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What's the Buzz? November 2022

November 2022


 

Honors & Awards

Carla Alexander, MD, FAAHPM, Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine and Director of Palliative Care for the Institute of Human Virology Clinical Programs, was among four people honored at the 35th Anniversary Commemoration of the AIDS Action Network Baltimore. The event was held on September 18, 2022.

 

Rianne Campbell, a postdoctoral fellow in Mary Kay Lobo's laboratory, is the recipient of the 2022 Michael Shipley Postdoctoral Award. This annual award is given to a postdoctoral fellow who has demonstrated excellence in neuroscience research. Dr. Shipley was the inaugural Director of the Program in Neuroscience and Chair of the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology for 25 years.

 

Joseph Martinez, MD, Associate Dean for Medical Education and Learning Environment and Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, will receive the 2022 Excellence in Medical Student Career Advising Faculty Advisor Award given by Careers in Medicine, the career-planning program of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). The award recognizes Dr. Martinez's accomplishments and commitment as an advisor to helping students fulfill their career goals and will be presented in November at the AAMC annual meeting in Nashville.

Rajabrata Sarkar, MD, PhD, Professor and Vice Chair for Clinical Operations, Department of Surgery, Division Head, Vascular Surgery, Director, Faculty Group Practice Operations, was awarded a Technology Advancement Award by the Office of Technology Transfer for the technology that he presented at the July 20th Medical Device Prototype Sprint pitch presentation in August.

 

Robert SchwarczRobert Schwarcz, PhD, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, is the recipient of the 2022 Lieber Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Schizophrenia Research. The Prize was established in 1987 by the late Stephen and Connie Lieber, global champions of psychiatric research.  It is one of the most coveted recognitions in the field. Dr. Schwarcz is the sole recipient of the 2022 Lieber Prize, which was presented to him at the BBRF International Awards Dinner on October 28, 2022, in New York City.


 

New Faculty & Appointments

Sarah McAvoy, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, was appointed in September as Vice Chair for Education. Dr. McAvoy currently serves and will continue as Program Director for the Radiation Oncology Medical Residency Program. In the newly created Vice Chair for Education role, she will work to sustain and expand the department’s educational infrastructure and serve as the central education contact across six practice sites, including outreach to undergraduates, medical students, residents, and postgraduates, as well as for continuing medical education opportunities within the department.

Kyle Fischer, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Health Policy and Leadership Fellowship Director, has been appointed to the new Connecticut Commission on Community Gun Violence Intervention and Prevention, established by state legislation in May 2022. She attended the new commission’s first meeting via Zoom on September 6. Dr. Fischer is policy director for the national nonprofit Health Alliance for Violence Intervention.

New members of the Department of Emergency Medicine who joined the faculty this summer are Michael Baranowski, MD; Adam James, MD; Gina Jordan, MD; Samantha King, MD; Chloe Renshaw, MD; Germaine Rival, DO, MPH; Kelli Robinson, MD; Lucas Sjeklocha, MD; and Kathleen Stephanos, MD. Drs. Jordan, King, Sjeklocha, and Stephanos completed their residencies at UMEM.

The Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science had two Doctor of Physical Therapy students (SPT) run for the national office of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Manual Physical Therapy - student Special Interest Group (AAOMPT sSIG). Congratulations to incoming President David Dellota, SPT '24, and Vice President Michael Gentile, SPT '24.  They will take the baton from Vice President John Morgan, SPT '23, who helped spearhead the post-pandemic revitalization of the AAOMPT sSIG.


 

In the News

Colleen Hughes Driscoll, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, was interviewed by Reuters Health on the impacts of rooming-in practices and neonatal falls. The article focuses on Dr. Hughes Driscoll’s recent publication in Pediatrics, “In-Hospital Neonatal Falls: An Unintended Consequence of Efforts to Improve Breastfeeding.” Richard Lichenstein, MD, Professor, also with the Department of Pediatrics, was the senior author of the publication.

