Dr. Sherin teaches third- and fourth-year students from the College of Medicine’s Orlando regional campus. He was inducted as AAPHP President June 14 for a two-year term. The mission of the AAPHP is to promote the public’s health, and educate the nation on the role and importance of public health physicians. The association, which played a major role in advocating for settlements against tobacco companies in 1998, represents physicians from all specialties who work in public health who are passionate about protecting the health of all Americans.

GRANTS

Kathy Lee, M.D., received a grant from the College of Medicine library for streaming videos representing the manifestation of a broad range of mental illnesses and conditions encountered by health professionals. The videos will help provide students and researchers a greater understanding of diagnosis and treatment.

Jerry Maitland, M.D., along with College of Medicine student Justin Casey and FSU premed student Tiffany Davis received a $165,000 grant from TEVA Corporation for their project, “Fall Risk in Parkinson’s Disease: Effects of Cognitive-Linguistic Load and Pharmacologic Intervention on Gait and Balance.”

Dr. Maitland and colleagues received a $15,000 grant from the Florida Department of Elderly Affairs for the development of a testing instrument for identification of increased driving risk in the elderly utilizing a cognitive resource allocation model.

James Olcese, Ph.D., received grants from the Johnnie Byrd Alzheimer Research Foundation and the FSU Council on Faculty Research & Creativity.

Branko Stefanovic, Ph.D., received a five-year, $1.53 million grant effective Sept. 25, 2008 from the National Institutes of Health for his project, "Regulation of Type I Collagen in Hepatic Fibrosis."

SERVICE, HONORS & AWARDS

Ken Brummel-Smith, M.D., has been elected chair of the board for the Association of Directors of Geriatric Academic Programs (ADGAP), the organization that represents department chairs, division chiefs, and fellowship directors in geriatrics for the United States.

Rob Campbell, M.D., was appointed as one of 12 members to the state Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Coalition steering committee. Dr. Campbell also was appointed as a member of the Florida Academy of Family Physicians medical education workgroup.

Debra Danforth, M.S., ARNP, FAANP, is an AANP Scientific Editor for Smart Ideas – Good Health For You & Your Family.

Gene Ryerson, M.D., professor and chair of the department of clinical sciences, is one of 45 nominees nationwide for the 2008 Association of American Medical Colleges Humanism in Medicine Award. The AAMC presents the award to advance the ideals of humanism in medicine, including compassion, understanding and partnership by recognizing and celebrating the achievements and contributions of humanistic physicians.

Andrew M. Wong, M.D., a physician at the Tallahassee Orthopaedic Clinic who recently was named Outstanding Clinical Faculty for the College of Medicine’s Tallahassee regional campus, was named an active member of the American Orthopaedic Association at its 121^st annual meeting in June. Membership signifies honor and achievement in orthopaedics, as well as a commitment to active leadership in the specialty.

George R. “Scotty” Whiddon, M.D., received the Florida Part-Time Educator Award from the Florida Academy of Family Physicians. Whiddon, recipient of the Mission Model Award from the College of Medicine Faculty Council, teaches students from the Tallahassee campus.

PRESENTATIONS

Gail R. Bellamy, Ph.D., at the National Rural Health Association 2008 Annual Conference in New Orleans, May 7-10, presented, “Using the AHRQ Hospital Survey on Patient Safety and Culture to Prioritize and Evaluate Patient Safety Initiatives in Rural Hospitals – the Experience of Three States” and a poster session, “In their own words: West Virginia’s Uninsured Ages 50-64.”

Bellamy, at the American Public Health Association 135^th annual meeting and exposition in Washington, D.C., November, 2007, presented, “Universal coverage and the commercial insurance market: The West Virginia Small Business Plan,” and a poster session, “Uninsured Ages 50-64: In their own voices.”

Askar Chukmaitov, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.A, made two presentations - “Ambulatory Surgery Centers’ Structure and Process Characteristics Associated with Quality Outcomes after Outpatient Procedures” and “Risk-Adjustment Using Diagnosis Cost Groups/Hierarchical Condition Categories: How Well Does it Work with Ambulatory Surgical Data?” –  at the AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting  in Washington, D.C., in June.

Joseph M. Gabriel, Ph.D., presented, "Between Pharmacological Determinism and the Social Construction of Addiction: Science Culture, and the Practice of History," at the annual meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine.

Gabriel presented, "Restricting Markets and Promoting Choice: Pharmacy Legislation in the Gilded Age," at the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians.

Gabriel presented, "Medical Humanities at Florida State University College of Medicine: Toward an Integrated Curriculum," at the Institute for Medical Humanities, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas.

