Tuesday, February 26, 2019
Reminder: Register Now! Deadline: 3/5
2019 FEED Conference - Friday, 3/22 from 8 a.m. to 12:40 p.m. in the Emory 1599 Building. This event provides an exciting half-day CME-accredited program full of learning opportunities for faculty at all levels.
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Mark your calendars! Join the New Fulton County HIV/AIDS Prevention, Care, and Policy Advisory Committee Thursday, 2/28 from 6-7:30 p.m. at the Grady IDP (Ponce Clinic) Read more
Need help navigating the Department of Medicine Research Administration Service (RAS) Unit? The DOM RAS Unit has issued a one-page document to assist you in working your way through the grant submission process starting with pre-award. Download PDF
Manuscript Publication Resources
The Department of Medicine (DOM) Office of Research offers many programs, resources and tools to help faculty and postdoctoral fellows with their research endeavors. Read more. Need help identifying target journals and how to avoid predatory journals? Explore Journal/Author Name Estimator (JANE).
Funding & Award Opportunities
Weekly NIH funding opportunities and notices
Federal funding opportunities for public health faculty
Searchable database of internal medicine funding opportunities Foundation for Women's Wellness (FWW) research awards
Deadline: Friday, 4/5 FWW research awards target early funding for small, short-term studies with promise for improving medical knowledge in cardiovascular disease, leading female cancers, the role of hormones in disease and stage-of-life health issues such as pregnancy and menopause and diseases disproportionately affecting women. Read more Economic modeling for HIV/AIDS, viral hepatitis, STD, and TB
Deadline: Friday, 4/12 This notice of FOA is to support epidemiologic and economic modeling of disease transmission to facilitate prevention effectiveness of public health interventions and support state and local disease prevention efforts. Read more FDA and Center for Drug Evaluation and Research: Enhancing regulatory science for the risk-based quality assessment of complex products (U01) - clinical trials optional
Deadline: Monday, 4/22 The purpose of this program is to support research activities that expand the knowledge base related to complex products and formulation development, analysis, and manufacturing control to advance risk-based quality assessment of new and generic drug products. Read more Systems biology enabled research on the roles of microbiomes in nutrient cycling processes
Deadline: Friday, 5/17 This FOA solicits applications for: i) systems biology studies on regulatory, metabolic, and signaling networks of microbes, microbial consortia, and microbe-plant interactions involved in biogeochemical cycling of nutrients; and ii) development and application of -omics approaches to investigate microbial community processes involved in biogeochemical nutrient cycling in terrestrial ecosystems. Read more Scleroderma Foundation established investigator grant
Deadline: Friday, 9/13 The Scleroderma Foundation seeks applications from promising established investigators both inside and outside the field of scleroderma research who wish to propose pilot studies to obtain preliminary data dealing with a highly innovative and/or highly relevant theme related to the disease. Read more
David Guidot, Ruxana Sadikot, Xian Fan, Michael Koval (Pulmonary) received funding from the NHLBI for a R01 entitled, “How HIV-related proteins increase the susceptibility to lung injury despite anti-retroviral therapy.” Heba Iskandar (Digestive Diseases) received funding from the Celgene Corporation for a project entitled, “Studies investigating ozanimod for moderate to severe Crohn’s Disease.” David Green (Pulmonary) received funding from the Department of Veterans Affairs BLR&D award for a project entitled, “Mitophagy in pulmonary hypertension: Novel roles of PTEN-Induced Kinase-1 in the pathobiology of pulmonary artery smooth muscle cell
proliferation and mitochondrial dysfunction.” Michael Woodworth and Colleen Kraft (Infectious Diseases) received funding for a K23 from NIAID for a project entitled, “Temporal dynamics of multi-drug resistant organism eradication after fecal microbiota transplant.”
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Division Research Seminars
Thursday, 2/28 at 8 a.m. Grace Crum Rollins Building, Rita Anne Rollins Room, 8th Floor, SPH
Infectious Disease Seminar: “Beyond contact tracing: how a better understanding of the host immune response to co-infections and undernutrition can improve leprosy control” (Jessica Farley, MD)
Thursday, 2/28 at 8 a.m. Whitehead, Conference Room 200
Pulmonary Division Research Seminar: (Larissa Shimoda, PhD, John Hopkins Medicine)
Monday, 3/4 at 9 a.m. Emory University Hospital, Hurst Conference Room, E450
Cardiovascular Biology Seminar: “Vascular regeneration with stem cells, directly reprogrammed cells and engineering” (David Merryman, PhD, Vanderbilt University)
Monday, 3/4 at 5 p.m. Woodruff Memorial Research Building, Room 317
Endocrine Conference: (M. Neale Weitzmann, PhD)
Tuesday, 3/5 at 5 p.m. School of Medicine, Room 170A
Renal Grand Rounds: (Eleanor Lederer, MD, University of Louisville)
Recent Notable Publications
Georges Ephrem (Cardiology)
Ephrem G, Alshawabkeh L. “Contemporary ACHD training and the reality of the field in the United States.” Int J Cardiol. 2019 Feb 15;277:85-89. Read more Walter Orenstein (Infectious Diseases)
Pham MA, Bednarczyk RA, Becker ER, Orenstein WA, et al. “Trends in U.S. Community hospitalizations due to herpes zoster: 2001-2015.” Vaccine. 2019 Feb 4;37(6):882-888.
