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Scitech News- 69(2)-2015

Sci-Tech News

Columns and Reports

From the Editor..........................................5

SciTech News Call for Articles.......................5

Division News

Science-Technology Division.........................6

Chemistry Division.................................... 15

Engineering Division................................. 21

Aerospace Section of the Engineering Division................... 25

Architecture, Building Engineering, Construction and Design Section of the Engineering Division................... 26

Award & Other Announcements

Stacey Mantooth Receives 2015 Marion E. Sparks Award for Professional Development...................................... 17

Engineering Division Awards Recipients....... 24

Engineering Division Mentoring Program...... 26

Conference Reports

Post International Chemical Congress Report Held in Malaysia and Vietnam 2014, by Malarvili Ramalingam, PhD............... 18

Reviews

Sci-Tech Book News Reviews...................... 27

Inside Out, Spring 2014

Inside Out

Contents

Angkor Thom: City of a Thousand Smiling Faces, Miranda G. Law, 1

Exposed Jade, Kami L. McManus, 2

Cheerleader Graffiti, Ethan Sellers, 3

Inca Beauty, Amy Tressan, 4

Ethereal, David Chou, 5

A Reflection, Sepehr Sedigh, 6

Mediumship, Michael Joseph Kolachny, Jr., RN 7

The Native Inspiration, Sepehr Sedigh, 8

Elephant, Julia Huntington, 9

Unrequited Love, Amy Tressan, 10

Wait, Nona Lu, 11

Clouds with Secrets, Amy Tressan, 12

Thunderstrike in Camden, Yuhang Zhou, 13

Crash, Diway Bermudez, 14

At Dusk I Carry Stones..., Ethan Sellers, 15

Docks at Jaffa, Kami L. McManus, 16

The Pier, David Chou, 17 …

Inside Out, Spring 2012

Inside Out

Contents

Limbless, Desmond Wilson, Cover

The Daily Grind, Dave Miller, Inside Cover

The Sea Conqueror, Jonathan Elias, 5

Fear, Yuliya Baratt, 5

Dreamer Mosaic, Huong Le, 6

The Colored White Desert of Egypt, MIranda Law, 6

The Hands of My First Autopsy, Nathan Fried, 7

Esperar, Neil Flannery Haidorfer, 8

Retrograde Frequency, Evan Slagle, 9

Childhood, Yuliya Baratt, 9

Flying South for the Winter, Nishi Dedania, 10

Barn in Winter, Michael Minckler, 10

Mountain Goat, Alissa Herman, 11

Tree Burr, Nate Jordan, 11

Wake, Andrea Frankenburger, 12

Mt. Rainier Viewed from Seattle, WA, Michael Minckler, 12

Sisterhood, Sharon Li, 13 …

Eleven Years Of Data On The Jefferson Scale Of Empathy-Medical Student Version (Jse-S): Proxy Norm Data And Tentative Cutoff Scores., Mohammadreza Hojat, Joseph S. Gonnella

Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior Faculty Papers

OBJECTIVE: This study was designed to provide typical descriptive statistics, score distributions and percentile ranks of the Jefferson Scale of Empathy-Medical Student version (JSE-S) of male and female medical school matriculants to serve as proxy norm data and tentative cutoff scores.

SUBJECTS AND METHODS: The participants were 2,637 students (1,336 women and 1,301 men) who matriculated at Sidney Kimmel (formerly Jefferson) Medical College between 2002 and 2012, and completed the JSE at the beginning of medical school. Information extracted from descriptive statistics, score distributions and percentile ranks for male and female matriculants were used to develop proxy norm data and …

Cross-Cultural And Inter-Professional Knowledge Translation Of Developmentally Supportive Care In An Indian Nicu, Amy Carroll, Otd, Otr/L, Susan Toth-Cohen, Phd, Otr/L

Department of Occupational Therapy Posters and Presentations

Synopsis:

A cross-cultural, and inter-professional NICU Team, including an American OT, used knowledge translation (KT) frameworks to apply current global evidence in developmentally supportive care in ways that were useful, cost effective, and meaningful to the families and staff in their tertiary care NICU setting in Gurgaon, India. The team used Pre & Post videotaping of routine care and procedures to measure the change in practice.

