People & Places

As originally published in The Physiologist
Volume 44, Number 6, December 2001, page 435 

Skorton President of AAHRPP Board of Directors
    APS Member David J. Skorton was recently elected president of the board of directors for the Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs (AAHRPP).

AAHRPP is developing a voluntary, peer-driven, educationally focused accreditation program for human research protection, using a site visit model that employs a rigorous set of performance standards and outcome measures. One of the board’s first tasks will be to review the public comments on AAHRPP’s Interim Accreditation Standards and Procedures. A public review and comment period runs until December 3, 2001. These comments, along with input from pilot site visits, will be used in finalizing the standards. AAHRPP’s first pilot site visit will be conducted at the NIH in December, and the organization plans to accept applications for full accreditation in early 2002.

Marjorie Speers, AAHRPP’s executive director, said, “I couldn’t be more pleased with the people that chose to serve on this board, and who will carry the work of AAHRPP forward. There is important representation from all relevant perspectives: from research participants, from institutional review boards, and from a wide range of research interests.”

AAHRPP is a national, nonprofit accrediting organization incorporated in April 2001. For more information, visit http://ww.aahrpp.org.

APS Member Elected to Institute of Medicine 

On October 15th, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) announced that APS Member, Warren M. Zapol, MD, professor of Anesthesia, Harvard Medical School, and anesthesist-in-chief, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, had been elected to IOM membership. Zapol was one of 60 new members, five members granted senior membership and five scientists chosen as foreign associate members. The mission of the IOM, an arm of the National Academies, is to enhance health care by providing objective scientific information about health policy to the public, government, and corporations. 

Sean Harrison Adams has joined the Department of Metabolic & Cardiovascular Disease Pharmacology, Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, Summit, NJ. Prior to his new assignment, Adams was affiliated with the Department of Endocrinology, Genentech Inc., South San Francisco, CA.

Thomas E. Adrian has moved from the Department of Physiology, Creighton University Medical School, Omaha, NE to join the Department of Surgery, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL. 

Steffan Gregory Anderson has moved to the Department of Medicine, Kansas University Medical Center, Kansas City, KS from the Department of Biology, Oral Roberts University, Tulsa, OK.

Govindasamy Balasekaran has joined Physical Education & Sports Science, National Institute of Education, Singapore. Previously, Balasekaran was with the School of Physical Education, Nanyang Technology University, National Institute of Education, Singapore. 

Stefan H. Boese has moved from the Department of Physiological Sciences, University of Newcastle Medical School, Newcastle Upon Tyne, England to join the Department of Zoophysiologie, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany.

Heddwen Lisa Brooks has moved from the Laboratory of Kidney and Electrolyte Metabolism, NIH, Bethesda, MD to accept a position with the Department of Physiology, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Health Science Center, Tucson, AZ. 

Donald O. Castell has moved from the Department of Medicine, Graduate Hospital, Philadelphia, PA to a new position with the Department of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Digestive Disease Center, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC. 

Peter J.S. Chiu has joined Discovery & Preclinical Department of MDS Pharma Services, Bothell, WA. Chiu was formerly with the Department of General Pharmacology, Pfizer Global Research and Development, Groton, CT.

Cynthia I. Colon-Rivera has joined the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL. Previously, Colon-Rivera was affiliated with the Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL.

David James Dean has accepted a post with the Department of Biology, Institute for Diabetes Discovery, Branford, CT. Prior to his new position, Dean was with the Medical Diabetes and Metabolism Research Center, Boston University, Boston, MA

Anthony J. Donato has affiliated with the Department of Health and Kinesiology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX. Prior to his new appointment, Donato was with the Department of Kinesiology and Applied Physiology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO. 

Hilmar Dorge has moved from the Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Aachen Medical School, Aachen, Germany to a position with the Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Georg-August-University Gottingen, Gottingen, Germany. 

Mazyar Fallah was associated with the Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ. Currently, Fallah is with Systems Neuroscience Lab, The Salk Institute, La Jolla, CA.

Herbert Geller has moved from the Department of Pharmacology, UMDNJ-RW John-son Medical School, Piscataway, NJ to join the Division of Intramural Research, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD, .

David Robert Grimm has moved from the Department of Medicine, Spinal Cord Research, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, VA Medical Center, Bronx, NY to the Department of Physiopathology, New York Chiropractic College, Seneca Falls, NY, .

Erdal C. Gursoy has recently affiliated with the Cardiovascular Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA. Gursoy was formerly with the Department of Cardiology and Internal Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA. 

Michael John Hickey has moved from the Department of Vascular Biology, Baker Medical Research Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia to the Department of Medicine, Monash University, Clayton, Australia. 

Jianhua Huang has accepted a position as Research Associate, with the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA. Prior to his new position, Huang was with the Department of Anatomy and Physiology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS. 

Susan R. Kayar has accepted the position of Health Scientist Administrator, Department of Research Infrastructure, NIH National Center for Research Resources, Bethesda, MD. Prior to her new position, Kayar was with the Department of Environmental Physiology, National Naval Medical Center, Silver Spring, MD. 

Timothy David Le Cras has joined the Division of Pulmonary Biology, Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH. Prior to his new position, Le Cras was with the Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado, Denver, CO. 

Paul Scown MacLean has moved from the Department of Biochemistry, East Carolina University, Brody School of Medicine, Greenville, NC to join the Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, CO.

Vicente Martinez has recently joined Novartis Pharma, Basel, Switzerland. Previously, Martinez was affiliated with the Veterinary School, Unit Fisiologia, San Pablo, Moncada, Valencia, Spain.

Karl Stanley Matlin has joined the Department of Surgery, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH. Prior to his new commitment, Matlin was affiliated with the Department of Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA. 

Jeffrey B. Matthews has moved from the Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA to affiliate with the Department of Surgery, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH.

James E. McNamee has joined the University of Maryland, Baltimore School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD as Associate Dean, Information Services. Previously, McNamee was with the Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia, SC.

Jeffrey M. Palmer has joined the Enterology Team and Drug Discovery, R.W. Johnson Pharmaceutical Research Institute, Spring House, PA. Palmer was previously associated with the Department of Biomedical Sciences, Creighton University, Omaha, NE. 

Kendall Sue Powell has affiliated with the Science Communication Department, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, having moved from the Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA.

Jon J. Ramsey has joined the Department of Molecular Biosciences, University of California, Davis, CA. Prior to his new assignment, Ramsey was with the Primate Research Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI.

Barry William Scheuermann has recently affiliated with the Department of Health, Exercise, and Sport Sciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX. He had been with the Department of Kinesiology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS. 

David I. Soybel is currently with the Department of Surgery, Division of General GI Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA. Soybel was previously with the Department of Surgery, VA Boston Healthcare System, West Roxbury, MA. 

John David Symons has moved from the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of California, Davis, CA to associate with the College of Health, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, .

Robert J. Talmadge has moved from the Department of Human Nutrition, Foods, and Exercise, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA to join the Biological Sciences Department, California Polytech, Pomona, CA. 

Hirofumi Tanaka has recently joined the Department of Kinesiology and Health Education, University of Texas, Austin TX. Previously, Tanaka was with the Department of Kinesiology and Applied Physiology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO.

Reha Mehmet Toydemir has joined the Department of Molecular Biology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT. Prior to his new position, Toydemir was with the Department of Micro Immunology, Finch University Health Science, Chicago Medical School, North Chicago, IL.

Dorothy E. Vatner has moved from the Department of Medicine, Cardiovascular Research Institute, Hackensack, NJ and affiliated with the Department of Medicine, University of Medicine Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark, NJ. 

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