By Sara Reeve

John Peters, Hastings Professor anddirector of the division of environmen-tal health in the Keck School ofMedicine’s Department of PreventiveMedicine, received a standing ovationfrom the audience at a Feb. 24 forum

recognizing his contributions in theadvancement of environmental healthover a 30-year career.

The event, held at the HarlyneNorris Cancer Research Tower’s ArestyAuditorium, presented the highlights ofPeters’ long career and featured presen-

tations by several of Peters’ colleaguesfrom USC and other institutions,including Harvard, Brigham YoungUniversity and the University ofMassachusetts, Lowell.

Jon Samet, professor and Flora L.Thornton Chair of the Department of

Preventive Medicine, said that through-out Peters’ career, “He has remainedquietly—perhaps too quietly—in thebackground, as work that he started ledto major findings and supported thedevelopment of young researchers.

“Some of these accomplishmentsinclude the first research on smokingand the health of young adults—hisdoctoral dissertation, findings in pio-neering studies of occupational lungdisease in firefighters, granite workersand rubber workers, studies of leukemiaand environment, and of course, theChildren’s Health Study,” Samet said.

The Children’s Health Study is alongitudinal study of respiratory healthamong children in 12 SouthernCalifornia communities.

Keck School Dean Carmen A.Puliafito thanked Peters for his leader-ship and commitment to the school.

“It was a real privilege and pleasureto meet John Peters and have him beone of the first folks I met here,” hesaid.

Puliafito also announced the forma-tion of the John Peters EnvironmentalEducation Research Fund, which willhelp to continue Peters’ work by sup-porting students and postdoctoral can-didates researching environmentalhealth. Persons interested in making adonation to the fund may contactKavita Munjal at (323) 442-2358.)

Attendees included many noted aca-demic and community figures, includ-ing former Keck School deans BrianHenderson and Stephen Ryan.

Penny Newman, executive directorfor the Center for Community Actionand Environmental Justice (CCAEJ), a

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GETTING STARTED IN RESEARCH—TheKeck School of Medicine hosted the Dean’sResearch Forum on March 2 to invite med-ical students to participate in a variety ofcurrent research projects. Clockwise fromabove: Michael Goran, professor of preven-tive medicine, physiology and biophysics,discusses his work on diabetes and obesity;event participants peruse a poster detailingresults from a pathology study; DeanCarmen A. Puliafito (at left) discusses withcolleagues the educational and experientialvalue of student participation in research.

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Jean Shih, the Boyd P. and Elsie D. Welin Professorin Pharmaceutical Sciences, received a $1.01 milliongrant that continues her research support from theNational Institute of Mental Health for the next fiveyears.

Shih’s work focuses on monoamine oxidase, alsoknow as MAO, an enzyme that regulates brain chemi-cals—serotonin, dopamine and norepinephrine. Thesechemicals help cells communicate, affecting brainfunctions related to mood and behavior.

Shih’s findings have garnered international atten-tion as her lab was the first to clone human MAO-Aand MAO-B genes and to unravel their structures,functions and regulations. This work is an importantbuilding block in the development of therapeutics for

aggression, anxiety and depression.“The continuing support of the NIMH will allow

us to study the developmental and environmental fac-tors that impact brain function and behaviors.Ultimately, this will help us better identify and under-stand the most critical periods for pre-vention and treatment of these braindisorders,” said Shih, whose work hasbeen at the forefront of neuroscienceresearch with 32 years of consecutivefunding from the National Institutes ofHealth.

The news about the award was com-plemented by the announcement thatShih will receive the LifetimeAchievement Award of the Society of

Chinese Bioscientists in America. This award will bepresented at the Biennial International Symposium ofthe society this summer in Taipei. Shih is a foundingmember of the society.

Among Shih’s numerous honors are two MERITawards from the National Institutes ofHealth, recognizing her distinguished scien-tific achievement in the research community.In 2007, she was named a fellow of theAmerican Association for the Advancementof Science.

Shih is a professor in the Department ofPharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciencesat the School of Pharmacy and in theDepartment of Cell and Neurobiology at theKeck School of Medicine of USC.

NIH awards School of Pharmacy scientist $1 million for work on brain chemistry

Keck School fetes career of environmental health expert John Peters

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Riverside, Calif.-based nonprofit organ-ization working on environmental jus-tice issues, hailed Peters and his col-leagues for their work with communitygroups.

“Certainly we have seen the scientificresearch that John Peters has beeninvolved in, and that is well document-ed,” said Newman. “But what isn’t doc-umented are the thousands of humanlives that he has helped make better.”

