Over the past few months, I have talked a lot about celebration and our civil responsibility to acknowledge and honor each other’s successes whenever possible. I am confident in our understanding of the significance of celebration, particularly as it relates to our ability to practice gratitude. I am grateful for the many different perspectives, ideas, and skills that lead to our success as an academic medical community. As we celebrated Black History Month at our 12th Annual Celebrating Diversity Reception and Dinner on February 23, I urge us to further expand our efforts to create a culture in which we truly live by our value of diversity. The UMSOM’s mission to improve the health of the citizens of Maryland and beyond includes all citizens. Malcolm Forbes’ description of diversity as “the art of thinking independently together” applies to all interactions, including colleague-to-colleague, physician-to-patient, and student-to-professor, to name a few.
The term “diversity” indicates any difference — large or small including our upbringing, personal experiences, interests, personality, values, identity, and many more. Due to these various elements of difference, we have no possible way of predicting the lens through which some one may view and handle an interaction, a project, or a challenge. These differences present many options of approaches, and, with that, more opportunities for various solutions, insights, and breakthroughs.
Our new, fully launched Culture Transformation Initiative (CTI) is moving forward judiciously, with one of its primary goals to “create a diverse, inclusive, and respectful environment.” I am thrilled by its progress, including the quick-forming structure and organization and the substantive awareness of culture issues it has already produced. These results represent the excellent level of oversight and leadership that I entrusted to Dr. Nancy Lowitt, Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs and Professional Development. While the CTI demonstrates our internal efforts to effect our impact on policies, accountability, and our overall organizational culture, we must also review how these changes translate to our external footprint–right outside of our academic organization.
Investing and participating in the different aspects of the community in which we serve helps permeate the value of diversity. Whenever I hear of our own School of Medicine students taking the initiative to further our educational outreach mission, I know we are moving in the right direction. We maintain a strong partnership with Baltimore City Public Schools through the Talent Mentoring Program. This volunteer-based program grew from 14 schools last year to 20 schools this year because of the resolve and compassion of our medical students to engage in diverse communities outside of the University. As we recognize the potential for medical and scientific talents among a variety of populations, we know these outreach activities are crucial.
The way we listen, speak to each other, and treat each other on a daily basis reflects our genuine value and celebration of diversity. I offer my sincere appreciation to each segment of the UMSOM for its ambition and energy in supporting our goal for a respectful and inclusive environment. I encourage us all to continue our daily conscientious exercises, to determine and implement even more strategies for success in this area.
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
Recent Appointments
Michael Grasso, MD, PhD, FACP, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, has been selected as Chair of the Clinical Decision Support Working Group for the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA). He will serve as Chair from January 2019 through December 2020.
Kudos to our colleagues who are experts in their fields and give their all to represent the School of Medicine!
Hummira Abawi, DPM, Instructor, and Jacob Wynes, DPM, FACFAS, Assistant Professor, both from the Department of Orthopaedics, presented at the Baltimore Limb Deformity Course in September 2018. Dr. Abawi’s presentation was “Minimally Invasive Bunion Surgery: Methods and Outcomes,” and Dr. Wynes’ presentation was “Alphabet Soup of Foot and Ankle Alignment: Frontal, Sagittal, and Transverse Planes.”
Carissa Baker-Smith, MD, MS, MPH, FAAP, FAHA, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, presented Grand Rounds at Franklin Square Hospital in November 2018. Her presentation was titled “Pediatric Hypertension: An Update and Renewed Focus on the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease in Youth."
Maureen Black, PhD, the John A. Scholl, MD and Mary Louise Scholl, MD Professor in Pediatrics, gave the following presentations: “Advances in Early Child Development: A Pathway
to Equity” at Children’s Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada, on October 4, 2018.
- “Development & Validation of the D-Score for Measurement of Early Childhood Development,” at RTI International, Washington, D.C., on October 10, 2018.
- “Responsive Feeding or Division of Responsibility: Two Sides of the Same Coin,” at the Food and Nutrition Conference Expo (FNCE), in Washington D.C., on October 21, 2018.
- “Nutrition and Child Development: A Global Perspective,” at the Gilling’s Global School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, N.C., on October 22, 2018.
