What's the Buzz? January/February 2024

January/February 2024

Honors & Awards - January

Claire M. Fraser, PhD, the Dean E. Albert Reece Endowed Professor in the Department of Medicine and the Founding Director of the Institute for Genome Sciences (IGS), was ranked 196 in the United States among Top Female Scientists for 2023 by Research.com.

Muhammad Mohiuddin, MBBS, DSc (Hon), Professor of Surgery, and Director, Program in Cardiac Xenotransplantation, was honored in July 2023 with the DOGANA Lifetime Achievement Award 2023 from the Dow Graduates Association of North America (DOGANA) at the 2023 Annual Summer Meeting held in Dallas, TX.

Adam Puche, PhD, Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Neurobiology, was recently recognized as Outstanding Mentor at the 46th Medical Student Annual Awards Program.

Thelma Wright, MD, JD, MBA, Associate Professor and Vice Chair for Perioperative and Chronic Pain Management Services, Department of Anesthesiology, was recently nominated and appointed to the American Society of Anesthesiology (ASA) Committee on Expert Witness Testimony and Review. Dr. Wright also continues to serve as Chair of the Medical Executive Committee at the UM Rehabilitation and Orthopedic Institute (UMROI), a position she has held since July 2022.

Honors & Awards - February

James Galen, PhD, Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, has developed technology that has allowed Irazú Oncology, a Baltimore-based therapeutics company, to receive seed funding from the Wexford SciTech Venture Fund and the University System of Maryland (USM) Momentum Fund, the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB), Abell Foundation, and leading healthcare angel investors, to create an outer membrane vesicle (OMV) cancer vaccines platform.

Linda Horn, PT, DScPT, MHS, Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science, has been awarded the Distinguished Fellow of the National Academies of Practice (NAP) in Physical Therapy. Being a Distinguished Fellow in NAP is an exceptionally high honor that acknowledges Dr. Horn’s outstanding achievements and recognizes her as a leader in both the profession and interprofessional care. She will be recognized as a member of the Class of 2024 and receive a distinctive NAP medallion in an induction ceremony at the NAP Annual Meeting & Forum on March 15-16, 2024, in Jacksonville, FL.

Michael Kallen, MD, Associate Professor; Amy Plotkin, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor; and Madhurima Koka, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, all with the Department of Pathology, were the recipients of the UMMC/UMB Innovation Challenge Award. This competition offered several opportunities for awards up to $125K. This competition builds off our shared UMMS value discovery, to submit ideas for improved solutions and novel practices that advance health outcomes for our patients, families, or team members located across the Downtown and/or Midtown Campuses.

Anshu Kumari, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow in Dr. Vivek Garg's Lab, Department of Physiology, was awarded an American Heart Association Fellowship for investigating Cardiolipin Modulation of Mitochondrial Calcium Uniporter in Barth Syndrome.

Paul Luethy, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, was honored in January 2024 with an Extraordinary Service Award in recognition of his service to Microbiology Spectrum, a highly respected peer-reviewed research journal published by the American Society for Microbiology.

Appointments - January

Linda Horn, PT, DScPT, MHS, Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science, has been appointed the Chair of the American Council of Academic Physical Therapy’s (ACAPT) Advocacy Committee.

Muhammad Mohiuddin, MBBS, DSc (Hon), Professor, Department of Surgery, and Director, Program in Cardiac Xenotransplantation, was elected by The Transplantation Society on October 29, 2023, to serve as President, International Xenotransplantation Association (IXA), from 2023-2025.

Appointments - February

Michael Grasso, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Departments of Medicine and Emergency Medicine, is the new program director for Clinical Informatics, a program of the UMB Graduate School offering advanced training for physicians, advanced practice providers, nurses, pharmacists, biologists, and computer scientists leading to an MS degree or a graduate certificate in Clinical Informatics and Data Science.

Andrea Meredith, PhD, Professor, Department of Physiology, was appointed to a two-year term on the Patient Engagement Collaborative (PEC), a working group for a joint project between the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative (CTTI) that discusses topics related to medical product regulation.

Erin Strovel, PhD, Associate Professor, Departments of Pathology and Pediatrics, has been elected to the Board of Directors of the American Board of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ABMGG) for a six-year term beginning January 1, 2024.

Kelly Westlake, PT, MSc, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science, has been appointed to serve on the American Council of Academic Physical Therapy (ACAPT) Task Force on Establishing and Sustaining a Culture of Research in Academic Physical Therapy. The purpose of the Task Force is to provide the tools that physical therapy programs can use to establish and sustain a research culture. Dr. Westlake will serve on the Task Force for 2024.

In the News - January

Omer Awan, MD, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, was named a Scripps News Medical Contributor and is scheduled to appear every Wednesday night during primetime at 8:45 p.m. to discuss a topic in healthcare or public health.

Vasken Dilsizian, MD, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, was interviewed virtually on December 5, 2023, for the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC) Interview Series on the subject of “Expanding Applications of Cardiac PET Beyond Perfusion Assessment: Its Role in Cardiac Device Infections.”

Cheyenne Falat, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, discussed hypothermia and injury prevention in extreme cold weather in an interview with FOX45 Morning News on November 29, 2023, as Baltimore City issued its first Code Blue for extreme cold.

Sarah Lee, MD, Instructor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was interviewed for the article “Why You Feel More Aches and Pains in the Cold Weather — And What You Can Do About It,” which was published November 23, 2023, by Fox News online and reprinted in the New York Post and on Yahoo News.

In the News - February

James Campbell, MD, MS, Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, was interviewed and quoted by the Associated Press in the article “RSV is Straining Some Hospitals, and U.S. Officials are Releasing More Shots for Newborns” on November 16, 2023.

Dr. Campbell was also interviewed by Helio and appeared in the video “U.S. Experiencing Shortage of RSV Immunization” on November 18, 2023.
Additionally, Dr. Campbell was interviewed by Maryland Matters for the article “Doctors, Health Officials Advise Marylanders to Get Vaccinated Before Holiday Travel” on December 12, 2023.

Wilbur Chen, MD, MS, FIDSA, Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, was featured by WMAR-ABC in their video news segment “New Clinical Trial Pays People with the Flu $1,900 to Get Others Sick” on January 4, 2024, and was featured by WYPR in their radio news interview “University of Maryland Embarking on First-of-its-kind Study on How Flu is Transmitted” on January 5, 2024.

