ACTSI Investigator News
- Rheumatologist Sam Lim has received a $1 million grant from the Georgia Department of Human Resources to continue his work gathering data for the Georgia Lupus Registry, the largest, most comprehensive population-based lupus registry in the country. The goal of the project is to better understand who gets the disease.
- Endocrinologist Lawrence Phillips presented findings at the American Diabetes Association's annual meeting showing routine screenings and management for diabetes versus no screenings and treatment provide significant cost savings to health care systems-about $20 per person over three years, multiplied by the thousands of Americans with diabetes and prediabetes each system treats.
- Cardiologist Arshed Quyyumi presented research at the American College of Cardiology that shows an injection of stem cells from a patient's own bone marrow after heart attack increases blood flow within the heart and reduces the chance of long-term complications. He and his colleagues used a preparation of bone marrow stem cells mixed with endothelial progenitor cells, which are thought to enrich the lining of blood vessels.
- Pulmonologist Kenneth Brigham has been named the permanent director of the Predictive Health and Society, one of the university's key strategic initiatives, and its components, the Predictive Health Institute and the Center for Health Discovery and Well-Being.
- The American College of Cardiology awarded Nanette Wenger, who has practiced cardiology at Grady Hospital for 50 years, its highest honor of Master. She received this national distinction at the 2009 American College of Cardiology scientific sessions convocation in May.