Professional Notes: Summer 2022 Part Two
07/29/2022
Professional Notes is a round-up of awards, presentations, papers, and the other professional achievements of SLU faculty, staff members, and students.
Faculty and Staff
Ajay Jain, M.D. (Pediatrics-Gastroenterology) has been named as the next Vice President at the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (ASPEN). He had been serving on the board of directors since 2020. ASPEN was founded in 1976 and has more than 6,000 members from around the world. It is one of the largest global nutrition organizations dedicated to improving patient care by advancing the science and practice of clinical nutrition and metabolism. Jain is the director of the M.D./Ph.D. program for SLU’s School of Medicine. A SLUCare pediatric hepatologist and gastroenterologist, he serves as the associate division chief of pediatric gastroenterology, and the director of the pediatric liver transplant program at SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital.
Hiral Tailor and Mary Kimbrough (Physical Therapy and Athletic Training) earned their Board Certification in Orthopedic Physical Therapy in June 2022. Both are graduates of the SLU-SSM Health Physical Therapy Orthopedic Residency Program which educates licensed physical therapists in advanced orthopedic practice.
Oluwatoyosi (Olu) Owoeye, Ph.D. (Physical Therapy and Athletic Training) was appointed a Deputy Editor of Injury Prevention and Implementation Science on the editorial board of the British Journal of Sports Medicine (BJSM). The BJSM (impact factor: 13.8) is the No. 1 journal in sports and exercise medicine globally.
Anthony Breitbach, Ph.D. (Doisy College of Health Sciences) was renewed as Public Member of the Certified Association Executive (CAE) Commission of the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE). He has served in this role with the CAE Commission since 2019.
Jeffrey J. Ma, Ph.D. (Mechanical Engineering) received the 2022 North American Manufacturing Research Conference Outstanding Paper Award.
Jeffrey Scherrer, Ph.D. (Family and Community Medicine) has been promoted to Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. Scherrer holds a secondary appointment in Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience and is the Executive Director of Research for the AHEAD Institute. Since joining SLU in 2013, Scherrer has led Family and Community Medicine's success in NIH funding with the department ranking in the top 20 most NIH-funded departments of Family Medicine in the United States in 2017 and 2019.
Dustin Montgomery (Design & Construction) was named Distinguished Facility Manager of the Year by the St. Louis chapter of the International Facility Management Association. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch highlighted the news.
Oluwatoyosi (Olu) Owoeye, Ph.D. (Physical Therapy and Athletic Training) had a peer-reviewed editorial published as a senior author in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. The editorial was titled "Breaking research barriers in the global south: insights from sports and exercise medicine and sports physical therapy research in Zambia and a call to action."
Aidan Ruth, Ph.D. (Center for Anatomical Science and Education) and colleagues from the University of Missouri published "Flexible, short-duration outreach sessions in the human anatomy laboratory provide authentic, humanistic experiences" in Anatomical Sciences Education.
Joanne Langan, Ph.D. and Margaret Bultas (Trudy Busch Valentine School of Nursing) recently published an article in the Journal of Professional Nursing about a project using shared faculty among schools of nursing to ease the burden of the nurse faculty shortage.
Langan also had a textbook, "Preparing Nurses for Disaster Management: A Global Perspective," published this summer.
Nori Katagiri, Ph.D. (Political Science) published an article titled "Two explanations for the paucity of cyber-military, cross-domain operations" in the latest edition of Journal of Cybersecurity. He explains how hard it is for countries to deploy cyber attacks and physical military operations at the same time and why countries generally prefer to launch them separately.
Ajay Jain, M.D. (Pediatrics-Gastroenterology) co-authored the study, "New Genetic Associations in Pediatric NAFLD Affect Both Risk and Severity," in the online issue of the journal Hepatology. In a pair of overlapping studies, a diverse team of researchers, led by scientists at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine, have deepened investigations into the genetic origins of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) in children, describing multiple gene variants (including some previously unknown) that contribute to the risk of developing NAFLD and gene variants associated with the severity of the liver disease.
Nila Petty (Fine & Performing Arts) had a juried exhibition, "Sculpture National," at Clay Center of New Orleans.
Anthony Breitbach, Ph.D. (Doisy College of Health Sciences) represented the Association of Schools Advancing Health Professions (ASAHP) at the Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC) Council member meeting on June 27, 2022, in Washington, DC.
Katie Sniffen (AHEAD Institute) presented at the National Athletic Trainers' Association Clinical Symposia on a collaborative project with colleagues from the Departments of Physical Therapy and Athletic Training and Health Management and Policy titled, "Current Understanding of the Relationship Between Cumulative Workload and Injury in Youth Team Sports."
Yulia Vorotyntseva, Ph.D. (Chaifetz School of Business) moderated a panel discussion on global supply chain issues as part of the first-ever Army Week St. Louis - Leaders in Action Forum on June 16.
Bradley Bailey, Ph.D. (Visual and Performing Arts) recently served as a panelist at the American Institute of Architects (AIA) St. Louis National Photography Competition held at the AIA Conference in Chicago. Open to licensed architects in the United States, AIA associates, and students of accredited architecture schools, the competition honors professionals and students in the realms of architecture and design by illustrating the built environments through photographs.
Bidisha Chakrabarty, Ph.D. (Finance) led a lecture hosted by the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore’s Centre for Capital Markets & Risk Management on July 14. The talk entitled "Capital Markets: Trading and Technologies" focused on the ownership structure of stock exchanges, its effect on market quality, trading techniques, and the impact of trading technologies.
Bonnie Wilson, Ph.D. (Economics) participated in an online discussion hosted by Missouri Business Alert about inflation, interest rates and their implications for small businesses. The event was held on Tuesday, July 19. Wilson's research interests lie primarily in the field of public choice, with focus on special interest groups and economic freedom.
Sara Rae Womack (Fine & Performing Arts Department) is appearing as Marcy Park in Stray Dog Theatre's production of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, running August 4-20, 2022.
Cathleen A. Fleck, Ph.D., (Visual and Performing Arts) co-organized a field seminar in Naples, Italy with colleagues from the Bibliotheca Hertziana of the Max Planck Institute in Rome, the Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, the Centro per la Storia dell'Arte e dell'Architettura delle Città Portuali, Texas Tech University, and the University of Texas as Dallas. Called Gateways to Medieval Naples, the seminar convened established and emerging scholars from June 7-9, 2022, in a collaborative format grounded in direct study of Neapolitan monuments and the collegial exchange of ideas regarding the latest research on medieval Naples. This seminar was supported by a grant from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation.
Students
Noah Leith (College of Arts and Sciences student) and Kasey Fowler-Finn, Ph.D. (Biology) published a paper, "Evolutionary Interactions Between Thermal Ecology and Sexual Selection," in Ecology Letters. The work, led by Noah Leith, explored how thermal ecology affects mating system dynamics, how mating dynamics can generate selection on thermal traits, and how the thermal consequences of mate competition favor the reciprocal co-adaptation of thermal biology and sexual traits. Several media outlets highlighted the paper, including Mirage News, Science Daily, and Swift Telecast.