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Susman to become Dean at
Northeastern Ohio Universities Colleges of Medicine and Pharmacy
Jeff Susman, MD, chair of the
Department of Family and Community Medicine, will become Dean at
Northeastern Ohio Universities Colleges of Medicine and Pharmacy
(NEOUCOM)
effective Sept. 7, 2010. Susman will also serve as a professor of
family medicine at NEOUCOM. Susman has served as chair of Family and
Community Medicine since November 1999. Prior to coming to UC, he
served as a professor of family medicine at the University of
Nebraska and was the associate dean for primary care and faculty
development at the University of Nebraska College of Medicine.
Susman currently serves on the board of the Health Alliance and is a
workgroup leader and steering committee member of the Robert Wood
Johnson, Cincinnati Aligning Forces for Quality effort.
College of Medicine Dean David Stern, MD, says he is disappointed to
lose Susman, but "thrilled he has this tremendous opportunity." In a
message released today, Stern thanked Susman for "all of the hard
work he’s contributed to making the family medicine program at UC
visible nationally and a leader locally." Stern anticipates naming
an interim chair for the department within the next few weeks.
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Woodle to Speak at FDA Workshop E. Steve Woodle, MD, professor of
surgery in the division
of transplantation, has been invited to speak at the Food and
Drug Administration public workshop, "Issues in the Development
of Medical Products for the Prophylaxis and/or Treatment of
Acute Antibody Mediated Rejection (AMR) in Kidney Transplant
Recipients,” held June 28-29 in Silver Spring, Md. Woodle was
asked to participate as a panelist and speaker because of his
expertise in AMR and designing trials for highly sensitized
transplant patients. The FDA workshop is intended to provide
information for and gain perspective from health care providers,
researchers and industry on the development of medical products
for prophylaxis and treatment of acute AMR in kidney transplant
recipients, including clinical trial design and endpoints.
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Air wins Dunsker Award for Clinical Research
Ellen Air, MD,
PhD, who graduated from UC’s six-year residency program in
neurosurgery June 4, is the 2010 winner of the Ellen and Stewart
B. Dunsker, MD, Award for Clinical Research. Air, who has a
special interest in functional neurosurgery, won the $2,000
annual prize with her paper, "Longitudinal comparison of pre-
and postoperative diffusion tensor imaging parameters in young
children with hydrocephalus.” The imaging study, the first of
its kind, was published in the April 2010 issue of the
Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics. Air will continue her
training at the University of California San Francisco, where
she will be a fellow in functional neurosurgery. Co-authors of
the award-winning paper are Weihong Yuan, PhD, Scott Holland,
PhD, Blaise Jones, MD, Karin Bierbrauer, MD, Mekibib Altaye,
PhD, and Francesco Mangano, DO. All are affiliated with
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center.
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Ahmed Wins 'Research to Prevent Blindness' Award
Ahmed Wins ‘Research to Prevent Blindness’ Award
Zubair Ahmed, PhD, assistant professor of ophthalmology and
researcher at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, was
awarded a $200,000 Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB) Career
Development Award to fund research with Usher syndrome, a
condition characterized by both blindness and deafness. Ahmed is
developing a strategy to slow development of vision and hearing
loss in individuals with the disorder while investigating
potential genetic interventions to prevent progressive
impairments in affected individuals. The RPB Career Development
Award Fund was established in 1990 to attract young physicians
and basic scientists to eye research.
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Student Selected to Meet Nobel Laureates
UC student Margaret Stefater has been selected as one of 10
graduate student researchers sponsored by Oak Ridge Associated
Universities to attend the 60th Lindau Meeting of Nobel
Laureates and Students in Lindau, Germany, from June 27-July 2.
Since 1951, Nobel laureates have annually convened in Lindau to
have open and informal meetings with research students from
around the world. During the meeting, students will attend
lectures by the laureates and will be able to participate in
discussions with them on the topics of chemistry, physics and
physiology/medicine. Stefater specializes in neuroscience and
obesity research.
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Hematology Oncology Grand Rounds June 25
Jaroslaw Maciejewski, MD, PhD, Case Western Reserve University
professor of medicine, will be the featured presenter at the
Friday, June 25, hematology oncology grand rounds. He will
present "Genomics of Myelodysplastic Syndrome" at 8 a.m. in
Medical Sciences Building Room 2351. Maciejewski is also
Chairman of Translational Hematology and Oncology Research at
the Cleveland Clinic’s Taussig Cancer Center. His clinical areas
of expertise include bone marrow failure syndromes and myeloid
malignancies. For more information, e-mail
crossen@uc.edu or call (513) 558-0120.
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'Fit to Fight' Supports Cancer Research, Patient Care
The 2010 Fit to Fight triathlon, duathlon and 5K run/walk event
will benefit cancer research and patient care initiatives
related to ovarian cancer at the UC Health Barrett Cancer
Center. The event is sponsored by Venus, a fitness studio for
women, and will be held Sunday, July 18, 2010, at the Mason
Community Center. Billed as the area's "most family-friendly
triathlon," the event features races for men, women and
children. Event organizers are also seeking volunteers for event
day activities. For more information, call (513) 984-4437.
Register online for Fit to Fight
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