Houston Chronicle Bay Area, May 8, 2008 Dr. Robert M.A. Hirschfeld, chairman of the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at UTBM, was the recipient of the 45th annual Edward A. Strecker M.D. Award. The Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences held its 40th commencement ceremony Saturday. Elizabeth J. Protas, interim dean of the School of Allied Health Sciences, has been selected as the 2008 Catherine Worthingham Fellow by the American Physical Therapy Association. Xiaoyong Bao, a junior faculty member in the department of pediatrics, has been awarded a three-year, $150,000 Parker B. Francis Fellowship. Dr. Bernard F. Morrey of the Mayo Clinic will be the keynote speaker at the School of Medicine's May 31 commencement