Your Health Lecture Series
"The Senior Moment: Laugh or Worry?"
A lecture addressing memory disorders in multiple ways.
Thursday, March 31, 2011
7:00 PM
Reynolds Recital Hall, Hedgcock Building
Northern Michigan University
Free and open to the public.
Kevin Foley, MD, FACP
... is director of academic and clinical operations in
Geriatrics in the
Department of Family Medicine.
His primary role is to provide academic leadership of geriatric medicine at MSU. His key responsibilities include developing a statewide network of fellowship programs in geriatric medicine in affiliation with existing MSU Family Medicine residency training programs; assuming directorship of one of the fellowship training programs; teaching geriatric medicine to residents in the colleges of Human Medicine and Osteopathic Medicine;
and instructing medical students.
In addition to providing clinical care at the Sparrow Senior Health Center, he serves as Medical Director of the Alzheimer’s Disease and Memory Disorders Service in the neuroscience department at Saint Mary’s Health Care in Grand Rapids. He holds a secondary academic appointment in the CHM Department of Medicine.
Education:
- 1986 MD, Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia
- 1986-1987 Internship, Internal Medicine, The University of Michigan Hospitals, Ann Arbor
- 1987-1989 Residency, Internal Medicine, The University of Michigan Hospitals, Ann Arbor
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1989-1991 Fellowship, Geriatric Medicine, The University of Michigan Hospitals, Ann Arbor
Board Certification:
- Diplomate, American Board of Internal Medicine, September 1989
- Diplomate, Geriatric Medicine, April 1992, Recertified November 2001
http://www.healthteam.msu.edu/News.aspx?ID=97
http://www.smmmc.org/clinicalservices/neuroscience/treatments/alzheimers.shtml
Recent Lecture Series Presentations included:
February 3 & 4:
"Endometrial and Ovarian Cancer: Basic Facts and Research Priorities"
7:00 PM
Reynolds Recital Hall, Hedgcock Building
John Risinger, Ph.D. Oncology/Tissue Banking
Risinger followed an alternative career path that bypassed the customary postdoctoral fellowship and
found himself with Barrett, he said, “the beneficiary of a very forward-thinking guy.”
(Photo courtesy of Geri Kelly and the MSU College of Human Medicine)
Former NIEHS Scientist to Direct Gynecologic Oncology
Research at Michigan State
By Eddy Ball
May 2009
John Risinger, Ph.D., who began his career as a biologist at NIEHS in 1989, is the new director of Gynecologic Oncology Research at the Michigan State University (MSU) College of Human Medicine community-based program in Grand Rapids, Mich. The MSU program works in conjunction with Spectrum Health and the Van Andel Institute.
Risinger will begin his work building a laboratory research team that will
eventually move to facilities at the Van Andel Institute.
Spectrum Health Executive Vice President Matt Van Vranken described the appointments of “highly acclaimed senior investigators” Risinger and colleague Jack Lipton, Ph.D., as “the latest step in building a research and health care hub in West Michigan.” Risinger said of his new position,
"We really want to take my program to another level, where we will try to integrate things we see in the lab with problems we see in patients and then try to find some solutions."
Risinger joined MSU (http://humanmedicine.msu.edu/index.asp) following two-and-one-half years as director of the women’s cancer program at the Curtis and Elizabeth Anderson Cancer Institute at Memorial University Medical Center (MUMC) in Savannah, Ga. — a two-state healthcare organization serving a 35-county area in southeast Georgia and southern South Carolina.
While he was at MUMC, Risinger was principal investigator on the Obesity and Cancer Program project, which was funded by a $3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense.
During his ten years at NIEHS, Risinger worked with former Scientific Director J. Carl Barrett, Ph.D., as a biologist and later as a staff scientist. In 1997, he completed his doctorate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in Molecular Biology and Genetics while working full time at the Institute. When Barrett left NIEHS to work in the Laboratory of Biosystems in the Cancer Center for Cancer Research at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), Risinger turned down an offer from Duke University and followed his mentor to NCI.
Risinger described his time at NIEHS as “far and away my best experience in science” and a “truly unbelievable experience.” He was working within the Laboratory of Molecular Carcinogenesis led by Barrett in the mid-nineties when discovery of the BRCA1 gene linked to breast cancer brought NIEHS Principal Investigator Roger Wiseman, Ph.D., and Andrew Futreal, Ph.D. — and the young Institute — national fame.
Risinger was also on hand when another Barrett-led team identified, isolated and cloned the KAI1 gene that was able to suppress the spread of prostate cancer in animals. At the same time, Risinger and colleagues Tom Kunkel, Ph.D., and Asad Umar, Ph.D., were working on identification and understanding the role of mismatch repair genes in cancers. All of this together created an exciting atmosphere.
Risinger is a modest man, who attributes much of his meteoric rise in the field of gynecologic oncology to serendipity. Working with Barrett and other mentors, such as Principal Investigators Kunkel and Wiseman, the young scientist juggled a full-time job and a rigorous Ph.D. program.
Choosing to stay with Barrett instead of pursuing the usual postdoctoral fellowship track, Risinger immersed himself in cancer research and developed a network with leading figures in the field, including gynecologic oncologists at Walter Reed Medical Center, which he credits with helping him combine bench science with clinical research in primary care settings.
Looking back, Risinger is amazed by the way his career has unfolded.
“I could easily have gotten stuck in a non-productive postdoctoral experience,”
he said, “but I was able to take advantage of the latitude Carl enjoyed as scientific director.”
When he was at NIEHS in the mid-nineties, he recalled,
I would never have guessed where I would be today.”
October 14 & 15:
George Abela, M.D. Cardiologist
Thursday, October 14, 2010
7 PM
Reynolds Recital Hall, Hedgecock Building
Free and Open to the Public
Public Lecture:
"How Heart Attacks and Strokes Occur"
A lecture on an imperative discovery pertaining to heart health.
Chief of the cardiology division in Michigan State University's
College of Human Medicine, George Abela, MD, MSc, MBA,
has discovered a major breakthrough in medical findings.
A team, led by Dr. Abela, has recently found that cholesterol crystals
in a cardiovascular system can lead indefinitely to heart attacks and strokes.
Abela is a graduate of the American University of Beirut as well as
Michigan State University, where he earned his MBA. He has been
named one of America's Top Cardiologist and Best Doctors in America
and received the Consumer's Research of America Award.
Friday, October 15, 2010
Grand Rounds for Medical Students & Residents:
"Potential Mechanism of Plaque Rupture and Thrombosis During
Acute Cardiovascular Events"
http://news.msu.edu/story/6099/
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v464/n7293/fig_tab/nature08938_F2.html
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