Notes

Cheryl Bailey, Year III medical student, received a full-time training fellowship from the program for minority research training in psychiatry, funded by a National Research Service Award grant to the American Psychiatric Association.

Bailey also made a presentation at the annual meeting of the Society of Biological Psychiatry in May, 1999. Her studies focus on medication-induced changes in basal ganglia volumes in children with obsessive compulsive disorder.

Richard Balon, MD, professor of psychiatry and behavioral neurosciences, is president-elect of the Michigan Psychiatric Society.

Ramon Berguer, MD, PhD, professor of surgery, has been elected president of the Society for Vascular Surgery, for the term beginning in 2000.

Leilei Chen, PhD, research assistant in anatomy and cell biology, was awarded a student research stipend from the Midwest Eye-Banks and Transplantation Center.

William Coplin, MD, assistant professor of neurology and neurosurgery, is participating in the Brain Disorders and Clinical Neurosciences Study Section of the National Institutes of Health.

Kate Dimond Fitzgerald, Year IV medical student, presented her work on brain imaging in pediatric obsessive compulsive disorder at the Society for Biological Psychiatry annual meeting in May, 1999.

Andy Gilbert, Year IV medical student, gave a presentation at the annual meeting of the Society of Biological Psychiatry in May, 1999. His research focused on changes in thalamic volume in obsessive compulsive disorder patients after medication treatment.

Angela MacDonald, research assistant in psychiatry and behavioral neurosciences, presented her work at the annual meeting of the Society of Biological Psychiatry in May, 1999. Her presentation focused on neurologic abnormalities in children with depression and obsessive compulsive disorder.

Frank MacMaster, research assistant in psychiatry and behavioral neurosciences, gave a presentation about abnormal pituitary morphology in children with obsessive compulsive disorder at the annual meeting of the Society of Biological Psychiatry. His research was featured in the Clinical Psychiatry News.

James Moseley, EdD, associate professor of community medicine, is a Certified Health Education Specialist, after he successfully completed the health education board examination.

Lori Paulson, research assistant in psychiatry and behavioral neurosciences, gave a presentation at the annual meeting of the Society of Biological Psychiatry in May, 1999. Her presentation focused on the relationship between brain imaging measurements and neuropsychologic testing in children.

Arthur Porter, MD, associate dean for health care initiatives, was named chief executive officer for The Detroit Medical Center.

Joseph Roebuck, Year IV medical student, made a presentation at the International Society of Magnetic Resonance annual meeting in May, 1999. His presentation focused on brain chemical abnormalities in children with depression.

David Rosenberg, MD, associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral neurosciences, has had his clinical research program designated as a training site by the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and the American Psychiatric Association for training of minority medical students completing summer research fellowships. In addition, Dr. Rosenberg has been invited to serve on a Michigan task force regarding adolescent suicide and homicide.

Mark Upfal, MD, associate professor of family medicine and director of occupational and environmental medicine, has been appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of NeuroMetrix, Inc., a company which is located in Cambridge, MA, and is a spin-off from the Harvard-M.I.T. Division of Health Sciences and Technology.

Richard Vander Heide, MD, PhD, assistant professor of pathology and internal medicine, was appointed to the National Heart Foundation Scientific Review Committee for the American Health Assistance Foundation. He also received a National Institutes of Health grant to study the role of signal transduction in myocardial ischemic injury.