Abboud Receives AAP Kober
Medal
APS Member Francois Abboud, University of
Iowa faculty member, has been selected to receive the highest award in
academic internal medicine—the 2009 George M. Kober Medal from the
Association of American Physicians. The award is named after George
Kober, a pioneer in public health reform in the late 1800s and early
1900s, and recognizes physicians who are leaders in internal medicine.
Abboud’s research studies have advanced knowledge about the interplay
between the nervous system and the heart, enabling doctors to better
treat heart disease, obstructive sleep apnea, high blood pressure and
neurocardiogenic syncope, which is a condition that causes loss of
consciousness due to a drop in blood pressure.
Abboud received the award April 26 at the joint meeting of the
Association of American Physicians and the American Society for Clinical
Investigation. The award was presented to Abboud by UI colleague Michael
Welsh, who delivered the annual Kober lecture, on “Pursuing Cystic
Fibrosis,” at the association's meeting. The honor of presenting the
lecture is given to a distinguished member who, as in the case of the
medal honoree, has significantly contributed to advancements in the
medical sciences.
Ann C. Bonham to Join AAMC as
Chief Scientific Officer
APS Member, Ann C. Bonham, has been
appointed the next AAMC chief scientific officer effective July 1.
Bonham is an accomplished academic scientist and leader who currently
serves as executive associate dean for academic affairs and professor of
pharmacology and internal medicine at the University of California,
Davis (UC, Davis). As executive associate dean, Bonham oversees the
institution’s research programs, focusing on high-impact discoveries,
translational research, and interdisciplinary, collaborative research
with public, private, and industry partners. In addition, Bonham played
an integral leadership role in UC, Davis being awarded one of the
inaugural CTSA grants from the NIH and currently serves as the chair of
the UC, Davis NIH Clinical and Translational Science Center’s Executive
Committee. Bonham previously served as chair of the department of
pharmacology, where over a two-year period she rebuilt the department.
She also was vice chair of research for the department of internal
medicine and associate chief of the division of cardiovascular medicine.
Bonham earned her doctoral degree in pharmacology from the University of
Iowa College of Medicine in 1986. Prior to joining the UC, Davis
faculty, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Northwestern
University School of Medicine in 1989.
Florant Honored by Colorado
State University’s College of Natural Sciences
Colorado State University's College of
Natural Sciences announced the recipients of their Teaching and
Mentoring Awards. Included in the groups of five recipients was APS
Member Gregory L. Florant, professor of biology, who was recognized for
Excellence in Mentoring and Undergraduate Research.
The awards were established in 1995 to recognize efforts to help
students realize their full learning potential; to encourage students to
set high standards for scholarship, integrity, and independence; and to
be receptive to students’ concerns.
Hughes Abriel is currently the Director,
Department of Clinical Research, at the University of Bern, Switzerland.
Prior to this position, Abriel was an Assistant Professor, in the
Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University of Lausnne,
Switzerland.
Kenton Paul Arkill is presently a Postdoctoral at the University of
Bristol in the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Bristol, UK
having moved from the University of Exeter School of Physics, UK.
George W. Booz is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of
Medicine at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS.
Previously, Booz was an Assistant Professor in the Cardiovascular
Research Institute at Texas A&M University Health Science Center.
Robert Carter is currently a Deputy for Medical Systems Science and
Technology in the Medical Directorate, USAMRMC, Alexandria, VA. Carter
had been an Exchange Military Physiologist in the Department of Factors,
Centre Recherche, Service Sante Armees, La Tronche, France.
Monica Ann Daley a Lecturer at Royal Veterinary College Structure and
Motion Lab, Hatfield, Herts, UK. Daley was formerly a Postdoctoral
Researcher in the Department of Kinesiology at the University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Mita Das is currently an Associate Professor in the School of Pharmacy
at the University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY. Das had been an Assistant
Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado
Health Sciences Center, Denver.
Opher Donchin is currently a Doctor in the Department of Biomedical
Engineering at the Ben-Gurion University, Beersheva, Israel, having left
the position of Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Biomedical
Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.
Hans C. Dreyer is currently an Assistant Professor of Human Physiology
at the University of Oregon, Eugene. Prior to this position, Dreyer was
a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Physical Therapy,
University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX.
Charles Lee Dumke is currently an Associate Professor at the University
of Montana, Missoula. Previously, Dumke was an Associate Professor at
the Appalachian State University in the Department of Health & Leisure
Exercise Science, Boone NC.
Timothy John Fairchild is presently a Senior Lecturer at the Murdoch
University, School of Chiropractic and Sports Science, Murdoch, Western
Australia. Previously, Fairchild was an Assistant Professor at Syracuse
University in the Department of Exercise Science.
Mineko Fujimiya is currently a Professor in the Department of Anatomy at
the Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan. Prior
to this position, Fujimiya was an Associate Professor in the Department
of Anatomy, Shiga University of Medicine, Shiga, Japan.