Emerson Wickwire, PhD, Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Medicine, was interviewed on WTOR radio station on August 31, 2022. The topic of the interview was sleep at the start of a new school year. He also was interviewed on FOX 45 Facebook Live’s “Back to School Headquarters” edition on September 1, 2022. The topic of the interview was sleep for children and parents at the start of a new school year.


 

Grants & Contracts

Kathryn Barry, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, was awarded $30,000 for “Neighborhood Social Factors and Prostate Tumor Aggressiveness among African American and European American Men” by the American Cancer Society.

 

James Doub, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Institute of Human Virology, (IHV) was awarded $1.3 million from NIH’s National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) with his Co-PI Ken Urish, MD, PhD, at the University of Pittsburgh, to study “The Role of Teichoic Acid Glycosylation in Phage Activity and Selection in an Ongoing FDA Phase I/II Clinical Study of Bacteriophage Therapy in Chronic Periprosthetic Joint Infection.” This project will study how changes in the sugar content of Staphylococcal aureus’ cell wall impacts bacteriophage (viruses that kill bacteria) ability to kill bacteria with the ultimate goal being to create effective, reproducible bacteriophage therapeutics to reduce the disability and death associated with infections in and around prosthetic joints, while also applying their findings to antibiotic-resistant infections.

Martin FlajnikMartin Flajnik, PhD, Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, and University of Chicago colleague Erin Adams, were awarded a five-year $586.000 NIH grant for NIAID entitled “Determining the Origins of Nonclassical Class I Molecules through Molecular and Functional Approaches.”

 

Rao Gullapalli, PhD, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, received a three-year $1,025,802 USAMRAA/Geneva Foundation Contract for “Comprehensive Assessment of Blast Traumatic Brain Injury in a Gyrencephalic Species: Biomechanical, MRI, Behavioral and Neuropathological Characterizations.”

 

Rei Len, PhD, Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, received $2,569,436 R01 four-year funding from the NIH National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering as PI/PD lead for “eXtended Modular ANthropomorphic (XMAN) Phantom for Imaging and Treatment Optimization in Radiotherapy.”

 

Yajie Liang, MB, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine received a two-year $463,124 R21 grant from NIA for “Shedding Light on Functional Heterogeneity of Dementia-related Alpha-synuclein Strains.”

 

Dirk Mayer, Dr rer nat, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, received a two-year $193,617 R21 grant from NIDDK for “Metabolic Imaging of Hyperpolarized 13C Pyruvate in Polycystic Kidney Disease.”

 

Marco Venniro, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology (corresponding mPI); Mary Kay Lobo, PhD, Professor, Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology (mPI); and Seth Ament, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry (mPI, IGS); were awarded a new NIDA grant, "Genomic Profiling Mediating the Protective Effect of Social Reward on Opioid Craving."

 

Piotr Walczak, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, received a five-year $2,986,702 R01 grant from NIDA for “Image-guided Intra-arterial Administration of Antibody-releasing Glial Progenitors to Control the HIV CNS Reservoir.”

 

The Department of Emergency Medicine will partner with the Center for Substance Abuse Research (CESAR) at the University of Maryland College Park to carry out expanded fentanyl testing in hospitals statewide under a Maryland Department of Health program award of $396,090 for FY2023. The grant follows findings published by Zachary D.W. Dezman, MD, MS, Associate Professor, and Bradford Schwartz, MD, Assistant Professor, both with the Department of Emergency Medicine, CESAR director Eric Wish, PhD, and colleagues that demonstrated a high prevalence of fentanyl detected in emergency departments.


 

Presentations, Events, Lectures & Workshops

Vasken Dilsizian, MD, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, delivered an oral presentation entitled “F-18 FDG PET/CT: A New Tool to Image CIED/LVAD Infective Endocarditis,” at the 27th Annual Scientific Sessions of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology, held in Orlando, FL, on September 9, 2022.

 

Martin Flajnik, PhD, Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, along with National Institutes of Health (NIH) colleague Chaim Schramm, organized a three-day workshop in Dresden, Germany, entitled “Evolutionary Scales of the Immune System.”

