EVERYTHING YOU WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT THE FLU BUT WERE AFRAID TO ASK

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EVERYTHING YOU WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT THE FLU BUT
WERE AFRAID TO ASK!
Speakers Diana Noah, PhD.
James Noah, PhD. Senior Project Leader
Research Biochemist Southern Research
Institute Question Answer Session James E.
Johnson, MD., Interim Director, Division of
Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine,
Charles and Alice Hohenberg Professor University
of Alabama at Birmingham
Moderator Sadis Matalon, PhD. Alice McNeal
Professor of Anesthesiology University of
Alabama at Birmingham
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• Lung disease is the third most prevalent cause of
  death in the United States after heart disease
  and cancer.
• It is the number one cause of infant mortality.
• Over 35 million Americans suffer from chronic
  lung disease and approximately 349,000 die from
  lung disease annually.
• The economic impact of lung diseases in the
  United States reaches a total of more than 157.8
  billion each year.
• (American Lung Association, Lung Disease
  Data 2006).

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PULMONARY INJURY AND REPAIR CENTER
(www.lunginjury.uab.edu) Director
Sadis Matalon, PhD Alice McNeal
Professor of Anesthesiology

• The UAB Board of Trustees approved the
  establishment of a School of Medicine Pilot
  Center on Pulmonary Injury and Repair (September
  2008).
• Southern Research Institute joined forces with
  UAB in funding this center.
• The major goals of the PIRC are
• To promote, support and enhance cutting-edge
  research on lung injury and repair from bench
  (molecular mechanisms of lung diseases) to the
  bedside (testing the efficacy of new agents in
  curing lung disease).
• To enhance awareness in the community of recent
  advances in the treatment of major respiratory
  diseases.

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Diana Lee Noah, Ph.D. Research VirologistViral
BiochemistrySouthern Research Institute2000
Ninth Avenue SouthBirmingham, AL
35205205-581-2822E-mail noah_at_sri.org
James W. Noah, Ph.D. Research BiochemistEmerging
Infectious Disease Drug Discovery
Division Southern Research Institute 2000 Ninth
Avenue South Birmingham, AL 35205 205-581-2804 Ema
il j.noah_at_sri.org
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NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS
DISEASES Grant Number 1R01AI071393-01
(2006-2009) Project Title Adaptation of
Influenza Inhibition Assays for High-throughput
Screening Principal Investigator NOAH, JAMES
W. Co-Investigators Diana L. Noah, PhD
Sadis Matalon,
PhD
NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTES
(2009-2014) Project Title Understanding the
basic mechanisms by which Influenza damages the
lungs Principal Investigator Sadis Matalon,
PhD Co-Investigators James W. Noah, PhD
Diana L. Noah,
PhD
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• James E. Johnson, M.D.
• Charles and Alice Hohenberg Professor
• Interim Director, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy
  Critical Care Medicine Medical Director, MICU
  Senior Associate Chief of Staff for Critical
  Care Services at UAB Hospital
• (James.Johnson_at_ccc.uab.edu)

Medical Director, Pulmonary Rehabilitation
Service, Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio,
TX (January 1995 - May 2000) Acting Chief,
Department of Medicine (May 2000 - July 2000)
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James E. Johnson, M.D

• Top Ten Teacher Award, Department of Medicine,
  University of Alabama at Birmingham, June 2008
• C. Glenn Cobbs, M. D. Edwin A. Rutsky, M. D.
  Award for Clinical Excellence, University of
  Alabama at Birmingham, June 2008
• Best Basic Science Professor, Selected by
  Graduating Medical School Class of 2008, May 2008
• Best Lecturer for Respiratory Section for MS1
  Class of 2011, presented by Argus Society,
  University of Alabama School of Medicine, April
  2008
• Best Lecturer for Respiratory Section for
  Correlative Pathology for MS3 Class of 2009,
  presented by Argus Society, University of Alabama
  School of Medicine, April 2008
• C. Glenn Cobbs, M. D. Edwin A. Rutsky, M. D.
  Award for Clinical Excellence, University of
  Alabama at Birmingham, June 2007
• Top Ten Teacher Award, Department of Medicine,
  University of Alabama at Birmingham, June 2007
• Best Doctors in America, included in 2007-2008
  database
• UAB Presidents Award for Excellence in Teaching
  for the School of Medicine (May 2006)