What’s on my mind this month are our youngest and most vulnerable patients, their families, and the extraordinary care they receive at the University of Maryland. Our new fetal medicine and pediatrics programs are tackling the most complex conditions, and providing families with hope where there was little chance for survival only a generation ago. Our very accomplished faculty places us at the very forefront of women and children’s care. These programs were featured in a remarkable video by Medschool Maryland Productions, which was shown at the 2012 Fund for Medicine Gala: Building Beyond Tomorrow. I encourage you to view the video by visiting http://medschool.umaryland.edu/history.asp.
As demonstrated in the video, the University of Maryland Center for Advanced Fetal Care is setting the standard of care for the maternal and fetal patient. A team of world-renowned physicians and researchers are using the most advanced imaging and minimally invasive surgical techniques available to diagnose and treat fetal abnormalities. Under the leadership of Christopher Harman, MD, professor and interim chair of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences, the center is attracting patients from throughout the region.
Within an integrated team of perinatologists, maternal and fetal medicine specialists, geneticists, neonatologists, pediatric cardiologists and pediatric surgeons, the Center for Advanced Fetal Care is dedicated to the care of the mother and unborn child. The team has performed more than 3,000 successful intrauterine fetal procedures and infant surgeries related to in-utero diagnosis of birth defects. The center’s experts have a long history of research and innovation in fetal therapy.
As a physician-scientist whose subspecialty is maternal-fetal medicine, I am especially proud of our innovative use of technology. Sophisticated 3-D imaging techniques allow us to diagnose and treat problems in the first trimester of pregnancy. The center was the first in Maryland to offer fetoscopy—an imaging procedure that I played an instrumental role in developing. Fetoscopy uses a tiny fiberoptic camera to provide direct visualization of the fetus. I am gratified to see this technology now advancing to the next level with laser fetoscopy, which not only allows us to see the fetus, but enables us to conduct life-saving surgery in-utero.
An extraordinary continuum of care is also provided by multidisciplinary specialists through collaboration with the departments of Surgery and Pediatrics. The smallest and sickest newborns receive care at the University of Maryland pediatric and neonatal intensive care units, where care is coordinated with fetal medicine specialists and the specialists who will provide care after delivery. Over the past five years, the University of Maryland School of Medicine has expanded its pediatric services to accommodate the urgent needs of children throughout the state, bringing in over 50 specialists to develop the highest caliber programs.
As one of the newest members of the Children’s Heart Program, Sunjay Kaushal, MD, PhD, associate professor of Surgery, and director of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, is using the most advanced technology available to diagnose and treat complex congenital heart disease. The program employs a unique team approach and includes a pediatric intensive care unit dedicated solely to patients with congenital heart disease. New doors for treatment are also being opened through research. Dr. Kaushal is the first in the world to investigate whether a child’s own stem cells can be used to treat an underdeveloped heart.
Other lead physicians include Geoffrey Rosenthal, MD, PhD, professor, Department of Pediatrics, and director, Pediatric and Congenital Heart Program, and Roger Voigt, MD, ChB, FRACS, assistant professor and head of Pediatric Surgery, Department of Surgery, and surgeon-in-chief, University of Maryland Hospital for Children. Dr. Rosenthal and Dr. Voigt have both been named to Baltimore Magazine’s list of “Top Docs.”
The video that premiered at the Fund for Medicine Gala featured the stories of several families who received life saving care for their children from the University of Maryland. The video is a journey of hope and an inspirational testament to the skill and dedication of our faculty physicians, and the nurses and staff of the University of Maryland Medical Center. From the first images of the developing fetal heart through childbirth, infancy and beyond, our programs provide the very best care found anywhere.
In the relentless pursuit of excellence, I am Sincerely yours,
E. Albert Reece, MD, PhD, MBA Vice President for Medical Affairs, University of Maryland
John Z. and Akiko K. Bowers Distinguished Professor and Dean, University of Maryland School of Medicine
Appointments
Brian Berman, MD, professor, Department of Family & Community Medicine and director of the Center for Integrative Medicine, has been appointed to the Board of Visitors for the Tai Sophia Institute, a graduate school based in Laurel, Md.
