Sigmon Moves to CSR
Dr. Hilary D. Sigmon
has moved to the Center for Scientific Review
to be scientific review administrator of the International
Collaborative Programs Special Emphasis Panel, which reviews
grant applications related to infectious diseases for the Fogarty
International Center. She had been a program director of extramural
programs at the National Institute of Nursing Research. Sigmon
received nursing degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and
Catholic University. She then became an assistant director of clinical
nursing at Johns Hopkins University Hospital in Baltimore, before
moving to the Washington Hospital Center to be nursing director of
its medical shock-trauma acute resuscitation unit. She earned her
Ph.D. in physiology from the Uniformed Services University of the
Health Sciences.
Nokta Joins NIDCR
Dr. Mostafa Nokta recently joined NIDCR as director of the AIDS
and Oral Manifestations of Immunosuppression Program in the
Division of Basic and Translational Sciences. He came to the
institute from the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
where he was on the faculty in the division of infectious diseases. A
viral immunologist, Nokta has focused his career on HIV/AIDS and
HIV-related opportunistic infections. He has served as the site
virologist/immunologist for several NIH-sponsored clinical studies
conducted by the AIDS clinical trials group and also served on
multiple ACTG committees.
Petrosian Is New SRA at CSR
Dr. Arthur Petrosian has joined the Center for Scientific Review as scientific review administrator in its surgery, radiology and
bioengineering integrated review group, coordinating reviews of
grant applications involving imaging methods and technologies. He
comes from Texas Tech University, where he studied the use of
electro-encephalograms to predict epileptic seizures and Alzheimer's
disease. While there, he also coedited a book, Wavelets in Signal
and Image Analysis: From Theory to Practice. He earned a master's
degree in mathematics from Moscow State University and a Ph.D.
in applied mathematics from the Institute for Problems of
Informatics and Automation at the National Armenian Academy of
Sciences. He then moved to the University of Michigan to study
breast cancer recognition on digital mammo-grams under an NIH
postdoctoral fellowship.
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