Peters closed the event by acknowl-edging the work of many of his col-

leagues and his confidence in the futureof the Department of PreventiveMedicine. “I am happy to see at the endof my academic career that the universi-ty cares about the medical school, andhas appointed a strong dean, and onewho cares about the Department ofPreventive Medicine. Proving it,Carmen has recruited the best newdepartment head in the world, longtimefriend and colleague, Jon Samet,” saidPeters. “I believe you are poised, withJon and assembled colleagues, to staynumber one indefinitely.”

John Peters (center),Hastings Professor and director of the division of environmental health in the KeckSchool of Medicine’s Department of Preventive Medicine, appears at the event with his wife, Ruth, andJon Samet, professor and Flora L. Thornton Chair of the Department of Preventive Medicine.

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By Kukla Vera

The USC School of Pharmacyrecently received the 2008-09 AACPInaugural Award for TransformativeCommunity Service at the AmericanAssociation of Colleges of PharmacyInterim Meeting Awards Ceremony inArlington, VA.

The award, presented on Feb. 23,recognized the school’s institutionalcommitment to addressing unmet com-munity needs through education, prac-tice and research.

Highlighting community service asan important element of the academicmission, this award honors institutionsthat serve as examples of social respon-siveness on the part of the academicmedical community.

Lucinda L. Maine, executive vicepresident and CEO of the AACP, said,“The key word in selecting the recipientof this new award is ‘transformative.’The lives of abroad and diversepopulation ofpeople have beenchanged positive-ly because ofUSC’s mission-driven commit-ment to investfaculty and stu-dent resources onsuch projects.”

The School of Pharmacy works withcommunity partners to integrate clinicalpharmacy services into their medicalservices, including hiring pharmacistson staff at safety-net clinics wherepharmacist intervention improveshealth outcomes and quality of life.

An example of a successful collabora-tion is with QueensCare FamilyClinics, where a critical aspect of theprogram is the medication therapymanagement component, a diseasemanagement approach that providesone-on-one pharmacist counseling topatients, resulting in more successfulmedication compliance and overallimproved disease management.

In a health center where more than60 percent of the patient populationsuffers from chronic diseases, the dis-ease management component of thepharmacist’s role can become a matterof life and death.

Supporters of the school’s safety-network include the QueensCare Family

Clinics, UniHealth Foundation, theMerck Company Foundation, JWCHInstitute, and the South Central FamilyHealth Center. The initial grant thatstarted the project in 2002 was from theDepartment of Health and HumanServices Health Resources and ServicesAdministration.

“At USC, we’re committed to givingback to our community. The School ofPharmacy’s work in these clinics, aswell as our health literacy projects,make it possible for us to directlyimpact the health of some of LA’s mostat-risk residents,” said School ofPharmacy Dean R. Pete Vanderveen.“We’ve seen firsthand how our pharma-cists have improved patient outcomeswhile saving precious health care dol-lars. To be honored for this commit-ment makes it even more rewarding.”

Leading the effort and on hand toreceive the award were Kathleen

Johnson, theWilliam A. andJosephine A.Heeres Chair inCommunityPharmacy andthe chair of theSchool’s TitusFamilyDepartment, andMel Baron and

Steven Chen, both associate professors.At the ceremony, Dean Vanderveenspoke about the tremendous dedicationof the community pharmacy group.

Unable to attend but mentioned asaward recipients were ElizabethCervantes, Stephanie Iniguez andCecilia Wu, clinical staff pharmacists atQueensCare Family Clinics. Also partof the award team are faculty membersJeff Goad, Edith Mirzaian and MikeRudolph.

Previously, the school’s work in safe-ty-net clinics garnered the 2007Pinnacle Award of the AmericanPharmacists Association Foundationand the 2008 Best Practices Award ofthe American Society of Health-System Pharmacists.

On Feb. 12 and 13, the School ofPharmacy hosted a national conference,“Developing Partnerships betweenSchools of Pharmacy and Safety-NetClinics,” attended by more than 30schools of pharmacy and various clini-cal, government and association groups.

AACP honors USC School of Pharmacyfor ‘transformative community service’

‘We’ve seen firsthand how ourpharmacists have improved patientoutcomes while saving precioushealthcare dollars. To be honored forthis commitment makes it even morerewarding.’

—School of Pharmacy Dean R. Pete Vanderveen

Ryan Hamilton wants to know if tar-geting energy levels in arterial cells canreverse high cholesterol and reduceplaque formation in the arteries.

