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Joana Carneiro Da Silva, PhD, assistant professor, department of microbiology & immunology and institute for genome sciences, was invited to join the editorial board of the newly-created open access journal launched by Oxford University Press, Database: The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation.
Steven J. Czinn, MD, professor and chair, department of pediatrics, has been invited to serve as a member of the gastrointestinal mucosal pathobiology study section, center for scientific review for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for the term beginning July 1, 2009, and ending June 30, 2013. Invited members are selected to serve on the study section based on demonstrated competence and achievement in their scientific discipline as evidenced by the quality of their research accomplishments. In addition to the member’s scientific research accomplishments, their publication record in scientific journals and other significant scientific activities, achievements and honors are reviewed. Czinn will review grant applications submitted to the NIH, make recommendations on the applications to the appropriate NIH national advisory council or board and survey the status of research in his field of science.
Robert L. Rogers, MD, assistant professor, department of emergency medicine, has been elected as an at-large member of the executive committee of the Academy of Clerkship Directors in Emergency Medicine (CDEM). The CDEM is a national network that provides medical student educators with educational resources and opportunities for faculty development and networking. The election results were announced during the annual meeting of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, held in New Orleans in May.
Mary M. Rodgers, PhD, PT, professor and chair, department of physical therapy & rehabilitation science, has been selected as a Catherine Worthingham Fellow (CWF) of the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA). Rodgers was recognized at the honors and awards celebration during the annual APTA conference in Baltimore in June. The CWF distinction is the highest honor given to members of the APTA. Among other reasons, Rodgers was chosen for her demonstrated advancement of the profession of physical therapy particularly in the domain of research. She is nationally recognized by APTA members and by leaders outside the physical therapy profession in research, education, and practice, and her frequent and sustained efforts to advance the profession through contributions (leadership, influence and achievements) for more than 15 years. There are only 127 fellows on record to date from a current association membership of greater than 72,000.
Lisa M. Shulman, MD, professor, department of neurology, was elected to serve as secretary of the American Academy of Neurology.
Michael E. Winters, MD, FAAEM, FACEP, assistant professor, departments of emergency medicine and medicine, is the recipient of the 2009 national young educator of the year award from the American Academy of Emergency Medicine (AAEM). The award, recognizing outstanding contributions to the AAEM through work on educational programs, was presented to Winters at the academy’s 15th annual scientific assembly in Phoenix in March 2009.
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Kevin Ferentz, MD, associate professor, department of family & community medicine, received a special recognition award from the Maryland Academy of Family Physicians at its annual meeting in June 2009 in Ocean City, Md. The award was in recognition of Ferentz’s steadfast dedication and hard work throughout his 20-plus years of service to the organization in every major capacity of leadership.
Robert J. Habicht, ’04, was recipient of the 2009 Theodore E. Woodward, MD Faculty Prize in Medicine. Habicht is assistant professor of medicine in the division of general internal medicine, and was honored for exemplary teaching and patient care. The endowed award was created through the generosity of the Woodward family, alumni, faculty, and friends after the July 11, 2005, passing of Theodore E. Woodward, ’38. He served on the Maryland faculty from 1948 to 2003 and was chairman of the department of medicine from 1954 to 1981. Woodward is remembered as a superb teacher, master clinician, distinguished scientist, and caring physician.
Olga B. Ioffe, MD, was recipient of the 2009 Harlan I. Firminger, MD Faculty Teaching Prize in Pathology. Ioffe The teaching award was endowed in the department of pathology by Wilson Heefner, ’60, to express gratitude for the high quality of education he received in medical school. It is presented annually for excellence in teaching. In 2009, Ioffe received one of the student council faculty pre-clinical awards for excellence in teaching.
Laura Pimentel, MD, clinical assistant professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, is the recipient of the 2009 Emergency Physician of the Year Award from the Maryland State chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians. The award was presented at the organization’s annual educational conference, held in Baltimore in April 2009.
