What’s on my mind this month is the health status of citizens in our state and how we are taking a lead role in introducing initiatives to help improve the health and well-being of the people of Maryland.
As Marylanders, we have an interesting paradox. On one hand, our state is among the nation’s leaders in several important measures. Maryland has the fourth-highest per capita income in the U.S. We rank third in the nation in median household income. Maryland is home to the world’s premiere biomedical research institute, the U.S. National Institutes of Health, as well as some of the nation’s top hospitals and two top-tier medical schools.
Despite these advantages, however, it is alarming to see that we are behind in some specific measures of health care. The state ranks 34th in health outcomes, 35th in infectious disease rates, and 43rd for infant mortality rates, according to United Health Foundation’s 2011 Rankings. One significant factor in these statistics is the health disparities that exist between various racial and ethnic groups. The data show that minorities have significantly higher morbidity and mortality rates compared to whites. For example, African-American adults have a significantly higher prevalence of diabetes and hypertension compared to Caucasians, as well as significantly higher rates of disease-related mortality. Indeed, African-Americans in Maryland are almost 13 times more likely to die from HIV/AIDS compared to Caucasians, and such health disparities are estimated to cost Medicare an additional $26 million, according to the Maryland Health Quality Cost Council.
I am pleased to report we are engaged in several new initiatives specifically targeted at addressing these disparities:
Health Enterprise Zones: Chief among the Workgroup’s recommendations is the creation of Health Enterprise Zones, or HEZs, to reduce health care disparities, improve outcomes, and stem the rise in health care costs. Ultimately, the goal of HEZs is to work with existing providers, insurers, the public health system, non-medical community agencies, and other stakeholders to create an integrated health care system within impoverished neighborhoods to improve health care access.
Innovation Prize: The Workgroup also recommended the creation of The Maryland Health Innovation Prize, or I-Prize, as a financial reward and public recognition for programs that have achieved reductions in health care disparities or evidence-based strategies that have reduced and/or eliminated health and health care disparities in the State of Maryland.
The I-Prize is modeled after financial awards given by the X Prize Foundation, which oversees incentivized prize competitions that stimulate investment in research and development worth far more than the prize itself. I-Prizes will be awarded for interventions that address both wide-ranging health disparities as well as those which may be unique to a particular community and will bring to bear the expertise of all manner of health, business, non-profit, and community leaders on the health disparities problem.
Research and Community Outreach: As part of the School of Medicine’s Center for Health Disparities, Dr. Claudia Baquet leads our efforts in education, research and continuing medical education related to minority health and health disparities. In particular, she has been a leader in increasing diversity participation in clinical trials. For her pioneering work and leadership in this area, Dr. Baquet will be awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the American Association for Cancer Research and will deliver the 2012 2nd Annual AACR Distinguished Lecture on Cancer Health Disparities.
Other faculty across departments and centers have been studying disease in under-represented minorities as well. Dr. Jay Magaziner and others in the Department of Epidemiology & Public Health have been working in partnership with Lt. Governor Anthony Brown and Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene Josh Sharfstein as part of the Health Disparities Workgroup and the recently formed Maryland Health Quality Council. Dr. Renee Fox in Pediatrics is part of a Coalition for Healthier Baltimore that is studying health disparities in the City of Baltimore. At Greenebaum Cancer Center, Dr. Kevin Cullen is leading research to help determine cancer rates among African Americans and why differences occur among racial and ethnic groups, with a specific focus on head and neck cancer. In Family Medicine, Dr. David Stewart and his team study disparities as they relate to access to information regarding breast cancer screening.
Finally, we are bringing our faculty and expertise directly to minority and rural populations. Our “Mini-Med School” program each year provides valuable health and medical information to members of our community in Baltimore City, as well as on the Eastern Shore and Southern Maryland. Our Mini-Med on bioethics in research continues next spring as part of a national program to address ethical issues in research and examine the implications of these issues on health disparities.
I am confident, that through these and other initiatives, Maryland can lead the way in helping to close this increasingly serious gap in the health and well-being of the citizens of our state and nation.
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
Vanessa Foreman was appointed as Senior Administrator for the Institute for Genome Sciences, as of June 14. Vanessa brings more than a decade of School of Medicine academic administrator experience to her new position.
