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The GSO News Inside this Issue GHSU Team TrialNet ‘Battles for a Cure’ The Mutants: GSO Soccer Team Graduate Students ’ Fairly’ Fun Night Graduate Students Support SOTA’s Fall Ball Faculty Spotlight: Dr. Lori Bolgla Student Spotlight: Erin Scott Deepesh Pandey GHSU Students Out to Recruit! ‘It’s Spooky to be Hungry’ says the Department of Physiology GHSU’s First Multi-Disciplinary Adrenal Center GHSU Students train in Leader ship GHSU Students Help to ‘Deck the Halls’ of the Ronald McDonald House of Augusta Graduate Student Accomplishments Community Education Outreach GHSU Chorus ‘Healing HeArts’ Games Acknowledgements 1 2 2 2 3 3 4 5 5 6 7 7 8 9 10 11 12 1 GSO Team Trial- Net ‘Battles for a Cure’ Colleen Carey For the second year in a row graduate students have joined with the Center for Biotechnology and Genomic Medicine (CBGM) in creating a team for the Au- gusta/Aiken Walk to Cure Diabetes, to raising funds for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF). The JDRF has for a long time provided a large amount of funding towards the research that is ongoing here at GHSU. In fact, a quick search on the JDRF web- page has shown that since 2004 research at GHSU (MCG) has brought in approx- imately $6,300,000 in funding from the JDRF alone. Of this, over $1,500,000 is active funding . CBGM houses many internationally re- nowned programs in diabetes research: The Environmental Determinants of Diabetes in the Young (TEDDY), the Prospective Assessment in Newborns of Diabetes Auto-immunity (PANDA), Tri- alNet, the Animal Models of Diabetes Complications Consortium (AMDCC) and the Mouse Metabolic Phenotype Consortium (MMPC). It is the CBGM involvement in these studies that last year prompted the development of a Walk to Cure team. This year’s walk, which was held at Savannah Rapids Pavilion on Saturday November 5th, raised over $60,000 for the JDRF with GHSU’s team contribut- ing over $6,500. ...to “TrialNet”, pg. 5 Crazy Sneakers Zumbathon To benefit: Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation O v e r $ 1 7 0 0 r a i s e d ! Volume 3, Issue 2, December 2011
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The GSO News

Inside this Issue

GHSU Team TrialNet ‘Battles for a Cure’

The Mutants: GSO Soccer Team

Graduate Students ’ Fairly’ Fun Night

Graduate Students Support SOTA’s Fall Ball

Faculty Spotlight: Dr. Lori Bolgla

Student Spotlight: Erin Scott Deepesh Pandey

GHSU Students Out to Recruit!

‘It’s Spooky to be Hungry’ says the Department of Physiology

GHSU’s First Multi-Disciplinary Adrenal Center

GHSU Students train in Leader ship

GHSU Students Help to ‘Deck the Halls’ of the Ronald McDonald House of Augusta

Graduate Student Accomplishments

Community Education Outreach

GHSU Chorus ‘Healing HeArts’

Games

Acknowledgements

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GSO Team Trial-Net ‘Battles for aCure’Colleen Carey

For the second year in a row graduate students have joined with the Center for Biotechnology and Genomic Medicine (CBGM) in creating a team for the Au-gusta/Aiken Walk to Cure Diabetes, to raising funds for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF).

The JDRF has for a long time provided a large amount of funding towards the research that is ongoing here at GHSU. In fact, a quick search on the JDRF web-page has shown that since 2004 research at GHSU (MCG) has brought in approx-imately $6,300,000 in funding from the

JDRF alone. Of this, over $1,500,000 is active funding .

CBGM houses many internationally re-nowned programs in diabetes research: The Environmental Determinants of Diabetes in the Young (TEDDY), the Prospective Assessment in Newborns of Diabetes Auto-immunity (PANDA), Tri-alNet, the Animal Models of Diabetes Complications Consortium (AMDCC) and the Mouse Metabolic Phenotype Consortium (MMPC). It is the CBGM involvement in these studies that last year prompted the development of a Walk to Cure team.

