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Events/Announcements
CTN MENTORING FORM
Each mentor and mentee is required to fill out a CTN Mentoring Form every 6
months. Please download the form, fill
it out and send it to the Director by November 1, and May 1 of each year. Thank
you.
EVENTS
Peds PLACE
The CTN sponsors Peds PLACE (Pediatric Physician Learning and Cooperative
Education), a weekly Pediatric Tele-educational Conference. This is the first
program of its Community Based Research and Education (CoBRE) Core Facility,
that uses the facilities of the Center for Distance Health at the University of
Arkansas for Medical Sciences and Arkansas Children's Hospital. The conferences
are held every Thursday from 12:15 - 1:15 PM. The conferences will cover a
different pediatric problem each week with all the connecting sites being able
to interact with the speaker and with each other in real time. The conference
will begin with a case presentation that illustrates the topic to be discussed.
The speaker will frequently have a written guideline covering the topic
discussed, which will be posted on the Web, and will use the case presentation
to guide us through the most important parts of the guidelines. You can view
these telemedicine broadcasts online at
http://www.uams.edu/cdh1
EDs PLACE
Emergency care requires making timely decisions and providing the appropriate
treatment for saving lives and preventing significant morbidity. Arkansas ranks
last for its emergency care environment (Amer. Coll. Emerg. Phys. 2009).
Challenges include an insufficient supply of physicians, public health concerns,
and inadequacies in care (no organized trauma system), disaster preparedness,
and quality initiatives. In response, we implemented an educational and research
program to accompany the newly mandated statewide trauma system. The objective
is to provide education and research with the goal of improved emergency care
and outcomes. We established EDs PLACE, a monthly conference targeting emergency
services professionals (paramedics, EMTs, nurses and doctors). Six telemedicine
units were placed in hospital EDs in partnership with 9 from another program,
bringing the total to 15. Five sessions have been delivered and all sites signed
on. We will interview representatives from each site to determine satisfaction
and solicit suggestions for relevant topics. Requests were made from Emergency
Medical Service personnel for sessions on issues relevant to care en route to
the ED. The goal is to form a research network of most EDs in the state, develop
consensus guidelines, evaluate the newly funded trauma system, and provide a
diverse population for emergency research.
NEWS RELEASES
September 1,
2011. Navigating the Neurosciences Maze. Story in the College of Medicine
Magazine about the Neuroscience Magnet program.
August 24, 2011. Arkansas Times story about CTN research. UAMS researchers find
a surprise in the brain.
June 20,
2010: Brain Mechanism Could Be Key to New Stimulants, Anesthetics
August 20, 2009:
UAMS Receives $10 Million Grant to Continue Successful Center for Translational
Neuroscience
May 14, 2008: CTN funded telemedicine program places UAMS neonatologists on call
for regional hospitals
December 19, 2007: CTN discovery featured in NCRR Newsletter Please read about
our discovery of electrical coupling in the reticular activating system
July 19, 2007: UAMS Researchers Identify Sleep-Wake Controls with Implications
for Coma Patients and Those Under Anesthesia
June 16,2006: UAMS Faculty Member Receives Award for Smell Research
May 15, 2005: UAMS Enlists Arkansas Company to Build, Market New Bicycle
Exercise Trainer for Spine Injury Patients
DISTINGUISHED LECTURER SERIES
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Thomas S. Kilduff, PhD, Director, Center for Neuroscience, Stanford Research
Institute, Stanford University, Menlo Park, CA
"Cortical nNOS neurons as critical elements in sleep homeostasis"
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Hynek Wichterle, PhD
Associate Professor, Pathology & Cell Biology, Columbia University, New York, NY
"ALS in a dish: from stem cell programming to disease modeling"
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
J. Scott Richards, PhD, ABPP, Professor, Department of Physical Medicine and
Rehabilitation, University of Alabama Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
"Spinal Cord Injury: outcomes from the bedside as we await the bench"
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
M. Joycelyn Elders, MD, U.S. Surgeon General, Professor Emeritus, Department of
Pediatrics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR
"Disparities in health care"
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Veronica Bisagno, PhD, Research Scientist, INIFA-CONICET, University of Buenos
Aires, Argentina
"Neuroprotective role of modafinil against methamphetamine toxicity"
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Frank Andrasik, PhD, Distinguished Professor and Chair, Department of
Psychology, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN
"Nonpharmacological Treatment for Migraines: Efficacy and Beyond"
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Lumy Sawaki, MD, PhD, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation,
University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
"Neuroplasticity: forthcoming strategies for clinical translation"
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Francisco J. Urbano, PhD, Research Scientist, CONICET,, Instituto de
Fisiologia, Biologia, y Neurociencias, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires,
Argentina
"T-type calcium channels play a key role in GABAergic thalamocortical
alterations and hyperlocomotion mediated by repetitive cocaine administration"
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Atom Sarkar, MD, PhD, Director, Neurological Nanomedicine, Associate
Director, Functional Neurosurgery, The Ohio StateUniversity, Columbus, OH
"The Promise of Nanotechnology and Nanomedicine"
Tuesday April 20, 2010
John R Hughes, MD, Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology , University of
Vermont College of Medicine, Vermont.
