Abdu Azad, PhD

Abdu Azad, PhD, professor, and Nicole Ammerman, ScM, graduate student, both from the Department of Microbiology & Immunology, co-published an article entitled "Characterization of Sec Transclocon-dependent Extracytoplasmic Proteins of Rickettsia typhi" in the Journal of Bacteriology, 2008:190(18).

Maureen Black, PhD

Rebecca Brotman, PhD, MPH

Rebecca Brotman, PhD, MPH, assistant professor, Department of Epidemiology & Preventive Medicine and Institute for Genome Sciences, co-published "The Effect of Vaginal Douching Cessation on Bacterial Vaginosis: A Pilot Study" in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, 2008 Jun;198(6):628.e1-7. Additionally, Dr. Brotman co-published "Ready or Not: The Molecular Diagnosis of Bacterial Vaginosis" in Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2008 Jul 1;47(1):44-6, and "A Longitudinal Study of Vaginal Douching and Bacterial Vaginosis — A Marginal Structural Modeling Analysis" in the American Journal of Epidemiology, 15 July 2008; 168: 188–196.

Carol Carraccio, MD

Carol Carraccio, MD, professor, Department of Pediatrics, published "From the Educational Bench to the Clinical Bedside: Applying the Dreyfus Model to Clinical Practice" in the August 2008 issue of Academic Medicine.

Ribal Darwish, MD

Ribal Darwish, MD, assistant professor, Department of Anesthesiology, co-authored "Treatment of Arteriovenous Malformations with Hydrocoils in a Swine Model" in the Journal of Interventional Neuroradiology, Volume 14, n2, Pages 165-172, June 2008. Additionally, Dr. Darwish was first author on "Role of Transcranial Doppler in Optimizing Treatment of Cerebral Vasospasm in Subarachnoid Hemorrhage" in the Journal of Intensive Care Medicine, 2008 Jul-Aug: 23(4):263-7.

Alessio Fasano, MD

Ricardo Feldman, PhD

W. Florian Fricke, PhD
and Jacques Ravel, PhD

W. Florian Fricke, PhD (pictured), research associate, and Jacques Ravel, PhD, assistant professor, both from the Department of Microbiology & Immunology and Institute for Genome Sciences, co-published an article entitled "Insights into the Environmental Resistance Gene Pool from the Genome Sequence of the Multidrug-resistant Environmental Isolate Escherichia coli SMS-3-5" in the Journal of Bacteriology, 2008 October, 190(20):6779-94.

W. Florian Fricke, PhD; Jacques Ravel, PhD; Dave Rasko, PhD; Garry S. A. Myers, PhD; Emmanual Mongodin, PhD;
and Pawel M. Gajer, PhD

Simeon E. Goldblum, MD

Simeon E. Goldblum, MD, professor, Departments of Medicine and Pathology, and associate director for Basic Science Research in the Mucosal Biology Research Center, co-published an article entitled "Toll-like Receptor 4 Signaling is Coupled to SRC Family Kinase Activation, Tyrosine Phosphorylation of Zonula Adherens Proteins, and Opening of the Paracellular Pathway in Human Lung Microvascular Endothelia" in the March 2008 issue of the Journal of Biological Chemistry. Dr. Goldblum also co-authored an article entitled "Expression of Sialyltransferase Activity on Intact Human Neutrophils" that has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Leukocyte Biology.

William Weiner, MD

Janine Good, MD

Janine Good, MD, associate professor, Department of Neurology, co-published an article entitled "Antecedent Non-bladder Syndromes in a Case Control Study of Interstitial Cystitis/Painful Bladder Syndrome" in a recent issue of Urology.

Jeffrey D. Hasday, MD

Jeffrey D. Hasday, MD, professor, Departments of Medicine, Pathology and Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, and associate director of Translational Research in the Mucosal Biology Research Center, co-published an article "Febrile-range Hyperthermia Accelerates Caspase-dependent Apoptosis in Human Neutrophils" for publication in the Journal of Immunology. Dr. Hasday also co-published an article accepted for publication in the journal Shock entitled "Expression of Toll-like Receptor Pathway Genes is Increased Prior to the Onset of Sepsis in Critically Ill Sirs Patients."

