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Robert Edelman, MD, FACP, professor, departments of medicine and pediatrics, was selected for membership to the World Health Organization Advisory Committee on Dengue and Other Flavivirus Vaccines, for a five-year term.
 John A. Kastor, MD |
John A. Kastor, MD, professor, department of medicine, has been appointed as a member of the editorial board of The Pharos, the quarterly journal of the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society.
Mandeep Mehra, MBBS, FACC, FACP, the Dr. Herbert Berger Professor of Medicine, and assistant dean for clinical affairs, was appointed as a core member of the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) Test Committee. The ABIM focuses on the new subspecialty of advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology and will develop the national ABIM board certification exams.
 Michael T. Shipley, PhD |
Michael T. Shipley, PhD, Donald E. Wilson Distinguished Professor and chair, department of anatomy & neurobiology, is chair-elect to the section on neurosciences of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences. Shipley will be chair-elect in 2010 and chair in 2011.
 Alan R. Shuldiner, MD |
Alan R. Shuldiner, MD, professor, department of medicine, was appointed to the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases Clinical Obesity Research Panel. Shuldiner delivered a lecture at a meeting the research panel held in Bethesda, Md., in February.
 Sanford A. Stass, MD |
Sanford A. Stass, MD, professor and chair, department of pathology, and interim chair, department of medical & research technology, was appointed to the editorial board of Cancer Biomarkers.
 Christine Wells, PT, PhD |
Christine Wells, PT, PhD, assistant professor, department of physical therapy & rehabilitation science, was elected vice president of the cardiovascular and pulmonary section at the American Physical Therapy Association Combined Sections Meeting in Las Vegas in February.
 Stephen Bartlett, MD |
Stephen Bartlett, MD, professor and chair, department of surgery, was recipient of a 2009 University System of Maryland (USM) Regents’ Faculty Award for Excellence in Public Service by the USM Board of Regents. This award is the highest honor the regents bestow in recognition of exemplary faculty achievement. Each year, up to 15 awards in five categories are presented. Bartlett’s selection is a reflection of his outstanding accomplishments.
Daniel Farber, MD, assistant professor, department of orthopaedics, is a recipient of the American Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Society (AOFAS) Traveling Fellowship Award. The AOFAS Traveling Fellowship Awards Program is open to active members, associate members, candidate members and international members who are age 45 years or younger. Five members are chosen annually to travel and visit leaders in foot and ankle education and research. A goal of the Traveling Fellowship Awards Program is to spur new thinking about orthopaedic foot and ankle care and research. Traveling fellows are required to present a summary of their findings at the AOFAS annual summer meeting and also through an article in an AOFAS publication. Farber will travel to learning centers in the Northwest United States and Canada, where he will interact with AOFAS surgeons. As a fellow, he will observe surgery, attend clinics, give presentations and participate in a surgical planning conference and cadaver workshop.
 Robert C. Gallo, MD |
Robert C. Gallo, MD, professor, department of medicine, and director of the institute of human virology, was one of three recipients of the annual $1 million Dan David Prize. The 2009 Dan David Prize laureates are categorized in “past, present and future time dimensions.” Gallo was honored in the “future” category, in the field of global public health, not only for his research of the HIV and T cell leukemia viruses, but especially for the development of a robust, simple blood test to detect the HIV virus, the importance of which cannot be overestimated for the epidemiology of this huge pandemic. The Dan David Prize is named after international businessman and philanthropist Dan David and is headquartered at Tel Aviv University. The laureates, who donate 10 percent of their prize money towards 20 doctoral and post-doctoral scholarships, were honored at a ceremony at Tel Aviv University in May in the presence of Israeli president Shimon Peres.
E. Tonas Kalil, PT, MGA, RT, instructor and academic coordinator of clinical education, department of physical therapy & rehabilitation science, was presented with the Barbara Knothe Burn Therapist Achievement Award at the American Burn Association Annual Meeting in March 2009. This yearly award recognizes the outstanding performance of occupational therapists/assistants or physical therapists/assistants and his/her dedication, service and contribution to the realm of burn care and rehabilitation. Kalil is co-founder of the Mid-Atlantic Burn Camp, which provides programs for burn-injured youths and their families, and also serves as a consultant for the International Association of Fire Fighters, assisting in the organization of programs for young burn survivors. Kalil was also a finalist in The Daily Record 2009 Health Care Heroes Awards, which were presented in March.
Mingkai Li, MD, PhD, postdoctoral fellow, department of surgery, won second prize in the laboratory research category of the 2009 American Urological Association (AUA)/Gyrus Prize Essay Contest. Li presented his abstract during a moderated poster session at the American Urological Association Annual Meeting in Chicago in April. The Gyrus Essay Prize contest encourages urologists and residents in training to share their learning with fellow urologists. Additionally, Li won honorable mention in the 2009 Annual Jack Lapides Essay Contest on Urodynamics and Neurourology Research. Awardees of this contest are invited to an awards dinner in conjunction with the AUA annual meeting. The project that won both awards is entitled “Augmented Polyamine Signaling Blocks the Large Conductance Calcium Activated Potassium (BK) Channel in Bladder Urothelial Cells from Patients with Overactive Bladder Syndrome.” Li conducted his research for this work in the laboratory of and under the supervision of Toby Chai, MD, professor, department of surgery. Yan Sun, PhD, instructor, and Jian-Ying Wang, MD, PhD, professor, both from the department of surgery, and J. Marc Simard, MD, PhD, department of neurosurgery, also contributed to this research.
