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Daron C. Hitt, M.D.
Clinical Assistant Professor, Division of Plastic Surgery
East Carolina University Brody School of Medicine
600Medical Drive
Greenville, NC 27858
hittd@ecu.edu
CURRENT POSITION:
Clinical Assistant Professor Division of Plastic Surgery
East Carolina University Brody School of Medine
EDUCATION
University of Oklahoma College of Medicine, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma,
M.D., June 1995
Cameron University, Lawton, Oklahoma, B.S. with high honors, May
1991
POST GRADUATE TRAINING
2003-2004 Chief Residency in Plastic Surgery, University of Texas
Health
Science Center, San Antonio, Texas
2001-2003 Plastic Surgery Residency, University of Texas Health
Science
Center, San Antonio, Texas
2000-2001 Chief Residency in General and Peripheral Vascular
Surgery,
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City,
Oklahoma
1999-2000 Surgical Residency, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences
Center,
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
1998-1999 H. Dale Collins Surgical Research Fellowship, University
of Oklahoma
Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
1996-1998 Surgical Residency, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences
Center,
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
1995-1996 Surgical Internship, University of Oklahoma Health
Sciences Center,
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
CERTIFICATION
Diplomate American Board of Surgery, February 2003
USMLE Step 3 1996, Step 2 1995, Step 1 1993
MEDICAL LICENSURE
Oklahoma, 1996 to present
Texas, 2001 to present
North Carolina 2004
HONORS AND AWARDS
2002 Mark R. Johnson Award for Excellence in Medical Writing, best
resident
article submitted to the Journal Oklahoma Medical Association
2001 Second place, Residents’ Trauma Paper Competition. American
College of
Surgeons Committee on Trauma National Meeting; Tampa, Florida
2000 First place, Resident’s Trauma Paper Competition. Region VI
American College
of Surgeons Committee on Trauma Meeting; New Orleans, Louisiana
1999-2000 Oklahoma Chapter of the American College of Surgeons Award
for the Best
Overall Presentation, Residents Research Forum
1995 Dean A. McGee Research Award
1992 Presbyterian/Harris Honors Research Program Scholarship,
University of
Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Department of Anatomical Sciences
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND HONOR SOCIETIES
ASPS Residents’ Affiliate Group
Texas Medical Association
Bexar County Medical Society
Oklahoma State Medical Association
Oklahoma County Medical Society
Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society
Phi Eta Sigma Freshmen Honor Society
PRESENTATIONS
Multidisciplinary Head and Neck Conference, University of Texas
Health Sciences Center, San Antonio, Texas, ‘Facial Reanimation’,
October 2003.
Texas Society of Plastic Surgeons Meeting, San Antonio, Texas,
‘Microsurgical reconstruction in head and neck tumors: experience in
a private practice community hospital setting’, September 2003.
Grand Rounds, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center,
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, ‘Peripheral Vascular Trauma’, June 2001.
Southwestern Surgical Congress 53rd Meeting, Cancun, Mexico,
‘Evaluation of surgeon performed focused abdominal sonography for
trauma in pediatric blunt trauma’, May 2001. (Poster Presentation)
National Residents’ Trauma Paper Competition, American College of
Surgeons Committee on Trauma, Tampa, FL, ‘Construction and
Characterization of a Gene Therapy Vector with Implications in
Fracture Healing.’ March 2001.
Grand Rounds, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center,
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, ‘Ventral Hernias’, March 2001.
Region VI Residents’ Trauma Paper Competition, American College of
Surgeons Committee on Trauma, New Orleans, LA, ‘Construction and
Characterization of a Gene Therapy Vector with Implications in
Fracture Healing.’ October 2000.
Grand Rounds, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center.,
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, ‘Trauma Case Presentations’, August 2000.
Resident Research Forum, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences
Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, ‘Phenotypic and genotypic
expression changes in C2C12 cells induced by Ad-BMPR-IB’, May 2000.
Resident Research Forum, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences
Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, ‘Construction of a recombinant
adenovirus expressing constitutively active rat bone morphogenetic
protein receptor IB’ and ‘A flow cytometric protocol for tittering
recombinant adenoviral vectors containing the green fluorescent
protein’, May 1999.
Transplant Conference, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences
Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, ‘Gene Therapy and Transplantation’,
October 1997.