Dr. Chen was also featured by WJZ in their news article “Catch the Flu for Money? University of Maryland School of Medicine Studies How Virus is Transmitted” on January 5, 2024.
Additionally, Dr. Chen was featured by WTOP-FM in their radio news segment about the EMIT2 Flu Transmission Study on January 6, 2024.

Kyle Fischer, MD, MPH, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was interviewed for an article about Medicaid funding for community-based violence prevention programs, “Gun Violence is a Plague. Could Medicaid Help?” The Washington Post and KFF Health News co-produced and published the story. He also was quoted in a follow-up story published on January 5, 2024, “States Begin Tapping Medicaid Dollars to Combat Gun Violence,” reporting that Maryland is one of seven states that have approved the use of Medicaid funds for gun violence prevention programs. Dr. Fischer serves as policy and advocacy director for The Health Alliance for Violence Intervention.

Matthew Laurens, MD, MPH, Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, was interviewed on the Fox45 News Morning Show for the segment titled “Is It OK To Double Up? Getting Your COVID-19 And Flu Vaccines at Once” on December 1, 2023. He also was interviewed and quoted by Lead Stories in the article “Fact Check: Moderna Did NOT 'Confirm' That Its mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines Cause Cancer,” on December 11, 2023, and was interviewed and quoted by Knowable Magazine in the article “Top Science Stories of 2023,” on December 21, 2023.

Kathleen Neuzil, MD, MPH, FIDSA, the Myron M. Levine, MD, DTPH Professor of Vaccinology and Director of the Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health (CVD), was quoted in STAT on December 5, 2023, in an article titled “Is mRNA Technology the Right Fit for Flu Shots? Experts Aren’t So Sure.”

New Faculty - February

Rachel Reoli, PT, DPT, PhD, joined the Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science (PTRS) on January 2, 2024, as a core faculty member at the rank of Assistant Professor. Dr. Reoli was previously an Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the Johns Hopkins University. She is a board certified neurologic physical therapist with extensive experience. In addition, Dr. Reoli is a PhD graduate from the PTRS Physical Rehabilitation Science program.

Marcel Lanza, PhD, joined the Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science on January 2, 2024, at the rank of Assistant Professor. Dr. Lanza previously held the appointment rank of Research Associate. In addition to teaching in both the DPT program and the Physical Rehabilitation Science PhD program, he will continue his research in the field of aging.

Awards, Grants & Funding - January

Matthew Frieman, PhD, Professor, and Lynda Coughlan, PhD, Assistant Professor, both with the Department of Microbiology & Immunology, along with Robert Ernst, PhD, Professor, Department of Microbial Pathogenesis at the University of Maryland School of Dentistry (PI), received a two-year grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Center for Research on Influenza Pathogenesis and Transmission (CRIPT) at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine to study the “Enhancement of Influenza Virus H5 Vaccine Efficacy by a Novel BECC Adjuvant.”

Drs. Frieman and Coughlan also are co-PIs on a five-year, $9.5 million NIAID contract led by Dr. Ernst for development of vaccine adjuvants.
Dr. Frieman also received a two-year grant from the NIAID Center of Excellence for Influenza Research at St. Jude’s Hospital to study “The Role of ORF8 in SARS-CoV-2 Transmission.”

Awards, Grants & Funding - February

James Campbell, MD, MS, Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, has been awarded a one-year, $842,775 clinical trial agreement from the National Cancer Institute/Leidos Biomedical Research to study “Mpox.” He also has been awarded a one-year, $566,435 clinical trial agreement from PPD/Moderna to study “Pediatric Cytomegalovirus” and a fourteen-month, $85,731 clinical trial agreement from PPD/Moderna to study “BabyCove.”

Niel Constantine, PhD, Professor, Department of Pathology, Institute of Human Virology, has been awarded $205,162 for 10 months from Family Health International 360 for the USAID Global Health Supply Chain Quality Assurance Program. This award supports the continuation of Dr. Constantine's work to evaluate HIV, hepatitis, syphilis, and other rapid test kits sent from international locations and manufacturers to determine if their performance characteristics meet manufacturers’ claims. Technical Assistance activities are provided also.

Alan Cross, PhD, Professor, and Sharon Tennant, PhD, Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Heath, have been awarded a third European Patent for their invention entitled “Immunogenic Compositions” UMB Ref #: RS-2017-003 (US). The patent has been validated in the following European countries: Austria (AT), Belgium (BE), Switzerland (CH) / Liechtenstein (LI), Germany (DE), Spain (ES), France (FR), Great Britain (GB), Ireland (IE), Italy (IT), Netherlands (NL), Sweden (SE). This invention is jointly owned with GlaxoSmithKline and Affinivax. This invention is licensed to GSK Biologicals SA.

Jose Lemme Dumit, PhD, Research Associate, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, has received a one-year, $99,922 Early Career Investigator Pilot Award from the Infectious Diseases Clinical Research Consortium (IDCRC) to study “Antibody-mediated Immunity to Shigella in the Human Gut to Inform Vaccine Efforts.”

Martha Francis, PhD, RN, Assistant Professor and a nurse practitioner in the Department of Radiation Oncology, along with Ian Kleckner, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor, School of Nursing, received a $15,000 one-year grant from the SON to support a project on “Phase 1 Feasibility Testing of Serious Illness Conversation Guide in Patients and Intimate Partner Dyads Living with Advanced Cancer." The grants are awarded for research focused on nurse-sensitive outcomes in hospital and community settings.

Karen Kotloff, MD, Distinguished Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, received a one-year, $220,006 research agreement from Syneos Health LLC/Novavax for “A Phase 2/3, Randomized, Double-Blinded Study to Evaluate the Safety and Immunogenicity of a Harmonized SARS CoV-2 rS Vaccine Booster Dose in Adults Previously Vaccinated with mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines” and received a one-year, $120,453 research agreement from PopVax, Ltd. for “PopVax.” She also received a one-year, $15,600 research agreement from Leidos for “NextGen.”

Myron M. Levine, MD, DTPH, Distinguished Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, has been awarded a two-year, $1,285,620 grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to study “Samoa – Typhoid Fever Control Program 2023.”

Kathleen Neuzil, MD, MPH, FIDSA, the Myron M. Levine, MD, DTPH Professor of Vaccinology and Director of the Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health (CVD), has been awarded a five-year, $2,357,382 contract from the National Institutes of Health to study “Development of a Multivalent Variant-proof Mucosal SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine.”

