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Congratulations to the following who have received honors and awards! J Paula Richley Geigle, PT, PhD, assistant professor, Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science, received the 2007 Richard Ruoti Award for Scholarship from the American Physical Therapy Association’s Aquatic Physical Therapy Section. She was also named recipient of the Aquatic Physical Therapy Section’s $5,000 SwimEx Clinical Research Grant for her study entitled “Role of Aquatic Exercise in Breast Cancer-Related Lymphedema Management.” Paula Richley Geigle, PT, PhD
J Anthony Harris, MD, MPH, Department of Epidemiology & Preventive Medicine, received the annual Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America Mentor Scholar Fund Award. Only one award is given per year.
J Ali Mirmiran, MD, third year resident, Department of Radiation Oncology, is the recipient of a Best 100 Fellowship Award from the Best Medical International organization. Dr. Mirmiran will receive $1,000 and a plaque. The Best 100 Fellowship Award provides 100 fellowships to select residents from the fields of radiation oncology, urology and cardiology in order for these residents to attend national meetings and perform elective rotations. J Marcelo Sztein, MD, professor, Department of Pediatrics and Center for Vaccine Development, was elected as a standing member of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases’ Microbiology, Infectious Diseases and AIDS Initial Review Group/Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Research Committee (MIDRC). The MIDRC is responsible for reviewing K08, K22, K23, K24, K25, K99/R00, T32 and T35 applications. Dr. Sztein will serve in this capacity until June 30, 2011. Marcelo Sztein, MD
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Appointments
We applaud our colleagues on their recent appointments! J Robert C. Gallo, MD, professor, Departments of Medicine and Microbiology & Immunology, and director, Institute of Human Virology, was named as honorary chair of the United Nations Day observances held in Maryland on October 24, 2007, by Governor Martin O’Malley. J Peter H. Gorman, MD, associate professor, Department of Neurology, was awarded Fellow status within the American Academy of Neurology. J Vincent D. Pellegrini, MD, James Lawrence Kernan Professor and chair, Department of Orthopaedics, was elected to the position of second presidentelect of the American Orthopaedic Association (AOA) during its 120th Annual Meeting in June in Asheville, NC. Dr. Pellegrini’s term as second president-elect is scheduled to continue through the AOA’s next Annual Meeting to be held in Quebec City, Canada. He will assume the role of AOA president in June 2009 and continue to June 2010. Founded in 1878, the AOA is the oldest national orthopaedic association in the world and the home of academic orthopaedics. Its mission is to identify, develop, engage and recognize leadership to further the art and science of orthopaedics. Robert C. Gallo, MD
J Walter Royal, III, MD, associate professor, Department of Neurology, was elected to membership in the American Neurological Association. J Eric Slade, PhD, associate professor, Department of Psychiatry, has been appointed a member of the National Institute of Mental Health Services Research study section. J Jill Whitall, PT, PhD, Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science, was elected president of the North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity. The society consists of approximately 600 members, primarily from departments of kinesiology but also from departments of physical and occupational therapy, who study the motor control, motor learning, motor development and psychological factors of non-disabled and disabled populations. This is a three-year term that rotates through presidentelect, president and past president.
Walter Royal, III, MD
J Ellen Wruble-Hakim, PT, DScPT, assistant Jill Whitall, PT, PhD professor, Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science (PTRS), was promoted to PTRS’ vice chair of Professional Programs/director of Entry-Level DPT Program, effective July 2007.
Vincent D. Pellegrini, MD
Ellen Wruble-Hakim, PT, DScPT
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Events, Lectures
& Workshops
Kudos to our colleagues who are experts in their fields and give their all to represent the School of Medicine!
Laure Aurelian, PhD
J Laure Aurelian, PhD, professor, Department of Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics, presented the keynote address at the 14th Japanese Herpes Virus Infections Forum in August 2007. Dr. Aurelian’s presentation was entitled “Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV)-Associated Erythema Multiforme (HAEM): a Viral Disease with Inflammatory and Stem Cell Components.” Sponsored by GlaxoSmithKline, the event was attended by approximately 250 basic and clinical scientists.
