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Thomas Egan, Mark A. Socinski, Joel Tepper
Three Carolina physicians have been named to Good Housekeeping magazine's list of 318 Top Cancer Doctors for Women.
Tepper, chair and professor of radiation oncology; Egan, director of lung transplantation; and Socinski, assistant professor or medicine; are honored in Good Housekeeping's March issue. All three are affiliated with the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center.
According to Good Housekeeping, physicians were nominated by 280 department chairs and section chiefs in surgical, medical and radiation oncology at major medical centers across the country. The magazine calls the list's honorees "the country's most renowned experts for lung, breast and colon disease."
Robert N. Golden
Professor and chair of the Department of Psychiatry, Golden has been appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of the National Depressive and Manic Depressive Association.
Deanna Hamilton and Donna Rowe
Student Health Service nurses, Hamilton and Rowe have been selected to attend the 1999 Institute for Nursing Excellence. Both registered nurses, they were chosen by the N.C. Center for Nursing to attend the week-long professional development program.
Invitees are chosen during the center's statewide search based on criteria such as delivering expert patient care and demonstrating leadership and professional excellence. The institute was created to reward outstanding nurses, encourage them to remain in the profession and improve their capacity for leadership. Nurses tapped for participation are included in the center's "best in the state" nursing directory.
The University of North Carolina Press
Noel C. Fisher's War at Every Door: Partisan Politics and Guerilla Violence in East Tennessee 1860-1869, published by the University of North Carolina Press, has won the United States Civil War Center's first Peter Seaborg Award.
Fisher's is the first book-length study of the political and military struggle for control of East Tennessee, where Unionists and Secessionists fought each other as civilians as well as soldiers.
The prize is awarded annually for a non-fiction book that presents a fresh perspective or treats a neglected aspect of the Civil War.
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