What's the Buzz? March/April 2023

March/April 2023

Honors & Awards

Jason Adler, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was honored in January by the national Emergency Department Practice Management Association (EDPMA) for sharing his expertise on new documentation guidelines through more than 20 presentations to emergency physicians and professional societies around the country in the months leading up to January 1, 2023, when the new guidelines went into effect.

Ivy Dick, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology, recently received the 2023 Paul F. Cranefield Award from the Society of General Physiologists.

Jason Falvey, PT, DPT, PhD, GCS, Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science, has been awarded the 2023 American Physical Therapy Association’s (APTA) Acute Care Lecture Award. This award is given to acknowledge and honor a member of APTA Acute Care for excellence and leadership in acute care physical therapy practice and for distinguished contributions to APTA Acute Care. Dr. Falvey will present at CSM 2024 in Boston, MA.

Dan Gingold, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, has been named a Top 50 reviewer and Senior Reviewer for Annals of Emergency Medicine.

Xiaofeng Jia, BM. PhD, Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, received the 2023 Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) Star Research Achievement Award. SCCM is a large multidisciplinary community with 16,000 members in more than 100 countries.

Kelby Kaplan, PT, DPT, EdD, OCS, Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science, has been appointed to the American Board of Physical Therapy Specialists (ABPTS) Specialty Council for Orthopedics. Specialty Council members develop the certification exam, determine eligibility requirements for certification/re-certification, and set the standards for the examination.

Terry Watnick, MD, the Joan B. and John H. Sadler, MD Professor of Nephrology and Medical Director of the Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) Program, will be honored in April 2023 with the 2023 Lillian Jean Kaplan International Prize for Advancement in the Understanding of Polycystic Kidney Disease from the PKD Foundation and the International Society of Nephrology.

New Faculty

Rashmi Benda, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, was named on January 17, 2023, as the Medical Director for the Requard Radiation Oncology Center at University of Maryland Shore Regional Health (UM SRH; Easton, MD). She is a board-certified radiation oncologist who received her medical degree from the University of Miami, FL. She completed an internal medicine internship at Sinai Hospital and a radiation oncology residency at Wayne State University (both in Detroit, MI). Her areas of expertise include clinical radiation oncology, clinical trials, and establishing and growing multidisciplinary clinics in academic as well as community-based cancer centers. She most recently worked for Boca Radiation Oncology Associates (Boca Raton, FL), where she served as Chief of Breast Services.

Appointments

Rose Chasm, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, has been named the new Associate Chief Medical Officer at UMMC Midtown Campus.

Matthew Ferris, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, has been named as the new Medical Director of the Maryland Proton Treatment Center (MPTC). He will succeed Matthew Witek, MD, MS, in the position. He previously served in the department’s practice at the UM Upper Chesapeake Health/Kaufman Cancer Center site (Bel Air, MD).

Ana Lia Graciano, MD, FAAP, FCCM, Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Critical Care Medicine, was elected to the Board of Regents of the American College of Critical Care Medicine. Board of Regents are Society of Critical Care Medicine members who have been inducted into the American College of Critical Care Medicine in recognition of their contributions to Critical Care. The ACCM emphasizes the importance of management in the practice of critical care, and it is engaged in multiple activities including guideline development. The Board of Regents shapes the mission and vision of the College.

Xiaofeng Jia, BM, PhD, FCCM, Professor, Departments of Neurosurgery, Orthopaedics, Anatomy & Neurobiology, has been appointed as the Associate Editor, Translational Neuroscience section, of Frontiers in Neuroscience.

Regina Macatangay, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, was nominated to the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society as an alumna of the University of Maryland School of Medicine. The induction ceremony was held on March 21, 2023.

David Marcozzi, MD, Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, is the new Associate Dean for UMMC Clinical Affairs. As Associate Dean, Dr. Marcozzi will collaborate with UMMC clinical and finance leaders on service delivery innovations to strengthen support for clinical and academic medicine. He will continue in his roles as chief clinical officer and senior vice president of UMMC.

Jason Molitoris, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, has been named the Associate Medical Director of Radiation Oncology at the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC). He succeeds Pranshu Mohindra, MD, MBBS, in the position.

Quincy Tran, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, has been selected as the new Research Committee Chair at UMMC Midtown Campus.

Awards, Grants, Funding

Seth Ament, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Institute for Genome Sciences, received a $343,477 award from Maryland Technology Development Corp for "Developing a Stem Cell Model of Epigenetic Dysregulation in Huntingdon’s Disease." Additionally, Dr. Ament received a $1,931,250 total award from the National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Mental Health for "Multi-Scale Consequences of Variants in the Schizophrenia Risk Gene SETD1A in a Population Isolate."

Lauren Cohee, MD, Assistant Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, received a three-year, $533,000 grant from the Thrasher Research Fund, to support a clinical trial entitled, "Preventing Malaria in School Children to Protect the Whole Community."

Alan S. Cross, MD, Professor, Sharon Tennant, PhD, Associate Professor, Raphael Simon, PhD, Adjunct Associate Professor, Francis Michon, PhD, Adjunct Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, received approval for a U.S. patent on March 28, 2023, for “Immunogenic Compositions: Technologies for the prevention and/or treatment of nosocomial infections.”

Erika Davies, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, was awarded a $384,145 Master Service Research Agreement with Xequel Bio for “Assessing the Efficacy of Granexin Gel Treatment Following Cutaneous Radiation Injury in the Yorkshire Pig” (2/2023–2/2028). The first Task Order under the agreement is for “Pre-Study: Begin Hiring Process for Key Personnel to Perform on Anticipated Studies.”

Cara Felter, PT, DPT, MPH, Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science, has been awarded funding in the amount of $40,000 for the project titled "Understanding DPT Students' Readiness to Discuss Sexual Health," which was sponsored by the Foundation for Physical Therapy Research Board of Trustees.

Matthew Laurens, MD, MPH, Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, fully executed a nine-month Clinical Trial Agreement between UMB and BioNTech to study “Safety and Immune Responses After Vaccination with an Investigational RNA-based Vaccine Against Malaria.” The total award/study costs $568,905.

Kathleen Neuzil Kathleen M. Neuzil, MD, MPH, FIDSA, Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, received two new Options for funding CIVICs (Collaborative Influenza Vaccine Innovation Centers).

Option 14.A.1 – the activation of 1 FTE for the budget year to support SLIMS work; $305,660.50 total award
Ortiz, Protocol PI. Option 13.A.2 – (A/Arkansas/08/2020 pH1N1 Controlled Human Infection Model); $4,991,772

David Serre, PhD, Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Institute for Genome Sciences, received a five-year, $3,432,629 grant from the National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Disease (NIAID) for "Host and Parasite Factors Influencing P. vivax RBC Invasion and Asexual Development."

Hem Shukla, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, was awarded a $40,000 Institutional Research Grant from the American Cancer Society for “Human Pancreatic Cancer Derived 3D Organoids as a Clinical Tool to Evaluate the Treatment Response and Resistance to Therapy.”

Cassie Stapf, Graduate Student, Program in Neuroscience, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, received a three-year $117,348 Predoctoral National Research Service Award (NRSA) from the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) for the project "Sex Differences in Endocannabinoid Regulation of Behavioral Flexibility." Joseph F. Cheer, PhD, Professor, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, is co-sponsor.

Shannon Takala-Harrison, PhD, Associate Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, received a two-year, $424,875 R21 grant from the National Institutes of Health for “Impact of Infection Complexity on P. falciparum Sexual Commitment and Gametocytemia.”

Li-Qun Zhang, PhD, Professor, Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science, has been awarded a $165,000 grant from the Maryland Innovation Initiative for the project titled, "Non-invasive Detection of Injury-Site Oxygen Deficiency and Excessive Pressure of Compartment Syndrome."

