What's the Buzz? September/October 2023

September/October 2023

Honors & Awards - September

Samuel Barlow, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, in the laboratory of Professor Thomas Blanpied, PhD, in the Department of Physiology and UM-MIND, was named the winner of the 11th annual Regeneron Prize in Creative Innovation in the postdoctoral fellow category.

Rebecca Brotman, PhD, MPH, Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, Institute for Genome Sciences, was honored in July 2023 at the International Society for Sexually Transmitted Diseases Research (ISSTDR) in Chicago with the ASTDA Achievement Award, which is presented to a person at mid-career to acknowledge an outstanding body of work in sexually transmitted diseases or to an individual for a single major achievement in the field.

Michy Kelly, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Neurobiology, was selected to participate in the Transforming Biomedical Research and Academic Faculty through Leadership Opportunities, Training, and Mentorship (TRANSFORM) Program. This is a year-long AAMC multi-faceted leadership and career development program.

Benjamin Lawner, DO, MS, Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was recognized as the 2022 Maryland ACEP EMS Physician of the Year. The award is given to an EMS physician who demonstrates a high degree of commitment and dedication to the practice of prehospital medicine. Dr. Lawner currently serves as Medical Director for the Baltimore City Fire Department and the Maryland ExpressCare Critical Care Transport Team and is on the board of AMPA, the Air Medical Physician Association.

Miguel Luján, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Neurobiology, won the best poster award at the Gordon Research Conference on Cannabinoid Function in the CNS held in Barcelona, Spain, in July 2023. The poster was titled, “Dopamine Neurons Mobilize 2-AG to Encode Predictive Warning Signals during Active Avoidance Learning.”

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

Nariman Nezami, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, was the recipient of the 2023 Radiological Society of North America’s Honored Educator Award, recognizing his dedication to furthering the profession of radiology by delivering high-quality educational content for the RSNA. The RSNA Honored Educator Award recognizes RSNA members who have produced an array of RSNA educational resources in the past calendar year.

Melanie Pina, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Neurobiology, contributed an image featured on the cover of the Journal of Neuroscience (Volume 43, Issue 28).

Marco Venniro, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Neurobiology, is among the few invited to attend The Nobel Foundation Symposium on The Social Brain, which will be held in Stockholm in November 2023. The meeting coincides with the 50th anniversary of the 1973 Nobel Prize to Tinbergen, von Frisch and Lorenz “for their discoveries concerning organization and elicitation of individual and social behavior patterns.”

Paul Yi, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, was the recipient of the 2023 Radiological Society of North America’s Honored Educator Award, recognizing his dedication to furthering the profession of radiology by delivering high-quality educational content for the RSNA. The RSNA Honored Educator Award recognizes RSNA members who have produced an array of RSNA educational resources in the past calendar year.

Honors & Awards - October

Alagie Jassey, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, won a 2023 Ben Barres Spotlight Award from eLife. The awards shine a spotlight on pioneering researchers from groups that are underrepresented in biology and medicine or from countries with limited research funding.

Barbara Juarez, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Neurobiology, received the 2023 BBR Foundation NARSAD Young Investigator Award, a grant program providing support for the most promising young scientists conducting neurobiological and psychiatric research.

Appointments - September

Robert Bloch, PhD, Professor, Department of Physiology, was appointed as a regular member of the Research Advisory Committee of the Muscular Dystrophy Association.

David Martin, PhD, Department of Neurobiology, has been promoted to Research Associate.

Grants & Contracts - September

Robert Bloch, PhD, Professor, Department of Physiology, renewed his grant titled “The Role of Dysferlin in Skeletal Muscle In Vitro and In Vivo” for a one-year period through June 30, 2024, by the Jain Foundation Scientific Advisory Board.

Florence Doo, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, received a one-year $140,000 AUR GE Radiology Research Academic Fellowship award to study “The Carbon Footprint of Radiology Artificial Intelligence: Assessing the Impact of Cloud Computing on Climate Change and Health Outcomes.”

