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Four KU Medical Center faculty members recently were rewarded for excellence in teaching and advising during surprise classroom visits from KU officials. Each of the honored teachers received $5,000. The awards are part of a five-year project, called the W.T. Kemper Fellowships for Teaching Excellence, which recognizes outstanding teachers and advisers at KU. The William T. Kemper Foundation-Commerce Bank, Trustee, established a $250,000 fund to help finance the program. The KU Endowment Association provided $250,000 in matching funds. The Medical Center recipients are: Mary Carpenter, PhD, associate professor of hearing and speech; Daniel Hinthorn, MD, professor of medicine; Peter Smith, PhD, professor of molecular and integrative physiology; and Roma Lee Taunton, RN, PhD, professor in the School of Nursing. Twenty KU faculty members were honored, 16 from the Lawrence campus and four from the Medical Center. This is the second year for the Kemper awards at KU.
News from the KU School of Medicine-Kansas City
The recipients of the 1997 Higuchi/Endowment Research Achievement Awards were announced at the Sept. 9 KU convocation. Opendra Narayan, DVM, PhD, Marion Merrell Dow Foundation Distinguished Professor in the department of microbiology, molecular genetics and immunology, will be among several KU faculty honored at a ceremony at Lied Center on the Lawrence campus Sept. 19. Narayan was awarded the Dolph Simons Award for research achievement in the biomedical sciences. Winners will each receive a $10,000 award to further their research.
Jared Grantham, MD, University Distinguished Professor, has been elected to a six-year term as councilor of the International Society of Nephrology. The Society serves more than 10,000 nephrologists around the world through biannual scientific meetings and publication of the journal Kidney International. Grantham also served as scientific chair of the 1997 National Institutes of Health NIDDK Workshop on Polycystic Kidney Disease Sept. 10 and 11 in Crystal City, Va.
Curtis Klaassen, PhD, professor of pharmacology, toxicology and therapeutics, received a new,
two-month $13,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health for "The Fourth International Metallothionein Meeting."
The Medical Education Support Unit will present a Faculty Development Workshop featuring Robert Galbraith, MD, MBA, National Board of Medical Examiners. He will discuss "Computer-Based Testing and Case Simulations" from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Sept. 19. The lecture will be in Sudler Auditorium, with an ITV connection to the Wichita Room at the Wichita campus. Register by calling postgraduate education, ext. 2636.
Jusjit Ahluwalia, MD, MSPH, associate chair, director of research and associate professor of preventive medicine, received a new, four-year, $1,489,253 grant from the National Institutes of Health for "What Is Optimal Behavioral Therapy for Black Smokers."
News from the School of Nursing
The School of Nursing will offer a federally sponsored satellite video conference from noon to
2 p.m. Sept. 18 in Lied Auditorium. Presentations will cover the epidemiology, research, diagnosis and management of chronic fatigue syndrome.
News from the School of Allied Health
The Junior League of Kansas City has given a $4,700 gift to the Hartley Family Center for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children at KU Medical Center. The gift will support the establishment of a Parent Resource Learning Library at the center. The Hartley Family Center’s mission is to serve deaf and hard-of-hearing children from birth to 3 years of age and their families living in Johnson and Wyandotte counties.
News from the Office of Primary Care
Faculty interested in applying for the request for proposals (up to $10,000 per project) for medical student education or residency education must submit letters of intent by Sept. 16 to the Office of Primary Care. For more information, call Anne Walling, MD, associate director for education in the office of primary care, ext. 1854.
The Research Support Unit will sponsor a Research Seminar, "Promotion Criteria for Clinician-Educators in the U.S. and Canada: A Survey of Promotion Committee Chairpersons" from noon to
1 p.m. Sept. 18. The presenter will be Brent Beasley, MD, assistant professor of internal medicine at the Wichita campus. The lecture will be in the Wichita Room at the Wichita Campus, with an ITV connection to the Kansas City campus in G567 KU Hospital. Call Celia Easley, ext. 1854, or Tonya Bruhn, ext. 1454, for a reservation.
News from the Kansas Cancer Institute
The next Kansas Cancer Institute Research Round Table will be at noon Sept. 19 in Lied Auditorium. Shuk-mei Ho, PhD, professor of biology and associate dean of research at Tufts University Graduate School, Medford, Mass., will present "Mechanisms of Sex Hormone-Induced Prostate Carcinogenesis: Cell Proliferation, Oxidative Damage and Apoptotic Derangement."
Carol Fabian, MD, professor of medicine and medical director of the KU Cancer Center, is course director for a Breast Cancer Symposium on "Risk Assessment, Chemoprevention and Early Detection" from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sept. 27 at the new Kansas City (Mo.) Omni Hotel, 1301 Wyandotte. KUMC and KU Cancer Center presenters will be Fabian; William Jewell, MD, director of the Kansas Cancer Institute and professor of surgery; R. Neil Schimke, MD, professor of medicine; and Louis Wetzel, MD, associate professor of diagnostic radiology. The symposium is being presented by the KU Cancer Center in conjunction with the Kansas Cancer Institute and the KU division of continuing education. To register or for more information, call ext. 4488.
News from the Center on Aging
Linda Redford, RN, PhD, director of the National Resource and Policy Center on Rural Long-Term Care at the Center on Aging, received a new four-month, $19,607 grant from the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services for "SRS Contract for Data Management and Reports."
News from Dykes Library
The first Multimedia Education Group presentation for the 1997-1998 academic year will be from noon to 1 p.m. Sept. 22 in 2035 Delp. The program will feature S.A.M. (Simulated Anesthesia Mannequin). S.A.M. talks, breathes and exhales C02, twitches, and has pulses, blood pressure, and heart and lung sounds. Patterned after flight simulation models, S.A.M. is capable of becoming 20 different physiologic individuals and simulating, with the help of his computer, 29 critical anesthesia events. Come see how S.A.M. teaches and trains anesthesiology residents and students in nurse anesthesia and medicine in a fun and realistic environment. S.A.M. will be assisted in his presentation by Gregory Unruh, MD, associate professor and director of residency education in anesthesiology. All faculty and staff are welcome. For more information, check the group's site on Pulse at http://www.kumc.edu/service/acadsupt/mmeg/mmeg.html or contact Kim Shaw, ext. 7361.
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