Now that I’ve been at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in my role as Dean for a couple of months and I’ve had the chance to get acclimated, I am feeling better acquainted with this amazing campus and this exceptional institution. I love working in an academic medical center and I’m so enthusiastic about the opportunities presented to us to lead. I told you that I would reach back out to you about my guiding principles for the SOM, so I’d like to do that now:
Prioritize Our People. Our goal in the Dean’s Office is to engage and partner, to reduce barriers and catalyze productivity, and to recognize and promote values, respect and integrity. Prioritizing our people means we put our faculty, our staff, our students, and our residents, fellows, and postdocs first.
Engagement. We must enhance our engagement and community as we emerge, recover and thrive beyond the pandemic. While Zoom has proven to be an effective method to communicate when it’s not possible to gather in person, we must all work together now to promote the human contact and engagement that best foster community and teamwork.
Leverage Our Rarified Environment. We have a unique opportunity to collaborate with our broader UM Baltimore and College Park communities, as well as JHU, NIH, DOD, FDA, Howard University, Inova Fairfax, GW, MedStar Georgetown, and other academic medical centers to tackle generational challenges in violence, aging, neuroscience, addiction, dementia and mental health, climate medicine, antibiotic resistance and emerging pathogens, and precision medicine. I’ve already met with many of these regional leaders and have many more meetings set up. We will look to develop shared research and training programs, leveraging intellectual, reputational and financial resources to make a significant impact across the tripartite mission in these areas of need.
Excellence. We should strive to be the best in class in everything we do, but we will not try to do everything. Each program and department should focus and excel, professionalizing our work across the tripartite mission.
Service to Community. We are Maryland Medicine and we live in a rich and diverse community. I will look to expand efforts to engage in health care collaborations, education, science training and public health care delivery. Examples of opportunity include efforts to expand cancer screening and build programs that address challenges that are unique to and valued by our African American communities, such as maternal fetal health, cancer prevention, and sickle cell disease.
Enhance Translational Training Pathways. A thriving community requires constant revitalization by youth and imagination. Our major mission is to train the next generation of physicians and scientists. I will look for opportunities to build and support training pathways and develop early career development support and networks. We have a unique opportunity to leverage the NIH, FDA and other academic medical centers to create regional excellence in physician-scientist development.
Data, Data, Data. We need to know where we are and where we are going in order to address challenges and improve our School and clinical practices.
Access, Access, Access. We enjoy remarkable support from the State of Maryland and shared revenue streams with FPI, UMMC and UMMS. Enhancing our quality, efficiency and vital partnerships with our clinical partners is key to our near- and long-term ability to invest in our faculty and clinical and academic programs. We will look to advance opportunities to grow regional primary and multi-specialty care services in FPI in partnership with UMMS and enhance the quality and efficiency of care at UMMC.
No Margin, No Mission. Post-COVID inflationary pressures and workforce disruptions will challenge our revenue streams and clinical and science operations. We have to be patient, flexible and generous with each other as we solve these problems, deliver vital care and strategically invest in clinical and scientific growth. Every person has a vital role, including our alumni, and I intend to create a generous, nurturing and thriving work environment that attracts the best people to join our team.
Finally, we are actively receiving feedback and working with faculty across the School on a number of big initiatives related to addiction medicine, neuroscience, the development of a learning health care system, tenure and promotion metrics, and the alignment of research and clinical departments. I very much look forward to sharing more details of these programs with you soon!
Sincerely Yours,
Mark T. Gladwin, MD
Vice President for Medical Affairs, UM Baltimore
John Z. and Akiko K. Bowers Distinguished Professor and
Dean, University of Maryland School of Medicine
Appointments - September
Stella Hines, MD, MSPH, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Occupational & Environmental Medicine, has been selected as the 2022-2023 Chair of the Section on Terrorism and Inhalational Disasters of the American Thoracic Society.
Appointments - August
Mark Mishra, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, has been named as Associate Director of the University of Maryland Cancer Network. Dr. Mishra assumed the title on July 1, 2022. He succeeds John Olson, MD, PhD, who is leaving UMMC/UMSOM to become head of the Department of Surgery at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
Appointments - July
Maureen Black, PhD, Professor, Department of Pediatrics, was invited to join the Child Health Technical Tracking (CHAT) Technical Advisory Group (TAG). CHAT is organized by WHO and UNICEF with support from USAID. The goal is to provide advice to WHO and UNICEF on the harmonization and standardization of indicators of child health and well-being used by global initiatives such as the Sustainable Development Goal Framework, Nurturing Care Framework, etc.
Emerson Wickwire, PhD, Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Medicine, has been appointed to the Sleep Medicine Advisory Council of the American Board of Internal Medicine. Beginning in June 2022, he will serve an additional three-year term.
Appointments - June
Melissa Roane, MA, joined the Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Services on Monday, May 9, 2022, as the new PTRS Allied Health Administrator. Roane has a strong background in education, management, and operations and transitioned fully into the instrumental department role of Allied Health Administrator on June 1, 2022, when Karen Sack’s retirement commenced. Karen has been a valued member of the PTRS for the past 18 years. Her steadfast role has aided the growth of the department and ensured its successful operations during her tenure.
Kathleen To, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, was named Chair-elect for the Society of Critical Care Medicine, Surgery Section. She will serve as Chair-elect from 2022-2023 and as Chair 2023-2024.
New Faculty - September
New members of the Department of Emergency Medicine faculty this summer are Michael Baranowski, MD; Adam James, MD; Gina Jordan, MD; Samantha King, MD; Chloe Renshaw, MD; Germaine Rival, DO, MPH; Kelli Robinson, MD; Lucas Sjeklocha, MD; and Kathleen Stephanos, MD. Drs. Jordan, King, Sjecklocha, and Stephanos completed their residencies at UMEM.
Kelby Kaplan, PT, DPT, EdD, Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science, joined the department on August 1, 2022. Dr. Kaplan comes from the Physical Therapy Department at Nova Southeastern University in Ft. Lauderdale, FL. She is a Board-Certified Specialist in Orthopedic Physical Therapy; a Certified Exercise Expert for Aging Adults; and a Certified Orthopedic Manual Therapist.
New Faculty - June
Anne Brockmeyer, PT, DPT, PCS, joined the Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science, on Monday, May 9, 2022. Dr. Brockmeyer boards as an Assistant Professor, with a secondary appointment in the Department of Orthopaedics. In addition to teaching for the PTRS Doctor of Physical Therapy Program, she provides clinical care at the University of Maryland Orthopaedic Associates (UMOA) Camden practice, and various other practice sites, as a pediatric physical therapist.
Congratulations to our very productive faculty on their recent grants and contracts! - September
Jennifer Albrecht, PhD,Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, was awarded $3,404,253 by the National Institutes for Health (NIH) for “Recovery Among Older Adults Following Head Injury.”
Jessica Brown, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, was awarded $299,728 by the Maryland Department of Health for “Money Follows the Person: Maryland Access Point Hospital Care Transition Program.”
Lorraine Doucette, MS, MLS(ASCP)CM, Assistant Professor and Medical Laboratory Science Program Director, Department of Medical & Research Technology, received $343,593 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for a cooperative agreement entitled “Enhancing the US Clinical Laboratory Workforce Capacity in Three Stages: Local, State-Wide, and the mid-Atlantic States.” The total award amount for this three-year agreement is $973,137.
Kevin Kim, MD, MHS, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, received a five-year $670,955.78 grant from the Hoosier Cancer Research Network for “2133GCCC: A Randomized Phase II Study of Atezolizumab and Bevacizumab with Y90 TARE in Patients with Unresectable Hapatocellular Carcinoma (HCC).”
Vikas Kundra, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, received a five-year $2,714,359 grant from NIH for “Multimodal Imaging and Therapy of Ovarian Cancer.”
Yajie Liang, MB, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, received a two-year $345,000 grant from the Maryland Stem Cell Research Fund for “Intravital 2-photon Imaging Human iPSC-derived Progenitors Grafted into Ischemic Mouse Brain Assisted by Helper Cells.”
Dirk Mayer, Dr rer nat, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, received a two-year $308,999 grant from the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) for “Investigating Metabolic Reprogramming in Polycystic Kidney Disease Using Hyperpolarized 13C Metabolic Imaging.”
Dario Rodrigues, PhD, and Jason Molitoris, MD, PhD, both Assistant Professors, Department of Radiation Oncology, were awarded $17,049 and are the PIs on a two-year consultancy agreement with Sensius B.V. for “Image-guided Hyperthermia for the Treatment of Tumors.”
Marcelo Sztein, MD, Professor, Department of Pediatrics, was awarded a one-year $407,350 grant from Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. to study “Differences in Age-associated Gene, Protein and Cellular Profiles in Skin and Immune Cells in the Amish Population.”
Phuoc Tran, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, is the lead PI for The Radiation Oncology-Biology Integration Network on Oligometastatis (ROBIN OligoMET) Center (U54), a five-year grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) for $7,552,950. Also serving as core and component PIs on the project are Amit Sawant, PhD, Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, and Nicole Simone, MD, from Thomas Jefferson University.
Piotr Walczak, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, received a two-year award of $345,000 from the Maryland Stem Cell Research Fund for “Intraarterial Administration of Human MSCs Secreting P2X7-blocking Nanobody as Adjuvant Therapy for Acute Stroke.” He also received a two-year $130,000 award from the same organization for “Homing of Intravascularly Injected Glial Progenitors to Demyelinating Brain Lesions Enhanced by Focused Ultrasound Treatment.”
Ze Wang, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, received a four-year $2,306,457 grant from NIH as one of multiple PIs of “Academic Industrial Partnership on Advanced Perfusion MRI.”
Emerson Wickwire, PhD, Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Medicine, received a 24-month, $1,999,925 grant from the Defense Health Agency (DHA) Military Health System Research (MHSR) for “Value-based Military Sleep Medicine: Health Economic Aspects of Sleep Disorders Treatments in the US MHS.”
Junfang Wu, BM, PhD, Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, along with MPI Shaolin Liu, PhD, Associate Professor from Howard University; was awarded a five-year, $3.13 million R01 grant from the National Institute of Aging (NIH/NIA) for “The Inflammatory Mechanisms Underlying Olfactory Dysfunction in Prognosis of TBI Progression to Dementia.” She also, along with MPI Marta Lipinski, PhD, Associate Professor; Department of Anesthesiology, received a $2.23 million RF1 grant for the first three-year portion of a five-year $3.72 million competing continuation grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) and National Institute on Aging (NIA) for “The Function and Mechanisms of Autophagy in Spinal Cord Injury.”
Byong Yi, PhD, Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, is the PI on a study of “Non-clinical Evaluation of the Treatment Time Calculation Flow,” which was funded $20,000 by Varian Medical Systems, Inc. The study is scheduled for May–October 2022.
Congratulations to our very productive faculty on their recent grants and contracts! - August
Lynda Coughlan, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, has received a $1,952,609 NOA from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) for a four-year R01 entitled “Combining Innovative Molecular Adjuvanting Approaches with Novel Adenoviral Vector Delivery to Generate a Universal Influenza Vaccine.”
Katherine Goodman, PhD, JD, Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, was awarded $29,000 by the University of Maryland Baltimore and the University of Maryland College Park for “Applying Natural Language Processing to Electronic Health Records to Prevent Infections with Highly Antibiotic-resistant Bacteria.”
Anthony Harris, MD, MPH, Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, was awarded $73,954 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for “Johns Hopkins Prevention Epicenter: Transdisciplinary Research Approaches to Prevent Healthcare Associated Infections and Antibiotic Resistance.”
Anthony Kim, PhD, Associate Professor, Departments of Neurosurgery and Pharmacology, was awarded a four-year, $1,109,041 Veterans Affairs (VA) Merit Award for “Novel Drug Delivery Strategies for Treatment of Breast Cancer Brain Metastases.”
Miriam Laufer, MD, Professor, Departments of Pediatrics, Medicine, and Epidemiology & Public Health, has received a $639,000 NOA from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for a three-year project titled “Long-term Neurocognitive Outcomes of HIV-exposed Uninfected Children.”
Surbhi Leekha, MBBS, MPH, Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, was awarded a two-year, $2,192,938 grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for “Statewide Prevention and Reduction Collaborative (SPARC).”
Marcela Pasetti, PhD, Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, has received a $3,843,317 NOA from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) for a five-year R01 entitled “Mechanisms of Protection Against Shigellosis in Children.”
David Serre, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Institute for Genome Sciences, received a five-year, $3,432,629 grant from the National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Disease (NIAID) for “Host and Parasite Factors Influencing P. vivax RBC Invasion and Asexual Development.”
Congratulations to our very productive faculty on their recent grants and contracts! - July
Sally Adebamowo, MBBS, MSc, ScD, Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, was awarded a four-year, $792,000 grant from the American College of Surgeons (ACS) for “Using Machine Learning to Identify Small RNA (sRNA) Biomarkers and Classifiers for Cervical Precancer Triage.”
Jonathan Baghdadi, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, was awarded a five-year, $591,307 grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality for “Optimizing Implementation of Multiplex Molecular Panel Testing to Reduce Diagnostic Error.”
Surbhi Leekha, MBBS, MPH, Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, was awarded a two-year, $46,607 grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for “Carbapenem Resistant Enterobacterales Surveillance in Two Intensive Care Units in India (CRESCENT Study).”
Bing Ma, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Institute for Genome Sciences, received a five-year, $1,931,250 grant from the National Institute for Aging and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) for “Mechanisms of Microbiome-Driven Cardiac Allograft Outcomes.”
Jacques Ravel, PhD, Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Acting Director, Institute for Genome Sciences, received a one-year, $376,966 grant from the Bill & Melinda Foundation for “Characterization of the Vaginal Microbiome in Women in Rural Bangladesh.” Dr. Ravel, along with Rebecca Brotman, PhD, MPH, Professor, and Michelle Shardell, PhD, Professor, both with the Department of Epidemiology & Public Health and Institute for Genome Sciences, received a four-year, multi-PI, $3,127,515 grant from the National Institute for Aging and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) for “Cervicovaginal Microbiome, Mucosal Immunity, and Pathogen Factors that Contribute to Spontaneous Clearance of Chlamydia trachomatis.” Dr. Shardell is a Co-I on this grant.