Marcela Pasetti, PhD, Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, has been awarded a one-year, $458,263 contract from the National Institutes of Health to study “SARS-CoV-2 Mucosal Antibody Assays.”

Stephen Thom, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, has been awarded a $117,000 grant from DURIP, the Defense University Research Instrumentation Program, to acquire digital polymerase chain reaction (PCR) apparatus for research funded by the Office of Naval Research.

Presentations, Events, Lectures & Workshops - January

Jason Adler, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, presented “Hitting the Ground Running in January: Key 2024 Reimbursement Updates” at the Colorado College of Emergency Physicians Leadership Summit in Beaver Creek, CO, on November 7, 2023, and at the Georgia ACEP Leadership & Advocacy Conference in Greensboro, GA, on November 30.

Dr. Adler also presented “Resuscitating Your Chart: Leveling Up Your Critical Care Documentation” at the Michigan ACEP Straight Talk Reimbursement Conference, held in Troy, MI, on November 14, 2023.

Afrah Ali, MBBS, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, presented an abstract on “Simulation-Based Assessment for the Emergency Medicine Milestones” and lectured on “The Deadly Rash!” and “Caring for the Psychiatric Patient Boarding in the Emergency Department” at the XIIth Mediterranean Emergency Medicine Congress held in Rhodes, Greece, September 7-10, 2023.

Howard Dubowitz, MB,ChB, MS, FAAP, Professor, Department of Pediatrics, presented a remote webinar on “Child Neglect: SEEK – An Approach to Prevention/Promotion” held at the University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy on November 28, 2023.

Jason Falvey, PT, DPT, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science, was an invited panelist at the 2023 Paul B. Beeson Emerging Leaders in Aging-Related Research and Clin-STAR Annual Meeting. Dr. Falvey participated in a moderated session on the importance of diversity in research.

Dr. Falvey also presented a symposium titled "Novel Approaches and Outcomes to Investigate Recovery and Mobility after Hip Fracture" at the Gerontological Society of America’s (GSA) annual scientific meeting in Tampa, FL, from November 8-12, 2023.

Elisabeth Fassas, MD ‘23, presented “Public Health Interventions in the Emergency Department: A Framework for Evaluation” at a roundtable discussion held at the American Public Health Association Meeting and Expo in Atlanta, GA, on November 14, 2023. Co-authors from the Department of Emergency Medicine included Kyle Fischer, MD, MPH, and J. David Gatz, MD, both Assistant Professors; Dan Gingold, MD, MPH, Associate Professor; and Steve Schenkel, MD, Professor. Dr. Fassas is now a resident in internal medicine at Duke University Medical Center.

Thomas Grissom, MD, MSIS, FCCM, FASA, Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, was recently a Visiting Professor at the University of Miami where he delivered the Grand Rounds talk “My Favorite Trauma-Related Papers in the Last Year.” Dr. Grissom is also an assistant editor for the trauma section of Anesthesia and Analgesia and a member of the ASA Committee on Trauma. He also was recently nominated and appointed as one of two liaisons from the American Society of Anesthesiology to the Committee on Trauma, the American College of Surgeons.

David Marcozzi, MD, Clinical Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine and Associate Dean for UMMC Clinical Affairs, co-chaired the 30th Annual Health Services Leadership Awards lunch of the Baltimore Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America, which was held at the Baltimore Hilton on December 7, 2023. Dr. Marcozzi also received the Health Services Leadership Award in 2022.

Amal Mattu, MD, Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine, delivered a virtual lecture on “Pitfalls in the Diagnosis of ACS” at the Trauma, Emergency, and Acute Medicine (TEAM) conference, held in Bydgoszcz, Poland, on December 1, 2023. Dr. Mattu also lectured on “Acute Pericarditis: What We Weren’t Taught” at the American College of Osteopathic Emergency Physicians Digital Monthly Grand Rounds on November 30, 2023, and was an invited speaker on professional development and women in emergency medicine at Educational Rounds for the Department of Emergency Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, UAE.

Elizabeth Parker, PhD, RD, Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science, was a co-author on two poster presentations "Social Isolation and Diet Quality Among U.S. Adults with a Disability in NHANES, 2013-2018" and "Whole Health(y) Aging With Gerofit: The Development of a Pilot Wellness Program for Older Veterans" at the Gerontological Society of America (GSA), which held its annual scientific meeting in Tampa, FL, November 8-12, 2023. GSA is the oldest and largest interdisciplinary organization devoted to research, education, and practice in the field of aging.

Dr. Parker also was a co-author of the poster presentation titled, "Efficacy of Malnutrition Screening Among Older Veterans at an Urban VA Hospital," which was presented by Sarah Cassatt, MS, RDN, CNSC, a part-time graduate student in the UMB/UMBC Gerontology program. Dr. Parker is a co-chair for Sarah's dissertation.

Justin Richards, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, was a Visiting Professor at the Department of Orthopedics at Greenville Memorial Hospital in Greenville, SC, for its Edward Bray III, MD Visiting Professor Lecture series. Dr. Richards will also be giving Grand Rounds at the University of Miami.

Mike Winters, MD, Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine, delivered several talks at the Emergency Medicine and Pharmacology for Primary Care MCE Conference held in Orlando, FL, November 10-12, 2023, titled “Updates in Cardiac Arrest,” “Clinical Pearls from the Recent Literature,” “My Master Class: Anaphylaxis,” “Avoiding Pitfalls in Back Pain Emergencies,” “Evidence-Based ENT Emergencies,” and “When Time Matters … Deadly Rashes.”

Dr. Winters also gave Emergency Medicine Grand Rounds at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, FL, on November 27, 2023, as well as talks titled “Bedside Resuscitation Leadership,” “What’s New in Cardiac Arrest?,” and “Post-Arrest Interventions That Save Lives!”

Members of the Department of Radiation Oncology were invited participants and lecturers at the meeting on FLASH Radiotherapy and Particle Therapy, which was held in Toronto, Canada, December 5-7, 2023.

Kevin Byrne, MSc, Research Medical Physicist, presented “Real-Time, Target-Proximal In Vivo FLASH Dosimetry Using an Inorganic Scintillation Detector,” which was named a best abstract for the meeting. Byrne also served as a co-chair of a session on “Quality Assurance and Real-Time Dosimetry for FLASH RT Measurement.”
Kai Jiang, PhD, Assistant Professor, presented "A High-throughput Platform for Murine Subcutaneous Tumor Irradiation with UHDR Electron Beam at Variable Dose Rates.”
Sina Mossahebi, PhD, Associate Professor, presented “Combining Proton Flash and Spatially Fractionated Radiotherapy ― Initial Dosimetric Characterization.”
Yannick Poirier, PhD, Assistant Professor, presented "Consensus Recommendations from the FlashForward Consortium FLASH Radiation Safety Working Group."

