Listed below are speaking engagements, publications, and conducted studies for select CME Enterprise team members.

Bruce J. Bellande, PhD, FACME

President

Selected Technical Reports and Studies

• “A Mississippi State-Based Program to Plan, Coordinate, and Implement Training Opportunities for Long-Term Care Provider Personnel”
• “Services Provided by the Division of Special Activities [now Division of Continuing Education], 1971-1972 through 1975-1976 and Projections for Future Service Activities” (a report prepared for the University’s Self-Study submitted to the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools)
• “A Feasibility Study: Continuing Education for Mississippi’s Health Care Team”
• “Focus on Scientific and Clinical Symposia,” 1993 and 1994 Digests (Editor)
• “Physician Profiling & Behavior Change,” 1998-Present (Editorial Advisory Board)
• “The Almanac” (Alliance for Continuing Medical Education monthly newsletter) – Managing Editor

Speaking Engagements

• Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education
  “Understanding ACCME Accreditation Workshops Faculty, 1993-2007”
• Alliance for Continuing Medical Education Annual Conferences Faculty, 1990-2007, Program Chair, 1997
• Institutes: 1998-2006 Spring Institutes "CME: The Basics"
• CME Leadership in the 21st Century Faculty for “A Case-Based Conference for Current and Future Leaders in CME” September 2002 and October 2003
  Duke University, School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina
• Ohio State Medical Association
  June 2004 and August 2006 CME Symposium, Columbus, Ohio
  (Keynote Speaker both years)
  "New Standards for Commercial Support"
  "Best Practices in Accreditation"
• 5th and 6th Annual Forum on CME
  June 2006 and 2007, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  (Keynote Speaker both years)
  "Good to Great: Lessons for CME Transition"
  "Reforming CME: A Call to Action for the Health Care Community"
• Global Alliance for Medical Education
  11th Annual Meeting, June 2006, Rome, Italy
  "Pathways to Quality CME: Maintenance of Competence for CME Professionals"
• Medical Education Congress
  May 2005 and 2006, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  "An Overview of the CME Landscape to Plan Your Communication Strategies Effectively"
  "New Methods for CME Accreditation: Maintenance of Certification for Physician Self-Assessment and Quality Improvement"
• 3rd Annual Medical Education Forum
  December 2005, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  "CME Best Practices and Compliance Fundamentals for Pharma Grants Making" and "Late-Breaking Developments in CME"
• Jefferson Medical College
  Leadership Symposium
  November 2006, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  "Medical Education in the 21st Century"
• American College of Surgeons
  Leadership Conference
  June 2005, Washington, DC
  "Accomplishing Your CME Mission"
• American Association of Hospital Education
  Fall Educational Institute
  November 2004, Boston, Massachusetts
  "Results of the Conjoint Committee on CME and the Competency -Based Continuum of Medical Education"
• American Medical Association Town Meeting
  June 2005, Chicago, Illinois
  "Pathways to Maintenance of Competence for CME Professionals"
• National Medical Association
  Spring Leadership Conference
  November 2005, Washington, DC
  "Valuable, Effective and Compliant CME: Pathways to Success"
• Pharmaceutical Alliance for CME Forum
  "CME Provider/Industry Collaboration in the New Reality"
  November 2004, Nutley, New Jersey
• CME Summits
  November 2004-2007
  "Reforming and Repositioning CME: The CME Professional's Perspective"
  "Performance Improvement in Practice"
  “Defining Physician Self-Assessment”
  
  

Anthony Choi, PhD

Medical Writer

Peer-reviewed journal publications (Selection out of 36)

