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COM Outlook . Spring 2014
OMS-II’s
Sergey
Arutyunyan
and
Michael
Carranza
were selected
to participate
in the College of Osteopathic
Medicine’s 2014-15 Predoctoral
Research Fellowship Program.
During their fellowship year,
which will commence on July
1, Arutyunyan and Carranza
will have the opportunity to de-
velop an individualized training
program, engage in all aspects
of the research
process, and
collaborate
with others
involved in
the exciting
research field.
OMS-II
Naveen Dha-
wan, M.B.A.
,
authored an
article entitled
“Putting Pa-
tients First: A
Novel Patient-Centered Model
for Medical Enterprise Success”
that will be published in the
May/June issue of the
Journal of
Medical Practice Management.
Stephen G.
Grant, Ph.D.
,
an associate
professor in
the Master of
Public Health
Program who
also works with the college’s
Institute for Neuro-Immune
Medicine, co-edited the second
edition of
Molecular Toxicol-
ogy Protocols
. The book, pub-
lished in March, adds chapters
on genomic methods. He also
was selected to serve as a grant
reviewer in November for the
U.S. Army’s Congressionally
Directed Medical Research Pro-
gram for the Preclinical Breast
Cancer Research Breakthrough
Award. In addition, Dr. Grant
was invited to serve as a peer
reviewer for the journal
Toxi-
cology in Vitro
and also serves
as an editorial board member
of the publication. He also
authored a paper published in
the
McMaster Online Review
of Evidence
.
Elizabeth
Hames, D.O.
,
assistant
professor of
geriatrics,
coauthored
a poster
entitled “Analysis of Hospi-
talizations in a High-Acuity
Nursing Home Population: A
Quality Improvement Proj-
ect” with
Naushira Pandya,
M.D., CMD, FACP
, professor
and chair of the Department
of Geriatrics, and
Kenya
Rivas, M.D.
, assistant pro-
fessor of geriatrics, that was
presented at the American
Medical Directors Associa-
tion (AMDA) annual meeting
held February 28-March 1 in
Nashville, Tennessee. She also
presented a lecture entitled
“Chronic Kidney Disease in
the Elderly: Current Trends in
Geriatrics” with Dr. Rivas and
Hady Masri, D.O.
, assistant
professor of geriatrics, at
the AMDA meeting. In addi-
tion, Dr. Hames, Dr. Pandya,
Sweta Tewary, Ph.D., M.S.W.
,
clinical assistant professor
and evidence-based practice
project director, and others
were awarded a $5,000 HPD
Research Grant in February for
their project proposal entitled
“Defining Socially and Medi-
cally Vulnerable Populations of
Older Adults Using Geograph-
ic Information Systems (GIS):
An Interprofessional Analysis
in Southeastern Florida.”
Jay M. Fleisher, Ph.D., M.S.
,
associate professor of public
health, was notified by Scopus
that his body of research has
been cited 1,037 times in 758
journals.
Scopus is
the largest
abstract and
citation data-
base of peer-
reviewed lit-
erature, featuring smart tools
to track, analyze, and visualize
research. The organization
has developed its new and
growing metric to measure the
quality of one’s research.
Robin J. Ja-
cobs, Ph.D.,
M.S.W.
,
associate
professor of
psychiatry and
behavioral
medicine, preventive medi-
cine, biomedical informatics,
and public health and direc-
tor of international medicine,
and
Raymond Ownby, M.D.,
Ph.D., M.B.A.
, professor and
chair of the Department of
Psychiatry and Behavioral
Medicine, coauthored two
articles entitled “Negative and
Positive Beliefs About Mood
and Health” in the January
edition of the
American Jour-
nal of Health Behavior
and
“Quality of Life, Health Status,
and Health Service Utilization
Related to a New Measure
of Health Literacy FLIGHT/
VIDAS” in
Patient Education
and Counseling
. The duo pre-
sented a lecture entitled “Fac-
tors Associated with Health
Literacy in Persons Aging with
HIV/AIDS” at the Gerontologi-
cal Society of America’s 66
th
Annual Scientific Meeting held
November 22 in New Orleans,
Louisiana. They also presented
on “The Abilities, Skills, and
Knowledge (ASK) Model Pre-
dicts FLIGHT Health Literacy
and Numeracy Performance in
Spanish and English Speak-
ers” at the Fifth Annual Health
Literacy Research Confer-
ence held October 28-29 in
Bethesda, Maryland.
OMS-II
David Kim
coauthored
a manuscript
entitled “Ex-
pression Pro-
filing Strati-
fies Mesothelioma Tumors
and Signifies Deregulation of
Spindle Checkpoint Pathway
and Microtubule Network with
Therapeutic Implications” that
has been accepted for publica-
tion in an upcoming issue of
the
Annals of Oncology
.
Lynn Lafferty,
Pharm.D.,
M.B.A., N.D.,
CNC, CNHP
,
assistant
professor
of family
medicine, presented a lecture
at the International Myeloma
Foundation’s Boca Raton Sup-
port Group for patients with
multiple myeloma on February
3. The presentation focused
on the primary chemotherapy
drugs used in treating multiple
myeloma, a question-and-
answer session about herbal
and vitamin supplements, and
meditation techniques.
OMS-III An-
drea Palestro
coauthored
a case report
entitled “Man-
agement of
Incarcerating
Pincer-Type Femoroacetabular
Impingement with Hip Arthros-
copy” that was published on
February 19 in the online ver-
sion of
Arthroscopy Techniques
.
Naushira
Pandya,
M.D., CMD,
FACP
, profes-
sor and chair
of the Depart-
ment of Geri-
atrics, presented two lectures
entitled “Aging in America” and
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