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Student Presentation Awards Named The AACA Student Platform and Poster Presentation Awards now carry the names of Association members who have worked diligently to involve students, residents, and/or interns in the AACA Annual Meeting. Executive Council voted to name the student platform presentation award after Ralph Ger, one of the founding fathers of the AACA and active student supporter. The student poster presentation award will be named for Sandy Marks for his years of AACA involvement at all levels as well as his demonstrated support for student involvement in the AACA. Due to the typical predominance of poster presentations at any given meeting, Council, in conjunction with the Career Development Committee, voted to have three poster awards, one each for the best posters in basic science, clinical science and education. Beginning at the 2005 New York City joint AACA/BACA meeting, these awards were officially named: The Ralph Ger Student Platform Presentation Award and The Sandy C. Marks Jr. Student Poster Presentation Award. Each award will continue to carry a value of $600. U.S. and a certificate suitable for framing, and a one year's electronic subscription to Clinical Anatomy. 2009 AACA Pre-Doctoral Award Winners This year's predoctoral award competition in Cleveland proved to be a difficult task for the judging panel to select a single outstanding platform (The Ralph G. Ger Student Platform Presentation Award) and the poster categories (Sandy C. Marks Jr. Student Poster Presentation Award) from the group. The Career Development Committee again played a critical role in judging and managed to select a single platform and two poster awards - one each for the best poster in basic science, and education. The Association is grateful for the efforts of the CDC members as it is now a big job to get around to evaluating all the platform and poster sessions involved in these two competitions at our annual meeting. Each of the award winners received a check for $600, to offset travel costs to the meeting, a certificate, and a year's free membership (including electronic access to Clinical Anatomy) to the AACA. Kyle D. Smith, Creighton University dental student, was awarded the Sandy C. Marks Jr. Student Poster Presentation Award - Basic Science for his poster entitled "Using CBCT to study the incidence of concha bullosa in the nasal cavity." Other presenters on the poster were Paul C. Edwards and Tarnjit S. Saini. His faculty mentor at Creighton is Dr. Neil Norton. Eric J. Kenz, Ohio State University doctoral graduate student, was awarded the Sandy C. Marks Jr. Student Poster Presentation Award - Education for his poster entitled "Creating a 3D virtual pelvis from a computer tomography DICOM dataset." His faculty mentor at Ohio State in the Division of Anatomy is Dr. Ken Jones.
Kajeandra Ravichandiran, University of Toronto doctoral graduate student, was awarded the Ralph Ger Student Platform Presentation Award for his presentation entitled "Computation of physiological cross-sectional area of skeletal muscles using finite element modeling." Others named on the presentation were Mayoorendra Ravichandiran, Michele Oliver, Karan Singh and Nancy McKee. His faculty mentor at at the Univesity of Toronto Division of Anatomy is Dr. Anne Agur.
Anatomy Classes Face Faculty Shortage The abstracted statement below from Science, Vol. 299:5611, 28 February
2003, page 1309, as well as an AAMC document from 2005 both warn about faculty shortages to teach gross anatomy in the very near future. The first-year class, which includes about 170 hours of human dissection, has lost its appeal for those headed for a research career--the traditional source of instructors -- in part because anatomy has become increasingly molecular, focusing on cells rather than organs. And even properly trained researchers often don't want to teach the class, because it demands roughly twice as much time as other courses, according to the survey conducted by the American Association of Anatomists. But most agree that for medical students, those long hours are essential. Substitutes, such as virtual anatomical imaging, can never fully replace the real thing, says Robert McCuskey of the University of Arizona, Tucson: " I certainly wouldn't want a surgeon working on me who'd never actually touched a gallbladder. " Keith L. Moore
- Lippinicott, Williams & Wilkins Presidential Address - 2009 In May of 2004, Keith L. Moore (center) and Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins (Betty Sun - left of Dr. Moore - and her group from LWW) agreed to jointly sponsor a new Keith L. Moore - Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins Presidential Address. The monies contributed annually for this lecture will offset the costs incurred in bringing a high profile speaker to an annual meeting to present the Presidential Address.
At the Toronto meeting, this award funded the lecture entitled "The Way We Work: Building a Body Book" by David Macauley pictured below. Honored Member and Adkins Service Awardee for 2009 at the annual meeting in Cleveland.
