What's the Buzz? December 2022
December 2022
Honors & Awards
Laura Bontempo, MD, Associate Professor and Assistant Director for Faculty Development & Resident Education in the Department of Emergency Medicine, received the National Teaching Faculty Award at ACEP2022, the annual scientific congress of the American College of Emergency Physicians, which was held in September 2022 in San Francisco, CA.
Ethan Feder, PT, DPT, OCS, FAAOMPT, Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science, was recognized as a new fellow of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Manual Physical Therapists (AAOMPT) at its annual meeting, which was held in San Diego, CA, on October 26-30, 2022. Fewer than one percent of all physical therapists in the U.S. have earned this designation.
Shannon Takala Harrison, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, became a Fellow of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (FASTMH) at this year’s annual meeting.
Linda Horn, PT, DScPT, MHS, GCS, NCS, Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science (PTRS), has been selected for the UMB/Costa Rica Faculty Development Institute. A select cohort of UMB faculty members will participate in an immersive faculty development program in Costa Rica to globalize their courses, modules, tracks, or clinical electives. As part of the program, Dr. Horn will develop asynchronous learning modules and synchronous learning activities. These enhancements will incorporate global health issues into the second year of the UMSOM PTRS Doctor of Physical Therapy program to increase student understanding of the impact of culture on healthcare and the effect of other social determinants of health.
Xiaofeng Jia, BM, PhD, FCCM, Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, received the 2022 Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) Star Research Achievement Award and Presidential Citation Award. SCCM is a large multidiscipline community with 16,000 members in more than 100 countries.
Ben Lawner, DO, Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, has been re-elected to the board of the Air Medical Physician Association (AMPA), the largest professional organization of physicians dedicated to critical care transport by helicopter and airplane.
Amal Mattu, MD, Professor and Vice Chair for Academic Affairs in the Department of Emergency Medicine, received the EMRA Outstanding Contributions to Emergency Medicine Education Award from Emergency Medicine Residents’ Association at ACEP2022, the annual scientific congress of the American College of Emergency Physicians, which was held in September 2022 in San Francisco, CA.
Margaret “Peg” McCarthy, PhD, the James and Carolyn Frenkil Dean’s Professor and Chair of the Department of Pharmacology and Director for the Program in Neuroscience (PIN), was awarded the 2022 Sarah Gund Prize for Research and Mentorship in Child Mental Health by the Child Mind Institute during their annual symposium “On the Shoulders of Giants Scientific Symposium,” which was held on October 20, 2022, in New York, NY. Each year the institute selects a new awardee, who presents at the symposium. The award includes a $25,000 prize.
Daniel Morgan, MD, MS, Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health and Director of the Center for Innovation in Diagnosis, received the American College of Physicians Alvin Feinstein Award. The award is given to an American physician every other year who has made a major contribution to the science of patient care through clinical epidemiology. Alvan R. Feinstein, the father of clinical epidemiology, developed methods to translate evidence-based medicine to individual patient decisions. The award was based on his work on clinical diagnosis.
Sandra Quezada, MD, MS, AGAF, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, was honored on October 23, 2022, with the American College of Gastroenterology Healio Disruptive Innovator Award in Health Equity in Charlotte, NC.
Zhinoosossadat Shahidzadeh Yazdi, MD, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Nutrition, was honored in August 2022 with the Oral Abstract Award at the 2022 APS/ASN Control of Renal Function in Health and Disease conference, which took place in Charlottesville, VA, on June 26-30, 2022.
New Faculty & Appointments
Kamila Nowak Choi, MD, joined the Department of Radiation Oncology on September 26, 2022. Dr. Nowak Choi will be based at the department’s practice at the Patricia D. and M. Scot Kaufman Cancer Center at Upper Chesapeake Hospital and will also see patients at UMMC and the Maryland Proton Treatment Center. She received her medical degree from Jefferson Medical College (Philadelphia) in 2012 and completed both her internship and radiation oncology residency at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. She most recently worked for Radiation Oncology Affiliates at several facilities in the Baltimore metropolitan area. In her new position, Dr. Nowak Choi will focus on patient care and enhancing patient access to advanced treatment modalities, as well as participate in the Department of Radiation Oncology’s stereotactic body, brachytherapy, and clinical trials programs.
Vasken Dilsizian, MD, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, was appointed to serve as the Vice Chair, Board of Scientific Counselors of the Clinical Center, at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), through June 30, 2023.
Roy Film, PT, DPT, OCS, FAAOMPT, Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science, was sworn in as President-elect of the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) Maryland at the combined APTA Maryland and APTA DC, Premier Physical Therapy Conference, which was held on Saturday, October 22, 2022, in Columbia, MD. Dr. Film has served as the Vice President of APTA Maryland since November 2019. He will serve a one-year term as President-elect prior to assuming the office of President in the fall of 2023.
Xiaofeng Jia, BM, PhD, FCCM, Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, has been appointed Associate Editor of Multiple Sclerosis and Neuroimmunology, Frontiers in Immunology.
Ashley Martin, DO, joined the Department of Pediatrics, Division of General Pediatrics, on August 29, 2022. Dr. Martin received her Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine Degree from Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, in 2017. She did an Internship and Residency in Pediatrics at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA, from 2017 to 2020. She is board certified in Pediatrics.
Emerson Wickwire, PhD, Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Medicine, has been appointed to the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. He will serve a three-year term.
Mike Winters, MD, Professor and Vice Chair of Emergency Medicine, has been appointed as UMMC’s first Senior Medical Advisor for Patient Access and Throughput. He will assume a six-month detail to the office of the Chief Clinical Officer to collaborate with UMMC, School of Medicine, and University of Maryland Medical System leaders and partners to examine measurement and improvement of patient access.
In the News
Jason Adler, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was interviewed for the Stimulus podcast by Rob Orman, MD, in a session titled “Bringing the Bedside to the EMR: Everything You Need to Know about the 2023 Documentation Guidelines.”
Afrah Ali, MBBS, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was featured in the “Alumni Spotlight” column in the Summer 2022 issue of the E.D. Dispatch, the newsletter of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Mississippi Medical Center.
DeAnna Friedman-Klabanoff, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, was interviewed for an article in Science entitled “New Data Buoy Hopes for Promising Malaria Vaccine - But Questions Remain” on October 12, 2022.
Matt Laurens, MD, MPH, Professor, Department of Pediatrics, was interviewed by WJLA ABC7 Washington, DC, news for a segment titled “Maryland Respiratory Virus Outbreak among Children Overwhelming Hospitals” on October 20, 2022. He also was interviewed by Alhurra, U.S. Agency for Global Media for a piece entitled “Increases in RSV among American Children” on October 24, 2022.
Kirsten Lyke, MD, Professor, Department of Medicine, was interviewed by Science for a piece titled “Antibody Weapon against Malaria Shows Promise in Africa” on October 31, 2022.
