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Awards and Honors
Robert Hardy, Ph.D., the Allan King Professor in Public Health and professor of biostatistics, School of Public Health, was chosen a Champion of Public Health by Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine Biostatistics Department for his commitment to global public health. The award was to have been presented in November at Tulane’s annual meeting, which has been postponed indefinitely.
Susan Landry, Ph.D., director of the State Center for Early Childhood Development, received the 2005 Rostow Literacy Leadership Award Nov. 8 at the annual dinner hosted by The Austin Project at the Four Seasons Austin Hotel. Landry, the chief of developmental pediatrics at the Medical School (MS) and the Michael Matthew Knight Professor, received the award for her commitment to early childhood development and educational programming.
M. Kay Swint, clinical assistant professor, School of Nursing (SON) and clinical administrative director of palliative care and rehabilitation medicine at the UT M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, received one of nine statewide Champion in End-of-Life Care Awards at a Nov. 18 Texas Partnership for End-of-Life Care gala in Creedmoor, Texas. Swint, who holds a master’s degree in community mental health administration from the nursing school, was recognized for her community leadership role in advocating for and establishing a nationally recognized palliative care program in Houston.
Ayesha Mian, M.D., who recently completed her child psychiatry fellowship with Cynthia Santos, M.D., associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, MS, was named a Presidential Scholar of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP). She received funding to support a one-week tutorial with a leading AACAP member and to attend the AACAP-Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Joint Annual Meeting Oct. 18-23 in Toronto. Dorothy Stubbe, M.D., child and adolescent psychiatry training director at the Yale Child Study Center, served as her mentor for the tutorial, which focused on medical student recruitment.
Ronald Rapini, M.D., professor and chair of the Department of Dermatology, MS and UT M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, received the 2005 Walter R. Nickel Award for Excellence in Teaching of Dermatopathology from the American Society of Dermatopathology. The award was presented Oct. 21 at the society’s 42nd annual meeting in Seattle.
Pedro Ruiz, M.D., professor and vice chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, MS, was awarded an honorary membership in the Mexican Psychiatric Association during the Oct. 20-Nov. 1 annual meeting for his exemplary contributions to the field of psychiatry worldwide. He was appointed to the editorial boards of Evidence-Based Mental Health in Spain and the Indian Journal of Psychiatry in India. He also delivered the Fourth Graeme Smith Lecture Dec. 1 at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.
Presentations
Nancy Bergstrom, Ph.D., the Theodore J. and Mary E. Trumble Professor in Aging Research and director of the Center on Aging, SON, co-led a discussion group at a conference on “Alternative Study Designs for Evidence-based Practice: Harnessing Natural Variation for Effectiveness Research.” The Oct. 20-21 conference in Washington, D.C., was sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Interagency Committee on Disability Research, National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research, Institute for Clinical Outcomes Research, and Vanderbilt University.
James T.Willerson, M.D., president, UT Health Science Center, joined U.S. Congressman Kevin Brady and national and local physicians Nov. 21 at Texas Children’s Hospital to give an update on research and strides in combating pulmonary hypertension and to increase public awareness of this deadly disease.
Publications
Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (GSBS) students Tai-Lung Cha, Cheng-Chieh Yang and Chun-Te Chen, along with faculty member Mien-Chie Hung, Ph.D., are among authors of “AKTMediated Phosphorylation of EZH2 Suppresses Methylation of Lysine 27 in Histone H3,” published in the Oct. 14 issue of Science. Hung is also professor of molecular and cellular oncology at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center.
Alan C. Swann, M.D., the Pat R. Rutherford Jr. Professor and vice chair for research, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, MS and GSBS, published an article on “Adaptive Psychopharmacology” and was one of the authors of “The Social Brain in Clinical Practice,” both in the October issue of Psychiatric Annals.
Linda Ewing-Cobbs, Ph.D., professor of pediatrics-developmental, MS, and Ann Saunders, M.D., associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, MS, are among authors of “Predictors of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Within Six Months after Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury,” published in the October issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.