Diane-Marie St. George, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, was awarded a one-year, $23,250 grant from Johns Hopkins Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR) for “Partnership to Conduct Youth Participatory Research in Disadvantaged Communities.”
Phuoc Tran, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, received a $1,398,438 transfer from the Department of Defense for “Novel Biomarkers to Direct Stereotactic Ablative Radiotherapy in Castration-Sensitive Oligometastatic Prostate Cancer.”
Owen White, PhD, Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, and Associate Director, Institute for Genome Sciences, received a five-year, $7,316,569 award from The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) for “A BRAIN Initiative Resource: The Neuroscience Multi-omic Data Archive.” Dr. White also received an additional $1,312,558, for the University of Maryland NIH Data Commons Facilitation Center to continue supporting the Common Fund Data Ecosystem that has been in operation for the last five years.
Congratulations to our very productive faculty on their recent grants and contracts! - June
Seth Ament, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Institute for Genome Sciences, received a two-year, $424,875 grant from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) for “Single-cell Multi-omics of Cerebellar Dysregulation in Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder.”
Soha Bazyar, MD, PhD, Resident, Department of Radiation Oncology, has been named by the Radiological Society of North America Research & Education Foundation as a 2022-2023 Resident Awardee for her project on “Ultra-High Dose Rate Sparing of Lung Tissue During Radiation Therapy.” The award provides $30,000 in support for a one-year project.
Robert Bloch, PhD, Professor, Department of Physiology, received a $278,382 annual renewal from the Jain Foundation for “The Role of Dysferlin in Skeletal Muscle In Vitro and In Vivo.”
Jacques Ravel, PhD, Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Acting Director, Institute for Genome Sciences, received a two-year, $400,113 grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) for “TransBiota: Genital Microbiome, Inflammation and HIV Risk in Trans Men and Women.”
Sarah Robbins, PhD Candidate, mentored by Rebecca Brotman, PhD, MPH, Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, Institute for Genome Sciences, and Simeon Taylor, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Nutrition, received a three-year F31 grant, $107,409, from the National Institute for Health, NIAID, for “Type 2 Diabetes, Sodium Glucose Cotransporter-2 (SGLT2) Inhibitors and the Vaginal Microbiota.”
Hervé Tettelin, PhD, Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, and Institute for Genome Sciences, received a two-year, $91,953.00 grant from the National Institute for Health, a subcontract on an NIH R21 award to the New York Medical College entitled “Macrolide Resistance Transfer in Streptococcus pyogenes;” a five-year, $710,244 grant from the National Institute for Health, a sub award from New York University, for “Capsular Serotype in Group B Streptococcus Colonization and Disease;” and a 2-year, $91,953.00 grant from the National Institute for Health, a subcontract on an NIH R21 award to the New York Medical College titled: “Macrolide Resistance Transfer in Streptococcus Pyogenes.”
Samuel Tisherman, MD, Professor; Rishi Kundi, MD, Assistant Professor; and Jonathan J. Morrison, MB ChB, PhD, Associate Professor, all with the Department of Surgery received a two-year, $750,000 grant from the U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity for “Skills Determination, Decay and Delay Study.”
Phuoc Tran, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, was named as PI on a one-year National Cancer Institute subaward of $41,382 from the Johns Hopkins University for “Integrating Bioinformatics into Multiscale Models for Hepatocellular Carcinoma.”
In the News - September
Wilbur Chen, MD, MS, Professor, Department of Medicine, was quoted on July 13, 2022, in Medscape on influenza and COVID-19 patterns in the U.S. and Australia, where the respiratory viruses are currently colliding.
Meagan Deming, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, was quoted on July 21, 2022, on WTOP where she explains why booster COVID-19 vaccines are essential.
Meagan Fitzpatrick, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, was quoted in The Washington Post where she discussed the importance of surveillance testing and masking in schools to help limit the spread of COVID-19.
Kyle Fischer, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was an invited guest at the July 11, 2022, ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House marking passage of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, which was signed in June by President Biden. Dr. Fischer is policy director for the Health Alliance for Violence Intervention. The Alliance supported the inclusion of the $250 million community violence intervention program investment in the bill.
Karen Kotloff, MD, Professor, Department of Pediatrics, was quoted on July 13, 2022, in Pharmacy Practice News discussing FDA Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) of the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine. She also was quoted July 14, 2022, on NBC4 where she explained the difference between the protein-based Novavax COVID-19 vaccine and the mRNA Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines.
Miriam Laufer, MD, Professor, Department of Pediatrics, was quoted on August 4, 2022, in a Science News article titled “A Shot of Immune Proteins May Protect Against Malaria for Months.”
Matt Laurens, MD, MPH, Professor, Department of Pediatrics, was interviewed by WTOP radio in Washington, DC, in a segment titled “How Contagious is the Newest Dominant Coronavirus Variant in the U.S.?” He also was interviewed by WJLA ABC7 in a Washington, DC, news segment titled “What People Should Know about Monkeypox.”
Kathy Neuzil, MD, MPH, FIDSA, Professor, Department of Medicine, Myron M. Levine, MD, DTPH Professor of Vaccinology and Director, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, was quoted in a Baltimore Sun/MSN.com article titled “A New COVID-19 Foe, a Really Transmissible One, is Emerging,” which published on July 11, 2022. She also was quoted in a NPR.org article titled “Typhoid Mutated to Beat Antibiotics. Science is Learning How to Beat those Strains,” published on July 28, 2022.
Mike Winters, MD, Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was interviewed about heat-related health emergencies for a segment of Maryland Public Television’s “Public Square” news program broadcast on July 25, 2022.
In the News - August
Ashley Crimmins, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was featured in a Baltimore Sun article published May 31, 2022, entitled “Kids Aren’t Skipping Just COVID Vaccines: Health Experts Fear Measles, Other Threats on the Horizon.”
Matthew Laurens, MD, MPH, Professor, Department of Pediatrics, was interviewed by WJLA ABC7 Washington, DC News for a segment entitled “What People Should Know about Monkeypox.” He also was interviewed by Alhurra, U.S. Agency for Global Media, for a segment entitled “COVID-19 Vaccines Recommended for Children Down to 6 Months of Age.”
Kathleen Neuzil, MD, MPH, FIDSA, Myron M. Levine, MD, DTPH Professor of Vaccinology and Director, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, was quoted in National Geographic in an article entitled “Young Adults are Volunteering to Get COVID-19 – for Science,” as well as by The Washington Post for an article that focused on the Novavax vaccine’s path toward its application for FDA Emergency Use Authorization.
Community Outreach - July
The Department of Radiation Oncology has launched a Twitter account to share important department and academic news and announcements. The account can be followed at: @UMarylandRadOnc.
Community Service - June
Mike Winters, MD, Professor and Vice Chair of Clinical and Administrative Affairs, Department of Emergency Medicine, and Professor of Medicine, taught two First Aid sessions to Troop 460 of the Carroll District, Boy Scouts of America.
Kudos to our colleagues who are experts in their fields and give their all to represent the School of Medicine! - September
Maureen Black, PhD, Professor, Department of Pediatrics, testified before the House Budget Committee hearing “Powerful Impact of Investments in Early Childhood,” which was held in Washington, DC, on July 20, 2022. The report from the hearing, Helping Children Thrive Helps Everyone Investments in Early Childhood Pay Off Over Time, was published on July 28, 2022.
Jayaum Booth, MSc, PhD, Research Associate, Department of Pediatrics, presented “Site-specific Immune Responses of Tissue resident Memory T cells Following Live Attenuated Oral Typhoid Vaccine, Ty21a in Humans” to the International Congress in Mucosal Immunology (ICMI) 2022, which was held in Seattle, WA, from July 16-20, 2022.
Stella Hines, MD, MSPH, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, moderated and presented a lecture at the American Occupational Health Conference, which was held in Salt Lake City, UT, in early May. Her talk, “Non-malignant Respiratory Disease in the Building Trades Medical Screening Program,” was included in the session entitled “The Department of Energy’s Former Worker Program: 25+.”
Robert Rowland, PT, DPT, OCS, RMSK, CSCS, Assistant Professor, and Michael Zarro, PT, DPT, SCS, CSCS, Assistant Professor; both with the Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science, presented “Bone Stress Injury & Rehabilitation” at the University of Maryland Sports Medicine Summer Educational Series, which was held on July 22, 2022.
Franklin Toapanta, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, on July 27, 2022, presented “H1N1 Influenza Virus Controlled Human Infection Model Activates Various Immune Cells Despite Induction of Mild Symptomatology” at the 2022 CIVICs Annual Meeting, which was held both virtually and on site in Bethesda, MD.
Mike Winters, MD, Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, lectured at the Emergencies in Primary Care Conference for MCE Conferences, which was held in Orlando, FL, from July 1-3, 2022. He presented “Current Controversies in Sepsis;” “My MasterClass: Anaphylaxis;” “Pitfalls in Back Pain Emergencies;” “When Time Matters: Deadly Rashes;” “Pearls from the Recent Literature;” and “What’s New in Cardiac Arrest?”
Junfang Wu, BM, PhD, Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, was an invited speaker at the 39th Annual National Neurotrauma Symposium, which was held in Atlanta, GA, on June 28, 2022. She presented “Aging, Neurodegeneration, and Spinal Cord Injury.”
Kudos to our colleagues who are experts in their fields and give their all to represent the School of Medicine! - August
Michael Anderson, MS, PhD Candidate, Department of Physiology, Program in Neuroscience, presented an invited lecture at the Gordon Conference on Synaptic Transmission held in Barga, Italy, in June 2022. The topic of his presentation was “Direct Visualization of Triheteromeric NMDA Receptor Trafficking and Organization.”
Thomas Blanpied, PhD, Professor, Department of Physiology, presented a lecture at the Interdisciplinary Center for Neurosciences at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, entitled “Molecular Control of Subsynaptic Architecture.” Dr. Blanpied also presented a lecture at the 45th Annual Meeting of the Japan Neuroscience Society, held virtually in Okinawa, Japan, from June 30-July 3, 2022. His lecture was part of a symposium on “Visualization of Synaptic Dynamics” and was entitled “Synaptic Nanoorganization that Controls Receptor Activation.”
Joana Carneiro Da Silva, PhD, Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Institute for Genome Sciences, was an invited speaker at the 16th Brazilian Malaria Research Meeting (XVI RNPM), Rio de Janeiro, held April 23-28, 2022. She presented “Leveraging Allele-specific Efficacy of a Whole Organism-based Vaccine Tested against Field Strains to Identify Candidate Targets of Vaccine-induced Protection.”
Vasken Dilsizian, MD, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, delivered an oral presentation entitled “Infiltrative Cardiomyopathies: Imaging Cardiac Sarcoidosis,” as well as moderated a session entitled “Beyond the Myocardium: Aortic and Peripheral Vascular Disease,” both at the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Annual Scientific Sessions, held in Vancouver, Canada, held on June 11, 2022.
Roy Film, PT, DPT, OCS, FAAOMPT, Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science, attended the American Council of Academic Physical Therapy’s (ACAPT) National Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Summit, which was held at Ohio State University from June 27-29, 2022. He was one of 100 invited leaders from academic physical therapy, other health professions, law, education, business, and engineering.
Linda Horn, PT, DScPT, MHS, GCS, NCS, Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science, recently completed the Advanced Vestibular Physical Therapist (AVPT) certification program. Dr. Horn started this program in April 2021, which consisted of three online modules and one onsite course held in April 2022 at the University of Pittsburgh. The Advanced Vestibular Certificate Program is a comprehensive didactic experience in vestibular physical therapy that prepares and certifies physical therapists to be front-line providers for patients experiencing balance, dizziness, and abnormal proprioception.
Marcel Lanza, PhD, Research Associate, and Vicki Gray, MPT, PhD, Assistant Professor, both with the Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science, attended the annual meeting of the International Society of Electrophysiology and Kinesiology (ISEK), which was held in Quebec City, Canada, from June 22-25, 2022. They co-presented a poster entitled “Early Muscle Activation of the Hip Abductors in Older Adults with Fall Risk.”
Amal Mattu, MD, Professor, Department ofmergency Medicine, and Vice Chair of Academic Affairs, was the keynote speaker at the 25th Annual Scientific Assembly of the Israel Association for Emergency Medicine on June 30, 2022, where he delivered a presentation entitled “Why You Matter” and conducted an ECG workshop. Dr. Mattu also presented Emergency Medicine Grand Rounds at the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine of Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, FL, on May 31, 2022, where he lectured on electrocardiography and on pitfalls in Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support. He also presented a six-hour Advanced Electrocardiography Workshop and three other emergency cardiology lectures at The Heart Course offered by the Center for Emergency Medical Education (CEME) on May 22-23, 2022, as well as two emergency cardiology/risk management lectures as part of a CME course in High-Risk Emergency Medicine.
Practical AI Symposium in Radiation Oncology
The Department of Radiation Oncology hosted a symposium on Practical Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Radiation Oncology on July 15, 2022. This one-day CME-accredited course included lectures from well-known faculty and thought leaders at the intersection of AI and radiation oncology. Offered both in-person and in virtual formats, the course was the focus of much interest from practitioners and trainees and generated promising discussions on future collaborations. Presentations were intended to provide introductory training for clinicians and researchers on the basic concepts, advances, implementation, and adoption of AI in clinical practice. The symposium was specifically tailored to the practical AI interests of medical physicists, physicians, and researchers. Course directors were Lei Ren, PhD, and Amit Sawant, PhD, both professors in the Department of Radiation Oncology.