J Roy Bechtel, PT, PhD, assistant professor, Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science, presented “Multifidus Muscle Inhibition during Cycling in a Patient with Lower Back Pain” at the 6th Interdisciplinary World Congress on Low Back and Pelvic Pain in Barcelona, Spain, in November 2007. J Angelika Burger, PhD, associate professor, Department of Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics, attended the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Conference. The annual conference was called “Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics: Discovery, Biology and Applications” and was held in San Francisco in October 2007. Phillip Shelton, a graduate student Angelika Burger, PhD in Dr. Burger’s lab, received an AACR-Eli Lilly Travel Award to support his attendance at the conference. Mr. Shelton gave a 10-minute presentation on his poster entitled “Breast Cancer Cells Resistant to Anti-hormone Treatments Retain Sensitivity to Angela H. Brodie, PhD
Aminoflavone.” His abstract was one of 12, out of more than 900, to be chosen by AACR’s scientific committee for oral presentation at their conference. Other authors of his abstract included Angela Brodie, PhD, professor, Vincent C.O. Njar, PhD, associate professor, both from the DepartEdward Sausville, MD ment of Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics, and Edward Sausville, MD, professor, the Department of Medicine. J Nancy Ryan Lowitt, MD, EdM, FACP, associate dean for Faculty Affairs and Professional Development, and assistant professor, Department of Medicine, presented “Challenge, Change and Results for Vincent C.O. Njar, PhD the Physician Learner,” which was a review of theory, practice and evidence for physician behavior change, during CME for Advanced Studies in Medicine in Somerset, New Jersey. Dr. Lowitt also presented “Gender Parity in Academic Medicine” for the American College of Physicians Maryland Nancy Ryan Lowitt, MD, Chapter in Baltimore. EdM, FACP J Kamal D. Moudgil, MD, PhD, associate professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, organized and co-chaired a workshop entitled “Heat-shock Proteins: Inflammatory Versus Regulatory Attributes” at the 13th International Congress of Immunology held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in August 2007. During the same conference, Dr. Moudgil also gave a presentation on “Pro-inflammatory Cytokines Kamal D. Moudgil, MD, PhD and Antibodies Induced in Response to Heatshock Protein 65 Serve as Mediators of Immune Regulation in Autoimmune Arthritis” in a symposium called “Immunology of Rheumatic Diseases II.”
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New Faculty
Events, Lectures & Workshops continued J S. Michael Plaut, PhD, assistant dean for Student Affairs and associate professor, Department of Psychiatry, gave an invited lecture entitled “Guidelines for Sexual Boundaries” at the annual meeting of the American Association of Dental Examiners in San Francisco in September 2007. Additionally, in October, Dr. Plaut gave a lecture on the topic of “Boundary Issues in ProfessionalClient Relationships” at the second annual clinical conference sponsored by the Maryland Chapter of the National Association of Social S. Michael Plaut, PhD Workers. During the conference he led a showing and discussion of the 1991 film, The Prince of Tides, with a focus on professional-client boundary issues. J Alan R. Shuldiner, MD, John Whitehurst Professor, Department of Medicine, was an invited speaker and conference moderator at the National Institutes of Health “Conference on Gene-Nutrient and Gene-Physical Activity Interactions in the Etiology of Obesity,” which was held in Bethesda. J Lisa Shulman, MD, Department of Neurology, presented “Racial and Socioeconomic Disparities in Patients with Parkinson’s” and “What is a Clinically Meaningful Difference in the UPDRS?” at the American Academy of Neurology Annual Meeting in Boston. J Marcelo Sztein, MD, professor, Department of Pediatrics and Center for Vaccine Development, chaired the Special Emphasis Review Panel ZAI1 SR-M (S1) entitled “Respiratory Infections and Lisa Shulman, MD Host Immunity” at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in June 2007. Additionally, Dr. Sztein participated as an external reviewer for the Career Investigator Awards/Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research in British Columbia, Canada, in March 2007.
