Reporter Volume 25, No.21 March 17, 1994

HEALTH CARE AWARDS:
PresidentsU Awards from the Health Care Industries Association (HCIA)
were presented March 2 to Nobel Laureate Herbert A. Hauptman, research
professor, biological sciences, and to Wilson Greatbatch, adjunct
professor, electrical and computer engineering and inventor of the
first implantable heart pacemaker; for their dedication to the
association and for their contributions to the health care industries
of Western New York.
	Vivian Cody, adjunct associate professor, Roswell Park,
received the Technology/Discovery Award for excellence in Western New
York Health Care Industries. This award is co-sponsored by the Medical
Foundation of Buffalo and HCIA.
	The awards were given at a dinner held in the Statler Towers.
Keynote speaker for the event was UB President William R. Greiner.

ROSWELL PARK
APPOINTED TO PANEL:
Stephen B. Edge, associate professor of surgery and chief, Breast
Division, Department of Surgical Oncology at Roswell Park Cancer
Institute, has been appointed to a panel of health care experts and
consumers to evaluate breast cancer treatment in New York State.
	The new Breast Cancer Treatment Quality Advisory Panel will
gather data on treatment strategies, measure the quality of breast
cancer treatment in New York and recommend ways to improve its
effectiveness. 
	The only Western New Yorker appointed to the panel, Edge has
served as chief of Roswell ParkUs Breast Division since 1992. He is an
investigator with the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel
Project, the dominant force behind the widespread use of
less-extensive surgical procedures for breast cancer. A Fellow of the
American College of Surgeons, he is a member of the American Society
of Clinical Oncology and the Society of Surgical Oncology.

DENTAL SCHOOL
SERVICE AWARD:
William Carl, a dental researcher at UB and Roswell Park Cancer
Institute, has received his third International Service Award from the
American Dental Association. Carl was honored this month for his work
with residents in remote areas of Kenya.
	He previously received the award for his clinical work in
Haiti, Honduras and Sierra Leone. His attempt to provide similar
service in Peru was halted because of political unrest. He has been
performing international service since 1976.
	Carl, a clinical associate professor of fixed prosthodontics
in the UB School of Dental Medicine, and a senior cancer dental
surgeon at Roswell Park, treated up to 100 patients a day in Kenya.
Many of the patients for whom he performed basic extractions were
treated under a tree because of the lack of electricity and clinic
facilities.