What's on my mind this month are the choices that our medical, graduate and allied health students make about their lives and their careers at this point in the year.
On March 15, we celebrated Match Day, the day when all fourth-year medical students across the United States discover where they will be doing their residencies. It is an auspicious occasion and marks a turning point in their training. This year, our students matched to some of the most competitive areas, including orthopedic surgery and radiology, and entered residency programs in emergency, internal and family medicine, as well as pediatrics, psychiatry and obstetrics and gynecology. While many of the School of Medicine’s fourth-year students remain in Maryland, some at the University of Maryland Medical Center, others have matched to Duke, Harvard, University of Pennsylvania, University of California San Francisco, and the Mayo Clinic, to name a few. I am always proud to see our young students embark on their careers, and am pleased that the tradition of the Match Day ceremony continues as one of camaraderie, with classmates celebrating each other’s success.
This point in the year also marks the time when many of our second-year graduate students in basic science programs take their qualifying examinations. Passing these examinations signifies the completion of the didactic portion of their training. Students then select their mentors from the School of Medicine faculty. Deciding which faculty member to work with to complete their thesis training is vital to a young research scientist, because the graduate student-thesis advisor relationship is such a formative one. Students will spend some of the most intense months of their career training with their graduate research team, working on projects that not only impact the laboratory’s mission but lay the groundwork for their dissertations. The success of our students’ laboratory experience is exemplified by the fact that, last year, our graduate students published 167 publications and were first author on 60. I am confident that the productive synergy between our students and their mentors will continue as the recently matriculated students enter their thesis laboratories.
Many senior students across all our programs are anticipating commencement next month. From the supportive environment of the School of Medicine, our young graduates will venture out into the workforce. Our students have an impeccable track record in the practices and medical centers they enter, careers they select, and organizations that hire them, and the postgraduate fellowships they earn, and I expect no less from the class of 2013. However, our students also face some very unique choices in terms of where they go and what they do after earning their degrees.
You already should have received the print copy of the 2012 State of the School Address, which we purposefully titled “Forging Ahead: Defining New Pathways in Challenging Times.” There is no more challenging time in our recent history than these last months. The passing of the Affordable Care Act will allow more people than ever to receive health insurance coverage, creating greater patient need for primary care and specialty physicians. However, the Association of American Medical Colleges estimates that by 2020 the nation will face a shortage of more than 90,000 healthcare professionals, despite the expanded patient populations. Last month, we went over the fiscal cliff, and the National Institutes of Health incurred a net loss of approximately $1.5 billion to its budget, which will negatively impact our graduates and young investigators in the research fields. Across-the-board federal spending cuts also mean a reduction in the number of new clinical trials that open, a lowered reimbursement rate from Medicare and Medicaid, and a delay in funding that could shut down entire research laboratories.
The School of Medicine is fortunate to have leaders who refuse to back down when faced with difficult situations such as those that have been placed in our path ahead. We remain undaunted in our journey forward and have made many important choices to position ourselves to continue advancing where many could be stymied. For example, we are applying for more training grants from both governmental and nongovernmental sources and encouraging additional philanthropic support to help diversify our funding streams. We also are working to ensure that our ongoing research is performing to the highest standards possible, with the knowledge that federal funding will not be completely shut down and, where support is available, we should be among the best candidates to receive it.
Although the School of Medicine is working diligently to expand our programs, adjust to meet the ever-changing workforce environment, and plan for the uncertain times ahead, I also have every confidence that our students will choose to continue to work with us to enrich the medical enterprise.
In the relentless pursuit of excellence, I am
Sincerely yours,
E. Albert Reece, MD, PhD, MBA
Vice President for Medical Affairs, University of Maryland
John Z. and Akiko K. Bowers Distinguished Professor and
Dean, University of Maryland School of Medicine
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Announcements
The Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences would like to announce the opening of their new Optical Shop, located at 419 W. Redwood St, Suite 100. The Optical Shop has certified opticians who can assist patients with making a selection from a wide variety of designer frames. Most insurance is accepted, and employee discounts are offered. Visit the Optical Shop for further details. Their grand opening is scheduled for April 11. Special guest Matt Stover, former kicker for the Baltimore Ravens, will help kick off things at the opening. Please come by and join in the celebration!
