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Awards and Honors

S. Ward Casscells, M.D., vice president for biotechnology, UT Health Science Center (HSC), and the John Edward Tyson Distinguished Professor in Cardiology, was an at-large delegate to the White House Conference on Aging Dec. 11-14 in Washington, D.C. The conference focused on the aging of today and tomorrow, including 78 million baby boomers who began to turn 60 in January 2006. Delegates selected 50 resolutions to present to the President and Congress and are participating in working groups to develop strategies for implementing resolutions. The purpose was to help guide national aging policies for the next 10 years and beyond.

Larry Gilstrap, M.D., the Emma Sue Hightower Professor and chair of the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, Medical School (MS), was selected Memorial Hermann Hospital’s Physician of the Year for 2005. He has been a physician at Memorial Hermann for nine years.

As the 2006 Norma J. Shoemaker Grant recipient, Sandra K. Hanneman, Ph.D., the Jerold B. Katz Distinguished Professor for Nursing Research at the School of Nursing, was honored at the Jan. 8 American College of Critical Care Medicine Convocation in San Francisco. Hanneman co-presented the annual “Nursing Research: Year in Review” session at the Society of Critical Care Medicine Annual Congress with colleagues from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, and Children’s Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Ill. Hanneman is also associate dean for research and director of the Center for Nursing Research.

Presentations

At a Jan. 27 conference on “Crisis Management, Disaster Planning and Communications,” presented by the Texas Society for Biomedical Research in Austin, Brad Goodwin, D.V.M., executive director of the Center for Laboratory Animal Medicine and Care, HSC, and Bruce Brown, director of Environmental Health and Safety, HSC, spoke on “Animal Research Programs – Lessons Learned from Tropical Storm Allison.” Bob Emery, Dr.P.H., assistant vice president for safety, health environment and risk management, HSC, and associate professor of occupational health, School of Public Health (SPH), spoke on “Emergency Preparedness and Business Continuity Aspects for Research Enterprises: Prevention and Management Strategies.”

Pedro Ruiz, M.D., professor and vice chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, MS, delivered the Frederick L. Weniger, M.D., Annual Lecture Jan. 5 at the Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic of the University of Pittsburgh.

Terry A. Rustin, M.D., associate professor of target populations, SON, presented seminars in January for the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Iceland and three lectures for the Icelandic Medical Society in Reykjavik. His presentations dealt with assessment, medications and counseling for tobacco dependence.

Publications

Stephen K. Tyring, M.D., Ph.D., professor of dermatology, MS and Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, and coauthors published “Etanercept and Clinical Outcomes, Fatigue, and Depression in Psoriasis: Double-Blind Placebo-Controlled Randomised Phase III Trial” in the January issue of The Lancet. It describes a study in which psoriasis patients were successfully treated with Etanercept.

Alfred McAlister, Ph.D., professor of behavioral sciences, SPH, published “Acceptance of Killing and Homicide Rates in Nineteen Nations” in the Jan. 30 online edition of The European Journal of Public Health.

Melanie McEwen, Ph.D., associate professor of nursing systems, SON, is co-author of the second edition of her book, The Theoretical Basis for Nursing, published in January by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. Lorraine Frazier, D.S.N., associate professor of nursing systems, SON, and director of TexGen, is a contributor.

“Medications, Comorbidities, and Medical Complications in Stroke Survivors: The CAReS Study,” was published in the January/February issue of Rehabilitation Nursing. It was authored by Sharon K. Ostwald, Ph.D., holder of the Isla Carroll Turner Chair in Gerontological Nursing; Joan Wasserman, Dr.P.H., assistant professor of nursing; and Sally Davis, advanced practice nurse, all in the Center on Aging, SON.