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UMDNJ Matters NJMS Publications "Appropriateness of the Ilfeld Psychiatric Symptom Index as a Screening Tool for Depressive Symptomatology in Persons with Spinal Cord Injury," by Denise Campagnolo, MD, associate professor, Rosemarie Filart, MD, MPH, resident and Scott Millis, PhD, associate professor, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, was in the Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine, Vol. 25, 2002. "Assessing Functional Status: Exploring the Relationship Between the Multiple Sclerosis Functional Composite and Driving," by Maria Shawaryn, PhD, instructor, Maria Schultheis, PhD, assistant professor, and John DeLuca, PhD, professor, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, was in the Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Vol. 83, August 2002. "Changes in Ratings of Caregiver Burden Following a Community-Based Behavior Management Program for Persons with Traumatic Brain Injury," by George Carnevale, PhD, assistant professor, and Scott Millis, PhD, associate professor, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, was in the Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation, 2002.
"Driving Behaviors Following Brain Injury: Self-Report and Motor Vehicle Records," co-authored by Maria Schultheis, PhD, assistant professor, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, was in the Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation, 2002. "Gabapetin in the Treatment of Neuropathic Pain After Spinal Cord Injury: A Prospective, Randomized, Double-Blind, Crossover Trial," by Qing Tai, MD, PhD, resident, Boqing Chen, MD, PhD, assistant professor, Scott Millis, PhD, associate professor, Mark Johnston, PhD, professor, and Joel DeLisa, MD, professor and chair, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, was in Spinal Cord Medicine, Vol. 25, 2002. "How Much Exercise is Enough for Bone Health?" by Peter Yonclas, MD, resident, Todd Stitik, MD, associate professor, Patrick Foye, MD, assistant professor, and Boqing Chen, MD, PhD, assistant professor, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, was in Consultant, June 2002. "Impact of a1-Blockers in Men with Spinal Cord Injury and Upper Tract Stasis," by Todd Linsenmeyer, MD, associate professor, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, was in Spinal Cord Medicine, Vol. 25, 2002. "Medical Follow-up of Gulf War Veterans With Severe Medically Unexplained Fatigue: A Preliminary Study," by Jennifer Nelson, MS, biostatistician, Benjamin Natelson, MD, professor, Arnold Peckerman, PhD, assistant professor, Neurosciences, and Gudrun Lange, PhD, associate professor, Psychiatry and Radiology, was in Military Psychology, Vol. 166, 2001. "Medical Student Feedback: A Mechanism to Improve a Multi-Instructor Lecture Series," by Todd Stitik, MD, associate professor, Patrick Foye, MD, assistant professor, Boqing Chen, MD, PhD, assistant professor, Melissa DePrince, researcher, and John Bach, MD, professor, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, was in the American Journal of Physical Medicine Rehabilitation, Vol. 81, No. 8. "Misinterpretation of Regional Sensory Loss in an Injured Worker: A Case Report," by Scott Nadler, DO, associate professor, Stephen Andrus, MD, resident, Gerard Malanga, MD, associate professor, and Todd Stitik, MD, associate professor, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, was in the Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Vol. 83, August 2002. "Motor Vehicle Crashes and Violations Among Drivers With Multiple Sclerosis," by Maria Schultheis, PhD, assistant professor, Scott Millis, PhD, associate professor, and John DeLuca, PhD, professor, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, was in the Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Vol. 83, August 2002. "Pain, Dizziness, and Central Nervous System Blood Flow in Cervical Extension: Vascular Correlations to Beauty Parlor Stroke Syndrome and Salon Sink Radiculopathy," co-authored by Patrick Foye, MD, assistant professor, Todd Stitik, MD, associate professor, Scott Nadler, DO, associate professor, and Boqing Chen, MD, assistant professor, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, was in the American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. "Relationship of Brain MRI Abnormalities and Physical Functional Status in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome," by Gudrun Lange, PhD, associate professor, Psychiatry and Radiology, John DeLuca, PhD, associate professor, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and Benjamin Natelson, MD, professor, Neurosciences, was in the International Journal of Neuroscience, Vol. 107, 2001.