Ashutosh Sachdeva, MBBS, assistant professor, Department of Medicine, has been appointed head of the new Interventional Pulmonology section within the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care. Dr. Sachdeva is bringing his clinical expertise to the University of Maryland after completing an Interventional Pulmonology fellowship at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Alan Shuldiner, MD, the John Whitehurst Professor in the Department of Medicine, associate dean for Personalized Medicine, and director of the Program in Personalized & Genomic Medicine, has been appointed as Chair of the Observational Monitoring Board for the NHLBI Life After Linkage Consortium.
Trevor L.G. Valentine, MBBS, assistant professor, Department of Pediatrics, has been appointed to the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s (DHMH) Autism Technical Advisory Group by DHMH Secretary Joshua M. Sharfstein, MD. This appointment is in recognition of his expertise in the areas of pediatric autism and autism spectrum disorders (ASDs).
The Cen
ter for Biomedical Engineering and Technology (BioMET) has formally become an organized research center within the University of Maryland School of Medicine. The SOM Executive Committee recommended acceptance at their June meeting, and the motion was passed by the SOM Council on June 19.
Events, Lectures & Workshops
Maureen Black, PhD, professor, Department of Pediatrics, was invited to present “Promoting Healthy Habits and Preventing Pediatric Obesity Through Family and Community Interventions” at the American Psychological Association Annual Convention in Orlando, FL, on August 2. The next day she presented “Policies and Models of Care for Children” at the same conference.
May Blanchard, MD, associate professor, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences presented “Uterine Leiomyoma” on August 10 and “Abnormal Uterine Bleeding…What Does the Evidence Show?” on August 12, both at the South Carolina Obstetrical and Gynecological Society Annual Meeting in Asheville, NC.
Anthony Gaspari, MD, the Albert Shapiro, MD, Professor of Dermatology, Department of Dermatology, was invited as a guest lecturer by the Chilean Dermatologic Society to provide lectures at their annual congress in Santiago, Chile, from August 14–16. He provided a total of four lectures to a group of over 200 dermatologists, on subjects ranging from immunology, allergy, nephrogenic fibrosing dermopathy, and interesting patient-case presentations. “Even though it was winter time in Santiago, my wife and I had a wonderful experience,” said Dr. Gaspari. “Their hospitality was outstanding, the scientific program was strong, and the food, wine and dancing made this a memorable experience.”
Julie Dunning Hotopp, PhD, assistant professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology and the Institute for Genome Sciences, presented “Lateral Gene Transfer from a Wolbachia Endosymbiont to Drosophila ananassae: A Tale of Extensive Duplication and Epigenomic Variation,” at the 7th International Wolbachia Conference in Oleron Island, France, in June. She also presented “Genomic Analysis of the Lateral Gene Transfer from a Wolbachia Endosymbiont to Drosophila ananassae through DNA Re-sequencing and Its Implications for Invertebrate Genomics” at the 6th Annual Arthropod Genomics Symposium in Kansas City, MO in May 2.
Philip Mackowiak, MD, MBA, professor & vice-chair, Department of Medicine, gave Medical Grand Rounds at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX in June. His topic was “Mozart’s Fatal Anasarca.”
Leonid Medved, PhD, professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Center for Vascular and Inflammatory Disease, presented “Fibrinogen aC-domain Structure and Polymerization” at the XXIInd International Fibrinogen Workshop in Brighton, U.K on July 6.
Emmanuel Mongodin, PhD, assistant professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology and the Institute for Genome Sciences, presented “Oral Microbiota and Emerging Disease Associations” at the 11th Biennial Congress of The Anaerobe Society of the Americas (ASA), which was held in San Francisco, CA, June 27 to July 1.
Vincent Njar, PhD, professor, Department of Pharmacology and Center for Biomolecular Therapeutics (CBT), was an invited speaker at the 10th International Symposium on Pharmaceutical Sciences (ISOPS-10), held in Ankara, Turkey, from June 26–29. The title of his talk was “Discovery & Development of a Multi-Mechanistic Agent VN/124-1(TOK-001 or Galeterone) for Prostate Cancer Therapy.”
