Making a ‘World of Difference’

By Jayne Spencer

Dr. Stephen Beering, who served as dean from 1974 to 1983, was the winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award. Dr. Robert Holden, recently retired dean of IUSM, and Dr. Tai-Kai Li, professor of medicine and former associate dean for research at IUSM who is known internationally for his studies on the genetic origins of alcoholism, were finalists in the same category.

The winner of the Rising Star Award was the Wells Center. Dr. Mary Dinauer, director of the center and the Nora Letzter Professor of pediatrics, was a finalist in that category as was Joan Austin, IU Distinguished Professor of nursing and director for the Center for Enhancing Quality of Life in Chronic Illness on the IUPUI campus.

The IU School of Dentistry also was in the limelight. George Stookey was the winner of the Outstanding Contribution to the Health Industry Award and a finalist in the Lifetime Achievement category.

IHIF is a not-for-profit, private-sector initiative devoted to enhancing the economic growth and development of the health industry in Indiana. In 1998, the IHIF, along with School of Medicine leadership, successfully launched the Biomedical Research Init iative, which resulted in the establishment of the 21st Century Research and Technology Fund.

For an HP archival story on the initiative:

http://www.iuinfo.indiana.edu/HomePages/012299/text/growthfund.htm

http://www.ihif.org/HTML/