Literary awards.Each year, ACPE ACPE Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education ACPE American Council on Pharmaceutical Education ACPE American College of Physician Executives ACPE Association for Clinical Pastoral Education, Inc. presents the Robert A. Henry Literary Book Award to the author or editor whose book makes the most substantial contribution to medical management. This year, that honor went to Raymond J. Fabius, MD, CPE (Customer Premises Equipment) Communications equipment that resides on the customer's premises. CPE - Customer Premises Equipment , FACPE FACPE Fellow of the American College of Physician Executives , author of Total Care Management: A Physician Executive's Guide to Medical Management for the 21st Century. Described as a "doctor's doctor" whose "compassion for patients is his beacon," Fabius is chief medical officer of InteliHealth, the health information subsidiary of Aetna US Healthcare. He also serves as senior, corporate medical director for national accounts of Aetna US Healthcare. Currently, he is also a leader of ACPE's new, online E-health Forum and is a faculty instructor for the College. ACPE also presents its Rodney T. West literary Achievement Award to the author whose article most significantly contributes to the medical management profession. For his March/April 2001 Physician Executive journal article, "A Revolution in Genetics: Changing Medicine, Changing Lives," Kent Bottles, MD, was named this year's winner. Bottles, who is managing member of ProteoMed in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , N.Y., focused his article on the new genetics' potential to revolutionize diagnosis, treatment and classification of diseases. He points out that "the sequencing of the human genome The human genome is the genome of Homo sapiens, which is composed of 24 distinct pairs of chromosomes (22 autosomal + X + Y) with a total of approximately 3 billion DNA base pairs containing an estimated 20,000–25,000 genes. will transform the job of every physician, manager and leader in the world." |
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