Kathy Neuzil, MD, MPH, FIDSA, Professor, Department of Medicine, Myron M. Levine, MD, DTPH Professor of Vaccinology and Director, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, was interviewed by the New England Journal of Medicine for their Coronavirus Podcast Update titled “Developing New Covid-19 Vaccines” on October 12, 2022. She was also featured in a follow-up article in the Baltimore Sun on Women to Watch 2022. Additionally, Dr. Neuzil was quoted in The Atlantic article “The Bivalent Shot Might Lay You Out,” which published on October 21, 2022, and she was quoted in National Geographic’s article “RSV is Surging among Kids - Here's What You Need to Know,” which published on November 1, 2022.
Emerson Wickwire, PhD, Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Medicine, was interviewed on Fox 45 television station on October 21, 2022, on the subject "Are You Getting Enough Sleep? How You Might Be at Risk for Major Health Concerns."
The My Healthy Maryland Precision Medicine Research project aims to engage a diverse cohort of 250,000 Maryland residents over the next decade for a broad range of research from basic molecular and genetic studies to population health and health services research. Participants will enroll digitally with their mobile phones or PCs from home or anywhere and will share broad health information as well as a DNA sample. All adult residents of Maryland are eligible – they do not need to be patients at the University of Maryland. A particular focus will be on underserved populations who experience significant health disparities that cause more illness and shorter lifespans. Study PI Stephen Davis, MBBS, FRCP, FACE, MACP, Theodore E. Woodward Professor & Chair, Department of Medicine and Director of the Institute for Clinical and Translational Research at UMB, and Co-PI Alan Shuldiner, MD, John L. Whitehurst Professor of Medicine and Associate Dean for Personalized & Genomic Medicine, are spearheading this initiative. To read more and/or enroll, please visit the study website.
Community Service
As part of Falls Prevention Awareness Week, the Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science (PTRS) participated in the Baltimore County Department of Aging's, 16th Annual "Get Ready! Get Set! Get Fit! 5K Run-Walk and One-Mile Walk." At the event, which is held to support older adult health and fitness by raising much-needed funds for senior exercise classes and fitness centers, PTRS faculty and students participated in balance and mobility screenings. They successfully completed the screenings of 33 older adults. Student attendees from the DPT Class of 2024 included: Rivka Gunzburg, Andrew Golden, Abigail Guise, Kami Holt, Lucas Oh, and Sarah Single. Faculty representatives included: Rachel Skolky, PT, MSPT, DPT, GCS, Assistant Professor, and Jason Falvey, PT, DPT, PhD, GCS, Assistant Professor.
Students from the Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science’s Doctor of Physical Therapy Class of 2023 and Class of 2024 recently had an arts/dance Professional Practice Opportunity (PPO) at Goucher College with Alisa Pravdo, PT, DPT, OCS, FAAOMPT, Assistant Professor. This was a new PPO for students in ICE 1. The students worked together to create a PT assessment that was specific for a dance population. Students developed the assessment and then practiced the delivery of the assessment. They performed a subjective evaluation, the dance-specific assessment, and provided feedback and exercise advice specific to each dancer. Students from the Class of 2024 included: Brittany Ballentine, Shea Braden, Michelle Briner, Yan Chen, Eric Elue, Jane Inyang, Sofie Massa, Allison Mulhern, Chelsea Okoro, and Jessica Spindler. Nicole Matalite, from the Class of 2023, also participated.
The Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science had a team participate in the annual Swim Across America event, an organization of volunteer swimmers and friends and family members of cancer patients that raises money for cancer research. The event took place on Sunday, September 18, 2022, in Pasadena, MD. The International King C.R.A.B.S. (Cancer Research Assistance By Swimming) had three team members completed the three-mile swim and four team members completed the one-mile swim in picturesque Redhouse Cove. An additional teammate completed the one-mile swim offsite. This year’s team effort contributed to the $453,000 total raised during the open water event and was led by Vincent Conroy, PT, DScPT, Assistant Professor.
Grants & Contracts
Sara Codding, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physiology, received a five-year K99/R00 “Maximizing Opportunities for Scientific and Academic Independence (MOSAIC),” a career transition award that supports early career investigators from diverse backgrounds with the goal of enhancing diversity in the biomedical research workforce. The funding supports two years of continued training and three years at the independent phase for a total amount of $963,251 from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences to “Visualize the Divergent Conformational Dynamics of KCNH Channels.”
Nate Cramer, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, and Co-PI Radi Masri, DDS, MS, PhD, Professor, University of Maryland School of Dentistry and School of Medicine, Department of Anatomy Neurobiology, was awarded a research seed grant from the UM Center to Advance Chronic Pain Research (CACPR). Their project, “Chronic Stress, Noradrenaline and Nociception” will investigate how stress-induced changes in noradrenergic signaling in the nucleus of the solitary tract potentiates the aversiveness of pain.
Erika Davies, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, received base period contract funding of $75,000 from the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response/Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority ASPR-BARDA as PI of “Nonclinical Development Radiological & Nuclear Network” (Sept. 2022–Sept. 2027). She was also awarded $145,127 from 9 Meters Biopharma for “Proof-of-Concept Study to Assess the Efficacy of GLP-2 to Mitigate the Gastrointestinal Subsyndrome of Acute Radiation Syndrome Leading to a Statistically Significant Improvement in 15-Day Survival Following Total Body Irradiation with 2.5% Bone Marrow Sparing in a C57BL/6J Mouse Model.”
Xiaofeng Jia, BM, PhD, FCCM, Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, was awarded a five-year $2 million RO1 grant from the National Institute for Health (NIH) for “Improving Brain Recovery Through Glycoengineering.”
Kartik Kaushik, MSc, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, was awarded $350,031 for “Traffic Records Program FY23.”
Yuanyuan Liang, PhD, Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, was awarded $40,374 for “Piloting Deposit Contracts to Increase Accessibility of a Contingency Management Intervention to Reduce Problematic Drinking.”
Mary Kay Lobo, PhD, Professor, and Co-PI Asaf Keller, PhD, Professor and Chair, both with the Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, along with Seth Ament, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Institute for Genome Sciences, was awarded a five-year, $3,310,000 R01 grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIH/NIDA) for “Lasting Neurological Effects of Perinatal Opioids.”
Jay Magaziner, PhD, Professor, and Ann Gruber-Baldini, PhD, Professor, both with the Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, were awarded $402,177 for “Multi-Component Behavioral Activation, Nutrition, and Activity Interventions for Persons Aging with HIV.”
Daniel Morgan, PhD, Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, was awarded $725,717 for “Using an Electronic Health Record (EHR)-based Diagnostic Stewardship Intervention to Optimize the Treatment of Respiratory Viral Infections Including COVID-19.”
Rebecca Nowak, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, was awarded $3,684,018 for “Integrated Model for the Prevention of Anal Cancer Using Screen and Treat for HSIL (IMPACT).”
Lynn Schriml, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, was awarded $3,726,982 for “The Human Disease Ontology: An Integrated, Mechanistic Knowledge Resource for Biomedical Research.”
Michelle Shardell, PhD, Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, was awarded $2,224,522 for “Statistical Models and Mechanisms Linking Biomarkers of Aging to Cognitive-Physical Decline and Dementia” and $3,555,760 for “Statistical Methods for Kidney Markers as Shared Determinants of Dementia and Physical Disability in Older Adults.”
