MCG Faculty Senate

Vincent Robinson, MDPresident

August 29, 2019

MCG Faculty Senate Agenda• Welcome Vincent Robinson, MD

MCG Hero Raymond Ahlquist, PhD President, MCG Faculty Senate

• Dean’s Report David Hess, MDDean, Medical College of GeorgiaEVP, Medical Affairs & Integration,

• Proposed Structure & Charge for MCG Faculty Senate W. Vaughn McCall, MD, MS

Committee on Wellbeing: Chair, Department of Psychiatry, Executive Vice Dean

• Announce Newly Elected AU & MCG Senators Vincent Robinson, MDPresident, MCG Faculty Senate

• Adjourn

Raymond P. Ahlquist, PhD

Department of Pharmacology

Medical College of Georgia

1944 – 1983

• Began his career at MCG in 1944 as Assistant Professor of Pharmacology

• Professor and Chairman of Pharmacology from 1948-1963

• Associate Dean of the School of Medicine and the Research Coordinator, 1963-1970

• Resumed duties as Pharmacology Chairman and Professor in 1970

• Charbonnier Professor of Pharmacology from 1977 until his death in 1983

Raymond P. Ahlquist, PhD

Presenter

Presentation Notes

Dr. Ahlquist with the Albert Lasker Clinical Medical Research Award and the Ciba Award for Hypertension Research he received in 1976. He was awarded the Lasker for his theory that there are two types of receiving mechanisms or sites in the cardiovascular system – one type prevailing in the heart, and the other in the blood vessels. These receptors, which receive “messages” from the sympathetic nervous system, were classified and named by him, alpha and beta. Because they are receptors for adrenaline and adrenaline-like substances, they are known as “adrenergic” receptors. Dr. Ahlquist’s concept of alpha and beta receptors opened the door to the development of propranolol and the treatment of heart diseases and severe high blood pressure.

• Authored over 200 scientific papers and served on the editorial board of several journals

• His paper hypothesizing his theory regarding alpha and beta adrenotropicreceptors was published by the American Journal of Physiology in 1948 (153:586) because pharmacology journals rejected the paper

Dr. William F. Hamilton, Chairman of the Physiology Department at MCG, was on the editorial board of the American Journal of Physiology and pushed for Ahlquist’s paper to be published

• Internationally recognized as the originator of the alpha- and beta-receptor concept of the adrenergic system

Raymond P. Ahlquist, PhD

Augusta University Senate SenatorsFiscal Year 2020

• Surendra Rajpurohit, PhD, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

• Gaston Kapuku, MD, PhD, Department of Medicine

• Arni Rao, PhD, Department of Population Health Sciences

Augusta University Senate Committee MembersFiscal Year 2020

Athletics:• Arni Rao, PhD, Department of Population Health Sciences

Community Services:• Nicole Winston, MS, PharmD, Eds, Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology

Faculty Rights & Responsibilities:• Renuka Mehta, MBBS, Department of Pediatrics• Satyanarayana Ande, PhD, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Faculty Development:• Ralph Gillies, PhD, Department of Family Medicine• Lara Stepleman, PhD, Department of Psychiatry & Health Behavior

Faculty Governance & Communication:• Ramses Sadek, PhD, Department of Population Health Sciences• Sangeetha Sukumari-Ramesh, Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology

MCG Executive CommitteeFiscal Year 2020

Secretary:• Vishal Arora, MD, Department of Medicine

Senators-at-Large:• Brett Szymik, PhD, AU/UGA Medical Partnership• Laura Mulloy, DO, Department of Medicine• Rebecca Pierce, MD, Department of Pediatrics• Jatinder Bhatia, MD, Department of Pediatrics• Wendy Bollag, PhD, Department of Physiology • William Bates, MD, Department of Radiology & Imaging• Eric Lewkowiez, MD, Department of Psychiatry & Health Behavior