What's the Buzz? Summer 2021

We are finally back on campus! When I think about where we were in this pandemic last summer, I am filled with encouragement and gratitude for where this journey has brought us. COVID-19 has certainly stretched us in many different ways, most of which were unpleasant and grueling in the process. Our health and well-being were threatened, our hospitals pushed to the limits, our clinical revenues strained thin, and our academic endeavors thrust into unknown territories. Many of us experienced a difficult transition to the work-and study-from home lifestyle. While we may have eventually grown accustomed to new schedules and new methods of being productive, the transition itself was not easy. This summer, we confront another transition — that of going back to in-person work and learning. This season of change will prove just as difficult as the first, as we are creatures of habit and we must change our habits once again.

While the process of change does not always go smoothly, nor does it necessarily produce the most enthusiastic response, it is typically worth it. The pace of our research and discovery did not slow — in fact, we were busier and more productive than ever. Our research scientists helped to bring not one, but two COVID-19 vaccines to market and made critical coronavirus treatment advances. They began a Phase 3 clinical trial of a third COVID-19 vaccine candidate and a pediatric clinical trial of an already authorized vaccine. We found critical links between habitual snoring and significant brain changes in children, as well as life-saving links between malaria-preventive drugs and reduced infections in school children.

Most of us were able to stay safe and healthy by staying at home. We acquired new multi-tasking and technological skill sets. Social distancing reminded us of the importance of social activity and community. All of these benefits of the transition we made last year, we bring back to our in-person environments. We return with more capabilities and more resilience. That is why I am encouraged and hopeful that returning to campus will bring another season of growth and success for us all.

Aside from this major environmental change we are all experiencing together, and everything that comes with that, we also have a few key School of Medicine leaders who are in the process of making changes of their own. Dr. Christopher Harman, the Sylvan Frieman, MD Endowed Professor and Chair of the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, will retire in December. Dr. Harman has served as a key member of the department since 1997, and his leadership has dramatically increased its national Blue Ridge ranking, educational scholarship, and clinical revenues. Dr. Robert Buchanan, Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Director of the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center (MPRC), will also leave his post as director in December. The MPRC has flourished as a national leader in translational research in schizophrenia and related disorders through Dr. Buchanan’s influence. National search committees for both of these positions are currently underway. I want to thank both Dr. Harman and Dr. Buchanan for their steadfast commitment and unwavering dedication over the many years. The Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences and the MPRC will retain the marks each of them made, and carry their progress through to the next leaders and the next chapters.

As we all lower our guards and become re-accustomed to life as we knew it before COVID-19, I want to encourage you to remain cautious and careful. COVID-19 and its many variants have not yet been eliminated, so we must continue with certain practices of protection, including washing our hands, avoiding touching our faces, and getting vaccinated. Finally, if you haven’t already, I hope that everyone will take the time they have earned this summer to take a break. This may be a transitional summer, but it is still a good time to rest and recharge. Stay safe and stay healthy.

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

New Faculty - July

M. Sadegh Asadi, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, joined the Heart Failure and Transplant Program on July 1, 2021.

Lisa Weiss Forbess, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, joined the Adult Congenital Program on June 1, 2021.

Syed Waqas Haider, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, will be joining our Midtown Cardiology team effective August 1, 2021.

Albert Hicks, III, MD, MPH, FACC, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, joined our Advanced Heart Failure team on July 1, 2021.

Heather Mutchie, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, joined the Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, Division of Gerontology. Dr. Mutchie will work under the leadership of Denise Orwig, PhD, Professor and Director of the Baltimore Hip Studies on a newly funded NIH multi-PI grant entitled, “Feasibility of Remote Home Support Coordinators to Decrease the Physical and Psychological Impact of Social Distancing on Older Adults” (Grant P30 AG031679).

Mark Ehrenreich, MD, Assistant Professor, Chief of Education, Department of Psychiatry, announces the incoming residents in July 2021. PGY-1 Residents will include: Allison Aldrich, Laura Avigan, Ryan Cooper, Celia Islam, Valerie Jenkins, Nicole Juszczak, Lisa Kremen, Lani Matthews, Kimia Momeni, Swetha Mummini, Nisha Naik, Francis Pham, Alexandru Sorohan, Boris Tizenberg, Solomiya Tsymbalyuk, Annabel Umeh, and Jennifer Wineke.

New Faculty - June

Montasir Elahi, MD, D.Eng, joined the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences in the Division of Research on March 29, 2021, as a Research Associate. Dr. Elahi received his D.Eng in Biotechnology from Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo, Japan in 2004. He received his postdoctoral training at Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan from April 2014 to March 2016. Subsequently, he was promoted to Project Assistant Professor in the same university. He has extensive experience in the link between diabetes and Alzheimer’s disease. Dr. Elahi will conduct research in early neural development impacted by maternal diabetes and will establish a new line of research in the effect of insulin resistance/diabetes on the ontogeny and progression of Alzheimer’s disease.

Kathleen Kane, PsyD, joined the Department of Psychiatry and holds a secondary appointment within the Department of Pediatrics, effective April 26, 2021. Dr. Kane received her Doctor of Psychology at the American School of Professional Psychology at Argosy University in Arlington, VA, in 2010. She did a predoctoral Internship in Pediatric Psychology at Mt. Washington Pediatric Hospital (MWPH) in Baltimore from 2009 to 2010. She followed this with a postdoctoral fellowship in Pediatric Psychology at MWPH from 2010 to 2011.

Lei Ren, PhD, joined the Department of Radiation Oncology on March 15, 2021, as a Professor and Director of Medical Physics Research in the Division of Medical Physics. He was previously at Duke University, where he was a Professor and Director of Physics Research in the Radiation Oncology Department. Dr. Ren received his undergraduate degree from the Academic Talent Program in Tsinghua University (Beijing, China). He completed his PhD in medical physics from Duke University. His research focuses are development and applications of artificial intelligence for image-guided radiation therapy, including image reconstruction, processing, registration, synthesis, 4D imaging, as well as radiomics and clinical decision making. His research has been funded by multiple NIH R01 and industry grants. He also provides frequent reviews at NIH study sections.

Elizabeth Tunkle, BSN, MSN, joined the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences in the Division of Midwifery on May 10, 2021, as an Instructor. Ms. Tunkle earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing from Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing in 2012. She received her Master of Science degree in Nurse Midwifery/Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner from Georgetown University in 2017. She is experienced in providing primary and specialty health care for women, including educating women on birth options and partnering with them in planning their child’s birth. Ms. Tunkle is also experienced as an Emergency Room Nurse and has developed skills to quickly assess patient needs and learned to work collaboratively with doctors and staff to provide exceptional patient care skills. Her responsibilities will include providing care in our ambulatory centers and the Obstetrical Care Unit (L&D).

Bingbing Wang, PhD, joined the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences in the Division of Research on April 12, 2021, as an Assistant Professor. Dr. Wang earned his PhD in Pathobiology in 2003 from the University of Washington in Seattle, WA, followed by a two-year fellowship in Medical Genetics at the University of Washington, and a five-year fellowship in Pathology and Immunology at Harvard Medical School and Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, MA. Dr. Wang was appointed as Research Assistant Professor with the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Brunswick, NJ.

Jinghao Zhou, PhD, joined the Department of Radiation Oncology on May 3, 2021, as an Associate Professor and will be working at the department’s Shore Health location. He was previously at the Rutgers–Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, where he was an Associate Professor in the Radiation Oncology Department. From 2013 to 2018, he worked at Maryland’s Upper Chesapeake community practice site. Dr. Zhou received his undergraduate degree in biomedical engineering from Tsinghua University (Beijing, China) and completed his PhD in biomedical engineering at Rutgers. His research interests focus on development of applications in image-guided radiation therapy, biomedical image analysis and modeling, computer vision, and machine learning.

Recent Appointments - July

Anuj Gupta, MD, FACC, FSCAI, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, has been selected as the co-Director/chief of Clinical Cardiovascular Medicine.

Stella Hines, MD, MSPH, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, has been elected to the position of Co-Chair for the American Thoracic Society Section on Terrorism and Inhalational Disasters. She will serve as Co-Chair, 2021-2022 and then Chair, 2022-2023.

Charles Hong, MD, PhD, the Melvin Sharoky, MD Professor in Medicine, was elected to a three-year term on the Board of Directors of the Sarnoff Foundation for Cardiovascular Research. He also was elected as the Specialty Chief Editor overseeing cardiovascular medicine and hematology at Frontiers in Drug Discovery.

Kathleen To, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, Program in Trauma, was appointed Chair of the VA Maryland HealthCare System Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) Committee. The committee serves all of the VAMHCS sites in Maryland.

Recent Appointments - June

Peter Bowman, PT, DPT, FAAOMPT, Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science, has been appointed as the Director of Clinical Therapy Services for University of Maryland Orthopaedic Associates.

Roy Film, PT, MPT, DPT, OCS, FAAOMPT, Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science, has accepted an invitation from the World Health Organization (WHO) to work on the development of the Package of Interventions for Rehabilitation (PIR) as a member of the WHO Rehabilitation Programme’s Peer Review Group for Musculoskeletal Conditions.

Wendy Lane, MD, MPH, Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, has been appointed Director of the Maryland CHAMP program (Child Abuse Medical Professionals), an MDH sponsored program that provides training and peer review to Maryland physicians and nurses who do clinical child abuse work.

Taylor Miller, MD, Resident, Department of Emergency Medicine, was invited to be the first Assistant Vice Chair of the Emergency Medicine Residents’ Association Critical Care Committee. The one-year appointment began April 15, 2021.

Alexis Salerno, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, successfully obtained official approval from the Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship Accreditation Council for the department’s new ultrasound fellowship on April 8, 2021. Dr. Salerno will serve as the Advanced Emergency Medicine Ultrasonography Fellowship Director.

Congratulations to the following who have received honors! - July

Annabelle Belcher, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, was recently awarded the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) Abstract Submission Award Honorable Mention: Underserved Population, for her abstract “Implementation of a Telemedicine-MOUD Program in a Rural Jail during COVID-19.” The recognition is presented to the primary author of a very high scoring abstract, and Dr. Belcher presented at the virtual ASAM 2021 conference.

Laura Buchanan, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, was selected as an honorary Student Marshal for the 2021 School of Medicine Graduation Ceremony.

Mark Ehrenreich, MD, Assistant Professor, Chief of Education, and the Department of Psychiatry, would like to congratulate three of its residents who won awards at the Maryland Psychiatric Society’s Poster and Paper Competition. Rachel Dillinger, MD, won the best paper award by a resident/fellow for “Addressing the Stigma Surrounding Serious Mental Illness in Adolescents: A Brief Intervention.” Mark Kvarta, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, and Jooyoung Lee, MD, MS, were finalists in the resident and fellow poster competition for “Abnormal Anterior Cingulate Activation Revealed by a Novel Ankle Shock Stress Task in Schizophrenia and Association with Depression and Psychosis,” and “Depression-Related Internet Search Volume as a Correlate of Future Child and Adolescent Suicides: A Cross-correlational Study of Monthly Google Search Volume and Suicide Rate of Young Individuals in the United States,” respectively.