• Smiley KL, McNeal MM, Basu M, Choi AH, Clements JD, Ward RL. Association of gamma interferon and interleukin-17 production in intestinal CD4+ T cells with protection against rotavirus shedding in mice intranasally immunized with VP6 and the adjuvant LT(R192G). J Virol. 2007;81(8):3740-3748.
• McNeal MM, Basu M, Bean JA, et al. Intrarectal immunization of mice with VP6 and either LT(R192G) or CTA1-DD as adjuvant protects against fecal rotavirus shedding after EDIM challenge. Vaccine. 2007;25(33):6224-6231.
• McNeal MM, Basu M, Bean JA, Clements JD, Choi AH, Ward RL. Identification of an immunodominant CD4+ T cell epitope in the VP6 protein of rotavirus following intranasal immunization of BALB/c mice. Virology. 2007;363(2):410-418.
• Choi AH, Smiley K, Basu M, et al. Protection of mice against rotavirus challenge following intradermal DNA immunization by Biojector needle-free injection. Vaccine. 2007;25(16):3215-3218.
• VanCott JL, Prada AE, McNeal MM, et al. Mice develop effective but delayed protective immune responses when immunized as neonates either intranasally with nonliving VP6/LT(R192G) or orally with live rhesus rotavirus vaccine candidates. J Virol. 2006;80(10):4949-4961.
• McNeal MM, Stone SC, Basu M, et al. Protection against rotavirus shedding after intranasal immunization of mice with a chimeric VP6 protein does not require intestinal IgA. Virology. 2006;346(2):338-347.
• Zhao W, Xia M, Bridges-Malveo T, et al. Evaluation of rotavirus dsRNA load in specimens and body fluids from experimentally infected juvenile macaques by real-time PCR. Virology. 2005;341(2):248-256.
• McNeal MM, Sestak K, Choi AH, et al. Development of a rotavirus-shedding model in rhesus macaques, using a homologous wild-type rotavirus of a new P genotype. J Virol. 2005;79(2):944-954.
• Choi AH, Smiley K, Basu M. Induction of immune responses and partial protection in mice after skin immunization with rotavirus VP6 protein and the adjuvant LT(R192G). Vaccine. 2005;23(17-18):2290-2293.
• Sestak K, McNeal MM, Choi A, et al. Defining T-cell-mediated immune responses in rotavirus-infected juvenile rhesus macaques. J Virol. 2004;78(19):10258-10264.
• McNeal MM, Belli J, Basu M, Choi AH, Ward RL. Discovery of a new strain of murine rotavirus that is consistently shed in large quantities after oral inoculation of adult mice. Virology. 2004;320(1):1-11.
• Choi AH, Basu M, McNeal MM, Bean JA, Clements JD, Ward RL. Intranasal administration of an Escherichia coli-expressed codon-optimized rotavirus VP6 protein induces protection in mice. Protein Expr Purif. 2004;38(2):205-216.
• Vancott JL, McNeal MM, Choi AH, Ward RL. The role of interferons in rotavirus infections and protection. J Interferon Cytokine Res. 2003;23(3):163-170.
• Choi AH, McNeal MM, Basu M, et al. Functional mapping of protective epitopes within the rotavirus VP6 protein in mice belonging to different haplotypes. Vaccine. 2003;21(7-8):761-767.

Richard Thielen, PhD

Medical Education Content Specialist

Addresses and Invited Presentations

• "Housing conditions alter GABA_A receptor properties in P and NP rats"
  Presented at The Annual Meeting of the Research Society on Alcoholism, June 1992
• "GABAergic Systems in Lines of Rats Selectively Bred for Disparate Alcohol-seeking Behavior"
  Presented at: The University of Southern California School of Pharmacy, Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Toxicology - February 1993; Northwestern University Medical School, Department of Molecular Pharmacology - March 1993
• "In Vivo Characterization of Two New 5-HT_1A Receptor Antagonists: p-MPPI and p-MPPF"
  Presented to: Ergo Science Corporation, Charlestown MA - January 1997; Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, IN - October 1998
• "Chronic consumption of multiple ethanol concentrations alters basal serotonin (5-HT) levels in the nucleus accumbens (Acb)"
  Presented at: The Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, October 2002
• "Chronic Alcohol Drinking Alters 5-HT3 Receptors Regulating the Mesolimbic Dopamine System"
  Presented at: The Annual Meeting of the Research Society on Alcoholism, June 2003

Publications: Chapters and Reviews

• Schweizer, E., Thielen, R.J. and Frazer, A. (1997) Venlafaxine: a novel antidepressant compound. Expert Opinion on Investigational Drugs 6:65-78.