Maryland Radiation Oncology at AAPM
Department of Radiation Oncology members presented their research in a broad range of educational and other forums at the 64th annual meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), July 10–14 in Washington, DC. With almost 50 presentations and additional service on panels and in other sessions, the department was well represented across its many areas of research and practice implementation. The theme of this year’s meeting was “Celebrating medical physics, transforming human health.”
Søren Bentzen, PhD, DMSc, Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, was named as the 2022 Anne
and Donald Herbert Distinguished Lecturer in Statistical Modeling, speaking on “Models and Modeling in Radiation Oncology:
What’s Next?”
Dr. Sawant served as the 2022 AAPM Therapy Scientific Track Director. Phuoc Tran, MD, PhD, Professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology, moderated a scientific symposium on “Radiotherapy and the Immune system.” Arezoo Modiri, PhD, Assistant Professor; Sina Mossahebi, PhD, Assistant Professor; Lei Ren, PhD, Professor; and Esther Vicente, PhD, Faculty Research Associate; all with the Department of Radiation Oncology, served as moderators of other scientific and educational sessions.
Maryland Radiation Oncology at AAMD
The Department of Radiation Oncology medical dosimetrist staff was well represented at the 47th annual meeting of the American Association of Medical Dosimetrists, which was held in Baltimore, MD, from June 19–23, 2022. Among the Maryland dosimetrists presenters were David Alicia, CMD; Eric Kusamaul, CMD; Kimberley Marter, CMD; and Michelle Mundis, CMD. Other Maryland staff dosimetrists attended the meeting and participated in associated activities.
Kudos to our colleagues who are experts in their fields and give their all to represent the School of Medicine! - June
Department of Emergency Medicine faculty and residents made substantial contributions as leaders, speakers and participants at two annual emergency medicine conferences in April. The Maryland chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) met on April 21, 2022, in Linthicum. The 28th annual Scientific Assembly of the American Academy of Emergency Medicine (AAEM22) met on April 23-27, 2022, in Baltimore. The AAEM program included talks, classes, and presentations by 22 members of the UMEM faculty and staff.
Leen Alblaihed, MBBS, MHA, Assistant Professor; Jason Adler, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor; and J. David Gatz, MD, Assistant Professor, all with the Department of Emergency Medicine, along with former EM resident Chrissy Tupe, MD, were invited speakers at the educational conference of the Maryland chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) on April 21, 2022.
Afrah Ali, MBBS, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, presented a lecture titled “Kids with Rashes: Diagnosis You CANNOT Miss” at AAEM22, the annual scientific assembly of the American Academy of Emergency Medicine.
Katharine Bisordi, MS, MGC, CGC, Instructor; Pam Herrada, MS, CGC, Instructor; and Stephanie Riley, ScM, CGC, Instructor; all with the Department of Pediatrics, presented clinical case studies at the virtual quarterly Baltimore Washington Genetics Group (BWGG) Regional meeting in Baltimore, MD, on April 28, 2022. Ms. Bisordi’s presentation was entitled “Big Results for Small Vessel Brain Disease.” Ms. Herrada’s “CCAND Case Presentation,” and Ms. Riley’s “A Case of Multiple Pneumothoraces: When a Diagnosis Knocks the Wind Out of You,” were also presented. Additionally, Jasmine Kretzer, DNP, CRNP, FNP-C, Instructor, and Jennifer Mellody Dukes, MSN, CRNP NNP-BC, Instructor, Department of Pediatrics presented at BWGG about the growing role of nurse practitioners in clinical genetics.
Laura Bontempo, MD, MEd, Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, presented “ENT for the EP: A Literature Update” at AAEM22, the annual scientific assembly of the American Academy of Emergency Medicine. She also co-chaired (with former faculty member George Willis) the planning committee for AAEM22, the annual Scientific Assembly of the American Academy of Emergency Medicine, held in Baltimore on April 23-27, 2022. The assembly drew 920 attendees.
France Carrier, PhD, Professor, and Amit Sawant, PhD, Professor, both with the Department of Radiation Oncology, were course directors of the Annual Dr. Karl Prado Physics & Radiobiology Review Course, which was held May 13, 2022. Offered entirely virtually, participants were required to review a series of prerecorded lectures, which were followed up on the day of the event with extended live question-and-answer sessions with course faculty, including University of Maryland School of Medicine and guest speakers, and other presentations on radiobiology, medical physics, and dosimetry.
WanTsu Wendy Chang, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, gave three talks at AAEM22, the annual scientific assembly of the American Academy of Emergency Medicine. She presented “What’s New in Acute Ischemic Stroke?” as part of the Resuscitation for Emergency Physicians pre-conference course organized by Dr. Mike Winters; and “Beyond Bacterial Meningitis: Neuroinfectious Disease Emergencies” and “Shades of Gray Matter: Neuroimaging in the ED” as part of the main conference.
Vasken Dilsizian, MD, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, was a Panel Discussant at the Saudi Heart Association Virtual Meeting in collaboration with the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology on “Nuclear Cardiology Now in Middle East: Case-Based Presentations and Discussion,” which was held on May 20-21, 2022.
Shannan Dixon, MS, CGC, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, presented “The Alliance to Increase Diversity in Genetic Counseling” at the virtual BWGG Regional meeting in Baltimore, MD, on April 28, 2022. Through a large grant from the Warren Alpert Foundation, the UM Master’s in Genetic Counseling Training Program will train students from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds as genetic counselors over five years and serve as a model for other initiatives to increase diversity in the genetic counseling profession.
Howard Dubowitz, MB, ChB, MS, FAAP, Professor, Department of Pediatrics, presented a workshop entitled “The Safe Environment for Every Kid (SEEK) Model: Preventing Child Maltreatment,” at the International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (ISPCAN) Congress, in Quebec City, Canada, on March 29, 2022. He also presented “Neglected Children: A Role for Child Health Professionals,” at a Pediatric Grand Rounds in Stanford Medicine, Paolo Alto, CA, on April 8, 2022, as well as “Consequences of Neglect,” at the Disentangling Neglect from Poverty Webinar, presented by Pennsylvania State University, PA, on April 22, 2022, and “The Safe Environment for Every Kid (SEEK) Model: Promoting Children’s Health, Wellbeing, Development and Safety,” at a Pediatric Grand Rounds at Carilion Children’s Hospital, Roanoke, VA, on April 28, 2022.
Kyle Fischer, MD, MPH, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was the keynote speaker at the American Trauma Society (ATS) annual conference on April 8, 2022, with a virtual presentation on “Contemporary Approaches to Violence Prevention,” which focused on hospital-based violence intervention programs. On April 29, Dr. Fischer participated in the Trauma Prevention Coalition’s 8th Annual Injury & Violence Prevention Professionals Symposium as a panelist for the session, “Working with the Trauma Center Influencers to Build Your Program’s Business Case.”
Douglas Floccare, MD, MPH, Clinical Assistant Professor, and Ben Lawner, DO, EMT-P, Associate Professor, both with the Department of Emergency Medicine, facilitated the 2022 Air Medical Physicians Symposium in Perdido Beach, AL, and online on April 10, 2022. AMPS convenes physicians and clinical leaders for a one-day event focused exclusively on critical care transport medicine.
Daniel Gingold, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, and Afrah Ali, MBBS, Assistant Professor, both with the Department of Emergency Medicine, delivered a lecture on “The Agitated Patient: From De-escalation to Chemical Restraints” at AAEM22, the annual scientific assembly of the American Academy of Emergency Medicine.
Joseph Martinez, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was an invited speaker at the 50th annual Emergency Medicine Conference of the Indiana chapter of ACEP held in Indianapolis, IN, in April 2022. His topic was “AMI — Does that Stand for Acute Mesenteric Ischemia or Am I Missing Ischemia?”
Amal Mattu, MD, Professor and Vice Chair of Academic Affairs, Department of Emergency Medicine, was a featured speaker at two recent sessions of the Eagles Webinar, an online meeting of Emergency Medical Systems (EMS) medical directors from around the country and several other cities around the world. Dr. Mattu provided updates on “Diagnosing Posterior STEMI on the Normal ECG” on April 11, 2022, and “Prehospital Gender Bias in Diagnosis and Treatment of Myocardial Infarction” on May 3, 2022. He also was an invited commentator on “Chest Pain Guideline Update” for the May 2022 edition of Emergency Medicine: Reviews and Perspectives (EM:RAP), a monthly podcast with a global listening audience of more than 60,000 clinicians and led “EKG Workshop: Myocardial Ischemia,” a virtual three-hour workshop for the High Risk Emergency Medicine Hawaii conference sponsored by the University of California, San Francisco in Maui, Hawaii, on April 12, 2022. Recent virtual presentations by Dr. Mattu also include “ECG Literature Update,” for Emergency Medicine (Virtual) Ground Rounds at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville, on April 26, 2022; as well as virtual lectures on “Emergency Cardiology Update” and “Lessons Learned from the Past Year” and two sessions of an online seminar “STEMI Without the STE: Must-Know Findings That Maximize Reperfusion” for the 35th Annual Emergency Medicine Update conference in Toronto on May 5-6, 2022.
Pranshu Mohindra, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, was a distinguished virtual speaker on May 21, 2022, at the 2nd Annual Apollo Proton Practicum meeting, held at the Apollo Proton Cancer Centre in Chennai, India. He spoke on “Proton Therapy for Lung Cancers: Journey So Far and the Road Ahead.”
Jeffrey Nusbaum, MD, MBA, Assistant Professor, and Ben Lawner, DO, EMT-P, Associate Professor, both with the Department of Emergency Medicine, represented the Maryland ExpressCare critical care transport team at a March 28, 2022, online seminar focused on critical pediatric cases. The faculty panel also included medical directors from Johns Hopkins LifeLine and STAT MedEvac.
Ali Tabatabai, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, presented two lectures at the 51st Critical Care Congress, which was held virtually in April 2022. The topic of his talks were “ECMO for the COVID-19 Pregnant Patient” and “Mobilizing the ECMO Patient.”
Samuel Tisherman, MD, Professor, Department of Surgery, presented a talk at the 10th Congress for Emergency Medicine, which was held in Graz, Austria, in April 2022. The topic of his talk was “A Cool Way to Save Dying Patients-EPR.” He also was among the co-authors of “Do Not Attempt Resuscitate in the Operating Room: A Misconstrued Paradox?” which was published in the Journal of American College of Surgery on May 1, 2022.
Mike Winters, MD, Professor and Vice Chair of Clinical and Administrative Affairs, Department of Emergency Medicine, and Professor of Medicine, presented at several sessions of AAEM22, the 28th annual Scientific Assembly of the American Academy of Emergency Medicine. As course director for preconference course on Resuscitation for the Emergency Physician, Dr. Winters lectured on “What’s New in Cardiac Arrest?”, “Post-Arrest Interventions That Matter!”, and “Updates in Anaphylaxis.” During the conference, Dr. Winters presented a plenary session on “Recent Resuscitation Articles You’ve Got to Know!” and lectured in the main scientific assembly on “Post-Arrest Interventions That Matter!” He also participated in “Meeting of the Minds: TTM2,” a debate on the current state of targeted temperature management in the post-arrest patient. He also attended SEMPA360, the annual meeting of the Society of Emergency Medicine Physician Assistants, in Las Vegas in April 2022, where he delivered the opening talk “Recent Resuscitation Articles You’ve Got to Know!” He was course director of the preconference course “Critical Care Symposium,” where he presented sessions on “Peri-Arrest Pearls for the Crashing Patient” and “Post-Arrest Interventions,” and he directed the preconference Ventilator Workshop and spoke on “The Crashing Ventilated Patient.” In addition, he presented at Grand Rounds at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City on April 27, 2022 on the topic “Post-Arrest Interventions That Matter!”
Congratulations to the following who have received honors! - September
John Baddley, MD, MSPH, Professor, Department of Medicine, was named Interim Co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal Open Forum of Infectious Diseases as of July 1, 2022. He previously served as an OFID associate editor.
Stella Hines, MD, MSPH, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, was honored as a new Fellow of the American College of Occupational & Environmental Medicine (FACOEM).
Charles Hong, MD, PhD, Melvin Sharoky, MD Professor in Medicine, Department of Medicine, was honored with the Dr. Arnold Katz Achievement Award by the Sarnoff Cardiovascular Research Foundation.
Matt Laurens, MD, MPH, Professor, Department of Pediatrics, has been named a member of the Scientific Advisory Group, Tropical Medicine Research Centers Program, for the National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
Neeraja Murali, DO, MPH, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, has graduated from the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) Teaching Fellowship. Previous graduates of this fellowship include Lauren Rosenblatt, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, and several other former UMEM residents and fellows.
William Regine, MD, the Isadore and Fannie Schneider Foxman Chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology, has been named a 2022 Fellow of the American Society of Therapeutic Oncology (ASTRO). The award is based on ASTRO membership, service to the society, and contributions to the field of radiation oncology and will be formally conferred in a ceremony at the ASTRO Annual Meeting in San Antonio, TX, in October 2022. Dr. Regine is also a Fellow of the American College of Radiology and of the American College of Radiation Oncology.
Congratulations to the following who have received honors! - August
Laura Bontempo, MD, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Assistant Director for Faculty Development & Resident Education in the Department of Emergency Medicine, has received the National Emergency Medicine Faculty Teaching Award from the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP). The award recognizes an outstanding educator in emergency medicine for excellence in teaching, commitment to advancing the specialty, development of innovative educational programs, and contributions to community, regional and global programs. The award will be presented in September 2022 at ACEP’s annual conference.
Meagan Deming, MD, PhD, Department of Medicine, was named a “Leading Woman Under 40" by The Daily Record.
Amal Mattu, MD, Professor of Emergency Medicine and Vice Chair of Academic Affairs, is honored in two of the Israel Association for Emergency Medicine’s annual awards: The Professor Amal Mattu Prize for Best Resuscitation and The Professor Amal Mattu Prize for Best Research Project.