Objectives

1. Increase NICU nurses’ use of DSC during routine care and procedures

2. Decrease the use of non-supportive behaviors

Practical Management Of Anticoagulation In Patients With Atrial Fibrillation., Richard J Kovacs, Greg C Flaker, Sherry J Saxonhouse, John U. Doherty, Kim K Birtcher, Adam Cuker, Bruce L Davidson, Robert P Giugliano, Christopher B Granger, Amir K Jaffer, Bella H Mehta, Edith Nutescu, Kim A Williams

Department of Medicine Faculty Papers

Anticoagulation for atrial fibrillation has become more complex due to the introduction of new anticoagulant agents, the number and kinds of patients requiring therapy, and the interactions of those patients in the matrix of care. The management of anticoagulation has become a "team sport" involving multiple specialties in multiple sites of care. The American College of Cardiology, through the College's Anticoagulation Initiative, convened a roundtable of experts from multiple specialties to discuss topics important to the management of patients requiring anticoagulation and to make expert recommendations on issues such as the initiation and interruption of anticoagulation, quality of anticoagulation care, …

Evaluation Of The American-English Quality Of Life In Short Stature Youth (Qolissy) Questionnaire In The United States., Monika Bullinger, Rachel Sommer, Andreas Pleil, Nelly Mauras, Judith L. Ross, Ron Newfield, Lawrence Silverman, Anja Rohenkohl, Janet Fox, Julia Quitmann

Department of Medical Genetics Faculty Papers

BACKGROUND: The European Quality of Life in Short Stature Youth (QoLISSY) is a novel condition-specific instrument developed to assess health related quality of life (HrQoL) in children/adolescents with short stature from patient and parent perspectives. Study objective was to linguistically validate and psychometrically test the American-English version of the QoLISSY instrument.

METHODS: Upon conversion of the British-English version to American-English, content validity and acceptance of the questionnaire were examined through focus group discussions with cognitive debriefing in 28 children/adolescents with growth hormone deficiency (GHD) or idiopathic short stature (ISS) and their parents. In the subsequent field test with 51 families …

Use Of Quick Response Coding To Create Interactive Patient And Provider Resources., Jennifer L. Bellot, Phd, Rn, Cne, Kathryn Shaffer, Edd, Rn, Cne, Mary Wang, Msn, Crnp

College of Nursing Faculty Papers & Presentations

BACKGROUND: Since their creation more than 20 years ago, the proliferation of Quick Response (QR) codes has expanded tremendously. Little was found in the literature to support the innovative use of QR coding in the classroom or in health care provision. Thus, the authors created a doctoral-level practicum experience using QR coding to create interactive, individualized patient or provider resource guides.

METHOD: Short, descriptive surveys were used before and after implementation of the practicum experience to determine students' comfort level using QR technology, their knowledge base, ease of use, and overall satisfaction with the practicum.

RESULTS: Students reported high levels …

The Global Health "Interactive Curricula Experience (Ice) Platform & App": Technology That Enables Inter-Professional Innovation, Martha Langley Ankeny M.Ed., Janice M. Bogen, James Plumb Md, Mph, Lucille B. Pilling Edd, Mph, Rn, Ellen J. Plumb Md, Louis N. Hunter Pt, Dpt, Nicholas Leon Pharmd, Amy Earle Bfa

Academic Commons and Scott Memorial Library Staff Papers and Presentations

Global Health Initiatives Committee (GHIC)

Serves the Jefferson community as the premier point of engagement for students & faculty interested in medical and public health issues that transcend national boundaries

Creates an institutional focus on preparing students for public service careers in population health and public policy at local, national, and global levels

To enable all TJU faculty to:

- Deliver global health education, in a friendly, interactive format - Does not require an expert to deliver - Can be used in very small or large pieces depending on your needs

Biological Response To Prosthetic Debris., Diana Bitar, Javad Parvizi

Rothman Institute Papers

Joint arthroplasty had revolutionized the outcome of orthopaedic surgery. Extensive and collaborative work of many innovator surgeons had led to the development of durable bearing surfaces, yet no single material is considered absolutely perfect. Generation of wear debris from any part of the prosthesis is unavoidable. Implant loosening secondary to osteolysis is the most common mode of failure of arthroplasty. Osteolysis is the resultant of complex contribution of the generated wear debris and the mechanical instability of the prosthetic components. Roughly speaking, all orthopedic biomaterials may induce a universal biologic host response to generated wear débris with little specific characteristics …

Posterior Surgical Approach Procedures For Cervical Myelopathy, Pedro H.I. Pohl, Marcel Jun Tamaoki, Luciano M. Rodrigues, Kristen Radcliff, Takashi Yurube, James D. Kang, João Carlos Belloti

Department of Orthopaedic Surgery Faculty Papers

This is the protocol for a review and there is no abstract. The objectives are as follows: The main objective of this review is to assess the effects of laminectomy and fusion versus laminoplasty for multilevel cervical stenosis with myelopathy, on treatment outcomes such as pain, quality of life, functional and neurological improvement, and complication rates. © 2015 The Cochrane Collaboration.

