Surgery Research - News - 2008-2009
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2007-2008 |
2006-2007
Congratulations to Paula K. Shireman, MD, Vascular Surgery, who has been awarded $166,273
additional NIH / National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute funding for her research project,
'Chemokines and immune cells in hind limb ischemia.' Dr. Shireman and her research team, including
research resident Jason Wells, MD, are
seeking successful strategies for muscle regeneration — ultimately
improving survival rates in traumatic injuries — through studies of the interactions
of bone marrow-derived cells and tissue-specific stem/progenitor cells on skeletal muscle
regeneration and angiogenesis (the process of developing new blood vessels). This R01 Diversity
Supplement grant will provide
funding to support postdoctoral research training for Dr. Wells.
More about Dr. Shireman |
More about Dr. Wells |
Surgery Summer 2009 Research E-News article
(7-20-09)
New breast and surgical treatment and diagnostic algorithms:
Thelma Hurd, MD, Surgical Oncology, and other Texas cancer specialists who are members of
the developmental clinical workgroup of the Texas Breast and Cervical Cancer Services (BCCS) program,
recently released new breast and cervical cancer screening, diagnosis algorithms. As part of the clinical
workgroup development, the BCCS has adopted the NationalComprehensive Cancer Network guidelines for
breast cancer screening and diagnosis.
These guidelines will enable Texas women who present to any BCCS facility in the State of Texas to
receive a standard of care and services in line with services provided at any cancer center in the
United States. More information about the new guidelines can be found on the Breast and Cervical
Cancer Services website: BCCS Website.
BCCS is a division of the Texas Department of State Health Services, Preventive and Primary Care
Unit. Read BCCS press release |
More about Dr. Hurd
(7-9-09)
Summer 2009 Surgery Research E-News: Feature articles include a
profile of
Paula K. Shireman, MD, Vascular Surgery, and her research —
seeking strategies for muscle regeneration. Also featured are our
research residents Drs. Mark Muir, Shaun Gifford, Richard Oppeltz,
Jason Wells, and Heather Hancock. Click here
to read our research news. (7-7-09)
Congratulations to Steven Wolf, MD, Vice Chair for Surgery Research, who has
been awarded a $100,000 research grant by the Elizabeth Huth Coates Maddux Foundation.
The Foundation, named in honor of Elizabeth Huth Coates Maddux, a well-known
San Antonio philanthropist, has been a positive force for Health Science Center
research since 2002. The grant will fund a Fellowship Program in Surgery/Regenerative Medicine.
More about the Elizabeth Huth Coates Maddux Charitable Foundation |
More about Dr. Wolf (5-26-09)
Researchers
study trauma response using near-infrared rays:
Texas researchers, including Department of Surgery Associate Professor
Paula K. Shireman, MD, and General Surgery Resident Carlo Martinez, MD, MSCI, are using near-infrared
light waves and a contrast agent to detect tiny leaks in rodents’ blood vessels, then track the blood
as it pools in tissues. Vessel leaks and muscle damage can be measured,
and can serve as markers of damage or muscle death.
"In the IR-820 experiments, we are attempting to measure how much albumin leaves the vascular
system and how robust the injured tissue’s capacity is to remove it,"
Dr. Shireman said. "We are looking to see if the vascular system is not leaky anymore and whether there is regeneration of muscle."
Read complete
story in the HSC News |
More about Dr. Shireman |
More about Dr. Martinez
(6-2-09)
Soldiers of fortitude - HSC Mission Magazine, Spring 2009: With the help of a
few brave wounded warriors, Steve Wolf, MD, Vice Chairman for Research, Department of
Surgery, is helping to put the pieces back together for those who have lost limbs,
whether as a result of war or disease. Through regenerative medicine research and
the development of an extracellular matrix, Dr. Wolf and his associates here, at BAMC,
and at other institutions are helping the wounded to re-grow missing limbs.
More about Dr. Wolf (3-26-09)
Congratulations to General Surgery Research Resident SreyRam Kuy, MD, who will present her abstract,
'Gender Based Differences in Management and Outcomes of Cholecystitis,' at the June 2009 AcademyHealth Annual Research
Meeting in Chicago, IL. For 25 years AcademyHealth's Annual Research
Meeting (ARM) has brought together health services researchers,
providers, and key decision makers to address the critical challenges
confronting the nation's health care delivery system. | More about Dr. Kuy
(3-25-09)
Congratulations to Yongxin Chen, MD, PhD, Vascular Surgery, who was awarded a
2009 American Society for Investigative Pathology (ASIP) Trainee Travel Award and ASIP Young Pathologist
Fellowship. He will present his abstract, "Reproducibility of miRNA Expression by Proliferating C2C12
Cells Using RT-PCR Array," at the 2009 ASIP Annual Meeting for Experimental Biology in New Orleans.
Dr. Chen is currently a postdoctoral fellow working with Drs. Shireman and McManus.
(3-2-09)
Congratulations to Carlo O. Martinez, MD, General Surgery Research Resident, who was awarded a 2009 American Society for Investigative Pathology (ASIP) Trainee
Travel Award. He will present his abstract, "Kinetics of Myogenic Progenitor Cells (MPC) Expansion and
Bone Marrow-derived Cell Recruitment in Skeletal Muscle Regeneration," at the 2009 American Society for
Investigative Pathology (ASIP) Annual
Meeting for Experimental Biology in New Orleans. Dr. Martinez is currently completing his second year of
research with Drs. Shireman and McManus. More about Dr.
