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Harris named Distinguished Fellow
Linda M. Harris, associate professor of surgery in the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, was elected a Distinguished Fellow of the Society for Vascular Surgery at the society’s 62nd Vascular Annual Meeting held last month in San Diego.
Harris also directs the Vascular Laboratory of Kaleida Health and Erie County Medical Center.
Her election to the society was based on her scholarly research activities, creative professional activities and teaching excellence. The Society for Vascular Surgery is a not-for-profit medical society that seeks to advance excellence and innovation in vascular health.
Interim director of vascular surgery at UB since 1999, Harris also is program director of the university’s vascular surgery residency and has been involved with teaching medical students and residents since joining the full-time faculty in 1996.
She has published 39 articles in peer-reviewed journals, authored two book chapters and served as a reviewer for several journals, including the European Journal of Vascular Surgery, Annals of Vascular Surgery and the Journal of Vascular Surgery, where she serves as a Distinguished Reviewer. She has given numerous local, regional and national presentations.
She is active in the American College of Surgeons, American Venous Forum, Association of Program Directors in Vascular Surgery, Association of Women Surgeons, Eastern Vascular Society and the Society for Clinical Vascular Surgery. She also is a member of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education’s Residency Review Committee for Surgery, and is involved in a variety of community service activities related to vascular disease.
A graduate of the B.S./M.D. program at the honors college of Kent State University, Harris earned her M.D. degree from Northeastern Ohio University College of Medicine and did general surgery residencies at the University of Michigan Medical Center in Ann Arbor and at UB. She completed a two-year vascular fellowship at UB before joining the full-time faculty.
Gift to help fund new WBFO tower
WBFO-FM 88.7, UB’s National Public Radio affiliate, recently received a $25,000 gift from the Donald F. and Barbara L. Newman Foundation that will be used toward funding of the station’s new tower and antenna that will improve service to Western New York, the Southern Tier and Southern Ontario.
At 443 feet high, the new tower stands 45 percent higher than the station’s former tower and allows the station to deliver a significantly stronger signal to more than 1.15 million people within its broadcast area and to expand its reach by 50,000, according to Carole Smith Petro, associate vice president and WBFO general manager.
“The Newmans have been strong supporters of WBFO’s continuing efforts to deliver high quality public radio,” Petro said. “We are grateful for their ongoing confidence in WBFO. With their support, WBFO will be able to take full advantage of its current digital, satellite and Internet capabilities, placing the station in the technical forefront of both commercial and public radio stations across the nation.”
The gift will go toward the total goal of $575,000 that WBFO must secure in private funding to help cover the cost of the new tower.
WBFO reaches an audience of approximately 100,000 people each week through its main signal in Buffalo and through repeater stations WUBJ-FM 88.1 in Jamestown and WOLN-FM 91.3 in Olean.