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In the News A job well done to all who have kept us in the media spotlight! J Steven Czinn, MD, professor and chair, Department of Pediatrics, was interviewed on NBC Nightly News on March 2, 2007, to discuss cold medications for infants and toddlers. J Kevin Scott Ferentz, MD, associate professor, Department of Family & Community Medicine, was the subject of an article entiSteven Czinn, MD tled “Celebrating Our Mentoring Roles: A Future Family Docs Success Story” on the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine Web site. The article, written by former student Teresa Kulie, MD, who is now at the University of Wisconsin, Kevin Scott Ferentz, MD celebrates him as an outstanding mentor and states that “he is, and likely always will be, my mentor and inspiration.” To read this article, visit http://www.stfm.org/messenger/2007/February/messenger.html#6. Virginia Keane, MD
J Virginia Keane, MD, associate professor, Department of Pediatrics, was interviewed March 11,
2007, on NBC affiliate WBAL-TV regarding the safety and efficacy profiles of cold and cough medicine in children under six years of age. Dr. Keane’s interview was a follow up to the Baltimore City Health Department’s call for the FDA to reevaluate this topic. During the interview, Dr. Keane stressed that these drugs were approved in the 1970’s without any data to say they were safe or effective in young children. Since then, experience and research have shown that these medicines, which include decongestants, cough suppressants, antihistamines and expectorants, do not work and can have serious side effects, including death. Instead they should use comfort measures, like plenty of fluids, rest and nasal hygiene and to sleep sitting up to avoid the cough of post nasal drip. J Wendy Sanders, MA, assistant dean for Faculty Affairs and Professional Development, was featured in the Baltimore Sun on February 11, 2007, in an article entitled, “Research Squeeze: Researchers Struggle for Grant Funds” in which she and her Intensive Grant Writing Class participants were interviewed by Chris Emery regarding the issues they face with limited funding for medical research and how the University of Maryland School of Medicine is taking steps to increase their research chances.
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Grants
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Congratulations to our very productive faculty on their recent grants and contracts!
“The Epidemiology of Bone Strength and Muscle Composition after Hip Fracture in Men.”
J Edson X. Albuquerque, PhD, professor and chair, Department of Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics, received a one-year $333,333 grant from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency/ Army Research Office to study “A Novel Countermeasure against Nerve Agents’ Toxicity and Lethality in Guinea Pigs: A Comparison with Cholinesterase Inhibitors.” J Beth Barnet, MD, associate professor, Department of Family & Community Medicine, received Edson X. Albuquerque, PhD a five-year $1,875,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Adolescent Pregnancy Programs to conduct and study an intervention with pregnant and parenting teenagers called “Project Bridges to Health.” This is a community-based randomized trial of care management, parenting instruction, behavior change counseling and primary care linkage to enhance depression screening and treatment, improve parenting, promote school continuation and reduce repeat pregnancy in adolescent parents. J Xiang Cai, PhD, research associate, Department of Physiology, received a twoyear $60,000 Young Investigator Award from the National Alliance of Research on Schizophrenia and Depression entitled “AMPA Receptor Exocytosis on the Hippocampal CA1 Terminal Apical Dendrites by Serotonin 5 HT1B Signaling.”
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J Jay Magaziner, PhD, professor, Department of Epidemiology & Preventive Medicine, and Marc Hochberg, MD, professor, Department of Medicine, received a five-year $3.9 million grant from the National Institute on Aging to expand the research associated with Dr. Magaziner’s MERIT, or Method to Extend Research in Time, award to study the sequelae of hip fracture in men. The grant is entitled
J Marcela F. Pasetti, MD, assistant professor, Department of Pediatrics and Center for Vaccine Development, received a one-year $334,125 R01 non-competing renewal from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for her work entitled “Immune Responses to Biodefense Vaccines in Early Life.” J Edward Sausville MD, PhD, professor, Department of Medicine and Program in Oncology, and director of Clinical Research for the University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center, was awarded a one-year $60,000 grant from the Komen Society entitled “Improving Support and Accrual to NCI-Sponsored Breast Cancer Clinical Trials.” J Marcelo O. Sztein, MD, professor, Department of Pediatrics and Center for Vaccine Development, received a five-year $1,814,548 R01 competitive renewal from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for his work entitled “Immune Mechanisms of Protection in S Typhi Vaccines.” Edward Sausville MD, PhD
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J Scott M. Thompson, PhD, professor, Department of Physiology, received a two-year $351,811 exploratory/development R21 grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke entitled “Central Pain Syndrome: Thalamic Hyperexcitability after Denervation.” J Richard Y. Zhao, PhD, associate professor, Departments of Pathology and Microbiology & Immunology, and Institute of Human Virology, received a one-year $232,016 R01 non-competitive renewal from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for his work entitled “Effects of HIV-1 on Basic Cellular Functions (II).”