Appointments
Agnes Azimzadeh, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, has been appointed to serve on the editorial board of Xenotransplantation, the official journal of the International Xenotransplantation Association.
Maureen Black, PhD, the John A. Scholl, MD, and Mary Louise Scholl, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, has been appointed as a Scientific Advisor to the Scientific Advisory Board of the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) for 2012–2013, working on “Evaluating the Diet-Related Scientific Literature for Children from Birth to 24 Months” (the B-24 Project).
Alan Faden MD, the David S. Brown Professor in Trauma, Department of Anesthesiology, and Director of the Center for Shock, Trauma and Anesthesiology Research (STAR) and the National Study Center for Shock and EMS, has been appointed as a Professor in the Department of Organizational Systems and Adult Health at the University Maryland School of Nursing and as an Affiliate Professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences in the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy.
James Kaper, PhD, Professor and Chair, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, has been elected President of the Association of Medical School Microbiology & Immunology Chairs (AMSMIC) at the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). Dr. Kaper’s term will begin in January 2014.
Richard Lichenstein, MD, Professor, Department of Pediatrics, has been appointed to the National Advisory Committee for the National Center for the Review and Prevention of Child Deaths for one year.
Events, Lectures & Workshops
Lindsay Black, PhD, Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, presented “Capsid Packaging and Unpackaging of Proteins and DNAs” at the Gordon Research Conference on Physical Virology, held January 20–25 in Ventura, CA.
Maureen Black, PhD, the John A. Scholl, MD, and Mary Louise Scholl, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, presented an invited talk on, “Equity in Early Life: How Can ‘Investing’ Help Children Succeed?” to the Human Development Network of The World Bank in Washington, DC on January 28.
Daniel Bochicchio, MD, FCCP, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, recently completed the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative (NLPI) Executive Education Program. The NLPI program is designed to produce effective leadership at all levels of government. As an outcome of the program, public officials are prepared to cross geographic and agency boundaries to deal with emergencies, and to guide the design of comprehensive, multi-agency and jurisdictional emergency response plans.
Curt Civin, MD, Professor, Departments of Pediatrics and Physiology, Associate Dean for Research, and Director, Center for Stem Cell Biology & Regenerative Medicine, presented a lecture on “How Stem Cells are Transforming Medicine” and a panel discussion on “Stem Cell Science—Cancer” at the 2012 World Stem Cell Summit in Palm Beach, FL on December 3, 2012. He also presented “MicroRNA Maestros of Hematopoiesis and Leukemia” at the Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine Seminar Series at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston, TX, on January 25.
Vasken Dilsizian, MD, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, presented “Molecular Imaging of Ischemic Memory and ACE Expression in LV Remodeling” at the mid-winter meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging on January 27 in New Orleans, LA. He also served as a moderator of a session on “Translational Cardiovascular Molecular Imaging” at the meeting.
Alan Faden MD, the David S. Brown Professor in Trauma, Department of Anesthesiology, and Director of the Center for Shock, Trauma and Anesthesiology Research (STAR) and the National Study Center for Shock and EMS, presented Neurology Grand Rounds at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston MA, in October 2012. His topic was “Heads Up: Revising Concepts of Brain Trauma and Sports Related Head Injury.” He presented on the same topic for Neurology Grand Rounds at Boston’s Massachusetts General Hospital, as well.
Anthony Gaspari, MD, the Shapiro Professor and Chair, Department of Dermatology, gave an invited lecture on “The Skin as an Immune Sensing Organ: Contact Dermatitis” at the International Meeting “Cute and Clima” (“Skin and Environment”), which was hosted by the Department of Dermatology at Federico Secondo University in Naples, Italy on December 6–7, 2012. “This was an innovative meeting,” says Dr. Gaspari, “as it brought together a multi-disciplinary panel of dermatologists, allergists, pathologists, environmental engineers, climatologists, and epidemiologists to provide their unique perspectives on how climate change impacts skin health and how this interfaces with the general health of the individual and populations at large.”