Jason Falvey, PT, DPT, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation, is one of the principal investigators on a five-year, $3.7 million R01 awarded by the National Institute on Aging. This grant entitled “The Paycheck Protection Program and its Effects on Staffing Patterns and the Outcomes of Residents Living with Dementia” will examine how federal policies supporting nursing homes during COVID-19 affected the health and wellness of older adults with dementia, and whether this effect was equitable across socioeconomically disadvantaged and rural areas.

Hyun Kevin Kim, MD, MHS, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, was awarded $1,139,061 for a two-year grant from TriSalus Life Sciences for “A Phase 1b/2 Pressure Enabled Regional Immuno-Oncology Study of Hepatic Arterial Infusion of SD-101 with Systemic Checkpoint Blockade for Hepatocellular Carcinoma and Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma,” as well as $688,017 for a five-year grant from Replimune Group Inc to study “An Open-Label, Multicenter, Phase 1 Study of RP3 as a Single Agent and in Combination with PD-1 Blockade in Patients with Solid Tumors.”

Victoria Marchese, PT, PhD, the Jane Kroh Satterfield Endowed Professor of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science, and Chair of the Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science, received funding from the American Physical Therapy Association's Academy of Pediatric Physical Therapy. The grant titled "Sickle Cell Children’s Exercise Study (SuCCESs): Determining the Effects of a Targeted Exercise Training Program on Neuromuscular Performance, Locomotor Efficiency, and Exercise Tolerance in Children with Sickle Cell Disease" is a one-year $30,000 grant. Simon Ho, PT, DPT, CCS, Assistant Professor in the Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science, will be a Co-Investigator.

Elizabeth Parker, PhD, RD, Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science, has received funding in the amount of $49,875 from the Marlene & Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center’s FY24 Pilot Grant Program for her study titled "A Feasibility Study to Improve Dietary Quality among Older Cancer Survivors with Impaired Mobility."

Kelly Westlake, PT, MSc, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science, has been awarded a $100,000 grant from the Maryland Industrial Partnerships (MIPS) for the proposal titled "REACH Upper Extremity Trainer."

New Faculty - September

New faculty members in the Department of Emergency Medicine are:
Michael Baranowski, MD; Michele Callahan, MD; Jamie Kuck, MD; Sarah Lee, MD; Bobbie-Jo Lowie, MD; Rohit Menon, MD; Gabriella Miller, MD; and Rachel Wiltjer, DO.
Drs. Callahan, Lowie, Miller, and Wiltjer completed their residencies at UMMC, and Drs. Baranowski, Callahan, and Lowie completed their fellowships here. Drs. Menon and Miller are current clinical instructor fellows.

New Faculty - October

Sarah Smith, PT, DPT, joined the faculty in the Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science on Monday, July 17, 2023, as an Assistant Professor and the Assistant Director for Clinical Education. Dr. Smith holds a Geriatrics Specialist Certification. Previously, she was with the University of Delaware's Physical Therapy Department, where she was an Assistant Professor of Practice and Staff Physical Therapist in the Neurologic and Older Adult Clinic.

In the News - October

Emerson Wickwire, PhD, Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Medicine, conducted a virtual interview with CBS News Health Watch on September 7, 2023, titled “Fighting Off a Sluggish September: Strategies for Feeling More Awake and Well-rested Going into Fall.”

Presentations, Events, Lectures & Workshops - September

Vasken Dilsizian, MD, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, delivered an oral presentation on the topic of “Cardiac Infection and Inflammation Imaging” for the American College of Nuclear Medicine Hot Topics Webinar Series, which was co-sponsored by the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, and held on August 22, 2023.

Jason Falvey, PT, DPT, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science, participated in the Summit on the Advancement of Focused Equity Research in Trauma (SAFER-Trauma) on August 2 - 3, 2023. The conference aimed to help identify and characterize current gaps in trauma health disparities research, define funding mechanisms and pathways for collaboration, and outline a research agenda targeted at reducing and eliminating health disparities in trauma care.

Marcel Bahia Lanza, PhD, Research Associate, Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science, presented at the XXIX Congress of the International Society of Biomechanics, which was held in Fukuoka, Japan, from July 30 - August 3, 2023. His presentation was titled "EMG Normalization Approaches Show Differing Results in Older Adults During a Stepping Task."