Nabile Safdar, MD, assistant professor, department of diagnostic radiology & nuclear medicine, has been awarded the Leonard Berlin Scholarship in Medical Professionalism from the American Roentgen Ray Society for 2009 to 2011. The scholarship is intended to support study and research related to medical ethics, medicolegal principles, patient accountability, sensitivity to patient diversity and/or other topics encompassing medical professionalism and carries a funding commitment of $100,000. In addition to completing his master’s degree in public health at the medical school, Safdar plans to conduct a nationwide survey of IRB practice related to imaging research issues.
 Maureen Black, MD |
Maureen Black, PhD, professor, department of pediatrics, was invited by the Ecuador Ministry of Planning and Development to consult with them on their national early child development programs workshop, held in January. As part of the consultation, and as part of the workshop, Black presented “Socioeconomic and Cultural Environment for Child Development.”
 Y. Christy Chang, PhD |
Y. Christy Chang, PhD, assistant professor, department of medicine, delivered a platform presentation entitled “Common Variants in STK39 Are Associated with Blood Pressure Levels” at the 58th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics in Philadelphia.
 Howard Dubowitz, MB, ChB, MS |
Howard Dubowitz, MB, ChB, MS, professor, department of pediatrics, was an invited speaker on “Child Neglect and the Prevention of Child Maltreatment” at the 3rd Arab Regional Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in March.
Richard P. Dutton, MD, MBA, associate professor, department of anesthesiology and programs in trauma and neuroscience, was one of two invited keynote speakers at the 5th Annual Auckland City Symposium in Auckland, New Zealand. The symposium topic focused on trauma and resuscitation. Dutton presented “Emergency Airway Management” and “Hemostatic Resuscitation from Hemorrhagic Shock” and participated in a case discussion panel.
 Robert Edelman, MD, FACP |
Robert Edelman, MD, FACP, professor, departments of medicine and pediatrics, organized and chaired a symposium entitled “Status of Phase 1 and Phase 2 Clinical Trials of Dengue Vaccines” at the 57th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in New Orleans in December 2008.
Samer El-Kamary, MB, ChB, MPH, assistant professor, departments of epidemiology & preventive medicine and pediatrics, gave an invited talk entitled “Viral Hepatitis in Egypt” during a symposium entitled “Viral Hepatitis in Africa” and held in conjunction with the 13th International Symposium on Viral Hepatitis and Liver Disease in Washington, DC, in March. Additionally, El-Kamary presented a poster entitled “Clearance of Hepatitis C Viremia in Children Born to, and Living with, HCV-infected Mothers is Associated with Long-lasting HCV-specific Cell Mediated Immune Responses.”
 Alessio Fasano, MD |
Alessio Fasano, MD, professor, department of pediatrics, medicine and physiology, and director, center for celiac research, presented “Physiology of Gut Permeability” at the 19th Annual Course in Pediatric Gastroenterology & Endoscopy, held at the Royal Free Hospital in London in January.
Claire M. Fraser-Liggett, PhD, professor, departments of medicine and microbiology & immunology, and director, institute for genome sciences, was a keynote speaker at the 50th Annual Meeting of the National Council of University Research Administrators in Washington, DC, in November 2008. The title of her presentation was “Through the Genomics Microscope: A New View of the Microbial World.”
Ziv Haskal, MD, professor, department of diagnostic radiology & nuclear medicine, sat on the program committee of the Global Embolization Symposium and Technologies (GEST) meeting, held in Paris in April. Also a member of the advisory board, Haskal presented “Coils and Plugs” and “Radioembolization Particles and Gel Foam” and “Embolization of Varices: Better, Stronger, Harder, Fast” and chaired a session entitled “Venous Insufficiency: Embolization and Ablation.” Haskal is a founder of GEST, the world’s largest multinational scientific meeting on embolotherapy.
 James B. Kaper, PhD |
James B. Kaper, PhD, professor and chair, department of microbiology & immunology, delivered a keynote address as a representative of the American Society for Microbiology, entitled “In vivo Gene Expression and TLR5 Activation by Vibrio Cholerae” to the Association of Microbiologists of India in Delhi in November 2008. While in India, he traveled to the city of Kolkata (Calcutta) to present a similar lecture at the National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases. Kaper also delivered a November lecture at Georgetown University School of Medicine on “Vibrio cholerae and Cholera.”
Dean L. Mann, MD, professor, department of pathology and program in oncology, gave an invited lecture at the International Symposium on Cancer Immunotherapy and Cancer Vaccines in Algiers, Algeria, in February. Mann’s lecture was entitled “Combining Standard Cancer Treatment Modalities with Immunotherapy to Treat Advanced Malignancies.”