Presentations, Events, Lectures & Workshops
Jason Adler, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, delivered the Marson Ma Jr, MD, Endowment Lecture, “Generational Change: A Clinical Approach to the 2023 Documentation Guidelines” at the Ascension St. John Emergency Medicine Program faculty retreat in Detroit, MI.
Leen Alblaihed, MBBS, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, presented lectures on “Bradycardia: Moving Fast When Your Patient is Slow” and “Acute Limb Ischemia: Red, White or Blue, What to Do?” at ACEP2022, the annual scientific congress of the American College of Emergency Physicians, which was held in September 2022 in San Francisco, CA.
Bradley Alger, PhD, Professor Emeritus, UMSOM, has been selected for presentation at a special event during the Society for Neuroscience Convention in San Diego, CA, on November 16, 2022. His paper, “Neuroscience Needs to Test Both Statistical and Scientific Hypotheses,” is part of a Dual Perspective debate on the topic “Should We Abandon Statistical Significance Testing in Neuroscience? Arguments for Replacing It with Estimation Methods vs. Retaining and Improving It.”
Maureen Black, PhD, Professor, Department of Pediatrics, presented “Complexities of Children Being Dependent on Food Systems and Caregivers in Research on Malnutrition,” virtually, in Malnutrition in Clinical Settings: Research Gaps and Opportunities, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), on September 19, 2022.
Jill Bohnenkamp, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, recently gave the keynote address at the Minnesota School Behavioral Health Conference titled “School Mental Health on the National Scale.” On November 15-16, 2022, Dr. Bohnenkamp also presented at the K-12 COVID-19 Response Across the Nation: What Worked, What We Learned, and What’s Next. This event was held in Chicago, IL, and was hosted by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Brown School of Public Health, The Rockefeller Foundation, and the University of Illinois System. Dr. Bohnenkamp presented on the panel “Balancing Public Health Interventions with Social, Emotional, and Academic Outcomes.”
Michael Bond, MD, Professor and Director of Virtual and Multimedia Education, Department of Emergency Medicine, lectured on “Cutting Edge Tools for Academics” and “Don’t Let the Pressure Get You: What You Need to Know about Compartment Syndrome” at the Mediterranean Emergency Medicine Conference, which was held in St. Julian’s, Malta, from Sept. 21-24, 2022.
Laura Bontempo, MD, MEd, Department of Emergency Medicine, served as a judge for the final round of the Clinicopathological conference (CPC) competition for residents at ACEP2022, the annual scientific congress of the American College of Emergency Physicians, held in September 2022 in San Francisco, CA.
Peter Bowman, PT, DPT, FAAOMPT, Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science, presented "The Differential Diagnosis of Anterior Tibialis Tendinopathy vs Lumbar Radiculitis in a 34-Year-Old Runner: A Case Report" at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Manual Physical Therapists, which was held in San Diego, CA, from October 26-30, 2022.
Anne Brockmeyer, PT, DPT, PCS, Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science, attended the 76th Annual Meeting of the American Academy for Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine (AACPDM). The conference was held from September 21-24, 2022, in Las Vegas, NV. Dr. Brockmeyer was a co-author on the poster presentation titled, "Capacity vs. Performance: How Cognition and Motivation Affect Surgical Outcomes."
WanTsu Wendy Chang, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, delivered a lecture on “Shades of Gray Matter: Neuroimaging in the ED” at the Mediterranean Emergency Medicine Conference, which was held in St. Julian’s, Malta, September 21-24, 2022. She also presented a lecture on “Demystifying Neurological Technology - Shunts, Pumps & Stimulators” at ACEP2022, the annual scientific congress of the American College of Emergency Physicians, also held in September 2022 in San Francisco, CA.
Roy Film, PT, DPT, OCS, FAAOMPT, Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science, attended the White House Recovery Month Summit through the Office of National Drug Control Policy to discuss the national overdose epidemic with Rahul Gupta, MD, MPH, MBA and Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff. The Summit also featured Assistant Secretary for Mental Health and Substance Use Dr. Miriam Delphin-Rittmon, Representatives David Trone (MD, 6th district) and Madeleine Dean (PA, 4th district), people in recovery from substance use disorder, and the creative team behind the Hulu series "Dopesick." The Biden-Harris Administration announced their latest actions to combat the overdose epidemic as part of President Biden’s Unity Agenda, including awarding more than $1.5 billion to address the overdose epidemic, prevent substance use, and provide new guidance from the Food and Drug Administration to help reduce barriers to obtaining access to naloxone.
Robert Gallo, MD, The Homer & Martha Gudelsky Distinguished Professor in Medicine; Co-founder & Director, Institute of Human Virology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine; Co-founder & Chair of the Scientific Leadership Board, Global Virus Network, will present “Deep Understanding of HIV Pathogenesis May Offer New Therapeutic Ideas Toward a Functional Cure: The Role of Elevated IFN-alpha” on Thursday, February 9, 2023, at the University of Miami Coral Gables Campus. Dr. Gallo is one of seven speakers at the annual HIV symposium “Science Driving Strategy: Ending the HIV Epidemic,” which is sponsored by the Miami Center for AIDS Research (CFAR), the HIV/AIDS and Emerging Infectious Disease Institute (HEIDI), and the Center for HIV and Research in Mental Health (CHARM).
Iqbal Hamza, PhD, Professor, Department of Pediatrics, was invited to give the prestigious National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series (WALS), the highest-profile lecture program at the NIH on November 16, 2022. Each season includes some of the biggest names in biomedical and behavioral research. The goal of the WALS is to keep NIH researchers abreast of the latest and most important research in the United States and beyond. Previous WALS speakers from the University System of Maryland have been Claire M. Fraser, PhD, Dean E. Albert Reece Endowed Professor and the Director of the Institute for Genome Sciences at UMSOM, and E. Albert Reece, MD, PhD, MBA, Former Dean and Former University Executive Vice President at UMSOM. More about Dr. Hamza’s lecture can be found here.
Sharon Hoover, PhD, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, was a featured speaker for the 2022 National Summit on K-12 School Safety and Security, which was hosted by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency from November 1-3, 2022. She was a member of the panel “Violence Prevention: Mental health, School Climate, & De-escalation.” On October 18-19, 2022, in Salt Lake City, UT, National Governors Association (NGA) Chair New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy and NGA Vice Chair Utah Governor Spencer Cox held the first of four roundtables to discuss the 2022-2023 NGA Chair’s Initiative: Strengthening Youth Mental Health. Dr. Hoover was an invited expert speaker presenting on the role of schools in addressing youth mental health.
Linda Horn, PT, DScPT, MHS, GCS, NCS, Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science, presented an educational session at the American Physical Therapy Association’s Educational Leadership Conference, which was held from October 28-30, 2022, in Milwaukee, WI. The presentation was titled “Becoming a Change Agent: Academic Role in Teaching Advocacy to the Next Generation.”
