Thursday, March 20, 2003 TODAY
Loma Linda University news
- Faculty Notes
- 71st Annual Postgraduate Convention held at LLU
- Martin Luther King Jr. Health-care Symposium held at LLU
- Alzheimer’s research continues recruiting process at LLU
- Reception held in honor of Merlin Burt, PhD, MDiv
- Ignatius Yacoub, PhD, professor
of management in the department of social work, Graduate School, has
authored a paper titled “Strategies
for Effective Empowerment.” The paper will be presented at the
2003 international conference of the Society for Advancement of Management
to be held in Orlando, Florida, April 10 to 13.
- Mickey Ask, MD, assistant professor of preventive medicine, has been appointed to an evaluation committee of the State Bar of California’s recently formed lawyer assistance program. The lawyer assistance program is a confidential program offering assistance in the rehabilitation of attorneys who have problems with substance abuse or mental illness. Their license to practice is not affected as a result of participating in this program. For those concerned, the confidential phone number is (866) 436-6644.
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71st Annual Postgraduate Convention held at LLU
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The booth for Loma Linda Broadcasting Network (LLBN) TV provided information to those attending the Annual Postgraduate Convention about the Christian programming available in a variety of fields, including music, health, science, diet, education, and news. LLBN provides Christian programming 24 hours a day, seven days a week. |
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Martin Luther King Jr. Health-care Symposium held at Loma Linda University
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More than 100 students and faculty attended the Martin Luther King Jr. Health-care Symposium on January 15. The symposium focused on confronting racial and ethnic disparities in the health-care system. |
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James Kyle, MDiv, MD, founder and COO of Genesis Health Care Strategies, delivers the keynote speech at the symposium. He informs the audience of the results and recommendations of the March, 2002, study conducted by the Institute of Medicine in his speech titled, “Healing Health–care Disparities.” |
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Alzheimer’s research continues recruiting process at LLU
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| Wolff Kirsch, MD, director of the Neurosurgery Center for Research, Training, and Education, and Cindy Dickson, project administrator for the study, have screened more than 300 people for mild cognitive impairment. |
The Neurosurgery Center for Research, Training, and Education at Loma
Linda University continues to recruit participants in the $4.5 million
Alzheimer's research
project begun last October.
The research team, under principal investigator Wolff Kirsch, MD, has screened
more than 300 initial candidates for mild cognitive impairment, the pre-cursor
disease to Alzheimer's that is the prerequisite for entrance into the study.
The researchers plan on including 100 people in the study, which will attempt
to identify a reliable biological marker for early stage Alzheimer’s disease.
" This won't be a huge study with thousands of people, but a few people
who
will be followed extensively," says Dr. Kirsch.
The researchers have also teamed up with the Translational Genomics Research
Institute in Phoenix, Arizona, and the Neurology Research Brain Bank at UCLA.
The brain bank has provided 50 specimens with Alzheimer's disease as the cause
of death and 30 control specimens (with other factors such as heart disease or
trauma). The researchers are probing the occipital lobes for polymorphisms in
the iron regulating protein-2 (IRP-2) gene.
The latest technical addition will be to the neurology lab with the installation
of an atomic absorption spectophotometer and microfluorometer. Along with preparing
monoclonal antibodies to the nonopeptide that serves to sense iron levels in
IRP-2, these additions will help monitor iron deposits.
" Man's ability to control disease throughout history has been based on
his
ability to understand the disease," notes Dr. Kirsch.
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Reception held in honor of Merlin Burt, PhD, MDiv
Approximately 60 friends and colleagues of Merlin D. Burt, PhD, MDiv,
chair, department of archives and special collections for the Del E.
Webb Memorial Library, attended an afternoon reception on February 19.
The reception honored Dr. Burt who successfully defended his dissertation
for his doctor of philosophy degree at Andrews University, Berrien Springs,
Michigan, on December 17, 2002. Dr. Burt, also the director of the Ellen
G. White Estate Branch office (Loma Linda) for the General Conference
of Seventh-day Adventists, is pictured at right with his wife, Sarah,
during the reception that was held in the Heritage Room.
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