E. Albert Reece, MD, PhD, MBA, vice president for medical affairs and dean of the medical school, was selected to receive the prestigious Marcus Garvey Universal Negro Improvement, or UNIA, Award for his outstanding and dedicated services to the Baltimore community at-large. Reece will receive the award at the Jamaican association of Maryland’s annual Jamaica Independence Ball, held under the auspices of Anthony Johnson, Jamaican ambassador to the United States.
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Brian Berman, MD, professor, department of family & community medicine, and director, center for integrative medicine, and Lixing Lao, PhD, professor, and Elizabeth Kimbrough, PhD, assistant professor, both also from the department and center, presented “Challenges of Research in Traditional Chinese Medicine Herbs” at the North American Research Conference on Complementary and Integrative Medicine in Minneapolis in May 2009. At this same conference, Kimbrough presented “Bravenet: The First Practice-based Research Network in Integrative Medicine” and “Mindfulness-Based Interventions for Trauma Survivors.”
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Brian J. Browne, MD, professor and chair, department of emergency medicine, was the keynote speaker at the International Emergency Medicine Symposium sponsored by Peking Union Medical College in Beijing, China, in April 2009. His lecture was entitled “Emergency Medicine in the USA: Past, Present and Future.” Y. Veronica Pei MD, MEd, MPH, assistant professor, department of emergency medicine, also an invited lecturer, presenting “The Initial Assessment of a Trauma Patient” and “Focused Assessment with Sonography in Trauma (FAST).”
Kenneth H. Butler, DO, associate professor, department of emergency medicine, and Robert L. Rogers, MD, assistant professor, and Michael E. Winters, MD, assistant professor, and both from the departments of emergency medicine and medicine, were invited speakers at the 2009 International Symposium on Emergency Medicine, sponsored by Sociedad de Emergencias. The conference was held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in May 2009. Butler presented an “Update on RSI Pharmacology” and discussed “Current Strategies in Intubation.” Rogers presented lectures entitled “Severe Hypertension in the ED: Don’t Just Do Something, Stand There!” and “Aortic Dissection: What You Don’t Know Might Kill Your Patient!” and Winters delivered presentations entitled “Critical Care 2008: The Articles You’ve Got to Know” and “Pearls and Pitfalls in Managing the Critically Ill ED Patient.”
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Kevin Chen, PhD, MPH, associate professor, department of family & community medicine and center for integrative medicine, presented “Meditative Therapies for Addiction Treatment: Theory, Research, and Clinical Application” at the North American Research Conference on Complementary and Integrative Medicine in Minneapolis in May 2009.
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Margaret Chesney, PhD, professor, department of medicine, and associate director, center for integrative medicine, presented “Mind-Body Interventions: Is there Power in Positive Thinking?” at the North American Research Conference on Complementary and Integrative Medicine in Minneapolis in May 2009. Also in May, Chesney presented “Medical Psychology Meets Complementary, Alternative and Integrative Medicine: Is there Common Ground?” at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Md.
Delia Chiaramonte, MD, clinical assistant professor, department of family & community medicine and center for integrative medicine, presented “Navigating the Healthcare System Effectively” at the Alzheimers association conference: “Dementia at Midlife” in Baltimore in May 2009.
The following faculty members in the department of diagnostic radiology & nuclear medicine presented reports of their research and led educational reviews at the European Congress of Radiology in Vienna, Austria, in March 2009: Thorsten Fleiter, MD, assistant professor, presented “Real Time CT-guided EP Procedures: Technique, Current Development and Future Perspective,” recognized with a “New Horizons in Radiology” designation by conference attendees. The presentation was co-authored with Timm-Michael Dickfeld, MD, assistant professor, department of medicine, who was a co-author on Fleiter’s presentation entitled “Temperature Monitoring in Ablation Procedures Using Computed Tomography;” Kathirkama Shanmuganathan, MD, professor, conducted a mini course in “Advances in CT and MR Imaging in Major Trauma;” Gregg Zoarski, MD, associate professor, presented “Biomechanics of Vertebroplasty and Kyphoplasty.”
