r. Charles V. Sanders, D Chair of the Department of Medicine, has been elected

President-e lect of the South-ern Soci-e t y f o r C l i n i c a l Investiga-tion.

The Society is dedicated to the advancement of medical research and the exchange of knowledge, information and ideas. I t s members a re committed to mentoring future g ene ra t ions o f med i ca l investigators and promoting careers in academic medicine.

r. Michael Levitzky, DProfessor of Physiology, i s t he on l y Lou i s i anan appointed to the Commission on Colleges Southern Associa-tion of Colleges and Schools’ new Peer R e v i e w Advisor y Board. Its pur-pose is to p r o v i d e gu idance a n d a s s i s t a n c e t o t h e Commission on a wide range of issues bearing upon the peer review process. The Board will focus particular attention on ways to s t rengthen the consistency, quality and value of the evaluation committees as they review institutions.

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Under Dr. Chauvin’s direction, LSU Health Sciences Center New

Orleans will conduct an initial assessment to evaluate and analyze existing Louisiana Community Health Centers’ academic residency/clinical rotation programs. Then, using proprietary methods, her team will develop a

s t a n d a r d i z e d a c a d e m i c residency/rotation program model that can be implemented by Louisiana FQHCs as well as a set of recommendations and partnership strategies to develop effective rotations. They will also foster co l l abora t ion and deve lop academic-community health center partnerships among stakeholders.

This award recognizes the Health Science’s Center’s leadership in this area. Congratulations to all involved.

Huijing Xia, PhD, a postdoctoral research associate in Pharmacology, has also been selected by the A m e r i c a n P h y s i o l o g i c a l Association to receive a Research Re c o g n i t i o n Award from the Central Ner-vous System Section. The award recog-nizes meritor-ious research by young investigators who participate in the Experimental Biology meeting to be held April 18-22, 2009.

All three will present their work at the meeting which will take p l a c e i n N e w O r l e a n s . Congratulations!

hrough a competitive process, TDr. Sheila Chauvin, Professor and Director of the O f f i c e o f M e d i c a l Education Research and Development, has been awarded a grant by the Louisiana Primary Care Association to develop a collaborative model that will increase the number of residency and student clinical rotation programs at Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), or Community Health Centers (CHCs), across the State of Louisiana.

u m e i Fe n g , M D, P h D, YPostdoctora l t r a inee in Pharmacology, a n d K e i s a M a t h i s , a g r a d u a t e s t u d e n t i n Physiology, are the only two

New Orleanians to s u c c e s s f u l l y compete for the 2009 Caroline tum Suden/Francis A. H e l l e b r a n d t P r o f e s s i o n a l Opportunity Award from the American Physiological Society (APS). Thirty-six recipients were selected from 91 applicants.

This project will increase the number of primary care health professionals including physicians, community health nurses, dentists, and allied and public health professionals, and improve access to care for people living in Louisiana’s rural and under-served communities.

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Sanders elected to leadership position

Levitzky represents LAon new board

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Dr. Huijing Xia

Keisa Mathis