"The Neuropsychological Consequences of Ruptured Aneurism of the Anterior Communicating Artery," by John DeLuca, PhD, professor, and Nancy Chiaravalloti, PhD, instructor, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, was in Cognitive Deficits in Brain Disorders, 2002. Grants Gregory Hasko, MD, PhD, assistant professor, Surgery, received a four-year, $1,044,960 grant from the NIH/NIGMS to study "Adenosine in Trauma and Sepsis." Lawrence Harrison, MD, assistant professor, Surgery, and chief, Division of Surgical Oncology, received a four-year, $664,764 grant from the NIH/NCI to study "NF-Kappa B: A Mechanism of Fatty Acid Induced Apoptosis." David Kaback, PhD, professor, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, received two grants: a three-year, $156,666 grant from the National Science Foundation to study "Molecular Organization of Yeast" and a four-year, $220,000 grant from the NIH to study Molecular Structure of Yeast in Chromosome I." The Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation received a one-year, $148,500 grant from the Eastern Paralyzed Veterans Association to subsidize the fellowship program in spinal cord injury medicine. Professional Activities Norman Ertel, MD, professor and vice chair, Medicine, presented "Protein Chip Technology: A New and Facile Method for the Identification and Measurement of High Density Lipoprotein (HDL) Apo A-I, Apo A-II and Isoforms in Patients with Diabetes and Coronary Disease" at the 23rd American Chemical Society National Meeting of the Division of Medicinal Chemistry in Orlando. He also presented "Synthesis of Oxidized Sterols Using Microwaves" at the 93rd American Oil Chemical Society in Montreal. Carol Newlon, PhD, professor and vice chair, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, presented "Maintenance of an Originless Chromosome Fragment in Saccharomyces Cerevisiae" at the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology summer conference on Yeast Chromosome Structure, Replication and Segregation in Snowmass, CO. Honors Scott Nadler, DO, associate professor, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, has been elected as a traveling fellow for 2002 by the Japanese Association of Rehabilitation Medicine. The award includes a stipend to offset the cost of traveling to Japan to present a series of lectures in various cities. RWJMS Publications "A Score to Assess Individual Risk of Cardiovascular Disease," by John Kostis, MD, professor, Medicine and Pharmacology, and chair, Medicine, was in the International Trends in Hypertension, Vol. 17, 2002. "Cortisol Response to Embarrassment and Shame," by Michael Lewis, PhD, University Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry, and Douglas Ramsay, PhD, associate professor, Pediatrics, was in Child Development, Vol. 73, No. 4.
Denise Rodgers, MD, professor, Family Medicine and Associate Dean for Community Health, recently released a report entitled "The State of Black Health in New Jersey" for the New Jersey Public Policy Research Institute-Center for Urban Policy Research, Bloustein School, Rutgers. Grants Gary Brewer, PhD, associate professor, Molecular Genetics, Microbiology and Immunology, was awarded a five-year, $1,367,000 grant from the NIH to study "Regulated c-myc Destabilization during Differentiation." He also received a four-year, $1,704,000 grant from the NIH for "Post-transcriptional Regulation of Oncogene Messenger RNA." Oak Za Chi, PhD, professor, Anesthesiology, received a one-year, $77,750 grant from the NIH for "Estrogen and the Aging Blood Brain Barrier." Krishna Kesari, PhD, assistant professor, Biochemistry, received a two-year grant for $99,000 from the New Jersey Commission on Cancer Research, Breast Cancer Research Fund, for "Role of HMGIC in Breast Cancer." Jianjie Ma, PhD, University Professor of Physiology and Biophysics, was awarded a four-year, $1,395,000 grant from the NIH to study "Bidirectional Ca Signaling Between Cell Surfaces & Intracellular Membranes." Matthew Menza, MD, associate professor, Psychiatry, and Humberto Marin, MD, assistant professor, Psychiatry, received $156,000 from Pfizer for a study on the "Effect of Antipsychotic Medication Change on Metabolic Parameters in Overweight African- or Hispanic-American Patients." Richard Nowakowski, PhD, associate professor, Neuroscience and Cell Biology, received a two-year, $147,068 grant from the New Jersey Commission on Spinal Cord Research for "Cell Proliferation in the CNS After Spinal Cord Injury." Nagarajan Selvamurugan, PhD, assistant professor, Physiology and Biophysics, received a two-year, $97,900 grant to study "TGF-beta Action on Human Breast Cancer Cells," and Roderich Schwarz, PhD, assistant professor, Surgery, received a two-year, $97,900 grant for "Ras Inhibition and Antiangiogenic VEGF-Directed Therapy of Pancreatic Cancer," both from the New Jersey Commission on Cancer Research.