Presentations, Events, Lectures & Workshops - February

Matthew Laurens, MD, MPH, Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, presented “Everything You Need to Know to Protect Yourself Against the 2023 Respiratory Virus Season (RSV, Covid-19, Flu),” to participants in Mini-Med School, University of Maryland School of Medicine on November 8, 2023, in Baltimore, MD. He also was a reviewer for the Scientific Review Group 2024/01 ZAI1 CAB-M, International Centers of Excellence for Malaria Research, National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, on November 13-15, 2023, and was a Scientist Reviewer for NIAID protocol “Assessment of Pregnancy Outcomes Through Demographic Surveillance and Prospective Data Collection at a Health Facility in Kalifabougou, Mali,” on November 13-15, 2023.

Dr. Laurens also presented “Test-Negative Design: An Efficient Method to Assess Typhoid Conjugate Vaccine Effectiveness,” at the 13th International Conference on Typhoid and other Invasive Salmonelloses on December 5, 2023, in Kigali, Rwanda.

Kathleen Neuzil, MD, MPH, FIDSA, the Myron M. Levine, MD, DTPH Professor of Vaccinology and Director of the Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health (CVD), presented the (remote) keynote “What’s New with Respiratory Viruses? Influenza, COVID-19 and RSV” to the Aotearoa New Zealand Immunisation Conference 2023 on November 15, 2023. She was an invited presenter at the Online NFID Clinical Vaccinology Course, where she spoke on “Influenza Vaccination Recommendations Across the Lifespan,” on November 15, 2023.

Dr. Neuzil also presented “Bridging the Gap: Environmental and Sero-Surveillance for Estimating Typhoid Burden and Supporting Vaccine Introductions,” at the 13th International Conference on Typhoid and other Invasive Salmonelloses on December 5, 2023, in Kigali, Rwanda.

Elizabeth Nichols, MD, Associate Professor; Sarah McAvoy, MD, Associate Professor; Mark Mishra, MD, Professor; and Melissa Vyfhuis, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, all with the Department of Radiation Oncology, presented “Intensity-Modulated Proton Therapy (IMPT) for the Definitive Adjuvant Management of Women with Breast Cancer: A Single-Institutional Experience of 5-Year Oncologic Outcomes” on December 7, 2023, at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.

Roger Stone, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was an invited speaker for two presentations to the National Association of EMS Physicians 2024 Annual Meeting and Scientific Assembly held in Austin, TX, on January 11, 2024: “So We’re Subspecialists Now, but will EMS Medicine Always be a Part-time Gig?” and “We’re Down with DTT, EDs Set Us Free! Direct-to-Triage protocol and process that get our units back on the street.” Dr. Stone also presented a poster at the meeting: “Limited Use of Prehospital Ultrasound to Answer a Binary Question: Transportation versus Termination Decisions Based on an Ultrasound of Carotid Artery During Prehospital Cardiac Arrest Resuscitation.”

Sharon Tennant, PhD, Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Heath, presented “Klebsiella Pneumoniae: Infections and Vaccines” to Medicine Grand Rounds, University of Maryland School of Medicine, on January 3, 2024.

The 19th University of Maryland Annual Radiation Oncology Symposium: Best Of was held on January 11, 2024, at the SMC Campus Center in Baltimore. More than 160 in-person and virtual attendees participated in the CME-accredited educational program intended to provide a review of practice-changing studies featured at major national meetings and in peer-reviewed journals over the past year.

Led by co-directors William F. Regine, MD, Professor, and Sarah McAvoy, MD, Associate Professor, the half-day course brought together leading experts from the University of Maryland and physicians from institutions across the country. Department of Radiation Oncology faculty included:

Rashmi Benda, MD, Assistant Professor (breast cancer)
Matthew Ferris, MD, Assistant Professor (head and neck cancer/sarcoma)
Jason Molitoris, MD, PhD, Associate Professor (gastrointestinal cancer)
Phuoc Tran, MD, PhD, Professor (genitourinary cancer)

Community Service - February

Department of Emergency Medicine faculty and residents hosted CURE Scholar ninth graders for a two-hour Introduction to Medicine session on December 9, 2023. The scholars received stethoscopes and learned to use them, and were introduced to tourniquet use, point-of-care ultrasound, and emergency radiology topics. Mercedes Torres, MD, Clinical Associate Professor, and Robert Dunn, MD, Resident, organized the session, and several medical students, residents, and EM faculty served as preceptors.

Publications - January

Omer Awan, MD, MPH, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, was the last author of “Disability in Radiology,” which was published in the November 2023 issue of Academic Radiology. Epub ahead of print.

Linda Chang, MD, MS, Professor; Christine Cloak, PhD, Assistant Professor; Eric Cunningham, Senior Research Analyst; and Thomas Ernst, Dr rer nat, Professor, all with the Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, were among the co-authors of “Glutamate Measurements Using Edited MRS,” which was published in Magnetic Resonance in Medicine on December 3, 2023. Epub ahead of print. Dr. Ernst was the last author.

Howard Dubowitz, MB,ChB, MS, FAAP, and Susan Feigelman, MD, FAAP, Professors, Department of Pediatrics, were co-authors of “The Initial Medical Assessment of Possible Child Sexual Abuse: History, History, History,” which was published in Academic Pediatrics on November 12, 2023.

Jason Falvey, PT, DPT, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science, was a co-author of the publication titled "The Interaction Between Geriatric & Neighborhood Vulnerability: Delineating Pre-Hospital Risk Among Older Adult Emergency General Surgery Patients," which was published in the Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery on November 13, 2023.

Dr. Falvey was also a co-author of the publication titled "Cost of U.S Emergency Department and Inpatient Visits for Fall Injuries in Older Adults," which was published in the journal Injury on November 12, 2023.

Matthew Frieman, PhD, the Alicia and Yaya Professor of Viral Pathogenesis in the Department of Microbiology & Immunology, along with James Logue, PhD; Victoria Melville, Laboratory Research Specialist; and Jeremy Ardanuy, PhD, Research Associate, published “CNP Blocks Mitochondrial Depolarization and Inhibits SARS-CoV-2 Replication in vitro and in vivo” in PLOS Pathogens.

