Curtis Adams, MD, assistant professor, and Ann Hackman, MD, associate professor, both from the department of psychiatry, co-chaired a workshop entitled “Assertive Community Treatment Teams (ACT): The Opening Night and the Extended Engagement” at the American Psychiatric Association 60th Institute on Psychiatric Services in Chicago in October 2008. Additionally, at the same conference, Adams and Hackman participated in a workshop entitled “Supporting People with Severe and Chronic Mental Illness in an ACT Team Who Have Been Diagnosed with Terminal Illness,” which was chaired by

Maureen Black, PhD

Theodora Balis, MD, assistant professor, department of psychiatry.

Maureen Black, PhD, John A. Scholl, MD & Mary Louise Scholl, MD Professor of Pediatrics, gave an invited lecture at Wageningen University in Holland in October 2008. Her lecture was entitled “Child Development: A Neglected Factor in Maternal and Child Undernutrition.”

Howard Dubowitz, MB, ChB

Howard Dubowitz, MB, ChB, professor, department of pediatrics, was an invited speaker, presenting “The Health Professional’s Role in Child Maltreatment” at a series of workshops at Fudan University in Shanghai, China, and presented “Child Maltreatment: A Curriculum for Physicians” at the 17th International Congress on Child Abuse and Neglect in Hong Kong, both in September 2008.

Joyce Frye, DO, MBA

Joyce Frye, DO, MBA, clinical assistant professor, department of family & community medicine and center for integrative medicine, presented the following lectures in May 2008: “Comparing Use of Homeopathy with a Practitioner and Use as Self-care in the 2002 National Health Interview Survey” at Liga Medicorum Homeopathica Internationalis, in Ostende, Belgium; “CAM in the Peri-operative Period: What to Use and What to Avoid” at the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists annual clinical meeting in New Orleans; and “Healing the Body Through Holistic Medicine” at a conference entitled “Celebrating the Journey: Mid-Life Health Care for Women,” which was sponsored by the Hippodrome Foundation, Inc., and the University of Maryland Medical Center and held at the Hippodrome Theatre in Baltimore.

Bruce D. Greenwald, ’87, associate professor, department of medicine, presented “New Technologies for Ablating Barrett’s Esophagus” at the American College of Surgeons 94th Annual Clinical Congress in San Francisco, in October 2008.

Lixing Lao, PhD

Lixing Lao, PhD, professor, department of family & community medicine, and director of traditional Chinese medicine, center for integrative medicine, presented the following lectures in May 2008: “Promoting Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) in the United States and the Western World: Challenges and Strategies” at the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Beijing, China; “TCM Clinical Research and Acceptance in USA: Challenges and Difficulties” at Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Guangzhou; and “Clinical Efficacy of Acupuncture: Challenges and Methodology” at a National Institute on Drug Abuse workshop, in conjunction with its center for clinical trials network and division of clinical neuroscience and behavioral research, in Bethesda, Md.

Nancy Ryan Lowitt MD, EdM, FACP, associate dean, professional development, and assistant professor, department of medicine, developed and moderated a focus session entitled “Faculty Development, Models and Experience for New Schools and New Campuses, New Curricula” for the Association of American Medical Colleges annual meeting in San Antonio in November 2008.

Michael J. Makley, MD, assistant professor, department of neurology, gave an invited platform presentation at the inaugural meeting of the National Institutes of Health US Critical Illness and Injury Trials Group in Bethesda, Md., in November 2008. Makley’s presentation was entitled “Sleep, Memory and Behavior after Moderate to Severe Brain Injury: Developing a Paradigm for Treatment Trials.”

Stuart S. Martin, PhD

Stuart S. Martin, PhD, assistant professor, department of physiology and program in oncology, presented a lecture, “Metastasis-associated Microtentacles Are Induced in Detached and Circulating Breast Tumor Cells by Expression of the Microtubule-binding Protein, Tau” at the December 2008 American Association for Cancer Research San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium. Martin’s talk was presented to the joint session of this national cancer meeting, which had nearly 9,000 attendees with expertise ranging from basic cell biology to the clinical treatment of breast cancer. The presented work on Tau was led by Michael Matrone, a PhD student in Martin’s lab who is studying in the molecular and cellular physiology track in the program in molecular medicine.

