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Two CenterNet conferences will be offered in April. The April 9 conference, "NIH Clinical Grand Rounds," will not be broadcast, but a tape will be available from the ERC beginning April 10. Cynthia Dunbar, MD, senior investigator at the hematology branch of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, will discuss "Gene Transfer to Hematopoietic Stem Cells: Progress and Problems." Ronald Summers, MD, PhD, medical officer of radiology at Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center, will discuss "Virtual Endoscopy Update." Another conference will be from noon to 1:30 p.m. April 10 in Wahl East Auditorium. The topic will be "The ABCs of Hepatitis."
Benjamin Cowley, MD, associate professor of medicine, received a new, one-year $29,989 total costs grant from the Polycystic Kidney Research Foundation for "Proinflammatory Effects of Cyst Activating Factor in Cystic Kidney Cells."
Vincent Gattone II, PhD, professor of anatomy and cell biology, received a new, one-year $30,000 total costs grant from the Polycystic Kidney Research Foundation for "Renal Concentrating Defect in Slowly Progressive PKD."
Gary Bachman, MSW, assistant professor of family medicine, is providing a series of workshops on critical incident stress management (CISM) throughout the state. These workshops, held in Garden City, Oberlin, Beloit and Parsons, are for rural physicians; nurses; fire, emergency medical services, and law enforcement personnel; and hospital, city and county administrators. In addition to training rural emergency medical providers to recognize and deal with critical incident stress, the goal of the workshops is to help communities develop and implement CISM debriefing teams across the state, which will allow them to provide services not only in their own communities but as mutual aid resources in disaster situations. The workshops are being coordinated by the Area Health Education Centers. Bachman is co-chair of the Medical Center's recently established CISM team, a mental health advisor to the Wyandotte County CISM team, and a member of the Federal Emergency Management Agency Stress Management Cadre.
Bruce Kimler, PhD, professor of radiation oncology, attended the 17th European Winter Conference on Brain Research March 7-15 in Bourg St. Maurice, France. He presented the keynote lecture on "Postnatal Development and Behavioral Effects of Prenatal Irradiation" during a symposium on the "Development of the Prenatal Brain and its Extreme Radiosensitivity." He also presented "Production and Removal of Radiation-Induced Damaged Cells in the Fetal Rat Brain" at the Instituto de Investigaciones Citologicas in Valencia, Spain, March 17.
James Fishback, MD, associate professor of pathology and laboratory medicine, wrote a chapter on "Onchocerciasis" in the new textbook Pathology of Infectious Diseases, edited by Daniel C. Connor and Associates.
Douglas Burton, MD, third-year resident in orthopedic surgery, and Marc Asher, MD, professor of surgery, attended the 22nd annual meeting of the British Scoliosis Society March 18-20 in Stratford-upon-Avon, England, where Burton won the award for the Best Paper Presented by a Registrar/Resident. He paper was "Six-Year Clinical Study of Posterior Isola Instrumentation for Idiopathic Scoliosis."
The annual Pediatrics Symposium, "Issues for Primary Care Health Professionals," will be from 8 a.m. to
5 p.m. April 25 in Lied Auditorium. The course is sponsored by the department of pediatrics and the Kansas Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics and is supported by educational grants from the Midland Dairy Council and GlaxoWellcome. For information contact continuing education, ext. 4488.
Doody Publishing has selected two books by KU Medical Center faculty as award-winning health sciences books. The books will be listed in Doody's Rating Service: The Buyer's Guide to the 250 Best Health Sciences Books. The books are: Pathology for the Health-Related Professions, written by Ivan Damjanov, MD, PhD, professor and chair of pathology and laboratory medicine, and Laboratory Test Handbook, fourth edition, edited by David Jacobs, MD, clinical professor of pathology and laboratory medicine. Among the Laboratory Test Handbook authors are Rebecca Horvat, PhD, assistant professor of pathology and laboratory medicine, Wayne DeMott, MD, clinical assistant professor of pathology and laboratory medicine, and Harold Grady, PhD, former professor and director of clinical chemistry at KUMC. Diane Persons, MD, assistant professor of pathology and laboratory medicine and director of the clinical cytogenetics laboratory, is a contributor. Doody Publishing, an independent reviewer of health sciences and nursing books, received about 2,700 1996 copyright titles to review. The editorial staff polled publishers, health sciences professionals and librarians to arrive at the 250 best titles of 1996. The rating service book will be published in mid-May.
