WSU Spokane Campus
Bulletin
Issue 2002-2 (January
16, 2002)
IN
THIS ISSUE
·GET TO KNOW WSU SPOKANE: HEALTH RESEARCH AND
EDUCATION CENTER
·PERSONNEL DYNAMICS
·MEDIA COVERAGE
·EVENTS
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GET TO KNOW WSU SPOKANE
This week’s department overview feature: Health Research and Education
Center
The Health Research and
Education Center (HREC) fosters the improvement of human health and facilitates
economic development of the region by fostering basic and applied research,
technology transfer, and educational programs in the biomedical and social
health arenas. The HREC serves as an important link between researchers from the
university, the Spokane health care community, and funding sources. HREC
activities encompass the basic health sciences as well as diverse specialized
areas including: patient outcome research, cardiology, mental health, clinical
pharmacology, male reproductive physiology, hematology, diabetes, exercise
physiology and cell biology. A special feature of the HREC is the Health
Sciences Building’s biomedical research laboratory system, encompassing over
11,000 square feet of state-of-the-art labs and research equipment.
The
HREC also provides technical assistance in the following areas: research design,
literature searches, funding source identification, grant application, data
management, statistical consultation, coordination of human subjects review,
professional liaison with medical center and clinical-biomedical researchers,
access to clinical populations, and manuscript preparation.
As part of
its education mission, the HREC dedicates resources to the development and
presentation of a wide range of public and professional education conferences
and curricula. The HREC also sponsors WSU Spokane CityLab, a
state-of-the-art laboratory learning center offering elementary and secondary
teachers and students enrichment experiences in biotechnology and the
biosciences.
For more on HREC projects, including the Spokane Heart
Study, WSU Spokane CityLab (www.spokanecitylab.wsu.edu), male reproductive physiology research, and
research in exercise science and the immune system, see the attached to read in detail about HREC’s accomplishments, as well
as their plans to work with Spokane’s health care industry to evaluate the need
for a medical research institute.
Meet the Staff:
C. Harold Mielke, Jr., M.D., Director; Principal Investigator,
Spokane Heart Study
Sylvia Adams Oliver, Ph.D., Assistant Director;
Director of WSU Spokane CityLab
Joanna Ellington, DVM, Ph.D.,
Associate Professor; Director of Biomedical Development
Sally Blank,
Ph.D., Associate Professor, Exercise Science
Carolyn Johnson,
Ph.D., Associate Professor, Exercise Science
Kathy Tuttle, M.D.,
Adjunct Faculty; Specialty in kidney function and diabetes
Richard Steele,
Ph.D., Adjunct Faculty; Specialty in language software
development
Bruce Wright, M.D., Assistant Professor
Glynis Hull,
M.P.A., Grant Development Coordinator
Diane Davis, Senior
Secretary; Research Coordinator, Spokane Heart Study
Tina Rodeen,
Secretary
Julie Schimmels, Laboratory Assistant
Jan
Eldredge, Spokane Institutional Review Board Administrator
Erlene
Grosvenor, Secretary, Institutional Review Board
Go to http://www.photoboard.spokane.wsu.edu then click on Page 4 to see HREC personnel.
Visit
HREC in their new location at the Health Sciences Building Suites 320 and on the
web at: http://www.hrec.spokane.wsu.edu
PERSONNEL DYNAMICS
Recruitments
Library Technician III, ICN
Spokane
Searches
Professor and Chair, Pharmacy
Practice
Assistant Professor, Criminal Justice
Assistant Professor, Health
Policy and Administration
Associate Director, Cancer Prevention and Research
Center
Assistant/Associate Professor, Speech Language Pathology, Speech and
Hearing Sciences
Assistant/Associate Professor, Management Information
Systems
Chair/Director of Program in Interior Design and Assistant Director
of the Interdisciplinary Design Institute
MEDIA COVERAGE
KREM, KXLY, FOX and the Spokesman-Review all ran stories
on the first day of the semester for WSU Spokane students and the brand new,
state-of-the-art Health Sciences Building on Monday, January 14, 2002. Bill
Gray was featured on KREM’s noon broadcast in a live interview from the HSB
with anchor Robyn Nance. The Spokesman article, “Breathing Room,” covering
Speech & Hearing Sciences and their new clinical space can be viewed
at http://www.spokesmanreview.com/news-story.asp?date=011502&ID=s1085100, Jeff Nye and Leslie Power were both
quoted in the article and Sandy Bassett was pictured. This coverage was
generated by a press release and follow-up.