Kathleen Gilpin, a graduate student in the laboratory of Mervyn Monteiro, PhD, Professor, Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, won a travel award to the annual meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology held in San Francisco, CA, from December 15–19, 2012. She presented “Construction of a Ubiquilin-2 Interaction Network Affected in Amyotrophic Lateral Schlerosis.” Nathaniel Safren, another graduate student in Dr. Monteiro’s lab, presented “Ubiquilin-1 Overexpression as a Therapy for Huntington’s Disease” at the same meeting.
Danielle Goodrich, MS-IV, and Karan Chopra, MD, Resident, Department of Surgery, gave a podium presentation, “Clinical Application and Validation of the FACES Score for Facial Transplantation,” at the 2012 American College of Surgeons’ Annual Clinical Congress, held late last year in Chicago, IL.
Steven Hanish, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, presented “Endoscopic Ultrasound is a Safe and Effective Alternative to Pre-Transplant Surgical Lymph Node Sampling in a Cholangiocarcinoma Transplant Protocol” at the American Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association annual meeting on February 21 in Miami Beach, FL.
W. Jonathan Lederer, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Physiology and director of the Center for Biomedical Engineering and Technology, gave the Dirk L. Brutsaert Lecture, entitled “Elementary Ca2+ Events: From Discovery to Their Implication for the Physiology and Pathology of the Heart,” at the European Society for Cardiology Meeting in Les Diablerets, Switzerland on January 24.
Yvette Rooks, MD, CAQ, FAAFP, Assistant Professor, Department of Family & Community Medicine, was a panelist for “Diagnosis and Management of Sports-Related Concussion in Youth: The Roles of Pediatric Neurologists and Family & Rehabilitation Medicine Physicians” at the Workshop on Sports-Related Concussions in Youth, held at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC, on February 25.
Sharon Stephan, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, presented a keynote lecture on “School Mental Health in the United States: Future Directions” at the 59th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Systems of Care Special Program “Child Psychiatry in the Schools: Best Practices in School-Based Mental Health Systems of Care,” held in San Francisco, CA, late last year.
Faculty members from the Department of Emergency Medicine were a major presence in the planning and presentation of this year’s Scientific Assembly of the American Academy of Emergency Medicine, which was held in Las Vegas in February. In fact, for the fifth year in a row, the University of Maryland had more faculty speakers on the program, contributing more hours of education to the conference, than any other faculty in the United States. The following Emergency Medicine faculty participated in the conference as program planners, plenary speakers, pre-conference course instructors, lecturers, panelists, and members and chairs of committees: Michael Bond, MD, Assistant Professor; John Greenwood, MD, Clinical Instructor and Faculty Development Fellow; Mimi Lu, MD, MS, Clinical Assistant Professor; Haney Mallemat, MD, Assistant Professor; Amal Mattu, MD, Professor; Terrence Mulligan, DO, MPH, Assistant Professor; Roger Stone, MD, MS, Clinical Assistant Professor; Larry Weiss, MD, JD, Professor; and Michael Winters, MD, Associate Professor. Ali Farzad, MD, a third-year Emergency Medicine resident, attended the conference as a member of the Board of Directors of AAEM’s Resident and Student Association and Chair of its Publications Committee. Also on the program, as a plenary session speaker, was Thomas Scalea, MD, the Francis X. Kelly Professor of Trauma in the Department of Surgery and Director of the Program in Trauma.
Grants & Contracts
Xiaochun Chen, PhD (pictured), Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, and Curt Civin, MD, Professor, Departments of Pediatrics and Physiology, Associate Dean for Research, and Director, Center for Stem Cell Biology & Regenerative Medicine, were awarded a one-year $140,000 grant from the William Lawrence & Blanche Hughes Foundation for “Development of Drugs that Upregulate Leukemia Tumor Suppressive MicroRNAs.”