Amal Mattu, ’93

Amal Mattu, ’93, associate professor, department of emergency medicine, was the keynote speaker at the Jamaica Emergency Medicine Association annual conference in Kingston, Jamaica, in June 2008. The title of his talk was “Best Cardiology Articles of the Past Year.” In addition, Mattu, along with Robert L. Rogers, MD, assistant professor, department of emergency medicine, conducted faculty development workshops for academic emergency physicians in The Netherlands in September 2008. The workshops are part of a new administrative/faculty development fellowship at Erasmus University in Rotterdam. The fellowship is coordinated by Terry Mulligan, MD, volunteer assistant professor, department of emergency medicine. Rogers and Mattu focused their sessions on teaching and leadership skills, precepting a medical student rotation and directing an emergency medicine residency.

John McLenithan, PhD, assistant professor, department of medicine, presented a symposium talk entitled “Omentin in Human Obesity” at the Obesity Society annual scientific meeting in Phoenix in October 2008.

Laurence S. Magder, PhD, MPH

Ayse L. Mindikoglu, MD, MPH, assistant professor, department of medicine, presented an abstract entitled “Outcome of Liver Transplantation for Drug-Induced Acute Liver Failure in the United States: Analysis of the United Network for Organ Sharing Database” at The Liver Meeting® 2008, sponsored by the 59th Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases in San Francisco in November 2008. Laurence S. Magder, PhD, MPH, associate professor, department of epidemiology & preventive medicine, is the co-investigator and co-author on this project.

Kevin D. Pereira, MD, MS

Kevin D. Pereira, MD, MS, professor, departments of otorhinolaryngology-head and neck surgery and pediatrics, presented “Pediatric Piriform Sinus Tracts: A Ten-year Experience” at the 49th meeting of the Irish Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Society in Enniskillen, N. Ireland, in October 2008. Also in October 2008, Pereira was a visiting professor for the first postgraduate course in pediatric otolaryngology organized by the specialist training program in otolaryngology in Craigavon, N. Ireland. His lectures were entitled “Pediatric Otolaryngology training in the U.S. An Overview,” “Branchial Anomalies: An Update,” and “Pediatric Subglottic Stenosis.”

William F. Regine, MD

William F. Regine, MD, Isadore and Fannie Schneider Foxman Chair in Radiation Oncology, was the invited speaker at the Fourth Annual Oncology Congress in San Francisco in September 2008. Regine’s presentation was entitled “Novel Radiation Approaches in the Treatment of Pancreas Cancer.”

Carl A. Soderstrom, MD, adjunct professor, department of surgery, presented “Pearls from Experts: Screening & Brief Intervention for Alcohol Use at Trauma Centers—Translating Science into Clinical Practice” at the 22nd annual scientific assembly of the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma in Orlando in January 2009.

Shannon Takala, PhD

Shannon Takala, PhD, assistant professor, department of medicine and center for vaccine development, gave an invited talk in a symposium entitled “Artemisinin Resistance Confirmation, Characterization and Containment in Southeast Asia” at the 57th annual meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in New Orleans in December 2008. Takala’s

Christopher Plowe, MD, MPH

colleague, Christopher Plowe, MD, MPH, professor, department of medicine, and chief, center for vaccine development malaria section, chaired the symposium. Additionally, Plowe gave an invited talk in another symposium entitled “Global Strategies for Using Antimalarial Drugs: Making the Most of a Precious Resource.”

Larry D. Weiss, MD, JD, FAAEM, professor, department of emergency medicine, presented two lectures at the biennial European Society of Emergency Medicine meeting in Munich, Germany, in September 2008. His lectures were entitled “Consent at the End of Life: A Comparative Analysis of the Laws of Germany, Maryland and New York” and “Rapid Evaluation and Risk Stratification of Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome.” He also presented the opening address and served as a session moderator for “Acute Coronary Syndrome in the Observation Unit and Acute Medicine Unit” at Urgenza VI Congresso Nazionale, organized by the Società Italiana di Medicina d’Emergenza and held in Rimini, Italy, in November 2008. In addition, Weiss presented “Deposition Testimony” and “Physician Advocacy” at the Caribbean Emergency Medicine Congress in Bridgetown, Barbados, in January 2009.

Paul A. Welling, MD

Paul A. Welling, MD, professor, department of physiology, was an invited symposium speaker, presenting “How Potassium Channels Find Their Way in Membrane Traffic” at the 9th Colloque Canax Ionique in Presquile de Gien, France, in October 2008. Additionally, Welling presented “Golgi Arrest in Inherited Potassium Channelopathies” at the American Society of Nephrology Advances in Research Conference—Human Disorders of Protein Processing: Mechanisms, Consequences and Therapeutic Implications in Philadelphia in November 2008.

