News from the School of Medicine-Kansas City and Wichita
News from the School of Medicine-Kansas City
News from the School of Medicine-Kansas City (cont.)
News from the School of Nursing
News from the Kansas Cancer Institute
News from the Center for Reproductive Sciences
News from the School of Medicine-Kansas City and Wichita
As part of new student orientation, the School of Medicine will host an opening session for faculty and first-year medical students Aug. 5. There will be a light reception from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. in the Francisco Lounge. The reception will be followed by the opening program, which will be conducted by Executive Dean Deborah Powell, MD, from 10:30 to 11:15 a.m. in Battenfeld Auditorium.
News from the School of Medicine-Kansas City
Caroline Kim, MD, joined the department of pediatrics as an assistant professor July 2. She earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology from Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill., where she was named a National Merit Scholar and received an Indiana University Honors Program Scholarship. She was a cytogenetics laboratory technician in 1986 and 1987. She earned her medical degree in 1992 from Indiana University, Indianapolis. During that time she worked in the emergency department at Henry County Memorial Hospital, New Castle, Ind. She was an internal medicine and pediatrics resident at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, where in 1995 and 1996 she was chief resident. While she was a resident, she worked at Friedman and Nagel Corp., CIGNA HealthCare and the Medical Group of Beverly Hills. In 1996 and 1997, she was a health services research fellow at Cedars-Sinai, and during that time she was on staff in internal medicine at Midway Hospital and worked at the Venice Family Clinic. She currently is working on a master’s degree in public health at the University of California. She maintains an appointment in emergency medicine, internal medicine and pediatrics at Cedars-Sinai. Kim has an interest in preventive care for people of all ages and public policy and advocacy for children.
S.J. Enna, PhD, professor and chair of pharmacology, toxicology and therapeutics, was an invited speaker at the joint meeting of the International Society for Neurochemistry and the American Society for Neurochemistry the week of July 21 in Boston. Enna discussed "GABA-B Receptor Regulation of Neurokinin-1 Receptor Gene Expression in Rat Spinal Cord."
Norge Jerome, PhD, professor emeritus of preventive medicine and acting associate dean of minority affairs, served as guest faculty in the Maternal Nutrition Intensive Course sponsored by the U.S. Maternal Child Health Bureau and presented by the University of Minnesota School of Public Health on July 11. Jerome’s topic was "The Meaning of Food Across Cultures: Application to Appropriate Nutrition Interventions."
Robert Martensen, MD, PhD, associate professor and chair of the history and philosophy of medicine, is the author of "Diabetes Mellitus as a ‘Disease of Civilization,’" which was published in the July 23 issue of JAMA.
E. Steve Roach, MD, Helen and Robert S. Strauss Professor of Pediatric Neurology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, will present "Tuberous Sclerosis: What Have We Learned?" at noon Aug. 11 in the Clendening Amphitheater. Roach is also the director of the division of pediatric neurology and vice chair of the department of neurology at Texas Southwestern.
Stephen Chartrand, MD, chair of pediatrics at Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, Neb., will present "Antibiotic Resistance and its Impact on Treating Pediatric Respiratory Infections" at noon Aug. 14 in the Clendening Amphitheater.
Helen Maguire, PhD, professor of pharmacology, toxicology and therapeutics, has been awarded an appointment by the University of Melbourne, Australia, as senior academic associate in the department of zoology. Academic associates are people who contribute to the teaching and research of the university but who are not full-time salaried staff of the university. Maguire recently visited the University of Melbourne, continuing her research on purinergic receptors in collaboration with David Satchell, PhD, reader in the department of zoology.
Faculty from gastroenterology and hepatology are among the co-authors of two recently published articles. "Modulatory Effect of Esophageal Intraluminal Mechanical and Chemical Stressors on Salivary Prostaglandin E2 in Humans," by Zbigniew Namiot, MD, PhD, Bialystok, Poland; Zhong-Jian Yu, MD, University of Virginia Health Sciences Center, Charlottesville; Romuald Piascik, MD, PhD, Bialystok, Poland; Donald Hetzel, MD, private practice; Richard McCallum, MD, professor and division director; and Jerzy Sarosiek, MD, PhD, research professor, was published in the February 1997 issue of the American Journal of the Medical Sciences. "Regulation of Superoxide Dismutase in Primary Cultures of Rat Colonic Smooth Muscle Cells," by C. Tannahill, PhD; S. Stevenot; Ervin Eaker, MD, associate professor of medicine; Judith Sallustio; H. Nick, PhD; and J. Valentine, MD, was published in the April 1997 issue of the Journal of Physiology. The co-authors are with the University of Florida.