"Biological and Environmental Influences on the Onset and Persistence of
Nicotine Dependence"
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Thomas Kosten MD, Waggoner Chair & Professor of Psychiatry, Pharmacology &
Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine
"Clinical Translational Research Anti-addiction Medications"
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Luis De Lecea, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral
Science, Stanford University
"Optogenetic control of arousal and reward"
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Helen A. Baghdoyan, Ph.D., Professor of Anesthesiology and Pharmacology,
University of Michigan, School of Medicine, Ann Arbor, MI
"Sleep, Anesthesia, & Mental Health: Mechanistic Insights from
Neuropharmacological and Neurochemical Studies"
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
James P. Marcin, MD, MPH,
Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Section of Pediatric Critical
Care Medicine, University of California Davis
"Pediatric Telemedicine and its Applications in the ED and ICU"
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
G. William Rebeck, PhD, Department of Neurobiology, Georgetown University,
Washington, DC
"Synaptic Function of Alzheimer's Proteins APP and ApoE"
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Paul Ford, PhD, Clinical Bioethicist, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Assistant
Professor of Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine
"Innovating the Brain: Ethics of Neuro-technology"
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Donald J. Woodward, PhD, President and Director, Neuroscience Research Institute
of North Carolina, Winston Salem, NC
"Evolution of Enabling Technology for Multineuron Recording: Impact on Studies
of Brain and Behavior" Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Subimal Datta, PhD, Professor and Director, Laboratory of Sleep and Cognitive
Neuroscience, Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Boston University School
of Medicine, Boston, MA
"Sleep: Learning and Memory"
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Edward Dudek, PhD, Professor and Chair, Department of Physiology, University of
Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT
"Progressive development of spontaneous seizures in experimental epilepsy"
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Major General Bill Lefler, DDS, FACP, US Army (Ret.), Hot Springs, AR,
"The history, progress and future impact of the Tobacco Settlement in Arkansas"
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Mark Hallett, MD, Chief, Human Motor Control Section, National Institute for
neurological Disorders, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
"Pathophysiology of Focal Dystonia and Implications for Treatment"
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Carlos H. Schenck, MD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of
Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota
"Parasomnias: REM sleep behavior disorder and Parkinsonism, and Zolpidem-Induced
Sleep Related Eating Disorder" Tuesday, April 24, 2007
David F. Dinges, Ph.D., Professor and Chief, Division of Sleep and Chronobiology,
Director, Unit for Experimental Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University
of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA.
"Optimizing Neurobehavioral Performance through Biology and Technology"
Tuesday, April 3, 2007
Scott R. Whittemore, Ph.D., Henry D. Garretson Endowed Professor, Department of
Neurological Surgery, Scientific Director, Kentucky Spinal Cord Injury Research
Center,
University of Louisville, Louisville KY.
"The realities and possibilities of stem cell grafting for CNS repair"
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Irving E. Vega, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, University of
Puerto Rico - Rio Piedras Campus, San Juan, PR.
"Tau-associated proteins: questioning an unusual suspect in neurodegeneration"
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Robert Greene, MD, PhD, Sherry Knopf Crasilneck Distinguished Chair in
Psychiatry, Vice chair, Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas
Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
"Mediation of the homeostatic sleep response by the adenosine A1 receptor"
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Barry W. Connors, PhD, Professor and Chair, Department of Neuroscience,
Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
"Eclectic electric synapses in the mammalian brain"
Tuesday, March 21, 2006
Floyd J. Thompson, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Neuroscience, University
of Florida Health Science Center, Gainesville, Florida
"Neurobiology and Treatment of Spinal Cord Injury-induced Spasticity"
Tuesday, November 8, 2005
Robert P. Yezierski, Ph.D., Director, Comprehensive Center for Pain
Research, Professor of Orthodontics, Neuroscience and Anesthesiology,
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
"The Injured Spinal Cord: A Model of Central Pain"
Tuesday, May 3, 2005
Prof. Robert McCarley, MD, Head, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard University And VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA
"Adenosine, sleep and sleep pathology"
Tuesday, April 5, 2005
Prof. Donald Humphrey, PhD, Departments of Physiology and Neurology,
Emory University, Atlanta, GA
"Long-term, Progressive Changes in Voluntary Activation of Motor Areas in
the Human Brain After Spinal Cord Injury" Thursday, January 20, 2005
Prof. Merlin W. Donald, PHD, FRSC, Dept. Psychology, Queens University,
Kingston, Ontario, Canada
"Cognitive Prehistory: A Darwinian Perspective on Memory and
Consciousness"
Wednesday, November 17, 2004
Prof. Shigemi Mori, MD, PHD, National Institute for Physiologicel
Sciences, Okazaki, Japan
"Cerebral Control of Upright Posture and Bipedal Walking in the Japanese
Monkey, M. Fuscata"
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