Deeb, who is medical director of the Diabetes Center at Tallahassee Memorial Hospital, has been elected president of medicine and science for the American Diabetes Association. He serves as clinical professor of behavioral and social medicine for the College of Medicine.

Wade, who offers fourth-year electives in infectious diseases, is being honored by the Infectious Diseases Society of America. She will receive the group’s Watanakunakorn Clinician Award at the IDSA annual meeting in Toronto in October. The award, named for Dr. Chatrchai Watanakunakorn, is given by the IDSA Education and Research Foundation in recognition of excellence in clinical care, clinical research, patient or community education, compassion, patient advocacy and service to a national or state infectious diseases society.

College of Medicine faculty achievements - April-August, 2006

GRANTS

Michael Blaber, Ph.D., principle investigator, has been awarded a three-year, $264,000 grant through June, 2009, from the American Heart Association for “Characterization of Fibroblast Growth Factor-1 Mutants with Enhanced Properties for Angiogenic Therapy.’’ The grant is to study the structure and function of designed thermostable mutant forms of human fibroblast growth factor-1 that exhibit enhanced mitogenic potency. The potential application is for angiogenic therapy of “no option” coronary heart disease patients.

Robert L. Glueckauf, Ph.D., and a colleague received a one-year (Sept. 1, 2006-Aug. 31, 2007) $50,000 grant for the Nurse Dementia Caregiver Training Program: Phase I from the Byrd Alzheimer's Center & Research Institute. 

Glueckauf received a one-year (August 1, 2006 - May 31, 2007) $98,500 grant for Alzheimer Rural Care Healthline: Phase 3 from the Byrd Alzheimer's Center & Research Institute.

Principle investigator Lisa Granville, M.D., and co-principle investigator Ken Brummel-Smith, M.D., received a four-year $2 million grant from the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation for their proposal: Strengthening Geriatrics Education Focusing on Clinical Behaviors.

Dr. Brummel-Smith (PI) and co-PI Alice Pomidor, M.D., received a six-month, $132,000 extension from the HRSA for the Live Oak Geriatric Education Center.

HONORS & AWARDS

Donna Jacobi, M.D., geriatrics clerkship director for the Pensacola campus, was given the Council on Aging of West Florida’s Hall of Fame award for 2006. The Council on Aging board of directors presents the award to individuals, groups and businesses who “have gone above and beyond to directly enhance the quality of life for local seniors through their volunteerism or professional work.’’

Morton Levitt, M.D., M.H.A., was promoted to full professor in the department of biomedical sciences, effective Aug. 9. He serves as course director for general pathology and immunology and also teaches in the systemic pathology, anatomy, clinical neuroscience, clinical microscopic anatomy and systemic pharmacology courses.

Alma Littles, M.D., has been appointed to the Board of Governors of the Florida Medical Association.

Joan Y. Meek, M.D, M.S., is serving as president of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine, a multi-specialty international physician organization. Dr. Meek also has been appointed to serve as the education chair for the section on breastfeeding of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Cyneetha Strong, M.D., is president-elect of the Florida Academy of Family Physicians.

Mark Trolice, M.D., has been inducted as a fellow of the American College of Endocrinology (ACE), the educational and research arm of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE).

PRESENTATIONS

Ken Brummel-Smith, M.D.: “Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment’’ at the Florida Bioethics Network annual meeting in Miami, April; “Rehabilitation in older persons,’’ at the University of Cincinnati, May; “Creating a new medical school curriculum in geriatrics for an aging America,’’ at the University of Cincinnati, May and “Non-pharmaceutical approaches to erectile dysfunction,’’ at the American Geriatrics Society annual meeting in Chicago, May.

Susanne Cappendijk, Ph.D., co-presented a poster, “"The effects of 2-deoxyglucose in the mitochondrial proteins of the zebra finch liver" at the Biennial TriBeta National Convention in Melbourne, Fla., in May. The poster won first place in molecular and cell biology.

Art Clawson, M.S., and colleagues presented, “Ambassador/PCO Partnerships,’’ at the National Health Service Corps Ambassadors Conference, July, Washington, D.C.

