News and Highlights
August 2011
Welcome New Fellows, Residents, and Postdoctoral Associates
Nobuaki (Noble) Nakaya, MD, is a Visiting Fellow in Public Health in the Division of Community and Public Health Programs. Dr. Nakaya received his medical degree from Kitasato University School of Medicine in Japan. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine at Keio University Hospital. He holds certifications as a medical doctor, an advanced trauma evaluation and care instructor, an immediate cardiac life support instructor, a basic trauma life support provider, a pre-hospital trauma evaluation and care provider, a sports doctor, and an occupational physician. He is a member of several Japanese medical and psychiatric societies and associations. He has presented papers at academic meetings on subjects including emergency medicine, emergency psychiatry, and PTSD. Some of these were later published. He also wrote four textbooks for use in the national medical examination. In the Division, Dr. Nakaya is working with Drs. Ann Beeder and Mary Charlson on research related to the prevention and treatment of drug abuse.
Bianca P. Acevedo, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Associate in the Division of Prevention and Health Behavior, working on a National Institute on Drug Abuse funded study of implementation fidelity in the diffusion of the Division's school-based substance abuse prevention program. Dr. Acevedo received her BA from New York University and her PhD from Stony Brook University. While she was a doctoral student, she worked in the Stony Brook Department of Psychology's Interpersonal Relationships Laboratory and the University Marital Therapy Clinic. She was also a Visiting Fellow at the Free University of Amsterdam and at Stanford University. She obtained postdoctoral training as a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, NY, and in the Department of Psychology of the University of California at Santa Barbara. Dr. Acevedo has taught courses in statistics, human development, and research methods and writing at Stony Brook University and the University of California. She has published several journal articles, two as first author, and one book chapter. She is a reviewer for the Journal of Evolutionary Psychology and the Journal of Comparative Neurology, and she is a member of several medical and psychological professional societies.
Matthew Simon, MD, is a Resident in General Preventive Medicine. Dr. Simon received his BA from the University of Pennsylvania and his MD from Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where he was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. He trained as an Intern and Resident in the Weill Cornell Medical College Department of Medicine, and then held a position as a Hospitalist in Internal Medicine at Montefiore Medical Center/Weiler Division. He returned to Weill Cornell to pursue an Infectious Diseases Fellowship in the Department of Medicine. Dr. Simon is a member of the American College of Physicians, the Infectious Disease Society of America, and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. In 2009 he received the David E. Rogers Memorial Research Award for work on cryptococcal meningitis at Bugando Medical Center in Tanzania. His current research interests include preventing infectious complications from medical and orthopedic devices.
Andrew G. Shuman, MD, is a fellow in head and neck surgical oncology in the Department of Surgery at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and is also completing a dual fellowship in medical ethics at Weill Medical College of Cornell University. He completed his residency training in the Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery at the University of Michigan Hospitals. Originally from New York, he is a graduate from the University of Michigan’s College of Literature, Science and the Arts, and also graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School. In addition to completing training and research in medical ethics, he served for the past eight years on the University of Michigan Hospital’s Adult Ethics Committee. Dr. Shuman has lectured and published in the areas of otolaryngology, emergency medicine, and medical ethics. His current research interests include ethical issues that arise among head and neck cancer patients.