Xiaofeng Jia, BM, PhD, FCCM, Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, presented a lecture “Furthering Stem Cell Therapy in Neurological Diseases: State of the Art.” He was an invited speaker to the 16th World Congress of International Society Congress (ISPRM), the 23rd European Congress of European Society Congress (ESPRM) on July 6, 2022, and he was an invited speaker to the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) for Congress Star Research Achievement Award the “Boosting Stem Cell Therapy by Metabolic Glycoengineering to Improve Outcomes After Cardiac Arrest” in the 51st Critical Care Congress on April 19, 2022. He presented a lecture “Functional and Quantitative Brain Biomarkers to Improve Outcome After Cardiac Arrest” on April 20, 2022.
Ben Lawner, DO, Associate Professor, and Jeffrey Nusbaum, MD, Assistant Professor, both with the Department of Emergency Medicine, participated in a Baltimore Emergency Medicine Collaboration forum organized by the Mayor’s Office of Performance and Innovation in September. Participants from Baltimore City, the Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Services Systems, and area hospitals gathered to discuss issues such as ambulance offload delays and emergency department crowding.
Amal Mattu, MD, Professor and Vice Chair for Academic Affairs in the Department of Emergency Medicine, delivered five presentations at the Emergency Medicine Update-Europe conference, which was held in Ronda, Spain, from September 18-21, 2022. He presented “EKG of the Day: T-Wave Alternans,” on September 18, “Monomorphic and Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardia” on September 19, “Managing Risk in Emergency Medicine: Case Discussion” and “How the Experts Think: Case Discussions” on September 20, and “Cardiology Literature Update 2022” on September 21. He also lectured on “Acute Decompensated Heart Failure,” “Cruising the Cardiology Literature 2022,” “Recent Advances in Emergency Electrocardiography,” and “Myocardial Ischemia and Mimics: ECG Cases” at ACEP2022, the annual scientific congress of the American College of Emergency Physicians, which was held in September 2022 in San Francisco, CA.
Margaret “Peg” McCarthy, PhD, the James and Carolyn Frenkil Dean’s Professor and Chair of the Department of Pharmacology and Director for the Program in Neuroscience (PIN), presented her groundbreaking work on the cellular mechanisms that organize the brain differently depending on sex at the Child Mind Institute’s annual On the Shoulders of Giants Scientific Symposium, which was held on October 20, 2022, in New York, NY. She was joined by two of her proteges, which was followed by an expert roundtable discussion of sex differences in the brain throughout development.
Mary McKenna, PhD, Professor, Department of Pediatrics and Program in Neuroscience, presented a lecture on “Glutamate-Glutamine-GABA Cycle” to the Brain Energy Metabolism Course, which was held at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on October 6, 2022. She also gave a talk on “Reflections on a Career in Neuroscience” to students in the Neuroscience class at Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School in Washington, DC, on November 9, 2022.
Bryan McNeilly, MD, Resident, Department of Emergency Medicine, was an instructor in the Hands-on MCI Training Scenario for EMRA’s Pediatric EM Committee. He chairs the Pre-Hospital and Disaster Medicine Committee of EMRA, the Emergency Medicine Residents’ Association, and is a resident representative to the ACEP EMS Committee.
Taylor Miller, MD, Resident, Department of Emergency Medicine, was an instructor for the EMRA Critical Care Difficult Airway Workshop and the EMRA Skills Lab (chest tubes) at ACEP2022, the annual scientific congress of the American College of Emergency Physicians, which was held in San Francisco, CA. He chairs the Critical Care Committee of EMRA, the Emergency Medicine Residents’ Association.
Marco Venniro, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, was selected to participate in the joint National Institute on Drug Abuse and National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism’s (NIDA-NIAAA) Early Career Investigator Showcase (ECIS), which was held as part of NIDA-NIAAA Frontiers in Addiction Research Mini-Convention on November 1-2, 2022.
Emerson Wickwire, PhD, Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Medicine, presented to the Johns Hopkins Multidisciplinary Sleep Grand Rounds on October 31, 2022. The title of his presentation was “Sleep Health Economics.”
Faculty members and trainees in the Department of Radiation Oncology presented scientific results in or moderated more than 30 sessions at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO), which was held in San Antonio, TX, from October 23–26, 2022. The department also hosted its annual welcome dinner reception for alumni and members on October 23.
Faculty members and trainees in the Department of Radiation Oncology Division of Medical Physics attended the Mid-Atlantic Chapter Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine, which was held September 30-October 2 in Annapolis, MD. Among the presenters were Huijun Xu, PhD, Assistant Professor (“Toward Automation of Initial Chart Check for Photon/Electron EBRT”); Stewart Becker, PhD, Associate Professor (“GammaPod and 3D Printed Phantom Work”); Alexander Van Slyke, PhD, Medical Physics Resident (“A Simulation of the Effect of Intrafraction Motion on the Delivered Dose Distribution in LATTICE Radiation Therapy”); Jie Ding, PhD, Medical Physics Resident (“A Deep-Learning U-Net–Based Model to Automatically Correct Inaccurate Auto Segmentation for MR-Guided Adaptive Radiotherapy”); and Maryam Mashayekhi, PhD, Medical Physics Resident; Arun Gopal, PhD, Assistant Professor; Huijun Xu, PhD, Assistant Professor; Jinghao Zhou, PhD, Associate Professor; Sung-Woo Lee, PhD, Assistant Professor; and Michael MacFarlane, PhD, Assistant Professor (“Evaluation of Surface-Guided Radiation Therapy [SGRT] for Prone Breast Cancer External-Beam Radiation Therapy”). Junliang Xu, PhD, Assistant Professor, also participated in an invited panel discussion of “Multi-Met Brain: Commissioning and QA.”
Publications
Nabeel Akhter, MBBS, Assistant Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, was the last author of “Catheter-directed Computed Tomography Angiography: A Pictorial Essay,” which was published in August 2022 in the Journal of Clinical Imaging Science. Separately, Dr. Akhter also was the last author of “Transradial versus Transfemoral Arterial Access in DEB-TACE for Hepatocellular Carcinoma,” which was published in July 2022 in the Journal of Clinical Imaging Science.
Jennifer Albrecht, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, was among the co-authors of “Comparison Groups Matter in Traumatic Brain Injury Research: An Example with Dementia,” which was published in November 2022 in the Journal of Neurotrauma.
Afrah Ali, MBBS, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, and Zaid Bilgrami, UMSOM Class of 2021, are the authors of “A Woman with Flank Pain and Swelling,” which was published online in JACEP Open on September 22, 2022.
Omer Awan, MD, MPH, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, was the last author of “Becoming an Expert Radiology Educator Through Deliberate Practice” and “Problem Based Learning in Radiology Education: Benefits and Applications,” both of which were published in October 2022 in Academic Radiology.
Jonathan Baghdadi, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, was among the co-authors of “Healthcare Facilities Should Publicly Report the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Vaccination Coverage of Healthcare Personnel,” which was published in October 2022 in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.