Mark Mishra, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, was appointed in June as Co-Chair of the influential RTOG Foundation Research Committee, effective July 1, 2022. The foundation continues the NCI-funded research of the original Radiation Therapy Oncology Group through its membership in NRG Oncology and has developed a portfolio of industry-funded research partnerships that seek to advance effective therapies and improve quality of life for patients with cancer. The committee is responsible for reviewing and prioritizing the scientific strength of proposed trial concepts, assisting in development of approved protocols, and identifying future research directions for the RTOG Foundation.
Jason Molitoris, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, and Mark Mishra, MD, Associate Professor, both with the Department of Radiation Oncology, were named in June 2022 as recipients of Physician of the Year awards presented by The Daily Record as part of its annual Healthcare Heroes recognitions.
Kathleen Neuzil, MD, MPH, FIDSA, Myron M. Levine, MD, DTPH Professor of Vaccinology and Director, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, has been named Vice-President of the 2022-2023 Board of Directors for the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID).
Amit Sawant, PhD, Professor and Vice Chair for Medical Physics, Department of Radiation Oncology, was inducted as a Fellow in
the American Association of Physicists in Medicine on June 16, 2022, at the society’s annual meeting in Washington, DC.
Congratulations to the following who have received honors! - July
Omer Awan, MD, MPH, Associate Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, received the Educator Award sponsored by the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM). The Educator Award is presented annually in recognition of outstanding contributions to imaging informatics education by a SIIM instructor or educator in the field.
Jason Falvey, PT, DPT, PhD, GCS, Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science, was recently awarded the “Health in Aging Foundation New Investigator Award” at the 2022 American Geriatrics Society’s (AGS) Annual Scientific Meeting, which was held in Orlando, FL, from May 12-14, 2022. The Health in Aging Foundation New Investigator Awards honor individuals whose original research reflects new insights in geriatrics and a commitment to the discipline’s role in academia. Dr. Falvey also has been selected as the recipient of the Jack Walker Award presented by the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) National Honors and Awards program, which celebrates outstanding achievements on the part of association members in the areas of overall accomplishment, education, practice and service, publications, research, and academic excellence. The Jack Walker Award honors an author or team whose published study in the Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Journal presents novel and innovative research related to patient care and advanced clinical science, as it pertains to the physical therapy profession. Dr. Falvey will be recognized and will receive his award in August 2022 at the APTA Honors and Awards Ceremony, which is held during the APTA House of Delegates.
Congratulations to the following who have received honors! - June
Afrah Ali, MBBS, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, received a Young Investigator Award from the American Heart Association and the Resuscitation Science Symposium for the abstract presentation, “Simulation Based Assessment of Trainee’s Performance in Post-Cardiac Arrest Resuscitation.” The abstract appeared in Circulation.
Laura Buchanan, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, was selected as a 2022 Fellow of the Academy of Educational Excellence. This award is through the University of Maryland School of Medicine and established by Carolyn J. Pass, MD ’66 and Richard J. Susel, MD ’66.
Naillid Felipe, MD, MPH, Emergency Medicine resident, was honored as Resident of the Year by the Maryland chapter of ACEP (American College of Emergency Physicians) at its annual educational conference in April.
Douglas Floccare, MD, MPH, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, received a Lifetime Achievement award from the Air Medical Physician Association (AMPA) for his contributions to scholarship, education, and medical direction in the field of air medical transport.
Robert Gallo, MD, The Homer & Martha Gudelsky Distinguished Professor in Medicine, Co-founder & Director of the Institute of Human Virology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Co-founder & Chair of the Scientific Leadership Board of the Global Virus Network, was awarded the IRVA Basic Science Award 2022 by the International Retrovirology Association on May 10, 2022.
Ben Lawner, DO, EMT-P, Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Medical Director of Maryland ExpressCare Critical Care Transport, and Medical Director of the Baltimore City Fire Department, was recognized as a fellow of the Air Medical Physician Association at the 2022 AMPS symposium.
Gabriella Miller, MD, Emergency Medicine Resident, and To-Lam Nguyen, MD, Emergency Medicine/Pediatrics Resident, were recognized by the Council of Residency Directors of Emergency Medicine as resident divisional runners-up in its Clinical Pathologic Case Competition (CORD CPC).
Bennett Myers, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, has been recognized by the Council of Residency Directors of Emergency Medicine as a faculty divisional runner-up in its Clinical Pathologic Case Competition (CORD CPC).
Elizabeth Nichols, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, was named by the editor of the International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics as an Outstanding Reviewer awardee for 2021.
Liz Ogunsanya, MD, Emergency Medicine/Pediatrics Resident, was runner-up in the competition for the Linder Cup
award presented at the Maryland ACEP (American College of Emergency Physicians) educational conference on April 21, 2022.
Angela Smedley, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was honored as Physician of the Year by the Maryland chapter of ACEP (American College of Emergency Physicians) at its annual educational conference in April 2022. The chapter also named SOM alumnus Jon Wendell EMS Physician of the Year.
Shock Trauma’s Critical Care Coordination Center (C4) team has been selected as the recipient of the 2022 Patty Brown Innovation Award from the Chesapeake Regional Information System for our Patients (CRISP). The team was recognized for outstanding work provided both during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. The award recognizes individuals and teams that contribute to advancing health care in Maryland. The C4 Team was conceived and developed under the leadership of Thomas Scalea, MD, FACS, MCCM, Professor of Surgery, Director, Program in Trauma and UMMS System Chief for Critical Care; Samuel Galvagno, DO, PhD, FCCM, and C4 Medical Director; Theodore Delbridge, MD, MPH, FACEP (Executive Director of MIEMSS); Andrew Naumann, BS, MS, NRP (Director of Regional Programs, MIEMSS); Additionally, Dwayne Kitis, NRP, Alex Kelly, NRP, Melissa Haut, NRP, and Todd Bowman, NRP served to organize this statewide effort that has provided 24/7 critical care consultation and coordination for the entire state and neighboring states, including Delaware, West Virginia, Washington DC, Virginia, and Pennsylvania, since November 2019.
The Department of Radiation Oncology Executive Academic and Advisory Council recognized Melanie Berger, a 2022 UMSOM graduate, with the annual Radiation Oncology Graduation Award. The $2,500 award honors a senior medical student who has shown excellence in work in Radiation Oncology and demonstrated a sustained interest in this field during medical school. Dahlia Kronfli, also a 2022 UMSOM graduate, was presented with the Radiation Oncology Research Scholarship award. The $2,000 award recognized her outstanding achievements on a number of research projects, including an article on racial and socioeconomic disparities in radiation treatment published in the International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics on April 28, 2022.
Hats off to those who have been published! - September
Sally Adebamowo, MBBS, MSc, ScD, Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, was among the co-authors of “Different Human Papillomavirus Types Share Early Natural History Transitions in Immunocompetent Women,” which was published in June 2022 in the International Journal of Cancer. Dr. Adebamowo, along with Clement Adebamowo, BM, ChB, ScD, FWACS, FACS, Professor, also with the Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, were among the co-authors of “Dietary Intake and Cancer in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Critical Review of Epidemiological Studies,” which was published in the February 2022 issue ofNutrition and Cancer.
Omer Awan, MD, MPH, Associate Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, was the last author of “Beyond the Gray Scale: Using the Arts to Elevate our Work in Radiology,” which was published in the September 2022 issue of Academic Radiology. Dr. Awan also was the last author of “Case-based Learning: Its Importance in Medical Student Education,” which was published in the August 2022 issue of Academic Radiology and the last author of “Leveraging Social Media to Learn: A New Era for Medical Education,” which was published in the June 2022 issue of Academic Radiology. Epub ahead of print.
Jonathan Baghdadi, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, and Surbhi Leekha, MBBS, MPH, Associate Professor, both with the Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, were among the co-authors of “Recurrent Central-line-associated Bloodstream Infection in a Single High-risk Patient,” which was published in the August 2022 issue of Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.
Elizabeth Balcer-Kubiczek, PhD, Professor, and Soha Bazyar, MD, PhD, Resident, both with the Department of Radiation Oncology, were among the authors of “Medical Countermeasures for the Hematopoietic Subsyndrome of Acute Radiation Syndrome in Space,” which was published on June 9, 2022, ahead of print in Life Sciences in Space Research.
Søren Bentzen, PhD, DMSc, Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, was among the co-authors of “ESTRO ACROP and SIOPE Recommendations for Myeloablative Total Body Irradiation in Children,” which was published in the May 2022 issue of Radiotherapy and Oncology.
Hegang Chen, PhD, Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, was among the co-authors of “Leveraging Continuous Vital Sign Measurements for Real-Time Assessment of Autonomic Nervous System Dysfunction After Brain Injury: A Narrative Review of Current and Future Applications,” which was published in the August 2022 issue of Neurocritical Care.
Rong Chen, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, was the last author of “Meta-Learning for Decoding Neural Activity Data with Noisy Labels,” which was published in the July 2022 issue of Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience.
Shuo Chen, PhD, Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, was among the co-authors of “High-dimension to High-dimension Screening for Detecting Genome-wide Epigenetic and Noncoding RNA Regulators of Gene Expression,” which was published in the July 2022 issue of Bioinformatics.
Derik Davis, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, was the first author of “Gluteal Muscle Fatty Infiltration, Fall Risk, and Mobility Limitation in Older Women with Urinary Incontinence: A Pilot Study,” which was published in Skeletal Radiology on July 27, 2022. Epub ahead of print.
Vasken Dilsizian, MD, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, was a co-author on a consensus document entitled “SNMMI/ACR/ASNC/SCMR Joint Credentialing Statement for Cardiac PET/MRI,” which was published simultaneously in the July 2022 issues of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine, Circulation Cardiovascular Imaging, and the Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance.
Jason Falvey, PT, DPT, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation, is a co-author on the publication titled, “Deconditioned, Disabled, or Debilitated? Formalizing Management of Functional Mobility Impairments in the Medical Inpatient Setting,” which was published in the Journal of Hospital Medicine on July 11, 2022. Dr. Falvey is also a co-author on the publication titled, “Severe Neighborhood Deprivation and Nursing Home Staffing in the United States,” which was published in the Journal of American Geriatrics Society on August 8, 2022.
Naillid Felipe, MD, MPH, Emergency Medicine Resident; Leen Alblaihed, MBBS, MHA, Assistant Professor; Zachary D.W. Dezman, MD, MS, Assistant Professor; and Laura Bontempo, MD, MEd, Associate Professor; all with the Department of Emergency Medicine, authored “58-year-old Male with a Headache, Hand Numbness, and Phantosmia,” which was published online in the May 2022 issue of Clinical Practice and Cases in Emergency Medicine.
Cara Felter, PT, DPT, MPH, NCS, PCS, Assistant Professor; and Jason Falvey, PT, DPT, PhD, Assistant Professor; both with the Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation, are co-authors on the publication entitled, “Rural Health: The Dirt Road Less Traveled,” which was published in the Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Journal on August 4, 2022.
Kyle Fischer, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine; Gregory Jasani, MD, Clinical Instructor at the Baltimore VA Medical Center; and Erin Walton, LCSW-C, Director of the Program in Health Disparities and Population Health in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, co-authored “United States’ Infrastructure Bill Contains Hidden $15 Billion Investment in Violence Prevention: Lead Abatement,” which was published in Frontiers in Public Health on July 6, 2022.
Steven Fisher, MD, Professor, Department of Medicine, was among the co-authors of “Myocardin Regulates Exon Usage in Smooth Muscle Cells through Induction of Splicing Regulatory Factors,” which was published in Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences on July 8, 2022.
Robert Gallo, MD, The Homer & Martha Gudelsky Distinguished Professor in Medicine, Co-founder & Director of the Institute of Human Virology, and Arnaldo Caruso, MD, PhD, Adjunct Professor of Medicine, were among
the co-authors of “HIV-1 Mutants Expressing B cell Clonogenic Matrix Protein p17 Variants are Increasing their Prevalence Worldwide,” which was published in PNAS on June 27, 2022.
Katherine Goodman, PhD, JD, Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, was among the co-authors of “Real-world Antimicrobial Stewardship Experience in a Large Academic Medical Center: Using Statistical and Machine Learning Approaches to Identify Intervention “Hotspots” in an Antibiotic Audit and Feedback Program,” which was published in the June 2022 issue of Open Forum Infectious Diseases.
Jack Guralnik, MD, PhD, MPH, Professor; Michelle Shardell, PhD, Professor; Alan Rathbun, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor; Ann Gruber-Baldini, PhD, Professor; Denise Orwig, PhD, Professor; and Jay Magaziner, PhD, MSHyg, Professor; all with the Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, were among the co-authors of “Long-term Sex Differences in All-cause and Infection-specific Mortality Post Hip Fracture,” which was published in the July 2022 issue of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.
Anthony Harris, MD, MPH, Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, was among the co-authors of “N-Acetylcysteine (NAC) in Schizophrenia Resistant to Clozapine: A Double-Blind, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Trial Targeting Negative Symptoms,” which was published in July 2022 issue of Schizophrenia Bulletin.
Simon Ho, PT, DPT, CCS, Assistant Professor; Kelly Rock, PT, DPT, PCS, PhD Candidate; Odessa Addison, DPT, PhD, Associate Professor; and Victoria Marchese, PT, PhD, Jane Kroh Satterfield Professor of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science and Chair, Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science; all with the Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science, are co-authors on the publication entitled, “Relationships between Diaphragm Ultrasound, Spirometry, and Respiratory Mouth Pressures in Children,” which was published online in Respiratory Physiology & Neurobiology on July 26, 2022.
Miroslaw Janowski, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, was the first author of “The Legacy of mRNA Engineering: A Lineup of Pioneers for the Nobel Prize,” which was published in the September 2022 issue of Molecular Therapy—Nucleic Acids.
Jean Jeudy, MD, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, was the last author of “Early Pulmonary Complications Related to Cancer Treatment in Children,” which was published in Pediatric Radiology on July 2, 2022. Epub ahead of print.
