The next lecture in the DOM Research Seminar Series, Feb. 9, noon-1 p.m., in UAHS Room 5403, will feature as speakers Christian Bime, MD, and C. Kent Kwoh, MD.
Topics include “SELPLG as a candidate gene is Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome" – for Dr. Bime, and “Imaging Biomarkers of Knee Osteoarthritis” – for Dr. Kwoh.
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In its inaugural year, this lecture series—which takes place on the second Thursday of the month through June—showcases the innovative basic, translational and clinical research being done in the UA Department of Medicine. They pair a junior and senior faculty investigator from different divisions to offer a range of topics of interest to a broad audience. Each speaker talks for 20-25 minutes with the remainder of the time for Q&A.
A light lunch is served in the style of grand rounds.
All seminars in the series are also livestreamed and archived at the UA Health Sciences Biomedical Communications webcast site: http://streaming.biocom.arizona.edu/home/ (Go to the date to find previous archived lectures.)
To see a photo gallery from the last lecture in this series featuring guest speaker and San Diego gastroenterologist Jesús Rivera-Nieves, MD, who spoke on inflammatory bowel disease, click here [PDF].
Christian Bime, MD
Dr. Bime is an assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine as well as medical director of the Medical Intensive Care Unit at Banner – University Medical Center Tucson.
He also was one of eight winners of a Career Development Award by the UA Health Sciences in the award’s first year in 2014. The awards provide selected scholars with mentorship, research training and salary support of $75,000 for up to two years plus funding to defray research-related expenses. With Sai Parthasarathy, MD, as his mentor for the UAHS award, Dr. Bime was looking into “Genetic and Non-Genetic Contributors to ARDS Outcomes.” His presentation Feb. 9 updates one that he gave at the inaugural UAHS Career Development Award Research Symposium on June 8, 2016.
Dr. Bime earned his medical degree from the Université de Yaoundé in Cameroon and a master’s degree in epidemiology from Michigan State University. He completed his residency in internal medicine at Detroit’s Wayne State University where he also was a chief resident. He completed his fellowship in pulmonary and critical care medicine at Johns Hopkins University.
While at Johns Hopkins, Dr. Bime was named a research fellow at the American Lung Association - Asthma Clinical Research Centers Network Data Coordinating Center there and won an F32 and T32 training grant in support of his work. He also won an American College of Clinical Pharmacy Excellence in Sarcoidosis Research Award from the Foundation for Sarcoidosis Research in 2007.
C. Kent Kwoh, MD
Dr. Kwoh, a professor of medicine and medical imaging, is also chief of the Division of Rheumatology, director of the UA Arthritis Center and the Charles A.L. and Suzanne M. Stephens Endowed Chair in Rheumatology.
His clinical interests include rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, osteoporosis and gout. His research interests include outcome assessment and the examination of risk factors for the development and progression of a broad spectrum of rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases.
His current work focuses on the identification of biomarkers – most notably MRI imaging biomarkers – for the development and/or progression of knee osteoarthritis and the characterization of knee pain patterns in osteoarthritis. Another line of research targets the elimination of ethnic/racial disparities in the care of patients with osteoarthritis. A third area of interest is the evaluation of state-of-the-art imaging techniques (for example, 3D imaging and thermography) to quantify inflammation in juvenile idiopathic arthritis and rheumatoid arthritis.
Dr. Kwoh joined the UA faculty in 2014, coming from Pittsburgh, where he was director of clinical research at the University of Pittsburgh Arthritis Institute and headed three major projects funded by the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases. He also served as rheumatology section chief at the VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System.
Before that, he was on faculty at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland, where he directed the Institute for Healthcare Research.
Dr. Kwoh did his undergraduate studies in biology at the University of Illinois and earned his medical degree from the University of Chicago. He also completed fellowships in rheumatology at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and as a VA Scholar at the Yale University School of Medicine.
Next Seminar
Scheduled to talk at the next lecture on March 9 are Bhaskar Banerjee, MD (Gastroenterology), and a second speaker to be named later. Same time, same location.
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