W. L. Hsiao, PhD

W. L. Hsiao, PhD, research associate, Department of Microbiology & Immunology and Institute for Genome Sciences, wrote an article that is scheduled to be published in the December 2008 issue of Endocrinology and Metabolism Clinics of North America. The article is entitled "The Microbes of the Intestine: An Introduction to Their Metabolic and Signaling Capabilities."

Kristen Hurley, PhD

Kristen Hurley, PhD, post-doctoral fellow, Department of Pediatrics, co-published "Maternal Symptoms of Stress, Depression and Anxiety Are Related to Nonresponsive Feeding Styles in a Statewide Sample of WIC Participants" in the Journal of Nutrition, 138, 799-805, 2008. Additionally, Dr. Hurley co-published "Variation in Breastfeeding Behaviors, Perceptions and Experiences by Race/Ethnicity among a Low-income Statewide Sample of Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) Participants in The United States" in Maternal and Child Nutrition, 4, 95-105, 2008.

Zuzana Justinova, MD, PhD

Zuzana Justinova, MD, PhD, assistant professor, Department of Psychiatry, published an article entitled "Fatty Acid Amid Hydrolase Inhibition Heightens Anandamide Signaling without Producing Reinforcing Effects in Primates" in the September 22, 2008, issue of Biological Psychiatry.

Willem J. Kop, PhD

Colin Mackenzie, MD

Colin Mackenzie, MD, clinical professor, Department of Anesthesiology and Program in Trauma, co-authored an article entitled "HBOC-201 as an Alternative to Blood Transfusion: Efficacy and Safety Evaluation in a Multicenter Phase III Trial in Elective Orthopedic Surgery" in the June 2008 issue of The Journal of Trauma®: Injury, Infection and Critical Care.

Mandeep Mehra, MBBS

Mandeep Mehra, MBBS, professor, Department of Medicine, co-published an article entitled "Heart Failure Care in the Outpatient Cardiology Practice Setting: Findings from IM-PROVE HF" in Circulation: Heart Failure, 2008;1:98-106. In addition, Dr. Mehra co-published "Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices for Acute Heart Failure Syndromes: Considerations for Clinical Trial Design" in the June 12, 2008, issue of Heart Failure Reviews and "The Progressive Cardiorenal Syndrome in Heart Failure: Mechanisms and Therapeutic Insights" in Current Treatment Options in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2008 Aug;10(4):342-8.

Kamal D. Moudgil, MD, PhD

Kamal D. Moudgil, MD, PhD, associate professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, co-published an article entitled "Regulation of Autoimmune Arthritis by Self Heat-shock Proteins" in the August 2008 of Trends in Immunology.

James V. O’Connor, MD
and Thomas Scalea, MD

James V. O’Connor, MD, associate professor, Department of Surgery and Program in Trauma, co-authored an article entitled "Assessing Behind Armor Blunt Trauma (BABT) Under NIJ Standard-0101.04 Conditions Using Human Torso Models" in the June 2008 issue of The Journal of Trauma®: Injury, Infection and Critical Care. In addition, Dr. O’Connor, along with Thomas Scalea, MD (pictured above), the Francis X. Kelly Professor of Trauma Surgery, Department of Surgery, and director of the Program in Trauma, co-authored "Diagnosis and Treatment of Blunt Thoracic Injuries: Changing Perspectives" in the June 2008 issue of The Journal of Trauma®: Injury, Infection and Critical Care.

Hervé Tettelin, PhD

Pablo Rabinowicz, PhD

Pablo Rabinowicz, PhD, assistant professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Institute for Genome Sciences, co-authored "Genome Sequence and Rapid Evolution of the Rice Pathogen Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae PXO99A," in BMC Genomics, 9:204 (1 May 2008).

Dave Rasko, PhD

Jean-Pierre Raufman, MD

Jean-Pierre Raufman, MD, professor, Department of Medicine, co-authored a priority report entitled "Genetic Ablation of M3 Muscarinic Receptors Attenuates Murine Colon Epithelial Cell Proliferation and Neoplasia" in Cancer Research 68:3573-3578, 2008.