Jon Mark Hirshon, MD, MPH, PhD, associate professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, has been appointed chair of the Report Card Task Force of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP). The ACEP Report Card is produced every 3–4 years to assess governmental support of emergency care throughout the United States on a state-by-state basis. The document is used to identify gaps in support of emergency medicine and as a data-based tool for political and public health initiatives. Dr. Hirshon has also been appointed to the Communications and Outreach Advisory Group of Maryland’s Health Care Reform Coordinating Council, which advises the Governor’s Office of Health Care Reform regarding its outreach campaign on health care reform in Maryland.
Alberto J. L. Macario, MD, and Everly Conway de Macario, PhD, both adjunct professors in the Department of Microbiology & Immunology, have been appointed as visiting professors at the School of Medicine at the University of Palermo in Palermo, Italy.
Vincent Pellegrini Jr., MD, the James Lawrence Kernan Professor and chair, Department of Orthopaedics, has been appointed the first vice president of the Board of Directors of The Hip Society for the 2012 to 2013 year. He then will start his term as the president of The Hip Society in February 2013. The Annual Members’ Meeting for the society will be held at the University of Maryland in Baltimore in October 2013.
Events, Lectures and Workshops
Alicia Chaves, MD, assistant professor, Department of Pediatrics, presented the poster “Infant Cardiac MRI Using Oscillatory Ventilation: Safe and Effective” at the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Scientific Sessions in Orlando in February 2012.
Curt Civin, MD, professor, Departments of Pediatrics and Physiology, associate dean for Research, and director, Center for Stem Cell Biology & Regenerative Medicine, delivered the keynote address “CD34 Stem Cell Stories and Lessons from the CD34 Wars,” for the Blood and Marrow Transplantation Annual Meeting in Paris, France, on April 4, 2011; delivered the keynote address on August 19, 2011, for the Korean Society of BMT Annual Meeting in Busan, Korea; and on October 26, 2011, presented the keynote John L. Kellermann III Memorial Lecture on “CD34 stories and MicroRNA Maestros of Hematopoietic Stem-Progenitor Cells” in honor of the late John L. Kellermann III—a founding member of the Maryland Stem Cell Research Commission and passionate advocate for stem cell research—at the Fourth Annual Maryland Stem Cell Research Fund symposium held at Towson University.
Everly Conway de Macario, PhD, adjunct professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, presented “Indirect but Determinant Pathogenic Microbes: A Novel Side of Disease Mechanism” for the Department of Experimental Biomedicine and Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Palermo in Palermo, Italy, in October 2011.
Matthew Cooper, MD, associate professor, Department of Surgery, presented a guest lecture at Loyola University in Baltimore on January 19, 2012, during the kick-off of a capstone course exploring the social and economic impact of living kidney donation in Maryland. Dr. Cooper’s presentation helped to demystify living kidney donation and hoped to appeal to young audiences regarding the need for organ donation across the state.
Howard Dubowitz, MB, ChB, MS, FAAP, professor, Department of Pediatrics and director, Center for Families, presented expert testimony on November 29, 2011 before the Attorney General’s National Task Force on Children Exposed to Violence at the University of Maryland School of Law.
Gary Fiskum, PhD, M. Jane Matjasko Professor for Research and vice-chair for Research, Department of Anesthesiology, presented the seminar “Novel Mitochondrial Mechanisms of Cytoprotection” at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in February 2012.
Douglas Frost, PhD, professor, Department of Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics, chaired the symposium “Early Life Pharmacotherapy for Psychiatric Disease: A Two-Edged Sword” at the 2011 meeting of the Society for Biological Psychiatry, held in San Francisco. As part of the symposium, he presented a talk entitled “Long-Term Behavioral and Neurobiological Sequelae of Adolescent Atypical Antipsychotic Treatment.”