Howard Eisenberg, MD, Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Top 100 Registry–Top 100 Doctors.

Matthew Frieman, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, has been awarded a “COVID19 Hero” award by The Daily Record.

Samuel Galvagno, DO, PhD, Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, along with Jesse Shriki, MD, Surgical Critical Care Fellow, R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, received the UMMC Attending of the Year and Fellow of Year award on Doctor’s Day on March 30, 2021.

Kimberly Gordon-Achebe, MD, DFAPA, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, was selected for the class of 2021 Women’s Wellness through Equity and Leadership (WEL) 2.0 Scholars Cohort by the American Psychiatric Association. The overarching goal is to encourage female physicians to engage in networking, mentorship, and training within a wide range of diverse demographics and abilities.

Aikaterini Kontrogianni-Konstantopoulos, PhD, Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, has been selected to receive a Teaching Commendation for Foundations Course for the 2020–2021 academic year. This award is given by the Office of Medical Education to high-rated lecturing faculty in each course as determined by student evaluations.

Joseph Martinez, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was selected by the University of Maryland School of Medicine’s Class of 2021 to deliver the Faculty Speaker Address as part of their graduation ceremony which took place on May 20, 2021.

Amal Mattu, MD, Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was among the authors of “The Relationship of Large City Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrests and the Prevalence of COVID-19,” an early version of which received a Star Research Achievement Award from the Society for Critical Care Medicine at the society’s annual Critical Care Congress January 31, 2021. Dr. Mattu also received a second Academy for Scholarship Distinguished Educator Award for “Development of Enduring Educational Materials” from the Council of Residency Directors in Emergency Medicine on May 7, 2021. He had previously received the award in 2015.

Matthew Miyamoto, a rising 2nd year medical student in the lab of Charles Hong, MD, was awarded a 2021 AOA Carolyn L. Kuckein Student Research Fellowship for a project entitled, “Uncovering the Role of RTTN in Impaired Cardiomyocyte Maturation-Related Congenital Dilated Cardiomyopathy.”

Kathleen Neuzil, MD, MPH, FIDSA, the Myron M. Levine, MD, DTPH, Professor in Vaccinology and Director, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, was honored as the co-recipient of the 2021 Sonia Skarlatos Public Service Award from the American Society of Gene & Cell Therapy (ASGCT) for her work in advancing the development of mRNA vaccines through the NIH trial networks.

Devang Patel, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, was honored with the Pre-Clinical Golden Apple Teaching Award by the UMSOM Class of 2021.

Jill RachBeisel, MD, the Dr. Irving J. Taylor Professor and Chair, and Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, was named by The Daily Record as one of Maryland’s Top 100 Women. The winners were celebrated during a virtual event on May 13, 2021.

Gary Schwartzbauer, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, received a Teaching Commendation for Brain and Behavior for the 2020–2021 academic year from the School of Medicine. This award is given by the Office of Medical Education to high-rated lecturing faculty in each course as determined by student evaluations.

Alexandra Vlk, MSTP Student, has been awarded an AAI Trainee Abstract Award by the American Association of Immunologists. Her outstanding scientific abstract was selected for both an oral presentation in the Block Symposia and a poster presentation at the Virtual Immunology 2021 annual meeting held by the society in May 2021. This award supports graduate students and postdoctoral fellows whose first-author abstracts are selected for oral presentations.

George Willis, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was selected by the University of Maryland School of Medicine’s Class of 2021 as the recipient of a Student Council Faculty Award for Best Clinical Faculty. This is one of the highest honors the students can give a faculty member and is awarded to “members of the faculty of the University of Maryland School of Medicine who have proven to be the most effective teachers in the preclinical and clinical years, as well as exemplary role models for the class.” Dr. Willis received the award on May 20, 2021 as part of the class’s graduation ceremony.

The following faculty members were recognized at this year’s Epidemiology & Public Health Commencement Ceremony

Sally Adebamowo, MBBS, MSc, ScD, Assistant Professor, MPH Faculty Teaching and Mentoring Award
Jennifer Albrecht, PhD, Associate Professor, Epi, Human Genetics & Gerontology Faculty Mentoring Award
Jessica Brown, PhD, Assistant Professor, Epi, Human Genetics & Gerontology Faculty Teaching Award
Laundette Jones, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor, 2021 inductee into the Beta Tau Chapter of Delta Omega Honorary Society in Public Health
Kerri Thom, MD, Professor, Medical Teaching Award

The Department of Psychiatry congratulates the following faculty members for their awards at the 2021 School of Medicine Graduation Ceremony:

Marissa Flaherty, MD, Assistant Professor, Student Council Award for Best Clinical Faculty
Ann Hackman, MD, Associate Professor, School of Medicine Graduation Faculty Marshal
Constance Lacap, DO, Assistant Professor, School of Medicine Graduation Platform Marshal

Congratulations to the following who have received honors! - June

J onathan Baghdadi, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, has been selected as one of the National Academy of Medicine’s (NAM) 10 professionals for the inaugural class of the NAM Scholars in Diagnostic Excellence program. He was recognized for his proposal, “Diagnostic Stewardship of Multiplex Molecular Panels to Reduce Diagnostic Error.” Funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, this collaborative program with the Council of Medical Specialty Societies (CMSS) supports up to 10 scholars in a one-year, part-time experience to advance the scholars’ diagnostic skills, reduce diagnostic errors that lead to patient harm, and accelerate their career development as national leaders in this field. The scholars were chosen based on their professional qualifications and accomplishments, demonstrated leadership in the field, potential to advance diagnostic excellence, and quality, feasibility, and implementation of their project proposals.

Rana Malek, MD, Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, is the recipient of the H. Jack Baskin, MD, Endocrine Teaching Award, which was awarded by the American Association of Clinical Endocrinology at its 2021 AACE Annual Meeting.

Olivia Uddin, MD, PhD candidate in the laboratory of Asaf Keller, PhD, Professor and Chair, both in the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, was selected as an award recipient for the 2021 NIH Outstanding Scholars in Neuroscience Award Program (OSNAP).

Zeljko Vujaskovic, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, was named in May as a recipient of a Lifetime Achievement award from the Maryland Daily Record as part of its annual Healthcare Heroes recognitions. The awards will be presented at a virtual ceremony on June 24.

Rachel Wiltjer, DO, Resident, Department of Emergency Medicine, was a winner of the Council of Residency Directors’ 2021 Clinical Pathologic Case Competition Semifinals on April 12, 2021. Reed Macy, MD, Resident, and Sam Yarmis, MD, Resident, both from the Department of Emergency Medicine, were runners-up.

According to the latest rankings of NIH funding, the University of Maryland School of Medicine’s Department of Anesthesiology ranked #10 amongst all U.S. Departments of Anesthesiology. Since 2016, for five years in a row, the department has been ranked #11 or higher. Being in the top 10 for two years in a row is a great accomplishment, especially in this era of constrained NIH funding. By way of comparison, only 52 Anesthesiology departments have any NIH funding. The department’s NIH funding is listed in the Blue Ridge report at $7.5M; the median funding for all U.S. Anesthesiology Departments is $2.1M.

Shock Trauma GO-TEAM members Em Drager, CRNA, and Gerald Slobogean, MD, MPH, Associate Professor, Department of Orthopaedics, have been nominated for a Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Services Systems (MIEMSS) Star of Life Award for their role in an emergency response call in the summer of 2020 at Rocks State Park. Working with first responders, the patient—whose leg was entrapped by rocks in the rapids—was successfully extricated and taken to a nearby hospital for care. The GO-TEAM is comprised of highly-trained members who are called upon to assist with extrications that may take more than one hour, and they serve as a specialized component of Maryland’s statewide emergency medical system. The Shock Trauma GO-TEAM is composed of an attending physician (anesthesiologist, surgeon, critical care medicine specialist) and a certified registered nurse anesthetist. The Star of Life Awards honor those who help to prevent death and disability from injury or sudden illness.

Two Program in Neuroscience students, Lace Riggs, PhD Candidate, and Olivia Uddin, MD/PhD Candidate, were selected for the prestigious NIH Outstanding Scholars in Neuroscience Award Program. The award is meant to recognize those who are conducting exceptional research and have great academic potential in their scientific PhD (or PhD equivalent) programs and early postdoctoral careers. Only 25 neuroscientists are selected for this award across the nation, which includes: (1) a certificate honoring selection as an NIH OSNAP recipient; (2) an invitation to visit the NIH either in person at the Bethesda, MD, campus or virtually (if necessary) for an Award Symposium where awardees meet with NIH leadership, investigators, and research trainees to learn about the unique resources and research conducted in the Intramural Research Program (IRP); (3) the opportunity to present a poster about their own research; and (4) the opportunity to meet with Program Officers from institutes of interest to learn about funding opportunities.

In the Media - July

Clement Adebamowo, BM, ChB, ScD, FWACS, FACS, Professor, Departmentof Epidemiology & Public Health, was featured in the article “How I Became a Surgeon, Clinical Researcher, and Director of Global Health Cancer Research,” published in the ASCO Connection: Journal of Clinical Oncology on May 16, 2021.

Elizabeth Clayborne, MD, MA, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was interviewed for:

“This ER Doc and Mom of 2 Wants You to Know She Is Not Superwoman,” published by Everyday Health on April 30, 2021.
“One Year Later: Pregnant Doctors Fighting COVID in the ER,” aired by CNN on May 9, 2021 as a Mother’s Day special follow-up story to one originally aired May 5, 2020.
“The Takeaways from the ‘CDC Referring to Masking Is That, Really, If You’re Vaccinated, You’re Safe’: Doctor,” published by Yahoo Finance on May 17, 2021.

Dana Cunningham, PhD, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, and Director of the Prince George’s School Mental Health Initiative, was recently featured in a People Magazine Exclusive for her company, Black Mental Wellness. Dr. Cunningham is co-founder of Black Mental Wellness, Corp., an organization whose mission is to “provide access to evidence-based information and resources about mental health and behavioral health topics from a Black perspective, to highlight and increase the diversity of mental health professionals, and to decrease the mental health stigma in the Black community.”

Aki Honasoge, MD, Resident, Department of Emergency Medicine, discussed a clinical case of agitation and tachycardia with refusal of care on the May 6, 2021, episode of the EMCast podcast.

Sharon Hoover, PhD, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, was quoted in The Washington Post article, “Partly Hidden by Isolation, Many of the Nation’s School Children Struggle with Mental Health.”