We welcome our new faculty! J Todd D. Gould, MD, joined the Department of Psychiatry as an assistant professor. He completed fellowship training at the National Institute of Mental Health’s (NIMH) Laboratory of Molecular Pathophysiology and Experimental Therapeutics where he held positions as the NIMH Seymour S. Kety Memorial Research Fellow and the Lilly/NIMH Neuroscience Research Fellow. His research uses molecular, cellular and behavioral approaches to study the pharmacology of psychotropic medications and the underlying pathophysiology of psychiatric illness, with a particular focus on the study of novel antidepressants and mood stabilizers Todd D. Gould, MD and the development of improved animal models in psychiatry as well the functional consequences of mood disorder susceptibility genes. J Anita R. Kishore, MD, joined the Department of Psychiatry in July 2007 as an assistant professor. Dr. Kishore is also an associate director of Residency Training in the Education Division and attending psychiatrist in the Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. She received her medical degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, where she also completed a residency in psychiatry. She completed a fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry at Yale University. J Barton Lane, MD, joined the Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine in July 2007 as an assistant professor. He received his medical degree from the University of Maryland School of Medicine and completed an internship in internal medicine at the Washington Hospital Center in Washington, DC, and a residency in diagnostic radiology at the University of Maryland Medical Center. He was most recently a cross-sectional imaging fellow at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. J Julia Triggs, MD, joined the Department of Psychiatry in September 2007 as an instructor. She is also an associate director of Residency Training in the Education Division and attending psychiatrist in the Division of Community Psychiatry. Dr. Triggs received her medical degree from West Virginia University School of Medicine and completed her residency training in psychiatry at the University of Maryland/Sheppard Pratt.
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Grants
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Congratulations to our very productive faculty on their recent grants and contracts! J Barry Daly, MD, professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, received a two-year $292,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice’s National Institute of Justice for research on “Utility of Whole-Body Computed Tomography Imaging in Post Mortem Detection of Elder Abuse and Neglect: Comparison with and Potential Substitution for Standard Autopsy.” J Claire M. Fraser-Liggett, PhD, professor, Department of Medicine, and director, Institute for Genome Sciences, received a five-year $2.9 million award from the National Institutes of Health as part of a P01 project based at Washington University in St. Louis entitled “Metagenomic Studies of the Gut Microbiomes of Obese and Lean Twins.” This grant represents collaboration between Dr. Fraser-Liggett, Jeffrey Gordon, MD, from Washington University in St. Louis Claire Fraser-Liggett, PhD and Robin Knight, PhD, from the University of Colorado at Boulder. This work will provide new information on the role of the microbial flora in the gut in regulation of energy balance in humans. J Rao Gullapalli, PhD, associate professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, received a $500,000 grant from the National Center for Research Resources for his work entitled “Small Animal Positron Emission Tomography for Translational Research.” This instrumentation award, supplemented by $400,000 in funding from Siemens Medical Solutions and $180,000 from the University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center, will be used to purchase a small animal PET/CT unit. J Bradley K. McConnell, PhD, assistant professor, Department of Physiology, received a five-year $1,902,600 research grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute entitled “Targeted Disruption of Beta-Adrenergic Signaling to Increase Cardiac Contractility.”
J Horea Rus, MD, PhD, assistant professor, Department of Neurology, was awarded a one-year $44,000 grant from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society’s Pilot Research Program for his work entitled “RGC-32 As a Potential Marker of Disease Activity in Multiple Sclerosis.” The funded projects in the Pilot Research Program are aimed at quickly exploring new, untested ideas and generating preliminary data needed to apply for full grant support. Horea Rus, MD, PhD J Jaclyn M. Schwarz, BA, graduate student, Department of Physiology and Program in Neuroscience, received a one-year $30,705 F31 Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award for Individual Pre-Doctoral Fellowships from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke for her work entitled “Estradiol and Glutamate in the Developing Hypothalamus.”
J Alan R. Shuldiner, MD, John Whitehurst Professor, Department of Medicine, and Fredric Wondsford, MD, chief of the Division of Metabolism at John’s Hopkins Children’s Center, received a five-year $7.4 million award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to establish the Baltimore Diabetes and Training Center (DRTC). The Baltimore center will be one of five DRTCs funded by the NIH. J Jakub Simon, MD, assistant professor, Department of Pediatrics and Center for Vaccine Development, received a one-year $161,334 non-competing renewal from the National Institutes of Health for his work entitled “Immunological Correlates of Protection in Shigellosis.”
Alan R. Shuldiner, MD
J Soren Snitker, MD, PhD, assistant professor, Department of Medicine, received a five-year $2,971,000 R01 research award from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases to determine the genetic underpinnings of why some people do not respond to thiazolidinediones, a frequently prescribed class of diabetes drugs.
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Publications Hats off to those who have been published!