Elham Beheshtian, MD, PGY 3; Kristin Putman, BA, Research Assistant; Samantha Santomartino, Research Assistant; Vishwa Parekh, PhD, Assistant Professor; and Paul Yi, MD, Assistant Professor; all with the Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, were the co-authors of “Generalizability and Bias in a Deep Learning Pediatric Bone Age Prediction Model Using Hand Radiographs,” which was published in September 2022 in Radiology. Epub ahead of print. Separately, Dr. Yi was among the co-authors of “Radiomics and Deep Learning for Disease Detection in Musculoskeletal Radiology: An Overview of Novel MRI- and CT-Based Approaches,” which was published in Investigative Radiology on September 1, 2022. Epub ahead of print.
Soren Bentzen, PhD, DMSc, Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, was among the co-authors of “Cytokine Profiling in Plasma Distinguishes the Histological Inflammatory Subtype of Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma and a Novel Regulatory Role of Osteopontin,” which was published in Frontiers in Oral Health on September 12, 2022.
Nrusingh Biswal, PhD, Assistant Professor; Dario Rodrigues, PhD, Assistant Professor; Weiguang Yao, PhD, Associate Professor; Jason Molitoris, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor; Matthew Witek, MD, Associate Professor; and Shifeng Chen, PhD, Professor, all with the Department of Radiation Oncology, were among the authors of “Evaluation of Intrafraction Couch Shifts for Proton Treatment Delivery in Head-and-Neck Cancer Patients: Toward Optimal Imaging Frequency,” which was published on October 14 ahead of print in the Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics.
Maureen Black, PhD, Professor, Department of Pediatrics, was a co-author of “Eviction and Household Health and Hardships in Families with Very Young Children,” which was published in Pediatrics on September 19, 2022.
Rebecca Brotman, PhD, MPH, Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, was among the co-authors of “Identification of Shared Bacterial Strains in the Vaginal Microbiota of Related and Unrelated Reproductive-age Mothers and Daughters Using Genome-resolved Metagenomics,” which was published in PLoS One on October 26, 2022.
Clayton Brown, PhD, Professor; Anthony Harris, MD, MPH, Professor; and Surbhi Leekha, MBBS, MPH, Professor; all with the Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, were among the co-authors of “Development and Evaluation of a Structured Guide to Assess the Preventability of Hospital-onset Bacteremia and Fungemia,” which was published in October 2022 in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.
Donna Calu, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, published an empirical paper, “Inactivation of the Basolateral Amygdala to Insular Cortex Pathway Makes Sign-Tracking Sensitive to Outcome Devaluation,” which was published in eNeuro on September 20, 2022. She also published a collaborative empirical paper, “Conserved Reward-mediated, Reinforcement-learning Mechanisms in Pavlovian and Instrumental Tasks are Related” with the Groman and Khamassi labs, which was published in The Journal of Neuroscience on October 6, 2022.
Man Charurat, PhD, MHS, Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, was among the co-authors of “Key Population Size Estimation to Guide HIV Epidemic Responses in Nigeria: Bayesian Analysis of 3-Source Capture-Recapture Data,” which was published in JMIR Public Health and Surveillance on October 26, 2022.
Chixiang Chen, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, was among the co-authors of “Synthesizing Secondary Data into Survival Analysis to Improve Estimation Efficiency,” which was published in Biometric Journal on October 3, 2022. Dr. Chen also was among the co-authors of “DHODH Inhibition Impedes Glioma Stem Cell Proliferation, Induces DNA Damage, and Prolongs Survival in Orthotopic Glioblastoma Xenografts,” which was published in Oncogene on November 7, 2022. Other publications included “Fn14-Directed DART Nanoparticles Selectively Target Neoplastic Cells in Preclinical Models of Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Brain Metastasis,” which appeared in Molecular Pharmaceutics on November 14, 2022, as well as “Omnibus and Robust Deconvolution Scheme for Bulk RNA Sequencing Data Integrating Multiple Single-cell Reference Sets and Prior Biological Knowledge,” and “A Statistical Framework for Recovering Pseudo-dynamic Networks from Static Data,” both of which appeared in Bioinformatics on September 30, 2022, and April 28, 2022, respectively.
Hegang Chen, PhD, Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, was among the co-authors of “Tolerability, User Acceptance and Preference for a Novel Reusable Respirator among Health Care Workers,” which was published in the American Journal of Infection Control on September 17, 2022, as well as “Validation of Serotonin Transporter mRNA as a Quantitative Biomarker of Heavy Drinking and its Comparison to Ethyl Glucuronide/ethyl sulfate: A Randomized, Double-blind, Crossover trial,” which was published in Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research on September 11, 2022.
Shuo Chen, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, was among the co-authors of “High-dimension to High-dimension Screening for Detecting Genome-wide Epigenetic and Noncoding RNA Regulators of Gene Expression,” which was published in Bioinformatics on September 2, 2022.
Derik Davis, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology, was the first author of “Identification of Community-Dwelling Older Adults with Shoulder Dysfunction: A Pilot Study to Evaluate the Disabilities of the Arm, Shoulder and Hand Survey,” which was published in October 2022 in Geriatric Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation.
Vasken Dilsizian, MD, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, was a co-author on an editorial entitled “Disturbances in Brain-Heart Neuronal-Metabolic Axis are Associated with Major Arrhythmic Events in Heart Failure,” which was published in the November 2022 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. He also was the lead author on an editorial entitled “Molecular Imaging - New Promises,” which was published in the November 2022 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology: Cardiovascular Imaging.
David Dreizin, MD, Associate Professor, and Elana Smith, MD, Assistant Professor, both with the Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, were the co-authors of “CT of Sacral Fractures: Classification Systems and Management,” which was published in September 2022 in Radiographics. Separately, Dr. Dreizin and Guang Li, PhD, Assistant Professor, also with the Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, were among the co-authors of “Blunt Splenic Injury: Assessment of Follow-up CT Utility Using Quantitative Volumetry,” which was published in July 2022 in Frontiers in Radiology.
Thomas Ernst, Dr rer nat, Professor, and Linda Chang, MD, MS, Professor, both with the Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, were among the co-authors of “Independent Component and Graph Theory Analyses Reveal Normalized Brain Networks on Resting-State Functional MRI After Working Memory Training in People With HIV,” which was published in the Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging on September 27, 2022. Epub ahead of print.
Jason Falvey, PT, DPT, PhD, GCS, Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science, is a co-author on the article titled, "Beyond In-Hospital Mortality: Use of Post-Discharge Quality-Metrics Provides a More Complete Picture of Older Adult Trauma Care," which was published in Annals of Surgery on September 15, 2022. Dr. Falvey was also a co-author on the publication titled, "Epidemiology of Public Transportation Use among Older Adults in the United States," which was published in the Journal of American Geriatrics Society on September 22, 2022.
DeAnna Friedman-Klabanoff, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, was first author, and Andrea Berry, MD, Associate Professor, Departments of Pediatrics and Medicine, was last author of “Vaccine-induced Seroconversion in Participants in the North Carolina COVID-19 Community Research Partnership,” which was published in Vaccine on October 6, 2022.
