BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

NAME

Betty Sue Pace, M.D.

POSITION TITLE

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Structural & Cellular Biology

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Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI

B.S.

1976

Mathematics
Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI

M.D.

1981

Medicine

Professional Experience:

1984-86    Clinical Instructor Pediatrics, Medical College of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Wisconsin

1984-85    Associate Medical Director, Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center Milwaukee, Wisconsin

1986-87    Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, The Medical College of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Wisconsin

1994-present    Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Hematology/Oncology(Primary)

1994-present    Assistant Professor, Department of Structural and Cellular Biology (Secondary) University of South Alabama

AWARDS/HONORS:

1981 Kaiser Foundation Merit Award

1981 Mosby Mirror Award

1981 American Medical Women’s Association Citation

Alpha Omega Alpha

PUBLICATIONS:

Book Chapters

Current Pediatric Therapy 16th Edition, "Aplastic Anemia", editors: Burg, Ingelfinger, Polinand, Wald, W.B. Saunders, 1998.

Medical Cell Biology Textbook-2nd Edition, "Clinical Cases", editor: Goodman, Lippincott, 1998.

Pediatric in Review –"Case Management", editors: Burg, Vaughan, Nelson, W.B. Saunders, 1998.

The Biochemistry of Topical Diseases: A case-oriented approach-"Sickle Cell Anemia", editors: Glew, VanderJagt, Oxford University Press, 1998.

Manuscripts

Pace BS, Li Q, Zitnik G, Stamatoyannopoulos G: In vivo search for butyrate responsive sequences using transgenic mice carrying Ag gene promoter mutants. Blood, 88:1079, 1996.

Ferry A, Baliga S, Monterio C, Chen Y, Pace B: g -Globin gene silencing in primary erythroid cultures: an inhibitory role for interleukin-6. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 272:20030.

Yang Y, Pace B, Kitchens D, Ballas SK, Shah A, Baliga BS. Characterization of in vitro BFU-E colony growth and fetal hemoglobin production in response to hydroxyurea: an analysis of the relationship to in vivo fetal hemoglobin induction. American Journal of Hematology, 56:252-258 (1997).

Boosalis M., Ikuta T, Pace BS, Walsh C, White GL, Faller DV, Perrine SP: Abrogation of IL-3 requirements and stimulation of hematopoietic cell proliferation in vitro and in vivo by carboxylic acids. Blood Cells, Molecules and Diseases, 23:434-442 (1997).

Pace BS, Zitnik G, Thompson A, Li Q, Stamatoyannopoulos G: Truncation analysis of butyrate inducible elements in the human Ag globin gene promoter. Journal of Biological Chemistry(submitted).

Wang G. Xu X, Pace B, Glazer PM, Chan P Shoklenko I, Goodman SR. Inducing endogenous human g -globin gene expression by peptide nucleic acids (PNAs). Biochemistry (submitted).

Ferry A, and Pace BS. Multiple extraction method for DNA, RNA and nuclear protein isolation from peripheral bold mononuclear cells. Biotechniques (submitted).

Chen Y-R, Ruffin D, Anderson J, Pace BS. g -globin gene induction by hydroxyurea: the role of Sp-1 (manuscript in preparation).

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