Roy Bechtel, PT, PhD
J Roy Bechtel, PT, PhD, assistant professor, and Gad Alon, PT, PhD, associate professor, both from the Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science, copublished a peer-reviewed paper entitled “Measurement of Soft Tissue Temperature and Impedance following the Application of Transdermal Direct Current” in Physiotherapy, Vol. 93 (2007): 114-120.
and Alan R. Shuldiner, MD, all from the Department of Medicine, co-published an article entitled “Investigations of the Y chromosome, Male Founder Structure and YSTR Mutation Rates in the Old Order Amish” in Human Heredity, 64, 91-104, 2008, (epub ahead of print).
Gad Alon, PT, PhD
J Vasken Dilsizian, MD, professor, and Omer Aras, MD, resident, both from the Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, published “Metabolic Adaptation to Myocardial Ischemia: The Role of Fatty Acid Imaging,” in the May–June 2007 issue of the Journal of Nuclear Cardiology, (2007;14(3 suppl):S97–S99). In the same issue they also published “The Role and Regulation of CD36 for Fatty Acid Imaging of the Heart: Implications in Diabetes Mellitus and Chronic Kidney Disease.”
Silvia A. Piñeiro, PhD
J Silvia A. Piñeiro, PhD, assistant professor, Department of Medical & Research Technology, co-published a manuscript entitled “Development of a Novel Genetic System to Create Markerless Deletions in Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus” in Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 73:4717-4724. This article was selected as one of the six best American Society for Microbiology journal articles for the month and was published in the “Journal Highlights” section of the September 2007 issue of Microbe (formerly ASM News).
Braxton D. Mitchell, PhD, MPH
Jeffrey O’Connell, PhD
J Chandran R. Sabanayagam, PhD, assistant professor, and Joseph R. Lakowicz, PhD, professor, both from the Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, co-published a paper entitled “Fluctuation Correlation Spectroscopy and Photon Histogram Analysis of Light Scattered by Gold Nanospheres,” in the September 2007 issue of Nanotechnology, the first journal dedicated to coverage of all aspects of nanoscale science and technology, from a multidisciplinary perspective. J Raj Shekhar, PhD, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, published “Automatic Segmentation of Phase-Correlated CT Scans through Nonrigid Image Registration Using Geometrically Regularized Free-Form Deformation,” in the July 2007 issue of Medical Physics, (2007;34:3054–3066). J Clint W. Sliker, MD, assistant professor, and Stuart E. Mirvis, MD, professor, both from the Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, published “Imaging of Blunt Cerebrovascular Injuries,” in the October 2007 issue of the European Journal of Radiology, (2007;64:3–14). In the same issue of the journal, Dr. Mirvis and Kathirkama Shanmuganathan, MD, professor, also from the Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, published “Diagnosis of Blunt Traumatic Aortic Injury 2007: Still a Nemesis.” Also in that issue, Dr. Mirvis and Thorsten Fleiter, MD, assistant professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, published “The Role of 3D-CTA in the Assessment of Peripheral Vascular Lesions in Trauma Patients.” J Soren Snitker, MD, PhD, assistant professor, Department of Medicine, and Erin Hager, research coordinator, and Maureen Black, PhD, professor, both from the Department of Pediatrics,
J Toni Pollin, PhD, assistant professor, Daniel McBride, PhD, assistant professor, Braxton D. Mitchell, PhD, MPH, professor, Jeffrey O’Connell, PhD, assistant professor,
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Publications continued co-authored the article “Influence of Physical Activity and Body Composition on Glucose Homeostasis in a Community Sample of Adolescents,” which appeared in the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine. J Fauzia Q. Vandermeer, MD, assistant professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, authored “Breast MRI: State of the Art” in the September 2007 issue of Cancer Investigations, (2007;25:384–392). J Charles White, MD, professor, and Jean Jeudy, MD, assistant professor, both from the Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, co-authored “The Role of Preexisting Pathology in the Development of Neointimal Hyperplasia in Coronary Artery Bypass Grafts” in the October 2007 issue of the Journal of Surgical Research, (2007;142:351–356). Drs. White and Jeudy also co-authored “Cardiac CT Angiography after Coronary Bypass Surgery: Prevalence of Incidental Findings,” in the August 2007 issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology, (2007;189:414–419). Additionally, Dr. Jeudy coauthored “Frequency and Cause of Cardiac Troponin T Elevation in Chronic Hemodialysis Patients from Study of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance,” in the September 1, 2007, issue of the American Journal of Cardiology, (2007;100:885–889).
