Vol. 16 No. 34 Sept. 1, 1997
News from the Executive Vice
Chancellor’s Office
News from the School of Medicine-Kansas
City
News from the School of Medicine-Kansas
City (cont.)
News from the School of Allied Health
News from Graduate Studies, Research
and the Research Institut
News from the Center on Aging
News from the School of Medicine and
the Kansas Cancer Institute
News from the Office of Primary Care
News from Telemedicine
News from KU Hospital
News from the Executive Vice Chancellor’s Office
Dave Voran, MD, has resigned as executive director of information technology, effective Sept. 19, 1997. He will join Cerner Corp. as chief medical information officer for Health Midwest in Kansas City. Jim Bingham has been named associate vice chancellor for information resources and chief information officer. In this assignment, Bingham will lead both the department of information technology and the department of academic resources.
News from the School of Medicine-Kansas City
A former resident and faculty member, Sterling Williams, MD, professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Columbia University, New York, has been named chair of the department of obstetrics and gynecology at KU Medical Center, effective Nov. 1. After earning his medical degree from the University of Arkansas, Little Rock, in 1973, he was a resident from 1973 to 1975 and then chief resident in 1975 and 1976 in obstetrics and gynecology at KU. He was on the faculty at KU Medical Center from 1976 to 1987 as an assistant professor of ob/gyn and family practice and then associate professor of ob/gyn. From 1977 to 1987, he was director of the ob/gyn infectious diseases section, and from 1980 to 1984, he was director of the ob/gyn division of education. During that time, he also was the chief ob/gyn consultant to the Kansas State Women’s Correctional Institute in Lansing. He joined Columbia University in 1987. At Columbia’s ob/gyn department, he was named vice chair for academic affairs in 1992 and residency program director in 1993. Since 1995, he has served as interim director of ob/gyn at Allen Pavilion of the Presbyterian Hospital. He also was vice-president and then president of the medical board and director of the ob/gyn residency program at Harlem Hospital Center. He has been president of the KAW Valley Medical Society and the Kermit E. Krantz Obstetrical and Gynecological Society, as well as treasurer and assistant secretary of the New York Gynecological Society. He currently serves on the American Hospital Association’s coordinating committee on medical education and the White House Speakers’ Bureau on Health Care Reform National Health Policy Council. He is an examiner with the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology. His research interests are infectious diseases in obstetrics and gynecology, HIV/AIDS in pregnancy, body composition during pregnancy, vaginal infections and prematurity, drug abuse during pregnancy, adolescent pregnancies and cancer screening for women.
Two search committees have recently been appointed. The members of the search committee for chair of anatomy and cell biology are: Billy Hudson, PhD, (committee chair) professor and chair of biochemistry and molecular biology; S. K. Dey, PhD, professor of molecular and integrative physiology; Jameson Forster, MD, associate professor of surgery; William Jewell, MD, professor of surgery and director of the Kansas Cancer Institute; William Kinsey, PhD; professor of anatomy and cell biology; Andrew Parkinson, PhD, professor of pharmacology, toxicology and therapeutics; and Jill Pelling, PhD, associate professor of pathology and laboratory medicine. The members of the search committee for microbiology, molecular genetics and immunology are: S.J. Enna, PhD, (committee chair) professor and chair of pharmacology, toxicology and therapeutics; Benjamin D. Cowley, PhD, associate professor of medicine; S.K. Dey, PhD, professor of molecular and integrative physiology; Carol Fabian, MD, professor of medicine and medical director of the KU Cancer Center; James Calvet, PhD, professor of biochemistry and molecular biology; Joseph Lutkenhaus, PhD, professor of microbiology, molecular genetics and immunology; and Paul Terranova, PhD, professor of molecular and integrative physiology and obstetrics and gynecology.
News from the School of Medicine-Kansas City (cont.)
Pawan Chaturvedi, PhD, has joined the department of radiology as an assistant professor in the division of image science and technology, effective July 1. Chaturvedi earned a master’s degree in physics in 1990 from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, a master’s degree in electrical engineering in 1992 from Tulane University, New Orleans, in 1992, and a doctorate in electrical engineering in 1995 from KU. Since then he has been a postdoctoral research associate in KU Medical Center’s radiology department, where he has developed novel ultrasonic techniques for imaging renal and breast tissues. His expertise is inverse problems, acoustic and electromagnetic imaging, and signal and image processing.
Iekuni Ichikawa, MD, professor of pediatrics and medicine at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn., will present a research seminar on "Angiotensin and Congenital Anomalies of the Kidney and Urinary Tract, CAKUT" at 8:30 a.m. Sept. 5 in the department of molecular and integrative physiology library.
News from the School of Allied Health
Jim Halling, MS, RD, LD, chair and director of dietetics and nutrition, has been awarded an American Dietetic Association Medallion. This award is given in recognition of exceptional service to the association, outstanding professional leadership abilities and dedication to high standards for the profession.
Steve Figoni, PhD, associate professor of physical therapy education, made two poster presentations at the Howard A. Rusk International Symposium on Neurological Rehabilitation: Brain and Spinal Cord Injury in Columbia, Mo., Aug. 22 and 23. He discussed "Reliability of Assessment of Leisure and Exercise Physical Activity via Questionnaire in Persons with Paraplegia" (S.F. Figoni, L.B. Sasich, K.J. Schanbacher and T.L. Schneider, physical therapy education) and "Wheelchair Accessibility of Physical Fitness Facilities in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area" (Figoni, L. McClain, A.A. Bell, J.M. Degnan, N.E. Norbury and R.R. Rettele, physical and occupational therapy education).
