The Scope E-Newsletter June 2009

Graduate School Shares Knowledge Worldwide Through publications and invited presentations, UT Graduate School of Medicine researchers and physicians share findings with their peers, making an impact on patient care worldwide.

Research Highlights

Surgery Presents and Wins at ACOS

Physicians in Surgery attended and presented at the Tennessee Chapter of the American College of Surgeons meeting at Fall Creek Falls State Park, Pikeville, Tenn., May 22-24.

Mike Tummers, MD, Resident, won the Tennessee Chapter Committee on Trauma Basic Science Competition for his presentation, "Linear Relationship of Force to Injury in a Blunt Aortic Injury Model." He will present at the Regional Competition in November. Co-authors included Daniel Alterman, MD, Justin Baba, PhD, Michael Ericson, PhD, Gary Alley, PhD, and Brian Daley, MD.

LaMar Mack, MD, Resident, won second place in the Adkins/Morgan Resident Paper Competition for his paper titled, "Initiation of a Vascular Surgical Carotid Artery Stenting Program." Scott Stevens, MD, co-authored.

Other presentations included

Daniel Alterman, MD
"Feasibility of Starting an Isolated Limb Infusion Program and Early Results."
Co-authors: Cynthia Talley, MD, Keith Gray, MD, Michael Freeman, MD, John Bell, MD, Mitchell Goldman, MD, and James Lewis, MD

Sagar Gandhi, MD
"Pre-Operative Localization of Parathyroid Adenoma by 4D CT: A Single Institution Retrospective Review."
Co-authors: Sabina Siddiqui, MD, and Henry Nelson, MD

Khanjan Nagarsheth, MD
"Gastroinestinal Tract Obstruction Due to Simultaneous Primary Colon and Duodenal Adenocarcinomas."
Co-authors: Dustin Smith, MD, Keith Gray, MD, John Bell, MD, and James Lewis, MD

Khanjan Nagarsheth, MD
"Ultrasound Detection of Pneumothorax Compared to Chest XRay and CT Scan."
Co-author: Stanley Kurek, DO

Christine Ormsby, MD
"Missed Injuries in the age of the Trauma Scan."
Co-authors: Christy Lawson, MD, and Brian Daley, MD

Sabina Siddiqui, MD
"ODAM as a Novel Biomarker for Human Breast Cancer."
Co-authors: Charles Bruker, MD, Daniel Kestler, PhD, James Foster, Keith Gray, MD, Alan Solomon, MD, and John Bell, MD
Accepted for publication in The American Surgeon

Mike Tummers, MD
"Estrogen and Progesterone Induce Migration, Invasion and Proliferation of Vascular Smooth Muscle via Matrix Metaloprotinase Regulation."
Co-authors: Diedre Mountain, PhD, Stacy Kirkpatrick, David Cassada, MD, Scott Stevens, MD, Michael Freeman, MD, Mitchell Goldman, MD, and Oscar Grandas, MD

Andrea Ward
"Blockade of the Renin-Angiotensin System Improves Insulin Receptor Signaling and Skeletal Muscle Glucose Uptake in Burn Injury."
Co-authors: Michael Karlstad, PhD, Sherry Kaspar, PhD, Blaine Enderson, MD, and Brian Daley, MD

Bradshaw Secures Second

Jonathan Bradshaw, DDS

Jonathan Bradshaw, DDS, Resident, Dentistry, placed second for his poster, "Amelogenesis Imperfecta: Using Snap on Smile to Enhance Facial Esthetics of an Adolescent Male," at the 21st Annual Meeting on Special Care Dentistry in Baltimore, Md., April 17-19. O. Lee Wilson, DMD, Associate Professor and Program Director, Dentistry, and Murray Marks, PhD, Associate Professor, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery/Division of General Dentistry and Pathology, advised and contributed.

Sports Medicine Rallies


Tanika Pinn, MD	Kenneth Bielak, MD, (right) helps physicians hone their lower-extremity exam skills.

Primary Care Sports Medicine physicians participated in the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine 18th Annual Meeting, "The Pulse of Sports Medicine," in Tampa, Fla., April 24-29.

Tanika Pinn, MD, Fellow, presented a clinical case poster, "Smoky Mountain Hiker with Hip Pain."

Kenneth Bielak, MD, Fellowship Director, helped organize the S.M.A.R.T. (Sideline Management Assessment Response Techniques) Workshop and taught a session on the evaluation of the lower extremity.

Rebecca Morgan, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor, Family Medicine, also attended.

Anesthesia Faculty Review Abstracts

Faculty in Anesthesiology reviewed abstracts in participation with annual meetings. Daniel Bustamante, MD, reviewed abstracts for the 2009 International Anesthesia Research Society Annual Meeting. Robert Craft, MD, and Jerry Epps, MD, reviewed abstracts for the 2009 International Anesthesia Research Society 83rd Clinical and Scientific Congress. Dr. Craft also participated as moderator of research discussions. For the 2009 Annual Meeting for the Society for Education in Anesthesia, Dr. Craft participated as an abstract reviewer.

Presentations

Publications