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faculty news The latest accomplishments of our distinguished faculty HYDERI APPOINTED ASSOCIATE DEAN FOR CURRICULUM Abbas Hyderi, MD '01, MPH, has been appointed associate dean for curriculum at the College of Medicine in Chicago. Hyderi became interim associate dean for curriculum in January 2012 and had served as assistant dean for curriculum starting in September 2010. Hyderi has helped lead major curricular reform in these posts and will have oversight of the M1 through M4 curriculum, in addition to retaining principal oversight of the M1/M2 curriculum. He has been a faculty member in the department of family medicine since 2005 and became an associate professor in August 2012. From 2008-10, Hyderi served as associate residency program director, and he has received the Illinois Academy of Family Physicians Teacher of the Year Award. Since 2007 he has served Abbas Hyderi as the director of the largest course at the COM in Chicago, called the Essentials of Clinical Medicine, which will be transferred to Asra Khan, MD, as Hyderi becomes associate dean. Hyderi is a co-principal investigator of a $1.9 million Health Resources and Services Administration grant that has allowed the family medicine residency program to create the Health Disparities Scholars Program. That program, which began in July 2011, includes two additional residents each year, for five years, who will focus on providing high-quality, patient-centered, culturally appropriate care to all patients, particularly those who are underserved and vulnerable. HARROW, KONDOS RECEIVE COLLEGE FACULTY AWARDS The College of Medicine bestowed two top awards on its faculty members during the commencement ceremony on May 10 (see related story, page 24). Martin Harrow, PhD, ABPP, professor of psychiatry, received the Distinguished Faculty Award for his exceptional research in the area of schizophrenia. George Kondos, MD, professor of Martin Harrow medicine, received the Faculty of the Year Award, selected by his peers, for his work in the area of cardiovascular disease. Harrow's work has been at the forefront of George Kondos psychopathology scholarship, challenging assumptions about severe psychiatric diseases and their clinical treatments. In addition to schizophrenia, he has focused on conditions like mania, depression, schizoaffective disorders, other psychotic disorders and nonpsychotic mental illnesses. Kondos received recognition for his overall sustained excellence as a clinician, educator, administrator and scholar. He served as 8 | Fa l l 2 0 13 interim chair of medicine for six months in 2011, then became vice chair for clinical affairs at the college. Kondos also has served as interim chief of clinical cardiology, all while maintaining his clinics. Both recipients of this honor have brought international recognition to the College of Medicine. GONZALEZ EARNS AAOS DIVERSITY AWARD Mark H. Gonzalez, MD, MEng, has received the 2013 AAOS Diversity Award from the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. Professor and head of orthopaedics at the College of Medicine, Gonzalez was recognized for practicing and promoting culturally Mark H. Gonzalez competent care, providing care to underserved patient populations and recruiting, training and mentoring women and people of color as medical students and residents. As a result, half of the orthopaedic program's residents are either female and/ or from racially or ethnically diverse backgrounds, including the first female African-American resident and the first female orthopaedic faculty members. And this diverse group is being trained to address musculoskeletal issues with sensitivity to patients' cultural needs and preferences. Prior to arriving at the college, Gonzalez spent more than 20 years as chairman of orthopaedics and chief of hand surgery at Cook County Hospital. GELLER, DU AMONG UIC 'DISTINGUISHED RESEARCHERS' Two College of Medicine professors were among five named as Distinguished Researchers of 2012 at the University of Illinois at Chicago. They were: Stacie E. Geller, Stacie E. Geller PhD, associate head for research and G. William Arends Professor in Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Xiaoping Du, MD, PhD, professor of pharmacolXiaoping Du ogy. Geller, who is also director of both the Center for Re- LOEB NAMED NEUROLOGY & REHAB MEDICINE HEAD Jeffrey A. Loeb, MD, PhD, a highly respected neurologist and translational scientist, has been named head of the department of neurology & rehabilitation medicine at the College of Medicine. Loeb previously served as neurology professor and associate director of The Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics at Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit. He has received multiple grants from the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation and private foundations for research that focuses on the role of neuregulins in development as well as the genomics of human epilepsy. Loeb has worked to actively translate basic discoveries into novel therapeutics for neurological disorders such as multiple sclerosis, ALS and epilepsy. With a reputation for successful mulJeffrey A. Loeb tidisciplinary program development, and collaboration with both academic and private industry, Loeb has pioneered a systems biology approach that links genes, proteins and molecules to epileptic activities in the human brain. He also has been a pioneer in the field of growth factor signaling in motor neurons, developing patented therapeutics for a variety of human diseases, including an innovative drug-targeting technology that could significantly improve treatment of brain disorders and cancer. After receiving his MD and PhD from the University of Chicago, Loeb completed a residency at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and a fellowship in epilepsy and clinical neurophysiology at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital at Harvard University, during which time he also held a faculty appointment at the Harvard Medical School.