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The Biomedical Alcohol Research Training Program - Past Trainees

	Annie Whitaker     07/01/07 – 06/30/10 Degree:  B.S., Southeastern Louisiana University Mentor:  Patricia Molina, M.D., Ph.D. Research:  Mechanisms involved in impaired vasopressin response to hemorrhage during acute alcohol intoxication Status:  Ph.D. candidate, Department of Physiology Award: APS fellowship September 2010-August 2011 Email:  awhita@lsuhsc.edu Jesse Sulzer     02/01/09 – 07/31/10 Degree: B.S., University of New Orleans Mentor: Patricia Molina M.D., Ph.D. Research: Alternative resuscitation strategies for the intoxicated trauma victim Status: M.D./Ph.D. candidate, Department of Physiology NRSA F30 award: " Alcohol intoxication & Shock; specific needs & targeted resuscitation strategies" August, 2010 Email: jsulze@lsuhsc.edu J. Nick Melvan     02/01/09 – 01/31/10 Degree: B.S., University of Wisconsin, Madison Mentors: Ping Zhang, M.D. /Ph.D. and Gregory Bagby, Ph.D. Research: Acute alcohol suppression of granulopoiesis Status: M.D. /Ph.D. candidate, Department of Physiology NRSA F30 award: " Alcohol and Sca-1; Impairment of the granulopoietic precursor cell response"     April, 2010                                        Email: jmelva@lsuhsc.edu Mary Worrell Degree: B.S. Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge Mentors: Peter Winsauer, Ph.D.. Research: The behavioral effects of ethanol and its interaction with the neurosteroid DHEA.   Status: MD/Ph.D. candidate, Department of Pharmacology NRSA award: “Preclinical Evaluation of DHEA as a treatment for alcoholism” August, 2010 Email: mworre@lsuhsc.edu
Past and Present
	Front row: Rosa Lopez-Pedrajas (Mentor: Patricia Molina, MD, PhD) Sun Mi Choi (Mentor: Jay K. Kolls, MD) Tanya Johnson, PhD (Advisor: Jay K. Kolls, MD) Back row: Xu Sophie Teng (Mentor: Kyle Happel, MD and Gregory Bagby, PhD) Annie Whitaker (Mentor: Patricia Molina, MD, PhD) Julia Hormes, PhD (Advisor: Richard Scribner, MD & Katherine Theall, PhD) Ryan Viator, PhD (Advisor: Gregory Bagby, PhD) J.Nick Melvan (Mentor: Ping Zhang, MD, PhD and Gregory Bagby, PhD) Edith Walker (Mentor: Patricia Molina, MD, PhD) Jesse Sulzer (Mentor: Patricia Molina, MD, PhD) Mary Worrel (Mentor: Peter Winsauer, PhD)

Postdoctoral Fellows Chronological Order

Gerak, L., Ph.D.

Years in Program: 2000 - 2001
Current position:
Project: Acute alcohol intoxication suppresses neutrophil migration by altering the lung chemokine response to S. pneumoniae.

Phelan, H., M.D.  

Years in Program:2000
Current position: Assistant Professor of Surgery Univ of Texas,  Southwestern
Project: Impact of alcohol intoxication on hemorrhage counterregulation

Zambell, K., Ph.D.

Years in Program: 2000 - 2002
Current position: Clinical Research Dietician at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center
Project: Chronic alcohol and SIV infection

Happel, K., M.D.

Years in Program: 2002 - 2003
Current position: Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Section of Pulmonary/Critical Care, LSUHSC, New Orleans, LA
Project: Alcohol, cytokines and chemokines

Shahbazian,M., Ph.D.

Years in Program: 2002 - 2003
Current position: Instructor, Gateway Community College, Tempe, AZ
Project: Alcohol, pulmonary host defense, and bacterial infections

Steele, C., Ph.D.

Years in Program: 2002
Current position: Alcohol, pulmonary host defense, and bacterial infections
Project: Role of alcohol on mucosal epithelial cells in host defense against C. albicans

Leonard,S., Ph.D.

