What’s the Buzz? November-December 2021

What’s on My Mind …

With the holiday season behind us, we enjoyed an opportune time to reflect on all we are grateful for. The University of Maryland School of Medicine’s productivity has remained high, even throughout the pandemic. We:

Entrepreneur of the Year: Vincent Njar, PhD
Public Servant of the Year: Joshua M. Abzug, MD
Researcher of the Year: Ronna P. Hertzano, MD, PhD
Educators of the Year: Renaissance Curriculum Team, including Philip Dittmar, MD; Olga Ioffe, MD; Constance Lacap, DO; Joseph Martinez, MD; Donna Parker, MD, FACP; Devang Patel, MD; Sandra Quezada, MD, MS; Norman Retener, MD; Nirav Shah, MD; and Kerri Thom, MD, MS

These individuals richly deserve the honor of being recognized among the entire University community, and I am exceptionally grateful for the honor they bring to the School of Medicine. While they are the ones who were publicly lauded, they serve as a representation of the merit throughout our entire academic medical community.

Our Transplantation Program had the opportunity to showcase its excellence in research in our first virtual Festival of Science, which was very successful with over 400 attendees and continuous engagement and dialogue among our Scientific Advisory Council, the presenters, and members of the audience. One significant benefit of hosting an event like this on a virtual platform includes the ability of our presenters and audience members to continue the conversation through the “Chat” and “Q&A” functions. Research insights were further analyzed, and new collaborations were fostered. I want to thank everyone for tuning into my last Festival of Science as Dean. If you missed it, you can watch the recording on the event’s webpage on our website.

While we have had much to celebrate, we still have much that gives us cause for caution. I hope that everyone was able to rest and reflect during the holiday break, while staying safe and healthy.

In the relentless pursuit of excellence, I am
Sincerely Yours,

E. Albert Reece, MD, PhD, MBA
Executive Vice President for Medical Affairs, UM Baltimore
John Z. and Akiko K. Bowers Distinguished Professor and
Dean, University of Maryland School of Medicine

New Faculty - December

Petrus (“Pierre”) Malherbe, MB, ChB, joined the Department of Emergency Medicine as a postdoctoral research fellow in August 2021. Dr. Malherbe graduated from University of Stellenbosch School of Medicine in Cape Town, South Africa, in November 2020. In his new role, he will be helping with the department’s clinical trials and other research projects.

Recent Appointments - December

Marie-CIaude Lavoie, PhD, MSc, has been appointed Assistant Professor, full-time, in the faculty of the Department of Epidemiology & Public Health at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Dr. Lavoie serves as the Center for International Health Education and Biosecurity (CIHEB) Strategic Information Director at the Institute of Human Virology under the leadership of Man Charurat, PhD, MHS, Professor, Director of CIHEB.

Jeffrey Wolf, MD, Professor, Department of Otorhinolaryngology–Head & Neck Surgery, has been appointed Associate Chief Clinical Officer for the University of Maryland Medical Center.

Recent Appointments - November

Maureen Black, PhD, Professor, Department of Pediatrics, was invited to serve on the editorial board of the Journal of Nutrition for a two-year term beginning September 1, 2021.

France Carrier, PhD, Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, has been named Interim Director of the Translational Laboratory Service Core within the University of Maryland Marlene and Steward Greenebaum Cancer Center. In this role, she will oversee the service core that provides preclinical and clinical experimental support to translational scientists and physician investigators on campus.

Community Service - December

The Global Physical Therapy Day of Service was held this year on Saturday, October 9, 2021. The Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science’s DPT Class of 2024 coordinated their service with the Baltimore Running Festival. They were assigned to conduct bag checks for the 5K, 10K, half marathon, and full marathon. Arriving at 5:40 a.m., they checked hundreds of participants’ bags and kept them safe so that participants could focus on racing well and having fun. The students enjoyed interacting with the participants, providing encouragement and reassurance to the runners.

Congratulations to the following who have received honors! - December

Kenneth Crandall, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, received Top Doctor of 2021 by Baltimore Magazine, for Spine Surgery.

Jose Diaz, MD, Professor, Department of Surgery, will receive a 2022 Distinguished Service Award from the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM). Dr. Diaz is receiving this award for his generous contributions of time and energy, and the outstanding work he has done for the Society. The award will be presented during the American College of Critical Care Medicine Convocation/Society of Critical Care Medicine Awards presentation, to be held February 7, 2022, in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

David Efron, MD, the Thomas M. Scalea, MD Distinguished Professor of Trauma Surgery, Professor, Department of Surgery, was named one of Baltimore Magazine’s Top Doctors in October 2021.

Howard Eisenberg, MD, Professor, Department of Neurosurgery and Neurosurgery Research Team, as well as the collaborative work amongst multidisciplinary teams at UMSOM, Insightec, announced FDA Approval for “Exablate Neuro for the Treatment of Parkinson’s Disease,” on November 3, 2021.

Jason Falvey, PT, DPT, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science, has been appointed to the Public Policy and Advocacy Committee by the American Physical Therapy Association’s (APTA) Board of Directors for a three-year term starting January 1, 2022. In this role, Dr. Falvey will help advise APTA on current and emerging public policy issues impacting the provision of physical therapy, rehabilitation, and health care services.

Mary Kay Lobo, PhD, Professor, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, was the recipient of the Society for Neuroscience Jacob P. Waletzky Memorial Award. This is one of five lifetime awards that honor the work of dedicated scientists who make an outstanding contribution to the field of neuroscience. The award was announced on November 1, 2021, during the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) Mini-Convention where the recipient gives a Jacob P. Waletzky Memorial Award Lecture. The award is given for research that has led to significant conceptual and empirical contributions to the understanding of drug addiction.

Victoria Marchese, PT, PhD, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science, was honored with the Jane Kroh Satterfield Endowed Professorship in Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science on November 2, 2021. This award was established in recognition of excellence in clinical, research, and scholarly pursuits in the area of physical therapy and rehabilitation science.

Nicholas Morris, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology, received the Neurocritical Care Society Mentorship during the Annual Neurocritical Care Society Meeting held in Chicago, IL, October 26-29, 2021.

Charles Sansur, MD, FAANS, Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, received Top Doctor of 2021 by Baltimore Magazine, for Neurosurgery.

Thomas Scalea, MD, The Honorable Francis X. Kelly Distinguished Professor of Trauma Surgery, Professor of Surgery, Director, Program in Trauma, was named one of Baltimore Magazine’s Top Doctors in October 2021.

Gary Schwartzbauer, MD, PhD, was elected to the Medical Education Leadership Academy (MELA) of the University of Maryland School of Medicine as a Core Instructor.

Esther Vicente, PhD, Research Associate, Department of Radiation Oncology, was first author of the podium presentation “Accounting for Serial and Parallel Functionality of the Lung May Minimize Post-Radiotherapy Loss of Respiratory Function in Lung Cancer Patients.” She was recognized with an ASTRO Basic/Translational Science Award, one of only a few given to residents and early-career professionals and chosen from almost 2,000 submitted abstracts.

Rachel Wiltjer, DO, Resident, Department of Emergency Medicine, won the top prize of Resident Presenter Champion with her presentation of a case of methotrexate toxicity at the National Council of Residency Directors in Emergency Medicine’s Clinical Pathologic Case Competition Finals on October 25, 2021.

Graeme Woodworth, MD, FACS, Professor and Chair, Department of Neurosurgery, received Top Doctor of 2021 by Baltimore Magazine, for Neurosurgery.

