FACULTY NOTES ANATOMY
MEDICINE
ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY
Abdelkarim Sabri, PhD, whose research interests pertain to heart failure and cardiac cell dysfunction, has joined the faculty as Assistant Professor.
A new chairperson has been named: Joel Richter, MD (see page 20).
Christopher Born, MD, and William DeLong, MD ’78, have each been named Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Co-Director of the Orthopedic Trauma Service at Temple. Both are renowned experts in orthopedic trauma and serve as team physicians for several professional sports teams.
ANESTHESIOLOGY
Five new faculty have joined the Department: Kamardeen Alao, MD, Assistant Professor; Gary Atkinson, BA ’73, DO, Assistant Professor; Harry Bonet, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor; Bernard Harris, MD, Assistant Professor; and Andrew Herlich, MD, DMD, Professor. EMERGENCY MEDICINE
The Department welcomes four new members: Thomas Barry, MD, Assistant Professor; Charles Fasano, BS ’63, DO, Assistant Professor; Joseph R. Lex, MD, Assistant Professor; and Cherie Mininger, DO, Assistant Professor. HEMATOLOGY/ONCOLOGY
Thomas R. Klumpp, MD, has joined the faculty as Associate Professor and Chief Information Officer of the Fox Chase Temple Bone Marrow Transplant (BMT) program. He has 15 years experience in BMT, with special interests in allogeneic and autologous stem cell transplants for hematologic malignancies, BMT supportive care and informatics. Robert V.B. Emmons, MD, has joined the faculty as Associate Professor and Medical Director of the Stem Cell Laboratory of the Fox Chase Temple Bone Marrow Transplant (BMT) program. With10 years experience in BMT, with special interests in allogeneic and autologous stem cell transplants for hematologic malignancies, and immunotherapy with NK cells, Dr. Emmons is developing new cellular therapy in transplantation with NK cells.
Ellen Tedaldi, MD, Professor of Medicine and Director of Temple’s HIV Clinic, was one of seven Philadelphiaarea physicians to receive the 2003 Mazzoni Award for service to improve quality of life for poor and underinsured HIV-positive people in Philadelphia. Daniel B. Kimball, MD, Clinical Professor of Medicine and Director of the Department of Medicine and the Internal Medicine Residency Training Program at Reading Hospital and Medical Center in Reading, PA, has been named a Laureate of the Pennsylvania College of Internal Medicine. This honor is reserved for fellows and masters of the college who have demonstrated longterm commitment to clinical practice, education, research and/or community service. Dr. Kimball has been active in professional affairs at the county, state and national levels. A retired colonel, US Army, Dr. Kimball was Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC.
Christopher Born, MD, helps a frightened young boy with a fractured arm in Bam, Iran, after the December 26 earthquake that killed 30,000 people and injured 30,000 others. Dr. Born flew to the disaster site at the request of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to serve on the international team providing medical assistance to casualties. He and 11 other physicians and 50 nurses, pharmacists and EMS workers spent four days treating 727 victims in a mobile hospital. Dr. Born treated all orthopaedic injuries. “We cleaned out wounds, lacerations, stabilized patients and evacuated those that could be,” he said, noting that with no imaging equipment, the team relied almost solely on physical diagnosis. Dr. Born and colleagues were honored for their efforts by the undersecretary of Homeland Security and the head of FEMA.
Nine new faculty have joined the Department: Karin Andersson, MD, Instructor; Paul J. Bandini, MD, Assistant Professor; Robert V. Emmons, MD, Associate Professor; Frank W. Grzywacz, MD, Instructor; Daniel B. Haithcock, MD, Instructor; Aaron R. Kosmin, MD, Instructor; Keith McNellis, MD ’00, Instructor; Alisa Peet, MD, Instructor; and Syed Shahubuddin, PhD, Assistant Professor.
The Department also welcomes Pekka A. Mooar, MD, Associate Professor; Bruce B. Vanett, MD, Assistant Professor; and Albert A. Weiss, MD ’73, Res ’78, Associate Professor.
NEUROLOGY
OTOLARYNGOLOGY
S. Ausim Azizi, MD, PhD, Chair, has been named Deputy Editor of Neuroscience Letters.
Vincent Callanan, MD, has joined the faculty as Assistant Professor; and Judith M. Skoner, MD, has also joined as Assistant Professor.
Anca Popescu, MD, has joined the faculty as Assistant Professor.
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