| CUMC Celebrates - April 24, 2008 |
With commencement ceremonies around the corner, now is an obvious time to honor our top teachers. So this month, I want to recognize teaching by offering special congratulations to the nine new fellows of the Glenda Garvey Teaching Academy. Through the Garvey Academy – established in 2005 to honor the educational commitment of the late Glenda Garvey, MD – CUMC rewards and strengthens teaching by identifying top educators who will maintain the highest standards in teaching with their skills, dedication, and commitment to study and identify ways to improve the medical center's educational mission.
Joining the 12 inaugural members of the academy and eight members inducted last year are the following educators from Columbia's medical, nursing, public health, and dental schools:
- Rita Charon, MD, PhD, professor of clinical medicine-general medicine
- Wendy Chung, MD, PhD, assistant professor of pediatrics (in medicine)
- Janis Cutler, MD, professor of clinical psychiatry
- Michael Devlin, MD, associate professor of clinical psychiatry
- Rita Marie John, DNP, assistant professor of clinical nursing
- Pablo Joo, MD, assistant clinical professor of medicine-family medicine
- Letty Moss-Salentijn, DDS, PhD, the Edwin S. Robinson Professor of Dentistry (in anatomy & cell biology) and senior associate dean, academic affairs, College of Dental Medicine
- Robert Ogden, PhD, associate professor of biostatistics
- Rini Ratan, MD, assistant clinical professor of obstetrics & gynecology
Lee Goldman, M.D.
Executive Vice President, Health and Biomedical Sciences
On March 1, the Department of Radiology launched a new program in imaging and cognitive sciences (PICS). Led by Joy Hirsch, PhD, professor of functional neuroradiology, neuroscience, and psychology, the program is intended to catalyze leading investigations of brain, mind, and body toward understanding the physiological basis of cognition, disability, and disease. It will harness the power of the advanced imaging technologies and sophisticated computational and visual tools available at the program's core facilities (CUMC's fMRI Research Center and Hatch Research Center) to yield fundamental insights at the intersection of academic and scientific disciplines, from such traditional medical specialties as psychiatry, surgery, pharmacology, oncology, and cardiology to biomedical informatics and engineering, as well as subjects drawn from the arts and the social, decision, political, and comparative sciences. PICS is also designed and equipped to pioneer applications of important advances for the benefit of patient care and for the well-being of healthy individuals.
COLLEGE OF DENTAL MEDICINE
Pending Trustees approval, the College of Dental Medicine and Columbia's Teachers College will offer a dual degree program in dental education, thought to be the first of its kind in the United States. The joint DDS/MA program, developed informally four years ago by then-CDM student Roseanna Graham, DDS, MA, now assistant professor of clinical dental medicine-restorative dentistry and course director, diagnosis and treatment planning, and Marlene Klyvert, EdD, special lecturer, CDM, combines content from Teachers College's master of arts in science education with content from the dental curriculum plus additional courses in instructional theory and practice, adult learning, and instructional design. The program received official approval from the Columbia University Senate on April 11.
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NARSAD – the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression – has selected two Columbia and New York State Psychiatric Institute researchers for its prestigious Distinguished Investigator Award: J. John Mann, MD, the Paul Janssen Professor of Translational Neuroscience (in Psychiatry and Radiology) in P&S, and Ezra Susser, MD, DrPH, the Anna Cheskis Gelman & Murray Charles Gelman Professor and chair of epidemiology (Mailman) and professor of psychiatry (P&S). They are among 11 outstanding scientists this year receiving NARSAD's Distinguished Investigator Award, a highly competitive grant program for investigators of brain and psychiatric disorders who have established themselves as leaders in their fields. NARSAD will provide each researcher with a one-year grant of $100,000 to advance psychiatric research in their areas of specialty, Dr. Mann in major depression and Dr. Susser in schizophrenia. Dr. Mann plans to test a hypothesis regarding the mechanism of action of ketamine, an anesthetic drug that has been noted to have an extremely rapid antidepressant effect. Dr. Susser will examine whether genetic mutations not inherited from one's parents can help explain the association between prenatal famine and schizophrenia.
COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS & SURGEONS
The Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellowship Program at P&S produced four of the five clinical research award winners at this year's Eastern-Atlantic Student Research Forum, held at the University of Miami in February. David Wei'09 won the award for best overall clinical science presentation. Meghan Sise'09 received a first-place award in the clinical science poster presentation category. Kathleen Brennan'09 and Elsa Pichardo'09 received second-place prizes in the clinical science oral presentation and clinical science poster presentation categories, respectively. All have been invited to present their prize-winning research at the 49th annual National Student Research Forum this month in Galveston, Texas.
Mitchell S. Cairo, MD, professor of pediatrics, medicine, and pathology, served as guest editor of a special edition of the journal Bone Marrow Transplantation. The issue, titled "Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplantation: State of the Science," was published in January.
Michael Field, MD, professor emeritus of medicine and physiology & cellular biophysics, has been honored by the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) with its 2008 Distinguished Mentor Award for leadership and career achievements in student mentorship. In addition, Charles J. Lightdale, MD, professor of clinical medicine-digestive & liver diseases, has been chosen by the association's governing board to receive one of two AGA Distinguished Clinician Awards for 2008. Their awards will be presented at ceremonies during Digestive Diseases Week next month in San Diego.
Edward Nickoloff, DSc, professor of radiology, has been selected to receive the Marvin M.D. Williams Professional Award from the American College of Medical Physics. The Williams Award, the highest honor the college confers, recognizes lifetime contributions in medical physics. Only one of 20 individuals – and only one of three diagnostic radiology physicists – to receive this award in the group's history, Dr. Nickoloff will be honored at an awards banquet and give the keynote address at the organization's annual meeting next month in Seattle.
Thomas G. Pickering, MD, PhD, professor of medicine-general medicine, has been recognized by the American Psychosomatic Society with its prestigious Alvin P. Shapiro Award which honors a physician who has made major scholarly contributions to the understanding of psychosocial factors in the clinical care of patients in a primary care setting. Dr. Pickering received his award last month in Baltimore at the society's 66th annual meeting, where he gave the meeting's invited lecture, "The Harm That Doctors Do: Hypertension as a Psychosomatic Disease."
COLLEGE OF DENTAL MEDICINE
Philip K. Josephs, CDM/Mailman'08, has been recognized by the American Dental Education Association with a 2008 ADEA/Johnson & Johnson Preventive Dentistry Scholarship. The $2,500 prize, given annually, provides financial support to only 12 scholars nationwide, individuals who have consistently shown exceptional professional promise and excellence in the study of preventive dentistry. Mr. Josephs was presented with his award at the ADEA's 85th annual session and exhibition in Dallas. He also won this award in 2006.
Jeremy Mao, DDS, PhD, professor of dental medicine, is invited to address the American Association of Endodontists as the keynote speaker of the organization's 2009 national meeting. Dr. Mao's lecture will focus on dental pulp and dentin regeneration, the newly emerging field of dental medicine that involves the creation, engineering, and delivery of tissues to replace diseased, missing, and traumatized dental pulp.
SCHOOL OF NURSING
Kristine M. Gebbie, RN, DrPH, the Elizabeth Standish Gill Professor of Nursing, was selected to receive the United Hospital Fund's 2008 Distinguished Trustee Award for her outstanding service to Lutheran HealthCare, a Brooklyn-based health care system. She will be honored at the UHF's 18th annual Tribute to Hospital Trustees luncheon this month. The event recognizes the dedication and leadership of volunteers who govern New York City's not-for-profit hospitals.
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Alfred Ashford, MD, professor of clinical medicine and director of medicine at Harlem Hospital Center, has been named senior associate dean for the Harlem Hospital affiliation after serving in an interim capacity since last year. A graduate of Rutgers University and Georgetown University School of Medicine, Dr. Ashford is a noted authority on breast and prostate cancer and racial and ethnic differences in cancer treatment. He has served on the board of directors of the American Cancer Society's Eastern Division since 2001, with special responsibilities as chair of a council on diversity and disparities, and was its chief medical officer from 2004 to 2006. Dr. Ashford will oversee clinical operations, academic and research programs, and administrative management for the affiliation.
