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February 2009

Welcome to UNC Health Care's Awards and Honors page for February 2009. If you or your colleagues at UNC Health Care have won an award or received an honor, send your information to Tom Hughes at tahughes@unch.unc.edu.

Feb. 16

  • Leigh Cantrell, MD, of the UNC Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, received the "Best Poster Presentation" award at  Society of Gynecologic Oncologists.
  • Patricia Devers, MS, CGC, was recently promoted to Assistant Professor in the UNC Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology
  • Ashley Hickman, MD, of UNC Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, won the "Best Oral Presentation" award at the Society of Maternal Fetal Medicine in January 2009
  • Herbert Peterson, MD, of the UNC Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, was selected to serve as Chair of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Committee on International Affairs for the 2009 college year.
  • Jon Samuel, a resident in the Department of Surgery, recently received the Fogarty Award to support a third year of research. Dr. Samuel is currently doing research, after his third year of residency, in Malawi.  He is working on several projects, and was supported by the Department of Surgery and the N.C. Jaycee Burn Center for his first two years.

 

Feb. 12

  • Dr. Samuel McLean, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at UNC, has received a $2.6 million grant award from NIH/NIAMS to support his study “Genetic predictors of acute and chronic musculoskeletal pain after minor MVC.”  The goal of Dr. McLean’s study is to use genetic assessments to gain new insights into these disorders.
  • Dr. James Manning and Dr. Lawrence Katz, faculty in the Department of Emergency Medicine at UNC, have received a $475,000 grant from the Naval Medical Research Center to assess “HBOC-201 with nitroglycerin for the treatment of hemorrhagic shock.” The goal of Drs. Manning and Katz’s study is to develop resuscitation strategies for hemoglobin based oxygen carriers.
  • Dr. Seth Glickman, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at UNC, has been awarded $750,000 grant for his project “Regionalization of ST-elevation Myocardial Infarction Care” under the American Heart Association PRT Outcomes Research Center Grant at the DCRI.
  • Dr. Greg Mears, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Director, UNC EMS Performance Improvement Center, has received a two-year, $246,000 grant from the for his project to implement a EMS Stroke Care Performance Improvement Toolkit in all of the 100 EMS systems in North Carolina.
  • Dr. Jane Brice, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at UNC, has been named Deputy Editor of Prehospital Emergency Care.
  • Dr. Cherri Hobgood has been named Associate Chair for Education in the Department of Emergency Medicine at UNC.
  • Dr. Charles Cairns, Professor and Chair of Emergency Medicine at UNC, has been named the Associate Director of the NIH US Critical Illness and Injury Trials Group (USCIITG). The USCIIT Group is funded by a grant from the NIH/NIGMS and created to establish national priorities for critical illness and injury research, promote clinical research and foster effective partnerships between federal agencies, academia, community practitioners, and industry.

 

Feb. 5

  • Dr. Karen Erickson, Director of the Center for Literacy and Disability Studies and professor in the Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences, has been selected as the first David E. and Dolores J. (Dee) Yoder Distinguished Professor in Literacy and Disability Studies (CLDS) in UNC-Chapel Hill's Department of Allied Health Sciences in the School of Medicine.

    Professor Erickson’s appointment will be celebrated at a brief ceremony at the David E. Yoder Distinguished Lecture to be held on Friday, March 6, at 8:30 a.m. at the Carolina Club in the George Watts Hill Alumni Center in Chapel Hill.  For more information about CLDS, contact Karen Erickson at karen_erickson@med.unc.edu, 919-966-8566, or on the Web at www.med.unc.edu/ahs/clds/.

 

Feb. 4

  • Jan Busby-Whitehead, MD, was elected as the Chair of the Board of the American Geriatrics Society’s Foundation for Health in Aging.  The foundation is a national non-profit organization that aims link the research and practice of Geriatrics and the public, and to advocate on behalf of older adults and their special health care needs. Dr. Busby-Whitehead is Professor and Chief of the Division of Geriatric Medicine and Director of the Program on Aging.
  • Biomedical Engineering Associate Professor Paul Dayton has been awarded a Pilot Grant from UNC-Chapel Hill's Carolina Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence (C-CCNE).  The C-CCNE Pilot Grants Program mission is to fund quality science that incorporates nanotechnology in a significant way for the translation of cancer research to the patient. 

    The C-CCNE Center Steering Committee evaluated 12 pilot grant proposals and Dr. Dayton's proposal was one of two chosen for funding.  The project is titled “Design and testing of a novel acoustically-active nanoparticle vehicle for ultrasound-targeted chemotherapy.”  This project is expected to run for 12 months and be funded up to a total amount of $50,000. Congratulations Paul for receiving support from this important UNC-Chapel Hill center!
  • Biomedical Engineering Associate Professor David Lalush has been selected by North Carolina State University's College of Engineering Teaching and Advising Awards Committee to Receive an Outstanding Teacher Award.  Dr. Lalush was chosen from an outstanding group of nominees for this well deserved recognition. 

    By the College of Engineering selection Dr. Lalush is now a member of NC State's Academy of Outstanding Teachers and will be recognized at the College of Engineering Spring Faculty Meeting, the Honors Baccalaureate and Celebration of Academic Excellence, and the Celebration of Teaching and Learning.  Congratulations to Dr. Lalush for receiving this prestigious award in recognition of his dedication to the teaching mission of the College!
  • Biomedical Engineering is very pleased to announce Dr. Richard Goldberg's promotion and appointment to the rank of Research Associate Professor at UNC-Chapel Hill.  Dr. Goldberg also holds the rank of Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies in the Curriculum in Applied Math and Material Sciences of the College of Arts and Sciences.  Dr. Goldberg was informed by letter from UNC-Chapel Hill Provost Bernadette Gray-Little.  BME joins the Provost and congratulates Dr. Goldberg for achieving this positive milestone in his career.
  • Biomedical Engineering affiliate faculty member Dr. Morgan Giddings was recently promoted to the rank of Associate Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology and the Department of Biomedical Engineering. This promotion confers permanent tenure. Please join us in congratulating Morgan on achieving these important milestones and wish her success as she continues her progress towards promotion to the rank of Professor.
  • Biomedical Engineering Assistant Professor Shawn Gomez has been awarded a Multi-PI NIH R01 grant with UNC-Chapel Hill collaborators Beverly Errede, Meng Jin, and Timothy Elston. This brand new NIH award mechanism is to encourage equal collaborations between scientists for advancement of public health research.  This support is for a project titled “MAP kinase regulation of cell-fate transitions in yeast.” 

    Dr. Gomez will collaborate with the submitting Principal Investigator Dr. Errede of UNC-Chapel Hill’s Biochemistry and Biophysics department. This project is expected to run for four years and be funded up to a total amount of $1.2 million over the entire project period. Congratulations to Shawn and his UNC collaborators for receiving such a substantial amount of this exciting new form of support from NIH’s National Institute of General Medicine Science!
  • Biomedical Engineering Associate Professor Roger Narayan, along with his graduate students Junping Zhang and Shaun D. Gittard, co-authored the winner of Structural Materials Division JOM Best Paper Award for 2009. Published monthly by The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS), JOM is a technical journal devoted to exploring the many aspects of materials science and engineering and reports scholarly work that explores the state-of-the-art processing, fabrication, design, and application of metals, ceramics, plastics, composites, and other materials. 

    The winning paper’s title is "Nanoporous Materials for Biomedical Devices." The paper explores this group’s work in incorporating the capabilities of biological membranes in nanoscale medical devices.
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