Louis DeTolla, VMD, MS, PhD, DACLAM, Professor, Departments of Pathology, Medicine, and Epidemiology & Public Health, and Director of the Program in Comparative Medicine, in partnership with Research Solutions, Inc. DBA LenderKing Caging Products, received a one-year, $242,469 Maryland Industrial Partnerships (MIPS) award for “Validation of a New Ventilation Method for IVCS,” aka “A Novel Ventilated Animal Housing System to Prevent Ammonia Buildup.”
John LaMattina, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, was awarded a $50,000 research grant by the Living Legacy Foundation for his research on liver decellularization. This research supports the Division of Transplantation’s commitment to using basic science and pre-clinical research to increase the number of available donor organs and to improve transplant patient outcomes.
Colin Mackenzie, MBChB, FRCA, FCCM, Clinical Professor, Department of Anesthesiology has received a three-year, $2,077,553 grant from the U.S. Air Force for “Continuous Non-Invasive Monitoring and the Development of Predictive Triage Indices for Outcome Following Trauma”; a 30-month, $398,422 grant from the Office of Naval Research for “Autonomous Critical Care Systems- Athena GTX”; a two-year, $824,552 grant from the U.S. Air Force for “Predicting Casualty Blood Product Needs Using Pre-Hospital Vital Signs”; and a three-year, $2 million grant from the U.S. Army for “Use of Performance Measure to Evaluate, Document Competence and Deterioration of ASSET Surgical Skills.”
Sharon Stephan, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, received a two-year, $3.2 million contract from the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Mental Hygiene Administration, for “1915(c) Community Alternatives to Psychiatric and Residential Treatment Facilities Demonstration Waiver Program Management, Workforce Development and Evaluation.”
Honors & Awards
William Carpenter, MD, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, and Director, Maryland Psychiatric Research Center, received the 2013 Indo-Global Psychiatric Initiative Appreciation Award and presented a lecture at the awards ceremony in Bangalore, India on January 14.
Ziv Haskal, MD, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, was the lead author of “Twelve-Month Results of the RENOVA Trial: A Prospective Multicenter Randomized, Concurrently Controlled Comparison of the FLAIR Endovascular Stent Graft vs. Balloon Angioplasty in Dialysis Access Grafts,” which was selected by the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) from more than 850 submissions as Abstract of the Year.
Amal Mattu, MD, Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine, is the 2013 recipient of the Peter Rosen Award from the American Academy of Emergency Medicine. The award, given in recognition of outstanding contributions to the Academy in the area of academic leadership, was presented during the organization’s annual scientific assembly in Las Vegas in February.
Shana Ntiri, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Department of Family & Community Medicine, has been elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society, Beta-Chapter. Nominees are selected by students in recognition of their commitment to and excellence in teaching.
Jacques Ravel, PhD, Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, and Associate Director of Genomics, Institute for Genome Sciences, was elected to Fellowship in the American Academy of Microbiology in February. He will be recognized at the Academy Fellows Luncheon and Meeting at the 113th ASM General Meeting in Denver, CO, on May 21.
Roger Stone, MD, MS, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, received the 2013 James Keaney Award from the American Academy of Emergency Medicine (AAEM) during the organization’s annual Scientific Assembly, held in Las Vegas in February. This award, named for a founding member of the organization, honors an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to the organization. Dr. Stone, a founding member of AAEM, was the first chairman of its Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Committee and continues in that role today.
In the News
Brian Berman, MD, Professor, Department of Family & Community Medicine, and Director, Center for Integrative Medicine, was quoted in “Acupuncture for Back Pain,” a sidebar in the March 2013 issue of Men’s Health.
Christopher D’Adamo, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Family & Community Medicine and the Center for Integrative Medicine, was a featured expert on the nationally syndicated radio show Bottom Line on Your Health, on January 19. He discussed the science behind why high fructose corn syrup is particularly damaging to human health and dispelled the “a calorie is a calorie” myth.