Margaret Libonati Leahy, Margaret Libonati, Kelsey Duinkerken

First Women at Jefferson Oral Histories

Dr. Libonati wanted to be a physician from an early age, but she knew that she could not afford to attend college right after high school so she decided to attend nursing school with plans to work her way through college and then medical school. After graduating from St. Joseph’s Nursing School she enrolled as a chemistry major in the Chestnut Hill College Pre-Med program. At the end of her second year she learned that Jefferson Medical College was planning to accept women for the first time. She soon became one of the first women in Jefferson’s Class of 1965. …

African American Men With Low-Grade Prostate Cancer Have Increased Disease Recurrence After Prostatectomy Compared With Caucasian Men., Kosj Yamoah, Curtiland Deville, Neha Vapiwala, Elaine Spangler, Charnita M. Zeigler-Johnson, Bruce Malkowicz, David I Lee, Michael Kattan, Adam P. Dicker, Timothy R. Rebbeck

Department of Radiation Oncology Faculty Papers

PURPOSE: To explore whether disparities in outcomes exist between African American (AA) and Caucasian (CS) men with low-grade prostate cancer and similar cancer of the prostate risk assessment-postsurgery (CAPRA-S) features following prostatectomy (RP).

METHODS: The overall cohort consisted of 1,265 men (234 AA and 1,031 CS) who met the National comprehensive cancer network criteria for low- to intermediate-risk prostate cancer and underwent RP between 1990 and 2012. We first evaluated whether clinical factors were associated with adverse pathologic outcomes and freedom from biochemical failure (FFbF) using the entire cohort. Next, we studied a subset of 705 men (112 AA and …

The Heart Of Healthcare: The Role Of Authentic Relationships In Caring For Patients With Frequent Hospitalizations, Charlotte Weisberg, Ba, Margaret Hawthorne, Mph, Marianna Lanoue, Phd, Jeffrey Brenner, Md, Dawn B Mautner, Md, Ms

CwiC-PH

INTRODUCTION

Frequent hospital utilization is a major contributor to the costs of healthcare. Despite a vast body of literature, there remains great uncertainty about the characteristics and care needs of individuals with frequent hospitalizations.^1,2 In the movement to reduce the need for hospitalizations, care management programs have garnered wide attention and support. Of the many studies that exist on the efficacy of care management interventions, only a handful espouse the benefits of “continuous healing relationships.”^3,4,5 Fewer studies, if any, explain the role of affect between care providers and patients in the healing process and how to achieve a …

Underlying Construct Of Empathy, Optimism, And Burnout In Medical Students., Mohammadreza Hojat, Michael Vergare, Gerald A. Isenberg, Mitchell Cohen, John Spandorfer

Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior Faculty Papers

OBJECTIVE: This study was designed to explore the underlying construct of measures of empathy, optimism, and burnout in medical students.

METHODS: Three instruments for measuring empathy (Jefferson Scale of Empathy, JSE); Optimism (the Life Orientation Test-Revised, LOT-R); and burnout (the Maslach Burnout Inventory, MBI, which includes three scales of Emotional Exhaustion, Depersonalization, and Personal Accomplishment) were administered to 265 third-year students at Sidney Kimmel (formerly Jefferson) Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University. Data were subjected to factor analysis to examine relationships among measures of empathy, optimism, and burnout in a multivariate statistical model.

RESULTS: Factor analysis (principal component with oblique …

Program In Faculty Development 2015-2016

Program in Faculty Development

Welcome to a new academic year and to opportunities to improve your skills as an educator, scholar and leader in the academic health professions! This booklet will provide you with information about the TJU Faculty Development Program for the 2013–2014 academic year including course listings, registration information, and general program information. This booklet features two “At-a-glance” outlines of the faculty development programs: a course outline for each of the three faculty development program focus areas (education, research/scholarship, and professional development and leadership) and a month-by-month calendar of activities. Detailed program information for each focus area follows. The faculty development programs …

Quality And Safety In The Urban Environment, Susan L. Freeman, Md, Ms, Facpe, Face

Future Leaders in Quality and Safety

No abstract provided.