The American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) held its annual Leadership Congress in Washington, DC, from July 21 - 25, 2023. The event brings together APTA leadership groups including the APTA Board of Directors; leaders of APTA chapters, sections, and academies; the APTA House of Delegates; and APTA standing committees. Faculty members from the Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science hold leadership roles within APTA and participated in all of these important events.

Linda Horn, PT, DScPT, MHS, GCS, NCS, Assistant Professor and Cara Felter, PT, DPT, MPH, NCS, PCS, Assistant Professor, are APTA members of the House of Delegates.
Jason Falvey, PT, DPT, PhD, GCS, Assistant Professor, is a member of the APTA Public Policy and Advocacy Committee.
Roy Film, PT, MPT, DPT, OCS, FAAOMPT, is the APTA Maryland President-elect.

Department of Radiation Oncology members presented their research in a broad range of educational and other forums at the 65th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), July 23 - 27 in Houston, TX. With more than 50 presentations and additional service on panels and in other sessions, the department was well-represented across its many areas of research and practice. Several faculty members were asked to serve as moderators:
Shifeng Chen, PhD; Sina Mossahebi, PhD; Lei Ren, PhD; Elizabeth Vicente, PhD; and Junliang Xu, PhD.

Dr. Ren served as the 2023 Director of the Therapy Science Track, responsible for invited and proffered sessions that now form a major portion of the scientific component of AAPM meetings.

Patents - September

Joseph P.Y. Kao, PhD, Associate Director, Center for Biomedical Engineering and Technology, and Professor, Department of Physiology, and Christopher Ward, PhD, Professor, Department of Orthopedics, published their patent titled “Microtubule Polymerization Inhibitor Prodrugs and Methods of Using the Same” on August 3, 2023.

Community Service - September

Incoming Emergency Medicine residents Satya Vedula, MD, and Walter Banfield, MD; Laura J. Bontempo, MD, MEd, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine; and School of Medicine student Ashlee De Leon were volunteer leaders of the community CPR and AED education offered as part of the Compress & Shock Foundation’s 7th Annual Free CPR and AED Education Day Saturday, June 3, 2023, at Mt. Calvary AME Church in the East Towson community.

Publications - September

Afrah Abdul Wahid Ali, MBBS, Assistant Professor; Quincy Tran, MD, PhD, Associate Professor; Neeraja Murali, DO, Assistant Professor; Benoit Stryckman, MA, Assistant Professor; Daniel Lemkin, MD, Associate Professor; Mark Sutherland, MD, Associate Professor; and Zachary Dezman, MD, MS, Clinical Associate Professor, all with the Department of Emergency Medicine, authored “Assessing Risk of Major Adverse Cardiac Event among COVID-19 Patients Using HEART score,” which was published in the July 2023 issue of Internal and Emergency Medicine.

Omer Awan, MD, MPH, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, was the last author of “Global Medical Education and its Value to Radiology,” which was published in the July 2023 issue of Academic Radiology. Epub ahead of print.

Uttam Bodanapally, MBBS, Associate Professor; Thorsten Fleiter, MD, Professor; and Dheeraj Gandhi, MBBS, Professor, all with the Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, were among the co-authors of “Quantitative DECT of Iodine in Chronic Subdural Hematoma as Surrogate of Membrane Exudation: A Pilot Feasibility Study,” which was published in the July 2023 issue of the Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography. Epub ahead of print. Dr. Bodanapally was the first author and Dr. Gandhi was the last author.

Yufeng Cao, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow; Dan Kunaprayoon, MD, Assistant Professor; and Lei Ren, MD, Professor, all with the Department of Radiation Oncology, were the authors of “Interpretable AI-Assisted Clinical Decision Making (CDM) for Dose Prescription in Radiosurgery of Brain Metastases,” which was published online on August 3, 2023, ahead of print in Radiotherapy and Oncology.

Eileen Chu, MD, MS, Resident; Samantha King, MD, former Clinical Assistant Professor; Laura Bontempo, MD, Med, Associate Professor; and Andrew Windsor, MD, Assistant Professor, all with the Department of Emergency Medicine, are the authors of “57-Year-Old Male Veteran with Recurrent Fevers,” which was published online on August 9, 2023, ahead of print in Clinical Practice and Cases in Emergency Medicine.