Alberto J. L. Macario, MD, adjunct professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, presented the lecture “Chaperonopathies: Genetics, Epigenetics, and Model Systems” at the CSSI, Fifth International Congress on Stress Response in Biology and Medicine in Quebec, Canada, in August 2011. He also presented “Chaperonopathies: In Search of Mechanisms” at the William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry at Queen Mary, University of London in London, in September 2011; presented “The Chaperonopathies: Diseases with Abnormal Chaperones” at the University of Rome at Tor Vergata in Rome, in September 2011; presented “Molecular Chaperones and Chaperonopathies Across Life Kingdoms” for the Department of Environmental Sciences at the University of Tuscia at Viterbo in Viterbo, Italy, in September 2011; presented “The Expanding Field of Chaperonopathies: In Search of Definitions, Boundaries, and Mechanisms” for the Department of Experimental Biomedicine and Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Palermo in Palermo, Italy, in October 2011; and was invited to contribute a talk to the Henry Stewart Talks in London on the molecular chaperone Hsp60 and related chaperonopathies.
Amal Mattu, MD, professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, recorded a six-hour online advanced electrocardiography course for the American College of Emergency Physicians. It covers acute coronary syndromes (ACS), subtle presentations of ACS, mimics of ACS, disrhythmias, and syncope. The course is offered for nine hours of continuing medical education credit and is available at www.emedhome.com.
Grants and Contracts
Arnob Banerjee, MD, PhD, assistant professor, Department of Medicine and Program in Oncology, was awarded a three-year, $225,000 grant from Gabrielle’s Angel Foundation for Cancer Research for his work entitled “Genomic and Functional Identification of Critical Targets in Peripheral T cell Lymphoma.”
Xiaochun Chen, PhD (pictured), assistant professor, Department of Pediatrics and Center for Stem Cell Biology & Regenerative Medicine (co-PI); Curt Civin, MD, professor, Departments of Pediatrics and Physiology, associate dean for Research, and director, Center for Stem Cell Biology & Regenerative Medicine (co-PI); and Kara Scheibner, PhD, assistant professor, Department of Pediatrics and Center for Stem Cell Biology & Regenerative Medicine (co-investigator), received a three-year, $495,000 grant from the William Lawrence & Blanche Hughes Foundation for their research “Development of Drugs that Upregulate Leukemia Tumor Suppressive NicroRNAs.” Drs. Chen and Civin also received a two-year, $230,000 grant from the Maryland Stem Cell Research Fund/TEDCO for their research “MicroRNA Regulators of ex vivo Human Hematopoietic Stem Cell Expansion.” In addition, Dr. Civin sits on the steering committee of the FDA’s Advancing Regulatory Science and Innovation two-year, $3 million grant to the UMCP-UMB consortium.
Jeffrey Fink, MD, MS, professor, Department of Medicine, received a National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)-funded RO1 grant in the amount of $1.2 million over four years for “Do Patient Safety Events Account for Adverse Outcomes in CKD?” This will be an epidemiological analysis of the ongoing NIDDK Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort study dataset to measure the frequency of kidney-disease specific safety events and to determine to what extent these account for adverse outcomes in CKD.
Laundette Jones, PhD, assistant professor, Department of Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics, received a $73,607 grant for the period of 01/01/2012 to 6/30/2013 from the pharmaceutical company Amgen, Inc. to study “The Role of RANKL Inhibition in the Management of Brca1-Associated Mammary Tumorigenesis.”
Lixing Lao, PhD, professor, Department of Family & Community Medicine, received a one-year $75,000 grant from the Paralyzed Veterans Association Research Foundation entitled “Auricular Acupuncture for Spinal Cord Injury-Related Neuropathic Pain.”
Linda Lewin, MD (pictured), associate professor, and David Bowman, MD, assistant professor, both from the Department of Pediatrics, were selected to facilitate “Clinical Reasoning—A Workshop and Faculty Development Tool” at the Council on Medical Student Education in Pediatrics Annual Meeting in Indianapolis on March 24, 2012. Dr. Lewin and medical student Lorraine Beraho presented “Inter-rater Reliability of an Oral Case Presentation Rating Scale to Assess Pediatric Clerkship Students” at the same event.