Scott Jerome, DO, FACC, FASNC, FSCCT, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, was interviewed by PBS’s Direct Connection show on exercising, sports and cardiac involvement among COVID patients.

Eric Weintraub, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, was recently featured and quoted in the article, “People with Substance Use Disorders Face Barriers to Getting the COVID-19 Vaccine” by Verywell Health. He emphasized the need for healthcare practitioners to reach out to those with substance use disorders both in and outside of treatment to discuss and encourage the vaccine.

The National Center for School Mental Health of the Department of Psychiatry provided input and collaboration to “Enhancing School Capacity to Support Children’s Mental Health,” a recent brief from the National Conference of State Legislators. The brief described core components of comprehensive school mental health systems, multi-tiered systems of support, system-level strategies, and more. Resources, projects, and recommendations from the National Center for School Mental Health team are included throughout the brief.

The Eastern Shore Mobile Care Collaborative (ESMCC), a collaboration including the Department of Psychiatry, was recently mentioned in the Health and Human Services best practice guidelines, Telehealth for Behavioral Health Care. Eric Weintraub, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, was further recognized for providing insight to the telebehavioral health guide, which focused on informing health care providers who are newly established and interested in incorporating aspects of telebehavioral health in their practice.

In the Media - June

Kenneth Butler, DO, Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was featured in “The Physiologically Difficult Airway,” episode of the Critical Care Perspectives in Emergency Medicine podcast on April 20, 2021, discussing pearls and pitfalls in intubating patients with physiologic derangements that place them at high-risk for peri-intubation catastrophes.

Elizabeth Clayborne, MD, MA, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was interviewed for “Doctor on J&J Vaccine: ‘You Have a Much Higher Risk of Getting a Blood Clot if You Smoke,’ which was published by Yahoo Finance on April 19, 2021.

Zhe Han, PhD, Associate Professor, Division of Endocrinology Diabetes and Nutrition, Department of Medicine, and Director, Center for Precision Disease Modeling, has reported findings on a cancer drug, remdesivir, that is showing potential to lessen the toxicity of a protein from the virus that causes COVID-19. This discovery opens the door to testing more effective drugs for treating COVID-19 patients. Dr. Han’s findings were reported simultaneously on March 25, 2021 in two Cell & Bioscience articles. A press release from the University of Maryland School of Medicine resulted in 22 published articles from at least nine different countries and was reported locally on WBAL-TV.

Congratulations to our very productive faculty on their recent grants and contracts! - July

Jonathon Baghdadi, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, received a one-year, $20,000 grant from the SHEA Education & Research Foundation for his project entitled “Diagnostic Stewardship of Multiplex Molecular Panel Tests.” Dr. Baghdadi also recieved a three-year, $313,572 award for his project entitled “Improving Use of Multiplex Molecular Panel Tests to Reduce Unnecessary Antibiotics.”

Anna Birukova, MD, Professor, Department of Medicine, received a four-year, $506,825 grant from National Institute of Health (NIH) for “Control of Septic Inflammation and Lung Microvascular Endothelial Barrier by Cell Junction Signalling Nexus.”

Wei Chao, MD, PhD, FAHA, Professor, Department of Anesthesiology and Physiology, was awarded a $1,931,250 R35 grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIH/NIGMS) to study “Extracellular miRNAs, Innate Immunity, and Critical Illness.” According to NIH, the goal of the R35 award, also known as Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) is to provide investigators with greater stability and flexibility, thereby enhancing scientific productivity and the chances for important breakthroughs.

Rong Chen, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, was awarded $423,231 for a two-year cooperative agreement from NIDA entitled “Clear Volume Imaging with Machine Learning: A Novel Tool to Identify Brain-Wide Neuronal Ensembles of Opioid Relapse in Rat Models.”

Kathleen Connors, MSW, LCSW-C, Instructor, Department of Psychiatry, was recently awarded as Principal Investigator for the project, “Promoting Positive Outcomes for Infants and Toddlers” by the Maryland State Department of Education. The project spans this year and is for $50,493. Sharing Facilitating Attuned Interactions (FAN), is a partnership among the Programs of Assertive Community Treatment (PACT), University of Maryland, and the Maryland Behavioral Health Administration (BHA). FAN will create three cohorts of agencies across the state that serve infants, young children, and their families. Carole Norris-Shortle, MSW, LCSW-C, Clinical Assistant Professor, serves as the national trainer for the project, and Brijan Fellows, LCSW-C, both from the Department of Psychiatry, serves as the state trainer.

Fu Hu, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology; William Teeter, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine; Neeraj Badjatia, MD, MS, Professor, Department of Neurology; Thomas Scalea, MD, The Honorable Francis X. Kelly Distinguished Professor of Trauma Surgery; Peter Rock, MD, MBA, Professor, Department of Anesthesiology; Samuel Galvagno, DO, PhD, Professor, Department of Anesthesiology; and Shiming Yang, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, received a four-year, $7.87M grant from the US Army Medical Material Agency for “Interoperable Medical Automated Systems (iMAS).”

Alysse Kowalski, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Pediatrics, is the recipient of a two-year postdoctoral fellowship from UMB Institute for Clinical & Translational Research (ICTR) for “Effectiveness of an Integrated Multiple Micronutrient Nutrition and Responsive Caregiving Intervention to Improve Child Development,” beginning July 1, 2021. Maureen Black, PhD, the John A. Scholl, MD and Mary Louise Scholl, MD Professor in Pediatrics, is her primary mentor.

Surbhi Leekha, MBBS, MPH, Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, received a one and a half-year, $26,500 contract from the American Hospital Association for her project entitled “Let’s Make a C-Difference: The CDI Prevention Collaborative.”

Myron Levine, MD, DTPH, the Simon and Bessie Grollman Distinguished Professor, Department of Medicine, received a two-year, $800,000 grant from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for “Samoa Typhoid Fever Surveillance Initiative.”

Istvan Merchenthaler, MD, PhD, DSc, Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, received a five-year, $202,118 sub-contract with the University of Massachusetts for work on an NIH award entitled, “Impact of Brain Estrogens on Cognition and Brain Aging in a Non-Human Primate.”

Andrea Meredith, PhD, Professor, Department of Physiology, received a four-year, $1,596,058 grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NIH/NHLBI) for “Daily Regulation of Ionic Currents.”

Jerimy Polf, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, received a $25,000 UMMC Innovation Challenge Award for “An All-in-One Quality Control System for Radiation Oncology Clinics.”

Chinmoy Sarkar, PhD, Research Associate, Department of Anesthesiology, was awarded a one and a half-year, $424,875 grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NIH/ NINDS) for “Role and Function of Peroxisomal Ether Phospholipids in TBI.”

Gerald Wilson, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, was awarded a three-year R21 grant from the NCI for “Suppressing Oncogenic RNA Regulons Using Engineered Zinc Finger Nucleases.”

By way of a newly awarded grant with Eric Weintraub, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, who serves as Principal Investigator, The Maryland Addiction Consultation Service (MACS) will expand consultation and training services to prescribers across the District of Columbia (D.C.). The grant is for $500,000 for five years. Services will be administered by the University of Maryland School of Medicine and is funded by the District of Columbia government, D.C. Health, Health Regulation and Licensing Administration (HRLA), and Pharmaceutical Control Division (PCD).

Congratulations to our very productive faculty on their recent grants and contracts! - June

Thomas Blanpied, PhD, Professor, Department of Physiology, was awarded a one-year, $600,000 S10 grant from the National Institute of Health, Office of the Director, for “A Lightsheet Microscope for an Established Core Facility.”

Linda Chang, MD, MS, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, was awarded a $5,407,500 Avant-Garde Award Program for HIV/AIDS and Substance Use Disorder Research (DP1) for “MR-Guided Focused Ultrasound to Eradicate CNS Viral Reservoirs and Promote Neurogenesis in the HIV-Infected Brain.” The PAR-20-221: NIDA Avant-Garde Award Program for HIV/AIDS and DP1 is part of the Director’s Pioneer Award mechanism at NIDA that supports investigators with exceptional creativity proposing high impact research projects that will open new areas of HIV/AIDS research relevant to substance use disorders (SUD) and lead to novel avenues for prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS among people who use drugs (PWUD).

Jason Falvey, PT, DPT, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science, received funding as a subcontractor on the grant titled, “Neighborhood Socioeconomic Disadvantage and Nursing Home Outcomes.” This two-year project, from December 2020-November 2022, in the amount of $26,796, will assess the association between neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage and the quality of nursing homes in those neighborhoods. The primary sponsor for the project is the Patrick and Catherine Weldon Donaghue Medical Research Foundation.

Erin Hager, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, is the principal investigator on “COVID-19 Policies: Impact Over Time on Child Health, Obesity, and Disparities” R01 HD105356-01 grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, total direct and indirect costs: $3,033,138. Maureen Black, PhD, the John A. Scholl, MD and Mary Louise Scholl, MD Professor in Pediatrics, and Elizabeth Parker, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science, are co-investigators.

Sara Keefer, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow in the laboratory of Donna Calu, PhD, Assistant Professor, both from the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, received a three-year, $211,650 Postdoctoral National Research Service Award from the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIH/NIDA) for “Individual Differences in Cortical-Striatal Pathway Utilization Regulating Flexibility.” Asaf Keller, PhD, Professor and Chair, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, is co-sponsor.

Wendy Lane, MD, MPH, Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, received a nine-month, $11,802 contract with the Sinai Hospital of Baltimore for work on a project entitled, “The Maryland CHAMP Program.” Dr. Lane also received $7,500 in supplemental funding for her ongoing project, “B’more for Healthy Babies,” which is funded through the Zanvyl and Isabelle Krieger Fund.

Jason Molitoris, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, received $186,983 in funding for one year from Neotherma Oncology for “Early Feasibility Study to Evaluate the Initial Safety and Device Functionality of VectRx Thermal Therapy Added to Neo-Adjuvant Treatment of Pancreatic Tumors.”

Jacques Ravel, PhD, Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, and Associate Director, Institute for Genome Sciences, received from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) a five-year $8 million U19 grant for “Structure, Immunity and Microbiome: Human 3D Bioimimetrics Cervicovaginal Models for Sexually Transmitted Infections (SIM-STI).” The goal of this project is to develop an innovative biomimetic model of the lower reproductive tract to study aspects of the sexually transmitted infections, like chlamydia and gonorrhea, that are not achievable in humans or with current animal or cell models, including deciphering the mechanistic underpinning of the role of cervicovaginal microbiota in susceptibility or protection against these infections. The grant is in collaboration with Patrik Bavoil, PhD, Professor, and Chair, Department of Microbial Pathogenesis, School of Dentistry, University of Maryland, Baltimore.

