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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: 1997
Clinical Hospital Center Split,
University of Zagreb, Croatia Rotating
internship in Medicine – Staff Physician 1997
Simpson College, Department of
Biological Sciences, Adjunct Faculty 1997-1998
Iowa Foundation for Medical Care,
Department of Medicaid/Medicare Quality Improvement Projects 1997-1999
Managed Care Consulting, State of Iowa
Department of Human Services 1999-present Research Institute of the Hebrew Home of Greater Washington, Research Associate
PRESENTATIONS
AND PUBLICATIONS: Parpura,
V., Markos, I., Parpura, A., & Gill, H.S.
(1988). Role of serum
sialic acids in diagnostics of cancer. 3rd
Yugoslav Mtg. of medical and dentistry students. Abstracts, Pristina, 122. Gill,
H.S., Parpura-Gill, A., & Thieman, A.
(in preparation). Risk
factors for substance abuse among adolescent youth. Parpura-Gill,
A., & Uemura, E. (in
submission). The effects of
b-amyloid
on astroglial release of nitric oxide mediated by IL-1b,
TNF-a, and IFN-g. Avant,
L.L., Thieman, A., Gill, H.S., & Parpura-Gill, A. (in submission). Prerecognition
visual processing of dot pattern letters: A neurobiological hypothesis. Parpura,
A. (1991). The role of perforant veins in therapeutic approach to
Varicose syndrome of the lower extremities.
University of Zagreb. Parpura,
A., & Uemura, E. (1993).
b-amyloid
stimulates glutamate release from microglial cells. 23rd Annual Meeting of Society for Neuroscience.
Abstracts, Washington, D.C., 77.6. Goodwin,
J., Martens, C., Parpura, A., & Uemura, E.
(1993). b-amyloid
mediates activation of nitric oxide synthase and release of nitric oxide in
cultured microglia cells. 23rd
Annual Meeting of Society for Neuroscience.
Abstracts, Washington, D.C., 77.5 Parpura-Gill,
A., Martens, C., Goodwin, J., & Uemura, E.
(1994). b-amyloid
mediates nitric oxide release from cultured astrocytes in combination with
IL-1b,
TNF-a, and Poly I:C.
24th Annual Meeting of Society for Neuroscience.
Abstracts, Miami Beach, Florida, 252.14. Goodwin,
J., Martens, C., Parpura-Gill, A., & Uemura, E. (1994). b-amyloid
in combination with IFN-g and Poly I:C induces nitric
oxide release in cultured microglial cells.
24th Annual Meeting of Society for Neuroscience.
Abstracts, Miami Beach, Florida, 252.13. Parpura-Gill,
A., Martens, C., & Uemura, E. (1995).
b-amyloid
inhibits glutamate uptake in cultured rat astrocytes. 25th Annual Meeting of Society for Neuroscience.
Abstracts, San Diego, California, 194.3. Parpura-Gill,
A., Martens, C., Beitz, D., & Uemura, E.
(1996). b-amyloid
inhibits glutamate uptake in cultured rat astrocytes. 26th Annual Meeting of Society for Neuroscience.
Abstracts, San Diego, California, 148.9. Parpura-Gill,
A., Beitz, D., & Uemura, E. (1997).
The inhibitory effect of b-amyloid on glutamate and glucose
uptakes by cultured astrocytes. Brain
Research, 754, 65-71. Parpura-Gill,
A. (1998). The role of astrocytes in Alzheimer’s disease.
Iowa State University. Gill,
H.S., & Parpura-Gill, A. (1999).
United States health care delivery system, reform, and transition to
managed care. CMJ, 40(2),
273-279. Parpura-Gill,
A., & Cohen-Mansfield, J. (2000).
Shared interest clubs as interventions for loneliness: Preliminary
results on topic preferences. Program
abstract of the 53rd Annual Scientific Meeting of the
Gerontological Society of America Council.
The Gerontologist, 40(Special Issue 1), 51.
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