Terez Shea-Donohue, PhD;
Aiping Zhao, MD; Alessio Fasano, MD; Stefanie Vogel, PhD;
and Toni Antalis, PhD

Terez Shea-Donohue, PhD (right), professor, Departments of Medicine and Physiology and Mucosal Biology Research Center, and Aiping Zhao, MD, assistant professor, Department of Medicine, co-authored an article entitled "Th2 Cytokine-Induced Alterations in Intestinal Smooth Muscle Function Depend on Alternatively Activated Macrophages" in the July 2008 issue of Gastroenterology. Also, Dr. Shea-Donohue and Alessio Fasano, MD, professor, Departments of Pediatrics, Medicine and Physiology, and director of the Mucosal Biology Research Center, co-published a book chapter entitled "Basics of GI Physiology and Mucosal Immunology" In Probiotics in Pediatric Medicine, 2008, which is in press. Additionally, Drs. Shea-Donohue and Fasano, along with Toni Antalis, PhD, professor, Department of Physiology, and Stefanie Vogel, PhD, professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, co-authored "Gliadin Induces an Increase in Intestinal Permeability and Zonulin Release by Binding to the Chemokine Receptor CXCR3" in the July 2008 issue of Gastroenterology.

Elizabeth A. Streeten, MD

Elizabeth A. Streeten, MD, associate professor, Department of Medicine, was the first author on "Autosome-wide Linkage Analysis of Hip Structural Phenotypes in the Old Order Amish" in the April 25, 2008, issue of Bone and "Osteoporosis-pseudoglioma Syndrome: Description of Nine New Cases and Beneficial Response to Bisphosphonates" in the May 7, 2008, issue of Bone.

Scott E. Strome, MD; Aaron Wood, MD; Brian Gastman, MD; and Andrei Chapoval, PhD

Scott E. Strome, MD (right), professor and chair, and Aaron Wood, MD, PGY2 resident, both from the Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, co-authored "Fc Dependent Expression of CD137 on Human NK Cells: Insights into ‘agonistic’ Effects of Anti-CD137 Monoclonal Antibodies" in the June 2008 issue of Blood. Additionally, Dr. Strome, along with Brian Gastman, MD, assistant professor, and Andrei Chapoval, PhD, assistant professor, both from the Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, co-authored "Isopentenyl Pyrophosphate-Activated CD56+ {gamma}{delta} T Lymphocytes Display Potent Antitumor Activity toward Human Squamous Cell Carcinoma" in the July 2008 issue of Clinical Cancer Research.

Lydia Temoshok, PhD;
Rebecca L. Wald, PhD; and Alfredo Garzino-Demo, PhD

Lydia Temoshok, PhD (left), professor, Department of Medicine and Institute of Human Virology, co-edited a special issue of Psychosomatic Medicine (2008; 70: Number 5) entitled "Psychosocial Influences in HIV/AIDS: Biobehavioral Mechanisms, Interventions, and Clinical Implications." Additionally, Dr. Temoshok, along with Rebecca L. Wald, PhD, assistant professor, Department of Medicine and Institute of Human Virology, and Alfredo Garzino-Demo, PhD, assistant professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology and Institute of Human Virology, co-authored "Type C Coping, Alexithymia, and Heart Rate Reactivity Are Associated Independently and Differentially with Specific Immune Mechanisms Linked to HIV Progression" in Brain, Behavior, and Immunity 2008; 22: 781-792, and "Coping As a Multi-system Construct Associated with Pathways Mediating HIV-relevant Immune Function and Disease Progression" in Psychosomatic Medicine, 2008; 70: 555-561. Drs. Temoshok and Wald also co-authored "Integrating Multidimensional HIV Prevention Programs into Health Care Settings" in Psychosomatic Medicine, 2008; 70: 612-619.

Stefanie Vogel, PhD

Sergei Atamas, MD, PhD, associate professor, Department of Medicine, received $224,000 from the Maryland Stem Cell Research Fund for his project “Bone and Tendon Healing Mechanisms of Mesenchymal Stem Cells and Hematopoetic Progenitors Derived from Human Adult Bone Marrow.”

