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.  3^rd 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.  23^rd 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.  23^rd 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.  24^th 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.  24^th 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.  25^th 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.  26^th 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 53^rd Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America Council.  The Gerontologist, 40(Special Issue 1), 51.  

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