Allison Gibbs, Research Specialist; Eduardo Bento de Faria, DVM, Research Associate; Sarah Triesler, Research Specialist; and Andrew Zodda, Quality Assurance Program Director, all with the Department of Radiation Oncology, were among the authors of “Pharmacokinetics and Biodistribution of 16,16 Dimethyl Prostaglandin E2 in Non-irradiated and Irradiated Mice and Non-irradiated Non-Human Primates,” which was published on November 29, 2023, ahead of print in Radiation Research.

Daniel Gingold, MD, MPH, Associate Professor, and Benoit Stryckman, MA; Angela Smedley, MD; and David Gatz, MD, Assistant Professors, Department of Emergency Medicine, were among the co-authors of “Pursuing Qualitative Insights from Patients with Persistently High Emergency Department Use to Inform Care Coordination Services in Co-Located Substance Use, Medical, and Psychiatric Care Setting,” a poster presented by Kate Dunn, MSN, RN, at the 47th Annual AMERSA Conference held in Washington, DC, on November 3, 2023.

Barbara Juarez, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Neurobiology, co-authored a new review article titled “Current Status and Future Strategies for Advancing Functional Circuit Mapping In Vivo,” which appeared in the Journal of Neuroscience on November 8, 2023.

Young Kwok, MD, Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, was among the authors of “NRG/RTOG 0837: Randomized, Phase II, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial of Chemoradiation With or Without Cediranib in Newly Diagnosed Glioblastoma,” which was published on October 11, 2023, ahead of print in Neuro-Oncology Advances.

Peiying Liu, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, was among the co-authors of “Association of Baseline Cerebrovascular Reactivity and Longitudinal Development of Enlarged Perivascular Spaces in the Basal Ganglia,” which was published in the November 2023 issue of Stroke.

Dr. Liu was also among the co-authors of “Automatic Rejection Based on Tissue Signal (ARTS) for Motion-corrected Quantification of Cerebral Venous Oxygenation in Neonates and Older Adults,” which was published in the November 2023 issue of Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Epub ahead of print.

Miguel Luján, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Neurobiology, co-authored a new review article titled “Listening to the Data: Computational Approaches to Addiction and Learning,” which was published in the Journal of Neuroscience on November 8, 2023.

Dr. Luján was also the first author of an article titled “Mobilization of Endocannabinoids by Midbrain Dopamine Neurons is Required for the Encoding of Reward Prediction,” which was published online in Nature Communications on November 20, 2023.

Raphael Meier, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor; Josue Alvarez-Casas, MD, Assistant Professor; Chandra Bhati, MD, Professor; Saad Malik, MD, Assistant Professor; and Daniel Maluf, MD, Professor, all with the Department of Surgery, along with Shani Kamberi, MD/MPH Candidate, UMSOM, and William Twaddell, MD, Professor, Department of Pathology; Kirti Shetty, MD, Professor, Department of Medicine; and Barton Lane, MD, Associate Professor; Adam Fang, MD, Assistant Professor; and Hyun Kim, MD, MHS, Professor, all with the Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, were the co-authors of “Inferior Vena Cava Thrombectomy and Stenting as Bridge to Liver Transplantation After Radiotherapy-Induced Thrombosis,” which was published in the November 2023 issue of Progress in Transplantation. Epub ahead of print. Dr. Meier was the first author and Dr. Maluf was the last author.

Andrea Meredith, PhD, Professor, and Hans Moldenhauer, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physiology, published the study “Structural Mapping of Patient-associated KCNMA1 Gene Variants,” in the Biophysical Journal, ePublication ahead of print, in December 2023.

Gabriella Miller, MD, Clinical Instructor; Benoit Stryckman, MA, Assistant Professor; David Marcozzi, MD, Clinical Professor; and Daniel Gingold, MD, MPH, Associate Professor, all with the Department of Emergency Medicine, are among the authors of “Evaluating the Impact of a Mobile Integrated Health-community Paramedicine Program on Social Determinants of Health,” which was published in the November 2023 issue of the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved.

Elizabeth Nichols, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, was among the authors of “Partial Breast Irradiation for Patients with Early-Stage Invasive Breast Cancer or Ductal Carcinoma In Situ: An ASTRO Clinical Practice Guideline,” which was published on November 14, 2023, ahead of print in Practical Radiation Oncology.

Valerie Pierre, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, co-authored “What is the Accuracy of Vaginal Swab Versus Urine for Detection of Chlamydia trachomatis, Neisseria gonorrhoeae, and Trichomonas vaginalis?” a systematic review snapshot published in the October 2023 issue of the Annals of Emergency Medicine.

Alexandros Poulopoulos, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology and UM-MIND, was among the co-authors of “Nedd4-2-dependent Regulation of Astrocytic Kir4.1 and Connexin43 Controls Neuronal Network Activity,” which was published in the Journal of Cell Biology on November 30, 2023.

Jacques Ravel, PhD, Acting Director, Institute for Genome Sciences, and Professor, Departments of Microbiology & Immunology and Medicine, was among the co-authors of "A Practical Guide to Evaluating and Using Big Data in Digestive Disease Research," which was published in Gastroenterology on December 3, 2023.

Dr. Ravel was also a senior author of “Integrating Compositional and Functional Content to Describe Vaginal Microbiomes in Health and Disease,” which was published in Microbiome on November 30, 2023. Johanna Holm, PhD, Assistant Professor, was a first author of this publication; other co-authors were Michael France, PhD, Research Associate; Pawel Gajer, PhD, Research Associate; and Bing Ma, PhD, Assistant Professor, all with the Department of Microbiology & Immunology; and Rebecca Brotman, PhD, MPH, Professor, and Michelle Shardell, PhD, Professor, Department of Epidemiology, all with the Institute for Genome Sciences.

Robert Rowland, PT, DPT, Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science, was a co-author of the publication titled "Use of Point-of-Care Ultrasound for an Achilles Tendon Rupture in an Army Pilot," which was published in the Journal of Orthopaedic & Sports Physical Therapy on November 13, 2023.

Phuoc Tran, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, was a co-author of “SABR Today . . . and Tomorrow?” which was published on January 1, 2023, ahead of print in the International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics.

Quincy Tran, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was among the authors of “Trend of Outcome Metrics in Recent Out-of-Hospital-Cardiac-Arrest Research: A Narrative Review of Clinical Trials,” which was published in the November 2023 issue of the Journal of Clinical Medicine.

