chair in 1993. Prior to joining the board, he was the society's
governor for New York State for four years, winning the Governor of
the Year Award in 1988, and was president of the New York State
chapter from 1987-88. In addition to his UB appointments, Nolan serves
as director of medicine at the Erie County Medical Center.
	The American College of Physicians is the nation's largest
medical-specialty society, with a membership of more than 80,000
physicians trained in internal medicine and related subspecialties. 

Rehabilitation Medicine
Receives Krusen Award: 
Carl V. Granger, professor of rehabilitation medicine, has received
the Frank H. Krusen Award from the American Academy of Physical
Medicine and Rehabilitation.
	The award recognizes Granger's outstanding contributions to
the field of physical medicine and his research in the areas of
patient care, research, education, literary contributions, community
service and involvement in the academy's activities.
	A UB faculty member since 1983, Granger is associate chair of
the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine in the UB medical school. He
also serves as director of the Center for Functional Assessment
Research. Granger was a key member of a UB research team that
developed the Uniform Data System for Medical Rehabilitation, the
first international standard for measuring the effectiveness of
medical rehabilitation.
	He is a member of the expert panel to develop practice
guidelines for stroke rehabilitation for the Center for Health
Economics Research, and a member of the editorial board of the
American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.
	He recently completed a term on the advisory board of the
National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research of the National
Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
	Granger is a graduate of Dartmouth College and holds a medical
degree from New York University. 

theatre and dance

participates in polish Congress:

Kazimierz Braun, professor of theater and dance, was a major
participant in the "Cultural Congress of the Time of Transformation"
Feb. 2-5 in Poznan, Poland. The congress hosted 300 invited scholars
from around the world.
	Braun gave one of only 12 papers presented in the congress's
plenary sessions. It was titled "Conflict Between Culture and
Civilization in the Contemporary West: Its Impact Upon Transformations
in Poland" and was well received. He also chaired one of the sessions
on theater and drama and participated in several other panel
discussions in that topical section. 
	Fluent in several languages, Braun is the author of 14 books
and more than 300 essays, articles and book reviews. He holds a
doctorate of humanities in theater from Wroclaw University, a
doctorate of philosophy in letters from Poznan University, a master of
fine arts in directing from the National school of Drama in Warsaw,
and a master of letters from Poznan University.