William Welsh, PhD, professor, Pharmacology, received a three-year, $259,740 grant from the Biotechnology Research and Dev. Corp. to study "Computer-Aided Design, Chemical Synthesis, and Biological Evaluation of Novel Opioid Receptor Active Agents." He also received a three-year, $300,000 grant from the EPA to study "Novel Computational Tools for the Identification and Prediction of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals." Professional Activities Jeffrey Hammond, MD, MPH, professor, Surgery, chief, Section of Trauma/Surgical Critical Care, presented "Rising Creatinine: Prevention or Treatment?" at the XXI annual meeting of the Eastern States Com-mittee on Trauma–Point/Counter-point conference in Atlantic City. Howard Kipen, MD, MPH, professor and acting chair, Department of Environmental and Community Medicine, presented "Medically Unexplained Symptoms and Syndromes in the Workplace" at the American Occupational Health Conference (AOHC) in Chicago. Paul Lehrer, PhD, professor, Psychiatry, presented "Heart rate variability biofeedback: a new technique for treating stress and improving autonomic homeostasis" to the Biofeedback Society of Japan, in Fukuoka, Japan. Michael Lewis, PhD, University Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry, presented "Understanding the Self in the Social World" at the Johnson & Johnson Pediatric Roundtable on Social and Emotional Development in Children Ages 2 to 4 in Rome, Italy. He also presented "Psychological Development of Children" to the Meridian Health System–Jersey Shore Medical Center in Neptune. Russell McIntyre, ThD, professor, Environmental and Community Medicine, presented invitational lectures on medical ethics and social justice at Paulinum Seminary at the University of Namibia. NJDS Publications "A 3-Year Clinical Evaluation of Injection-moulded Glass-Ceramic (PS Empress) Laminate Veneers," by Richard Hesby, DMD, professor, Restorative Dentistry, was in the Journal of Dental Research, Vol. 81."Addition of Uprighting and Rotating Springs to Standard Edgewise or Preadjusted Brackets," by Robert Binder, DMD, professor, Orthodontics, was in the Journal of Clinical Orthodontics, Vol. 36, No. 5, May 2002. "Pediatric Sedation," by Milton Houpt, DDS, PhD, professor and chair, Pediatric Dentistry, was in Management of Pain and Anxiety in the Dental Office, Philadelphia 2002. He also authored "Cost Effectiveness and Risk Assessment," "The Effects of Oral Conscious Sedation on Future Behaviors" and "Anxiety in Pediatric Dental Patients" in Pediatric Dentistry, Vol. 24, No. 3, 2002. "The Influence of Precavitated White Spot Lesions on Caries Indices in Young Children," by R. Glen Rosivack, DMD, MS, clinical associate professor, and Milton Houpt, DDS, PhD, professor and chair, Pediatric Dentistry, was in the 7th Congress of the European Academy of Pediatric Dentistry.
