News from the Executive Vice Chancellor’s Office
News from the School of Medicine-Kansas City and Wichita
News from the School of Medicine-Kansas City
News from the School of Medicine-Wichita
News from the School of Nursing
News from the Executive Vice Chancellor’s Office
Herbert Swick, MD, will be honored for his service as interim executive dean of the School of Medicine with a symposium, "Illness and Creativity in the Arts," from 2 to 5 p.m. June 6 in the Clendening Amphitheater. Five lectures will be featured throughout the day. At 2:10 p.m. Martha Montello, PhD, instructor of medical ethics at Harvard Medical School, Boston, will present "A Rage for Order: Illness, Creativity and the Artistic Temperament." (Montello will join the history and philosophy of medicine department Aug. 1 as an assistant professor.) At 2:35 p.m. Donald Goodwin, MD, professor emeritus of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, will discuss "Alcohol, Depression and American Nobel Laureates in Literature." At 3 p.m. Frederick Whitehead, PhD, teaching associate of family medicine and director of the preceptorship program, will present "William Blake and the Insanity Question." At 3:40 p.m. Wilfred Arnold, PhD, professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, will discuss "Vincent van Gogh: Chemicals, Crises and Creativity." At 4:05 p.m. Robert Hudson, MD, professor emeritus of the history and philosophy of medicine, will discuss "Hitler, Nietzsche and Syphilis." Swick will then give closing remarks, which will be followed by several award presentations. There will be a reception at 5:30 p.m. in the Clendening Library Foyer.
News from the School of Medicine-Kansas City and Wichita
Jasjit Ahluwalia, MD, MPH, assistant professor of general internal medicine and health policy management at Emory University, Atlanta, has been named vice chair of preventive medicine. He will take his post at the Kansas City campus July 1. He will also be the director of research and an associate professor of preventive medicine and internal medicine at KU Medical Center. He is a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation generalist physicians faculty scholar, which allows him to pursue excellence in clinical medicine and teaching and to carry out a proposed project on smoking cessation in public housing developments. He earned his bachelor’s degree in biochemistry Phi Beta Kappa and cum laude in 1983 from New York University. He earned his medical degree and master’s in public health in 1987 from Tulane University, New Orleans. After an internal medicine residency at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, he was a fellow at Harvard Medical School, Boston. During that time he earned a master’s degree in health policy and management at the Harvard School of Public Health. In 1992, he joined Emory University. He currently holds a $1.5 million, four-year National Cancer Institute grant to study optimal behavioral therapy for black smokers and a three-year American Cancer Society Cancer Control Career Development Award. He is a fellow of the American College of Preventive Medicine, American College of Physicians and International Society on Hypertension in Blacks.
News from the School of Medicine-Kansas City
Obstetrics and gynecology will sponsor its annual Resident Day and Kermit E. Krantz Society Meeting from 8 a.m. to 2:40 p.m. June 6 in Wahl East Auditorium. The program is supported by an educational grant from Wyeth-Ayerst. For more information, call continuing education, ext. 4488.
H. Clarke Anderson, MD, professor of pathology and laboratory medicine, presented "The Bone Inducing Agent in Saos-2 Cell Products" during the May 12-15 Biology of Skeletal Tissues Symposium in Chicago.
News from the School of Medicine-Wichita
Harry Hynes, MD, professor of internal medicine, was elected to the board of directors of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. Hynes, who is also president of the Kansas Society of Clinical Oncology, will serve a three-year term.
News from the School of Nursing
Julie Koehler, RN, PhD, interim director of home care at Egleston Children's Hospital, Atlanta, will present "Individual vs. Group Think in Organizational Research" from 9:30 to 10:15 a.m. June 3 in 1025 Orr-Major. A reception in 1025 Orr-Major will follow the presentation.
Phoebe Dauz Williams, RN, PhD, FAAN, professor, presented "Outcomes of a Nursing Intervention on Siblings of Children With Chronic Illness" at the May 15 Research Day Conference at Children’s Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, Mo. The paper’s authors are: Williams; Sandra Hanson, RN, MEd, assistant professor; Robyn Karlin-Setter, MSN, CNS, nursing services; Lavonne Ridder, MA, MN, CNS, pediatric oncology; Adrienne Liebergen, MN, ARNP, CNS, Cystic Fibrosis Clinic; Joyce Olson, RN, MN, CNS, formerly with the Spina Bifida Clinic; Martha Barnard, RN, PhD, clinical associate professor of pediatrics; and Susan Tobin-Rummelhart, MA, PNP, CPON, CNS, formerly with pediatric oncology. Also, the abstract from Dauz Williams’ research presentation, "A Therapy-Related Symptoms Checklist (TRSC) for Oncology Patients: Instrument Development" (See May 19, 1997, Faculty Report.) was published in the 1997 Oncology Nursing Forum, 24(2), 301.
News from KU Hospital
The Rev. Jerry Spencer, staff chaplain, has earned national certification as a bereavement facilitator through the American Academy of Bereavement. He also participated in the 46th International Eucharistic Congress May 22 to June 1 in Wroclaw, Poland, and from June 2-5, he will meet with officials of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre at the organization's headquarters in Rome.
The Rev. Jennie Malewski, staff chaplain, presented "Prayer With the Dying and Their Loved Ones of Western Faith Traditions" at the 15th annual Bereavement Conference May 14 in London, Ontario. She also recently presented "Stress of a Patient’s Hospitalization for Family Members" to the Stephens Ministry Training Group of Old Mission United Methodist Church, Mission.
News from the Center on Aging
Randolph Nudo, PhD, a neurobiologist at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center, Houston, has joined KU Medical Center as associate director of research at the Center on Aging and an associate professor of molecular and integrative physiology. At KU Medical Center he will continue his research in motor recovery from stroke in adult primates. He earned a master’s degree in 1980 and doctorate in psychobiology in 1985 at Florida State University, Tallahassee. After a National Institutes of Health postdoctoral fellowship in physiology and otolaryngology at the University California at San Francisco, he joined the faculty at UT-Houston in 1988. In 1990, he received an NIH FIRST (First Independent Research Support and Transition) Award for "Use-Dependent Alterations of Motor Cortex in Primates." He holds several grants, including a five-year, $1 million NIH grant to study brain injury recovery, which he received last fall. In 1993, the American Heart Association National awarded him a five-year Established Investigatorship Award. In 1994 and 1995, he received the Dean’s Teaching Excellence Award from first-year medical students at UT-Houston. An article, "Neural Substrate for the Effects of Rehabilitation on Motor Recovery" by Nudo and two of his medical students was published last year in Science. More recently, the research of Nudo and his colleagues was featured as one of the "Top 100 Science Stories of 1996" in the January 1997 issue of Discover. Nudo will be joined this month by two postdoctoral students, Scott Barbay, PhD, and Jeffrey Kleim, PhD, and two graduate students, Erik Plautz and Kathleen Friel. Nudo recently gave several presentations. He presented "Functional Reorganization in Motor Cortex: Implications for Stroke Rehabilitation" at McGill University's Montreal Neurological Institute May 8; "Adaptive Plasticity in Motor Cortex of Primates" at Emory University, Atlanta, May 22; and "Adaptive Plasticity in Motor Cortex: Implications for Stroke Rehabilitation" at the annual meeting of the American Physical Therapy Association in San Diego June 1.
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