Maria Nurminskaya, PhD, associate professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, presented at the Cold Spring Harbor Asia conference called “Bone and Cartilage: From Development to Human Disease” in Suzhou, China in June. Her topic was “Tissue Transglutaminase is a New Regulator of Osteoclast and Osteoblast Differentiation in Bone Marrow.”
Mark Rogers, PhD, PT, professor, Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science, presented “Enhancing Balance to Prevent Falls” at the Program in Aging Seminar “Return to Independence: Updates in Rehabilitation of the Older Adult,” held September 12 here on campus.
Wendy Sanders, MA, assistant dean, Research Career Development, gave a series of workshops on Research Skills for the annual AAMC Minority Faculty Development Conference in Chicago on September 8.
H. Ronald Zielke, PhD, professor, Department of Pediatrics, organized a workshop on “Contributions of Post-Mortem Tissue to the Study of Developmental Disorders” at NIH. This workshop honored the 20th anniversary of the founding of the Brain and Tissue Bank at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Twenty nationally recognized researchers participated. The three half-day sessions focused on Human Development, Autism Spectrum Disorders, and Genetic Diseases. Dr. Zielke’s presentations were entitled: “Overview of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Brain and Tissue Bank and This Workshop” and “Challenges for a Brain and Tissue Bank.” The workshops were held at the NIH Neuroscience Building in Rockville, MD, on July 16 and 17.
Grants & Contracts
Patricia Dischinger, PhD, professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, was awarded a one-year, $290,000 grant from the Maryland Department of Transportation, State Highway Administration, for “Comprehensive Crash Outcome Data Evaluation System (CCODES).” She was also awarded a 13-month, $49,000 supplement from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration “Crash Outcomes Data Evaluation System (CODES) Data Network.”
Alex Drohat, PhD, associate professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, has been awarded an administrative supplement to his current NIH grant “Structure and Mechanism of CpG-Specific DNA Glycosylases.” The award of $434,940 over three years will support a new collaboration with Dr. Michael Matunis at Johns Hopkins University.
Ronald Gartenhaus MD, professor, Department of Medicine, received a four-year, $1,654,700 RO1 Award from the National Cancer Institute for “MAP Kinase Signaling in Lymphoma: A Novel Therapeutic Paradigm.”
Richard Goldberg, PhD, associate professor, Department of Psychiatry, who is also acting director of the VA Capitol Health Care Network (VISN 5) Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center (MIRECC), received a two-year, $185,753 grant from the VA Rehabilitation Research and Development Service for “A Structured Communication Tool to Improve OEF/OIF Veteran Care.”
Da-Wei Gong, MD, associate professor, Department of Medicine, has received a new, three-year award from the Maryland Technology Development Corporation totaling $690,000 to support his work “Towards Modeling Pathogenesis and Treatment of Congenital Generalized Lipodystrophy Using Patient-Specific iPSCs.”
Wendy Lane, MD, MPH, assistant professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, has been awarded a $40,000, one-year grant from The Zanvyl and Isabelle Krieger Foundation for “Child Abuse and Maltreatment Program.”
Patricia Langenberg, PhD (pictured), professor; Istvan Merchenthaler, MD, PhD, ScD, professor; and Min Zhan, PhD, assistant professor, all from the Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, have been awarded a $2.4 million, 11-month renewal from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development for “Maryland’s Organized Research Effort in Women’s Health (MORE-WH).”
Leonid Medved, PhD, professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and the Center for Vascular and Inflammatory Disease, received a one-year $153,846 grant from the Maryland Industrial Partnerships Program for “Optimization of Novel Hemostatic Agent ClotBlock.”
May Montasser, MS, PhD, instructor, Department of Medicine, received a three-year, $231,000 Scientific Development Award from the American Heart Association for “Identification and Characterization of a Novel Gene Influencing LDL Levels.”
Andrew Neuwald, PhD, professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, received a funding award in the amount of $131,060.73 from the NIH in June.
Steven Prior, PhD, assistant professor, Department of Medicine, received a three-year, $532,000 K23 award in August for “Effects of Aerobic Exercise on EPC’s and Vascular Dysfunction in Aging and T2DM.”