Jeffrey Galvin, MD, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, was among the co-authors of “Mosaic Attenuation Pattern: A Guide to Analysis with HRCT,” which was published in November 2022 in Radiologic Clinics of North America.
Katherine Goodman, PhD, JD, Assistant Professor, and Anthony Harris, MD, MPH, Professor, both with the Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, were among the co-authors of “Appropriate Antibiotic Use for Group B Streptococcus Prophylaxis Among Penicillin-Allergic Patients in Academic and Nonacademic Hospitals,” which was published in Open Forum Infectious Diseases on October 5, 2022.
Archana Gopalakrishnan, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, was among the co-authors of “E6020, a TLR4 Agonist Adjuvant, Enhances both Antibody Titers and Isotype Switching in Response to Immunization with Hapten-Protein Antigens and Is Diminished in Mice with TLR4 Signaling Insufficiency,” which was accepted for publication in the Journal of Immunology on September 15, 2022. She was also among the co-authors of “Protection against Influenza-induced Acute Lung Injury (ALI) by Enhanced Induction of M2a Macrophages: Possible Role of PPARγ/RXR ligands in IL-4-induced M2a Macrophage Differentiation,” which was published in Frontiers in Immunology on August 16, 2022.
Ann Gruber-Baldini, PhD, Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, was among the co-authors of “Somatoform Symptoms in Parkinson Disease,” which was published in Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology on October 7, 2022.
Dong Han, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, was among the authors of “Systematic Study of the Iodinated Rectal Hydrogel Spacer Material Discrepancy on Accuracy of Proton Dosimetry,” which was published on September 15, 2022, ahead of print in the Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics.
Anthony Harris, MD, MPH, Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, was among the co-authors of “Mucosal and Systemic Responses to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Vaccination Determined by Severity of Primary Infection,” which was published in mSphere on November 2, 2022. Dr. Harris, along with Katherine Goodman, PhD, JD, Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, also were among the co-authors of “Adverse Maternal and Delivery Outcomes in Children and Very Young (Age ≤13 Years) US Adolescents Compared with Older Adolescents and Adults,” which was published in JAMA on November 1, 2022.
Xiaofeng Jia, BM, PhD, FCCM, Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, as the corresponding author, along with first-author Brittany Bolduc Lachance, Program in Trauma, Department of Neurology, were authors of “Are We Still Withdrawing Too Soon? – Predictors of Late Awakening after Cardiac Arrest,” which was published in the February 2022 issue of Critical Care Medicine. He, as the corresponding author, along with co-author Xiang Xu, MD, PhD, Xijie Zhou, MD, MS, Xiao Liu, MS, MD, Liming Qing, MD, PhD, postdoctoral fellows; and Jian Du, Research Associate, all with the Department of Neurosurgery, were authors of “Macrophage Activation in the Dorsal Root Ganglion in Rats Developing Autotomy after Peripheral Nerve Injury,” which was published in November 2021 in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences. He also was a co-author of “Sustained Released of Bioactive Mesenchymal Stromal Cell-Derived Extracellular Vesicles from 3D-Printed Gelatin Methacrylate Hydrogels,” which was published in the January issue of the Journal of Biomedical Materials Research, and was a co-author of “Oxidation and RGD Modification Affect the Early Neural Differentiation of Murine Embryonic Stem Cells Cultured in Core-Shell Alginate Hydrogel Microcapsules,” which appeared in Cells Tissues Organs in 2022.
Shenghan Lai, MD, Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, was among the co-authors of “Use of COVID-19 Testing in the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic among Cohorts of People at the Intersection of Drug Use and HIV,” which was published in Drug and Alcohol Dependence on September 6, 2022, as well as “Deep Learning-based Atherosclerotic Coronary Plaque Segmentation on Coronary CT Angiography,” which was published in October 2022 in European Radiology, and “Cocaine Use Associated Gut Permeability and Microbial Translocation in People Living with HIV in the Miami Adult Study on HIV (MASH) Cohort,” which was published in PLoS One on October 10, 2022. Dr. Lai was also among the co-authors of “Depression and Sexual Stigma are Associated with Cardiometabolic Risk among Sexual and Gender Minorities Living with HIV in Nigeria,” which was published in the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes on September 23, 2022.
Barton Lane, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, and Raymond Cross, MD, Professor, Department of Medicine, were among the co-authors of “Endoscopic Balloon Dilation of Strictures: Techniques, Short- and Long-Term Outcomes, and Complications,” which was published in October 2022 in Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Clinics of North America. Dr. Cross was the last author.
Marcel Lanza, PhD, Research Associate, Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science, is a co-author on the publication titled, "The Muscle Morphology of Elite Female Sprint Running," which was published in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise on September 27, 2022.
Xiao Liang, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow; Li Jiang, PhD, Research Associate; Steven Roys, MS, Research Associate; Rao Gullapalli, PhD, MBA, Professor; and Jiachen Zhuo, PhD, Associate Professor; all with the Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, were among the co-authors of “Validation of Muscle Fiber Architecture of the Human Tongue Revealed by Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging with Histology Verification,” which was published in September 2022 in the Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research. Epub ahead of print. Dr. Liang was the first author and Dr. Zhuo was the last author.
Marie-Claude Lavoie, PhD, MSc, Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, was among the co-authors of “Reaching Transgender Populations in Zambia for HIV Prevention and Linkage to Treatment Using Community-based Service Delivery,” which was published in the Journal of the International AIDS Society on October 25, 2022.
Surbhi Leekha, MBBS, MPH, Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, was among the co-authors of “Evaluating the Incidence of Bacteriuria in Female Patients Before and After Implementation of External Urinary Collection Devices,” which was published in Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology on March 17, 2022.
Yuanyuan Liang, PhD, MSc, Professor of Epidemiology & Public Health, was among the co-authors of “Blunt Splenic Injury: Assessment of Follow-up CT Utility Using Quantitative Volumetry,” which was published in July 2022 in Frontiers in Radiology. Dr. Liang, along with Lyndsay O’Hara, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor; Anthony Harris, MD, MPH, Professor, and Jonathan Baghdadi, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, all with the Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, were among the co-authors of “Follow-up Blood Cultures in Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteremia: A Potential Target for Diagnostic Stewardship,” which was published in Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology on August 27, 2022. Dr. Liang also was among the co-authors of “Integrated Plastic Surgery Residency Applicant Perceptions of Virtual Interviews,” which was published in the Annals of Plastic Surgery on November 1, 2022, and “Evaluating Social Determinants of Health in a Mobile Integrated Healthcare-Community Paramedicine Program,” which was published in the Journal of Community Health on October 21, 2022, and “¡Míranos! a Comprehensive Preschool Obesity Prevention Program in Low-Income Latino Children: One-year Results of a Clustered Randomized Controlled Trial,” which was published in Public Health Nutrition on November 11, 2022, and “A Pilot Study of Deep Learning-based CT Volumetry for Traumatic Hemothorax,” which was published in December 2022 in Emergency Radiology.
Peiying Liu, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, was the first author of “CVR-MRICloud: An Online Processing Tool for CO2-Inhalation and Resting-state Cerebrovascular Reactivity (CVR) MRI Data,” which was published in September 2022 in PLoS One.