Increasing The Degree To Which Evidence-Based Practice Is Carried Out By Ots At Magee Rehabilitation, Debra Zelnick, Otd, Otr/L

Department of Occupational Therapy Posters and Presentations

PICO Question:

Does in-service education on evidence-based practice provided to occupational therapists increase knowledge of the tools and resources necessary to become evidence-based practitioners?

Suppression Of Invasion And Metastasis Of Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Lines By Pharmacological Or Genetic Inhibition Of Slug Activity., Giovanna Ferrari-Amorotti, Claudia Chiodoni, Fei Shen, Sara Cattelani, Angela Rachele Soliera, Gloria Manzotti, Giulia Grisendi, Massimo Dominici, Francesco Rivasi, Mario Paolo Colombo, Alessandro Fatatis, Bruno Calabretta

Department of Cancer Biology Faculty Papers

Most triple-negative breast cancers (TNBCs) exhibit gene expression patterns associated with epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT), a feature that correlates with a propensity for metastatic spread. Overexpression of the EMT regulator Slug is detected in basal and mesenchymal-type TNBCs and is associated with reduced E-cadherin expression and aggressive disease. The effects of Slug depend, in part, on the interaction of its N-terminal SNAG repressor domain with the chromatin-modifying protein lysine demethylase 1 (LSD1); thus, we investigated whether tranylcypromine [also known as trans-2-phenylcyclopropylamine hydrochloride (PCPA) or Parnate], an inhibitor of LSD1 that blocks its interaction with Slug, suppresses the migration, invasion, and metastatic …

Pediatric Emergency Medical Care In Yerevan, Armenia: A Knowledge And Attitudes Survey Of Out-Of-Hospital Emergency Physicians., Aline A. Baghdassarian, Ross I. Donaldson, Andrew D Depiero, Nancy L Chernett, Harsh P. Sule Md

Department of Emergency Medicine Faculty Papers

BACKGROUND: Out-of-hospital emergency care is at an early stage of development in Armenia, with the current emergency medical services (EMS) system having emergency physicians (EPs) work on ambulances along with nurses. While efforts are underway by the Ministry of Health and other organizations to reform the EMS system, little data exists on the status of pediatric emergency care (PEC) in the country. We designed this study to evaluate the knowledge and attitudes of out-of-hospital emergency physicians in pediatric rapid assessment and resuscitation, and identify areas for PEC improvement.

METHODS: We distributed an anonymous, self-administered Knowledge and Attitudes survey to a …

Scitech News- 68(4)-2014

Sci-Tech News

Columns and Reports

From the Editor 5

SciTech News Call for Articles 5

Conference Report, Diane K. Foster

• International Student Travel
• Award Recipient 8

Conference Report, S. Kirk Cabeen

• Travel Stipend Award Recipient 9

Conference Report, Bonnie Hilditch

• International Librarian Award Recipient 11

Conference Report, IEEE Continuing

• Education Award Recipient 19

Division News

• Science-Technology Division 6
• Chemistry Division 14
• Engineering Division 17

Call for Nominations & Applications

Bonnie Hilditch International

• Librarian Award 13

IEEE Continuing Education Stipend 20

Engineering Librarian of the Year Award 21

SPIE Digital Library Student

• Travel Stipend 22

Reviews

• Sci-Tech Book News Reviews 23

Advertisements

• Annual …

Jewish Dermatologists In Nazi Germany., Walter H.C. Burgdorf, Lawrence Charles Parish

Department of Dermatology and Cutaneous Biology Faculty Papers

With the development of medical specialties beginning in the 1860’s, physicians could devote their time to the study of specific organ systems or surgical approaches. Although Jews had been given full rights in the new Germany by 1871, prejudice and other restrictions often precluded hospital and university appointments. Major specialities like internal medicine and surgery were almost closed to Jews, as were obstetrics and gynecology. Dermatology with its heavy emphasis on sexually transmitted diseases evolved into a suitable domain for Jewish physicians almost by default. Even those Jews who converted to Christianity were not spared from discrimination. Paul Gerson Unna …

The Career Support Network: An Interdisciplinary Model Integrating Chronic Disease Prevention And Management Programs, Public Health And Occupational Therapy Into A Workforce Development Program For Low Skilled, Low Resourced Individuals, Rickie Brawer, Mph, Phd, Mches, James D. Plumb, Md, Mph, Stephen Kern, Phd, Otr/L, Faota, Robert Walsh, Ms, Otr/L

JCIPE Conference

THE CAREER SUPPORT NETWORK (CSN)

Historical Perspective: What led us to the CSN?