Gaurav Jindal, MD, Associate Professor, and Timothy Miller, MD, Associate Professor, both with the Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, were among the co-authors of “Target Ultra and Nano Coils in the Endovascular Treatment of Small Intracranial Aneurysms (ULTRA Registry),” which was published in the June 2022 issue of the Journal of Neurosurgery. Epub ahead of print. Dr. Jindal was the first author.
Brian Johnson, OTR/L, PhD, Instructor; Jill Whitall, PhD, Professor Emerita; and Kelly Westlake, PT, MSc, PhD, Associate Professor; all with the Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation, are co-authors on the article titled, “Development and Psychometric Testing of the Bimanual Assessment Measure for People with Chronic Stroke,” which was published in the American Journal of Occupational Therapy on June 7, 2022.
Chaitanya Kalavagunta, PhD, Assistant Professor, Huijun Xu, PhD, Assistant Professor; Baoshe Zhang, PhD, Associate Professor; Sina Mossahebi, PhD, Associate Professor; Michael MacFarlane, PhD, Assistant Professor; Kai Jiang, PhD, Assistant Professor; Sung-Woo Lee, PhD, Assistant Professor; Shifeng Chen, PhD, Professor; Amit Sawant, PhD, Professor; Arun Gopal, PhD, Assistant Professor; and Byong Yong Yi, PhD, Professor; all with the Department of Radiation Oncology, were the authors of “Is a Weekly Qualitative Picket Fence Test Sufficient? A Proposed Alternate EPID-Based Weekly MLC QA Program,” which was published in the August 2022 issue of the Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics.
Brent King, MD, Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine and Vice Chairman of Patient Safety & Quality Assurance, co-authored the oral presentation abstract “Identifying Risk Factors for Diagnostic Error Involving Emergency Medicine Transitions of Care,” which was accepted for presentation at SIDM2022, the 5th Annual Conference of the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine, which was held in Minneapolis, MN, from October 16-18, 2022.
Marcel Lanza, PhD, Research Associate, Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science, is a co-author on the publication titled, “Neural Decoding from Surface High-density EMG Signals: Influence of Anatomy and Synchronization on the Number of Identified Motor Units,” which was published online on in the Journal of Neural Engineering on July 19, 2022. Dr. Lanza and Vicki Gray, MPT, PhD, Assistant Professor, also with the Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science, are co-authors on the publication titled, “The Effects of Stroke on Weight Transfer Before Voluntary Lateral and Forward Steps,” which was published in Frontiers in Neurology on July 22, 2022.
Surbhi Leekha, MBBS, MPH, Associate Professor, and Mary-Claire Roghmann, MD, MS, Professor, both with the Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, were among the co-authors of “Association between Level of Care and Colonization with Resistant Gram-negative Bacteria among Nursing-home Residents – CORRIGENDUM,” which was published in the July 2022 issue of Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.
Yuanyuan Liang, PhD, MSc, Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health was among the co-authors of “Dual-Energy CT and Cinematic Rendering to Improve Assessment of Pelvic Fracture Instability,” which was published in the August 2022 issue of Radiology.
Larry Magder, PhD, Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, was among the co-authors of “Trajectory of Damage Accrual in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus based on Ethnicity and Socioeconomic Factors,” which was published in the August 2022 issue of The Journal of Rheumatology.
Elias Melhem, MD, PhD, Professor & the Dean John M. Dennis Chairman, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, was among the co-authors of “The University of Pennsylvania Glioblastoma (UPenn-GBM) Cohort: Advanced MRI, Clinical, Genomics, & Radiomics,” which was published in the July 2022 issue of Scientific Data.
Daniel Morgan, MD, MS, Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, was among the co-authors of “Mice Lacking proSAAS Display Alterations in Emotion, Consummatory Behavior and Circadian Entrainment,” which was published in the July 2022 issue of Genes, Brain, and Behavior.
Michael Mulligan, MD, Clinical Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, was among the co-authors of “Society of Skeletal Radiology - White Paper. Guidelines for the Diagnostic Management of Incidental solitary Bone Lesions on CT and MRI in Adults: Bone Reporting and Data System (Bone-RADS),” which was published in the September 2022 issue of Skeletal Radiology. Epub 2022 Mar 28.
Nariman Nezami, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, was the last author of “Response Assessment Methods for Patients with Hepatic Metastasis from Rare Tumor Primaries Undergoing Transarterial Chemoembolization,” which was published in the June 2022 issue of Clinical Imaging. Epub ahead of print. Separately, Dr. Nezami was the last author of “Intraarterial Therapies for the Management of Hepatocellular Carcinoma,” which was published in the July 2022 issue of Cancers (Basel).
Rebecca Nowak, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, was among the co-authors of “Incidence and Clearance of Anal Human Papillomavirus Infection in 16,164 Individuals, according to HIV Status, Gender, and Male Sexuality: An International Pooled Analysis of 34 Longitudinal Studies,” which was published in the July 2022 issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases.
Elizabeth Parker, PhD, RD, Assistant Professor; and Odessa Addison, DPT, PhD, Associate Professor; both with the Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science, are co-authors on the publication titled, “Dietary Quality and Perceived Barriers to Weight Loss among Older Overweight Veterans with Dysmobility,” which was recently published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health on July 27, 2022.
Mohammad Sajadi, MD, Professor of Medicine and member of the Institute of Human Virology, was among the co-authors of “Determining the SARS-CoV-2 Serological Immunoassay Test Performance Indices based on the Test Results Frequency Distribution,” which was published in Biochemia Medica on June 15, 2022.
Kristen Stafford, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor, and Man Charurat, PhD, MHS, Professor, both with the Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, were among the co-authors of “Confluence of Crises: COVID-19, “Gassings”, Blood Draws and the Continued Importance of Community Engagement in Zambia,” which was published in the May 2022 issue of Health Promotion Perspectives.
Roger Stone, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, is a co-author of “An EMS Transport Destination Officer is Associated with Reductions in Simultaneous Emergency Department Arrivals,” which was published online in Prehospital Emergency Care on July 27, 2022.
William Teeter, MD, Assistant Professor, and Daniel Haase, MD, Assistant Professor; both with the Department of Emergency Medicine, along with Emergency Medicine Residents Taylor Miller, MD, and Zoe Glick, MD; former Resident Stephanie Cardona, MD, and Quincy Tran, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, are among the authors of “Association between Resuscitation in the Critical Care Resuscitation Unit and In-hospital Mortality,” which was published online in The American Journal of Emergency Medicine on July 22, 2022.
Kerri Thom, MD, MS, Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, was among the co-authors of “Clinical Outcomes and Risk Factors for Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales Bloodstream Infection in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients,” which was published in the July 2022 issue of Transplantation.
Phuoc Tran, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, was among the authors of “Implementing Survivorship Care Planning in Two Contrasting Health Systems: Lessons Learned from a Randomized Controlled Trial,” which appeared in the August 2022 issue of the Journal of Cancer Survivorship. He was also among the authors of “Prostate Cancer Grade Downgrading at Time of Prostatectomy Provides Risk Stratification Insight into Future Tumor Behavior After Prostatectomy,” which was published on August 3, 2022, ahead of print in Prostate.
Piotr Walczak, MD, PhD, Professor, and Dheeraj Gandhi, MBBS, Professor, both with the Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, were among the co-authors
of “Application of Optical Coherence Tomography in Decision-making of Post-thrombectomy Adjunctive Treatments,” which was published in the July 2022 issue of the Journal of Neurointerventional Surgery. Epub ahead of print.
Bruce Wasserman, MD, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, was the last author of “Survey of the American Society of Neuroradiology Membership on the Use and Value of Intracranial Vessel Wall MRI,” which was published in the July 2022 issue of the American Journal of Neuroradiology (AJNR).
Kelly Westlake, PhD, MSc, PT, Associate Professor, Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science, is a co-author on the publication titled, “Perturbation-Induced Protective Arm Responses: Effect of Age, Perturbation-Intensity, and Relationship with Stepping Stability: A Pilot Study,” which was published in the journal Brain Sciences on July 20, 2022.
Charles White, MD, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, was among the co-authors of “CAD-RADS™ 2.0 - 2022 Coronary Artery Disease - Reporting and Data System,” an expert consensus document of the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT), the American College of Cardiology (ACC), the American College of Radiology (ACR) and the North America Society of Cardiovascular Imaging (NASCI),” which was published in the July 2022 issue of the Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography. Epub ahead of print.
Junfang Wu, BM, PhD, Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, was among the co-authors of “Sex Dimorphism in Neurological Function after SCI is Associated with Disrupted Neuroinflammation in both Injured Spinal Cord and Brain,” which was published in Brain, Behavior, and Immunity on March 12, 2022. She also was among the co-authors of “Functional and Transcriptional Profiling of Microglial Activation During the Chronic Phase of TBI Identifies an Age-Related Driver of Poor Outcome in Old Mice,” which was published in the June 2022 issue of GeroScience and “Impairment of Autophagy in Spinal Cord Injury Exacerbates Neuroinflammation and Motor Functional Deficits in Mice,” which was published in the July 2022 issue of Theranostics.
Fan Nils Yang, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, and Ze Wang, PhD, Associate Professor, both with the Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, were among the co-authors of “Effects of Sleep Duration on Neurocognitive Development in Early Adolescents in the USA: A Propensity Score Matched, Longitudinal, Observational Study,” which was published in the July 2022 issue of Lancet Child and Adolescent Health. Epub ahead of print.
Weiguang Yao, PhD, Associate Professor; Baoshe Zhang, PhD, Associate Professor; Dong Han, PhD, Associate Professor; Jerimy Polf, PhD, Associate Professor; Sastry Vedam, PhD, Associate Professor; Giovanni Lasio, PhD, Associate Professor; and Byong Yong Yi, PhD, Professor; all with the Department of Radiation Oncology, were the authors of “Use of CBCT Plus Plan Robustness for Reducing QACT Frequency in Intensity-Modulated Proton Therapy: Head-and-Neck Cases,” which was published online August 6, 2022, ahead of print in Medical Physics.
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Sally Adebamowo, MBBS, MSc, ScD, Professor, and Clement Adebamowo, BM, ChB, ScD, FWACS, FACS, Professor, both with the Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, were among the co-authors of “Leisure-time Physical Activity is Associated with Reduced Risks of Breast Cancer and Triple Negative Breast Cancer in Nigerian Women,” which was published in Cancer Epidemiology on June 16, 2022.
Jason Adler, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, and Ben Lawner, DO, EMT-P, Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, and Medical Director, Maryland ExpressCare Critical Care Transport and the Baltimore City Fire Department, are among the authors of a new chapter on “Emergency Medicine Documentation (US),” which was published in CorePendium on July 7, 2022. The searchable, continuously updated online emergency medicine textbook is published by Emergency Medicine Reviews and Perspectives. Dr. Lawner is a section editor, and Amal Mattu, MD, Professor of Emergency Medicine and Vice Chair of Academic Affairs, is the co-editor-in-chief.
Nabeel Akhter, MBBS, Assistant Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, was the last author of “Transradial versus Transfemoral Arterial Access in Yttrium-90 Microspheres Radioembolization for Hepatocellular Carcinoma,” which was published in the May 2022 issue of the Journal of Clinical Imaging Science and of “Percutaneous CT-guided Superior Mesenteric Vein Access for Portal Vein Recanalization-Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt,” which was published in the May 2022 issue of Radiology Case Reports. He also is among the co-authors of “Survival and Toxicities after 90Y Transarterial Radioembolization of Metastatic Colorectal Cancer in the RESIN Registry,” which was published in the June 2022 issue of Radiology. Epub ahead of print.
Omer Awan, MD, MPH, Associate Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, was the last author of “COVID-19 and Virtual Medical Student Education,” which was published in the April 2022 issue of Academic Radiology. Epub ahead of print.
Søren Bentzen, PhD, DMSc, Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, was among the co-authors of “Methodological Comparison of Mapping the Expanded Prostate Cancer Index Composite to EuroQoL-5D-3L Using Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Data: Secondary Analysis of NRG/RTOG 0415,” which was published in the June 2022 issue of JCO Clinical Cancer Informatic. He also was a co-author of “ESTRO ACROP and SIOPE Recommendations for Myeloablative Total Body Irradiation in Children,” which was published in Radiotherapy and Oncology on May 31, 2022.
Maureen Black, PhD, Professor, Department of Pediatrics, was a co-author of “Preschoolers BMI: Associations with Patterns of Caregivers’ Feeding Practices Using Structural Equation Models,” which was published in Childhood Obesity on
June 1, 2022.
Uttam Bodanapally, MBBS, Associate Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, was among the co-authors of “Artificial Intelligence with Statistical Confidence Scores for Detection of Acute or Subacute Hemorrhage on Non-contrast CT Head Scans,” which was published in the April 2022 issue of Radiology Artificial Intelligence.
Hegang Chen, PhD, Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, was among the co-authors of “Characteristics Associated with Healthcare Worker Knowledge and Confidence in Elastomeric Half-Mask Respirator Use,” which was published in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine on June 14, 2022.
Rong Chen, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, was among the co-authors of “Aberrant Neural Activity in Prefrontal Pyramidal Neurons Lacking TDP-43 Precedes Neuron Loss,” which was published in the August 2022 issue of Programs in Neurobiology. Epub June 4, 2022.
Wengen Chen, MD, PhD, Professor, and Vasken Dilsizian, MD, Professor, both with the Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, were co-authors on a consensus document entitled “Hot Spot Imaging in Cardiovascular Diseases: An Information Statement from SNMMI, ASNC, and EANM,” which was published simultaneously in the July 2022 issues of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine and the Journal of Nuclear Cardiology.