In the News

Wilbur Chen, MD, MS, Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, discussed the spread of Shigella with Fox Baltimore on March 3, 2023.

Meagan C. Fitzpatrick, PhD, Assistant Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, discussed how COVID-19 silently spreads in communities in The Atlantic on February 28, 2023.

Meagan C. Fitzpatrick, PhD, Assistant Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, explained to Science on March 14, 2023, that meetings that require COVID-19 vaccination without additional mitigation strategies may not go far enough to limit COVID-19 spread.
Meagan C. Fitzpatrick, PhD, Assistant Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, was featured on Morning Rush, an AM news program run by Scripps, talking about the continued and future needs for COVID precautions, including COVID vaccines and testing, on March 22, 2023.

David Gatz, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was interviewed in December 2022 about the winter’s first Code Blue Alert extreme cold weather on WBAL-AM and WBFF-TV. Dr. Gatz was also quoted in an article published December 24, 2022, in the Baltimore Banner with advice for Ravens fans preparing to attend that day’s game in subfreezing weather.

Karen Kotloff, MD, Distinguished Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, discussed the spread of a drug-resistant form of Shigella with Health on March 7, 2023.

Matthew Laurens, MD, MPH, Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, was interviewed by WebMD about “The Truth Behind Viral Videos Linking COVID Vaccine to Spasms, Shakes” on February 7, 2023.

Matthew Laurens, MD, MPH, Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, discussed “Maryland Health Experts Say Parents Beware, Yet Another Contagious Virus May Sweep Statewide” with WYPR - 88.1FM on February 22, 2023.
Matthew Laurens, MD, MPH, Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, discussed “Tips for Preventing and Treating Norovirus — A Contagious Disease Sweeping Across Maryland” with WYPR - 88.1FM on February 24, 2023.
Matthew Laurens, MD, MPH, Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, discussed theories into the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic on Bloomberg’s Balance of Power podcast on February 27, 2023.
Matthew Laurens, MD, MPH, Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, was interviewed by Alhurra on “From the Capital,” U.S. Agency for Global Media, “Moderna’s mRNA Vaccine for Melanoma Given Breakthrough Status by FDA,” on February 27, 2023.

David Marcozzi, MD, Professor of Emergency Medicine and Associate Dean for UMMC Clinical Affairs, was quoted in a front-page story in the Baltimore Sun on January 13, 2023, headlined ”Strained to the Gills: Even with COVID Numbers Lower than Last Year, Maryland Hospitals Facing Capacity Problems.”

Kathleen Neuzil, MD, MPH, FIDSA, Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, is mentioned in an article about human challenge studies investigating COVID-19 on Freethink.com on March 11, 2023.

Kathleen Neuzil, MD, MPH, FIDSA, Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, was quoted in an article on StatNews.com about spring COVID boosters in the U.S. on March 16, 2023.
Kathleen Neuzil, MD, MPH, FIDSA, Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, was an invited participant in the University of Minnesota’s podcast Superbugs & You | CIDRAP – Vaccines and the Vulnerable: The Race to End Typhoid.

Alisa Pravdo, PT, DPT, OCS, FAAOMPT, Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science, participated in a podcast for Ballroom Chat with Samantha Stout from Love, Live, Dance. The episode was entitled "Preventing Dance Injury."

Alan Shuldiner, MD, John L. Whitehurst Professor of Medicine and Associate Dean for Personalized & Genomic Medicine, and Devon Nwaba, MPH, Clinical Research Specialist in the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Nutrition, were interviewed on February 6, 2023, by Jeff Salkin on Maryland Public Television’s “Direct Connection,” Season 2023-Episode 5, regarding the My Healthy Maryland initiative.

Presentations, Events, Lectures & Workshops

Odessa Addison, DPT, PhD, Associate Professor, and Elizabeth Parker, PhD, RD, Assistant Professor, both from the Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science, presented at the Baltimore County Department of Aging's 2023 Living Longer, Living Well virtual educational summit. The event, held on January 19, 2023, was offered as part of the 45th anniversary celebration of the Baltimore County Department of Aging. Dr. Addison's presentation was titled "Nutrition for Healthy Aging" and Dr. Parker presented "Exercise and Physical Activity for Successful Aging."

Omer Awan, MD, MPH, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, was invited to be a faculty judge for the 50^th Annual New England Journal of Medicine’s Latino Medical Student Association - Northeast Research Symposium, which was held in Baltimore in January 2023.

Scott Baliban, PhD, Assistant Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, presented “Vaccine Education” to the KIPP (Knowledge is Power Program) Harmony Academy K-5 students.

Peter Bowman, PT, DPT, FAAOMPT, Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science, recently participated in a podcast with the University of Maryland Medical System entitled "What Are the Best Exercises for Lower Back Pain?"

James Campbell, MD, MS, Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, presented at a webinar for school nurses in Maryland that was co-hosted by MDAAP and MASHN in mid-February. The topic of the presentation was “Why Immunizations Matter — Immunizing Teens.”

James Campbell, MD, MS, Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, presented at Grand Rounds to the Department of Family and Community Medicine in early February. The presentation was entitled “Update on Pediatric Immunizations, 2023.”
James Campbell, MD, MS, Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, hosted a discussion on vaccines and vaccine hesitancy for the American Society for Microbiology at the University of Tennessee in mid-February.

Lauren Cohee, MD, Assistant Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, presented and moderated a session at the annual International Centers of Excellence in Malaria (ICEMR) Workshop in Bhubaneswar, India, in mid-February. The topic of the session was "Reservoirs of Infection and Transmission."

Lauren Cohee, MD, Assistant Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, presented a virtual talk to the SMC Alliance Research Sub-Group Monthly meeting entitled "Measuring the Impact of SMC on Cognition and Education" in late February.

Zachary Dezman, MD, MS, Clinical Associate Professor, Departments of Emergency Medicine and Epidemiology & Public Health, participated in panel discussions as part of “Understanding Fatal Overdoses to Inform Product Development and Public Health Interventions to Manage Overdose.” Held on March 8-9, 2023, this was a virtual program hosted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Reagan-Udall Foundation for the FDA to explore clinical and public health responses to fatal overdoses of Fentanyl and other street drugs.

Vasken Dilsizian, MD, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, delivered the oral presentation at the 50th Annual International Congress of the Egyptian Society of Cardiology (CardioEgypt 2023), entitled “Myocarditis from Clinical to Imaging: Novel Nuclear Techniques for Cardiac Device Infection and Inflammation.” The meeting was both virtual and in person and held in Cairo, Egypt, from February 20-23, 2023.

Vasken Dilsizian, MD, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, delivered the oral presentation at the Cardiovascular Institute (CVI) of Philadelphia’s 18th Annual Update in Nuclear Cardiology, entitled “Criteria for Cardiac PET Absolute Myocardial Blood Flow: Clinical Benefit and Appropriate Use,” which was held in Philadelphia, PA, on March 26, 2023. He also served as a co-moderator and panel discussant on the “Leadership Development Program: Professional Development” webinar, which addressed how to find and successfully apply for research funding, which was sponsored by the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology and held on March 16, 2023.

Roy Film PT, DPT, OCS, FAAOMPT, Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science, attended an event hosted by the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy. Discussion topics included the progress made in expanding access to opioid use disorder treatment by removing the X-waiver to drastically expand the number of healthcare providers who can treat patients with opioid use disorder; and the next steps in addressing the overdose epidemic. Among the speakers at the event included Dr. Rahul Gupta, Director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP); Anne Milgram, Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration; and U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan (NH).

