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January 28, 2011 MEDICAL UNIVERSITY of SOUTH CAROLINA Vol. 29, No. 22

Researchers beat nationalaverage in landing grants

Sometimes great things do come in small packages.Just take MUSC’s College of Graduate Studieswith its 284 students. Though it’s small in

numbers, its Ph.D. students hold the bragging rights toan 80 percent success rate in receiving the prestigiousNational Institutes of Health (NIH) National ResearchService Awards (NRSA), compared to the nationalaverage of 30 percent. Currently, 22 students hold theawards.

Perry V. Halushka, M.D., Ph.D., dean of the Collegeof Graduate Studies, said the college has held thisrate for several years. The Ruth Kirschstein NationalResearch Service Award is the most competitivefellowship that a graduate student or a M.D./Ph.D.student can receive.

“When I tell my colleagues about the success of ourprogram, it just blows them away. We have a terrificgraduate program now. There’s a gem here that manypeople don’t know about.”

The three components of the training grants arebased on the quality of the students, mentors and theresearch. Halushka credits the high success rate tothe quality of the training plan between the mentorand student that turns trainees into the independentscientists that they need to become.

“To me the whole Ph.D. experience is learning how toask and answer important scientific questions. You learntechniques, you learn technology, but it’s all to answerquestions. It’s all about learning to problem-solve.That’s how people become successful as scientists.”

Science is fast-paced, which is even more the case astechnology advances, he said. “What you learn today asa Ph.D. student technique-wise, five or six years fromnow, you may never use again. That’s what you expect.It’s the training that’s important. I want our trainees tolearn how to take risks and think outside of the box.”

The right stuffThat depends on getting the right people, of course.

The goal of Cynthia F. Wright, Ph.D., associate deanfor admissions and career development, is to recruitand retain high-caliber students, the kind of students

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Dr. Joann Sullivan keeps winning research grant applications on hand. See researchers on page 8

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December Employees of the Month

Lane Elsey, Safety & Security/Volunteer & Guest Services“A patient’s mother needed her hair trimmed (the patient had been at MUSC

several weeks). Lane went above and beyond to have one of her friends come to thehospital to cut and style this mother’s hair. The mother was very appreciative.”Nominated by Kelly Cavins

Patricia Roberts, Medical Director’s Office“Patricia went above and beyond her call of duty as a social worker to ensure that

a discharged patient would receive his medications. The medications were left in thepatient’s room upon discharge when he was being transported home. The patient’sfamily did not have any means of transportation to come to the hospital to pick upthe medications. Patricia drove to the patient’s home in Harleyville to deliver hismedications. Needless to say, this was on Thanksgiving eve at the end of the workday.Patricia is a wonderful person and a dedicated colleague. She is a role model for thesocial work profession and an asset to MUSC.”Nominated by Sherrell Thomas-Nelson and Neomi Brown

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Focus on African-American Health Care IssuesSessions are open to all students, house staff, faculty, research and nursing staff

Feb. 1: Disparate Care-Root CauseAnalysis and Solutions. Dr. ClydeW. Yancy, chief of cardiology, North-western University-Feinberg School ofMedicine, Chicago, Ill.

Feb. 8: Southwestern Virtual Institutefor Health Equity and Wellness: AnIntegrative Approach to EliminatingHealth Disparities. Dr. SabraSlaughter, associate professor, chief of

staff, Office of the President, MUSC;Dr. Leonard Egede, The Allen JohnsonEndowed Chair of Internal Medicineand Geriatrics, director, Center forHealth Disparities Research, MUSC.

All lectures will be held at 8 a.m. in theInstitute of Psychiatry. For the complete list,visit the Department of Medicine’s websiteat http://clinicaldepartments.musc.edu/medicine.

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New MUSC College of Pharmacy dean named

Hall

Philip D. Hall, PharmD, was named campus dean ofthe MUSC campus of the South Carolina College ofPharmacy (SCCP). A full professorof clinical pharmacy and outcomessciences, Hall has been serving asthe interim MUSC campus deansince February 2010.

“Dr. Hall is highly qualifiedto serve as campus dean and hasdemonstrated those skills andabilities thoroughly during histenure as interim campus dean,”said Joseph T. DiPiro, PharmD,executive dean of SCCP. “He hasbeen an outstanding leader both as an administrator inthe college and as our representative on the universitylevel at MUSC. I’m sure he will continue to be atremendous asset in this new capacity.”

