VCOM - Carolinas 2017 Yearbook

CAROLINAS FACULTY AND STAFF

STAFF

David Jaynes, PhD, was appointed to the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Experimental and Clinical Research. He was a participant in the National Board

neurodegenerative disease” Frontiers in Neuroscience, 11: 1-7, 2017. Dr. McKinney presented the following posters in 2016-2017: • “Creation of Neural Cell Models of Gaucher Disease Type 2 from Patient Derived Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells to Study Mechanisms of Disease”, Cindy McKinney and Katherine Baumgarner, presented at Society of Neuroscience meeting, San Diego, November 2016. • “Patient Derived Neural Cells to study neuronopathic Gaucher Disease (GD2) Mechanisms in the Brain” Cindy McKinney and Katherine Baumgarner, VCOM Research Day (Carolinas) 2016. • 16th International Genetics Congress, 2016, ““Creating a neurodegenerative model of Gaucher Type 2, a lysosomal storage disorder, using hiPSC to generate neural cells” Cindy McKinney, PhD and Katherine Baumgarner, M.S., Dalian China April 2016. • Gaucher Disease Type 2: A Lysosomal “Inborn Error” of Neurodegeneration, Kathy Herman, Jin Young Kim, Katherine Baumgarner, and Cindy McKinney, VCOM-CC Research Day, April, 2017. • Danon Disease: Molecular Modeling of a Lysosomal Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy, Katherine Baumgarner and Cindy McKinney, VCOM-CC Research Day, April 2017 Spartanburg’s Way to Wellville initiative as co- chair for the Access to Care for the Uninsured Committee, and the Road to Better Health Advisory Board as member-at-large. Dr. Stoner also presented the following: Virginia, the Carolinas, and Alabama. Panel presentation delivered at the Appalachian Studies Association Annual Meeting, Blacksburg, VA, March 2017. • Stoner, AM. Mindfulness in Medicine: Promotion Physician and Patient Wellness. Presentation. Regional Osteopathic Medical Education Meeting. Asheville, NC, June 2017. • Meacham, S., Stoner, AM., Callahan, C. On the trail of our Appalachian mission – VCOM in Alexis Stoner, PhD, MPH, participated in

Lori Kopf, MEd, completed her Master’s Degree in higher education from the University of South Carolina in August 2016. Natalie Brown is currently serving the national Higher Education Web Professionals Association as marketing and communications liaison for the organization’s

of Osteopathic Medical Examiners (NBOME) 2017 COMAT Foundational, as well as the Biomedical Sciences Item Writing Workshop for the discipline of Neurosciences. Dr. Jaynes was selected by VCOM students as Biomedical Professor of the Block during Block Three in 2016-2017.

Teresa Kilgore, DO, serves as a member of the Columbia Free Clinic Medical Affairs Committee. She presented posters and presentations at the 2017 VCOM-Carolinas

membership and marketing advisory boards. She contributed to the efforts of the Division of Communications, Marketing, Website and Publications in receiving a Bronze Award from the 2016 International Annual Report Competition (ARC), as well as three gold and three silver awards for design and photography from the Collegiate Advertising Awards in 2016.

Research Day for clinical research in (1) lipid treatment compliance, and (2) improved wound healing using OMM lymphatic techniques. During the 2016-2017 year, Dr. Kilgore participated in the following: • NBOME Item writer meeting in Chicago for the CDM - committee 2016 and 2017 • NBOME Item Writer meeting for the POCKET committee 2017 • SCMA Education CME session May 2017 • ACOI conference in Oct 2016- California

Lily Knights contributed to the efforts of the Division of Communications, Marketing, Website and Publications in receiving

a Bronze Award from the 2016 International Annual Report Competition (ARC), as well as three gold and three silver awards for design and photography from the Collegiate Advertising Awards in 2016. She participated in fine art exhibitions at both the Spartanburg County Museum of Art and the Carlos Mosely Gallery in 2016. In 2017, her work was accepted into the 5th Annual Juried Exhibition of the Spartanburg County Public Libraries.

Cindy McKinney, PhD, was an associate guest editor of special topic in Frontiers in Neuroscience, “Exosomes, Neurodegeneration and

Therapy” in 2016-2017. She served on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Research, and on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Cellular Toxicology and Cell Biology. She had two publications in 2016-2017: • CE McKinney, “Exosomes: Extracellular Communicators of Heath and Disease”, J. Translational Science 2: [DOI: 10.15761/ JTS.1000157] 2016. (invited review) • Sarko, D. and C. McKinney, “Exosomes: Origins and therapeutic potential for

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