Excellence in Mentoring Awards Presented
Harvard Focus, August 29, 2003
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The eighth annual HMS Excellence in Mentoring Awards were presented on June 18 with a keynote address by Harvard University provost and HMS professor of neurobiology Steven Hyman. Discussing constructive and destructive influences, Hyman said the worst kind of mentoring occurs when the mentor seeks to create a personal clone out of the mentee. Rather, what is needed is "giving advice in the context of the life that the person is interested in having."
The faculty honored at the event for their mentoring success were John Potts, the Jackson distinguished professor of clinical medicine, and Ernesto Gonzalez, associate professor of dermatology, both at Massachusetts General Hospital; David Bor, the Charles S. Davidson associate professor of medicine at Cambridge Hospital; Michael Cahalane, assistant professor of surgery, and the late Douglas Richardson, associate professor of pediatrics, both at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Marsha Moses, associate professor of surgery at Children's Hospital; and Richard Platt, professor of ambulatory care and prevention at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, who recently was named chair of that department. The awards included five for excellence, one for special recognition given posthumously to Richardson, and a Silen lifetime achievement award given to Potts. On accepting his excellence award, Bor said, "If there were ever an award that I would aspire to have, this is it."
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