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Publications Hats off to those who have been published! J Manicksvasagom Alkondon, PhD, assistant professor, Edna F. R. Pereira, PhD, assistant professor, and Edson X. Albuquerque, PhD, professor and chair, all from the Department of Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics, and Robert Schwarcz, PhD, professor, and Michele C. Potter, a graduate student in Dr. Schwarcz’s lab, both from the Department of Psychiatry, published an article entitled “Strain-Specific Nicotinic Modulation of Glutamatergic Transmission in the CA1 Field of the Rat Hippocampus: August Copenhagen Irish Versus Sprague-Dawley” in Journal of Neurophysiology, 97 (2):1163-70, February 2007. J Abdu F. Azad, PhD, professor, M. Sayeedur Rahman, PhD, research associate, Shane M. Ceraul, PhD, postdoctoral fellow, Madga S. Beier, MSc, laboratory manager and Sheila M. Dreher-Lesnick, graduate student, all from the Department of Microbiology & Immunology, co-published an article entitled “The lspA Gene, Encoding the Type II Signal Peptidase of Rickettsia typhi: Transcriptional and Functional Analysis” in the Journal of Bacteriology, January 2007, p. 336-341, Vol. 189, No. 2. J Fermin Barrueto, MD, assistant professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, published two articles in the December 2006 issue of The Journal of Medical Toxicology: “Effects of Amiodarone in a Swine Model of Nortryptiline Toxicity” (J Med Toxicol 2[4]:147-151) and “Cardioactive Steroid Poisoning” (J Med Toxicol 2[4]:152-155). J Rudolph J. Castellani, Jr., MD, professor, Department of Pathology, published a recent paper entitled “Neuropathology of Alzheimer Disease: PathognoFermin Barrueto, MD monic but Not Pathogenic” in Acta Neuropathologica, 2006;111:503-509. The article also was featured in Alzheimer Research Forum (www.alzforum.org) and lauded as providing new insight into the relationship between pathology and pathogenesis in Alzheimer’s disease. J Richard Colgan, MD, associate professor, Department of Family & Community Medicine, published an article entitled “Asymptomatic Bacteriuria in Adults,”
in American Family Physician, September 2006, Volume 74. Additionally, Dr. Colgan presented an abstract entitled “A Prospective Study of Risk Factors for Trimethoprim-Sulfamethoxazole Resistance in Acute Uncomplicated Cystitis” at the Infectious Disease Society of America’s 44th Annual Meeting in Toronto, Canada. J Vasken Dilsizian, MD, professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, co-authored an article entitled “Early Imaging in Heart Failure: Exploring Novel Molecular Targets” in the January 2007 issue of the Journal of Nuclear Cardiology. In the same issue of the journal, he was the sole author of “Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Versus SPECT: Are All Noninfarct Myocardial Regions Created Equal?” J Bret Hassel, PhD, associate professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, published an article entitled “Posttranscriptional Regulation of RNase-L Expression is Mediated by the 3’-untranslated Region of its mRNA” in the January 19, 2007, issue of Journal of Biological Chemistry (e-published ahead of print). J Kenneth Johnson, MD, professor, Department of Neurology, co-published an article entitled “Glatiramer Acetate in Primary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis: Results of a Multinational, Multicenter, Double-Blind Placebo-Controlled Trial” in Annals of Neurology, Vol. 61, No. 1, January 2007.