The Cleveland meeting saw the induction of Dr. Richard Snell as the 2009 Honored Member of the Association. In the image above, Dr. Snell is second from the right. His presenter was Dr. Robert Chase (extreme right) who is also an Honored member of the Association. Dr. Snell was honored for his numerous textbooks in all fields of anatomical sciences. Kore on Dr. Snell can be found on the Honored Member page of this web site. Robert Trelease Receives UCLA Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award Dr. Robert Trelease, Professor of Anatomy, recently received the "UCLA Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award." This very prestigious UCLA campus-wide award recognizes Bob's unique and outstanding contributions in the areas of instructional innovation and effectiveness as demonstrated through teaching evaluations, educational impact, and diversity. Bob was recognized for initiating the “virtual anatomy” concept first published in Clinical Anatomy and for providing the first computer-based lectures at UCLA on an Amiga and video projector, a decade before Windows and Powerpoint became common tools for lecture presentations. As Associate Director of the Instructional Design and Technology Unit, Bob has been instrumental in the development and management of Web-based educational resources for all 4 years of the pre-MD curriculum as well. Quite notably, Bob's award is the first conferred on a Health Sciences instructor at UCLA since 1999. Brion Benninger Wins Teaching Awards at Oregon Health and Science University Brion Benninger, MD, MS of the Department of Oral Maxillofacial Surgery at Oregon Health and Science University recently received two prestigous teaching awards. One was from Medical School - The 2008 Teaching Excellence Award, while the second was the 2008 "White Coat" Award in the Dental School. Further, Brion was the first anatomist and basic science faculty member to win the White Coat Award. Brion entered medical school in England with degrees in chemistry and exercise physiology. During his medical training he did residencies in orthopedics and trauma and became staff physician and lecturer of anatomy at Guys Hospital in London. He later received a MS degree in sports medicine from the University of Nottingham. With his training in sports medicine be became a physician to both professional and amateur athletes and was a member of the British Olympic Team of Physicians. He is also a member of the American College of Sports Medicine. Brion is currently a faculty member in the Department of Integrative Biosciences at Oreon Health and Science University School of Dentistry as well as the Anatomy Department of the School of Medicine. At the Dental School he is responsible for the teaching clinical anatomy to the undergraduate dental students and he also participates in advanced anatomy instruction for resident students. Neil Norton awarded the ADEA/GlaxoSmithKline Sensodyne Excellence in Teaching Award. The American Dental Education Association and GlaxoSmithKline Sensodyne Excellence inTeaching Award is presented to individuals who demonstrate exemplary standards and promote excellence in dental education through scholarship and innovation and show a clear commitment to excellence and the scholarship of teaching and learning. The ADEA’s selection criteria include a commitment to principles of lifelong learning, a demonstrated creativity in curriculum design or innovations in the delivery of education to students, motivation of students to study and master subject matter, reputation among peers as an excellent educator, exemplary mentoring skills, student-centered approach to education that shows concern for growth and development, identifiable impact on student learning, and demonstrated creativity in curriculum design or innovations in the delivery of education to students. Norton is an associate professor of oral biology in the Creighton School of Dentistry and is the recipient of numerous awards, including Creighton’s prestigious Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Award for Teaching Achievement, the highest teaching recognition offered by the university. Norton has written numerous articles on anatomical topics related to dentistry. Peter Abrahams Wins WATE Award
New Education Track PhD in Anatomy Created at Indiana University The Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology at the Indiana University School of Medicine is pleased to announce the creation of an Education Track PhD Program for individuals who desire careers in anatomical teaching and educational scholarship. This new career track is justified by the growing demand in the nation's health professional schools for highly-qualified educators in Gross Anatomy and the other anatomical disciplines. The goal is to create a cadre of doctoral-level anatomy educators who are capable of teaching all of the anatomical disciplines to undergraduate, graduate, or professional students, and who are capable of producing the high-quality educational research and other scholarly work necessary for promotion and tenure. Developed in cooperation with the Indiana University School of Education, this five-year program will provide students with extensive training in the anatomical sciences, coupled with coursework in pedagogy, curriculum development, learning theory, educational assessment, and statistics. Students will participate in supervised teaching experiences in Gross Anatomy, Histology, and Neuroscience. After admission to doctoral candidacy, students will complete a rigorous dissertation in medical education research. Additional information is available on the Department's website: http://www.anatomy.iupui.edu. The new Keith and Marion Moore "Blue Box" Award
Dr. Keith L. Moore, a founding member of the AACA and well-known anatomy textbook author, has established an annual award for graduate and medical students - the Keith and Marion Moore Blue Box Award. The "Blue Box" is used in his textbooks as an indicator of clinical significance, and is quite familiar to students. The award is for the best student paper published in Clinical Anatomy during a given calendar year/Journal volume. The awardee must be the first author on the Clinical Anatomy paper. The award will consist of a plaque and a check for $500. It is open to graduate and medical students worldwide, even those who have received their PhD or MD's in the year that the paper is published. The student would be nominated by the student's supervisor or anatomy professor. A Blue Box Award Committee of 3-5 AACA members will be appointed by the AACA President, with the Editor-in-Chief of Clinical Anatomy being a member of the committee. The Award may not be presented each year, if a qualified student paper has not been published. The award would be announced and presented at the Annual AACA Meeting Banquet. Honored Members and Adkins Service Award Recipients are Recognized at 25th Anniversary Meeting of the Association in Toronto.
