* The Greater Baltimore Medical Center has named Dr. Robin Motter-Mast, a Cock-eysville physician, chairwoman of the Department of Family Medicine.
Motter-Mast, who is certified in family medicine and caring for patients of all ages, joined GBMC in 2005 and works at the Hunt Valley practice of Dr. Mark Lamos and Associates.
A physician practicing for 10 years, Motter-Mast graduated from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine and completed an osteopathic internship at Delaware County Memorial Hospital/Crozer Chester Medical Center and a residency in family medicine at the University of Maryland Medical System.
* Dr. Jeff W.M. Bulte, a professor of radiology, biomedical engineering and chemical and biomolecular engineering in the Johns Hopkins Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, is one of 38 U.S. scientists to win one of the National Institutes of Health new EUREKA (Exceptional, Unconventional Research Enabling Knowledge Acceleration) grants.
Bulte's award, from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, provides $200,000 per year for four years and will be used to develop a new method, called magnetic particle imaging, of visualizing transplanted stem cells in the brains of animals with stroke. EUREKA grants are provided to fund "exceptionally innovative research projects that could have extraordinarily significant impact on many areas of science," according to the NIH.
* Franklin Square Hospital Center has made two new appointments to its leadership team. Glenn Visbeen is the hospital's new senior vice president of operations. Visbeen's most recent position was chief operating officer of St. Thomas Hospital in Nashville, Tenn. Before that, he spent eight years as a vice president at the Moses Cone Health System, a tertiary care teaching hospital in Greensboro, N.C. Also, Janet Millard, a former nurse manager of the Emergency Department at St. Agnes Hospital, will become the nurse manager of the Emergency Department at Franklin Square.
* Dr. Steve Cho, assistant professor in the division of nuclear medicine in the Johns Hopkins Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, is one of 19 scientists to earn a 2008 Young Investigator Award from the Prostate Cancer Foundation. The awards, designed to encourage careers in prostate disease research, carries a stipend of $75,000 a year for three years, with matching amounts from an investigator's institution.
Cho received the award for his proposal to develop a new prostate-specific membrane antigen test, using positron emission tomography scans for improved detection of changes in prostate tumor size during experimental treatment.