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J Krishnan Kolappaswamy, DVM, MS, faculty research assistant, Department of Pathology, recently co-published “Disseminated Simian Varicella Virus Infection in an Irradiated Rhesus Macaque (Macaca mulatta)” in Journal of Virology, January 2007, p. 411-415. J Ge Li, PhD, postdoctoral fellow, Robert T. Elder, PhD, senior scientist, Heyon Ung Park, PhD, research associate, Dong Liang, MS, research assistant, and Richard Y. Zhao, PhD, associate professor, all from the Department of Pathology, published an article in the Journal of Biological Chemistry entitled “PP2A Dependent and Independent Pathways for ATR Phosphorylation of Chk1” in the January 8, 2007, issue. Additionally, Dr. Zhao and Jon E. Finan, MD, third year resident,
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Publications continued Department of Pathology, co-authored a review article entitled “From Molecular Diagnostics to Personalized Testing,” which was published in the January 8, 2007, issue of Pharmacogenomics. Dr. Zhao and Angela Darko, MD, second-year resident, Department of Pathology, also co-authored a review article entitled “A Virologic Perspective of Pharmacogenomics in HIV/AIDS Therapies,” in the Genetic Applications in Practice newsletter, which is published by the National Coalition for Health Professional Education in Genetics. J Stuart E. Mirvis, MD, professor, and Kathirkama Shanmuganathan, MBBS, professor, both from the Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, co-authored an article entitled “Imaging Hemidiaphragmatic Injury,” which was e-published on February 17, 2007, ahead of print in European Radiology. J Vincent C. O. Njar, PhD, associate professor, Department of Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics, and members from his lab, Puranik Purushottamachar, PhD, postdoctoral fellow, Aakanksha Khandelwal, PhD, postdoctoral fellow, Lalji K. Gediya, graduate student, Tadas S. Vasaitis, graduate student, and Robert Bruno, graduate student, published an article entitled “First Pharmacophore-Based Identification of Androgen Receptor Down-regulating Agents: Discovery of Potent Anti-Prostate Cancer Agents” in Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry. J Lisa Shulman, MD, associate professor, and Viveca Bhat, MD, resident, both from the Department of Neurology, co-published an article entitled “Gender Differences in the Natural History and Management of Parkinson’s Disease” in the January/February 2007 issue of Menopause Management. J Eliot L. Siegel, MD, professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, co-authored an article entitled “GridIMAGE: a Novel Use of Grid Computing to Support Interactive Lisa Shulman, MD Human and Computer-assisted Detection Decision Support,” which was e-published on February 22, 2007, ahead of print in the Journal of Digital Imaging. J Jakub Simon, MD, assistant professor, Marcela Pasetti, MD, assistant professor, and James Campbell, MD, assistant professor, all from the Department of
Pediatrics and Center for Vaccine Development, and Myron Levine, MD, DTPH, professor, Department of Medicine and director, Center for Vaccine Development, published an article entitled “A Clinical Study to Assess the Safety and Immunogenicity of Attenuated Measles Vaccine Administered Intranasally to Healthy Adults” in the March/April 2007 issue of Human Vaccines (Vol. 3(2):54-58).
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J Ming T. Tan, PhD, professor, Department of Epidemiology & Preventive Medicine and Program in Oncology, published an article about a novel clinical trial design entitled “A Sequential Procedure James Campbell, MD Myron Levine, MD, DTPH for Monitoring Clinical Trials against Historical Controls” in Statistics in Medicine (26:1497-1511). Dr. Tan, along with Scott Strome, MD, professor and chair, Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, have utilized this design innovatively in a trial on a new vaccine for head and neck cancer patients. J Stefanie N. Vogel, PhD, professor, and Swamy Kumar Polumuir, PhD, postdoctoral fellow, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, co-published an article entitled “Interferon Regulatory Factor-2 regulates Macrphage Apoptosis through a STAT1/3 and Caspase-1-dependent mechanism” in the Journal of Immunology, 178:3602-3611 (2007). Additionally, Dr. Vogel, and Vladimir Y. Toshchakov, PhD, assistant professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, co-published an article entitled “Cutting Edge: Differential Inhibition of TLR Signaling Pathways by Cell-permeable Peptides Representing BB Loops of Toll-like Receptors” in the Journal of Immunology, 178:2655-2660 (2007).