Muhammad Saleh, PhD, Research Associate, Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, was awarded $346,596 for a two-year K99 grant from NIDA for “Neurometabolic Profile of Tobacco Smoking in HIV-Infected Individuals.”

Matthew Trudeau, PhD, Professor, Department of Physiology, was awarded a Maryland Stem Cell Research Fund Discovery grant for “Using Non-Canonical Amino Acids to Repair hERG LQT2 Mutants in hiPSC-CMs.”

Brittney Williams, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, was awarded the Mentored Clinical Scientist Research Career Development Award for her project, titled “Role of miRNA-TLR7 Signaling in Platelet Activation and Dysfunction in Sepsis,” which was funded by the NIH National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI). The award lasts five years and provides more than $810,000 of total support. This is the first K08 award in the Department of Anesthesiology.

Zhekang Ying, PhD, Assistant Professor, and Liqing Yu, PhD, Professor, both from the Department of Medicine, received a five-year, $3,124,436 grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) for “Mechanism for Programming of Offspring Adiposity by Maternal PM2.5 Exposure.”

Lin Zou, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, was awarded a two-year $83,000 R35 grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences for “Function and Mechanisms of Extracellular MicroRNAs in Sepsis-Induced Lung Injury.”

Kudos to our colleagues who are experts in their fields and give their all to represent the School of Medicine! - July

Clement Adebamowo, BM, ChB, ScD, FWACS, FACS, Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, was invited to give a presentation entitled “Engaging Indigenous Communities to Improve Comprehension of Informed Consent for Genomics Research” at the University of Melbourne, Australia for their Ethical, Legal and Social Issues in Epigenetics: Indigenous, National and Global Perspectives Symposium held May 4–6, 2021.

Vasken Dilsizian, MD, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, delivered an oral presentation at the Cardiovascular Institute (CVI) of Philadelphia’s 17th Annual Update in Nuclear Cardiology, entitled “Transition from PET to SPECT Myocardial Perfusion Imaging,” which was held virtually on June 6, 2021.

Howard Dubowitz, MB, ChB, MS, FAAP, Professor, Department of Pediatrics, presented “From Punishment to Discipline” and “Neglected Children: Controversies and Challenges” at the Champions of Children Conference in Illinois on April 8; “A Child’s Perspective of Neglect” at the 11th Nordic Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect, Helsinki, Finland on May 25, 2021; “Honoring John Leventhal’s Contributions to Preventing Child Maltreatment” at Yale School of Medicine on June 2, 2021, and “The Safe Environment for Every Kid (SEEK) Model: Promoting Children’s Health, Wellbeing, Development and Safety” at the International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (ISPCAN) International Congress in Milan, Italy on June 7, 2021.

Jason Falvey, PT, DPT, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science, was recently a part of an American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) podcast regarding post-acute care reform and policy. Additionally, Dr. Falvey recently participated in the annual meeting of the American Geriatrics Society, which was held virtually May 13–15, 2021. He presented the poster entitled, “The Impact of Social Isolation on Disability and Mortality among Older Survivors of Critical Illness.” Dr. Falvey also had an abstract accepted as part of a mini-symposium entitled, “A Broader View of Outcomes after Critical Illness” for the American Thoracic Society International Conference, which was also held virtually in May 2021. Dr. Falvey participated in a panel that presented a continuation of his work: “The Impact of Social Isolation on Disability and Mortality among Older Survivors of Critical Illness.”

Gregory Jasani, MD, Resident, Department of Emergency Medicine, presented “When Protestors Become Patients: Civil Unrest and the ED [Emergency Department]” at the American College of Emergency Physicians, Maryland Chapter Educational Conference and Annual Meeting on March 18, 2021.

Benjamin Lawner, DO, MS, EMT-P, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, presented on the pro side of “Urban Penetrating Trauma: Prehospital Care is Essential” as part of the Maryland Committee on Trauma’s annual Point Counterpoint conference on June 11, 2021. He also participated in the Baltimore Critical Care Transport Collaborative educational conference, which brought together participants from Hopkins Lifeline, Maryland ExpressCare, and PHI Air Medical to discuss critical care patient encounters and evidence-based resuscitation interventions. There are plans to expand the conference to other programs (MedStar) and host it on a recurrent basis.

Amal Mattu, MD, Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, presented on the following topics on May 25, 2021, as part of the annual Essentials of Emergency Medicine conference:

“COVID Cardiology Updates”
“My Favorite Cardiac Case of the Year”
“My Favorite ECG [Electrocardiogram] Articles of  the Year”
“My Favorite ECG of the Year”
“Recent Cardiology Articles That You Gotta Know!”

Pranshu Mohindra, MD, MBBS, Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, presented “Hyperthermia and Brachytherapy” on June 23 at the 2021 American Brachytherapy Society Annual Conference, held virtually. On the same day, he was the moderator of “Innovations Session I: Teaching the Next Generation of Brachytherapists.”

Darlene Robinson, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, presented “Everyday Bias for Healthcare Professionals” at a Zoom teleconference on July 19, 2021.

Karen Sack, Allied Health Administrator, Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science, was a speaker for the 2021 iSRA Joint Section Meeting on April 28, 2021. The session was entitled, “Investigator/Faculty Onboarding.” Ms. Sack has been an active member, speaker, and has served on committees for the Society of Research Administrators International (SRAI) since 1998.

Ryan Sutherland, MD, Fourth-Year Resident, Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, co-authored an educational exhibit entitled, “Diagnosis of Acute Blunt Traumatic Aortic Injury: A Practical Review,” that was awarded a Certificate of Merit at the American Roentgen Ray Society 2021 Virtual Annual Meeting April 18–22, 2021.

Eric Weintraub, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, was a highlighted speaker during the virtual seminar, “Expanding Access to Medication-Based Treatment for OUD in Underserved Rural Areas Utilizing Telehealth,” hosted by Health Resources and Services Administration. The webinar discussed strategies for addressing substance use disorder among vulnerable populations in rural areas. Dr. Weintraub also presented at the 2021 Substance Use Disorder Best Practices Conference: Meeting the Moment, Together, hosted by the Office of the Governor and Opioid Operational Command Center to address the ongoing public health crisis. His presentation was entitled, “Prescribing Buprenorphine through Telemedicine to Underserved Rural Areas.”

Emerson Wickwire, PhD, Associate Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Medicine, presented to the State of Maryland Behavioral Health Association/MedChi Webinar Series: Helping the Helpers and Those They Serve on May 12, 2021. The title of the presentation was “Bounce Back, Spring Forward: Sleep, Self-Care, and Resilience for Health Professionals during COVID-19 and Beyond.”

George Willis, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, presented on the following topics as part of the annual Essentials of Emergency Medicine conference: “The Crashing Dissection” on May 26, 2021, and “Ditching D50 [50% Dextrose]” and “Goldilocks & the Hyponatremic Patient” on May 27, 2021.

Michael Zarro, PT, DPT, SCS, CSCS, Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science, in his role as the Education Chair for the American Academy of Sports Physical Therapy College and Pro Sports Special Interest Group, hosted a panel of physical therapists who work with NCAA Division 1 athletics on April 20, 2021. Approximately 60 participants from across the country participated in a Q&A with therapists from Duke, Miami, Oregon and Northwestern, discussing the role of physical therapists in NCAA sports medicine.

Kudos to our colleagues who are experts in their fields and give their all to represent the School of Medicine! - June

Clement Adebamowo, BM, ChB, ScD, FWACS, FACS, Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, was invited to give a presentation entitled “GWAS of Persistent High-Risk HPV Infection: Results from an H3Africa Collaborative Center” at the NIH National Cancer Institute’s SeqSPACE Forum which took place virtually on June 8, 2021.

Marianne Cloeren, MD MPH, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, presented at the American Occupational Health conference on May 3, 2021. Her presentation was titled “The Occupational Medicine Pipeline: International Approaches to Developing Occupational Medicine Expertise.”

E. Ana Lia Graciano, MD, FAAP, FCCM, Professor of Pediatrics/Division of Critical Care Medicine, was a guest speaker at the 2021 Spring Symposium organized by the Baltimore Chapter of the Society of Critical Care Medicine. Held on April 24, 2021, the symposium featured a multidisciplinary national and local faculty presenting critical care topics related to management of shock. Her presentation was entitled “The 2020 Surviving Sepsis Campaign Pediatric Guidelines: Are Children Different?”

Mangla Gulati, MD, FACP, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, and Nidhi Goel, MD, MHS, Assistant Professor, Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics, presented “Creating a Just Culture to Improve Patient Safety” at the Society of Hospital Medicine Converge Conference, which was held virtually in May 2021.

Stella Hines, MD, MSPH, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, presented at the American Occupational Health conference on May 3, 2021. Her presentation was titled “Beryllium and the BeLPT: What Every Occupational Medicine Provider Needs to Know.”

Gregory Jasani, MD, Resident, Department of Emergency Medicine, delivered brief remarks on HR 1195, the Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care and Social Service Workers Act, at a Capitol Hill press conference on April 19, 2021, as an invited guest of Congressman Joe Courtney (D-CT).

Feyruz Rassool, PhD, Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, gave an invited virtual presentation on May 12 at the 2021 Basser Center for BRCA 9th Annual Scientific Symposium, which was sponsored by Penn Medicine. The presentation was on “Expanding PARP Inhibitors Beyond BRCA Mutations: Linking DNA Damage to Immune Signaling.”

Emerson Wickwire, PhD, Associate Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Medicine, presented an invited grand rounds presentation at the University of Arizona, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine. The title of the presentation was “Value-Based Sleep: An Introduction to Sleep Health Economics.”

Patents

Todd Gould, MD, Professor, and Panos Zanos, PhD, Assistant Professor, both from the Department of Psychiatry, were awarded a patent for their project, “Crystal Forms and Methods of Synthesis of (2R,6R) 0 Hydroxynorketamine and (2S,6S) Hydroxynorketamine.” (2R,6R)-hydroxynorketamine is a potential treatment for depression, chronic pain, and other neuropsychiatric disorders for which ketamine has been shown effective. The patent describes methods for the synthesis of this molecule, and also reports its unique 3-dimensional structure.

Hats off to those who have been published! - July

Sally Adebamowo, MBBS, MSc, ScD, Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, co-authored “Human Papillomavirus Vaccine Acceptability and Campaign Message Preferences among African American Parents: A Qualitative Study,” which was published in the Journal of Cancer Education on May 2, 2021.

Jennifer Albrecht, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, and Geoffrey Rosenthal, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Pediatrics, were among the co-authors of “Prevalence of Clinical and Subclinical Myocarditis in Competitive Athletes with Recent SARS-CoV-2 Infection: Results from the Big Ten COVID-19 Cardiac Registry,” which was published in JAMA Cardiology on May 27, 2021.