Hallie Whalen, MD, and Sandrine Yazbek, MD, Assistant Professor, both with the Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, were co-authors of “Atretic Cephalocele and Differential Considerations: A Small Case Series,” which was published in the November 2023 issue of The Neuroradiology Journal. Epub ahead of print.

Jill Whitall, PhD, FNAK, Professor Emerita, Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science, was a co-author on two sequential publications with a team from the University of Southampton, where she is a part-time faculty member and co-supervisor to the first author on both articles: "Why Do Some People Who Had a Stroke Not Receive the Recommended 45 Minutes of Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy? A Delphi Study," which was published in the November 2023 issue of the journal BMJ Open.

Charles White, MD, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, was the last author of “Identification of Mitral Valve Prolapse on Non-electrocardiography-gated Enhanced Chest Computed Tomography,” which was published in the Journal of Thoracic Imaging on November 20, 2023. Epub ahead of print.

Weiguang Yao, PhD, Associate Professor; Sina Mossahebi, PhD, Associate Professor; Byong Yong Yi, PhD, Professor; and Shifeng Chen, PhD, Professor, all with the Department of Radiation Oncology, were among the authors of “Technical Note: Determination of Proton Linear Energy Transfer from the Integral Depth Dose,” which was published on December 3, 2023, ahead of print in Medical Physics.

Byong Yong Yi, PhD, Professor; Jenna Jatczak, Associate Chief of Proton Dosimetry; Wei Deng, PhD, Assistant Professor; Yannick Poirier, PhD, Assistant Professor; Weiguang Yao, PhD, Associate Professor; Jason Molitoris, MD, PhD, Associate Professor; Mark Zakhary, PhD, Assistant Professor; Baoshe Zhang, PhD, Associate Professor; Nrusingh Biswal, PhD, Assistant Professor; Matthew Ferris, MD, Assistant Professor; and Sina Mossahebi, PhD, Associate Professor, all with the Department of Radiation Oncology, were among the authors of “Is Noncoplanar Plan More Robust to Inter-Fractional Variations than Coplanar Plan in Treating Bilateral HN Tumors with Pencil-Beam Scanning Proton Beams?” which was published on November 16, 2023, ahead of print in the Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics.

Lei Zhang, PhD, Research Associate; Guang Li, PhD, Assistant Professor; and David Dreizin, MD, Associate Professor, all with the Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, were among the co-authors of “A Vendor-agnostic, PACS Integrated, and DICOM-compatible Software-server Pipeline for Testing Segmentation Algorithms within the Clinical Radiology Workflow,” which was published in Frontiers in Medicine on October 26, 2023. Dr. Zhang was the first author and Dr. Dreizin was the last author.

Li-Qun Zhang, PhD, Professor, and Giovanni Oppizzi, BS, Visiting Research Fellow, both with the Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science, were co-authors of the publication titled "The Biomechanical Effects of Intramedullary Fixation to the Level of the Physeal Scar on Distal Tibia Fracture Stability," which was published in the Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons on November 2, 2023.

Jiachen Zhuo, PhD, Associate Professor; Prashant Raghavan, MD, Professor; Steven Roys, MS, Research Associate; Xiao Liang, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow; Rosy Njonkou Tchoquessi, Clinical Research Assistant; Chandler Sours Rhodes, PhD, Adjunct Assistant Professor; and Rao Gullapalli, PhD, MBA, Professor (deceased), all with the Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, along with Neeraj Badjatia, MD, MS, Professor, Department of Neurology, were among the co-authors of “Automatic Quantification of Enlarged Perivascular Space in Patients with Traumatic Brain Injury Using Super-resolution of T2-weighted Images,” which was published in the Journal of Neurotrauma on November 11, 2023. Epub ahead of print.

Dr. Zhuo, along with Rao Gullapalli, PhD, MBA, Professor (deceased); Li Jiang, PhD, Research Associate; Timothy Miller, MD, Professor; Elias Melhem, MD, PhD, Professor & the Dean John M. Dennis Chairman, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine; and Dheeraj Gandhi, MBBS, Professor, all with the Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, along with Abdul-Kareem Ahmed, MD, SM; Charles Sansur, MD, Professor; Howard Eisenberg, MD; and R.K. Thompson, MD, Professor, all with the Department of Neurosurgery, and Chixiang Chen, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, and Michael Keaser and Joel Greenspan, PhD (deceased), both with the Department of Neural and Pain Sciences, School of Dentistry, were the co-authors of “Focused Ultrasound Central Lateral Thalamotomy for the Treatment of Refractory Neuropathic Pain: Phase I Trial,” which was published in Neurosurgery on November 10, 2023. Epub ahead of print.

Minjie Zhu, PhD, Research Assistant; Aditya Jhajharia PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow; and Dirk Mayer, Dr rer nat, Professor, all with the Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, were among the co-authors of “Investigating the Origin of the 13 C Lactate Signal in the Anesthetized Healthy Rat Brain In Vivo after Hyperpolarized [1-13 C]pyruvate Injection,” which was published in the November 2023 issue of NMR in Biomedicine. Epub ahead of print. Dr. Zhu was the first author and Dr. Mayer was the last author.

Publications - February

Omer Awan, MD, MPH, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, was the last author of “Becoming an Expert Radiology Educator Through Deliberate Practice,” which was published in December 2023 in Academic Radiology.

Eileen Barry Eileen M. Barry, PhD, Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, was among the co-authors of “Genomic, Transcriptomic, and Phenotypic Differences Among Archetype Shigella flexneri Strains of Serotypes 2a, 3a, and 6,” which was published on December 20, 2023 in mSphere.

Andrea Buchwald, PhD, Research Associate, and Miriam K. Laufer, MD, Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, were among the co-authors of “Cytolytic circumsporozoite-specific memory CD4+ T cell clones are expanded during Plasmodium falciparum infection,” which was published on November 25, 2023, in Nature Communications.

Wilbur H. Chen, MD, MS, Professor, and Kathleen M. Neuzil, MD, MPH, FIDSA, the Myron M. Levine, MD, DTPH Professor of Vaccinology and Director of the Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health (CVD), were among the co-authors of “Immunogenicity and Safety of Varying Dosages of a Fifth-Wave Influenza A/H7N9 Inactivated Vaccine Given With and Without AS03 Adjuvant in Healthy Adults,” which was published in Vaccine on December 16, 2023.

