Pfizer Visiting Professorships in Neurology/Psychiatry

Previous Winners

2010
 
Medical University of South Carolina College of Medicine
Host: Thomas W. Uhde, MD
Visiting Professor: Matthew Friedman, MD
Dartmouth Medical School
Project Title: Post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury: the phenomenology, neurobiology and treatment of invisible wounds
Visit Dates: 04/12/2011 - 04/15/2011
 
The Ohio State University Medical Center
Host: Radu V. Saveanu, MD
Visiting Professor: Charles B. Nemeroff, PhD, MD
University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine
Project Title: To explore the causal relationship between early psychological trauma and medical comoribidities, and establish clinical and research protocols to diminish its effects over the lifespan.
Visit Dates: 10/24/2010 - 10/27/2010
 
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Host: Lesley M Arnold, MD
Visiting Professor: Daniel Clauw, MD
University of Michigan Medical School
Project Title: Dr. Clauw will provide guidance on how to integrate the pain researchers at University of Cincinnati (UC) into a more collaborative group. UC would benefit substantially from learning about Dr. Clauw's success in forming a productive pain research group at Michigan.
Visit Dates: 03/15/2011 - 03/17/2011
 
University of Maryland Medical System
Host: Barney J Stern, MD
Visiting Professor: Thomas P Bleck, FCCM, MD
Rush Medical College of Rush University Medical Center
Project Title: ”Neuroscience Critical Care and the Need for a Multidisciplinary Approach”
Visit Dates: 09/20/2010 - 09/22/2010
 
University of Mississippi Medical Center
Host: Alexander P. Auchus, MD
Visiting Professor: Adnan I. Qureshi, MD
Medical School at the University of Minnesota
Project Title: Establishing and operating a comprehensive stroke center at UMMC and advancing clinical research on cerebrovascular diseases with the goal of improving stroke outcomes and reducing health disparities for Mississippians.
Visit Dates: 09/20/2010 - 09/22/2010
 
University of Pittsburgh
Host: David A. Lewis, MD
Visiting Professor: James Krueger, PhD, MD
Washington State University
Project Title: Brain Organization of Sleep: The ATP-Cytokine-Adenosine Hypothesis
Visit Dates: 06/30/2011 - 06/30/2011
 
University of Virginia School of Medicine
Host: Nathan B Fountain, MD
Visiting Professor: Gregory L. Holmes, MD
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Project Title: Why are Children with Epileptic Encephalopathies Encephalopathic
Visit Dates: 09/15/2010 - 09/18/2010
 
University of Washington School of Medicine
Host: Frederick P. Rivara, MPH, MD
Visiting Professor: Thomas Boyce, MD
University of British Columbia
Project Title: The goals of this visiting professorship is to provide guidance to our investigators who are trying to enhance their current research portfolios by adding neurobiological perspectives to the areas of injury control, effects of media on children, obesity and depression.
Visit Dates: 09/27/2010 - 09/29/2010
 

2009
 
Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University
Host: Richard Lipton, MD
Visiting Professor: Bahram Mokri, MD
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Project Title: Spontaneous intracranial hypotension, CSF hypovolemia, and spontaneous CSF leaks
Visit Dates: 10/07/2009 - 10/09/2009
 
Christiana Care Health System
Host: Louis Bartoshesky, MD
Visiting Professor: John B. Moeschler, MD
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Project Title: Autism is a common developmental disability. Early identification (infancy) of autism allows for early initiation of interventions. Primary care physicians need to be aware of principals of early indentification.
Visit Dates: 04/12/2010 - 04/14/2010
 
The University of Alabama at Birmingham
Host: R. Edward Faught, Jr., MD
Visiting Professor: Beth A. Malow, MS, MD
Vanderbilt University
Project Title: Impact of Sleep Disorders on Neurological Health and the Need for Multidisciplinary Approach. This includes special emphasis on epilepsy, neurodegenerative disorders, and how to establish a Sleep Research Core.
Visit Dates: 02/14/2010 - 02/17/2010
 
