Ernst Rodin will receive the "Lifetime Achievement Award" from the American Clinical Neurophysiology Society at its Annual Meeting in February 2014.
Four members of our faculty received the University’s Super Star Award: Kathy Swoboda, Stefan Pulst, Norman Foster, and Rob Singleton. This award is given to individuals with $500,000 in total funding averaged over 3 years. Neurology was the 5th best department for these awards.
Kathleen Digre will be the First Hedi Fritz Niggli Professor at the University of Zurich where she will spend a 6-month sabbatical teaching, participating in a research project, promoting women faculty, and lecturing.
Jenny Majersik was nominated to serve on the StrokeNet Executive Committee, 1 of only 3 PI's of the 25 NIH StrokeNet regional coordinating centers to be so asked.
Rodolfo Savica launched a new clinic, which will focus on Dementia with Lewy Bodies and Parkinson's disease with dementia.
David Renner led a university delegation, hosted by Miachael L. Hardman to Kumasi, Ghana in October, whereby the University of Utah established formal agreements with the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital and the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and technology that will allow for ease of collaboration across nearly all clinical medicine specialties. The delegation also celebrated the opening of the first dedicated stroke unit in the country with Dr. Stephen Sarfo.
KC Brennan received word of two NIH funded grants:
1. R01 (NINDS) NS085413: Sensory plasticity in migraine.
2. R21 (NINDS) NS083010: Tools for migraine drug development.
Stefan Pulst was recently awarded an R56 grant: SCA2:Gene and gene product.
Jennifer Marjersik is pleased to announce that they have received Notice of Award to be a Regional Coordinating Center for the new NINDS Stroke Trails Network. Go Stroke team!
Stefan Pulst won the AAN Cotzias Award, on of the most prestigious awards for neuroscience given by the AAN. He will give a lecture at the Presidential Plenary on April 29, 2014.
Kevin Duff was quoted in a May 19th article in the Deseret News on “Early diagnosis may be key in slowing Alzheimer’s epidemic.”
David Renner, Peter Hannon, and Lynne Kerr participated in a multidisciplinary outreach screening clinic in a rural village near the town of Kintamo, Ghana, west Africa on July 1st. During this day-long village screening project, physicians and physician assistants from the University of Utah and local institutions identified medical conditions in over 2,000 patients and referred them for specialty care. During the visit David Renner lectured on the diagnosis and treatment of acute ischemic stroke at the First Annual West African Physician's International Continuing Medical Education Conference in Kintampo, Ghana.