Paul Mathews, EdS, RR, FCCM, associate professor of respiratory and physical therapy education, delivered three presentations at the IV Congreeo Colombiano de Terapia Respiratoria Aug. 20-23 at the Fudacion Universitaria Manuela Beltran, Santafe de Bogota Colombia. He discussed "The Progress of International Pulmonary Rehabilitation," "Pulmonary Rehabilitation and Home Care" and "Solutions to Clinical Problems Through Clinical Research."
News from Graduate Studies, Research and the Research Institute
The following travel awards have been granted by the office of graduate studies and research. Graduate student travel – Anatomy and cell biology: Lynette Sheffield; biochemistry and molecular biology: Brian Winter and Stephen Club; molecular and integrative physiology: Youngsoo Lee, Michael Park and Thomas Peters; nurse anesthesia education: Carrie Hecker; and pharmacology, toxicology and therapeutics: Ning Deng. Domestic travel – Biochemistry and molecular biology: R.J. Khalifah, PhD, research associate professor, and Hiroaki Serizawa, PhD, assistant professor; dietetics and nutrition: Deborah Kipp, PhD, associate professor; microbiology, molecular genetics and immunology: Sanjay Joag, PhD, research assistant professor, and Chia Lee, PhD, associate professor; molecular and integrative physiology: Joseph Tash, PhD, associate professor, and Michael Wolfe, PhD, assistant professor; obstetrics and gynecology: Tammie Schalue, PhD, assistant professor (Wichita); and pharmacology, toxicology and therapeutics: Sara Li, PhD, associate professor, and Gregory Reed, PhD, associate professor. International Travel – Anatomy and cell biology: Joan Hunt, PhD, professor, and Michael Sarras, professor; molecular and integrative physiology: Peter Smith, PhD, professor; and physical therapy education: Lisa Stehno-Bittel, PhD, assistant professor.
News from the Center on Aging
Stephanie Studenski, M.D, director of the Center on Aging and associate professor of medicine, received a new, one-year $3,924,300 total costs grant from the Department of Health and Human Services for the "Renovation and Construction Grant." A press conference to announce details on this project will be scheduled in the near future. Watch upcoming issues of Faculty Report for details.
The Center on Aging will host an Ethical Analysis Seminar from noon to 1 p.m. Sept. 10 in G567 KU Hospital. The subject will be "When Surrogates Clash Over Gastric Tube Placement."
News from the School of Medicine and the Kansas Cancer Institute
Jasjit Ahluwalia, MD, MPH, MS, has joined the department of preventive medicine as associate chair, director of research and an associate professor. He has a joint faculty appointment in internal medicine. He earned a combined medical degree/master’s in public health degree at Tulane University, New Orleans, in 1987. At the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, he completed a three-year internal medicine residency and then spent two years as an internal medicine fellow at Harvard Medical School, Boston. While there, he received a master’s degree in health policy from the Harvard School of Public Health. Since 1992, he has been an assistant professor of medicine, with a joint appointment in health policy at Emory University, Atlanta. While in Atlanta, he served Grady Memorial Hospital as assistant director of the Urgent Care Center and director of the Center for Smoking Cessation and Tobacco Control. He recently received the 1997 American Medical Association Young Physicians Section Governing Council Community Service Award for "The Smoking Cessation Project of the Grady Health System." This project, begun by Ahluwalia, has provided services to inner city patients who are known to have the highest prevalence of smoking, up to 50 percent, in the United States. Ahluwalia plans to continue the program and expand services to other populations, such as children and pregnant mothers. He currently holds a $1.5 million R01 from the National Cancer Institute, a three-year award from the American Cancer Society, and a four-year Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Generalist Physician Faculty Scholars Award.
News from the Office of Primary Care
The next Faculty Development Workshop will be from 1:30 to 5 p.m. Sept. 12 in 2004 Orr-Major at the Kansas City campus and in the Wichita Room at the Wichita campus. Jane Murray, MD, professor and chair of family medicine, and Lisa Campbell, MD, clinical assistant professor of pediatrics, will discuss "Teaching in the Clinical Setting."
The office of primary care will kick off its monthly Grand Rounds series Sept. 4. Lloyd Michener, MD, chair of family medicine at Duke University, Durham, N.C., will give the lecture at 8 a.m. in Lied Auditorium at the Kansas City campus and in the McNamara Room at Via Christi Regional Medical Center, Wichita. This program will continue to be held the first Thursday of every month from 8 to 9 a.m.
News from Telemedicine
Ace Allen, MD, director of telemedicine research, was an invited plenary speaker at the Primer Congreso Internacional de Tecnologias de Informacion en Ciencias de la Salud Aug. 22 in Lima, Peru. For his two presentations, he gave an overview of telemedicine deployment and telemedicine technology.
News from KU Hospital
Norman Estes, MD, chief of staff, was elected president-elect of the Midwest Surgical Association at the organization’s 40th annual meeting Aug. 10-13 in Huron, Ohio. For the last three years, he has served as secretary of the association. His term as president will begin in August 1998, and he will preside over the 42nd annual meeting in Galena, Ill., in August 1999.
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