Laurence Magder, PhD, Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, was among the co-authors “Trajectory of Damage Accrual in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus based on Ethnicity and Socioeconomic Factors,” which was published in November 2022 in the Journal of Rheumatology.
Sarah Margerison, DPT, PhD Student, and Kelly Westlake, PT, MSc, PhD, Associate Professor, both with the Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science, are co-authors on the article titled "Beyond Pain in the Brain: A Clinician's Guide to Interpreting the Spinal Cord's Role in the Pain Experience," which was published online in Musculoskeletal Science and Practice on September 9, 2022.
Amal Mattu, MD, Professor and Vice Chair for Academic Affairs in the Department of Emergency Medicine, is a co-author of “Clinical Policy: Critical Issues in the Evaluation and Management of Adult Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department with Acute Heart Failure Syndromes,” which was published in the October 2022 issue of Annals of Emergency Medicine.
Bryan McNeilly, MD, Resident; Ben Lawner, DO, Associate Professor; and Tim Chizmar, MD, all with the Department of Emergency Medicine, authored “The Chronicity of Emergency Department Crowding and Rethinking the Temporal Boundaries of Disaster Medicine,” which was published in the Annals of Emergency Medicine on September 15, 2022.
Miriam Menken, Graduate Student; Hua Jun Liang, MBBS, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow; Pedro Rodriguez Rivera, MPH, Graduate Student; Christine Cloak, PhD, Assistant Professor; and Linda Chang, MD, MS, Professor, all with the Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, were among the co-authors of “Peer Victimization (Bullying) on Mental Health, Behavioral Problems, Cognition, and Academic Performance in Preadolescent Children in the ABCD Study,” which was published in September 2022 in Frontiers in Psychology. Dr. Menken was the first author and Dr. Chang was the last author.
Mark Mishra, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, was among the authors of “Quality of Life and Cognitive Function Evaluations and Interventions for Patients with Brain Metastases in the Radiation Oncology Clinic,” which was published in Cancers (Basel) on September 1, 2022.
Siamak Moayedi, MD, Associate Professor, and Mike Witting, MD, Professor, both with the Department of Emergency Medicine, are among the co-authors of “Anteroposterior Racer Pad Position is More Likely to Capture Ahan Anterolateral for Transcutaneous Cardiac Pacing,” a research letter that was published in Circulation on October 3, 2022.
Pranshu Mohindra, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, was among the authors of “Systematic Review for Deep Inspiration Breath Hold in Proton Therapy for Mediastinal Lymphoma: A PTCOG Lymphoma Subcommittee Report and Recommendations,” which was published online ahead of print in Radiotherapy and Oncology.
Daniel Morgan, MD, MS, Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, was among the co-authors of “Decursinol-mediated Antinociception and Anti-allodynia in Acute and Neuropathic Pain Models in Male Mice: Tolerance and Receptor Profiling,” which was published in Frontiers in Pharmacology on September 29, 2022.
Nariman Nezami, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, was among the co-authors of “Bronchial Artery Chemoembolization with Radiopaque Doxorubicin Eluding Beads in Patients with Malignant Hemoptysis from Metastatic Lung Cancer,” which was published in Technology in Cancer Research and Treatment. He was the first author. Separately, Dr. Nezami was among the co-authors of “Deep Vein Thrombosis: Update on Mechanical Thrombectomy and Intravascular US,” and “Percutaneous Image-guided Cryoneurolysis: Applications and Techniques,” both of which were published in October 2022 in Radiographics.
Elizabeth Nichols, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, was among the authors of “Consensus Quality Measures and Dose Constraints for Breast Cancer from the Veterans Affairs Radiation Oncology Quality Surveillance Program and American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) Expert Panel,” which was published on September 14, 2022, ahead of print in Practical Radiation Oncology.
Lyndsay O’Hara, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor; Laurence Magder, PhD, Professor; Katherine Goodman, PhD, JD, Assistant Professor; Jonathan Baghdadi, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor; and Anthony Harris, MD, MPH, Professor, all with the Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, were among the co-authors of “Comorbidities Associated with 30-day Readmission Following Index Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Hospitalization: A Retrospective Cohort Study of 331,136 Patients in the United States,” which was published in Infection Control and Hospital on October 3, 2022.
Kwaku Opoku, MD, PGY 5, and Nariman Nezami, MD, Associate Professor, both with the Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, were among the co-authors of “Percutaneous Chest Tube for Pleural Effusion and Pneumothorax,” which was published in the August 2022 issue of Seminars in Interventional Radiology.
Prashant Raghavan, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, was the last author of “Contemporary Imaging and Reporting Strategies for Head-and-Neck Cancer: MRI, FDG PET/MRI, NI-RADS, and Carcinoma of Unknown Primary-AJR Expert Panel Narrative Review,” which was published in the American Journal of Roentgenology on September 7, 2022. Epub ahead of print.
Lei Ren, PhD, Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, was the senior author of “3D In Vivo Dose Verification in Prostate Proton Therapy with Deep Learning-Based Proton-Acoustic Imaging,” which was published online on October 7 ahead of print in Physics in Medicine and Biology.
Katharina Richard, PhD, Research Associate, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, was among the co-authors of “E6020, a TLR4 Agonist Adjuvant, Enhances both Antibody Titers and Isotype Switching in Response to Immunization with Hapten-Protein Antigens and Is Diminished in Mice with TLR4 Signaling Insufficiency,” which was accepted for publication in the Journal of Immunology on September 15, 2022.
Samantha Santomartino, Research Assistant, and Paul Yi, MD, Assistant Professor, both with the Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, were among the co-authors of “Code and Data Sharing Practices in the Radiology Artificial Intelligence Literature: A Meta-Research Study,” which was published in August 2022 in Radiology: Artificial Intelligence. Dr. Yi was the last author. Separately, Dr. Yi was the last author of “Detecting Upper Extremity Native Joint Dislocations Using Deep Learning: A Multicenter Study,” which was published in September 2022 in Clinical Imaging. Epub ahead of print.
Sarah Schmalzle, MD, Medical Director of the THRIVE program, Associate Professor of Medicine, was a co-author of "Clinical Course of Human Monkeypox Infection in a Renal Transplant Recipient Living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus," which was published in Transplant Infectious Disease on October 13, 2022.
Lynn Schriml, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, was among the co-authors of “A Comprehensive Update on CIDO: The Community-based Coronavirus Infectious Disease Ontology,” which was published in the Journal of Biomedical Semantics on October 21, 2022, as well as “CIViCdb 2022: Evolution of an Open-access Cancer Variant Interpretation Knowledgebase,” which was published in Nucleic Acids Research on November 14, 2022.
Kari Ann Shirey, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, was among the co-authors of “Protection against Influenza-induced Acute Lung Injury (ALI) by Enhanced Induction of M2a Macrophages: Possible Role of PPARγ/RXR ligands in IL-4-induced M2a Macrophage Differentiation,” which was published in Frontiers in Immunology on August 16, 2022.
