Vol. 16 No. 47 Dec. 8, 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 Medicine and the Center on Aging
News from the School of Nursing
News from the School of Allied Health
News from the School of Pharmacy
News from Graduate Studies and Research and the Research Institute
News from the Kansas Cancer Institute
News from the History and Philosophy of Medicine
News from the KU Endowment Association
News from the Chaplains Office
News from the Executive Vice Chancellor’s Office
The next CenterNet conference will be from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Dec. 10 in 1025 Orr Major. Ezekiel Emanuel, MD, PhD, chief of clinical bioethics at Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center, will discuss "Confidentiality in Clinical Research." John Bennett, MD, head of clinical mycology in the Laboratory of Clinical Investigations at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, will discuss "The What and Why of Investigational Systemic Antifungal Agents."
News from the School of Medicine-Kansas City
Two candidates for the senior associate dean for research position will visit KU Medical Center. Matthew Kluger, PhD, director of the pathophysiology division at Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute, will visit Dec. 11 and 12. He will present "The Use of Knockout Mice to Understand the Role of Cytokines in Fever" at 1 p.m. Dec. 11 in Lied Auditorium. Anne Newman Hirshfield, PhD, professor of anatomy and neurobiology and assistant dean for research at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, will visit Dec. 15 and 16. She will discuss "Endocrine Disorders: Lurking Threats to Reproductive Health" at 11 a.m. Dec. 15 in Wahl West Auditorium.
Irfan Soykan, MD, former visiting research associate; Jiande Chen, PhD, University of Virginia; Bradley Kendall, MD, University of Virginia; and Richard McCallum, MD, FACG, professor and director of the division of hepatology and gastroenterology, are the co-authors of "The Rumination Syndrome: Clinical and Manometric Profile, Therapy and Long-Term Outcome," Digestive Diseases and Sciences. September 1997; 42 (9): 1866-1872.
Macaran Baird, MD, HealthPartners, will discuss "Tools to Develop an Academic Career in Turbulent Times" at the next Medical Education Support Unit Faculty Development Workshop, which will be from 1:30 to 5 p.m. Dec. 12 in Sudler Auditorium. Please RSVP to ext. 7200. The workshop will be broadcast to the Wichita campus via ITV.
Debra Collins, MS, genetic counselor and assistant clinical professor of medicine, presented a poster, "Human Genome Teacher Networking Project," at the Department of Energy Human Genome Program Contractor-Grantee Workshop Nov. 10 in Santa Fe, N.M. The poster describes a project, which for the past five years has provided workshops for high school teachers on the applications of new genome biotechnology and the ethical, social and legal aspects of the human genome project. The abstract is available at: http://www.ornl.gov/hgmis/publicat/97santa/elsi.html#152
Richard Alper, PhD, associate professor of pharmacology, toxicology and therapeutics, has been awarded a one-year, $90,714 total costs grant from Eli Lilly and Co., Indianapolis, for "Function of the Atypical Antipsychotic Drug Olanzapine at Human Dopamine Receptors In Vitro." This study will characterize the new antipsychotic drug olanzapine regarding its properties as an agonist, antagonist or inverse agonist using a functional assay (agonist-stimulated GTPgS binding) at many of the cloned human dopamine receptor subtypes in vitro. Although it is known that olanzapine binds to most of the human dopamine receptors with modest to high affinity, these studies will determine both potency and efficacy of the drug in a functional assay.
Gary Doolittle, MD, assistant professor of medicine, presented "Hospice Care Using Home-Based Telemedicine Systems" at the International Telemedicine Meetings, TeleMed 97, Nov. 26 in London.
Jill Pelling, PhD, professor of pathology and laboratory medicine, presented a plenary lecture at the 11th International Conference on Carcinogenesis and Risk Assessment Dec. 3-6 in Austin, Texas. The title of her presentation was "Response of Keratinocytes to Biologically Relevant Doses of UVB Irradiation."
News from the School of Medicine and the Center on Aging
Pamela Duncan, PhD, PT, director of research at the Center on Aging and senior research scientist at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Kansas City, Mo., and Sue-Min Lai, PhD, MS, MBA, assistant professor of preventive medicine, are co-authors of "Stroke Recovery," Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation. 1997; 4(3): 51-58. Lai is also co-author of "Transient Ischemic Attack and Risk of Stroke Recurrence," Journal of Stroke & Cerebrovascular Diseases. 1997; 6(6): 410-415.