 Andrew F. Neuwald, PhD |
Andrew F. Neuwald, PhD, professor, department of biochemistry & molecular biology and institute for genome sciences, presented “The CHAIN Program: Forging Evolutionary Links to Underlying Mechanisms” at the 27th Leeds Annual Statistical Research Workshop in Leeds, England, in July 2008. In October 2008, Neuwald presented “The Charge-dipole Pocket: An Ancient Ras-like GTPase Component Associated with Switch II Restructuring” at the Center for Bioinformatics, University of Kansas, in Lawrence during a seminar held by the Kansas State University Department of Biochemistry.
Ligia Peralta, MD, associate professor, department of pediatrics, was the invited speaker at the annual Middle East Pediatrics 2009 Conference in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), in January 2009. It was the first time the conference agenda included an adolescent health specialist. Peralta was asked to provide input to their national HIV agenda. In addition to outlining important vaccines for adolescents, Peralta presented a history of HIV treatment and prevention over the last 25 years. Her visit to Dubai marks the beginning of the UAE Ministry of Health’s recent public commitment to develop a new plan for HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment. During this trip Peralta was honored with a visiting professorship at Rashid Hospital in Dubai.
 Thomas M. Scalea, MD |
Thomas M. Scalea, MD, Francis X. Kelly Professor of Trauma Surgery, and director, program in trauma, presented “Recombinant Activated Factor VII: Is It Efficacious?” at the Society of Critical Care Medicine 38th Critical Care Congress in Nashville in February.
Amy Sisley, MD, MPH, assistant professor, department of surgery and program in rrauma, presented “Ultrasound Imaging of the Thorax and Vessels” and “Ultrasound-Guided Thoracentesis” at the Society of Critical Care Medicine 38th Critical Care Congress in Nashville in February.
 Soren Snitker, MD, PhD |
Soren Snitker, MD, PhD, assistant professor, department of medicine, served as the invited chair of a session entitled “Lessons from the Gila River Indian Community” at the annual meeting of the Obesity Society in Phoenix in October 2008.
Richard Y. Zhao, PhD, associate professor, departments of pathology and microbiology & immunology and institute of human virology, co-chaired a session entitled “Diagnostics and Small Molecule Therapies” during the inaugural Pearl River International Biopharmaceutical Forum and 14th Annual Conference of Chinese Biopharmaceutical Association in Guangzhou, China, in June. In July, Zhao presented “Fission Yeast as a High-throughput System for Drug Screening” at the GTCbio’s 3rd Annual Rediscovering Biomarkers Conference, held in San Diego.
Robert Edelman, MD, FACP, professor, departments of medicine and pediatrics, authored a 43-page document with input from an international working group, published by the World Health Organization Initiative for Vaccine Research. Entitled Guidelines for the Clinical Evaluation of Dengue Vaccines in Endemic Areas” the piece is addressed to national and regulatory authorities in more than 100 dengue-endemic countries interested in using vaccines to control the disease.
Robert L. Rogers, MD, assistant professor, departments of emergency medicine and medicine, is the chief editor of Practical Teaching in Emergency Medicine, an 18-chapter book published by Wiley-Blackwell in January. Associate editors include Amal Mattu, ’93, associate professor, department of emergency medicine, Michael E. Winters, MD, assistant professor, departments of emergency medicine and medicine, and Joseph P. Martinez, ’98, assistant professor, departments of emergency medicine and medicine, and assistant dean for student affairs. Mercedes Torres, MD, clinical instructor, and Siamak Moayedi, MD, assistant professor, both in the department of emergency medicine, contributed to a chapter on teaching procedures.
 Vishvanath Nene, PhD |
Vishvanath Nene, PhD, professor, department of microbiology & immunology, and associate director, institute for genome sciences, co-edited Genome Mapping and Genomics in Animal-Associated Microbes, published by Springer-Verlag.
 Mordecai P. Blaustein, MD |
Mordecai P. Blaustein, MD, professor, department of physiology, received a four-year $1.9 million competing renewal from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute for his work entitled “Calcium and Sodium Transport in Hypertension.”
Reha Erzurumlu, PhD, professor, department of anatomy & neurobiology, received a five-year $1,640,625 RO1 competing renewal grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke for his work entitled “Somatosensory Cortical Development and Plasticity.”
Myron Levine, MD, professor, department of medicine, and director, center for vaccine development, received a five-year $43 million renewal of his National Institutes of Health Middle Atlantic Regional Center of Excellence in Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases (MARCE) grant. The MARCE consortium supports approximately 40 investigators from 14 research institutions. It fosters research that contributes to the defense of the United States of America against biological threats, including the deliberate release of bioterror agents and the natural emergence or re-emergence of infectious diseases.
Jennifer Wortman, MS, assistant professor, department of medicine and institute for genome sciences, received a five-year $1.35 million grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for her work on Aspergillus genomics and molecular biology. The title of her grant is “Aspergillus Genome Database,” and its primary goal is to improve predicted gene models across all Aspergillus genomes, incorporating available data resources and leveraging comparative genomics analysis.
*Grants & Contracts of $1 million and above
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