Joseph Roche, PhD, assistant professor, Department of Physiology, received a one-year, $56,511 grant from the Jain Foundation for his research “Targeting Mitochondrial Mediated Apoptosis for Effectively Treating Dysferlinopathies.”
William Stanley, MD, professor, Department of Medicine, received a two-year, $351,000 R21 grant for “Mitochondrial Proteome Dynamics in Heart Failure Assessed with Heavy Water.” It started on August 1.
Ming Tan, PhD (pictured), professor, and Hongbin Fang, PhD, associate professor, both from the Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, have been awarded a $500,000, four-year grant from the National Institutes of Health for their work “Statistical Methods for Multi-Drug Combinations.”
Paul Welling, MD, professor, Department of Physiology, received a four-year, $1,062,608 research grant (as part of an NIH, Multi-PI grant with collaborator Dr. Eric J. Delpire and Vanderbilt University) from the National Institute of Diabetes and Kidney Diseases (NIDKD) for “Kinase Modulation of Na+-Dependent Cl-Coupled Transporters in Mouse Kidney.” He also received a five-year, $1,669,315 NIH competing-renewal grant from the NIDKD for “Molecular Basis of Potassium Channels in the Kidney.”
Kelly Westlake, PhD, assistant professor, Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science, was awarded a University of Maryland Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center Pilot Award, which includes one year of funding (starting in August 2012), for “Probing the Neural Basis and Influence of Cognitive Changes on Impaired Balance and Rehabilitation in Older Adults.”
Owen White, PhD, professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health and Institute for Genome Sciences, has been awarded a $2.8 million, three-year grant from the National Human Genome Research Institute for “ODF: Support Infrastructure for Nextgen Sequence Storage Analysis and Management.”
Danna Zimmer, PhD, associate professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and the Center for Biomolecular Therapeutics, has received a Complex Therapeutics Seed Grant to examine the effectiveness of two novel, antibody-based therapeutics on Alzheimer’s disease progression. This marks the first year for the Complex Therapeutics Seed Grants, which fund new projects that address research questions pertaining to biologic drugs and vaccines. This program was initiated by the University of Maryland Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology Research (IBBR) to foster creative teams of investigators working across disciplinary boundaries and campuses.
Honors & Awards
Stephanie Deasey, a graduate student in the Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology who is working in the lab of Maria Nurminskaya, PhD, associate professor, won a travel award to attend the European Calcified Tissue Society meeting in Sweden in May. There she presented “Transglutaminase-Mediated Cross-Linking is Critical for Bone Regeneration in Zebrafish.”
Mangla Gulati, MD, FACP, FHM, assistant professor, Department of Medicine, was awarded the Theodore E. Woodward Faculty Prize in Medicine for exemplary teaching and patient care at this summer’s State of the Department of Medicine ceremony.
Alicia Lucksted, PhD, associate professor, Department of Psychiatry, received the 2012 Armin Loeb Award from the U.S. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association (USPRA). This national award is presented to the individual who has conducted the best-designed and most useful research in the field of psychiatric rehabilitation in the preceding year.
Michael Miller, MD, professor, Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology & Public Health, was selected by the United States Postal Service to assist in the development of the Heart Health Stamp, which was issued in Spring 2012.
Lisa Shulman, MD, the Eugenia Brin Professor in Parkinson’s Disease &Movement Disorders, Department of Neurology, was the recipient of this year’s Parkinson’s Action Network Researcher Advocacy Prize, worth $50,000. The award was presented on October 3 at the annual Morris K. Udall Dinner in Washington, DC.
In the News
Frank Robb, PhD (pictured), professor, and Joel Graham, PhD, postdoctoral fellow, both from the Department of Microbiology & Immunology, were featured in Rebecca Cheung’s article “Heat Beaters” in the August 11 edition of Science News.
New Faculty
Katrina Daley Mark, MD, joined the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences in the Division of General OB/GYN as an instructor in July 2012. Dr. Mark earned her Doctor of Medicine degree from Temple University School of Medicine in 2008. She completed her residency in obstetrics & gynecology at the University of Maryland Medical Center in June. Dr. Mark’s responsibilities will include teaching medical students and residents during her clinical service. She will also see patients in the 419 West Redwood Street offices.