The 25th Anniversary meeting of the Association was an excellent time to recognize our past Honored Members and R. Benton Adkins Jr. Service Award recipients. A special acrylic plaque engraved for each of the individuals was presented at the Awards Banquet on July 17, 2008 at the Delta Chelsea in Toronto. Among those present to receive their plaques were from the left: Dr. Art Dalley, Dr. Robert Acland, Dr. Ralph Ger (Honored and Adkins Award member), Dr. Keith Moore, Dr. Dan Graney, Dr. David Whitlock (foreground), Dr. Tatsuo Sato, Dr. Ian Whitmore, Dr. Peter Abrahams, and Dr. Gary Wind. All those unable to attend received their plaques by mail. 2008 Marion and Keith Moore Blue Box Award Recipient Named.
This award goes to the best student-authored (including post-docs, residents, and/or interns) paper in any given year (volume) of Clinical Anatomy. This was the second year for the award to be given by the AACA in conjunction with Dr. Moore (see above). The competition remained very strong with over 50 papers entered. AACA Academic Employment Survey The Career Development Committee of the AACA is currently issuing their first Academic Employment Survey. The goals of the survey are to examine (a) the qualifications an applicant is expected to possess in order to successfully attain an academic position in the field of anatomical sciences and (b) current trends in anatomical education,
with specific focus on human gross anatomy. The survey will be issued to department chairs and
directors of health-related programs. We kindly ask for your participation so that the AACA can
continue to produce and support quality anatomy instructors and researchers. –For more
information, regarding the survey, please contact Kate Kryger. Bob Leonard Wins AMSA Teaching Award This national award recognizes a U.S. medical school professor who has
made an exceptional impact on the educational value that medical Bob was the AACA's initial R. Benton Adkins Jr. Distinguished Service Awardwinner in 2004 for the many years of dedicated service he contributed to the Association. Bob will travel to the annual AMSA convention in Arlington, Virginia in March 09 to receive the award. The Association congratulates Bob on this superb achievement. Visible Human Sculpture Unveiled
Back in the early 1990s David Whitlock and Vic Spitzer constructed the Visible Human Project, which called for the development of total digital databases for both adult human male and female cadavers. The projected was completed in 1996 and the databases are now used extensively by many institutions around the world for various purposes. In 2000 the University of Colorado Medical Center in Denver relocated to the huge old Fitzsimons army base in Aurora Colorado. Since then there has been massive construction of all kinds of buildings, out patient clinics, hospitals, medical and dental schools, library, etc. on the old army base. Now the entire University of Colorado Health Science Center operation has moved to Aurora and its new location is up and running. Very large funding for many of these changes was donated by Philip Anschutz, one of Colorado’s billionaires and an avid art collector, stimulated the idea that all this new construction should be suitably decorated with objects of art.
David Whitlock (an AACA Honored Member) states that "as a long time teacher of human anatomy, I can tell you that human anatomy has not always enjoyed a high reputation for scientific contribution among the 'cutting edge' basic sciences of medicine. Yet it, the oldest of the academic disciplines of medicine, is still the first one that every physician must know as they commence to analyze our health. Therefore, the sculpture's positioning at the very gates of one of the most essential halls of learning for medicine seems appropriate".
