Vol. 16 No. 45 Nov. 17, 1997
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News from the Executive Vice Chancellor’s Office
News from the School of Medicine-Kansas City
News from the School of Nursing
News from the School of Allied Health
News from Kansas University Physicians Inc.
News from the Kansas Cancer Institute
News from the History and Philosophy of Medicine
News from the Executive Vice Chancellor’s Office
The topic for the next CenterNet conference will be "The Clinical Management of Schizophrenia: The Role of Atypical Antipsychotics." The conference will be from 11:15 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. Nov. 19 in Wahl West Auditorium.
News from the School of Medicine-Kansas City
A special faculty meeting to discuss the chair review process will be held at noon Nov. 18 in Sudler Auditorium.
John Calkins, MD, professor of gynecology and obstetrics, was elected president-elect of the Kansas City Gynecologic Society at the organization’s annual meeting Oct. 10-15 in San Antonio. He will take over as president in May 1998. He also was named program chair of the American College of Obstetricians/Gynecologists for District VII.
Susan Pingleton, MD, director of the division of pulmonary medicine and professor of medicine, was elected president-elect of the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) at the organization’s annual meeting in New Orleans. The ACCP is a 16,000-member group of physicians and allied health members involved in diseases of the chest. She also was the co-chair of the annual meeting committee in New Orleans as well as a member of the board of regents. Other faculty and staff from pulmonary medicine attending the meeting were: Amy O'Brien Ladner, MD, associate professor; Mark Plautz, MD, third-year fellow; Jacquline Smith, MD, second-year fellow; and Gayln Perry, MD, second-year fellow. O'Brien-Ladner was director of the affiliates program and a member of the meeting committee for the annual meeting. Pautz is a member of the affiliates committee, and Smith presented at the affiliates forum.
Faculty from gastroenterology and hepatology are the co-authors of three recently published articles. Sushanta Banerjee, PhD, research assistant professor; Walid Makdisi, MD, assistant professor; Allan Weston, MD, assistant professor; and Donald Campbell, MD, associate professor, are the co-authors of "A Two-Step Enriched-Nested PCR Technique Enhances Sensitivity for Detection of Codon 12 K-ras Mutations in Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma," Pancreas. 1997; 15 (1):
16-24. Banerjee, Weston and Campbell are among the co-authors of "Over Expression of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor and Its Receptor During the Development of Estrogen-Induced Rat Pituitary Tumors May Mediate Estrogen-Initiated Tumor Angiogenesis," Carcinogenesis. 1997; 18 (6): 1155-1161. Their co-authors from Washington State University are: Dipak Sarkar, PhD, professor, and Alok De, PhD, postdoctoral fellow. Ervin Eaker, MD, associate professor, is the author of "Neurofilament and Intermediate Filament Immunoreactivity in Human Intestinal Myenteric Neurons," Digestive Diseases and Sciences. September 1997; 42 (9) 1926-1932.
News from the School of Nursing
Wanda Bonnel, PhD, assistant professor, presented "The Role of the GNP in the Nursing Home Setting" to nursing home and retirement community administrators at the annual meeting of the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging Oct. 21 in New Orleans.
The next Research Colloquium, "Reversal Theory As a Set of Propositions," will be from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Dec. 8 in 1010 Orr-Major. Michael Apter, PhD, Georgetown University, will discuss the theory’s basic assumptions, propositions, core structure and hypotheses.
News from the School of Allied Health
Tana Brown, MA, OTR, assistant professor of occupational therapy education, presented "Sensory Responses in Schizophrenia" at the Psychiatric Services Conference in Washington.
News from Kansas University Physicians Inc.
The new officers for Kansas University Physicians Inc. are: president, James Thomas, MD, professor of surgery; vice president, Larry Hoover, MD, professor of otolaryngology; secretary, Carol Lindsley, MD, professor of pediatrics; and treasurer, Glendon Cox, MD, professor of radiology.
The next Multimedia Education Group meeting will be from noon to 1 p.m. Nov. 17 in 1014 Orr-Major. Brian McKiernan, PhD, instructor of physical therapy education, will review some of the principles of problem-based learning. He will discuss how he adapted these principles for use with physical therapy students and implemented these ideas in computer-based case studies used by students this semester. He will give an overview of the framework behind the design and development of the computer-based case studies. The meeting will conclude with a discussion of possible areas for refinement of the principles in this project. 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 phone Shari Center, ext. 7144.
News from the Kansas Cancer Institute
The Kansas Cancer Institute will host a Research Round Table seminar at noon Dec. 2 in Lied Auditorium. Bala Chandran, PhD, professor of microbiology, molecular genetics and immunology, will present "Kaposi’s Sarcoma Associated Herpesvirus (HHV-8): Emergence of a New Human Pathogen."
News from the History and Philosophy of Medicine
Jerry Menikoff, JD, MD, MPP, and Martha Montello, PhD, have joined the department of the history and philosophy of medicine as assistant professors. Menikoff most recently was a fellow in ethics and professions at Harvard University. He was a resident in ophthalmology from 1992 to 1995 and research fellow from 1990 to 1991 at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary. In 1991 and 1992, he served the University of Chicago as the Roy and Sarita Warshawsky Senior Fellow in Law and Ethics. He was an associate attorney from 1978 to 1982 and from 1986 to 1990 in New York. He earned his medical degree from Washington University, St. Louis, in 1986. He earned his combined juris doctorate magna cum laude and master’s in public policy from Harvard Law School and Kennedy School of Government in 1977. During that time, he was an editor on the Harvard Law Review. He is a member of Alpha Omega Alpha and a fellow of the American College of Law and Medicine. Montello has served Harvard Medical School as an instructor in the division of medical ethics since 1990. She was a lecturer in humanities in medicine at Yale University from 1988 to 1990 and a teaching assistant then instructor at the University of Maryland from 1972 to 1978. She earned her master’s in English in 1973 and doctorate in English in 1987 from the University of Maryland.
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