Hua-Ren R. Cherng, MD, Resident, and Mark Mishra, MD, Professor, both with the Department of Radiation Oncology, were among the authors of “Evaluating the Heterogeneity of Hippocampal Avoidant Whole Brain Radiotherapy Treatment Effect: A Secondary Analysis of NRG CC001,” which was published on December 9, 2023, ahead of print in Neuro-Oncology.

Lynda Coughlan, PhD, Assistant Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, was among the co-authors of “Viral Platform Engineering for Targeted Gene Delivery to Human Hematopoietic Stem Cells,” which was published in Molecular Therapy on January 3, 2024.

Alan S. Cross, MD, Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, was among the co-authors of “A Combination of Burn Wound Injury and Pseudomonas Infection Elicits Unique Gene Expression that Enhances Bacterial Pathogenicity,” which was published on November 6, 2023 in mBio.

Girmay Desalegn, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow; Chitradevi S Tamilselvi, PhD, MSc, Postdoctoral Researcher; Jose M. Lemme Dumit, PhD, Research Associate; Shannon Heine, PhD, Research Associate; Esther Ndungo, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow; and Marcela Pasetti, PhD, Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, were among the co-authors of “Shigella Virulence Protein VirG is a Broadly Protective Antigen and Vaccine Candidate,” which was published in npj Vaccines on January 2, 2024.

Florence Doo, MD, Assistant Professor; Pranav Kulkarni, Research Engineer; Michael Toland, Senior Director of Information Technology, UMMS; Paul Yi, MD, Assistant Professor; and Vishwa Parekh, PhD, Assistant Professor, all with the Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, were among the co-authors of “Economic and Environmental Costs of Cloud for Medical Imaging and Radiology Artificial Intelligence,” which was published in December 2023 in the Journal of the American College of Radiology. Epub ahead of print. Dr. Doo was the first author and Dr. Parekh was the last author.

Dr. Doo and Vishwa Parekh, PhD, Assistant Professor; Adway Kanhere, Research Engineer; Dharmam Savani, MS, Software Engineer Intern; and Paul Yi, MD, Assistant Professor, all with the Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, were among the co-authors of “Evaluation of Climate-Aware Metrics Tools for Radiology Informatics and Artificial Intelligence: Towards a Potential Radiology Eco-Label,” which was published in December 2023 in the Journal of the American College of Radiology. Epub ahead of print. Dr. Doo was the first author and Dr. Yi was the last author.

Jason Falvey, PT, DPT, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science, was a co-author on two publications: "Associations Between Eating, Mobility, and Toileting Functional Dependence and COVID-19 Symptoms," which was published in the Journal of the American Medical Directors Association and became available online December 20, 2023; and "Analyzing Risk Factors for Post-acute Recovery in Older Adults with Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementia: A New Semi-Parametric Model for Large-scale Medicare Claims," which was published in Statistics in Medicine on December 27, 2023.

Meagan C. Fitzpatrick, PhD, Associate Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, was among the co-authors of “Comparison of Door-to-Door and Fixed-Point Delivery of Azithromycin Distribution for Child Survival in Niger: A Cluster-Randomized Trial,” which was published in PLOS Global Public Health on November 15, 2023.

Dr. Fitzpatrick was also among the co-authors of “Cost-effectiveness of Prefusion F Protein-based Vaccines Against Respiratory Syncytial Virus Disease for Older Adults in the United States,” which was published in Clinical Infectious Diseases on November 30, 2023.
Dr. Fitzpatrick, first author, along with Kathleen M. Neuzil, MD, MPH, FIDSA, the Myron M. Levine, MD, DTPH Professor of Vaccinology and Director of the Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health (CVD), and Justin Ortiz, MD, MS, Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, were among the co-authors of “Report of the WHO Technical Consultation on the Evaluation of Respiratory Syncytial Virus Prevention Cost-Effectiveness in Low- and Middle-Income Countries, April 7-8, 2022,” which was published in Vaccine on November 22, 2023.

Dheeraj Gandhi, MBBS, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, was among the co-authors of the following publications: “Trends of Diversity in Radiology Trainees Compared to other Primary- and Nonprimary-care Specialties,” which was published in November 2023 in Clinical Imaging, epub ahead of print; “Complex M1 Middle Cerebral Artery Aneurysm Treated with High-Flow Bypass and Trapping: 2-Dimensional Operative Video,” which was published in Operative Neurosurgery in December 2023, epub ahead of print; “Mechanistic Evaluation of Diffusion Weighted Hyperintense Lesions after Large Spontaneous Intracerebral Hemorrhage: A Subgroup Analysis of MISTIE III,” which was published Neurocritical Care in December 2023, epub ahead of print; and “Value Proposition of FDA-Approved Artificial Intelligence Algorithms for Neuroimaging,” which was published in the Journal of the American College of Radiology in December 2023.

Vicki Gray, MPT, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science, is a co-author on the publication titled, "Lower Limb Vertical Stiffness and Frontal Plane Angular Impulse during Perturbation-induced Single Limb Stance and their Associations with Gait in Individuals Post-stroke," which was published in January 2024 in the Journal of Biomechanics.

Elizabeth A. D. Hammershaimb, MD, Instructor, first author, and Andrea Berry, MD, Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, were co-authors of “Pre-Erythrocytic Malaria Vaccines: RTS,S, R21, and Beyond,” which was published on December 14, 2023 in Expert Review of Vaccines.

Sudhaunshu Joshi, MS, Research Specialist, and Matthew B. Laurens, MD, MPH, Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, were among the co-authors of “Can incorporating genotyping data into efficacy estimators improve efficiency of early phase malaria vaccine trials?” which was published in Malaria Journal on December 19, 2023.

Irina Kapustina, MD, Fellow, and Derik Davis, MD, Associate Professor, both with the Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, were among the co-authors of "Arthroplasty-Related Pseudotumor of the Scapula: Case Report and Review of the Literature,” which was published in September 2023 in Indian Journal of Radiology and Imaging. Dr. Kapustina was the first author and Dr. Davis was the last author. Separately, Dr. Davis was the author of “Shoulder Dysfunction and Mobility Limitation in Aging,” which was published in November 2023 in Advances in Geriatric Medicine and Research.

Miriam K. Laufer, MD, Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, was among the co-authors of “Concomitant Assessment of PD-1 and CD56 Expression Identifies Subsets of Resting Cord Blood Vδ2 T Cells with Disparate Cytotoxic Potential,” which was published in Cellular Immunology on December 23, 2023.

