The Journal of Nuclear Cardiology (JNC) recently selected Cesia Gallegos, MD, MHS (left), and Attila Feher, MD, PhD, both assistant professors of medicine (cardiovascular medicine), for the JNC Early Career Editorial Board. Their one-year term began July 1. The board provides an opportunity for a select group of outstanding fellows-in-training and professionals five years out of training to contribute to the journal as junior editors, authors, and reviewers under the guidance and mentorship of senior editors.

Francine LoRusso, RN, MBA (left), senior vice president at Yale New Haven Health, has begun a two-year term as chair of the Connecticut board of directors of the American Heart Association (AHA). Rachel Forman, MD, assistant professor of neurology, has become a member of the board.

Peter Jongho Na, MD, MPH, assistant professor of psychiatry, has been chosen to receive a Career Development Award-2 from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The project that the award will support is "Understanding the role of modifiable environmental and psychosocial factors in moderating genetic risk for substance use disorders in veterans.”

Amanda R. Quijano, MD, PhD (left), clinical fellow, and Karen J. Campoverde Reyes, MD, hospital resident, have received grants as part of the fourth round of funding for "Back to Bedside," an initiative by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) to empower medical residents and fellows to create innovative strategies for increasing time with patients, thus improving physician and patient well-being. Their project title is, "Standardizing Pediatric Resident Use of Shared Decision Making."

The American Thoracic Society (ATS) has presented Carolyn Rochester, MD, professor of medicine (pulmonary, critical care & sleep medicine), with the Assembly on Pulmonary Rehabilitation Lifetime Achievement Award. Presented annually, the award recognizes a clinician and/or researcher who is considered to have made a lifetime contribution to the advancement of pulmonary rehabilitation. Rochester is director of the Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Program at YSM, and director of the Pulmonary Rehabilitation Program at the Veterans Affairs Connecticut Healthcare System.

Jeremy Weleff, DO, instructor of psychiatry, is editor of a new issue of the AMA Journal of Ethics titled, “Why Harm Reduction and Equity Are Ethical Imperatives in Opioid Use Disorder Care.” The issue examines advances in opioid use disorder (OUD) care as well as barriers to OUD care that produce systemic inequities.