And an American Heart Associationfellowship is helping him find theanswer with a two-year $75,000 awardas part of the American HeartAssociation Western States AffiliatePostdoctoral Fellowship Program, sup-porting promising new researchers asthey begin careers in cardiovascular andstroke research.

“My research is aimed at understand-ing how changes in structure of ‘badcholesterol’ can cause energy andantioxidant loss in arterial cells, result-ing in heart disease,” said Hamilton, apostdoctoral researcher at the USCSchool of Pharmacy. “When cell energyis increased, artery function improves.”

Hamilton’s previous studies found

that arterial cells with bad cholesterolhad lower energy levels and a higherrate of cell death.

In the laboratory, Hamilton will con-tinue this research by using alpha lipoicacid and acetylcarnitine in the cells tosee if the agents can reverse or preventthese negative effects.

Hamilton’s goal is to lay the founda-tion for the development of therapeu-tics that can prevent or reverse damageto the arteries, ultimately aiding in thetreatment of heart disease.

Hamilton’s research sponsor isEnrique Cadenas, the Charles KrownAlumni Professor and associate dean forresearch at the School of Pharmacy. Hisco-sponsor is Howard Hodis, the HarryBauer & Dorothy Bauer RawlingsProfessor of Cardiology and director ofthe Atherosclerosis Research Unit atthe Keck School of Medicine.

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A new clinic located within theonline universe of Second Life will givedental students the opportunity to testtheir logic and decision-making skillswith interactive virtual patients.

Second Life is an extensive onlineworld in which users create avatars inorder to interact with the virtual envi-ronment as well as each other. Usersalso can create their own property andstructures.

This capability was used to create theUSC School of Dentistry Island, which

houses the virtual dental clinic and itspatients.

The clinic’s patients consist of chat-bots, computer programs designed torespond to and mimic human conversa-tion, said Glenn Clark, director of theOrofacial Pain and Oral MedicineProgram with the USC School ofDentistry.

With a large question and answerbank written by Clark, the virtualpatients can respond to nearly 400 dif-ferent queries and have a variety of ail-ments, including lockjaw, oral lesions

and neuralgia.The virtual dental

clinic allows stu-dents to completethe entire patientcare experience,from taking medicalhistories and order-ing tests to diagnos-ing the problem andprescribing treat-ment. Students willbe evaluated on howaccurately and effi-ciently they treat their virtual patients,and each patient has a 30-minute timelimit similar to a real-life dentalappointment.

Points can be lost if a student doesnot complete the appointment in time,orders unnecessary tests or treatments,or misdiagnoses the problem.

“The data is all there, but the stu-dents have to make sense of the data,”

Clark said. “If theydon’t hone in on thegood questions,they’ll lose points.”

The virtual clinicallows for easy eval-uation and also letsstudents log on attheir leisure andpractice treatment atany time. Whileevery dental studentcompletes a one-week rotation

observing faculty members in theOrofacial Pain and Oral MedicineClinic, the virtual clinic will safely givethem experience addressing complexorofacial problems independently.

“Dental students are usually not theprimary doctor for these types of prob-lems, but their knowledge isn’t reallytested if they are simply observing metreat a patient,” Clark said.

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For many, the transition from teento adult life is full of challenges. Butfor survivors of pediatric cancer, thisparticular time in life can present awide array of questions and concerns.Luckily, there is a growing movementamong young advocates and healthcare providers to build support pro-grams aiming to aid in the transitionof care from pediatrics to adult oncolo-gy and primary care.

A recent conference held at theUSC Norris Comprehensive CancerCenter brought together experts insurvivorship and young patients seek-ing advice in navigating the jump frompediatrics to adult care.

Held Feb. 7 in the ArestyAuditorium, Rise to Action-Los

Angeles (RTA-LA) welcomed youngadult cancer survivors and their fami-lies to talk about the next stages ofcancer care and life as a survivor.

According to David R. Freyer, med-ical director of the LIFE Survivorshipand Transition Program at ChildrensHospital Los Angeles, who presentedat RTA-LA, most childhood cancersurvivors are healthy, have no seriousmedical problems resulting from thedisease or their treatment and enjoy avery good quality of life.

However, the possibility of lateeffects from pediatric cancer treat-ments represents a continuing need forfollow-up care into adulthood for theapproximate 300,000 childhood cancersurvivors in the U.S.

Freyer pointed to proper adult care

and survivorship follow-up as impor-tant early detection tools of any lateeffects.

“Survivor care is increasingly avail-able and improving,” said Freyer. “It’ssomething that needs to occur.Survivors need to embrace it and startplanning early. There’s a lot that needsto move with the patient. When youhit 18, it’s no longer appropriate toreceive adult care in a pediatric envi-ronment.”