New Postgraduate Certificate in Applied Anatomy Dr. Donal Shanahan, Senior Lecturer at Northumbria University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, England is developing a postgraduate certificate in applied anatomy. This programme will consist of two online modules and a one week summer school based at Northumbria University in June 2010. The exact dates for the one week on-site experience will be set by August 2009. This programme is aimed at health professionals or those involved in anatomy education. The programme will have an effective strating date of September 2009. Anyone interested in more detail on this unique offering can download this word document on the structure of the postgraduate certificate that can also be accessed from School's homepage. Clinical Anatomy Reaches New Heights
Stephen Carmichael, Editor-in-Chief of our journal - Clinical Anatomy, poses with a copy of the journal on his recent trip to Spitsbergen, Norway. As the monitor indicates, the journal was present near the top of the globe - latitude 80 degrees, zero minutes, and 0.97 seconds - less than 600 nautical miles from the north pole. He visited the area this July with his wife on a polar bear observation cruise. Looks like it was cool there even then! Granger and Colleagues Win Teaching Awards at UNC Noelle Granger was awarded the Freshman Basic Science Teaching Award at University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill School of Medicine for being voted the best instructor in the first year by the class of 2012. Awards appear to be routine at UNC-CH as Structure and Development, the anatomy course, co-directed by Drs. Kurt Gilliland and Edward Kernick, was chosen for the Freshman Basic Science Course Award. It is the 4th straight year the course has won the award. Keep up the good work! Stephen Carmichael Becomes Honored Member of Turkish Society
Three other anatomists were also awarded Honored membership along with Dr. Carmichael at this meeting - Andreas H. Weiglein, MD (Graz, Austria), Bernard Moxham, BDS, PhD (Cardiff, Wale;,) and Munci Kalayoglu, MD, FACS (Instanbul, Turkey). |
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One of the AACA's Honored Members, and long time supporter, Dr. Peter Abrahams was honored recently by being named a recipient of a 2007-2008 Warwick Awards for Teaching Excellence (WATE). These annual awards reconize and celebrate those at Warwick University whose teaching is of particularly high standard. Peter has very recently moved to Warwick University and has the distinction of being recognized this quickly as one of the University's best teachers. He is still a Fellow of Girton College Cambridge and does two days a week as an NHS family practitioner. Peter has published over 15 new student text books on aspects of clinical anatomy and radiology in over 60 language editions as well as a dozen different CDROM and DVDs in similar fields. Among his major contributions are the McMinn "Atlas of Human Anatomy" now in its 6th edition and with Weir "Imaging Atlas of Human Anatomy" in its 3rd edition. The award carries with it a cash value of ~$10,000. Congratulations Peter!
The 2008 Keith and Marion Moore Blue Box Award recipient was named at the 26th Annual Scientific Session of the AACA in Cleveland, July 16, 2009 - Warren M. Rozen, MBBS, BMedSc, PGDipSurgAnat, PhD. Warren's paper was titled "Refining the course of the thoracolumbar nerves: A new understanding of the innervation of the anterior abdominal wall." It was published in
Clinical Anatomy
Volume 21, Issue 4, Pages: 325-333. Co-authors on the paper were T.M.N. Tran, M.W. Ashton, M.J. Barrington, J.J. Ivanusic, and G.I. Taylo. Warren is based in the Jack Brockhoff Reconstructive Plastic Surgery Research Unit,
The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia.
Dr Robert Leonard, Professor of Anatomy and
Neurobiology at the University of Caloifornia, Irvine - and long-time AACA member - has been awarded the prestigious 2009 National Golden Apple for Teaching Excellence Award by the American Medical Student Association.
The great atrium at the entrance to the new library building, a unique reconstruction of our Visible Human Male was created and displayed. The piece, created by Rae Douglas of Oakland California, is composed of a massive bundle of 3/4 inch wide metal strips stretched under tension from the 25 foot high ceiling to the floor in which is depicted in his own colors on the strips a 16 foot tall recreation of the Visual Human Male. On December 13, 2008 the sculpture was unveiled at Light Ray Studios, Inc. in the San Francisco Bay area (see photo right). 