John Kepes, MD, emeritus professor of pathology, has been invited to become chair of the international advisory board of Brain Tumor Pathology, the official journal of the Japanese Society for Brain Pathology, now an international publication.
News from the School of Nursing
Mary Quinlan, RN, MA, assistant professor in the School of Nursing, Independence, died July 27. She was born July 18, 1940, in Chanute. After earning her bachelor’s degree in 1962 from the KU School of Nursing, she was a staff nurse at KU Medical Center until fulfilling her scholarship commitment with the U.S. Navy. She was head nurse of the cardiac surgery unit in the Navy Nurse Corps, National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Md. While attending graduate school at Catholic University, Washington, her studies were interrupted due to a Vietnam assignment. She served on the USS Repose in the South China Sea, where she was a charge nurse in the intensive care unit, operating room and recovery room. She was then a charge nurse in the medical intensive care unit at the U.S. Naval Hospital in Long Beach, Calif. A Navy lieutenant, in 1966 she was awarded a Letter of Commendation from the National Naval Medical Center and a National Defense Medal, and in 1967, she received a Navy Unit Commendation Medal from the Secretary of Navy. Also in 1966, the People to People Program With Civilians, a South Vietnamese organization, presented her with the Vietnam Service Medal and Vietnamese Cross. She had certification in mass casualty treatment, cardiovascular nursing, coronary care and emergency-critical care nursing. In 1968, she returned to Kansas City, where she was a staff nurse in the surgical intensive care unit at KU Medical Center and then evening nursing supervisor at Trinity Lutheran Hospital. She joined the KU School of Nursing as an instructor in 1971, and she was named an assistant professor in 1977. In 1973, she earned a master’s degree from the University of Missouri, Kansas City, and received the Jayhawker R.N. Award. She served a number of professional organizations, including president of Kansas State Nurses Association for District 2 and board member for the Kansas Heart Association. A long-time clinical instructor, her interests included improving patient care for cardiovascular patients and the physical effects of stress in intensive care units.
News from KU Hospital
Suzanne Shaffer, RN, MN, has been appointed director of nursing practice for the department of nursing. Shaffer earned her bachelor’s degree in nursing in 1969 and and master’s degree in nursing in 1985 from KU. She is a certified oncology nurse. She joined KU Medical Center in 1969, and she has served as a staff nurse, assistant head nurse, acting head nurse and hematology nurse clinician. Since 1985, she has been a cancer care clinical nurse specialist. A member of Sigma Theta Tau, she was named Alumnus of the Year for 1984 by the KU Nurses Alumni Association. Last year, she received the ONS/Ross Award for Excellence in Cancer Nursing Education. She has served numerous organizations, and she is co-founder of the Greater Kansas City Chapter of the Oncology Nursing Society.
Jon Jackson has been named interim chief operating officer for KU Hospital. Jackson, who joined KU Hospital 14 years ago, has served as an associate hospital administrator for the past seven years.
News from the Kansas Cancer Institute
The next Kansas Cancer Institute Research Round Table will be at noon Aug. 15 in Wahl Hall West Auditorium. Manfred Metzler, PhD, professor and director of the Institute of Toxicology at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, will present "Genetic Toxicity In-Vitro of Bisphenols and Phytoestrogens."
News from the Center on Aging
Pamela Duncan, PhD, PT, director for research in the Center on Aging and associate professor of health services administration, presented the Margaret Moore Commencement Address to graduating physical therapy students at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Aug. 2.
News from the Center for Reproductive Sciences
Two members of the Center for Reproductive Sciences participated in the 30th annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Reproduction Aug. 2-5 in Portland, Ore. Michael Soares, PhD, professor of molecular and integrative physiology, gave the President’s Symposium, "The Placental Prolactin Family and Pregnancy." S.K. Dey, PhD, professor of molecular and integrative physiology, gave a talk on embryonic implantation, "Molecular Signalling in Determining the Window of Implantation." The members from the center gave 17 oral or poster presentations during the four-day meeting.
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