Ava Port, MD, joined the Department of Medicine as an assistant professor in the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Nutrition in August. She will be seeing patients for general endocrinology, diabetes and obesity. Dr. Port has special interests in obesity, diabetes, pre-diabetes, nutrition, general endocrinology and transgender medicine.
Publications
Christopher Harman, MD (pictured), professor and interim chair; Graham Aberdeen, PhD, assistant professor; and Eugene Albrecht, PhD, professor, all from the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences, were among the co-authors on “Suppression of Trophoblast Uterine Spiral Artery Remodeling by Estrogen During Baboon Pregnancy: Impact on Uterine and Fetal Blood Flow Dynamics” in the American Journal of Physiology, Heart and Circulatory Physiology, 2012;302:H1936-H1944.
Abdu Azad, PharmD, PhD, MPH, professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, was co-editor on the textbook Intracellular Pathogens II: Rickettsiales, which was published by ASM Press in August. The book is a current review of basic research on Rickettsiales biology and pathogenesis that aims to be a significant research book for scientists, physicians, medical students, public health professionals, epidemiologists, bio-computational scientists, and government policy makers. Dr. Azad and Khandra Sears, PhD, postdoctoral fellow, also from the Department of Microbiology & Immunology, were among the co-authors on “Surface Proteome Analysis and Characterization of Surface Cell Antigen (Sca) or Auto Transporter Family of Rickettsia typhi” in the journal PLoS Pathogens, 2012 Aug 9;8(8):e1002856 [Epub ahead of print]. Dr. Azad and Simran Kaur, PhD, postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Microbiology & Immunology, were among the co-authors on “TolC-Dependent Secretion of an Ankyrin Repeat-Containing Protein of Rickettsia typhi” in the Journal of Bacteriology, 2012 Sep;194(18):4920-4932.
May Blanchard, MD, associate professor, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences, was among the co-authors on “Impact of the Medical Liability Crisis on Post-residency Training and Practice Decisions in Obstetrics-Gynecology” in the Journal of Graduate Medical Education, 2012;4(2):190-5.
Charles Chaffin, PhD, associate professor, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences, was a co-author on “Of the Many Secrets of Steroidogenesis” in Biology of Reproduction, 2012;86(1):1-2.
Marcus Chibucos, PhD, research associate, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, was a co-author on “Kinetic and Phylogenetic Analysis of Plant Polyamine Uptake Transporters,” in Planta, 2012 Oct;236(4):1261-73.
Jason Custer, MD, assistant professor, Department of Pediatrics, was among the co-authors on “Real Time Forecasting of Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Length-of-Stay Using Computerized Provider Orders” in Critical Care Medicine, 2012 Jul 20 [Epub ahead of print] and “A Qualitative Study of Expert and Team Cognition on Complex Patients in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit” in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, 2012 May;13(3):278-84.
Michael Donnenberg, MD, professor, Department of Medicine, was a co-author on “Outer Membrane Targeting, Ultrastructure and Single Molecule Localization of the Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli Type IV Pilus Secretin BfpB” in The Journal of Bacteriology, 2012 Apr;194(7):1646-58. The article was featured on the cover. He also was a co-author on “Structure of an Essential Type IV Pilus Biogenesis Protein Provides Insights Into Pilus and Type II Secretion Systems” in the Journal of Molecular Biology, 2012 May 25;419(1-2):110-24.
Alex Drohat, PhD, associate professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, was among the co-authors on “Lesion Processing by a Repair Enzyme is Severely Curtailed by Residues Needed to Prevent Aberrant Activity on Undamaged DNA” the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 2012 May 22;109(21):8091-6. He was also among the co-authors on “Crystal Structure of Methyl-Binding Domain IV Glycosylase Bound to Abasic DNA” in the Journal of Molecular Biology, 2012 Jul 13;420(3):164-75, along with Eric Toth, PhD, assistant professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology.
Claire Fraser, PhD (pictured), professor, Departments of Medicine and Microbiology & Immunology and IGS director; Mark Eppinger, PhD, research associate, Department of Microbiology & Immunology; Erin Hine, bioinformatics analyst; Qi Su, bioinformatics analyst; Luke Tallon, scientific director; and Jacques Ravel, PhD, professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology and associate Director for Genomics at IGS, all also from the Institute for Genome Sciences (IGS), were co-authors on “Genomic Diversity of 2010 Haitian Cholera Outbreak Strains” in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2012 Jul 17;109(29):E2010-7.
