UMSOM Media Highlights (07-25-23)

Mental Health/Neuroscience

Peter Crino, MD, PhD (Neurology) discusses rates of Alzheimer's disease in Maryland and new treatments on the horizon.

Peter Crino, MD, PhD (Neurology) also comments on police encounters involving people with dementia.

Seth Ament, PhD (Institute for Genomic Sciences/Psychiatry) discusses his research for an article about why studying mental health in the Old Order Amish is important to the broader population.

Margaret McCarthy, PhD (UM-MIND/Pharmacology) describes how sex and the immune system are players in certain brain conditions.

Vaping: Long-Term Health Effects

Jason Rose, MD, MBA (Medicine) is featured in national media commenting on vaping and a new CDC report showing 1 in 10 young adults use e-cigarettes.

Reproductive Health

Jessica Lee, MD, MPH (Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences) provides important perspective on the FDA's approval of the first over-the-counter birth control pill.

Legalization of Cannabis

Eric Weintraub, MD, (Psychiatry), Asaf Keller, PhD, (Neurobiology), and Daniel Gingold, MD, (Emergency Medicine) were quoted in news stories after participating in a press briefing on the legalization of cannabis in Maryland.

Cancer

Rodney Taylor, MD, MPH (Otorhinolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery) provides advice to Black patients with head and neck cancer on questions to ask their doctor.

Phuoc Tran, MD, PhD (Radiation Oncology) discusses his new study using focused radiation to treat micro metastases in prostate cancer patients.

Chris D'Adamo, PhD (Family & Community Medicine) provides advice on using the artificial sweetener aspartame after it was declared a possible carcinogen by the World Health Organization.

Violence and Trauma

Thomas Scalea, MD (Surgery) discusses the emergency medical responses to the deadly mass shooting in Brooklyn Homes over July 4th weekend.

Infectious Disease

Andrea Berry, MD, and Miriam Laufer, MD, (Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health/Pediatrics) participated in multiple media interviews to discuss locally-acquired malaria cases in Florida and Texas.

Personal Health

Scott Jerome, DO, (Medicine) discusses the sudden cardiac arrest of Bronny James and what it means for young athletes.

Christopher Miller, MD (Psychiatry) writes a consumer advice column about getting out of unhealthy relationships.

Alice Ryan, PhD (Medicine) is interviewed in on a study on weight loss among older veterans.

Nadia Sam-Agudu, MD (Pediatrics) discusses shortage of a key syphilis drug.

Lisa Schocket, MD (Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences) discusses rise in age-related macular degeneration.