 

Mary Rodgers, PT, PhD, FAPTA, FASB, FISB, Professor Emerita, Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science, recently attended the 5th North American Congress on Biomechanics (NACOB), which was held in Ottawa, Canada, on August 21-25, 2022. NACOB meetings are joint meetings of the American Society of Biomechanics and the Canadian Society for Biomechanics. The 2022 meeting is the fifth time the groups have jointly met under the NACOB banner. During her attendance, she presided as Chair at the American Society of Biomechanics Council of Fellows (COF) business meeting. This was Dr. Rodgers' last meeting as the Chair of the COF.

Roger Stone, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, co-presented “EMS Quality Management: Cultivating a Culture to Improve Patient Outcome,” the keynote session of the Cranberry EMS Blitz Conference, which was held August 20-21, 2022, in Cranberry Township, PA. The Blitz is an annual two-day continuing education conference attended by about 200 EMS clinicians, educators, dispatchers, and administrators from western Pennsylvania and across the nation.


 

Publications

Clement Adebamowo, BM, ChB, ScD, FWACS, FACS, Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, was among the co-authors of “Characterization of CYP2D6 Pharmacogenetic Variation in sub-Saharan African Populations,” which was published in the September 2022 issue of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics.

 

Omer Awan, MD, MPH, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, was the last author of “Barriers to Diversity in Medical Education and Ways to Address Them,” which was published in the August 2022 issue of Academic Radiology. Epub ahead of print.

 

Soren Bentzen, PhD, DMSc, Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, was among the co-authors of “Long-Term Outcomes and Genetic Predictors of Response to Metastasis-Directed Therapy Versus Observation in Oligometastatic Prostate Cancer: Analysis of STOMP and ORIOLE Trials,” which was published in the August 2022 issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology, as well as “Identifying Psychosocial Needs of Patients with Cancer Undergoing Curative Radiation Therapy in an Inner-City Academic Center to Address Racial Disparities,” which was published in the October 2022 issue of the International Journal of Radiation Oncology – Biology – Physics.    

Maureen Black, PhD, Professor, Department of Pediatrics, was the lead author of “Rethinking Responsive Feeding: Insights from Bangladesh” which was published in Nutrients on July 30, 2022.

 

 

Uttam Bodanapally , MBBS, Associate Professor; Thorsten Fleiter, MD, Professor; and Dheeraj Gandhi, MBBS, Professor, all with the Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, were among the co-authors of “Dual-energy CT Imaging of Chronic Subdural Hematoma Membranes: Technical Note,” which was published in European Radiology on August 24, 2022. Epub ahead of print. Dr. Gandhi was the last author.

Clayton Brown, PhD, Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, was among the co-authors of “Self-reported Respiratory Outcomes Associated with Blast Exposure in Post 9/11 Veterans,” which was published in the August 2022 issue of Respiratory Medicine.

 

Kenneth Butler, DO, Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, and Mike Winters, MD, Professor and Vice Chair of Emergency Medicine, are the authors of “The Physiologically Difficult Intubation,” which was published in the August 2022 issue of Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America.

 

Nikki Cali, MD, Resident; Cheyenne Falat, MD, Assistant Professor; Laura Bontempo, MD MEd, Associate Professor; and David Gatz, MD, Assistant Professor, all with the Department of Emergency Medicine, are the authors of “60-year-old Female with Edema” which was published in the August 2022 issue of Clinical Practice and Cases in Emergency Medicine.

 

Chixiang Chen, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, was among the coauthors of “Omnibus and Robust Deconvolution Scheme for Bulk RNA Sequencing Data Integrating Multiple Single-Cell Reference Sets and Prior Biological Knowledge,” which was published in Bioinformatics on August 18, 2022.  He, along with Shuo Chen, PhD, Associate Professor, also in the Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, was among the co-authors of “Modeling Multivariate Age-related Imaging Variables with Dependencies,” which was published in the September 2022 issue of Statistics in Medicine.