SCCP has a campus dean at each home campusof its founding institutions: the University of SouthCarolina (USC) in Columbia and MUSC. Both campusdeans report to the executive dean. Arnold W. Karig,Ph.D., the former MUSC campus dean, retired at thebeginning of 2010 after a 40-year career in MUSCpharmacy education. Randall C. Rowen, PharmD,serves as the USC campus dean.

“Dr. Karig was a great mentor for me,” said Hall,who served as associate dean from 2004 until hisappointment as interim campus dean. “He and othersenior faculty and administrators built a proud legacy ofMUSC pharmacy, which I will strive to uphold. UnderDr. DiPiro’s leadership, SCCP has emerged as an evenmore formidable institution in pharmacy education. Iam excited to have the opportunity to contribute to itscontinued growth and success.”

Hall received his bachelor’s in pharmacy from theUniversity of Georgia in 1986 then completed hisDoctor of Pharmacy from the Medical College ofVirginia/Virginia Commonwealth University in 1988.With a special interest in oncology pharmacy, Hallcompleted an oncology pharmacy residency at theAudie L. Murphy Veterans Administration Hospitalin San Antonio and cancer immunotherapy researchfellowship at the University of Texas Health Sciencein San Antonio & University of Texas College ofPharmacy from 1988 – 1991.

Hall was recruited to the faculty of the MUSCCollege of Pharmacy in 1991 as an assistant professor.Serving in a number of leadership roles as a memberof the faculty, both in the college and at the universitylevel, he was promoted to associate professor in 1998and was promoted to full professor in 2009. He served

as associate dean for the MUSC campus from 2004 to2010, taking a role in developing the joint curriculumof the integrated college, program assessment, andadmitting and advising students.

He practiced pharmacy at the Hollings Cancer Centerand MUSC until 2010, when he was asked to serve asinterim campus dean at MUSC. He is board certified inboth pharmacotherapy and oncology pharmacy.

His research, both clinical and laboratory-based,has focused on harnessing the immune system againstcancer. He has received funding from the NationalCancer Institute, Leukemia & Lymphoma Society,the American College of Clinical Pharmacy, and thepharmaceutical industry. Currently, his research focuseson factors that predict a student’s success in pharmacyschool. Hall has won a number of teaching awards inthe classroom and by the bedside. He has been namedprofessor, teacher and preceptor of the year 10 times,including most recently as fourth-year class Professor ofthe Year and the Overall Teacher of the Year, both in2009.

Hall lives in Mount Pleasant with his wife RaynaKneuper-Hall, M.D., chief of hematology/oncology atthe Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center and assistantprofessor of hematology/oncology at MUSC, anddaughter Lauren and son Brandon.

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The start of the semester, I found myself stirring at4:30 a.m. clumsily stumbling around the

dimly-lit world until the brisk weather of thatJanuary morning abruptly brought me to mysenses. Release of epinephrine acting on the alphareceptor, causation of increased alertness.

I made my way to ART’s (Ashley RiverTower) fourth floor, main OR lobby. I hadcome to shadow an anesthesiologist in anattempt to rejuvenate the excitement that isdampened by stacks of note cards and daunt-ingly thick syllabi. By the time I had made itinto the building my toes were numb, my abso-lute least favorite part of winter. Arteriovenuousanastomosis, mechanism for shunting blood to the vital organsto maintain core temperature.

One of my professors, Dr. Jake Abernathy, placed mein a bay with an elderly woman receiving an epiduralfrom Dr. Tara Queener, an anesthesiology and perioper-ative medicine resident. It was explained out loud thatDr. Queener would recognize the “right spot” had beenhit when the plunger of the needle easily descendedinto the patient’s body. I wracked my brain with whatthis could mean while watching the hunched-overpatient, who was seemingly wondering the same thing.Epidural space, site at which spinal nerves can be accessed toblock sensation and pain to a given dermatome.

Being there, with Dr. Queener and her patient, was

a great opportunity to piece together the knowledgederived from hours in the library and attempt to applythem to something that I was observing. There is nogreater moment for a medical school student than

glorious opportunities to spout off the awe-some intricacies of the body that we havebeen forced to learn in excruciating detail,let alone to a receptive audience. This isn’talways the case. It’s an adjustment to realizethat what you find amazing not only doesn’ttranslate to amusement for others, but alsoat times can lead even to the opposite. Forinstance, my best friend from undergraduateschool and I used to find amusement in allthe same things. Verbal filtering has becomequite necessary for “appropriate” conversa-tion between us. No matter how fascinating

my explanation of lactose intolerance symptoms may beand despite the seemingly thrilling tales I have to tellabout the trials and tribulations within the dissectionlab, I have had to accept that this will never be wel-comed dinner conversation between us.

Apparently I am not the only one who has an evidentdisconnect with the normal and appropriate. My labpartner, the very lovely and dedicated Aisha Jackson,explained to me just the other day how every now andthen our altered concept of the norm is all too appar-ent. “Is it odd that I eat cereal while reading Rohen?”she said, referring to a dissection guide that uses imagesof actual cadavers. “Sometimes I think something isn’tquite right here.” We shrug and acknowledge the pos-

sible oddness of the situation.But as it were, my decision to do shadowing was good

timing and fun to make use of the various morsels ofinformation that streamlined through my thoughts asDr. Queener worked to place a catheter in the epiduralspace. In fact, it was a good change of pace from thebewildering feelings of “I don’t know anything” thattypically accompanies my interactions with real patients,and I found it exciting to have a chance to pick thebrains of those who do. Hence, when left alone withDr. Queener, I couldn’t help but spout off a stream ofvarious questions about the procedure taking place be-fore me. What will they do with that node? What doesthat number mean over there? Why do you need thatother tube? The list could go on and, luckily for me, Dr.Queener was more than a good sport and answered myplethora of questions. She even filled me in on her lifeas a resident.

I asked the typical questions: how long her residencyprogram would take to complete, how many hours sheworks each week and what she enjoys about the job? Af-ter hearing horror stories about residency, I was ratherpleased to hear her say, “I have time to read.” I thoughtabout it for a minute and remembered the book I hadstarted over Christmas break that now just sits on mybed stand, not touched since my return to school.

“Did you have time to read in medical school too?” Iasked her.

“ … Oh, no” Dr. Queener replied.A wave of relief came over me. “Okay… just making

sure.”

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Editor’s Note: Chelsey Baldwin of Little River is a first-year medical student. This column follows the journey ofher class in becoming doctors.

MUSC Harper Student Wellness Center’s James Johnson, left, pushesparticipants to test their stamina in the High Intensity Training System(HITS) program. The class, which meets every Wednesday and Fridayfor six weeks at the wellness center, is limited to 20 participants. Forinformation, call Johnson at 792-7141.

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Biomedical imaging will rise to thenext level as MUSC applies new

technologies that focus on the needs ofthe research community while tappingthe talents of a team of scientists.

MUSC leadership and statewide col-laborators believe this new imaging-basedbiomedical research initiative has thepotential to someday rank among thebest in the nation.

In fall 2010, the MUSC board oftrustees approved a university centerdesignation for the new Center forBiomedical Imaging (CBI). The CBI willbe headed by Joseph A. Helpern, Ph.D.,one of the South Carolina Centers ofEconomic Excellence Endowed chairs inbrain imaging recruited to MUSC in late2010.

A world-renowned imaging scientistand recipient of numerous awards, pat-ents, and National Institutes of Health(NIH) grant awards, Helpern movedfrom New York University School ofMedicine where he led similar effortsas founding director of the Center forBiomedical Imaging.

Joining Helpern in guiding MUSCimaging research efforts is Truman R.Brown, Ph.D., professor of radiology anddirector for the Center for AdvancedImaging Research (CAIR). Brown, whowas recruited from Columbia Universitywill serve as scientific director under thenewly formed CBI. Brown has severalpatents in magnetic resonance spec-troscopic imaging, which have helpedadvance the field especially in the studyof cancer.

Helpern, who also is vice chairman forresearch in radiology, has built a careeron enhancing imaging research and de-veloping new applications and technolo-gies in this growing area of medicine. Hewas a pioneer in the field of MagneticResonance Imaging since its beginningsin the late 1970s and helped build thefirst version of what is now considereda clinical 3 Tesla MRI system. Helpernand Brown have previous experienceestablishing several imaging researchcenters around the country. Helpern was

originally contacted by MUSC leadershipin 2006, but the timing was not right.

Helpern said, “MUSC already hadan incredible amount of quality imag-ing equipment within the Departmentof Radiology— a 3 Tesla MRI, PET, CTand other specialty MRI machines—butlacked an expe-rienced commu-nity of imagingspecialists tosupport this ef-fort. Since then,we’ve focused onwhat was neededto take imagingat MUSC to thenext level.”

To help es-tablish a criticalmass of expertson campus, bothHelpern andBrown have beenbusy recruitingimaging scientists while enriching theDepartment of Radiology’s NIH researchgrant portfolio. Already, the programhas recruited eight imaging research fac-ulty who have brought along more than$3 million in research funding.

As director of the CBI, Helpern willreport directly to Etta Pisano, M.D.,

dean of the College of Medicine and vicepresident of medical affairs. Pisano is aninternationally recognized breast imagingradiologist and translational researcher.“The clinical and research applicationsfor biomedical imaging have seen unprec-edented growth during the past three

decades.”Helpern is meet-

ing with basic sci-entists and imagingscience colleagueson campus andresearchers acrossSouth Carolina.He’ll promote CBI’sbiomedical imag-ing capabilities andcommunicate theCBI’s mission toserve as a central-ized facility andresource providingopportunities forbasic and clinical

scientists to collaborate and discovernew ways to study diseases and diseaseprocesses and to translate these advancesto the patient community.

Phillip Costello, M.D., chairman ofthe Department of Radiology and Radio-logical Science, said “Dr. Helpern willbe a great colleague and mentor to our

research scientists who have an interestin medical imaging.”

Helpern will be establishing a CBI stra-tegic planning committee consisting ofleaders in the field of imaging at MUSCand will be working to set in place thenecessary foundation for a projectedopening on July 1. He also plans to iden-tify and share other statewide imagingresources.

Both Helpern and Brown have definedCBI’s biomedical imaging technologyto include magnetic resonance imaging,PET, CT and optical imaging. Thesetechnologies can be used to image cellsin the study of breast cancer, cardiovas-cular disease, musculoskeletal disorders,Alzheimer’s disease, drug addiction,ADHD, autism and many other impor-tant diseases. Several of the new imagingfaculty will have a presence in the newbioengineering building slated to openlater in 2011.

Helpern said there’s a support networkfor imaging research that is important.“No one can develop ideas and writegrants on their own. This group’s pres-ence on campus, plus the interactionswith other campuswide faculty, will helpcross fertilize our ideas and help themgrow into funded research projects. Imag-ing research can be applied to many areasof medicine including neuroscience,psychiatry, rehabilitative medicine andbioengineering,” he said.

Asked what best promotes MUSC’sgrowth in medical imaging Helpern saidit’s a matter of changing expectations.

“I think our biggest barrier or chal-lenge is ourselves,” Helpern said. “Weneed to shoot for the stars in this effortand let others look at MUSC’s biomedi-cal imaging expertise and statewide com-mitment with envy. We have creative,bright and hard working people who canget things done. All of the ingredients forsuccess are here. We just need to believeand challenge ourselves to move forwardto achieve success. “

“The clinical andresearch applicationsfor biomedicalimaging have seenunprecedented growthduring the past threedecades.”

Dr. Etta Pisano

Among MUSC’s new imaging faculty recruited in 2010 include Dr. FatimaFalagola, Dr. Ali Tabesh, Dr. Saeid Tajeri, Dr. Etta Pisano, Elodia Cole,Dr. Joseph Helpern, Dr. Truman Brown and Dr. Jane Joseph. Not picturedare Drs. D.J. Connor and Colleen Hanlon.

Biomedical imaging gets competitive edgeFOr mOre INFO:Visit http://clinicaldepartments.musc.edu/radiology/research.htm

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who can land training grants.“These training grants are important because they

demonstrate that our programs have been evaluatedby funding agencies, largely NIH, and found to be worthyof receiving funding support,” said Wright. “This meansthat our training program, faculty, and student qualityare competitive with the best programs in the nation.

“We are small enough to have close interactionbetween trainees and faculty and yet large enoughto provide world-class facilities to our students andresearchers,” she said. “There is a feeling of growth andexcitement here that we are always getting better, andwe are attracting great faculty and students.”