Monica Bhatia, MD, assistant clinical professor of pediatrics, has been appointed clinical director of the inpatient pediatric blood & marrow transplantation program at Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. Dr. Bhatia received her medical degree at St. George's University in Grenada, West Indies, did her residency training in pediatrics at New York's Albany Medical Center, and completed a clinical fellowship in pediatric hematology and oncology at Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C.
Robert S. Brown Jr., MD, MPH, has been appointed the Frank Cardile Associate Professor of Medicine, effective March 7. Dr. Brown is director of the Abdominal Organ Transplant Division in the Department of Surgery and has been instrumental in developing the liver transplantation program at CUMC. He is a noted authority on living donor liver transplants, the treatment of hepatitis B and C, the use of bioartificial liver support devices, and the outcomes and cost-effectiveness of liver disease treatment regimens, including transplants.
K.S. Clifford Chao, MD, has been named chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology and director of the Combined Program in Radiation Oncology at Columbia University Medical Center, Weill Cornell Medical College, and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. A graduate of Kaohsiung Medical School in Taiwan, Dr. Chao is a renowned expert in the use of image-guided targeted radiotherapy and intensity modulated radiation therapy, as well as combining the use of PET and CT images to direct customized radiation treatment plans for individual patients. He comes to New York from the University of Texas - M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.
Shi Du Yan, MD, MS, has been appointed professor of clinical pathology & cell biology (in surgery and the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain), with tenure, effective Jan. 1. Dr. Yan's research focuses on the molecular and cellular processes underlying a number of illnesses and conditions, including Alzheimer's disease, kidney disease, and brain tumors. She is currently working to pinpoint the targets of amyloid-beta peptide in genetically manipulated mice.
The Center for Family and Community Medicine welcomed Susan Lin, DrPH, as assistant professor of clinical research (in medicine) in March. A graduate of the Mailman School doctoral program and a former National Center for Health Statistics fellow, Dr. Lin will analyze large data sets, including national health and health care surveys, claims, and clinical data, in individual and collaborative research projects intended to improve patient care and population health.
Edward E. Smith, PhD, has been named the William B. Ransford Professor of Psychology (in Psychiatry), with tenure, effective Jan. 1. A faculty member since 2004, Dr. Smith is widely recognized as one of the world's pre-eminent leaders and scholars in cognitive psychology and neuroscience. He was among the first in his field to demonstrate that different neural systems are used to maintain different kinds of information in working memory. He has more recently extended his research into the cognitive control of emotion and other affective states, as well as issues related to the basic aspects of long-term memory and its breakdown in Alzheimer's disease.
COLLEGE OF DENTAL MEDICINE
Michael S. Yuan, DDS, PhD, has been promoted from assistant professor to associate professor of clinical dental medicine-orthodontics, effective March 1. A member of the Glenda Garvey Teaching Academy, Dr. Yuan's activities include teaching and supervising student research in the pre-doctoral and postdoctoral orthodontic programs, and he teaches dental and medical students in their first-year anatomy course.
MAILMAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
W. Ian Lipkin, MD, has been named the John Snow Professor of Epidemiology as of February 1. Dr. Lipkin, director of the Center for Infection and Immunity in the Mailman School, also is professor of neurology and pathology at P&S. Dr. Lipkin has been credited with identification of the West Nile virus as the cause of the encephalitis epidemic in North America in 1999. He more recently discovered a connection between the virus known as IAPV (Israeli Acute Paralysis Virus) and colony collapse disorder in honeybees.
John Santelli, MD, MPH, has been reappointed to the Harriet and Robert H. Heilbrunn Professorship of Clinical Population and Family Health, effective July 1, 2008. Dr. Santelli is chair of the Department of Population and Family Health and a specialist in adolescent medicine and reproductive health.
