Vol. 16 No. 33 August 25, 1997
Sections of this page:
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 the School of Pharmacy
News from the KU Endowment Association
News from the School of Medicine-Kansas City and Wichita
The annual School of Medicine Faculty Retreat will be Sept. 12 and 13 at the Doubletree Hotel, Overland Park. Registration forms must be returned to Jo Halverson, 3025 Murphy, no later than Aug. 29. The keynote speaker will be Janet Bickel, MA, associate vice president for institutional planning and development and director of women’s programs at the Association of American Medical Colleges. Bickel’s talk will focus on faculty development.
News from the School of Medicine-Kansas City
Joseph Maino, MD, clinical professor of ophthalmology, director of the Low Vision Rehabilitation Service, chief of the VICTORS Low Vision Rehabilitation Center and staff optometrist at the Kansas City (Mo.) Veterans Affairs Medical Center, is a co-author of several recent publications. The first, "National Survey of the Impact of Low Vision Devices Among Veterans," reported the results of a two-year, multicenter study regarding the success of low vision rehabilitation and the continued use of low vision prosthetic devices. The results showed that during a two-year period 85.4 percent of veterans continued to use their prosthetic devices for a wide variety of daily living tasks. The second paper, "Veterans Use of Low Vision Devices for Reading," reported that the more than 200 veterans enrolled in the study successfully used their prosthetic reading aids. The most useful low vision aid was the Closed Circuit TV (a TV/camera device that produces large print on a TV monitor), while the least successful was a spectacle magnifier. Both papers were published in the May 1997 issue of Optometry and Visual Science.
Billy Hudson, PhD, professor and chair of biochemistry and molecular biology, was an invited speaker at the Gordon Conference on Collagen in New London, N.H., July 27-Aug. 1. His presentation was entitled "Specificity in the Assembly of the NC1 Domain of Type IV Collagen."
Michael Rapoff, PhD, professor of pediatrics, recently published a trade book with three colleagues. The book, Hope for the Journey: Helping Children Through Good Times and Bad, is written for parents, teachers, therapists and health care workers. His co-authors are C.R. Snyder, Diane McDermott and William Cook, and the book was published by Westview Press, Boulder, Colo. The book is about fostering hopeful thinking in children and utilizes a story format.
Henry E. Hynes, MD, PhD, professor of medicine, (et al.) published "Megestrol Acetate and Aminoglutethimide/Hydrocortisone in Sequence or in Combination as Second-Line Endocrine Therapy of Estrogen Receptor-Positive Metastatic Breast Cancer: A Southwest Oncology Group Phase III Trial" in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, 1997 July;15(7):2494-2501.
S.J. Enna, PhD, professor and chair of pharmacology, toxicology and therapeutics, has been named by the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics editor-in-chief of the Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (JPET) beginning Jan. 1, 1998. The journal office will be located in the Breidenthal. Established in 1909, JPET is one of the oldest and most widely read journals in the field.
News from the School of Allied Health
Marilyn Lucas, EdS, RD, associate professor of dietetics and nutrition, was re-appointed for a second term to the appeals committee of the American Dietetic Association Commission on Dietetic Education Accreditation. She has served on this committee for the past two years.
News from the School of Pharmacy
Two faculty have recently joined the School of Pharmacy. Melissa Webb, PharmD, is a clinical assistant professor with a joint appointment in the Center on Aging. She received her doctorate in pharmacy from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. She completed a specialty residency in primary care involving a geriatric population at the William S. Middleton Veterans Affairs Hospital in Madison, Wis., where she also was a clinical instructor at the University of Wisconsin School of Pharmacy. Her specialty interest is geriatrics. She will teach in a number of courses to pharmacy, nurse practitioner and medical students. She is a member of American Society of Health-Systems Pharmacists, American College of Clinical Pharmacy, Mid-America College of Clinical Pharmacy, American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy and the Gerontologic Society of America. Tom Peddicord, PharmD, is an assistant professor in the area of critical care/pulmonary medicine. He earned his doctorate in pharmacy and served his pharmacy practice residency at the University of Nebraska. He completed a two-year critical care pharmacy research fellowship at the University of Nebraska College of Pharmacy. He is particularly interested in adult intensive care.
News from Academic Support
The Medical Center's Lost and Found has been transferred from university police to academic support, G004 of Orr-Major, ext. 5177. Found items may be dropped off at the KU Hospital information desk, police dispatch or academic support’s Educational Resource Center, but all items to be picked up will be housed in the ERC. The ERC Lost and Found is open 93 hours a week, including weekends.
News from the KU Endowment Association
The Merck Company Foundation has pledged $170,000 for pharmaceutical chemistry graduate fellowships at KU. The first fellowships have been awarded to Antonie Rice and Susan Wells Hovorka, both of Lawrence. An initial payment of $40,000 enabled the department to begin awarding the fellowships to predoctoral students almost immediately. The Merck Company Foundation is the charitable arm of Merck & Co. Inc. The foundation has been a long-time supporter of KU programs, including allied health and engineering, and has provided $80,000 for another pre-doctoral fellowship in pharmaceutical chemistry.
News from the United Way
The United Way steering committee is providing an opportunity for KU Medical Center faculty, staff, students and volunteers to see Wyandotte County on a guided bus tour. The tour will run from 9 a.m. to noon Sept. 3. The bus, which will depart from in front of KU Hospital, will make stops at various United Way agencies. There is room to accommodate 40 people, so space is limited to a first-come, first-served basis. For more information, call Amy Franken, ext. 5851. United Way Campaign steering committee members are also seeking participants to help make a KU Medical Center float for the Sept. 6 Rosedale Parade. The float's theme is "Jazzed Up About KUMC." They plan a decorative float, complete with jazz music and KU Medical Center employees. Participants will need to be at the parade starting point at 9 a.m., as the parade gets under way at 10 a.m. Those interested may sign up from 2 to 5:30 p.m. Aug. 27 in Wahl Hall East Auditorium.
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