Baltimore Magazine named as Top Doctors the following faculty members of the Department of Emergency Medicine in its November 2021 issue:

Brian Corwell, MD, Assistant Professor, in the category of Emergency Medicine
Stephen Schenkel, MD, MPP, Associate Professor, in the category of Emergency Medicine
Kinjal Sethuraman, MD, MPH, Associate Professor, in the category of Hyperbaric Medicine

Faculty members from the Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science were recently honored with awards from the American Physical Therapy Association—Maryland (APTAMD): Roy Film, PT, MPT, DPT, OCS, FAAOMPT, Assistant Professor, received the Henry O. and Florence P. Kendall award, and Linda Horn, PT, DScPT, MHS, GSC, NCS, Assistant Professor, received the Richard T. Peret Distinguished Service Award.

Congratulations to the following who have received honors! - November

Researchers from the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology were recipients of several awards from the Graduate Program in Life Sciences (GPILS) and Office of Postdoctoral Scholars (OPS) for 2021. Jason Alipio, Graduate Student, Program in Neuroscience, in the laboratory of Asaf Keller, PhD, Professor and Chair, received the PhD Thesis Award. Cali Calarco, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, in the Laboratory of Mary Kay Lobo, PhD, Professor, received the Postdoctoral Fellow Excellence in Service award for her exceptional service and commitment to outreach and education to the neuroscience and greater scientific community. Dr. Lobo received both the Dr. Mark E. Shirtliff PhD Student Mentor Award and the Teacher of the Year award. They were recognized in a Zoom ceremony on October 18, 2021.

Patents - December

The Translational Therapeutics Research Group (TTRG) received an official nanoparticle patent for the Targeted Structure-Specific Particulate Delivery Systems on November 1, 2021. TTRG consists of Graeme Woodworth, MD, Professor and Chair, Department of Neurosurgery; Jeffrey Winkles, PhD, Professor, Department of Surgery; and Anthony Kim, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Neurosurgery.

In the Media - November

Elizabeth Clayborne, MD, MA, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was featured on:

CNN’s Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer commenting on Louisiana’s COVID outbreak and Hurricane Ida evacuation on August 28, 2021
Max Out Time with AJ II, Black Business Month’s videocast “Episode 82: Dr. Elizabeth Clayborne Has Invented the ‘Band Aid’ for Nosebleed Emergencies” on August 31, 2021
Reel Emergency’s videocast and podcast “Episode 5—End of Life Care” on September 7, 2021
Yahoo Finance’s “Doctor: This Conversation about Boosters Doesn’t Take Place Just in the U.S.” on September 17, 2021
CBS News’ “Delta Variant Surge May Be Peaking as U.S. Daily Deaths Top 2,000” on September 22, 2021

Dheeraj Gandhi, MBBS, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, was featured in the Focused Ultrasound Foundation’s September 30, 2021 publication describing his treatment of a woman with neuropathic pain.

Michy Kelly, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, was interviewed on NBC News Affiliate Channel 4 in Washington, DC for their Science piece “Friends at First Sight: Maryland Study Sheds Light on Why People Click.” The story was based on Dr. Kelly’s recent paper “A Genetic Basis for Friendship? Homophily for Membrane-Associated PDE11A-cAMP-CREB Signaling in CA1 of Hippocampus Dictates Mutual Social Preference in Male and Female Mice,” which was published in Molecular Psychiatry on July 28, 2021. The story was aired and published on Channel 4’s website on September 29, 2021.

David Marcozzi, MD, MHS-CL, MHS-CL, FACEP, Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was featured in “Doctor Explains the Importance of Mask Wearing Even for Non-Covid Related Viruses” on Fox News on October 1, 2021, discussing a study he authored with Zachary Dezman, MD, MS, MS, Assistant Professor; Benoit Stryckman, MA, Research Associate and Health Economist; and Laura Pimentel, MD, Clinical Professor, all from the Department of Emergency Medicine: “Masking for COVID-19 Is Associated with Decreased Emergency Department Utilization for Non-COVID Viral Illnesses and Respiratory Conditions in Maryland,” which was published in the American Journal of Medicine on July 6, 2021.

Piotr Walczak, MD, PhD, Professor, and Miroslaw Janowski, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, both from the Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, were highlighted in the newsletter of Children Brain Tumor Drug Delivery Consortium, which is headquartered in Nottingham, UK. Separately, Dr. Janowski was selected as one Neurocritical Care’s Top Reviewers.

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

Clement Adebamowo, BM, ChB, ScD, FWACS, FACS, Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, received a five-year, $2,000,000 MPI award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) for his project entitled “Bridging Gaps in the ELSI of Data Science Health Research in Nigeria (BridgELSI).”

Odessa Addison, DPT, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science, received a VA Merit award from the Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Rehabilitation Research and Development. The four-year, $1,199,981 grant entitled “Reducing Fall Risk with the Use of Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation to Maximize the Hip Abductor Muscles in Older Veterans,” is for the period January 2022–December 2025.

Eduardo Bento de Faria, DVM, Research Associate, Department of Radiation Oncology, received $12,319 from the VA Baltimore Research and Education Foundation, Inc., for “Measurement of Radiation-induced Fibrosis by Size-Adjust CT Scanning.”

Robert Bloch, PhD, Professor, Department of Physiology, received a two-year $153,200 grant from the Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy Society (FSHD) for “SLC34A2 as a Biomarker for FSHD.”

Shannan Dixon, MS, CGC, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, and Director, Master’s in Genetic Counseling Program, has secured $1.87 million over five years to increase diversity in the genetic counseling work force. In early spring 2021, five genetic counseling programs in the Northeast, including the Master’s in Genetic Counseling Program at the University of Maryland School of Medicine formed a consortium “The Alliance to Increase Diversity in Genetic Counseling” (AID-GC) and worked with the Warren Alpert Foundation to develop a proposal to increase diversity and inclusion in the genetic counseling workforce. The consortium has been awarded a grant for $9.5 million to increase diversity in genetic counseling and the UMSOM MGC Program is receiving a total award of $1.87 million over the five-year period. The AlD-GC project will support 40 underrepresented students in five genetic counseling programs in the northeastern U.S. over five years to expand all dimensions of diversity. Other consortium members, in addition to the MGC Program, include the Genetic Counseling master’s programs at Boston University School of Medicine, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, and Sarah Lawrence College. Ten students will be selected yearly to receive full tuition support and a cost-of-living stipend. In addition, the five programs will collaborate to develop new curricular content and culturally tailored standardized patient sessions.

Joanne Dorgan, PhD, MPH, Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, received a two-year, $240,000 award from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for her project entitled “Prospective Multimodality Cardiac Imaging and Biomarker Characterization of Cardiovascular Toxicity in Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-cell Therapy for Relapsed or Refractory large B-cell Lymphoma.” This is a collaborative project awarded under the University of Maryland Center of Excellence in Regulatory Science and Innovation.

Alex Ksendzovsky, MD, Assistant Professor, and Philip Iffland, PhD, Assistant Professor, both from the Department of Neurology, received $250,000 from The Lisa Dean Moseley Foundation for “A High-Throughput Drug Screening Tool for mTOPopathies.”

Shenghan Lai, MD, Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, received a $31K one-year award from the University of California, Los Angeles, for his project entitled “Collaborating Consortium of Cohorts Producing NIDA Opportunities.”

Osamah Saeedi, MD, MS, Associate Professor, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, was awarded a five-year, $1.7 million R01 grant from the National Eye Institute (NIH/NEI) for “Direct Measures of Retinal Blood Flow and Autoregulation as Robust Biomarkers for Early Glaucoma.”

Michelle Shardell, PhD, Professor, and Rebecca Brotman, PhD, MPH, Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, received a $3.1M five-year research grant (R01) from the National Institutes of Aging for their project entitled “Methods to Test Lifestyle, Vaginal Microenvironment, and Genitourinary Symptoms across Menopause Transition.”

Esther Vicente, PhD, Research Associate, Department of Radiation Oncology, was awarded $14,999 in funding sponsored by Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., for “Therapy Planning Software Evaluation CTTO.”

