Bowers joined the IU School of Medicine faculty as director of athletic drug testing and. David Marrero, PhD, is the principal investigator for the IUSM portion of the national study.
Juvenile fire setters topic of seminar
John Brown, MD, Yousuf Mahomed, MD, Mark Turrentine, MD, Ken Kesler, MD, "Vooruitgang in cardiothoracale chirurgie".
Medical education to benefit from bequest
Stanley had an interest in the Terre Haute Center for Medical Education because of her doctor, Clifford Crawford, MD. Crawford is an ISU graduate who completed the first two years of his medical training at the Terre Haute Center, which is based on the ISU campus.
BRIEFS
Stanley's interest in Indiana State developed as a result of the nursing care her husband received from a graduate of the ISU School of Nursing before his death in 1988. Stanley initially established small scholarship funds for these fields, but later decided to leave most of her property for this purpose.
TV reports
Medicine as more than a science focus of program
Microsoft software available at great savings for IUSM personnel
JSB March lecture
Honors
Studies prompt NIH to support new therapy for cervical cancer
In all studies, patients had cervical cancer that had spread locally (within the cervix) or regionally (within the pelvis).
New administrator
Seal of approval
Internet viewed as good source for health care info
Combined Seminar Series for March announced by IU Cancer Center
CIS coordinator begins new duties
Medical Ethics lecture slated for March 4
Regenstrief awarded informatics grant
Other IU staff involved in the project is Fran Brahmi, interim director of the IUSM library. Einterz is a clinical associate professor of medicine and program director of the IU-Moi University program.
Spinola named Jacobs Professor of Infectious Diseases
The President's Award, established in 1974, recognizes outstanding teaching and may be awarded to any division of the university at any professorship. The IU Founders' Day awards ceremony honors excellence in teaching, service, research and scholarship across the university and students on the IUB campus.
Health care views topic of lecture
Much of her research has been in Mexico, where she studied cross-cultural issues in diet and nutrition. Her research on cross-cultural issues in health and nutrition has been funded by the National Cancer Institute, PAHO, NSF, and the US Census Bureau.
Nominations for Irwin award sought
Douglas Zipes, MD, was elected vice president of the American College of Cardiology at the group's annual meeting in New Orleans. Zipes served as chairman of the development committee, which raised $3 million, surpassing the goal by $900,000, in recognition of ACC's 50th anniversary.
Osteoporosis topic of women's health lecture
On-line library to help southern Indiana health care providers
Memorial Hospital and Healthcare Center, Jasper; Morgan County Hospital, Martinsville; Orange County Hospital, Paoli; St.
Student performers
Grant funding
Seniors express interest in primary care at Match Day
Other specialties classified as primary care include internal medicine, family medicine, pediatrics, combined internal medicine-pediatrics, and obstetrics/gynecology. Additional information about the 1999 competition can be found on the NRMP website at www.aamc.org/.
Combined Seminar topics announced
Martin Smith, PhD, is the recipient of a one-year American Cancer Society Institutional Research Grant. Darrell WuDunn, MD, PhD, is the recipient of the 1999 OTSUKA Research Fellowship Award in Glaucoma.
Submissions to Scope sought for school news
Thomas Ciulla, MD, is the recipient of a $165,000 four-year career development award sponsored by Research to Prevent Blindness. Christie Traycoff, PhD, is the recipient of a four-year grant from NASA to study short-term changes in bone marrow hematopoiesis under microgravity conditions.
Funding to continue research into heart muscle regeneration
Alumni weekend
Web resource
IUSM faculty to speak at second annual mental health symposium
Alzheimer's program planned by IUSM, NIFS
Historian to speak on search for cure for cancer
Submissions to Scope
Grant gives whole new meaning to Web surfing
All five women have been trained at the NLM and are now searching the internet. Reunion receptions and dinners will follow for members of classes graduating in years ending in 4 or 9, as well as the May and December classes of 1942.
Wordsmiths they ain't, or so it would appear in survey of patient charts
AOA inducts IUSM members
FDA commissioner to speak at Senior Banquet
Free screenings offered May 5
IUSM reaps rewards from 1999 Legislature
IU was recognized by the Forum administration for the school's contributions in conceiving and promoting the initiative. President (Myles) Brand, Chancellor (Gerald) Bepko, Dean (Robert) Holden of the IU School of Medicine, and their teams are to be commended for their hard work and dedication to this initiative.
