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Awards and Honors
During International Surgical Week Aug. 21-25, Frank Moody, M.D., professor of surgery, Medical School (MS), was recognized in Durban, South Africa, for honorary membership in the International Society of Surgery/Société Internationale de Chirurgie (ISS/SIC). Moody was one of three selected for the ISS/SIC honor and the only person from the United States.
Ferid Murad, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine for the Prevention of Human Diseases, received the Distinguished Investigator Award Sept. 12 at the 34th Annual Meeting of the American of Clinical Pharmacology (ACCP) in Rockville, Md. The ACCP consists of almost 1,000 professionals dedicated to a branch of pharmacology that deals with the effectiveness and safety of drugs in humans.
The Distinguished Investigator Award recognizes superior scientific expertise and accomplishments by a senior investigator, usually involving a distinct area of research in basic or clinical pharmacology for which the individual is internationally known. Murad’s early research garnered a Nobel Prize, awarded in 1998, for his discovery concerning nitric oxide as a signaling molecule in the cardiovascular system. His clinical career has included academic, industrial and governmental settings. In 1997 he joined the UT Medical School, where he is holder of the John S. Dunn Sr. Distinguished University Chair in Physiology and Medicine, professor of integrative biology and pharmacology, and a faculty member of the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences.
James H. Steele, D.V.M., professor emeritus of the School of Public Health and Retired Rear Admiral of the U.S. Public Health Service, was selected as the recipient of the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States (AMSUS) 2005 James A. McCallum Award. The award is presented to a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine in recognition of outstanding accomplishments in the field of medicine and health. The award will be presented Nov. 2 at the AMSUS Annual Dinner.
Diane Wardell, Ph.D., professor of target populations, School of Nursing (SON) and Janeana White, M.D., assistant professor of medicine and pediatrics, MS, were elected to three-year terms on the board of directors of the Texas Medical Center Women’s Health Network.
James T.Willerson, M.D., president of the UT Health Science Center at Houston, will be inducted as one of the first seven international honorary members of the Japanese Circulation Society during the annual scientific meeting March 24-26 in Nagoya, Japan. The 2006 meeting celebrates the society’s 70th anniversary. The honorary memberships will be awarded in recognition of “many contributions to medicine and science and collegial friendship.”
Presentations
David Hoyer, M.D., clinical assistant professor of emergency medicine, MS, gave an oral presentation Sept. 4 of the abstract “Symptoms of Depression in Emergency Department Patients” at the Third Emergency Medicine Congress in Nice, France. In a nine-month prospective observational study in the Emergency Departments of two hospitals, 505 patients were screened for depression symptoms. Of those patients, 109, or 21.6 percent, screened positive for the symptoms of depression. The frequency with which symptoms of depression were found has profound implications for the practice of emergency medicine, Hoyer reported. Depression is not commonly diagnosed in the Emergency Department but has significant morbidity and mortality and is treatable.
Pablo C. Okhuysen, M.D., professor of medicine-infectious diseases, MS, was visiting professor at the Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara July 25-26. He lectured on infectious diseases and met with clinical investigators on joint projects.
Publications
Kathleen Becan-McBride, Ed.D., coordinator of the Texas-Mexico Border Health Projects and professor of family and community medicine, MS, had her 20th book, Success in Phlebotomy - 6th Edition, published by Prentice Hall.
Sandra K. Hanneman, Ph.D., the Jerold B. Katz Distinguished Professor for Nursing Research, associate dean for research, and director of the Center for Nursing Research, SON, was first author of “Circadian Temperature Rhythm of Laboratory Swine” in the June issue of Comparative Medicine. The report provides normative circadian temperature rhythm parameters for unrestrained swine. Co-authors include Doreen Rosenstrauch, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of internal medicine-cardiology, MS.
Shyang-Yun Pamela Shiao, Ph.D., associate professor of nursing for target populations, SON, and Becky Helmreich, D.S.N student, SON, were authors of “Maternal Race/Ethnicity and Predictors of Pregnancy and Infant Outcomes” in the July issue of Biological Research for Nursing. The study was supported in part by Shiao’s grant from the National Institute of Nursing Research. The authors found health disparities among white and non-white women experiencing high-risk pregnancies and births.
Patricia L. Starck, D.S.N., SON dean and the John P. McGovern, M.D., Distinguished Professor in Nursing, was author of “The Cost of Doing Business in Nursing Education,” published in the May/June issue of the Journal of Professional Nursing.
Evelyn C. Y. Chan, M.D., assistant professor of internal medicine, MS, is an author of “Promoting Informed Choice: Transforming Health Care to Dispense Knowledge for Decision Making,” published in the Aug. 16 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine.
Zuber Mulla, Ph.D., assistant professor of epidemiology, School of Public Health’s El Paso Regional Campus, published an abstract titled “Nestritide Increases the Odds of Mortality Among Patients Hospitalized for Congestive Heart Failure” in September’s Annals of Epidemiology, the American College of Epidemiology’s official publication. Mulla and his colleagues published evidence suggesting that treatment with nestritide, a drug that dilates blood vessels, increases the risk of death among hospitalized congestive heart failure patients.