Excellence in Research

The MilliPub Club honors and recognizes current Emory faculty who have published one or more individual papers throughout their careers that have each garnered more than 1, 000 citations. Such a paper is commonly considered a “citation classic” and represents high impact scholarship.

• Vasilis Babaliaros, MD (Medicine)
  “Transcatheter or surgical aortic-valve replacement in intermediate-risk patients”
• Niloofar Bazargan, MD (Medicine)
  “Hyperglycemia: an independent marker of in-hospital mortality in patients with undiagnosed diabetes”
• Jonathan Beitler, MD, MBA (Radiation Oncology)
  “Chemoradiotherapy of locally advanced esophageal cancer - long-term follow-up of a prospective randomized trial (RTOG 85-01)”
• Lawrence Boise, PhD (Hematology & Medical Oncology)
  “CD28 costimulation can promote T-cell survival by enhancing the expression of Bcl-X(L)”
• J. Douglas Bremner, MD (Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences)
  “Hippocampal volume reduction in major depression”
  “MRI-based measurement of hippocampal volume in patients with combat-related posttraumatic-stress-disorder”
• Z. Georgia Chen, PhD (Hematology & Medical Oncology)
  “In vivo tumor targeting and spectroscopic detection with surface-enhanced Raman nanoparticle tags”
• Max Cooper, MD (Pathology & Laboratory Medicine)
  “Deficient expression of a B-cell cytoplasmic tyrosine kinase in human X-linked agammaglobulinemia”
• Craig Coopersmith, MD (Surgery)
  "Surviving Sepsis Campaign: International guidelines for management of sepsis and septic shock: 2016”
• Walter Curran, MD (Radiation Oncology)
  “A randomized trial of bevacizumab for newly diagnosed glioblastoma”
• Carlos del Rio, MD (Medicine)
  “The spectrum of engagement in HIV care and its relevance to test-and-treat strategies for prevention of HIV infection”
• Charles M. Epstein, MD (Neurology)
  “Safety, ethical considerations, and application guidelines for the use of transcranial magnetic stimulation in clinical practice and research”
• Monica Farley, MD (Medicine)
  “Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus disease in three communities”
• Scott Fridkin, MD (Medicine)

  “Multistate point-prevalence survey of health care-associated infections”

  “Clinical practice guidelines by the infectious diseases society of America for the treatment of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections in adults and children”

  “Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus disease in three communities”

• Neel Gandhi, MD (Medicine)
  “Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis as a cause of death in patients co-infected with tuberculosis and HIV in a rural area of South Africa”
• Kathy Griendling, PhD (Medicine)
  “Angiotensin II cell signaling: physiological and pathological effects in the cardiovascular system”
• Edwin Horwitz, MD, PhD (Pediatrics)
  “Clarification of the nomenclature for MSC: The international society for cellular therapy position statement”
• Lucky Jain, MD, MBA (Pediatrics)
  “Whole-body hypothermia for neonates with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy”
• Warren Jones, PhD (Pediatrics)
  “Visual fixation patterns during viewing of naturalistic social situations as predictors of social competence in individuals with autism”
• Harry L. Keyserling, MD (Pediatrics)
  “Palivizumab, a humanized respiratory syncytial virus monoclonal antibody, reduces hospitalization from respiratory syncytial virus infection in high-risk infants”
• Ami Klin, PhD (Pediatrics)
  "Visual fixation patterns during viewing of naturalistic social situations as predictors of social competence in individuals with autism”
• Joan Kramer, MD (Hematology & Medical Oncology)

  “Cancer treatment and survivorship statistics, 2016”

  “Cancer treatment and survivorship statistics, 2014”

