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The Medical Mycology Society of the Americas has named David R. Soll, Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver/Emil Witschi Professor of Biology in the University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the winner of the 2013 Rhoda Benham Award.
The award is given “to an individual from the Americas for continuous outstanding or meritorious contributions to medical mycology.” The Medical Mycology Society of the Americas was founded in 1966 in part “to provide recognition to medical mycology as a flourishing and distinct division of medical microbiology.”
Soll will formally receive the award May 20 during the society’s annual meeting in Denver.
Soll, who directs the W.M. Keck Dynamic Image Analysis Facility as well as the the Monoclonal Antibody Research Institute, in 2009 received his field’s other major award: the Lucille K. George Medal, given every three years for the outstanding medical mycologist from the International Society for Human and Animal Mycology.
Soll, who joined the UI faculty in 1972, is internationally known for his work on Candida albicans, cell motility and monoclonal antibody technology, as well as his investigations in a variety of other research fields.
A Fellow of both the American Academy of Microbiology and the American Association for the Advancement of Science since 2006, he is currently director of the Developmental Studies Hybridoma Bank, an NIH National Resource located in the UI Department of Biology. The facility distributes proteins, called monoclonal antibodies, used to study, diagnose and treat cancer throughout the world.
Steve Hendrix, UI professor of biology, has been named director of academics and research at Iowa Lakeside Laboratory, a 147-acre campus on the shores of Lake Okoboji in northwest Iowa that is a Regents Resource Center. For more information, visit www.continuetolearn.uiowa.edu/news/illrc-hendrix.html .
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Ryan Carnahan (Epidemiology) presented “Improving Antipsychotic Appropriateness in Dementia Patients,” at the American Medical Directors Association with Paul Mulhausen, March 23. He also presented the same talk at the Iowa Neurological Association Annual Meeting, March 3.
Keith Mueller, PhD, (Health Management and Policy)presented “Research to Policy and Practice: Sustaining Rural Health Services” to the Iowa Association of Hospital Leaders, Roundtable Discussion, Des Moines, Feb. 28.
Jennifer Robinson (Epidemiology) gave the following two presentations on “Can we cure cardiovascular disease in our lifetime?” at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Feb. 1 and “Treating Lipids in Patients at Risk” for Chronic CAD: What do you need to know from the guidelines? at the American College of Cardiology Scientific Sessions, San Francisco, March 9.
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Leira EC; Chris Coffey, (Biostatistics); Jorge RE, Morton SM; Froehler MT; Davis PH; and Adams HP (2013): “The NIHSS Supplementary Motor Scale: A Valid Tool for Multidisciplinary Recovery Trials,” Presented as a poster at the International Stroke Conference, February.
McClure LA; Szychowski JM; Benavente O; Hart RG; and Chris Coffey, (Biostatistics) (2013): “Increasing the Sample Size in the Secondary Prevention of Small Subcortical Strokes (SPS3) Study: What Did We Gain?” Presented as a poster at the International Stroke Conference, February.
Szychowski JM; McClure LA; White CL; Pergola PE; Benavente O; and Chris Coffey (Biostatistics) (2013). “Factors Affecting Time to Achieve Blood Pressure Targets in the Secondary Prevention of Small Subcortical Strokes (SPS3) Trial,” Presented as a poster at the International Stroke Conference, February.
Gordon M; Stephenson D; Chris Coffey, (Biostatistics); Cole PE; Comery TA; Grachev I; Grosset D; Harbron C; Kuoppamaki M; Lindstedt K; Meibach R; Marek K; Matthews D; Romero K; Russell D; Seibyl J; Sherer T; Stark Y; Subramaniam R; and Walton M for the Coalition Against Major Diseases (CAMD—2013). “The Coalition Against Major Diseases: Dopamine Transporter Neuroimaging as an Enrichment Biomarker to Enable Parkinson’s Disease Clinical Trials,” presented at the American Academy of Neurology Annual Meeting (San Diego, CA), March.
Kearney M; Ecklund D; Simpson E; Bosch M; Sweet B; Jackson K; Mahoney K; McCourt M; Thornell B; Titus S; Soodoo N; O’Brien J; Gloer K; Costigan M; Logsden-Sackett N; Huff T; Shefner J; Staley K; Guttmann L; Clarke W; Torner J; Long J; Chaloner K; Bayman E; McNeil E; Kaufmann P; Koroshetz W; Cudkowicz M; and Chris Coffey, (Biostatistics) (2013). “Network for Excellence in Neuroscience Clinical Trials, NeuroNEXT: Concept to Implementation,” presented at the American Academy of Neurology Annual Meeting (San Diego, CA), March.
Spracklen C;Harland K;Stegmann B;Saftlas A (Epidemiology): an article, "Cervical surgery for cervical intraepithelial neoplasia and prolonged time to conception of a live birth: a case-control study"BJOG. 2013 Mar 14.doi: 10.1111/1471-0528.12209.
Keith Mueller (Health Management and Policy) and Anthony R. Eves, (Health Management and Policy): an article, “State Health Insurance Exchanges: Assessing Rural Implications of Statute” Rural Policy Research Institute, February, P2013-1.
Pavilonis B; Anthony TR; Humann M; Merchant J; Moore G; Thorne P; Weisel C; Sanderson W: an article, "Indoor and outdoor particulate matter and endotoxin concentrations in an intensely agricultural county," Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology (doi:10.1038/jes.2012.123)
Anthony TRand Anderson KR: an article, "Computational fluid dynamics investigation of human aspiration in low velocity air: Orientation effects on mouth breathing simulations"Ann. Occup. Hyg (doi 10.1093/annhyg/mes108)
Reeve KA; Peters TM; Anthony TR: an article, "Wintertime factors affecting contaminant distribution in a swine farrowing room" J Occup Env Hygiene (doi:10.1080/15459624.2013.777303)
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Spracklen C (Epidemiology);Harland K;Stegmann B;Saftlas A: an article, "Cervical surgery for cervical intraepithelial neoplasia and prolonged time to conception of a live birth: a case-control study"BJOG. 2013 Mar 14.doi: 10.1111/1471-0528.12209.
Keith Mueller, PhD, (Health Management and Policy) andAnthony R. Eves, MBA, JD (Health Management and Policy):an article,“State Health Insurance Exchanges: Assessing Rural Implications of Statute” Rural Policy Research Institute, February.P2013-1.
Pavilonis B; Anthony TR;Humann M; Merchant J; Moore G; Thorne P;Weisel C; Sanderson W: an article, "Indoor and outdoor particulate matter and endotoxin concentrations in an intensely agricultural county,"Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology(doi:10.1038/jes.2012.123)
Anthony TR and Anderson KR: an article, "Computational fluid dynamics investigation of human aspiration in low velocity air: Orientation effects on mouth breathing simulations"Ann. Occup. Hyg(doi10.1093/annhyg/mes108)
Reeve KA; Peters TM; Anthony TR: an article, "Wintertime factors affecting contaminant distribution in a swine farrowing room " J Occup Env Hygiene (doi:10.1080/15459624.2013.777303)