Read more Dean Jones (Pulmonary)
Park YH, Kong T, Roede JR, Jones DP, et al. “A biplot correlation range for group-wise metabolite selection in mass spectrometry.” BioData Min. 2019 Feb 4;12:4. Read more Viola Vaccarino (Cardiology)
Vaccarino V. “An inflammatory phenotype for posttraumatic stress disorder and depression?” Brain Behav Immun. 2019 Feb;76:5-6. Read more Ahmed AlBadri, Puja Mehta (Cardiology)
AlBadri A, Bairey Merz CN, Johnson BD, Wei J, et al. “Impact of abnormal coronary reactivity on long- term clinical outcomes in women. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2019 Feb 19;73(6):684-693. Read more
Would you like to highlight a recent notable publication?
CFAR special seminar: “Exploiting oxidative stress to tackle the HIV reservoir: From basic science to clinical trials”
Thursday, 2/28 at 5 p.m. in the Health Sciences Research Building Auditorium. Andrea Savarino, MD from the Istituto Superiore di Sanita (ISS) in Rome, Italy serves as the keynote speaker for this event. Register | Read more (PDF)
March Vaccine Dinner Club: “Out, out damn spots! Global measles/rubella control, elimination, and eradication efforts”
Wednesday, 3/6 at 6 p.m. in the WHSCAB plaza and auditorium. Alan Hinman, MD (consulting senior advisor for the Center for Vaccine Equity, Taskforce for global health) will serve as the keynote speaker. Register | Read more Pediatric Research Alliance seminar: “The broad spectrum of flow cytometry”
Wednesday, 3/6 at 4 p.m. in the Health Services Research Building Auditorium. Joanna Lannigan, MS (Director, Flow Cytometry Core, University of Virginia School of Medicine) serves as keynote speaker for this special event. Read more “Understanding fibrosis in biliary diseases: Lessons from congenital hepatic fibrosis” Tuesday, 3/12 at 1 p.m. in the Health Sciences Research Building Auditorium. Emory’s School of Medicine- Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition Metabolic Health Program & Research Training in Translational GI and liver presents this special
seminar featuring speaker Mario Strazzabosco, MD, PhD, (Professor of Medicine- Digestive Diseases, Director & Clinical Program Leader, Smillow Liver Cancer Program, Deputy Director, Yale Live Center- Yale University).
Register | Read more Save the Date! 2019 Internal Medicine Resident Research Day
Tuesday, 4/30 at noon in the Emory University Hospital Auditorium (2E). This annual event showcases our residents’ research achievements and celebrates the collaborative efforts between residents and dedicated faculty. The poster session will take place in the School of Medicine lobby from 4-6 p.m. Read more
Viola Vaccarino
Department of Epidemiology
Department of Medicine Division of Cardiology
What is your professional background?
I received a MD from the University of Milan, Italy, and a PhD in Epidemiology from Yale University. Between 1995 and 2000, I was part of the faculty at the Yale School of
Public Health. In 2000, I joined Emory as faculty in the Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, and between 2010 and 2018, I served as Chair of the Department of Epidemiology at the Rollins School of Public Health, while I retained a secondary appointment in the Division of Cardiology. In what division do you work, and who do you mentor?
I am the Wilton Looney Chair of Cardiovascular Research and Professor of Epidemiology at the Rollins School of Public Health. I hold a secondary appointment in the Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology. I mentor primarily MPH and PhD students in Epidemiology, PhD postdocs, and MD cardiology fellows. I am the director of a NHLBI-funded T32 training grant in the Department of Epidemiology, developed in collaboration with the Division of Cardiology. This program provides mentoring, training, and stipend support for PhD students and MD or PhD postdoctoral fellows working in cardiovascular sciences with a focus on health disparities. Briefly describe your research. Why is it important?
My research interests lay in cardiovascular epidemiology and prevention, in particular the study of women’s cardiovascular health, social and behavioral determinants of cardiovascular disease, and cardiovascular health inequalities. A focus of my research is mind-body relationships centering on the role of psychological stress and mental health factors on cardiovascular risk. This is an important area as it is understudied and is highly relevant for cardiovascular risk, especially among women. What do you like most about Emory?
I really enjoy the collegiality, collaboration, strong research environment, and beautiful campus with most schools being within walking distance of each other. What is your favorite movie or TV show?
For news, I watch PBS NewsHour. For entertainment, Homecoming and Killing Eve are a couple of shows I recently enjoyed. What do you like to do in your spare time?
I love cooking, reading, and traveling in my spare time.
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