This year’s walk, which was held at Savannah Rapids Pavilion on Saturday November 5th, raised over $60,000 for the JDRF with GHSU’s team contribut-ing over $6,500. ...to “TrialNet”, pg. 5

Crazy Sneakers Zumbathon

To benefit: Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation

Over $1700 raised!

Volume 3, Issue 2, December 2011

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Graduate Studentssupport SOTA’s Fall Ball Colleen Carey

A group of Biomedical Sciences students attended the Occupational Therapy Stu-dent Associations Fall Ball earlier this se-mester. This event was fun and included dinner from Outback and dancing with proceeds supporting Camp TBI, a camp for individuals who have suffered from traumatic brain injury. O

The 2011 Fall season of GHSU Intra-mural Sports witnessed the participa-tion of a group of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in the annual GHSU Intramural Sports Futsal (indoor soccer) tournament, as they represented the College of Graduate Studies and the Graduate Student Organization (GSO). This is the second time an official GSO team has participated in intramural soc-cer. After a subpar performance during the Spring 2011 season, the team entered the tournament with full determination and energy. Under the leadership of cap-tain Anil Bhatta, along with the veter-ans Davies Agyekum, Belal Al Husain and Haroldo Toque , and the addition of skilled legs from Scott Webster, Justin Van Beusecum, Cam McCarthy, Dwight Figuerido and Samuel Quanyor, the Mu-tants had a great season.

After a slow start to the the regular sea-son, the team finally caught a break and was able to take their wins to the finals, where they eventually lost. In all, it was a great tournament and most important-ly, a great team effort. The Mutants will be carrying this positive momentum into the Spring semester as they participate in the outdoor soccer tournament to be held in March. The GS wishes the team the best in their next season! O

The Mutants: GSO Soccer Team

Graduate Students’ ‘Fairly’ Fun Night

Anil Bhatta

Katie Spitler

The graduate students took advan-tage of the October SGA event at the Georgia-Carolina State Fair. It was quite the event full of rides, food and a petting zoo. The unlimited ride arm bands were used to their full advantage with even the timid and acrophobic graduate students going on the high flying and fast moving rides. With so many stands of food to choose from it was hard to pick what to have for dinner and even harder to pick what fried food object to eat for dessert. The fried twinkie and fried oreos were highly recommended and quite delicious. All in all it was a nice adventure. O

Photographed by Namita H

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Provided by Colleen Carey

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FACULTY SPOTLIGHTDr. Lori Ann BolglaNamita Hattangady

Dr. Lori Bolgla is an alumnus of GHSU and an Associate Professor of Physical Therapy and Graduate Stud-ies. Dr. Bolgla is an Augusta, GA na-tive with a long standing relation-ship with GHSU (formerly MCG). Prior to joining GHSU 1993 for a Bachelor of Sciences degree in Physi-cal Therapy, Dr. Bolgla had attended the University of Georgia at Athens where she earned a B.S. in Business Administration as well as a M.S. in Accounting. After graduating GHSU with a perfect GPA of 4.0, she contin-ued to complete her second Masters degree, this time in Physical Therapy .

During a brief hiatus from GHSU, Dr. Bolgla earned her Ph.D. in Rehabilita-tion Sciences from the University of Kentucky, only to rejoin in 2005. Dr. Bol-gla’s area of research interest has been in patellofemoral pain syndrome and reha-bilitation applications of kinesiological surface electromyography. Her research interests developed as a result of her in-quisitions while working as a full-time

PT clinician. She has been a co-investi-gator for a 4-year multi-site study com-paring outcomes for the use of a quad-riceps-based exercise program to that of a core/hip-based exercise program. She has also conducted studies examining the activation of various trunk, hip, and knee muscles during rehabilitation exercises.

Dr. Bolgla has a stunning academic and professional record. Since her appoint-ment to the faculty at GHSU, Dr. Bolgla has mentored approximately 30 students for a total of 13 projects in the Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) program. She has also served as a manuscript re-viewer for several journals, a website content editor and a grant reviewer for the National Athletic Trainers’ Associa-tion Research and Education Founda-tion. Dr. Bolgla has many publications, abstracts and book chapters to her name. She has also been honored with awards such as an “Excellence in Research” award and more recently the 2011 Geor-gia Health Sciences University College of Allied Health Sciences Outstanding Faculty Award. She is also a member of the GHSU chapter of the Alpha Eta honor society and an active member of the board of directors of the College of

Graduate Studies Alumni Association.