Youssef Annous, BS, Visiting Research Fellow; Sara Manning, MD, Assistant Professor; and Danya Khoujah, MBBS, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, were the authors of “Ferritin, Fever, and Frequent Visits: Hyperferritinemic Syndromes in the Emergency Department,” which was published in the American Journal of Emergency Medicine on May 14, 2021.

Omer Awan, MD, MPH, Associate Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, was the author of “The Art of Self-Reflection in Teaching,” which was published in the June 2021 issue of Academic Radiology. Separately, Dr. Awan was the last author of “Teaching Emotional Intelligence: How Much Do We Care about It?” which was published in the May–June 2021 issue of Radiographics.

Kathryn Hughes Barry, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, co-authored “Aspirin, Ibuprofen and Reduced Risk of Advanced Colorectal Adenoma Incidence and Recurrence and Colorectal Cancer in the PLCO Cancer Screening Trial,” which was published in Cancer on May 11, 2021.

Michael Benitez, MD, Professor, Department of Medicine, completed work on three chapters for the upcoming MKSAP19 (Medical Knowledge Self Assessment Program, 19th edition) for the American College of Physicians. Chapters include: Myocardial Disease, Pericardial Disease, and Cardiovascular Disease in the Cancer Patient.

Andrea Berry, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics; Matthew Laurens, MD, MPH, Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics; Kristen Lyke, MD, Professor, Department of Medicine; Kathleen Neuzil, MD, MPH, FIDSA, the Myron M. Levine, MD, DTPH, Professor in Vaccinology and Director, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, Amed Ouattara, PhD, Dpharm, Research Associate, Department of Medicine; Shannon Takla-Harrison, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine; and Mark Travassos, MD, MSc, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, were among the co-authors of “Epitope-Specific Antibody Responses to a Plasmodium Falciparum Subunit Vaccine Target in a Malaria-Endemic Population,” which was published in The Journal of Infectious Disease on June 4, 2021.

Stephanie Cardona, DO, Resident; Naillid Felipe, MD, MPH, Resident; Kyle Fischer, MD, MPH, Clinical Assistant Professor; and Bradford Schwartz, MD, Adjunct Assistant Professor, all from the Department of Emergency Medicine, were among the authors of “Vaccination Disparity: Quantifying Racial Inequity in COVID-19 Vaccine Administration in Maryland,” which was published in the Journal of Urban Health on May 18, 2021.

Garrett Cavaliere, DO, Resident; Reem Alfalasi, MB, ChB, Resident; Gregory Jasani, MD, Resident; and Benjamin Lawner, DO, MS, EMT-P, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, were among the authors of “Terrorist Attacks against Healthcare Facilities: A Review,” was published in Health Security onMay 20, 2021.

Garrett Cavaliere, DO, Resident, and Gregory Jasani, MD, Resident, Department of Emergency Medicine, were the authors of “Op-Ed: Los Angeles EMS Is Making the Right Call,” which was published in MedPage Today on January 24, 2021.

Jacob Cherian, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, was the first author of “Postmarket American Experience with EndoBridge Device: Adjudicated Multicenter Case Series,” which was published in Neurosurgery on May 14, 2021.

Chengyan Chu, MD, Postdoctoral Fellow; Piotr Walczak, MD, PhD, Professor; and Miroslaw Janowski, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, all from the Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, were among the co-authors of “Deuterium Oxide As a Contrast Medium for Real-Time MRI-Guided Endovascular Neurointervention,” which was published in the April 2021 issue of Theranostics. Separately, Drs. Chu, Walczak and Janowski were among the co-authors of “Traumatic Brain Injury Does Not Disrupt Costimulatory Blockade-Induced Immunological Tolerance to Glial-Restricted Progenitor Allografts,” which was published in the April 2021 issue of the Journal of Neuroinflammation.

Derik Davis, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, was first author of “Reliability of Supraspinatus Intramuscular Fatty Infiltration Estimates on T1-Weighted MRI in Potential Candidates for Rotator Cuff Repair Surgery: Full-Thickness Tear Versus High-Grade Partial-Thickness Tear,” which was epublished in Skeletal Radiology on May 6, 2021.

Vasken Dilsizian, MD, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, was a co-author of “Potential Cardiac Amyloid PET/CT Imaging Targets for Differentiating Immunoglobulin Light Chain from Transthyretin Amyloidosis,” and “Incremental Value of FDG PET in the Evaluation of Cardiac Masses,” which were both published in Current Cardiology Reports on June 3, 2021.

Sasha Deutsch-Link, MD; Annabelle Belcher, PhD, Assistant Professor; Ebonie Massey, MA; Thomas Cole, MA; Amy Billing, MS; Aaron Greenblatt, MD, Assistant Professor; and Eric Weintraub, MD, Associate Professor, all from the Department of Psychiatry, co-authored “Race-Based Differences in Drug Use Prior to Onset of Opioid Use Disorder,” which was epublished in the Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse. The study explored race differences in demographic variables, including age and use of substance classes. The article serves as an important collaboration between the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) and University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP).

Jes Downing, MD, Resident, Department of Emergency Medicine, was the author of “Theatrical Illness: Tuberculosis and HIV as Presented by La Boheme and Rent,” which was published in the Swarthmore Undergraduate History Journal on July 9, 2020. Dr. Downing was also among the authors of “Evaluation of Risk Factors for Hepatitis C Virus Infection among Philadelphia’s Shelter-Bound, Homeless Population: Data from a Student-Run Hepatitis C Virus Screening Initiative,” which was published in Population Health Management on November 26, 2020.

Jes Downing, MD, Resident; Stephanie Cardona, DO, Resident; Reem Alfalasi, MB, ChB, Resident; Bradford Schwartz, MD, Adjunct Assistant Professor; and Quincy Tran, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, all from the Department of Emergency Medicine, were among the authors of “Predictors of Intubation in COVID-19 Patients Undergoing Awake Proning in the Emergency Department,” which was published in the American Journal of Emergency Medicine on June 3, 2021. Deborah Stein, ELS, Technical Writer/Editor, Department of Emergency Medicine, edited the manuscript.

Howard Dubowitz, MB, ChB, MS, FAAP, Professor, Department of Pediatrics, authored “Addressing Children’s Exposure to Violence and the Role of Health Care” which was published in the May, 2021 issue of JAMA Network Open.

Sheila Engi, PhD, Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow, first author, and Natalie Zlebnik, PhD, Assistant Professor, senior author, both in the laboratory of Joseph Cheer, PhD, Professor, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, were among the co-authors of “Cocaine-Induced Increases in Motivation Require 2-Arachidonoylglycerol Mobilization and CB1 Receptor Activation in the Ventral Tegmental Area,” which will appear in the August 1, 2021 issue of Neuropharmacology Special Issue on Cannabinoids.

Marie Ezran, Third-Year Medical Student, (first author); Angela Trude, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow; and Maureen Black, PhD, the John A. Scholl, MD and Mary Louise Scholl, MD Professor in Pediatrics, were co-authors of “Parent Website Engagement and Health Equity Implications in a Child Care-Based Wellness Intervention,” which was published in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior on May 1, 2021.

Jason Falvey, PT, DPT, PhD, GCS, Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science, was a co-author of “Older Adults’ Perspectives Regarding the Role of Physical Therapists in Falls Prevention: A Qualitative Investigation,” which was published in the Journal of Geriatric Physical Therapy.

Aloke Finn, MD, Clinical Associate Professor; Libin Wang, BM, MM, PhD, Assistant Professor; Susie Hong-Zohlman, MD, MsC, Assistant Professor; Anuj Gupta, MD, FACC, FSCAI, Associate Professor; and Charles Hong, MD, PhD, the Melvin Sharoky, MD Professor in Medicine, all from the Department of Medicine, along with Ji-Eun Park, MD, MA, Cardiovascular Disease Senior Fellow, were co-authors of “Genetic Variants Associated with Unexplained Sudden Cardiac Death in Adult White and African American Individuals,” which was published in JAMA Cardiology.

Matthew Frieman, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, co-authored “SARS-CoV-2 Vaccines For All But a Single Dose for COVID-19 Survivors,” which was published in EBioMedicine on May 25, 2021. Separately, Dr. Frieman and Stuart Weston, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, co-authored “A Human-Airway-on-a-Chip for the Rapid Identification of Candidate Antiviral Therapeutics and Prophylactics,” which was published in Nature Biomedical Engineering as part of a DARPA funded grant on identifying repurposed drugs that inhibit SARS-CoV-2. In additon, Drs. Frieman and Weston co-authored “Functional Landscape of SARS-CoV-2 Cellular Restriction,” which was published in Mol Cell on April 13, 2021.

J. David Gatz, MD, Assistant Professor; Daniel Gingold, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor; Daniel Lemkin, MD, Assistant Professor; and R. Gentry Wilkerson, MD, Associate Professor, all from the Department of Emergency Medicine, were the authors of “Association of Resident Shift Length with Procedural Complications,” which was published in the Journal of Emergency Medicine on May 15, 2021. Deborah Stein, ELS, Technical Writer/Editor, Department of Emergency Medicine, edited the manuscript.

Dheeraj Gandhi, MBBS, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, was among the co-authors of “Cost-Effectiveness of Endovascular Thrombectomy in Patients with Low Alberta Stroke Program Early CT Scores (< 6) at Presentation,” which was epublished in the Journal of Neurosurgery on May 7, 2021.

Ann Gruber-Baldini, PhD, Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Heath, co-authored “The Inconsistency and Instability of Parkinson’s Disease Motor Subtypes,” which was published in Parkinsonism and Related Disorders on May 21, 2021. Additionally, Dr. Gruber-Baldini, co-authored “Reliability and Validity of the Resident Satisfaction Index in Assisted Living,” which was published in the June 2021 issue of the Journal of Applied Gerontology. She also co-authored “Mobile Technology Care Coordination of Long-Term Services and Support: Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial,” which was published in the May 2021 issue of the Journal of Applied Gerontology.

John Harringa, MD, Resident; Zachary Wynne, MD, Resident; Aki Honasoge, MD, Resident; and Sam Yarmis, MD, Resident, all from the Department of Emergency Medicine, were the authors of “Early Vasopressor Use in Septic Shock: What Do We Know?” which was published in the January/February 2021 issue of Common Sense.

Stella Hines, MD, MSPH, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, was among the co-authors of “Elastomeric Respirator Use in Health Care,” which was published in Workplace Health & Safety on May 15, 2021.

Bailey Howard, MD; Jessica Biggs, PharmD; MacKenzie Crist, PharmD; Omayma Kishk, PharmD; Rebecca Carter, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics; and Regina Macatangay, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, were co-authors of “Interprofessional Approach to Educating Medical Students on Pediatric Medication Taste and Palatability,” which was published in the May 2021 issue of Health, Interprofessional Practice & Education.