Hegang Chen, PhD, Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, was among the co-authors of “Association between Sleep Disturbances at Subacute Stage of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury and Long-Term Outcomes,” which was published in the July 2022 issue of Neurotrauma Reports, as well as “Validation of Serotonin Transporter mRNA as a Quantitative Biomarker of Heavy Drinking and its Comparison to Ethyl Glucuronide/Ethyl Sulfate: A Randomized, Double-blind, Crossover Trial,” which was published in the August 2022 issue of Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research.   

Rong Chen, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, was among the co-authors of “Reversing Neural Circuit and Behavior Deficit in Mice Exposed to Maternal Inflammation by Zika Virus,” which was published in the August 2022 issue of EMBO Reports.

 

Shuo Chen, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, was among the co-authors of “Cerebral Blood Flow and Cardiovascular Risk Effects on Resting Brain Regional Homogeneity,” which was published in the August 2022 issue of NeuroImage.

 

Brian Corwell MD, Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine; Natalie Davis, MD, MMSc, Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics; and Hong Kim, MD, MPH, Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, are among the authors of “Novel Uses of Ketamine in the Emergency Department,” published online in Expert Opinion on Drug Safety on July 21, 2022.

 

Siddhartha DanteSiddhartha Dante, MD MHS, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Critical Care, was the primary author of "Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Outcomes in Children with Preexisting Neurologic Disorders or Neurofunctional Disability,” which was published in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine on August 24, 2022.

 

Kathleen Dondero, MS, RCEP, CSCS, PhD Student; Jason Falvey, PT, DPT, PhD, GCS, Assistant Professor; and Odessa Addison, DPT, PhD, Associate Professor; all with the Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science, are co-authors on the article titled, “Geriatric Vulnerabilities Among Obese Older Adults with and Without Sarcopenia: Findings from a Nationally Representative Cohort Study,” which was published in the Journal of Geriatric Physical Therapy on August 18, 2022.

David Dreizin, MD, Associate Professor; Jean Jeudy, MD, Professor; Guang Li, PhD, Assistant Professor; and Elana Smith, MD, Assistant Professor, all with the Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, were among the co-authors of “A Pilot Study of Deep Learning-based CT Volumetry for Traumatic Hemothorax,” which was published in the August 2022 issue of Emergency Radiology. Epub ahead of print.

Jason FalveyJason Falvey, PT, DPT, PhD, GCS, Assistant Professor; Joanna Ye, SPT '23; Elizabeth Parker, PhD, RD, Assistant Professor; and Odessa Addison, DPT, PhD, Associate Professor, all with the Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science, are co-authors on the article titled, "Rehabilitation Outcomes among Frail Older Adults in the United States," which was published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health on September 3, 2022.

Martin FlajnikMartin Flajnik, PhD, Professor, and Nevil Singh, PhD, Assistant Professor, both with the Department of Microbiology & Immunology, along with NIH colleague Steven Holland, edited the new (8th) edition of “Paul’s Fundamental Immunology,” published by Wolters-Klower.

 

DeAnna Friedman-Klabanoff, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, was first author, and Miriam Laufer, MD, Professor, Departments of Pediatrics, Medicine, and Epidemiology and Public Health, was last author of “Risk of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Acquisition is Associated with Individual Exposure but Not Community-Level Transmission,” which was published in Journal of Infectious Diseases on August 24, 2022. Co-authors included Meagan Fitzpatrick, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine; Meagan Deming, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine; and Kathleen Neuzil, MD, MPH, Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics.

Matthew FriemanMatthew Frieman, PhD, the Alicia and Yaya Viral Pathogen Research Professor of Microbiology & Immunology; along with Marisa McGrath; Carly Dillen, PhD; Lauren Baracco; and Louis Taylor, PhD, were among the co-authors of “SARS-CoV-2 Variant Spike and Accessory Gene Mutations Alter Pathogenesis,” which was published in PNAS on September 13, 2022. He also, along with Lauren Baracco and James Logue, was among the co-authors of “Safety and Immunogenicity Following a Homologous Booster Dose of a SARS-CoV-2 Recombinant Spike Protein Vaccine (NVX-CoV2373): A Secondary Analysis of a Randomized, Placebo-Controlled, Phase 2 Trial,” which was published in Lancet Infectious Disease on August 10, 2022.

