2014 Departmental Small Grant Research Awards:  Lessons Learned

Ada Ho, Ph.D., Paul Croarkin, D.O., Terry Schneekloth, M.D., Marin Veldic

Introduction

Ada Ho, PhD

Presentation Title:  Orexin Signaling Medicates Ethanol Drinking Behavior in the Lateral Hypothalamic Kindled Female Rat Mania Model: The Impact of Pregnancy

Dr. Ho has been involved in substance addiction research since 2004, with a focus on the genetic association of addiction-related phenotypes in human including craving, personality traits, and cold-pain response. After obtaining her Ph.D. in 2013 from the University of Queensland, Australia, she became a postdoctoral research fellow at Mayo Clinic and works primarily on rodent models of alcoholism.

Paul Croarkin, DO

Presentation Title:  Glutamate Probes in Adolescent Depression

Paul Croarkin is an associate professor of psychiatry.  His research focuses on noninvasive brain stimulation for neurophysiologic and therapeutic studies for adolescents with mood disorders.

Terry Schneekloth, MD

Presentation Title:  Association of Psychosocial Assessment of Candidates for Transplantation (PACT) Scores with Clinical Outcomes in Heart, Lung, and Liver Transplantation

Dr. Terry Schneekloth joined the Mayo Clinic staff in the Department of Psychiatry and Psychology in 1998.  He is certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in General Psychiatry, Addiction Psychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine.  He is an Associate Professor and consultant in the Department of Psychiatry and co-chairs the Division of Addiction, Transplant and Pain.  For the past 16 years, he has developed a Transplant Addiction Psychiatry Clinic in the William von Liebig Transplant Center in Rochester and serves as the leader of a 3-site initiative to standardize psychosocial transplant practice among social workers, psychiatrists and psychologist at Mayo Rochester, Arizona and Florida.  He has published in both the fields of addiction and transplant psychiatry and has particularly enjoyed pursuing research projects with Mayo residents and fellows.

Marin Veldic, MD

Presentation Title:  Epigenetic Regulation of the Expression of Metabotropic Glutamate Receptors (mGluR2 and mGluR3) in Patients with Bipolar Disorder with and without Comorbid Alcohol Use Disorder            

Dr. Veldic obtained MD degree from the University of Zagreb in Croatia where he also trained in psychiatry and clinical pharmacology and toxicology. In 2001 he immigrated to United States to study epigenetic dysfunction in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder in Dr. Erminio Costa’s laboratory in Chicago. He then completed training in adult and child and adolescent psychiatry at Mayo Clinic where he remained after completion of the training. His current research is focused on glutamatergic changes bipolar disorder.

Learning Objectives

• Learn how to design a clinical research project
• Learn how to build a multidiscipliary research team
• Learn about research resources in the Department of Psychiatry & Psychiatry & Psychology at Mayo Clinic  

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Disclosure Summary

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Listed below are individuals with control of the content of this program who have disclosed…

Relevant financial relationship(s) with industry: 

Paul Croarkin, DO:  Grant/Research Support -  Assurex Health (grant in kind for supplies and genotyping) Neuronetics (grant in kind for equipment, support for multicenter trial), Pfizer (investigator initiated research grant)

Marin Veldic, M.D.:  Grant/Research Support – Mayo Foundation, Mayo Clinic Department of Psychiatry & Psychology - Departmental Small Grant, Mayo Clinic – Karolinska Institutet Collaborative Project Grant

No relevant financial relationship(s) with industry:

Brian Palmer, M.D., Michael Bostwick, M.D., Karen Grothe, Ph.D., Lois Krahn, M.D., Jarrod Leffler, Ph.D., Larissa Loukianova, M.D., Mary Machulda, Ph.D., Patricia Maus, M.D., Amber Pearson, Jeffrey Staab, M.D., Cosima Swintak, M.D., Kristin Vickers Douglas, Ph.D., Cynthia Harbeck-Weber, Ph.D., Michael Zaccariello, Ph.D., Georgina Rink, Charlene Nelson

Speakers:  Ada Ho, PhD., Terry Schneekloth, M.D.

References to off-label usage(s) of pharmaceuticals or instruments in their presentation:

Paul Croarkin, DO:  Manufacturer/Provider:  Neuronetics:  Product:  Neurostar Magnetic Stimulator

None:  Ada Ho, Ph.D., Terry Schneekloth, M.D., Marin Veldic, M.D.

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