Peter Gaskin, MBBS, Associate Professor; Regina Macatangay, MD, Assistant Professor; and Karen Webster, Clerkship Coordinator, all with the Department of Pediatrics, were selected to present a workshop at the 2023 Council on Medical Student Education in Pediatrics Annual Meeting on April 4, 2023, in Long Beach, CA. Their workshop was entitled “Failure to Launch: Avoiding Common Roadblocks in Your Process Improvement Project.”

Mark Gladwin, MD, Dean, Vice President for Medical Affairs, University of Maryland, Baltimore, and the John Z. and Akiko K. Bowers Distinguished Professor, delivered the keynote address at the first Emergency Medicine Translational Research conference, which was presented jointly by the Eureka Institute for Translational Medicine and the National Foundation of Emergency Medicine (NFEM) in San Diego, CA, from February 1-3, 2023. Speakers from the Department of Emergency Medicine included Brian Browne, MD, Professor and Chair; Stephen Thom, MD, PhD, Professor and Director of Research; and Gentry Wilkerson, MD, Associate Professor. Attending the conference as invited scholars were Department of Emergency Medicine assistant professors Dan Gingold, MD, MPH; J. David Gatz, MD; and Alexis Salerno, MD; and Clinical Assistant Professor Zachary Dezman, MD, MS.

Mangla Gulati, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine; Mary Njoku, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology; Tina Cafeo, DNP, RN, UPMC Mercy; and Stephanie Bentley, Project Manager, UMMC, have been selected to present the abstract, “A Sustainable Program for Integrating PSQI into Daily Work – Launched During a Pandemic” at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s 2023 Patient Safety Congress to be held May 22-24, 2023, at National Harbor, MD. The presentation represents the work of the interdisciplinary UMMC Pursuing Excellence in Patient Safety Workgroup — a component of the ACGME Pursuing Excellence in Clinical Learning Environments Patient Safety Leaders Learning Collaborative Cohort 2.0, which is comprised of 10 accredited GME Sponsoring Institutions brought together to identify new processes to optimize the learning environment pertaining to patient safety.

Mangla Gulati, M.D, FACP, SFHM, Associate Professor, Chief Quality Officer, General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine; Kathryn Heacock, BSN, RN, CCRN, DNP Student, UMMC, and Margo Murphy, MBA, Program Manager, UMMC, will be presenting at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Patient Safety Congress, “Creating a Culture of Safety for Healthcare Workers and Patients: Joy in Work and Leader Rounding” at the National Harbor in Maryland on May 24, 2023. Dr. Gulati, along with Jason Custer, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics; Nikia Herold, MSN, RN, CCRN-K, Patient Safety Coordinator, UMMC; and Margo Murphy, MBA, Program Manager, UMMC, will be presenting at the Maryland Patient Safety Conference, “Universal Protocol and Safe Bedside Procedures through Interprofessional Education” in May. Project Team Members include Megan Anders, MD, MS, Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology; Kristy Hawley, MD, MPH, Visiting Professor, Surgery; Lauren Molina, BSN, RN, UMMC; Kelly Devine, BSN, RN, CCRN, UMMC; Juliana Ahumada, BSN, RN, UMMC; Maureen Archibald, MS, RN, UMMC; Carolyn Harris, MSN, RN, UMMC; and Benjamin Neustein, MAT, CHSOS, UMMC.

Melike Harfouche, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, Program in Trauma, presented at the Southeastern Surgical Congress, held in Savannah, GA, in February 2023. The topic of her presentation was “Time to Splenic Angioembolization does not Impact Splenic Salvage Rates.”

Blaine Kenaa, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary Diseases and Critical Care Medicine, was selected and invited for an oral poster presentation at the 2023 ACGME Annual Educational Conference, which was held February 23-25, 2023, in Nashville, TN. The presentation, entitled “Empowering House Staff Champions to Address Barriers to Event Reporting,” was highlighted as outstanding and selected for an oral presentation by the judges based on the abstract submitted for the poster. Co-authors include Mary Njoku, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology; Alissa Werzen, MD; Nikhil Prasad, MB ChB, PGY-4 General Surgery Resident; Nadia Cheevers, BSN, JD; Rachel Reynolds, MBA; Jason Custer, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics; Mangla Gulati, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine; and members of the UMMC Pursuing Excellence Patient Safety Workgroup, co-led by Drs. Njoku and Gulati, a component of the ACGME Pursuing Excellence in Clinical Learning Environments Patient Safety Leaders Learning Collaborative. At the same meeting, Drs. Njoku, Kenaa and Gulati submitted an abstract that was selected for presentation at the ACGME Marvin R. Dunn Poster Hall exhibit entitled “Launching a Patient Safety Learning Collaborative in a Pandemic – Lessons Learned.”

Regina Macatangay, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, and Nicol Tugarinov, MS2, UMSOM, were selected to present a workshop at the 2023 Council on Medical Student Education in Pediatrics Annual Meeting on April 5, 2023, in Long Beach, CA. Their workshop was entitled “SERVICE: Student Evaluation of Real-Time Virtual Immersive Clinical Experience.”

Daniel Morgan Daniel J. Morgan, MD, MS, Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, gave a talk at the first Global Joint Summit of Human and Veterinary Medicines Regulatory Authorities to Preserve Antimicrobials at the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, Switzerland, on May 4, 2023. The summit was focused on phasing out over-the-counter antibiotics. More than 200 directors of human and animal regulatory agencies worldwide were in attendance. The goal of the meeting is to identify UN General Assembly goals on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in 2024.

Melissa Motta, MD, MPH, Associate Professor, Department of Neurology, attended the American College of Physicians Central America Chapter meeting in Panama City, Panama, January 26-28, 2023. Dr. Motta participated in the pre-congress workshop on Neurologic Emergencies.

Kathleen Neuzil, MD, MPH, FIDSA, Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, participated as faculty and presented on COVID-19 vaccines as part of the Institut Pasteur Symposium Session on Immunity to SARS-CoV-S Infection and Vaccine Development.

Kathleen Neuzil, MD, MPH, FIDSA, Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, was an invited guest lecturer for the JHU Vaccine Policy Course where she presented “Spotlight on Global Vaccine Policy: Lessons Learned from Salmonella typhi” on March 8, 2023.
Kathleen Neuzil, MD, MPH, FIDSA, Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, was the invited Headliner Speaker for the FHI VIP dinner where she spoke on “Vaccine Challenges and Response” on April 5, 2023.

Alisa Pravdo, PT, DPT, OCS, FAAOMPT, Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science, participated in the College and Career Fair Day at Robert W. Coleman Elementary on February 20, 2023. Emily Sing, PT, DPT, Class of '20, and Alexa Dunn, SPT '23, joined Dr. Pravdo for the presentation. They spoke to multiple fourth-grade classes about physical therapy with a focus on sports medicine, which was at the students’ request.

Roger Stone, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was an invited presenter at the 42nd Annual Virginia Department of Health Office of EMS Symposium held in Norfolk, VA, from Nov. 9-13, 2022, speaking on “Reverse Specialty Center: Range of Alternative EMS Destinations for Low Acuity Patients” and “Ooh ... No Medic Please Don’t Go: Check-listing the Safety of BLS Transports after ALS Dispatch.” The symposium is the flagship academic EMS conference for Virginia and surrounding states. He also presented original EMS research at the 2023 National Association of EMS Physicians scientific assembly in Tampa, FL, which was held January 26-28, 2023. With colleagues from the Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service, where he is the medical director, Dr. Stone presented the poster “Variability in ALS to BLS Downgrade Frequency in a Tiered EMS System.”

The Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science’s (PTRS) DPT Classes of 2024 and 2025 participated in the virtual American Physical Therapy Association Maryland’s (APTAMD) Advocacy Day, which was held on February 8, 2023. PTRS faculty members who also participated included Vincent Conroy, PT, DScPT, Assistant Professor; Cara Felter, PT, DPT, MPH, Assistant Professor; Roy Film, PT, MPT, DPT, FAAOMPT, Assistant Professor; Kelby Kaplan, PT, DPT, EdD, Assistant Professor; Linda Horn, PT, DScPT, MHS, Assistant Professor; and Rachel Skolky, PT, MSPT, DPT, Assistant Professor.

Shannon Takala-Harrison, PhD, Associate Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, presented “Genomic Surveillance for Artemisinin Resistance in Africa: Moving Beyond a Candidate Gene Approach” to the University of South Florida in early March.

The Department of Physical Therapy& Rehabilitation Science was well represented at the annual American Physical Therapy Association’s Combined Sections Meeting, held in February 2023. This event is the premier physical therapy conference in the U.S. that brings the physical therapy profession together for a week of education, collaboration, and innovation. Presentations included:

Robert Rowland, PT, DPT, OCS, RMSK, CSCS, Assistant Professor: "Building Performance or Getting Fatigued? Building Treatment Plans for Return to Duty and Sport."
Ruth Akinlosotu, PT, MPH, PhD Student: "Can Accelerometry Based Postural Sway Measures be Used to Quantify Postural Instability Across PD Stages."
Nesreen Alissa, PT, MS, PhD Student: "Objective Measures of Fear of Falling in Older Adults: A Preliminary Study."
Raziyeh Baghi, MPT, PhD Student: "Age-Related Differences in Passive Knee Biomechanical Properties in Transverse Plane."
Kathleen Dondero, MS, RCEP, CSCS, PhD Student, and Odessa Addison, DPT, PhD, Associate Professor: "Sarcopenia, Obesity, and Sarcopenic Obesity: A Conversation about Geriatric Vulnerabilities and Benefits of Behavior Modification."
Jason Falvey, PT, DPT, PhD, GCS, Assistant Professor; Odessa Addison, DPT, PhD, Associate Professor; Elizabeth Parker, PhD, RD, Assistant Professor; Joanna Ye, SPT '23: "From Lab Bench to Legislative Policy: A Focus on Frailty for the Home Health Clinician."
Cara Felter, PT, DPT, MPH, NCS, PCS, Assistant Professor: "Rehabilitation Workforce Planning in Rural Communities: Preparing Physical Therapists for Primary Care Practice."
Roy Film, PT, MPT, DPT, OCS, FAAOMPT, Assistant Professor: "Developing an Orthopedic Physical Therapy Residency Program with a 4-Month Inpatient Rotation: Benefits and Challenges" and "Racial Disparities in Outpatient Physical Therapy Use After Hip Fracture."
Simon Ho, PT, DPT, CCS, Assistant Professor: "Relationships between Diaphragm Function and Ventilatory Parameters During the Six-Minute Walk Test in Children."
Linda Horn, PT, DScPT, MHS, GCS, NCS, Assistant Professor, and Chris Wells, PT, PhD, Associate Professor (Adjunct Faculty II): "Acute Care Platform Session 2: Quality and Outcomes."
Kelby Kaplan, PT, DPT, EdD, OCS, Assistant Professor: "Improving Cultural Humility in Physical Therapy Students: What is Faculty's Role?"
Shabnam Lateef, MS, PT, PhD Student: "Effect of Stroke on Hip Muscle Activity during Voluntary Lateral Steps."
Emily McCarthy, PT, DPT, PhD Student: "Exploring Postural Control in Survivors of Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Following a 6-Week Intervention" and "Balance Dysfunction in Pediatric Oncology: A Scoping Review."
Sanjana Rao, PT, MS, PhD Student: "Effect of Robot-Aided Hand Rehabilitation on Motor Recovery Post Stroke."
Kylie Tomlin, OTR/L, PhD Student: "Age-Related Differences in Reactivation-Based Motor Learning."
Kelly Westlake, PT, MSc, PhD, Associate Professor: "Neuroimaging of Reactive Balance Control: Identifying Therapeutic Targets to Inform Fall Prevention."
Kelly Westlake, PT, MSc, PhD, Associate Professor, and Vicki Gray, MPT, PhD, Assistant Professor: "Balance Rehabilitation and Falls Prevention in Neurological Populations: A Clinical Practice Guideline."
Michael Zarro, PT, DPT, SCS, CSCS, Assistant Professor: "Science Meets Practice 4: Full Court Press: Comprehensive Management of the Elite Basketball Player."

The Department of Radiation Oncology held the 18th Annual Radiation Oncology Symposium: Best of 2022 course on January 12, 2023, at the University of Maryland School of Medicine Leadership Hall. The CME-accredited course provided attendees with updates in standards of care and treatment modalities, including the latest developments in radiation treatment of genitourinary, head & neck, central nervous system, gynecologic, gastrointestinal, breast/pediatric, thoracic, and systemic cancers. The day’s lectures, featuring experts from the University of Maryland and guest speakers, were followed by a reception.

The Department of Radiation Oncology held its annual Mock Orals Course on Friday, March 10, 2023. Offered virtually, the course was designed for physicians taking board examinations in radiation oncology in 2023. The two-day interactive program simulated a radiation oncology oral board examination through a series of virtual one-on-one timed interviews reviewing high-yield cases with individual feedback, followed by a didactic session with disease-site experts providing an overview with practical tips and a question-and-answer session. Instructors for the course included a combination of invited faculty from across the United States and top-ranked experts from the Department of Radiation Oncology.

Community Service

Laura Bontempo, MD, MEd, Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, is a candidate for an at-large seat on the Board of Directors of AAEM, the American Academy of Emergency Medicine. Voting was open to AAEM members through April 24, 2023.

Collaborations

Kyle Fischer, MD, MPH, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was an invited participant in a webinar presented January 11, 2023, by the Bureau of Justice Assistance of the U.S. Department of Justice on “Sustaining the CVI (Community Violence Intervention) Ecosystem: Sources of funding for CVI strategies.”

Publications

Jason Adler, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, and Ben Lawner, DO, are among the authors of a newly revised chapter on “Emergency Medicine Documentation (U.S.),” which was published January 5, 2023, in CorePendium, the searchable online emergency medicine textbook published by Emergency Medicine Reviews and Perspectives. Dr. Lawner is also a section editor and Amal Mattu, MD, Professor and Vice Chair of Academic Affairs in the Department of Emergency Medicine, is the co-editor-in-chief of CorePendium.

Nabeel Akhter, MBBS, Assistant Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, was the last author of “Transradial versus Transfemoral Arterial Access in the Uterine Artery Embolization of Fibroids,” which was published in the December 2022 issue of the Polish Journal of Radiology.

Leen Alblaihed, MBBS, MHA, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, served as guest editor of the November 2022 issue of Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America on Cardiovascular Emergencies. The issue included articles by Michael Bond, MD, Professor; Kami Hu, MD, Assistant Professor; EM physicians Tareq Al-Salamah, MD, MPH, and Phil Magidson, MD, MPH; and residency program graduates Robert Brown, MD, Aki Honasoge, MD, and Jobin Philip, MD.

Leen Alblaihed, MBBS, MHA, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, and Amal Mattu, MD, Professor and Vice Chair of Academic Affairs in the Department of Emergency Medicine, are among the authors of “Dysrhythmias Associated with COVID-19: Review and Management Considerations,” which was published in the February 2023 issue of the American Journal of Emergency Medicine.

Gregory Alexander, MD, Resident, and William Regine, MD, Professor and Chair, Department of Radiation Oncology, were among the authors of “Multi-Institutional Study of Clinical Outcomes of Patients with Head and Neck Cancer Presenting with cN3 Disease,” which was published on February 28, 2023, ahead of print in Head and Neck.