- “Placing Early Childhood Development on the Global Agenda: The Importance of Early Child Development,” at the American Academy of Pediatrics Annual Meeting, Orlando, Fla., on November 2, 2018.
- “Why HIV Programs Should Aim to Improve Both HIV Outcomes and Health and Development More Broadly,” at the Funders Concerned About AIDS Philanthropy Summit, Washington, D.C., on November 6, 2018.
Niel Constantine, PhD, Professor of Pathology, Institute of Human Virology, was accepted to present at the 2019 HIV Diagnostics Conference, March 25–28, 2019, in Atlanta, Ga. Dr. Constantine will present on “A Newer Generation of Rapid Assays: Detection of HIV and Syphilis Simultaneously” and “A U.S. Government Quality Assessment Program to Determine the Suitability of a Large Number and Variety of Rapid Tests.”
Vasken Dilsizian, MD, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, delivered two oral presentations: “FDG PET/CT for Endocarditis Evaluation” and “FDG for the Evaluation of Arrythmias,” along with co-chairing the “Cardiovascular Inflammation & Infection Imaging” session at the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Mid-Winter Scientific Sessions, which was held in Palm Springs, Calif., January 17–20, 2019.
Martin Flajnik, PhD, Professor, Department of Microbiology, presented a seminar titled “Origins of Antigen Receptors and the Major Histocompatibility Complex: The Answer to Everything,” at the Department of Immunology, University of Pittsburgh on January 10, 2019.
Rachel Gore, ScM, CGC, Instructor, Department of Pediatrics, presented a platform presentation at the 37th Annual National Society of Genetic Counselors Education Conference, held in Atlanta, Ga., in November 2018. The topic of her presentation was “Challenges to Informed Consent for Exome Sequencing: A Best-Worst Scaling Experiment.”
Rena Malik, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, was the senior author on a project presented at the Society of Women in Urology Annual Meeting on January 18, 2019 in Scottsdale, Ariz., titled “Perspectives of Parental Leave as a Practicing Physician in a Surgical Specialty.”
David Riedel, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Medicine, Institute of Human Virology, delivered a lecture titled, “HIV and Cancer: A Tale of Two Epidemics,” at the Department of Medicine Grand Rounds at Johns Hopkins University on January 11, 2019.
In early 2018, a cadre of medical leaders from South Korea—including physicians, hospital administrators, the president of the university hospital, professors of public health service and policy, assistant secretary of defense, nurses and the chief strategy and finance officer—traveled to the University of Maryland Medical Center to learn about the operations of a high-performing trauma center. As a result of this visit, the Republic of Korea (ROK) Armed Forces are building a new trauma hospital—South Korea’s first military operated center—based on the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center model. On August 31, 2018, the ROK Armed Forces had a groundbreaking ceremony, where Thomas Scalea, MD, The Honorable Francis X. Kelly Distinguished Professor in Trauma Surgery, offered words of congratulations on the new trauma hospital. The center will be a Level I trauma center that will care for both military and civilian casualties. Due to be completed in December 2019, the new trauma center will open for its first patients in early 2020.
Lynn Schriml, PhD, Associate Professor of Epidemiology & Public Health, Institute for Genome Sciences, was invited to present “Framing the Context of Microbiome Composition, Movement and Roles” at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Planetary Protection Group in Pasadena, Calif., January 8, 2019.
Congratulations to the following who have received honors!
Nariman Balenga, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, received the Early Career Award in Translational and Clinical Pharmacology from the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET) in January 2019.
David Feliciano, MD, Clinical Professor, Department of Surgery, was one of 38 surgeons in the United States inducted into the American College of Surgeons (ACS) inaugural class of the ACS Academy of Master Surgeons Educators.
Mira Ghneim, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, was awarded the 2019 Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma Junior Investigator Award, during the 32nd EAST Annual Scientific Assembly, January 15–19, 2019.