Dr. Bolga’s advice to students is, “Find an area of research that you consider a passion. The dissertation project is not meant to be the ultimate research study but rather a stepping stone to a long-term line of research. As a Ph.D. student, I tried to take advantage of all learning opportunities and develop re-lationships with other researchers that can lead to future projects”. Dr. Bol-gla is a very approachable person and is willing to be contacted for her ad-vice at [email protected].

The GSO congratulates Dr. Lori Bolgla for her illustrious career and wishes her the best. O

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STUDENT SPOTLIGHTErin ScottMargaret Zimmerman

Erin Scott is an MD/PhD student in the Department of Neuroscience at GHSU studying the effects of long-term estro-gen deprivation on the hippocampus. She grew up in Tennessee and Georgia, and graduated with a Biology degree from Georgia Tech in Fall 2006.

Her work in the IMMAG lab under Dr. Darrell Brann started with a 10-week

rotation after her first year of medical school, and she loved it so much that she has chosen to complete her disserta-tion there. The small lab provided plenty of time for one-on-one interaction both with experienced researchers and with her mentor. Dr. Brann is great, she says, and gives her the perfect balance of guid-ance and autonomy -- he challenges her, but does not have unrealistic expecta-tions. Her research in estrogen depriva-tion effects on the hippocampus includes loss of estrogen neuroprotection, ....to “Erin Scott”, pg. 4

Provided by Erin Scott

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...from “Erin Scott , pg. 3

hypersensitivity to global cerebral isch-emia, and enhanced Alzheimer’s dis-ease-related protein induction following experimental stroke in long-term estro-gen-deprived (ovariectomized and aged) rats.

Erin feels she has accomplished a lot in her year-and-a-half in the College of Graduate Studies. This year, Erin pre-sented posters at the 13th World Con-gress on Menopause and the Society for

Neuroscience’s Annual Meeting; she prepared and submitted two grants to the American Heart Association and the National Institutes of Health; she had a first-author review published regarding estrogen neuroprotection and the critical period hypothesis; and she received the award for Best Graduate Student Presen-tation at the annual GHSU Neuroscience Retreat. She was also the Service Chair for MCG’s Student Interest Group in Neurology in 2009-2010. Now, she is the Vice-President of The Physician-Scien-tist Student Association, and her group

at GHSU is in the process of becoming an official chapter of the American Phy-sician-Scientist Association.

Once she graduates with her MD/PhD, she plans to do a residency in pediatric neurology, possibly followed by a pedi-atric stroke fellowship. Eventually, she would like to become a pediatric neurol-ogist at an academic institution, where she could simultaneously provide patient care, conduct clinical or translational re-search, and teach. Best wishes from the GSO! O

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Provided by Deepesh Pandey

Deepesh PandeyBhavna Desai

From eight inches of snow to a warm spring, Deepesh Pandey is one of many who came to Augusta and instantly loved it for its beautiful weather. Origi-nally from Kathmandu in Nepal, Deep-esh came to the United States for his undergraduate education which he com-pleted in Minnesota. In 2006, he came to MCG for his PhD interview. Apart from the weather, he took to the people at MCG, and meeting Dr. Cameron and Dr. Caughman was enough to seal his decision on choosing MCG for his PhD.

The PhD is like a five year contract mar-riage and as with all marriages, it was of utmost importance to select a compatible mentor. In addition to his work, Deepesh came to like Dr. David Fulton’s person-ality, patience and belief in him although he was a relatively inexperienced gradu-ate student. After exploring other labs, he zeroed in on Dr. Fulton’s lab in the Vascular Biology Department for this PhD.

The excessive production of reactive oxygen species contributes to the pathol-

ogy of cardiovascular diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, coronary artery disease and atherosclerosis. NADPH oxidases are the major source of ROS production in vascular cells. The aim of Deepesh’s graduate project was to reveal further mechanisms in the regulation of NADPH oxidases (Noxes) and po-tentially to translate these findings into therapeutics for cardiovascular disease.