Afrah Ali, MBBS, Assistant Professor; Quincy K. Tran, MD, PhD, Associate Professor; and Daniel Haase, MD, Associate Professor, all with the Department of Emergency Medicine, are among the authors of “Most Patients with Non-hypertensive Diseases at a Critical Care Resuscitation Unit Require Arterial Pressure Monitoring: A Prospective Observational Study,” which was published in the March 2023 issue of World Journal of Emergency Medicine.

Maureen Black, PhD, Professor, Department of Pediatrics, was a co-author of “The Creation of the Global Scales for Early Development (GSED) for 0-3 Year-Old Children: Combining Subject Matter Expert Judgements with Big Data,” which was published in BMJ Global Health on January 8, 2023. She also was a co-author of “Associations between Early Introduction to Complementary Foods, Subsequent Cereal-added Bottle Feeding and Daily Macronutrient Intake among Infants,” which was published in Appetite on January 5, 2023.

Uttam Bodanapally, MBBS, Associate Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, was among the co-authors of “Surgical Decompression of Traumatic Cervical Spinal Cord Injury: A Pilot Study Comparing Real-Time Intraoperative Ultrasound after Laminectomy With Postoperative MRI and CT Myelography,” which was published in the February 2023 issue of Neurosurgery.

Kimberly Boswell, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was one of the editors for the February 2023 issue of Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America entitled “Trauma Emergencies.” Amal Mattu, MD, Professor, served as Consulting Editor. Wan-Tsu W. Chang, MD, Associate Professor, was co-author of Neurotrauma Update. Ashley Menne, MD, Assistant Professor, was co-author of “Extracorporeal Life Support for Trauma.” Daniel Haase, MD, was co-author of “Advances in Trauma Ultrasound.”

Andrea Buchwald, PhD, Research Associate; Matthew Laurens, MD, MPH, Professor; and Miriam Laufer, MD, Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, all within the Department of Pediatrics, were among the co-authors of “Artemether-lumefantrine Efficacy among Adults on Antiretroviral Therapy in Malawi,” which was published in the Malaria Journal on January 27, 2023.

Jin-Hee Chang, Lab Technician; Shreya Jagtap, Veterinary Research Assistant; Phuoc Tran, MD, PhD, Professor; and Audrey Lafargue, PhD, Research Associate, all with the Department of Radiation Oncology, were among the authors of “Griseofulvin Radiosensitizes Non-small Cell Lung Cancer Cells and Activates cGAS,” which was published on February 7, 2023, ahead of print in Molecular Cancer Therapeutics.

Alicia Chaves, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, and Shifa Turan, MD, Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, were among the co-authors of "The Impact of Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status, Race and Ethnicity, and Language on Prenatal Diagnosis of CHD," which was published in Pediatric Cardiology on January 23, 2023.

Rong Chen, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, was the author of “Bayesian Coherence Analysis for Microcircuit Structure Learning,” which was published in the January 2023 issue of Neuroinformatics. Separately, Dr. Chen was among the co-authors of “A Parameter-optimization Framework for Neural Decoding Systems,” which was published in the February 2023 issue of Frontiers in Neuroinformatics, as well as “Age Related Functional Connectivity Signature Extraction Using Energy-Based Machine Learning Techniques,” which was published in the February 2023 issue of Sensors.

Christine Cloak, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, was among the co-authors of “Substance Use Patterns in 9 to 13-year-olds: Longitudinal Findings from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study,” which was published in the December 2022 issue of Drug and Alcohol Dependence Reports.

Linda Coughlan, PhD, Assistant Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, was among the co-authors of “Enhancing the Protection of Influenza Virus Vaccines with BECC TLR4 Adjuvant in Aged Mice,” which was published in Nature – Scientific Reports on January 13, 2023.

Linda Coughlan, PhD, Assistant Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, was among the co-authors of “Immunity to Seasonal Coronavirus Spike Proteins Does Not Protect from SARS-CoV-2 Challenge in a Mouse Model but Has No Detrimental Effect on Protection Mediated by COVID-19 mRNA Vaccination,” which was published in Virology on February 13, 2023.

Alan Cross, MD, Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, was among the co-authors of “Short-term Feeding of Defatted Bovine Colostrum Mitigates Inflammation in the Gut via Changes in Metabolites and Microbiota in a Chicken Animal Model,” which was published in Animal Microbiome on January 26, 2023.

Alan S. Cross, MD, Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, was among the co-authors of “Galectin-1 Mediates Interactions Between Polymorphonuclear Leukocytes and Vascular Endothelial Cells, and Promotes Their Extravasation During Lipopolysaccharide-induced Acute Lung Injury,” which was published in the Journal of Molecular Immunology on March 13, 2023.

Warren D’Souza, PhD, MBA, Adjunct Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, was among the authors of “Four-Dimensional Computed Tomography-Based Ventilation Imaging in Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy Treatment Planning for Pulmonary Functional Avoidance,” which was published on February 2, 2023, ahead of print in the Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics.

Derik Davis, MD, Associate Professor; Omer Awan, MD, MPH, Professor; Sagheer Ahmed, MD, Assistant Professor; and Rao Gullapalli, PhD, MBA, Professor; all with the Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, were among the co-authors of “Supraspinatus Fatty Infiltration on MRI among Older Adults Receiving Physical Therapy as Initial Management for Clinically Suspected Rotator Cuff Tear: A Pilot Study,” which was published in December 2022 in the Journal of Clinical Imaging Science. Dr. Davis was the first author and Dr. Gullapalli was the last author.

Natalie Davis, MD, MMSc, Associate Professor; Christine Capriolo, DO, Assistant Professor; and Erin Schofield, MD, Assistant Professor, all in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology, co-authored "Impact of Routine Gastric Aspirate Monitoring on Very Low Birth Weight Early Preterm Infants," which appeared in the February 2023 issue of the Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition.

Zachary Dezman, MD, MS, Clinical Associate Professor, Departments of Emergency Medicine and Epidemiology & Public Health, together with three representatives of the Federation of American Scientists, submitted a comment to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration recommending steps to address the systemic bias arising from the use of pulse oximeters. Also contributing to the comment were Adjunct Professors of Pediatrics Roderick King, MD, MPH, and Joseph Wright, MD, MPH, and EM physician Joel Klein, MD.

Vasken Dilsizian, MD, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, was the senior author of a consensus document entitled “PET for Detection and Reporting Coronary Microvascular Dysfunction: A JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging Expert Panel Statement,” which was published online ahead of print in the April 2023 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology: Cardiovascular Imaging.

Amanda Driscoll, PhD, MHS, Assistant Professor, and Karen Kotloff, MD, Distinguished Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, were among the co-authors of “Clinical Risk Factors of Adverse Outcomes among Women with COVID-19 in the Pregnancy and Postpartum Period: A Sequential, Prospective Meta-analysis,” which was published in the February 2023 issue of the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Thomas Ernst, Dr rer nat, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, was among the co-authors of “Genome-wide Association Study of Abdominal MRI-measured Visceral Fat: The Multiethnic Cohort Adiposity Phenotype Study,” which was published in the January 2023 issue of PLoS One.

Jason Falvey, PT, DPT, PhD, GCS, Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science, is the senior author of the publication titled "Association Between Race and Receipt of Home- and Community-Based Rehabilitation After Traumatic Brain Injury Among Older Medicare Beneficiaries," which was published in JAMA Surgery on January 25, 2023.