The Gold Humanism Honor Society Class of 2019, University of Maryland School of Medicine, will be awarding Wendy Hackshaw, Academic Services Specialist, Program in Trauma, the Art Cohen Award for her dedication to ensuring the students’ experience a “wonderful” Shock Trauma rotation. In addition, David Gens, MD, Professor, Department of Surgery, will be awarded with the Leondard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award at the Gold Humanism Honor Society ceremony in March.
Bankole Johnson, DSc, MD, FRCPsych, DFAPA, FACFEI, the Dr. Irving J. Taylor Professor and Chair, Department of Psychiatry, was awarded the R. Brinkley Smithers Distinguished Scientist Award in honor of his highly meritorious contributions in advancing the scientific understanding of alcoholism, its prevention, and treatment. American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) established the R. Brinkley Smithers and Distinguished Scientist Award and Lecture in 1995 as a lasting tribute to R. Brinkley Smithers who influenced American alcoholism policy, theory, and treatment.
Congratulations to our very productive faculty on their recent grants and contracts!
Niel Constantine, PhD, MT, Professor of Pathology, Institute of Human Virology, was awarded $457,395 for one year to support efforts for “The USAID Global Health Supply Chain QA Program” to assess the performance characteristics of diagnostic test kits and to provide technical assistance.
Meagan Fitzpatrick, PhD, Research Associate of Medicine, Center for Vaccine Development, received a five-year, $649,319 grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH/ NIAID) for “Mathematical modeling to optimize rotavirus vaccination in Sub-Saharan Africa.”
Dheeraj Gandhi, MBBS, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, was awarded $133,883 from MicroVention, Inc. for “PHIL DAVF: Study of Phil Embolic System in the Treatment of Intracranial Dural Arteriovenous Fistulas.” This is a prospective, multicenter, single-arm, clinical study evaluating outcomes in subjects with intracranial dural arteriovenous fistulas treated with PHIL device.
Gaurav Jindal, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, was awarded $126,350 from MicroVention, Inc. for “Ruptured Aneurysms Treated with Hydrogel Coils-RAGE.” This is a prospective, single-arm, multicenter, international post-market study to determine occlusion rates and safety when hydrogel coils are used in the treatment of ruptured intracranial aneurysms.
David Serre, PhD, Associate Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, Institute for Genome Sciences, received two grants from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH/NIAID). Each is a two-year, $275,000 R21, one for “Comprehensive Characterization of Intestinal Parasites in Infants and Their Impact on Diarrhea,” and the second for “Analyses of Transcriptomes from Individual Plasmodium sporozoites Using scRNA-seq.”
Matthew Trudeau, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Physiology, received a four-year, $1,321,001 R01 Grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIH/NIGMS) for “Conformational Dynamics of hERG Ion Channels.”
Emerson Wickwire, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, was awarded a $322,126 contract from Merck for “Insomnia Treatments in Medicare Beneficiaries with Alzheimer’s Disease.”
In The News
Colleen Hughes Driscoll, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, was interviewed by Rueters Health on the impacts of rooming-in practices and neonatal falls. The article focuses on Dr. Hughes Driscoll’s recent publication in Pediatrics, “In-Hospital Neonatal Falls: An Unintended Consequence of Efforts to Improve Breastfeeding.” Richard Lichenstein, MD, Professor, Department of Pediatrics, was the senior author of the publication.
Hats off to those who have been published!
Joshua Abzug, MD, Associate Professor, and Nathan O’Hara, MHA, Research Associate, both from the Department of Orthopaedics, were among the co-authors of “Normal Ranges of Upper Extremity Length, Circumference, and Rate of Growth in the Pediatric Population,” which was e-published in Hand (NY) on February 1, 2019.
Odessa Addison, DPT, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science, was a co-author on “Body-Weight Goals, Trends, and Weight-loss Techniques Among Patients with Peripheral Arterial Disease,” which was published in the December 2018 issue of Nutrition and Health.
Neha Amin, MD, Assistant Professor; Jill Remick, MD, Resident; and Manuj Agarwal, MD, Assistant Professor; all from the Department of Radiation Oncology, were among the authors of “Concurrent Radiation and Immunotherapy: Survey of Practice Patterns in the United States,” which was e-published in the December 2018 issue of the American Journal of Clinical Oncology.
