Outstanding faculty research rewarded
USF Health faculty members received four of the 10 awards presented Oct. 11 at the Research Exhibition & Faculty Awards Reception in the Interdisciplinary Research Building (IDRB) Galleria. The Outstanding Research Achievement Award rewards faculty who have received truly exceptional recognition of their research with preeminent awards, grants or publications in top journals during the 2009 calendar year.
Amina Alio, PhD, and Thomas Unnasch, PhD, both of the College of Public Health; Cecile Lengacher, PhD, College of Nursing; and Eric Storch, PhD, College of Medicine, were among the researchers honored at the event:
Dr. Amina Alio, assistant professor of community and family health, College of Public Health, last year published 21 peer-reviewed articles, including a seminal paper in the high-impact journal Lancet on the link between intimate partner violence on potentially-preventable fetal loss. Dr. Alio serves on the National Commission on Paternal Involvement and Pregnancy Outcomes.
Dr. Cecile Lengacher, professor and director of the BS-PhD program in the College of Nursing, received a five-year NIH R01 grant “Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Symptom Cluster Trial for Breast Cancer Survivors” from the National Cancer Institute and received supplemental ARRA funding, with total funding in excess of $3 million dollars. In her letter of nomination, Dr. Lengacher’s research accomplishments in 2009 were cited as a contributing factor in the college vaulting from a rank of number 66 to 33 in annual funding from NIH.
Dr. Eric Storch, associate professor of pediatrics, College of Medicine, received grant funding from the National Institute of Child Health & Development, titled: CBT for Anxiety Disorders in Autism: Adapting Treatment for Adolescents and the All Children’s Hospital Research Foundation, with funding of more than $1 million. He was cited as among the most prolific young faculty members in submitting and obtaining research awards and publishing research articles, primarily as a senior author.
Dr. Thomas Unnash, professor and State of Florida World Class Scholar, Global Health Infectious Disease Research Program, College of Public Health, has made extraordinary contributions in global infectious disease research, winning two American Recovery and Investments Act Awards, and continued uninterrupted funding from the NIH. In 2009, Dr. Unnasch, who serves on several editorial boards, was appointed editor-in-chief of Research and Reports in Tropical Medicine and was selected to the USF Academy of Inventors.
To view all faculty honored by the USF Office of Research and Innovation at this year’s Outstanding Research Achievement Awards, click here.
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