Emory Clinic is first ambulatory facility in Georgia to achieve Magnet designation for nursing excellence

Emory Clinic is the first ambulatory or outpatient practice in Georgia to receive the prestigious Magnet recognition from the American Nursing Credentialing Center (ANCC) as a reflection of its nursing professionalism, teamwork and superiority in patient care. Winship’s outpatient care is provided through the Emory Clinic.

Winship investigators to present at ASCO annual meeting

Winship investigators will present new findings, including innovative approaches to preventing, detecting, treating and surviving cancer, at the American Society of Clinical Oncology annual meeting, to be held in Chicago, June 3-7. Additionally, five Winship faculty and trainees were given awards from ASCO.

Winship Town Hall set for June 14

Join the Winship executive leadership team for a town hall meeting on June 14 from 5 to 6 p.m. in the Health Sciences Research Building Auditorium. The in-person event, which will be live-streamed and recorded, will include discussion of the new Winship Strategic Plan and its expected impact on Winship's continued growth over the next five years. A reception will follow.

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Winship members receive HERCULES pilot grants

Lauren E. McCullough, PhD, MSPH, and Christine Ekenga, PhD, MPH, have received pilot grants from Emory’s HERCULES Exposome Research Center. The grants will fund McCullough’s study of the legacy of redlining on the burden of air quality and breast cancer outcomes in Georgia, and Ekenga’s study of mobile health for monitoring social and environmental exposures in low-income areas.

Branella receives grant to advance CAR T-cell therapy for acute myeloid leukemia

Gianna Branella, a doctoral student in the lab of Winship member H. Trent Spencer, PhD, has received a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (F31) from the National Cancer Institute. The grant will support her study of a new, non-genotoxic conditioning regimen that aims to advance the use of CAR T-cell therapy in patients with acute myeloid leukemia.

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Pentz provides bioethicist’s perspective on new liver transplant study

Quoted in a news article for Nature, Winship bioethicist Rebecca Pentz, PhD, discusses ethical considerations related to a study by New York University researchers of the first genetically modified pig kidneys transplanted into humans.

Childhood cancer survivor becomes pediatric cancer nurse

Julia York, who was treated for a childhood brain tumor by Winship radiation oncologist Natia Esiashvili, MD, is starting her career as a pediatric hematology/oncology nurse in Alabama. York and Esiashvili were featured on FOX 5 Atlanta in a segment that aired on May 25.

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Riley to present on engineered T cells

James L. Riley, PhD, professor of microbiology at the University of Pennsylvania, will present, "Engineered T cells for Tumors, HIV and Organ Transplant," at Emory's Microbiology and Immunology Lecture Series in Whitehead Auditorium on June 1 at 11 a.m.

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On Oct. 1, 2022, Emory Healthcare will launch Epic as its new electronic medical record platform. Visit Emory’s dedicated SharePoint site to learn more about the platform, implementation process, training requirements and class registration.

Below are four selected Winship publications out of 42 published over the past week:

Stokes WA, Behera M, Jiang R, Gutman DA, Huang Z, Burns A, Sebastian NT, Sukhatme V, Lowe MC, Ramalingam SS, Sukhatme VP, Moghanaki D. Impact of concomitant fibrates on immunotherapy outcomes for advanced non-small cell lung cancer. Cancer Medicine. 2022; PubMed PMID: 35607930.

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Yeo KK, Alexandrescu S, Cotter JA, Vogelzang J, Bhave V, Li MM, Ji J, Benhamida JK, Rosenblum MK, Bale TA, Bouvier N, Kaneva K, Rosenberg T, Lim Fat MJ, Ghosh H, Martinez M, Aguilera D, Smith A, Goldman S, Diamond EL, Gavrilovic I, MacDonald TJ, Wood MD, Nazemi KJ, Truong AL, Cluster A, Ligon KL, Cole K, Bi WL, Margol AS, Karajannis MA, Wright KD. Multi-institutional study of the frequency, genomic landscape and outcome of IDH-mutant glioma in paediatrics. Neuro-oncology. 2022; PubMed PMID: 35604410.

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Butner JD, Dogra P, Chung C, Ruiz-Ramírez J, Nizzero S, Plodinec M, Li X, Pan PY, Chen SH, Cristini V, Ozpolat B, Calin GA, Wang Z. Dedifferentiation-mediated stem cell niche maintenance in early-stage ductal carcinoma in situ progression: insights from a multiscale modeling study. Cell Death & Disease. 2022; 13(5):485. PubMed PMID: 35597788.

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Brock KE, DeGroote NP, Roche A, Lee A, Wasilewski K. The Supportive Care Clinic: a novel model of embedded pediatric palliative oncology care. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. 2022; PubMed PMID: 35618251.

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