Gareth Dutton, Ph.D., received a First Year Assistant Professor grant from the FSU Council for Research and Creativity for the project, “Correlates of Physical Activity among Patients with Type 2 Diabetes."

HONORS & AWARDS
 
Mark Chaet, M.D., was named director of the Minimally Invasive Surgery Fellowship Training Program at Florida Hospital, Orlando. This is a two-year fellowship for surgery residents in postgraduate years 6 and 7.
 
Nadine Dexter, M.L.S., has been elected vice-president/president-elect for Florida Health Science Library Association.
Gareth Dutton, Ph.D., received a Research Citation Award from the Society of Behavioral Medicine for his paper, “Effects of a physical activity intervention on the nutritional practices of women,” presented at the society’s annual meeting.
Peter Eveland, Ed.D., has been elected vice-chair and president-elect for the Southern Region of the Group on Student Affairs.
Dutton and Mary Gerend, Ph.D., have been accepted to the NIH Summer Institute on the Design and Conduct of Randomized Clinical Trials Involving Behavioral Interventions in July in Washington, D.C.
Michael Howell, M.D., was elected as Fellow of the American College of Physicians. He also was awarded the Jefferson Award for community service with the Orange County Medical Clinics and selected as the Volunteer of the Year for Special Care, a specialty health-care program for the Orange County Medical Clinics.
 
Fred Kobylarz, M.D., M.P.H., is being recognized as outstanding committee member by the American Geriatrics Society at its annual meeting held in Chicago in May. He currently serves on the ethnogeriatrics and research committees.
 
Chad Kollas, M.D., was elected as Fellow of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine.
 
Kenneth Krumins, M.D., was named “Sports Medicine Person of the Year" for 2006 by the Athletic Trainers Association of Florida. Dr. Krumins serves as team physician for the University of Central Florida.
 
Alma Littles, M.D., is featured in a recent special anniversary issue of Florida Physician, which celebrates the UF College of Medicine’s 50th year. In a section entitled ‘Storytellers,’ the magazine asks readers to “meet seven people who represent the thousands of stories from UF medicine.’’ Littles, associate dean for academic affairs, is the first person featured.
 
Elena Reyes, Ph.D., has been inducted into the Oscar Arias Sanchez Hispanic Honor Society.
 
David Steele, Ph.D., has been appointed medical education editor for the journal Patient Education and Counseling, where he is responsible for submissions from North and South America, Australia and New Zealand. He co-authored an editorial for the journal entitled, “From patient education to health professions education: Introducing the section on medical education.’’
 
Daniel Van Durme, M.D., was nominated for the Association of American Medical Colleges Humanism in Medicine Award.
 
PRESENTATIONS
 
Michael Cheatham, M.D., Ernest Block, M.D., John Promes, M.D., Howard Smith, M.D., and Matthew Lube, M.D., (along with others) presented “Temporary abdominal Closure: An Age Limited Option?’’ at the Florida Committee on Trauma Residents Paper Competition in Tampa.
 
Dr. Cheatham, Dr. Promes, Dr. Lube (along with others) presented a poster, “Independent Lung Ventilation in the Management of Traumatic Bronchopleural Fistula,’’ at the Southeastern Surgical Congress in Orlando.
 
Mark Clark, M.D., will present his study, “An Examination of the Test Characteristics of the Pediatric Urinalysis,’’ at the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine annual meeting in San Francisco in May.
 
Nancy Clark, M.Ed., and Dennis Baker, Ph.D., will present their poster, “Teaching PDA Skills to Community Preceptors: Strategies, Outcomes, Lessons Learned,’’ at the Southern Group on Educational Affairs Annual Conference in Galveston, Texas, in May and led a seminar, “Creating Professional Scholastic and Research Posters Using Common Microsoft Office Tools,’’ at the Society of Teachers in Family Medicine Annual Conference in San Francisco.
 
Clark and Curtis Stine, M.D., presented a poster, “Giving Meaning to Student-collected Patient Encounter Data: Using the Data to Teach Medical Students,” at the STFM Annual Conference in San Francisco.
Clark, Dr. Stine and David Steele, Ph.D., led a seminar, “Using Student-collected Encounter Data for Course Evaluation and Student Education,’’ at the STFM pre-doctoral conference in Charleston, S.C.
Art Clawson, M.S., presented "How National Health Service Corps Campus Ambassadors work with the State's Primary Care Office" at the National Health Service Corps Primary Care Offices annual meeting in Washington, D.C. He also presented "How the Area Health Education Center Program and the Geriatric Education Center Programs Work Together and Why It Is Important to Fund These Programs" at the National Rural Health Association Annual Policy Institute in Washington, D.C.
Gareth Dutton, Ph.D., co-authored four presentations, including, “Effects of a physical activity intervention on the nutritional practices of women’, “Physical activity promotion among predominantly African-American women participating in a primary care weight management program”, “Active Aging: Physical activity in a community-based sample of older adults”, and “Racial/ethnic differences in the consistency of self-reported physical activity” at the Society of Behavioral Medicine annual meeting in San Francisco.
Dr. Lube and Dr. Cheatham (along with others) presented a poster, “The Safety of Pancreaticoduodenectomy in a Community General Surgery Residency,’’ at the Southeastern Surgical Congress in Orlando.
Dr. Lube co-presented a poster, “Successful Ligation of the Suprarenal Portion of the Inferior Vena Cava for Penetrating Trauma: Case Report and Review of the Literature,’’ at the Southeastern Surgical Congress in Orlando.
Dr. Lube co-presented a poster, “Primary Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Breast,’’ at the Southeastern Surgical Congress in Orlando.
 
