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Awards and Honors

Keith Burau, Ph.D., associate professor of biostatistics at the School of Public Health (SPH), received a lifetime achievement award from his undergraduate alma mater, Southwest State University in Marshall, Minn. Because he couldn't travel to accept the award, he sent a video of his acceptance.

Lorraine Frazier, D.S.N., associate professor of nursing systems, School of Nursing (SON), was elected to a two-year term on the Executive Board of the International Society of Nursing in Genetics.

Ferid Murad, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine for the Prevention of Human Diseases, chaired the Dec. 3 meeting of the International Advisory Group in Shanghai, China, to advise Mayor Sun of the Xuhui District regarding education, research, intellectual property and development of a medical center and biotechnology incubator. He also reviewed research projects at the Murad Research Center in Shanghai. Murad is chairman of the Department of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology at the Medical School (MS), holder of the John S. Dunn Sr. Distinguished Chair in Pharmacology and Medicine, and a faculty member in the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (GSBS).

L. Scott Rodkey, Ph.D., professor of pathology and laboratory medicine, MS and GSBS, was elected vice president and president- elect of the American Electrophoresis Society in November at the group's annual meeting. After two years in that role, Rodkey will begin a two-year term as president in November 2006. The vice president leads arrangements for the society's annual meeting and works with the president on special projects. Electrophoresis technologies play a central role in scientific investigations that cover a broad range of clinical and basic disciplines from cancer research to molecular biology.

Liliana Rodriguez, director of special projects in the Office of Community and Educational Outreach and microbiology instructor, MS, has been appointed to serve on the American Society for Microbiology Committee on Precollege Education. Her term will expire June 30, 2007.

Sandra Upchurch, Ph.D., associate professor of nursing systems, SON, participated Nov. 9 and 10 in a National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR), National Institutes of Health (NIH), invitational working group meeting on "The Science of Self Management in Chronic Disease." The meeting in Bethesda, Md., will assist in the development of NINR priority-setting in this area of science. Upchurch was asked to give a formal presentation on the meta-analysis work she did with NIH funding.

Presentations

Kathleen Becan-McBride, Ed.D., director of Community and Educational Outreach, coordinator of the Texas-Mexico Border Health Projects and professor of family practice and community medicine, MS, was invited to give a presentation Dec. 8 on "Harmonizing Credentialing Standards through International Strategic Alliances" at the Fourth Congreso Hispano de Profesiones Relacionadas con al Salud in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Rena N. D'Souza, D.D.S., Ph.D., professor of orthodontics, Dental Branch and GSBS, gave a plenary lecture on "Molecular Insights into Tooth Agenesis and Supernumerary Dentition: From Bench to Clinic to Bench" Nov. 27 at the 52nd Japanese Association for Dental Research Annual Meeting at the National Center of Sciences Building in Tokyo, Japan. While in Japan, she lectured on "Basic and Clinical Research for Regenerative Dental Medicine" Nov. 29 at the University of Tokushima and Nov. 30 at Tokyo Medical and Dental University.

John L. Spudich, Ph.D., director, Center for Membrane Biology, MS and GSBS, delivered the plenary lecture "Microbial Rhodopsins: Structure and Mechanism in Sensory Signaling and Transport" at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Japan Biophysical Society in Kyoto Dec. 12-16. Spudich is holder of the Robert A.Welch Distinguished Chair in Chemistry, chair of the Gulf Coast Consortium for Membrane Biology, and professor of biochemistry and molecular biology and of microbiology and molecular genetics.

Kristin Ownby, Ph.D., and Jane Mahoney, D.S.N., both assistant professors of nursing for target populations, SON, and Cinda Clark, D.S.N., alumna, SON, gave a poster presentation on "Exploring Correlates of Fatigue in HIV/AIDS Using the MFI-20" at the 17th annual Association of Nurses in AIDS Care conference in November. Ownby and Linda Dune, Ph.D., assistant professor of acute and continuing care, SON, presented "Exploring the Mystery: Forming a Substantive Theory for Peripheral Neuropathic Pain in AIDS Patients."

Publications

Published in the November 2004 issue of the Journal of Interprofessional Care was "Community-based Participatory Research to Prevent Substance Abuse and HIV/AIDS in African- American Adolescents" by Marianne T. Marcus, Ph.D., the John P. McGovern Professor in Addiction Nursing, SON; J. Michael Swint, Ph.D., professor and director of the Division of Management, Policy and Community Health, SPH; Nancy Busen, Ph.D., associate professor of nursing for target populations, SON; Patricia Liehr, Ph.D., former SON faculty member; Wendell C. Taylor, Ph.D., associate professor of health promotion and behavioral sciences, SPH; Kirk von Sternberg, research associate in family medicine, MS, and student at SPH; and other authors from the community.

Stephen K. Tyring, M.D., Ph.D., clinical professor of dermatology and internal medicine, MS, is editor of a new book, Antiviral Agents, Vaccines and Immunotherapies, published by Marcel Dekker in 2005.

Tyring and authors from other institutions published "Inhibition of Smoothened Signaling Prevents Ultraviolet B-Induced Basal Cell Carcinomas Through Regulation of Fas Expression and Apoptosis" in October in Cancer Research. They published "Correction of Kinetic and Stability Defects by Tetrahydrobiopterin in Phenylketonuria Patients with Certain Phenylalanine Hydroxylase Mutations" in November in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

David Huang, M.D., fellow, Department of Internal Medicine, MS; Tyring; and another author published "A Review of Licensed Viral Vaccines, Some of Their Safety Concerns, and the Advances in the Development of Investigational Viral Vaccines" in the October issue of the Journal of Infections. They published "Resiquimod: A New Immune Response Modifier with Potential as a Vaccine Adjuvant for TH1 Immune Responses" in the November issue of Antiviral Research.