Ronald Martin, MD, professor and chair of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, was guest editor for The Psychiatric Clinics of North America, "Geriatric Psychiatry: What's New About the Old," 20:1, March 1997. He also contributed an article, "Late-Life Psychiatric Diagnosis in DSM-IV," and co-authored "Pharmacodynamic and Pharmacokinetic Considerations in Geriatric Psychopharmacology" with Mark Catterson, MD, former resident, and Sheldon Preskorn, MD, professor of psychiatry. Other Wichita faculty contributing articles included C. Don Morgan, PhD, and Lyle Baade, PhD, associate professors of psychiatry, "Neuropsychological Testing and Assessment Scales for Dementia of the Alzheimer's Type"; George Dyck, MD, clinical professor of psychiatry, "Management of Geriatric Behavior Problems"; Connie Marsh, MD, clinical assistant professor of psychiatry, "Psychiatric Presentations of Mental Illness"; Michael Burke, MD, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry, "Clinicoeconomics in Geropsychiatry"; and Douglas Woolley, MD, associate professor of family and community medicine, "Geriatric Psychiatry in Primary Care: A Focus on Ambulatory Settings." Martin also presented "Psychiatric Disorders Masquerading as Neurological Diseases" at the second annual Interface Between Psychiatry and Neurology meeting Feb. 23 in Kansas City, Mo., and "Somatoform Disorders: Stepchildren of Medicine and Psychiatry" during Grand Rounds at the Cleveland Clinic March 6.
This summer, Kathleen O'Connell, RN, PhD, professor, will offer a new graduate course, "Teaching Smokers How to Quit." Faculty interested in learning the material may contact O'Connell at ext. 3377.
Karen L. Miller, RN, PhD, FAAN, dean and professor, has been named to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing's task force on educational mobility.
Pete Beyer, MS, RD, associate professor of dietetics and nutrition, presented "Options for Recertification and Professional Development" March 15 at the American Dietetic Association House of Delegates meeting in Washington and "Nutrition and Health" at Bethany Medical Center's Visiting Professor Continuing Medical Education Conference March 28.
A textbook, Laboratory Exercises in Auditory Evoked Potentials, by John Ferraro, PhD, professor and chair of hearing and speech, has been published by Singular Publishing Group Inc., San Diego.
Steve Figoni, PhD, associate professor of physical therapy education is a co-author of "Electrical Stimulation-Induced Contraction to Reduce Blood Stasis During Arthroplasty" published in IEEE Transactions on Rehabilitation Engineering, 5(1):62-69, 1997. Other authors are Pouran Faghri, MD, associate professor and head of health promotion and allied health sciences at the University of Connecticut, Storrs; Hjalmar Pompe Van Meerdervort, MD, MOS (master of orthopaedic surgery), professor and chair of orthopedic surgery at Wright State University School of Medicine, Dayton, Ohio; and Roger Glaser, PhD, professor of physiology and biophysics and director of the Institute for Rehabilitation Research and Medicine at Wright State.
The Research Institute has presented 15 faculty grants to date for fiscal year 97. The grants, which total $323,139, went to: John Belmont, PhD, professor of pediatrics, "Executive Function and Adaptive Cognition in Aging," $22,685; Catana Brown, MA, OTR, assistant professor of occupational therapy education, "Context Based Skills Training for Persons With Schizophrenia," $13,970; Bruce Citron, PhD, research assistant professor of neurology and associate director of the Neurobiology Research Laboratory at the Kansas City, Mo., Veterans Affairs Medical Center, "Neuronal Death in Vitro &emdash; Protease: Serpin Balance," $25,000; John Davis, PhD, associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology (Wichita campus), "Mechanisms of Gonadotropin Action," $25,000; Charles DeCarli, MD, associate professor of neurology, "Shared Biomedical Research Equipment Grant," $3,830; Kottarappat Dileepan, PhD, research associate professor of medicine, "Role of Mast Cells in the Pathogenesis of Atherosclerosis Via Regulation of Macrophage and Endothelial Cell Function," $25,000; Leslie Heckert, PhD, assistant professor of molecular and integrative physiology, "Transcriptional Regulation of the FSH Receptor," $25,000; Brooks Keel, PhD, professor of obstetrics and gynecology (Wichita campus), "Signal Transduction in the Porcine Granulosa Cell," $25,000; Debra Kipp, PhD, associate professor of dietetics and nutrition, "Shared Biomedical Research Equipment Grant &emdash; Packard Tri-Carb 2100TR Liquid Scintillation Analyzer," $20,200; Curtis Klaassen, PhD, professor of pharmacology, toxicology and therapeutics, "Endocrine Disruptors: Effects on the Thyroid," $25,000; Jonathan Li, PhD, professor of pharmacology, toxicology and therapeutics and director of the division of etiology and prevention of hormonal cancers at the Kansas Cancer Institute, "Molecular/Cytogenetics Estrogen-Induced Renal Neoplasia," $25,000; Teresa Long, MD, assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, "Morphine-Infused Silver Sulfadiazine for Burn Analgesia," $24,417; Tamara Pryor, PhD, clinical associate professor of psychiatry (Wichita campus), "Outcomes: Eating Attitudes and Treatment," $20,737; Marylee Southard, PhD, associate professor of chemical and petroleum engineering at the Lawrence campus and courtesy faculty in pharmacology, toxicology and therapeutics at KUMC and pharmaceutical chemistry at KU, "Biomedical Engineering Grant," $17,300; and Cynthia Teel, RN, PhD, assistant professor in the School of Nursing, "Test a Home Environmental Assessment Scale," $25,000.