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

Kathryn Hughes Barry, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, received a one-year, $4,946 award from the University of Maryland, Baltimore, Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR), for her project entitled, “Epigenomic and Transcriptomic Markers of Aggressive Prostate Cancer among African American Men.”

Gary Fiskum, PhD, the Matjasko Professor in Anesthesiology Research and Vice Chair, was awarded a one-year, $600,000 contract and a three-year, $2,700,000 contract from the U.S. Air Force titled “Effects of Multiple Flights Following Impact-and Blast-Induced Traumatic Brain Injury on Long-Term Outcomes.”

Katherine Goodman, PhD, JD, Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, received a five-year, $606,637 training award (K01) from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) for her project entitled, “Using Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning to Identify Patients at High Risk of Potentially Preventable Crbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales (CRE) Infection.”

Yajie Liang, MB, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, was awarded a two-year, $154,500 R03 grant from the National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NIH/NINDS) for “Intravital 2-photon Microscopy Enabling 6D Single Cell RNA Seq in Immunocompetent Glioblastoma Xenografts.”

Peiying Liu, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, was awarded $2,598,241 from NIH/NINDS for a four-year R01 grant entitled “Gas-Free Cerebrovascular Reactivity (CVR) MRI in Vascular Cognitive Impairment” and $1,307,042 from NIH/NINDS for a three-year R01 grant transferred from Johns Hopkins University entitled “Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences
and Neurological Disorders.”

Mary Kay Lobo, PhD, Professor, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, received a five-year, $1,780,984 competitive renewal of her grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) for “Cocaine-Induced Mitochondrial Mechanisms and Molecular Mediators in Reward Circuitry.”

Rebecca Nowak, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, received a two-year, $444,573 R21 grant from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research for her project entitled “Evaluating Immunity to Oral Human Papillomavirus to Understand the Lower Oropharyngeal Cancer Risk among MSM.”

Lei Ren, PhD, Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, received a $1,562,881 transfer R01 award from NIBIB/NIH for “Hybrid Virtual-MRI/CBCT: A New Paradigm for Image Guidance in Liver SBRT.” Dr. Ren was originally awarded this grant while at Duke University.

Saumil Sethna, PhD, Instructor, Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, received a two-year $424,875 R21 grant from the National Eye Institute (NEI)/National Institutes of Health (NIH) for “AMD-Patient Derived hiPSC-RPE: Gateway for Assessing Novel and Emerging Modulators of Autophagy.”

J. Kathleen Tracy, PhD, Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, was awarded a five-year, $2,306,101 grant from the National Cancer Institute for her work entitled “Translating Molecular Diagnostics for Cervical Cancer Prevention into Practice.” This is a continuation award originally under the direction of Patti Gravitt, PhD, who has left the department and can no longer act as principal investigator on this project.

Bruce Vogel, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology, was awarded a five-year, $1.93 million R01 grant from the National Eye Institute (NIH/NEI) for “Molecular Genetics of a Complement Factor H Homolog.”

Ze Wang, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, was awarded a four-year, $2,311,294 R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Aging (NIH/NIA) for “Brain Entropy Mapping in Alzheimer’s Disease.”

Bruce Wasserman, MD, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, was awarded $722,654 from NIH/NIA for year five of an R01 grant transferred from Johns Hopkins University entitled “The Role of Intracranial Atherosclerosis in the Development of Alzheimer’s Disease.”

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

Sally Adebamowo, MBBS, MSc, ScD, Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, was a speaker at the Polygenic Risk Methods in Diverse Populations (PRIMED) Consortium sponsored by The Electronic Medical Records and Genomics (eMERGE) Network Steering Committee Meeting at The Hilton in Rockville, MD, on October 27, 2021. She was also invited as a member to The NIH Bridge2AI OT Review Panel, 2021.

Abdul-Kareem Ahmed, MD, PGY-4, attended the Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery Workshop, hosted by the American Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery (ASSFN) and the University of Colorado, Department of Neurosurgery. This lecture was held November 11-14, 2021. Also, an abstract entitled “Variability in Vascular Supply of Intracranial Meningiomas: An Angiographic and Anatomic Study” was selected for a podium presentation at the 31st Annual North American Skull Base Society (NASBS) meeting. The meeting is scheduled for February 18-20, 2022, at the Sheraton Grand at Wild Horse Pass in Phoenix, AZ.

Thomas Blanpied, PhD, Professor, Department of Physiology, presented a lecture entitled “Dynamic Control of Synapse Architecture” to the Cajal lectures: Advanced imaging techniques for cellular and systems neuroscience at the Bordeaux School of Neuroscience, held on November 3, 2021.

Maureen Black, PhD, Professor, Department of Pediatrics, presented the keynote address “Impact of the Pandemic on Child Development Globally—and Key Strategies for a Brighter Future” at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s 13th Annual Global Health Conference, held in Philadelphia, PA, on October 30, 2021.

Robert Bloch, PhD, Professor, Department of Physiology, presented a virtual talk at the European Society for Medicine Congress, (ESMED), which was held November 11-13, 2021 in Vienna, Austria, entitled “Muscle Xenografts Reproduce Key Molecular Features of Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy (FSHD).”

Katie Dondero, MS, RCEP, CSCS, PhD Student; Elizabeth Parker, PhD, RD, Assistant Professor; and Odessa Addison, DPT, PhD, Associate Professor, all from the Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science, presented at the annual meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Chapter of the American College of Sports Medicine. The conference was held in Harrisburg, PA, on November 5-6, 2021. Their session was entitled “Promoting Optimal Aging: Identifying and Addressing Vulnerabilities in Aging Adults.”

Michael Grasso, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, presented “Physician Prescribing Changes Impacted by Patient-Initiated Online Health Searches” at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 12th International Workshop on Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI 2021), which was held virtually on December 9, 2021.

Marc Hochberg, MD, MPH, MACP, MACR, Professor, Department of Medicine, presented the Oscar Gluck, MD Memorial Lecture on “The Role of Bone in Osteoarthritis” during the 2021 American College of Rheumatology annual meeting held on November 7, 2021.

Linda Horn, PT, DScPT, MHS, GCS, NCS, Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science, was a co-author on two recent poster presentations: the first was at the 2021 Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC) Virtual Poster Fair on October 19, 2021, entitled: “The Triangulation of IPE, Simulation and Telehealth in Health Professions Education: A Pilot Study.” The second poster was presented at the American Physical Therapy Association’s 2021 Education Leadership Conference (ELC), which was held in Atlanta, GA, from October 22-24, 2021, entitled, “Preparing PTs for Interprofessional Telehealth Practice: A Pilot Study.”

Meizhen Huang, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science, presented at the 98th Annual American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine, which was held virtually September 26-29, 2021. Her presentation was entitled “Effect of Multicomponent Home-Based Training on Gait and Muscle Strength Performance in Older Adults with Hip Fracture,” and encompassed contributions from several faculty members at PTRS including: Vincent Conroy, PT, DScPT, Assistant Professor; Mark Rogers, PT, PhD, FAPTA, Adjunct Professor; Douglas Savin, PT, MPT, PhD, Assistant Professor, and Li-Qun Zhang, PhD, Professor.

Nicholas Morris, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology, organized a session at the Annual Neurocritical Care Society meeting in Chicago, IL, on October 29, 2021 titled “Simulation in Neurocritical Care as Translational Science.” Dr. Morris also presented “Simulation Solutions to Neurocritical Care Delivery Deficiencies.”

