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Medical College of Georgia at Augusta UniversityDaniel Albo, MD, PhD, Floyd C. Jarrell Jr., MD, Distinguished Chair in Surgical Oncology,a tenured professor of surgery, joined the medical school in August 2015. He currentlyserves as director of the cancer service line for the Georgia Cancer Center. Dr. Alboearned his medical degree magna cum laude at the University of the Republic, Uruguay,in 1991. He completed his general surgery residency and obtained a PhD in molecularpathobiology at Drexel University in Philadelphia in 2000. He completed a surgical oncologyfellowship at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in 2002 before joiningthe Medical College of Georgia, where he helped develop a surgical oncology programand a multidisciplinary MD/PhD program in oncology. He then moved to the Baylor College of Medicine inHouston in 2004, where he was the chief of general surgery and director of the operating room for the HoustonVA Medical Center. There, he developed surgical oncology and minimally invasive surgical services as well as acolorectal cancer center, the latter two being the firsts in the VA system. He was subsequently named the vicechairman of the Department of Surgery and the director for surgical network development, helping developsurgical oncology and minimally invasive surgery services throughout the Baylor system.About the ChairThe Floyd C. Jarrell Jr., MD, Distinguished Chair in Surgical Oncology was established in 2003to honor the longtime Columbus, Georgia, ophthalmologist who established West GeorgiaEye Care Center as a solo practice in 1951. The clinic is now the area’s largest multispecialtyeye care practice, with nine ophthalmologists, one optometrist and a staff of over 85. The1946 MCG graduate served on the MCG Foundation’s board of directors from 1974-84,including three terms as president – in 1978, 1979 and 1983. He was a lifetime memberof the MCG Alumni Association and served as its president in 1975. He was a memberof the Medical Association of Georgia and past president of the Muscogee CountyJarrellMedical Society. He also was a past recipient of the Dr. Clarence C. Butler Service andLeadership Award, given to individuals who have had a significant impact on the quality of health care in theColumbus region.Vincent B. Robinson, MBBS, Glen E. Garrison, MD, Distinguished Chair in CardiovascularMedicine, is a 1976 graduate of the University of the West Indies in Mona, Kingston,Jamaica, WI. He completed his internship at the Kingston Regional Hospitals Board andone year of emergency room attending, prior to relocating to Canada and completing hisinternal medicine training at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He completeda cardiology fellowship and one year of nuclear cardiology training at the Universityof Calgary, Alberta, Canada, followed by a clinical research fellowship for the AlbertaHeritage Foundation for Medical Research at the University of Calgary Foothills Hospital.He came to MCG in 1994 as the co-director of nuclear cardiology. In 2002, he was appointed director of theCardiovascular Fellowship Training Program, which under his leadership has seen an increase in the number offellows and research activity.Robinson has discovered new signs for facilitation of the interpretation of myocardial perfusion scans. Hispublication on assessment of diastolic function during myocardial perfusion imaging was published in the Journalof Nuclear Medicine in 2008 and remains as the standard physicians at MCG and others use to assess diastolicfunction during myocardial perfusion imaging. He has received patents in the United States and Europe for thePage 6

Investiture Ceremony 2016development of a new, more specific D-dimer test, which is used to rule out blood clots. He has received fundingfrom the American Heart Association and the Georgia Research Alliance. He was the Distinguished Mentor ofthe Year in the Department of Medicine 2011 and has been acknowledged twice with the Distinguished FacultyAward of the MCG Faculty Senate; in 2006 for Institutional Service and in 2015 for Clinical Research.About the ChairThe Glen E. Garrison, MD, Distinguished Chair in Cardiovascular Medicine is named for theformer chairman of community medicine, director of continuing medical education andprofessor of medicine who came to MCG in 1965 and helped design the first coronary careunit for the medical school’s hospital and still practices cardiology at the Charlie NorwoodVA Medical Center. For 10 years, Dr. Garrison also developed, directed and taught annualsix-day courses on investments and financial management for physicians, which became sopopular that they repeatedly sold out large hotel ballrooms. The separately endowed Glen E.Garrison Annual Award to Cardiology Fellows provides additional salary to the now-namedGarrisonGarrison Chief Cardiology Fellow and supports an annual Garrison lecture. Both endowedfunds require an emphasis on medical history from patients and family members, physical exam, electrocardiogramand chest X-ray.Askiel Bruno, MD, Amy G. Warren and Lamar Warren Distinguished Chair in Diabetesand Obesity in Radiology, joined the Department of Neurology in 2008. He is a principalinvestigator on the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke’s StrokeHyperglycemia Insulin Network. SHINE is a multicenter, randomized, controlled trialof 1,400 patients that aims to determine whether intravenous insulin or the traditionalinsulin shot under the skin is better for patients with acute ischemic stroke and high bloodglucose levels.He co-authored the current American Stroke Association guidelines for treatment of acute ischemic stroke.He also serves on the American Heart Association’s National Research Grant Review Committee. Dr. Brunois acknowledged as a national and international expert in the role of glucose and diabetes in acute stroke.About the ChairThe Amy G. Warren and Lamar Warren Distinguished Chair in Diabetes and Obesityin Radiology was established by 1925 alumnus Dr. Earl Warren in honor of his wife,Amy, and his brother Lamar. Three months after graduating medical school, EarlWarren was diagnosed with active tuberculosis and sent to a sanatorium in New Yorkto recover. While there, his brother, Lamar, also contracted tuberculosis but refused tolet Earl leave the sanatorium and go to work to help pay for Lamar’s care. Lamar diedin 1927.Warren’s wife, Amy, worked alongside him as a bookkeeper at his radiology practice.In his memoir, he wrote of Lamar and Amy “ of people to be grateful to, forassistance to me during my life time . . . To my brother who sacrificed his life that I might complete my recoveryand saved my life . . . my wife has been exceptionally patient with me, she has spent thousands of lonely nightswaiting for me to finish my professional duties and finish civic, fraternal and philanthropic activities. She was wife,housekeeper, secretary and bookkeeper. I know I was so very fortunate to marry her; she is a gift from heaven.”The WarrensPage 7