Joana Carneiro Da Silva, PhD, Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Institute for Genome Sciences (IGS), co-led the publication of “Plasmodium falciparum 7G8 Challenge Provides Conservative Prediction of Efficacy of PfNF54-based PfSPZ Vaccine in Africa.” Ankit Dwivedi, PhD, Bioinformatics Analyst II, IGS, and Kirsten Lyke, MD, Professor, Department of Medicine, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, were also co-authors. The piece was published in Nature Communications on June 13, 2022.
Vasken Dilsizian, MD, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, was the lead author on an editorial entitled “Assessing Plaque with Nuclear Imaging - What Do We Really Know?” which was published in the July 2022 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology: Cardiovascular Imaging. He also was a co-author on an editorial entitled “The Impact of Revascularization on Mortality: A Debate on Patient Selection Bias versus Entry Bias,” which was published in the July 2022 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
Vahid Etezadi, MD, Assistant Professor, and Nariman Nezami, MD, Associate Professor, both with the Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, were among the co-authors of “Image-Guided Percutaneous Ablation for Primary and Metastatic Tumors,” which was published in Diagnostics (Basel) on May 24, 2022. Dr. Nezami was the last author. Separately, Dr. Nezami was the last author of “Surgical Resection, Radiotherapy and Percutaneous Thermal Ablation for Treatment of Stage 1 Non-small Cell Lung Cancer: Protocol for a Systematic Review and Network Meta-analysis,” which was published in the June 2022 issue of in BMJ Open and was a co-author in “Selective Internal Radiation Therapy with Yttrium-90 for Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma: A Systematic Review on Post-Treatment Dosimetry and Concomitant Chemotherapy,” which was published in the May 2022 issue of Current Oncology.
Katherine Goodman, PhD, JD, Assistant Professor; Jonathan Baghdadi, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor; Laurence Magder, PhD, Professor; and Anthony Harris, MD, MPH, Professor, all with the Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, were among the co-authors of “Patterns, Predictors, and Inter-Center Variability in Empiric Gram-Negative Antibiotic Use Across 928 U.S. Hospitals,” which was published in the Journal of Clinical Infectious Disease on June 23, 2022.
Ann Gruber-Baldini, PhD, Professor; Jennifer Albrecht, PhD, Associate Professor; Jack Guralnik, MD, PhD, MPH, Professor; Jennifer Albrecht, PhD, Associate Professor; and Michelle Shardell, PhD, Professor; all with the Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, were among the co-authors of “Traumatic Brain Injury and Risk of Long-Term Nursing Home Entry among Older Adults: An Analysis of Medicare Administrative Claims Data,” which was published in the Journal of Neurotrauma on July 6, 2022.
Rydhwana Hossain, MD, Assistant Professor; Allison Herring, MD, Assistant Professor; Jean Jeudy, MD, Professor; and Charles White, MD, Professor; all with the Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, were among the co-authors of “Prone Chest Radiographs: Distinguishing Features and Identification of Support Devices,” which was published in Lung on June 16, 2022. Epub ahead of print. Separately, Dr. White was the last author of “A Case of Incomplete Kawasaki Disease Complicated by Acute Coronary Syndrome Initially Diagnosed on Coronary CT Angiography,” which was published in the Korean Circulation Journal
on April 28, 2022. Epub
Julie Dunning Hotopp, PhD, Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Institute for Genome Sciences, was a senior author of “Accumulation of Endosymbiont Genomes in an Insect Autosome Followed by Endosymbiont Replacement,” which was published in Current Biology on May 31, 2022.
Aksinija Kogan, Anna Dellomo, Lora Stojanovic, and Lena McLaughlin, all Doctoral Students, along with Feyruz Rassool, PhD, Professor, all with the Department of Radiation Oncology, were among the authors of “Activating STING1-Dependent Immune Signaling in TP53 Mutant and Wild-Type Acute Myeloid Leukemia,” which appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA on July 5, 2022.
Marcel Lanza, PhD, Research Associate; Kelly Rock, PT, DPT, PCS, PhD Candidate; Victoria Marchese, PT, PhD, Jane Kroh Satterfield Professor of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science and Chair, Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science; along with Vicki Gray, MPT, PhD, Assistant Professor, and Odessa Addison, DPT, PhD, Associate Professor, also with the Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science, are co-authors on the publication entitled, “Ultrasound Measures of Muscle Thickness and Subcutaneous Tissue from the Hip Abductors: Inter- and Intra-rater Reliability.” This article was published online in the journal Musculoskeletal Science and Practice on June 24, 2022.
Ben Lawner, DO, EMT-P, Associate Professor; Department of Emergency Medicine, along with Gregory Jasani, MD, Clinical Instructor of Emergency Medicine, and Emergency Medicine Residents Bryan McNeilly, MD; Garrett Cavaliere, DO; and Reem Alfalasi, MBChB; are among the authors of “The Rising Threat of Terrorist Attacks Against Hospitals,” which was published in the April 2022 issue of Prehospital and Disaster Medicine.
Surbhi Leekha, MBBS, MPH, Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, was among the co-authors of “Optimization in the Context of COVID-19 Prediction and Control: A Literature Review,” which was published in IEEE Access on September 17, 2021.
Yuanyuan Liang, PhD, MSc, Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, was among the co-authors of “COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance Among US Parents: A Nationally Representative Survey,” which was published in the Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society on June 24, 2022.
Timothy Miller, MD, Associate Professor; Gaurav Jindal, MD, Associate Professor; and Dheeraj Gandhi, MBBS, Professor; all with the Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, were among the co-authors of “Excessive Platelet Inhibition Following Pipeline Embolization of Intracranial Aneurysms,” which was published in the June 2022 issue of the Journal of Neurointerventional Surgery. Epub ahead of print. Dr. Miller was the first author and Dr. Gandhi was the last author.
Mark Mishra, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, was the senior author of “Methodological Comparison of Mapping the Expanded Prostate Cancer Index Composite to EuroQoL-5D-3L Using Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Data: Secondary Analysis of NRG/RTOG 0415,” which was published in the June 2022 issue of JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics. Dr. Mishra was also among the authors of “Exposure to Radon and Heavy Particulate Pollution and Incidence of Brain Tumors,” which was published on June 28, 2022, ahead of print in Neuro-Oncology and of “68Ga-DOTATATE PET: The Future of Meningioma Treatment,” which was published in the International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics on July 15, 2022.
Jason Molitoris, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, and William Regine, MD, Professor and Chair, both with the Department of Radiation Oncology, were among the authors of “Radiation Therapy and Malignant Fistulae of Anorectal Cancers,” which was published on June 16, 2022, ahead of print in Practical Radiation Oncology.
Daniel Morgan, MD, MS, Professor; Surbhi Leekha, MBBS, MPH, Associate Professor; and Anthony Harris, MD, MPH, Professor; all with the Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, were among the co-authors of “The Impact of Universal Glove and Gown Use on Clostridioides difficile Acquisition, A Cluster Randomized Trial,” which was published in the Journal of Clinical Infectious Disease on July 1, 2022.
Rebecca Nowak, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, was among the co-authors of “Associations of Gender Identity with Sexual Behaviors, Social Stigma and Sexually Transmitted Infections among Adults Who Have Sex with Men in Abuja and Lagos, Nigeria,” which was published in the July 2022 issue of the Journal of the International AIDS Society.
Lyndsay O’Hara, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor, and Anthony Harris, MD, MPH, Professor, both with the Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, were among the co-authors of “Mitigating Hospital-onset Clostridioides difficile: The Impact of an Optimized Environmental Hygiene Program in Eight Hospitals,” which was published in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology on June 20, 2022.
Jerimy Polf, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, was among the authors of “Comparison of Reconstructed Prompt Gamma Emissions Using Maximum Likelihood Estimation and Origin Ensemble Algorithms for a Compton Camera System Tailored to Proton Range Monitoring,” which was published on June 21, 2022, ahead of print in Zeitschrift für Medizinische Physik.
Lei Ren, PhD, Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, was among the authors of “Fast Four-Dimensional Cone-Beam Computed Tomography Reconstruction Using Deformable Convolutional Networks,” which was published in Medical Physics on June 17, 2022. Epub ahead of print.
Samantha Santomartino, Research Assistant, and Paul Yi, MD, Assistant Professor, both with the Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, were among the co-authors of “Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Fracture Diagnosis: An Overview of Current Products and Considerations for Clinical Adoption, from the AJR Special Series on AI Applications,” which was published in the American Journal of Roentgenology on June 22, 2022. Epub ahead of print. Dr. Yi was the last author.
Kristen Stafford, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, was among the co-authors of “Treatment-Experienced Patients on Third-Line Therapy: A Retrospective Cohort of Treatment Outcomes at the HIV Advanced Treatment Centre, University Teaching Hospital, Zambia,” which was published in AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses on
July 1, 2022, as well as “Mapping HIV Prevalence in Nigeria Using Small Area Estimates to Develop a Targeted HIV Intervention Strategy,” which appeared in PLOS One on June 8, 2022.
Eileen Stock, PhD, Assistant Professor, and Kousick Biswas, PhD, Associate Professor, both with the Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, were among the co-authors of “Costs of Endoscopic vs. Open Vein Harvesting for Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting: A Secondary Analysis of the REGROUP Trial,” which was published in JAMA Network Open on June 1, 2022.
Phuoc Tran, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, was among the authors of “Prostate Cancer Therapy Personalization via Multi-modal Deep Learning on Randomized Phase III Clinical Trials,” which was published in NPJ Digital Medicine on June 8, 2022.
Quincy Tran, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, and Kaitlyn Tang, BS, Research Associate, are among the authors of “Tranexamic Acid and Gastrointestinal Bleed: Effect of the HALT-IT Trial on Current Meta-analysis,” which was published online in the American Journal of Emergency Medicine on June 25, 2022.
Piotr Walczak, MD, PhD, Professor, and Miroslaw Janowski, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, both with the Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, were among the co-authors of “Transplantation of Human Glial Progenitors to Immunodeficient Neonatal Mice with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (SOD1/rag2),” which was published in Antioxidants (Basel) on May 26, 2022. Dr. Janowski was the last author.
Bruce Wasserman, MD, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, was the last author of “Survey of the American Society of Neuroradiology Membership on the Use and Value of Intracranial Vessel Wall MR,” which was published in
the American Journal of Neuroradiology on June 16, 2022. Epub ahead of print.
Gentry Wilkerson, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, is among the authors of “Facemasks: Perceptions and Use in an ED Population during COVID-19,” which was published in PLOS ONE on April 13, 2022. The article reported a study to assess beliefs, access, and practices of mask wearing among patients seen in 15 urban emergency departments across the country. Dr. Wilkerson, along with Bobbi Lowie, MD, Emergency Medicine Resident, also authored “Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding,” which appeared in Emergency Medicine Reports on June 1, 2022.
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Sally Adebamowo, MBBS, MSc, ScD, Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, was among the co-authors of “Different Human Papillomavirus Types Share Early Natural History Transitions in Immunocompetent Women,” which was published in the International Journal of Cancer on
May 23, 2022.
Jennifer Albrecht, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, was among the co-authors of “Comparison Groups Matter in Traumatic Brain Injury Research: An Example with Dementia,” which was published in the Journal of Neurotrauma on May 25, 2022.
Omer Awan, MD, MPH, Associate Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, was the last author of “The Business of Medicine: Tips for Radiology Trainees,” which was published in the June 2022 issue of Academic Radiology. Separately, Dr. Awan was the last author of “Wellness and Nature: A Student Perspective,” which was published in the July 2022 issue of Academic Radiology.
Søren Bentzen, PhD, DMSc, Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, was among the co-authors of “Radiation-Induced Toxicity Risks in Photon Versus Proton Therapy for Synchronous Bilateral Breast Cancer,” which was published in the Spring 2022 eCollection of The International Journal of Particle Therapy.
Maureen Black, PhD, Professor, Department of Pediatrics, was a co-author on “Food Desert Status of Family Child Care Homes: Relationship to Young Children’s Food Quality,” which was published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health on May 24, 2022.
Rong Chen, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, was among the co-authors of “Striatal Direct Pathway Neurons Play Leading Roles in Accelerating Rotarod Motor Skill Learning,” which was published in the April 2022 issue of iScience.
Cynthia Czawlytko, MD, PGY 5 and Junior Chief; Elana Smith, MD, Assistant Professor; Omer Awan, MD, MPH, Associate Professor; Charles Resnik, MD, Professor; and Rydhwana Hossain, MD, Assistant Professor, all from the Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, were the authors of “The Effect of Virtual Interviews and Social Media on Applicant Decision-Making during The 2020-2021 Resident Match Cycle,” which was published in the June 2022 issue of Academic Radiology. Dr. Czawlytko was the first author and Dr. Hossain was the last author.
Joanne Dorgan, PhD, MPH, Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, was among the co-authors of “Association between Use of Nutrition Labels and Risk of Chronic Kidney Disease: The Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (KNHANES) 2008-2019,” which was published in Nutrients on April 21, 2022.
Dheeraj Gandhi, MBBS, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, was among the co-authors of “Impact of Collateral Flow on Cost-effectiveness of Endovascular Thrombectomy,” which was published in the April 2022 issue of the Journal of Neurosurgery. Epub ahead of print.
Daria Gaykalova, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Otorhinolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery, Institute for Genome Sciences, was among the co-authors of “Epigenetic Regulations of Perineural Invasion in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma,” which was published in Frontiers in Genetics on April 27, 2022.
Ann Gruber-Baldini, PhD, Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, was among the co-authors of “Confirming Parkinson Disease Diagnosis: Patterns of Diagnostic Changes by Movement Disorder Specialists,” which was published in Parkinson’s Disease on May 9, 2022.
Linda Horn, PT, DScPT, MHS, GCS, NCS, Assistant Professor, and Jill Whitall, PhD, FNAK, Professor Emerita, both with the Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science, are co-authors on the publication entitled, “Baseline Predictors of Response to Repetitive Task Practice in Chronic Stroke,” which was published in Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair on May 26, 2022.
