Tributes and appointments--IUPUI

Dr. James Madura has been named the J. Stanley Battersby Professor of surgery. He joined the IU School of Medicine faculty in 1971. Dr. Battersby, who is the Willis D. Gatch Professor Emeritus of surgery, became the first full-time member of the IU School of Medicine Department of Surgery in 1943.

Dr. Rose Fife has been named the first Barbara F. Kampen Professor of women’s health. She is the director of the National Center of Excellence in Women’s Health. Fife, who is an assistant dean for research and professor of medicine, biochemistry and molecular biology, joined the IUSM faculty in 1981. The Barbara F. Kampen Professorship was established in 2000 by the Kampen Family Foundation to promote research and sustain the collaboration and commitment to excellence in the study of women’s health issues.

Dr. Antoinette Hood, director of the Division of Dermatopathology, has been named executive director of the American Board of Dermatology. The appointment is for five years. Among her professional honors are teaching awards from IU and Johns Hopkins University, where she was on faculty before coming to Indiana in 1993, and the Rose Hirschler Award, the highest honor awarded by the Women’s Dermatologic Society.

Dr. Lynda Means has been appointed executive associate dean for academic affairs at IUSM by Dr. Craig Brater, IUSM dean. The newly created position, effective in February, centralizes the management of many diverse activities within the school. Means, professor of anesthesia and of surgery, is a pediatric anesthesiologist and critical care consultant at Riley Hospital for Children.

Douglas Heerema and Richard Rogers, accounting professors at the Kelley School of Business, are the recipients of the best paper award from the Western Decision Conference. The title of the paper is "Innovative Education: Avoiding the Quality/Quantity Tradeoff in Distance Education."

 

C. Subah Packer, physiology, is the recipient of the M. Irene Ferrer Award for Original Research in Gender-Specific Medicine presented at the Partnership for Women’s Health Conference at Columbia University earlier this semester. Her award was based on her original research entitled “Estrogen Protects Against Spontaneous Hypertension But Its Protect Mechanism Is Unrelated To Impaired Arterial Muscle Relaxation.” The Partnership for Women’s Health At Columbia University was founded in 1997 as a collaboration between academic medicine and the private sector focusing solely on gender-specific medicine. http://www.iupui.edu/~medphys/packer/ http://cpmcnet.columbia.edu/dept/partnership/

Dr. David Crabb was been named chairman of the Department of Medicine, the largest department at the IU School of Medicine, in February. Crabb served as interim chair after Dr Craig Brater resigned the position to assume the duties of dean in July 2000. As chairman, Crabb oversees the scientific and clinical activities of 290 physicians and researchers, and the education of more than 150 internal medicine and medicine-pediatrics residents.

D.K. Lahiri, medical neurobiology, was the recipient of two research grants earlier this year to continue his research on Alzheimer’s disease. Through a $1.5 million grant over the course of five years, he is studying the APP gene promoter in Alzheimer’s disease. Through a $240,000 grant over the course of three years from the National Alzheimer’s Association, he will study “Mechanism of the Action of Donepezil on the Beta-amyloid Proteins.”

Ingrid Ritchie and Sheila Seuss Kennedy of the School of Public and Environmental Affairs are co-editors of a book that takes a critical look at the national reputation of former Indianapolis Mayor Stephen Goldsmith. The book, titled To Market, To Market: Reinventing Indianapolis, includes chapters by academic experts and public figures examining Goldsmith’s tenure, which earned him national recognition and a role in the administration of President George W. Bush.

 

Chris H. Miller, School of Dentistry, is co-author of a book, Essentials of Microbiology for Dental Students, that has won the Dental Prize at the 2000 Medical Book Awards sponsored by the Royal Society of Medicine. The other authors—all from the United Kingdom—are Jeremy Bagg, T. Wallace MacFarlane and Andrew J. Smith of the University of Glasgow and Ian R. Poxton of the University of Edinburg. Miller is the executive associate dean in dentistry and the associate dean of academic affairs and graduate education.

Dr. Deborah Allen, who is director of the Bowen Research Center, has been included in Best Doctors in America for the year 2000. She and others were chosen as the top 4 percent of all doctors by colleagues in a national survey that included more than 2 million votes.

School of Medicine researchers Ying Liu and Johnny He have linked a protein and neuronal receptor to AIDS-related dementia. The protein produced by HIV-infected cells has been identified as the mechanism that interferes with the normal "cleansing" process of brain neurons, as well as improper gene expression. The protein may be the cause of AIDS-related dementia, and the discovery may have implications for other forms of dementia.

Terry Zollinger, SPEA, and Robert Saywell and Dr. Brenda O'Hara of the Department of Family Medicine were co-authors of "Gender and Preceptors Feedback to Students" in the October issue of the journal Academic Medicine. They were joined by former project coordinator Christopher Smith and former faculty member Susan Maple. Zollinger, Saywell and O'Hara also collaborated with Smith, family medicine staffer Jennifer Burba and medical student David Stopperich on "ENT Experience in a Family Medicine Clerkship" for the November-December issue of the Family Medicine journal. Zollinger and Saywell also published “Indiana Children’s Special Health Care Services Program: Impact of Administrative Changes on Rural Needs” for the fall issue of Children’s Health. They were assisted in that article by two former project coordinators in the program, Mark A. Smith and Rebecca Robinson, as well as medical student Nancy Knudson.

The Conquest of the Soul: Confession, Discipline and Public Order in Counter-Reformation Milan has just been published by Wietse de Boer, who teaches history in the School of Liberal Arts.

Mary Fisher, nursing, wrote the chapter “Overview of Health Care Delivery” for the sixth edition of the text Medical-Surgical Nursing: Clinical Management for Positive Outcomes.

Daniel Pesut, chair of environments for health and professor of nursing, contributed "Effects of Psychological Distress on Blood Pressure In Adolescents" to Holistic Nursing Practice.

Marie Wright of the University Library will use a recent $2000 grant from the "LIVE! At the Library" project to stage a live July performance of"“A Tribute to Louis 'Satchmo' Armstrong" at the library. "LIVE! At the Library" is an initiative of the American Library Association.

Visual Communicator Henry Aguet has been invited to join other artists in exhibiting digital art in the 2001 Boston Cyber Arts Festival. Prints from his The Images Came to Me collection will be displayed at the Brush Art Gallery in Lowell, Mass., and also at the 911 Gallery, a Boston-area "virtual galler"” on the Web. The festival runs April 22-June 17.