Janet Beary was quoted
in the article, “The Web Diet,” in the Spokesman-Review on January 14, 2002.
Beary reminded consumers to carefully evaluate web sites offering weight-loss
diets and suggested guidelines for evaluation.
http://www.spokesmanreview.com/news-story.asp?date=011502&ID=s1085008
David Brody, assistant professor, criminal
justice, WSU Spokane, was quoted in an article in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram
on January 13 on jury behavior in the "Texas Seven" trial. Brody has studied
jury behavior. Visit http://web.star-telegram.com/content/fortworth/2002/01/13/nenews/fw031513-0113-BB001-courts.htm?template=aprint.htm
for the entire story. (This coverage resulted from a response to a ProfNet
query. David agreed to be pitched as a resource, Communications compiled and
sent the information on him, and the reporter selected him as a source. ProfNet
continues to be a productive way of getting media coverage outside the immediate
vicinity, sometimes in national publications, or in stories that get picked up
on the AP wire and go nationwide.)
NOTEWORTHY
SEND
YOUR NOTEWORTHY NEWS about staff, faculty, students, or graduates of WSU
Spokane to chamberlain@wsu.edu for inclusion in future editions of the weekly
campus bulletin and spokane@wsu.edu, the quarterly
newsletter.
UPCOMING EVENTS
INTERNAL EVENTS
Friday, January 18: Health
Sciences Seminar
Chris Blodgett and the faculty and staff from the WSU
Spokane Department of Human Development will present from 11:30 a.m. to 12:20
p.m. Lunch served. Registration required. Held in the Phase I Classroom Building
Auditorium. Contact Cathi Lamoreux, 358-7509 or lamoreux@wsu.edu.
Monday, January 21: Martin Luther King
Day University Holiday
EXTERNAL EVENTS
Martin Luther King
Day Activities
Sunday, January 20:
Remembrance Program from 3:00
to 5:00 p.m. at Spokane Community Colleges
Monday, January 21:
Martin Luther King, Jr. Family Outreach Center tours and information
from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Pancake Feed from 8 to 9:30 a.m.
Unity March
will leave River Park Square (Main and Post) at 10:30 a.m. Other activities at
River Park Square taking place from 9:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. include a community
rally, community resource fair and entertainment.
Saturday, January
26: Post Sun Bowl Bash
Celebrate the Sun Bowl victory with fellow Cougs
at O’Doherty’s, 525 W Spokane Falls Blvd. Cover charge is $10 for DJ and
appetizers. Event begins at 7:00 p.m. RSVP to Greg with the Alumni Association
at 1-800-258-6978.
Wednesday, February 6: Sync or Swim: Managing the
Flood of PDAs in Health Care
A Medical Library Association Satellite
Teleconference brought to you by the Inland NorthWest Health Science Libraries
(INWHSL), 12:00 to 1:30 p.m. (Pacific time) at WSU Spokane (room TBA). Register
with David Buxton (buxton@wsu.edu) before January 30 to ensure yourself a copy
of the handouts. Your local health science library is bringing you this
teleconference at no registration fee. Visit http://www.mlanet.org/education/telecon/pda/index.html for
an agenda, list of presenters, and other details.
Thursday, February
21: “Public Perceptions of Biotechnology”
Presentation by Thomas J.
Hoban, Ph.D., a Phillip C. Holland Lecturer from North Carolina State
University. Free and open to the public, 1:00 to 2:00 p.m., Health Sciences
Building, room to be determined.
Friday, February 22: Health Sciences
Building Dedication Day Activities
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Saturday, March 9: DOE Regional Science Bowl
High
school science bowl teams from Northeast Washington and Montana will come to the
Riverpoint campus to compete for the right to travel to Washington D.C. for the
Department of Energy’s National Science Bowl competition. Volunteers are
needed for this event. Call or e-mail Kaarin at 358-7528 or for more information.
Submit event information
or send corrections to
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