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W. Florian Fricke, PhD, research associate, department of microbiology & immunology and institute for genome sciences, presented “The Increasing Availability of Antimicrobial Resistance Determinants: Implications for Pathogen Evolution and Bio-preparedness” during a plenary session on antimicrobial resistance at the 7th Annual ASM Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases Research Meeting in Baltimore in February 2009.
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Joyce Frye, DO, MBA, MSCE, clinical assistant professor, department of family & community medicine and center for integrative medicine, presented “Homeopathic Medicine: A Safe and Effective Therapeutic Category in Obstetrics?” at the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists in Washington, DC, in May 2009.
Amy Fulton, PhD, professor, department of pathology and program in oncology, was an invited speaker at the World Cancer Congress in Beijing, China, in June, 2009. Fulton presented “The Role of the Cyclooxygenase-2 Pathway in Cancer Metastasis.”
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James S. Gammie, MD, associate professor, Stephen T. Bartlett, MD, Barbara Baur Dunlap Professor of Transplant Surgery and chair, and Bartley P. Griffith, MD, professor, all from the department of surgery, presented “Small-Incision Mitral Valve Repair: Safe, Durable and Approaching Perfection” at the American Surgical Association annual meeting in Indian Wells, Calif., in April 2009. Additionally at the conference, Bartlett and Griffith, along with David G. Neschis, MD, associate professor, William R. Flinn, MD, professor, and Thomas M. Scalea, MD, Francis X. Kelly Professor of Trauma Surgery, all from the department of surgery, presented “Endograft Repair of Traumatic Aortic Injury–A Technique in Evolution.” Michael J. Makley, MD, assistant professor, department of neurology, gave an invited presentation on “Brain Injury and Sleep Disorders” for the U.S. Critical Illness and Injury Trials Group winter meeting in Nashville in February 2009. Additionally, Makley was a course instructor for “Ten Sequelae of Brain Trauma” at the 61st annual American Academy of Neurology Meeting in Seattle in April 2009.
Ivana Gojo, MD, associate professor, department of medicine and program in oncology, gave an invited presentation entitled “Targeted Drugs and Combinations in Acute Leukemias: How Novel is Novel?” during a “Leukemia, Myelodysplasia, and Transplantation Poster Discussion” at the American Society of Clinical Oncology annual meeting in Orlando in May 2009.
Amal Mattu, ’93, associate professor, department of emergency medicine, delivered the keynote address at the Mid-Atlantic regional conference of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine at Christiana Hospital in Newark, Del., in March 2009. The title of his talk was “Becoming the Leader That Others Will Follow: Lessons From the Great Minds Through the Ages.” At the same meeting, Fermin Barrueto, MD, clinical assistant professor, department of emergency medicine, presented a talk entitled “How Does Selection of a Procedural Sedation Agent Affect Quality Measures in a Community Emergency Department?” and Jeff Gerton, MD, and Esti Schabelman, MD, both third-year residents in the department, presented the results of their study “When is a Physician in Triage a Financially Viable Option?” Additionally, Mattu was the keynote speaker at the Continuing Concepts in Pre-Hospital
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Emergency Medicine Conference, held in Suffolk, Va., lecturing on the topics of “Emergencies in the Elderly Patient,” “Modern Management of Cardiogenic Pulmonary Edema,” and “10 Things You Must Consider in the Crashing Patient” as well as the keynote speaker at the 14th annual Emergency Medicine Conference of the British Columbia Medical Association Section of Emergency Medicine where he presented two lectures on advanced electrocardiography (ECG) interpretation. In addition, at the annual emergency medicine update, which is sponsored by North York General Hospital in Toronto, the largest emergency medicine conference in Canada, Mattu was the only U.S. representative out of its 37-member faculty. He conducted two workshops on advanced ECG interpretation and lectured on advanced cardiac cases and the approach to the moribund patient. All three of these conferences were held in April 2009.
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Feyruz Rassool, PhD, associate professor, department of radiology oncology and program in oncology, was an invited speaker at the European Hematology Association stem cell workshop in Cannes-Mandelieu, France, in April 2009. Rassool presented “ROS, DNA Damage and Repair in Leukemic Stem Cells.”