Ida Viho, MD, associate research scientist, has been named director of the new Cote d'Ivoire country program for Mailman's International Center for AIDS Care and Treatment Programs. Dr. Viho, has 15 years of experience in HIV/AIDS research and service delivery and most recently served as manager of an ICAP-supported program working to reduce mother-to-child HIV/AIDS transmission in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire's largest city. She has expertise in voluntary counseling and testing for HIV/AIDS and training medical workers in the care and treatment of people living with the disease. Dr. Viho holds a medical degree from the University of Abidjan and a master's degree in public health and epidemiology from France's University of Bordeaux.
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COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS & SURGEONS
Cory Abate-Shen, PhD, professor of urology, has received a $232,000 grant from the National Cancer Institute to advance ongoing studies of Nkx3.1, a prostate-specific gene in the homeobox family, and its influence on both embryonic prostate development and prostate cancer. Homeobox genes encode transcription factors, proteins that turn on other genes, and therefore play a major role in regulating how DNA is expressed.
Domenico Accili, MD, professor of medicine-endocrinology, has been granted a five-year $6.5 million competitive funding renewal by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive & Kidney Diseases for the Diabetes and Endocrinology Research Center he directs. This center, in conjunction with the Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center, integrates basic and translational diabetes research with institutional centers of excellence in obesity, atherosclerosis, and cardiovascular biology research.
The National Institute on Aging has awarded $2.1 million over four years to Ottavio Arancio, MD, PhD, assistant professor of pathology, for research into the use of calpain (calcium-activated neutral protease) system inhibitors as novel therapeutic agents for Alzheimer's disease. The calpain system has been linked to processes regulating the function and metabolism of key proteins that have been implicated in dementia and Alzheimer's. As part of this investigation, new calpain inhibitors will be identified and their efficacy will be optimized for synaptic and memory rescue in mouse models of Alzheimer's.
Truman Brown, PhD, professor of radiology and the Percy K. and Vida L.W. Hudson Professor of Biomedical Engineering, has received a two-year $432,000 grant from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering to study real-time motion correction for brain MRI. The goal of Dr. Brown's research is to assure collection of accurate data even when head movements occur during scanning.Without correction, even slight motions can spoil MRI data; remaining completely still, however, can be difficult for young children, elderly people, and those who suffer from Parkinson's disease, schizophrenia, epilepsy, and dementia.
Now in its 20th year, the HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies has received a five-year $10 million continuation of funding from the National Institute of Mental Health, marking its fifth consecutive period of support from the NIH. Led by Anke Ehrhardt, PhD, vice chair for academic affairs and professor of medical psychology in the Department of Psychiatry, the HIV Center will focus on issues of gender, sexuality, and mental health in meeting the challenges of global AIDS over the next five years.
Jean Gautier, PhD, associate professor of genetics & development (Institute for Cancer Genetics), has been awarded $1.3 million over four years by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences to study the specific roles and functions of mini-chromosome maintenance proteins in the regulation of DNA replication, in genome stability, and oncogene-mediated replication stress.
Ali Gharavi, MD, the Marc Anthony Zambeti Assistant Professor of Medicine, has received a five-year $1.7 million grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive & Kidney Diseases to investigate the molecular mechanisms underlying the two leading causes of end-stage renal disease in children: the developmental disorders known as human renal agenesis (the failure to develop one or more kidneys) and renal hypodysplasia (kidney underdevelopment). Genetic contributions to the familial and sporadic forms of both conditions will be analyzed and characterized.
Kara Gross, MD, postdoctoral clinical fellow in pediatrics, has been granted a two-year $56,000 award by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive & Kidney Diseases to investigate the role of melatonin-concentrating hormone, a hypothalamic neuropeptide that regulates both body weight and appetite, in intestinal inflammation. The project, initiated in 2006 at Harvard University, is now in its second and final year.
Wesley Grueber, PhD, assistant professor of physiology & cellular biophysics, has been awarded $1.7 million over five years by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. Dr. Grueber will study how dendrites, the branched projections of a neuron that are the major sites of information input in neural circuits, take cues from their extracellular environment during development to ensure accurate wiring of the nervous system.
Eldad Hod, MD, postdoctoral residency fellow in pathology, is one of two NYC-based doctors honored with a $25,000 research fellowship from the College of American Pathologists Foundation. Funds will be used to develop new diagnostic tests and therapies for kidney transplant patients.