DeAnna Friedman-Klabanoff, MD, Assistant Professor, and Andrea Berry, MD, Associate Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, were among the co-authors of “Estimated COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness Against Seroconversion from SARS-CoV-2 Infection, March-October, 2021” which was published in Vaccine on March 9, 2023.

Allison Gibbs, Research Specialist; Buddha Mali, Research Lab Assistant; Yannick Poirier, PhD, Assistant Professor; Diana Newman, Program Director; and Andrew Zodda, QA Program Director, all in the Department of Radiation Oncology, were among the authors of “A C57L/J Mouse Model of the Delayed Effects of Acute Radiation Exposure in the context of Evolving Multi-Organ Dysfunction and Failure After Total-Body Irradiation with 2.5% Bone Marrow Sparing,” which was published on March 2, 2023, ahead of print in Radiation Research.

Melike Harfouche, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, Program in Trauma, was among the co-authors of “Geospatial Analysis of Firearm Injuries in an Urban Setting: Individual Rather Than Community Characteristics Affect Firearm Injury Risk,” which was published in the American Journal of Surgery, epub, on January 16, 2023.

Melike Harfouche, MD, Assistant Professor; Kristy Hawley, MD, Visiting Instructor; Navpreet Dhillon, MD, Visiting Instructor; Rosemary Kozar, MD, PhD, Professor; and Thomas Scalea, MD, Professor, Department of Surgery, Program in Trauma, were among the co-authors of “Surveillance Imaging Associated with Delayed Splenectomy in High-Grade Blunt Splenic Trauma,” which was published in the American Surgeon, epub on February 17, 2023. She, along with David Feliciano, MD, Clinical Professor; Rosemary Kozar, MD, PhD, Professor; and Thomas Scalea, MD, Professor, all with the Department of Surgery, Program in Trauma, was among the co-authors of “A Cautionary Tale: The Use of Propensity Matching to Evaluate Hemorrhage-Related Trauma Mortality in the American College of Surgeons TQIP Database,” which was published in the epub on February 27, 2023.

Hana Haver, MD, PGY 5; Samuel Knecht, MD, PGY 5; Thomas Ptak, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, and Omer Awan, MD, MPH, Professor, all with the Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, were the authors of “Medical Students and the Informal Radiology Curriculum: Adopting the Emergency Radiology Triage Assistant Program (ER-TAP) Amid COVID-19,” which was published in the February 2023 issue of Academic Radiology. Separately, Dr. Awan was the last author of “Rethinking Anatomy: How Radiology Can Revitalize Medical School Anatomy Courses,” which was published in the January 2023 issue of Academic Radiology. Epub ahead of print.

Elizabeth Hammershaimb, MD, Instructor; DeAnna Friedman-Klabanoff, MD, Assistant Professor; and Andrea A Berry, MD, Associate Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, were among the co-authors of “Factors Associated with COVID-19 Vaccination During June–October 2021: A Multi-Site Prospective Study,” which was published in Vaccine on March 31, 2023.

Elizabeth Hammershaimb, MD, Instructor, first author, and James Campbell, MD, MS, Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, were among the co-authors of “Coronavirus Disease-2019 Vaccine Hesitancy,” which was published in the April 2023 issue of the Journal of Pediatric Clinics of North America.

Miroslaw Janowski, MD, PhD, Associate Professor; Piotr Walczak, MD, PhD, Professor; and Monica Pearl, MD, Adjunct Associate Professor, all with the Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, were among the co-authors of “Childhood Brain Tumors: A Review of Strategies to Translate CNS Drug Delivery to Clinical Trials,” which was published in the January 2023 issue of Cancers.

Gregory Jasani, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was the first author of “Association Between Primary Care Availability and EMS Utilization,” which was published online in the Journal of Emergency Medicine on January 12, 2023. Other authors include Yuayuan Liang, PhD, MSc, Professor of Epidemiology & Public Health, along with Brian McNeilly, MD, Resident; Benoit Stryckman, MPH, Research Associate; David Marcozzi, MD, Associate Professor; and Daniel Gingold, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, all with the Department of Emergency Medicine.

Xiaofeng Jia, BM, PhD, FCCM, Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, as the corresponding author, along with first-author Zihui Wang, MMD, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Neurosurgery, were co-authors of “Treating Peripheral Nerve Injury-induced Spinal Cord Degeneration and Neuropathic Pain with Peripherally Administrated Stem Cells, which was published in the March 2023 issue of Neural Regeneration Research. He, as the corresponding author, along with first-author Jian Du, PhD, Research Associate, and Xiao Liu, MD, MS, Postdoctoral Fellow, both with the Department of Neurosurgery, were co-authors of “Glycoengineering Human Neural Stem Cells (hNSCs) for Adhesion Improvement using a Novel Thiol-Modified N-Acetylmannosamine (ManNAc) Analog,” which was published in the March 2022 issue of Biomaterials Advances. He was a guest editor and co-author of “Editorial: 3D-printed Biomaterials in Osteochondral Repair,” which was published in the August 2022 issue of Front Bioeng Biotechnol. He was a co-author of “A Direct Comparison of Physical versus Dihydrocapsaicin-induced Hypothermia in a Rat Model of Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury,” published in the June 2022 issue of Therapeutic Hypothermia and Temperature Management.

Kelby Kaplan, PT, DPT, EdD, OCS, Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science, is a co-author on the publication titled "Regenerative Rehabilitation for Lateral Epicondylalgia," which was published in Biological Orthopedics Journal on October 13, 2022.

Kimia Khalatbari Kani, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, was among the co-authors of “Spectrum of Imaging Findings in Soft-tissue Necrosis,” which was published in the January 2023 issue of Emergency Radiology. Epub ahead of print.

Karen Kotloff, MD, Distinguished Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, was among the co-authors of “Derivation and External Validation of a Clinical Prognostic Model Identifying Children at Risk of Death Following Presentation for Diarrheal Care,” which was published on medRXiv February 10, 2023.

Karen Kotloff, MD, Distinguished Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, was among the co-authors of “Clinical Prediction Rule to Guide Diagnostic Testing for Shigellosis and Improve Antibiotic Stewardship for Pediatric Diarrhea,” which was published in the March 2023 issue of Open Forum Infectious Diseases.
Karen Kotloff, MD, Distinguished Professor, and Samba Sow, MD, Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, were among the co-authors of “Spatiotemporal Variation in Risk of Shigella Infection in Childhood: A Global Risk Mapping and Prediction Model Using Individual Participant Data,” which was published in the March 2023 issue of Lancet Global Health.
Karen Kotloff, MD, Distinguished Professor, and Samba Sow, MD, Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, were among the co-authors of “Causes of Death Identified in Neonates Enrolled through Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance (CHAMPS), December 2016 - December 2021,” which was published on March 20, 2023, in PLOS Global Public Health.

Narottam Lamichhane, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, was among the authors of “Interstitial Brachytherapy for Lip Cancer: Technical Aspects to Individualize Treatment Approach and Optimize Outcomes,” which was published on January 25, 2023, ahead of print in Practical Radiation Oncology.

Barton Lane, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, was among the co-authors of “Multicenter Validation of Abbreviated MRI for Detecting Early-Stage Hepatocellular Carcinoma,” which was published in the January 2023 issue of Radiology. Epub ahead of print. Yiran Li, PhD Candidate; Alishba Sadiq, MS, Research Fellow; and Ze Wang, PhD, Professor, all from the Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, were the authors of “Arterial Spin Labelling-Based Blood-Brain Barrier Assessment and Its Applications,” which was published in the December 2022 issue of Investigative Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Separately, Dr. Wang was the author of “Arterial Spin Labeling Perfusion MRI Signal Processing Through Traditional Methods and Machine Learning,” also published in the December 2022 issue of Investigative Magnetic Resonance Imaging.