News from the School of Nursing
The Center for Substance Abuse Prevention presented an award to the KU School of Nursing faculty development program for its leadership, teaching effectiveness and research efforts Dec. 5 in Washington. Julie Hagemaster, PhD, assistant professor, is principal investigator of the program. Hagemaster also received a Pacesetter Award from the Association for Medical Education and Research in Substance Abuse (AMERSA) Dec. 14 in Washington. The award recognizes the number of KU School of Nursing memberships in AMERSA and includes a yearlong subscription to Journal of Substance Abuse.
Karen L. Miller, RN, PhD, dean, is the co-author of "Symptom Management Outcomes: Do They Reflect Variations in Care Delivery Systems?" Medical Care. 1997; 35 (11): 69-83. Her co-authors are: Nacy Hester, RN, PhD, Carol Vojir, PhD, both from the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, and Roxie Foster, RN, PhD, Children’s Hospital, Denver.
News from the School of Allied Health
Marilee Means, PhD, chair of cytotechnology, was director of the program faculty seminar for the 45th annual scientific meeting of the American Society of Cytopathology Nov. 4-8 in Boston. She presented "Managed Care and Its Impact on the Curriculum" for cytotechnology educators. She also was selected as the organization’s representative on the cytotechnology programs review committee.
Sara Dale Brandt, PhD, adjunct assistant professor of hearing and speech, attended the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association annual convention in Boston. She was one of three delegates from Kansas on the legislative council, which is the policy making body for this professional organization of 92,000 speech-language pathologists, audiologists, and speech and hearing scientists. She recently completed a four-year term on the ASHA governmental and social policy board, serving the last year as chair. She will continue to chair an ad hoc subcommittee, which will address and respond to the Medicare cap for rehabilitation services.
News from the School of Pharmacy
The department of pharmacy practice recently entered into an academic interchange agreement with the Kyoritsu College of Pharmacy in Tokyo. This agreement will provide for the exchange of faculty and students to promote the development of educational and research programs of mutual interest at the two institutions. Two students from Kyoritsu College of Pharmacy will be at KU Medical Center during July and August of 1998.
Harold Godwin, MS, RPh, professor and chair of pharmacy practice, represented the American Council on Pharmacy Education (accreditation agency for pharmacy schools) for 10 days in the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.) at the request of the Ministry of Higher Education and the State Department. Godwin helped two U.A.E. schools of pharmacy develop accreditation standards.
Joyce Generali, MS, RPh, FASHP, clinical associate professor and director of the Drug Information Center, has been named editor of Clin-Alert, a drug reaction/interaction reporting service. This newsletter reviews more than 100 journals in all major practice areas of medicine and pharmacy to report on prescription drug reactions and interactions. It also acts as a forewarning service for pharmacists, physicians, nurses and drug information specialists. Generali plans to broaden the scope of the publication.
News from Graduate Studies and 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, Wenjian Chu, Melissa Jones and Jinsong Zhang; biochemistry and molecular biology, Stephen Parnell; molecular and integrative physiology, Leigh Raymond; and pharmacology, toxicology and therapeutics, Mitchell Emerson, Eric Harstad, Jeffrey Moelhlenkamp and Peter Opdam. Domestic Travel: Anatomy and cell biology, Robert DeLisle, PhD; biochemistry and molecular biology, George Helmkamp, PhD, Robin Maser, PhD, Milton Noelken, PhD, and Carolyn Rankin, PhD; hearing and speech, Mark Fey, PhD, and Susan Jackson, PhD; medicine, Benjamin Cowley, MD; molecular and integrative physiology, Joseph Tash, PhD; occupational therapy education, Diane Filion, PhD, and Jeff Radel, PhD; pharmacology, toxicology and therapeutics, Richard Alper, PhD, and Kenneth McCarson, PhD; physical therapy education, Janice Loudon, PhD; and the School of Nursing, Cynthia Teel, PhD.
Nominations are being accepted for the Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Awards. The awards are open to any KU Medical Center faculty member, except prior winners, and are due Dec. 22. Nominations should be sent to: A.L. Chapman, PhD, Office of Academic Affairs, 5015 Wescoe.
Irene Cumming, chief executive officer, will present a town-hall meeting from 3:45 to 4:45 p.m. Dec. 11 in Wahl West Auditorium. Come prepared to ask questions, either through question cards or verbally. Questions also may be submitted in advance via e-mail to Townhall. Thirty minutes will be allotted for questions and answers.
