MedTips: Awards and announcements

 

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and Department of Agriculture have appointed Christopher Taylor, professor and director of medical dietetics in The Ohio State University College of Medicine’s School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, to serve on the 2025 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee. Taylor is one of 20 nationally recognized nutrition and public health experts who will be updating the “Dietary Guidelines for Americans.” The committee’s review, along with public comments on its scientific report and agency input, will help inform HHS and USDA as they develop the “Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2025-2030.”

 

Dr. Michael Dick received the 2022 Jack B. Liberator Lifetime Achievement Award during the annual Ohio Emergency Medical Services Star of Life Awards ceremony. It’s the highest honor that the Ohio Department of Public Safety Division of Emergency Medical Services, the State Board of Emergency Medical, Fire and Transportation Services and the Ohio Chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians presents to health professions who provide the day-to-day lifesaving services on medicine's front lines. Dick is medical director of the emergency department at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center East Hospital and clinical professor of emergency medicine at The Ohio State University College of Medicine.

 

Ruili Xie, associate professor in the Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery at The Ohio State University College of Medicine, was awarded a $2.3 million five-year National Institutes of Health grant to study auditory nerve synaptopathy and the mechanisms underlying noise-induced hearing loss, particularly in the elderly. The research looks at the effect of noise-induced hearing loss on the function and anatomical integrity of the cochlear nucleus using a combination of electrophysiology with immunohistochemistry. The results of this research have the potential to improve current clinical interventions for hearing loss, including improving performance for cochlear implants.

 

The National Institute on Aging awarded Dr. Katherine Hunold Buck, an emergency medicine physician at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, a $1 million grant to study ways to improve the accuracy of pneumonia diagnoses in older adult emergency department patients. The aim of the five-year award, titled “Establishing and Implementing Pneumonia Diagnosis in ED Older Adults: A Mixed Methods Approach,” is to investigate novel testing and develop new diagnostic pathways.

 

The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center’s Advanced Practice Provider Fellowship has received a four-year accreditation from the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation in Practice Transition Programs. The premier accreditation is for fellowship programs that transition advanced practice registered nurses into new practice settings. Ohio State is one of only 26 accredited programs. The James Oncology and Critical Care Advanced Practice Fellowship was first accredited in 2016 and 2019. In 2019, the fellowship programs combined to one health system. 

 

The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center has been named a 2022 Climate Champion by Health Care Without Harm. The medical center was among 50 health care institutions worldwide to earn awards for various achievements/goals including setting a carbon neutral goal by 2050, sourcing 16% carbon neutral electricity on main campus and 100% at offsite locations, reducing anesthesia gas emissions and integrating climate and health topics into medical school curriculum. Ohio State received silver awards in renewable energy, climate resilience and climate leadership.

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