Bridget Armstrong, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Pediatrics, was lead author of “Cortisol Reactivity and Weight Gain Among Adolescents Who Vary in Prenatal Drug Exposure,” which was published in the December 2018 issue of Pediatric Obesity. Maureen Black, PhD, the John A. Scholl, MD and Mary Louise Scholl, MD Professor in Pediatrics, was a co-author.
Carissa Baker-Smith, MD, MPH, MS, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, was among the co-authors of “Cardiovascular Disease in the Young, Science and Clinical Education Lifelong Learning Committee: Year in Review,” which was published in the Journal of the American Heart Association on November 1, 2018.
Kelley Banagan, MD, Assistant Professor; Eugene Koh, MD, PhD, Associate Professor; Steven Ludwig, MD, Professor; and Daniel Gelb, MD, Professor and Vice Chairman; all from the Department of Orthopaedics, were senior authors of “Outcomes of Multi-Level Vertebrectomy for Spondylodiscitis,” which was published in the August 2018 issue of Spine Journal. Separately, Dr. Koh was the senior author of “Origins of Eponymous Instruments in Spine Surgery,” which was published in the September 2018 issue of Journal of Neurosurgery.
Maureen Black, PhD, the John A. Scholl, MD and Mary Louise Scholl, MD Professor, and Erin Hager, PhD, Associate Professor, both from the Department of Pediatrics, and Elizabeth Parker, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, were among the co-authors of “Friends and Family: How African American Adolescents’ Perceptions of Dietary Beliefs and Behaviors of Others Relate to Diet Quality,” which was published in the December 2018 issue of the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Separately, Dr. Black was a co-author on “Homelessness During Infancy: Associations with Infant and Maternal Health and Hardship Outcomes,” which was published in the December 2018 issue of Cityscape: A Journal of Policy Development and Research. In addition, Dr. Black was lead author of the chapter, “First 1000 Days and Beyond: Strategies to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals,” in a book titled, Sustainable Development Goals: Using Developmental Science to Improve Young Lives Globally, which was published by Springer in 2018.
Svetlana Chapoval, MD, PhD, Visiting Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Center for Vascular and Inflammatory Diseases, co-authored “Neuroimmune Semaphorin 4A in Cancer Angiogenesis and Inflammation: A Promoter or a Suppressor?” which was published in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences on December 30, 2018.
Robert Creath, PhD, Assistant Professor, and Mark Rogers, PT, PhD, FAPTA, Volunteer Adjunct Professor, both from the Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science, were among the co-authors of “Low-Dose Hip Abductor-Adductor Power Training Improves Neuromechanical Weight-Transfer Control During Lateral Balance Recovery in Older Adults,” which was published in the December 2018 issue of Clinical Biomechanics.
Chris D’Adamo, PhD, Assistant Professor of Family & Community Medicine, Center for Integrative Medicine, was among the authors of “Operative Mortality Prediction for Primary Rectal Cancer: Age Matters,” which was published in the January 2019 issue of the Journal of American College of Surgeons. Separately, Dr. D’Adamo; Termeh Feinberg, PhD, MPH, Postdoctoral Fellow; L. Susan Wieland, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor; Mary Bahr-Robertson, Research Coordinator; all from the Department of Family & Community Medicine and the Center for Integrative Medicine, were co-authors on “Polyherbal Dietary Supplementation for Prediabetic Adults: Study Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial,” which was published in Trials on January 7, 2019.
Vasken Dilsizian, MD, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, was a co-author on “Aminophylline Shortage and Current Recommendations for Reversal of Vasodilator Stress: An ASNC Information Statement Endorsed by SCMR,” which was published in the December 2018 issues of the Journal of Nuclear Cardiology and the Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance.
Sara Dudley, MD, Clinical Instructor, Department of Radiation Oncology, was the senior author of “Outcomes and Characteristics of Patients Treated with Emergent Palliative Radiotherapy,” which was e-published in Practical Radiation Oncology on December 7, 2018.
Kyle Fischer, MD, MPH, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, is the lead author of the review article titled “Trauma-Informed Care for Violently Injured Patients in the Emergency Department,” which has been accepted by Annals of Emergency Medicine and is available at the journal’s website.
