Seth Thaller, M.D., D.M.D., professor and chief of the Division of Plastic Surgery, has been appointed vice president of the American Society of Maxillofacial Surgery. He has also published a book with W. Scott McDonald, M.D., titled Facial Trauma.
Joycelyn Lawrence, M.D., medical director
of the University’s Dr.
John T. Macdonald Foundation School Health Initiative, was elected co-chair
of the Miami-Dade County School Health Medical Advisory Committee. She
will serve as the elected officer alongside the governmental appointee,
Fermin Leguen, of the Miami-Dade County Health Department.
M. Judith Donovan Post, M.D., professor of radiology, neurological surgery, and ophthalmology, and section chief of neuroradiology, lectured as an invited guest at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School Post-Graduate Course on “Inflammatory Disease of the Spine and Differential Diagnosis of Spinal Cord Lesions, Tumor and Pseudotumors.” Post also gave a presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Neuroradiological Society in Seagrove, Florida. On May 8, Post will be an invited guest lecturer at the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine’s 13th Scientific Meeting and Exhibition in Miami. She will speak on “Brain-infection/inflammation.”
Penny Tenzer, M.D., associate professor and vice chair of the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health and director of the department’s residency program, was a highlighted main stage speaker on “Perspectives in Pain Management” at the 2004 Annual Scientific Assembly of the American Academy of Family Physicians and the World Conference of Family Doctors in Orlando.
W. Dalton Dietrich, Ph.D., and Helen M. Bramlett,
Ph.D., recently attended the 7th International Neurotrauma Symposium,
in Adelaide, Australia.
Dietrich was the chairperson for the section on hypothermia and presented
a lecture
on “Therapeutic hypothermia following brain and spinal cord injury.” Bramlett
was the chairperson for the section on gender. Her lecture was titled “Is
there a role for hormonal therapy after traumatic brain injury?”
Mark Soloway, M.D., professor and chair of the Department of Urology, recently chaired an international consensus panel for the management of all aspects of bladder cancer. This international effort gathered extensive information in 11 aspects of bladder cancer, from diagnosis to all phases of treatment, and culminated in a six-month review process and a presentation at the International Society of Urology meeting in Hawaii. Soloway and several members of the urology department were major contributors to this effort. They included Bruce Kava, M.D., Murugesan Manoharan, M.D., Vinata Lokeshwar, Ph.D., and resident Adrienne Carmack, M.D. Each played a major part in the final manuscript from their section; the text will be distributed by the World Health Organization.
Milton B. Armstrong,
M.D., associate professor
in the Division of Plastic Surgery/ Department of Surgery, has received
his recertification in the subspecialty of surgery of the hand from the
American Board of Plastic Surgery.
Elizabeth Fenjves, Ph.D., director of gene therapy at the Diabetes
Research Institute, received a Best Abstract Award at the 7th International
Congress
of the Cell Transplant Society held in Boston. Islet cell transplantation
is a biological replacement of the insulin-producing pancreas cells (islets)
to type 1 diabetic patients. Fenjves’s laboratory is exploring ways
to protect the islets using gene therapy. The award was given for work
showing a novel vector’s capacity to insert two genes into islets
to protect them from assaults in the transplant setting.
Silvina Levis, M.D., endocrinologist
and professor and director of the Osteoporosis Center, has contributed
a chapter on osteoporosis for a book titled Optimal Aging Manual: Your Guide From Experts in Medicine,
Law and Finance. The chapter on osteoporosis features information
on risk factors, diagnosis, prevention, treatment, and pain management.