Gerry Maitland, M.D., presented “Sound-induced oscillopsia (Tullio’s phenomenon) due to anterior semicircular canal dehiscence without clinically obvious oculomotor signs,’’ at the North American Neuro-opthalmology Society annual meetings in Tucson, Ariz. Fourth-year medical student Jason Farrah was co-author.
 
Dr. Maitland served as guest speaker at the Fourth Annual Southern Vitreoretinal Symposium on ‘the retina and systemic disease.’ He lectured on pupillary dysfunction and systemic disease.
 
Alice Pomidor, M.D., M.P.H., presented “Falls” at the Alabama State Nurses Association annual meeting in Mobile, Ala., which was simultaneously Webcast to four remote locations in the state.
 
Pushpendra Sharma, M.D., Fred Kobylarz, M.D., and Jacqueline Lloyd, M.D., will present “Required Fourth-Year Geriatric Clerkship: Student Evaluation of Clinical Experience,’’ at the American Geriatrics Society annual meeting in Chicago in May.
 
David Steele, Ph.D., gave three presentations as a visiting professor at the University of Massachusetts Medical School’s “Excellence in Medical Education’’ speaker series: “Implementing the AAMC Recommendations for the Clinical Education of Medical Students at Florida State University College of Medicine,” “Creating the 21st Century Medical School: Technology Across the Curriculum at Florida State University College of Medicine,” and “The Evolution of the 3rd Year OSCE: Using Student Assessment to Evaluate the Curriculum.”
 
PUBLICATIONS
 
Les Beitsch, M.D., J.D., Robert Brooks, M.D., Nir Menachemi, Ph.D., M.P.H., and a colleague co-authored “Structure and Function of State Public Health Agencies at the Dawn of the New Millennium” in the American Journal of Public Health
 
Edward Bradley, M.D., co-authored “Management of Pancreatic Masses,’’ for the journal Pancreas.
 
Dr. Brooks and Menachemi co-authored “Physician use of email with patients: factors influencing electronic communication and adherence to best practices” in the Journal of the Internet Medical Research.
 
Dr. Brooks co-authored, “A Study of the Efficacy of Various Home Filtration Substrates in the Removal of Microcystin-LR from Drinking Water,’’ for Water Health.
 
Michael Cheatham, M.D., and Matthew Lube, M.D., co-authored (along with others) “Ensuring Adequate Nutritional Support: Nitrogen Balance, Protein Loss, and the Open Abdomen,’’ for ANZ Journal of Surgery and gave a presentation on the topic at The Inaugural World Congress of Abdominal Compartment Syndrome in Noosa, Australia.
 
Dr. Cheatham, Ernest Block, M.D., Dr. Lube co-authored (along with others) “ A Liberal Transfusion Strategy Does Not Improve Survival In Patients Requiring Open Abdominal Decompression,’’ for the ANZ Journal of Surgery. Dr. Cheatham gave a presentation of the topic at the inaugural World Congress of Abdominal Compartment Syndrome at Noosa, Australia.
 
Dr. Cheatham, Dr. Block, Dr. Lube, John Promes, M.D., Howard Smith, M.D., and others co-authored “Higher Hemoglobin Levels During the First 48 Hours of Shock Improves Survival’’ for Critical Care Medicine and gave a presentation on the topic at the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM), 35th Critical Care Congress in San Francisco.
 
Dr. Cheatham, Dr. Lube, Dr. Promes and others co-authored “The Incidence of Adrenal Insufficiency in the Critically Ill Trauma Patient,’’ for the journal Trauma.
 
Art Clawson, M.S., Menachemi, Dr. Beitsch and Dr. Brooks co-authored “Are Community Health Centers Prepared for Terrorism?” in Biosecurity & Bioterrorism.
 
Gareth Dutton, Ph.D., co-authored “A Primary Care Weight Management Intervention for Low-Income African-American Women” in Obesity

RESEARCH

Robert Glueckauf, Ph.D., co-authored, “Telehealth research and practice: Key issues and developments in research,’’ in Essentials of Clinical Health Psychology, “Assessing the benefits of assistive technologies for activities and participation,’’ in Rehabilitation Psychology, and “Affective facial and lexical expression in aprosodic versus aphasic stroke patients,’’ for Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society.
 
