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Presenters at InfoFair 2005
Palmer Taylor, Ph.D.
Sandra and Monroe Trout Chair in Pharmacy;
Dean, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences;
Associate Vice Chancellor, Health Sciences, University of California at San Diego
Dr. Palmer Taylor is the Founding Dean of University of California San Diego's Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. He is also Associate Vice Chancellor for Health Sciences and he holds the Sandra and Monroe Trout Chair in Pharmacology. He was Chair of the UCSD Department of Pharmacology since its inception in 1987 and up to his appointment as Founding Dean of the pharmacy school. The Department of Pharmacology is ranked first in the nation among public institutions in research dollars generated, second among all departments in citations per publication, and third in the National Research Council ranking of graduate programs in pharmacology.
After completing a baccalaureate degree in pharmacy, Dr. Taylor received his doctoral degree in 1964 from the University of Wisconsin. He held a fellowship at the National Institutes of Health from 1968-70, followed by an NIH continuation fellowship that allowed him to work with the prestigious Max Planck Institut fur Physikalsche Chemie in Gottingen, Germany.
Nationally recognized as a leader in pharmacology research, Dr. Taylor is a member of the National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine and former president of the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. He has been a member of the National Advisory Council of the National Institutes of General Medical Sciences, the Advisory Committee to the Director of the National Institutes of Health, and a Congressional Task Force on Environmental Health Sciences, and he served as a delegate to the International Union of Pharmacology and the Council of Academic Societies of the American Association on Medical Colleges.
His research interests include the structure and function of receptors and enzymes involved in neurotransmission. His lab studies functional coupling of receptors to cellular responses, specificity of ligand recognition by acetylcholine receptors and acetylcholinesterase, and the structures of cholinesterases and nicotinic acetylcholine receptors. A second area of investigation involves the regulation of expression of the genes encoding these proteins during differentiation and synaptogenesis in neurons, skeletal muscle, and hematopoietic cells.
More than any other faculty member, Dr. Taylor was instrumental in establishing the new pharmacy school at UCSD, which is only the second public school of pharmacy in the state and the first in Southern California.
Clifford C. Snyder, M.D. and Mary Snyder Lecturer
Susan Beck, Ph.D., APRN, FAAN
Associate Dean for Research, Associate Professor,
College of Nursing, University of Utah
Susan L. Beck, Ph.D., APRN, FAAN, is Associate Dean for Research and associate professor at the University of Utah College of Nursing. She is a co-coordinator and faculty member in the on-campus and distance oncology doctoral programs. As Associate Dean for Research she leads the Emma Eccles Jones Nursing Research Center and oversees the research support resources. Dr. Beck has over 20 years of experience as an advanced practice oncology nurse and holds national certification as an AOCN. Dr. Beck's research interests include the management of symptoms in cancer patients and interventions to improve patient outcomes and quality of life. She received the ONS Distinguished Service Award in 2003.
Dr. Beck received her BSN from Duquesne University, Master's Degree from the University of Pittsburgh, and Ph.D. from the University of Utah. She served as Project Director for the University Hospital's Program to Improve Patient Care from 1989 through 1995. In 1996, she was a Visiting Professor and Fulbright Scholar at the University of Pretoria in South Africa where she conducted multiple studies related to cancer pain management. She currently is a co-investigator in two multi-site clinical trials of a nursing interventions to mitigate cancer treatment-symptoms and principal investigator of a study of rural and urban elderly cancer survivors.
Dr. Beck is a member of the Steering Committee of the Huntsman Cancer Institute Cancer Control and Population Science Program and the Advisory Boards of the Pharmacotherapy Outcomes Research Center and the Pain and Palliative Medicine Program at HCI. She is a member of the ONS Oncology Nurse Sensitive Outcomes Team.
Meet the Experts panelist
Donald K. Blumenthal, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Pharmacology and Toxicology
Adjunct Associate Professor, Biochemistry
Adjunct Associate Professor of Medical Informatics
College of Pharmacy, University of Utah
Dr. Blumenthal teaches pharmacology in both the School of Medicine and the College of Pharmacy. He has long been interested in using technology in and out of the classroom to enhance teaching and learning, and has helped to develop NetPharmacology (a web site for information on cardiovascular pharmacology), the HyperHeart animation (an animated tutorial of the cardiac cycle), and QuizMaker (a database tool for building web-accessible questionbanks).
His current teaching interests are in the use of PDAs and online drug information resources to enhance the teaching of pharmacology early in the training of health professionals.
Dr. Blumenthal's research concerns the structure and function of the superfamily of enzymes known as the protein kinases. These enzymes play a key role in health and disease and are one of the newest class of targets for drug discovery and development efforts. Dr. Blumenthal has served on research advisory panels for several public and private agencies including the Department of Veterans Affais Merit Review Subcommittee for General Medical Science, the Molecular Signaling Committee of the American Heart Association's Western Affiliates, and several National Institutes of Health study sections.
