Winner of the Dwight J. Ingle Memorial Writers Award

WINNER OF THE DWIGHTJ. INGLE MEMORIAL WRITERS AWARD Chris Feudtner, this year's winner of our young writers award is presently a hard working intern at the Children's Hospital in Seattle. He was born in Brooklyn and grew up in southern New Jersey on the edge of the Pine Barrens, "a distinctive region of sandy soil, scrub pines and brackish bogs—this locale instilled a lasting ecological sensibility and fascination with complex biological relationships." He attended public schools and then Princeton University, receiving an A.B. His major interest there was in molecular biology. However a year at Lancaster University in England studying the history of science profoundly influenced the direction his career would take. At the University of Pennsylvania from 1987 to June 1995 he completed a combined M.D., Ph.D. program. The latter was awarded by the Department of the History and Sociology of Science. We are pleased to add our young writers award to the several competitive scholarships, fellowships and other awards which had already singled him out as a very promising young scholar with several publications on the history, social aspects and ethics of medicine. But he also gives back! A leader in the student body, Chris conceived, organized and participated in several educational programs and a research workshop for medical students at The University of Pennsylvania. Perspectives in Biology andMedicine, 39, 2 ¦ Winter 1996 | 157 ...