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VANDEN HOEK NAMED EMERGENCY MEDICINE CHAIR Terry Vanden Hoek, MD, has been appointed professor and chair of the department of emergency medicine at the University of Illinois Medical Center in Chicago. He also begins adjunct appointments in pharmacol- ogy and physiology, where he will lead the new Center for Advanced Resuscitation Medicine. Vanden Hoek has successfully led and supported programs in patient care and biomedical research for 15 years at the Uni- versity of Chicago, where he served in several leadership positions, includ- ing director of the Emergency Resuscitation Center, chair of the CPR com- mittee and interim chief of emergency medicine. Vanden Hoek has served as an invited reviewer for three institutes within the National Institutes of Health; his research has resulted in the development of novel in vitro and in vivo models of cardiovascular resuscitation and therapeutic hypothermia protection. He completed his residency training in emergency medicine at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center in 1995 after receiving his medi- cal degree with honors from the University of Chicago in 1991. GARCIA BECOMES UIC VICE CHANCELLOR FOR RESEARCH by the Association for Academic Psychiatry. The award honors psychiatric educators who have supported medical students, residents and early-career psychiatry faculty in their development as educators and who have, by their example, modeled academic careers in psychiatry and fostered others through mentorship. JONES PUBLISHES DEFINITIVE BREAST SURGERY GUIDE Glyn Jones, MD, has written what's widely recognized as the definitive breast surgery reference for surgeons worldwide, Bostwick's Plastic & Reconstructive Breast Surgery, Third Edition. Jones is a professor and director of reconstructive surgery in the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria's Department of Surgery. PANDEY HONORED FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION Ghanshyam N. Pandey, PhD, has received the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention's 2010 Research Award for investigations that have helped to identify biological markers for suicide. Pandey is professor of pharmacology in the department of psychiatry and the director of Biologi- cal Research Laboratories. His main research interests are the neurobiol- ogy of mood disorders, schizophrenia and suicide. THOMAS RECOGNIZED FOR PLASTIC SURGERY J. Regan Thomas, MD, Francis Lederer Professor and head of otolaryngology–head and neck surgery, has been awarded the Jacques Joseph Award, which is presented annually by the Euro- pean Academy of Facial Plastic Surgery to an internationally rec- ognized facial plastic surgeon. The recipient is recognized at its annual society meeting and presents the annual Jacques Joseph Lecture, named after a German surgeon credited as the "father of rhino- plasty." Thomas also is the author of a new textbook, Advanced Therapy in Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, covering all aspects of reconstructive and aesthetic facial plastic surgery. QUIGLEY HEMATOLOGY ABSTRACT ACCEPTED John G. "Sean" Quigley, MD, of the section of hematology and oncology, had an abstract ac- cepted for the plenary session of the American Society of Hema- tology's annual meeting, held in Orlando Dec. 3–7. The top three abstracts related to basic research and the top three abstracts related to clinical research—out of 5,500 submitted—were presented at the meeting. Full details are at the ASH Web site: http://www. hematology.org/Meetings/Annual- Meeting/. OBERHOLZER LEADS ISLET INTERNSHIP José Oberholzer, MD, chief of transplantation at the College of Medicine and head of the Chicago Diabetes Project, directed 11 area high school students in an inten- sive summer internship working at University of Illinois at Chicago in one of the world's leading islet cell labs. The students, who excel in honors and advanced- placement science courses, are interested in careers in research or medicine. Ober- holzer has assembled a team of research scientists and physicians from around the world who are working together to improve and refine islet cell transplantation, a promising treatment for controlling diabetes. Joe G.N. "Skip" Garcia, MD, was named vice chancellor for research and professor of medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he presides over a research budget of nearly $350 million across all 15 colleges and schools. Prior to his Feb. 1, 2010, appointment, Garcia had spent four years as Lowell T. Coggeshall Professor and chair of the department of medicine at the Uni- versity of Chicago, which rose from a national ranking of No. 25 to No. 12 during his tenure. An internation- ally recognized expert on the genetic basis of lung disease as well as how to prevent and treat inflammatory lung disease, Garcia has focused on the biochemical and molecular underpinnings of lung inflammation in his research. Chief among those is vascular leak, which causes edema in the lungs and surrounding tissue as blood cells and fluid escape small vessels. Several of his approaches in preventing vascular leak and ad- dressing its symptoms have been patented. Garcia received his MD from University of Texas Southwest- ern Medical School. I L L INOI S MEDICINE | 13

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