FIU MED Annual Report 2016-17

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Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine 2016-2017 Annual Report

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Message from the Dean

2 Education and Training Excellence

5 Health Care Innovation and Community Health

13 Research and Evaluation

19 Faculty and Staff Success

23 “I wasn’t finding any job that fed my soul; then FIU called me. Our program really approaches the person, the household, the community as a whole.”

— Jessica Oliveira, MSPA, PA-C Green Family Foundation NeighborhoodHELP

Physician assistant Jessica Oliveira during a household visit to NeighborhoodHELP patient Olga Castillo.

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Faculty Recognition

24 Philanthropy

26 Facts + Figures

28 Faculty Authors and Publications

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MESSAGE FROM THE

DEAN

Dr. John A. Rock on the bridge connecting Academic Health Centers 1 and 2 at Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine.

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n the years since the Florida Legislature authorized creation of a medical school at FIU, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine (HWCOM) has embraced a mission of preparing socially accountable, community-based physicians, scientists, and health professionals who are uniquely qualified to transform the health of patients and communities. In numerous ways, we continue to demonstrate our dedication to excellence in education, research, and clinical care.

We are proud of our students and graduates, who consistently exemplify the college’s values of scholarship, innovation, inclusion, integrity, and service. These students are learning to address the social determinants of health and are active participants in correcting health disparities in our community, particularly through the college’s Green Family Foundation Neighborhood Health Education Learning Program. NeighborhoodHELP, our service-learning initiative, immerses faculty-supervised teams of FIU students into the local community to provide care and facilitate services to households in medically underserved areas of South Florida. From July 1, 2016, to June 30, 2017, our students worked together with FIU nursing, social work, and law students to conduct more than 2,000 household visits, and provided care to more than 1,300 household members participating in NeighborhoodHELP. In addition to serving the community, our students and alumni continue to excel academically. Mean student scores and pass rates on the United States Medical Licensing Examination Step 1 and Step 2 Clinical Knowledge continue to exceed national averages, as do residency match rates. Some of the first graduates to receive the doctor of medicine degree have now moved on to begin fellowships after residency; other graduates of our college are in private practice or pursuing biomedical research.

Over the past year, the college also has experienced exceptional growth in research funding: an increase of 88 percent since 2015–2016. HWCOM researchers received grants from a number of organizations, including the National Institutes of Health, the Florida Department of Health, and Baptist Health South Florida, and three patents were awarded from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Our basic science and clinical faculty are conducting vital research involving cancer, Alzheimer disease, Zika virus, and more; their work has the potential to alleviate many health care issues faced by our society and our world.

This FIU Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine 2016–2017 Annual Report highlights just a few examples of the ways our college is transforming medical education. This report also profiles several of the people and organizations making this transformation possible, including current students, graduates, faculty members, community members, and strategic partners. Those profiled in this report are joined by countless others, and together we continue to achieve success in our community and across the globe.

We offer our sincerest thanks to each of you.

JOHN A. ROCK, MD Founding Dean and Senior Vice President for Health Affairs FIU Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine

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HWCOM medical students continue their impressive performance

on the USMLE Steps 1 and 2, with pass rates and mean scores exceeding national averages

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A NATIONAL LEADER IN THE REFORM OF MEDICAL EDUCATION BEYOND FLEXNER is a national movement that seeks the integration of social mission into health profession teaching, learning, and practice to improve health care. In September, HWCOM hosted 355 participants at The Beyond Flexner 2016: Social Mission in Health Professions Education Conference held in Miami.

HWCOM is one of eight US medical schools selected to participate in a national, multi year project to identify, evaluate, and disseminate effective and replicable AAMC-member medical school practices that improve community health and reduce health inequities. Our aim is to present the effective strategies and outcomes of the NeighborhoodHELP initiative in South Miami, a partnership with South Miami Hospital.

Student named 2017 IDSA Medical Scholar Thomas Weppelman was named a 2017 Medical Scholar by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), an international medical association representing more than 9,000 physicians, scientists, and health care professionals who specialize in infectious diseases in nearly 100 countries around the world. Weppelman’s project “Seroepidemiology of Burkholderia pseudomallei, etiologic agent of melioidosis, in the West and Southeast Departments of Haiti” was one of 30 projects selected from medical school students across the country.

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MATCH RATE

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30 Thirty students (26%) matched into residency positions in Florida.

19 Nineteen of these are continuing their medical training right here in South Florida.

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57% Sixty-five students, the highest number to date, matched into primary care residency positions. – As defined by Affordable Care Act –

Layla Cavitt, Class of 2017, explodes with excitement after learning she matched to the family medicine residency program at Greater Lawrence Family Health Center in Lawrence, MA.

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ALUMNI KAILEE IMPERATORE, MD Class of 2013

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By age 12, Kailee Imperatore had made her career choice. “I wanted to be Dana Scully and investigate crimes and do autopsies,” says the X-Files fan and HWCOM 2017 Outstanding Alumni Award winner. “Luckily, I had parents who said: , ‘You want to do autopsies, okay, we ll see how we can foster that a little bit.’ They didn,t think I was weird.”

Imperatore, a graduate of HWCOM’s inaugural class, inched closer to her dream job when she landed a residency and spent 4 years studying anatomic and clinical pathology (she’s board certified in both) at Mt. Sinai Medical Center on Miami Beach.

“The program there is fantastic. It’s the same faculty that teaches at FIU, and I got a phenomenal education.” She’s been paying it forward, by volunteering to teach HWCOM medical students in the pathology course and wet labs. Imperatore is now a forensic pathology fellow at the Miami-Dade Medical Examiner’s office, where fellows conduct an average of 200 autopsies a year.

The office handles nearly 13,000 cases annually. After the 1-year fellowship, she hopes to become certified in forensic pathology and work as a medical examiner in Florida.

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LT. MICHAEL HAHN, MD, USNMC Class of 2013 Michael Hahn was a member of our first class, the first recipient of the Dr. Robert Kemper Award for Professionalism in Medicine, and our first military match. He completed his psychiatry residency at Naval Medical Center San Diego where he served as Chief Resident from 2016-2017. During residency, he was awarded the American College of Psychiatrists Laughlin Fellowship in 2016, appointed to the Uniformed Services University’s chapter of the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society, and served as an American Psychiatric Association Leadership Fellow. He was appointed as a Teaching Fellow for the Uniformed Services University Department of Psychiatry, and authored three research articles, and three textbook chapters, including a chapter in the cornerstone psychiatry textbook, Kaplan & Sadock.

