'98-99 Freeman Fellows Chosen for Social Medicine Work

The 1998-99 Freeman Foundation Chinese and Southeast Asian Fellows in the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School are as follows:

Tridjoko Hadianto, Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

Hadianto received his medical degree in 1985 and a master's in health science in 1994 from Gadjah Mada University. He has been a lecturer and a researcher on both protozoology and philosophy of science in the Department of Parasitology at Gadjah Mada University for the past 11 years. While a Freeman Fellow, Hadianto plans to design a bioethics course for his home institution.

Rujinart Adthasit, B.Sc., M.A., Office of Primary Health Care

Permanent Secretary Office, the Ministry of Public Health, Nonthaburi, Thailand.

Adthasit received a master's degree in medical and health social science from the Faculty of Social Science and Humanities, Mahidol University, in 1991. Currently, she is head of herbal and Thai traditional medicine at the Office of Primary Health Care, Ministry of Public Health in Thailand.

Ji Jianlin, Department of Psychological Medicine, Zhong-Shan Hospital, Shanghai Medical University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China.

Ji received his medical degree from Shanghai Medical University in 1983 and a graduate degree in 1989. He is a professor in psychiatry and medical psychology at Shanghai Medical University. He has published some 50 journal articles and edited 8 textbooks. His research interests include crisis intervention for suicide, and cognitive and behavioral treatments of depression and anxiety disorders. This year, he will focus his research on the social course of depression in Chinese medical patients, specifically, suffering, burden, and treatment outcomes.

He Yanling, Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai,

People's Republic of China.

He graduated from Shanghai Second Medical University, in 1985. She received her training in psychiatry at Shanghai Mental Health Center and is currently in charge of continuing medical education. Her research interests are in dementia in the elderly, psychological and physical impairment, and burdens on caregivers. She is also interested in the diagnostic criteria in patient interviews and psychological problems in general health care.