Kai Jiang, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, was among the authors of “Selective Kidney Targeting Increases the Efficacy of Mesenchymal Stromal/Stem Cells for Alleviation of Murine Stenotic-Kidney Senescence and Damage,” which was published in the June 2022 issue of Journal of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine.
Kimia Khalatbari Kani, MD, Assistant Professor, and Michael Mulligan, MD, Clinical Professor, both with the Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, were among the co-authors of “Paraneoplastic Musculoskeletal Disorders: Review and Update for Radiologists,” which was published in Skeletal Radiology on May 23, 2022. Epub ahead of print.
Hyun Kim, MD, MHS, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, was the last author of “Microwave Ablation versus Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy for Stage I Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis,” which was published in the April 2022 issue of the Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology. Epub ahead of print.
Shenghan Lai, MD, Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, was among the co-authors of “Deep Learning-based Atherosclerotic Coronary Plaque Segmentation on Coronary CT Angiography” and “Temporal Assessment of Lesion Morphology on Radiological Images beyond Lesion Volumes — a Proof-of-Principle Study,” which were published in European Radiology on May 7, 2022, and June 1, 2022, and “Myocardial ATP Depletion Detected Noninvasively Predicts Sudden Cardiac Death Risk in Heart Failure Patients,” which was published in JCI Insight on May 17, 2022.
Barton Lane, MD, Assistant Professor, and Jade Wong-You-Cheong, MD, Professor, both with the Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, were among the co-authors of “PSA Density is Complementary to Prostate MP-MRI PI-RADS Scoring System for Risk Stratification of Clinically Significant Prostate Cancer,” which was published in Prostate Cancer and Prostatic Diseases on May 6, 2022. Epub ahead of print.
Victoria Marchese, PT, PhD, Chair and the Jane Kroh Satterfield Professor of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science; Kelly Rock, PT, DPT, PhD Candidate; and Vicki L. Gray, MPT, PhD, Assistant Professor; all with the Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science, are co-authors on the publication entitled, “The Efficacy of Targeted Exercise on Gross Motor and Neuromuscular Performance in Survivors of Childhood Leukemia: A Pilot Study,” which was published in the Pediatric Oncology section of Frontiers in Pediatrics on May 11, 2022.
Mark Mishra, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, was among the authors of “Low-Risk Meningioma: Initial Outcomes from NRG Oncology/RTOG 0539,” which was published on June 3, 2022, ahead of print in Neuro-Oncology.
Jason Molitoris, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor; Matthew Ferris, MD, Assistant Professor; Zaker Rana, MD, Assistant Professor; Mark Mishra, MD, Associate Professor; Young Kwok, MD, Professor; and Phuoc Tran, MD, PhD, Professor; all with the Department of Radiation Oncology, were among the authors of “Genomic Biomarkers to Guide Precision Radiotherapy in Prostate Cancer,” which was published in the August 2022 issue of The Prostate.
Andrew Neuwald, PhD, Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Institute for Genome Sciences, was first author of “SPARC: Structural Properties Associated with Residue Constraints,” which was published in Computational and Structural Biotechnology on April 7, 2022.
Denise Orwig, PhD, Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, was among the co-authors of “Thigh Muscle Composition and its Relationship to Functional Recovery Post-hip Fracture Over Time and Between Sexes,” which was published in The Journals of Gerontology: Series A, Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences, on May 17, 2022.
Thomas Ptak, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, was among the co-authors of “Characterizing Brain Perfusion in a Swine Model of Raised Intracranial Pressure,” which was published in the May 2022 issue of the Journal of Surgical Research. Epub ahead of print.
Zaker Rana, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, was among the authors of “Burnout in Radiation Oncology Physician Workforce: The Effect of Mindfulness and Fulfillment,” which was published in Advances in Radiation Oncology on April 20, 2022.
Jacques Ravel, PhD, Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Acting Director; Rebecca Brotman, PhD, MPH, Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health; and Michelle Shardell, PhD, Professor, Department of Epidemiology, all from the Institute for Genome Sciences, were among the co-authors of “Douching Cessation and Molecular Bacterial Vaginosis: A Reanalysis of Archived Specimens,” which was published in Sexually Transmitted Infections on May 30, 2022.
Dario Rodrigues, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, was among the authors of “Review of Thermal and Physiological Properties of Human Breast Tissue,” which appeared in the May 20 issue of Sensors (Basel).
Lynn Schriml, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, Institute for Genome Sciences, was a first author of “A Decade of GigaScience: 10 years of the Evolving Genomic and Biomedical Standards Landscape,” which was published in GigaScience on May 17, 2022. Dr. Schriml was also among the co-authors of “A Community Approach to the Cancer-variant-interpretation Bottleneck,” which was published in Nature Cancer on May 3, 2022.
Elana Smith, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, was among the co-authors of “Senior Authorship in Academic Radiology Journals: Roles, Responsibilities, and Rewards,” which was published in the June 2022 issue of Academic Radiology.
Hervé Tettelin, PhD, Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Institute for Genome Sciences, and Adonis D’Mello, PhD, Bioinformatics Analyst II, Institute for Genome Sciences, were among the co-authors of “COVID-19 Vaccine Design using Reverse and Structural Vaccinology, Ontology-based Literature Mining and Machine Learning,” which was published in Briefings in Bioinformatics on June 2, 2022.
Phuoc Tran, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, was among the authors of “Paving the Road to the Future of Chemoradiotherapy in Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer: 10-Year Follow-up of BC2001,” which was published on May 28, 2022, ahead of print in European Urology.
Alexander Van Slyke, PhD, Medical Physics Resident, Department of Radiation Oncology, was among the authors of “Improving the Efficiency of Small Animal 3D-Printed Compensator IMRT with Beamlet Intensity Total Variation Regularization,” which was published on May 24, 2022, ahead of print in Medical Physics. He also was the first author of “Oxygen Monitoring in Model Solutions and In Vivo in Mice During Proton Irradiation at Conventional and FLASH Dose Rates,” which
was published on May 31, 2022, ahead of print in Radiation Research.
Piotr Walczak, MD, PhD, Professor, and Miroslaw Janowski, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, both with the Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, were among the co-authors of “Cytocompatible Manganese Dioxide-based Hydrogel Nanoreactors for MRI Imaging,” which was published in the December 2021 issue of Materials Science and Engineering: C, Materials for Biological Applications. Epub ahead of print.
Charles White, MD, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, was the last author of “Imaging to Differentiate between Lymphatic Plastic Bronchitis Subtypes in Adults,” which was published in the April 2022 issue of Radiology: Cardiothoracic Imaging.
Emerson Wickwire, PhD, Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Medicine, was senior author of “Remote Clinical Research Operations During COVID-19: Lessons Learned and Recommendations,” which was published in SLEEP on May 25, 2022.
Su Xu, PhD, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, was among the co-authors of “Implementation of Minimally Invasive Brain Tumor Resection in Rodents for High Viability Tissue Collection,” which was published in Journal of Visualized Experiments: JOVE on May 9, 2022.
Paul Yi, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, was the last author of “Can Images Crowdsourced from the Internet be Used to Train Generalizable Joint Dislocation Deep Learning Algorithms?” which was published in the May 2022 issue of Skeletal Radiology. Epub ahead of print. Separately, he was the last author of “Detecting Total Hip Arthroplasty Dislocations Using Deep Learning: Clinical and Internet Validation,” which was published in the May 2022 issue of Emergency Radiology. Epub ahead of print. Dr. Yi also was among the co-authors of “The Radiology: Artificial Intelligence Trainee Editorial Board: Initial Experience and Future Directions,” which was published in the May 2022 issue of Academic Radiology. Epub ahead of print.
Min Zhan, PhD, Associate Professor, and Hegang Chen, PhD, Professor, both with the Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, were among the co-authors of “Baseline Predictors of Response to Repetitive Task Practice in Chronic Stroke,” which was published in Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair on May 26, 2022.
Jiachen Zhuo, PhD, Assistant Professor, and Rao Gullapalli, PhD, MBA, Professor, both with the Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, were among the co-authors of “Evaluating the Impact of MR Image Harmonization on Thalamus Deep Network Segmentation,” which was published in the February-March 2022 edition of the Proceedings of SPIE—the International Society for Optical Engineering. Separately, Dr. Gullapalli was among the co-authors of “Tonic Pain Alters Functional Connectivity of the Descending Pain Modulatory Network Involving Amygdala, Periaqueductal Gray, Parabrachial Nucleus and Anterior Cingulate Cortex,” which was published in the August 2022 issue of Neuroimage and “Brain Responses to Painful Electrical Stimuli and Cognitive Tasks Interact in the Precuneus, Posterior Cingulate Cortex, and Inferior Parietal Cortex and Do Not Vary Across the Menstrual Cycle,” which was published in the May 2022 issue of Brain and Behavior. Epub ahead of print.
A collaborative study entitled “Comparative Genomics Identifies Features Associated with Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) Transmission in Hospital Setting,” was published in mSphere on May 17, 2022. The team included Timileyin Adedrian, PhD, MPH/PhD student, Lyndsay M. O’Hara, PhD, Assistant Professor, and Anthony Harris, MD, MPH, Professor, from the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health; J. Kristie Johnson, PhD, Professor, with the Department of Pathology; as well as Tracy Hazen, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology; Jane Michalski, MSc, Laboratory Manager, Rasko Laboratory, and David Rasko, PhD, Professor, with the Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Institute for Genome Sciences.
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Clement Adebamowo, BM, ChB, ScD, FWACS, FACS, Professor; Yuji Zhang, PhD, Associate Professor; and Sally Adebamowo, MBBS, MSc, ScD, Professor, all with the Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, were among the co-authors of “Polygenic Risk Scores for CARDINAL Study,” which was published in Nature Genetics on May 5, 2022.
Sally Adebamowo, MBBS, MSc, ScD, Professor, and Clement Adebamowo, BM, ChB, ScD, FWACS, FACS, Professor, both with the Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, are among the co-authors of “A Matched Case-control Study of Bean Intake and Breast Cancer Risk in Urbanized Nigerian Women,” which was published in Cancer Causes Control on May 5, 2022, and “The African Female Breast Cancer Epidemiology Study Protocol,” which was published in Frontiers in Oncology on April 13, 2022.
Afrah Ali, MBBS, Assistant Professor, and WanTsu Wendy Chang, MD, Associate Professor, both with the Department of Emergency Medicine, along with colleagues in the Department of Neurology, recently published “Simulation-Based Assessment of Trainee’s Performance in Post-Cardiac Arrest Resuscitation” in Resuscitation Plus. Dr. Ali also co-authored “The Art of Sim-making: What to Learn from Film-making,” which was published in the Journal of Emergencies, Trauma, and Shock and was published online on April 4, 2022.
Omer Awan, MD, MPH, Associate Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, was among the co-authors of “Defining Radiology’s Imaginarium,” which was published in the April 2022 issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology. Epub ahead of print.
Søren Bentzen, PhD, DMSc, Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, was among the co-authors of “Identifying Psychosocial Needs of Cancer Patients Undergoing Curative Radiation Therapy in an Inner-City Academic Center to Address Racial Disparities,” which was published in The International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics on April 28, 2022.
Kousick Biswas, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, was among the co-authors of “Effect of Androgen Suppression on Clinical Outcomes in Hospitalized Men With COVID-19: The HITCH Randomized Clinical Trial,” which was published in JAMA Network Open on April 1, 2022.
Maureen Black, PhD, Professor, Department of Pediatrics, was a co-author on two publications entitled “Health and Development from Preconception to 20 Years of Age and Human Capital” and “Optimising Child and Adolescent Health and Development in the Post-pandemic World.” Both were published in The Lancet on April 25, 2022, as part of a series entitled Optimizing Health and Development to Promote Human Capital. Dr. Black served on the steering committee of the series and presented the paper, “Way Forward: Optimising Child and Adolescent Health and Development in the Post-pandemic World,” at the launch of the series, which was held in London on April 20, 2022.
Uttam Bodanapally, MBBS, Associate Professor, and David Dreizin, MD, Associate Professor, both with the Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, were among the co-authors of “Dual-Energy CT and Cinematic Rendering to Improve Assessment of Pelvic Fracture Instability,” which was published in the April 2022 issue of Radiology. Epub ahead of print. Dr. Dreizin was the last author.
Laura Bontempo, MD, MEd, Associate Professor, and Zachary Dezman, MD, MS, Assistant Professor, along with colleagues in the Department of Emergency Medicine, recently published “57-year-old Female with Unusual Left-arm Movements,” which recently appeared in Clinical Practice and Cases in Emergency Medicine.
Linda Chang, MD, MS, Professor, and Thomas Ernst, Dr rer nat, Professor, both with the Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, were among the co-authors of “Cortical Thickness Changes After Computerized Working Memory Training in Patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment,” which was published in the April 2022 issue of Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience.
Elizabeth Clayborne, MD, MA, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, is the author of “Racism, Not Race: A Physician Perspective on Anti-Black Racism in America,” a commentary published in A Critical Moment in Bioethics: Reckoning with Anti-Black Racism through Intergenerational Dialogue, ed. Faith E. Fletcher et al. (special report). Hastings Center Report 2022 on April 26, 2022.
Christine Cloak, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, was among the co-authors of “Individual-, Peer-, and Parent-level Substance Use-related Factors among 9- and 10-year-olds from the ABCD Study: Prevalence Rates and Sociodemographic Differences,” which was published in the June 2022 issue of Drug and Alcohol Dependence Reports.
Vasken Dilsizian, MD, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, was a co-author on an article entitled “Update on Guidance and Best Practices for Nuclear Cardiology Laboratories during the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic: Emphasis on Transition to Chronic Endemic State. An Information Statement from ASNC, IAEA, and SNMMI,” which was published in the Journal of Nuclear Cardiology on May 2, 2022 [Ahead of Print].
Gozde Erdemir, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Neurology, was last author of “Electroclinical Features in Epilepsy Surgery Candidates with Epileptic Spasms,” which was published in the Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology on March 24, 2022.
