Last month, our School of Medicine community celebrated its 209th commencement, signaling the end of the academic year and the beginning of summer. As we enter a new season this month and switch gears, we have the opportunity to pause and recall the accomplishments we’ve achieved and the challenges we’ve met thus far. Let me stress the importance of being intentional about this period of reflection. If we do not deliberately take inventory of our lives, we risk awareness of opportunities to excel. As we reflect, we must consider that for which we are grateful, even amidst the demanding circumstances and situations we may have faced. Diagnoses such as cancer are never welcomed, but we must give thanks for medical and scientific discoveries and advancements, like immunotherapy, which make recovery possible.
Apart from successfully educating and developing the next generation of medical practitioners and research scientists, the School of Medicine maintains many causes for celebration, including our consistent upward trajectory of grants and contracts, as well as generous private philanthropic support. We are extremely grateful to have received the transformational gift pledge of $20 million from entrepreneurial leader and longtime benefactor, Robert E. Fischell, ScD, which will enable us to become a major, national center for bioengineering innovation through the establishment of the Robert E. Fischell Center for Biomedical Innovation. This support will also provide funding for research and endowed professorships at the Fischell Center, and for our new School of Medicine research building, Health Sciences Research Facility III, which officially opened for business in the spring of 2018.
We were fortunate to have received Dr. Fischell’s altruistic gift pledge, along with the other philanthropic donations of our many supporters and School of Medicine champions, at our annual Gala. This year’s Gala event brought together over 1,000 alumni, donors, faculty, staff, students, and other special friends of the school under the theme of “Impassioned Care, Inspired Discoveries.” It was indeed an evening to celebrate the care we are privileged to deliver and the discoveries we are enthusiastic to make, and Dr. Fischell’s gift ensures we remain on the trajectory to continue doing so.
While we are forever indebted to the financial support we receive, we also recognize and express gratitude for the gift of service from our dedicated staff and faculty. After 44 years with the School of Medicine, Ronald S. Wade retires this month as the Director of the Anatomical Services Division and the Maryland State Anatomy Board. While we are saddened to lose an excellent administrator, colleague, and friend, we honor the steadfast quality of Ronn’s commitment to medical education and research. By developing and maintaining a state-of-the-art facility for anatomy research, he provided not only our surgeons, emergency responders, and trauma specialists an invaluable training avenue, but those from all across the country have benefitted as well. His management has been professional and respectful at all times. We thank and congratulate Ronn for everything he gave us.
As we look back at the wonderful gifts our community received, and recognize the global impact they have made and will continue to make, we take a step forward together. I am delighted that many of our graduates have chosen to remain in our community, and I am confident of the excellent University of Maryland School of Medicine representatives we cultivated in those whom we send out to other esteemed institutions. Although we take our next steps in different directions, we will share the encounter of both setbacks and successes. I invite you to embrace it all – because the challenges we face foster the most growth, and propel us forward into our best achievements. I leave you with a few words of impact from reno wned English poet, John Milton:
“Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.”
May we all carry this approach with us as we continue our journeys to deliver compassionate, patient-centered care, and contribute to life-changing discoveries wherever we go.
E. Albert Reece, MD, PhD, MBA, ExecutiveVice President for Medical Affairs, University of Maryland John Z. and Akiko K. Bowers Distinguished Professor and Dean, University of Maryland School of Medicine
Welcome New Faculty
Hiroyuki Arakawa, PhD, an expert in rodent behavior, joined the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology in March 2018 as an Assistant Professor. Dr. Arakawa was the Director of the Rodent Behavioral Core at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine since 2014. He completed his PhD at Nagoya University, Japan, and postdoctoral training at several institutions including the University of Hawaii, Binghamton University, and the University of Maryland.
Recent Appointments
Roy Film, PT, DPT, OCS, FAAOMPT, Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science, has accepted an invitation to serve a 6-year term as an External Assessor for the International Federation of Orthopaedic Manipulative Physical Therapists (IFOMPT). In this capacity he will perform site visits and review manual therapy fellowship programs for compliance with international standards. IFOMPT has been recognized since 1978 as a subgroup of the World Confederation for Physical Therapy.