Members of the Division of Growth and Nutrition in the Department of Pediatrics made five oral presentations at the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association, held Oct 24-27, 2021, in Denver, CO:

Alysse Kowalski, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, was the lead author of “Pre- to Early Pandemic Changes in Risk of Household Food Insecurity among Maryland Families with Children.” Anne Pulling-Kuhn, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow; Erin Hager, PhD, Associate Professor; and Maureen Black, PhD, Professor, were co-authors
Zahra Rahmaty, PhD, 2021 graduate of the School of Nursing, was the lead author on “Preschooler Obesity: Associations with Caregiver Feeding Practices and Perceptions of Child Temperament and Size.” Maureen Black, PhD, Professor, was a co-author
Anne Pulling-Kuhn, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, was the lead author on “Changes in Objectively Measured Childhood Physical Activity Associated with Pandemic Related Closures.” Alysse Kowalski, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow; Maureen Black, PhD, Professor, and Erin Hager, PhD, Associate Professor, were co-authors
Zahar Zafari, PhD, Assistant Professor, School of Pharmacy, was the lead author of “Financial Impacts of COVID-19 Pandemic on School Meal Programs in Maryland.” Erin Hager, PhD, Associate Professor, was a co-author.
Erin Hager, PhD, Associate Professor, participated on an invited panel, “Waivers and Flexibilities Issued by USDA During School Closures: Maryland Spring 2020,” in Session.

The annual conference of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Manual Physical Therapists (AAOMPT) was held in Cleveland, OH, October 7-10, 2021. Ethan Feder, PT, DPT, OCS, Adjunct Instructor, Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science, presented a poster entitled “Treatment of Lumbar Radiculitis in a Patient with a Lateral Ankle Sprain: A Case Report.” Co-authors, also from the Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science, included Peter Bowman, PT, DPT, FAAOMPT, Assistant Professor; Roy Film, PT, MPT, DPT, OCS, FAAOMPT, Assistant Professor, and Alisa Pravdo, PT, DPT, OCS, FAAOMPT, Assistant Professor.

The Department of Radiation Oncology’s Division of Translational Radiation Sciences (DTRS) was well represented at the 2021 Meeting of the Radiation Research Society, which was held in an “immersively virtual format” October 3–6, 2021 in San Juan, Puerto Rico:

Isabel Jackson, PhD, Associate Professor, was a member of the program planning committee and presented on “Circulating Markers of Vascular Injury Associated with TBI-Induced Blood Failure and Delayed Effects of Acute Radiation Exposure in a Non-Human Primate Model.”
Elisabeth Vicente, MD, Program Manager for biomarkers in Dr. Jackson’s lab, gave a poster presentation on “Phospho-SMAD-2 Temporal Expression in C57L/J Murine Lung Tissue after Total Body Irradiation with 2.5% Bone Marrow Sparing Induced Delayed Effects of Acute Radiation Exposure.”
France Carrier, PhD, Professor, was the chair of a session on “Radiation-Induced Cell Death.”
Emily Draeger, PhD, medical physics resident at Yale University, was invited to present work that she conducted under the mentorship of Dr. Jackson and Yannick Poirier, PhD, Assistant Professor, while a research radiation physicist in DTRS in a session titled “100 Years of Radiation Dose (History Committee)” session.

Maryland at ASTRO 2021: Maryland was well represented at the 2021 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO), held October 24-27, 2021 in Chicago, IL. Faculty members, residents, and postdoctoral and medical students made 34 presentations (7 podium, 24 posters, and 3 on panels or as moderators). The meeting was offered as a hybrid in-person/virtual experience with limited in-person representation and expanded online offerings for registered attendees. Preliminary planning for 2022 ASTRO presentations has already begun. The meeting will be held October 23–26 in San Antonio, TX.

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

The Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine’s Emergency and Trauma Imaging Section was well represented at the American Society of Emergency Radiology’s Annual Meeting, held September 21-24, 2021, as a hybrid event attended virtually and in-person in Tampa, FL. Clint Sliker, MD, Associate Professor, was the Annual Meeting Program Committee Chair. Thomas Ptak, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, presented “FASER: Penetrating Head Injuries: Forensic Anaylsis.” Uttam Bodanapally, MBBS, Associate Professor, presented “Imaging of Head in Emergency/Trauma Department: Emerging Role of DECT.” David Dreizin, MD, Associate Professor, presented “Pelvic Vascular Trauma,” and Matthew Dattwyler, MD, Assistant Professor, presented “Penetrating Spine Trauma.” Elana Smith, MD, Assistant Professor, was the Moderator of Neuroradiology: Non-trauma.

Manjula Ananthram, MBBS, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, presented a poster entitled “Heart Transplant, Exercise, and Pharmacologic Approaches” for the AHA 2021 Scientific Sessions in Boston, MA, on November 14, 2021.

Katharine Bisordi, MS, MGC, CGC, Instructor, Department of Pediatrics, was among the co-authors of “Evaluating Coping Mechanisms Used by Parents of Children Diagnosed with Li-Fraumeni Syndrome,” which was presented as a poster at the 2021 National Society of Genetic Counselors (NSGC) Annual Education Conference held September 22-26, 2021 (virtual).

Vasken Dilsizian, MD, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, was recently the cardiology grand rounds speaker at the Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center, Houston, TX, where he presented “PET Assessment of Cardiovascular Inflammation and Infection,” on September 16, 2021. Additionally, Dr. Dilsizian, delivered an oral presentation entitled “Infection Imaging: Left Ventricular Assist Device,” and moderated a session entitled “Advanced Clinical Applications in Molecular and Nuclear Cardiology: Moving Beyond the Coronaries,”at the 26th Annual Scientific Sessions of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology, a Virtual Meeting held October 1-2, 2021.

Albert Hicks, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, was a Moderator for “Crash and Burn Cardiogenic Shock in 2021” at The Heart Failure Society of America’s Annual Scientific Meeting, held in Denver, CO, in September 2021.

Susan Joseph, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, was invited to be a speaker and panelist for “Frailty and Patient Selection for LVAD or Heart Transplant” at Brano Heart Failure Forum, held in Graz, Austria, in September 2021. She also was a Moderator for “State of the Art with ECPR” at the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization’s “ELSO” 32nd Annual Meeting held September 30, 2021, (virtual event) and Presented “Beyond VA ECMO: Advanced Configurations in Mechanical Circulatory Support.”

Hats off to those who have been published! - December

Zubair Ahmed, PhD, was among the co-authors of “Putting the Pieces Together: The Hair Cell Transduction Complex,” which was published in the Journal for the Association for Research in Otolaryngology on October 6, 2021. He was the lead author of “Biallelic Variants in EPHA2 Identified in Three Large Inbred Families with Early Onset Cataract, “ which was published in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences on September 30, 2021.

Maureen Black, PhD, Professor, Department of Pediatrics, was a co-author on “Evidence-Based Recommendations and Best Practices for Promoting Healthy Eating Behaviors in Children 2 to 8 Years,” which was released by Healthy Eating Research on October 20, 2021. She and Angela Trude, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Pediatrics, were co-authors of “Associations between Paternal Anxiety and Infant Weight Gain,” which was published in Children on October 28, 2021.

Garrett Cavaliere, DO, Resident, and Christine Kositz, DO, 2020 Residency Graduate, Department of Emergency Medicine, were co-authors of “Emergency Department Diagnosis of Postprocedural Hemorrhagic Cholecystitis Utilizing Point of Care Ultrasound,” which was accepted for publication in the Journal of Emergency Medicine on October 14, 2021.

Linda Chang, MD, MS, Professor, and Thomas Ernst, Dr rer nat, Professor, both from the Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, were the among the co-authors of “Race/Ethnicity-Associated Blood DNA Methylation Differences between Japanese and European American Women: An Exploratory Study,” which was published in the October 2021 issue of Clinical Epigenetics. Separately, Dr. Chang was among the co-authors of “A Comprehensive Overview of the Physical Health of the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study Cohort at Baseline,” which was published in the October 2021 issue of Frontiers in Pediatrics.

