Department of Medicine at the
University of
Colorado Denver
Second Quarter 2006 News
Departmental education leadership - New recruits and positions:
Sean Colgan, PhD - currently a Professor at the Harvard Medical School and is based at the Center for Experimental Therapeutics at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston where he is the Associate Director of this Center. Sean has been recruited by Hugo Rosen to join the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology as an Endowed Professor. Sean’s research focus is in the area of mucosal biology including leukocyte-cell interactions, regulation of epithelial structure and function during inflammation and transcriptional signaling by hypoxia during inflammation. Sean is currently funded by two RO1 Grants, an NIH R-21 grant and a NIH P50 award. Sean is the Chairman of the National Scientific Advisory Research Training Awards Committee of the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America and has served for nine years on the Editorial Boards of the American Journal of Physiology (Cell Physiology as well as Gastroenterology and Liver Physiology). Sean has published more than 90 peer-reviewed articles in high impact journals including the J Clin Invest, J Immunol, J Exp Med and Proc National Acad Sci. Please join me in congratulating Hugo Rosen on this important recruitment. It is anticipated that Dr. Colgan will collaborate with many UCD faculty members as Dr. Colgan builds a scientific foundation for a comprehensive Inflammatory Bowel Diseases Study Group.
Marc Moss, MD - currently on the faculty at Emory University where he is the Chief of the Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Grady Memorial Hospital and Director of the Medical Intensive Care Unit at Grady. Previously, Marc directed the Medical Intensive Care Unit at Emory University. Marc has been recruited by Mark Geraci as a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Division to Head that Division’s Section of Critical Care Medicine. Marc is funded by an NIH RO1 grant, an NIAA Alcohol Research Center grant and is the site director on a SCCOR grant. Marc has received more than 10 formal excellence in teaching and excellence in mentoring awards from students and housestaff at Emory and has played significant roles on several NHLBI Working Groups and committees of the American Thoracic Society. Marc is an expert on clinical and research aspects of acute lung injury/adult respiratory distress syndrome. Marc has more than 60 publications and many of his peer-reviewed publications are in outstanding journals such as the New Eng J Med, JAMA, J Clin Invest, Am J Resp Crit Care, Am J Physiol, and Crit Care Med. Marc will oversee the Pulmonary and Critical Care Division’s Intensive Care Unit programs and serve as Head of the UCD’s ARDS Network NIH grant. Please extend your congratulations to Mark Geraci for his efforts in recruiting Marc to join us. Dr. Moss’ presence will ensure continued development and excellence of our critical care research, clinical and scholarly programs.
Eva Aagaard, MD - will be the Associate Chair, Education for the Department of Medicine effective 15 August 2006 and will have her academic home, as an Associate Professor, in the Division of General Internal Medicine. Eva is an AOA graduate of Cornell University College of Medicine and did her internal medicine housestaff training as well as a Teaching and Research Fellowship in General Internal Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) where Eva is currently on the faculty. Eva has received two awards for excellence in teaching in the Department of Medicine at UCSF and has been elected to the Academy of Medical Educators at UCSF. Eva has had a productive scholarly career with research into optimal methods of student and houseofficer education and in the field of mentoring with publications in journals such as Academic Medicine, Am J Medicine, J Gen Intern Med, and J Health Communications. Eva has an Academy of Medical Educators Health Innovations grant and is a Co-PI on an RO1 grant. Eva is acknowledged as a superior and innovative clinician/educator and will oversee our student educational programs in addition to participating significantly in our housestaff and fellowship training programs and leading other Departmental educational activities.