George Hripcsak, MD, professor and chair of biomedical informatics, has been awarded $233,000 in supplemental funds by the National Library of Medicine for the biomedical informatics training program.
Jennie Katherine Kline, PhD, adjunct professor of epidemiology (in the Sergievsky Center), received $1 million over three years from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development for an epidemiological study of ovarian age and trisomy, the most frequent chromosomal abnormality in human conception and a major cause of
pregnancy loss and severe mental retardation. Dr. Kline and her colleagues will test the hypothesis that trisomy arises as a function of the size of the oocyte pool, with an increased risk among women with smaller reserves at all chronological ages. She will also work toward clarifying the molecular mechanisms involved, including the possibility that a genetic abnormality associated with premature ovarian failure also may lead to the cascade of biological events that result in trisomy.
Judith Korner, MD, PhD, Irving Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine, has received a two-year $421,000 grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive & Kidney Diseases. Dr. Korner will conduct a pilot and feasibility study to examine a novel intervention using leptin, a hormone secreted from fat tissue that regulates food intake and energy expenditure, to facilitate additional weight loss in individuals who have undergone bariatric surgery but still remain overweight.
David J. Lederer, MD, MS, assistant professor of clinical medicine, has been awarded $540,000 over four years by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to investigate racial and ethnic disparities in the outcomes of patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, with an emphasis on prospectively examining factors that impact survival times of study participants.
Richard Mann, PhD, professor of biochemistry & molecular biophysics, has received a four-year $1.4 million extension of funding from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences for ongoing studies of the Hox family of transcriptional regulators, proteins that control critical aspects of normal development, including motor neuron specification, organ development, and stem cell maintenance, and contribute to birth defects and disease processes. Dr. Mann will specifically look at how these proteins regulate their target genes.
Dana Moses, PhD, postdoctoral research scientist in biochemistry & molecular biophysics, has been awarded a three-year $141,000 grant by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences to clarify the mechanisms underlying how the DNA repair proteins known as Rad51 and Rad54 locate and fix damaged DNA, an essential process for the maintenance of cellular health with relevance for greater understanding of cancer biology. Both breast and ovarian cancers have been linked to defects in this particular pathway.
Serge Przedborski, MD, PhD, the Page & William Black Professor of Neurology (in Pathology and the Center of Neurobiology & Behavior), has received a two-year $374,000 grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. Dr. Przedborski will develop a unique disease model to investigate the earliest neurological and pathological changes associated with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Research will focus on identifying and clarifying the initial cellular insults produced by mutant superoxide dismutase-1 (SOD1), an enzyme known to be important in ALS pathogenesis.
Vincent Racaniello, PhD, the Higgins Professor of Microbiology, has been granted a five-year $270,000 supplement by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to continue studies into the human rhinovirus, associated with the common cold and asthma exacerbation. Additional work will involve developing a reliable animal model and further elucidating the biology of the virus, focusing on the means by which it replicates and how it might be stopped or alleviated.
Nikos Scarmeas, MD, MSc, assistant professor of clinical neurology, has received a five-year $2.1 million grant from the National Institute on Aging to investigate the possible protective effects of the Mediterranean diet against Alzheimer's disease. Previous studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of the diet, a food regimen heavy on healthy fats, fruits, and vegetables, in conferring protection against a number of other diseases and conditions (cardiovascular disease and certain types of cancer among them) and helping extend overall lifespan.
Ann Marie Schmidt, MD, the Gerald and Janet Carrus Professor of Surgical Sciences (in Surgery), has been awarded a five-year $8 million program project grant by the National Institute on Aging to examine the role of the aging process in risk for ischemia, a condition in which blood flow and oxygen that are cut off from specific parts of the body (most often because of problems with the blood vessels) cause damage and disease. A particular focus of these studies is the role of RAGE (receptor for advanced glycation endproducts) and the polyol pathway, a mechanism implicated in a number of diabetic complications, aging, and cardiovascular injury in aging.