Gabriel; presented, "Hamilton Wright, American Consumer Culture, and the International Origins of Federal Narcotic Control, 1898-1914," at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association.

Suzanne Harrison, M.D., and Paul McLeod, M.D., presented “Using a Longitudinal Curriculum to Address Continuity, Chronic Care and Collaboration for M3s” at the Society of Family Medicine Predoctoral Education Conference in Portland, Ore., January 25, 2008.

Dr. Harrison presented “Breast Cancer Update” at the 99^th Family Medicine Weekend sponsored by the Florida Academy of Family Physicians in Sarasota, December, 2007.

Dr. Harrison with College of Medicine students Danielle Barnes, Lauren Engelmann, Christina McCall, Jacquelyn Terry, Marjorie Warner and Tiffany Williams presented a poster session, “Awareness, Advocacy, Action: Violence Against Women” at the 2008 Women’s Healthcare Forum sponsored by the American Medical Women’s Association in Anaheim, Calif., March 7-8, 2008.

Dr. Harrison presented “Prenatal Care” and “Complications of Pregnancy” for the Health Education Network at the 3^rd Annual Train the Trainer Workshop, sponsored by Capital Area Healthy Start in Tallahassee, January, 2008.

Matthew Lube, M.D., and colleagues presented “Trauma Laparotomy: Evaluating the Necessity of Histological Examination” at the 55th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Florida Chapter of the American College of Surgeons in Palm Beach.

John Promes, M.D., Ernest Block M.D., Dr. Lube, Howard Smith M.D., Michael Cheatham, M.D., and colleagues presented “Percutaneous Dilational Tracheostomy is a Safe Option for the Management of Airway Emergencies” at the Florida Committee on Trauma annual resident’s paper competition in Gainesville.

Dr. Lube and colleague presented “Serum Glucose Levels in Patients Undergoing Appendectomy” at the Southeastern Surgical Congress in Birmingham, Ala.

Dr. Lube and colleagues presented “Physiological Doses of Hydrocortisone for Adrenal Insufficiency Does Not Lead to Increased Insulin Requirements in Critically Injured Patients” at the Society of Critical Care Medicine in Honolulu, Hi. The work was a research citation finalist.

Dr. Lube presented “Reptile Envenomations” at the Florida Society of Critical Care Medicine in Marco Island.  Dr. Lube was recently named President Elect of that Society

Dr. Lube recently presented “Abdominal Trauma” at the 39th Annual National Conference of the American Association of Surgical Technologists in Orlando.

Michael L. Cheatham, M.D., presented the following lectures at the 12th Critical Care Refresher Course, 37th Educational and Scientific Symposium, Society of Critical Care Medicine, Honolulu, Hi: “Hemodynamic Monitoring: Today’s Tools in the ICU”, “Hemodynamic Monitoring: What’s New in 2008”, “Feeding the Open Abdomen”, and “Is the Evolving Management of IAH / ACS Improving Survival”.

Dr. Cheatham and colleagues presented two posters at the 37th Educational and Scientific Symposium of the Society of Critical Care Medicine, February, 2008 in Honolulu, Hi: “Natural course of citrulline during critical illness” and “Citrulline versus arterial lactate during resuscitation of the trauma patient.”

Jessica Fowler (M.D., ’08), Dr. Cheatham and colleagues presented a poster entitled “Traumatic perforation of a duodenal diverticulum” at the 2008 Annual Scientific Meeting of the Southeastern Surgical Congress, February, 2008, in Birmingham, Ala.

Dr. Fowler and Dr. Cheatham presented two posters at the 2008 Annual Scientific Meeting of the Southeastern Surgical Congress, February, 2008 in Birmingham, Ala.: “Measuring intra-abdominal pressure outside the ICU: Validation of a simple bedside method” and “Subcutaneous linea alba fasciotomy: A less morbid treatment for abdominal compartment syndrome”.

Dr. Cheatham presented a poster entitled “The death of George Washington: An end to the controversy?” at the 2008 Annual Scientific Meeting of the Southeastern Surgical Congress, February, 2008, Birmingham, Ala.

Jerry Maitland, M.D., and colleagues presented “The Effect of Incremental Cognitive Loading on Gait and Balance in Patients with Parkinsonism” at the 2^nd Annual International Congress on Cognition and Gait Control, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Dr. Maitland and colleagues presented “Examination of Vestibulospinal Function Identifies the Canal Affected in Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo” to the North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society in Orlando.

Dr. Maitland and colleague presented “Cognitive-Linguistic Load, Gait, Fall Risk, and Multiple Sclerosis” to the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Annual Convention.

James Olcese, Ph.D., presented a lecture, “Melatonin and the timing of human birth,” as a “Hot Topics” presentation at the Gordon Research Conference on Pineal Cell Biology, Barga, Italy. April 22.

