Fall 2011 - Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine - Marshall University

PenP R O F E S S I O N A L E N H A N C E M E N T N E W S L E T T E RFall 2011 | Volume 3 | Number 1Keeping You ConnectedMarshall UniversityJoan C. Edwards School of MedicineAwards, Honors & ServiceAnatomy & PathologyDarshana Shah was invited to participateas one of three panelists for the plenarysession entitled Wired for success inacademic medicine at the AAMC Mid-Career Women Faculty ProfessionalDevelopment Seminar in December2011.Family MedicineRoss Patton received the Family Doctorof the Year Award from the West VirginiaAcademy of Family Physicians.Scott Davis was one of 16 familyphysicians in the United States chosento receive a 2011 Pfizer TeacherDevelopment Award from the AmericanAcademy of Family Physicians.Internal MedicineShirley Neitch spoke in Morgantownthis July on Alzheimer’s basics atthe Chairman’s Leadership Forum, aneducational meeting for state legislatorsfrom around the U.S. She also gavea presentation on The sandwichgeneration: survival tips for caregiversat the Women’s Leadership Institute inLogan in June 2011.Henry Driscoll gave a presentationat Diabetes Patient Education Day atThomas Memorial Hospital in April 2011.From challenge to opportunity...MULTICULTURAL IMPACTF o r F u t u r e P h y s i c i a n s ’ T r a i n i n gImproved...Medical EducationPhysician-Patient RelationshipsAwareness of and Sensitivity to Diverse PopulationsCommunicationTeam WorkCultural competencies have become a matter of national concerndue to growing racial and ethnic disparities in health, as well as theneed for healthcare systems to accommodate increasingly diverse patientpopulations. Awareness of diversity is an ongoing, evolving processthat includes understanding of self and understanding the uniquenessof individuals, their experiences and their contributions to physicians’training.JCESOM faculty members are committed to cultural sensitivity andawareness in order to provide a greater impact in physicians’ training.Inclusion as a way to successfully achieve diversity at JCESOM is thefocus of this issue of “PEN.”Darshana ShahOrthopaedicsAli Oliashirazi received the Heart forthe Homeless Award in February fromthe Cabell-Huntington Coalition for theHomeless.PediatricsMaria Marti-Lopez was selected as thefirst-prize winner in the case reportoral presentation category at the WestVirginia American Academy of Pediatricsmeeting in April 2011.Pharmacology, Physiology& ToxicologyPiyali Dasgupta received Marshall’s Johnand Frances Rucker Graduate AdvisorAward. She also was invited to be ajudge for the Cabell Lincoln HSTA (HealthScience and Technology Academy)Symposium.Continued on page 2

Fall 2011 | Volume 3 | Number 1scholarspotlightMaria Tria Tirona leads cancerclinical trials programMaria “Marissa” Tria Tirona, MD, FACP, is professor of medicineand chief of the Hematology/Oncology Section of theDepartment of Medicine. She also is director of medicaloncology for the Edwards Comprehensive Cancer Center.She earned her MD degree from the University of theEast R.M. Memorial Medical Center in the Philippines. Shecompleted her internal medicine residency training and alsoserved as chief resident at Mercy Hospital in Buffalo, N.Y.She then completed her hematology/oncology fellowshiptraining at Emory University.Before joining the JCESOM faculty, she led the cancer clinical trials program ofthe Saskatchewan Cancer Agency and served as director of medical oncology atthe Allan Blair Cancer Center in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.She is a fellow of the American College of Physicians and is board certified ininternal medicine and medical oncology by the American Board of InternalMedicine.Dr. Tirona initiated the cancer clinical trials program at JCESOM, where she wasone of the principal investigators of the National Cancer Institute-sponsoredClinical Trials Support Unit. In 2010, through her leadership, the ECCC wasaccepted as a member of the North Central Cancer Treatment Group, a majorNCI-sponsored cooperative group based at the Mayo Clinic.She also actively participates in the teaching and education of medical studentsand residents through mentorships and lectures. She recently took over thedirectorship of the medical oncology fellowship program, which will start in July2012.She serves as member-at-large of the West Virginia Oncology Society and wasone of its founding members. She is also the cancer liaison physician of CabellHuntington Hospital.Dr. Tirona has an active clinical practice at the ECCC. Her main interests arebreast cancer, lung cancer and gastrointestinal malignancies.PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM WEBSITE:musom.marshall.edu/fdp/(continued from page 1)State & NationalLeadership ActivitiesBiochemistry & MicrobiologyRichard Niles organized and chairedthe Obesity and cancer session forthe Appalachian Health Summit inLexington, Ky., in April. He also was amember of the external advisory boardthat site visited and evaluated the Centerof Biomedical Research Excellence atNorth Dakota State University.Family MedicineJohn Parker was elected secretary ofthe West Virginia Academy of FamilyPhysicians.Forensic ScienceGraham Rankin is associate editor for theJournal of ASTM International: Medical,Safety and Forensic Science section. Healso is chair-elect of the CriminalisticsSection of the Mid-Atlantic Association ofForensic Scientists.Internal MedicineAhmad Nusair was named chairman ofthe External Affairs Committee of theSociety for Health Care Epidemiology ofAmerica. He also received bronze andsilver levels of certification in the QualityAcademy at the Mayo Clinic.OrthopaedicsAli Oliashrazi was chairman for theControversies and technologicaladvances in primary and complex hipand knee replacement course at theGreenbrier Resort in May. He also was onthe faculty for an Introduction to hipand knee arthroplastycourse in SanDiego, Calif., in August 2011.Pharmacology, Physiology& ToxicologyGary Rankin was appointed to theeditorial boards of three journals:Toxicology, Chemico-BiologicalInteractions and ISRN Toxicology.Continued on page 32