Kenneth Crandall, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor, and Charles Sansur, MD, FAANS, Professor, both from the Department of Neurology, were published in the 7th Edition of the NMS Surgery Med Student textbook on Chapter 26, “Surgical Subspecialties,” on October 2, 2021.

Derik Davis, MD, Associate Professor; Jiachen Zhuo, PhD, Assistant Professor; Michael Mulligan, MD, Clinical Professor; Charles Resnik, MD, Professor; and Rao Gullapalli, PhD, MBA, Professor, all from the Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, were among the co-authors of “Correlation of Quantitative Versus Semiquantitative Measures of Supraspinatus Intramuscular Fatty Infiltration to Shoulder Range of Motion and Strength: A Pilot Study,” which was published in the September-October 2021 issue of Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology. Dr. Davis was the first author and Dr. Gullapalli was the last author.

Zachary Dezman, MD, MS, MS, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was first author of “The Actual, Long-Term Cost of Intentional Injury Care among a Cohort of Maryland Medicaid Recipients,” which was published in the Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery on October 4, 2021.

Timm Dickfeld, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Medicine, and Vasken Dilsizian, MD, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, were among the authors of “Metabolic Scar Assessment with 18-FDG-PET: Correlation to Ischemic VT Substrate and Successful Ablation Sites,” which was published in the November 2021 issue of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

Vasken Dilsizian, MD, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, was a co-author of “Non-Invasive Imaging in Coronary Syndromes—Recommendations of the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging and the American Society of Echocardiography, in Collaboration with the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology, Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography and Society or Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance,” which was epublished in the November 2021 issue of the European Heart Journal: Cardiovascular Imaging.

David Dreizin, MD, Associate Professor; Guang Li, PhD, Assistant Professor; and Rong Chen, PhD, Associate Professor; all from the Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, were among the co-authors of “Volumetric Markers of Body Composition May Improve Personalized Prediction of Major Arterial Bleeding after Pelvic Fracture: A Secondary Analysis of the Baltimore CT Prediction Model Cohort,” which was published in the November 2021 issue of the Canadian Association of Radiologists Journal. Dr. Dreizin was the first author and Dr. Chen was the last author.

Jason Falvey, PT, DPT, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science, was the lead author of “Neighborhood Socioeconomic Disadvantage and Disability after Critical Illness,” which was published in Critical Care Medicine on October 13, 2021.

Kevin Flanagan, DO, Assistant Professor; Zachary Dezman, MD, MS, MS, Assistant Professor; Karl Dachroeden, MD, Resident; and Laura Bontempo, MD, MEd, Associate Professor, all from the Department of Emergency Medicine, were the authors of “73-Year-Old Female with Syncope and Motor Vehicle Collision,” which was published in Clinical Practice and Cases in Emergency Medicine on November 1, 2021.

Dheeraj Gandhi, MBBS, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, was among the co-authors of “Unruptured Cerebral Aneurysms in Elderly Patients: Key Challenges and Management,” which was published in the December issue of Annals of Medicine.

Erin Hager, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, was a co-author of “Strategies to Improve School Meal Consumption: A Systematic Review,” which was published in Nutrients on October 21, 2021.

Gregory Jasani, MD, Clinical Instructor; Reem Alfalasi, MB, ChB, 2021 Residency Graduate; Garrett Cavaliere, DO, Resident; and Benjamin Lawner, DO, MS, EMT-P, Associate 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 October 12, 2021.

Jean Jeudy, MD, Professor; Rydhwana Hossain, MD, Assistant Professor; and Charles White, MD, Professor, all from the Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, were among the co-authors of “Cardiac MRI Findings of Myocarditis after COVID-19 mRNA Vaccination in Adolescents,” which was epublished in AJR American Journal of Roentgenology on October 27, 2021. Separately, Dr. White was the last author of “Diagnostic Accuracy of Coronary Artery Occlusion and Myocardial Perfusion Defect on Non-Gated Enhanced Chest CT in Predicting Acute Myocardial Infarction,” which was published in the September 2021 issue of Tomography.

Kimia Khalatbari Kani, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, was the first author of “Low-Velocity, Civilian Firearm Extremity Injuries—Review and Update for Radiologists,” which was epublished in Skeletal Radiology on October 30, 2021.

Michy Kelly, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, was senior author of “The Role of PDE11A4 in Social Isolation-Induced Changes in Intracellular Signaling and Neuroinflammation,” which was accepted for publication in Frontiers in Pharmacology.

Marcel Lanza, PhD, Research Associate, Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science, was a co-author of “Behavior of Motor Units during Submaximal Isometric Contractions in Chronically Strength-Trained Individuals,” which was published in the Journal of Applied Physiology on November 11, 2021.

Giovanni Lasio, PhD, Associate Professor; Baoshe Zhang, PhD, Assistant Professor; Byong Yong Yi, PhD, Professor; Shifeng Chen, PhD, Professor; and Jinghao Zhou, PhD, Associate Professor, all from the Department of Radiation Oncology, were among the authors of “Semi-Supervised Segmentation of Radiation-Induced Pulmonary Fibrosis from Lung CT Scans with Multi-Scale Guided Dense Attention,” which was published in IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging on October 4, 2021.

Yajie Liang, MB, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, was among the co-authors of “An Adaptive Optics Module for Deep Tissue Multiphoton Imaging In Vivo,” which was published in the October 2021 issue of Nature Methods.

Regina Macatangay, MD; Ashley Munchel, MD; and Teresa York, MD, Assistant Professors, all from the Department of Pediatrics; were among the co-authors of “Embryonal Rhabdomyosarcoma with Posttherapy Cytodifferentiation and Aggressive Clinical Course,” which was accepted for publication in Case Reports in Pathology on October 21, 2021.

Victoria Marchese, PhD, PT, the Jane Kroh Satterfield Professor of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science and Chair, Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science; Kelly Rock, PT, DPT, PhD Candidate; Andria Harpold, SPT ’22; Abigail Salazar, SPT ’22; and Mary Williams, SPT ’22; all from the Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science, were co-authors of “Physical Impairment and Function in Children and Adolescents with Sickle Cell Disease: A Systematic Review,” which was published in Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation on September 27, 2021.

Hayelom Mekonen, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, was lead author of “A Silent Epidemic of Gross Congenital Malformations in Tigray, Northern Ethiopia—Hospital-Based Study,” which was published in Scientific Reports on October 26, 2021.

Mark Mishra, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, was among the authors of “Consensus Statement on Proton Therapy for Prostate Cancer,” which was published in the Fall edition of the International Journal of Particle Therapy.

Jason Molitoris, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, was among the authors of “Executive Summary of Clinical and Technical Guidelines for Esophageal Cancer Proton Beam Therapy from the Particle Therapy Co-Operative Group Thoracic and Gastrointestinal Subcommittees,” which was published in Frontiers in Oncology on October 19, 2021.

Megan Connelly Ortega, PT, DPT, GCS, Assistant Professor; Victoria Marchese, PhD, PT, the Jane Kroh Satterfield Professor of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science and Chair, Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science; Michael Zarro, PT, DPT, SCS, CSCS, Assistant Professor; Roy Film, PT, MPT, DPT, OCS, FAAOMPT, Assistant Professor; and Cara Felter, PT, DPT, MPH, NCS, PCS, Assistant Professor; all from the Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science, were co-authors of “Digital and Blended Curriculum Delivery in Health Professions Education: An Umbrella Review with Implications for Doctor of Physical Therapy Education Programs,” which was published in Physical Therapy Reviews on November 9, 2021.