Robert Binder, DMD, professor, Orthodontics, presented "Cephalometric Anatomy, Tracing, Analysis and Interpretation" to dental staff attending the Middle Atlantic Society of Orthodontists in Philadelphia. Meredith Blitz-Goldstein, DDS, assistant professor, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, presented a continuing dental education course on "What Every Dentist Should Know About Oral Cancer" to dentists at Seton Hall University. Jorge Caceda, DDS, MPH, MS, clinical assistant professor, presented "Treatment of Unerupted Ankylosed Primary Teeth," and "Pharmacological Management of Pain in Pediatric Dentistry" at the annual session of the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry, held in Denver. Milton Houpt, DDS, PhD, professor and chair, Pediatric Dentistry, presented "The Influence of Precavitated White Spot Lesions on Caries Indices in Young Children," to participants attending the 6th Congress of the European Academy of Pediatric Dentistry in Dublin, Ireland. R. Glenn Rosivack, DMD, MS, clinical associate professor, Pediatric Dentistry, presented "Power Toothbrushes for Children" at the annual session of the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry in Denver. Evan Spivack, DDS, clinical associate professor, Pediatric Dentistry, presented "An Introduction to Special Care Dentistry" to dentists, dental hygienists, dental assistants, and health profession students at the New Jersey Special Olympics in Ewing. Nanci Tofsky, DDS, MS, professor, Pediatric Dentistry, presented "Frequency and Cause of Broken Appointments for New Jersey Children" at the annual session of the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry in Denver. Vincent Ziccardi, DDS, MD, associate professor and chair, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, presented "Dental Causes of Trigeminal Nerve Injuries" to dentists at the 2002 New Jersey Dental Association’s annual convention held in Atlantic City. Barry Zweig, DDS, professor, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, presented "The Use of Two Implants to Replace a Single Molar: A Mechanical and Prosthetic Solution," to dentists at the joint meeting of the British Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons and the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons held in Killarney, Ireland. Honors Alan Kleinman, DMD, clinical instructor, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, was the New Jersey delegate to the American Dental Society of Anesthesiology’s national meeting in Richmond. R. Glenn Rosivack, DMD, MS, clinical associate professor, Pediatric Dentistry, was voted one of the top 10 pediatric dentists in New Jersey, determined by a survey conducted by New Jersey Monthly magazine. Jill York, DDS, assistant professor, Community Health, and director, Extramural Clinics, is a member of the Bylaws Committee and Needs Assessment/Priorities Committee of the HIV Consortium of Atlantic and Cape May counties. SHRP Publications "Applying the New Cholesterol Guidelines to your Practice,"by Sheryl Geisler, PA-C, MS, assistant professor, Physician Assistant Program, Newark, was in the November 2002 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants. Professional Activities Robin Eubanks, MA, clinical assistant professor, Primary Care, presented "Different Approaches to a Common Goal: Identifying Successful Outreach Strategies For Use in An Ever-Changing World," at the 9th Annual Healthy Mother/Healthy Babies of Essex Outreach Workers Conference in Newark. Ellen Mandel, MPA, PA-C, RD, CDE, assistant professor, Physician Assistant Program, Piscataway, presented "Evaluation and Treatment of Overactive Bladder" at the annual meetings of the PA State Societies of New Jersey and Connecticut as well as at the American Association of Physician Assistants annual meeting in Boston. Honors Sheryl Geisler, PA-C, MS, assistant professor, Physician Assistant Program, Newark, was awarded second place in the American Academy of Physician Assistants publishing awards for 2002 for her article "Applying the New Cholesterol Guidelines to your Practice." SPH Publications "Ethnic Status, Stigmatization, Sup-port and Symptom Development Following Sexual Abuse," co-authored by Deborah Coates, PhD, visiting professor of Public Health and research director, Violence Institute of New Jersey at UMDNJ, was in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2001. "Human Exposure Assessment in Air Pollution Systems," co-authored by Junfeng Zhang, PhD, associate professor, Biometrics