Tuesday, October 30, 2018 Happy Halloween!
Congratulations to the 2018 Department of Medicine Research Day award winners!
- Top overall presentation- Anurag Mehta (Cardiology)
- Outstanding Oral Presentation (Basic)- Jolyn Fernandes (Pulmonary)
- Outstanding Oral Presentation (Clinical)- Haritha Katakam (Hospital Medicine) and Bonnie Stedge (Hospital Medicine)
- 1st Place Poster Presentation (Clinical)- Anurag Mehta (Cardiology)
- 2nd Place Poster Presentation (Clinical)- Rahsaan Overton (Infectious
Diseases)
- 3rd Place Poster Presentation (Clinical)- Stephan Goebel (Digestive Diseases)
- 1st Place Poster Presentation (Basic)- Matthew Smith (Pulmonary)
- 2nd Place Poster Presentation (Basic)- Juline Deppen (Cardiology)
- 3rd Place Poster Presentation (Basic)- Steven Forrester (Cardiology)
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Deadline: Friday, 11/2 The Office of Postdoctoral Education will again offer the Responsible Conduct of Research Ethics courses GAH:601A, starting in January 2019. Designed especially for Postdocs, Medical Research Fellows, and Early Career Researchers to complete NIH Ethics training requirements for federal funding and proposals. The Ethics course has an on-line and classroom component with classroom sessions in the School of Medicine from 2:45pm to 4:40pm on the following days:
Spring Course GAH:601A beginning in January 2019: Four Wednesdays, January 16 & 30 and February 13 & 27
This Ethics course is required for:
1. those with funding from individual federal fellowships (NIH, NSF, DOD , etc.) such as the NIH F32,
2. those supported by T32, K12 or similar training grants and
3. those with K career awards. For any upcoming proposals in the next 90 days or other pre-award queries, DOM faculty are reminded to contact the DOM RAS pre-award team at the following monitored email.
The Consult Program: This innovative program provides a centralized resource for faculty to request development assistance in five distinct areas: presentations, grant preparation, early career assistance, teaching advisement and manuscript preparation. Read more
Funding & Award Opportunities
Weekly NIH funding opportunities and notices
Federal funding opportunities for public health faculty
Searchable database of internal medicine funding opportunities
2019 Liver scholar award
Deadline: Friday, 12/14 The liver scholar award provides early career scientists with support for their research to bridge the gap between completion of research training and attainment of status as an independent research scientist. Read more
Lawrence S. Linn research grant
Deadline: Monday, 12/17 The Lawrence S. Linn trust grants awards to young investigators "to study or improve the quality of life for persons with AIDS or HIV infection." The maximum amount that will be funded is $5,000. The award, endowed by the Lawrence Linn Trust, will be recognized at SGIMs Annual Meeting. Read more Pancreatic Cancer Action Network translational research grant
Deadline: Friday, 12/21 This Funding Opportunity Award (FOA) supports an independent investigator conducting high priority pancreatic cancer research that is poised for important translational next steps to help move scientific discovery to application in patients. Read more The Glorney-Raisbeck junior faculty research award in cardiovascular diseases
Thursday, 1/10/2019 The goal of this new award from the New York Academy of Medicine is to support promising junior clinical/research faculty in Cardiology or Cardiothoracic Surgery as they prepare to submit NIH or AHA career development awards. Read more Health Care Disparities research award
Deadline: Thursday, 2/7/2019 This award is to assist in the development of young faculty members engaged in disparities research in digestive diseases. Read more
Doug Eaton (Renal Medicine) received funding for a subcontract from Augusta University for a project entitled, “ENaC-a mediates lung fluid clearance and capillary barrier function in pneumonia.” Igho Ofotokun (Infectious Diseases), Neale Weitzmann, Kehmia Titanji (Endocrinology), Leslee Shaw, Arshed Quyyumi (Cardiology) received funding for a U54 grant from the NIA for a project entitled, “Emory specialized center of research excellence on sex differences.”