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THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE & UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND MEDICAL CENTER CONGRATULATE ANESTHESIOLOGY RICHARD P. DUTTON TIMOTHY B. GILBERT ANDREW M. MALINOW DOUGLAS G. MARTZ, JR. MARY NJOKU ANNE M. SAVARESE* DAVID L. SCHREIBAUM
INTERNAL MEDICINE (GENERAL)
ORTHOPAEDICS
CAROL L. GREENE**
CAROL E. COPELAND JASON NASCONE VINCENT D. PELLEGRINI, JR. ANDREW N. POLLAK MARCUS SCIADINI CLIFFORD H. TUREN
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BARTLEY P. GRIFFITH RICHARD N. PIERSON III
IVANA GOJO MEYER R. HEYMAN
ANNE M. SAVARESE*
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ROBERT MICHAEL BENITEZ MARK KELEMEN MANDEEP R. MEHRA ROBERT VOGEL
ELIZABETH BARRY CHRISTOPHER T. BEVER, JR. PAUL S. FISHMAN STEVEN JAY KITTNER ALLAN KRUMHOLZ STEPHEN G. REICH WALTER ROYAL III LISA M. SHULMAN BARNEY J. STERN WILLIAM J. WEINER
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DERMATOLOGY ANTHONY GASPARI RONALD GOLDNER LINDA L. LUTZ FAMILY MEDICINE RICHARD COLGAN KEVIN S. FERENTZ DAVID LESLEY STEWART GENERAL SURGERY ADRIAN PARK
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INFECTIOUS DISEASE
J A number of SOM faculty were featured in the November 2007 issue of Baltimore Magazine’s “Top Doctors” list. Pictured at right is the ad the SOM and Medical Center placed in the December issue of the magazine. This list is excerpted from The Best Doctors in America 2007® database, which includes approximately 41,000 doctors in more than 40 medical specialties. Best Doctors believes that physicians are the most qualified to evaluate the experience and skill sets of other physicians. Best Doctors asks physicians: “If you or a loved one needed a doctor in your specialty, to whom would you refer them?” Physicians are included based on the result of an extensive, confidential peer-review process.
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ANTHONY AMOROSO ELLIS S. CAPLAN CHARLES E. DAVIS BRUCE L. GILLIAM ROBERT REDFIELD JOHN W. WARREN
NEUROSURGERY WILLIAM W. MAGGIO J. MARC SIMARD OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY LINDSAY S. ALGER HARRY W. JOHNSON, JR. HUGH MIGHTY ORAL-MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY ROBERT A. ORD
PSYCHIATRY (CHILD AND ADOLESCENT) DAVID PRUITT PULMONARY AND CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE EDWARD JAMES BRITT RADIATION ONCOLOGY WILLIAM REGINE MOHAN SUNTHA
PEDIATRIC ENDOCRINOLOGY DEBRA R. COUNTS PEDIATRIC GASTROENTEROLOGY STEVEN J. CZINN PEDIATRIC METABOLIC DISEASES CAROL L. GREENE**
RADIOLOGY PATRICK C. MALLOY REUBEN S. MEZRICH ROBERT D. PUGATCH CHARLES S. WHITE GREGG ZOARSKI RHEUMATOLOGY MARC C. HOCHBERG
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UROLOGY
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INFECTIOUS DISEASE
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* Named under Anesthesiology and Pediatric Anesthesiology ** Named under Medical Genetics and Pediatric Metabolic Diseases
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New Staff
Community
We welcome new staff! J Jim Swyers, MA, joined the Dean’s Office and the Office of Public Affairs in September 2007 as senior writer. He came to the School of Medicine from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, where he was a senior science writer and worked on national and international media campaigns in addition to writing for the school’s award-winning magazine, PittMed Magazine. Previously, he was a senior science writer at the National Human Genome Research Institute at the National Institutes Jim Swyers, MA of Health. Mr. Swyers has an undergraduate degree in biochemistry and a graduate degree in science journalism, both from the University of Missouri.
Service
Thanks to those who selflessly donate their time, talent and resources—your goodwill does not go unappreciated. J Paula Richley Geigle, PT, PhD, assistant professor, Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science, performed a two-week teaching service in Peru in July 2007 for Health Volunteers Overseas, a private non-profit organization dedicated to improving the availability and quality of health care in developing countries through the training and education of local health care providers.
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