Ghetti honored
34;The Biomedical Research Initiative could not have been successful without the significant statewide support during this legislative session," said Jody Peloza Bentz, executive vice president of the Forum. 34;Indiana University was a major catalyst in the event that research-driven economic development will lead to major economic benefits for the state.
Riley Telethon
Stroke Awareness
IUSM grads -- less than half of state's private practices
Combined Seminar Series features leukemia, renal disease, apoptosis
Class of '99 takes a bow
New database online at medical library
If you have questions about the Ovid database system, send an email message to rlmlnet@iupui.edu.
Faculty teaching
Bogdewic honored
Graduates honored at 1999 Senior Banquet
Callahan was also awarded the John Barnhill Award (anatomy), the American College of Surgeons Award and the J. The Mary Jean Yoder Award, sponsored by the class of 1964, was presented to Bing Gale and Bryan Popp in recognition of their dedication and service to others.
Braddom named to endowed chair
TERA awards go to 40 IUSM faculty
Camp Riley seeking donations, volunteers
NIH funding at IUSM on the rise, particularly in Department of Pediatrics
Award recipients
Faculty honored at 1999 Senior Banquet
Terre Haute Center for Medical Education - Talhung Duong, PhD Clinical Sciences Family Medicine - Richard Kiovsky, MD;.
Seymour physician receives award
Consumer opinions on health care reported by AAMC
SCOPE summer break to begin
IUSM faculty lead the way into the millennium as presidents of organizations
New chairmen
Jay's rank will also be elevated from Assistant Dean of CME to Associate Dean of CME and he will be named Professor of Public Health. Roland McGrath, MD, has been named Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine and Professor of Emergency Medicine.
Newly accredited
Students honored at Regional Centers
John Coleman III, MD, recently became the fifth recipient of the American Head and Neck Society's Distinguished Service Award. He was also recently elected a fellow on the Board of the American Head and Neck Society.
Oops!
Robert Jones, MD, PhD, is the recipient of the 1999 Thomas Parran Award presented by the American Sexually Translied Diseases Association. The Parran Award honors individuals who have made significant contributions to the treatment and research of sexually transmitted diseases over a significant period of time.
IU, Methodist CV docs to join in one facility
34;The consolidation and Clarian's board of directors' commitment to the Krannert Institute assures the people of Indiana that we will be at the forefront of heart medicine at a time when the growing need for cardiovascular research is quite evident," said Dr. 34; The board's vote in favor of the plan was unanimously, there is still much work to be done to complete the consolidation and keep our promise to our medical students and patients that we will offer only the best services."
Domestic violence
In addition, the Clarian board approved plans for construction of an automated monorail system, called the People Mover, which will connect Riley Hospital for Children, IU and Methodist hospitals. The third component of the board's action involves improving technological connectivity between the campuses with the installation of a digital radiological imaging system, called Picture Archive Communication Systems (PACS).
Women's month
The PACS will enable rapid delivery of radiology images to physicians at Clarian hospitals and its bypass facilities. Women's Health Month is sponsored by the Office of Women's Health of the Indiana State Department of Health, in cooperation with the Indiana University School of Medicine's National Center of.
Sleep lab expands; lectures and open house planned
Mark Sothmann, PhD, has been accepted into the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Institute for Educational Management, class of 1999. He is one of five deans in the country who are among the 90 participants who have this opportunity.
Leg pain screenings offered
He was noted for publishing the first American monograph on echocardiography and has been a tireless advocate of the technology. Each year, IUPUI recognizes an outstanding academic mentor by designating a faculty member as a Bynum Mentor.
Humanized health care expressed desire of Hoosiers in survey
Under the committee's direction, researchers at IUSM are studying selected clinical conditions that will show variations in treatment on a geographic or demographic basis. The Indiana researchers selected two clinical conditions for analysis from all age groups in Indiana.
Holden appointed
John Wennberg, MD, MPH, and director of the Center for Clinical Sciences at Dartmouth Medical School, has pointed out surprising variations in the way Medicare patients with identical clinical conditions are treated. The initial clinical conditions to be investigated are below the knee. amputations in patients with diabetes mellitus and caesarean section pregnancy.