Clawson presented, “Ambassador/Primary Care Office Partnership,’’ at the National Health Service Corps Primary Care Office Annual Meeting, March, Washington, D.C.

Gareth Dutton, Ph.D., co-authored two presentations, including, “The relationship between dietary and physical activity change among African American women in a weight loss trial” and “Results from a tailored print-based physical activity intervention for older adults delivered via direct mail” at the American College of Sports Medicine annual conference in Denver.

Dutton co-authored “Predictors of meeting the national physical activity recommendations for older adults” presented at the International Congress on Physical Activity and Public Health in Atlanta.

Mary Gerend, Ph.D., gave a presentation on her research titled "Women's Health Issues" to the Tallahassee Chapter of the Business and Professional Women's Organization in August.

Robert L. Glueckauf, Ph.D., Curtis C. Stine, M.D., and others presented their paper, “Alzheimer’s Rural Care Healthline: Telephone-based CBT for distressed dementia caregivers’’ at the 114th annual convention of the American Psychological Association in New Orleans in August.

Glueckauf, Dr. Stine and others presented “Alzheimer’s Rural Care Healthline: Telephone cognitive-behavioral intervention for distressed dementia caregivers’’ at the annual meeting of the National Association of Rural Mental Health in San Antonio, Texas, in August.

J. Ocie Harris, M.D., and Alma Littles, M.D., presented at the 2006 Southern Region Group on Educational Affairs meeting of the Association of American Medical Colleges in Galveston, Texas, in May.

Donna J. Jacobi, M.D., and a colleague have been selected to make a presentation at the 19th Annual Society for Health Systems Conference, February 23–25, 2007, in New Orleans, where they will describe Escambia County’s ElderCare Health Recovery Project. Jacobi has led the project’s development, and the College of Medicine’s Pensacola campus has served as the meeting place for the community collaborative partnership that provides transitional care for elders leaving the hospital with no evident caregiver support.

Joan Y. Meek, M.D., M.S., discussed "Insufficient Milk Syndrome" and "Breastfeeding the Premature Infant" at the 17th Annual Conference on Breastfeeding at Emory University School of Medicine. Dr. Meek gave a presentation on "Breastfeeding, Infant Sleep, and SIDS" at the Florida Lactation Consultant Association meeting in April. Dr. Meek also presented, "AAP Recommendations on Breastfeeding" for pediatric Grand Rounds at Broward General Medical Center in August.

Dr. Meek was one of the presenters for "Building a Breastfeeding Community," a conference sponsored by Tallahassee Memorial Hospital, the Florida Department of Health, and the Florida State University College of Medicine in June. During the conference, Dr. Meek presented "Prevention and Management of Hyperbilirubinemia in the Neonate," "The Role of the Physician in Breastfeeding Support," "Supplementation," and "Hot Topics in Breastfeeding."

Nir Menachemi, Ph.D., M.P.H., Robert Brooks, M.D., and colleagues made two presentations - “The Effect of IT Adoption on JCAHO Performance Scores in Florida Hospitals” and “The influence of environmental factors on EHR Adoption by Physicians,” - at the AcademyHealth annual research meeting, 2006, in Seattle. 

Menachemi, “Does Pay for Performance Influence IT Adoption by Child Health Providers?” AcademyHealth annual research meeting, 2006.
Menachemi, “Information Technology’s role in Patient Safety: New information for risk managers,” Florida Society for Healthcare Risk Managers & Patient Safety annual meeting, Tampa, August 2006.

Menachemi presented the Keynote Address, “Rethinking the Return on Investment from Health Information Technologies” at the Health Information Management and Systems Society (HIMSS) Southern California annual meeting, Los Angeles, May 2006.

Alice Pomidor, M.D., M.P.H., Dr. Brummel-Smith and Dr. Jacobi, “A Multidisciplinary Geriatric Educational Needs Assessment,” 2006 American Geriatrics annual scientific meeting, May 2006 in Chicago.

Elena Reyes, Ph.D., and Curt Stine, M.D., "The Use of an Integrated Behavioral Science Curriculum to Address Mental-Physical Co-Morbidity: Basic Science Years," paper accepted for presentation at the 36th annual Association of Behavioral Science in Medical Education meeting in October at Annapolis, Md. Reyes also has been accepted to present her poster, “Designing a new behavioral science curriculum for medical education," at the convention.