Abdu F. Azad, PhD

Abdu F. Azad, PhD, professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, received a $2.8 million competitive renewal of his R01 grant for years 25 through 29 from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for his work entitled “Murine Typhus: Vector Biology and Transmission.

Subhendu Basu, PhD
and Alan Cross, MD

Subhendu Basu, PhD, research associate, Department of Medicine, and Alan Cross, MD (left), professor, Department of Medicine and Center for Vaccine Development, received a one-year $100,000 Maryland Industrial Partnerships award, in collaboration with Pharmathene, Inc., for “Mechanism of Action Studies for Valortim III.” Their project aims to evaluate the mechanism by which Valortim enhances the ability of human dendritic cells (HDCs) to kill BA spores, as well as assess its ability to inhibit anthrax toxins and to alter the intracellular localization of BA spore in HDCs.

Brian Berman, MD

Brian Berman, MD, professor, Department of Family & Community Medicine, and director, Center for Integrative Medicine, and Bonnie Tarantino, MFA, yoga program director, Center for Integrative Medicine, received a three-year $225,000 award from the Mittelman Family Foundation in support of the Healing Pathways Program at the Center for Integrative Medicine. The program will develop customized integrative healing programs for health care professionals interested in providing mind/body therapies, such as meditation, visualization, acupressure and sound healing, to the bedside of hospital patients.

Maureen Black, PhD; Soren Snitker, MD, PhD; and
Laurence Magder, PhD

Maureen Black, PhD (left), the John A. Scholl, MD, and Mary Louise Scholl, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, Soren Snitker, MD, PhD, assistant professor, Department of Medicine, and Laurence Magder, PhD, associate professor, Department of Epidemiology & Preventive Medicine, received a five-year $2.9 million R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health for their work “Challenge in Schools — Adolescent Overweight Prevention.” They plan to implement and evaluate a multi-level after-school program to prevent obesity among seventh grade girls in Baltimore City Public Schools.

William T. Carpenter, Jr., MD

William T. Carpenter, Jr., MD, professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics and the Program in Neuroscience, was one of 15 scientists awarded a 2008 Distinguished Investigator Award from NARSAD, the world’s leading charity dedicated to funding research on psychiatric disorders. NARSAD will provide Dr. Carpenter $100,000 for one year to advance his research on new drugs for schizophrenia. This highly competitive grant program is designed for investigators of brain and psychiatric disorders who have established themselves as leaders in their fields. NARSAD’s 2008 Distinguished Investigator Award recipients are involved in a wide variety of vital research projects, ranging from the genetics of mental illness to innovative brain imaging studies.

Kevin W. Chen, PhD, MPH

Kevin W. Chen, PhD, MPH, associate professor, Department of Family & Community Medicine and Center for Integrative Medicine, received a $75,000 seed grant for 2008 to 2009 from the University of Maryland, Baltimore/University of Maryland College Park Seed Grant Program to conduct a behavior and integrative therapy development study on adding integrative meditation in the outpatient treatment of cocaine addiction.

Raymond Cross, MD, MS

Raymond Cross, MD, MS, assistant professor, Department of Medicine, was awarded $138,515 for a second year of funding from the Broad Medical Research Program for his work entitled “The Home Telemanagement Trail in Patients with Ulcerative Colitis.”

Steven J. Czinn, MD

Steven J. Czinn, MD, professor and chair, Department of Pediatrics, received a four-year $1.6 million grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases for his work entitled “Mucosal Immunology of Helicobacter-Induced Gastritis.”

Carrie Dorsey, MD, MPH

Carrie Dorsey, MD, MPH, assistant professor, Department of Medicine, received a two-year $812,000 grant from the Department of Homeland Security for her work entitled “Designing a Health, Wellness & Fitness Web-Based Minimum Data Set for the Fire Service.”

Howard Dubowitz, MBChB

Jean K. Carr, PhD, MPH, MA

Jean K. Carr, PhD, MPH, MA, associate professor, Department of Medicine and Institute of Human Virology, received a two-year $412,500 grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for her work entitled “HIV-1 Subtype B Transmission in a Heterosexual Incident Cohort.”