Austin Ramsey, graduate student in the Program in Neuroscience; Scott Thompson, PhD, Professor and Chair, Department of Physiology; and Thomas Blanpied, PhD, Professor, Department of Physiology, were co-authors of “Subsynaptic Positioning of AMPARs by LRRTM2 Controls Synaptic Strength,” which was published in Science Advances on October 8, 2021.

Lei Ren, PhD, Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, was among the authors of “Multi-Contrast Four-Dimensional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MC-4D-MRI): Development and Initial Evaluation in Liver Tumor Patients,” which was epublished in Medical Physics on October 27, 2021.

Saima Riazuddin, PhD, MPH, MBA, Professor, Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, was the lead author of “Bi-allelic Variants in SPATA5L1 Lead to Intellectual Disability, Spastic-dystonic Cerebral Palsy, Epilepsy, and Hearing Loss,” which was published in the American Journal of Human Genetics on October 7, 2021.

Muhammad Saleh, PhD, Research Associate, Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, was the last author of “In vivo Spectral Editing of Phosphorylethanolamine,” which was epublished in Magnetic Resonance in Medicine on August 19, 2021.

Charles Sansur, MD, FAANS, Professor, Department of Neurology, co-authored “An Updated Management Algorithm for Incorporating Minimally Invasive Techniques to Treat Thoracolumbar Trauma,” which was published in the Journal of Neurosurgery on October 28, 2021.

Lynn Schriml, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, first author, and Michelle Gwinn-Giglio, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, both from the Institute for Genome Sciences, were among the authors of “The Human Disease Ontology 2022 Update,” which published in Nucleic Acids Research.

Eliot Siegel, MD, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, was the last author of “Future Directions in Artificial Intelligence,” which was published in the November 2021 issue of Radiologic Clinics of North America.

Giovannino Silvestri, PhD, Research Associate, Department of Medicine, Division of Virology, Institute of Human Virology, was the co-first author of “Comparison of SARS-CoV-2 Receptors Expression in Primary Endothelial Cells and Retinoic Acid-Differentiated Human Neuronal Cells,” which was published in Viruses on October 30, 2021.

J. Marc Simard, MD, PhD, the Dr. Bizhan Aarabi Professor in Neurotrauma, was the author of “Sulfonylurea Receptor 1 in Central Nervous System Injury: An Updated Review,” which was published in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences on November 2, 2021.

Elana Smith, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, was the first author of “Auditing RadExam: Employing Psychometrics to Improve Exam Quality, which was published in the October 2021 issue of Academic Radiology.

Pamela Strissel, PhD, Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, was among the authors of “Brain and Breast Cancer Cells with PTEN Loss of Function Reveal Enhanced Durotaxis and RHOB Dependent Amoeboid Migration Utilizing 3D Scaffolds and Aligned Microfiber Tracts,” which was published in Cancers (Basel) on October 14, 2021.

Marco Venniro, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, was senior author of “Waving Through the Window: A Model of Volitional Social Interaction in Female Mice,” which was published in Biological Psychiatry on November 9, 2021.

Bruce Wasserman, MD, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, was the last author of “Essentials for Interpreting Intracranial Vessel Wall MRI Results: State of the Art,” which was published in the September 2021 issue of Radiology. Separately, Dr. Wasserman was last author of “Radiation-Induced Intracranial Vasculitis on High-Resolution Vessel Wall MRI,” which was epublished in the August 2021 issue of the Journal of Neurology.

Kelly Westlake, PhD, MSc, PT, Associate Professor, and Brian Johnson, OTR/L, PhD, Instructor, both from the Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science, were co-authors of “Enhancing Motor Learning in People with Stroke via Memory Reactivation During Sleep,” which was published in Rehabilitation Psychology on September 30, 2021.

Jill Whitall, PhD, Professor Emerita, Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science, was a co-author of “The Effect of Time Spent in Rehabilitation on Activity Limitation and Impairment after Stroke,” which was recently published in Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.

Mike Winters, MD, Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was among the discussants in the twice-monthly podcast, Critical Care Perspectives in Emergency Medicine, episodes:

“Vasopressin and Steroids for IHCA?” published October 25, 2021
“Hyperkalemia in the ED,” published November 10, 2021

Jeffrey Wolf, MD, Professor, and Rodney Taylor, MD, MPH, Professor and Chair, both from the Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, were the lead authors of “The Association of Active and Passive Tobacco Smoke Exposure with Chronic Rhinosinusitis Symptom Severity: A Cross-Sectional Study,” which was published in the International Forum of Allergy & Rhinology on September 12, 2021.

Paul Yi, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, was among the co-authors of “Radiology ‘Forensics’: Determination of Age and Sex from Chest Radiographs Using Deep Learning,” and “Limited Generalizability of Deep Learning Algorithm for Pediatric Pneumonia Classification on External Data,” both of which were published in the October 2021 issue of Emergency Radiology. Dr. Yi also was the author of “MSK Clinical Applications: Orthopedic Implants;” “Can AI Distinguish a Bone Radiograph from Photos of Flowers or Cars? Evaluation of Bone Age Deep Learning Model on Inappropriate Data Inputs;” and “Artificial Intelligence in Orthopedic Implant Model Classification: A Systematic Review,” all of which were epublished in the August 2021 issue of Skeletal Radiology. In addition, he authored “Your Mileage May Vary: Impact of Data Input Method for a Deep Learning Bone Age App’s Predictions,” also epublished in Skeletal Radiology in the September 2021 issue; and “Deciphering Musculoskeletal Artificial Intelligence for Clinical Applications: How Do I Get Started?” which was epublished in Skeletal Radiology in the June 2021 issue. Other articles included:

“Artificial Intelligence in Radiology: A Canadian Environmental Scan,” which was epublished in the September 2021 issue of the Canadian Association of Radiologists Journal
“AUR-RRA Review: Logistics of Academic-Industry Partnerships in Artificial Intelligence,” which was epublished in the September 2021 issue of Academic Radiology
“Clinical Artificial Intelligence Applications: Musculoskeletal,” which was published in the November 2021 issue of Radiologic Clinics of North America
“Deep Learning Algorithms for Interpretation of Upper Extremity Radiographs: Laterality and Technologist Initial Labels as Confounding Factors,” which was epublished in the November 2021 issue of AJR American Journal of Roentgenology

Yuji Zhang, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, co-authored “Photodynamic Priming Improves the Anti-Migratory Activity of Prostaglandin E Receptor 4 Antagonist in Cancer Cells,” which was published in Cancers. Dr. Zhang also co-authored “Laminar Flow on Endothelial Cells Suppresses eNOS O-GlcNAcylation to Promote eNOS Activity,” which was published in Circulation Research on October 4, 2021.

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Zubair Ahmed, PhD, Professor, Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, was among the co-authors of “Corneal Structural Changes in Congenital Glaucoma, which was published in Eye Contact Lens on September 20, 2021.

Jennifer Albrecht, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, co-authored “Improving Efficiency of Primary Care Provider Communication for Uncomplicated Admissions,” which was published in Hospital Pediatrics on September 15, 2021.

Omer Awan, MD, MPH, Associate Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, was the author of “How to Appeal to a Diverse Array of Learners?” which was published in the October 2021 issue of Academic Radiology, and was last author of “Artificial Intelligence in Radiology Education: A Longitudinal Approach,” which was epublished in the September 2021 issue of Academic Radiology. Additionally, Dr. Awan was the first author of “The Radiology Landscape after COVID-19: Summary of the 2021 AUR Academic Radiology and Industry Leaders Roundtable,” which was also epublished in the September 2021 issue of Academic Radiology.

Kousick Biswas, PhD, Associate Professor, and Yuanyuan Liang, PhD, MSc, Professor, both from the Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, co-authored “Pathogens Associated with Linear Growth Faltering in Children with Diarrhea and Impact of Antibiotic Treatment: The Global Enteric Multicenter Study,” which was published in The Journal of Infectious Diseases on September 16, 2021.

