After a nearly 30-year career devoted to caring for Mississippi’s citizens with rheumatologic diseases, Valee Harisdangkul, MD, PhD, retired this year from her post as pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> medicine. Harisdangkul served as co-director <strong>of</strong> the division’s fellowship program and provided clinical rheumatological services at <strong>University</strong> Hospital, MMRC, and the pavilion. She returns to the division as pr<strong>of</strong>essor emeritus in part-time practice. John Jenkins, MD, recently completed the last year <strong>of</strong> an NIH-funded grant to study disparities in minority health, focusing on systemic lupus erythematosus, cytokines and hormones. As part <strong>of</strong> the Medical Center’s outreach clinical care programs, Jenkins travels to Greenville twice each month to see patients at a divisional satellite clinic. Vikas Majithia, MD, provides educational and clinical support to the medical student and house staff teaching programs, as well as increasing the division’s clinical practice at the Jackson Medical Mall and the pavilion. In addition to its clinical care services, the division has a comprehensive research program in place, which includes studies <strong>of</strong> cell and molecular immunology, cytokine immunobiology, complement immunology, and immunoendocrinology. Majithia is developing clinical research projects in SLE in collaboration with Drs. Jenkins and Mc- Murray. Suzanne Sanders, MD, provides clinical and educational services at the VA Medical Center, coordinates clinical review and immunology conferences, and was instrumental in the development <strong>of</strong> the division’s fellowship program and certification. James Wilson, MD, provides clinical and educational services at the VA Medical Center. Wilson, who chairs the Jackson Heart Study’s Genetics Committee, was recently awarded a multi-million dollar NIH grant addressing genotyping and admixture mapping in minorities at risk for cardiovascular disease. Collaborators on this study include faculty members from Harvard <strong>University</strong> and MIT’s Broad Institute. Current fellows include Drs. Shabana Karim, Sahdev Saharan, Amrit Singh, and Jason Taylor. Recent fellowship support has been provided through the Mary Bryan Barksdale Rheumatology Fellowship award, a philanthropic effort by the Barksdale family. The division maintains the highest goals <strong>of</strong> clinical service, education, and research and continues its outstanding record <strong>of</strong> clinical care, being named as the <strong>2007</strong> Outstanding Consult Service <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Year</strong>. 67
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