Mei Zhen Huang, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, and Li-Qun Zhang, PhD, Professor, both from the Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science, were co-authors of “In-Bed Sensorimotor Rehabilitation in Early and Late Subacute Stroke Using a Wearable Elbow Robot: A Pilot Study,” which was published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.

Gregory Jasani, MD, Resident, Department of Emergency Medicine, was:
Sole author of:

“I’m Not Really a Hero,” published by Common Sense in July/August 2020
“EM [Emergency Medicine] Residents and Medical Students: We’re Making History!” published in the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine’s Pulse on July 8, 2020
“Make Your Voice Heard,” published in the American College of Emergency Physicians, Maryland Chapter newsletter in Fall 2020
“The Potential for Violence against Health Care Workers during COVID-19,” published on KevinMD.com on December 3, 2020
“PG County, Please Get Your COVID Vaccine,” published in the Prince George’s Sentinel on January 17, 2021
“Your Voice STILL Matters,” published by Common Sense in January/February 2021
“Beware COVID Vaccine Misinformation,” published in The Sentinel on February 22, 2021
“Don’t Let Your Guard Down,” published in The Sentinel on March 6, 2021
“Which COVID Vaccine Should You Get?” published in the Montgomery County Sentinel on April 4, 2021
“It’s Time for Congress to Protect Healthcare Workers,” published in the Montgomery County Sentinel on May 11, 2021
“Op-Ed: An Airborne Pathogen Standard Can Protect Us,” published by MedPage Today on June 3, 2021

Co-author of:

“Policy Playbook: COVID-19 Vaccine Development,” published by EMDocs.net on November 2, 2020
“Do Patients Addicted to Drugs Truly Have Capacity?” published in the Montgomery County Sentinel on November 27, 2020
“Optimizing Medical Surge Capacity,” published by the American Academy of Emergency Medicine Resident and Student Association’s Modern Resident Blog on December 1, 2020
“The Other Safety Concern for Healthcare Workers: Workplace Violence,” published in the Montgomery County Sentinel on December 13, 2020
“Emergency Department Physicians Should Have the Right to Due Process Protection. Many Don’t,” published by STAT on December 16, 2020
“Normalcy’ Is Still a Long Ways Off, Despite COVID Vaccine Rollout,” published by The Baltimore Sun on February 5, 2021

Gregory Jasani, MD, Resident; Garrett Cavaliere, DO, Resident; Reem Alfalasi, MB, ChB, Resident; and Benjamin Lawner, DO, MS, EMT-P, Assistant Professor, all from the Department of Emergency Medicine, were among the authors of “Terrorist Attacks against Vaccinators: A Review,” which was published in Health Security on May 20, 2021.

Gregory Jasani, MD, Resident, and Richard Jean-Louis, MD, Resident, both from the Department of Emergency Medicine

“PG County, PLEASE Get Your Flu Shot,” published in the Prince George’s Sentinel on November 10, 2020
“We’re Worried about Thanksgiving,” published in the Montgomery County Sentinel on November 18, 2020
“Please Don’t Come to the ER Just to Get a COVID Test,” published in the Montgomery County Sentinel on December 30, 2020

Gregory Jasani, MD, Resident; Siamak Moayedi, MD, Assistant Professor; and Douglas Sward, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor, all from the Department of Emergency Medicine, were among the authors of “Inner Ear Decompression Sickness in a Hyperbaric Chamber Inside Tender: A Case Report,” which was published in the Journal of Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine onMay 20, 2021. Deborah Stein, ELS, Technical Writer/Editor, Department of Emergency Medicine, edited the manuscript.

Jean Jeudy, MD, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, was among the co-authors of “Prevalence of Clinical and Subclinical Myocarditis in Competitive Athletes with Recent SARS-CoV-2 Infection: Results from the Big Ten COVID-19 Cardiac Registry,” which was epublished in JAMA Cardiology on May 27, 2021. Separately, Dr. Jeudy, along with Charles White, MD, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, were among the co-authors of “Comprehensive Computed Tomography Imaging of Vessel-Specific and Lesion-Specific Myocardial Ischemia,” which was epublished in Journal of Thoracic Imaging on May 24, 2021. Dr. White was also among the co-authors of “Ischemic Heart Disease: Noninvasive Imaging Techniques and Findings,” which was epublished in the May 2021 issue of Radiographics.

Xiaofeng Jia, MD, PhD, Professor; Xijie Zhou, MD, MS, Postdoctoral Fellow; Jian Du, PhD, Research Associate; Liming Qing, MD, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow; Thomas Mee, Medical Student; Xiang Xu, MD, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow; Zhuoran Wang, MD, MS, Postdoctoral Fellow; and Cynthia Xu, MD, prior medical student trained in Dr. Jia’s lab, all from the Department of Neurosurgery, were authors of “Identification of Sensory and Motor Nerve Fascicles by Immunofluorescence Staining after Peripheral Nerve Injury,” which was published in the 2021 May issue of Journal of Translational Medicine.

Laundette Jones, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, co-authored “Inbred Strain Characteristics Impact the NKT Cell Repertoire,” which was published in ImmunoHorizons on March 31, 2021.

Ann Pulling Kuhn, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, (first author); Maureen Black, PhD, the John A. Scholl, MD and Mary Louise Scholl, MD Professor in Pediatrics; and Erin Hager, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, were co-authors of “Home and Neighborhood Physical Activity Location Availability among African American Adolescent Girls Living in Low-Income, Urban Communities: Associations with Objectively Measured Physical Activity,” which was published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health on May 9, 2021. Separately, Drs. Pulling Kuhn and Hager, and Elizabeth Parker, PhD, RD, Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science, were co-authors of “Associations between Elementary and Middle School Teachers’ Physical Activity Promoting Practices and Teacher- and School-level factors,” which was published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health on May 19, 2021.

Mark Kvarta, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor; Joshua Chiappelli, MD, Assistant Professor; Stephanie Hare, PhD, Instructor; Eric Goldwaser, DO, PhD, PGY4; Seth Ament, PhD, Assistant Professor; Peter Kochunov, PhD, MS, MSEE, DABMP, Professor; and L. Elliot Hong, MD, Professor, all from the Department of Psychiatry, were co-authors of “Multiple Dimensions of Stress vs. Genetic Effects on Depression,” which was published in Translational Psychiatry.

Hannah Lane, PhD, Adjunct assistant Professor, and Erin Hager, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, were co-authors of “Development and Interrater Reliability of an Observational School Environment Checklist: A Practical, Comprehensive Tool to Assess Healthy Eating and Physical Activity Opportunities in Schools,” which was published in Health Promotion and Practice on June 1, 2021.

Myron Levine, MD, DTPH, the Simon and Bessie Grollman Distinguished Professor, Department of Medicine, was among the co-authors of “Data and Safety Monitoring of COVID-19 Vaccine Clinical Trials,” which was published in The Journal of Infectious Diseases on May 19, 2021.

Joy Li, Medical Student; Rydhwana Hossain, MD, Assistant Professor; Lydia Chelala, Fellow; Jean Jeudy, MD, Professor; and Charles White, MD, Professor, all from the Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, were the authors of “Rapid Onset Development of Myocardial Calcifications in the Setting of Renal Failure and Sepsis,” which was published in the April 2021 issue of Radiology Cardiothoracic Imaging. Separately, Drs. Hossain, Jeudy, and White, along with Julia Kastner, Medical Student, were among the co-authors of “Lung-RADS Version 1.0 Versus Lung-RADS Version 1.1: Comparison of Categories Using Nodules from the National Lung Screening Trial,” which was epublished in the May 2021 issue of Radiology.

Yajie Liang, MB, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, was the first author of “A Distinct Population of L6 Neurons in Mouse V1 Mediate Cross-Callosal Communication,” which was epublished in the May 2021 issue of Cerebral Cortex.

Alberto Macario, PhD, Adjunct Professor, and Everly Conway De Maracio, PhD, Adjunct Professor, both from the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, authored “Chaperonins in Cancer: Expression, Function, and Migration in Extracellular Vesicles,” which was published in Seminars of Cancer Biology on June 1, 2021.

Jay Magaziner, PhD, MSHyg, Professor; Ann Gruber-Baldini, PhD, Professor; and Jack Guralnik, MD, PhD, MPH, Professor, all from the Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, co-authored “Four Square Step Test Performance in Hip Fracture Patients,” which was published in the Journal of Geriatric Physical Therapy on April 28, 2021.

Victoria Marchese, PT, PhD, Associate Professor and Chair; Kelly Rock, PT, DPT, PhD Student; and Vicki Gray, MPT, PhD, Assistant Professor, all from the Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science, were co-authors of “Neuromuscular Mechanisms That Contribute to Gross Motor Performance in Survivors of Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia,” which was recently published in the Journal of Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine.

David Mallott, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, is currently hosting the newly released podcast for The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease. To date, Dr. Mallott has interviewed Drs. Joel Yager, Robert Drake, Paul Lysacker, Kenneth Kendler, Laura Hirschbein, and more.

Amal Mattu, MD, Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was among the co-authors of “A Young Man with Palpitations,” which was published in the January 2021 issue of American Journal of Emergency Medicine, and“Do Not Skip a Beat: Intermittent Wolff–Parkinson–White Syndrome Diagnosed by a Single Beat on a 12-lead ECG,” which was published in the Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine on January 4, 2021.

Sylvia McCree-Huntley, EdD, Department of Psychiatry, published the children’s book, Embracing You!

Ryan Miller, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, was among the co-authors of “Associations of Microvascular Complications with the Risk of Cardiovascular Disease in Type 1 Diabetes,” which was published in Diabetes Care on May 1, 2021. Dr. Miller was also first author of “SARS-CoV-2 Infection and Paediatric Endocrine Disorders: Risks and Management Considerations” which was published in Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism on June 3, 2021.

Mark Mishra, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, was among the authors of “Preoperative Radiosurgery for Resected Brain Metastases: The PROPS-BM Multicenter Cohort Study,” which was epublished in the International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, and Physics on May 28, 2021.

Michael Mulligan, MD, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, was the last author of “Updates and Ongoing Challenges in Imaging of Multiple Myeloma: AJR Expert Panel Narrative Review,” which was epublished in AJR American Journal of Roentgenology on May 12, 2021.

Kathleen Neuzil, MD, MPH, FIDSA, the Myron M. Levine, MD, DTPH, Professor in Vaccinology and Director, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, was the author of “Interplay between Emerging SARS-CoV-2 Variants and Pandemic Control,” which was published in the New England Journal Medicine on May 20, 2021.

Jennifer Nichols, MD, Resident; Jennifer Guyther, MD, Assistant Professor; Laura Bontempo, MD, MEd, Associate Professor; and Zachary Dezman, MD, MS, MS, Assistant Professor, all from the Department of Emergency Medicine, were authors of “55-Year-Old Male with Fatigue,” which was published in the Western Journal of Emergency Medicine on November 25, 2020.

