Nardell Receives Chadwick Medal
Edward Nardell, MD, of the Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities and the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, in April received the 2006 Henry D. Chadwick Medal Award from the Massachusetts Thoracic Society (MTS).
MTS bestows the Chadwick Medal Award, its highest honor, on individuals who have made positive contributions to the study and treatment of tuberculosis (TB) and other thoracic diseases. The first Chadwick Medal was presented in 1964 to Chadwick, an expert in the diagnosis and classification of juvenile TB, who, after recovering from a personal battle with the disease, served as president of three Massachusetts-based TB associations.
Nardell is director of Tuberculosis Research for Partners In Health and is a member of numerous committees for the diagnosis, transmission and treatment of TB. He spent 18 years as the medical director for the state Tuberculosis Control Program, during which he was a clinical consultant to more than 35 clinics statewide. For 24 years he was chief of pulmonary medicine at The Cambridge Hospital. He is currently engaged in an Eli Lilly Foundation-sponsored training program to teach Russian physicians how to treat multidrug-resistant TB. He is also a co-investigator of USAID-funded research on TB transmission in South Africa.