Separately, Dr. Frieman along with James Logue, Robert Johnson, Louis Taylor, PhD, Marisa McGrath and Robert Haupt, PhD, were among the co-authors of “PIKfyve-Specific Inhibitors Restrict Replication of Multiple Coronaviruses in Vitro but not in a Murine Model of COVID-19,” which was published in Nature Communications Biology on August 12, 2022.

Separately, Dr. Frieman along with Marisa McGrath and Carly Dillen, PhD, were among the co-authors of “mRNA Booster Vaccination Protects Aged Mice Against the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Variant,” which was published in Nature Communications Biology on August 6, 2022.

Ann Gruber-Baldini, PhD, Professor; Denise Orwig, PhD, Professor; and Jay Magaziner, PhD, MSHyg, Professor, all with the Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, were among the co-authors of “Effect of Multicomponent Home-based Training on Gait and Muscle Strength in Older Adults after Hip Fracture Surgery: A Single Site Randomized Trial,” which was published in the July 2022 issue of the Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.

Rydhwana Hossain, MD, Assistant Professor; Jean Jeudy, MD, Professor; and Charles White, MD, Professor, all with the Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, were among the co-authors of “Prone Chest Radiographs: Distinguishing Features and Identification of Support Devices,” which was published in August 2022 in Lung.

 

Vikas Kundra, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, was among the co-authors of “Prostate Cancer Grade Downgrading at Time of Prostatectomy Provides Risk-stratification Insight into Future Tumor Behavior after Prostatectomy,” which was published in the August 2022 issue of The Prostate. Epub ahead of print.

 

Hong Lai, PhD, MPHD, Associate Professor, and Shenghan Lai, MD, Professor, both with the Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, were among the co-authors of “High-risk Coronary Plaque Regression in Cash-based Contingency Management Intervention Among Cocaine Users With HIV-associated Subclinical Coronary Atherosclerosis,” which was published in the August 2022 issue of the Journal of Addiction Medicine.   

Sung-Woo Lee, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, was among the authors of “AAPM WGTG51 Report 374: Guidance for TG-51 Reference Dosimetry,” which was published on August 24, 2022, ahead of print in Medical Physics.

 

Surbhi Leekha, MBBS, MPH, Associate Professor, and KC Coffey, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, both with the Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, were among the co-authors of “Optimal Urine Culture Diagnostic Stewardship Practice-Results from an Expert Modified-Delphi Procedure,” which was published in the August 2022 issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases.

 

Yuanyuan Liang, PhD, MSc, Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, was among the co-authors of “A Pilot Study of Deep Learning-based CT Volumetry for Traumatic Hemothorax,” which was published in Emergency Radiology on August 16, 2022.

 

Mary Kay Lobo, PhD, Professor, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, was among the co-authors of "Adaptations in Nucleus Accumbens Neuron Subtypes Mediate Negative Affective Behaviors in Fentanyl Abstinence," which appeared in Biological Psychiatry.

 

Mary McKenna, PhD, Professor, Department of Pediatrics and Program in Neuroscience; and Gary Fiskum, PhD, Professor, Department of Anesthesiology and Center for Shock Trauma and Anesthesiology Research, were co-authors of “Metabolism of Exogenous [2,4-13C]β-Hydroxybutyrate following Traumatic Brain Injury in 21-22-Day-Old Rats: An Ex Vivo NMR Study,” which was published in Metabolites on July 29, 2022.

Amal Mattu, MD, Professor of Emergency Medicine and Vice Chair of Academic Affairs, is one of three authors of the second edition of the EMRA EKG Guide, which was published in June 2022 by the Emergency Medicine Residents’ Association. He also co-authored the AAEM position paper, “Can I Send this Patient with Atrial Fibrillation Home from the Emergency Department?” which was published online in The Journal of Emergency Medicine on July 29, 2022.

