The Scope E-Newsletter January 2009

The Scope: January 2009

From the Dean's Office

Dean's Message: Budget Reduction Update

In the Spotlight

Stevens Surgery Broadcast Via Satellite

Father of Aerobics, Dr. Kenneth Cooper, to Speak in Knoxville

Jones, Carlson Featured as HPV Experts

Enderson Appointed to National Committee on Trauma

Radiology Residents, Fellow Pass Exams

Kabalka Elected as Fellow to AAAS

New Faculty and Staff Appointments

News

The Scope Has a New Look!

Frontiers to Focus on Public Service

Pathology Using DEXIS Technology

Group Insurance Premiums Unchanged

Business Survival Skills Training Series Continues

Continuing Medical and Dental Education

CMDE Calendar

Research

Graduate School Shares Knowledge Worldwide

   Research Highlights

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Graduate School Shares Knowledge Worldwide

Graduate School Shares Knowledge WorldwideThrough invited presentations, Graduate School researchers and physicians share findings with their peers, making an impact on patient care worldwide.


Ache Presents in Puerto Rico

Kevin Ache, DO
Kevin Ache, DO

Third-year Family Medicine resident Kevin Ache, DO, presented his poster, "Are End-of-Life Printed Patient Health Education Materials Readable?", co-authored by Lorraine Wallace, PhD, at the North American Primary Care Research Group 36th Annual Meeting, Rio Grande, Puerto Rico, in November 2008.

 

Wallace Presents Results of Study: Uninsured Children

Lorraine Wallace, PhD, study on "Uninsured Children with Insured Parents"

Lorraine Wallace, PhD, Professor, Family Medicine, and her colleagues from Oregon Health Science University were invited to present results of their study, "Uninsured Children with Insured Parents," at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., Oct. 21, 2008. Their paper was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association's October 2008 "Health of the Nation" issue.  Slides from the presentation are available at http://pubs.ama-
assn.org/homepage/media/health_of_nation/slides_devoe.pdf


Kabalka Presents Research Findings Worldwide

George Kabalka, PhD
George Kabalka, PhD

George Kabalka, PhD, Professor, Robert H. Cole Neuroscience Chair, Radiology, traveled worldwide in November 2008 giving invited presentations.

International Workshop on PET in Boron Neutron Capture Therapy, Pisa, Italy, November 2008
"Preparation of F-18 Labeled para-Boronophenylalanine for Use in BNCT"

BASF Boron Conference, New Brunswick, NJ, November 2008
"Carbon-Carbon Bond Forming Reactions"

Southeast Regional ACS Meeting, Nashville, Tenn., November 2008
"Tandem Carbon-Oxygen Bond Cleavage Using Boron Halides"


Waters Moderates Discussion in Chile

W. Bedford Waters, MD
W. Bedford Waters,
MD

W. Bedford Waters, MD, Professor of Surgery/Urology, was an invited speaker at the Societe Internationale d'Urologie's World Uro-Oncology Update meeting in Santiago, Chile, Nov. 19-22, 2008. He was the moderator and a speaker at a Surgical Tips Session on Bladder Cancer, "Radical Cystectomy and Urinary Diversion." There were 1400 registered physicians in attendance.

 

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