Helen Simpson, MD, PhD, associate professor of clinical psychiatry, has been awarded $961,000 over three years by the National Institute of Mental Health to clarify the neurobiology of obsessive-compulsive disorder, develop relevant animal models through partnerships between basic and clinical researchers, lay the foundations for future translational research on aspects of the serotonin system as they relate to the neurocircuitry of OCD, and work on novel treatment approaches for OCD patients.
M. Elizabeth Sublette, MD, PhD, assistant professor of clinical psychiatry, has received a five-year $887,000 grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to elucidate the role of diet-based essential fatty acids in major depression. Dr. Sublette will use neuroimaging techniques such as PET to establish correlations among depression symptoms, blood fatty acid levels, and regional brain activation. Findings will help to understand the role of dietary fatty acids in the neurobiology of depression and suicide risk.
Jason Wright, MD, is the 2007-2008 recipient of the Society of Gynecologic Oncologists' GCF/Ann Schweiber Ovarian Cancer Research Grant. Dr. Wright will receive a single-year $50,000 award to examine the role the reproductive hormone FSH (follicle stimulating hormone) plays in ovarian cancer. He also will test the effectiveness of a FSH inhibitor as an impediment to the development and growth of ovarian cancer and will work to determine the efficacy of FSH inhibition in combination with traditional chemotherapeutic drugs and other hormonally based treatments for ovarian cancer.
COLLEGE OF DENTAL MEDICINE
Srikala Raghavan, PhD, assistant professor of epithelial cell biology in dental medicine and dermatology (P&S), has received a three-year $236,000 grant from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases. Dr. Raghavan will study the role of integrins, special proteins found in epithelial cells, in the assembly of the basement membrane, the supporting structure for epithelial cells. In skin epidermis, basement membrane assembly is intrinsic to many biological and pathological processes, including hair follicle growth and development, wound healing, and cancer metastasis.
MAILMAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Ana F. Abraido-Lanza, PhD, associate professor of sociomedical sciences, has been granted a four-year $1.6 million extension of funding by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences to continue the Initiative for Maximizing Student Diversity program at Mailman, which she directs. The initiative was designed to increase the number of students from underrepresented and minority populations in the school's doctoral degree programs to help build a national corps of researchers whose work will successfully address and alleviate health disparities in the United States.
James Colgrove, PhD, assistant professor of sociomedical sciences, received $37,000 over two years from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to explore the policy approaches that states are taking to foster HPV vaccine uptake. The research, a collaboration with researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health, is designed to ascertain whether states are adopting coercive legal techniques (such as mandates) versus "softer" policy approaches or reliance on private mechanisms.
Lourdes Hernandez-Cordero, DrPH, assistant professor of sociomedical sciences, received $50,000 from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for a study examining perceptions of community recreational and sports facilities and how they contribute to outdoor physical activity among area families. Dr. Hernandez will examine what amenities encourage families to use public spaces and which features shape their sense of safety. The project is part of the foundation's national Active Living Research program.
L.H. Lumey, MD, MPH, PhD, associate clinical professor of epidemiology, has been awarded $1.8 million over five years by the National Institute on Aging to study medical and mortality records of men conceived and/or born during the Dutch Famine of 1944-45, examining whether gestational exposure to stress and undernourishment contributed significantly to their health and survival as adults.
SCHOOL OF NURSING
The School of Nursing, in collaboration with Columbia University's Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, has been named one of the first four recipients of grant funding from the newly launched Jonas Nursing Scholars Program. Established last year by the NYC-based Jonas Center of Nursing Excellence, the program is designed to address the nation's worsening shortage of academic nursing faculty, primarily by underwriting local educational development of academic nurses and partnerships between NYC-area schools of nursing and clinical affiliates. The School of Nursing will receive $560,000 over four years to support two pre-doctoral scholars, who must agree to complete their doctoral degrees by the end of the four-year grant period and teach nursing in the New York metropolitan area for at least four years. The school is also a participant in a funding collaboration with Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing and Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health to create a third Jonas Scholar. Columbia's two Jonas Scholars will be part of the first student cohort to enter the School of Nursing's newly approved PhD program in September 2008.
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