Jose Rodriguez, M.D., took students Angelica Soberon and Michelle Asher to present posters at the AAFP Family Medicine Residents and Students national conference in Washington. D.C., in August.

Jan Shepherd, M.D., presented "Update on Contraception,"  "Female Sexual Dysfunction," and "Gynecologic Cancers: Prevention and Early Detection" at the 31st Annual National Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Symposium in Keystone, Colorado, in July.

Jeffrey Spike, Ph.D., Grand Rounds at Sarasota Memorial Hospital on May 5 and at Jackson Memorial Hospital (Mariana) on June 13:  “Informed Consent: Is it Ethical?

PUBLICATIONS

Rob Allison (Class of ’06), M.D., M.P.H., and Orlando clerkship faculty Richard Hornick, M.D., M.A.C.P., and Mario Madruga, M.D., “Keeping C. Diff in the differential: Clostridium Difficile in the frail older adult patient,’’ for Long-term Care-Interface, a monthly peer reviewed journal for executives and health care providers.

Les Beitsch, M.D., J.D., Robert Brooks, M.D., Nir Menachemi, Ph.D., M.P.H., and colleague, “Public Health on Center Stage: New Roles, Old Props,’’ Health Affairs, 2006.

Dr. Beitsch and Dr. Brooks, “What to Expect When They’re Expecting: Legal Issues Associated with Pregnancy and the Prevention of Vertical Transmission of Sexually Transmitted Diseases,’’ Florida Medical Association Journal, 2006.

Dr. Beitsch, Menachemi, Dr. Brooks, and a colleague, “Roles of Local and District Public Health Agencies within the State Public Health System,” Journal of Public Health Management & Practice.

Ed Bradley, M.D., and colleagues, “Does infected pancreatic necrosis mandate immediate surgical debridement?’’ Pancreas, 2006.

Dr. Brooks, Art Clawson, M.S. and colleagues, "PTSD and Substance Use: Unrecognized Sequalae of bioterrorism in Primary Care Providers" in Southern Medical Journal, August 2006.

Ken Brummel-Smith, M.D., and others, “Guidelines abstracted from the Department of Veterans Affairs/Department of Defense clinical practice guideline for the management of stroke rehabilitation,’’ in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.

Dr. Brummel-Smith and colleague, “Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment would boost respect for end-of-life wishes,’’ Florida Bioethics, March-April 2006.

Darrel Burke, Ph.D. (FSU College of Information), Menachemi and Dr. Brooks, “Health Care CIOs: Assessing their fit in the organization and their influence on information technology capabilities,”  Health Care Manager.

Clawson, Menachemi, Dr. Beitsch and Dr. Brooks, “Community Health Centers & Terrorism: Prepared Partners or Vulnerable Assets?' Biosecurity & Bioterrorism, 2006.

Antonio Crespo, M.D., along with others, “Kawasaki Syndrome in HIV patients,’’ September issue of The AIDS Reader.

Nadine Dexter, M.L.S., Barbara Shearer, M.L.S. and Suzanne Nagy, M.S.L.S., M.S.C.S., “Partnering with PDAs: The Florida State University College of Medicine Medical Library Experience,’’ Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries, 2006.

Gareth Dutton, Ph.D., co-authored “Outcomes from the Women’s Wellness Project: A Community-Focused Physical Activity Trial for Women” in Preventive Medicine.

Robert Glueckauf, Ph.D., Sheila B. Jeffers. Ph.D., and a colleague, “Recruitment and retention of rural and ethnic minority populations in eHealth research: Key issues and emerging developments,’’ American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

Glueckauf and colleagues, “Rural backwaters or frontrunners? Rural telehealth in the vanguard of psychology practice,’’ Professional Psychology: Research and Practice.

Edward C. Klatt, M.D., authored the first edition of Robbins & Cotran Atlas of Pathology.

Fred Kobylarz, M.D., Alice Pomidor, M.D., M.P.H., and colleagues, “SPEAK Mnemonic: A Clinical Tool for Health Literacy in Geriatric Clinical Encounters,” Geriatrics, July, 2006.

