News from the School of Medicine-Kansas City and Wichita
News from the School of Medicine-Kansas City
News from the School of Allied Health
News from Graduate Studies and Research and the Research Institute
News from the Primary Care Office
News from the KU Endowment Association
News from the School of Medicine-Kansas City and Wichita
New Faculty Orientation, which is open to all School of Medicine faculty on both campuses who have joined the school since Aug. 1, 1995, will be from 1 to 4 p.m. Sept. 2 in Lied Auditorium at the Kansas City campus and in the Wichita Room at the Wichita campus. Among the speakers will be Donald Hagen, MD, executive vice chancellor; Deborah Powell, MD, executive dean; Joseph Meek, MD, dean of the School of Medicine-Wichita; and David Calkins, MD, acting dean of medical education. After the speakers give their presentations via interactive television, each campus will continue individually to discuss campus-specific orientation. Register by calling ext. 7200 in Kansas City or 291-1854 in Wichita by Aug. 25. The program is as follows:
1 p.m. — Registration
1:15 p.m. — Welcome and Vision (Hagen)
1:30 p.m. — Welcome and Introduction to the School of Medicine (Powell and Meek)
2 p.m. — Medical Education at KU (Calkins)
2:30 p.m. — Break
2:45 p.m. — Home Campus Orientation
(academic resources, academic affairs, research administration and clinical affairs)
4 p.m. — Adjourn
News from the School of Medicine-Kansas City
More than 150 people received free health screenings from KU faculty, staff and students during the 119th Emancipation Celebration in Nicodemus July 25-27. The Mobile Medical Unit was brought to Nicodemus, where services such as general physical examinations for diabetes, hypertension, stroke risk and cholesterol levels; nutrition counseling; mammograms; cervical cancer screening; prostate cancer screening; chest x-rays; sexually transmitted diseases education; and family planning were offered. The unit, operated by the Center for Environmental and Occupational Health, is a 53-foot semi-trailer truck that has been outfitted for medical examinations. Nicodemus is an African-American town located in Graham County, 59 miles northwest of Hays. The population of the town swells from 31 to between 700 and 1,000 during the celebration. Nicodemus was founded in 1877 by former slaves from Kentucky. Last year, the town was designated a national historic site. Norge Jerome, acting associate dean for minority affairs, was project leader of the effort. Those participating were: Alisa Lange, (project coordinator) senior coordinator of diversity initiatives in human resources, Ruby Jane Davis, director of the Northwest Area Health Education Center, Elizabeth Spizman, nurse practitioner, Cathy Williams, health educator, Deborah Hill, mammographer and x-ray technologist, Jerry Hill, phlebotomist, Trana Long, phlebotomist, Tom Anderson, Mobile Medical Unit driver, Chukuka Enwemeka, PhD, FACSM, chair of physical therapy education, Steve Figoni, PhD, associate professor of physical therapy education, and Lisa Stehno Bittel, PhD, assistant professor of physical therapy education. Eight students also were on hand at the event. They were: Jean Winfield, nursing;
Chioma Nosiri, Erika Ellis, Joe Nold, Andrea Ortiz, Samuel Jean and Xunda Gibson, medicine; and Jeff Pitts, pre-nursing. The visit to Nicodemus was sponsored by grants from the office of the executive dean of the School of Medicine, the executive vice chancellor’s office and the office of primary care.
A faculty development workshop, "Constructing Written Test Questions," will be presented by Susan Case, PhD, National Board of Medical Examiners, from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Aug. 15 in Sudler Auditorium at the Kansas City campus and in the Wichita Room at the Wichita campus. To register, call ext. 2636. The medical education support unit is sponsoring the workshop.
Randal L. Brown, MD, a senior gastroenterology fellow in the division of gastroenterology and hepatology, received a one-year, $15,000 total costs grant from the American College of Gastroenterology for "Salivary and Esophageal Protective Factors in African-Americans and Caucasians: A Search for the Clue as to the Lower Prevalence of Reflux Esophagitis and Its Complications Among African-American Population." His co-investigators are: Allan Weston, MD, assistant professor, Richard McCallum, MD, division chief and professor, Tomasz Zbroch, MD, and Jerzy Sarosiek, MD, research professor and scientific director.