Maureen Black, PhD, Professor, Department of Pediatrics, was a co-author of “Mealtime Environment and Practices of Urban Family Child Care Homes,” which was published in Childhood Obesity on August 19, 2021. Dr. Black and Angela Trude, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, also from the Department of Pediatrics, authored “How Can Caring Grown-Ups Help Children Overcome Adversities?” which was published in Science Journal for Kids and Teens on August 31, 2021. Science Journal for Kids and Teens translates scientific articles into language that is accessible to children and distributes the articles to schools throughout the world. The original article, “Effects of Responsive Caregiving and Learning Opportunities during Pre-School Ages on the Association of Early Adversities and Adolescent Human Capital: An Analysis of Birth Cohorts in Two Middle-Income Countries,” was published earlier this year in The Lancet Child and Adolescent Health.

Jessica Brown, PhD, Associate Professor; Hegang Chen, PhD, Professor; and Jennifer Albrecht, PhD, Associate Professor, all from the Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, co-authored “Effects of Prescription Opioid Use on Traumatic Brain Injury Risk in Older Adults,” which was published in the September-October 2021 issue of the Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation.

Diljon Chahal, MD, Assistant Professor; Seyed Hossein Aalaei-Andabili, MD, Cardiovascular Disease Fellow; and Libin Wang, BM, MM, PhD, Associate Professor, all from the Department of Medicine, were among the co-authors of “A Woman with a Right Atrial Mass,” which was published in JAMA Cardiology on September 13, 2021. Dr. Chahal was also the author of “A Retrograde CTO PCI in a Difficult-to-Cross Lesion,” which was published in the September 2021 issue of Cath Lab Digest.

Elizabeth Clayborne, MD, MA, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was among the authors of “Addressing End-of-Life Care in the Chronically Ill: Conversations in the Emergency Department,” which was published in the Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians Open (JACEP Open) on October 1, 2021.

Matthew Peter Dattwyler, MD, Assistant Professor; Thorsten Fleiter, MD, Associate Professor; and Uttam Bodanapally, MBBS, Associate Professor, all from the Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, were the co-authors of “Principles and Applications of Dual Energy Computed Tomography in Neuroradiology,” which was published in the October 2021 issue of Seminars in Ultrasound, CT and MRI.

Vasken Dilsizian, MD, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, was a co-author of an editorial “¹⁸F-FDG PET/CT for Prosthetic Pulmonic Valve Endocarditis in Congenital Patients: Promise Awaiting Proof,” which was epublished in the October 2021 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology: Cardiovascular Imaging.

Katelyn Donohue, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine; Dara Farber, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine; and Natalie Davis, MD, MMSc, Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, were among the co-authors of “A Multi-Modal Curriculum Teaching Opioid Use Disorder Management in Young Adult Populations,” which was published in Cureus on October 5, 2021.

Tijana Dukic, General Associate; Sina Mossahebi, PhD, Assistant Professor; Dario Rodrigues, PhD, Assistant Professor; Zeljko Vujaskovic, MD, PhD, Professor; and Hem Shukla, PhD, Assistant Professor, all from the Department of Radiation Oncology, were among the authors of “Effect of Hyperthermia and Proton Beam Radiation as a Novel Approach in Chordoma Cells Death and its Clinical Implication to Treat Chordoma,” which was published in the International Journal of Radiation Biology on September 29, 2021.

Thomas Ernst, Dr rer nat, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, was among the co-authors of “Diet and Liver Adiposity in Older Adults: The Multiethnic Cohort Adiposity Phenotype Study,” which was epublished in the September 2021 issue of the Journal of Nutrition.

Naillid Felipe, MD, MPH, Resident, Department of Emergency Medicine, was co-author, and Danya Khoujah, MBBS, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was editor-in-chief of PressorDex: Adult Infusion Card, an educational tool published in September 2021 by the Emergency Medicine Residents’ Association as an adjunct to its PressorDex: Critical Care Medication Guide, 4th edition.

Cara Felter, PT, DPT, MPH, Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation, and Lindsey Mathis, SPT, were among the co-authors of “Identifying and Addressing Social Determinants of Learning during the COVID-19 Pandemic,” which was epublished in Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Journal.

Vivek Garg, PhD, Assistant Professor (first and co-corresponding author); Liron Boyman, PhD, Assistant Professor; and W. Jonathan Lederer, MD, PhD, Professor, all from the Department of Physiology and the Center for Biomedical Engineering and Technology (BioMET), were the authors of “The Mechanism of MICU-Dependent Gating of the Mitochondrial Ca²⁺Uniporter,” which was published in eLife on August 7, 2021.

Stephen Gottlieb, MD, Professor, Department of Medicine, was among the co-authors of “Use of Outpatient Intravenous Calcitropes for Heart Failure in the United States,” which was published in the July 2021 issue of the Journal of Cardiac Failure.

Dong Han, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, was the first author of “A Beam-Specific Optimization Target Volume for Stereotactic Proton Pencil Beam Scanning Therapy for Locally Advanced Pancreatic Cancer,” which was published in Advances in Radiation Oncology on July 29, 2021.

Kim Hankey, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, was among the authors of “AEOL 10150 Alleviates Radiation-Induced Innate Immune Responses in Non-Human Primate Lung Tissue,” which was published in Health Physics on October 1, 2021. In the same issue, Dr. Hankey was among the authors of “The Natural History of Acute Radiation-Induced H-ARS and Concomitant Multi-Organ Injury in the Non-Human Primate: The MCART Experience.”

Brenda Hanna-Pladdy, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, was first author of “Dopaminergic Basis of Spatial Deficits in Early Parkinson’s Disease,” which was published in the June 2021 issue of Cerebral Cortex Communications.

Jeffrey Hirsch, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, was among the co-authors of “A Novel Approach to Virtual Surgical Planning for Mandibular and Midfacial Reconstruction with a Fibula Free Flap,” which was epublished in the September 2021 issue of the Journal of Craniofacial Surgery.

Rebecca Krc, MD, Resident, Department of Radiation Oncology, was among the authors of “Compassion Inequities and Opioid Use Disorder: A Matched Case-Control Analysis Examining Inpatient Management of Cancer-Related Pain for Patients with Opioid Use Disorder,” which was published in the September 2021 issue of the Journal of Pain Symptom Management.

Tibor Kristian, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, was among the co-authors of “Perturbed Brain Glucose Metabolism Caused by Absent SIRT3 Activity,” which was published in Frontiers in Cells on September 8, 2021.

Diane Kuhn, MD, PhD, Assistant Instructor; Hannah Goldberg, MD, Resident; Jon Hurst, MD, Resident; and Kinjal Sethuraman, MD, MPH, Associate Professor, all from the Department of Emergency Medicine, were among the authors of “Anchoring Vignettes as a Method to Address Implicit Gender Bias in Patient Experience Scores,” which was published in Annals of Emergency Medicine on July 23, 2021.

Young Kwok, MD, Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, was among the authors of “Long-Term Report of a Comprehensive Molecular and Genomic Analysis in NRG Oncology/RTOG 0424: A Phase II Study of Radiation and Temozolomide in High-Risk Grade II Glioma,” which was epublished in JCO Precision Oncology on September 1, 2021.

Judy LaKind, PhD, Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, co-authored “Does Ozone Inhalation Cause Adverse Metabolic Effects in Humans? A Systematic Review,” which was published in Critical Reviews in Toxicology on September 27, 2021.

Giovanni Lasio, PhD, Associate Professor; Baoshe Zhang, PhD, Assistant Professor; Byong Yi, PhD, Professor; Shifeng Chen, PhD, Professor; and Jinghao Zhou, PhD, Associate Professor, all from the Department of Radiation Oncology, were among the authors of “Semi-Supervised Segmentation of Radiation-Induced Pulmonary Fibrosis from Lung CT Scans with Multi-Scale Guided Dense Attention,” which was published in IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging on October 4, 2021.

