Newsmakers
Dr.
Buckley aids NIH initiative
Dr. Peter Buckley, chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Health Behavior, will help review applications for a National Institutes of Health initiative to ensure adequate numbers of well-trained scientists working in biomedical, behavioral and clinical research.
The review follows a request for applications from the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke for renewal of Institutional Research Training Programs: Increasing Diversity, training grants supporting national or regional programs originally funded in 2002.
Dr. Buckley chairs the NIMH’s Schizophrenia, Elderly and Spectrum Disorders Review Committee. He has previously served on NIMH’s Schizophrenia Interventional Special Emphasis Panels, its Data Safety and Monitoring Board Subcommittee and the NIMH’s Loan Repayment Program Special Review Panel. Dr. Buckley is a member of the Scientific Council of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, the Steering Committee of the International Society for CNS (central nervous system) Drug Development’s Schizophrenia Initiative and the Board of Directors of the National Foundation for Mental Health. He is president-elect of the American Association of Chairs of Departments of Psychiatry.
He is an examiner for the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, an editor of the Journal of Dual Diagnosis, an editorial board member of five journals, including Psychiatric Times and Academic Psychiatry, an annual co-editor of the “Mosley Yearbook of Psychiatry” and a referee for more than 40 journals.
Dr. Buckley came to MCG in 2000 from Case Western Reserve University where he was vice chair of the Department of Psychiatry and medical director for the state psychiatric services in Cleveland. He earned his medical degree from Ireland’s University College Dublin School of Medicine. He completed internships at St. Vincent’s University Hospital in Dublin before completing a psychiatry residency and research fellowship at St. John of God Psychiatric Services in Dublin.
Dr.
Quarles appointed chair of national committee
Dr. Shirley Quarles, associate professor of health environments and systems in the School of Nursing, has been appointed chair of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Advisory Committee on Women Veterans.
The 14-member committee assesses the needs of women veterans for VA programs including compensation, rehabilitation, outreach and health care, then makes improvement recommendations to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs. Dr. Quarles will serve on the committee until 2008.
Dr. Quarles came to MCG in January from the Atlanta Research and Education Foundation at the Atlanta VA Medical Center, where she was director of the Women’s Health Research Initiatives Program. She also served as an affiliate professor at the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing at Emory University. Previously, she was director of nursing for Student Health Services at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
A colonel in the U.S. Army Reserves, Dr. Quarles serves as the clinical consultant for the Third Medical Command based in Fort Gillem, Ga., where she oversees organization and training support for all medical deployable assets for the Army Reserves.
She is a past recipient of the Army Service Ribbon, the Army Commendation Medal with Two Oak Leaf Clusters, the National Defense Service Medal and the Meritorious Service Medal with Two Oak Leaf Clusters. She is a member of the American and Georgia Nursing associations, Sigma Theta Tau Nursing Honor Society, the Association of Military Surgeons United States and the Senior Army Reserve Command Association.
Dr. Quarles received a bachelor’s degree in nursing from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, a master’s degree in community health education from UNC-Greensboro, a doctorate in higher education administration and research from North Carolina State University and a master’s degree in strategic studies from the U.S. Army War College. She completed postdoctoral studies in clinical nursing interventions at Emory University.
Obituaries
The MCG community extends condolences to the family and friends of:
Mildred S. Brewer, 72, a retired coder in Health Information Management Services, who died Oct. 25. She worked at MCG from 1981-99.