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TEAM-UP FOR MS Pictured kneeling are: Jose Vega, NJMS student and Jane Sarwin, UH customer service. Standing (left to right) are: Sarah Schuler, NJMS student; Jim Savage, NJMS Department of Neurosciences; Doug Rouse, MS Society; team captain Dennis O'Keefe, EMS; Frieda Lewis, NJMS student; and Alice O'Brien, UH registered nurse. Missing are: Julie Tseng, NJMS student; Mary Batruk, EMS, and her son, Jason.Members of TEAM UMDNJ proudly display the bicycle they won for their outstanding fund-raising efforts for the12 th Annual Multiple Sclerosis (MS) 100-Mile Bike Tour. The riders donated the brand new BMW mountain bike to UMDNJ-University Hospital's (UH) Emergency Medical Services (EMS) bicycle unit. The group joined more than 600 other cyclists who rode from Ramsey, N.J. to Port Jervis, N.Y., last fall, to support MS research. The team also was presented with the Ruby Award from the North Jersey Chapter of the National MS Society for garnering more than $5,000 in donations. Pictured kneeling are: Jose Vega, NJMS student and Jane Sarwin, UH customer service. Standing (left to right) are: Sarah Schuler, NJMS student; Jim Savage, NJMS Department of Neurosciences; Doug Rouse, MS Society; team captain Dennis O'Keefe, EMS; Frieda Lewis, NJMS student; and Alice O'Brien, UH registered nurse. Missing are: Julie Tseng, NJMS student; Mary Batruk, EMS, and her son, Jason. |
Publications
Assessment of Physiatrists'
Knowledge and Perspectives on the Use of Opioids: Review of Basic Concepts for
Managing Chronic Pain, by Brian Greenwald, MD, resident, Elizabeth Narcessian,
MD, and Bruce Pomeranz, MD, both assistant professors, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation,
was in the American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Vol. 78,
May/June 1999.
Detrimental Effects of Spinal Cord Injury on Spermatogenesis in the Rat is Partially Reversed by Testosterone, But Enhanced by Follicle-stimulating Hormone, by Hosea Huang, PhD, adjunct associate professor, Urologic Research, Division of Urology, Ming-Tang Li, MD, research associate, Urology, et al, was in Endocrinology, Vol. 140, 1999.
Duplex Ultrasound Screening for Deep Vein Thrombosis in Spinal Cord Injured Patients at Rehabilitation Admission, by Mary Powell, MD, resident, Steven Kirshblum, MD, associate professor, and Kevin O'Connor, MD, assistant professor, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, was in Archives of Physical Medicine Rehabilitation, Vol. 80, September, 1999.
Effects of Spinal Cord Injury on Spermatogenesis and the Expression of Messenger Ribonucleic Acid for Sertoli Cell Proteins in Rat Sertoli Cell-enriched Testes, by Hosea Huang, PhD, adjunct associate professor, Urologic Research, Division of Urology, Ming-Tang Li, MD, research associate, Urology, et al, was in Biology of Reproduction, Vol. 60, 1999.
Electromyography in Craniomaxillofacial Trauma, by Todd Stitik, MD, Scott Nadler, DO, and Patrick Foye, MD, assistant professors, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, was in the Journal of Craniomaxillofacial Trauma, Vol. 5, No. 2, 1999. Evaluation and Rehabilitation of Patients with Adult Motor Neuron Disease, by Kathleen Francis, MD, assistant professor, John Bach, MD, professor and co-chair, and Joel DeLisa, MD, professor and chair, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, was in Archives of Physical Medicine Rehabilitation, Vol. 80, August 1999.
Gastrocystoplasty: Long-term Complications in 22 Patients, by Gerald Mingin, MD, chief resident, Jeffrey Stock, MD, clinical assistant professor, and Moneer Hanna, MD, clinical professor, Division of Urology, was in Journal of Urology, Vol. 162, 1999. Greater Trochanter Enthesopathy: An Example of ÔShort Course Retinoid Enthesopathy,' co-authored by Todd Stitik, MD, Scott Nadler, DO, and Patrick Foye, MD, assistant professors, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, was in the American Journal of Physical Medicine Rehabilitation, Vol. 78, No. 6, November/December 1999. Osteoarthritis of the Knee and Hip: Practical Non-drug Steps to Successful Therapy, by the same authors, was in Consultant, Vol. 37, No. 6, 1999. Mainz II Pouch: Experience in 5 Patients with Bladder Exstrophy, by Gerald Mingin, MD, chief resident, Jeffrey Stock, MD, clinical assistant professor, and Moneer Hanna, MD, clinical professor, Division of Urology, was in Journal of Urology, Vol. 162, 1999.