Dheeraj Gandhi, MBBS, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, was among the co-authors of “Risk of Radiation-Induced Cancer from Computed Tomography Angiography Use in Imaging Surveillance for Unruptured Cerebral Aneurysms,” which was published in Stroke on December 7, 2018.
Ana Lia Graciano, MD, FAAP, FCCM, Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, authored a book chapter titled, “Initial Management of the Child with Congenital Heart Disease,” which was included in the third edition of Pediatric Fundamental Critical Care Support (PFCCS) published by the Society of Critical Care Medicine. The PFCCS course and its companion text book, which is published in several languages, prepares non-intensivists, nurses and critical care practitioners to recognize, resuscitate and manage the critically-ill pediatric patient for the first 24 hours until transfer or appropriate critical care consultation can be arranged.
Rao Gullapalli, PhD, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, was the last author of “The Feasibility of Integrating Resting-State fMRI Networks into Radiotherapy Treatment Planning,” which was e-published in the Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Sciences on November 13, 2018. Separately, Dr. Gullapalli was quoted in the article profiling this groundbreaking work in “Resting-state fMRI Fine Tunes Brain Radiotherapy Plans,” which was published in Physics World on January 8, 2019.
R. Frank Henn III, MD, Associate Professor; Robert O’Toole, MD, the Hansjörg Wyss Medical Foundation Endowed Professor in Orthopaedic Trauma; Nathan O’Hara, MHA, Research Associate; and Marcus Sciadini, MD, Associate Professor; all from the Department of Orthopaedics, were among the co-authors of “Construct Validation of a Novel Hip Fracture Fixation Surgical Simulator,” which was published in the October 2018 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgery.
Brenda Hussey-Gardner, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor; Alison Falck, MD, Assistant Professor; Cynthia Bearer, MD, PhD, FAAP, Cobey Chair in Neonatology and Professor; all from the Department of Pediatrics, were among the co-authors of “Validity of the Best Beginnings Developmental Screen in Former Preterm Infants,” which was published in the December 2018 issue of Pediatric Research and Child Health.
Xiaofeng Jia, BM, PhD, Associate Professor; Jian Du, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow; Huanwen Chen, Medical Student; Xiuli Yang, MD, PhD and Liming Qing, MD, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellows; all from the Department of Neurosurgery, were authors of “Optimal Electrical Stimulation Boosts Stem Cell Therapy in Nerve Regeneration,” which was published in the October 2018 issue of Biomaterials. In addition, Dr. Jia is the corresponding author of “Three-dimensional (3D) Printed Scaffolds and Materials Selection for Bone Repair,” which was published in the January 2019 issue of Acta Biomaterialia.
Adeel Kaiser, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, was among the authors of “Evaluation of Cancer Specific Mortality with Surgery Versus Radiation as Primary Therapy for Localized High Grade Prostate Cancer in Men Younger than 60 Years,” which was published in the January 2019 issue of the Journal of Urology.
Logan Kolakowski, MD, Julio Jauregui, MD, and Andrew Dubina, MD, Residents; Derek Jones, Laboratory Research Technician; Katrina Williams, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow; Syed Hasan, MD, Associate Professor; R. Frank Henn, MD, Associate Professor; Mohit Gilotra, MD, Associate Professor; all from the Department of Orthopaedics, were among the co-authors of “Neer Award 2018: Benzoyl Peroxide Effectively Decreases Preoperative Cutibacterium Acnes Shoulder Burden: A Prospective Randomized Controlled Trial,” which was published in the September 2018 issue of the Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery. Separately, Drs. Gioltra, Hasan, Henn, Jauregui, and William Shield, MD, Resident, also from the Department of Orthopaedics, were among the co-authors of “Reverse Shoulder Arthroplasty: Perioperative Considerations and Complications,” which was published in the June 2018 issue of the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery.