Medical College of Georgia at Augusta UniversityAlan J. Herline, MD, J. Harold Harrison, MD, Distinguished University Chair in Surgery,is a colon and rectal surgeon who also is vice chair of the Department of Surgery, chief ofthe Section of Minimally Invasive and Digestive Diseases Surgery and associate director ofAugusta University’s Digestive Health Center.The 1994 MCG graduate established and directed the Colon and Rectal Surgery Programat Vanderbilt University prior to joining his alma mater. Dr. Herline completed his generalsurgery residency at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, including a year as chief resident.He was a National Service Research Award Fellow in Vanderbilt’s Division of Hepatobiliary Surgery and theDepartment of Biomedical Engineering. Herline completed a colon and rectal surgery fellowship at the LaheyClinic, now Lahey Hospital and Medical Center, a teaching hospital for Tufts University School of Medicinebased in Massachusetts.His clinical expertise also includes hemorrhoids, inflammatory bowel disease, diverticulitis, rectal prolapse andrectovaginal fistula.The HarrisonsAbout the ChairThe J. Harold Harrison, MD, Distinguished University Chair in Surgery is one of 10 chairs thatwill be established by a 66 million transformational endowment gift from MCG alumnusDr. J. Harold Harrison and his wife, Sue. Harrison, a native of Kite, Georgia who came toMCG at the age of 18 and graduated in 1948, was a nationally recognized vascular surgeon.After retiring from a 50-year career, Harrison returned to his rural roots by embarking on asecond career as a cattle farmer in Bartow, Georgia. In addition to providing funding for therecruitment and retention of distinguished physician-researchers at MCG, the endowmentalso will be used to establish 48 scholarships for medical students.Balakrishna (Bal) L. Lokeshwar, PhD, J. Harold Harrison, MD, Distinguished UniversityChair in Basic Sciences, is a professor of medicine and surgery, is co-director of the GeorgiaCancer Center’s Natural Products and Cancer Initiative and of the Department ofBiochemistry and Molecular Biology’s Cancer Biology PhD Program.A native of India, he earned a master’s degree in science from Birla Institute of Technologyand Science in Pilani, a doctoral degree from the Indian Institute of Science in Bangaloreand completed postdoctoral training at Washington University School of Medicine in St.Louis. Prior to joining MCG, Dr. Lokeshwar was a faculty member at the University of Miami Miller School ofMedicine for 26 years.His research in prostate, breast and bladder cancers emphasizes inhibition of prostate cancer metastasis, tumormarkers to predict cancer progression and experimental cancer therapeutics. His focus is on understandingthe mechanism of cancer progression and enhancing existing systems of therapy, and his research group hasinvestigated the potential use of anticancer and cancer-preventive compounds from edible spice and New Worldmedicinal plants. Current projects in his laboratory include understanding the functions of CXC chemokinedriven cancer cell growth and metastasis and natural product-based adjuvant cancer therapies for prostate andbreast cancers. Lokeshwar’s research receives funding from the United States’ Veterans Health Administrationand the National Institutes of Health.Page 8