Groups for Research in Pathology Education announced that three teaching photographs/slides submitted by Ivan Damjanov, MD, PhD, professor of pathology and laboratory medicine, were chosen from more than 200 submissions and were awarded third place prizes in the gross and microscopic division.
Ruben Buñag, MD, professor of pharmacology, toxicology and therapeutics, has been selected to receive the Outstanding Overseas Alumnus Award from the University of the Philippines Medical Alumni Society in America. He will be honored during the annual reunion of the University of the Philippines College of Medicine Dec. 20 and 21 in Manila.
Stanley Edlavitch, PhD, professor of preventive medicine and director of the master of public health program, lectured at Pharmaceutical Project Management ’97, the international conference for leaders in pharmaceutical research and development June 9 in London. Edlavitch, executive director for the International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology (ISPE), presented "Making Epidemiologic and Economic Intelligence Available to Key Decision Makers." Edlavitch also organized and gave an opening speech for an ISPE course on "Meta-Analysis: A Quantitative Approach to Research Integration in the Medical and Health Sciences" July 14 and 15 in Madrid, Spain. The course, which prepares participants to appreciate, read and critique published meta-analysis, was co-sponsored by Escuela Nacional de Sanidad.
C.C. Cheng, PhD, professor of pharmacology, toxicology and therapeutics, will visit the department of chemistry at the University of Turku, Finland, Aug. 20 and 21. He will give two lectures: "Design and Synthesis of the Anticancer Drug Mitoxantrone - From the Laboratory to the Clinic" and "Total Design of New Types of Anticancer Agents on the Basis of a 2-Phenylnaphthalene Type Pattern."
The next family medicine Humanities Conference will be at noon Aug. 15 in the family medicine large conference room. Fred Whitehead, PhD, teaching associate in family medicine, will discuss "Scientific Humor."
News from the School of Allied Health
Chukuka Enwemeka, PhD, FACSM, chair of physical therapy education, served as a primary reviewer and panel leader at a grant review session of the National Institute of Disability and Rehabilitation Research July 28-30 in Washington.
News from Graduate Studies and Research and the Research Institute
Hyunjung (Jade) Lim and Stephen Parnell, doctoral students in molecular and integrative physiology and biochemistry and molecular biology, respectively, are co-recipients of the Reathea Mae Resco Scholarship for the 1997-98 school year. The scholarship fund was established to benefit students interested in basic science cancer research. Lim’s advisor is S.K. Dey, PhD, professor of molecular and integrative physiology. Parnell’s advisor is James Calvet, PhD, professor of biochemistry and molecular biology.
Tammy Kielian, doctoral student in microbiology, molecular genetics and immunology; Jennifer Klemp, master’s of public health student in preventive medicine, and Charlotte Zhang, PhD, second-year medical student, are co-recipients of the Dr. W.S. Sutton Scholarship in genetics research for the 1997-98 school year. Kielian’s advisor is Tsuneo Suzuki, MD, PhD, professor of microbiology, molecular genetics and immunology. Klemp’s advisor is Carol Fabian, MD, professor of medicine in the division of clinical oncology and medical director of the KU Cancer Center. Zhang’s advisor is Ruben Buñag, MD, professor of pharmacology, toxicology and therapeutics.
News from the Primary Care Office
The office of primary care has recruited four members for its research support unit. The unit provides technical research support for primary care researchers. The following senior research associates have joined the office. Kim Kies, MA, has experience in health promotion, disease prevention, epidemiology and community health assessments. She earned her master’s degree in biological and medical anthropology from Wichita State University and will complete a master’s in public health this fall. Ty Partridge is a doctoral candidate in community-clinical psychology at Wichita State University. His experience includes research design and methodology, data analysis and program evaluation. Bruce Frey, PhD, has expertise in educational measurement, evaluation and statistics. He earned his doctorate in educational psychology and research from KU. Cheryl Gibson, PhD, has training in program evaluation, research design and methodology and developmental disabilities. She earned her doctorate in community psychology from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Those wanting assistance with a primary care research project may contact Ken Kallail, PhD, unit director, at ext. 1854.
News from the KU Endowment Association
Pat Krueger, 70, Shawnee, a long-time employee of KU Medical Center and the KU Endowment Association, died July 25. Krueger, whose tenure at the university included more than 22 years at the KU Endowment Association, retired in July 1991. Memorial contributions may be made to the KU Endowment Association or Calvary Episcopal Church, Yates Center.
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