Erik Lillehoj, PhD, assistant professor, Department of Pediatrics, received a two-year, $89,363 grant from the Stanley Medical Research Institute for his research entitled “Diagnostic Potential of Retrovirus Envelope Glycoproteins in Acute Onset Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder.” Daniel Prantner, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Stefanie Vogel, PhD, professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, received a three-year, $155,346 NRSA fellowship award for his work “The Role of Mitochondrial Reactive Oxygen Species in Innate Immune Signaling.”
Alan Schmaljohn, PhD, professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, received a two-year, $2 million subcontract (total award) from Paragon Bioservices as part of a larger contract from the Department of Defense entitled “VEE Replicon Particle Trivalent Filovirus Vaccine.”
Honors and Awards
Howard Dubowitz, MB, ChB, MS, FAAP, professor, Department of Pediatrics, and director, Center for Families, was the 2011 recipient of the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Child Abuse and Neglect Award for Outstanding Service to Maltreated Children.
Anup Mahurkar, executive director, Informatics Resource Center at the Institute for Genome Sciences, was a finalist at the Tech Council of Maryland’s (TCM) 2011 Mid-Atlantic CIO & CTO awards ceremony. TCM is Maryland’s largest technology and biotechnology association. The event honors the region’s best CIOs, CTOs and IT leaders.
In the News
Kevin Chen, PhD, MPH, associate professor, Department of Family & Community Medicine and the Center for Integrative Medicine, cited the benefits of yoga and Tai Chi in an article called “Take It Easy” in the November/December 2011 issue of WebMD magazine.
Delia Chiaramonte, MD, assistant professor, Department of Family & Community Medicine and the Center for Integrative Medicine, was a guest on WYPR Midday with Dan Rodricks on October 25, 2011. The show focused on integrative medicine. Dr. Chiaramonte also discussed the Integrative Medicine elective at the School of Medicine for the article “How Mainstream Medicine is Opening Up to Integrative Health,” published in the Huffington Post on November 15, 2011. Additionally, last fall on KDFW-TV in Dallas, Texas, she discussed the health benefits of meditation.
Chris D’Adamo, PhD, assistant professor, Family & Community Medicine, Center for Integrative Medicine and Epidemiology & Public Health, was featured on WYPR Midday with Dan Rodricks on October 25, 2011, for a show focused on supplements. In addition, he explained the benefits of fish oil supplements for an article in the January 2012 issue of Health Radar, a monthly consumer newsletter, and explained the correct way to determine the accuracy of nutritional information printed on food labels for an article in the January 2012 issue of Men’s Health.
Lixing Lao, PhD, professor, Department of Family & Community Medicine, discussed the use of “cupping” as an alternative to acupuncture for a Washington Post article on January 23, 2012.
Richard Lichenstein, MD, associate professor, Department of Pediatrics, was interviewed by Consumer Reports on January 12, 2012, about an Ikea high chair recall. Additionally, his study “Headphone Use and Pedestrian Injury and Death in the United States: 2004–2011” generated significant media interest around the globe when it was published on January 16, with news coverage across the United States, Canada, Europe and Australia. Dr. Lichenstein has done dozens of interviews about the study on television and radio, as well as for newspapers, magazines and online news outlets.
Haney Mallemat, MD, assistant professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was interviewed by WBAL-TV for its evening news broadcast on January 3, 2012. He discussed strategies for staying safe in cold weather.
New Faculty
Mohamed Amr Shahin, MBBCh, FAAP, assistant professor, joined the Department of Pediatrics in the Division of Critical Care on October 26, 2011. Dr. Shahin was awarded his MBBCh, Faculty of Medicine from Cairo University in Egypt in 1985. He performed an internship in pediatrics at Cairo University Hospitals, followed by residencies in pediatrics at Cairo University Pediatric Hospital and Albany Medical Center in Albany, NY, and then a fellowship in pediatric critical care medicine at LeBonheur Children’s Hospital, University of Tennessee in Memphis. Dr. Shahin followed this with pediatric cardiac intensive care advanced training at the University of Washington Children’s Hospital in Seattle from 2000 to 2001. He is certified with the American Board of Pediatrics, with a pediatric critical care medicine subspecialty. Dr. Shahin’s responsibilities include serving as an attending physician in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit and the Pediatric Intermediate Care Unit at the University of Maryland Medical Center. His academic responsibilities include teaching medical students and residents during his clinical service.
