Honors

Alexa Canady, MD, professor of neurosurgery, was honored with a Legacy Award from the Brain Association of Michigan.

Yvonne Friday, MD, assistant professor of pediatrics, was one of 10 African Americans featured in a Detroit Free Press special section called “Worthy of Watching in 2000.” It honored Dr. Friday for her work as medical director for the Wayne County Juvenile Detention Facility.

Morris Goodman, PhD, professor of anatomy and cell biology, is being honored at the first annual Mary Webber Parker Distinguished Symposium, which will focus on “Reconstructing Human Evolution in the Age of Genomic Exploration.”

David Kessel, PhD, professor of pharmacology, has received Wayne State University’s Distinguished Graduate Faculty Award.

Diane Levine, MD, assistant professor of internal medicine, has been selected by students to receive Wayne State University’s Outstanding Clinical Faculty Award. This is the fifth consecutive year that she received the award, which honors voluntary faculty members who provide excellent clinical teaching experiences.

Ananda Prasad, MD, PhD, professor of internal medicine, has been granted “mastership” from the American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine for his distinguished contributions to internal medicine.

Charles Whitten, MD, associate dean emeritus for special programs, received the Distinguished Alumni Award during Children’s Hospital of Michigan’s 43^rd annual Clinic Days. He also was honored with the first Margaret Couzens-Slattery Lecture, from the Sickle Cell Division of the National Institutes of Health.