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Division Research Seminars
Thursday, 11/1 at 8:00 a.m in Whitehead Conference Room 200
Pulmonary Division Research Seminar: “High fructose consumption disrupts lung metabolism in female mice” (Jolyn Fernandes, PhD, PhD)
Thursday, 11/1 at 8 a.m. in the Grace Crum Rollins Building, Rita Anne Rollins Room, SPH
Infectious Disease Seminar: “Genomics and single-cell RNA-seq for immunology” (Steven Bosinger, PhD, Yerkes NHP Genomics Core)
Recent Notable Publications
Ayman Samman-Tahhan, Andrew McCue, Vasiliki Georgiopoulou, Alanna Morris (Cardiology)
Hedley JS, Samman-Tahhan A, McCue AA, Bjork JB, et al. "Definitions of Stage D heart failure and outcomes among outpatients with heart failure and reduced ejection fraction.” Int J Cardiol. 2018 Dec 1;272:250-254. Read more Raluca Cosmuta (Rheumatology)
Fraenkel L, Reyna V, Cozmuta R, Cornell D, et al. "Do visual aids influenced patients' risk perceptions for rare and very rare risks?” Patient Educ Couns. 2018 Nov ; 101 (11): 1900-1905. Read more Wendy Armstrong (Infectious Diseases)
Luther VP, Shnekendorf R, Abbo LM, Advani S, et al. "Antimicrobial stewardship training of infectious diseases fellows: Program directors identify a curriculum need.” Clin Infect Dis. 2018 Sep 28;67(8):1285-1287. Read more Ameeta Kalokhe (Infectious Diseases)
Coudhry V, Dayal R, Pillai D, Kalokhe AS, et al. “Child sexual abuse in India: A systematic review." PLoS One. 2018 Oct 9;13(10):e0205086. Read more
The Emory Center for Clinical and Molecular Nutrition November Seminar
Thursday, 11/8 at 4 pm in SOM 190P. Cassandra L. Quave PhD (Assistant Professor, Department of Dermatology- Emory University School of Medicine) presents, “Wild foods and the ethnobotany of taste.” Read more (PDF) K-Club- “Let’s get specific- the importance of the specific aims page.”
Monday, 11/12 at noon in Egelston Classrooms 5-7. The K-Club provides an educational forum to assist fellows and faculty. Facilitated by Stacy Heilman, PhD, Assistant Professor, Director, Pediatric Research Operations, Emory University Department of Pediatrics & Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and presented by Daniel S. Wechsler, MD, PhD, Professor of Pediatrics and Director of Pediatric Oncology, Thomas R. Giddens Chair, Aflac Cancer & Blood Disorders Center, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Emory University School of Medicine. Register | Read more (PDF) Pediatric Research Alliance Conference
Tuesday, 11/13 at 3 pm in the Health Services Research Building Auditorium. Neil Goldenberg, MD, PhD (Professor of Pediatrics & Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Director of Research Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital (JHAC), Chief Research Officer, All Children’s Research Institite, Director, Thrombosis Program, JHAC Cancer and Blood Disorder Institute, Director, Stroke Program JHAC Institute for Brain Protection Sciences, presents this special presentation entitled, “Rationale, design, update, and lessons learned from the NHLBI-sponsored kids- DOTT multinational RCT.” Read more (PDF)
Puja Mehta
Division of Cardiology
What is your professional background?
I was an Applied Biology major at the Georgia Institute of Technology and graduated from the Medical College of Georgia in 2002. After completing an internal medicine residency at Emory, I pursued a cardiology fellowship that included two years of basic vascular biology training. Subsequently, I did an additional year of research fellowship in women’s heart health at the Barbra Streisand Women’s Heart Center at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles. I stayed on as faculty there for 5 years focusing on cardiovascular prevention and women’s heart disease. I then re-joined Emory in 2015 as the Director of Women’s Translational Cardiovascular Research at the Emory Women’s Heart Center. In what division do you work, and who is your mentor?
I am an Assistant Professor in the Division of Cardiology in the Department of Medicine. I have been fortunate to have many outstanding mentors at Emory. My original clinical research mentor at Cedars-Sinai was C. Noel Bairey Merz, MD. Briefly describe your research. Why is it important?
My research focuses on pathophysiology, diagnosis, and treatment of the syndrome of ischemia with no obstructive coronary arteries. This group of patients, who are more likely to be women, are at risk for cardiovascular events due to coronary microvascular dysfunction. However, diagnostic and treatment algorithms are poorly defined to manage this condition. Over the past 8 years, I have focused on mechanistic research and clinical trials in this population. My K23 grant focused on cardiac autonomic dysfunction and the role of mental stress in vascular reactivity in women. I am interested in novel pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic methods to manage persistent angina in this challenging syndrome. What do you like most about Emory?
I like the collaborative research environment and the diverse patient population. Being at an academic center like Emory is exciting because of the opportunities to learn and teach. What is your favorite movie or TV show?
I like watching period dramas and British murder mysteries; the Big Bang Theory is also fun. What do you like to do in your spare time?
I enjoy nature walks, traveling, music, and spending time with my family and friends!
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