Christian Wright, MD, assistant professor, joined the Department of Pediatrics in the Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine on February 1, 2012. Dr. Wright received his Doctor of Medicine in 2008 from the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He completed a pediatric residency at the University of Maryland Medical Center in 2011. He is board certified in pediatrics and a member of both the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Medical Association. Dr. Wright’s responsibilities include attending physician duties in the Pediatric Emergency Department. He will also participate in teaching medical students and residents as they rotate at the medical center.
Publications
Dawn Alley, PhD (pictured), and Michelle Shardell, PhD, both assistant professors, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, co-published “Mortgage Delinquency and Changes in Access to Health Resources and Depressive Symptoms in a Nationally Representative Cohort of Americans Older Than 50 years” in the American Journal of Public Health, 2011 Dec;101(12):2293-2298.
Samuel Angiuoli, PhD, director, Software Engineering, Bioinformatics; James R. White, PhD, bioinformatics software engineer; Malcolm Matalka, bioinformatics software engineer; Owen White, PhD (pictured), professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health and associate director; and W. Florian Fricke, PhD, assistant professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, all from the Institute for Genome Sciences, co-authored “Resources and Costs for Microbial Sequence Analysis Evaluated Using Virtual Machines and Cloud Computing,” in PLoS One, 2011;6(10):e26624. Epub 2011 Oct 19. Drs. Fricke and James White, along with Jacques Ravel, PhD, associate professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, and associate director of Genomics at the Institute for Genome Sciences, co-authored “Complex Microbiome Underlying Secondary and Primary Metabolism in the Tunicate-Prochloron Symbiosis,” in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the U.S.A., 2011 Dec 20;108(51):E1423-32.
Mary Beth Bollinger, DO, associate professor, Department of Pediatrics, and Breathmobile medical director, was a co-author on “Asthma in Head Start Children: Effects of the Breathmobile Program and Family Communication on Asthma Outcomes” in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 2011 Nov 19 [Epub ahead of print]. She was also a co-author on “Factors Associated with Secondhand Smoke Exposure in Young Inner-City Children with Asthma” in the Journal of Asthma, 2011;48(5):449-57, and “Achieving and Maintaining Asthma Control in Inner-City Children” in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 2011;128(1):56-63.
Rebecca Brotman, PhD, assistant professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health and Institute for Genome Sciences, authored “Vaginal Microbiome and Sexually Transmitted Infections: An Epidemiologic Perspective,” in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, 2011 Dec;121(12):4610-7.
Vincent Bruno, PhD, assistant professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology and Institute for Genome Sciences, was a co-author on “Robust Utilization of Phospholipase-Generated Metabolites, Glycerophosphodiesters by Candida albicans: Role of the CaGit1 Permease,” in Eukaryotic Cell, 2011 Dec;10(12):1618-27.
Brandi Cantarel, PhD, research associate; Emmanuel Mongodin, PhD (pictured), assistant professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology; and Claire Fraser-Liggett, PhD, professor, Departments of Medicine and Microbiology & Immunology and director, all from the Institute for Genome Sciences, co-authored “Strategies for Metagenomic-Guided Whole-Community Proteomics of Complex Microbial Environments,” in PLoS One, 2011;6(11):e27173. Epub 2011 Nov 23. Cantarel; William Hsiao, PhD, post-doctoral fellow; Elliott Drabek, PhD, bioinformatics software engineer; and Dr. Fraser-Liggett, all from the Institute for Genome Sciences, also co-authored “Sparse Distance-Based Learning for Simultaneous Multiclass Classification and Feature Selection of Metagenomic Data,” in Bioinformatics, 2011 Dec 1;27(23):3242-9.
