$10.1 MILLION
FY 2015-2016 GRANT REVENUE
PRIMARY CARE RESEARCH
STRATEGY LAUNCHED
SEBASTIAN DIAZ, PH.D., J.D.
KEVIN LEE, PH.D.
CHUNMIN LO, PH.D.
A FOCUS ON
DIABETES RESEARCH
CRAIG NUNEMAKER, PH.D.
BERKELEY FRANZ, PH.D.
FRANCIS WYMBS, PH.D.
VISHWAJEET PURI, PH.D.
Our faculty engaged in primary care research are
benefitting from an initiative focused on increasing
health systems sciences scholarship. We are
building targeted, interdisciplinary research groups
and offering grant and project development and
management. Expansion of the primary care
research faculty is underway; we hired three new
primary care faculty researchers in 2015-2016.
THE CLINICAL & TRANSLATIONAL
RESEARCH UNIT
“Our four new researchers, made possible
through OHF support, are part of a cluster
hire intended to deepen our research around
obesity, diabetes and related conditions. We
see research as a critical part of our college’s
mission to address complex, chronic health
problems and improve the well-being of the
populations we serve.”
supported 17 research studies for 10
principal investigators and their research
teams, resulting in 1,273 study visits by
417 unique study participants.
KEN JOHNSON, D.O. | Heritage College
executive dean, on the September 2015 hiring
of four new faculty researchers with expertise
in diabetes-related medical research
OUR ANATOMY PROFESSORS MADE SIGNIFICANT DISCOVERIES –
AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS – WITH THEIR PALEONTOLOGY RESEARCH
A Basal Lithostrotian Titanosaur
(Dinosauria: Sauropoda) with a
Complete Skull: Implications for
the Evolution and Paleobiology of
Titanosauria. Rubén D. F. Martínez,
Matthew C. Lamanna, Fernando E.
Novas, Ryan C. Ridgely, Gabriel
A. Casal, Javier E. Martínez, Javier R.
Vita, Lawrence M. Witmer. PLOS
One April 26, 2016.
Cranial osteology of the
ankylosaurian dinosaur formerly
known as Minmi sp. (Ornithischia:
Thyreophora) from the Lower
Cretaceous Allaru Mudstone of
Richmond, Queensland, Australi.
Lucy G. Leahey, Ralph E. Molnar,
Kenneth Carpenter, Lawrence M.
Witmer, Steven W. Salisbury. Peer
J, December 8, 2015.
Oligocene Termite Nests with
In Situ Fungus Gardens from the
Rukwa Rift Basin, Tanzania, Support
a Paleogene African Origin for
Insect Agriculture. Eric M. Roberts,
Christopher N. Todd, Duur K. Aanen,
Tânia Nobre, Hannah L. HilbertWolf, Patrick M. O’Connor, Leif
Tapanila, Cassy Mtelela, Nancy J.
Stevens. PLOS One June 22, 2016.
The Antarctic Peninsula
Paleontology Project (AP3) is
a National Science Foundationfunded research team of
vertebrate paleontologists from
multiple institutions including Pat
O’Connor and Eric Gorscak.
www.antarcticdinosours.org