Publications: Papers and Manuscripts

• Engleman, E.A., Ingraham, C.M., Franklin, K.M., Keith, C.M., McClaren, J.A., Schultz, J.A., Morzorati, S.L., O’Connor, S., Thielen, R.J., Murphy, J.M. and McBride, W.J. (2008) In vivo time-course changes in ethanol levels sampled with subcutaneous microdialysis. Alcohol. Clin Exp. Res. 32:435-442.
• Liu, W., Thielen, R.J., Rodd, Z.A. and McBride W.J. (2007) Activation of serotonin-3 receptors increases dopamine release within the ventral tegmental area of Wistar and alcohol-preferring (P) rats. Alcohol. 40:167-176.
• Liu, W.; Thielen, R.J. and McBride, W.J. (2006) Effects of repeated daily treatments with a 5-HT₃ receptor antagonist on functional activity of 5-HT₃ receptors within the nucleus accumbens and ventral tegmental area of Wistar rats. Pharmacol. Biochem. Behav. 84:370-377.
• Sahr, A.E., Thielen, R.J., Lumeng, L., Li, T.-K. and McBride, W.J. (2004) Long-lasting alterations of the mesolimibic dopamine system following periadolescent ethanol drinking by alcohol-preferring (P) rats. Alcohol. Clin. Exp. Res. 28:702-711.
• McBride, W.J., Lovinger, D.M., Machu, T., Thielen, R.J., Rodd, Z.A., Murphy, J.M., Roache, J.D. and Johnson, B.A. (2004) Serotonin-3 receptors in the actions of alcohol, alcohol reinforcement and alcoholism. Alcohol. Clin. Exp. Res. 28:257-267.
• Thielen R.J., Engleman, E.A., Rodd, Z.A., Murphy, J.M., Lumeng, L., Li, T.-K., and McBride, W.J. (2004) Ethanol drinking and deprivation alter dopaminergic and serotonergic function in the nucleus accumbens of alcohol-preferring (P) rats. J. Pharmacol. Exp. Ther. 309:216-225.
• Thielen R.J., Bare, D.J., McBride, W.J., Lumeng, L. and Li, T.-K. (2002) Ethanol-stimulated serotonin release in the ventral hippocampus: an absence of rapid tolerance for the alcohol-preferring P rat and insensitivity in the alcohol-nonpreferring NP rat. Pharmacol. Biochem. Behav. 71:111-117
• Thielen, R.J., Morzorati, S.L and McBride, W.J. (2001) Effects of ethanol on the dorsal raphe nucleus and its projections to the caudate putamen. Alcohol. 23:131-139.
• Bowers, B.J., Henry, M.B., Thielen, R.J., McBride, W.J. (2000) Serotonin 5 HT2 receptor stimulation of dopamine release in the posterior but not anterior nucleus accumbens of the rat. J. Neurochem. 75:1625-1633.
• Thielen, R.J., McBride, W.J., Lumeng, L. and Li, T.-K. (1998) GABA_A receptor function in the cerebral cortex of alcohol-naïve P and NP rats. Pharmacol. Biochem. Behav. 59:209-214.
• Thielen, R.J., McBride, W.J., Chernet, E., Lumeng, L. and Li, T.-K. (1997) Regional densities of benzodiazepine sites in the CNS of alcohol-naive P and NP rats. Pharmacol. Biochem. Behav. 57:875-882.
• Thielen, R.J., Fangon, N.B. and Frazer, A. (1996) 4 (2' Methoxyphenyl)-1-[2'-[N-(2"-pyridinyl)-p-iodobenzamido]ethyl] piperazine and 4 (2' methoxyphenyl)-1-[2'-[N-(2"-pyridinyl)-p fluorobenzamido]ethyl]piperazine, two new antagonists at pre- and postsynaptic serotonin-1A receptors. J. Pharmacol. Exp. Ther. 277:661-670.
• Thielen, R.J. and Frazer, A. (1995) Effects of novel 5-HT_1A receptor antagonists on measures of post-synaptic 5-HT_1A receptor activation in vivo. Life Sci. 56:PL163-PL168.
• Thielen, R.J., McBride, W.J., Lumeng, L. and Li, T.-K. (1993) Housing conditions alter GABA_A receptor of alcohol-preferring and –nonpreferring rats. Pharmacol. Biochem. Behav. 46:723-727.