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Greater Trochanter Enthesopathy: An Example of ÔShort Course Retinoid Enthesopathy,' co-authored by Todd Stitik, MD, Scott Nadler, DO, and Patrick Foye, MD, assistant professors, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, was in the American Journal of Physical Medicine Rehabilitation, Vol. 78, No. 6, November/December 1999. Osteoarthritis of the Knee and Hip: Practical Non-drug Steps to Successful Therapy, by the same authors, was in Consultant, Vol. 37, No. 6, 1999.
Mainz II Pouch: Experience in 5 Patients with Bladder Exstrophy, by Gerald Mingin, MD, chief resident, Jeffrey Stock, MD, clinical assistant professor, and Moneer Hanna, MD, clinical professor, Division of Urology, was in Journal of Urology, Vol. 162, 1999.
Nonoperative Treatment of Low Back Pain, by Gerard Malanga, MD, and Scott Nadler, DO, assistant professors, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, was in Mayo Clinic Proceedings, Vol. 74, 1999.
Percutaneous Nephrostomy as Adjunct Management in Advanced Upper Urinary Tract Infection, by Richard Watson, MD, associate professor, Michael Esposito, MD, chief resident, Frank Richter, MD, senior resident, Robert Irwin, Jr., MD, Harris L. Willits Professor of Urology and chief, Division of Urology, and Erich Lang, MD, clinical professor, Radiology, was in Urology, Vol. 54, 1999.
Predictors of Dysphasia After Spinal Cord Injury, co-authored by Steven Kirshblum, MD, Mark Johnson, PhD, associate professors, and Kevin O'Connor, MD, assistant professor, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, was in Archives of Physical Medicine Rehabilitation, Vol. 80, September 1999.
Preliminary Report on the Development and Characterization of Rabbit Clitoral Smooth Muscle Culture, by Hossein Sadegh-Nejad, MD, assistant professor, Division of Urology, and chief of Urology, Veterans Administration Medical Center, East Orange, was in the International Journal of Impotence Research, Vol. 10, 1998.
Retinoid and Androgen Regulation of Cell Growth, Epidermal Growth Factor and Retinoic Acid Receptors in Normal and Carcinoma Rat Prostate Cells, by Frank Richter, MD, senior resident, Hosea Huang, PhD, adjunct associate professor, Urologic Research, Ming Ti Li, MS, research associate, Division of Urology and Robert Irwin, Jr., MD, Harris L. Willits Professor of Urology, and chief, Division of Urology, et. al., was in Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology, Vol. 153, 1999.
Salvage Continent Vesicostomy After Entrocystoplasty in the Absence of the Appendix, by Moneer Hanna, MD, clinical professor, Frank Richter, MD, senior resident, and Jeffrey Stock, MD, clinical assistant professor, Division of Urology, was in the Journal of Urology, Vol. 162, 1999.
Speed of Information Processing as a Key Deficit in Multiple Sclerosis: Implications for Rehabilitation, co-authored by John DeLuca, MD, associate professor, Elizabeth Gaudino, PhD, instructor, and Bruce Diamond, PhD, assistant professor, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, was in Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, Vol. 67, 1999.
Sports: Lack of Focused Research Poses Treatment Challenge, co-authored by Scott Nadler, DO, Gerard Malanga, MD, and Todd Stitik, MD, assistant professors, all in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, was in Biomechanics, Vol. 26, May 1999.
The Regulation of Cell and Growth Cone Migrations During the Development of C. Elegans, a chapter by William Wadsworth, PhD, assistant professor, Pathology, was in Development Genetics, Epigenetics, and Environmental Regulation.
Grants
Leonard Pogach,
MD, professor, Medicine, and National Program Director for Diabetes, Veterans
Administration, received a three-year, $571,000 grant from the Veterans Administration
to study Predictors of Diabetes-Related Morbidity and Mortality in the Veterans
Administration, and a four-year, $200,000 Quality Improvement Research Initiative
grant to study Diabetes Related Health Care Delivery.