Fall 2011 | Volume 3 | Number 1Staff and StudentAccomplishmentsAnatomy, Cell & NeurobiologyLaura Mader, Morgan Efaw, AlisonWilliams and Serrat Maria had a posterpresentation entitled Temperatureand exercise effects on bonemineral density and growth platemorphology in mice at the 8th AnnualUndergraduate Research Day at the WestVirginia Capitol, Charleston, W.Va., Jan.25, 2011.Biochemistry & MicrobiologyLindsay Sobotka, John Gunno andBeverly Delidow. The suppressiveeffect of SFRP1 and retinoic acid onhuman melanoma as determined byinvasion assays (poster) presented atUndergraduate Research Day at theCapitol, Jan. 2011.West Virginia Space Consortium:Growth-inhibitory effects of capsaicinin human small cell lung cancer andAlpha-7 receptor antagonists in smallcell lung cancer therapy.Sumaiya Chaudhry, a junior at MarshallUniversity, received a SURE grantfellowship for her research project Fattyacids signatures in obesity under thementorship of Nalini Santanam.Jia Fei, a postdoctoral fellow in NaliniSantanam’s laboratory, received apostdoctoral fellow travel award from theAmerican Society of Biochemistry andMolecular Biology to present his researchpaper at the Experimental Biology 2011meeting in Washington, D.C.Graduate student Brandon Shiflett’sabstract at Experimental Biology 2011was selected for a special session,Highlights: graduate student researchin pathology, held by the AmericanSociety of Investigative Pathology.Dr. Christopher Adams (third-yearresident) and Caitlin Kocher (MU)presented their research projectsmentored by Nalini Santanam atthe American Heart AssociationCardiovascular and Prevention 2011Scientific Sessions in Atlanta.Pharmacology, Physiology& ToxicologyBen Owen gave an invited seminar,Short-term activity-dependentchanges in axonal function inhippocampal CA3 pyramidal neurons,in the Department of Biology &Chemistry at Morehead State Universityin April 2011.Benjamin Owen and Larry Grover. Shorttermactivity-dependent changes inaxonal function in hippocampal CA3pyramidal neurons. Presented at theNational Student Research Forum inGalveston, Texas, April 2011.Courtney Crain, a senior at MarshallUniversity, received a WV-NASAscholarship for her research in NaliniSantanam’s laboratory on obesity-relatedmarkers in catalase transgenic mice.Graduate students Aaron Dom andKathleen Brown in Piyali Dasgupta’slaboratory were awarded GraduateResearch Fellowships from the NASARezwan Ahmed, MS-IV, had the following poem published in Lifelines,a Dartmouth Medical School literary journal.The Mighty CercanBe I the hunter that feels the scalpel stingIts venomous tip, steaming a fiery cauldron ofLiquid-ooze slithering on the vermillion sheathSee I inner being, preyUnaware the pain – ah oh bearingIT – extraterrestrial, uncontrolled, grows unaffectedClones selectively attackI trying to extrude the creatureWhispering incantations, solemnly“Oh Mighty CerCAN,Please don’t kill!!!”Reprinted by permission from Lifelines, http://dms.dartmouth.edu/lifelines/10

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