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 Kansas Cancer Institute

New from the Office of Primary Care

News from Telemedicine Services

News from the Intercultural Center

News from the Northwest Area Health Education Center

News from the School of Medicine-Kansas City

Faculty from gastroenterology and hepatology are the co-authors of two recently published articles. "The Effect of Intravenous Vasopressin on Gastric Myoelectrical Activity in Human Subjects," by Steven Caras, MD, University of Virginia School of Medicine; Irfan Soykan, MD, KU Medical Center; Vernes Beverly, University of Virginia School of Medicine; Zhiyue Lin, PhD, KU Medical Center; and Richard McCallum, MD, FACG, professor and division director, was published in the September 1997 issue of Neurogastroenterology and Motility. "Viral Gastroparesis: A Subgroup of Idiopathic Gastroparesis – Clinical Characteristics and Long-Term Outcomes," by Leonid Bityutskiy, MD, University of Virginia; Soykan; and McCallum was published in the American Journal of Gastroenterology, 1997; 92 (9).

The next Medical Education Support Unit Faculty Development Workshop, sponsored by the School of Medicine’s dean’s office, will be from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. Nov. 7 in Sudler Auditorium at the Kansas City campus and in the Wichita Room at the Wichita campus. The featured speaker will be LuAnn Wilkerson, EdD, associate dean for medical education and director for educational development and research at the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Medicine. She will discuss "Facilitating Small Groups." All Medical Center faculty and staff are welcome. To register, please call ext. 2636 at the Wichita campus.

Irena Sarosiek, MD, has joined the division of gastroenterology and hepatology as the clinical research coordinator. She earned her medical degree in 1979 from the Medical School in Bialystok, Poland, where she also served her internship and residency. She then underwent specialty training in children’s gynecology from 1984 to 1986. During that time she was an attending physician and physician teacher in obstetrics and gynecology at the University Hospital in Bialystok. She has been a visiting professor at the Caridiology Clinic, North Tarrytown, N.Y., and the University of Virginia Health Sciences Center, Charlottesville. Since 1996, she has been a research coordinator in the division of gastroenterology and hepatology at the University of Virginia.

Arthur Dick, MD, professor of neurology had been appointed to the steering committee and endpoint review committee of the Vitamins in Stroke Prevention Study, a multicenter, National Intstitutes of Health funded trial. He also served on the steering and endpoint review committee of the now completed Asymptomatic Carotid Atherosclerosis Study, another multicenter, NIH funded trial.

 

News from the School of Allied Health

Pollie Price-Lackey, MA, OT, associate professor of occupational therapy education, presented "Occupation-Centered Practice in Home Health" at the annual Kansas Occupational Therapy Association Conference Oct. 24 and 25 in Rock Springs.

Diane Filion, PhD, research assistant professor, and Tana Brown, MA, OTR, assistant professor, both of occupational therapy education, presented "Trait Anxiety and Individual Differences in Startle Modification" at the annual meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research Oct. 16-19 in Cape Cod, Mass.

 

News from Graduate Studies and Research and the Research Institute

Charles Dinarello, MD, professor of medicine at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, will be the keynote speaker at KU Medical Center’s Faculty Research Day and Poster Session. Dinarello will speak on "Anti-Cytokine Therapies: From Basic Research to Clinical Studies" at 1:30 p.m. Nov. 7 in Rieke Auditorium. Dinarello has published more than 400 articles on cytokines. The Institute for Scientific Information listed him as the world’s third most cited life scientist from 1981-1994. The poster session, consisting of 54 scientific posters of KU Medical Center faculty research, will begin at 9 a.m. and continue throughout the day in the Hixson Atrium of the Lied Building. Faculty research presentations will also be held in Rieke Auditorium. Winners of the KU Medical Center Research Day awards are: Investigator Research Awards – Judith Widen, PhD, associate professor of hearing and speech, School of Allied Health. She will speak on "Baby, Can You Hear Me?" at 10:50 a.m. Michael Sarras, PhD, professor and interim chair of anatomy and cell biology, School of Medicine. He will speak on "Cell/Extracellular Matrix Interactions During Epithelial Development" at 11:15 a.m. Phoebe Williams, RN, PhD, professor, School of Nursing. She will speak on "A Focus on the Family in International Health Care Research" at 11:40 a.m. Chancellor’s Club Research Award – David Morrison, PhD, professor of microbiology, molecular genetics and immunology. He will speak on "Bacterial Endotoxins: Structure, Function and Contribution to Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease" at 12:30 p.m.

 

News from the Kansas Cancer Institute

Two staff members from the Cancer Information Service gave a presentation at the 1997 Nebraska Minority Health Conference, "Promoting Health Communities of Color: Systems Change Beyond the 21st Century," Oct. 14 and 15 at Creighton University, Omaha, Neb. Shelly Peterson, outreach research and evaluation manager, and Aura Morgan-Clarke, outreach coordinator, presented "Dynamics in Effective Coalition Building for Cancer Efforts."

 

New from the Office of Primary Care

The Office of Primary Care is sponsoring a presentation by Peter Budetti, MD, JD, professor and director for the Institute for Health Services Research and Policy Studies at Northwestern University, Chicago and Evanston, Ill. He will discuss "Changes in Federal Funding: Can Quality Health Care Survive?" from 5:15 to 6:30 p.m. Nov. 6 in the Roberts Amphitheater at the Wichita campus. Call ext. 1854 to register.

 

News from Telemedicine Services

Kalipha Bility, PhD, University of Western Cape Public Health Program, South Africa, visited KU Medical Center Oct. 20. He spoke with Gary Doolittle, MD, medical director of information technology services and research, (who was in Horton) about telemedicine issues via a live demonstration. Doolittle also discussed "Telemedicine: A Practitioner’s Perspective" during an Oct. 14-16 visit to the University of Vermont, Burlington.

 

News from the Intercultural Center

Several KU Medical Center faculty and staff presented a round table, "Broad Spectrum Multicultural Activities: A Continuum" at the Michael Tilford Conference on Diversity and Multiculturalism Oct. 26 and 27 at Wichita State University. The presenters were: Joseph Bast, PhD, associate dean of graduate studies; Alisa Lange, diversity coordinator in human resources; Michael Mingucci, associate director of international programs; and Judith Reagan, director of international programs.

 

News from the Northwest Area Health Education Center

Ruby Jane Davis, director of the KU Medical Center Northwest Area Health Education Center in Hays, was awarded a Personal Achievement Award by the Kansas Association of Nursing Continuing Education Providerships. She was cited for her contributions and service to the organization and continuing education of nurses in Kansas.

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