Dipanjan Pan, MSc, PhD, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, was last author of “Synthesis and Characterisation of N-gene Targeted NIR-II Fluorescent Probe for Selective Localisation of SARS-CoV-2,” which was epublished in Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England) on May 28, 2021. Additionally, Dr. Pan was the last author of “RNA-Extraction-Free Nano-Amplified Colorimetric Test for Point-of-Care Clinical Diagnosis of COVID-19,” which was published in the June 2021 issue of Nature Protocols. He was also last author of “UV-Trained and Metal-Enhanced Fluorescence of Biliverdin and Biliverdin Nanoparticles,” which was published in the March 2021 issue of Nanoscale. Lastly, Dr. Pan was among the co-authors of “Rapid and Low-Cost Sampling for Detection of Airborne SARS-CoV-2 in Dehumidifier Condensate,” which was epublished in Biotechnology and Bioengineering on May 8, 2021.

Elizabeth Parker, PhD, RD, Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science, was a co-author of “Associations between Elementary and Middle School Teachers’ Physical Activity Promoting Practices and Teacher- and School-Level factors,” which was published in the International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity.

Jerimy Polf, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, was among the authors of “Secondary Particle Interactions in a Compton Camera Designed for In Vivo Range Verification of Proton Therapy,” which was published in IEEE Transactions in Radiation and Plasma Medical Science.

Thomas Ptak, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, was among the co-authors of “ACR Appropriateness Criteria® Head Trauma: 2021 Update,” which was published in the May 2021 issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

Jean-Pierre Raufman, MD, Professor, Department of Medicine, was among the co-authors of “Exploiting Unique Features of the Gut-Brain Interface to Combat Gastrointestinal Cancer,” which was published in The Journal of Clinical Investigation on May 17, 2021.

Lei Ren, PhD, Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, was the senior author of “A Generative Adversarial Network (GAN)-Based Technique for Synthesizing Realistic Respiratory Motion in the Extended Cardiac-Torso (XCAT) Phantoms,” which was published in Physics and Medicine in Biology on May 31, 2021.

Pamela Strissel, PhD, Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, was among the authors of “Integration of Spatial PD-L1 Expression with the Tumor Immune Microenvironment Outperforms Standard PD-L1 Scoring in Outcome Prediction of Urothelial Cancer Patients,” which was published in Cancers on May 12, 2021.

Mark Sutherland, MD, Assistant Professor; Robert Brown, MD, Resident; Aki Honasoge, MD, Resident; and Michael Witting, MD, Professor, all from the Department of Emergency Medicine, were among the authors of “Clinically Relevant Adverse Cardiovascular Events in Intermediate Heart Score Patients Admitted to the Hospital Following a Negative Emergency Department Evaluation,” which was published in the American Journal of Emergency Medicine on November 3, 2020.

Milagritos Tapia, MD, Professor, Department of Medicine, was among the co-authors of “Meningococcal Serogroup ACWYX Conjugate Vaccine in Malian Toddlers,”which was published in the New England Journal Medicine on June 3, 2021.

J. Kathleen Tracy, PhD, Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health; Leslie Jamka, MS, MEM, International Program Director; Jennifer Oshinsky, Lead Laboratory Research Specialist; Marcela Pasetti, PhD, Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Kathleen Neuzil, MD, MPH, FIDSA, the Myron M. Levine, MD, DTPH, Professor in Vaccinology and Director, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health; and Matthew Laurens, MD, MPH, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, were among the co-authors of “Safety and Immunogenicity of Vi-typhoid Conjugate Vaccine Co-administration with Routine 9-Month Vaccination in Burkina Faso: A Randomised Controlled Phase 2 Trial,” which was published in the International Journal of Infectious Disease on May 31, 2021.

Quincy Tran, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was among the authors of:

•   “Sedation in Mechanically Ventilated Covid-19 Patients: A Narrative Review for Emergency Medicine Providers,” which was published in the American Journal of Emergency Medicine on May 14, 2021
•   “Predictors Associated with Inappropriate Transport of Near Shore Spinal Injuries,” which was published in the Chinese Journal of Traumatology on May 15, 2021
•   “Safety Matters: A Meta-Analysis of Interhospital Transport Adverse Events in Critically Ill Patients,” which was published in the Air Medical Journal on May 24, 2021

Angela Trude, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, and Maureen Black, PhD, the John A. Scholl, MD and Mary Louise Scholl, MD Professor in Pediatrics, were co-authors of “Regular Bedtime: Implications for Obesity Prevention During the Pandemic and Beyond,” which was published in Childhood Obesity on May 28, 2021.

Sastry Vedam, MS, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, was among the authors of “Stability of MRI Contrast Agents in High-Energy Radiation of a 1.5 T MR-Linac,” which was epublished in Radiotherapy and Oncology on June 2, 2021.

Nicholas Walter, MD, Resident, and Hong Kim, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, were among the authors of “301. Clinical Characteristics in Cardiotoxic Agent Overdose Necessitating Venoarterial Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation: A Case Series,” which was published as part of “North American Congress of Clinical Toxicology (NACCT) Abstracts 2020” in Clinical Toxicology on September 4, 2020. In addition, Drs. Walter and Kim, along with Reem Alfalasi, MB, ChB, Resident, were among the authors of “017. Characteristic of Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) Use for Acute Pediatric Poisoning in the U.S.,” which was published as part of “2021 ACMT Annual Scientific Meeting Abstracts—Virtual” in the Journal of Medical Toxicology on March 31, 2021.

Ze Wang, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, was the last author of “The Systematic Bias of Entropy Calculation in the Multi-Scale Entropy Algorithm,” which was published in the May 2021 issue of Entropy (Basel).

Christopher Welsh, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, co-authored “Preventing Hospital Readmission for Patients with Comorbid Substance Use Disorder: A Randomized Ttrial,” which was published in Annals of Internal Medicine.

Emerson Wickwire, PhD, Associate Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Medicine, was lead author of “CPAP Adherence is Associated with Reduced Inpatient Utilization among Older Adult Medicare Beneficiaries with Pre-existing Cardiovascular Disease,” which was published in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine on June 2, 2021.

Jeff Winkles, PhD, Professor, Department of Surgery; Graeme Woodworth, MD, Professor and Chair, Department of Neurosurgery; Anthony Kim, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Neurosurgery; Eli Bar, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Pathology; and Su Xu, PhD, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, were the co-authors of “Elevated Fibroblast Growth Factor-Inducible 14 Expression Transforms Pproneural-Like Gliomas into More Aggressive and Lethal Brain Cancer,” which was epublished in Glia on May 15, 2021.

Amelia Wnorowski, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, was among the co-authors of “Observational Cohort Study of the Effect of a Single Lubricant Exposure during Transvaginal Ultrasound on Cell-Shedding from the Vaginal Epithelium,” which was published in PLoS One on May 3, 2021.

Jade Wong-You-Cheong, MD, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, was among the co-authors of “ACR Appropriateness Criteria® Renal Failure,” which was published in the May 2021 issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

Sharleen Yuan, MD, PhD, MA, Resident; Sam Yarmis, MD, Resident; and Kami Hu, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, were the authors of the textbook chapter “Hyperleukocytosis and Leukostasis” in Oncologic Emergency Medicine: Principles and Practice, 2nd edition, published by Springer International in 2021.

Davide Zella, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and Robert Gallo, MD, The Homer & Martha Gudelsky Distinguished Professor in Medicine, and Co-Founder & Director of the Institute of Human Virology, were co-authors of “Viruses and Bacteria Associated with Cancer: An Overview,” which was published in Viruses on May 31, 2021.

Yuji Zhang, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, co-authored “Pre-Clinical Activity of Amino-Alcohol Dimeric Naphthoquinones as Potential Therapeutics for Acute Myeloid Leukemia” which was published in Anti-Cancer Agents in Medicinal Chemistry on June 2, 2021.

Hats off to those who have been published! - June

Sally Adebamowo, MBBS, MSc, ScD, Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, co-authored “High-Depth African Genomes Inform Human Migration and Health,” which was published in Nature on April 12, 2021.

Omer Awan, MD, MPH, Associate Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, was the author of “Are Radiology Educators Using Technology Appropriately?” which was e-published in the March 2021 issue of Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology. Separately, Dr. Awan was among the co-authors of “Current Landscape of Imaging and the Potential Role for Artificial Intelligence in the Management of COVID-19,” which was published in the May-June 2021 issue of Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology.

Amber Beitelshees, PharmD, MPH, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, and Daniel Lemkin, MD, MS, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, were among the co-authors of “Opportunity for Genotype-Guided Prescribing among Adult Patients in 11 US Health Systems,” which was published in Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics on January 11, 2021, and “Prescribing Prevalence of Medications with Potential Genotype-Guided Dosing in Pediatric Patients,” which was published in the December 2020 issue of JAMA Network Open

Maureen Black, PhD, the John A. Scholl, MD and Mary Louise Scholl, MD Professor in Pediatrics, was the lead author of “Grow Smart: A Cluster Randomized Trial of Point-of-Use Fortification of Preschool Meals with Multiple Micronutrient Powders Improves Expressive Language and Reduces Anemia and Iron Deficiency in Rural India,” which was published in the Journal of Nutrition on April 22, 2021. Separately, Dr. Black, along with Angela Trude, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, and Alysse Kowalski, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, all from the Department of Pediatrics, were co-authors of “Growth in the First 1000 Days Lays the Foundation for Human Capital Formation,” which was published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition on April 6, 2021. Drs. Black and Trude also were authors of “Nurturing Care Promotes Human Capital from Preconception through Adolescence,” which was published in BMJ Global Health on April 27, 2021.

Thomas Blanpied, PhD, Professor, Department of Physiology; Austin Ramsey, Graduate Student, Program in Neuroscience; and Tyler Tarr, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physiology, were among the co-authors of “Synapse and Active Zone Assembly in the Absence of Presynaptic Ca2+ Channels and Ca2+ Entry,” which was published in Neuron on August 19, 2020.

Alexis Boscak, MD, Assistant Professor; Uttam Bodanapally, MBBS, Associate Professor; and Kathirkama Shanmuganathan, MBBS, Professor (deceased), all from the Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, were among the co-authors of “Segmental Bowel Hypoenhancement on CT Predicts Ischemic Mesenteric Laceration after Blunt Trauma,” which was e-published in the April 2021 issue of the AJR American Journal of Roentgenology. Dr. Boscak was first author and Dr. Shanmuganathan was last author.

Wan-Tsu Chang, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was among the authors of “Factors Associated with Tracheostomy Decannulation in Patients with Severe Traumatic Brain Injury,” which was published in Brain Injury on July 2, 2020.