Deepesh’s sincere and dedicated efforts culminated in three first author publica-tions and two others where he was co-author. His work was acknowledged at the Graduate Research Day at MCG where he won an award for the best poster. Amongst other achievements, he also won the Best Abstract award and a Travel Award at the annual Experimental Biology Meeting.

Like any other boy, Deepesh loves to play video games, watch movies, foot-ball, go out for drinks and he candidly admits that doing ‘typical guy stuff’ after school hours acted as the perfect stress buster during graduate school. Among the many friends that he made at MCG, Deepesh mentions in particular Shawn Elms and Jin Qian (fellow graduate stu-dents in his lab) who he says he enjoyed

working with and who also became his best friends.

Deepesh believes that hard work and a logical approach to tackle scientific problems was key in helping him suc-ceed as a graduate student. He insists the importance of publishing as many papers as possible in order to get a good post-doctoral position. “MCG (now GHSU) provided the right environment and al-most everything I needed to successfully finish graduate school”, says Deepesh who graduated in May 2011. He has now started a new phase as a post-doctoral fellow at the John’s Hopkins Medical School this December. We wish Deepesh all the best for the future. O

STUDENT SPOTLIGHT

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Folami Lamoke

Each year, the College of Graduate Studies at GHSU participates in a student recruit-ment drive termed ‘The Annual Biomedi-cal Research Conference for Minority Students’ or ‘ABRCMS’. This year, the 11th annual ABRCMS was hosted in St. Louis, Missouri. This event is the largest, professional conference for biomedical and behavioral students, including math-ematics, attracting approximately 3,300 individuals, including 1,700 undergradu-ate students, 400 graduate students and postdoctoral scientists and 1200 faculty, program directors and administrators.

The organizers of this five-day event seek to encourage underrepresented minority students to pursue advanced training in the sciences and provide resources for faculty mentors and advisors to aid in the success of these students. More than 500 represen-tatives from graduate programs at US col-leges and universities as well as scientists from government agencies, foundations, and professional scientific societies join ABRCMS in the exhibitors program to share information about graduate school and summer internship opportunities. These representatives present research op-portunities, funding sources, and profes-sional networks.

This year, the GHSU College of Graduate Studies was represented by Dr. Edward

Inscho, Dr. Patricia Cameron, Ashley Tip-ton and Folami Lamoke. The team had an opportunity to meet and interact with students from over 350 U.S. colleges and universities who were all actively pursu-ing advanced training.

The best moments for the GHSU recruit-ment team were when they were able to match a desire or interest from a prospec-tive student to an opportunity offered by GHSU. Being able to kindle a thought ‘this is the right place for me’ in the prospective applicant, felt like a true accomplishment. Specifically, the level of independent re-search many of the undergraduate students were already involved in was amazing! GHSU’s vast biomedical research areas such as vision, cancer, stroke and immu-nology impressed several students.

It was also an honor to hear inspirational lectures given by world renowned re-searchers such as Cora Marrett, Ph.D of the National Science Foundation and Su-san Lindquist of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and Massachusetts In-stitute of Technology. Overall, our atten-dance was a great approach to introduce our programs to a diverse group of talent-ed, prospective students.

The GSO congratulates Team GHSU at the ABRCMS and lauds the students for reaching out to the community to encour-age and emphasize the imporantce of edu-cation. We hope to see many of them be-come part of the GHSU family.

More information on ABRCMS can be found at http://www.abrcms.org. O

GHSU Students out to recruit!It’s Spooky to be Hungry! Says the Department of Physiology Namita Hattangady

It’s Spooky To Be Hungry! is the single largest food drive that provides food for Golden Harvest Food Bank. The De-partment of Physiology helped donate food and contribute towards the mission of ‘strengthening communities through working to fight hunger’. The food do-nation drive was a wonderful success!O

.....from “TrialNet”, pg. 1

The team of 34 faculty, staff, and stu-dents (as well as their families and friends) had a goal of raising $5,000 and this was surpassed in the weeks leading up to the walk.