Investiture Ceremony 2016About the ChairThe J. Harold Harrison, MD, Distinguished University Chair in Surgery is one of 10 chairs thatwill be established by a 66 million transformational endowment gift from MCG alumnusDr. J. Harold Harrison and his wife, Sue. Harrison, a native of Kite, Georgia who came toMCG at the age of 18 and graduated in 1948, was a nationally recognized vascular surgeon.After retiring from a 50-year career, Harrison returned to his rural roots by embarking on asecond career as a cattle farmer in Bartow, Georgia. In addition to providing funding for therecruitment and retention of distinguished physician-researchers at MCG, the endowmentalso will be used to establish 48 scholarships for medical students.David W. Stepp, PhD, Leon Henri Charbonnier Endowed Chair for Physiology, is a vascularbiologist in the Vascular Biology Center at the Medical College of Georgia at AugustaUniversity. The chief of the Program in Metabolic Vascular Disease at the Vascular BiologyCenter and professor in the Department of Physiology has secured more than 8 million inexternal funding, primarily from the NIH, in his 15 years on the MCG faculty and publishedapproximately 75 articles in high-impact journals. His current studies focus on understandingthe cardiovascular impact of fat and disconnecting the relationship.Dr. Stepp has regularly served on NIH study sections since 2003 and was recently appointed chair of theInstitute’s Vascular Cell and Molecular Biology Study Section, which reviews researchers’ applications for grantsto study cardiovascular disease with an emphasis on the biology of endothelial and vascular smooth muscle cells.He also has chaired the American Heart Association Region II Vascular Biology and Blood Pressure Regulationstudy section.PhinizyAbout the ChairThe Leon Henri Charbonnier Endowed Chair for Physiology is one of 12 L.H. CharbonnierChairs that have been established by a gift from Bowdre Phinizy, former owner and publisherof the Augusta Herald and the Athens-Banner Herald, and his wife, Meta CharbonnierPhinizy, in memory of her father, Leon Henri Charbonnier. Charbonnier was a native ofFrance and the son of a colonel in the Imperial French Army. He was educated at St. Cyr,the French equivalent of West Point, and served in the French Army in Algiers. Becauseof health problems, he moved to Charleston, South Carolina, during the Civil War andeventually enlisted in the Confederate Army.After the war, Charbonnier moved to Athens, Georgia, where he created the Universityof Georgia’s Department of Civil Engineering. He was the architect who built the university’s Moore College,which housed the Department of Physics and Astronomy. Charbonnier became chair of that department in 1874.He later served as chancellor of the university.The Phinizy’s commitment marked the inception of the first endowment in the history of the Medical Collegeof Georgia.Page 9

Medical College of Georgia at Augusta UniversityRichard A. McIndoe, PhD, Georgia Research Alliance (GRA) Distinguished Investigator,is associate director of the MCG Center for Biotechnology and Genomic Medicine.A bioinformatics expert and Regents’ Professor, Dr. McIndoe leads the Coordinating andBioinformatics Unit for the Mouse Metabolic Phenotyping Centers, which supportslaboratory studies, and the Diabetic Complications Consortium, which supports humanand laboratory studies. He received a 7.5 million, five-year National Institute of Diabetesand Digestive and Kidney Diseases grant to support studies of the disease.McIndoe earned his PhD in immunology and molecular pathology from the University of Florida in 1991,completed a postdoctoral fellowship in molecular biotechnology at the University of Washington in 1997 andjoined the University of Florida faculty in 1999. He came to MCG in 2002.About the ChairThe award honors a faculty member of a Georgia research university who is emerging as a research anddevelopment leader in areas that align with the GRA’s strategic priorities. The award encourages universitiesto retain outstanding talent and invest in the infrastructure and technology needed to advance research towardcommercialization. The Distinguished Investigator designation is a strategic partnership to cultivate a researcherwho is of major value to the missions of his or her university as well as the state of Georgia.The Georgia Research Alliance is an internationally acclaimed model for bringing the state’s business, researchuniversities and government together to create and sustain a technology-driven economy.Michael B. Hocker, MD, J. Harold Harrison, MD, Distinguished University Chair inEmergency Medicine, is vice chair of clinical operations and professor in the Departmentof Emergency Medicine and Hospitalist Services. He joined MCG this month from theDuke Global Health Institute, where he was chief and medical director of the Divisionof Emergency Medicine.Dr. Hocker, a former emergency medicine technician, is a 1993 graduate of the Universityof Colorado School of Medicine and completed his emergency medicine residency, includinga year as chief resident, at the University of Massachusetts. During residency, he also served as a flight physicianfor the UMASS Memorial Life Flight.Hocker is a fellow of the American Academy of Emergency Medicine and the American College of EmergencyPhysicians. He is a member of the Association of Academic Chairs of Emergency Medicine and serves on itsmembership committee.About the ChairThe J. Harold Harrison, MD, Distinguished University Chair in Surgery is one of 10 chairs thatwill be established by a 66 million transformational endowment gift from MCG alumnusDr. J. Harold Harrison and his wife, Sue. Harrison, a native of Kite, Georgia who came toMCG at the age of 18 and graduated in 1948, was a nationally recognized vascular surgeon.After retiring from a 50-year career, Harrison returned to his rural roots by embarking on asecond career as a cattle farmer in Bartow, Georgia. In addition to providing funding for therecruitment and retention of distinguished physician-researchers at MCG, the endowmentalso will be used to establish 48 scholarships for medical students.Page 10