Ricardo Feldman, PhD, associate professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, and his lab were featured in the November 9, 2012 issue of the Baltimore Jewish Times. Dr. Feldman was interviewed by Simone Ellin about "The Use of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (iPSC) for Modeling and Treatment of Gaucher Disease.”
Joyce Frye, DO, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Family & Community Medicine and the Center for Integrative Medicine, was quoted in the Huffington Post on January 14, addressing a recent study that looked at the use of complementary and alternative medicine in children. Joshua Lewis, PhD, assistant professor, Department of Medicine and the Program in Personalized & Genomic Medicine, was highlighted as featured investigator on the Pharmacogenomics Research Network during the month of February for his research on the genetic determinants of aspirin resistance.
Amr Shahin, MBBCh, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, was interviewed on December 10, 2012 by BBC’s Arabic Extra on the topic “Psychological Preparation of Children for Painful Procedures in Pediatric Hospitals.”
H. Ronald Zielke, PhD, Department of Pediatrics, and Director, NICHD Brain and Tissue Bank for Developmental Disorders was interviewed on February 4 by National Public Radio's (NPR) Morning Edition on the topic of “Shortage of Brain Tissue Hinders Autism Research.”
New Faculty
Steven Hanish, MD, joined the Department of Surgery as an Associate Professor within the Division of Transplantation on January 28, 2013. Dr. Hanish will also serve as Director of Hepatobiliary Surgery at the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC). He comes to the School of Medicine from Emory University in Atlanta, GA.
Publications
Irina Balan, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Anesthesiology; Andrew Saladino, MD, Associate Professor, and Rudolph Castellani, MD, Professor, both from the Department of Pathology; Bizhan Aarabi, MD, Professor, and Howard Eisenberg, MD (pictured), Professor and Chair, both from the Department of Neurosurgery; Deborah Stein, MD, MPH, Associate Professor, Department of Surgery; Hegang Chen, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health; and Gary Fiskum, PhD, the Jane Matjasko Professor for Research and Vice-Chair of Research in the Department of Anesthesiology, were among the co-authors on “Cellular Alterations in Human Traumatic Brain Injury: Changes in Mitochondrial Morphology Reflect Regional Levels of Injury Severity” in the Journal of Neurotrauma, 2012 Nov 6 [Epub ahead of print].
Lindsay Black, PhD, Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, was a co-author on “Compression of the DNA Substrate by a Viral Packaging Motor is Supported by Removal of Intercalating Dye During Translocation” in PNAS-USA, 2012 Dec. 11;109(50):20419-20424.
Yu-Ching Cheng, PhD (pictured), Instructor; Jeffrey O’Connell, DPhil, Associate Professor; Patrick McArdle, PhD, Assistant Professor; Marcella Wozniak, MD, PhD, Associate Professor; and Braxton Mitchell, PhD, MPH, Professor, all from the Department of Medicine, along with O. Colin Stine, PhD, Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health; and John Cole, MD, Associate Professor; Barney Stern, MD, Professor; and Steven Kittner, MD, Professor, all from the Department of Neurology, were among the co-authors on “Polymorphisms in Migraine-Associated Gene, atp1a2, and Ischemic Stroke Risk in a Biracial Population: The Genetics of Early Onset Stroke Study” in SpringerPlus, 2013 Feb 11 [Epub ahead of print].
Curt Civin, MD, Professor, Departments of Pediatrics and Physiology, Associate Dean for Research, and Director, Center for Stem Cell Biology & Regenerative Medicine, was a co-author on “Hematopoietic Stem Cells” in The Biomedical Engineering Handbook, Fourth Edition (Fischer, ed.), Boca Raton: CRC pp 9.1-9.13. 2012. Dr. Civin; Weh-Chih Cheng, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow; and Tami Kingsbury, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology, were among the co-authors on “A Simple High-Throughput Technology Enables Gain-of-Function Screening of Human MicroRNAs” in BioTechniques—International Journal of Life Science Methods, 2013 Feb;54(2):77-86. Dr. Civin and Iain Farrance, PhD, former Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, were among the co-authors on “Biochemistry of Signaling in Stem Cells, and Vice Versa” in Biophysica Acta, 2013 Feb; 1830(2):2267.