Joyce Frye, DO, MBA, MSCE

Joscelyn E. Fisher, PhD

Joscelyn E. Fisher, PhD, post-doctoral fellow, Department of Psychiatry, received a two-year $59,958 2008 Young Investigator Award grant from NARSAD, the world’s leading charity dedicated to mental health research, for her work entitled “Semantic Processing in Schizophrenia: Symptoms & Memory.”

Simeon E. Goldblum, MD

Simeon E. Goldblum, MD, professor, Departments of Medicine and Pathology, and associate director for Basic Research in the Mucosal Biology Research Center, received a five-year $250,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health for his work entitled “Endotoxin/TLR4 Signaling Regulates Lung Endothelial Paracellular Pathway.”

Kendall Hall, MD

Kendall Hall, MD, assistant professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, received a three-year $876,347 grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality for her work entitled “Safety Advancement in Emergency Departments (SAVED).” Previous work conducted by Dr. Hall and her colleagues suggests that the greatest risks to patient safety in emergency departments are gaps in patient care that occur as a result of failures in communication and coordination of standard processes, such as laboratory studies and medication delivery. This project aims to develop, implement and evaluate a tool to improve these processes so that gaps in care are reduced.

Julie Hotopp, PhD

Julie Hotopp, PhD, assistant professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology and Institute for Genome Sciences, received a two-year $313,498 National Science Foundation sequence grant for her work entitled “Genome Sequence of Wolbachia/Drosophila Lateral Gene Transfer.”

James King, MD

James King, MD, professor, Department of Pediatrics, received a one-year $200,000 investigator-initiated grant from MedImmune, Inc. for his work entitled “Impact of a Statewide Influenza Immunization Program of Elementary School Children.” The initiative began in August 2008.

Linda Lewin, MD

Linda Lewin, MD, clinical associate professor, Department of Pediatrics, received a $206,193 grant renewal for year two of her three-year Pre-doctoral Training in Primary Care grant from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services’ Health Resources and Services Administration.

Janet Lam, MD

Janet Lam, MD, assistant professor, Department of Pediatrics, was awarded a four-year $629,480 K12 Multidisciplinary Clinical Research Career Development grant for her project “Napping on Early Childhood Development.”

Sandeep Khurana, MBBS

Sandeep Khurana, MBBS, assistant professor, Department of Medicine, received a five-year $670,000 K08 award from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases entitled “Mechanisims of Vascular Dysfunction in Cirrhosis.”

Miriam Laufer, MD, MPH

Miriam Laufer, MD, MPH, assistant professor, Department of Pediatrics and Center for Vaccine Development, was awarded a one-year $231,000 National Institutes of Health Clinical Trial Planning Grant (R34) to develop a study entitled “A Randomized, Controlled Clinical Trial of Chloroquine as Chemoprophylaxis Versus Intermittent Preventive Therapy to Prevent Malaria in Pregnancy in Malawi.”

Kirsten Lyke, MD

Mary McKenna, PhD

Mary McKenna, PhD, associate professor, Department of Pediatrics, was awarded a $53,000 grant from the FRAXA Research Foundation for her work “Effect of MPEP on Neuronal and Glial Cell Specific Glutamate Metabolism in Fragile X Mouse Brain.”

Maureen E. O’Donnell, BS

Maureen E. O’Donnell, BS, graduate student, Department of Physiology, received a three-year $78,692 National Institutes of Health Ruth Kirschstein Individual Training Grant (F31) from the National Institute on Aging entitled “Duplin: A Novel A-Kinase Anchoring Protein.”

Christopher Plowe, MD, MPH

Jacques Ravel, PhD

Jacques Ravel, PhD, associate professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology and Institute for Genome Sciences, received a two-year $295,000 grant from The Children’s National Medical Center entitled “HIV Microbicide and the Vaginal Microbiome.” Through studying the effect of microbicides on vaginal microbiota, the project aims to develop a better understanding of the role of vaginal microbiomes and the failure in Phase III clinical trials of the microbicides nonoxynol-9 and cellulose sulfate.