Hidemi Fujino is currently a Professor at the Kobe University Graduate
School of Health, Kobe, Japan. Previously, Fujino was a Researcher at
the University of California, Los Angeles, CA.
James W. Gnadt is currently a Program Director of the NSC, Neuro Science
Center, NINDS, Rockville, MD. Prior to this position, Gnadt was an
Associate Professor in the Department of Physiology & Biophysics at
Howard University, Washington, DC.
Hirshi Hayashi has moved to the Department of Nurs at Tokyo Ariake
University of Medicine and Health Science, Shizuoka, Japan having moved
from the Atami Hospital International University of Health and Welfare,
Koto-ky City, Japan.
Lufei Hu is currently a Research Scientist II in the Department of
Pharmacology, Gilead Science, Westminster, CO. Prior to this position,
Hu was a Senior Scientist in the Department of Cardiovascular Disease,
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharm., Ridgefield, CT.
Zhu-Qiu Jin is currently an Assistant Professor at the South Dakota
State University in the College of Pharmacy, Bookings, SD. Jin was
formerly a Research Specialist at the University of California, San
Francisco.
Pedro A. Jose is presently at the Children’s National Medical Center in
the Center for Molecular Physiology, in Washington DC. Previously, Jose
was a Professor at the Georgetown University in the Department of
Pediatrics, Division of Nephrology, Washington, DC.
Flavia Jung is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of
Pediatrics at Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC. Jung
was an Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the
University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD.
Gregory J. Kaczorowski has taken a position as Director at Kanalis
Consulting, Edison, NJ. Prior to this position, Kaczorowski was a Senior
Director at Merck Research Labs, Rahway NJ.
Jason K. Kim has taken a position at the University of Massachusetts
Mouse Phenotyping Center in Worcester, MA. Prior to this position, Kim
was at the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine in the
Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Hershey, PA.
Yasuhiro Kimura is now an Associate Professor at Beppu University in the
Department Food and Nutrition, Beppu Japan. Kimura had been a Research
Associate in Memphis TN.
Jeffrey Kramer is currently Director of Clinical Operations at Spinal
Modulation, Menlo Park, CA. Previously, Kramer was Director of Trans and
Clinical Research at Millennium Pain Center, Bloomington, IL.
Kun-Ze Lee is currently a Postdoctoral Associate in the McKnight Brain
Institute at the University of Florida, Gainesville. Prior to this
position, Lee was a Doctor in the Department of Physical Therapy,
National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan, Taiwan.
David J. Lefer is currently a Professor in Cardiothoracic Surgery at the
Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA. Lefer had been a
Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiology, Albert Einstein
College of Medicine, Bronx, NY.
David Andrew Low has taken a position at the Imperial College of
Neurovascular & Autonomic Medicine Unit, London UK. Low had been a
Research Fellow at the Brunel University Center for Sports Medicine and
Human Performance, UK.
Stuart B. Mazzone has taken a position of Research Fellow at the
University of Queensland School of Biomedical Sciences, Queensland,
Australia. Prior to this position, Mazzone was a CJ Martin Fellow at the
University Melbourne, Australia.
Cheri L. McGowan is currently an Assistant Professor at the University
of Windsor in the Department of Kinesiology, Windsor, Canada.
Previ-ously, McGowan was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of
Cardiology in the Faculty of Medicine at Mt. Sinai Hospital/University
of Toronto, Canada.
John C. Middlebrooks is currently a Professor at the University of
California, Irvine. Prior to this position, he was at the Kresge Hearing
Research Institute, Ann Arbor MI.
Satoshi Mohri is a Professor at the Kawasaki Medical School in the First
Department of Physiology, Kurashiki Japan. Mohri was an Assistant
Professor at the Okayama University Graduate School in the Department of
Cardiovascular Physiology, Okayama, Japan.
Takahiko Nakagawa is currently an Associate Professor in the Department
of Medicine, Renal Disease, University of Colorado, Aurora. Previously,
Nakagawa was a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of
Medicine, Nephrology, University of Florida, Gainesville.
Akinori Noma is currently a Professor Emeritus in the Department of
Bioinformatics, at the Ritsumeikan University, Shiga Prefecture, Japan.
Prior to this position, Noma was a Professor in the Department of
Physiology, Kyoto University Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan.
Yasutomo Nomura is presently a Professor at the Maebashi Institute of
Technology in the Department of Information Engineering, Maebashi Japan.
Nomura was formerly at the Yamagata University, in the Department of
Environmental Life Sciences, Yonezawa Japan.
Shigehiko Ogoh is currently in the Department of Biomedical Engineering,
Toyo University, Saitama, Japan. Previously, Ogoh was a Research
Associate Professor in the Department of Integrative Physiology at the
University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, TX.
