ACTSI Investigators and Pilot Awardees in the News
Carlos del Rio, MD, ACTSI investigator and chair of global health studies at Emory 's school of public health, was quoted by the Associated Press in the story Study: Poverty, more than race, tied to HIV and by Time in the article Research: Treating and preventing HIV and AIDS on July 19.
Nelson Oyesiku, MD, PhD, ACTSI investigator and associate professor of neurosurgery at Emory's SOM, received a coveted NIH25 mentoring grant - Emory was one of only two U.S. neurosurgical training programs to receive it. The departments of neurosurgery and neurology were awarded the grant to boost the pipeline of clinician-investigators in these fields. The grant funds one neurosurgery resident and one neurology resident to conduct laboratory or clinical research under the guidance of a mentor team and the grant's principal investigators. The grant aims to make residents competitive for career development awards, such as an NIH K award. Dr. Oyesiku was also named editor-in-chief of Neurosurgery for a 10-year term and also serves on the neurosurgery review committee of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education.
Allan Levey, MD, PhD, ACTSI investigator and professor and chair of neurology at Emory SOM, was quoted on CNN for the story Children of Alzheimer's sufferers want to know their risk on July 16.
Greg S. Martin, MD, MSc, ACTSI investigator and scholar, associate professor of medicine in Emory's Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care, and director of the ACTSI Clinical Research Patient Interaction Site at Emory University Hospital Midtown, was named section editor of Current Opinion in Critical Care.
Nadine Kaslow, PhD, ACTSI pilot awardee and a psychologist at Emory, was quoted in the New York Times in the article A spill into the psyche, and a respite on July 16 and by Psychology Today in the article Toxic spills on July 20.