Title: MEMBERS MAKING NEWS

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Section/SPIG: Injury Control and Emergency Health Services

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Congratulations to Garen Wintemute, director of the Violence Prevention Research Program at the University of California at Davis and nationally known for his research on the effects of gun violence, who was elected to the Johns Hopkins University Society of Scholars in 2004.

Wintemute, an emergency-room physician, has been named a Hero in Medicine by Time magazine and has received numerous awards from professional and academic societies. He also served as a consultant for the World Health Organization, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the American Red Cross. Since 1967, the Society of Scholars has been honoring former postdoctoral fellows and junior or visiting faculty members at Johns Hopkins who have distinguished themselves in physical, biological, medical, social, or engineering sciences, or in the humanities.

Les Fisher is active in the national clown organization Clowns of America International, <www.coai.org>, with a local clown alley at Electric City in Schenectady, New York. Fisher graduated from a course at Klown Kollage in 1996, offered at Schenectady Community College. His clown name is Les the Kvetch, at his wife's suggestion that he complained too much about some subject they were talking about. While there is an organized clown safety Web group, he chooses to do his own safety clowning, remaining a member of COAI.

Karen Liller has been promoted to full Professor and Associate dean for academic affairs at the College of Public Health (University of Southern Florida).

Maria Anderson has been admitted to Northwestern University Law School and will start there in the fall. She intends to stay involved in injury control as well as earning her law degree.