In addition to individual donations and sponsorships, money was raised through various on campus events including two bake sales, with donations from various local bakeries, a hot dog sale supported by VWR International, a Zumbathon at the Wellness Center, and a dining give back night at Moe’s Southwest Grill in Evans.

The JDRF Fundraiser by the GSO was a huge success! Congratulations to all those who participated in this event! O

Photographed by Mrs. Kate Rainey

Photographed by Dr. Patricia Cameron

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GHSU’s First Multi-Disciplinary Adrenal Center

As reflected by the name change from the Medical College of Georgia to Geor-gia Health Sciences University, we have now become a University that is expand-ing by leaps and bounds. One such re-cent development is the establishment of GHSU’s very first ‘Multi-Disciplinary MCG Health Adrenal Center’. Housing strong educational programs in medicine and in the Colleges of Allied Health Sci-ences, Dental Medicine, Graduate Stud-ies and Nursing as well as an excellent Medical Hospital for both, adults and children, GHSU has been striving to bridge the gap between clinical sciences and basic research. The Adrenal Center is a culmination of efforts in this very direction.

The Multi-Disciplinary MCG Health Adrenal Center is led by Scientific Di-rector Dr. William E. Rainey, a Regents Professor in the Department of Physiol-ogy as well as by Clinical Director, Dr. Michael Edwards, a surgeon at the Med-ical College of Georgia. The team is also comprised of several adrenal specialists from disciplines such as surgery, endo-

crinology, cardiology, radiology, pathol-ogy and research. This venture started with a common vision of the team to create a prototype Referral Center for the southeast to treat adrenal disease and with a mission to “provide multidisci-plinary, comprehensive and timely care to patients with diseases of the adrenal gland”.

Over the past two years, the adrenal cen-ter has been growing immensely with regard to patient referrals as well as re-search on the causes of adrenal disease. Collaborations have been established both, within the group, as well as inter-nationally, with Japan, Italy, France and South Africa. The team works towards generating competitive new data, pre-senting it at international societies, con-verting the data into publications and using the publications to establish pro-grams that can obtain federal and state funding. One of the recent successes has been its first Adrenal Research Retreat (ARR) held in November 2011. The retreat brought together the adrenal re-search community comprising graduate

students, post-doctoral fellows, medical residents and faculty from GHSU as well as from International collaborations.

Though the adrenal center has had sever-al accomplishments, there are also many challenges. According to the Scientific Director, Dr. Rainey, is the Center’s abil-ity to expand with the growing referral population and to maintain the clinicians involvement in a changing health care environment. Another challenge he per-ceives is the center being under-staffed for the expected influx of patients if the adrenal center were to be advertised and recognized as a regional referral center.

The goal for the adrenal center over the next two years is to grow beyond a refer-ral center and become nationally recog-nized on the merit of its high standing protocols and methods.

The GSO would like to congratulate all those involved in the establishment of the Multi-Disciplinary MCG Health Ad-renal Center and wish them the best in achieving their goals! O

Namita Hattangady

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GHSU Students Train in LeadershipRui Wang

As we approach graduation each year, the one apprehension all of us students, from all educational programs at GHSU, have within us, is our ability to survive in our future professional careers. Will we be effective doctors, nurses, dentists, principal investigators of our own labo-ratories? Will we lead our work - teams efficiently and successfully? In an at-tempt to provide students the opportuni-ty of professional development, GHSU brought to its students, the GHSU Stu-dent Leadership Institute (SLI). The SLI is specifically designed to help students inculcate effective leadership skills and practices. This institute was kindly or-ganized by Dr. Kevin Frazier, the Vice President for Student Services and De-velopment.

This year’s batch consisted of nominated students from the various schools and programs at GHSU, all possessing the potential of developing into effective

leaders. For the 2011 batch of SLI, the College of Graduate Studies was repre-sented by Rui Wang, Folami Lamoke, Ashish Gurav and Namita Hattangady, current officers and SGA representatives of the GSO as well as by Caitlin Madi-gan, current Humanitarian of the SGA. In addition, 21 qualified students from the Colleges of Dentistry, Medicine, Al-lied Health Sciences and Nursing were also recruited.