News from the Kansas Cancer Institute
Wenhao Xu, research assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular biology and associate director of the Transgenic Institutional Facility, participated in a three-week training course on "Embryonic Stem Cell and Gene Targeting Technology" at the University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor.
Jonathan Li, PhD, professor of pharmacology, toxicology and therapeutics and preventive medicine and director of the division of etiology and prevention of hormonal cancers at the Kansas Cancer Institute participated in the first Department of Defense Breast Cancer Research Symposium Oct. 31-Nov. 4 in Washington. The Department of Defense, in collaboration with the U.S. Women’s Health Coalition, has provided about $600 million for breast cancer research.
Walter Imagawa, PhD, research assistant professor of pharmacology, toxicology and therapeutics and associate director of the breast tissue serum repository at the Kansas Cancer Institute, received a three-year, $300,000 total costs grant from the U.S. Army Medical Research and Material Command for "Mechanisms of Altered Control of Proliferation by Cyclic AMP/Protein Kinase A During Mammary Tumor Progression."
Jasjit Ahluwalia, MD, MPH, MS, vice chair and associate professor of preventive medicine and associate professor of internal medicine, has been invited to serve on the national advisory committee on a soon-to-be-released Robert Wood Johnson Foundation initiative, "Addressing Tobacco in Managed Care." This five-year national program will promote the evaluation and dissemination of organizational-level interventions that lead to a reduction in tobacco use among managed care subscribers. He also presented "Smoking Cessation: Novel New Therapies" at the fifth annual symposium on Advances in Pulmonary Medicine Nov. 7 in Topeka.
Robert Potter, MD, associate clinical professor of medicine at KU and clinical ethics scholar at the Midwest Bioethics Center, will discuss "Ethical Dilemmas in Assisted Living" at the next Ethical Analysis Seminar. The seminar will be from noon to 1 p.m. Dec. 10 in G567 KU Hospital.
Randolph Nudo, PhD, associate director of research in the Center on Aging and associate professor of molecular and integrative physiology, was a speaker at the second Berlin Workshop on Cortical Plasticity Nov. 29 in Berlin. He presented "Adaptive Plasticity in Motor Cortex of Adult Primates: Implications for Motor Learning and Recovery From Brain Damage."
News from the History and Philosophy of Medicine
The Guffey Lecture will be at 5 p.m. Dec. 11 in the Clendening Amphitheater. Harold Cook, PhD, University of Wisconsin, Madison, will discuss "The European Discovery of Asian Medicine in the 17th Century." A reception will be held at 4:30 p.m.
News from the KU Endowment Association
The retired chair of Union Pacific Resources has donated $200,000 for medicine, engineering, music and geology at KU. The gift of stock from William L. Adams of Fort Worth, Texas, will be divided equally among the School of Medicine, School of Engineering, the music division in the department of music and dance, and the department of geology. The gift is for unrestricted support. The medical school gift honors two brothers who live in Osage City: Paul D. Adams, MD, who graduated from KU with a bachelor's degree in 1945 and a medical degree in 1947, and Dwight L. Adams, MD, who graduated from KU with a bachelor's degree in 1953 and a medical degree in 1956. Longtime KU supporters, William and Betty Adams' donations have included annual gifts for the geology department since 1979. Their $80,300 gift during Campaign Kansas brought their unrestricted support for the geology department to $100,000. A Clay Center native, William Adams received a bachelor's degree in geology from KU in 1951. For the next three years, he served as a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy during the Korean War. In 1956, he received a master's degree in geology from the University of California-Los Angeles. Adams retired in 1994 as chair and chief executive officer of Union Pacific Resources. Currently, he is chair of WLA Investments, which is active in petroleum exploration. William Adams is a longtime member and current chair of the KU Geology Associates Advisory Board. The Adamses are members of the Alumni Association; the Chancellors Club, KU's major-donor organization; and the Hill Society, for donors of $100,000 or more.
News from the Chaplains Office
Jennie Malewski, staff chaplain, will be the 1998 facilitator for the KC Area Chaplains Association, an organization of about 70 area institutional and student chaplains. She recently became a board certified chaplain with the College of Chaplains, which has more than 3,000 institutional chaplains across the United States. She will be formally recognized in April 1988 in Portland, Ore. She also was named chair for the Organ Donation and Tissue Procurement Special Interest Group of the Association of Death Educators and Counselors through l998.
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