Rena Lapidus, PhD, Associate Professor has been appointed Assistant Director of University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center Shared Services. Dr. Lapidus retains her role as Director of the Translational Lab Shared Service.
Kim Hankey, PhD, Research Associate has been appointed Operations Director of the new Fannie Angelos Cellular Therapeutics Lab.
Kudos to our colleagues who are experts in their fields and give their all to represent the School of Medicine!
Thomas Blanpied, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Physiology, was invited to present the keynote lecture at the Annual Meeting of the Philadelphia Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience on April 26 at Temple University. His talk was titled, “Molecular Nanopositioning and Alignment Control Function of Single Synapses.”
Faculty members from the Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitaiton Science (PTRS) recently participated in the University of Maryland, Baltimore’s Sixth Annual Interprofessional Education (IPE) Day for students on Wednesday, April 4. PTRS faculty facilitators included: Vincent Conroy, PT, DScPT, Assistant Professor; Cara Felter, PT, DPT, MPH, Assistant Professor; Sandy McCombe Waller, PT, PhD, MS, NCS, Associate Professor; Laurie Neely, PT, DPT, NCS, Assistant Professor; and Rachel Skolky, PT, DPT, GCS, Instructor. In addition, Linda Horn, PT, DScPT, MHS, GCS, NCS, Assistant Professor, was on the IPE Day Committee and supervised the event’s activities. Furthermore, Victoria Marchese, PT, PhD, Associate Professor, was a participant on the President’s Clinic panel and DPT student, Nicole McKenzie, participated as an invited speaker to talk about her experience when she attended a President’s Clinic with Dr. Marchese.
Curt Civin, MD, Associate Dean for Research, Director, Center for Stem Cell Biology & Regenerative Medicine, Professor, Departments of Pediatrics and Physiology, was honored to serve at Johns Hopkins University as the Inaugural Small Family Visiting Professor in Pediatric Oncology on May 10–11. In addition to mentoring Pediatric Oncology trainees and young faculty, Dr. Civin lectured on “Novel Regulators of Erythropoiesis and Leukemias” at the May 10 Director’s Visiting Professor Conference and on “Artemisinin Antimalarials Synergize with BCL2 Inhibitors Against Leukemias by Inducing Degradation of MCL1 Protein” at the May 11 Oncology Center Grand Rounds, all at the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
The Ninth Annual Cancer Biology Research Retreat was held on April 30, at the University of Maryland, Baltimore. Robert Creath, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science presented, “Exploring Lower Extremity Force Modulation While Jumping in Childhood Leukemia Cancer Survivors.” Co-authors included: Victoria Marchese, PhD, PT and Vicki Gray, PhD, PT, both from the Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science, and Teresa York, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics.
Vasken Dilsizian, MD, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, delivered an oral presentation titled “Nuclear Cardiology Isn’t Dying! Great Opportunities for Growth”, at the Cardiovascular Institute 14th Annual Update in Nuclear Cardiology, joint accreditation with Drexel University College of Medicine, which was held in Philadelphia, PA, on April 19. Separately, Dr. Dilsizian and Eliot Siegel, MD, Professor, also from the Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, participated as facilitators at the Academy for Radiology and Biomedical Imaging Research workshop, partnering with the National Institute of Standards and Technology, to collectively address some of the most pressing technological needs within the imaging community. The goal of the workshop was to convene domain experts from government, industry, and academia to discuss ways and means to develop and implement interoperable data standards that can permit free flow and optimum utilization of medical diagnostic data. The meeting was held at the National Institute of Standards and Technology campus in Gaithersburg, MD, May 16–17.
The sixth annual Maryland Neuroimaging Retreat was held on April 25 at SMC Campus Center with over 150 neuroimaging researchers attending. The theme of this year’s retreat was “Molecular and Physiological Basis of Brain Signals” and was organized by Rao Guallapalli, PhD, MBA, Professor and Shiyu Tang, Graduate Student, both from the Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine and David Seminowicz, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Neural and Pain Sciences, School of Dentistry. This one-day retreat is held every year to bring together researchers and clinicians from local, national, and international institutions to discuss state-of-the-art neuroimaging techniques and groundbreaking developments in the field.
Adeel Kaiser, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, spoke on “Radiation Therapy: New Technologies and Future Directions” on April 28 at Prostate 2018 in Washington, DC. Young Kwok, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, led this session on early-stage prostate cancer.
Devang Patel, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Institute of Human Virology, was featured in the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) newsletter for his work in founding the University of Maryland School of Medicine Infectious Diseases Interest Group (IDIG). IDIG, among other things, hosts lectures to expose students to the University of Maryland’s extensive history in the field of infectious diseases. The students have taken over the organization of IDIG utilizing mentors such as Dr. Patel.
Terez Shea-Donohue, PhD, Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, presented a talk on “Immune Modulation of the Gut Innervation” on April 23 at Experimental Biology 2018 in San Diego, CA.
Marcelo Sztein, MD, Professor of Medicine and Associate Director for Basic and Translational Research, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, presented “Potential Correlates of Protection for ETEC: Role of B and T Cell Memory,” at the Joint WHO-NIAID-PATH Workshop on Development and Standardization of ETEC Assays and Antigens, held in Washington, DC on March 6–7.
Several faculty members in the Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health (CVD) spoke and presented at the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases 2018 Annual Conference on Vaccinology Research in Bethesda, MD on April 23–25. This included: Wilbur Chen, MD, MS, Professor of Medicine; Deanna Friedman-Klabanoff, MD, Postdoctoral Fellow; Karen Kotloff, MD, Professor of Pediatrics and Associate Director for Clinical Research; Kathleen Neuzil, MD, MPH, FIDSA, Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics and Director; Justin Ortiz, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine; and Raphael Simon, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine. In addition, CVD faculty members spoke and chaired discussions at the 2018 World Vaccine Congress in Washington DC, which took place April 2–5, including: Drs. Simon and Ortiz; Alan Cross, MD, Professor of Medicine; and Myron Levine, MD, DTPH, Simon and Bessie Grollman Distinguished Professor of Medicine and Associate Dean for Global Health, Vaccinology and Infectious Diseases.
Separately, Dr. Neuzil presented “Vaccines, Antimicrobial Resistance, and Health Equity,” at the Jefferson Vaccine Center Annual 2018 Symposium, Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia on March 13.
Congratulations to the following who have received honors!
Quinton Banks, Doctoral Student, Program in Neuroscience, in the lab of Martin Schneider, PhD, Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, received the 5th Annual Hugo González-Serratos Scientific Presentation Award at the Training Program in Integrative Membrane Biology (TPIMB) Retreat on April 6 for his poster, “Non-invasive Electric Field Stimulation and Optical Recording of Action Potential Initiation and Propagation in Mouse Skeletal Muscle Fibers.” The Scientific Presentation Award is given by the Department of Physiology and TPIMB and is made possible by a gift from the González-Serratos family.
Maureen Black, PhD, the John A. Scholl, MD and Mary Louise Scholl, MD, Professor, Department of Pediatrics and Kathleen Neuzil, MD, MPH, FIDSA, Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics and Director of the Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, were honored in March by the Daily Record newspaper as Maryland’s Top 100 Women.
Robert Edelman, MD, received the promotion of Professor Emeritus in the Department of Medicine’s Geographic Medicine Division on May 1.
Jill Whitall, PhD, Professor, Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science, has been appointed the designation Professor Emeritus in the Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science.
Congratulations to our very productive faculty on their recent grants and contracts!
Brian Berman, MD, Professor, Department of Family & Community Medicine, and Director, Center for Integrative Medicine, and Lisa Susan Wieland, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Department of Family & Community Medicine, Center for Integrative Medicine, received a 5-year, $2.8 million grant from the National Center for Complementary & Integrative Health (NIH/NCCIH) for “Cochrane Complementary Medicine Field: Resource for Research.”
Curt Civin, MD, Associate Dean for Research, Director, Center for Stem Cell Biology & Regenerative Medicine, Professor, Departments of Pediatrics and Physiology, received a 3-year subcontract in the amount of $690,000 from GPB Scientific, LLC, under the National Institutes of Health Cooperative Agreement for “Microfluidic CAR-T Cell Processing Device.” Total funding for this NIH STTR grant is $2,300,000. Collaborators also include investigators at Princeton University.
Magali Fontaine, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, received voucher support for her project, “The Role of Platelets in the Pathophysiology of Allergic Transfusion Reactions” from the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) Institute for Clinical & Translational Research (ICTR) Voucher Program.
Bankole Johnson, DSc, MD, the Dr. Irving J. Taylor Professor and Chair, and Chamindi Seneviratne, MD, Assistant Professor, both from the Department of Psychiatry, received a five-year, $2,857,615 grant from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) for “Genomic Predictors of Placebo Response in Phase II AUD Trials.”
Anthony Kim, PhD, Assistant Professor, Departments of Neurosurgery and Pharmacology, received a five-year, $ 1,767,095 NIH R01 grant from the National Cancer Institute (NIH/NCI) for “Impact of Fn14-targeted Nanoparticles for Triple-Negative Breast Cancer.” Jeffrey Winkles, PhD, Professor, Departments of Surgery and Physiology, is a co-investigator on this project.
Jocelyn Reader, PhD, Research Associate, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, received a one year $50,000 grant from the Kaleidoscope of Hope Ovarian Cancer Foundation for “Targeting the PGE2 EP4 Receptor as a Mechanism for Improved Chemotherapeutic Response in Epithelial Ovarian Cancer.”
Rossana Trotta, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, received a one-year< $30,000 pilot project grant from the American Cancer Society Institutional Research Grant (ACS-IRG) for “MicroRNAs as Regulators of NK Anti-Cancer Stem Cell Activity.”
Michele Vitolo, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology, received a 4-year, $779,000 American Cancer Society Research Scholars Award for “Targeting Cytoskeletal Aberrations to Prevent Breast Cancer Metastasis.”
Hats off to those who have been published!
Manuj Agarwal, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, was a co-author on “Cancer, Lung, Small Cell (Oat Cell),” in the January 2018 issue of StatPearls.
Eileen Barry, PhD, Professor of Medicine, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, was among the co-authors of “The Critical Role of Zinc in a New Murine Model of Enterotoxigenic E. coli (ETEC) Diarrhea,” published in Infection and Immunity on April 16, 2018.
Thomas Blanpied, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Physiology, was senior author of “Transcellular Nanoalignment of Synaptic Function,” published in Neuron on November 1, 2017. The article also appeared in print at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience on November 11, 2017.
Qi Cao, BM, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, was among the co-authors of “Exposure to Concentrated Ambient PM2.5 Alters the Composition of Gut Microbiota in a Murine Model,” published in Particle and Fibre Toxicology on April 17, 2018.
Firas El Chaer, MD, Medical Oncology and Hematology Fellow, University of Maryland Medical Center; Zeba Singh, MBBS, Associate Professor; and Ying Zou, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, both from Department of Pathology; Pranshu Mohindra, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology; and Maria Baer, MD, Professor and Jennie Law, MD, Assistant Professor, both from the Department of Medicine, were the authors of “Acute Onset Unilateral Proptosis,” e-published in the American Journal of Medicine on April 13, 2018.
Linda Chang, MD, MS, Professor and Dinesh Shukla, PhD, Assistant Professor, both from the Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, authored “Imaging Studies of the HIV-infected Brain,” published in the Handbook of Clinical Neurology on May 2, 2018. Dr. Chang was also co-author of “Baby Brain Atlases,” published in Neuroimage on April 3, 2018.
Svetlana Chapoval, MD, PhD, visiting Assistant Professor of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Center for Vascular and Inflammatory Diseases, authored “Neuroimmune Semaphorins as Costimulatory Molecules and Beyond,” published in Molecular Medicine on April 4, 2018.
Alan Cross, MD, Professor of Medicine, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, was among the co-authors of “Top Down Tandem Mass Spectrometric Analysis of a Chemically Modified Rough-Type Lipopolysaccharide Vaccine Candidate,” published in the Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry on April 23, 2018.
Vasken Dilsizian, MD, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, was a co-author on a book chapter, titled “Nuclear Cardiology”, in Braunwald’s Heart Disease: A Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine, 11th edition, Elsevier Science, 2018.
Meagan Fitzpatrick, PhD, Research Associate, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, was among the co-authors of “Optimizing the Impact of Low-Efficacy Influenza Vaccines,” published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States on April 30, 2018. In addition, she was among the co-authors of “Evaluating Vaccination Strategies for Zika Virus in the Americas,” published in Annals of Internal Medicine on April 3, 2018.
Dheeraj Gandhi, MBBS, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, was last author of “Neuroimaging of Meckel’s Cave in Normal and Disease Conditions,” published in Insights Imaging on April 18, 2018.
Ronald Gartenhaus, MD, Professor, Department of Medicine; Bandish Kapadia, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Program in Oncology; Nahid Nanaji, MD, MPH, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology; Kavita Bhalla, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine; Rena Lapidus, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, were among the co-authors of “Fatty Acid Synthase Induced S6Kinase Facilitates USP11-eIF4B Complex Formation for Sustained Oncogenic Translation in DLBCL,” published in Nature Communications on February 26, 2018.
Anthony Harris, MD, MPH, Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, was among the co-authors of “The Importance of Contact Precautions for Endemic Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus and Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci,” published in the Journal of the American Medical Association on March 6, 2018.
Nicholas Hegerle, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow; Janhabi Bose, Research Assistant; Grish Rmachandran, Research Assistant; Jim Galen, PhD, Professor of Medicine; Raphael Simon, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine; and Sharon Tennant, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine, all from Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, were the co-authors of “Over-Expression of O-Polysaccharide Chain Length Regulators in Gram-Negative Bacteria Using the Wzx/Wzy-Dependent Pathway Enhances Production of Defined Modal Length O Polysaccharide Polymers for Use as Haptens in Glycoconjugate Vaccines,” published in the Journal of Applied Microbiology on March 30, 2018.
Thomas Hornyak, MD, PhD, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Dermatology, and Paul Antony, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, were among the co-authors of “17-AAG Inhibits Vemurafenib-Associated MAP Kinase Activation and is Synergistic with Cellular Immunotherapy in a Murine Melanoma Model,” published in PLoS One on February 26, 2018.
James Kaper, PhD, Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor & Chair of Microbiology & Immunology, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, was among the co-authors of “Tandem Tyrosine Phosphosites in the Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli Chaperone CesT are Required for Differential Type III Effector Translocation and Virulence,” published in Molecular Microbiology on March 6, 2018.
Karen Kotloff, MD, Professor of Pediatrics and Associate Director for Clinical Research; Myron Levine, MD, DTPH, Simon and Bessie Grollman Distinguished Professor of Medicine and Associate Dean for Global Health, Vaccinology and Infectious Diseases; Marcelo Sztein, MD, Professor of Pediatrics and Associate Director for Basic and Translational Research; Franklin Toanpanta, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine; and Paula Bernal, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, all from the Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, were the co-authors of “T Cell Mediated Immunity Induced by the Live-Attenuated Shigella flexneri 2a Vaccine Candidate CVD 1208S in Humans,” published in the Journal of Translational Medicine on March 13, 2018.
Narottam Lamichhane, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, was among the authors of “Dosimetric Analysis of Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy for Pancreatic Cancer Using MR-Guided Tri-60Co Unit, MR-Guided LINAC, and Conventional LINAC-Based Plans,” e-published in Practical Radiation Oncology on March 1, 2018.
Regina Macatangay, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, and Eric Strauch, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, were among the co-authors of “Extensive Synchronous Bilateral Wilms Tumor Treated with Nephron Sparing Surgery,” published in Urology Case Reports on March 21, 2018.
Monica McArthur, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Wilbur Chen, MD, MS, Associate Professor of Medicine, and Marcelo Sztein, MD, Professor of Pediatrics and Associate Director for Basic and Translational Research, all from the Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, were among the co-authors of “Differences Between Pediatric and Adult T Cell Responses to In Vitro Staphylococcal Enterotoxi B Stimulation,” published in Frontiers in Immunology on March 20, 2018
Béatrice Milon, PhD, Research Supervisor (first author), Sunayana Mitra, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Zachary Margulies, BSc, Research Assistant, Ryan Casserly, MD, Resident, Virginia Drake, BSc, Medical Student, Didier Depireux, PhD, Associate Professor, and Ronna Hertzano, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, all from the Department of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery; Yang Song, PhD, Bioinformatician, Institute for Genome Sciences, and Jessica Mong, PhD, Professor, Department of Pharmacology, authored “The Impact of Biological Sex on the Response to Noise and Otoprotective Therapies Against Acoustic Injury in Mice,” published in Biology of Sex Differences on March 12, 2018.
Daniel Morgan, MD, MS, Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, was among the co-authors of “2017 Update on Pediatric Medical Overuse: A Review,” published in the Journal of the American Medical Association: Pediatrics on March 26, 2018. In addition, Dr. Morgan, Lisa Pineles, MA, Program Director, Division of Genomic Epidemiology and Clinical Outcomes, and Mary-Claire Roghmann, MD, MS, Professor, also from the Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, were among the co-authors of “The Impact of Isolation on Healthcare Worker Contact and Compliance With Infection Control Practices in Nursing Homes,” published in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology on April 2, 2018.
Kathleen Neuzil, MD, MPH, FIDSA, Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics and Director of the Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health (CVD), and Elizabeth Rotrosen, Clinical Research Assistant, CVD, wrote the commentary “How Do We Best Prevent Influenza in Young Children?” e-published in The Lancet on April 6, 2018. Separately, Dr. Neuzil wrote the commentary “Quantifying the Impact of Maternal Influenza Vaccination—Beyond Laboratory-Confirmed Efficacy,” published in Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal on May 1, 2018. In addition, Dr. Neuzil and Justin Ortiz, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, CVD, were among the co-authors of “Report on Eighth WHO Meeting on Development of Influenza Vaccines That Induce Broadly Protective and Long-Lasting Immune Responses,” published in Vaccine on February 8, 2018.
Feyruz Rassool, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, was among the authors of “An Effective Epigenetic-PARP Inhibitor Combination Therapy for Breast and Ovarian Cancers Independent of BRCA-Mutations,” e-published in Clinical Cancer Research on April 3, 2018.
Charles Resnik, MD, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, was among the co-authors of “Musculoskeletal Radiology Fellowship Application and Selection Process: Perceptions of Residents, Fellows, and Fellowship Directors,” published in Academy Radiology on April 6, 2018.
Stephen Schimpff, MD, Clinical Professor, Department of Medicine, was the author of the book Longevity Decoded: The 7 Keys to Healthy Aging, published by Squire Publishing on April 8, 2018.
Milagritos Tapia, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics; Meagan Fitzpatrick, PhD, Research Associate; Karen Kotloff, MD, Professor of Pediatrics and Associate Director for Clinical Research; Kathleen Neuzil, MD, MPH, FIDSA, Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics and Director, all from the Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health (CVD); and Samba Sow, MD, MS, Adjunct Professor and Director General of CVD-Mali, were among the co-authors of “Evaluation of a Booster Dose of Pentavalent Rotavirus Vaccine Co-Administered with Measles, Yellow Fever and Meningitis A Vaccines in 9-month-old Malian Infants,” e-published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases on April 12, 2018.
Thomas Weart, MD, Medical Oncology and Hematology Fellow, University of Maryland Medical Center, Kenneth Miller, MD, Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, and Charles Simone, II, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, were the authors of “Spotlight on Dabrafenib/Trametinib in the Treatment of Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer: Place in Therapy,” published in Cancer Management and Research on April 3, 2018.
Hao Howard Zhang, PhD, and Warren D’Souza, PhD, MBA, authored “A Treatment Planning Method for Better Management of Radiation-Induced Oral Mucositis in Locally Advanced Head and Neck Cancer,” published in the March 2018 issue of the Journal of Medical Physics.
Janie Zuber, MD, Clinical Fellow, and Shannon Takala-Harrison, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine, both from the Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, authored “Multidrug-Resistant Malaria and the Impact of Mass Drug Administration,” published in Infection and Drug Resistance on March 1, 2018.