May 09, 2008 04:00 am Munson Medical Center psychiatrist Steven Young, M.D., will receive a Distinguished Life Fellow Award at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association in Washington, D.C. The award, the highest the profession bestows, follows Young's Distinguished Fellow Award in 2003. Young began practicing medicine in 1977 in Kalamazoo and continued there through 2000. During his last seven years in Kalamazoo, Young was a full-time faculty member and psychiatry program director for the Michigan State College of Human Medicine. He then spent six years in private practice in Petoskey before joining the medical staff at Munson in 2006. He serves as medical director for Munson's Inpatient Behavioral Services. --- Thomas Buss, environmental health director with the Grand Traverse County Health Department, was among 10 individuals or coalitions named Hometown Health Heroes by the Michigan Department of Community Health for their work to make their communities better places in which to live. Buss was recognized for spearheading initiatives to protect the residents and visitors to Grand Traverse County following several episodes of high levels of E. coli in West and East Grand Traverse Bay. Buss is working with local governments to pass ordinances to protect the watershed and exploring the possibility of developing a beach model that can predict times of higher E.coli levels. He also is working to bring experts to the area for a community forum that will allow residents to ask questions about E. coli and what governments and residents can do to protect the waters.
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