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Adriana Palade Named Interim Neurology Chair at University of Louisville
Adriana E. Palade, MD was appointed as Interim Chair of the Department of Neurology at the University of Louisville in July 2023, succeeding Dr. Kerri Remmel. She obtained her medical degree at the University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Carol Davila” in Bucharest, Romania in 1995 and completed Neurology Residency at University Hospital in Bucharest, Romania in 1997. She subsequently immigrated to the United States where she completed her US neurology residency training at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh, PA in 2001 followed by a Clinical Neurophysiology Fellowship at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, NC in 2002. She then joined the West Virginia University Department of Neurology where she served as Director of the EEG Laboratory/ Epilepsy Monitoring Unit for 13 years before moving to Louisville.
Dr. Palade joined the faculty at U of L in 2015. She currently serves as Director of the Neurology Residency Program, Director of the Epilepsy Surgical Program, Chief of the Division of Epilepsy and Vice Chair for Service of the Neurology C.A.R.E.S Committee. In June 2019, the residents voted Dr. Palade as “Best Teaching Faculty at UofL Neurology”, and in July 2022, UofL medical students selected her as a Student Champion, a faculty member who goes above and beyond their duties to provide exceptional or critical support to students during their Neurology rotations.
Dr. Palade is Board-Certified in Neurology (2002), Clinical Neurophysiology (2007), Sleep Medicine (2007) and Epilepsy (2014). Nationally, she serves on ABPN Clinical Neurophysiology Subspecialty Examination Committee (since 2009) and the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) Annual Meeting Review Committee (since 2013).
Please welcome Dr. Palade to the AUPN!
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Nominations Open for American Neurological Association Awards
The 2024 ANA Awards Program is now accepting nominations. There are a variety of awards recognizing excellence for different career stages, styles and subspecialties. Please encourage people in your networks to self-nominate or to nominate a colleague for one of ANA’s prestigious awards. Award winners will be recognized in conjunction with the ANA2024 meeting in Orlando, Florida, September 14 – 17, 2024. Many awards include travel funding to support attending the Annual Meeting. The ANA website has information and nomination forms for the various prizes.
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Leadership Minute
This month’s leadership minute is entitled “VA Neurology Research Opportunities,“ presented by Rebecca Spain (Oregon Health & Science University) and moderated by Shreyas Gangadhara (University of Mississippi). The VA provides a wide range of research opportunities including basic sciences, clinical trials, epidemiology, and health services research. Unique to VA research are VA-specific funding mechanisms, centralized research infrastructures, the Million Veteran Program, the largest national clinical database, and others. Tune in to find out how your VA faculty can take advantage of these research support opportunities.
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New AUPN Corner Column in Annals of Neurology
A new column entitled “Furthering Female Faculty: An ANA/AUPN Perspective” has been published in the Annals of Neurology, our second in collaboration with the American Neurological Association. This piece grew from discussions at the 23rd Annual Women of the ANA Annual Luncheon – “Paving a Path Forward for Women Despite Challenges in Academic Neurology: A Focus on Solutions” and highlights the challenges women face in the academic workplace including salary disparities, delays to promotion, and the loss of female faculty in the upper academic ranks. The article also suggests strategies for improving conditions for women in academic neurology. You can link to the article here.
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Save the Date: AUPN Spring Chairs Session
The 2024 AUPN Spring Chairs Session, entitled “Promoting Research Among Residents & Fellows,” will occur online Friday, May 3rd at 3-5 PM Eastern, 2-4 PM Central and 12-1 PM Pacific Time. The program will be moderated by David Standaert (Univ. of Alabama at Birmingham) with guest speakers Mitchell S. Elkind (Columbia Univ.), Krish Sathian (Penn State Health) and Aaron Nelson (NYU Langone Health). Engaging residents in research is essential for developing the next generation of physician-scientists. The session will describe how to overcome obstacles to resident research including time constraints, difficulty with connecting residents with mentors, and finding financial support for resident research. This session will help you find new ways to promote participation of neurology residents in research.
The program is targeted at chairs, but residency program directors and others may be interested as well. You can register for the complimentary Spring Chairs Program here.
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So long, and thanks for all the fish!
This is my final edition of the NeuroTransmitter monthly newsletter, as I leave the presidency of the AUPN in the capable hands of John England (Louisiana State University). It has been an honor to serve as your AUPN president. We have accomplished a lot in the past 2 years: establishing an endowment fund, publishing columns in the Annals of Neurology, partnering with NeurologyLive to broaden our outreach, creating an AUPN faculty leadership award, broadening our membership criteria, and planning for our first in-person Annual AUPN meeting in conjunction with the ANA meeting in Orlando next September. I am confident that the AUPN will continue to “shape the future of neurology as the voice of its academic leaders,” and look forward to great things from this organization in the years to come.
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With highest regards,
L. John Greenfield, Jr, MD PhD
AUPN President
AUPN encourages you to forward this newsletter to other faculty in your department, or anyone else who might benefit from our programs.
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Open Neurology Leadership Positions
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