Alicia Chaves, MD, assistant professor, Department of Pediatrics, was a co-author on “Impact of Hearth Rhythm and Synchrony on Echo-Doppler Assessment in Pediatric Heart Disease,” published in Pediatric US Today, 2011;16(10):193-220.
Marcus Chibucos, PhD, bioinformatics analyst; Jonathan Crabtree, bioinformatics software engineer; and Joshua Orvis, bioinformatics software engineer, all from the Institute for Genome Sciences, co-authored “The Aspergillus Genome Database (AspGD): Recent Developments in Comprehensive Multispecies Curation, Comparative Genomics and Community Resources,” in Nucleic Acids Research, 2012 Jan;40(Database issue):D653-9. W. Andrew Eglseder, MD, associate professor, Department of Orthopaedics, co-authored “Locking Flexible Nails for Diaphyseal Humeral Fractures in the Multiply Injured Patient” in Techniques in Hand and Upper Extremity Surgery, 2011 Sept;15(3):172-176.
Samer El-Kamary, MB, ChB, MPH (pictured), assistant professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, and Wilbur Chen, MD, assistant professor, Department of Medicine, co-published “Vaccines for Enteric Infections” in Current Opinions in Gastroenterology, 2012 Jan;28(1):18-23. Dr. El-Kamary was also a co-author on “Risk Factors for Hepatitis C Virus Infection Among Egyptian Healthcare Workers in a National Liver Diseases Referral Centre” in Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2012 Feb;106(2):98-103.
Nancy Ellish, DrPh, associate professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, was a co-author on “Tailored and Targeted Interventions to Encourage Dilated Fundus Examinations in Older African Americans” in Archives of Ophthalmology, 2011 Dec;129(12):1592-1598.
Mark Eppinger, PhD, research associate, and Jacques Ravel, PhD (pictured), associate professor, both from the Department of Microbiology & Immunology and the Institute for Genome Sciences, where Dr. Ravel is associate director of Genomics, co-authored “Genomic Anatomy of Escherichia Coli O157:H7 Outbreaks,” in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the U.S.A., 2011 Dec 13;108(50):20142-7.
Averell Gnatt, PhD, assistant professor, Department of Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics, co-published an article entitled “Another Layer of Pol II Regulation by Gdown1,” in Molecular Cell, 2012 Jan 13;45(1):51-63. The article was highlighted on the cover.
Michelle Gwinn Giglio, PhD, assistant professor, Department of Medicine, and associate director of Analysis, Institute for Genome Sciences, was a co-author on “BioCreative III Interactive Task: An Overview,” in BMC Bioinformatics, 2011 Oct 3;12 Suppl 8:S4. The publication is part of a supplement entitled “The Third BioCreative—Critical Assessment of Information Extraction in Biology Challenge.”
Alina Grigore, MD, MHS, FASE, associate professor, Department of Anesthesiology, was a co-author on “Anesthetic Management of Patients Undergoing Placement of Total Artificial Heart” in the Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia, 2011;25:1179-1192.
Ann Gruber-Baldini, PhD, professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, was a co-author on “Testing the Effect of Function-Focused Care in Assisted Living” in the Journal of the American Geriatric Society, 2011, Dec;59(12):2233-2240. She was also a co-author on “Association Between Contact Precautions and Delirium at a Tertiary Care Center” in Infection Control Hospital Epidemiology, 2012, Jan;33(1):34-39.
S. Ash Hasan, MD, associate professor, Department of Orthopaedics, co-authored “Two-Incision versus One-Incision Repair for Distal Biceps Tendon Rupture: A Cadaveric Study” in the Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery, 2011 Aug 2 [Epub ahead of print].
Laundette Jones, PhD, assistant professor, Department of Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics, was a co-author on “Abnormal Mammary Adipose Tissue Environment of Brca1 Mutant Mice Show a Persistent Deposition of Highly Vascularized Multilocular Adipocytes” in the Journal of Cancer Science & Therapy, 2011 Dec 27 [Epub ahead of print].
Tibor Kristian, PhD, assistant professor, Department of Anesthesiology, co-authored “Simple Model of Forebrain Ischemia in Mouse,” published in the Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 2011 Nov 28;204(2):254-261 [Epub ahead of print].