Hervé Tettelin, PhD

Hervé Tettelin, PhD, associate professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology and Institute for Genome Sciences, received a two-year $326,800 grant from the Platform for Appropriate Technology in Health for his work entitled “Characterization of Antigens through Bioinformatics and Comparative Genomics—Enhancement and Dissemination of the Public Strepneumo Sybil Package.” The proposed project will enable development and dissemination of the Strepneumo Sybil Comparative Genomics Package to enhance the ability of users from both developed and developing countries to mine Streptococcus pneumoniae genomic data in the context of vaccine research.

Alessio Fasano, MD

Maria S. Salvato, PhD

Maria S. Salvato, PhD, professor, Departments of Medicine and Microbiology & Immunology and Institute of Human Virology, received a two-year $412,500 grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for her work entitled “A Lassa Vaccine in Primates with AIDS.”

Miriam Blitzer, PhD, FACMG

Miriam Blitzer, PhD, FACMG, professor, Department of Pediatrics, was elected president-elect of the Association of Professors of Human and Medical Genetics. Dr. Blitzer’s term began July 2008 and will run until 2010, at which time she will assume the presidency for a two-year term.

David K. Klassen, MD

Erik P. Lillehoj, PhD

Erik P. Lillehoj, PhD, assistant professor, Department of Pediatrics and Mucosal Biology Research Center, was promoted to associate professor, effective July 1, 2008.

Mandeep Mehra, MBBS

Eli Perencevich, MD, MS

Eli Perencevich, MD, MS, associate professor, Department of Epidemiology & Preventive Medicine, was named a Fellow in the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA). Fellowship in the IDSA honors individuals who have achieved professional excellence and provided significant service to the profession.

Terez Shea-Donohue, PhD

Eric Slade, PhD

Eric Slade, PhD, associate professor, Department of Psychiatry, was appointed as a standing member to the National Institute of Mental Health’s Mental Health Services in Non-Specialty Setting review committee.

Alice Ryan, PhD

Alice Ryan, PhD, associate professor, Department of Medicine, was promoted to professor, effective July 2008.

Alessio Fasano, MD

Alessio Fasano, MD, professor, Departments of Pediatrics, Medicine and Physiology, and director of the Mucosal Biology Research Center, was awarded the title of “Magister Insignis” by the La Nuova Scuola Medica Salernitana (New Medical School Salernitana) in Salerno, Italy. He is only the fourth recipient to receive such an honor.

Richard Lichenstein, MD; Murray Kappelman, MD;
and J. Laurence Hill, MD

Stephen B. Liggett, MD

Stephen B. Liggett, MD, professor, Departments of Medicine and Physiology, received the Excellence in Science Award from Thomas Jefferson University at the 4th Annual Center for Translational Medicine Symposium on June 5, 2008. Dr. Liggett presented “Pathway-driven Pharmacogenomics in Heart Failure: Mechanisms and Application to Treatment” at the symposium, after accepting his award.

E. Albert Reece, MD, PhD, MBA

E. Albert Reece, MD, PhD, MBA, vice president for Medical Affairs, University of Maryland, John Z. and Akiko K. Bowers Distinguished Professor, and dean, University of Maryland School of Medicine, received the New York University School of Medicine Alumni Leadership Award at its annual Alumni Brunch in September 2008.

Jessica Shiu, MD/PhD Student

Jessica Shiu, MD/PhD student, who is in her second year of medical school, was awarded a student research award from the Foundation for Digestive Health and Nutrition/Foundation for the American Gastroenterological Association for her project entitled “Th2 Regulation of Macrophage Receptor Expression.” The award provided a stipend for Ms. Shiu to spend last summer conducting research in the lab of her mentor, Terez Shea-Donohue, PhD, professor, Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics.

School of Medicine and UMMC Joint Programs

The following joint programs between the University of Maryland School of Medicine and University of Maryland Medical Center were ranked in U.S. News & World Report's “Best Hospitals 2008”:

• Kidney Disease–26th
• Urology–32nd
• Ear, Nose & Throat–34th
• Cancer–48th
• Heart–49th