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Awards and Honors

The book, Phlebotomy Handbook: Blood Collection Essentials, 7th edition, by Kathleen Becan-McBride, Ed.D., director, Community and Educational Outreach, and a co-author won the Allied Health Category of the 2006 American Medical Writers’ Award funded by the Dr. Mary Ann Foote Foundation. It was announced at AMWA’s 66th Annual Conference Oct. 26 in Albuquerque, N.M.

Lorraine Frazier, Ph.D., associate professor, Nursing Systems and Technology, School of Nursing (SON), has received a $15,000 Texas Medical Center Howell Fund Award for a project titled “Promoting the Cardiovascular and Mental Health of Economically Disadvantaged Women Hospitalized for Acute Coronary Symptoms.”

Stanford M. Goldman, M.D., professor of radiology and urology, Medical School (MS), received the Gold Medal from the American Society of Emergency Radiology (ASER) Sept. 30 at the ASER 2006 annual meeting in Washington, D.C. The award is given for outstanding contribution to the field of emergency radiology and the society. Goldman chaired the Department of Diagnostic and Therapeutic Radiology from 1993-2000. His research has focused most recently on the evaluation of pregnant women in traumatic
situations. Goldman is considered a world expert in the field of genito-urinary trauma, and his classification of urethral injury is now standard.

Millicent Goldschmidt, Ph.D., who holds a joint appointment as professor of periodontics at the Dental Branch (DB) and professor of microbiology and molecular genetics at the Medical School (MS), has been named the 2006 Outstanding Alumnus from Purdue University’s Department of Biological Sciences. She was recognized at an Oct. 26 awards ceremony. She also is a faculty member of the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (GSBS).

Kevin Pereira, M.D., professor and vice chair, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, MS, received the Honor Award from the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery in recognition of his expertise and devotion to the specialty and the academy.

Mohammad Madjid, M.D., assistant professor of medicine, MS, won an award at the Northwestern Cardiovascular Young Investigators’ Forum, Sept. 28-Oct. 1 in Chicago for a paper on “Influenza Epidemics and Acute Respiratory Disease Activity are Associated with a Surge in Autopsy-Confirmed Coronary Heart
Disease Death: Results from Eight Years of Autopsies in 34,892 Subjects.” The study showed that influenza is a major trigger for heart attacks, and influenza epidemics are associated with a sharp surge in death due to coronary heart disease.

Pedro Ruiz, M.D., professor and vice chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, MS, was inducted as Honorary Member by the Spanish Psychiatric Society during the X Annual National Congress Oct. 16-21 in Sevilla, Spain. He delivered the keynote lecture of this congress on “Ethnicity and
Psychopharmacology.” During the XXIV Congress of the Latin America Psychiatric Association (APAL), Nov. 1-4 in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, Ruiz was made Honorary Member of the Dominican Republic Psychiatric Society. He was also keynote speaker of this congress, speaking on “Reflections on Mental
Illness in Latin America: Problems and Solutions.” Ruiz delivered the 2006 Stuart Asch Memorial Lecture at the New York Academy of Medicine Oct. 4 in New York. He spoke on “The Role of Acculturative Stress on Suicide.”

Presentations

Eugene V. Boisaubin, M.D., professor of medicine and associate director of the Medicine Residency Program, MS, was an invited presenter at the 8th World Congress of Bioethics Aug. 7 in Beijing, China. His title was “Perceptions of Long Term Care, Including Autonomy and Dignity, by Residents, Family and Caregivers: The Houston Experience.” Boisaubin, who is ethicist for the General Clinical Research Center, also gave a presentation at the national ethics meeting in October in Denver on ethical issues in the care
of Hurricane Katrina victims.

Debra Rembert and Ellen F. Goss-Shohet, both instructors in nursing, Department of Target Populations, SON, were invited by the the Nurse Oncology Education Program (NOEP) to teach pediatric oncology classes to several groups throughout Texas. They taught in Wichita Falls in November, and will teach in the Rio Grande Valley area in May 2007. Rembert also will teach in Waco in June 2007. NOEP is a project of the Texas Nurses Association/ Foundation funded by the Texas Cancer Council. Rembert is a Certified Pediatric Oncology Nurse, and since 1990 has been a staff nurse on the cancer acute care unit at Texas Children’s Hospital.

Publications

Gerhard R. F. Krueger, M.D., Ph.D., professor of pathology and laboratory medicine, MS, and dean emeritus, The University of Cologne Medical School, is one of two editors of Human Herpesvirus-6 Second Edition: General Virology, Epidemiology and Clinical Pathology, published in 2006 by Elsevier.

Krueger and a co-author wrote a chapter on “Pathologic Features of HHV-6 Disease.” He and Guanyu Wang, Ph.D., former postdoctoral fellow in computational biomedicine at the School of Health Information Sciences (SHIS) and former pathology assistant professor, MS, wrote “Computer Simulation of Herpesvirus-6 Infection.” A chapter on “Ultrastructure and Assembly of Human Herpesvirus-6” was contributed by Z. Hong Zhou, Ph.D., associate professor; James K. Stoops, Ph.D., professor; and Krueger, all in pathology and laboratory medicine, MS. L. Maximilian Buja, M.D., executive vice president for academic affairs and holder of the Distinguished Chair in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, MS, wrote a chapter on “HHV-6 and Cardiovascular Pathology.” Zhou, Stoops and Buja also hold faculty appointments in GSBS.

Susan H. Landry, Ph.D., the Michael Matthew Knight Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, MS; Paul R. Swank, Ph.D., and Michael A. Assel, Ph.D., in the Department of Pediatrics; and Susan B. Gunnewig, associate director of the Center for Improving the Readiness of Children for Learning and Education (CIRCLE), published a study in the July/August edition of the Journal of Learning Disabilities. The article, “Enhancing Early Literacy Skills for Preschool Children,” studied decisions regarding the appropriate social context for learning, early literacy content, instructional approaches and adult learning styles that were derived from a large body of empirical studies. The results showed that the model was effective in preparing many teachers to support children in making greater gains in language and early literacy across the school year when compared with children whose teachers did not receive this intervention.

Dianna Milewicz, M.D., Ph.D., professor and director, Division of Medical Genetics, MS and GSBS, and holder of the George H. W. Bush Chair in Cardiovascular Research, is a co-author in the Aug. 24 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. She participated in a study that closely compares patients having Loeys-Dietz syndrome or Ehlers-Danlos syndrome with the better understood Marfan syndrome. Milewicz also holds a faculty appointment in the Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine for the Prevention of Human Diseases.

Heinrich Taegtmeyer, M.D., D.Phil., professor of medicine, Division of Cardiology, MS and GSBS, is the lead author of a study published in the June edition of the FASEB Journal. “Transcriptional Regulators of Ribosomal Biogenesis are Increased in the Unloaded Heart.” Taegtmeyer conducted the research with Peter Razeghi, M.D., clinical fellow, internal medicine, MS; Stanislaw Stepkowski, Ph.D., professor of surgery-organ transplantation, MS and GSBS; then-fellow researcher Malgorzata Buksinska-Lisik, M.D., MS; and Nanthini Palanichamy, M.D., and O.H. “Bud” Frazier, M.D., of Texas Heart Institute. Frazier also holds an appointment as university professor of surgery, HSC.