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An accomplished investigator in nuclear receptors, Jose Subauste, MD, serves as program director for the endocrine fellowship training program. He provides consultative services at the Endocrine and Lipid Clinic at the G.V. (“Sonny”) Montgomery Veterans’ Affairs Medical Center. Subauste is principal investigator of the federallyfunded study, “Dimerization and Dominant Negative Activity of v-erbA.” Elise Gomez-Sanchez, DVM, PhD, a basic researcher, is involved in the teaching curriculum of both the division and UMMC’s integrated neuroscience graduate program. She is principal investigator of the NIH grant, “Adrenal Decommissioning and Hypertension,” and the VA Merit Review grant, “Localization of Mineralocorticoid Action in the Brain and Hypertension.” She chaired this year’s International Aldosterone Conference and serves as a member of the Endocrine Society’s Ethics Committee. She is a fellow of the American Heart Association’s Council for High Blood Pressure Research and serves on the editorial boards of Hypertension and Endocrinology. Gomez-Sanchez is a member of the NIH Hypertension and Microcirculation Study Section and an ad hoc reviewer for the NIH STRB Study Section and the VA Merit Review Subcommittee for Endocrinology. Rodrigo Valderrama, MD, co-directs the Diabetes Program at the Jackson Medical Mall and at satellite clinics throughout Mississippi in support of the Delta Diabetes Project. He also serves as education coordinator for Internal Medicine residents rotating in Endocrinology. A new faculty member and former graduate of our fellowship program, Dana Dale, MD, joined the division in August 2006. Dale supports the clinical and teaching thyroid and diabetes programs. William Nicholas, MD, continues as a parttime faculty member to provide care for patients with endocrine disorders and training for the division’s endocrinology fellowship program. Damian Romero, PhD, spearheads several projects that focus on the regulation of aldosterone production and action. Romero was awarded the Mead-Johnson Research Award and the Renal Research Recognition Award from the American Physiological Society. Other endocrinology division faculty with joint appointments include Mohammed Kazi, MD, whose other appointment is with the G.V. (“Sonny”) Montgomery Veterans’ Affairs Medical Center, and Marshall Bouldin, MD, whose other appointment is with the department’s Division of General Internal Medicine and Hypertension. Kazi completed an office-based management article on testosterone deficiency for the American Journal of Medicine. Fellow Shema Ahmad, MD, presented a poster on the topic of pituitary tumorigenesis at the annual meeting of the Southern Society for Clinical Investigation, where she was awarded “Best Research Trainee.” First-year fellow Christy Oswalt, MD, joined the division in August 2006 and presented a poster on the topic of endocrine tumors at the 2007 annual meeting of the Endocrine Society. Incoming first-year fellows are Ben Seale, MD, and Shreya Patel, MD. Finally, the division is pleased to announce the arrival of its newest faculty member, Gabriel I. Uwaifo, MD. Prior to his appointment at UMMC, Uwaifo was on the faculty at Georgetown University. He has a strong scholarly record on the topics of obesity and diabetes mellitus. 51
FACULTY Marion R. Wofford, MD, MPH, Associate Professor and Division Director Christina L. Barlow, MD, Assistant Professor Angela Boleware, CFNP, Instructor Marshall J. Bouldin, MD, Associate Professor C. Andrew Brown, MD, MPH, Professor Bonnie Carminati, CFNP, Instructor Honey East, MD, Associate Professor Kimberly G. Harkins, MD, Assistant Professor Gilliam Swink Hicks, MD, Professor Michelle Horn, MD, Assistant Professor Deborah King Minor, PharmD, Associate Professor R. Terry Jackson, MD, Associate Professor Annette K. Low, MD, Associate Professor Debbie McSherry, CFNP, Instructor Jinna M. Shepherd, MD, Associate Professor Michael Shoemaker-Moyle, MD, Assistant Professor Jimmy L. Stewart, Jr., MD, Assistant Professor Caryl D. Sumrall, CFNP, Instructor Sharon B. Wyatt, PhD, Associate Professor 52 Marion R. Wofford, MD, MPH Division Director General Internal Medicine and Hypertension The Division of General Internal Medicine and Hypertension continues its leadership in education of medical students and residents in ambulatory and hospital-based medicine. Education remains a primary mission for the division as demonstrated by the leadership in undergraduate and graduate medical programs. These programs prepare the trainees with the knowledge, skills, and attitudes to practice in hospital and ambulatory medicine. Major leadership roles in the Department of Medicine education programs are held by members of the division. Kimberly Harkins, MD, serves as the program director of ambulatory education, Jimmy Stewart, MD, as combined medicine and pediatrics (MedPeds) residency program director, John Wofford, MD, as administrative director of hospitalist medicine, and Michael Shoemaker-Moyle, MD, as director of the internal medicine resident clinics. Stewart is coordinator for the course, “Introduction to Clinical Medicine,” for second-year medical students. Shoemaker-Moyle and Michelle Horn, MD, are clerkship directors for third- and fourthyear students. All members of the division instruct students in the development of skills of history-taking, physical diagnoses and clinical medicine, and they mentor students in compassionate and professional care.
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