Ryan Miller, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, was among the co-authors of "Pharmacologic Weight Management in the Era of Adolescent Obesity," which was published in the Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism on August 6, 2022.

 

Timothy MillerTimothy Miller, MD, Associate Professor; Dheeraj Gandhi, MBBS, Professor; and Gaurav Jindal, MD, Associate Professor, all with the Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, were among the co-authors of  “Mildly Elevated INR is Associated with Worse Outcomes Following Mechanical Thrombectomy for Acute Ischemic Stroke,” which was published in the August 2022 issue of the Journal of Neurointerventional Surgery. Epub ahead of print. Separately, Dr. Gandhi was also among the co-authors of “Diversity in Radiology: Current Status and Trends Over the Past Decade,” which was published in the August 2022 issue of Radiology. Epub ahead of print.

Mark Mishra, MD, Associate Professor; Zaker Rana, MD, Assistant Professor; Jason Molitoris, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor; and Phuoc Tran, MD, PhD, Professor, all with the Department of Radiation Oncology, were among the authors of “Long-term Outcomes and Genetic Predictors of Response to Metastasis-Directed Therapy Versus Observation in Oligometastatic Prostate Cancer: Analysis of STOMP and ORIOLE trials,” which was published on August 24, 2022, ahead of print in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.  

Arezoo Modiri, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, was among the authors of “Risk of Cerebrovascular Events Among Childhood and Adolescent Patients Receiving Cranial Radiation Therapy: A Pediatric Normal Tissue Effects in the Clinic Normal Tissue Outcomes Comprehensive Review,” which was published on September 1, 2022, ahead of print in the International Journal of Radiation Oncology – Biology – Physics.

Pranshu Mohindra, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, was among the authors of “The American Society for Radiation Oncology Workforce Statement,” which was published on August 17, 2022, ahead of print in the International Journal of Radiation Oncology – Biology – Physics.

 

Daniel MorganDaniel Morgan, MD, MS, Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, was among the co-authors of “In-Person Medical Conferences During the COVID-19 Pandemic,” which was published in the September 2022 issue of JAMA Network Open.

 

Nariman Nezami, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, was the last author of “Analysis of Tumor Burden as a Biomarker for Patient Survival with Neuroendocrine Tumor Liver Metastases Undergoing Intra-Arterial Therapies: A Single-Center Retrospective Analysis,” which was published in the August 2022 issue of Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology. Epub ahead of print. Separately, Dr. Nezami was among the co-authors of “REBOA: Expanding Applications from Traumatic Hemorrhage to Obstetrics and Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, From the AJR Special Series on Emergency Radiology,” which was published in the August 2022 issue of the AJR American Journal of Roentgenology. Epub ahead of print.

Lyndsay O’Hara, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor, and Anthony Harris, MD, MPH, Professor, both with the Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, were among the co-authors of “Erratum for Adediran et al., "Comparative Genomics Identifies Features Associated with Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) Transmission in Hospital Settings," which was published in the August 2022 issue of mSphere Journal.  

Feyruz Rassool, PhD, Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, was among the authors of “LLL12B, A Novel Small-Molecule STAT3 Inhibitor, Induces Apoptosis and Suppresses Cell Migration and Tumor Growth in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Cells,” which was published in Biomedicines on August 18, 2022.

 

Samantha Santomartino, Research Assistant; Eliot Siegel, MD, Professor; and Paul Yi, MD, Assistant Professor, all with the Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, were the authors of “Academic Radiology Departments Should Lead Artificial Intelligence Initiatives,” which was published in the August 2022 issue of Academic Radiology. Epub ahead of print. Dr. Yi also was the last author of “Sex Imbalance Produces Biased Deep Learning Models for Knee Osteoarthritis Detection,” which was published in the August 2022 issue of the Canadian Association of Radiologists Journal. Epub ahead of print.

Michelle Shardell, PhD, Professor, and Rebecca Brotman, PhD, MPH, Professor, both with the Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, were among the co-authors of “Factors Associated with Incidence and Spontaneous Clearance of Molecular-Bacterial Vaginosis: Results From a Longitudinal Frequent-Sampling Observational Study,” which was published in Sexually Transmitted Diseases on September 1, 2022.