Richard Lichenstein, MD, associate professor, Department of Pediatrics, along with fourth-year medical students Daniel Smith and Jordan Ambrose, published “Headphone Use and Pedestrian Injury and Death in the United States: 2004–2011” in Injury Prevention, 2012 Jan 16 [Epub ahead of print].
Erik Lillehoj, PhD, associate professor, Department of Pediatrics; Simeon Goldblum, MD (pictured), professor, Departments of Medicine and Pathology; and Antonio Passaniti, PhD, associate professor, Department of Pathology, were co-authors on “Diverse Injurious Stimuli Reduce Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase-μ Expression and Enhance Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Signaling in Human Airway Epithelia” in Experimental Lung Research, 2011 Aug;37(6):327-43. Dr. Lillehoj was also a co-author on “Non-Cysteine Linked MUC1 Cytoplasmic Dimers are Required for Src Recruitment and ICAM-1 Binding Induced Cell Invasion” in Molecular Cancer, 2011 Jul 28;10:93.
Steven Ludwig, MD, associate professor, and Jacqueline Karp, MD, resident physician, both with the Department of Orthopaedics, co-authored “Management of Trauma to the Upper Cervical Spine: Occiput to C2,” an invited article published by the American Association of Orthopaedic Surgeons on Orthopaedic Knowledge Online, 2011 Oct;9(11). It can be found at http://orthoportal.aaos.org/oko. The two also co-authored “Trauma MIS,” an invited article in Techniques in Orthopaedics, 2011 Sept;26(3):188-193. Additionally, Dr. Ludwig; Brian Shiu, MD, intern; and Mohit Gilotra, MD, resident physician, all with the Department of Orthopaedics, co-authored “Prevention of Postoperative Spinal Wound Infection,” an invited, peer-reviewed article in Contemporary Spine Surgery, 2011 Aug;12(8):1-8.
Maya Matheny, PhD candidate, Graduate Program in Epidemiology & Human Genetics and the Medical Scientist Training Program, Ram Miller, MD, CM, MSc, MBA (pictured), adjunct assistant professor; Michelle Shardell, PhD, assistant professor; William Hawkes, PhD, assistant professor; Jay Magaziner, PhD, MSHyg, professor and chair; and Denise Orwig, PhD, assistant professor, all from the Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, co-published “Inflammatory Cytokine Levels and Depressive Symptoms in Older Women in the Year After Hip Fracture: Findings From the Baltimore Hip Studies” in the Journal of the American Geriatric Society, 2011 Dec; 59(12):2249-2255.
Emmanuel Mongodin, PhD, assistant professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology and Claire Fraser-Liggett, PhD, professor, Departments of Medicine and Microbiology & Immunology, and director, Institute for Genome Sciences, co-authored “Whole-Genome Sequences of Two Borrelia afzelii and Two Borrelia garinii Lyme Disease Agent Isolates,” in the Journal of Bacteriology, 2011 Dec;193(24):6995-6.
Robert O’Toole, MD, assistant professor, Department of Orthopaedics, co-authored “Are Certain Fractures at Increased Risk for Compartment Syndrome after Civilian Ballistic Injury?” in the Journal of Trauma, 2011 Nov;71(5):1385-1389. Dr. O’Toole, along with Elisa Knutsen, MD, and Augusta Whitney, MD, both chief resident physicians in the Department of Orthopaedics, co-authored “Locking Plates in Osteoporosis: A Biomechanical Cadaveric Study of Diaphyseal Humerus Fractures” in the Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma, 2011 Oct 29 [Epub ahead of print].
Vincent Pellegrini Jr., MD, the James Lawrence Kernan Professor and chair, Department of Orthopaedics, wrote “Perspective: Ten Thousand Hours to Patient Safety, Sooner or Later,” which was published in Academic Medicine, 2012 Feb;87(2):164-167.
Raymond Pensy, MD (pictured), assistant professor, and Abimbola Obafemi, MD, resident physician, both with the Department of Orthopaedics, co-authored “Palmar Radiocarpal Dislocation: A Case Report and Novel Treatment Method,” published by the American Association for Hand Surgery in Hand, 2012 March;7(1):114-118.