Martin Flajnik, PhD, professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, was a co-author on “Evolution of the B7 family: Co-evolution of B7H6 and NKp30, Identification of a New B7 Family Member, B7H7, and of B7’s Historical Relationship With the MHC” in Immunogenetics, 2012 Aug;64(8):571-90.
Simeon Goldblum, MD, professor, Department of Medicine, co-authored “TRAF6 Protein Couples Toll-like Receptor 4 Signaling to Src Family Kinase Activation and Opening of Paracellular Pathway in Human Lung Microvascular Endothelia” in The Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2012 May 11;287(20):16132-45. Dr. Goldblum and Alan Cross, MD, professor; Sergei Atamas, MD, PhD, associate professor; and Irina Luzina, MD, PhD, assistant professor, all also from the Department of Medicine, were among the authors on “NEU1 Sialidase Expressed in Human Airway Epithelia Regulates Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor (EGFR) and MUC1 Protein Signaling” in The Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2012;287(11):8214-31, and “NEU1 and NEU3 Sialidase Activity Expressed in Human Lung Microvascular Endothelia” The Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2012 May 4;287(19):15966-80.
Howard Goldman, MD, PhD, professor, Department of Psychiatry, was among the co-authors on “Economic Grand Rounds: The Price is Right? Changes in the Quantity of Services Used and Prices Paid in Response to Parity” in Psychiatric Services, 2012;63(2):107-09.
Mangla Gulati, MD, FACP, FHM (pictured), and Ada Offurum, MD, both assistant professors, Department of Medicine, were two of the co-authors on “Evaluating Transitions of Care of Hospitalized Medical Patients to Long-Term Care Facilities: A Retrospective Review of Venous Thromboembolism Prophylaxis” in the American Journal of Medical Quality, 2012 Jul-Aug;27(4):329-34.
Olga Goloubeva, PhD (pictured), associate professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health; Joseph Herman, MD, clinical assistant professor, Department of Radiation Oncology; Naimish Pandya, MD, clinical assistant professor, Department of Medicine; Nader Hanna, MB, BCh, and H. Richard Alexander, MD, both professors in the Department of Surgery; and William Regine, MD, professor and the Isadore & Fannie Schneider Foxman Chair in the Department of Radiation Oncology, were co-authors on “Analysis of Local Control in Patients Receiving IMRT for Resected Pancreatic Cancers” in the International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics, 2012 Jul;83(3):916-920.
Julie Dunning Hotopp, PhD, assistant professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology; David Riley, bioinformatics software engineer; Sean Daugherty, senior bioinformatics analyst; and Hervé Tettelin, PhD, associate professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, all also from the Institute for Genome Sciences, co-authored “Whole Genome Sequencing to Investigate the Emergence of Clonal Complex 23 Neisseria meningitidis Serogroup Y Disease in the United States” in PLoS One, 2012;7(4):e35699. Hotopp was also among the co-authors on “Efficient Subtraction of Insect rRNA prior to Transcriptome Analysis of Wolbachia-Drosophila Lateral Gene Transfer,” in BMC Research Notes, 2012 May;5(1):230.
Julie Kreyenbuhl, PharmD, PhD (pictured), associate professor, and Deborah Medoff, PhD, associate professor, both from the Department of Psychiatry, were among the authors on “Beliefs About Antipsychotic Versus Hypoglycemic Medications Among Individuals with Serious Mental Illness and Type 2 Diabetes” in Patient Preference and Adherence, 2012 Jun;6:389-94.
Richard Lichenstein, MD (pictured), associate professor, Department of Pediatrics, and Laurence Magder, PhD, professor, Epidemiology & Public Health, were among the co-authors on “The Relationship Between Influenza Outbreaks and Acute Ischemic Heart Disease in Maryland Residents Over a Seven-year Period,” in the Journal of Infectious Disease, 2012 Sep;206(6):821-827. This was noted to be an Editor’s Choice by the journal.