Grants News NATIONAL TB CENTER GARNERS GRANT The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has given the New Jersey Medical School National Tuberculosis Center at UMDNJ a $4.3 million grant to develop more effective treatments for tuberculosis. The grant is the second highest award of the 13 academic sites selected to participate in the TB Trials Consortium, a 10-year project to conduct research on the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of TB. Bonita T. Mangura, MD, associate professor of medicine at New Jersey Medical School (NJMS), and principal investigator of the study, says they will be testing several new medications that they anticipate will be more effective in reducing TB. Mangura says, We will help develop new oral medications to reduce the treatment required to prevent and cure TB. These medications will only have to be taken weekly for a brief period rather than daily for several months. |
Monique Roy, MD, associate professor, Medical Retina Service, Ophthalmology, received a five-year, $2.3 million grant from the National Eye Institute to study Risk Factors for Diabetic Retinopathy in African Americans.
Professional
Activities
Joel
DeLisa, MD, professor and chair, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, presented
the 16th Donald Munro Memorial Lecture at the annual conference of the American
Paraplegia Society in Las Vegas. Honors John Bach, MD, professor, Physical Medicine
and Rehabilitation, received the A. Estin Comarr Memorial Award for Clinical Services
at the annual conference of the American Paraplegia Society in Las Vegas.
Honors
John Bach, MD,
professor, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, received the A. Estin Comarr
Memorial Award for Clinical Services at the annual conference of the American
Paraplegia Society in LasVegas.
Lucian Del Priore, MD, PhD, associate professor and director, Vitreoretinal and Macular Surgery Division, received the Lew R. Wasserman Merit Award from Research to Prevent Blindness for research in age-related macular degeneration.
John Horton, MD, fellow, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, received the Ernest Bors Award for his research paper: Does Refrigeration of Urine Alter Culture Results in Hospitalized Patients with Neurogenic Bladders? at the annual conference of the American Paraplegia Society in Las Vegas.
Todd Linsenmeyer, MD, associate professor, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, received a special recognition award for his leadership role in developing clinical guidelines (practice guidelines) in spinal cord injury.
Priya Singh, student, class of 2002, was awarded the best poster presentation at the International Summer School Oncology for Medical Students meeting sponsored by the World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Cancer Education in Groningen, The Netherlands. Ms. Singh's participation was supported by the Office of Education through a grant from the National Cancer Institute.
RWJMSRobert Wood Johnson Medical School
Publications
Bilateral Smooth-muscle Tumors
of the Adrenals in a Child with AIDS, by David Rosenfeld, MD, clinical professor,
Wahid Girgis, MD, resident, and Sharon Underberg-Davis, MD, clinical assistant
professor, all in Radiology, was in Pediatric Radiology, Vol. 29, 1999.
Psychological Complications in 281 Plastic Surgery Practices, co-authored by Gregory Borah, MD, professor and chief, Division of Plastic Surgery and Philip Wey, MD, assistant professor, Surgery, Division of Plastic Surgery, was in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, October, 1999.
The Pediatric Risk of Mortality Score and Injury Severity Score (ISS) for Predicting Resource Utilization and Outcome of Intensive Care in Pediatric Trauma, by Frank Castello, MD, associate professor, Pediatrics, Anthony Cassano, MD, resident, Patrice Gregory, PhD, assistant professor, Family Medicine, and Jeffrey Hammond, MD, MPH, professor, Surgery, was in Critical Care Medicine, Vol. 27, No. 4, May 1999.
Use of Popular Culture as an Educational Tool in the Training of Radiology Residents, by Danlyo Kihiczak, MD, radiology resident, Judith K. Amorosa, MD, clinical professor, and Randy Siegel, MD, clinical instructor, all in Radiology, was in Academics of Radiology, Vol. 6, 1999.
White Matter Disorders of Prematurity: Association With Intraventricular Hemorrhage and Ventriculomegaly, by David Rosenfeld, MD, clinical professor, and Steven Schonfeld, MD, clinical associate professor, both in Radiology, was in the Journal of Pediatrics, Vol. 134, No. 5, May 1999
Grants
Peter Aupperle, MD, MPH, assistant
professor, Psychiatry, and principal investigator, received a one-year, $638,805
grant from the New Jersey State Department of Health and Senior Services for COPSA
Institute for Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders.