• Angel Leon, MD (Medicine)
  “Combined cardiac resynchronization and implantable cardioversion defibrillation in advanced chronic heart failure - The MIRACLE ICD Trial”
• S. Sam Lim, MD, MPH (Medicine)
  “Derivation and validation of the systemic lupus international collaborating clinics classification criteria for systemic lupus erythematosus”
• Kreton Mavromatis, MD (Medicine)
  “Fractional flow reserve-guided PCI versus medical therapy in stable coronary disease”
• Puja Mehta, MD (Medicine)
  “Angiotensin II cell signaling: physiological and pathological effects in the cardiovascular system”
• Simon Mwangi, PhD  (Medicine)
  “Metabolic syndrome and altered gut microbiota in mice lacking Toll-like receptor 5”
• Ruth Parker, MD (Medicine)
  "The test of functional health literacy in adults - a new instrument for measuring patients literacy skills”
• Arshed Quyyumi, MD (Medicine)
  “Large-scale association analysis identifies 13 new susceptibility loci for coronary artery disease”
• Suresh Ramalingam, MD (Hematology & Medical Oncology)
  “AZD9291 in EGFR inhibitor-resistant non-small-cell lung cancer”
• Susan Ray, MD (Medicine)
  “Multistate point-prevalence survey of health care-associated infections”
• Lawrence Scahill, MSN, PhD (Pediatrics)
  “Children's Yale-Brown obsessive compulsive scale: reliability and validity”
• Jonathan Sevransky, MD (Medicine)

  “Surviving Sepsis Campaign: International guidelines for management of severe sepsis and septic shock: 2008”

  “Surviving Sepsis Campaign: International guidelines for management of sepsis and septic shock: 2016”

• Dong Moon Shin, MD (Hematology & Medical Oncology)

  “Cisplatin and fluorouracil alone or with docetaxel in head and neck cancer”

  “In vivo tumor targeting and spectroscopic detection with surface-enhanced Raman nanoparticle tags”

• Steven Sloan, MD, PhD (Human Genetics)
  “An RNA-sequencing transcriptome and splicing database of glia, neurons, and vascular cells of the cerebral cortex”
• Andrew Smith, MD (Medicine)
  “Combined cardiac resynchronization and implantable cardioversion defibrillation in advanced chronic heart failure - The MIRACLE ICD Trial”
• Shanthi Srinivasan, MD (Medicine)
  “Metabolic syndrome and altered gut microbiota in mice lacking Toll-like receptor 5”
• Vikas Sukhatme, MD, ScD (Medicine)
  “Soluble endoglin contributes to the pathogenesis of preeclampsia”
• Guillermo Umpierrez, MD (Medicine)
  “Hyperglycemia: an independent marker of in-hospital mortality in patients with undiagnosed diabetes”
• Stephen Warren, PhD (Human Genetics)
  “The mGIuR theory of fragile X mental retardation”
• Steven Wolf, PT, PhD (Rehabilitation Medicine)
  “Effect of constraint-induced movement therapy on upper extremity function 3 to 9 months after stroke - The EXCITE randomized clinical trial”
• Lily Yang, MD, PhD (Surgery)
  “In vivo tumor targeting and spectroscopic detection with surface-enhanced Raman nanoparticle tags”

The Emory 1% Award honors and recognizes investigators who have received study section review scores in the top one percentile on a grant proposal.

• Henry Blumberg, MD (Medicine)
  Ethiopia-Emory TB Research Training Program
• Anne Fitzpatrick, PhD, RN (Pediatrics)
  Symptom Clusters in Children with Exacerbation-prone Asthma
  Phenotypes and Endotypes of Preschool Wheeze
• Neel Gandhi, MD (Medicine)
  Mentorship in Patient-Oriented Research in Tuberculosis, HIV and Global Health
• Joe Nocera, PhD (Neurology)
  Graded Intensity Aerobic Exercise to Improve Cerebrovascular Function and Performance in Aged Veterans
• Michael Woodworth, MD (Medicine)
  Temporal Dynamic of MDRO Eradication after FMT
• Steven Yeh, MD (Ophthalmology)
  Pathogenesis of Uveitis in Ebola Virus Disease Survivors

Did you know the Recognitions Committee celebrated Research Appreciation Day in September? Read more about some of the outstanding researchers at Emory here.