UA physicians among best in nation, magazine survey says

Five UA physicians have been named among "The Country's Best Heart Doctors" in a Good Housekeeping magazine survey.

The magazine's report, featured in its March issue, listed the nation's 357 top cardiologists, neurologists and other heart and stroke specialists for both adults and children. Included on the list were Joseph Alpert, Jack Copeland, Bruce Coull, Gordon Ewy and William Feinberg, all medical doctors who practice at the Arizona Health Sciences Center and University Medical Center.

Doctors were chosen by 260 department chairs and section chiefs in related fields at major medical centers throughout the nation. They were asked over the telephone which doctors provide the most expert treatment and were instructed not to recommend physicians at their own institutions.

UA administrator considered for university president spot

Martha Gilliland, senior vice provost and vice president for Academic Affairs and Human Resources at the UA, is one of four candidates being considered for the presidency of George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.

The next president of the Virginia liberal arts university will be chosen from a field of four candidates by the end of March.

George W. Johnson, who currently presides over George Mason, announced in September that he will retire this July.

George Mason University has an enrollment of 23,000 students and an operating budget of $250 million. Besides the main campus, George Mason has satellite campuses in Arlington and Prince William County, Virginia.

The candidates will tour the George Mason campus starting tomorrow and ending March 9.

UA to award Nobel prize winner honorary neuroscience degree

Nobel laureate Torsten N. Wiesel will receive an honorary degree in neuroscience for his Nobel Prize-winning work on the structural and functional details of the visual cortex, located in the occipital lobes of the cerebrum.

He will receive the degree during the Decennial Symposium of the Arizona Research Laboratories Division of Neurobiology and Committee on Neuroscience at 1 p.m. March 2 at the Center for Creative Photography.

Wiesel, a Swedish citizen, was also co-recipient of the 1981 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for neurobiological research on vision.