Advance Care Planning In China, Mei Ching Lee, Phd, Rn, Roger Auth, Lisa Felber, Cecilia Kim, Nahid Koohkanrizi, Katie Hinderer, Amy Chow, Cecilia Chan, Agnes Tiwari

JCIPE Conference

Objectives

• Describe the interprofessional components of this project.

• Describe the attitude of advance care planning among Chinese healthcare professionals.

Interprofessional Healthcare Education, Research And Practice, James Ballard, Maria Gabriela Castro, Mary Lynn English, Andrea Pfeifle, Melody Ann Ryan, Ted Hodgson

JCIPE Conference

Background

• What we ‘know’

– Literature identifies demonstrated change in attitudes as a result of learning with, about and from each other (Barr, et.al., 2000)

– Similar experiences at UK

• Less understood:

– What if students are required to participate if the primary motivation of the experience is not IPE?

– What does the process of interprofessional development look like?

• Relevant vectors for IPE

– Clinical is idea

– Consider global health as an appropriate context

Developing An Open Educational Resource For Interprofessional Education (Ipe)., Susanne P. Boyle, Matthew Ramirez, Lynn Sheridan

JCIPE Conference

Jisc

Aims

» The development of an online, digitally rich IPE resource which supports an IPE learning experience.

» Employs family narratives, authentic voices and cultural insights to help students visualise and identify with the patient and client scenarios.

» Sharing of the IPE open educational resource (OER) via Jorum.

» Supports HEI sector efficiency and capacity building by the development of a quality IPE Open Educational Resource (OER) which may be adopted, adapted and re-purposed.

Nurses Alumni Association Bulletin, Fall 2014, Susan Albrecht Curcio, Aileen Ishuin Macmillan

Nursing Alumni Bulletins

2014 - 2015 Meeting Dates Calendar

2015 Annual Luncheon & Meeting Notice

Officers, Committee Chairs, Satellite and Volunteers

President's Message

Treasurer's Report

Resume of Minutes

Alumni Office News

Committee Reports

• Social
• Relief Trust Fund
• Satellite-Harrisburg Satellite Area
• Scholarship
• Nominating
• Bulletin
• By Laws

Jefferson Alumni Relations

Annual Giving

Janet C. Hindson Award

• Award Criteria
• Nominees
• Recipient

News About Our Graduates

Memories

Happy Birthday - To Be 80 or More

50th Anniversary Class List for 1964

Luncheon Reservations

Annual Luncheon Comments

• Luncheon Photos
• Anniversary Class List for 2015 Annual Luncheon

In Memoriam, Names of Deceased Graduates

Class News

Additional Information, Pins, Transcripts …

Jefferson Digital Commons Quarterly Report: July-September 2014, Daniel G. Kipnis, Msi, Kelsey Duinkerken, Msi

Jefferson Digital Commons Reports

This Jefferson Digital Commons quarterly report will cover the following:

• Milestone: 2 million downloads for the Jefferson Digital Commons
• Some statistics
• New assets added to the JDC
• Historical Materials
• What people are saying about the JDC

Subgroups Of Cancer Patients With Unique Pain And Fatigue Experiences During Chemotherapy, Heeju Kim, Patrick S. Malone, Andrea M. Barsevick

Department of Medical Oncology Faculty Papers

Context. Some cancer patients experience pain and fatigue, whereas others experience only one of the two symptoms. Yet, it is not clear who experiences these unique patterns and why.

Objectives. This study aimed to identify subgroups of cancer patients with unique pain and fatigue experiences in two different chemotherapy cycles to examine how selected factors influenced subgroup membership and identify how subgroups differed in concurrently measured functional limitation outcome.

Methods. The sample included 276 patients with diverse cancer types from four U.S. sites. To investigate subgroups, latent profile analyses were performed. Multinomial logistic regression and one-way analysis of variance-type analyses …

Dr. R. Tait Mckenzie: Pioneer And Legacy To Physiatry., John F. Ditunno, Jr, Richard E. Verville

Department of Rehabilitation Medicine Faculty Papers

No abstract provided.