Epilepsy services consolidated in comprehensive center
Epilepsy services at the School of Medicine have been consolidated and
enhanced
by the establishment of a new comprehensive Epilepsy Center.
Epileptologist Thomas R. Henry, who was recruited from the University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor, to direct the center, is working with other Emory
neurologists, neurosurgeons, neuropsychologists, radiologists,
researchers and
nurses to offer adults and children with epilepsy advanced diagnostic,
medication and surgical options.
Liotta chosen to participate in NIH peer review process
Dennis Liotta, professor and chair of the chemistry department, has been
invited to serve as a member of the AIDS and Related Research Study
Section 4,
Division of Research Grants, for a four-year term which began July 1 and
ends
June 30, 1999. Members are selected on the basis of their demonstrated
competence and achievement in their scientific discipline as evidenced by
the
quality of research accomplishments, publications in scientific journals
and
other significant scientific activities, achievements and honors. Study
sections review grant applications submitted to the National Institutes
of
Health (NIH), make recommendations on these applications to the
appropriate NIH
national advisory council or board, and survey the status of research in
their
fields of science.
Oyesiku receives grant From Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Nelson M. Oyesiku, assistant professor of neurosurgery in the School of
Medicine, has been awarded a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant under
the
Foundation's Minority Medical Faculty Development Program.
Oyesiku's research focuses on determining what mutations are responsible
for
pituitary tumors and how they cause these tumors to produce excess
hormone and
enlarge. He is also working with a new imaging technique (somatostatin
receptor
imaging) to determine if these tumors carry certain markers that will
assist in
selecting whether they will respond to a particular kind of medication.
This
medication also would shrink these tumors and reduce the amount of
hormone they
produce. Oyesiku will be exploring two new surgical techniques.
Currently, he
is using sinus endoscopy to assist in the removal of these tumors, and
ultrasound to localize very small tumors and to determine the
completeness of
tumor removal.