One of the most anticipated activities at the MacEachern Symposium is the awarding of scholarships and honors following the luncheon. During the awards ceremony we also recognized a very special friend to the HIM Program, Mrs. Isobel MacEachern Soans, who has faithfully attended nearly all of these symposiums that recognize her father, the founder of the HIM Program.

	Laura Jackson Awardee, Arthur Holden thanks the attendees following the bestowal of his award at the 2001 MacEachern Symposium.

The Laura Jackson Award:
The Laura Jackson Award is the Program's top honor, recognizing an individual who has made significant contributions over one's career to the healthcare field, to Kellogg and to the Program. This year's honoree was Arthur L. Holden, Founder/Chairman/CEO of the First Genetic Trust, Inc., and Board Chairman of The Mouse Sequencing Consortium. Holden continues to hold the Chairmanship/CEO title of the SNP Consortium, a conglomeration of thirteen major pharmaceutical companies, the Wellcome Trust, and five major academic centers, which developed an SNP map of the human genome. This novel research consortium, in collaboration with NIH, was a key player in the race to map the human genome.

Prior to the consortium, Holden was CEO and a Director of Celsis International PLC (1994-1998), a biotechnology products and services company. He spent much of the early part of his career climbing the ladder at Baxter in sales and marketing, ending as V.P., Global Marketing and General Manager of the Renal Division.

Holden graduated with a BSc (magna cum laude) from Union College and his received MBA from Kellogg in 1981. He has been active with the school and very instrumental in getting the school's biotech effort going, serving as Board Chairman of its Advisory Board. He also has served as a keynoter at the MacEachern Symposium in 2000. He and his wife Betsy, President and CEO of Kraft Foods North America, were part of the welcoming festivities during CIM week at the beginning of Kellogg's school year.

Young Alumnus Awardee Jim Beckemeyer thanks the association for his award.

The Young Alumnus Award:
Started in 1992, the Young Alumnus Award recognizes Health Industry Management majors who have made significant contributions, early in their career, to the industry, the School and the Program. This year's awardee was James H. Beckemeyer a Managerial Senior Consultant with the Strategic Planning & Consulting group at Kaiser Permanente (KP) in Oakland, California. Since joining KP's California Division in 1995, Mr. Beckemeyer has worked primarily in the areas of strategic planning, process re-engineering, financial analysis, and contract negotiations. At present, he is a member of SP&C's Innovation & Strategy Development unit, where he is working with KP California's Divisional Leadership Team to design and implement a strategic planning process. He is also engaged in the exploration and creation of innovative partnerships in the healthcare industry.

Beckemeyer received his Bachelor of Arts from Brown University in 1988, and his MBA (with distinction) from Kellogg in 1995. At Kellogg, he was named Top Student, Health Industry Management, and was a recipient of the Dean's Service Award. Jim is a member of Beta Gamma Sigma academic honor society, and the Society of Professionals in Healthcare. He has completed 110 credits toward standing as an Associate in the Society of Actuaries and he served three terms as president of the Kellogg Alumni Club of the Bay Area from 1997-2000. This recognized service to the many Kellogg graduates, including healthcare and biotech majors, who have moved to the Bay Area was an important factor in his selection for this recognition.

Andersen Scholarship to Top First Year HIM Major:
The winner of this year's top student award for first year students (who are Health Industry Management majors), sponsored over many years by Andersen (formerly Arthur Andersen and Co.), was Edward Wu, a student in the joint MD/MBA program with Northwestern's Medical School. He will graduate with both degrees in June, 2002.

Wu graduated from Northwestern as an undergrad with a BSc in communication studies and human communication sciences in 1997. During his last two undergraduate years he was President of the College of Commerce and Industry students. He was also Marketing and Communications Director for Gennex Healthcare, a student-oriented marketing group, while running his entrepreneurial information technology firm, EWIT Services, which developed broadband, LAN and websites for clients. The Andersen Scholarship is a $3,000 grant toward a student's indebtedness.

	MacEachern Award Winners -- HIM Alumni Scholarship winners Silvija Kancans (l) and Bo (Jennifer) Jiang (r) are joined by Isabel Pimenta, M.D., (c), a winner of one of the Marion W. Wade scholarships.

HIM Alumni Association Scholarships:
Once again the Board of the HIM Alumni Association awarded three $2,500 scholarships from proceeds earned in previous MacEachern Symposiums. The winners of the 2001 scholarships are: Bo "Jennifer" Jiang who came to the U.S. from Shanghai, China. Jennifer has a Bachelor of Medicine in Medical Laboratory Science from Shanghai Medical University, where she was elected class president for each of the four years of schooling and graduated summa cum laude in her program in 1990. She earned a MSc in Clinical Laboratory Sciences from the Catholic University of America in 1997 and worked for the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine in Rockville, Maryland, before entering Kellogg.

The second scholarship went to Silvija Kancans, a nurse who has a Masters of Science in Nursing from Columbia University in New York City. Kancans worked for the Visiting Nurse Service as a care manager prior to starting her own independent healthcare consulting firm in Minneapolis. Kancans has been very involved in improving the healthcare services of the Baltic countries, especially Latvia.

The third scholarship was awarded to Keith Vendola, MD, a second year student who has been actively working with the alumni association to build its web site. Keith has also been a key player in several Business of Healthcare Conferences developed by the healthcare club. He has an undergraduate degree from Holy Cross College in psychology, his MD degree from Dartmouth Medical School and his Kellogg MBA. He now works for Bank of America's Healthcare Group in New York City.

Outgoing HIM Alumni President Recognized:
Outgoing Alumni Board President Ellen Wodika, who graciously held the board reins for three one-year terms, was also recognized at the ceremony with an engraved plaque as a token of thanks for her contributions and leadership provided to the Board, the Association, the Program and the School. Incoming President Tracy Heilman presented the award and led the audience in a hearty round of applause for Ellen.

James Beckemeyer (l), winner of the Young Alumnus Award, joins Keith Vendola, M.D., an HIM Scholarship recipient, Ellen Wodika, outgoing Alumni Board President, and Tracy Heilman, current Alumni Board President.

Marion Wade Awards:
The final awards given during the ceremony were the Marion Wade scholarships sponsored by the ServiceMaster Company. These awards are made by the faculty to students who have made particular contributions to the HIM Program and the School. This year the awards went to a pair of doctors from Latin America. The first winner was Isabel Pimenta, a second year student, who is also a radiologist and a graduate of the Medical School of the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil. Isabel was the faculty liaison for the Healthcare Club and was the chief go-between on student-faculty relations. The second winner, a first year student then, is also a physician, who graduated with an MD from the University of Buenos Aires: Pablo Altman, MD. Pablo became very interested in the insurance coverage of families of graduate students at Kellogg and in the University, and worked with administrators to develop a more comprehensive system.

The HIM Alumni Association and the Program in Health Industry Management are most grateful to the following firms for their financial support of the 2001 MacEachern Symposium:

• Abbott Laboratories, Inc.
  
• Arthur Andersen
  
• Astra Zeneca Pharmaceuticals
  
• Aventis
  
• Immunex Corp.
  
• Merck
  
• Northwestern Memorial Hospital
  
• Novartis
  
• Servicemaster
  
• The Tiber Group