During this three-month, 6-class based session, the SLI covered extensive lec-tures on various aspects of effective leadership. Students were divided into designated groups such that each group

had a mixture of people from all five col-leges. This was specifically designed to encourage interaction with colleagues from a variety of backgrounds and disci-plines in order to gain insights about sev-eral important issues in health education, healthcare and society. The program also invited professional leaders in different fields from GHSU to share their real life examples and personal experiences. A memorable example was the discussion of how the new dental school building came from an idea, to a plan on the paper and finally to be one of the largest dental school facilities in the country!

...to “Leadership”, pg. 9

Colleen Carey

The weekend after Thanksgiving traditionally marks the kick-off of the Holiday Season, and a group of graduate stu-dents and their friends, along with Dr. Jennifer Pollock and her daughter helped to start the season in high spirits for the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Augusta. The group spent Saturday afternoon hanging lights and ribbons, crafting wreaths and decorating a tree to prepare the house for their an-nual Share Night which was held on December 1st. For those who are not aware, the Ronald McDonald House is a “home-away-from-home” for families of seriously and critically ill or injured children that are receiving medical treatment at nearby hospitals. Since the doors in Augusta have opened in 1984 over 13,500 families have been served. In 2010 alone, 546 families were served. O

Graduate Students Help to ‘Deck the Halls’ of the Ronald McDonald House of Augusta

Provided by Colleen CareyProvided by D

r. Kevin Frazier

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The GSO Congratulates all the following students on their accomplishmentsNamita Hattangady

The entire Sullivan Lab!

Almost all current students from Dr. Jen-nifer Sullivan’s Laboratory in the De-partment of Experimental Therapeutics have been recipients of travel awards to the APS Conference: Physiology of Cardiovascular Disease: Gender Dis-parities Conference in Jackson, MS. held between October 12th – 15th. Sec-ond year student Margaret Zimmerman, was awarded the American Physiology Society (APS) Abstract-based Travel Award of $500. She presented a poster titled ‘Sex Differences in RAS Enzym tic Activity During Chronic Ang II Infusion in SHR’.

Ashlee Tipton and Krystal Brinson, also won the ‘APS Minority Travel Fellow-ship’ at the same conference. They are also recipients of a Travel Award from the Women’s Health Research Center. What a proud moment for the lab, the school and us graduate students!

The GSO congratulates the Sullivan Lab for their wonderful achievements and wishes all of them the very best for their future careers!

The Physiology Girls!

Fourth year graduate student Namita Hattangady from the laboratory of Dr William E Rainey has been awarded the ‘Physiology Department’s Chair’s Fel-lowship’ which encompasses a travel award to attend the American Physiolog-ical Society (APS) 2012 Professional Skills Training: Writing and Reviewing for Scientific Journals.

In addition, fourth year student Juilee Rege from the laboratory of Dr William E Rainey, and third year student Katie Spitler from the laboratory of Dr Clinton Webb will be attending the same training course. Congratulations girls!

Samuel Herberg

Samuel Herberg is a fourth year student in the laboratory of Dr. William (Dave) Hill in the Department of Cell Biol-ogy and Anatomy. Samuel attended the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research (ASBMR) 2011 Annual Meet-ing; San Diego, CA; September, 16-20, 2011.

His abstract was titled “Transgenic Adult Murine Mesenchymal Stem Cells Con-ditionally Overexpressing SDF-1β En-

hance New Bone Formation in Both In Vitro and In Vivo Model Systems”. He was among the top 10% of all accepted abstracts and was selected for the ple-nary poster session.

In conjunction, Samuel is also a recipi-ent of the ASBMR 2011 Annual Meeting Travel Grant for Top Young Investiga-tors. Congratulations Samuel!

Erin Scott

MD/PhD student, Erin Scott, has had a very productive year. Erin recently pub-lished a first-author review article - “Es-trogen Neuroprotection and the Critical Period Hypothesis’ which was accepted by the journal ‘Frontiers in Neuroendo-crinology’ (PMID is 22079780). Erin has also earned an award for the ‘Best Graduate Student Presentation’ at the GHSU Neuroscience Retreat 2011.