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Appointments We applaud our colleagues on their recent achievements! J Robert Barish, MD, vice dean for clinical affairs, and professor, Departments of Emergency Medicine and Medicine, has been appointed chair of the Maryland Physician Workforce Study Steering Committee. The committee was created by the Maryland Hospital Association and the Maryland State Medical Society to conduct a needs assessment to better understand current and future physician supply and distribution issues in Maryland. J Carol Blaisdell, MD, associate professor, Department of Pediatrics, and head, Division of Pulmonology and Allergy, was Robert Barish, MD elected to serve on the executive committee of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), Pediatric Pulmonology Section, and also was appointed to serve on the planning committee for the National Convention and Exhibition of the AAP. J Marcelo Cardarelli, MD, MPH, assistant professor, Departments of Surgery and Pediatrics, and director of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, was accepted as a founding member of the World Society for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery. Dr. Cardarelli will present an abstract entitled “Vasopressin Levels in Children Undergoing Cardiopulmonary Bypass” at the inaugural meeting for this society. J Alan Cross, MD, professor, Department of Medicine and Center for Vaccine Development, was appointed president-elect of the International Endotoxin and Innate Immunity Society (IEIIS). The primary goals of the IEIIS are to promote scientific knowledge on all aspects of endotoxin research and to provide an environment where all researchers will Alan Cross, MD benefit from frank exchange of data, views and experience. J Robert Edelman, MD, professor, Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics, was appointed by the
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World Health Organization (WHO) to chair its advisory group to revise the 2002 “WHO Guidelines for the Evaluation of Dengue Vaccines in Populations Exposed to Natural Infection.” J Chun K. Kim, MD, professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, has been named to the editorial board of Clinical Nuclear Medicine. J Mary C. McKenna, PhD, associate professor, Department of Pediatrics, was appointed to the editorial board of the Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism. Additionally, Dr. McKenna was selected to serve as “First Opponent” for a PhD thesis defense in the Department of Neuroscience, Institute for Neuromedicine at Norwegian Technical University in Trondheim, Norway, in March. J Feyruz Rassool, PhD, associate professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, has been nominated by the Maryland chapter of the Leukemia Lymphoma Society for Woman of the Year. J William F. Regine, MD, professor and chair, Department of Radiation Oncology, has been invited to serve a three-year term on the Gastrointestinal (GI) Cancers Symposium Program Committee. This appointment was sanctioned by both the GI Cancer Symposium Steering Committee and the American Society of Clinical Oncology’s (ASCO) Board of Directors. The committee’s function will be to ensure adequate repWilliam F. Regine, MD resentation of both ASCO and the discipline of radiation oncology in daily programs. J Scott E. Strome, MD, professor and chair, Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, has been selected to serve on the National Cancer Institute’s SPORE review panel for head and neck cancer. SPORE stands for specialized programs for research excellence.
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Events, Lectures
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Kudos to our colleagues who are experts in their fields and give their all to represent the School of Medicine! J Rudolph J. Castellani, Jr., MD, professor, Department of Pathology, and his research were featured at the 3rd International Congress of the Society for the Study of Neuroprotection and Neuroplasticity in Bucharest, Romania, in March 2007. J Martin F. Flajnik, PhD, professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, presented “Pathogens and Immunity” at an international meeting held in Cologne, Germany, in February. J Jennifer K. Johnson, PhD, assistant professor, Department of Pathology, presented “Antibiotic Resistance in Gram Negative Bacteria—Focus on b-lactamases” at the 24th Martin F. Flajnik, PhD Annual Maryland Clinical Microbiology Meeting in Annapolis in March. J Stuart E. Mirvis, MD, professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, completed an invited lecture tour of South African academic medical centers, including hospitals in Jennifer K. Johnson, PhD Johannesburg, Pretoria, CapeTown, Bloemfontein and Durbin, in January. Among the lectures he delivered were talks on multidetector CT of aortic injury, multidetector CT in toros trauma, unusual imaging cases for trauma and emergency radiology and multidetector CT angiography of cervical vascular injury.
J Scott E. Strome, MD, professor and chair, Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, gave an invited lecture outlining the early results from his clinical trial using MAGE A3 Vaccine for head and neck cancer to the International Clinical Research Center in Brno, Czech Republic, in March. J Rodney J. Taylor, MD, MS, assistant professor, Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, gave an invited lecture entitled “Importance of Natural Killer Cell in Monoclonal Antibody-targeted Treatment of Head and Neck Cancer” to the International Clinical Research Center in Brno, Czech Republic, in March. J Stefanie N. Vogel, PhD, professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, presented “Role of the Innate Immune Response to Francisella tularensis LVS” to the Department of Microbiology at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana in March. Additionally, Dr. Vogel, was an invited speaker at the 7th World Congress on Trauma, Shock, Inflammation and Sepsis 2007 Interdisciplinary Summit on Inflammation in Munich, Germany, in March.
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J Jeffrey Wolf, MD, assistant professor, Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, gave an invited lecture entitled “Dendritic Cell Vaccines for Head and Neck Cancer: Challenges and Potential Solutions” to the International Clinical Research Center in Brno, Czech Republic, in March.
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New Faculty We also welcome our new faculty! J Timothy N. Judkins, PhD, is a new postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science, specializing in robotics and motor control. His current research focuses on the use of robotics, biomechanics and neuroimaging to assess sensorimotor deficits in pathological populations such as stroke and peripheral neuropathy patients. J Anupama Kewalramani, MD, joined the Department of Pediatrics as an assistant professor in August. Dr. Kewalramani received her medical degree from Tulane University School of Medicine followed by a combined residency in internal medicine and pediatrics, also at Tulane. She then served as chief resident there and recently completed a fellowship in allergy and immunology. Dr. Kewalramani is board certified by the American Board of Pediatrics and the American Board of Internal Medicine. Timothy N. Judkins, PhD
Interim Chair Named for Epidemiology & Preventive Medicine Jay S. Magaziner, PhD, has been named interim chair of the Department of Epidemiology & Preventive Medicine. Dr. Magaziner, professor of epidemiology, medicine and physical therapy & rehabilitation science, is also director of the Department of Epidemiology’s Division of Gerontology, co-chair of the Center for Research on Aging, and co-director of the gerontology doctoral program.