Sung-Woo Lee, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, was among the authors of “A Deep Learning Segmentation Method to Assess Dose to Organs at Risk During Breast Radiotherapy,” which was published in Physics and Imaging in Radiation Oncology on November 21, 2023.

Brian McNeilly, MD, Former Resident; Gregory Jasani, MD, Assistant Professor; Dan Gingold, MD, MPH, Associate Professor; Jennifer Guyther, MD, Assistant Professor; and Ben Lawner, DO, Associate Professor, all with the Department of Emergency Medicine, are among the authors of “Assessment of a Behavioral Health Emergency Response Diversion (BHERD) Program,” which appeared in the American Journal of Emergency Medicine on November 21, 2023. Published online ahead of print.

Victoria Marchese, PT, PhD, the Jane Kroh Satterfield Endowed Professor of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science and Chair of the Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science, was a co-author on the publication titled "A Systematic Review of Telehealth-Based Pediatric Cancer Rehabilitation Interventions on Disability," which was published online in the journal Telemedicine and e-Health on October 23, 2023.

Mark Mishra, MD, Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, was among the authors of “Impact of Apolipoprotein E (APOE) Genotype on Neurocognitive Function (NCF) in Patients with Brain Metastasis (BM): An Analysis of NRG Oncology's RTOG 0614,” which was published on December 13, 2023, ahead of print in the International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics.

Jason Molitoris, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, and Lei Ren, PhD, Professor, both with the Department of Radiation Oncology, were among the authors of “Identification of CT-Based Non-Invasive Radiomic Biomarkers for Overall Survival Prediction in Oral Cavity Squamous Cell Carcinoma,” which was published in Scientific Reports on December 8, 2023.

Sina Mossahebi, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, was among the authors of “Overview and Recommendations for Prospective Multi-Institutional Clinical Trials of Spatially Fractionated Radiation Therapy (SFRT),” which was published on December 16, 2023, ahead of print in the International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics.

Dr. Mossahebi was also among the authors of “Multi-Institutional Consensus on Machine QA for Isochronous Cyclotron-Based Systems Delivering Ultra-High Dose Rate (FLASH) Pencil Beam Scanning Proton Therapy in Transmission Mode,” which was published on December 16. 2023, ahead of print in Medical Physics.

Kathleen Neuzil Kathleen M. Neuzil, MD, MPH, FIDSA, the Myron M. Levine, MD, DTPH Professor of Vaccinology and Director of the Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health (CVD), was among the co-authors of “Typhoid Fever,” which was published in Nature Reviews Disease Primers on December 14, 2023.

Esther Ndungo, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, and Marcela Pasetti, PhD, Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, were among the co-authors of “Oral Immunization with Shigella Sonnei WRSs2 and WRSs3 Vaccine Strains Elicits Systemic and Mucosal Antibodies with Functional Anti-Microbial Activity,” which was published in mSphere on December 22, 2023.

Elizabeth Parker, PhD, RD, Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science, was a co-author of the publication "Studying the Impact of COVID-19 Mitigation Policies on Childhood Obesity, Health Behaviors, and Disparities in an Observational Cohort: Protocol for the COVID-19 Family Study," which was published in January 2024 in Contemporary Clinical Trials.

Alexandros Poulopoulos, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology & UM-MIND, was the last author of "India Ink to 3D Imaging: The Legacy of Dr. Deepak 'Dee' N. Pandya and his Influence on Generations of Neuroanatomists," which was published as the cover article of the December 2023 issue of the Journal of Comparative Neurology.

Dario Rodrigues, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, was among the authors of “Evaluation of a Balloon Implant for Simultaneous Magnetic Nanoparticle Hyperthermia and High-Dose-Rate Brachytherapy of Brain Tumor Resection Cavities,” which was published in Cancers (Basel) on December 1, 2023.

Pedro Rodriguez, MPH, Graduate Research Assistant; Hua Jun Liang, MBBS, PhD, Research Associate; Christine Cloak, PhD, Assistant Professor; Miriam Menken, Graduate Research Assistant; Meghann Ryan, MS, Graduate Research Assistant; Thomas Ernst, Dr rer nat, Professor; and Linda Chang, MD, MS, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, along with Amal Isaiah, MD, DPhil, Professor, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, were the co-authors of “Prenatal Tobacco Exposure on Brain Morphometry Partially Mediated Poor Cognitive Performance in Preadolescent Children,” which was published in July 2023 in NeuroImmune Pharmacology and Therapeutics. Mr. Rodriguez was the first author and Dr. Chang was the last author.

Hem Shukla, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, was among the authors of “Differential Signaling Pathways in Medulloblastoma: Nano-Biomedicine Targeting Non-Coding Epigenetics to Improve Current and Future Therapeutics,” which was published online on December 27, 2023, in Current Pharmaceutical Design.

Michael J. Sikorski, MD-PhD Candidate; Marcela Pasetti, PhD, Professor; Andrew Lees, PhD, Adjunct Associate Professor; Sharon M. Tennant, PhD, Professor; and Myron M. Levine, MD, DTPH, Distinguished Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, were among the co-authors of “Detecting Residual Chronic Salmonella Typhi Carriers on the Road to Typhoid Elimination in Santiago, Chile, 2017-2019,” which was published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases on December 20, 2023.

Kylie Tomlin, OTR/L, PhD Student, and Kelly Westlake, PT, MSc, PhD, Associate Professor, both with the Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science, are co-authors on the publication titled "Age-Related Differences in Motor Skill Transfer with Brief Memory Reactivation," which was published in Brain Sciences on January 4, 2024.

Quincy Tran, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was a co-author of “Prevalence of Intra-abdominal Injury among Patients with Seatbelt Signs, a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis,” which was published in the American Journal of Emergency Medicine on December 6, 2023.

Bruce Wasserman, MD, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, was among the co-authors of the following publications: “Association of Brain Arterial Diameters with Demographic and Anatomical Factors in a Multi-national Pooled Analysis of Cohort Studies,” which was published in December 2023 in The Neuroradiology Journal, Epub ahead of print; and “Chromosome 10q24.32 Variants Associate with Brain Arterial Diameters in Diverse Populations: A Genome-Wide Association Study,” which was published in December 2023 in the Journal of American Heart Association.

Tim Windsor, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine; Jade Wong-You-Cheong, MD, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine; Dan Gingold, MD, MPH, Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine; and David Gatz, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, are the authors of “A Woman with Right Upper Extremity Paralysis,” which was published in the March 2024 issue of the Journal of Emergency Medicine Reports.