Brian Polster, PhD (pictured), assistant professor, and Gary Fiskum, PhD, the M. Jane Matjasko Professor for Research and vice-chair for Research, both from the Department of Anesthesiology, contributed a chapter titled “Mitochondrial Mechanisms of Neural Cell Death in Cerebral Ischemia” in Apoptosis: Physiology and Pathology, published by Cambridge University Press in 2011.
Charlene Quinn, PhD, assistant professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, published “Mobile Technologies Changing Models for Diabetes Management” in Endocrinology Today, 2011 Oct;9(10):1-2.
David Rasko, PhD, assistant professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology and Institute for Genome Sciences, was a co-author on “Hfq Virulence Regulation in Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7 Strain 86-24,” in the Journal of Bacteriology, 2011 Dec;193(24):6843-51.
David Riley, bioinformatics software engineer; Samuel Angiuoli, PhD, director, Software Engineering, Bioinformatics; Jonathan Crabtree, bioinformatics software engineer; Julie Dunning Hotopp, PhD (pictured), assistant professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology; and Hervé Tettelin, PhD, associate professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, all from the Institute for Genome Sciences, co-authored “Using Sybil for Interactive Comparative Genomics of Microbes on the Web,” in Bioinformatics, 2012 Jan 15;28(2):160-6.
Lynn Schriml, PhD (pictured), assistant professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Healt; Cesar Arze, bioinformatics software engineer; Suvarna Nadenla, bioinformatics analyst; Mark Mazaitis, web developer; and Victor Felix, bioinformatics software engineer, all from the Institute for Genome Sciences, co-authored “Disease Ontology: A Backbone for Disease Semantic Integration,” in Nucleic Acids Research, 2012 Jan;40(Database issue):D940-6.
Marcus Sciadini, MD, and Jason Nascone, MD (pictured), both associate professors, and Robert O’Toole, MD, assistant professor, all from the Department of Orthopaedics, co-authored “A Biomechanical Comparison of a Locking Plate, a Nail, and a 95 Degree Angled Blade Plate for Fixation of Subtrochanteric Femoral Fractures” in the Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma, 2012 Jan 11 [Epub ahead of print]. Dr. O’Toole and Andrew Pollak, MD, professor, Department of Orthopaedics, co-authored “Does Supplemental Epidural Anesthesia Improve Outcomes of Acetabular Fracture Surgery?” in the Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma, 2012 Feb;26(2):67-72.
Gordon Smith, MB, ChB, MPH, professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health was a co-author on “Alcohol and Risk of Admission to Hospital for Unintentional Cutting or Piercing Injuries at Home: A Population-Based Case-Crossover Study” in BMC Public Health, 2011 Nov;11(1):852.
Getachew Teshome, MD, MPH, assistant professor, Department of Pediatrics, was a co-author on “Factors Associated with Cervical Spine Injury in Children after Blunt Trauma” in Annals of Emergency Medicine, 2011; 58: 145-155.
Matthew Trudeau, PhD, assistant professor, Department of Physiology, published “hERG1a N-terminal Eag Domain-Containing Polypeptides Regulate Homomeric hERG1b and Heteromeric hERG1a/hERG1b Channels: A Possible Mechanism for Long QT Syndrome” in the Journal of General Physiology, 2011 Dec;138(6):581-92. He, along with graduate student Elena Gianulis, also from the Department of Physiology, published “Rescue of Aberrant Gating by a Genetically Encoded PAS (Per-Arnt-Sim) Domain in Several Long QT Syndrome Mutant Human Ether-á-Go-Go-Related Gene Potassium Channels” in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2011 Jun 24;286(25):22160-9.
James Wilkerson, MD, resident physician, Department of Orthopaedics, was a co-author on “Arthroscopically Assisted Reduction and Internal Fixation of a Coronoid Fracture: Case Report and Review of the Literature” in Current Orthopaedic Practice, 2011;22(4):370-373.