JSB membership
Students to make city rounds
Combined Seminar Series for October announced
13 -- Tim O'Connor, PhD, Department of Biology, Beckman Research Institute, Hope City National Medical Center, Duarte, Calif., "Repairing Alkylation Damage in Human Cells." Molecular Pharmaceuticals, Newtown, Penn.; and co-investigator, Clinical Gene Therapy Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, "Chimeric RNA Oligonucleotide-Mediated Gene Repair for Genetic Diseases."
Center on Aging offers pilot funds
IU Cancer Center gets NCI center designation
34;Along with recent requests from the Indiana Legislature to support developments in biomedical research, I view the NCI designation as a recognition of the research prowess at IU and a vote of confidence in its future. The new IUCC designation was made possible by the support of organizations such as the Walther Cancer Institute, Riley Memorial Association through the Herman B Wells Center for Pediatric Research, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Indiana Lions Cancer Control Fund, the Indiana Order of the Elks and Clarian Health Partners.
BRIEFS Flu shots
The $6.3 million grant from NCI will provide seed money for new research, support center management, research-related administrative functions and shared research resources, such as.
Weinberger honored
Weinberger was presented with the award at the council's 53rd Annual Fall Conference and Scientific Sessions in Orlando, Fla. He currently serves as Vice President of the American Society of Hypertension and Chair of its Publications and Communications Committee.
New director of medical library begins duties
Fall Mini Medical School to begin
His discovery of the "fat gene" has created a new picture of obesity and research to understand the genetic basis for body weight. Virginia Caine, MD, and Ora Pescovitz, MD, have been honored in this year's Women of Influence in Indianapolis selection by the Indianapolis Business Journal and The Indiana Lawyer.
Memorial Oct. 9 for Riley diabetes chief
IUSM home to new NIDDK core center
The center will initially focus on three gene therapy studies: two for cancer and one for a rare genetic disorder, chronic glaulomous disease. The Center for Molecular Hematology is now supporting gene therapy trials to try to cure CGD in humans.
Search committee
Informatics clerkship offered
Come join the celebration for the IUCC Center
Estrogen research puts focus on cataract therapy
Chu resigns
On-line surgery
Two new chairmen named
McKeag was interim chairman of the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. John Eble, MD, MBA, is the new IUSM Department of Pathology and Laboratory Chair.
Health fairs aid medical students, community
34;Standard medical practice is good for setting bones and removing appendices, but I think the students discovered that people and communities have different needs and different voices." 34;The students learned to speak in ways that benefit both communities could relate to and embrace, “Dr.
Acting dean
The students assisted IUSM physicians with screenings for blood pressure, diabetes, cholesterol, colon cancer and prostate exams for adults. Cushing was an acting instructor of medicine and infectious diseases at the University of Washington from 1989 until he joined the IUSM faculty.
Ethics seminar
Medical outreach of a different sort
Dermatology video gets award
Free counseling services offered students/residents
Grant to fund gene therapy
Study to evaluate services for kids with special health needs
Harris, MD, an investigator at the IUSM-based Regenstrief Institute, will look at patient satisfaction, and Debbie Freund, P.D, formerly of IU and now at Syracuse University, will evaluate healthcare costs. Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation and the U.S.
IU now on Web page for clinical trial inquiries
Targeting Gun Violence
John May, MD, Midwest regional medical director of Prison Health Services Inc., a private firm that provides medical care to Indiana prison inmates, is working with Drs.
December seminar speakers announced
Briefs
Ficklin fete
Wigand to speak
Beat the holiday rush -- send your Scope stories today
Team says Y2K bug won't sting campus
Campus police, on the other hand, are not concerned with protecting cell lines, but are busy with communications and safety preparedness for emergencies. All emergency radio equipment has been checked and emergency procedures have been updated, he said.
Ficklin party
Petsel party
Pager numbers
Leadership awards presented
The Health Leadership Research Award was presented to David Weaver, MD, professor of medicine and molecular genetics. The recipient of the Health Leadership Health Care Management Award was William Loveday, president and CEO of Clarian Health Partners.
Asthma program kicks off
Weaver has worked closely with the March of Dimes, serving as a sponsor of the March of Dimes Summer Scholarship for medical students. She received the Health Leadership Nursing Award for her involvement in several outreach programs, including leading the Maternity Outreach Mobile (MOM) project.
