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Stephen Russell, DVM, PhD, professor of pathology and laboratory medicine, received a new three-year $1,499,892 total costs grant for "Sustained Development of Clinician-Researchers in Kansas." Half of the money will come from the National Institutes of Health, through their IDeA (Institutional Development Award) program. Because of the potential impact that the program can have on the health of Kansans, the other half will be provided by the Kansas Technology Enterprise Corp., as a dollar-for-dollar match of the NIH award. This grant has been awarded to help launch the research careers of four KU Medical Center physicians. In addition, the money will provide research supplies and travel to major scientific meetings. The funds also will bring experts in the fields of each of the clinician-
researchers to workshops at the Medical Center. Each of the four clinician-researchers will have three years to conduct research, publish scientific papers and compete for research grants. Each clinician-researcher will be teamed with a seasoned, successful Medical Center researcher. Michael Luchi, MD, assistant professor of medicine, will study septic shock. David Morrison, PhD, professor of microbiology, molecular genetics and immunology, will be his mentor. Amy O'Brien-Ladner, MD, assistant professor of medicine, will examine how smoking contributes to inflammatory injury of the lungs. She will be helped by Russell. Diane Persons, MD, assistant professor of pathology and laboratory medicine, will study drug resistance in ovarian cancer. Her mentor is Jill Pelling, PhD, associate professor of pathology and laboratory medicine. Under the supervision of S.K. Dey, PhD, professor of physiology, Jeffrey Reese, MD, assistant professor of pediatrics, will research the roles that inflammation plays in implantation of the embryo in the uterus. The mentoring aspect of the grant will be enriched by Fred Samson, PhD, professor emeritus of physiology, who will coordinate the workshops. The IDeA program, which is part of EPSCoR (Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research), is designed to increase the amount of NIH funding in certain states that receive less funding than others. Kansas was one of 18 states eligible to compete for money in 1996.
Curtis Klaassen, PhD, professor, co-authored a manuscript, "Sulfotransferase Gene Expression in Primary Cultures of Rat Hepatocytes," with Lan Liu, PhD, Ed LeCluyse, PhD, postdoctoral fellow, and Jie Liu, MD, PhD, research assistant professor, all in pharmacology, toxicology and therapeutics, in Biochemical Pharmacology, Vol. 52: 1621-1630, 1996. This is Klaassen's 300th peer-reviewed manuscript.
Sanjay Joag, MD, PhD, research assistant professor of microbiology, molecular genetics and immunology, received a new, three-year $897,911 total costs grant from the National Institutes of Health for "Immune Prevention of SHIV Infection/Disease."
The KU School of Nursing in cooperation with the KU Area Health Education Centersare the sponsors of "Pharmacology Update," a Saturday morning continuing education programfor advanced practice nurses. The programs, presented via interactive video, will be from 9 a.m.to noon Jan. 25, Feb. 15, March 22 and April 12. Call continuing education, ext. 4488, formore information.
Nominations are being accepted for the 1997 Nursing: The Heart of Healthcare awards program, which is sponsored by the KU School of Nursing. Registered nurses who have made outstanding contributions to patient care, their communities and their profession can be nominated. Each year, 10 registered nurses are selected as winners. Nomination forms, which will be accepted until April 14, can be requested by calling ext. 1616 or accessing the Internet site at http://www.kumc.edu/instruction/nursing/hoh.html. Anyone can nominate a registered nurse for the award, and any registered nurse is eligible who provides some patient care in metropolitan Kansas City or in the state of Kansas. Participants can re-nominate registered nurses who have been nominated in the past but were not among a year's final 10 winners. Nominees will receive a letter of congratulations and certificate of recognition. In addition, nominees' names will be sent to their employers and the news media. Each year, the winners are chosen by a committee of health care, business, civic and community leaders. The winners will be honored at an awards banquet Sept. 19, 1997. Nursing: The Heart of Healthcare's Gold Sponsors are: Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas and Kansas City, HealthNet and Hoechst Marion Roussell. Silver Sponsors are the Kansas Regional Home Care Association and Lilly Oncology and the Greater Kansas City Chapter of the Oncology Nursing Society.
Paul Mathews, EdS, RRT, FCCM, associate professor of respiratory care and physical therapy education, has been selected for inclusion in the premier issue of Who's Who in Medicine and Healthcare.
At the Jan. 28 Center on Aging Research Seminar, Pamela Saunders, PhD, postdoctoral research assistant with the KU Gerontology Center, Lawrence, will discuss "Meta-Memory Talk in the Speech of Dementia Patients" from 4 to 5 p.m. in 5030 Robinson. Refreshments will be served.
Jennifer Lamb, director of constituent programs at the George Washington University, Washington, has been named alumni director at KU Medical Center. Lamb will be responsible for planning, organizing and directing the operations of the medical, nursing and allied health alumni offices on the Kansas City campus and coordinating activities for the Wichita medical alumni office. Of the nearly 20,000 KU medical, nursing and allied health graduates, almost 5,000 are members of their respective alumni associations. Lamb has six years of university experience. After earning her bachelor's degree in sociology in 1989 from the University of Maryland, College Park, she served the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, from 1990 to 1994 as assistant to the dean, assistant director of undergraduate advising and then associate director of undergraduate advising. During that time she earned her master's degree in education at the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to joining the George Washington University, she was a human resource specialist at Andersen Consulting in Washington.
Representatives from the cap and gown and graduation announcement companies will be at the KU Medical Center Bookstore from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Feb. 5 to display products and take orders and payments. Faculty, staff and students participating in commencement ceremonies will need to place orders for master's and doctoral apparel. Bachelor's degree attire will be available for purchase in the KU Medical Center Bookstore beginning Feb. 5.
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