Carol McAdoo, associate hospital administrator, recently participated in the first meeting of a national Veterans Affairs Advisory Group in Chicago. The group plans to develop advocacy programs throughout the Veterans Affairs system.
The Primary Care Residency Directors Council and the Office of Primary Care are sponsoring the first Procedures Day for 72 second-year medical students April 12 in the Family Medicine Clinic at KU Medical Center. Students will be introduced to casting, suturing, intubation and EKG monitoring. Groups of four students each will work with a different residency program to gain hands-on experience with a procedure performed in primary care offices throughout Kansas. The participating PCPE residency programs are family and community medicine, UKSM-W; Family Practice Residency Program, Topeka; Wesley Family Practice, UKSM-W; family medicine, KUMC; internal medicine, KUMC; Via Christi Family Practice Residency, Wichita; Wesley Pediatric Clinic, Wichita; internal medicine, UKSM-W; ambulatory pediatrics, KUMC; and Smoky Hill Family Practice, Salina.
Shelly Peterson, outreach manager with the Cancer Information Service, had an abstract "A Unique National Collaboration to Promote Community Coalitions and Partnerships: Improving Breast and Cervical Health Among Underserved Women," accepted for presentation at the sixth biennial Symposium on Minorities, the Medically Underserved and Cancer April 23 in Washington.
The next Kansas Cancer Institute Research Round Table will be at noon April 11 in the Wahl West Auditorium. Shutsung Liao, PhD, professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at the Ben May Institute for Cancer Research, University of Chicago, will discuss "Molecular Action of Androgen and Prostate Cancer: Basic Research and Medical Application." The Round Table also is sponsored by pathology and laboratory medicine.
The Center on Aging will hold three more Research Seminars in April. Edison Miyawaki, MD, assistant professor of neurology, will discuss "Pallidotomy for Parkinson's Disease: Research Issues" April 8 from 4 to 5 p.m. in 1004 MRRC. Nancy Berman, PhD, and Robert Klein, PhD, professors of anatomy and cell biology, will discuss "Brain Injury in a Mouse Model" April 15 from 4 to 5 p.m. in 5030 Robinson. Susan George, MSN, ARNP-C, director of the Rural Stroke Project at Gove County Medical Center, Hays, will discuss "The Northwest Kansas Rural Stroke Project" from 4 to 5 p.m. April 22 in 1004 MRRC. Refreshments will be served at all the seminars.
The topic will be "Non-Compliant Patients and the Providers Who Care for Them" at the April 9 Center on Aging Ethical Analysis Seminar from noon to 1 p.m. in 2004 Orr-Major.
Dennis Jahnigan, MD, director of the Center on Aging and Division of Geriatrics at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, will be the featured speaker at the April 23 Center on Aging Visiting Professor Lecture. He will discuss "The Future of Academic Geriatrics in a Managed Care Environment" from noon to 1 p.m. in 2004 Orr-Major
Stephanie Studenski, MD, director of the Center on Aging and associate professor of medicine, has been appointed chair of the National Institutes of Health clinical aging review committee.
Donna Daily, MD, director of the Child Development Unit and associate professor of pediatrics, received a new, 14-month $29,888 total costs grant from the United Way of Wyandotte County for "Project Eagle: Street to Work."
The next Hixon Hour will be at 5 p.m. April 24 in the Clendening Amphitheater. Faye Getz, PhD, who is with the history of medicine department at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, will discuss "Images of the 14th Century Plague in 19th and 20th Century Histories." A reception will precede the lecture at 4:30 p.m. in the Clendening Library Foyer.
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