M. Hussain Soomro, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Radiation Oncology, was a co-author of “OpenKBP-Opt: An International and Reproducible Evaluation of 76 Knowledge-Based Planning Pipelines,” which was published in Physics in Medicine and Biology on September 12, 2022.
Kristen Stafford, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, was among the co-authors of “Reaching Transgender Populations in Zambia for HIV Prevention and Linkage to Treatment Using Community-based Service Delivery,” which was published in October 2022 in the Journal of the International. Dr. Stafford also was among the co-authors of “Treatment-Experienced Patients on Third-Line Therapy: A Retrospective Cohort of Treatment Outcomes at the HIV Advanced Treatment Centre, University Teaching Hospital, Zambia,” which was published in AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses in October 2022, as well as “Key Population Size Estimation to Guide HIV Epidemic Responses in Nigeria: Bayesian Analysis of 3-Source Capture-Recapture Data,” which was published in JMIR Public Health and Surveillance on October 26, 2022.
O. Colin Stine, PhD; Surbhi Leekha, MBBS, MPH, Professor; Kerri Thom, MD, MS, Professor; Yuanyuan Liang, PhD, MSc, Professor; and Anthony Harris, MD, MPH, Professor, all with the Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, were among the co-authors of “Molecular Concordance of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates from Healthcare Workers and Patients,” which was published in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology on September 30, 2022.
Michael Terrin, MDCM, MPH, Professor, and Laurence Magder, PhD, Professor, both with the Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, were among the co-authors of “Predicting the Likelihood of Lower Respiratory Tract Ureaplasma Infection in Preterms,” which was published in the Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal & Neonatal on October 19, 2022. Dr. Terrin also was among the co-authors of “Identification of Community-Dwelling Older Adults with Shoulder Dysfunction: A Pilot Study to Evaluate the Disabilities of the Arm, Shoulder and Hand Survey,” which was published in Geriatric Orthopaedic Surgery & Rehabilitation on October 20, 2022.
Phuoc Tran, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, was among the authors of “From Idea to Clinical Practice: A Brief History of Oligometastatic Disease” which was published in the November 15 issue of the International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics. He also was among the authors of “The 5-Hydroxymethylcytosine Landscape of Prostate Cancer” in the November 2 issue of Cancer Research and “The Impact of Salvage Radiotherapy Initiation at PSA ≤5 ng/mL on Metastasis-Free Survival in Patients with Relapsed Prostate Cancer Following Prostatectomy,” which was published on October 31 ahead of print in Prostate. He was the senior author of “Review of Prospective Trials Assessing the Role of Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy for Metastasis-Directed Treatment in Oligometastatic Genitourinary Cancers,” which was published on October 22 ahead of print in European Urology Oncology, and was among the authors of “Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy for Oligometastasis: Gust Do It?” in the November 15 issue of the International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics. He was also among the authors of “External Beam Radiotherapy with or Without Brachytherapy Boost in Men with Very High-Risk Prostate Cancer: A Large Multicenter International Consortium Analysis,” which was published in the International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics on September 27, 2022.
Quincy Tran, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, is the first author of “Blood Pressure Variability and Outcome in Traumatic Brain Injury: A Propensity Score Matching Study,” which was published in the Western Journal of Emergency Medicine. Co-authors from the Departments of Emergency Medicine and Neurosurgery, the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, and the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center include Hannah Frederick, Cecilia Tran, Hammad Baqai, Tucker Lurie, Julianna Solomon, Ayah Aligabi, Joshua Olexa, Stephanie Cardona, Uttam Bodanapally, Gary Schwartzbauer, and Jessica Downing. Dr. Tran, along with Rose Chasm, MD, Assistant Professor; Lucas Sjeklocha, MD, Assistant Professor; and Daniel Haase, MD, Associate Professor, all with the Department of Emergency Medicine, is also among the authors of “Outcomes and Factors Associated with Occult Septic Shock in Emergency Department Patients with Soft Tissue Infection,” which was published in the Journal of Emergencies. Trauma and Shock.
Ifechi Ukeh, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, was among the co-authors of “Social Media Considerations for the Interventional Radiologist,” which was published in October 2022 in Radiographics.
Melissa Liriano Vyfhius, MD, PhD, Visiting Assistant Professor; Mariana Guerrero, PhD, Professor; Christine Bang, MD, Adjunct Assistant Professor; Mark Mishra, MD, Associate Professor; Zaker Rana, MD, Assistant Professor; Pradip Amin, MD, Clinical Associate Professor; Young Kwok, MD, Professor; and Jason Molitoris, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, all with the Department of Radiation Oncology, were among the authors of “Racial Analysis of Clinical & Biochemical Outcomes in Prostate Cancer Patients Treated With Low-Dose-Rate Brachytherapy,” which published on November 3, 2022, ahead of print in International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics.
Owen White, PhD, Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, was among the co-authors of “The Neuroscience Multi-Omic Archive: a BRAIN Initiative Resource for Single-cell Transcriptomic and Epigenomic Data from the Mammalian Brain,” which was published in Nucleic Acids Research on November 1, 2022.
Matthew Witek, MD, MS, Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, was among the authors of “Human Papillomavirus Impact on Temporal Treatment Trends in Oropharyngeal Carcinoma: 2010-2016,” which was published online on September 6, 2022, ahead of print in ORL: The Journal of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology and its Related Specialties.
Byong Yong Yi, PhD, Professor; Amit Sawant, PhD, Professor; Shifeng Chen, PhD, Professor; Sung-Woo Lee, PhD, Assistant Professor; and Baoshe Zhang, PhD, Associate Professor, all with the Department of Radiation Oncology, were the authors of “Readiness for Radiation Treatment Continuity: Survey on Contingency Plans Against Cyberattacks,” which was published in Advances in Radiation Oncology on September 16, 2022.
Michael Zarro, PT, DPT, SCS, CSCS, Assistant Professor; and Robert Rowland, PT, DPT, OCS, RMSK, CSCS, Assistant Professor; both with the Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science, are co-authors on the publication titled, "Roles and Responsibilities of the Physical Therapist in Collegiate Athletics: Results of a National Survey," which was published in The International Journal of Sports Physical Therapy on October 1, 2022.
Min Zhan, PhD, Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, was among the co-authors of “Oxidative Stress Kinase Activation and Impaired Insulin Receptor Signaling Precede Overt Alzheimer's Disease Neuropathology,” which was published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease on September 26, 2022.
Yuji Zhang, PhD, Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, was among the co-authors of “Mining on Alzheimer's Diseases Related Knowledge Graph to Identity Potential AD-related Semantic Triples for Drug Repurposing,” which was published in BMC Bioinformatics on September 30, 2022. Dr. Zhang was among the co-authors of “A Phenotype-based Forward Genetic Screen Identifies Dnajb6 as a Sick Sinus Syndrome Gene,” which was published in eLife on October 18, 2022, as well as “A Phenotype-based Forward Genetic Screen Identifies Dnajb6 as a Sick Sinus Syndrome Gene,” which was published in eLife on October 18, 2022.