Chandler Sours Rhodes, PhD, Adjunct Assistant Professor; Steven Roys, MS, Research Associate; Prashant Raghavan, MD, Associate Professor; Jiachen Zhuo, PhD, Associate Professor; and Rao Gullapalli, PhD, MBA, Professor, all with the Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, were among the co-authors of “Association between Sleep Disturbances at Subacute Stage of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury and Long-Term Outcomes,” which was published in the July 2022 issue of Neurotrauma Reports. Dr. Gullapalli was the last author.

J Kathleen Tracy, PhD, Professor, and Yuanyuan Liang, PhD, MSc, Professor, both with the Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, were among the co-authors of “Safety and Immunogenicity of a Typhoid Conjugate Vaccine among Children Aged 9 months to 12 years in Malawi: A Nested Substudy of a Double-blind, Randomized Controlled Trial,” which was published in the September 2022 issue of Lancet Global Health.   

Melissa Liriano Vyfhius, MD, PhD, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, was among the authors ofRestricted Access to Abortion, the Dobbs Ruling, and Radiation Oncology: Standing United Against Reproductive Injustice,” which was published on August 10, 2022, ahead of print in the International Journal of Radiation Oncology – Biology – Physics.

 

Piotr Walczak, MD, PhD, Professor, and Miroslaw Janowski, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, both with the Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, were among the co-authors of “Cytocompatible Manganese Dioxide-based Hydrogel Nanoreactors for MRI Imaging,” which was published in the March 2022 issue of Biomaterials Advances.  

  

Ze Wang, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, was among the co-authors of “Recent Technical Developments in ASL: A Review of the State of the Art,” which will publish in the November 2022 issue of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.

 

 

Jill WhitallJill Whitall, PhD, Professor Emerita, and Kelly Westlake, PT, MSc, PhD, Associate Professor, both with the Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science, are co-authors on the article titled, "Age-related Differences in Stepping Stability Following a Sudden Gait Perturbation are Associated with Lower Limb Eccentric Control of the Perturbed Limb," which was published in Experimental Gerontology on August 10, 2022.

Huijun Xu, PhD, Assistant Professor; Sally Cheston, MD, Associate Professor; Arun Gopal, PhD, Assistant Professor; Baoshe Zhang, PhD, Associate Professor; Shifeng Chen, PhD, Professor; Andrea Hall, Senior Dosimetrist; and Sara Dudley, MD, Clinical Instructor, all with the Department of Radiation Oncology, published “A Study of Skin Marker Alignment Using Different Diamond-Shaped Light Fields for Prone Breast External-Beam Radiation Therapy,” which published on August 27, 2022, ahead of print in the Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics.

Byong Yong Yi, PhD, Professor; Sina Mossahebi, PhD, Associate Professor; Arezoo Modiri, PhD, Assistant Professor; Elizabeth Nichols, MD, Associate Professor; Mariana Guerrero, PhD, Professor; Narottam Lamichhane, PhD, Associate Professor, and Pranshu Mohindra, MD, Associate Professor, all with the Department of Radiation Oncology, were the authors of “Proton Arc Therapy vs Interstitial HDR Brachytherapy in Gynecologic Cancer with Parametrial/Pelvic Side Wall Extension,” which appeared in the International Journal of Particle Therapy on June 22, 2022.

Min Zhan, PhD, Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, was among the co-authors of “Medication Holds in CKD During Acute Volume-Depleting Illnesses: A Randomized Controlled Trial of a “Sick-Day” Protocol,” which was published in the July 2022 issue of Kidney Medicine.

 

Yuji Zhang, PhD, Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, was among the co-authors of “Novel AR/AR-V7 and Mnk1/2 Degrader, VNPP433-3β: Molecular Mechanisms of Action and Efficacy in AR-Overexpressing Castration Resistant Prostate Cancer In Vitro and In Vivo Models,” which was published in the August 2022 issue of Cells.