ACTSI Investigators in the News
ACTSI investigator and Georgia Cancer Coalition scholar Dr. Susan Bauer-Wu (Emory School of Nursing and Winship Cancer Institute) has been inducted as a fellow in the Academy of Nursing. A leader in palliative and integrative medicine, she is currently conducting a large NIH-funded clinical trial analyzing whether meditation affects subjective symptoms as well as objective findings such as level of stress hormones and time required for recovery of white blood cells following bone marrow transplant. Read more.
Dr. Kerry Ressler, Emory physician and basic scientist, was quoted in the November issue of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Bulletin in the article Taming fear, rising calm. Dr. Charles L. Raison, clinical director of the Mind-Body Program at Emory School of Medicine was quoted on CNN for the story Enke death: What are the roots of depression? on November 12. Dr. Jonathan Glass, professor of neurology and pathology at Emory and director of the Emory ALS Center, was quoted in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution for the article ‘It's a horrible disease' on November 13. Dr. Viola Vaccarino, professor of medicine at Emory School of Medicine, was quoted in American Medical News in the article More middle-age women having heart attacks, but survival rates increasing on November 16. Dr. Arshed Quyyumi, cardiology professor at Emory School of Medicine and Dr. Dean P. Jones, professor of medicine and director of the Clinical Biomarkers Laboratory at Emory School of Medicine were mentioned in Trak.in and Newsguide.com in the article Marker of oxidative stress may help predict heart disease risk on November 17.