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NEWS

Two receive research funding

Felicia Nowak, M.D., associate professor of endocrinology, and Biren Patel, M.A., anatomical sciences instructor, received funding from Ohio University to expand their respective research projects.

Patel received $6,569 from the Ohio University Research Committee to examine the influence of different locomotor behaviors on density patterns in subchondral bone, a thin layer of bone found in the cartilage of the shoulder joint of primates.

Nowak received funding for a postdoctoral fellowship position to study the effects of an antioxidant-rich diet on prohibiting diabetes-related kidney damage. The funding was part of a $50,000 award given by Ohio University Post-Doctoral Fellowship Committee awarded for funding two fellowships.  

• For more, go to http://news.research.ohiou.edu/notebook/index.php?item=572.

 

Cuyahoga Falls makes changes

Summa Health System and the Western Reserve Hospital Partners (WRHP) announce that they will establish the Summa Western Reserve Hospital at the location of the current CORE site, Cuyahoga Falls General Hospital, according to a press release issued last week by Summa Health System.

Having received approval from Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray, Summa Western Reserve Hospital, LLC, is set to take over operations of Summa Cuyahoga Falls General Hospital June 24.

In January, the Summa Health System and Summa Cuyahoga Falls General Hospital Boards of Directors voted to approve the sale of the operations of Summa Cuyahoga Falls General Hospital and the lease of the facility and employees to a joint venture between Summa and WRHP.

• For more, go to www.summahealth.org/common/templates/article.asp?ID=11410.

 

Li co-authors article with Ph.D. student

Yang V. Li, Ph.D., associate professor of biomedical sciences, co-authored with his student, Ph.D. candidate Christian Stork, a paper, “Rising zinc: A significant cause of ischemic neuronal death in the CA1 region of rat hippocampus,” in the June 3 issue of the Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism, of the Nature Publishing Company.

Their work was supported in part by grants from the American Heart Association and the National Institutes of Health.

• To read the article, go to www.nature.com/jcbfm/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/jcbfm200964a.html.

 

Student presents research at national meeting

            Steven Walston, OMS IV, presented his research at the June 3 Digestive Disease Week (DDW), a meeting of the American Gastroenterological Association Institute in Chicago. 

                Walston’s presentation, “Association between risk factors for constipation and severity of stool retention as analyzed by abdominal x-ray,” was given during the Aging, Physiology and Clinical Gastroenterology Research Forum of DDW, the biggest national meeting among GI tract researchers and gastroenterologists.

Also participating in the research were Jen-Tzer Gau, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of geriatrics; Michael Finamore, OMS IV; and Christopher P. Varacallo, OMS II. 

 

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS

DEADLINE for OOA convention: ONE WEEK AWAY

The Office of Communication Design Services deadline for poster printing for the Ohio Osteopathic Association Convention (June 18-21) is TODAY.

• Deadline: Monday June 15, 5 p.m.
• OOA Convention: June 18-21, Kalahari Waterpark Resort and Nia Conference Center in Sandusky
• For more information about poster printing guidelines, go to www.oucom.ohiou.edu/communications/posters2009.htm.

 

RSAC calls for proposals

The Research & Scholarly Advancement Committee (RSAC) is calling for research grant proposals for fiscal year 2009-10. Please note the following guidelines:

• No faculty member receives funding for more than three consecutive years in the absence of demonstrated efforts to obtain research funds from sources other than OU-COM. 
• No faculty member receives funding for more than five consecutive years without obtaining research funds from sources other than OU-COM.

• Deadline for proposal submission: Wednesday, July 1, 2009. 
• For information, contact Susan Williams, Ph.D., assistant professor of biomedical sciences, at 593-2363, or Jessica Wingett, accounting specialist for research and grants, at 593-2336.

 

 

CALENDAR

Geriatric Medicine/Gerontology Series

“Falls Assessment & Prevention in the Elderly,” presented by Lorena Carlsen, MPH.

• Lecture: Today, June 15, noon, O’Bleness medical education conference room 014 or Grosvenor West 029 via videoconference

 

 

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

New Hire

Please welcome Alex Westerfelt, Ph.D., director of institutional assessment and assistant professor of family medicine. Dr. Westerfelt begins June 29. An office location and phone number are to be determined. 

 

Gone Fishing

Faculty Development Tidbit is taking the month of June off. It will return in July.

 

 

OU-COM IN THE NEWS

Fresno Bee (6-10-09)

“Laotian immigrant achieves doctor dream”

www.fresnobee.com/local/story/1464428.html

 

 

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Richard Heck

Writer/editor

Office of Communication

Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine

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