Joan Y. Meek, M.D., M.S., contributed a chapter on "Breastfeeding During Separation" to the Breastfeeding Handbook for Physicians, a joint publication of the American Academy of Pediatrics and The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.

Menachemi, Dr. Brooks and colleagues, “Charting the use of Electronic Health Records and other Information Technologies among Child Health Providers,’’ BMC Pediatrics, 2006.

Menachemi and Dr. Brooks, “EHR and Other IT Adoption among Ambulatory Physicians: Results of a Large-Scale Statewide Analysis,” Journal of Healthcare Information Management.

Menachemi authored “Barriers to Ambulatory EHR: Who are “imminent adopters” and how do they differ from other physicians?” in Informatics in Primary Care.

Menachemi, Stephanie Lee, M.D., Janet Shepherd, M.D., and Dr. Brooks, “The Proliferation of Electronic Health Records among Obstetricians-Gynecologists,’’ Quality Management in Health Care, 2006.

Menachemi and Dr. Brooks, “Reviewing the benefits and costs of Electronic Health Records and Associated Patient Safety Technology,’’ Journal of Medical Systems, 2006.

Menachemi, third-year student Randa Perkins, Daniel Van Durme, M.D., and Dr. Brooks, “Examining the Adoption of EHR and PDA use by Family Physicians in Florida,’’ Informatics in Primary Care.

Menachemi, Dr. Brummel-Smith and Dr. Brooks, “Physicians who treat the Elderly in Rural Florida: Trends indicating Concerns regarding Access to Care,’’ Journal of Rural Health, 2006.

Menachemi, Dr. Brooks and April Warner, Pharm D., “Health Literacy, Medication Errors, and Health Outcomes: Is there a relationship?” Hospital Pharmacy.

J. Michael Overton, Ph.D., co-authored “Central thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH) infusion opposes attenuates the bradycardia induced by caloric restriction,” published in Neuroendocrinology.

Jose Rodriguez, M.D., published the following: “Stress, Inactivity Fuel Latino Obesity,’’ Clinical Endocrinology News, April, 2006; “The Obesity Disparity: A Latino Physician’s View,’’ Family Practice News, August, 2006; “The Vitamin K Deficiency in Academic Medicine,’’ Academic Medicine.

Dr. Rodriguez worked with associates to publish, “Health not Cosmetics: Medical Student Obesity Treatment Project,’’ in Medical Education; “Mobile Health Unit for Minority Obesity Education,’’ for Journal of the National Medical Association; “Inner City Community Oriented Primary Care to Improve Student Skills and Combat Obesity’’ for Medical Education Online and “The Hispanic Paradox: Review of an Open Question,’’ for American Journal of Bariatric Medicine.

Second-year student Angelica Soberon and Dr. Rodriguez published “Working with Latino Patients,’’ in the spring, 2006, American Journal of Bariatric Medicine.

Ken Brummel-Smith, M.D., and others published , "Guidelines abstracted from the Department of Veterans Affairs/Department of Defense clinical practice guideline for the management of stroke rehabilitation,'' in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2006.

Dr. Brummel-Smith and an associate published, "Physician orders for life-sustaining treatment would boost respect for end-of-life wishes,'' for Florida Bioethics, March-April 2006.

Jeffrey P. Spike, Ph.D., “Residency Education in Clinical Ethics and Professionalism: Not just What, but When, Where, and How ought residents be taught?” American Journal of Bioethics, July/August, 2006 and “Bioethics Now,” Philosophy Now, May/June, 2006.

SERVICE

Elena Reyes, Ph.D., has been elected secretary of the Association of Psychologists in Academic Healthcare Centers (APAHC) for a three-year term beginning in January.

David J. Steele, Ph.D., has been appointed to serve as coordinator of the Faculty Development Workshop series for the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine. He will oversee development of a new half-day workshop offering on “Educational Scholarship.”

Steele also has been elected for a three-year term on the Research in Medical Education (RIME) program committee of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC).

Robert P. Winter, M.D., a member of the surgical faculty for the Orlando campus, has been elected 2007-2008 president of the Florida Vascular Society, the professional society for Florida vascular surgeons.