Derik Davis, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, was the first author of “Shoulder Pain, Health-Related Quality of Life and Physical Function in Community-Dwelling Older Adults,” which was published in the July 2023 issue of Frontiers in Aging.

Adam Fang, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, was the last author of “Transarterial Embolization and Percutaneous Ablation of Primary and Metastatic Soft Tissue Tumors,” which was published in June 2023 in Life (Basel).

Shengyun Fang, MD, PhD, Professor, Center for Biomedical Engineering and Technology and the Department of Physiology, was a corresponding author of “Auranofin Targets UBA1 and EEnhances UBA1 Activity by Facilitating Ubiquitin Trans-thioesterification to E2 Ubiquitin-conjugating Enzymes,” which was published in Nature Communications on August 9, 2023.

Maura Greiser, MD, PhD, Research Associate, Center for Biomedical Engineering and Technology and the Department of Physiology; and Mariusz Karbowski, PhD, Associate Professor, Center for Biomedical Engineering and Technology and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, co-authored “Calcium and Bicarbonate Signaling Pathways Have Pivotal, Resonating Roles in Matching ATP Production to Demand,” which was published in eLife on June 5, 2023. This research was led by Liron Boyman, PhD, Assistant Professor, Center for Biomedical Engineering and Technology and the Department of Physiology.

Li Jiang, PhD, Research Associate; Jiachen Zhuo, PhD, Associate Professor; Andrew Furman, MA, Postdoctoral Fellow; and the late Rao Gullapalli, PhD, MBA, Professor, all from the Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, along with Paul Fishman, MD, PhD, Clinical Professor, Department of Neurology, were the co-authors of “Cerebellar Functional Connectivity Change is Associated with Motor and Neuropsychological Function in Early Stage Drug-naïve Patients with Parkinson's Disease,” which was published in the June 2023 issue of Frontiers in Neuroscience. Dr. Jiang was the first author and the late Dr. Gullapalli was the last author.

Asaf Keller, PhD, Chair and Professor, and Nathan Cramer, PhD, Assistant Professor, both with the Department of Neurobiology, and Radi Masri, PhD, Professor, School of Dentistry, were among the authors of “Parabrachial Nucleus Activity in Nociception and Pain in Awake Mice,” which was published in the Journal of Neuroscience on August 2, 2023.

W. Jonathan Lederer, MD, PhD, Director, Center for Biomedical Engineering and Technology, and Distinguished University Professor, Department of Physiology; and Carmen Mannella, PhD, Professor, Department of Physiology and Center for Biomedical Engineering and Technology, are corresponding authors of “Structural Analysis of Mitochondria in Cardiomyocytes: Insights into Bioenergetics and Membrane Remodeling,” which was published in Molecules (Special Issue on Mitochondrial Function and Dysfunction) on July 21, 2023.

Bo Li, PhD, Research Associate; Ze Wang, PhD, Professor; and Thomas Ernst, Dr rer nat, Professor, all with the Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, were among the co-authors of “Simultaneous Multislice EPI Prospective Motion Correction by Real-time Receiver Phase Correction and Coil Sensitivity Map Interpolation,” which was published in the July 2023 issue of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. Epub ahead of print. Dr. Li was the first author; Dr. Ernst was the last author.

Elizabeth Nichols, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, was among the authors of “Clinical Outcomes of Intensity Modulated Proton Therapy Reirradiation for Gynecologic Malignancies,” which was published in the July-August 2023 ecollection of Advances in Radiation Oncology.

Zaker Rana, MD, Assistant Professor, and Phuoc Tran, MD, PhD, Professor, both with the Department of Radiation Oncology, were among the authors of “Identification of a Predictive Genomic Biomarker for Prostate-Directed Therapy in Synchronous Low-Volume Metastatic Castration-Sensitive Prostate Cancer," which was published online on August 8, 2023, ahead of print in European Urology Oncology.

Meghann Ryan, MS, Graduate Research Assistant; Thomas Ernst, Dr rer nat, Professor; and Linda Chang, MD, MS, Professor, all with the Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, were among the co-authors of “Quantifying the Neuropsychiatric Symptoms in Post-Acute Sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC) using the NIH Toolbox® and PROMIS,” which was published in the June 2023 issue of NeuroImmune Pharmacology and Therapeutics. Ms. Ryan was the first author and Dr. Chang was the last author.