Yoichi Kato, M.D. Ph.D., co-authored, “Novel cross talk of Kruppel-like factor 4 and beta-catenin regulates mal intestinal homeostasis and tumor repression,’’ for Molecular Biology of the Cell.
 
Chad Kollas, M.D., co-authored and presented “Closing the Schiavo Case: An Analysis of Legal Reasoning,” which won the 2006 American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine Paper Award. The article will be published in an upcoming issue of the Journal of Palliative Medicine.
 
Matthew Lube, M.D., and Michael Cheatham, M.D., co-authored (along with others) “Can high fever cause rhabdomyolysis in trauma patients without significant soft tissue injury?’’ for Critical Care Medicine. They also presented the topic as a poster at the SCCM 34th Critical Care Congress in Phoenix.
 
Dr. Lube, Ernest Block, M.D., and Dr. Cheatham co-authored (along with others) “Glycosylated Hemoglobin in Hyperglycemic Trauma Patients’’ for Critical Care Medicine. They also presented the topic as a poster at the SCCM 35th Critical Care Congress in San Francisco.
 
Dr. Lube and Dr. Cheatham (and others) co-authored “Planned Complex Suicide: A Need for a High Index of Suspicion,’’ to be published in American Surgeon.
 
Gerry Maitland, M.D., co-authored “The effects of loading and unloading treadmill walking on balance, gait, fall risk and daily function in Parkinsonism’’ in the Journal of Neurorehabilitation.
 
Dr. Maitland co-authored, “Distraction, competition and interference: How do people navigate with brain damage in a sea of distraction?’’ He presented the article at the World Congress of Neurorehabilitation and it appeared in abstract form in the journal Neurorehabilitation and Neuro Repair.
 
Dr. Maitland co-authored along with second-year student Paulo Silva and others a paper presented at the World Congress of Parkinsonism entitled, “The effects of linguistic loading on gait performance in Parkinsonism.’’
 
Menachemi, second-year medical student Randa Perkins, Dan Van Durme, M.D., and Dr. Brooks co-authored “Examining the Adoption of EHR and PDA use by Family Physicians in Florida” in Informatics in Primary Care
 
Menachemi, Dr. Brooks, Clawson, Curtis Stine, M.D., and Dr. Beitsch co-authored “Continuing Decline in Service Delivery for Family Physicians: Is the Malpractice Crisis Playing a Role?” in Quality Management in Health Care
 
Menachemi co-authored “Predicting the Adoption of Electronic Health Records by Physicians: When will Health Care be Paperless?” in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
 
Menachemi and Dr. Brooks co-authored (along with others), “Hospital Information Technology and Positive Financial Performance: A different approach to ROI” in the Journal of Healthcare Management
 
Charles Price, M.D., co-authored “Osteotomy for Malunited Forearm Shaft Fractures in Children.” in the Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics. He also co-authored the chapter “Management of Fractures” for the 6th edition of Lovell and Winter’s Pediatric Orthopaedics and contributed the chapter “Pediatric Pelvis Fractures,” in Staying Out of Trouble in Pediatric Orthopaedics.
 
David Resuehr, Ph.D., doctoral candidate Holly Sikes and James Olcese, Ph.D., co-authored “2006 Exploratory investigation of the effect of melatonin and caloric restriction on the temporal expression of murine hypothalamic transcripts,’’ in the Journal of Neuroendocrinology.
 
David Steele, Ph.D., co-authored an editorial in Patient Education and Counseling titled, “From patient education to health professions education: Introducing the section on medical education.’’
 
Yanchang Wang, Ph.D., co-authored, “Phosphatase 2A negatively regulates mitotic exit in Saccharomyces cerevisiae’’ and “The Function and Regulation of Budding Yeast Swe1 in Response to Interrupted DNA Synthesis,’’ for Molecular Biology of the Cell.
 
SERVICE
 
Alice Pomidor, M.D., M.P.H., co-chaired the annual Health Professionals Faculty Development Conference in Tallahassee, where she presented “Falls: A Medicine Perspective.’’
 
Dr. Pomidor also co-chaired the 21st annual Alzheimer’s Disease Education & Training Conference at the FSU College of Medicine, where she presented, “Current Advances in Research and Treatment” and “When Do they Need Medical Care?”
 
Dr. Pomidor is serving as the representative of the American Academy of Family Physicians on a national task force of the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration, which is developing guidelines for the medical evaluation of drivers recommended by the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators.
 
Pushpendra Sharma, M.D., has been appointed to the Ethnogeriatrics Committee of the American Geriatrics Society to help improve clinical care and quality of life for diverse and rapidly increasing numbers of ethnic and racial groups among the older population.
 
Dr. Sharma and Elena Reyes, Ph. D., have been appointed to the Statewide Strategic Planning Committee of the Office of Minority Health, to develop a plan to help eliminate the racial and ethnic disparities in health-care delivery in the state of Florida. 
 
David Steele, Ph.D., has been selected to a five-person panel of medical educators to conduct an accreditation site visit in May at the University of Geneva Faculty of Medicine.