ABSTRACTS
Trachte AL, Hitt DC, Lerner MR, Lightfoot SL, Postier RG and
Brackett DJ(2001):
Ad-caBMPR-IB produces ectopic bone formation in vivo without the
ligand. American Society of Gene Therapy, Seattle Washington, June
2001 (Poster).
Hitt, DC, Scifres,A, Foley DS, Tuggle DW, and Postier, RG (2001):
Evaluation of surgeon performed focused abdominal sonography for
traum in pediatric blunt trauma. 53rd Southwestern Surgical Congress
Meeting, Cancun, Mexico May 2001 (Poster).
Hitt DC, Trachte AL, Lerner MR, Tuggle DW, Harada SH, Gimble JM, and
Brackett DJ (2000-2001): Construction and characterization of a gene
therapy vector with implications in fracture healing. Region VI and
National American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma Meeting,.
Oct. 2000 New Orleans, LA and March 2001 Tampa FL (oral).
Hitt DC, Harada SH, Pighetti GM, Squires RA, Pennington LR and
Gimble JM (1999): Construction of a recombinant adenovirus
expressing constitutively active rat bone morphogenetic protein
receptor IB. Association of Academic Surgery Meeting, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, November 1999.
Halvorsen YC, Bond A, Hitt DC, Pennington LR, Gimble JM, and
Wilkison WO (1998):
Human adipose-derived stromal cells display osteoblast postential.
Second Joint Meeting of the The American Society for Bone and
Mineral Research and The International Bone and Mineral Society, San
Francisco, California, December 1998.
PUBLICATIONS
Hitt DC, Eaton BG, Pennington LR, and Gillies EM (2002):
Sixty-three-year-old American Indian female with left upper lobe
lung mass and pancreatic mass: a clinicopathologic correlation
conference from the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine. J
Okla State Med Assoc 95(4):265-71.
Halvorsen YD, Franklin D, Bond AL, Hitt DC, Auchter C, Boskey AL,
Paschalis EP, Wilkison WO, and Gimble JM (2001): Extracellular
matrix mineralization and osteoblast gene expression by human
adipose tissue-derived stromal cells. Tissue Eng Dec; 7(6): 729-41.
Pighetti GM, Novosad W, Nicholson C, Hitt DC, Hansens C,
Hollingsworth AB, Lerner ML, Brackett DJ, Lightfoot SA, and Gimble
JM (2001): Therapeutic treatment of DMBA-induced mammary tumors with
PPAR ligands. Anticancer Res Mar-Apr; 21(2A): 825-9.
Hitt DC, Booth JL, Dandapani V, Pennington LR, Gimble JM, and
Metcalf J (2000): A flow cytometric protocol for titering
recombinant adenoviral vectors containing the green fluorescent
protein. Mol Biotechnol Mar; 14(3): 197-203.
Aulthouse AL and Hitt DC (1994): The teratogenic effects of valproic
acid in human chondrogenesis in vitro. Teratology 49: 208-217
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
1998-99 University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Department of
Surgery,
“Construction of recombinant adenoviral vectors for fracture healing
gene therapy.”
Preceptor: Dr. Jeffrey Gimble
Involved the construction, propagation, and purification of
recombinant adenoviral vectors expressing either constitutively
active or truncated forms of bone morphogenetic receptors IA or IB
xb
1998-99 University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Department of
Surgery,
“Tissue engineered bone with human adipocyte stroma.”
Preceptor: Dr. Jeffrey Gimble
Explored the in vivo bone forming potential of conditioned human
preadipocytes in three dimensional implants.
1992 University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Department of
Anatomical Sciences. “The teratogenic effects of valproic acid in
human chondrogenesis in vitro.”
Preceptor: Dr. Amy Aulthouse
Evaluated the deleterious effects of valproic acid in human
chondrogenesis in vitro, utilizing histochemical, immunocytochemical,
statistical, and morphological techniques.
1990 Texas Tech University, Department of Chemistry and
Biochemistry,
“Site directed mutagenesis of the CRP:cAMP binding pocket.”
Preceptor: Dr. James Harman
Made point mutations in the CRP gene generating a conformation
change in the CRP:cAMP binding pocket allowing signaling in the
absence of ligand.
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