More than 125 participants, whichincluded survivors and their familiesand friends, attended the day-longconference made up of a series of ple-nary sessions and breakout discussions.Topics included health insurance,political activism, navigating care, fer-tility, employment and other issues that

survivors of pediatric cancer mayencounter as they transition into adult-hood.

At the end of the day, participantswere treated to a closing reception andmusical performance by Valerie Sun.Sun is a 27-year-old survivor of aplas-tic anemia who also gave an inspira-tional presentation during the confer-ence about her struggles with cancerand how she found strength throughadvocacy. She graduated from USC in2002.

The conference was organized bythe Children’s Cause for CancerAdvocacy, a non-profit organization,and co-sponsored by the USC NorrisComprehensive Cancer Center,Childrens Hospital Los Angeles andothers.

A new device to treat gastroesophageal reflux dis-ease (GERD) is now in the second phase of clinicaltrials, in which the Keck School participates as well asserves as a training center for other institutions.

For a number of years, John Lipham, assistant pro-fessor of surgery, and Tom DeMeester, professor ofsurgery at the Keck School of Medicine, have beenworking on alternative ways to treat GERD.

“Reflux is known to cause adenocarcinoma of theesophagus,” said Lipham. “Over the last 25 years, wehave seen somewhere between a 400 and 600 percentincrease in reflux caused esophageal cancer.”

Traditionally, reflux disease is treated using a surgi-cal procedure called a Nissen fundoplication, whichinvolves recreating a sphincter—a muscle that con-stricts and relaxes as required for normal physiologicalfunctioning—at the end of the esophagus.

According to Lipham, USC has an approximately90 percent success rate with entirely stopping thereflux.

“Although the success rates of the surgery are good,there are problems associated with this procedure,”said Lipham. “One of the biggest problems is that itprevents the ability to belch or vomit and patientsexperience severe bloating and gas problems.”

But with new technology called the Linx RefluxManagement System, now being used in the depart-ment of surgery, the treatment of reflux disease hasimproved. The device is like a bracelet made up ofmagnetic beads implanted around the end of theesophagus where the lower esophageal sphincter islocated. The lower esophageal sphincter is the valvethat prevents reflux, and GERD develops when thisvalve is weakened.

The new device is designed to augment the nativesphincter and return it to a competent valve. Themagnetic beads open with a given pressure, allowingpatients to belch, vomit and swallow normally. Byallowing patients to belch normally, the device allowsair to escape from the stomach, preventing the gasand bloating issues.

“This is a much simpler procedure,” said Lipham.“There is much less surgery involved to implant thedevice, making patient recovery quicker.”

The Keck School was one of only two institutionsin the United States to participate in the first phase ofthe Linx Reflux Management System clinical trial.According to Lipham, the trial showed excellentresults with an approximate 75 percent success rate.

For more information on reflux disease, please call(323) 442-6814.

Conference focuses on helping pediatric cancer patients navigate young adulthood

Keck School surgeons develop new technology to treat gastroesophageal reflux

Online clinic’s virtual patients designed to test dental students’ diagnostic skills

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A Feb. 26 Wall Street Journal article quotedSongtao Shi of the USC School of Dentistryabout the discovery of the gene responsible forcontrolling tooth growth. An Associated Pressarticle on the discovery ran widely.

A Feb. 25 Wall Street Journal article noted thatTenet Healthcare Corp. has agreed to sell USCUniversity Hospital and USC Norris CancerHospital to USC. The sale was also noted inAssociated Press stories that ran in the New YorkTimes, Los Angeles Times and the Los AngelesBusiness Journal.

A Feb. 23 New York Times article highlightedresearch by epigenomic expert and USC NorrisComprehensive Cancer Center director PeterJones in a story on epigenomics, the study of asecond layer of information embedded in pro-teins that package the DNA of a genome.

A Feb. 23 Los Angeles Times article quotedCHLA pediatrician Wilbert Mason aboutHaemophilus influenzae type b (Hib), a child-hood disease that is making a comeback.

A Feb. 19 WebMD article highlighted a USCstudy on coffee consumption which found thatthe more cups of coffee participants drank, theless likely they were to report ever being diag-nosed with a stroke.

A Feb. 20 Los Angeles Times article quotedgerontologist Freddi Segal-Gidan about an elderabuse case.

A Feb. 12 Philadelpia Inquirer article quotedpathologist Darryl Shibata about how the evolu-tionary history of a cancer may eventually informdoctors on the best possible treatments.