Meet the Experts, panelist
Sandra Haak, APRN, Ph.D.
Associate Professor (Clinical)
College of Nursing, University of Utah
Sandra Watt Haak is an Associate Professor (Clinical) at the College of Nursing at the University of Utah. Sandra joined the nursing faculty in 1978 as a clinical instructor and has held numerous positions as an academic and hospital educator. She has been the Director of the Learning Resource Center at the College of Nursing since 2002.
Sandra has received a number of awards, most recently, the Excellence in Leadership Award, Gamma Rho Chapter, Sigma Theta Tau International (2003). She has a keen interest in use of technology and simulation in nursing education. Research projects include the use of Iliad to improve diagnostic reasoning in nurse practitioner students, the development of a computer tool for eliciting and describing clinical nursing judgment performance and drug compliance among adult hypertensives. Sandra developed six interactive videotape and videodisc tutorials and testing programs between 1987 and 1993.
Service to the academic community includes participation on University, Health Sciences and College Committees: the Undergraduate Council (2001-2004), the Health Sciences Education Building, clinical area subcommittee (2002-present) and Baccalaureate Curriculum Committee (1999 to present, chair 2002-2004).In addition, Sandra is a chapter officer and a regional officer of the Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International.
Clinical Practice Area, presenter
Lynn Jorde, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Human Genetics
School of Medicine, University of Utah
Dr. Lynn Jorde has been on the faculty of the University of Utah School of Medicine since 1979 and is now a Professor in the Department of Human Genetics. Dr. Jorde's laboratory is actively involved in studies of human genetic variation and in studies of the genetic basis of human limb malformations. He has published more than 170 scientific articles on these and related subjects.
Dr. Jorde is the lead author of Medical Genetics, a textbook that has been translated into Spanish, Polish, French, and Portuguese and is now in its 3rd edition. He has received ten teaching awards at the University of Utah School of Medicine, including the Outstanding Pre-Clinical Professor Awards from the graduating medical classes of 2002, 2003, and 2004 and the Leonard W. Jarcho Distinguished Teaching Award in 2003.
Dr. Jorde has served on several advisory panels for the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. He recently completed a 4-year term as a member of the Mammalian Genetics review panel at the National Institutes of Health and a 3-year term on the Board of Directors of the American Society of Human Genetics. He has served on the editorial boards of Human Biology, the American Journal of Human Biology, and the American Journal of Human Genetics. He is also on the Board of Directors of the Einstein Institute for Science, Health, and the Courts, and he has served as an expert witness in a number of court cases involving DNA evidence.
In addition to his academic pursuits, Dr. Jorde is an avid hiker and cross-country skier. He enjoys photography, gardening, traveling, and playing the piano. He has the peculiar distinction of once having been invited to appear on the Jerry Springer Show.
Meet the Experts, panelist
Nancy T. Lombardo
Systems Librarian,
Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library,
University of Utah
Nancy Lombardo received her Masters of Library Science from Emporia State University in August 1994 and accepted a position at the Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library in October 1994. Nancy is the co-principal investigator for a Higher Education Technology Initiative Grant that led to the development of the virtual course Internet Navigator. As the Systems Librarian, Nancy works with the library's technical staff to coordinate, maintain and improve the library's technological capabilities. In addition, Nancy teaches a variety of Internet classes and works with library faculty and staff on projects to enhance Eccles Library services through appropriate use of technology.
New Technologies in the Health Sciences Education Building presenter
Caroline Milne, M.D.
Assistant Professor (Clinical), Internal Medicine
School of Medicine, University of Utah
Caroline Milne, M.D., is an Assistant Professor (Clinical) at the University of Utah School of Medicine. She joined the faculty in 2001 after completing a fellowship in Medical Education at the University of Pennsylvania. She is currently Associate Program Director for Residency Training with the Department of Medicine and Director of Clinical Skills Exams with the School of Medicine. She practices general internal medicine at the Veteran's Administration Hospital.
Clinical Practice area presenter
Wayne J. Peay
Director, Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library,
University of Utah
Wayne Peay received his B.A. in history from the University of Utah in 1973 and his M.S. degree in Library Service, with honors, from Columbia University in 1977. He has held positions at the Washington University School of Medicine Library, and the Medical Library Center of New York. He was appointed to the library faculty of the Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library in 1977 and was named director in 1984. He has served as president of the Association of Academic Health Sciences Library Directors and as a member of the Board of Directors of the Medical Library Association. He is also currently the director the Midcontinental Regional Medical Library Program of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine.
Introduction, Meet the Experts moderator and New Technologies in the Health Sciences Education Buidling presenter
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