Vasken Dilsizian, MD, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, co-edited the Atlas of Nuclear Cardiology, which is now in its 4th edition (2013) and was published by Springer-Verlag in January. The atlas emphasizes today’s most current information in nuclear cardiology, meeting the requirements for those who will be using the book as a reference source for certifying or re-certifying in cardiology, nuclear cardiology, nuclear medicine or radiology.
Thorsten Fleiter, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, was among the co-authors on “Real-Time CT-Guided Percutaneous Placement of LV Pacing Leads” in JACC Cardiovascular Imaging, 2013 Jan;6:96–104.
Ashanpreet Grewal, MD (pictured), Assistant Professor; Molly Fitzpatrick, MD, Assistant Professor; Lynn Stansbury, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor; and Alina Grigore, MD, MHS, FASE, Associate Professor, all from the Department of Anesthesiology, were co-authors on “Heart as an Endocrine System” in International Anesthesiology Clinics, 2012;50(2):111-127. Drs. Grewal, Stansbury and Grigore were also among the co-authors on “Pulmonary Hypertension in Patients Undergoing Cardiac Surgery: Pathophysiology, Perioperative Management, and Outcomes” in the Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesiology, 2012 Oct 1;S1053-0770(12)00360-6 [Epub ahead of print].
Erin Hager, PhD (pictured), Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics; Maureen Black, PhD, the John A. Scholl, MD and Mary Louise Scholl, MD Professor of Pediatrics; and Laura Latta, MHS, Project Coordinator for Challenge! in the Department of Pediatrics, were among the co-authors on “The Perceived and Built Environment Surrounding Urban Schools and Physical Activity Among Adolescent Girls” in the Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 2013 Feb;45(1)Supplement:68-75.
Ziv Haskal, MD, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, was the author of “Get Protected: The Eyes Have It” in the Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology, 2013 Feb;24:205–206. Dr. Haskal and Bogdan Iliescu, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, were co-authors on “Reply To: Inferior Vena Cava Filter Placement and Retrieval in a Patient With Dual IVC” in Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology, 2012 Dec 19 [Epub ahead of print].
Bertrand Janne d’Othee, MD, MPH, Associate Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, was among the co-authors on “Predicting the Removal of Optionally Retrievable Caval Filters: Are We There Yet?” in the Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology, 2013 Jan;24:40–42.
David Jerrard, MD; Michael Witting, MD, MS; and Michael Winters, MD (pictured), all Associate Professors, Department of Emergency Medicine, were among the authors on “How Long Are Patients Willing to Wait in the Emergency Department Before Leaving Without Being Seen?” in the Western Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2012 Dec;13(6):463–467. At the time the manuscript was written, the lead author, Sanober Shaikh, MD, was an Emergency Medicine resident, and another co-author, Michael Brodeur, MD, was a fourth-year medical student.
Jaroslaw Krejza, MD, PhD, Professor, and Elias Melhem, MD (pictured), Professor and Chair, both from the Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, were among the co-authors on “Differentiation Between Oligodendroglioma Genotypes Using Dynamic Susceptibility Contract Perfusion-Weighted Imaging and Proton MR Spectroscopy” in the American Journal of Neuroradiology, 2013 Jan 31 [Epub ahead of print]. Dr. Melhem was also among the co-authors on “Whole-Brain Analysis of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis By Using Echo-Planar Spectroscopic Imaging” in Radiology, 2013 Jan 29 [Epub ahead of print].
Tibor Kristian, PhD, Assistant Professor, and Bingren Hu, PhD (pictured), Professor, both from the Department of Anesthesiology, were co-authors on “Guidelines for Using Mouse Global Cerebral Ischemia Models” in Translational Stroke Research, 2012 Dec;3(4):s12975-012-0236z.
