A partnership among KCUMB, Score 1 for Health and Children's Mercy Hospital accomplished a. Kansas City-wide study of ti
KANSAS CITY UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL AND BIOSCIENCES
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A partnership among KCUMB, Score 1 for Health and Children’s Mercy Hospital accomplished a Kansas City-wide study of tinea capitis with over 10,000 children, 250 KCUMB medical students, KCUMB clinical faculty and a team of CMH registered nurses participating. Conducted in 44 urban elementary schools during the 2008-09 school year, the results were published in the May, 2010 issue of Pediatrics. Annette Campbell, RN Director of Score 1 for Health
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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded Frank Fitzpatrick, PhD, KCUMB professor of pharmacology, a grant to assess toxicities of a continuous intravenous infusion of decitabine plus escalating doses of weekly subcutaneous PEF-IFN in patients with metastatic cancer.
Frank Fitzpatrick, PhD Professor of Pharmacology
DID YOU KNOW? Robert White, PhD, KCUMB associate professor of molecular biology and medical genetics, is identifying genetic factors that attenuate iron overloading in patients suffering from hereditary hemochromatosis. Dr. White’s research also focuses on iron overloading that occurs in patients who receive repeated blood transfusions for their treatment, such as in cases of sickle cell anemia. Robert White, PhD Associate Professor of Molecular Biology and Medical Genetics
He recently published an article in Genomics describing a new gene for hereditary spherocytosis and is collaborating with an investigator at Harvard Medical School to continue this work.
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Patrick Clay, PharmD, associate professor and director, Dybedal Center for Clinical Research, KCUMB, conducted the first drug trial for a new HIV medicine to start in the Kansas City region in six years.
KCUMB's current HIV drug trial represents the first time the GSK-Pfizer partnership company, ViiV, Inc., has conducted a trial in this region.
Patrick Clay, PharmD Associate Professor and Director Dybedal Center for Clinical Research
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Kevin D. Treffer, DO, KCUMB associate professor of family medicine and director of osteopathic manipulative medicine, was selected as a fellow with the Osteopathic Research Center at the University of North Texas.
Kevin D. Treffer, DO, Associate Professor of Family Medicine Director of Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine
DID YOU KNOW? KCUMB is actively developing core research in: • Aging and Neurosciences • Human Performance • Bioethics and Spirituality
Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences, founded in 1916.
DID YOU KNOW? KCUMB was one of only six institutions to be nationally recognized with the George Washington Institute of Spirituality and Health award.
DOCare medical mission, Guatemala
DID YOU KNOW? KCUMB has the only research center, academic or otherwise, where 100% of all full-time personnel are certified through a professional organization to conduct research.
Charlott L. Williams, RN, CCRC Nurse Manager Dybedal Clinical Research Center
DID YOU KNOW? Linda E. May, PhD, KCUMB assistant professor of anatomy, and her collaborators’ initial research on fetal heart development in pregnant women indicated that those who exercised 30 minutes three times a week had fetuses with lower heart rates during the final weeks of development. A recent follow-up study revealed that the babies’ improved cardiovascular heart control is maintained one month after pregnancy.
Linda E. May, Ph.D., KCUMB assistant professor of anatomy