Nina Connolly, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Neurosurgery; Rebeca Galisteo, Department of Surgery; Su Xu, PhD, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine; Eli Bar, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Pathology; along with Sen Peng, Translational Genomics Research Institute, Cancer and Cell Biology; Nhan Tran, with Mayo Clinic Arizona, Cancer Biology; Heather Ames, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology; Anthony Kim, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Neurosurgery; Graeme Woodworth, MD, Professor, also with the Department of Neurosurgery; and Jeffrey Winkles, PhD, Professor, Department of Surgery, were co-authors of “Elevated Fibroblast Growth Factor-inducible 14 (Fn14) Expression Transforms Proneural-Like Gliomas into More Aggressive and Lethal Brain Cancer,” which was published in GLIA on March 28, 2021.

Vincent Conroy, PT, DScPT, Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science, was a co-author of “Four Square Step Test Performance in Hip Fracture Patients,” which was published in the Journal of Geriatric Physical Therapy.

Zachary Dezman, MD, MS, MS, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was first author of “20-Year Mortality after Discharge in a Cohort of 1,099 Former Trauma Inpatients with and without Substance Use Disorders,” which was published in Injury on October 10, 2020.

Vasken Dilsizian, MD, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, was the co-editor of a book, entitled Atlas of Nuclear Cardiology, 5th Edition, Springer, New York, NY, 202I. The monograph has become the standard reference source for the field since the publication of the 1st edition, nearly 20 years ago, and has been on the recommended reference list for the Certification Board of Nuclear Cardiology since its inception.

David Dreizin, MD, Associate Professor (first author); Dheeraj Gandhi, MBBS, Professor; and Robert Morales, MD, Assistant Professor, all from the Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, were among the co-authors of “CT of Skull Base Fractures: Classification Systems, Complications, and Management,” which was published in the May-June 2021 issue of Radiographics.

Thomas Ernst, Dr rer nat, Professor; Christine Cloak, PhD, Assistant Professor; and Linda Chang, MD, MS, Professor, all from the Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, were among the co-authors of “Associations between Frontal Lobe Structure, Parent-Reported Obstructive Sleep Disordered Breathing and Childhood Behavior in the ABCD Dataset,” which was published in the April 2021 issue of Nature Communications.

Dheeraj Gandhi, MBBS, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, was the last author of “Evidence-Based Vascular Neuroimaging,” which was published in the May 2021 issue of Neuroimaging Clinics of North America. Separately, Dr. Gandhi was last author of “Management of Unruptured Intracranial Aneurysms,” which was also published in the same issue.

Zhe Han, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, was the co-author of “High-Throughput Yeast Replicative Lifespan Screen Shows That Histone Deacetylase Complex HDA Regulates Aging,” which was published in Nature Communications on March 31, 2021, and was co-author of “Autophagy Inhibition Rescues Structural and Functional Defects Caused by the Loss of Mitochondrial Chaperone Hsc70-5/Mortalin in Drosophila,” which was published in Autophagy on January 6, 2021.

Rydhwana Hossain, MD, Assistant Professor; Jean Jeudy, MD, Professor; and Charles White, MD, Professor, all from the Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, were among the co-authors of “Utilization of Coronary Artery Disease Reporting and Data System: A Survey of Cardiovascular Imaging Societies,” which was e-published in the March 2021 issue of the Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography.

Jason Hostetter, MD, Assistant Professor; Timothy Miller, MD, Associate Professor; and Dheeraj Gandhi, MBBS, Professor, (last author), all from the Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, were among the co-authors of “Imaging for Treated Aneurysms (Including Clipping, Coiling, Stents, Flow Diverters),” which was published in the May 2021 issue of Neuroimaging Clinics of North America.

Miroslaw Janowski, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, was among the co-authors of “Mesenchymal Stem Cells for Neurological Disorders,” which was published in the February 2021 issue of Advanced Science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany).

Young Kwok, MD, Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, was among the authors of “Salvage Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy (SBRT) for Intraprostatic Relapse after Prostate Cancer Radiotherapy: An ESTRO ACROP Delphi Consensus,” which was e-published in Cancer Treatment Reviews on April 20, 2021.

Joshua Lewis, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, was among co-senior authors of “Genome Sequencing Unveils a New Regulatory Landscape of Platelet Reactivity,” which was published in Nature Communications on April 13, 2021.

Natallia Makarava, Research Associate (first author); Olga Mychko, Lab Technician; Jennifer Chen-Yu Chang, Research Assistant; Kara Molesworth, Laboratory Specialist; and Ilia Baskakov, PhD, Professor (senior author), all from the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology and The Center for Biomedical Engineering and Technology, were the authors of “The Degree of Astrocyte Activation is Predictive of the Incubation Time to Prion Disease,” which was published in Acta Neuropathologica Communications on May 12, 2021.

Mark Mishra, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, was among the authors of “Mapping Expanded Prostate Cancer Index Composite to EQ5D Utilities to Inform Economic Evaluations in Prostate Cancer: Secondary Analysis of NRG/RTOG 0415,” which was published in PLoS One on April 1, 2021.

Pranshu Mohindra, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, was among the authors of “Selection of Mediastinal Lymphoma Patients for Proton Therapy within the Proton Collaborative Group Registry: Concordance with the ILROG Guidelines,” which was e-published in the American Journal of Clinical Oncology on April 13, 2021.

Dipanjan Pan, MSc, PhD, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, was among the co-authors of “Ultrafast Nanometric Imaging of Energy Flow within and between Single Carbon Dots,” which was published in the March 2021 issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

Thomas Ptak, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, was among the co-authors of “Development of a Computed Tomography Perfusion Protocol to Support Large Animal Resuscitation Research,” which was e-published in the Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery on March 23, 2021.

Riccardo Serra, MD, Resident, Department of Neurosurgery, was the first author of “Disulfiram and Copper Combination Therapy Targets NPL4, Cancer Stem Cells and Extends Survival in a Medulloblastoma Model,” which was published in PLoS One on May 7, 2021.

Kinjal Sethuraman, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was second author of “Association between Level of Care and Colonization with Resistant Gram-Negative Bacteria among Nursing-Home Residents,” which was published in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology on March 22, 2021.

Osman Siddiqui, MD, Resident, Department of Radiation Oncology, was among the authors of “A Rare Cause of Esophagopleural Fistula Due to Intensity-Modulated Proton Therapy: A Case Report and Review of Literature,” which was e-published in the Clinical Journal of Gastroenterology on April 27, 2021.

J. Marc Simard, MD, PhD, Professor; Volodymyr Gerzanich, PhD, Associate Professor; and Seong Woo, PhD, Assistant Professor, all from Department of Neurosurgery, and Min Kwon, PhD, Research Associate, Department of Surgery, were co-authors of “Abcc8 (Sulfonylurea Receptor-1) Impact on Brain Atrophy after TBI Varies by Sex,” which was published in the Journal of Neurotrauma on May 3, 2021.

Mark Smith, PhD, Associate Professor; Wengen Chen, MD, PhD, Professor; and Vasken Dilsizian, MD, Professor, all from the Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, were among the co-authors of “Metabolic Scar Assessment with 18F-FDG -PET: Correlation to Ischemic VT Substrate and Successful Ablation Sites,” which was e-published in the April 2021 issue of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

Sarah Sommerkamp, MD, Assistant Professor, and Zachary Dezman, MD, MS, MS, Assistant Professor, both from the Department of Emergency Medicine, were among the authors of “Comparison of 4 Tests’ Utility for Predicting Need for Emergency Department Care in Patients with Alcohol-Related Complaints,” which was published in the American Journal of Emergency Medicine on January 29, 2021.

Jesse Stokum, MD, PhD, Resident, (corresponding author); Gregory Cannarsa, MD, Resident; Aaron Wessell, MD, Resident; Phelan Shea, MD, Resident; Nicole Wenger, MD, Resident; and Marc Simard, MD, PhD, Professor, all from the Department of Neurosurgery, were the authors of “When the Blood Hits Your Brain: The Neurotoxicity of Extravasated Blood,” which was published in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences on May 12, 2021.

Pamela Strissel, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, was among the authors of “Endogenous Retroviral-K Envelope is a Novel Tumor Antigen and Prognostic Indicator of Renal Cell Carcinoma,” which was published in Frontiers in Oncology on April 22, 2021.

Stephen Thom, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was:

among the authors of “The Role of Hyperbaric Oxygen Treatment for COVID-19: A Review,” which was published in Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology on July 22, 2020.
second author of “Effects of Adjunctive Therapeutic Hypothermia Combined with Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy in Acute Severe Carbon Monoxide Poisoning,” which was published in the August 2020 issue of Critical Care Medicine.

R. Gentry Wilkerson, MD, Associate Professor, and Maite A. Huis in ’t Veld, MD, Adjunct Assistant Professor, both from the Department of Emergency Medicine, were among the authors of:

• “European Society of Cardiology 0-hour/1-hour High-Sensitivity Troponin Algorithm Performance in a United States Cohort” and “One and Done? Performance of a Single, Low High-sensitivity Troponin in a Multisite United States Cohort,” both which were published in the July 2020 issue of Academic Emergency Medicine.
• “Evaluation of European Society of Cardiology (ESC) 0/1-hour Algorithm in the Diagnosis of 90-day Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events: A Multicenter United States Cohort Study,” which was published in the European Heart Journal on November 25, 2020.

George Willis, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was second author of “Evaluation and Management of the Critically Ill Adult with Diabetic Ketoacidosis,” which was published in the Journal of Emergency Medicine on August 4, 2020.

Mike Winters, MD, Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was among the:

authors of “Angiotensin II for the Emergency Physician,” which was published in the November 2020 issue of the Emergency Medicine Journal.
discussants in the twice-monthly podcast, Critical Care Perspectives in Emergency Medicine, episodes:
“The Physiologically Difficult Airway,” published April 20, 2021.
“Early ED [Emergency Department] Sepsis Care,” published May 10, 2021.

Jiachen Zhuo, PhD, Assistant Professor; Li Jiang, PhD, Research Associate; Chandler Sours Rhodes, PhD, Adjunct Assistant; Steven Roys, MS, Research Associate; Rao Gullapalli, PhD, MBA, Professor, all from the Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, were among the co-authors of “Early Stage Longitudinal Subcortical Volumetric Changes following Mild Traumatic Brain Injury,” which was e-published in the April 2021 issue of Brain Injury. Separately, Dr. Gullapalli was among the co-authors of “Association of Sex and Age with Mild Traumatic Brain Injury-Related Symptoms: A TRACK-TBI Study,” which was published in the April 2021 issue of JAMA Network Open. Dr. Gullapalli was also among the co-authors of “Red Cell Distribution Width, Anemia, and Brain Volumetric Outcomes Among Middle-Aged Adults,” which was e-published in the April 2021 issue of the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease.