What’s the Buzz? June 2017 Vol.19 No.6

Self-Reported News from the School of Medicine Community

Honors & Awards

Congratulations to the following who have received honors!

J Laura Buchanan, MD, Assistant Professor, Depart- Image Quality Metrics: AAPM TG-150 Draft Image Detector Tests”). ment of Surgery, received the Student Council Clinical JACMP is one of two journals published by the American Association Faculty Award at the 2017 School of Medicine gradua- of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM). The award will be presented dur- tion ceremony in on May 18. ing the AAPM annual meeting in Denver in July. J Neda Frayha, MD, Clinical J Wendy Lane, MD, MPH, Clinical Associ- Professor, Department of ate Professor, Department of Medicine, and Assistant Dean, & Public Health, received the Dean’s Faculty Office of Student Affairs, Award for Diversity & Inclusion at the Tenth received the Pass and Susel Annual “Celebrating Diversity” dinner, held Medical Education Tool Chest on February 25 at the Baltimore Hilton Inner Laura Buchanan, MD Award at the 11th annual Student Harbor. Awards Ceremony and Dinner J Joseph Martinez, MD, Associ- on May 17. ate Professor, Department of J Robert Gallo, MD, the Homer & Martha Emergency Medicine, Assistant Neda Frayha, MD Wendy Lane, MD, MPH Gudelsky Distinguished Professor in Medicine, Dean for Student Affairs, and and Director, Institute Assistant Dean for Clinical Medical Education & Resi- of Human Virology, received the ASI Lifetime dency Programs Liaison, was selected as a 2017 Pass and Achievement Award from the AIDS Society Susel Fellow of the Academy of Educational Excellence. of India (ASI), a national network of HIV He was recognized for this honor at the 11th annual medical experts. ASI conferred the prestigious Student Awards and Dinner on May 17. honor upon Dr. Gallo in recognition of his pio- J Adam Puche, PhD, Associate Joseph Martinez, MD neering role in advancing path-breaking HIV Professor, Department of over the decades. Dr. Gallo received Anatomy & Neurobiology, received the this award at the Pioneers in Infectious Agents Student Council Preclinical Faculty Award and Cancer meeting in Naples, Italy, on March at the 2017 School of Medicine graduation Robert Gallo, MD 23, which also marked his 80th birthday. ceremony on May 18. “Dr. Gallo, a globally-acclaimed biomedical J Shabnam Salimi, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, researcher, is best known for his role in the discovery of the Human Department of Epidemiology & Public Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) as the infectious agent responsible for Health, received both a 2017 Outstanding Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) and in the develop- Presentation Award and a Geriatrics and ment of the HIV blood test, apart from being a major contributor to Adam Puche, PhD Gerontology subsequent HIV research for several decades now,” said Dr. Ishwar Education and Gilada, president of AIDS Society of India (ASI), while bestowing the Research Program award at the 39th Annual honor. Graduate Research Conference for her J David Gens, MD, Professor, Department of Surgery, was selected by project “Pro-Inflammatory Biomarkers the Class of 2017 to receive the American Medical Student Association and Trajectory of Renal Function in Older Golden Apple Clinical Award at the 2017 School of Medicine gradua- Community-Dwelling Adults.” Co-authors tion ceremony on May 18. on this project were Michelle Shardell, PhD, J Erin Giudice, MD, Assistant Professor, Adjunct Associate Professor, Jack Guralnik, Department of Pediatrics, and Director of the MD, PhD, MPH, Professor, and Luigi Pediatrics Residency, was selected as a 2017 Ferrucci, MD, PhD, Adjunct Professor, all Jack Guralnik, MD, PhD, MPH Pass and Susel Fellow of the Academy of from the Department of Epidemiology & Educational Excellence. She was recognized Public Health; and Stephen Seliger, MD, MS, for this honor at the 11th annual Student Associate Professor, Department of Medicine. Awards and Dinner on May 17. J Nevins Todd, MD, Associate Professor, J Ann Hackman, MD, Associate Professor, Departments of Medicine and Physiology, Department of Psychiatry, received the Student received the Student Council Preclinical Council Preclinical Faculty Award at the 2017 Erin Giudice, MD Faculty Award at the 2017 School of School of Medicine graduation ceremony on Medicine graduation ceremony on May 18. May 18. J Emerson Wickwire, PhD, Assistant J Stella Hines, MD, MSPH, Associate Professor, Professor, Department of Medicine, was Departments of selected by the Class of 2017 to receive the Medicine and American Medical Student Association Psychiatry, has Nevins Todd, MD Golden Apple Preclinical Award at the 2017 been selected to School of Medicine graduation ceremony on receive a Strategic Research award for his May 18. project “Demonstrating the Value of Board J Guang Li, PhD, Certification in Sleep Medicine: Trends in Assistant Professor, Diagnosis and Impact on Quality of Care Department of and Economic Outcomes Among Medicare Stella Hines, MD, MSPH Diagnostic Radiology Beneficiaries, 2006–2013.” He will receive up Emerson Wickwire, PhD, & Nuclear Medicine, to $250,000 over three years. This award is ABPP, CBSM, FAASM has been selected as a recipient of an Editor-in- aimed at improving the quality of healthcare Chief Award for a paper published in Journal delivery in the field of sleep medicine. His project will involve a series of Applied Clinical Medical Physics (JACMP) last of comparative effective analyses to examine the public health, clini- year (“Evaluation of Cassette-Based Digital cal, and economic implications of care delivered by board-certified Radiography Detectors Using Standardized sleep medicine physicians, relative to care delivered by non-specialist Guang Li, PhD providers.

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Publications

Hats off to those who have been published!

J Sally Adebamowo, MBBS, MSc, ScD, Interim Visiting Assistant J Niel Constantine, PhD, Professor of Pathology, Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, as part of Institute of Human Virology, was the lead author on The Cancer Genome Atlas Research Network, was among the co- “Assessment of Two Rapid Assays for Diagnostic authors on “Integrated Genomic and Molecular Characterization of Capability to Accurately Identify Infection by Treponema Cervical Cancer” in , 2017 Mar 16;543(7645):378-384. pallidum” in Journal of Applied Laboratory Medicine, 2017 J Jennifer Albrecht, PhD, Assistant Professor, Jan;1(4). Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, was first J Andrew Crouter, MD, Third-year Emergency author on “Treatment Charges for Traumatic Brain Injury Medicine Resident, along with Michael Abraham, MD, Among Older Adults at a Trauma Center” in Journal of Clinical Assistant Professor, and R. Gentry Wilkerson, Head Trauma Rehabilitation, 2017 Feb 10 [Epub ahead of MD, Assistant Professor, Niel Constantine, PhD print]. Dr. Albrecht, Gordon Smith, MB, ChB, MPH, both from the Department Adjunct Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public of Emergency Medicine, co-authored Health, and C. Daniel Mullins, PhD, Professor, School “Emphysematous Pyelonephritis in a Renal of Pharmacy and Department of Surgery (secondary), Allograft” in The American Journal of Emergency were among the co-authors on “Psychotropic Medication Medicine, 2017 Mar;35[3]:520.e1-520.e2. Jennifer Albrecht, Use Among Medicare Beneficiaries Following Traumatic J W. Andrew Eglseder, MD, Professor, PhD Brain Injury” in American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 2017 Marcus Sciadini, MD, Associate Apr;25(4):415-424. Professor, Jason Nascone, MD, J Kelley Banagan, MD, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, and Robert and Steven Ludwig, MD, Professor, both R. Gentry Wilkerson, MD O’Toole, MD, The Hansjörg from the Department of Orthopaedics, Wyss Medical Foundation were among the co-authors on “On-Field Endowed Professor in Orthopaedic Trauma, all from the Evaluation and Transport of the Injured Department of Orthopaedics, were the senior authors Athlete,” a book chapter in Spine Injuries in on “Radiographic Predictors of Symptomatic Screw Athletes, published by Wolters Kluwer and the Removal after Retrograde Femoral Nail Insertion” in American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Injury, 2017;48(3):758-762. [ISBN: 9781496360267]. Drs. Banagan and J Reha Erzurumlu, PhD, Jason Nascone, MD Ludwig, along with Eugene Koh, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Kelley Banagan, MD Assistant Professor, and Daniel Gelb, MD, Anatomy & Neurobiology, was among the co- Professor, both also from the Department of authors on “A Mutant with Bilateral Whisker Orthopaedics, were among the co-authors on “Facet Joint Violation to Barrel Inputs Unveils Somatosensory During Percutaneous Pedicle Screw Placement: Comparison of Two Mapping Rules in the Cerebral Cortex” in Elife, Techniques” in Spine, 2016 Dec 2 [Epub ahead of print]. 2017 Mar 28;6. J Kathryn Hughes Barry, PhD, MPH, Assistant J Steven Feigenberg, MD, Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Professor, and William Health, was co-author on a research paper on pesti- Regine, MD, Professor cides that was the subject of an article in Environmental Reha Erzurumlu, PhD and the Isadore & Fannie Health News. The article can be found at: http://www. Schneider Foxman Chair, both from the Department environmentalhealthnews.org/ehs/news/2017/feb/ of Radiation Oncology, were among the co-authors on pesticides-and-farmers-dna-cancer-rates-prostate-cancer- “Comparison of Onsite Versus Online Chart Reviews agricultural-health-study as Part of the American College of Radiation Oncology J Rachel Bluebond-Langner, Accreditation Program” in Journal of Oncology Practice, MD, Assistant Professor, and 2017 May;13(5):e516-e521. Kathryn Hughes Sheri Slezak, MD, Professor, Steven Feigenberg, MD Barry, PhD, MPH J Deborah Frassica, MD, Clinical Associate Professor, both from the Department of Department of Radiation Oncology, was among the Surgery; Sally Cheston, MD, co-authors on “Evaluating the Role of Interdigitated Neoadjuvant Assistant Professor; Elizabeth Nichols, MD, Chemotherapy and Radiation in the Management of High-Grade Assistant Professor, Randi Cohen, MD, MS, Soft-Tissue Sarcoma: The Johns Hopkins Experience” in American Assistant Professor, and Steven Feigenberg, Journal of Clinical Oncology, 2017 Apr;40(2):214-217; and on “Combined MD, Professor (last author), all from the Modality Therapy Improves Overall Survival for Angiosarcoma” in Department of Radiation Oncology; Soren Acta Oncologica, 2017 Mar 30:1-4 [Epub ahead of print]. Bentzen, PhD, DMSc, Professor, Department Sheri Slezak, MD of Epidemiology & Public Health; Cynthia J Ann Gruber-Baldini, PhD, Professor (first author), Drogula, MD, Assistant Professor, Susan Kesmodel, MD, Assistant Denise Orwig, PhD, Associate Professor, and Jay Professor, and Emily Bellavance, MD, Assistant Professor, all from Magaziner, PhD, MSHyg, Professor and Chair (last the Department of Surgery; and Paula Rosenblatt, MD, Assistant author), all from the Department of Epidemiology Professor, and Katherine Tkaczuk, MD, Professor, both from the & Public Health; and Marc Hochberg, MD, MPH, Department of Medicine, were among the co-authors on “Effect of Professor, Department of Medicine, were among the Reduction Mammoplasty on Acute Radiation Side Effects and Use of co-authors on “Cognitive Differences between Men Lumpectomy Cavity Boosts” in Practical Radiation Oncology, 2017 Jan 7 and Women who Fracture their Hip and Impact on [Epub ahead of print]. Six-Month Survival” in Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2017 Mar;65(3):e64-e69. Dr. Gruber-Baldini J Wengen Chen, MD, PhD, Associate was first author, and Lisa Shulman, MD, the Eugenia Ann Gruber-Baldini, PhD Professor, and Vasken Dilsizian, MD, Brin Professor in Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Professor, both from the Department of Disorders, Department of Neurology, was last author on “Validation Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, of the PROMIS(®) Measures of Self-Efficacy for Managing Chronic were among the co-authors on “Exploring Conditions” in Quality of Research, 2017 Feb 26 [Epub the Pathophysiology of Takotsubo ahead of print]. Drs. Gruber-Baldini and Shulman were Cardiomyopathy” in Current Cardiology Reports, also co-authors, with Stephen Reich, MD, the Frederick 2017 Jun;19(6):53. Dr. Dilsizian was also the Henry Distinguished Professor in Neurology (last primary author on an Editor’s Page entitled author), Department of Neurology, on “Are Patients “Quantitative PET Myocardial Blood Flow: Wengen Chen, MD, PhD with Psychogenic Movement Disorders More Likely to ‘Trust, But Verify’” in Journal of the American be Healthcare Workers?” in Movement Disorders Clinical College of Cardiology Cardiovascular Imaging, 2017 Practice, 2017 Jan/Feb;4(1): 62–67. May; 10(5):609-10. J Mariana Guerrero, PhD, Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, was a co-author Mariana Guerrero, PhD

2 W Buzz Publications continued from page 2 Department of Epidemiology & Public Health; Alash’le Abimiku, PhD, Professor on “A Radiobiological Model of Reoxygenation and Fractionation of Medicine, and Man Charurat, PhD, Effects” in Medical Physics, 2017 Mar 8 [Epub ahead of print]. MHS, Associate Professor of Medicine, both from the Institute of Human Virology; J Jack Guralnik, MD, PhD, MPH, Professor, and Walter Royal III, MD, Professor (last Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, was author), Department of Neurology, were among the co-authors on “Effect of Physical Activity on among the co-authors on “Peripheral Blood Self-Reported Disability in Older Adults: Results from Lymphocyte HIV DNA Levels Correlate with the LIFE Study” in Journal of the American Geriatric Society, HIV Associated Neurocognitive Disorders in 2017 May;65(5):980-988. He and Luigi Ferrucci, MD, Samer El-Kamary, MB, ChB, Nigeria” in Journal of Neurovirology, 2017 Feb 27 PhD (last author), Adjunct Professor, Department of MPH [Epub ahead of print]. Dr. Magder was also a Epidemiology & Public Health, were among the co- co-author on “Importance of Salmonella Typhi-Responsive CD8+ T Cell authors on “Dynapenic Abdominal Obesity as a Predictor Immunity in a Human Typhoid Fever Challenge Model” in Frontiers in of Worsening Disability, Hospitalization, and Mortality Immunology, 2017 Mar 2;8:208. Jack Guralnik, MD, in Older Adults: Results From the InCHIANTI Study” in PhD, MPH Journals of Gerontology Series A Biological Sciences and Medical J Yuanyuan Liang, PhD, MSc, Professor, Department of Science, 2017 Mar 8 [Epub ahead of print]; and “Three- Epidemiology & Public Health, was among the co-authors on “FIB-4 Year Changes in Physical Activity and Decline in Physical Performance and Imaging for Measuring Fibrosis in Hepatitis C Virus” in European Over 9 Years of Follow-Up in Older Adults: The Invecchiare in Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 2017 Feb;29(2):192-198; and Chianti Study” in Journal of the American Geriatric Society, 2017 Mar 1 “Less Exercise and More Drugs: How a Low Income Population [Epub ahead of print]. Dr. Guralnik was also a co-author on “Effect of Manages Chronic Pain” in Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Physical Activity Versus Health Education on Physical Function, Grip 2017 21 March [Epub ahead of print]. Strength and Mobility” in Journal of the American Geriatric Society, 2017 J Nathan O’Hara, MHA, Clinical Research Manager, Robert Feb 21 [Epub ahead of print]; “Association Between Baseline Frailty O’Toole, MD, The Hansjörg Wyss Medical Foundation Endowed and Driving Status Over Time: A Secondary Analysis of The National Professor in Orthopaedic Trauma, and Health and Aging Trends Study” in Injury Epidemiology, 2017 March 27 Marcus Sciadini, MD, Associate Professor, all [Epub ahead of print]; “The Effect of Intervening Hospitalizations on from the Department of Orthopaedics, were the Benefit of Structured Physical Activity in Promoting Independent among the co-authors on “Survivorship after Mobility Among Community-Living Older Persons: Secondary High-Energy Geriatric Trauma” in Journal of Analysis of a Randomized Controlled Trial” in BMC Medicine, 2017 Orthopaedic Trauma, 2017 Apr 18 [Epub ahead Mar 28;15(1):65; and “Cortisol and Physical Performance in Older of print]. Populations: Findings From the International Mobility in Aging Study J Robert O’Toole, MD, (IMIAS)” in 2017 Mar 9;71:50-58. Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics, The Hansjörg Wyss Medical J Anthony Harris, MD, MPH, Professor, Foundation Endowed Professor Daniel Morgan, MD, Associate Professor, Marcus Sciadini, MD in Orthopaedic Trauma, and Kerri Thom, MD, Associate Professor Department of Orthopaedics, (last author), all from the Department of was the senior author on “Biomechanical Comparison Epidemiology & Public Health, were among of Cadaveric and Commercially Available Synthetic the co-authors on “The Impact of Reducing Osteoporotic Bone Analogues in a Locked Plate Antibiotics on the Transmission of Multidrug- Fracture Model under Torsional Loading” in Journal Resistant Organisms” in Infection Control & of Orthopaedic Trauma, 2017 May;31(5):e137-e142. Hospital Epidemiology, 2017 Mar 8:1-7 [Epub Dr. O’Toole and Theodore Manson, MD, Associate Robert O’Toole, MD ahead of print]. Professor, Department of Orthopaedics, were among the J R. Frank Henn, MD, Assistant Anthony Harris, MD, MPH co-authors on two peer-reviewed original research articles published Professor, and S. Ashfaq Hasan, in Injury: “Are Antibiotic Nails Effective in the Treatment of Infected MD, Associate Professor, both from the Department of Tibial Fractures?” [2016 Dec;47(12)2809-2815], and “Assessment of Orthopaedics, were the senior authors on “Anatomical Trochanteric Osteotomy Fragment Union after Acetabular Fracture Relationship of the Axillary Nerve to the Pectoralis Surgery” [2017;48(2):384-387]. Dr. O’Toole and Marcus Sciadini, MD, Major Tendon Insertion” in Orthopedics, 2017 May Associate Professor, Department of Orthopaedics, were among the 1;40(3):e460-e464. co-authors on “When Should We Change Drill Bits? A Mechanical Comparison of New, Reprocessed, and Damaged Bits” in Journal of J Danielle Jahn, PhD, Assistant Professor (first author), Orthopaedic Trauma, 2017 May;31(5):281-286. Dr. O’Toole and Jason Anjana Muralidharan, PhD, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Nascone, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Orthopaedics, Amy Drapalski, PhD, Clinical were among the co-authors on “Early Postoperative Displacement of R. Frank Henn, MD Associate Professor, Li Juan Combined Pelvic Ring Injury with Acetabular Fracture” in Orthopedics, Fang, MS, and Alicia Lucksted, 2017 May 1;40(3):163-168. PhD, Associate Professor (last author), all from the Department of Psychiatry, and Clayton J Aruna Panda, BVSc, PhD, MPH, Associate Brown, PhD, Associate Professor, Department Professor of Pathology and Epidemiology of Epidemiology & Public Health, were co- & Public Health, Program of Comparative authors on “Differences in Suicide and Death Medicine; Louis DeTolla, VMD, PhD, Ideation Among Veterans and Nonveterans DACLAM, Professor of Pathology, Medicine With Serious Mental Illness” in Psychological and Epidemiology & Public Health and Director, Program of Comparative Medicine; Services, 2017 Mar 13 [Epub ahead of print]. Alicia Lucksted, PhD and Hervé Tettelin, PhD, Associate Professor J Jennifer Johnson, PhD, of Microbiology & Immunology, Institute Associate Professor (first author), Gwen Robinson, MPH, for Genomic Sciences, were among the Lead Clinical Research Specialist, and LiCheng Zhao, Aruna Panda, BVSc, PhD, co-authors on “Complete Genome Sequences PhD, Research Specialist, all from the Department of MPH of Mycobacterium Kansasii Strains Isolated from Pathology; and Lisa Pineles, MA, Research Associate, Rhesus Macaques” in Genome Announcements, 2017 Apr 20;5(16). Jennifer Albrecht, PhD, Assistant Professor, Anthony Harris, MD, MPH, Professor, and Kerri Thom, J Ebrahim Paryavi, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, MD, Associate Professor, all from the Department Theodore Manson, MD, Associate Professor, and Robert of Epidemiology & Public Health, were among the O’Toole, MD, The Hansjörg Wyss Medical Foundation co-authors on “Carbapenem Minimal Inhibitory Endowed Professor in Orthopaedic Trauma, all from the Jennifer Johnson, PhD Concentrations in Escherichia coli and Klebsiella Species Department of Orthopaedics, were among the co-authors Producing Extended Spectrum Beta Lactamases (ESBLs) on “Surgical Site Infection in Tibial Plateau Fractures in Critical Care Patients from 2001–2009” in Antimicrobial Agents with Ipsilateral Compartment Syndrome” in Injury, 2017 Chemotherapy, 2017 Feb 6 [Epub ahead of print]. Feb;48(2):495-500. J Jibreel Jumare (first author), Samer El-Kamary, MB, ChB, MPH, J Mary-Claire Roghmann, MD, MS, Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, was sec- Associate Professor, Laurence Magder, PhD, Professor, and Laura Theodore Manson, MD Hungerford, DVM, MPH, PhD, Adjunct Professor, all from the ond author on “Infrequent Use of Isolation Precautions

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Publications continued from page 3 Benchmarking Method to Evaluate the Accuracy of a Commercial Proton Monte Carlo Pencil Beam Scanning Treatment Planning in Nursing Homes: Implications for an Evolving System” in Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics, 2017 Mar;18(2):44– Population” in Journal of the American Geriatric Society, 49; on “Clinical Outcomes of CyberKnife Stereotactic Radiosurgery 2017 Mar;65(3):472-473. She and Patricia Langenberg, for Elderly Patients with Presumed Primary Stage I Lung Cancer” in PhD, Professor Emerita, Department of Epidemiology Translational Lung Cancer Research, 2017 Feb;6(1):6–13; and on “Risk & Public Health; Emmanuel Mongodin, PhD, Assistant of Major Cardiac Events Following Adjuvant Proton Versus Photon Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology; Radiation Therapy for Patients with Thymic Malignancies” in Acta and Jennifer Johnson, PhD, Associate Professor, Oncologica, 2017 Mar 24 [Epub ahead of print]. Department of Pathology, were among the co-authors on J Gerard Slobogean, MD, MPH, FRCSC, “Microbiological Effect of Mupirocin and Chlorhexidine Assistant Professor, and Andrew Pollak, for Staphylococcus aureus Decolonization in Community and MD, the James Lawrence Kernan Professor Mary-Claire Roghmann, Nursing Home Based Adults” in Diagnostic Microbiology and and Chair, both from the Department of MD, MS Infectious Diseases, 2017 May;88(1):53-57. Orthopaedics, were among the co-authors J Fabio Romerio, PhD, Assistant Professor of on “Quality of Life in Young Patients with Medicine, Institute of Human Virology, was Femoral Neck Fractures Treated with Internal last author on “The Human Immunodeficiency Fixation: A Prospective Multicenter Chinese Virus 1 ASP RNA Promotes Viral Latency by Cohort,” a Level I prospective cohort study Recruiting the Polycomb Repressor Complex in Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic 2 and Promoting Nucleosome Assembly” Gerard Slobogean, MD, MPH, Surgeons, 2017 Apr;25(4):297-303. FRCSC in Virology, 2017 Jun;506:34-44. Juan Carlos J O. Colin Stine, PhD, Professor, Zapata, PhD, Research Associate in Medicine, Department of Epidemiology & Public Institute of Human Virology, was the first Health, was last author on “Genetic Characterization of Vibrio cholerae author. The Editorial Board of Virology chose O1 Isolates from Outbreaks Between 2011 and 2015 in Tanzania” in this article to be highlighted in the journal’s Fabio Romerio, PhD BMC Infectious Diseases, 2017 Feb 20;17(1):157. online blog http://www.virologyhighlights. J Michael Terrin, MDCM, MPH, Professor, com/how-hiv-1-puts-itself-to-sleep/. Department of Epidemiology & Public J Bushra Saleem, MBBS, Neonatology Fellow at UMMC (first Health, was the author of “Commentary on author), Alessio Fasano, MD, Clinical Professor, Shiv Kapoor, MBBS, Fleming et al.: Data Monitoring Committee Assistant Professor, and Rose Viscardi, MD, Professor Evidence Base Needed” in Clinical Trials, 2017 (last author), all from the Department of Pediatrics; Apr;14(2):124-125. Laurence Magder, PhD, Professor, Department of J J. Kathleen Tracy, Epidemiology & Public Health; and Jacques Ravel, PhD, PhD, Associate Professor, Professor of Microbiology & Immunology and Associate Department of Epidemiology Director for Genomics, Institute for Genome Sciences, & Public Health, was among were among the co-authors on “Intestinal Barrier Michael Terrin, MDCM, MPH the co-authors on “Knowledge, Maturation in Very Low Birthweight Infants: Relationship Attitudes, Practices and to Feeding and Antibiotic Exposure” in Journal of Pediatrics, Willingness to Vaccinate in Preparation for the 2017 Apr;183:31-36.e1. Introduction of HPV Vaccines in Bamako, Mali” in PLoS Alessio Fasano, MD J Marcus Sciadini, MD, Associate Professor, Department One, 2017 Feb 13;12(2):e0171631. of Orthopaedics, was among the J Jen Yu, PhD, Assistant co-authors on “Negative Stress Examination Professor, Department of J. Kathleen Tracy, PhD Under Anesthesia Reliably Predicts Pelvic Ring Radiation Oncology, and Soren Union Without Displacement” in Journal of Bentzen, PhD, DMSc, Professor, Department Orthopaedic Trauma, 2017;31(4):189-193. of Epidemiology & Public Health, were J Charles Simone, II, MD, Associate among the co-authors on “Joint Estimation of Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, Cardiac Toxicity and Recurrence Risks After was among the co-authors on “A Study of the Comprehensive Nodal Photon Versus Proton Beam-Specific Interplay Effect in Proton Pencil Therapy for Breast Cancer” in International Beam Scanning Delivery in Lung Cancer” in Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics, Acta Oncologic, 2017 Apr;56(4):531–540; on “A Charles Simone, ll, MD Jen Yu, PhD 2017 Mar 15;97(4):754-761.

Transitions

We wish these long-term faculty members all the best.

J Paul Light, MD, Clinical Associate Profes- care, with an emphasis on optimization of care for patients with Chronic sor, Department of Medicine, will be retiring as Kidney Disease. He worked tirelessly to improve the quality of care of July 1, after almost 50 years on campus. Dr. delivered to these patients as a founding member of the Mid Atlantic Light completed medical school at the University Renal Coalition (Quality Improvement Arm of CMS ESRD–Network of Maryland School of Medicine (SOM), and 5). He served as MRB Chairman for more than a decade, continuously completed an Internal Medicine (IM) residency as a member of the Board of Directors and representative to Nation and a Nephrology fellowship at the University of Quality Improvement organizations. Dr. Light served two terms as the Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) before being SOM representative on the Governor’s Kidney Disease Commission, and appointed to the faculty of the SOM in 1978. was the longtime Medical Director of the IDF Parkview Dialysis Center, An active citizen of the SOM, Dr. Light sup- securing the Certificate of Need for the first Peritoneal Dialysis Program ported the educational mission as a contributor Paul Light, MD in the State. to the instruction of every medical school class After serving for more than a decade on the IRB and other commit- since 1978 as the Renal Section Chief for Pathophysiology & Therapeutics tees, Dr. Light was appointed the Department of Medicine’s Compliance II; as Instructor for Physical Diagnosis for 40 years; as a longtime Admis- Director, serving as its representative on the FPI Compliance Committee, sions Committee member who has continued interviewing applicants as a where his clinical expertise was recruited to guide the SOM’s transition to requested interviewer; and as Attending Physician on the Department of ICD10, and target achievement for outpatient EPIC EMR and Meaning- Medicine teaching service on an ongoing basis, polishing the skills of the ful Use. third- and fourth-year students, while supervising delivery of quality care Dr. Light is looking forward to grandparenting duties, tending his two by the Department of Medicine IM residents. lovely princesses, as well as getting to develop his hobbies: gardening, cof- Dr. Light’s clinical activities were focused on providing quality patient fee roasting, and stained glass design.

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Grants & Contracts

Congratulations to our very productive faculty on their recent grants and contracts!

J Soren Bentzen, PhD, DMSc, Professor, Department award from University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio of Epidemiology & Public Health, received a one-year in support of their National Institutes of Health award “Pediatric contract from the University of Pennsylvania for his Obesity Management Intervention Trial for Hispanic Families,” and a work on the PCORI cooperative agreement “Pragmatic one-year, $10,568 award from the University of Texas Health Science Randomized Trial of Proton vs. Photon Therapy for Center at San Antonio in support of their National Institutes of Health Patients with Non-Metastatic Breast Cancer Receiving grant “Obesity Prevention in Head Start: Miranos! Program.” Comprehensive Nodal Radiation: A Radiotherapy J Feyruz Rassool, PhD, Associate Professor, Depart- Comparative Effectiveness (RADCOMP) Trial.” ment of Radiation Oncology, received a two-year, J Ann Gruber-Baldini, $201,459 grant from the National Institutes of Health PhD, Professor, Department for “Mechanism-based Approach to Combine Histone Søren Bentzen, PhD, DMSc of Epidemiology & Public Deacetylase Inhibitors with Parp Inhibitors for Therapy Health, received a one-year, in AML.” $25,000 award from the National Institutes J Alan Rathbun, PhD, MPH, Postdoctoral Research of Health’s Claude D. Pepper Older Fellow, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, Americans Independence Center (OAIC) to received a three-year, $125,000, award for the study study “Feasibility of Extended Post-Acute “Characterizing the Etiology and the Role of Depression Feyruz Rassool, PhD Intervention for Hip Fracture Patients with in Osteoarthritis.” Mild Cognitive Limitations (HipERS).” Ann Gruber-Baldini, PhD J Chozha Rathinam, MSc, DrRerNat (PhD), Assistant Professor of J Isabel Jackson, PhD, received Medicine, Institute of Human Virology, was awarded an R01 from a $2,180,930 award from Chrysalis BioTherapeutics, the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI)/NIH in the Inc.—under a prime NIH/National Institute of Allergy amount of $1,250,000 over five years for conducting research on “NF- and Infectious Diseases award—for “TP508: A Novel kB Signaling in the Control of Hematopoiesis.” The NF-kB signaling Nuclear Countermeasure Targeting Endothelial Cells and pathway is one of the most extensively studied and understood path- Stem Cells to Combat ARS and Delayed Multiple Organ ways; however, the physiological consequences of augmented NF-kB Dysfunction.” signaling in stem cells have not been understood. Despite many recent J Christopher Jewell, PhD, Assistant Professor, studies documenting constitutive activation of NF-kB in patients Department of Microbiology & Immunology, recently with hematological disorders, including Acute Myeloid Leukemia received a $1.1M merit Award from the US Department (AML) and Myelodysplastic Syndrome (MDS), it remains unclear Isabel Jackson, PhD of Veterans Affairs (BLR&D); a renewal of his $600,000 if constitutive NF-kB signaling is sufficient and/or necessary for the Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovator Award focused onset of these diseases. The proposed research will specify the role on controlling T cell plasticity to enhance anti-tumor immunity; and of NF-kB in the pathophysiology mediated by stem cells and identify a $500,000 grant from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation novel NF-kB mediated signal transduction pathways. In addition, the focused on induction of antigen-specific tolerance. proposed research will provide key insights into the molecular path- J Yuanyuan Liang, PhD, MSc, Professor, Department of ways by which deregulated NF-kB signals affect the biology of human Epidemiology & Public Health, received a 10-month, $18,250 service Hematopoietic Stem Cells. This work will utilize various transgenic agreement from the University of Texas Health Science Center at and knockout mouse models and a novel line of humanized mouse San Antonio to support the ReACH Center. Dr. Liang also received a model. Knowledge obtained through the proposed research should aid five-year, $52,844 subcontract from the University of Texas at Austin the development of newer and more successful therapies for human in support of the NIH grant “Healthy Frio: A Rural Community hematologic diseases that arise due to constitutive NF-kB activation. Partnership to Advance Latino Obesity Research,” a three-year, $48,995

Events, Lectures & Workshops

Kudos to our colleagues who are experts in their fields and give their all to represent the School of Medicine!

J Kathryn Hughes Barry, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Depart- late March. Her topic was “How to Get Your Practice Ready for Value ment of Epidemiology & Public Health, gave an invited talk at the Based Models—Focus on Tobacco Metrics.” “International Conference on Genomic Medicine: Genomics for J Robert Mitchell, Associate Director for Administration, Marlene Future Medicine and Health” in Baltimore on February 23, where she and Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center, hosted a presented “DNA Methylation at Chromosome 8q24 and the risk of roundtable discussion and was a member of a panel discussion entitled Prostate Cancer.” “ Cancer Center Support Grant 101” at the annual Cancer Center J Jessica Brown, PhD, Assistant Professor, Administrator’s Forum in St. Petersburg, FL, in May. Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, J Pranshu Mohindra, MD, MBBS, Assistant Professor, Department of was the Grand Rounds speaker for the Primary Radiation Oncology, moderated a press briefing on “Treatment Con- Care residents at UMMC Midtown on February siderations for Focused Populations” on March 17 in San Francisco, 16, where she presented “Health Disparities: CA, at the Multidisciplinary Thoracic Cancers Symposium. At the What Are They and Why Should We Care?” same meeting, Charles Simone II, MD, Associate Professor, presented J Laundette Jones, PhD, “Prospective Trial of Circulating Tumor Cells as a Biomarker for Early Assistant Professor, Depart- Detection of Recurrence in Patients with Locally Advanced Non-Small ment of Epidemiology & Cell Lung Cancer Treated with Chemoradiation” on March 16 in Public Health, recently served as a plenary session. The study was featured in press releases from the Jessica Brown, PhD a scientific mentor in this year’s symposium organizers and from the University of Maryland School of Scientist Survivor Program, held during the American Medicine. In the UMSOM release, Dean Reece noted: “This clinical Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting April study led by Dr. Simone breaks significant new ground in demonstrat- 1–5 in Washington, DC. Dr. Jones was also quoted in an ing how circulating tumor cells can help to identify lung article about the annual meeting in CancerToday, which cancer patients likely to experience a recurrence well can be found at http://www.cancertodaymag.org/ before the cancer can be detected by conventional imag- Laundette Jones, PhD EventCoverage/Pages/AACR-Annual-Meeting-2017- ing. With early detection, we will be better able to offer Science-Survivor-Program.aspx. patients more effective, personalized treatment options.” J Niharika Khanna, MBBS, MD, DGO, Associate Professor, Depart- J Brian Polster, PhD, Associate Professor, Department ment of Family & Community Medicine, hosted and presented a of Anesthesiology, presented “Mitochondrial Structural lecture at the Maryland Learning Collaborative-Garden Practice and Functional Remodeling in Microglial Activation” Transformation Network Learning Event, held in Clarksville, MD in at the Burke Medical Research Institute/Weill Cornell Medicine Seminar Series in New York on May 2. Brian Polster, PhD

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Appointments

We applaud our colleagues on their recent appointments!

J Michael Bond, MD, Associate Professor, mission is to collaboratively identify and help Department of Emergency Medicine, was to resolve global health and environment chal- appointed to a member-at-large position on lenges through the engagement of scientists the Board of Directors of the Council of from academia, government, industry, NGOs, Residency Directors in Emergency Medicine and other strategic partners. during the organization’s annual Academic J Myron Levine, MD, DTPH, the Simon Assembly, held in Fort Lauderdale in April. and Bessie Grollman Distinguished Professor J Christopher Jewell, PhD, Assistant of Medicine and Associate Dean for Professor, Department of Microbiology & Global Health, Vaccinology and Infectious Immunology, has been named to the Associ- Diseases, Institute for Global Health, has Michael Bond, MD Myron Levine, MD, DTPH ated Scientific Advisory Board for Science been appointed to a second three-year term Translational Medicine, effective July 1. as a Member of the Board on Global Health J Judy LaKind, PhD, Adjunct Associate in The National Academies of Sciences, Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Engineering, and Medicine. Public Health, has been invited to serve on the J Pranshu Mohindra, MD, MBBS, Assistant Health and Environmental Sciences Institute Professor, Department of Radiation (HESI) Risk Assessment in the 21st Century Oncology, has been elected to a three-year (RISK21) Scientific Advisory Board. The term on the Board of Directors of the Health and Environmental Sciences Institute Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology. (HESI) is a non-profit institution whose

Judy LaKind, PhD Pranshu Mohindra, MD, MBBS

In Memoriam

J Charles P. Barrett, PhD, Associate Professor (retired), Rees to reshape the Anatomy Course for the new Freshman Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology Block. The newly revamped course, Human Structure The Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology regrets and Development, integrated the disciplines of Anatomy, to announce the passing of Dr. Charles P. Barrett, retired Histology and Embryology into a single 10-week course. Associate Professor, on July 12, 2016 (the department was He served as Course Master of the new block course from only recently informed of his death). 1993-1998, implementing several innovations to the course Dr. Barrett earned his BS degree in Biology from including co-writing the dissection guide that was used in King’s College in 1957 and his PhD in Anatomy from the gross anatomy lab. He retired in 2003, but his love of the University of Maryland School of Medicine in 1969. teaching kept him involved with the University as an Adjunct From 1959 to 1968 he held several positions at Edgewood faculty member. He continued to contribute to the improve- Arsenal in Maryland including Chief, Cell Biology Section, Charles P. Barrett, PhD ment of the Structure and Development course, helping Pathology Branch, Directorate of Medical Research. Here revise the dissector yearly and implementing new learning he did research for the United States Army. His appointments at modalities to aid the students in mastering the course material. UMB were in the then Department of Anatomy (now Anatomy and Dr. Barrett was artistically talented in photography, drawing, and Neurobiology), first as an Instructor in 1968, then rising to Associate painting. He wrote poetry and traveled widely, especially to China. Professor in 1977. At UMB his research interests were on the regenera- As Dr. Michael T. Shipley, Chairman of Anatomy and Neurobiology, tion of damaged central neurons with emphasis on the spinal cord. noted, “He was a sweet, generous and kind-hearted man who was As the SOM curriculum was being revamped into its current “block” well-liked by the students, faculty and staff. We are sad that he is no format, Dr. Barrett worked closely under Course Director Dr. Rosemary longer with us.”

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