College Monthly Update
for
December 2002
Update Archive

• Jed Magen, D.O., Department of Psychiatry, has been named Acting Chairperson for the Department of Psychiatry.

• David Neff, D.O., MSUCOM Class of 1980, and Merck Regional Medical Director, received the "Move the Rock Award" at the Merck Medical and Scientific Affairs Recognition Day. This is the highest honor given, signifying recognition as the most effective Regional Medical Director in the country.

• Two faculty members of the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology were among the fall recipients of IRGP Grants for $50,000 from the Office of the Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies. Dr. Alex Chen's award will support his studies on "Superoxide-induced cutaneous nitric oxide reduction on would healing impairment in Type I diabetes", and John Goudreau, D.O., Ph.D. (jointly appointed in the Department of Neurology and Ophthalmology) will use his award to support his studies on "The neuroprotective role of alpha synuclein in Parkinson's disease".

• Gary Moorman, D.O., Director of Medical Education, HFHS/HHS (Bi-County Community/Henry Ford Wyandotte); Gail Riegle, Ph.D., Acting Senior Associate Dean, and Associate Dean of Academic Programs; and Robert Sutton, Ph.D., Executive Director of Medical Education, Genesys Regional Medical Center, have been appointed as Michigan representatives on the newly formed Advisory Committee of the Section and Council of Medical Educators of the American Osteopathic Association.

• Sue Barman, Ph.D., Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, was elected to a three year term as Chair of the Section Advisory Council of the American Physiological Society (APS), and as a result, will also serve as an ex officio member on the APS Council.

• Karen Busch, Academic Specialist, received her Ph.D. degree in Higher Education with an emphasis in Medical Education from Michigan State University.

• The MSUCOM Alumni Association Board of Directors hosted a reception for Ingham County alumni and friends of the college on December 11. Over 45 alumni and friends participated in the event.

• Jay Goodman, Ph.D., Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, received a gift of $35,000 from the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company to support his research on the role of altered DNA methylation in carcinogenesis.

• Mark Cummings, Ph.D., Associate Dean, Statewide Campus System; Mark Notman, Ph.D., Executive Director, Medical Informatics; and Gail Riegle, Ph.D., Acting Senior Associate Dean and Associate Dean, Academic Programs, have become Associate Members of the Michigan Osteopathic Association.

• The Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology received a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Award of $7,500 from the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. This is the tenth year that the department has competed successfully for this annual award, which provides partial stipends for five undergraduate students who spend ten weeks during the summer term conducting research with faculty in the department. Peter Cobbett, Ph.D., is Director of the SURF Program, and may be contacted directly if you know of deserving third year undergraduate students who might be interested in participating in this program.

• Congratulations to the following individuals who had publications appear in print during the month of December. M.B. Rheuben, W.D. Atchison, J.J. Galligan.

• January 23-26, MAOFP, Shanty Creek Resort.

• February 6, 4:00 pm, Visiting Minority Faculty Lecture, Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon, Kellogg Center.

• February 13, 4:00 pm, Visiting Minority Faculty Lecture, Rev. Wyatt T. Walker, Kellogg Center.

• February 20, 4:00 pm, Visiting Minority Faculty Lecture, William Anderson, D.O., Kellogg Center.

• February 27, 4:00 pm, Visiting Minority Faculty Lecture, Mr. Tom Hayden, Kellogg Center.