People & Places

People & Places

As originally printed in The Physiologist,
February 2001, Volume 44, Number 1
Page 55

Simon Receives Japanese Award
Lindsey Named Interim Vice President for Research at University of South Florida

Simon Receives Japanese Award

On November 3, 2000, the Prime Minister of Japan, on behalf of the Emperor of Japan and at the behest of the Japanese Ministry of Culture, decorated APS member Eckhart Simon, the Experimental Biology 2000 Distinguished Lecturer of the Environmental and Exercise Physiology Section with the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon. This is Class 3 of the oldest Japanese order of merit; there are eight classes of this award. Hence, this decoration is very prestigious, indeed. This recognition involved various post-decoration ceremonies, including participation in a formal and solemn audience with the Emperor himself.
The award was made in appreciation of Simon’s mentoring of a large number of Japanese postdocs over the 35 years of his active career, such that he has had a profound impact on Japanese physiology, particularly in the areas of environmental and thermal physiology and in the neuroendocrinology of body fluid balance, his main interests. His collaborations with his former pupils continue, in many cases, to this day.

Lindsey Named Interim Vice President for Research at University of South Florida

Bruce Lindsey, chair of physiology and biophysics at the University of South Florida (USF), has been appointed interim vice president for research at the school. USF President Judy Genshaft said she is confident Lindsey will help USF’s research department maintain a good name. “Dr. Lindsey is an excellent researcher and a very able administrator,” Genshaft said in a statement. “I know we will continue to have a great performance in research.”
Lindsey was part of the founding group of USF’s neuroscience program. He also was chairman for the committee that established a doctoral program in the department of neuroscience.

Accepting a position with the Department of Biology, University of William Jewell College, Liberty, MO, Tara Jeffrey Allen has moved from the Department of Physiology, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO.

A. Vania Apkarian has joined the Department of Physiology, Northwest-ern University, Chicago, IL. Prior to his new position, Apkarian was with the Neurosurgery Research Laboratory, SUNY Health Science Center, Syracuse, NY.

Bork Balkan has accepted a position with the Institute for Diabetes Discov-ery, Branford, CT. Balkan was previously associated with the Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, Summit, NJ.

Joining the Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, Steven L. Bealer has moved from the Department of Physiology & Biophysics, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN.

Scott Hayden Carlson is currently with the Department of Biology, Luther College, Decorah, IA. Previously, Carlson was with the Department of Vascular Biology and Hypertension, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL.

Moving from the WIC Nutrition Program, Amarillo, TX, Edgar Lichar Dillon has joined the Nutritional Biochemistry Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX.

Paul Fadel has joined the Division of Hypertension, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX. Fadel was previously with the Department of Integrative Physiology, University of North Texas, Ft.Worth, TX.

Accepting a position with the Department of Anatomy, Physiology, and Pharmacology, Auburn University School of Veterinary Medicine, Auburn, AL, Mary F. Forman has moved from the Poultry Science Center, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR.

Accepting a position with the Department of Medicine and Nephrology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, Eddie Leon Greene has moved from the Department of Medicine and Section of Nephrology, Medical University South Carolina, Charleston, SC.

Accepting a position with Entelos Inc., Randolph, NJ, Mary Hastings Hager is no longer with the College of St. Elizabeth, Morristown, NJ.

Jong-sik Hah has joined the Department of Physiology, Ewha Womans University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. Hah was on sabbatical leave at the Department of Physiology & Biophysics, State University of New York at Buffalo, NY.

Formerly with the Department of Pediatric Surgery, Mott Children’s Hospital, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, Carroll McWilliams Harmon has joined the Department of Pediatric Surgery, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL.

Joining the Department of Toxicology, Covance Laboratories Inc., Madison, WI, Jay K. Herman has moved from the Department of Comparative Bioscience, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin.

Karl G. Hofbauer is now the Chair of Applied Pharmacology, Departments of Pharmacology and Biology, University of Basel, Basel Switzerland. Prior to his new position, Hofbauer was Head of Cardiovascular Biology Research, Ciba-Geigy Ltd., Basel, Switzerland.

Armin Just has accepted an appointment with the Department of Cell and Molecular Physiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC. Prior to his new assignment, he was with the Institute of Physiology and Pathophysiology, Heidelberg, Germany.

Joining the Division of Nephrology and Medicine as Instructor in Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand, Chagriya Kitiyakara has left the Division of Nephrology and Medicine, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC.

Michael T. C. Liang has affiliated with Kinesiology and Health Promotion, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA. Previously, Liang was with the Division of Kinesiology, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH.

Recently, Michael A. Linshaw joined the Department of Pediatrics Nephrology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA. Previously, Linshaw was with the Department of Pediatrics Nephrology, New England Medical Center, Boston, MA.

Having accepted a position with the Department of Physiology, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama City, Japan, Masanobu Maeda has moved from the Department of Systems Physiology, Institute of Industrial Ecological Sciences, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyushu, Japan.

Accepting a position with the Department of Exercise and Sport Science, The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, James Charles Martin has moved from the Department of Exercise Science, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC.

Kevin D. Monahan has joined the Department of Medicine, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, PA. Prior to his new appointment, Monahan was with the Department of Kinesiology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO.

Randall Kent Packer has joined the Department of Biological Science, George Washington University, Washington, DC. Prior to his new appointment, Packer was Vice President, Academic Affairs, Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA.

Formerly with the Biomedical Engineering Program, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, Kaushik Parthasarathi has joined the Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics, Columbia University, New York, NY.

Siriwan Prapong has joined the Department of Veterinary Physiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand, Having moved to Bangkok from the Department of Biomedical Science, Iowa State University College of Veterinary Medicine, Ames, IA.

Diane Carla Rein recently affiliated with BioComm Consultants, Cincinatti, OH. Prior to her new position, Rein was with the Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH.

Accepting a position with the Department of Kinesiology & Applied Physiology, Neural Control of Movement Laboratory, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, Minoru Shinohara was with the Department of Life Science, Lab Sports Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.

Having joined the Department of Biomedical Research, Navy Experimental Diving Unit, Panama City, FL, Barbara E. Shykoff recently moved from the Department of Medicine, Millard Fillmore Hospital, Buffalo, NY.

Richard A. Steinbrook has accepted a position with the Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA. Prior to his new position, Steinbrook was with the Department of Anesthesia, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA.

Joining the Eli Lilly Australia Party Ltd, Macquarie Park, Australia, Jodie Maree Stocks has left the School of Human Movement, Australian Catholic University, North Sydney, Australia.

Linda S. Tompkins has accepted a position with the Department of Basic Research, The Parkinson’s Institute, Sunnyvale, CA. Formerly, Tompkins was with the Department of Physiology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.

Mary H. Van Soeren recently moved from the Intensive Care Unit, St. Joseph’s Health Center, London, Ontario, Canada, to the Guelph General Hospital Administration, Guelph, Ontario, Canada.

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