2014 LLUH Annual Report

Research

“It is fulfilling to be able to improve patient care because of discoveries made through research.”

Alan Herford, DDS, MD, department chair, department of oral and maxillofacial surgery, Loma Linda University School of Dentistry and Katina Nguyen, DDS, research fellow, interact with a young patient.

Research Milestones January The federal government’s National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded Loma Linda University Health a $6.08 million grant to develop the Center for Brain Hemorrhage Research at Loma Linda University School of Medicine, under the direction of John Zhang, MD, PhD.

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January Researchers studying 803 Adventist adults who are subjects of the Adventist Health Study-2 found that consumption of tree nuts is associated with lower cases of obesity and metabolic syndrome. Results were published in the online science and medicine journal, PLOS ONE.

January A Loma Linda University Health study concluded that pediatric heart transplantation provides acceptable long-term survival beyond 15 years; the research was presented at the Society of Thoracic Surgeons’ 50th annual meeting in Orlando, Florida.

March A Loma Linda University Health study published in the journal Public Health Nutrition, revealed that among more than 26,000 African-American Seventh-day Adventists, those who are vegetarians