Hervé Tettelin, PhD, associate professor, department of microbiology & immunology and institute for genome sciences, presented “Bacterial Genomics: From Genomes to Pan-genomes and Vaccines” at the Kenya Medical Research Institute in Kilifi, Kenya, in December 2008.
Jon Mark Hirshon, MD, MPH, FACEP, FACPM, associate professor, departments of emergency medicine and epidemiology & preventive medicine, is a contributing author to “The National Report Card on the State of Emergency Medicine,” a state-by-state evaluation of the emergency care environment. Hirshon was a leader of the subgroups that evaluated and managed the data for this massive project, which was sponsored by the American College of Emergency Physicians. Maryland ranked fourth overall among the 50 states, based on assessment of five aspects of emergency medicine: access to care, disaster preparedness, patient safety, public health/injury prevention and medical liability. The report was published in the January issue of Annals of Emergency Medicine.
Richard F. Macko, MD, professor, and Charlene Hafter-Macko, MD, associate professor, both from the department of neurology, Fred Ivey, PhD, assistant professor, department of medicine, Mark William Rogers, PT, PhD, FAPTA, professor, department of physical therapy & rehabilitation science, and Kathleen Michael, RN, PhD, CRRN, assistant professor, department of organizational systems and adult health, University of Maryland School of Nursing, co-authored the textbook Stroke Recovery & Rehabilitation, January 2009, Demos Publishing.
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Bradley E. Alger, PhD, professor, department of physiology, received a five-year, $1,658,295 competing renewal from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke training grant for his training grant entitled “Training Program in Cellular & Integrative Neuroscience.” The grant will provide training funds for six post-doctoral trainee slots.
Meredith Bond, PhD, professor and chair, department of physiology, received a five-year, $1,764,043 competing renewal training grant from the National Heart Lung & Blood Institute for “Training Grant in Cardiac and Vascular Cell Biology.” This renewal contains four pre-doctoral and four post-doctoral training slots.
Manhattan Charurat, PhD, MS, assistant professor, department of medicine and institute of human virology, received a four-year, $2,867,893 grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for his work entitled “Acute HIV Infection and Pregnancy.” Co-investigators and contributors on the grant include William Blattner, MD, professor, Alash’Le Abimiku, PhD, assistant professor, and Jean Carr, PhD, MA, MPH, associate professor, all from the department and institute.
Dhan V. Kalvakolanu, PhD, professor, department of microbiology & immunology and program in oncology, has received a five-year, $1,360,621 competitive renewal R01 grant from the National Cancer Institute for his work entitled “Cytokine Modulated Model Growth Inhibitory Mechanisms.” The grant will focus on the role of GRIM-19, a novel tumor suppressor, in tumor development. Kalvakolanu discovered GRIM-19 in a genetic screen that he has employed to isolate tumor suppressor genes induced by Interferons.
Istvan J. Merchenthaler, MD, PhD, ScD, professor, department of epidemiology & preventive medicine, received a four-year, $1.2 million grant from the National Institute of Aging for his work entitled “Novel Treatment of Menopausal Hot Flashes with an Extradiol Pro-drug.”
Steven D. Munger, PhD, associate professor, department of anatomy & neurobiology, received a five-year, $1.6 million grant from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders for his work entitled “Mechanisms of Alimentary Chemosensation.”
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Dave Pauza, PhD, professor, department of medicine, and assistant director, institute of human virology, received a four-year, $1,238,776 grant from the National Cancer Institute for his work entitled “Mechanisms for Depleting Tumor Immunity in AIDS.” Co-investigators and contributors on the grant include Cristiana Cairo, PhD, research associate, department of medicine and institute of human virology, and Andrei Chapoval, PhD, assistant professor, department of otorhinolaryngology-head and neck surgery and program in oncology.
Matthew C. Trudeau, PhD, assistant professor, department of physiology, received a five-year, $1,875,000 research grant from the National Heart, Lung & Blood Institute for his work entitled “Molecular Physiology of HERG (KCNH2) Potassium Channels.”
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