Matthew Laurens, MD, MPH, Professor; Emily Stucke, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow; Andrea Berry, MD, Associate Professor; Kirsten Lyke, MD, Professor; Shannon Takala-Harrison, PhD, Associate Professor; and Mark Travassos, MD, MSc, Associate Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, were among the co-authors of “Malian Children Infected with Plasmodium ovale and Plasmodium falciparum Display Very Similar Gene Expression Profiles,” which was published in PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases on January 25, 2023.

Andrew Lees, PhD, Adjunct Associate Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, was among the co-authors of “Monomeric Crystal Structure of the Vaccine Carrier Protein CRM197 and Implications for Vaccine Development,” which was published in Acta Crystallographica. Section F, Structural Biology Communications on March 31, 2023.

Myron Levine, MD, DTPH, Distinguished Professor, and Wilbur Chen, MD, MS, Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, were among the co-authors of “Predicting Vibrio Cholerae Infection and Symptomatic Disease: A Systems Serology Study,” which was published in The Lancet Microbe on March 9, 2023.

Xiao Liang, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, and Jiachen Zhuo, PhD, Associate Professor, both with the Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, were among the co-authors of “Analysis of Tongue Muscle Strain During Speech from Multimodal Magnetic Resonance Imaging,” which was published in the January 2023 issue of the Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research. Epub ahead of print.

Iris Lindberg, PhD, Professor, Department of Anatomy & Neurology, together with colleagues at the University of California at Los Angeles, published a paper showing that nigral overexpression of the proSAAS neural chaperone provides profound protection from motor symptoms in a rodent model of Parkinson’s disease in the Journal of Parkinson’s Disease. Thomas Longden, PhD, Assistant Professor; Guiling Zhao, PhD, Assistant Professor; Ashwini Hariharan, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow; and W. Jonathan Lederer, MD, PhD, Professor, all with the Department of Physiology and BioMET, were among the co-authors of “Pericytes and the Control of Blood Flow in Brain and Heart," which was published in Annual Review.

Kirsten Lyke, MD, Professor, was the lead author, and Andrea Berry, MD, Associate Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, was among the co-authors of “Low-dose Intravenous and Subcutaneous CIS43LS Monoclonal Antibody for Protection against Malaria (VRC 612 Part C): A Phase 1, Adaptive Trial,” which was published in Lancet – Infectious Diseases on January 25, 2023.

Robert McCann, PhD, Assistant Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, was among the co-authors of “Community Participation in Habitat Management and Larviciding for the Control of Malaria Vectors in Southern Malawi,” which was published in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene on January 11, 2023.

Victoria Marchese, PT, PhD, the Jane Kroh Satterfield Professor of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science, and Chair of the Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science, is a co-author of the publication titled, "Parent Satisfaction Survey in a Pediatric Ambulatory Care Clinic Utilizing an Interprofessional Education Model," which was published in the Journal of Interprofessional Education & Practice on January 12, 2023.

Amal Mattu, MD, Professor and Vice Chair of Academic Affairs in the Department of Emergency Medicine, authored two recent commentaries in Medscape Emergency Medicine: “What is the Optimal Pad Position in Transcutaneous Pacing?” was published on January 11, 2023, and “Must-Read Acute Care Medicine Articles From 2022” was published on February 10, 2023.

Mark Mishra, MD, Associate Professor; Zaker Rana, MD, Assistant Professor; Jason Molitoris, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor; Matthew Ferris, MD, Assistant Professor; Kathleen Neuzil, MD, MPH, FIDSA, Professor; and Karen Kotloff, MD, Distinguished Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, were among the co-authors of “Rapid Development of an Integrated Network Infrastructure to Conduct Phase 3 COVID-19 Vaccine Trials,” which was published in the Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA) Network Open on January 3, 2023. They also were among the co-authors of “Immune correlates analysis of the PREVENT-19 COVID-19 vaccine efficacy clinical trial,” which was published in Nature – Communications on January 19, 2023.

Kathleen Neuzil, MD, MPH, FIDSA, Professor, was the lead author, and Justin Ortiz, MD, MS, Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, was among the co-authors of “Safety and Immunogenicity of Influenza A/H5N8 Virus Vaccine in Healthy Adults: Durability and Cross-reactivity of Antibody Responses,” which was published in Clinical Infectious Diseases on January 5, 2023. They also were among the co-authors of “Immune correlates analysis of the PREVENT-19 COVID-19 vaccine efficacy clinical trial,” which was published in Nature – Communications on January 19, 2023.

Kathleen Neuzil, MD, MPH, FIDSA, Professor, was the senior author and Justin Ortiz, MD, MS, Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, was the lead author of “A Multi-Center, Controlled Human Infection Study of Influenza A (H1N1) pdm09 in Healthy Adults,” which was published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases on January 26, 2023.
Kathleen Neuzil, MD, MPH, FIDSA, Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, was among the authors of “Kinetics of the Antibody Response to Symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Vaccinated and Unvaccinated Individuals in the Blinded Phase of the mRNA-1273 COVID-19 Vaccine Efficacy Trial,” which was published in Open Forum Infectious Diseases on February 13, 2023.
Kathleen Neuzil, MD, MPH, FIDSA, Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, was among the authors of “Cost-effectiveness Analysis of Typhoid Conjugate Vaccines in an Outbreak Setting: A Modeling Study," which was published in BMC Infectious Diseases on March 8, 2023.
Kathleen Neuzil, MD, MPH, FIDSA, Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, was among the authors of “Immune Correlates Analysis of a Phase 3 Trial of the AZD1222 (ChAdOx1 nCoV-19) Vaccine,” which was published in NPJ Vaccines on March 11, 2023.
Kathleen Neuzil, MD, MPH, FIDSA, Professor, and Karen Kotloff, MD, Distinguished Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, were among the co-authors of “Publisher Correction: Immune Correlates Analysis of the PREVENT-19 COVID-19 Vaccine Efficacy Clinical Trial,” which was published in Nature Communications on March 22, 2023.
Kathleen Neuzil, MD, MPH, FIDSA, Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, was the author of “An mRNA Influenza Vaccine - Could It Deliver?” which was published in the New England Journal of Medicine on March 23, 2023.

Nariman Nezami, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, was among the co-authors of “Portal Vein Embolization: Rationale, Techniques, and Outcomes to Maximize Remnant Liver Hypertrophy with a Focus on Contemporary Strategies,” which was published in the January 2023 issue of Life (Basel).

Justin R. Ortiz, MD, MS, Professor, first author; Amanda Driscoll, PhD, MHS, Assistant Professor; Kathleen M. Neuzil, MD, MPH, FIDSA, Professor; Samba Sow, MD, Professor; and Meagan C. Fitzpatrick, PhD, Assistant Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, were among the co-authors of “Model-estimated Impacts of Pediatric Respiratory Syncytial Virus Prevention Programs in Mali on Asthma Prevalence,” which was published in the May 2023 issue of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: Global.

Ariel Pollock, MD, Resident; Gregory Alexander, MD, Resident; David Alicia, Dosimetrist; Kayla Birkman, Dosimetrist; Jason Molitoris, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor; and William Regine, MD, Professor and Chair, all with the Department of Radiation Oncology, were among the authors of “Gross Tumor Volume Margin and Local Control in P16-Positive Oropharynx Cancer Patients Treated with Intensity Modulated Proton Therapy,” which was published on February 25, 2023, ahead of print in Head and Neck.

Susana Portillo, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, was the author of “mSphere of Influence: Pertussis Vaccination and Antibodies in Mothers and Infants,” which was published in the mSphere Journal of the American Society for Microbiology on February 2, 2023.

