ALUMNAE DISTINCTIONS
Medical Funding from National Institutes of Health
Dr. Claudia Morris ’83 is a Pediatric Emergency Medicine Physician at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and a professor of pediatrics and emergency medicine at Emory University School of Medicine. She is also the Research Director for the university’s Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine. We recognize Dr. Morris for receiving $8.7 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Morris will lead a multi-center study of intravenous arginine therapy as an integrative nutritional approach to treating severe sickle cell-related pain. Dr. Morris is deeply committed to finding treatments that provide relief to children suffering from this debilitating disease.
Award Winning Book
We applaud Maureen Pilkington Rossi ’76. Her latest publication, This Side of Water: Stories, is the winner of the 2019 American Fiction Award in the short-story category. The anthology also was named by the Independent Publisher Book Awards a Silver Medalist in the 2020 IPPY Awards. In addition, favorable press was garnered in a Westchester Magazine book review that described Maureen’s collection of 16 stories as featuring “humor, honesty, and suspense.”
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