Candice Feiring, PhD, director, Early Start Mentoring Program, and John Clabby, PhD, clinician administrator, received a one-year, $84,978 grant from The Institute for Quality Research and Training and The Healthcare Foundation of New Jersey for Reducing Aggression and Promoting Cooperation in Primary School Children.
Avedis Khachadurian, MD, professor and chief, Medicine, received an $80,300 grant for A Thirty-week Double-blind and Observer-blind to Lipid Values, Randomized, Parallel-group, Multicenter, Positive-controlled Study to Assess the Efficacy and Safety of 160 mg Dose of Fluvastatin Slow Release (SR) Formulation Compared to 80 mg SR, Both Administered Once Daily (o.d.) at Bedtime in Patients with Primary Hypercholesterolemia.
Michael Lewis, PhD, University Distinguished Professor, Pediatrics and Psychiatry, Institute for the Study of Child Development, received a one-year, $276,225 grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to study Maltreated Children's Emotions and Self-Cognitions.
Kee Pyon, PhD, assistant professor, Pediatrics, Camden, received a one-year, $25,000 grant from the American Lung Association of New Jersey to study Reversible Airway Obstruction in Infants with Bronchiolitis.
Michael Ruddy, MD, associate professor, Medicine, and chief, Section of Hypertension, received a two-year, $92,816 grant from the American Heart Association to study the Effects of Dietary Salt Restriction on Ambulatory Blood Pressure Variability in Labile Hypertensives.
Professional
Activities
Peter Amenta, MD, PhD, acting
chair, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, presented Types XV and XIX Define a
Novel Group of Basement Membrane Collagens at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology
in Washington, DC.
Michael Lewis, PhD, University Distinguished Professor, Pediatrics and Psychiatry, Institute for the Study of Child Development, presented Development of Stress and Coping in the First Three Years of Life at a conference on health psychology in Orvieto, Italy.
Leonard Sigal, MD, professor, Medicine and Pediatrics, chaired Vaccine and Immunity at the VIII International Conference on Lyme Disease and Tick-borne Diseases. He also presented The Immunopathogenesis of Lyme Disease in Munich, Germany.
Honors
William Hait, MD, PhD, director,
The Cancer Institute of New Jersey, and professor, Medicine and Pharmacology,
received the 1999 Distinguished Service Award from the Melvyn H. Motolinsky Research
Foundation for his role as an educator, administrator and clinician.
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Publications
Paradigms and Personhood: A Deepening of Dilemmas in Ethics and Medical Ethics, by Edmund Erde, PhD, professor, Family Medicine, and adjunct professor, Psychiatry, was in Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, Vol. 20, 1999.
Professional
Activities
Edmund Erde, PhD, professor,
Family Medicine, and adjunct professor, Psychiatry, presented Nature of Ethics
to the Underwood Hospital Ethics Committee.
R. Michael Gallagher, DO, professor, Clinical Family Medicine, and vice dean, presented Comparison of Zolmitriptan and Sumatriptan for the Acute Treatment of Migraine at the International Headache Society Congress in Barcelona.
Jeffrey Schock, DO, chief resident, Urology, presented Male Infertility at the Urology Discipline Mid-Year National Meeting of the American College of Osteopathic Surgeons in Williamsburg.
Honors:
Jeffrey Schock, DO, chief
resident, Urology, received the 1999 Resident Achievement Award of the American
College of Osteopathic Surgeons. The award was presented at the National Convention
of the American College of Osteopathic Surgeons in Seattle.
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Professional Activities
Henry Brezenoff, PhD, acting dean, served as a moderator and panelist at a conference entitled Educating The Scientific Workforce to Meet Tomorrow's Research Needs. The conference, sponsored by the Association of American Medical Colleges, was held in Bermuda.
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Professional
Activities
A Cephalometric
Study of Class II, Division I Malocclusions Treated with the Jasper Jumper Appliance,
by David Covell, DDS, PhD, was in Angle Orthodontics, Vol. 69, No. 4, August 1999.