Richard Y. Zhao, PhD

Richard Y. Zhao, PhD, associate professor, department of pathology, chaired a session at the 10th Shanghai International BioForum on Biotechnology & Pharmaceutical Industry in Shanghai, China, in May 2008. Zhao also presented “Single Molecule Detection for Molecular Diagnostics and Individualized Testing” at the Discovery2Diagnostics (D2D) Conference organized by the IBC Life Sciences, in San Diego in October 2008. In addition, he was invited to give a plenary lecture on “Schizosaccharomyces pombe as a Model Organism for Apoptosis-induced HIV-1 Viral Protein R” at the 6th International Conference on Yeast Apoptosis, to be held in Leuven, Belgium, in June 2009

Amal Mattu, ’93, associate professor, department of emergency medicine, is the senior associate editor of and chapter contributor to Emergency Medicine: A Focused Review of the Core Curriculum, a board review book published by the American Academy of Emergency Medicine. Chapters were contributed by Robert L. Rogers, MD, assistant professor and director of undergraduate medical education, department of emergency medicine, who is also one of the book’s associate editors; Joseph P. Martinez, ’98, assistant professor, department of emergency medicine, and assistant dean for student affairs, and Michael E. Winters, MD, assistant professor, departments of emergency medicine and medicine. The 22-chapter book was copyedited by Linda J. Kesselring, MS, ELS, the technical editor/writer in the department of emergency medicine.

Stephen M. Schenkel, MD, MPP, assistant professor, department of emergency medicine, is a co-editor of and chapter contributor to Patient Safety in Emergency Medicine, a 56-chapter book recently published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. Other faculty members who contributed chapters are Kendall Hall, MD, assistant professor, department of emergency medicine and Program in Trauma, Peter Hu, MS, CNE, assistant professor, and Yan Xiao, PhD, associate professor, both from the department of anesthesiology and program in trauma, Colin F. Mackenzie, MB, ChB, FRCA, professor, department of anesthesiology, F. Jacob Seagull, PhD, assistant professor, departments of surgery and anesthesiology, and Joseph Twanmoh, MD, assistant professor, Larry Weiss, MD, professor, and Laura Pimentel, MD, assistant professor, all from the department of emergency medicine.

Maureen Black, PhD, John A. Scholl, MD & Mary Louise Scholl, MD Professor of Pediatrics, received a five-year $2.9 million National Institute of Child Health and Human Development R01 grant for her work entitled “Challenge in Schools: Adolescent Overweight Prevention.”

William A. Blattner, MD, professor, department of medicine, and associate director, institute of human virology, Robert R. Redfield, MD, professor, department of medicine, and associate director, institute of human virology, and Charles E. Davis, Jr., MD, associate professor, department of medicine, and clinical research unit director, institute of human virology, received a seven-year $5.7 million grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for their work entitled “Institute of Human Virology Clinical Trials Unit.”

Myron Levine, MD, professor, department of medicine, and director, center for vaccine development, was awarded a two-year $2.1 million contract from the Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH) and PATH Vaccine Solutions, to conduct a clinical trial entitled “Safety, Immunogenicity and Efficacy following Experimental Challenge of CVD 1208S, a guaBA, sen, set Shigella Flexneri 2a Live Oral Vaccine.” The overall mission of PATH is to improve the health of people around the world.

Braxton Mitchell, PhD, MPH

Braxton Mitchell, PhD, MPH, professor, department of medicine, received a two-year, $1 million award from the National Human Genome Research Institute entitled “Genetic Risk to Stroke in Smokers and Nonsmokers in Two Ethnic Groups.” Key co-collaborators on this grant include Steven Kittner, MD, professor, department of neurology, and Jeffery O’Connell, PhD, assistant professor, department of medicine.

Thomas Pallone, MD, professor, department of medicine, was awarded $1.8 million for years 20 through 24 of his National Institutes of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases MERIT Award. The title of Pallone’s project is “Microvascular Transport in the Renal Medulla.”

Alice Ryan, PhD, professor, department of medicine, and Charlene Hafer-Macko, MD, associate professor, department of neurology, received a five-year $2.5 million R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health for their work entitled “Aging, Inflammation and Exercise in Chronic Stroke.” Ryan and Hafer-Macko are investigators in the Gerontology Research, Education and Clinical Center, a part of the department of medicine’s division of gerontology.

*Grants & Contracts of $1 million and above