They also pay attention to the nuts and bolts involved,such as the summer grant training class taught by Ed L.Krug, Ph.D., assistant dean for postdoctoral affairs. Thecourse prepares students to write grant applications.

Joann F. Sullivan, Ph.D., director of the office forresearch development, praises how the course helpsstudents stay ahead of the competition.

“The bar with NRSA is always being raised. Wealways have to be one step ahead of the curve.”

Her office’s relationship with the college has beena factor in the success of getting repeating renewalson training grants, she said. They keep past successfulapplications and reviewers’ critiques and commentsto serve as a training guide. They also provide aninstitutional boiler plate of applications, maintainseveral databases needed for individual and institutionalgrants, track competing grants and provide generalassistance. She tries to make sure the institutionalinfrastructure is in place to support the studentsbecause they all know what the expectation is, she said.Students are expected to land these training grants.

“I think it’s Dean Halushka’s can-do attitude,” shesaid of a critical factor behind the college’s successrate. “He’s so supportive of these applications. He’s aproblem solver. He’s responsive to what we need.”

Mentor magicGraduate student Linnea Freeman said the grants

focus on the training experience a student gets, and shehas been impressed by the feedback she’s gotten fromher mentors and collaborators.

“We have great preparation from our grant writingcourse in the summer. We also have great examplesfrom people at the university who write grants allthe time. NIH is looking for grants that have clinicalrelevance. Because we’re at the medical university, we’redoing basic science research at the bench that has a lotof clinical relevance, and we can bridge that to what’sbeing done at the hospital. I think we can have therelevance that NIH is looking for to get those grants.”

Speaking from her experiences of working with theDepartment of Neurosciences, Freeman said she’s hadaccess and exposure to the latest techniques and high-tech equipment. One of her colleagues, for example, is

using laser light that can control how the brain worksby turning on or off specific proteins or actions withinthe brain.

“Everyone here is hands-on with the best equipment.That kind of technology isn’t being used at many otherresearch universities.”

She also likes how small the graduate classes are,which allows her to have more one-on-one time withmentors and other professors.

“I feel like there is always more than one personavailable to talk to—there’s a lot of collaboration here.For example, if there’s a technique that your lab doesn’thave experience with, there’s always someone youcan go to who is happy to help you. That brings thattechnique into the lab, so that lab only gets stronger.”

Krug said he’s found the most importantcharacteristic of a good training environment isthe belief of the faculty and administration that itsstudents and post-doctoral scholars are capable of greatachievement, and then providing the support to makeit happen. It’s a team effort that gets the job done, hesaid, listing some of the influential staff.q Sullivan gives an overview of the National Institutes

of Health extramural funding programs, replete withvaluable tips on the fellowship application itself.q Tom Smith, Ph.D., associate director of the Center

for Academic Excellence, discusses the importance ofrhetoric conducive to effective communication withreviewers.q Sharon Yeatts, Ph.D., assistant professor of

biostatistics, helps students focus on the criticalelements of experimental design.q Robbie Lee and Amy Boehm of the Office of

Research and Sponsored Programs, conduct a step-by-step hands-on workshop for submitting the finalfellowship application to NIH via the Cayuse portal.

“But perhaps one of the most influential componentsof the course is the involvement of many postdoctoralscholars who serve as facilitators of small study sectiongroup discussions where the students critique eachother’s proposal drafts. My role is to simply bring allthese players together and stay out of the way.”

Krug said one of the joys of his job is to watch howthe mentoring and collaborative process shapes theprofessional development of students. Professionaldevelopment without mentoring is a hit-or-missprocess. Students and postdoctoral scholars benefittremendously from faculty sharing lessons learned andlistening to their individual aspirations and goals. Theyprovide constructive feedback on students’ strengthsand weaknesses that might impact achieving those goals.

The preparation of a fellowship application isthe perfect platform to facilitate such mentoringinteractions, he said. Describing the transition fromundergraduate to graduate student as a “titanicmoment,” Krug said students move beyond textbooklearning to a process that creates new knowledge.Postdoctoral trainees also face significant issues,especially when entering an increasingly competitive jobmarket.

“One needs a good number of life boats on boardto persevere through the challenges that are inherentin the process of arriving at a successful dissertationdefense.”

researchers Continued from Page One

Linnea Freeman works in her lab. For a list ofaward recipients, visit http://www.musc.edu/catalyst/archive/2011/co1-28winners.html.

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