Further, she also presented a poster at the 2011 Society for Neuroscience Meeting, titled ‘Estrogen Deprivation Leads to Enhanced Induction of Dickkopf-1 and AD-Related Proteins in the Hippocam-pus Following Cerebral Ischemia’. Con-gratulations Erin! O

The GSO would like to congratulate graduate students for their hard work and wonderful accomplishments.

Provided by Margaret Zimmerman

Provided by Namita Hattangady

Provided by Erin Scott

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...from “Leadership”, pg. 7

What the class considered the most fun part of this course were the group meet-ings where everyone was sharing and discussing ideas and working on a group project that would improve the GHSU campus or/and community directly. With weeks of brain storming and detailed planning, each group managed to present their ideas to the rest of the class. Project topics included community health fair, surplus medical equipments donation,

drive, expansion of on-campus recycling etc. All presentations truly proved once again that with care, passion and imagi-nation there is no limit of what we can think and do to help others.

At the end of the class, the batch of stu-dents left the class earning new insight into leading a team and making new friends too. It was indeed a very inspir-ing experience. Students completed the program with a better idea of how to work together as a team, exchange ideas

in a harmonious environment and time management to meet. We realized that being a leader is not that difficult; it is an art that that requires you follow some simple and honest qualities.

Anyone can be a leader if he has the tact of influencing others. Start “Developing the Leader Within You” today and you will be impressed by how much you achieve! O

Caitlin Madigan

GHSU Community Education Outreach (CEO) was established to promote, or-ganize, and recognize education-focused service efforts by GHSU students, fac-ulty, and staff around the Augusta area. Membership is open anyone that shares in the common purposes of the Com-

munity Education Outreach, including GHSU students, residents, faculty, or staff members. CEO is a service organi-zation focused on promoting literacy in the Augusta area through helping local literacy based charities as well as pro-viding tutoring for students K-12 around the Augusta area. Our primary service activity is tutoring school aged children

at the Augusta State University Literacy Center. We are currently seeking volun-teers from each college. The clients will be ages 8-16 and subjects range from reading to science and math. We will have opportunities for volunteering on Tuesday and/or Wednesday evenings and times will range from 4-8 p.m. O

Community Education Outreach

Provided by Colleen Carey

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GHSU Chorus ‘Healing HeArts’

Namita Hattangady

Did you know that GHSU has a program called the ‘Healing Arts Program’? This wonderful program has been established by the Volunteer Services, and is also co-sponsored by the GHSU Arts Coun-cil. The aim if the Healing Arts Program is “to support our patient and family-centered care philosophy by enhancing the healing environment in patient care areas through the utilization of musical, visual, and a variety of performing and participatory arts”. The GHSU Chorus was invited by this program to perform in the adults’ hospital of GHSU. Admit-tedly, the choir has maximum participa-tion for this event. This year, the GHSU choir, conducted by Ms Bonnie Harris, performed ‘Imagine’ by John Lennon and ‘Three Little Birds’ by Bob Mar-

ley. The patients, nurses, doctors and other staff, all enjoyed the music alike. It’s amazing how much joy a little live music can bring!

Sing with the GHSU Chorus and join us in bringing a few happy, musical mo-ments to patients at GHSU’s medical hospital. O

Provided by Namita H

attangady

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Games: Word SearchAshish Gurav

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Contact Information

Websitehttp://www.georgiahealth.edu/gradstudies/students.html

Facebook Group AddressStudents of GHSU GSO Graduate Student Organization College of Graduate StudiesEmail Georgia Health Sciences [email protected] 1120 15th St. CJ 2201 Augusta, GA 30912-1500

Newsletter Staff

Co-Editor in ChiefNamita Hattangady Colleen Carey

EditorsBhavna Desai Anil BhattaAshish Gurav Margaret ZimmermanRui Wang Caitlin MadiganFolami Lamoke Katie Spitler

Layout DesignNamita Hattangady Meg Gullotto

THE GSO WISHES YOU AND YOUR LOVED ONES A SAFE AND

HAPPY HOLIDAYS

SEE YOU IN 2012!!


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