Erik Lillehoj, PhD, associate professor, Department of Pediatrics, was a co-author on “Antibodies to Retroviruses in Recent-Onset Psychosis and Multi-Episode Schizophrenia” in Schizophrenia Research, 2012; Jul;138(203):198-205.
Alicia Lucksted, PhD, associate professor, Department of Psychiatry, was among the co-authors on “Recent Developments in Family Psychoeducation as an Evidence-Based Practice” in the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 2012;38(1):101-21.
Tapas Makar, MD (pictured), associate professor; Paul Fishman, MD, PhD, professor; Christopher Bever, Jr., MD, professor; and David Trisler, MD, associate professor, all from the Department of Neurology, were among the co-authors on “Adult Hematopoietic Progenitors Are Multipotent in Chimeric Mice” in Comptes Rendus Biologies 2012 Jul;335(7):454-62.
Emmanuel Mongodin, PhD, assistant professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology and the Institute for Genome Sciences, was a co-author on “Comparative Genomics of Vancomycin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Strains and Their Positions Within the Clade Most Commonly Associated with Methicillin-Resistant S. aureus Hospital-Acquired Infection in the United States” in the American Society for Microbiology’s mBio, 2012 May 22:3(3):e00112-12.
Andrew Neuwald, PhD, professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, was a co-author on “Automated Hierarchical Classification of Protein Domain Subfamilies Based on Functionally-Divergent Residue Signatures,” in BMC Bioinformatics, 2012 Jun 22;13(1):144 [Epub ahead of print].
Vincent Pellegrini, Jr, MD, the James Lawrence Kernan Professor and Chair, Department of Orthopaedics, was a co-author on “Resident Duty-Hour Restrictions—Who Are We Protecting?” in the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, 2012 Sep;94-A(17): e131(7) [Epub ahead of print].
Toni Pollin, PhD, associate professor, Department of Medicine, was a co-author on the editorial “Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing: What Are We Talking About?” in the Journal of Genetic Counseling, 2012, Jun;21(3):361-6.
David Rasko, PhD, assistant professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology and Institute for Genome Sciences, was a co-author on “Shigella flexneri Effectors OspE1 and OspE2 Mediate Induced Adherence to the Colonic Epithelium Following Bile Salts Exposure” in Molecular Microbiology, July 2012;85(1):107-121.
Jacques Ravel, PhD, professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology and associate director for genomics, Institute for Genome Sciences, co-authored “Exploring a Road Map to Counter Misconceptions About the Cervicovaginal Microbiome and Disease” in Reproductive Sciences, 2012, May 21 [Epub ahead of print]. Ravel also was a co-author on “Understanding Vaginal Microbiome Complexity from an Ecological Perspective” in Translational Research, 2012 Oct;160(4):267-82.
E. Albert Reece, MD, PhD, MBA, professor, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences; Vice President for Medical Affairs, University of Maryland; and the John Z. and Akiko K. Bowers Distinguished Professor and Dean, University of Maryland School of Medicine, was an author on “Reduction in Embryonic Malformations and Alleviation of Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress by Nitric Oxide Synthase Inhibition in Diabetic Embryopathy” in Reproductive Sciences, 2012;19(8):823-831. Co-authors included Zhiyong Zhao, PhD, assistant professor, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences, and Richard Eckert, PhD, the John F.B. Weaver professor and chair, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology.
Nirav Shah, MD, assistant professor, Department of Medicine, co-published “Febrile-Range Hyperthermia Augments Reversible TNFa-induced Hyperpermeability in Human Microvascular Lung Endothelial Cells” in the International Journal of Hyperthermia, 2012 Jul 26 [Epub ahead of print]. Co-authors included the Department of Medicine’s Jeffrey Hasday, MD, professor; Simeon Goldblum, MD, professor; Ishwar Singh, PhD, assistant professor; and Mohan Tulapurkar, ScD, postdoctoral fellow. Drs. Shah and Hasday, along with Carl Shanholtz, MD, associate professor; Dawn Fox, RN; Majid Afshar, MD, assistant instructor; Edward Pickering, MD, assistant professor; and Mark Cowan, MD, assistant professor, were among the co-authors on “Non-pharmacologic Approach to Minimizing Shivering During Surface Cooling: A Proof of Principle Study” in the Journal of Critical Care, 2012 Jul, [Epub ahead of print].