Eliot Siegel, MD, Professor; Vishwa Parekh, PhD, Assistant Professor; and Paul Yi, MD, Assistant Professor, all with the Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, were among the co-authors of “Exploring the Clinical Translation of Generative Models like ChatGPT: Promise and Pitfalls in Radiology, from Patients to Population Health,” which was published in the July 2023 issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology. Epub ahead of print. Dr. Yi was the last author.

Quincy Tran, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, and Daniel Haase, MD, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Medical Director of the Critical Care Resuscitation Unit, are among the authors of “Arterial Monitoring in Hypertensive Emergencies: Significance for the Critical Care Resuscitation Unit,” which was published in the Western Journal of Emergency Medicine on July 17, 2023.

Dr. Tran also is among the authors of “Prevalence of Peri-intubation Major Adverse Events among Critically Ill Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis,” which was published ahead of print on June 28, 2023, in the American Journal of Emergency Medicine.

Sudhir Vashist, MD, Assistant Professor, and Alicia Chaves, MD, Assistant Professor, both with the Department of Pediatrics, were among the co-authors of “Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status and Length of Stay after Congenital Heart Disease Surgery,” which was published in Frontiers in Pediatrics on July 18, 2023.

Paul Yi, MD, Assistant Professor, and Jean Jeudy, MD, Professor, both with the Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, were among the co-authors of “Applying Artificial Intelligence to Pediatric Chest Imaging: Will Leveraging Adult-Based Artificial Intelligence Models Prove Reliable?” which was published in the July 2023 issue of the Journal of American College of Radiology. Epub ahead of print. Dr. Jeudy was the last author.

Separately, Dr. Yi was the first author of “Clinical Applications, Challenges, and Recommendations for Artificial Intelligence in Musculoskeletal and Soft Tissue Ultrasound: AJR Expert Panel Narrative Review,” which was published in the July 2023 issue of the AJR American Journal of Roentgenology. Epub ahead of print.

Publications - October

Anna Andrzejewska, MD, Visiting Scholar, and Miroslaw Janowski, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, both with the Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, were among the co-authors of “Mesenchymal Stem Cell Engineering by ARCA Analog-capped mRNA,” which was published in the July 2023 issue of Molecular Therapy: Nucleic Acids. Dr. Andrzejewska was the first author and Dr. Janowski was the last author.

Ilia Baskakov, PhD, Professor, Department of Neurobiology, was the corresponding author of “Reactive Astrocytes Associated with Prion Disease Impair the Blood Brain Barrier,” which was published in Neurobiology of Disease on August 18, 2023.

Soha Bazyar, MD, Resident, and Phuoc Tran, MD, PhD, Professor, both with the Department of Radiation Oncology, were among the authors of “Cell-free DNA Sequencing Sheds Additional Insights on BRCA-Altered Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer,” which was published on August 9, 2023, ahead of print in EBioMedicine.

Linda Chang, MD, MS, Professor; Hua Jun Liang, MBBS, PhD, Research Associate; Meghann Ryan, MS, Graduate Research Assistant; and Eric Cunningham, Senior Research Analyst, all with the Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, along with Eleanor Wilson, MD, MS, Assistant Professor, and Shyamasundaran Kottilil, MBBS, PhD, Professor, both with the Department of Medicine, Institute of Human Virology; and Andrea Levine, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, and Jonathan Garner, MS, Medical Student, were among the co-authors of “Ongoing Oxidative Stress in Individuals with Post-acute Sequelae of COVID-19,” which was published in the June 2023 issue of NeuroImmune Pharmacology and Therapeutics in the eCollection.

Hua-Ren Cherng, MD, Resident, Department of Radiation Oncology, was among the authors of “Pharmacogenetics of Sodium-Glucose Co-transporter-2 Inhibitors: Validation of a Sex-Agnostic Pharmacodynamic Biomarker,” which was published on August 22, 2023, ahead of print in Diabetes, Obesity & Metabolism.

