Spring 2005 - University of the Sciences in Philadelphia

USP BULLETIN: SCHOLARLY ACTIVITY PAGE 19SCHOLARLY ACTIVITYSYMBOLSFaculty and staff = ✦Alumni = ✽Current student = ✭ACADEMIC ADVISINGAwardsFRANCES NORTHCUTT ✦,the editors of The Mentor: anAcademic Advising Journalannounced that Frances is thewinner of the journal’s fourthannual Academic WritingCompetition.The topic of thisyear’s competition was “Describeyour Relationship with anAdvisee that Best Illustrates yourPhilosophy of Advising.”COLLEGE OFGRADUATE STUDIESHonorsRICHARD G. STEFANACCI ✦,granted Fellowship Status in theCollege of Physicians ofPhiladelphia.PresentationsSUSANNA DODGSON ✦,• “Medical Writing: Where WillWe Be 10 Years From Now?”at the American MedicalWriters Association DelawareValley Chapter satellitemeeting in Princeton, NJ, onOctober 6, 2004.• Part of a panel in an annualconference run by theWestern MassachusettsChapter of the NationalWriters Union. “WriteAngles,” at Smith College,Northampton, discussingmedical writing and scienceand health care journalism onOctober 16, 2004.RICHARD G. STEFANACCI ✦,• “MMA’s (MedicareModernization Act) Impact onLong Term Care” and “BestPractices in ALFs (AssistedLiving Facilities)” at the AMDA(American Medical DirectorsAssociation) meeting in NewOrleans, LA, on March 18.• “MMA’s Impact on DuallyEligible Long Term CareResidents” at the Families USA:Conference for State MedicaidDirectors in Washington, DC,on January 28.• “MMA’s Impact of ALFs,”ALPhA Keynote Speaker inFort Lauderdale, FL, onJanuary 20.PublicationsSUSANNA DODGSON ✦,• Presentation on “MedicalWriting: Where Will We Be10 Years From Now?” wasreproduced in the fall 2004issue of the Delawriter, aquarterly newsletter of theDelaware Valley Chapter ofthe American Medical WritersAssociation.• “From Over the Pond: Howto Become a Medical Writer,”The Write Stuff 2005; 13(3):70–72.RICHARD G. STEFANACCI ✦,• “Envisioning the Future ofSenior Care: New Models,Improved Outcomes,” 2004.• “The Senior Care Source:Facts, Figures, and Forecasts”2005.• “Storm Warning: MMA’sImpact on ALFs,” AssistedLiving Consult, 1(1):15–17,2005.• “What’s in a Name?...TheAssisted Living Consult,”Assisted Living Consult, 1(1):3,2005.• “Ethical Dilemmas—Give Mea Shot,” Caring for the Ages,6(1):28, 2005.• “Ethical Dilemmas—Extortion,”Caring for the Ages, 5(12):25,2005.• “Ethical Dilemmas—MyWishes,” Caring for the Ages,5(11):20, 2005.• Cowritten with BOLHACK S.,“Networking the AssistedLiving Facility with theCommunity,” Assisted LivingConsult, 1(1):10–12, 2005.DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGYPresentationsARA DERMARDEROSIAN ✦,• “Ethnobotany andPhytochemistry of the SacredBlue Lily of the Nile,Nymphaea caerulea(Nymphaeaceae)” at theInternational Congress onNatural Products Research, ajoint meeting of the AmericanSociety of Pharmacognosy withthree other European andAsian groups, in Phoenix, AZ,July 3–August 4, 2004.This waspart of the PhD thesis ofMICHAEL YOSHPA ✽, 2004.• Attended and participated in ahalf-day Complementary andAlternative Medicine (CAM)retreat at the University ofPennsylvania on November 15,2004.SUZANNE MURPHY ✦, et al.,“HSP 70 Levels Are Elevated inFibroblasts OverexpressingCellular Ras Protein” at TheAmerican Society for CellBiology meeting in Washington,DC, in December 2004.THAOI NGO ✭, MARGARETKASSCHAU ✦, presented aposter titled, “Formation andInhibition of FilopodiaEarthworm Coelomocytes” atThe American Society for CellBiology annual meeting inWashington, DC, December4–8, 2004.JAMES PIERCE ✦, “GenomeAnalysis of the Horseshoe Crab,Limulus Polyphemus,” invitedspeaker at the Department ofBiology Seminar Series inGettysburg College in 2004.PublicationsTAWFEQ AL-HOWIRINY,ADNAN AL-REHAILY, JOANNAPOLS ✭, JOHN PORTER ✦,JABER MOSSA, BAHAR AHMED,“Three New Diterpenes and theBiological Activity of DifferentExtracts of Jasonia Montana,”Natural Products Research, 19:253–265, 2005.ARA DERMARDEROSIAN ✦,• “Common Sense andNutritional Faddism orGrandma was Right!” Journalof the American NutraceuticalAssociation, Vol. 7, No. 2, 2004.• Coedited along with JOHNBEUTLER ✦, The Review ofNatural Products an 869-pagereference text published byFacts & Comparisons.