Hannah Lane, MPH, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Pediatrics, was a lead author on “‘Wellness Champions for Change,’ A Multi-Level Intervention to Improve School-Level Implementation of Local Wellness Policies: Study Protocol for A Cluster Randomized Trial,” which was published in Contemporary Clinical Trials on October 18, 2018. Co-authors included Yan Wang, MD, DrPH, Associate Professor; Maureen Black, PhD, the John A. Scholl, MD and Mary Louise Scholl, MD Professor; and Erin Hager, PhD, Associate Professor; all from the Department of Pediatrics; and Elizabeth Parker, PhD, RD, Assistant Professor, Department of Family & Community Medicine.
Sung-Woo Lee, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, was the lead author of “Dosimetric Characterization of an Intensity Modulated X-Ray Brachytherapy System,” which was published in the October-December 2018 issue of the Journal of Medical Physics.
Thomas MacVittie, PhD, Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, was one of the co-authors of “WAG/RijCmcr Rat Models for Injuries to Multiple Organs by Single High Dose Ionizing Radiation: Similarities to Non-Human Primates (NHP),” which was e-published in the International Journal of Radiation Biology on December 21, 2018.
Ryan Miller, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, and Jessica Lee, MD, Resident, Department of Medicine, were co-authors of “Fatigue and Shortness of Breath in an 18-year-old Girl,” which was published in the December 2018 issue of Pediatrics in Review.
Jason Nascone, MD, Associate Professor; Marcus Sciadini, MD, Professor; Theodore Manson, MD, Associate Professor; Christopher LeBrun, MD, Assistant Professor; and Robert O’Toole, MD, the Hansjörg Wyss Medical Foundation Endowed Professor in Orthopaedic Trauma; all from the Department of Orthopaedics, were among the co-authors of “Prediction of Tibial Nonunion at the 6-Week Time Point,” which was published in the November 2018 issue of Injury.
Nathan O’Hara, MHA, Research Associate, Robert O’Toole, MD, the Hansjörg Wyss Medical Foundation Endowed Professor in Orthopaedic Trauma, both from the Department of Orthopaedics, were among the co-authors of “Risk Factors for Knee Stiffness Surgery after Tibial Plateau Fracture Fixation,” which was published in the September 2018 issue of the Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma. Separately, Drs. O’Hara and Toole, and Theodore Manson, MD, Associate Professor, also from the Department of Orthopaedics, were among the co-authors of “Radiographic Predictors of Symptomatic Locking Screw Removal after Treatment of Tibial Fractures with Intramedullary Nails,” which was published in the September 2018 of Injury. In addition, Drs. O’Hara, Toole, and Mason were among the authors of “Variations in the Organisms Causing Deep Surgical Site Infections in Fracture Patients at a Level I Trauma Center (2006–2015),” which was published in the December 2018 issue of the Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma.
Elizabeth Parker, PhD, RD, Assistant Professor, Department of Family & Community Medicine, was among the authors of “Friends and Family: How African American Adolescents’ Perceptions of Dietary Beliefs And Behaviors of Others Relate to Diet Quality,” which was published in the December 2018 issue of the Journal of Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
Marcus Sciadini, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Orthopaedics, and Chief of Orthopaedics at the University of Maryland Medical Center Midtown Campus, is the senior author of “The Use of External Fixation for the Management of the Unstable Anterior Pelvic Ring,” which was published in the September 2018 issue of the Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma.
Angela Trude, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Pediatrics, was lead author of “The Impact of a Multilevel Childhood Obesity Prevention Intervention on Healthful Food Acquisition, Preparation, and Fruit and Vegetable Consumption on African-American Adult Caregivers,” which was published in Public Health Nutrition on November 22, 2018. Separately, Dr. Trude was the author of “A Multilevel, Multicomponent Childhood Obesity Prevention Group-Randomized Controlled Trial Improves Healthier Food Purchasing and Reduces Sweet-Snack Consumption Among Low-Income African-American Youth,” which was published in the Journal of Nutrition on October 29, 2018.
L. Susan Wieland, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Family & Community Medicine, Center for Integrative Medicine, was co-author of “Acupuncture and Related Interventions for the Treatment of Symptoms Associated with Carpal Tunnel Syndrome,” which was published in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews on December 2, 2018. Dr. Wieland also authored “Psychological Interventions for Needle-Related Procedural Pain and Distress in Children and Adolescents: Summary of A Cochrane Review,