Thomas Ernst, Dr rer nat, Professor; Meghann Ryan, MS, Graduate Research Assistant; Hua Jun Liang, MBBS, PhD, Research Associate; Justin Wang, Clinical Research Assistant; Eric Cunningham, Senior Research Analyst; and Linda Chang, MD, MS, Professor, all with the Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, along with Shyamasundaran Kottilil, MBBS, PhD, Professor, Department of Medicine, Institute of Human Virology, were among the co-authors of “Neuronal and Glial Metabolite Abnormalities in Participants with Persistent Neuropsychiatric Symptoms After COVID-19: A Brain Proton MR Spectroscopy Study,” which was published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases on August 4, 2023. Epub ahead of print. Dr. Ernst was the first author and Dr. Chang was the last author.

Reha Erzurumlu, PhD, Professor, Department of Neurobiology, authored a commentary titled “Serotonin, Birth, and Thalamocortical Wiring,” which was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on August 31, 2023.

Adam Fang, MD, Assistant Professor; Jean Jeudy, MD, Professor; and Vahid Etezadi, MD, Associate Professor, all with the Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, were among the co-authors of “Risk Factors and Treatment Interventions Associated with Incomplete Thrombus Resolution and Pulmonary Hypertension after Pulmonary Embolism,” which was published in the August 2023 issue of the Journal of Vascular Surgery: Venous and Lymphatic Disorders. Epub ahead of print. Dr. Fang was the first author.

Separately, Dr. Fang was the last author, and Nariman Nezami, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, was a co-author, of “Endovascular Management of Malignant and Benign Cavoatrial Thrombus in Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma,” which was published in the August 2023 issue of the Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology. Epub ahead of print.

Simon Ho, PT, DPT, Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science, is a co-author of "Remote Blood Oxygen Estimation from Videos Using Neural Networks," which was published in August 2023 in the IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics.

Rydhwana Hossain, MD, Assistant Professor; Jean Jeudy, MD, Professor; and Charles White, MD, Professor, all with the Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, were among the co-authors of “Metastatic Pulmonary Calcification: Single-Center Review of Typical and Atypical Imaging Features,” which was published in the Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography on August 7, 2023. Epub ahead of print. Dr. White was the last author.

Barbara Juarez, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Neurobiology, was the first author of “Temporal Scaling of Dopamine Neuron Firing and Dopamine Release by Distinct Ion Channels Shape Behavior,” which was published in Science Advances on August 11, 2023.

Kelby Kaplan, PT, DPT, EdD, Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science, is a co-author of "Improving Cultural Humility in Physical Therapy Students: What is Faculty’s Role?" which was published in Physiotherapy Theory and Practice on August 30, 2023.

Asaf Keller, PhD, Professor and Chair of the Department of Neurobiology, was among the editors of a special issue of Neuropharmacology titled “Opioid-induced changes in addiction and pain circuits,” which was recently published in Neuropharmacology.

Michy Kelly, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Neurobiology, was the senior author of “Biologic that Disrupts PDE11A4 Homodimerization in Hippocampus CA1 Reverses Age-related Cognitive Decline of Social Memories in Mice,” which was published in Neurobiology of Aging on July 17, 2023. This work forms the basis for the International Patent Application No. PCT/US2023/071206.

Marcel Bahia Lanza, PhD, Research Associate; Nathan Frakes, Research Assistant; Lateef Shabnam Lateef, MS, PT, PhD Student; and Vicki Gray, MPT, PhD, Assistant Professor, all with the Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science, are co-authors on the publication titled "The Importance of Hip Abductor and Adductor Muscles in Balance and Mobility Tasks After a Stroke: A Systematic Review," which was published in the Journal of Stroke Medicine on August 1, 2023.

Yajie Liang, MB, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, was the first author of “Stimulus Edges Induce Orientation Tuning in Superior Colliculus,” which was published in the August 2023 issue of Nature Communications.

Peiying Liu, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, was the first author of “Dependence of Resting-state-based Cerebrovascular Reactivity (CVR) Mapping on Spatial Resolution,” which was published in the June 2023 issue of Frontiers in Neuroimaging.