Olcese presented a lecture, “MT2 melatonin receptors in the human myometrium: Gatekeepers for the nocturnal timing of parturition?” at the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) Summer Research Conference, Snowmass, Colo., in August.

Michael Worley (M.D. ’07), a second-year obstetrics and gynecology resident at New York Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell Medical Center, is presenting an abstract at the 37th annual Global Congress of Minimally Invasive Gynecology. The abstract is titled: “The Diagnosis of Abdomino-Pelvic Tuberculosis by Laparoscopically Assisted Peritoneal Biopsies.”

PUBLICATIONS

Gail R. Bellamy, Ph.D., co-authored with colleagues the following articles for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s 2008 Advances in Patient Safety:  New Directions and Alternative Approaches “Using RCA to Reduce Falls in Rural Health Care Facilities;”  “Voluntary Adverse Event Reporting in Rural Hospitals;” and “Hospital Administrative Staff vs. Nursing Staff Responses to the AHRQ Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture.”

Bellamy co-authored “Bypass of Local Primary Care in Rural Counties: Effect of Patient and Community Characteristics” for the Annals of Family Medicine.

Debra Danforth, M.S., ARNP, FAANP, authored “What to do when the ‘eyes’ have it” for the August issue of The Clinical Advisor – a forum for nurse practitioners. Danforth’s article discusses subconjunctival hemorrhage and determining proper treatment to preserve patient vision.

Janice Hoff, ARNP, geriatrics preceptor for the Pensacola regional campus, authored, “Genital Herpes in Older Women: a Silent Epidemic," in Journal of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners.

Xian-Min YU, B.M., D.Sc.H, associate professor of biomedical sciences, published a paper, “Control of Excitatory Synaptic Transmission by C-Terminal Src Kinase,’’ in the Journal of Biological Chemistry.

Askar Chukmaitov, M.D., M.P.H., M.P.A., Robert Brooks, M.D., M.B.A., and colleague authored “The Role of Organizational Factors in the Adoption of Healthcare Information Technologies in Hospitals” for Health Care Management Science.

Dr. Brooks and colleagues authored, “Market Effects on Electronic Health Record Adoption by Physicians” for Health Care Management Review.

Dr. Chukmaitov, Charles Saunders, Ph. D., Dr. Brooks and colleagues authored “Is there a relationship between physician and facility volumes of ambulatory procedures and patient outcomes?” for Journal of Ambulatory Care Management.

Dr. Chukmaitov and colleagues authored “Breast Cancer Knowledge and Attitudes Toward Mammography as Predictors of Breast Cancer Preventive Behavior in Kazakh, Korean, and Russian Women in Kazakhstan” for International Journal of Public Health.

Suzanne Harrison, M.D., authored a clinical commentary for Kevin Johnson and colleagues, “Effects of Soy Protein-Based Formula in Full-Term Infants,” published in American Family Physician, Volume 77, January, 2008.

Matthew Lube, M.D., and Ernest Block, M.D., wrote the chapter “Nutritional Support of the Injured” for the 1st Edition of the textbook Trauma, Contemporary Principles and Therapy.

Dr. Lube published “One Hundred Consecutive Splenectomies for Trauma: Is histological Evaluation Really Necessary?” in The Journal of Trauma.

Dr. Lube and colleague published “Jugular Venous Air Following Basilar Skull Fracture” in the Journal of Trauma.

Dr. Lube published “Blunt Renal Artery Injury in a Patient with a Solitary Kidney: Case Report of Treatment with an Endovascular Stent” in American Surgeon.

Michael L. Cheatham, M.D., wrote an invited editorial entitled “Resuscitation endpoints in severe sepsis: CVP, MAP, SvO2…and IAP” in Critical Care Medicine, 2008. 

Dr. Cheatham wrote a book chapter entitled “Intra-abdominal pressure monitoring during fluid resuscitation” in Current Opinion of Critical Care, 2008.

Dr. Cheatham wrote a book chapter entitled “Abdominal hypertension and Abdominal Compartment Syndrome” in Core Topics in Cardiothoracic Critical Care (Cambridge University Press) 2008.

Joseph M. Gabriel, Ph.D., published "Unspeakable Horrors: Addiction and the Art of Confession" in Atrium: The Report of the Northwestern Medical Humanities and Bioethics Program (spring 2008).

Jerry Maitland, M.D., and colleagues published “The Effect of Incremental Cognitive Loading on Patients with Parkinsonism’’ in Parkinson’s and other Movement Disorders. March 2008.

Dr. Maitland and colleagues published “Effects of cognitive-linguistic load on gait and Parkinson’s Disease” in Motor Control.