Takahiko Ono is presently Chief Doctor at Shimada Municipal Hospital in
the Department of Internal Medicine, Shimada, Japan. Formerly, Ono was
at the University of Shizuoka School of Pharmaceuticals in the
Department of Molecular Medicine, Shizuoka, Japan.
Michael Paffett has moved to the Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute
in Albuquerque, MN. Prior to this position, Paffett was a Postdoctoral
Fellow in the Department of Cell Biology and Physiology at the
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, MN.
Joon Y. Park is currently an Assistant Professor at Temple University,
Philadelphia, PA. Park was a Research Fellow in the Translational
Medicine Branch at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD.
Daniel B. Passos, Jr., is presently at the Universidade Federal de
Sergipe in the Department of Physiology, in Sao Cristovaose, Brazil. He
was formerly at the University of Iowa, Department of Psychology, Iowa
City.
Ryan M. Pelis is now a Postdoctoral Fellow at Novartis Pharmaceuticals
Corporation, Transplantation Sciences, East Hanover, NJ, having left the
University of Arizona, Department of Physiology, Tucson.
Craig Frederick Plato has moved from his position as a Research
Scientist II at Gilead Colorado, Westminster, CO to become a Research
Scientist at Myogen in Boulder, CO.
Lawrence W. Raymond is currently the Director of Occupational and
Environmental Medicine at the Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, NC,
having moved from the University of North Carolina.
Andreas Reske has moved to the University of Dresden, in Germany. Prior
to this position Reske was at the University of Leipzig, Germany.
Darren M. Roesch is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department
of Endocrinology/Metabolism Lab at the University of Texas A&M Health
Science Center, Kingsville, TX. Prior to this position Roesch was a
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of
Endocrinology/Metabolism at the Georgetown University, Washington, DC.
Eleni Roussa has taken a position at the University of Freiburg
Institute for Anatomy and Cell Biology, Freiburg Germany. Previously,
Roussa was at the University of Goettingen in the Department of
Neuronatomy, Goettingen, Germany.
Katsushige Sato is currently a Professor in the Department of Health and
Nutrition Sciences, Komazawa Women’s University, Sakahama, Japan. Sato
was an Associate Professor in the Department of Physiology at the Tokyo
Medical and Dental University School of Medicine, Bunkyo-ku, Japan.
Robert H. Schor is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of
Neurobiology/Anatomy, at the University Rochester, Rochester, NY.
Previously, Schor was an Associate Professor in the Department of
Otolaryngology, University of Pittsburgh, PA.
Jeffrey Schwartz is currently a Professor in the Centre for Medicine &
Oral Health Campus, Griffith University, Southport, Australia. Prior to
this position, Schwartz was a Senior Lecturer in the School of Molecular
and Biomedical Sciences, University of Adelaide, Australia.
Scott A. Shaffer is currently an Assistant Professor at the Institute of
Marine Science and Ecology/Evolution Biology, University of California,
Santa Cruz. Previously, Shaffer was an Assistant Professor in the
Department of Biology, California State University, San Bernardino.
Jurichiro Shimizu is currently a Professor at the Hiroshima
International University in the Department of Clinical Radiology,
Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan. Previously, Shimizu was an Assistant Professor
in the Department of Physiology II at Nara Medical University, Nara
Japan.
Dewayne Townsend is currently an Assistant Professor at the University
Minnesota, Minneapolis. Prior to this position, Townsend was a Research
Assistant Professor in the Department of Molecular at the University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Jason R. Treberg is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Buck
Institute, Novato, CA. Prior to this position, Treberg was a CIHR
Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Biochemistry, St. John’s
University, St. John’s, NF, Canada.
Lin Wang is presently at the University of California, San Diego, having
moved from the Scripps Research Institute, Department of Chemistry, La
Jolla, CA.
Yu-Feng Wang is currently an Assistant Professor in Research in the
Department of Cellular Biology & Anatomy, LSU Health Science Center,
Shreveport, LA. Previously, Wang was an Assistant Researcher in the
Department of Cell Biology & Neuroscience at the University of
California, Riverside.
Jeffrey J. Widrick is presently an Assistant Professor at the Spaulding
Rehabilitation Hospital in the Department of Physical Medicine and
Rehabilitation, Boston MA. Prior to this position, Widrick was an
Associate Professor at the Oregon State University in the Department of
Nutrition and Exercise Science, Corvallis.
Richard Wood is an Associate Professor in the Department of Nutrition at
the University of Massachusetts, Amherst MA. Previously, Wood was at
Tufts University, USDA HNRCA in the Department of Mineral
Bioavailability Lab, Boston, MA.
Zhi-Qing Zhao is presently at the Mercer University School of Medicine
in the Department of Biomedical Sciences, Savannah, GA. Zhao was
formerly at the Emory University School of Medicine in the Department of
Cardiology Surgery, Atlanta, GA.
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