Underwood-Memorial Hospital
Host: Suzy VanDerwerken, MD
Visiting Professor: Sharon K. Inouye, MPH, MD
Harvard Medical School
Project Title: Delirium Prevention, Diagnosis, and Management in Hospitalized Older Persons
Visit Dates: 09/22/2009 - 09/23/2009
 
University of Florida College of Medicine
Host: Mark S. Gold, MD
Visiting Professor: Steven Southwick, MD
Yale School of Medicine
Project Title: Resilience to Stress: Psychosocial and Neurobiological Factors
Visit Dates: 10/21/2009 - 10/23/2009
 
University of Illinois. Peoria
Host: Jorge C. Kattah, MD
Visiting Professor: David S. Zee, MD
The Johns Hopkins University Health System
Project Title: The focus of Dr. Zee's career, and my future research focus in the Balance Center is the study of posture and gait disorders in neurologic disorders: stroke, multiple sclerosis, tumor and their treatment.
Visit Dates: 03/17/2010 - 03/19/2010
 
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Host: Nancy C. Raymond, MD
Visiting Professor: Laura J Miller, MD
University of Illinois at Chicago
Project Title: Women's mental health across the lifespan
Visit Dates: 09/21/2009 - 09/23/2009
 
University of Virginia Medical Center
Host: David Schiff, MD
Visiting Professor: David Gutmann, PhD, MD
Washington University in St. Louis Medical Center
Project Title: Genetics and Intracellular Signaling in the Phakomatoses: Opportunities for Rational and Effective Therapeutic Interventions
Visit Dates: 04/28/2010 - 04/30/2010
 

2008
Awardees in this year received: Pfizer Visiting Professorships in Neurology
 
Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons
Host: Christopher E. Henderson,
Visiting Professor: Wim Robberecht, PhD, MD
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Project Title: ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis): clinical trials and mechanisms of neurodegeneration
 
Mayo Clinic
Host: Gregory D. Cascino, MD
Visiting Professor: Peter Camfield, FRCPC, MD
IWK Health Centre
Project Title: Prognosis of Pediatric Epilepsy: How Accurately Can We Predict Outcome?
Visit Dates: 01/25/2009 - 01/28/2009
 
The University of Chicago
Host: Christopher M Gomez, PhD, MD
Visiting Professor: Amit Bar-Or, MSc, FRCP, MD
Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital
Project Title: The role of B cells in autoimmune diseases
Visit Dates: 04/15/2009 - 04/17/2009
 
The University of Vermont College of Medicine
Host: Robert Hamill, MD
Visiting Professor: Suresh Kotagal, MD
Mayo Medical Center
Project Title: Pediatric sleep disorders, primarily sleep related movement disorders.
Visit Dates: 10/07/2008 - 10/09/2008
 
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine
Host: Jack W Tsao, D.Phil., MD
Visiting Professor: Vilayanur S Ramachandran, MD
UCSD Healthcare
Project Title: Phantom Limb Pain
Visit Dates: 12/03/2008 - 12/05/2008
 
University of California, Davis, School of Medicine
Host: Michael A. Rogawski, PhD, MD
Visiting Professor: Timothy A. Pedley, BA, MD
Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons
Project Title: Educational activities for faculty, residents, fellows and medical students in clinical epilepsy; advise epilepsy researchers on developing translational research; assist chairman with departmental development.
Visit Dates: 10/20/2008 - 10/24/2008
 
University of Michigan Medical School
Host: Lewis B. Morgenstern,
Visiting Professor: Justin A. Zivin, PhD, MD
University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine
Project Title: Dr. Zivin is an internationally reknowned expert in cerebrovascular disease. The topic for his visit will be "Cerebrovascular disease: from bench to bedside."
Visit Dates: 03/18/2009 - 03/20/2009
 
Washington University in St. Louis Medical Center
Host: Jin-Moo Lee, PhD, MD
Visiting Professor: Deepak Bhatt, MD
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Project Title: Atherosclerosis involves arteries in all vascular beds, though individual vascular beds have unique characteristics that distinguish them from one another. Understanding these differences may inform our diagnostic and treatment methods.
Visit Dates: 04/15/2009 - 04/17/2009