Investiture Ceremony 2016REGENTS’ PROFESSORSMichael W. Brands, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Physiology whose researchon renal mechanisms for long-term control of blood pressure in diabetes has been fundedby the NIH since 1997. He directs the physiology component and the cardiopulmonarymodule in the Phase I MCG medical curriculum, is program director for the biomedicalsciences PhD core curriculum in The Graduate School and is chair of the Augusta UniversityInstitutional Animal Care and Use Committee. Dr. Brands received a bachelor’s degree inbiology in 1983 from Rockhurst University, a small Jesuit university in his hometown ofKansas City, Missouri. He received his PhD from the University of Missouri, at the maincampus in Columbia in 1988, and then moved to Jackson, Mississippi, for postdoctoraltraining under Dr. John Hall at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. After 12 yearsin that department, he moved to MCG in 2000.Mark W. Hamrick, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Cellular Biology & Anatomywhose research in improving bone strength has been funded by the National Institutes ofHealth and the U.S. Department of the Army. Before returning to the lab, Dr. Hamrickserved as Augusta University’s senior vice president for research from 2011-14.Hamrick received the university’s 2009 Innovation in Teaching Award, 2009 and 2010Exemplary Teaching Awards and 2005 Outstanding Young Faculty Award in Basic Sciences.He earned his PhD in cellular and integrative biology from Northwestern University andcompleted postdoctoral studies at Duke. His research focuses on musculoskeletal aging andtissue regeneration.Page 11

Medical College of Georgia at Augusta UniversityNEW DEPARTMENT CHAIRSCharles W. Linder, MD, is chairman of the Department of Pediatrics.(see page 5)Vinata B. Lokeshwar, PhD, is chairwoman of the Department of Biochemistry andMolecular Biology. The cancer researcher, who studies the metastasis of prostate, bladder andkidney cancer with the goal of better diagnosis and treatment, has maintained continuousexternal funding for her research for 18 years. She is currently principal investigator on threeNational Institutes of Health grants as well as two additional grants from the Women’sCancer Association of the University of Miami to help develop a urine test for bladdercancer and pursue early diagnosis and new treatment for kidney cancer.She is a past president of the Society for Basic Urologic Research; an ad hoc member of the Research Advocacyand NIH Relations workgroup of the American Urological Association Office of Research; and recently chairedthe Bladder Cancer – Basic Research Session at the American Urological Association Annual Meeting two yearsin a row.Dr. Lokeshwar earned a PhD from St. Louis University in Missouri and completed postdoctoral studies in theDepartment of Cell Biology and Anatomy at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. During herpostdoctoral work, she completed American Heart Association and National Cancer Institute fellowships. Shejoined the university’s faculty in 1994.Page 12

Investiture Ceremony 2016EMERITUS STATUSJames E. Carroll, MD, joined the MCG faculty in 1984 as a professor of neurology,pediatrics and cell and molecular biology, leaving in 1988 to serve as a professor of pediatricsat the Kuwait University Faculty of Medicine. In 1990, during the Iraqi occupation ofKuwait, Dr. Carroll served as a staff physician at the country’s U.S. Embassy. He returnedto MCG in 1991 as director of child neurology until 2014.He earned his medical degree from the University of Louisville Medical School andcompleted an internship and first year of pediatric residency training before serving in theU.S. Navy from 1969-71. He completed a pediatric neurology fellowship at the University of Colorado MedicalCenter and a neuromuscular diseases fellowship and Muscular Dystrophy Association research fellowship atWashington University.Andrew Mellor, PhD, joined the MCG faculty in 1995 as the Georgia Research AllianceEminent Scholar in Molecular Immunogenetics.He founded and led the Institute of Molecular Medicine and Genetics’ MolecularImmunology Program until 2002 and the MCG Immunothera

Augusta University Interim CEO, AU Medical Center and AU Medical Associates Wendy Bollag, PhD . EdD - President and CEO, Medical College of Georgia Foundation ENDOWED CHAIRS . Askiel Bruno, MD - Amy G. Warren and Lamar Warren Distinguished Chair in Diabetes and Obesity in Radiology - September 2015 Alan Herline, MD - J. Harold .