Linda Lewin, MD (pictured), Associate Professor, and David Bowman, MD, Assistant Professor, both from the Department of Pediatrics, and Leah Millstein, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, were among the co-authors on “Interrater Reliability of an Oral Case Presentation Rating Tool in a Pediatric Clerkship” in Teaching and Learning in Medicine, 2013;25(1):31-38.
Joshua Lewis, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine and the Program in Personalized & Genomic Medicine, was a co-author on “The Functional G143E Variant of Carboxylesterase 1 Is Associated With Increased Clopidogrel Active Metabolite Levels and Greater Clopidogrel Response” in the Journal of Pharmacogenetics and Genomics, 2013 Jan;23:1-8.
Erik Lillehoj, PhD, Associate Professor; Thomas Blanchard, PhD, Associate Professor; and Wei Guang, MD, PhD, Research Associate, all from the Department of Pediatrics, co-authored “Suppression of IL-8 Production in Gastric Epithelial Cells by MUC1 Mucin and Peroxisome Proliferator-Associated Receptor-g” in the American Journal of Physiology Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology, 2012 Sep 15;303(6):G765-G774.
Patricia Lodato, DSc (pictured), Research Associate, and James Kaper, PhD, Professor and Chair, both from the Department of Microbiology & Immunology, were among the co-authors on “A Mini-ORF in the Leader Region Protects a T3SS mRNA From Degradation By RNase E” in Molecular Microbiology, 2012 Dec;86(5):1167-82.
Eric Manheimer, MS, and L. Susan Wieland, PhD, both Research Associates in the Center for Integrative Medicine, were among the co-authors on “An Evaluation of Epidemiological and Reporting Characteristics of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) Systematic Reviews (SRs)” in PLOS One, 2013 Jan 14;8(1):e53536 [Epub ahead of print]. Manheimer is Director of the Cochrane Collaboration CAM Field, which the Center founded and coordinates.
Christopher Meenan, CIIP, Research Associate, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, was among the co-authors on “Standards for Business Analytics and Departmental Workflow” in the Journal of Digital Imaging, 2013 Feb;26:53–57.
Robert Morales, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, was among the co-authors on “Evaluation of Superficial Musculoaponeurotic System Flap and Fat Graft Outcomes for Benign and Malignant Parotid Disease” in Otolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery, 2013 Jan 28 [Epub ahead of print].
Maria Nurminskaya, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, was a co-author on “Quercetin Attenuates Warfarin-Induced Vascular Calcification in Vitro Independently from Matrix Gla Protein” in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2013 Jan 25;288(4):2632-40. She was also among the co-authors on “Transglutaminase Inhibitors Attenuate Vascular Calcification In a Preclinical Model” in Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology, 2013 Jan;33(1):43-51.
Patrick Odonkor, MBChB (pictured), Assistant Professor; Lynn Stansbury, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor; Peter Rock, MD, MBA, Professor and the Dr. Martin A. Helrich Chair; Seema Deshpande, MBBS, Assistant Professor; and Alina Grigore, MD, MHS, FASE, Associate Professor, all from the Department of Anesthesiology, were co-authors on “Perioperative Management of Adult Surgical Patients on Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Support” in the Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesiology, 2012 Dec 28: S1053-0770(12)00525-3 [Epub ahead of print].
Brian Polster, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, was the author of “AIF, Reactive Oxygen Species, and Neurodegeneration: A ‘Complex’ Problem” in Neurochemistry International, 2012 Dec 12: S0197-0186(12)00392-0 [Epub ahead of print].
Philip Roman, MD, MPH (pictured), Assistant Professor; Richard Battafarano, MD, PhD, Associate Producer; and Alina Grigore, MD, MHS, FASE, Associate Professor, all from the Department of Anesthesiology, were co-authors on “Anesthesia for Tracheal Reconstruction and Transplantation” in Current Opinion in Anesthesiology, 2013 Feb;26(1):1-5.