Martinez (3-2-09)
$25,000 awarded to Renata Bastos, MD, Assistant Professor, Cardiothoracic Surgery:
Dr. Bastos has been awarded a South Texas Technology Management grant for her proposal, 'Inflatable
Aortic Shunt.' Her award will support a multi-institutional collaborative project and will fund
design, construction and testing of a prototype shunt for use in aortic surgery.
Read HSC News story |
More about Dr. Bastos (2-25-09)
Jeffrey McNeil, MD, USAF, Cardiothoracic Surgery, researching synthetic blood products: In
an effort to improve
surgical outcomes, the Air Force Surgeon General, Wilford Hall Medical Center, and
the UT Health Science Center San Antonio are collaborating in an ongoing research project at
the Health Science Center's Research Imaging Center. Their research is testing whether a synthetic
oxygen-saturated blood product can help the brain and other organs during major heart surgery, possibly
providing a protective boost for patients who may be at risk for
stroke or other internal injury.
Read Express-News article |
More about Dr. McNeil (1-15-09)
Congratulations to Daniel Dent, MD, Trauma, who has been awarded a National Institutes of
Health sub-award of $30k for participation in the NIH-=sponsored research project titled, 'SIS multicenter study of duration of antibiotics
for intraabdominal infection.' |
More about Dr. Dent (1-9-09)
Congratulations to Luis Angel, MD, Cardiothoracic Surgery and Pulmonary Medicine
on his award of $25,000 for lung transplant research from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, Menlo Park,
California, for the Barbara Melikan Lung
Transplantation Research Fund. (12-8-08)
Congratulations to V. Seenu Reddy, MD, MBA, FACS, Cardiothoracic Surgery,
who has been awarded a $40,000 University Research Council grant for his ongoing research project,
'IL-18 expression in human cardiovascular tissue and its role in left ventricular hypertrophy.'
Dr. Reddy and his research team have previously demonstrated in a mouse model that
IL18 stimulates cardiomyocytes in a manner that is consistent with
cellular hypertrophy, and that IL-18 is highly up-regulated in heart
tissue biopsies of patients with pressure overload, simultaneously with
increased accumulation of collagen. If IL-18 could be identified as an
important factor in the hypertrophic changes that occur in patients with
aortic stenosis, then pharmacological interventions could be sought,
including cases where there is too little space for valve replacement.
More about Dr. Reddy (12-4-08)
Congratulations to Daniel T. DeArmond, MD, Cardiothoracic Surgery, who has been awarded a $40k
University Research Council grant for his ongoing research project, 'Differentiating between organ rejection and
infection in a rat model of lung transplantation using PET scanning.' Treatment of organ rejection and
infection require very different therapeutic paths - infection is treated by increasing host immune
response to the infectious agents, and organ rejection is treated with immunosuppressants. Determining whether the illness
is due to infection or organ rejection will allow physicians to be able to provide timely and appropriate treatment
for their critically
ill transplant patients. (12-3-08)
Congratulations to General Surgery Research Residents Carlo Martinez, MD, and Shaun Gifford, MD:
Dr. Gifford has been awarded 1st place and Dr. Martinez 2nd place in the 2008 San Antonio Vascular
Surgical Society Resident Research Competition on 25 Oct 2008.
More about Dr. Martinez |
More about Dr. Gifford
(11-3-08)
Congratulations to Thelma C. Hurd, MD, Associate Professor and Director, Breast Surgery Program, who
has recently been awarded two research grants. The first, from the National Cancer
Institute (August 2008-2010, $369,994) is for her project titled
'Improved Cancer Screening: Life Skills Training in South Texas Hispanic
Communities'. This project will be studying the effect of life skills training on breast
and cervical cancer screening health behaviors among Mexican women in
Laredo, Eagle Pass and Corpus Christi.
The second grant has been awarded by the National Institutes of Health
(May 2008-May 2013, $26,332,750). Dr. Hurd serves as co-investigator with the
Community Engagement Core for the project titled 'Institute for
Integration of Medicine & Science: A Partnership to Improve Health
(U54),' implementing a Community Outreach,
Participation, and Engagement (COPE) program to promote community-academic research
partnerships in South Texas. More about Dr. Hurd (10-3-08)
Congratulations to Meeghan Lautner, MD, General Surgery Research Resident, who has beeen
awarded an F32 National Research Service Award (NRSA) Fellowship by the National Institutes
of Health. The award will be funded by the National Cancer Institute for her research project
titled, "Role of TRPV1 in Cancer Pain". Ken Hargreaves, DDS, PhD, Chair, Department of Endodontics,
UTHSCSA Dental School, serves as Dr. Lautner's research mentor. More about Dr. Lautner |
More about Dr. Hargreaves |
More about our Research Resident program
(10-3-08)
Congratulations to Howard T. Wang, MD, Interim Chief, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, who has
been awarded a $49,911 grant by the National Endowment for Plastic Surgery and
the Plastic Surgery Educational Foundation for Dr. Wang's research project,
"Neovascularization of bony construct using adipose tissue-derived stem cells". The
National Endowment was established to fund meritorious projects in the field of
plastic surgery, focusing on issues of immediate need and great promise. More about Dr. Wang
(10-1-08)
