 Congratulations to NIDDK’s Elaine Cochran (second from right) and the NIH Clinical Center’s Stacey Solin (first on the right) who were selected as the Physician’s Assistant / Nurse Practitioner of the Year, the NIH Clinical Center’s Marcus Means (second from the left) and Dr. Katie Roth Stagliano who were selected as the Administrator of the Year and the NIH Clinical Center’s Dr. Richard Chang (third from the left) who was selected as the Staff Clinician of the Year in our 2023 Clinical Recognition Awards.
An interventional radiologist, a nurse practitioner specializing in diabetes care, a scientist-administrator ensuring the hospital’s laboratory testing for all Clinical Center patients runs smoothly, a nurse practitioner who helps assess patient needs and an administrator who manages thousands of hours of volunteer time were selected for their outstanding efforts as part of the NIH Clinical Center’s 2023 Clinical Recognition award program. The program was launched in 2018 and initially recognized NIH’s outstanding staff clinicians, nurse practitioners and physician assistants. In 2019, the program expanded to include outstanding administrators at the hospital as well. This year’s winners come from a variety of backgrounds.
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 NSO Orchestra playing inside the CC North Atrium
The National Symphony Orchestra returned to the NIH Clinical Center Atrium on Sept. 13 with a spectacular performance. Conductor Steven Reineke guided the full 60-person orchestra through a magical, hour-long performance, its first full orchestra appearance at the Clinical Center since the pandemic. The diverse repertoire included works by Coleridge-Taylor, Walker, Mozart, Dvorak and Simon, a lineup featuring many Black composers. Musical highlights included performances by two exceptional soloists, obist Harrison Linsey and violinist Jing Qiao.
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COMMENTARY: A caregivers perspective on Clinical Center’s communication, process and procedures.
 Marcy Mager and family in the Clinical Center’s
healing gardens.
Forward by Dr. James Gilman, NIH Clinical Center CEO. This is the second installment of Marcy Mager’s observations about the processes and procedures used in the Clinical Center to provide care to patients who are severely ill. Just as a reminder, Marcy writes from the perspective of a caregiver “rooming in” with her husband-patient in the ICU during the COVID-19 pandemic, a unique perspective that we should not neglect. She only writes after making every attempt to understand her observations. She writes as a relative novice to hospitals and hospital operations but she is articulate and possesses more than enough critical thinking skills to warrant careful consideration to what she has to say This installment deals primarily with communications, good and bad, with physicians.
"Keeping a patient and their family informed during treatment is a clear goal at the NIH Clinical Center, universally accepted and expected across the health field. They need to understand the flow of communication between the patient’s treatment providers. Who meets to discuss the needs and progress, and when does that happen? How and when does the family receive that information? Who within the team makes decisions? How does the family provide input and to whom? Without clarity in these procedures the family is likely to experience confusion, frustration, worry and fear."
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 Episode 1: Dr. Huapaya, Vaccination Ameliorates Cellular Inflammatory Responses and SARS COVID-2 breakthrough infections
The NIH Clinical Center’s Office of Communications and Media Relations starts a new podcast designed to make complex research accessible and engaging. The podcast, “Discovering Hope in Science,” provides an additional platform complimentary to the current abstract platform for scientists to share their work in a concise five-minute interview that is easily understandable. Episode one features Dr. Julio Huapaya, a distinguished senior critical care fellow in the Critical Care Medicine Department.
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