Years in Program: 2002 - 2004
Current position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Departmental of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, LSUHSC, New Orleans, LA (LSUHSC-NO)
Project: The interactive effects of ethanol and endocrine function on learning and memory

Badewa, P.,M.D., Ph.D.

Years in Program: 2003 - 2004
Current position: Emergency Medicine, Cooper Green Mercy Hospital, Birmingham, AL
Project:Alcohol and pulmonary chemokines production in tuberculosis and P. carinii

Gamble, L., Ph.D.

Years in Program: 2003 - 2005
Current position: Assistant Professor, Medicine/Pulmonary/ Critical Care, LSUHSC, Earl K. Long Hospital, Baton Rouge, LA
Project:Epithelial cells, alcohol and host defense

Quinton, L., Ph.D.

Years in Program: 2003 - 2004
Current position: Postdoc Physiol Program, Harvard July 08 Instructor, Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care Med, Sch of Medicine, Boston Univ
Project:Effect of alcohol on selective decompart-mentalization of cytokines in the lung

Barstow, D., M.D.

Years in Program: 2004 - 2005
Current position: Private practice in California
Project:Murine stain differences in P. Carinii infection

Jain, S., M.D.

Years in Program: 2004
Current position: Ochsner Foundation Hospital, New Orleans, LA
Project: Alcohol, TB, & Dendritic Cells

Johnson, S., Ph.D.

Years in Program: 2004
Current position: Director of Undergraduate BA Program, Graduate Program in International Studies, Univ of Denver
Project: Development of pharmacist delivered alcohol and HIV intervention strategies in community healthcare centers serving predominantly inner-city, indigent, African Americans.

Jagneaux,T, M.D.

Years in Program: 2004 - 2005
Current position: Earl K. Long Medical Center, LSUHSC, Baton Rouge, LA 
Project: Lung permeability and host defense

Theall, K., Ph.D.

Year in Program: 2005
Current position: Assistant Professor, Epidemiology, LSUHSC-NO, School of Public Health
Project: Investigations of the health consequences of alcohol use and the neighborhood alcohol environment

Greiffenstein, P., M.D.

Years in Program: 2005 - 2006
Current position: LSUHSC-NO, Surgery
Project:Alcohol Intoxication and Outcome from Hemorrhagic Shock

Engel, L. , M.D., Ph.D.

Year in Program: 2006
Current position: Assistant Professor, Clinical Medicine and Infectious Disease, and Associate Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency, Department of Medicine, LSUHSC-NO
Project: How bacterial virulence factors in conjunction with ethanol intoxication modulate the host immune response to infection

Olga Gurkovskaya, Ph.D.

Years in Program 2006-2008

Predoctoral Fellows

Darren Boe, M.D., Ph.D.

Years in Program: 2000 - 2002    
Ph.D. - 2001      M.D. - 2003
Current position: Pulmonary/Critical Care Fellow, Dept of Medicine, Univ Colorado Health Sciences Center
Project: Acute alcohol intoxication suppresses neutrophil migration by altering the lung chemokine response to S. pneumoniae.

Keisa Mathis, Ph.D.

Years in Program: 2004 - 2008
Ph.D. - 2008
Current Position: University of Mississippi Medical Center, Department of Physiology and Biophysics
Position: Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interest: Blood Pressure, Renal Hemodynamics, and Hypertension
Specific project: The role of the sympathetic nervous system in lupus-induced hypertension using a mouse model of systemic lupus erythematosus.
Postdoctoral Advisor: Michael Ryan, PhD

Jessica Thomas, M.D., Ph.D.

Years in Program: 2000 - 2002    
Ph.D. - 2008      M.D. - 2003
Current position: 3rd year Medical School LSUHSC

Caroline Raasch, Ph.D.

Years in Program: 2004 - 2008    
Ph.D. - 2008     
Current position: 3rd year Medical School student LSUHSC