Emily Esposito, DO, Assistant Professor; Quincy Tran, MD, PhD, Associate Professor; both with the Department of Emergency Medicine, and colleagues from the Research Associate Program in Emergency Medicine and Critical Care, authored “Predicting Outcomes for Interhospital Transferred Patients of Emergency General Surgery,” which appeared in Critical Care Research and Practice and was published online on April 15, 2022.
Jeffrey Galvin, MD, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, was the last author of “Human Oncoviruses and Thoracic Tumors: Understanding the Imaging Findings,” which was published in the May-June 2022 issue of Radiographics.
Daria Gaykalova, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery and Institute for Genome Sciences, was among the co-authors of “Entinostat Decreases Immune Suppression to Promote Anti-tumor Responses in a HER2+ Breast Tumor Microenvironment,” which was published in Cancer Immunology Research on February 21, 2022.
Mira Ghneim, MD, Assistant Professor; Craig Sadler, MD, Visiting Instructor; Cheralyn Hendrix, MD, Visiting Instructor; Jaclyn Clark, MD, Assistant Professor; Joseph Alden Herrold, MD, Assistant Professor; and Jose Diaz, MD, Professor; all with the Department of Surgery, were co-authors on “Cost Difference between Teaching and Nonteaching Hospitals Requiring Emergency Procedures in the State of Maryland,” which was published in the May 2022 issue of The American Surgeon. Dr. Ghneim also co-authored, along with Jaclyn Clark, MD, Assistant Professor; Melike Harfouche, MD, Assistant Professor; Cheralyn Hendrix, MD, Visiting Instructor; Jose Diaz, MD, Professor; all with the Department of Surgery, “Emergency General Surgery Procedures and Cost of Care for Older Adults in the State of Maryland,” which was published in the March 2022 issue of The American Surgeon.
Mariana Guerrero, PhD, Professor; Weiguang Yao, PhD, Associate Professor; Stewart Becker, PhD, Associate Professor; Jason Molitoris, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor; Sastry Vedam, PhD, Associate Professor; and Byong Yi, PhD, Professor; all with the Department of Radiation Oncology, were among the authors of “Validation of a Commercial Software Dose Calculation for Y-90 Microspheres,” which was published ahead of print in Brachytherapy on May 7, 2022.
Kim Hankey, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, was among the authors of “Vaccine-Induced T Cells Against Sars-Cov-2 and its Omicron Variant in B Cell-Depleted Lymphoma Patients After CART,” which was published in Blood on May 10, 2022. She was also among the authors of “Humoral Immunity Against SARS-CoV-2 Variants Including Omicron in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients After Three Doses of a COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine,” which was published in Clinical and Translational Immunology on April 29, 2022.
Yuanyuan Liang, PhD, MSc, Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, was among the co-authors of “Dual-Energy CT and Cinematic Rendering to Improve Assessment of Pelvic Fracture Instability,” which was published in Radiology on April 19, 2022.
Clarissa Lin, MD, PGY 5 and Junior Chief (first author); Maram Aljuaid, MD, PGY 5; and Nikki Tirada, MD, Assistant Professor (last author), all with the Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, were the co-authors of “Needlestick Injuries in Radiology: Prevention and Management,” which was published in the April 2022 issue of Clinical Radiology. Epub ahead of print.
Amal Mattu, MD, Professor of Emergency Medicine and Vice Chair of Academic Affairs, co-authored “See You in Court: Practice and Documentation Change from a Mock Trial,” which recently appeared in the Journal of Urgent Care Medicine.
Gabriella Miller, MD, Emergency Medicine resident, is the first author of a poster with Daniel Gingold, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, and the Mobile Integrated Health Group titled “Evaluating a Mobile Integrated Health-community Paramedicine’s Effect on Hospital Readmissions by Addressing Social Determinants of Health.”
Muhammand Mohiuddin, MBBS, and Corbin Goerlich, MD, Post Doc Fellow, Department of Surgery; along with Amit Singh, MBBS, MS, Assistant Professor; Department of Medicine; Tianshu Zhang, PhD, Research Associate, Department of Surgery; Ivan Tatarov, DVM, Research Associate, Department of Pathology; and Patrick Odonkor, MB, ChB, Associate Professor; and Erik Strauss, MD, Assistant Professor; Brittney Williams, MD, Assistant Professor, all with the Department of Anesthesiology; and Allen Burke, MD, Professor, Department of Pathology; Adnan Bhutta, MBBS, FAAP, Professor, Department of Pediatrics; and Ali Tabatabai, MD, Associate Professor, and Anuj Gupta, MD, Associate Professor, both with the Department of Medicine; and Bartley Griffith, MD, Professor, Department of Surgery; were among the co-authors of “Progressive Genetic Modifications
of Porcine Cardiac Xenografts Extend Survival to 9 Months,” which was published online ahead of print in Xenotransplantation
on May 31, 2022.
Nicholas Morris, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology, is a co-author on “Effect of Early vs. Standard Approach to Tracheostomy on Functional Outcome at 6 Months among Patients with Severe Stroke Receiving Mechanical Ventilation: The SETPOINT 2 Randomized Clinical Trial,” which was published online in JAMA on May 4, 2022.
Nariman Nezami, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, was among the co-authors of “Comparative Effectiveness of Pelvic Arterial Embolization versus Laparotomy in Adults with Pelvic Injuries: A National Trauma Data Bank Analysis,” which was published in the June 2022 issue of Clinical Imaging.
Timothy O’Connor, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine and Institute for Genome Sciences, was among the co-authors of “Interpreting Clinical Trials With Omega-3 Supplements in the Context of Ancestry and FADS Genetic Variation,” which was published in Frontiers in Nutrition on February 8, 2022.
Yannick Poirier, PhD, Assistant Professor; Junliang Xu, PhD, Assistant Professor; Sina Mossahebi, PhD, Assistant Professor; and Amit Sawant, PhD, Professor, all with the Department of Radiation Oncology, were among the authors of “Technical Note: Characterization and Practical Applications of a Novel Plastic Scintillator for Online Dosimetry for an Ultrahigh Dose Rate (FLASH),” was published online ahead of print in the April 2022 issue of Medical Physics.
Elizabeth Powell, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine; Daniel Haase, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine; Allison Lankford, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of OB/Gyn; Kimberely Boswell, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine; Emily Esposito, DO, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine; Joseph Hamera, MD, Visiting Instructor, Department of Emergency Medicine; Siamak Dahi, MD, Instructor, Department of Surgery; Eric Krause, MD, JD, Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery; Gregory Bittle, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery; K. Barry Deatrick, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery; Bree Ann C Young, MD, Post Doc Fellow, Department of Surgery; Samuel Galvagno, DO, PhD, Professor, Department of Anesthesiology; and Ali Tabatabai, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, were co-authors on “Body Mass Index Does Not Impact Survival in COVID-19 Patients Requiring Veno-venous Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation,” which was published online ahead of print in Perfusion on April 25, 2022.
Jacques Ravel, PhD, Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Acting Director, Institute for Genome Sciences, was among the co-authors of two publications, “Second Trimester Short Cervix is Associated with Decreased Abundance of Cervicovaginal Lipid Metabolites,” which was published in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology on April 22, 2022, and “Vaginal Microbiota and Mucosal Pharmacokinetics of Tenofovir in Healthy Women Using a 90-Day Tenofovir/Levonorgestrel Vaginal Ring,” which was published in Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology on March 8, 2022. Dr. Ravel was also a senior author of “Insight into the Ecology of Vaginal Bacteria through Integrative Analyses of Metagenomic and Metatranscriptomic Data,” which was published in Genome Biology on March 1, 2022; and “Towards a Deeper Understanding of the Vaginal Microbiota in Nature Microbiology,” published on March 4, 2022.
William Regine, MD, Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, was among the authors of “An International Consensus on the Design of Prospective Clinical-Translational Trials in Spatially Fractionated Radiation Therapy,” which was presented on March 4 at the 2022 Radiosurgery Society in Carlsbad, CA.
Lei Ren, PhD, Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, was among the authors of “A Geometry-Guided Multi-Beamlet Deep Learning Technique for CT Reconstruction,” which was published on May 5, 2022, ahead of print in Biomedical Physics and Engineering Express.
Sanjit Roy, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow; Amit Sawant, PhD, Professor; and Hem Shukla, PhD, Assistant Professor; all with the Department of Radiation Oncology, were among the authors of “Dysregulated Epigenetics of Chordoma: Prognostic Markers and Therapeutic Targets,” which was published on April 19, 2022, ahead of print in Current Cancer Drug Targets.
Bansi Savla, MD, Resident; Kaysee Baker, MS, Director of Clinical Research Operations; Caitlin Eggleston, Clinical Research Manager; Pranshu Mohindra, MD, MBBS, Associate Professor; and Melissa A. L. Vyfhuis, MD, PhD, Visiting Assistant Professor; all with the Department of Radiation Oncology, were among the authors of “Identifying Psychosocial Needs of Cancer Patients Undergoing Curative Radiation Therapy in an Inner-City Academic Center to Address Racial Disparities,” which was published on April 28, 2022, ahead of print in the International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics. Dahlia Kronfli, a graduating UMSOM medical student, was the lead author of the article.
Bradford Schwartz, MD, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, is the lead author of “Manual Palpation vs. Femoral Arterial Doppler Ultrasound for Comparison of Pulse Check Time During Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in the Emergency Department: A Pilot Study,” which was recently published in the Journal of Emergency Medicine.
Osman Siddiqui, MD, and Bansi Savla, MD, Residents; along with Sarah McAvoy, MD, Assistant Professor; and Mark Mishra, MD, Associate Professor, all with the Department of Radiation Oncology, were among the authors of “From Beaming Cancer to Beaming Parent: Paternity Leave Experiences in Radiation Oncology,” which was published ahead of print on April 29, 2022, in the International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics.
Henry Silverman, MD, MA, Professor, Department of Medicine; Samuel Tisherman, MD, Professor, Department of Surgery; Ali Tabatabai, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine; and Eunsung Cho, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, were among the co-authors of “Ethical Decision-making Climate, Moral Distress, and Intention to Leave Among ICU Professionals in a Tertiary Academic Hospital Center,” which was published in BMC Medical Ethics
on April 19, 2022.
Mark Smith, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, was the author of “Assessing if Adequate Hyperemic Response to Pharmacologic Stress in Rb-82 PET Myocardial Perfusion Imaging is Achieved: Are Biomarkers Helpful?” which was published in the Journal of Nuclear Cardiology on April 8, 2022. Epub ahead of print.
Ali Tabatabai, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, was among the co-authors of “Responses to a Neutralizing Monoclonal Antibody for Hospitalized Patients With COVID-19 According to Baseline Antibody and Antigen Levels: A Randomized Controlled Trial,” which was published in the February 2022 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine.
Phuoc Tran, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, was among the authors of “Interim Analysis of Companion, Prospective, Phase II, Clinical Trials Assessing the Efficacy and Safety of Multi-Modal Total Eradication Therapy in Men with Synchronous Oligometastatic Prostate Cancer,” which appeared in Medical Oncology on April 28, 2022.
Quincy Tran, MD, PhD, Associate Professor; Gentry Wilkerson, MD, Associate Professor; Rose Chasm, MD, Assistant Professor; Zachary Dezman, MD, MS, Assistant Professor; Daniel Haase, MD, Assistant Professor; and Jeffrey Rea, MD, Assistant Professor; all with the Department of Emergency Medicine, are among the authors of “Patterns of Opioid Prescribing in Emergency Departments during the Early Phase of the COVID-19 Pandemic,” which was published in the June 2022 issue of the American Journal of Emergency Medicine and was published online on March 26, 2022.
Angela Trude, PhD, Former Postdoctoral Fellow; Maureen Black, PhD, Professor; and Erin Hager, PhD, Associate Professor; all with the Department of Pediatrics, were co-authors on “A Click Too Far from Fresh Foods: A Mixed Methods Comparison of Online and In-store Grocery Behaviors among Low-income Households,” which was published in Appetite on April 12, 2022.
Gentry Wilkerson, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, is among the authors of “Length of Stay and Hospital Cost Reductions After Implementing Bedside Percutaneous Ultrasound Gastrostomy (PUG) in a Critical Care Unit,” which appeared in the Journal of Intensive Care Medicine on April 27, 2022. The retrospective cohort study demonstrated how bedside percutaneous ultrasound gastrostomy (PUG) leads to a decrease in LOS and total hospital costs in patients with ventilator-dependent respiratory failure. The PUG procedure and associated device (PUMA-G system) was invented by Upper Chesapeake Medical Center emergency physician Steven Tropello, MD, MS, and is sold by a company he started, CoapTech.
Matthew Witek, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, was the first author of “Prospective study of PET/MRI Tumor Response During Chemoradiotherapy for Patients with Low-Risk and Intermediate-Risk P16-Positive Oropharynx Cancer,” which appeared in the American Journal of Clinical Oncology on May 1, 2022.
Su Xu, PhD, Professor, and Rao Gullapalli, PhD, MBA, Professor, both with the Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, were among the co-authors of “Combined Traumatic Brain Injury and Hemorrhagic Shock in Ferrets Leads to Structural, Neurochemical, and Functional Impairments,” which was published in the Journal of Neurotrauma on April 28, 2022. Epub ahead of print.
Paul Yi, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, was the first author of “Comparison of Radiologist versus Natural Language Processing-based Image Annotations for Deep Learning System for Tuberculosis Screening on Chest Radiographs,” which was published in the April 2022 issue of Clinical Imaging. Epub ahead of print.
Yuji Zhang, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, was among the co-authors of “Transcriptome Profiling Reveals that VNPP433-3ß, the Lead Next-generation Galeterone Analog Inhibits Prostate Cancer Stem Cells by Downregulating Epithelial-mesenchymal Transition and Stem Cell Markers,” which was published in Molecular Carcinogenesis on May 5, 2022.