Division, and Paul Lioy, PhD, professor, Environmental and Occupational Health Division, and professor, Environmental and Community Health, RWJMS, was in The Scientific World Journal, 2002. "Journalists’ Views of The Environment: Issues and Challenges," co-authored by Bernadette West, PhD, assistant professor, Health Systems and Policy Division, Jane Lewis, DrPH, assistant professor, Health Education and Behavioral Science Division, and Michael Greenberg, PhD, professor, Epidemiology Division, was in Risk: Health, Safety, and Environment, 2001. "Tobacco Dependence Treatment Services in New Jersey," co-authored by Jonathan Foulds, PhD, associate professor, Michael Burke, EdD, assistant professor, and Donna Richardson, MSW, instructor, Health Education and Behavioral Science Division, was in New Jersey Medicine, 2002. Grants Amy Davidow, PhD, assistant professor, Preventive Medicine and Community Health, NJMS, received a one-year, $105,450 grant from the Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Eye Institute for "Longitudinal Statistical Methods for Ophthalmology." Professional Activities Shou-En Lu, PhD, assistant professor, Biometrics Division, presented "Marginal Analysis for Clustered Failure Time Data" for the International Biometric Society’s Eastern North American Region at the 2002 spring meeting in Virginia. Weichung Joe Shih, PhD, director and professor, Biometrics Division, presented "Value and Evaluation of Extension Studies" at the Eastern North American regional meeting of the International Biometric Society in Virginia. Junfeng Zhang, PhD, associate professor, Environmental and Occupational Health Division, presented "Outdoor and Indoor Air Pollution in Four Chinese Cities: Concentrations, Sources, and Health Effects" at the International Center for Indoor Environment and Energy, Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen. SOM Publications Anita Chopra, MD, FACP, AGSF, published "Impact and Pathogensis of Osteoporosis," in Annals of Long Term Care, Vol 10, No. 3, 27-22, March 20–02. Michael Dabrow, DO, et. al., published an abstract: "High Levels of Basic Fibroblast Growth Factor (bFGF) in Nipple Aspirate Fluid (NAF) are Associated with Breast Cancer," in the 94th Proceedings of the American Association for Cancer Research, 43:4551, 2002.
Loretta Mueller, DO, associate professor, Family Medicine, presented "Headaches of Cervical and Myofascial Origin" at the 44th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Headache Society in Seattle, WA. She also presented "New Insights in Migraine Management" to physicians at the Lehigh Valley Osteopathic Society meeting in Allentown, PA.R. Michael Gallagher, DO, Dean and professor, Family Medicine, presented "Undergraduate and Graduate Medical Education in Headache: A Survey of Medical Schools and Family Medicine Residencies" at the 44th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Society in Seattle, WA. Appointments Martin A. Finkel, DO, was re-appointed by Governor James E. McGreevey as Commissioner of the Child Life Protection Commission, Children’s Trust Fund. Thomas A. Cavalieri, DO, was re-appointed as member and vice-chair of the Council on Research Grants of the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) for a three-year term. He was re-elected as Chairman of the New Jersey Commission on Aging and was appointed to the Board of Trustees of Holy Name of Camden Jesuit Urban Service Team.
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What
are the Chances?
Chavela
M. Carr, PhD, assistant professor of pathology and laboratory medicine
at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, is one of 20 researchers
nationwide chosen as a 2002 Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences.
Each will receive $240,000 to help support their research over a
four-year period.
Sarah
E. Hitchcock DeGregori, PhD, professor of neurosciences and cell
biology at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, received a
$1,241,780 National Institutes of Health grant for "Molecular Mechanisms
of Regulation of Contraction." The funding supports research to
understand how tropomyosin, a protein found in all eucaryotic cells
that bind to actin filaments, serves as a spatial regulator of actin
dynamics.
The
Delta Dental Foundation of New Jersey has awarded a pilot grant
to the Children’s Dental Initiative of Camden County, a project
aimed at improving the oral health of children participating in
the Camden County OEO Head Start Program. 
New
Breastfeeding Education Program