Calendar of EventsSaturday, Mar. 7

8:30 A.M. “Contemporary StereotacticRadiosurgery of the Central NervousSystem: A Primer and Update,” Variousspeakers. Los Angeles MarriottDowntown. Info: (323) 442-2555

Monday, Mar. 9

NOON. “NEPHSAP: Acute Renal Failure(2008),” Mitra Nadim, USC. GNH 4420.Info: (323) 226-7307

NOON. “Transplant Pathology BoardReview– Part III,” Michael Koss, USC.GNH 4420. Info: (323) 226-7307

Wednesday, Mar. 11

11:30 A.M. “Damnably Hard, AgonizinglyProtracted, and Utterly Vital: Health CareReform in the United States,” HenryAaron, Brookings Institution. UPC:Andrus Gerontology Ctr. Info: (213) 740-1354

NOON. “Type 2 Diabetes Prevention andEarly Treatment,” Thomas Buchanan, USC.GNH 4420. Info: (323) 226-7307

Thursday, Mar. 12

NOON. Cellular Homeostasis LectureSeries. “A Novel Role for Caspase-8 InInitiating a Wound Healing Response,”Colin Jamora, UC San Diego. MCH 156.Info: (323) 442-3121Friday, Mar. 13

11 A.M. Hematology Grand Rounds.“CMV in Hematopoietic Stem CellTransplantation: Optimizing Strategies forDisease Prevention,” Drew Winston,UCLA. IPT C2J103. Info: (323) 865-3950

NOON. “Vectorborne Diseases ofCalifornia,” Rachael Civen, Dept. of PublicHealth. IPT Conference Rm. B. Info:(323) 226-7504

Monday, Mar. 16

NOON. “Edema & Diuretics V,” MiroslawSmogorzewski, USC. GNH 4420. Info:(323) 226-7307

NOON. Basic Science Seminar. “FunctionalGenomics, Experimental Models andCancer,” William Hahn, Harvard. NOR7409. Info: (323) 442-1144

4 P.M. “Research in Progress,” JacobAhdoot, USC. GNH 4420. Info: (323)226-7307

Wednesday, Mar. 18

NOON. “Plasmapheresis,” Melanie Osby,Hemocare Corp. GNH 4420. Info: (323)226-7307

NOON. “Structural Basis of ProteinPhosphatase 1 Regulation,” Wolfgang Peti,Brown Univ. ZNI 112. Info: (323) 442-3219Thursday, Mar. 19

4 P.M. ZNI Seminar. “Serotonin, Fetal BrainWiring and Materno-fetal Interactions,”Alexandre Bonnin, Vanderbilt Univ. ZNI112. Info: (323) 442-2144

Friday, Mar. 20

NOON. Pharmacology and PharmaceuticalSciences Seminar. “Endosomal ProteinTrafficking Hermansky-Pudlak Syndromeand Schizophrenia,” Esteban C.Dell’Angelica, UCLA. PSC 104. Info:(323) 442-1445

4 P.M. USC Norris Cancer HospitalNational Colorectal Cancer AwarenessMonth Reception. Aresty Conference Ctr.Info: (323) 865-3873

Monday, Mar. 23

NOON. “HemophagocyticLymphohistiocytosis,” StratosChristianakis, USC. GNH 6441. Info:(323) 442-1946

The HSC Calendar is online at www.usc.edu/hsccalendarThe USC chapter of the Student National Pharmaceutical Association has been

officially recognized by the Associated Students of Pharmacy.The student affiliate of the National Pharmaceutical Association dedicates itself

to minority representation in pharmacy and other health care fields. The newchapter will play a part in the School of Pharmacy’s diversity initiative and reachout to current and prospective students of color.

The chapter will take part in outreach activities such as the “OperationImmunization” campaign, “Power to End Stroke/Smoking Cessation” and“Remember the Ribbon,” a national program aimed at promoting AIDS educa-tion. The chapter also will join forces with the Pharmacy Explorers Program,launched by the school in November, to introduce area high school students tocareers in pharmacy.

Members of the chapter will have the opportunity to develop leadership skills,promote active participation in national health care issues, develop the role of theminority health professional, and increase community awareness and understand-ing of diseases. In addition, members are eligible to receive scholarships from theStudent National Pharmaceutical Association.

Officers of the USC chapter include Pharm.D. students Yazmin O’Quinn, pres-ident; Chandra Smallwood, president-elect; Ryan Martinez, secretary; KarlaMartinez, treasurer; and Cynthia Mercado, historian.

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