Kevin Sheth, MD, and Carolyn Cronin, MD, both assistant professors, Department of Neurology, were among the co-authors on “Intravenous rt-PA is Not Associated with Increased Risk of Hemorrhage in Patients with Intracranial Aneurysms” in NeuroCritical Care, 2012 Oct;17(2):199-203. Dr. Sheth was also a co-author on the invited editorial “Silent but Deadly: Small Ischemic Lesions Following Intracerebral Hemorrhage” in Neurology, 2012 Aug;79(9):838-839.
Alan Shuldiner, MD, the John Whitehurst Professor in the Department of Medicine, associate dean for Personalized Medicine, and director of the Program in Personalized & Genomic Medicine, was a co-author on “A Genome-Wide Approach Accounting for Body Mass Index Identifies Genetic Variants Influencing Fasting Glycemic Traits and Insulin Resistance” in Nature Genetics, 2012, May 13;44(6):659-69; a co-author on “Clopidogrel: A Case for Indication-Specific Pharmacogenetics” in the Journal of Clinical and Pharmacologic Therapeutics, 2012 May;91(5):774-6; a co-author on “Genome-Wide Association for Abdominal Subcutaneous and Visceral Adipose Reveals a Novel Locus for Visceral Fat in Women” in PLoS Genetics, 2012;8(5):e1002695 [Epub ahead of print]; a co-author on “Impact of Common Variation in Bone-Related Genes on Type 2 Diabetes and Related Traits” in Diabetes, 2012 Aug;61(8):2176-86; and a co-author on “The C Allele of ATM rs11212617 Does Not Associate With Metformin Response in the Diabetes Prevention Program” in Diabetes Care, 2012 Sep;35(9):1864-1867.
Jay Menaker, MD (pictured), associate professor, Department of Surgery; Craig Stauffer, medical student; Anne Josiah, MD, former neurology resident; Manuel Fortes, MD, neuroradiology fellow; and John Cole, MD, associate professor, Department of Neurology, were among the co-authors on “Lemierre Syndrome Secondary to Community-Acquired Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus Infection Associated with Cavernous Sinus Thromboses” in the Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2012, Sep 15:S0736-4679.
Loren Thompson, PhD, associate professor, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences, was among the co-authors on “Chronic Hypoxia Increases Peroxynitrite, MMP9 Expression, and Collagen Accumulation in Fetal Guinea Pig Hearts” in Pediatric Research, 2012;71(1):25-31.
William Weiner, MD, professor and chair, Department of Neurology, was a co-author on “Randomized Clinical Trial of Fipamezole for Dyskinesia in Parkinson disease (FJORD Study)” in Neurology, 2012 Jul 10;79(2):163-9.
Kelly Westlake, PhD, assistant professor, Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science, was a co-author on “Resting State Alpha Band Functional Connectivity and Recovery of Upper Extremity Function After Stroke” in Experimental Neurology, 2012 June;237(1):160-9.
Owen White, PhD, professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, and Brandi Cantarel, PhD, research associate, both from the Institute for Genome Sciences, were among the authors of “Metabolic Reconstruction for Metagenomic Data and Its Application to the Human Microbiome,” in PLoS Computational Biology, 2012 Jun;Vol. 8(6):e1002358. They were co-authors with other IGS members, including Jacques Ravel, PhD, professor, and Lynn Schriml, PhD, assistant professor, on “Structure, Function and Diversity of the Healthy Human Microbiome,” in Nature for the Human Microbiome Project Consortium, 2012 Jun;Vol. 486(7402):207-214, and “A Framework for Human Microbiome Research” in Nature for the Human Microbiome Project Consortium, 2012, Jun;Vol. 486(7402):215-221. Cantarel was also a co-author on “Complex Carbohydrate Utilization by the Healthy Human Microbiome” in PLoS, 2012, Jun;Vol.7(6):e28742.
Zhongping Liao, PhD (pictured), post-doctoral fellow, and Austin Yang, PhD, associate professor, both from the Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, were among the co-authors on “IsoQuant: A Software Tool for SILAC-Based Mass Spectrometry Quantitation” in Analytical Chemistry, 2012 May 15;84(10):4535-43.