Anayansi Lasso-Pirot, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, was among the co-authors of “Sleep-Disordered Breathing and Cardiovascular Disease in Children and Adolescents: A Scientific Statement from the American Heart Association,” which was published in the August 2021 issue of the Journal of the American Heart Association.

Yuanyuan Liang, PhD, MSc, Professor, and J. Kathleen Tracy, PhD, Professor, both from the Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, co-authored “Safety and Efficacy of a Typhoid Conjugate Vaccine in Malawian Children,” which was published in The New England Journal of Medicine on September 16, 2021. Separately, Dr. Liang and David Marcozzi, MD, MHS-CL, MHS-CL, FACEP, Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, co-authored “Analysis of an Alternative Model of Definitive Care For Low-Acuity Emergency Calls: A Natural Experiment,” which was published in the Journal of Emergency Medicine on September 16, 2021. Additionally, Dr. Liang, Lyndsay O’Hara, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor; Anthony Harris, MD, MPH, Professor; and Jonathon Baghdadi, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, all from the Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, co-authored “Follow-up Blood Cultures in Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteremia: A Potential Target for Diagnostic Stewardship,” which was published in Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology.

Iris Lindberg, PhD, Professor, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, co-authored an invited mini-review on “Obesity, POMC, and POMC-processing Enzymes: Surprising Results from Animal Models,” which will be published in the December 2021 issue of Endocrinology.

Amal Mattu, MD, was among the authors of “Can I Send This Syncope Patient Home from the Emergency Department?” which was published in the Journal of Emergency Medicine on September 15, 2021, and “Emergency ECGs: Case-Based Review and Interpretations,” which was published in EMResident (EMRA) on August 29, 2021.

Arezoo Modiri, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, was the first author of “Outcome-Based Multiobjective Optimization of Lymphoma Radiation Therapy Plans,” which was published in the British Journal of Radiology on September 30, 2021.

Denise Orwig, PhD, Professor; Marc Hochberg, MD, MPH, Professor; Ann Gruber-Baldini, PhD, Professor; Jack Guralnik, MD, PhD, MPH, Professor; Michelle Shardell, PhD, Professor; and Jay Magaziner, PhD, MSHyg, Professor, all from the Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, co-authored “Sex Differences in Recovery Across Multiple Domains among Older Adults with Hip Fracture,” which was published in The Journals of Gerontology. Series A, Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences on September 23, 2021.

Dipanjan Pan, MSc, PhD, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, was last author of “A Simplistic Single-Step Method for Preparing Biomimetic Nanoparticles from Endogenous Biomaterials,” which was epublished in the September 2021 issue of ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces. Dr. Pan also was the last author of “Luminescence Switching in Polymerically Confined Carbon Nanoparticles Triggered by UV-light,” which was epublished in the September 2021 issue of Nanoscale.

Dario Rodrigues, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, was among the authors of “Characterization of Ferromagnetic Composite Implants for Tumor Bed Hyperthermia,” which was published in the September 2021 issue of IEEE Transactions in Magnetics.

Santanu Samanta, MD, Resident; Jason Molitoris, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor; and Pranshu Mohindra, MD, Associate Professor, all from the Department of Radiation Oncology, were among the authors of “The Impact of Bridging Therapy Prior to CD19-Directed Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-cell Therapy in Patients with Large B-Cell Lymphoma,” which was published in the British Journal of Haematology on September 9, 2021.

Eliot Siegel, MD, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, was the last author of “PET and AI Trajectories Finally Coming into Alignment,” which was published in the October 2021 issue of PET Clinics. Separately, Dr. Siegel was among the co-authors of “A Brief History of AI: How to Prevent Another Winter (A Critical Review),” also published in the October 2021 issue of PET Clinics.

Elana Smith, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, was among the co-authors of “A New Search Pattern for Emergency Breast Exams: The Clinical Picture,” which was epublished in the September 2021 issue of Emergency Radiology. Dr. Smith also was among the co-authors of “Evolution of the Interventional Radiology (IR) Pathway—Various Changes and Interrelation to Diagnostic Radiology (DR),” which was published in the September 2021 issue of Academic Radiology.

Cullen Soares, MD, Cardiovascular Disease Fellow, Department of Medicine, was among the co-authors of “Coronary Artery Calcification and Plaque Characteristics in People Living with HIV: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis,” which was published in the Journal of the American Heart Association on September 29, 2021.

Michael Terrin, MDCM, MPH, Professor, and Jennifer Albrecht, PhD, Associate Professor, both from the Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, co-authored “Big Ten COVID-19 Cardiac Registry Investigators. 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 September 1, 2021.

Marco Venniro, PhD, Assistant Professor, and Kimberly Papastrat, Research Assistant, in the laboratory of Dr. Venniro, both from the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, were among the co-authors of “Factors Modulating the Incubation of Drug and Non-Drug Craving and their Clinical Implications,” which was published in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews on September 28, 2021. Dr. Venniro was also lead author on “The Protective Effect of Operant Social Reward on Cocaine Self-Administration, Choice and Relapse is Dependent on Delay and Effort for the Social Reward,” which was published in Neuropsychopharmacology on August 16, 2021.

Bruce Vogel, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology, was senior author of “A Complement Factor H Homolog, Heparan Sulfation, and Syndecan Maintain Inversin Compartment Boundaries in C. elegans Cilia,” which was published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on April 15, 2021.

Piotr Walczak, MD, PhD, Professor, and Miroslaw Janowski, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, both from the Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, were among the co-authors of “Follow-up of Intra-arterial Delivery of Bevacizumab for Treatment of Butterfly Glioblastoma in Patient with First-in-human, Real-time MRI-guided Intra-arterial Neurointervention,” which was epublished in the September 2021 issue of the Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery. Dr. Janowski was last author. Separately, Dr. Janowski was among the co-authors of “Oxidative Stress Enhances Autophagy-Mediated Death of Stem Cells Through Erk1/2 Signaling Pathway—Implications for Neurotransplantations,” which was epublished in the September 2021 issue of Stem Cell Reviews and Reports.

Bruce Wasserman, MD, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, was last author of “Vessel Wall Imaging: A Powerful Diagnostic Tool but Not a Substitute for Biopsies,” which was epublished in the September 2021 issue of the AJNR American Journal of Neuroradiology.

Charles White, MD, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, was the author of “Interstitial Pulmonary Fibrosis in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: Are There Variants of the Variant Fibrotic Patterns?” which was published in the August 2021 issue of Radiology: Cardiothoracic Imaging.

Mike Winters, MD, Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was among the discussants in the twice-monthly podcast, Critical Care Perspectives in Emergency Medicine:

“The TOMAHAWK Study,” was published on September 16, 2021
“Milrinone or Dobutamine for Cardiogenic Shock?” was published on September 27, 2021

Weiguang Yao, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, was a co-author of “Technical Note: Extraction of Proton Pencil-Beam Energy Spectrum from Measured Integral Depth Dose in a Cyclotron Proton Beam System,” which was published in Medical Physics on October 5, 2021.

Hong Zhang, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, was among the authors of “Risk Factors for Radiation Induced Lymphopenia in Patients with Breast Cancer Receiving Adjuvant Radiotherapy,” which was epublished in the September 2021 issue of Annals of Translational Medicine.

Yuji Zhang, PhD, Associate Professor, and Soren Bentzen, PhD, DMSc, FASTRO, Professor, both from the Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, co-authored “C5a Activates a Pro-Inflammatory Gene Expression Profile in Human Gaucher iPSC-Derived Macrophages,” which was published in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences on September 14, 2021.