Regeneration of Intrabony Defects: Comparing e-PTFE Membrane vs. Decalcified Freeze-dried Bone Allograft A Pilot Study, by Lynn Harasty, DMD, clinical assistant professor, Carol Brownstein, DDS, professor, and Michael Deasy, DMD, professor and chair, Periodontics, was in Periodontal Clinical Investigations, Vol. 21, No. 1.
The Paradoxical Role of HIV Disease in the Decision to Inoculate First Nation Infants with BCG Vaccine, by Richard Montgomery, DDS, MPH, associate professor, Oral Pathology, Biology and Diagnostic Sciences, was in the International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, Vol. 3, No. 9, Sept. 1999.
The Radiographic Image of Sublingual Tissues, by Burton Weidman, DDS, associate professor, Oral Pathology, Biology and Diagnostic Sciences, was in the Journal of the Massachusetts Dental Society, Summer 1999.
Using Archwires with Removable Prosthesis, by Robert Binder, DMD, professor, Orthodontics, was in the Journal of Clinical Orthodontics, Vol. 23, No. 7, July 1999.
Grants
David Sirois,
DMD, PhD, associate professor, Oral Pathology, Biology and Diagnostic Sciences,
received a one-year, $270,000 grant from the Ryan White HIV Dental Reimbursement
Program, Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services
Administration for Treatment of Patients with HIV.
E. Dianne Rekow, DDS, PhD, professor and chair, Orthodontics, received a one-year, $250,000 grant from the New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology for Program for Engineered Cellular Response.
Professional
Activities
Michael Arvystas, DMD, clinical
professor, Orthodontics, presented three days of orthodontic lectures to 600 dentists
at Universidad Garcilaso de la Vega Facultad de Estomatologia in Lima, Peru.
H. Dexter Barber, DDS, clinical associate professor, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, presented One-stage Endopore Implant to the Midwest Implant Institute in Toronto, Canada. Harold Cohen, DDS, clinical professor, Oral Pathology, Biology and Diagnostic Sciences, presented Neuroscience and Pharmacology to faculty and students in the University of Valencia Dental School in Spain.
Blaise Curcio, DMD, MA, professor and division director, General Dentistry and Community Health, presented Clinical Survey at the annual session of the American Dental Association in Hawaii.
Michael Deasy, DMD, professor and chair, Periodontics, presented Periodontal Chemotherapy to members of the Northeast Indian Dental Society in New York.
Daniel Fine, DMD, professor, Dental Research Center, presented Tenacious Adhesion of Actinobacillus Actinomycetemcomitans (Aa) Strain CU 1000 to Saliva Coated Hydroxyapatite at the Haemophilus Actinobacillus and Pasteurella 99 International Conference on Human and Animal Pathogens held at the Mabula Game Reserve in South Africa.
Braz Macedo, DMD, PhD, professor, Pediatric Dentistry, presented a graduate course, Cariology Using Web CT, at the Second International Conference on Computers in Dental Education and Practice in London.
Joseph Marbach, DDS, professor, and Karen Raphael, PhD, assistant professor, Oral Pathology, Biology and Diagnostic Sciences, presented Diagnostic, Psychological and Therapeutic Aspects of Chronic Orofacial Pain at the International Association for the Study of Pain's Ninth World Congress on Pain in Vienna.
Maano Milles, DDS, professor, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, presented The Management of Odontogenic Tumors and Bone Grafting to the staff of Mustamae Hospital Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery in Tallinn, Estonia.
Riva Touger-Decker, RD, PhD, clinical assistant professor, General Dentistry and Community Health, presented The Role of the RD in Dysphagia Screening to members of the Maccabee Health Care System in Tel Aviv.
Honors
Michael
DellaRosa, DMD, Gary Heir, DMD, clinical associate professors, Patrick Quaranta,
DMD, associate professor, and Gary Vitaletti, DMD, clinical associate professor,
Oral Pathology, Biology and Diagnostic Sciences, were awarded Fellowships in the
International College of Dentists at the annual session of the American Dental
Association held in Hawaii. Gary Heir, DMD, clinical associate professor, Oral
Pathology, Biology and Diagnostic Sciences, was elected council chair of the American
Academy of Orofacial Pain. He is also continuing as vice-chair of the New Jersey
Governor's Advisory Council on Lyme Disease.
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