For meritorious service, Hahn was awarded a Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal and Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal. The son of a career naval officer, Hahn lived in Japan as a child and speaks Japanese, which has come in handy for his first deployment at Naval Hospital Yokosuka.

FARAH FOURCAND, MD Class of 2015 What budding fashion model would turn down an opportunity to walk in New York’s Couture Fashion Week? Someone whose residency schedule conflicts with the fashion show. “Modeling is important to me, but medicine is my calling, and those responsibilities always come first,” says Dr. Farah Fourcand, a graduate of the Class of 2015. Fourcand has an agent, and she would like to model more, but the modeling gigs have to fit around the typical 80-hour workweek of a medical resident.

Fourcand is completing her neurology residency at Georgetown University Hospital, focusing on neuromodulation to help improve learning and cognitive function in healthy people and returning function to stroke victims. The program is a first-of-its-kind collaboration between Georgetown and the NIH’s National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, and Fourcand is its pioneering student.

For an interactive alumni map, please visit go.fiu.edu/2017alumnimap

HWCOM now counts

378 Alumni in

367

35

States and the District of Columbia

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of these are completing their residencies and fellowships

107

Alumni are in Florida

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alumni from our inaugural Class of 2013 are in private practice

3 in General Internal Medicine and 1 in Family Medicine

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Graduate Certificate in Molecular and Biomedical Sciences,

launched in Fall 2016, is designed for students looking to strengthen their biomedical knowledge, professional skills, and ancillary qualifications for future application to medical school or other health-related professional degree programs.

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73% of students accepted to medical school

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students applied to medical schools

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Master in Physician Assistant Studies Program

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inaugural students graduate December 2017

August 2017, third cohort

PhD PROGRAM IN BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES In the fall of 2016, Alexandra “Alexa” Rodzinski made history as the first student to earn a PhD from the medical school. Working in the lab of Professor Sakhrat Khizroev, she was part of groundbreaking, award-winning research in the fields of targeted drug delivery to treat cancer and neurodegenerative diseases. Following graduation, she was awarded a T32 Interdisciplinary Translational Cancer Nanotechnology Fellowship at MD Anderson Cancer Center/RICE University in Houston, Texas.

45 1,400 students

applications

“That,s like a golfer getting a hole in one.

Most researchers go an entire career without a cover.”

— Distinguished Professor Barry Rosen, Department of Cellular Biology and Pharmacology

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Two additional PhD students, Shashank S Pawitwar and Jiaojiao Li, MD, working in the lab of Distinguished Professor Barry Rosen, Department of Cellular Biology, defended their dissertations in the summer of 2017. The paper, based on Li’s dissertation research, was selected for the cover of July 2017 Chemical Research in Toxicology, a rare honor. florida international university

Photo to come HWCOM Recognized for Innovation in Graduate Medical Education The Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation, which is dedicated to improving the health of the public by advancing the education and training of health professionals, cited HWCOM in its 2016 “Innovations in Graduate Medical Education” report as an example of how graduate medical education is placing more emphasis on social mission and community engagement, as well as creating new partnerships and developing training opportunities in different settings. It noted the college’s partnership with the Citrus Health Network in Hialeah, which in 2015 became the first Federally Qualified Health Center to sponsor a residency program (in psychiatry) accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME).

The FIU Family Medicine Residency Program at West Kendall Baptist Hospital graduated its first cohort. The graduation represents the fulfillment of both organizations’ long-standing commitment to addressing the shortage of primary care physicians in South Florida. Congratulations to Drs. Aniel Navarro Marin, Michelle DeFreitas, Christopher DaFonseca, and Wendy Marquina.

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HENRY LARKIN As an African-American man suffering from hypertension, diabetes, and obesity, Henry Larkin was tempting fate. He was at risk for cardiovascular disease, and stroke, and had already survived one heart attack. He needed regular, supervised medical care, but he didn’t have a doctor because he didn’t have insurance.

“The emergency room was my primary care physician,” says the 55-year-old handyman from South Miami.

That changed when Larkin signed up with NeighborhoodHELP South Miami and met Dr. David Brown, chief of family medicine at HWCOM. Brown immediately sent Larkin to the hospital because of his extremely high blood pressure.

Then Brown discovered Larkin wasn’t checking his blood sugar regularly because he didn’t have a glucose meter; so, Brown got him one. Lab tests showed Larkin also had high cholesterol. He was diagnosed with diabetic peripheral nephropathy (nerve damage in legs and feet), a common complication of diabetes, and spinal stenosis, a narrowing of the open spaces between the spine.

This condition causes pressure on the nerves that travel through the spine and can cause pain, tingling, numbness, and muscle weakness. Larkin had gotten to the point he couldn’t stand for more than 20 minutes at a time.

Brown and NeighborhoodHELP arranged for him to have surgery to relieve the pressure on the nerves and improve his quality of life.

The emergency room was my primary care physician.

Aligned with the State,s priority to improve the health of all , Floridians, the Legislature s approved funding renewal to support the health professions education, outreach, and clinical operations of NeighborhoodHELP in medically underserved areas throughout north Miami-Dade County continues to improve lives and validate the effectiveness of our approach in addressing health issues in underserved populations and in preparing Florida,s health care workforce to provide high value and efficient health care.

“Without their help, I probably wouldn’t be here right now.”

The FIU-Aetna Health Policy Analysis Academy was founded in 2016 in partnership with Pardee RAND

Graduate School to provide expertise in policy analysis training and investigations, and develop community fellowships to help community organizations conduct investigations and benefit from policy analysis.

The Academy assesses the effectiveness of NeighborhoodHELP, a household-centered go.fiu.edu/AetnaAcademy approach to care that focuses on identifying and managing the social determinants of health that can impact health outcomes.

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“Working on the mobile health centers, in the heart of our neediest communities, reinforces the reasons why I wanted to become a doctor.” ­— Nammi Ketheeswaran HWCOM student, Class of 2018

Ketheeswaran (center back) on a clinical rotation at the NeighborhoodHELP mobile health center in South Miami.

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Real Impact FIU medical, social work, law, and nursing students conducted

2,247

visits to

465

households in NeighborhoodHELP

with a total of

1,343

household members,

providing a wide spectrum of health, social support, and legal services.

MOBILE HEALTH CENTER

1,368

patients (household members) were seen during

4,332

NeighborhoodHELP mobile health center visits.

Patients received comprehensive, integrated primary and behavioral health care, and screening mammograms via the Linda Fenner 3D Mobile Mammography Center.

360 For every

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NeighborhoodHELP,

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patients were referred for dental services.

is generated within the Florida economy.

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FIU-FAST

THE FIU-FLORIDA ADVANCED SURGICAL TRANSPORT team set up a 10-bed critical care field hospital on Miami Beach for Memorial Day weekend to support the Miami Beach Fire Rescue Department in managing more than 200,000 visitors attending the National Salute to America’s Heroes Air and Sea Show and Urban Beach Week. Officials were concerned that traffic congestion could delay ground transport of patients in an emergency. Lack of a suitable helicopter landing zone near the air show could have made air transport difficult. The 24-member team, which included a trauma surgeon, an anesthesiologist, two emergency physicians, two pediatric emergency nurses, family physicians, paramedics, and communications specialists, was able to diagnose and treat most patients on the scene without requiring transport. In January, eight FIU-FAST members spent 2 weeks in Puerto Barrios, Guatemala, as part of Continuing Promise 17, a civil–military humanitarian mission to provide health services to communities in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Searching for Zika

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In July 2016, when South Florida became the first place in the US to report locally transmitted Zika cases, , HWCOM s Dr. Aileen Marty was at the forefront of the local response. A member of the State of Florida Medical Reserve Corps, the infectious disease specialist led Florida Department of Health surveillance teams going door-todoor in Wynwood and other Miami neighborhoods to test residents for the Zika virus.

This work had a major impact. It helped confirm that there was, in fact, local mosquito transmission.

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Research and Evaluation

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Fiscal Year-to-Date Research Awards

11.3 MILLION FY2017

5.8

MILLION FY2016

NAZIRA EL-HAGE, PhD Associate Professor Department of Immunology

On the heels of the 2016 Zika outbreak, Dr. El-Hage received a $2 million grant from the Florida Department of Health to study how the Zika virus breaches the blood–brain barrier (BBB) to invade and kill neurons and other brain cells. Her team hopes to discover how the virus gets into the brain, the mechanism by which it enters the cells, and possible means of eradicating it. These include using FIU–patented nano-technology to deliver an experimental drug, Beclin1, through the nearly impermeable BBB and into the brain to try to kill the virus.

— Carolyn Runowicz, MD Executive Associate Dean for Academic Affairs

UNITED STATES PATENTS ISSUED:

9,669,232

9,616,022 April 11, 2017

September 27, 2016

Method for non-invasive brain stimulation

Nanodiamond compositions and their use for drug delivery

Modulators of the relaxin receptor 1

June 6, 2017

Sakhrat Khizroev and Madhavan Nair

Upal Roy, Vadym Drozd, Madhavan Nair, Surendra Saxena, Andriy Durygin

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“Our goal is to discover, develop, and deliver tomorrow’s cures.”

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Juan Jose Marugan, Jingbo Xiao, Marc Ferrer-Alegre, Catherine Chen, Noel Southall, Wei Zheng, Alexander Agoulnik, Irina Agoulnik

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ALEXANDER AGOULNIK, PhD

Professor, Department of Human and Molecular Genetics Dr. Alexander Agoulnik’s laboratory research focuses on the study of relaxin family peptides. It has been shown that relaxins have beneficial effects as antifibrotic, organ–protective, and cell-differentiating agents. In collaboration with Dr. Irina Agoulnik and the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, he and his team are looking for small molecule modulators of relaxin receptors. The team has already identified the first series of relaxin receptor agonists with favorable pharmacological properties. Preclinical studies of such compounds in animal models of liver and lung fibrosis, and in uterine fibroids are underway, funded by a $2M NIH grant. Small molecule relaxin receptor antagonists selected by the team might be used to suppress tumorigenesis of certain cancers. Another federally funded project aims to find compounds activating insulin-like 3 receptors for treatment of osteoporosis and some reproductive disorders.

MADHAVAN NAIR, PhD Distinguished University Professor Department of Immunology

Dr. Nair received a $3.2 million grant to study nanotechnology–based gene editing to eradicate HIV reservoirs in the brains of drug abusers. The 5-year study, funded by the NIH, will explore new therapies that can short–circuit HIV infection and mitigate the damaging effects that opiate addiction has on the central nervous system. Nair hopes the work will lead to a multipurpose platform for drugs targeting a variety of other difficult–to– treat diseases, such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and Alzheimer, Parkinson, and Huntington diseases.

BARRY ROSEN, PhD

Distinguished University Professor Department of Cellular Biology and Pharmacology The Environmental Protection Agency calls arsenic the most pervasive environmental toxin and carcinogen in the United States. Long-term exposure can cause cardiovascular and peripheral vascular diseases; neurological disorders; diabetes mellitus, developmental problems in fetuses, infants, and children; and various forms of cancer such as skin and bladder cancer. Dr. Rosen has been studying arsenic for 35 years. In 2016, the NIH awarded him $1.9M to study the mechanisms of arsenic biotransformations and transport.

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International Program

Dr. Carlos Rey, associate director of Radiology at Hialeah Hospital, on rounds with students from American University of Antigua and Manipal University enrolled in FIU international programs.

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The FIU Health Care Network currently collaborates with more than 100 international partners and has established formal agreements for international student programs with partners in Antigua, the Dominican Republic, and Spain.

International students are taught by 122 community-based HWCOM faculty members at 33 affiliated clinical sites, including private practices, ambulatory care centers, and hospitals.

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SERGIO GONZALEZ-ARIAS, MD In January 2016, Dr. Sergio Gonzalez-Arias, founding chair of the HWCOM Department of Neuroscience, a role he continues to perform, was named Executive Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs. Dr. Gonzalez-Arias was formerly chief of neurological surgery at Baptist Hospital of Miami.

In his new position, Dr. Gonzalez-Arias oversees all clinical functions at HWCOM, including the students’ clinical experiences; all strategic partnerships with hospitals and other clinical sites where students perform their clinical rotations; and development of graduate medical education.

Office of Faculty Affairs

To expand the coordination and scope of support for our growing faculty, HWCOM created the Office of Faculty Affairs. The office is charged with designing programs to ensure faculty engagement and satisfaction.

Dr. Carla Lupi was named Associate Dean for Faculty. A new position also has been created as a resource to community-based faculty who provide our students’ clinical education. The new Director of Clinical Faculty Development, Dr. Suzanne Minor, provides seminars, workshops, and private consultations at our many clinical affiliates, aimed at improving faculty skills in clinical teaching and assessment.

People are the most valuable resource of any organization.

, That s why in 2016 HWCOM launched RISE, a program

focused on Recognizing the Inspirational Superior Effort of our administrative and staff employees. Employees are recognized in three categories: Teamwork, Service Excellence, and Extra Mile. The first 12 winners were recognized at the 2016 holiday luncheon: Ferinelys Cabrera, Abigail

Staff Awards The NeighborhoodHELP Community Outreach Team, comprising 22 FIU staff members primarily from the Department of Medical and Population Health Sciences Research, received the FIU Community Award as part of the FIU Service and Recognition Awards program. The award recognized the team,s support of the university,s mission by promoting high-quality teaching, state-of-the-art research and creative activity, and/or collaborative engagement with our local and global communities.

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Dominguez, Jonathan Gutierrez, Mariel Gutierrez, Viviana Jacobs, Natasha Lopez, Maria Martinez, Beatrice Ortiz, Juan Oves Jr., Julia Perez, Valeria Raventos, and Lisa Riolo.

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Faculty Recognition

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Alexander Agoulnik, PhD, Professor, Department of Human and Molecular Genetics; Director, PhD in Biomedical Sciences Florida International University 2016 FIU Top Scholar

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Diana Barratt, MD, MPH, Associate Professor, Clerkship Director, Department of Neuroscience Clerkship Director Innovation Award, American Academy of Neurology

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Jeff Boyd, PhD, Professor and Chair, Department of Human and Molecular Genetics; Associate Dean for Basic Research & Graduate Programs 2016 Rosalind Franklin Excellence in Ovarian Cancer Research Award, Ovarian Cancer Research Fund Alliance

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Cheryl Brewster, EdD, Assistant Professor and Associate Dean for Diversity, Department of Humanities, Health, and Society President’s Access and Equity Award, Florida International University

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Luther Brewster, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Health, Humanities, and Society Appointed the first public member of the Thoracic Surgery Review Committee of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education Top Black Healthcare Professional of 2016, Legacy Magazine

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Marin Gillis, PhD, Professor and Chief, Division of Ethics, Humanities, and the Arts, Department of Health, Humanities, and Society

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Named Chair of Cambridge Consortium for Bioethics Education

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Named Associate Vice President of Nanomedicine

Pedro Jose Greer, Jr., MD, Professor and Chair, Department of Health, Humanities, and Society; Associate Dean for Community Engagement

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2017 Outstanding Health Care Professional Award, AXA Advisors Businesswomen of the Year Awards

Top Latino Award, National Diversity Council of The Council for Latino Workplace Equity

Named Master Fellow of the Obesity Medical Association Florida International University 2016 FIU Top Scholar

Pedro Gutierrez, MD, Chair and Associate Dean, Master in Physician Assistant Studies

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Robert L. Hernandez, Jr., MD, Executive Associate Dean for Student Affairs

Florida International University 2016 FIU Top Scholar Cheryl Holder, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Humanities, Health, and Society FIU Medallion Cal Kovens for Distinguished Community Service

Barry Rosen, PhD, Distinguished Professor, Department of Cellular Biology and Pharmacology Faculty Award for Excellence in Research and Creative Activities

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Miguel Villalona-Calero, MD, Professor, Department of Health, Humanities, and Society Continuing Umbrella of Research Experiences (CURE) Lifetime Achievement Award, National Cancer Institute Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities

Robert “Bob” Sabalis Award for Exemplary Service, AAMC Southern Group on Student Affairs

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Eneida O. Roldan, MD, MPH, MBA, CEO, FIU Healthcare Network; Associate Dean for International Affairs; Associate Professor, Department of Pathology

2017 Citizen of the Year, Bob Graham Center for Public Service

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Madhavan Nair, PhD, Distinguished Professor and Chair, Department of Immunology; Director, Institute of NeuroImmune Pharmacology; Associate Dean of Biomedical Research

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Ebony Whisenant, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Health, Humanities, and Society Top Black Educator of 2016 and Top Black Healthcare Professional of 2016, Legacy Magazine

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Adrian Jones, JD, Associate Dean for Student Affairs Elected to Association of American Medical College’s Southern Group on Student Affairs Steering committee

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John A. Rock, MD, Founding Dean and Senior Vice President for Health Affairs Saving Lives in Healthcare Award, Dade County Bar Association

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Philanthropy

GREEN FAMILY FOUNDATION NEIGHBORHOODHELP SOUTH MIAMI

Continuing a successful partnership that began in 2015, Baptist Health South Florida renewed its annual gift of $1,000,000 to support the health professions education, outreach, and clinical operations of NeighborhoodHELP in the medically underserved area surrounding South Miami Hospital.

The innovative collaboration between a community-based health care system and an academic program highlights the importance of launching a new education and health delivery approach that prioritizes the social determinants of health through a household-centered approach to care.

“It,s one thing to say that you have a partnership, but to actually deploy into a community that has some significant health care and socio-economic needs and have an impact that can be measured, is an extraordinary opportunity. I hope that we can prove that the focus that we are bringing to those families in South Miami can be replicated; then it can be a model for the region or beyond.”

– Wayne Brackin, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Baptist Health South Florida

CELEBRATING OUR LIFETIME DONORS LEADERSHIP SOCIETY

Baptist Health South Florida Green Family Foundation, Inc. Herbert A. Wertheim, OD, & Nicole Wertheim and Dr. Herbert and Nicole Wertheim Foundation Leon Medical Centers, Inc. North Dade Medical Foundation, Inc. The Batchelor Foundation, Inc.

EXECUTIVE CIRCLE

Albert R. Taño, MD, & Debbie Taño Braman Family Foundation Nicklaus Children’s Hospital Ware Foundation

DEAN’S CIRCLE

The HERA Foundation, Inc. and Sheldon H. Cherry, MD, & Carolyn D. Runowicz, MD Meredyth Anne Dasburg Foundation and John Dasburg & Mary Lou Dasburg University of Connecticut Health Center

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CHAMPION’S CIRCLE

Jackson Memorial Foundation John A. Rock, MD, & Martha Rock Rinker Family Foundation, Inc. The Saul and Theresa Esman Foundation, Inc. VITAS Innovative Hospice Care

The Michael J. Fox Foundation Peacock Foundation, Inc. Ruben Alvarez S. Larry Kahn & Susan Kahn Steven M. Scott, MD, & Rebecca J. Scott and Scott Family Foundation

SCHOLAR’S CIRCLE

FOUNDER’S CIRCLE

Adriana C. Sofia & Leria Cano Aetna Foundation, Inc. Anonymous donor Chantal Scheinberg, MD Dr. John T. Macdonald Foundation, Inc. East Florida Physician Alliance, Inc. Florida Blue Foundation Goshen General Hospital Greenberg Traurig, LLP Health Foundation of South Florida The Jewish Community Foundation, Inc Jose J. Armas, MD, & Ada Armas Joseph L. Caruncho Sr. & Samara Kharfan MCCI Group Holdings, LLC

Alfredo Sesana & Gloria Sesana Alpha Rho Boulé Foundation, Inc. American Medical Association Association of Haitian Physicians Abroad, South Florida Beraja Medical Institute Christopher G. Korge, Esq., & Irene T. Korge Claudia Puig & Richard G. Amundsen The Community Foundation in Jacksonville Dany Garcia Donald E. Lefton & Judith D. Lefton Felipe A. Valls Jr. & Lourdes Valls Fernando J. Valverde, MD Fidelity Investments Charitable Services

The Greater Miami Jewish Federation The Guerra Family Foundation, Inc. Isaac Zelcer & Leya Zelcer J. Patrick O’Leary, MD James Wilson Bridges, MD Medical Society, Inc. Jeffrey L. Horstmyer , MD, & Domitila Fox Joe L. Simpson, MD, & Sandra C. Simpson Jorge L. Sosa, MD Julio M. Garcia, MD, & Mercedes Garcia Justo L. Pozo, CPA, & Sylvia E. Pozo Justo M. Garcia, MD Larkin Community Hospital Manuel Penalver, MD, & Cristina Lopez-Penalver, MD Mayi de la Vega Mercy Hospital Medical Staff Fund The Miami Foundation Michael M. Adler & Judith S. Adler Modesto A. Maidique, PhD Nancy E. Maidique Nelson L. Adams III & Effie R. Adams

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As a retired adolescent endocrinologist, Chantal Scheinberg, MD, has an interest in understanding how the adolescent developmental period may exacerbate mental health symptoms. Her $100K donation funded a study led by Margaret Sibley, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, a nationally recognized expert in the diagnosis and treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

The study seeks to better understand the phenomenon of late-onset ADHD by obtaining detailed psychiatric, cognitive, biological, behavioral, and neuroimaging measurements from adolescents with ADHD symptoms that first emerge after age 12.

Scheinberg and Sibley collaborated to devise the aims and procedures of the study, leading to the inclusion of endocrine measures of pubertal timing as a novel aspect of the project.

Funding from the HERA Foundation continues to positively impact the training of medical students at HWCOM, most recently with the dedication of the John A. Rock, MD, Conference Room in 2017.

This newly renovated facility will provide a venue for meetings and training sessions for HWCOM administrators, faculty, and staff. HERA Foundation directors Carolyn D. Runowicz, MD, Executive Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Sheldon H. Cherry, MD, Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs, Founding Ombudsman, and Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology direct the distribution in line with the mission. Through generous gifts dedicated for building and supporting new and innovative initiatives at HWCOM, they have demonstrated an unwavering commitment to the community, to the college of medicine and its mission, and to FIU and its students.

Neuroscience Centers of Florida Foundation, Inc Noel J. Guillama-Alvarez Orlando Lopez-Fernandez Jr., MD, & Maria T. Miranda Perla Tabares-Hantman & Arnold Hantman Phycare Medical Group Preferred Medical Plan R. Kirk Landon* Roberto F. Tuchman, MD, & Laurie Tuchman Rodolfo Hernandez, MD Sergio Gonzalez-Arias, MD, & Maria M. Morales-Gonzalez South Florida Medical Imaging, P.A. Theodore A. Spak,* Esq. Unihealth of South Florida, Inc. and Carmel J. Barrau, MD, & Josee Barrau Vijay Kumar Zaveri, MD, & Bakula V. Zaveri

WHITE COAT CIRCLE

Aaron Stauber & Aviva L. Stauber American Accounting Association

American University of Antigua Arnold F. Schild, MD, & Judith B. Schild The Arnold P. Gold Foundation Arthur F. Kuckes Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics Baker & McKenzie, LLP Bayer AG Pharmaceuticals Division Clarence Wolf Jr., & Alma B. Wolf Foundation, Inc. Community Foundation of Broward Convey Health Solutions, Inc. Daniel Castellanos, MD, PA Daniel M. Bell Jr., & Patricia B. Bell David L. Perlman* David R. Parker & Marian E. Davis Parker Diane R. Krieger, MD Edward L. Diefenthal Emergency Room Medical Associates Fidelity Investments Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar Francyn Berrin

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Giancarlo Designs, Inc. Gregg Steinberg Health Council of South Florida, Inc. Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai International Medical Surgical Response Team South Inc. James P. Banks Janssen Pharmaceutical K.K. Joan P. Smith & Harry B. Smith Jorge L. Orbay-Cerrato, MD, & Maria M. Tremols-Orbay Jose E. Portuondo, MD, & Abby D. Portuondo Juntos Foundation Maria I. New Merck, Sharp & Dohme, Corp.

Milbank Memorial Fund Molina Healthcare, Inc. National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences Neuroscience Consultants, LLC Noreen Gordon Sablotsky Family Supporting Foundation, Inc.

Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Stauber, parents of Alyssa Stauber, Class of 2018 MD candidate, have made two generous donations to HWCOM. Their gifts are being used to promote alumni and student engagement and student health and wellness programs.

Alyssa’s experience, HWCOM’s academic excellence, and the all–encompassing support we provide our students were the reasons behind their donation.

We are immensely grateful for their generosity and hope that more family and friends will follow their lead as we build the Family and Friends Association.

PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP Radiology Associates of South Florida, PA Robert Berrin, Esq. Robert J. McHugh & Virginia McHugh Robert L. Hernandez Jr., MD, & Anna Falabella, MD South Beach Diet, LLC Stephen J. Dresnick*, MD Stewart L. Appelrouth, CPA, & Gail R. Appelrouth Susan E. Miller* TotalBank Universal Marine Medical Supply International LLC. Vector Magnetics Inc. Vineyard Foundation The Wagner Fund Trust W. K. Kellogg Foundation West Kendall OBGYN Lifetime giving to medicine through June 31, 2017. * Represents donors in memoriam

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Facts + Figures DIVERSITY Racial and Ethnic

Educational and Economic 62.7% 45.2% 34.9% 36.9%

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16.2% 8.1%

Asian

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African American National

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Fee Assistance Program 2017

Bottom Quintile Household Income National

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Worked to Improve Finances

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Step 2 CK

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2014

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Endowment Interest and Gifts

(8%)

(8%)

Auxiliaries

(7%)

Clinical Revenue

OPERATING BUDGET

(6%)

General Revenue..................................... $ 34.3 M Tuition..................................................... $ 18.8 M Clinical Revenue...................................... $ Research Expenditures............................. $ Endowment Interest and Gifts.................. $ Auxiliaries............................................... $ TOTAL...................................................... $

Operating Budget

4.9 M 6.4 M 6.0 M 5.5 M 75.8 M Tuition

General Revenue

(25%)

(45%)

STRATEGIC PLAN 2015 - 2020

Year Two Accomplishments - Year End Report

Goal 1: Education + Training Excellence Goal 2: Health Care Innovation + Community Health

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Goal 3: Research + Evaluation

97%

Goal 4: Faculty + Staff Success Goal 5: Strategic Partnerships

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2016 Faculty Authors AJEET KAUSHIK, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Immunology Nanobiotechnology for Sensing Applications: From Lab to Field offers “an overview of the design and development of various styles of nanotechnology based biosensors and their in-vitro and in-vivo applications.” Microfluidics for Biologists-Fundamentals and Applications, describes “the preparatory methods for developing 3-dimensional microfluidic structures and their use for Lab-on-aChip design.”

MADHAVAN NAIR, PhD

Distinguished Professor and Chair, Department of Immunology; Associate Dean of Biomedical Research “Intelligent tattoos, patches, and other wearable biosensors,” a chapter in Medical Biosensors for Point of Care (POC) Applications, “discusses advances in this important and emerging field which has the potential to transform patient diagnosis and care.”

MARGARET SIBLEY, PhD

Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Parent-Teen Therapy for Executive Function Deficits and ADHD: Building Skills and Motivation. “This user-friendly manual presents an innovative, tested approach to helping teens overcome the frustrating organizational and motivation problems associated with executive function deficits and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)”

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Selected HWCOM Faculty Publications 2016-17 Nair M, Kaushik A, Jayant RD, Sagar V. Getting into the brain: potential of nanotechnology in the management of neuroAIDS. Adv Drug Deliv Rev. 2016;103:202–217. PMID: 26944096.

Stimphil E, Nagasetti A, Guduru R, Stewart T, Rodzinski A, Liang P, Khizroev S. Physics considerations in targeted anticancer drug delivery by magnetoelectric nanoparticles. Appl Phys Rev. 2017;4(2):021101.

Kaushik A, Tiwari S, Jayant RD, Vashist A, Nikkhah-Moshaie R, El-Hage N, Nair M. Electrochemical biosensors for early stage Zika diagnostics. Trends Biotechnol. 2017;35(4):308-317. PMID: 28277248.

Duan G, Hu Y, McDermott J, Chen J, Schneider S, Saur N, Rosen BP, Liu Z, Zhu YG. Inositol permeases AtINT2 and AtINT4 transport arsenic into Arabidopsis thaliana seeds. Nature Plants. 2016;21:15202. PMCID: PMC4758254.

Lopez SM, Agoulnik AI, Zhang M, Peterson LE, Suarez E, Gandarillas GA, Frolov A, Li R, Rajapakshe K, Coarfa C, Ittmann MM, Weigel NL, Agoulnik IU. Nuclear receptor corepressor 1 expression and output declines with prostate cancer progression. Clin Cancer Res. 2016;22(15):3937-3949. PMID: 26968201.

Tang S, Gao Li, Dotts K, Fink A, Kalvala A, Aguila B, Otterson G, Villalona-Calero M, Duan W. micoRNA in FA defective tumor.

Cancer Res. 2017;77(13 Sup):4442-4442.

Vashist A, Kaushik A, Jayant RD, Tomitaka A, Ahmad S, Gupta YK, Nair M. Recent trends on hydrogel based drug delivery systems for infectious diseases. Biomater Sci. 2016;4(11):1535-1553. PMID: 27709137.

Kaushik A, Vabbina PK, Atluri V, Saha P, Vashist A, Jayant RD, Yndart A, Nair M . Electrochemical monitoring-on-chip (E-MoC) of HIV-infection in presence of cocaine and therapeutics. Biosens Bioelectron. 2016;86:426-431. PMID: 27419908.

Scott RC, Tuchman R. Epilepsy and autism spectrum disorders: Relatively related. Neurology. 2016;87(2):130-131.

Smirnoff L, Moses A, Zevallos JC. Alcoholism and in-hospital mortality among hemorrhagic stroke patients in Puerto Rico.

Neurology. 2016;86(16 suppl):P1.263.

Zaias N, Jungcharoensukying P, Escovar S, Zaiac M. Uneven flat feet and closed shoes produce toenail clinical changes that mimic all types of onychomycosis. J Am Acad Derm. 2017;76(6):AB273.

Tomitaka A, Arami H, Raymond A, Yndart A, Kaushik A, Jayant RD, Takemura Y, Cai Y, Toborek M, Nair M. Development of magneto-plasmonic nanoparticles for multimodal image-guided therapy to the brain. Nanoscale. 2017;9(2):764-773. PMID: 27976764.

Chen J, Rosen BP. Organoarsenical biotransformations by Shewanella putrefaciens. Environ Sci Technol. 2016;50(15):79567963. PMID:27366920.

Zhu YG, Xue XM, Kappler A, Rosen BP, Meharg AA. Linking genes to microbial biogeochemical cycling: lessons from arsenic.

Environ Sci Technol. 2017;51(13):7326-7339. PMID: 28602082.

Huang K, Chen C, Zhang J, Tang Z, Shen Q, Rosen BP, Zhao FJ. Efficient arsenic methylation and volatilization mediated by a novel bacterium from an arsenic-contaminated paddy soil. Environ Sci Technol. 2016;50(12):6389-6396. PCMID: PCM27258163.

Villalona-Calero MA, Lam E, Otterson GA, Zhao W, Timmons M, Subramaniam D, Hade EM, Gill GM, Coffey M, Selvaggi G, Bertino E, Chao B, Knopp MV. Oncolytic reovirus in combination with chemotherapy in metastatic or recurrent non-small cell lung cancer patients with KRAS-activated tumors. Cancer. 2016;122(6):875-883. PMID: 26709987.

Jayant RD, Sosa D, Kaushik A, Atluri V, Vashist A, Tomitaka A, Nair M. Current status of non-viral gene therapy for CNS disorders. Expert Opin Drug Deliv. 2016;13(10):1-13. PMID: 27249310.

Sagar V, Nair M. Near-infrared bio photonics-based nanodrug release systems and their potential application for neuro-disorders.

Expert Opin Drug Deliv. 2017;(epub ahead of print):1-16. PMID: 28276967.

Agoulnik AI, Agoulnik IU, Hu X, Marugan JJ. Synthetic non-peptide low molecular weight agonists of the relaxin receptor 1. Br J Pharmacol. 2017;174(10):977-989. PMID: 27771940.

Ivell R, Agoulnik AI, Anand-Ivell R. Relaxin-like peptides in male reproduction - a human perspective, Br J Pharmacol.

2017;174(10):990-1001. PMID: 27933606.

Russo A, Lallas M, Jayakar P, Miller I, Hyslop A, Dunoyer C, Resnick T, Duchowny M. The diagnostic utility of 3D-ESI analyzing rotating and moving dipolar methods in the presurgical evaluation of MRI-negative childhood epilepsy due to focal cortical dysplasia. Epilepsia. 2016;57(9):1450-1457. PMID: 27387565. herbert wertheim college of medicine

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Charpak N, Ruiz JG. Latin American Clinical Epidemiology Network Series - Paper 9: The Kangaroo Mother Care Method: From scientific evidence generated in Colombia to worldwide practice. J Clin Epidemiol. 2017;86:125-128. PMID: 27765653. Gay LM, Kim S, Fedorchak K, Kundranda M, Odia Y, Nangia C, Battiste J, Colon-Otero G, Powell S, Russell J, Elvin JA, Vergilio J, Suh J, Ali SM, Stephens PJ, Ross JS. Comprehensive genomic profiling of esthesioneuroblastoma leads to new routes for treatment. Oncologist. 2017;22(7):834-842. PMID: 28495808.

Randall LM, Pothuri B, Swisher EM, Diaz JP, Buchanan A, Witkop CT, Bethan Powell C, Smith EB, Robson ME, Boyd J, Coleman RL, Lu K. Multi-disciplinary summit on genetics services for women with gynecologic cancers: A Society of Gynecologic Oncology White Paper. Gynecol Oncol. 2017;146(2):217-224. PMID: 28596016.

Atluri VS, Jayant RD, Pilakka-Kanthikeel S, Garcia G, Samikkanu T, Yndart A, Kaushik A, Nair M. Development of TIMP1 magnetic nanoformulation for regulation of synaptic plasticity in HIV-1 infection. Int J Nanomedicine. 2016;11:4287-4298. PMID: 27621622.

Kaushik A, Jayant RD, Nair M. Advancements in nano-enabled therapeutics for neuroHIV management. Int J Nanomedicine.

2016;11:4317-4325. PMID: 27621624.

Vashist A, Kaushik A, Jayant RD, Tomitaka A, Ahmad S, Gupta YK, Nair M. Recent trends on hydrogel based drug delivery systems for infectious diseases. Biomater Sci. 2016;4(11):1535-1553. PMID: 27709137.

Simpson JL, Rechitsky S. Preimplantation diagnosis and other modern methods for prenatal diagnosis. J Steroid Biochem Mol Biol. 2017;165(Pt A):124-130. PMID: 27108943.

Nadar VS, Yoshinaga M, Pawitwar S, Kandavelu P, Sankaran B, Rosen BP. Structure of the ArsI C-As lyase: insights into the mechanism of degradation of organoarsenical herbicides and growth promoters. J Molec Biol. 2016;428(11):2462-2473. PCMID: 27107642.

Barengo NC, Antikainen R, Borodulin K, Harald K, Jousilahti P. Leisure-time physical activity reduces total and cardiovascular mortality and cardiovascular disease incidence in older adults. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2017;65(3):504-510. PMID: 28024086.

Kocan M, Sarwar M, Siwek C, Ang SA, Xiao J, Marugan JJ, Hossain MA, Samuel CA, Hutchinson D, Agoulnik AI, Bathgate RAD, Summers RJ. ML290, a small molecule agonist, is an allosteric biased ligand at RXFP1 expressed in human recombinant and primary cells. Sci Rep. 2017;7(1):2968. PMID: 28592882.

Ioannou D, Millan N, Jordan E, Tempest HG. A new model of sperm nuclear architecture following assessment of the organization of centromeres and telomeres in three-dimensions. Sci Rep. 2017;7:41585. PMID: 28139771.

Kaushik A, Jayant RD, Nikkhah-Moshaie R, Bhardwai V, Roy U, Huang Z, Ruiz A, Yndart A, Atluri V, El-Hage N, Khalili K, Nair M. Magnetically guided central nervous system delivery and toxicity evaluation of magneto-electric nanocarriers. Sci Rep. 2016;6:25309. PMID: 27143580.

Atluri VS, Pilakka-Kanthikeel S, Garcia G, Jayant RD, Sagar V, Thangavel S, Yndart A, Nair M. Effect of Cocaine on HIV infection and Inflammasome Gene Expression Profile in HIV Infected Macrophages. Sci Rep. 2016;6:27864. PMID: 27321752.

Sagar V, Atluri VS, Tomitaka A, Shah P, Nagasetti A, Pilakka-Kanthikeel S, El-Hage N, McGoron A, Takemura Y, Nair M. Coupling of transient near infrared photonic with magnetic nanoparticle for potential dissipation-free biomedical application in brain.

Sci Rep. 2016;6:29792. PMID: 27465276.

Thangavel S, Atluri VS, Nair M. HIV and cocaine impact glial metabolism: energy sensor AMP-activated protein kinase role in mitochondrial biogenesis and epigenetic remodeling. Sci Rep. 2016;6:31784. PMID: 27535703.

Nair M, Sagar V, Pilakka-Kanthikeel S. Gene-expression reversal of IncRNAs and associated mRNAs expression in active vs latent HIV infection. Sci Rep. 2016;6:34862. PMID: 27756902.

Kaushik A, Nikkhah-Moshaie R, Sinha R, Bhardwaj V, Atluri V, Jayant RD, Yndart A, Kateb B, Pala N, Nair M. Investigation of ac-magnetic field simulated nanoelectroporation of magneto-electric nano-drug-carrier inside CNS cells. Sci Rep. 2017;7:45663.

PMID: 28374799.

Rodriguez M, Lapierre J, Ojha CR, Kaushik A, Batrakova E, Kashanchi F, Dever SM, Nair M, El-Hage N. Intranasal drug delivery of small interfering RNA targeting Beclin1 encapsulated with polyethylenimine (PEI) in mouse brain to achieve HIV attenuation. Sci Rep. 2017;7(1):1862. PMID: 28500326.

Nagesetti A, Rodzinski A, Stimphil E, Stewart T, Khanal C, Wang P, Guduru R, Liang P, Agoulnik I, Horstmyer J, Khizroev S. Multiferroic coreshell magnetoelectric nanoparticles as NMR sensitive nanoprobes for cancer cell detection. Sci Rep. 2017:7(1):1610. PMID: 28487517.

Mittal R, Lisi C, Kumari H, Grati M, Blackwelder P, Yan D, Jain C, Mathee K, Weckwerth P, and Liu X. Otopathogenic Pseudomonas aeruginosa enters and survives inside macrophages. Frontiers in Microbiology 2016;7:1828. PMID: 27917157.

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Li J, Pawitwar S, Rosen BP. The organoarsenical biocycle and the primordial antibiotic methylarsenite. Metallomics.

2016;8(10):1047-1055. PCMID: PCM27730229.

Altamirano R, Caponigro M, Carrion G, Zevallos JC, Castro G, González Sánchez JA, Barengo NC. Incidence of acute myocardial infarction in patients with diabetes and its association with mortality and cardiopulmonary complications in Puerto Rico. Am J Public Health Res. 2016;4(6):196-201.

Chen J, Yoshinaga M, Garbinski L, Rosen BP. Synergistic interaction of glyceraldehydes-3-phosphate dehydrogenase and ArsJ, a novel organoarsenical efflux permease, confers arsenate resistance. Molec Microbiol. 2016;100(6):945-953. Accompanied by microcommentary. PMID: 26991003.

Chen J, Li J, Jiang X, Rosen BP. Conserved cysteine residues determine substrate specificity in a novel As(III) S-adenosylmethionine methyltransferase from Aspergillus fumigatus. Mol Microbiol. 2017;104(2):250-259.

Sagar V, Atluri VS, Pilakka-Kanthikeel S, Nair M. Magnetic nanotherapeutics for dysregulated synaptic plasticity during nueroAIDS and drug abuse. Mol Brain. 2016;9(1):57. PMID: 27216740.

Li J, Packianathan C, Rossman TG, Rosen BP. Nonsynonymous polymorphisms in the human AS3MT arsenic methylation gene: implications for arsenic toxicity. Chem Res Toxicol. 2017;30(7):1481-1491. PMID: 28537708.

Rodriguez DA, Pfeter TJ, Wang Q, Lopez PF, Ramella-Roman JC. A Monte Carlo analysis of error associated with two-wavelength algorithms for retinal oximetry. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2016;57(14):6474-6481. PMID: 27893889.

Song Y, Garcia S, Frometa Y, Ramella-Roman JC, Soltani M, Riera JJ, Lin W. Quantitative assessment of hemodynamic and structural characteristics of in vivo brain tissue using total diffuse reflectance spectrum measured in a non-contact fashion. Biomed Opt Express. 2017;8(1):78-103. PMID: 28101403.

Rodriguez M, Kaushik A, Lapierre J, Denver SM, El-Hage N, Nair M. Electro-magnetic nano-particle bound Beclin1 siRNA crosses the blood-brain barrier to attenuate the inflammatory effects of HIV-1 infection in vitro. J NeuroImmune Pharmacol.

2017;12(1):120-132. PMID: 27287620.

DeMarino C, Schwab A, Pleet M, Mathiesen A, Friedman J, El-Hage N, Kashanchi F. Biodegradable nanoparticles for delivery of therapeutics in CNS infection. J Neuroimmune Pharmacol. 2017;12(1):31-50. PMID: 27372507.

Pawitar SS, Dhar S, Tiwari S, Ojha CR, Lapierre J, Martins K, Rodzinski A, Parira T, Paudel I, Li J, Dutta RK, Silva MR, Kaushik A, El-Hage N. Overview on the current status of Zika virus pathogenesis and animal related research. J Neuroimmune Pharmacol.

2017;12(3):371-388. PMID: 28444557.

Dever SM, Rodriguez M, El-Hage N. β-adrenergic receptor gene expression in HIV-associated neurocognitive impairment and encephalitis: implications for MOR-1K subcellular localization. J Neurovirol. 2016;22(6):866-870. PMID: 27400929.

Lorke DE, Stegmeier-Petroianu A, Petroianu GA. Biologic activity of cyclic and caged phosphates: a review. J Appl Toxicol.

2017;37(1):13-22. PMID: 27612208.

Favreau MA, Tewksbury L, Lupi C, Cutrer WB, Jokela JA, Yarris LM. Constructing a shared mental model for faculty development for the core entrustable professional activities for entering residency. Acad Med. 2017;92(6):759-764. PMID: 28557935.

Greer PJ Jr, Brown DR, Brewster LG, Lage OG, Esposito KF, Whisenant EB, Anderson FW, Castellanos NK, Stefano TA, Rock JA. Socially accountable medical education: an innovative approach at Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine. [published online June 27, 2017]. Acad Med. doi:10.1097/ACM.0000000000001811. PMID: 28658020.

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