Boris Sabirzhanov, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow; Bogdan Stoica, MD, Assistant Professor; and Alan Faden, MD (pictured), the David S. Brown Professor in Trauma, all from the Department of Anesthesiology and the Center for Shock, Trauma and Anesthesiology Research (STAR), which Dr. Faden directs, were among the co-authors on “Overexpression of HSP70 Attenuates Caspase-Dependent and Caspase-Independent Pathways and Inhibits Neuronal Apoptosis” in the Journal of Neurochemistry, 2012 Nov;123(4):542-54. Drs. Stoica and Faden, along with David Loane, PhD, Assistant Professor, and postdoctoral fellow Zaorui Zhao, PhD (first author) were among the co-authors on “Comparing the Predictive Value of Multiple Cognitive, Affective, and Motor Tasks after Rodent Traumatic Brain Injury” in the Journal of Neurotrauma, 2012 Oct 10;29(15):2475-89. Drs. Loane, Stoica and Faden were also among the co-authors on “Activation of mGluR5 and Inhibition of NADPH Oxidase Improves Functional Recovery After Traumatic Brain Injury” in the Journal of Neurotrauma, 2013 Jan 30 [Epub ahead of print].
Naomi Saenz, MD, Fourth-Year Resident, and Eliot Siegel, MD (pictured), Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, were among the co-authors on “Adrenal Gland Abnormality Detection Using Random Forest Classification” in the Journal of Digital Imaging, 2013 Jan 24 [Epub ahead of print].
Bogdan Stoica, MD, Assistant Professor; Junfang Wu, BM, PhD (pictured), Assistant Professor; Boris Sabirzhanov, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow; Zaorui Zhao, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow; and David Loane, PhD, Assistant Professor, all from the Department of Anesthesiology, and Alan Faden, MD, the David S. Brown Professor in Trauma in the Department of Anesthesiology and Director of the Center for Shock, Trauma and Anesthesiology Research (STAR) and the National Study Center for Shock and EMS, were among the co-authors on “Late Exercise Reduces Neuroinflammation and Cognitive Dysfunction After Traumatic Brain Injury” in Neurobiology of Disease, 2013 Jan 8:S0969-9961(13)00008-9 [Epub ahead of print].
Richard Thompson, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, was among the co-authors on “Structure-Selective Anisotropy Assay for Amyloid Beta Oligomers” in ACS Chemical Neuroscience, 2012 Nov 21;3(11):982-7; “Long Wavelength Fluorescence Ratiometric Zinc Biosensor” in the Journal of Fluorescence, 2013 Jan 24 [Epub ahead of print]; and “Quantitative Imaging of Mitochondrial and Cytosolic Free Zinc Levels in an Invitro Model of Ischemia/Reperfusion” in the Journal of Bioenergetics and Biomembranes, 2012;44(2):253-63.
Gerald Wilson, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, was among the co-authors on “Hsp70 is a Novel Posttranscriptional Regulator of Gene Expression That Binds and Stabilizes Selected mRNAs Containing AU-rich Elements” in Molecular Cellular Biology, 2013;33:71-84. He also co-authored a book chapter on “Analyses of RNA-Ligand Interactions by Fluorescence Anisotropy” in Biophysics for the Life Sciences, Volume 1, 2013, Springer Science+Business Media Inc.
Su Xu, PhD, Assistant Professor; Steven Roys, PhD, Research Associate; and Rao Gullapalli, PhD (pictured), Associate Professor, all from the Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, were among the co-authors on “Longitudinal In Vivo Developmental Changes in Metabolites in the Hippocampus of Fmr1 Knockout Mice” in the Journal of Neurochemistry, 2012 Dec;123:971–981.
Fan Zhang, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, and Bingren Hu, PhD (pictured), Professor, both from the Department of Anesthesiology, were among the co-authors on “Phosphorylation and Assembly of Glutamate Receptors After Brain Ischemia” in Stroke, 2013;44:170-176.