Mary Kay Lobo, PhD, Professor, Department of Neurobiology, is the Reviewing Editor for a research article titled “Reactivation of Early-Life Stress-Sensitive Neuronal Ensembles Contributes to Lifelong Stress Hypersensitivity,” which was published in The Journal of Neuroscience on August 23, 2023.

Alberto Macario, MD, and Everly Conway De Macario, PhD, both with the Department of Microbiology & Immunology, were co-authors of an article titled “The Chaperone System in Autoimmunity, Inflammation, and Virus-induced Diseases: Role of Chaperonins," which was published in Stress: Immunology and Inflammation on August 22, 2023.

Rosa Marino, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, and Marco Venniro, PhD, Assistant Professor, both with the Department of Neurobiology, published a commentary titled “Calcitonin Receptor Signal: A Potential Target for Opioid Use Disorder?” which was published in the Journal of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology on July 31, 2023.

Andrea Meredith, PhD, Professor, and Ria Dinsdale, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, both with the Department of Physiology, published the study “Disease-associated KCNMA1 Variants Decrease Circadian Clock Robustness in Channelopathy Mouse Models,” in the Journal of General Physiology. It also will appear online in the Journal of General Physiology.

Yannick Poirier, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, was the lead author of “Minimum Reporting Standards Should Be Expected for Preclinical Radiobiology Irradiators and Dosimetry in the Published Literature,” which was published on August 8, 2023, ahead of print in Radiation Research.

William F. Regine, MD, Professor and Chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology, was among the authors of “Analysis of Radiation Therapy Quality Assurance in NRG Oncology RTOG 0848,” which was published on August 18, 2023, ahead of print in the International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics.

Samantha Santomartino, Research Assistant, and Paul Yi, MD, Assistant Professor, both with the Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, were among the co-authors of “Systematic Review of Artificial Intelligence Development and Evaluation for MRI Diagnosis of Knee Ligament or Meniscus Tears,” which was published in Skeletal Radiology on August 16, 2023. Epub ahead of print. Ms. Santomartino was the first author and Dr. Yi was the last author.

Marco Venniro, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Neurobiology, was among the authors of “Relative to Females, Male Rats are More Willing to Forego Obtaining Sucrose Reward in Order to Prevent Harm to their Cage Mate,” which was published in Psychopharmacology (Berl.) on August 2, 2023.

Hannah Wang, Medical Student, along with Hua Jun Liang, MBBS, PhD, Research Associate; Thomas Ernst, Dr rer nat, Professor; Eric Cunningham, Senior Research Analyst; and Linda Chang, MD, MS, Professor, all with the Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, were among the co-authors of “Independent and Combined Effects of Methamphetamine Use Disorders and APOEε4 Allele on Cognitive Performance and Brain Morphometry,” which was published in Addiction on August 10, 2023. Epub ahead of print. Ms. Wang was the first author and Dr. Chang was the last author.

Jill Whitall, PhD, FNAK, Professor Emerita; Nesreen Alissa, PT, MS, PhD Student; and Kelly Westlake, PT, MSc, PhD, Associate Professor, all with the Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science, are co-authors on the publication titled "Age-Related Differences in Kinematics, Kinetics, and Muscle Synergy Patterns Following a Sudden Gait Perturbation: Changes in Movement Strategies and Implications for Fall Prevention Rehabilitation," which was published in Applied Sciences on August 7, 2023.

Emerson Wickwire, PhD, Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Medicine, was lead author of “Patient Engagement and Provider Effectiveness of a Novel Sleep Telehealth Platform and Remote Monitoring Assessment in the U.S. Military: A Pilot Study,” which was accepted for publication in JMIR Formative Research on September 11, 2023.

Michael Zarro, PT, DPT, Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science, has authored the publication titled, "Bone Stress Injury of the Patella in a Division 1 Athlete with Anterior Knee Pain," which was published in JOSPT Cases on July 24, 2023.

Li-Qun Zhang, PhD, Professor, Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science, is a co-author of two publications: “Abnormal Coordination of Upper Extremity During Target Reaching in Persons Post Stroke,” which was published in Scientific Reports on August 8, 2023; and "Robotic Ankle Training Improves Sensorimotor Functions of the Ankle in Children with Cerebral Palsy – A Pilot Study," which was published in the February 2023 issue of the Journal of Clinical Medicine.