Thomas Ptak, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, was among the co-authors of “Exploring Intra-arterial Contrast Administration for Intraoperative Imaging Using a Swine Model,” which was published in the February 2023 issue of Angiology. Epub ahead of print.

Lei Ren, PhD, Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, was the senior author of “A Feasibility Study of Enhanced Prompt Gamma Imaging for Range Verification in Proton Therapy Using Deep Learning,” which was published on February 28, 2023, ahead of print in Physics in Medicine and Biology.

Christina Sajak, MD, UMMC Resident; Kevin Semelrath, MD, Assistant Professor; Laura Bontempo, MD, MEd, Associate Professor; and Andy Windsor, MD, Assistant Professor, all with the Department of Emergency Medicine, are the authors of “45-year-old Male with Bilateral Lower Extremity Wounds, Swelling, and Rash,” which was published in Clinical Practice and Cases in Emergency Medicine on February 9, 2023.

Bansi Savla, MD, Resident; Muhammad Hamza, MD, Resident; and Melissa Liriano Vyfhuis, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, all with the Department of Radiation Oncology, were among the authors of “The Impact of Body Mass Index (BMI) and Residence in Food Priority Areas (FPAs) on Patterns-of-Care and Cancer Outcomes in Patients with Stage III Non-small Cell Lung Cancer,” which was published on January 28, 2023, ahead of print in the International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics.

Amit Sawant, PhD, Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, was among the authors of “Stability and Reproducibility Comparisons Between Deep Inspiration Breath-Hold Techniques for Left-Sided Breast Cancer Patients: A Prospective Study,” which was published on January 23, 2023, ahead of print in the Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics.

Hem Shukla, PhD, Assistant Professor; Tijana Dukic, General Associate; Sanjit Roy, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow; Binny Bhandary, Lab Research Specialist; Yannick Poirier, PhD, Assistant Professor; Narottam Lamichhane, PhD, Associate Professor; Jason Molitoris, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor; France Carrier, PhD, Professor; and William Regine, MD, Professor, all with the Department of Radiation Oncology, were among the authors of “Pancreatic Cancer Derived 3D Organoids as a Clinical Tool to Evaluate the Treatment Response,” which was published in Frontiers in Oncology on January 12, 2023.

Eliot Siegel, MD, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, was among the co-authors of “Clinical Impact and Generalizability of a Computer-Assisted Diagnostic Tool to Risk-Stratify Lung Nodules with CT,” which was published in the February 2023 issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

Michael Sikorski, PhD, and Myron Levine, MD, DTPH, Distinguished Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, were among the co-authors of “Chronic Salmonella Typhi Carriage at Sites Other Than the Gallbladder,” which was published in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases on March 23, 2023.

Samba Sow, MD, Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health - Mali, was among the co-authors of “Mass Drug Administration of Azithromycin: An Analysis,” which was published in the February 2023 issue of Clinical Microbiology and Infection.

Lishan Su, PhD, The Charles Gordon Smith Professor for HIV Research, Professor of Pharmacology, Director of the Institute of Human Virology's Division of Virology, Pathogenesis, and Cancer, and Interim Director of IHV's Division of Immunotherapy, was among the co-authors of "Herpes Virus Entry Mediator Costimulation Signaling Enhances CAR-T cell Efficacy Against Solid Tumors Through Metabolic Reprogramming," which was published in Cancer Immunology Research on January 23, 2023. Dr. Su also was among the co-authors of "Metabolic Modeling of Single Bronchoalveolar Macrophages Reveals Regulators of Hyperinflammation in COVID-19," which was published in iScience on November 18, 2022.

Shannon Takala-Harrison, PhD, Associate Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, was among the co-authors of “Understanding Work-related Travel and its Relation to Malaria Occurrence in Thailand Using Geospatial Maximum Entropy Modeling,” which was published in Malaria Journal on February 13, 2023.

Sharon Tennant, PhD, Associate Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, was among the co-authors of “Genomic Diversity of Non-diarrheagenic Fecal Escherichia coli from Children in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia and Their Relatedness to Diarrheagenic E. coli,” which was published in Nature Communications on March 14, 2023.

Nikki Tirada, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, was among the co-authors of “In-situ Cryo-immune Engineering of Tumor Microenvironment with Cold-responsive Nanotechnology for Cancer Immunotherapy,” which was published in the January 2023 issue of Nature Communications.

Phuoc Tran, MD, PhD, Professor, along with Mark Mishra, MD, Associate Professor; Zaker Rana, MD, Assistant Professor; Jason Molitoris, MD, Assistant Professor; and Matthew Ferris, MD, Assistant Professor, all with the Department of Radiation Oncology, were among the authors of “WNT Pathway Mutations in Metachronous Oligometastatic Castration-Sensitive Prostate Cancer,” which was published on January 25, 2023, ahead of print in the International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics.

Phuoc Tran, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, was among the authors of “A Phase 1 Trial of Durvalumab in Combination with Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) or External Beam Radiation Therapy in Patients with BCG-Unresponsive Non-Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer: The Hoosier Cancer Research Network GU16-243 ADAPT-BLADDER Study,” which was published ahead of print in European Urology on January 28, 2023.

Quincy Tran, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, and Daniel Gingold, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, both with the Department of Emergency Medicine, are among the authors of “Mobile Integrated Health-community Paramedicine Programs’ Effect on Emergency Department Visits: An Exploratory Meta-analysis,” which was published in the American Journal of Emergency Medicine ahead of print on December 29, 2022.

Quincy Tran, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, is among the authors of “Sustainable Surgical Resource Initiative for Haiti: the SSRI-Haiti project,” which was published online on March 1, 2023, ahead of print in Global Health Action.

Mark Travassos, MD, MSc, Associate Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, was among the co-authors of “Coronavirus Disease 2019 Burden Among Unaccompanied Minors in U.S. Custody” which was published in Clinical Infectious Diseases on February 8, 2023.

Ze Wang, PhD, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, was among the co-authors of “Temporal Dynamics of Cerebral Blood Flow During the First Year after Moderate-severe Traumatic Brain Injury: A Longitudinal Perfusion MRI Study,” which was published in the February 2023 issue of NeuroImage Clinical. Epub ahead of print.

Junfang Wu, BM, PhD, Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, was the lead author of “Brain Injury Accelerates the Onset of a Reversible Age-related Microglial Phenotype Associated with Inflammatory Neurodegeneration,” which was published in the March 2023 issue of Science Advances.

Kelly Westlake, PT, MSc, PhD, Associate Professor; Ruth Akinlosotu, PT, MPH, PhD Student; and Jill Whitall, PhD, FNAK, Professor Emerita; all with the Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science, are co-authors on the publication titled "Some Home-based Self-managed Rehabilitation Interventions Can Improve Arm Activity after Stroke: A Systematic Review and Narrative Synthesis," which was published in Frontiers in Neurology on February 2, 2023.

Emerson Wickwire, PhD, Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Medicine, was the lead author of “Smart Phone/ecological Momentary Assessment of Sleep and Daytime Symptoms among Older Adults with Insomnia,” which was published in The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry on February 1, 2023.

Su Xu, PhD, Professor, and X. Li, MS, Laboratory Research Specialist, both with the Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, were among the co-authors of “Neuroinflammation with Increased Glymphatic Flow in a Murine Model of Decompression Sickness,” which was published in Journal of Neurophysiology on February 8, 2023. Epub ahead of print. Dr. Xu was the last author.

Jiachen Zhuo, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, was among the co-authors of “Tagged-MRI Sequence to Audio Synthesis via Self Residual Attention Guided Heterogeneous Translator,” which was published in the September 2022 issue of Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention. Junfang Wu, BM, PhD, Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Director of the Anesthesiology Center for Neuroscience Research, is the lead author of the research.