Hats off to those who have been published! J Vasken Dilsizian, MD, professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, and others published an article entitled “Evidence for Tissue Angiotensin-converting Enzyme in Explanted Hearts of Ischemic Cardiomyopathy Using Targeted Radiotracer Technique” in the February 2007 issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine (2007;48:182–187). J Ronald B. Gartenhaus, MD, associate professor, Department of Medicine and Program in Oncology, and colleagues published “MCT-1 Protein Interacts with the Cap Complex and Modulates mRNA Translational Profiles” in Cancer Research (66(18):8994-9001, 2006). Dr. Gartenhaus also published “Phosphorylation of MCT-1 by p42/44 MAPK is Required for its Stabilization in Response to DNA Damage” in Oncogene (Oct. 2; [Epub ahead of print], 2006). J Charlene Hafer-Macko, MD, associate professor, and Richard Macko, MD, professor, both from the Department of Neurology, co-published an article entitled “Exercise Rehabilitation after Stroke” in the October 2006 issue of NeuroRX®, a journal of The American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics. J Daniel L. Lemkin, MD, assistant professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, is the editor and designer of Principles and Direction of Air Medical Transport, published by the Air Medical Physicians Association in 2006. This 772-page book covers a broad range of topics regarding the creation and successful operation of medical flight programs. J Bruce Line, MD, professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, and others co-authored an article entitled “Nanocarriers for Nuclear Bruce Jarrell, MD, vice dean for Research and Academic Affairs, poses Imaging and Radiotherapy of Cancer” in the December 2006 issue of Current with the base he hand-crafted for the School of Medicine mace. The mace Pharmaceutical Design (2006;12:4729–4749). is present at all formal academic exercises at the School of Medicine. It
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is made ofPhD, sterling silver and was gifted toof theBiochemistry Medical Alumni& AssociaJ A-Lien Lu-Chang, professor, Department Molecular tion in 1987 by School of Medicine alumni Drs. Theodore and Celeste Biology, published an article entitled “Physical and Functional Interactions Woodward. between MutY Glycosylase Homoloque (MYH) and Checkpoint Proteins The Medical Alumni Association wishes to express its deep appreciaRad9-Rad1-Hus1” in Biochem Journal (400: 53-62; 2006). tion to Dr. Jarrell and congratulate him on this wonderful piece of work
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In Memoriam
New Staff We welcome new staff! J Scott Kutkat joined the Department of Psychiatry’s Division of Services Research as senior research assistant. Mr. Kutkat has a Masters’ in Clinical Community Counseling from Johns Hopkins University. His experience includes working as a substance abuse therapist and clinical counselor with severely mentally ill consumers. J Bonnie Schlenker joined the Office of the Dean in February as a program administrative specialist. Ms. Schlenker received a Bachelor of Science from the University of Maryland College Park. She has extensive experience in project and fiscal management and is a former elementary school teacher. J Yvonne Summers joined the Office of the Dean in February as a program administrative specialist. She transferred from the School of Social Work where she was an academic program speBonnie cialist. Prior to that position, she served for 10 Schlenker years as an office supervisor/data manager in the Department of Pediatrics. Ms. Summers has held various positions within the UMB community since 1977.
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J Howard C. Kramer, MD, clinical associate professor, Department of Surgery, passed away on March 6, 2007. An alumnus of the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Class of 1951, Dr. Kramer served as chief of Urology at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Loch Raven Branch, for more than 35 years and taught many urology residents from the University of Maryland and Johns Hopkins residency programs. He was promoted to clinical associate professor in 1992. Prior to that, he had been an instructor in urology in the Department of Surgery since his appointment in 1958. J Mary Louise Scholl, MD, a 1942 graduate of the School of Medicine, died in Escondido, California, on January 8, 2007. Dr. Scholl established the Dr. John A. Scholl Distinguished Professorship in Pediatrics to honor her late husband, John Scholl, MD, a 1941 graduate of the School of Medicine, with whom she shared a lifetime of devotion to pediatric and neurological medicine. Dr. Scholl’s professorship, which focuses attention on pediatric learning disabilities, is currently held by Maureen Black, PhD, a professor in the Department of Pediatrics. Dr. Scholl was a member of Maryland’s John Beale Davidge Alliance and an active volunteer at her church. She enjoyed swimming and gardening.
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