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at the UTMB School of Medicine
February 1, 2002
INTRODUCTION
OF SOM e-NEWS
Vol.
2, No.
2
In
this issue:
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1. UPCOMING
EVENTS
2.
WOMEN
FACULTY NOMINATED FOR DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS
3.
UTMB
CLINIC REORGANIZATION
4.
COUNCIL OF
DEANS FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM
5.
PRESIDENTIAL
FACULTY DEVELOPMENT LEAVES
6.
new
forms are available on research services web sites
7.
STATISTICS
& EPIDEMIOLOGY COURSE
8.
WORKSHOP
PRESENTATIONS AVAILABLE ON SOM WEB SITE
9.
SOM 2002
ADMISSIONS MATCH LIST AVAILABLE
10.
SEARCHES
11.
MAJOR GRANTS AND AWARDS
12.
GRANT OPPORTUNITIES
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NEW
FACULTY ORIENTATION LUNCHEONS
A
series of orientation luncheons have been scheduled to introduce new
faculty to UTMB. The
luncheons are scheduled as follows and will be held from noon to 1:00
PM, Caduceus Room, 6th Floor of Administration Building:
February
6th Presentation
regarding Core Facilities
Dr.
Dan Freeman
Biostatistics
Dr.
Daniel Traber
Investigational ICU
Dr.
Leoncio Vergara
Optical Imaging Lab
Dr.
H.Q. Wang
Research Histopathology Core
Dr.
Alex Kurosky
Protein Chemistry Laboratory
February
20th
Presentation
regarding Core Facilities:
Dr.
Edward Postlethwait
Inhalation Toxicology
Dr.
Gary Klimpel
Flow Cytometry & Cell Sorting
Dr.
Phillip Lee
National Resource Center for Cephalopods
Dr.
Werner Braun
Computational Chemistry Core
March
1st
Presentation
regarding Faculty Practice/Hospital Administration:
Dr.
Marilyn Marx, Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Practice
Dr. C. Joan Richardson, Medical Director for Inpatient Care
Dr.
Karen Sexton, Chief Operating Officer & Director of Patient
Care Services
March
15th Support
Services. Presentations TBA
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MENTORING
WORKSHOPS
Junior
Faculty: Wednesday,
February 6, 2002,
5-7 PM, Caduceus Room, 6th Floor of Administration Building.
The workshop will look at mentoring as a whole which will include
career planning and skill development for the mentee.
Wednesday,
February 20th - The workshop will be repeated.
Dinner
and refreshments will be served. Space
is limited at these workshops, therefore, participation will be
confirmed on a first come, first serve basis.
Please RSVP
to Ms. Eartha Dotson by email at edotson@utmb.edu
or call extension 22671.
·
FACULTY
OF MEDICINE MEETING TIME CHANGE
& NEW FACULTY RECEPTION
There
is a change in the meeting time for the February 11th Faculty
of Medicine Meeting from 4:30 PM to 5:00 PM, Levin Hall North
Auditorium (the
Faculty Senate Meeting will be held from 4:00-5:00 PM instead of
4:30-6:00 PM to allow time for faculty members to attend the Faculty of
Medicine Meeting).
At the FOM Meeting, the Dean of Medicine, with the assistance of
his staff, will present the “State
of the School: 2002 and Beyond.” A
reception honoring new School of Medicine faculty will be held
immediately after the meeting in the Levin Hall Foyer.
·
DEPARTMENTAL
REVIEWS
·
HOMECOMING
--
Friday & Saturday, March 22-23, 2002
·
SCHOOL
OF MEDICINE COMMENCEMENT
--Saturday,
May 25, 2002, 10:00 AM, Moody Gardens Convention Center
Commencement
Speaker: J. James
Rohack, M.D., Medical Director, Scott &
White Health Plan, Temple, TX
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The
following faculty were nominated by the School to submit applications to
participate in two important programs aimed at preparing women faculty
for senior leadership positions:
2002-2003
Class, Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) Program for
Women:
Abbey
B. Berenson, M.D., Professor, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology
Martha
A. Hargraves, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Obstetrics &
Gynecology
Golda
A. Leonard, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Otolaryngology
Association
of American Medical Colleges
(AAMC)
Mid-Career Women Faculty Professional Development Seminar to be held on
July 21-23, 2001 in Washington:
S.
Lynn Knox, M.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology
Ruth
E. Levine, M.D., Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry &
Behavioral Sciences Robin Mallett, M.D., Associate Professor, Department
of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Patricia
A. Rogers, M.D., F.A.A.P., Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Both
programs offer educational, networking and mentoring opportunities to
support women leaders who aspire to the highest administrative ranks at
academic health centers. Confirmation of participation in these programs
will be announced in early April.
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Effective
January 1, 2002, responsibility for clinic operations (budget and
non-physician staff) began to be transitioned and realigned from the
School of Medicine, Faculty Group Practice to UTMB Hospitals, under the
direction of Dr. Karen Sexton. This
is resulting in a change in the reporting relationship of all
non-physician clinic personnel. This change in the administrative
structure of the clinics has been undertaken to ensure that our
campus-based clinics continue to be considered to be
“provider-based” for reimbursement purposes by relevant federal
agencies.
An
organizational structure has been developed to support this realignment,
with recruitment of several key leadership positions planned to begin
shortly. An announcement
will be made soon regarding the name of the individual who will assume
interim responsibilities as Chief Medical Director for Clinic Services
and Assistant Dean for Faculty Practice. This individual, in addition to
other responsibilities, will oversee the Medical Director Program and
will report jointly to the COO of the Hospitals and the Dean of Medicine
through the Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Practice, Dr. Marx. In the
meantime, several individuals have agreed to serve in interim roles.
This includes several members of the Hospital Executive Director team
who will assume interim administrative responsibilities, which include:
Michael
Hill - Pre-Certification and DAMP Offices
Christine
Keating - Business Operations
David
Marshall - Nursing and Clinical Care
Through
the process of this restructuring, the management of the non-campus
based (PCOC) clinics should remain bundled with the administrative
management of the campus-based clinics. Those PCOC clinics that are not
capable of qualifying for “provider-based” status should be operated
as true joint ventures, in all respects, of the Hospitals and the
Faculty Practice. Physicians
working in all clinics will, of course, continue to report through the
existing School of Medicine administrative structure.
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The
Council of Deans (COD) announces the initiation of the COD Fellowship
Program. The primary goal of this program is the development of future
leaders in academic medicine. The
program requires a part-time commitment during an academic year and
encompasses three components: 1) Exposure to a "Dean Mentor."
This includes, at the least, two visits (week-long duration) to
the Medical School of the Dean Mentor, 2) participation in a research
project that addresses a question of national interest to medical
schools, and 3) introduction of the Fellow to the strategic goals and
activities of the COD, specifically the COD Administrative Board and the
COD Leadership Committee during the spring meeting.
Applications, accompanied by a CV and statement of career goals,
should be submitted by March 31, 2002 to: Julien
F. Biebuyck, M.D., D.Phil., Division of Medical School Affairs, AAMC,
2450 N Street, N.W., Washington, DC, 20037-1127, email: jbiebuyck@aamc.org.
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Applications
are now being accepted for the Presidential
Faculty Development Leaves Program.
The purpose of this program is to further the academic careers of
faculty members and enhance their abilities to contribute to the diverse
missions of the university. Faculty
who are selected will receive support for their salary and benefits for
a six month, on or off-campus faculty development leave.
Leaves can begin on July 1, 2002, and must be completed within
the subsequent 18 months. To
be eligible, a faculty member must be full-time, tenure-track with rank
of associate professor or above, must have six years cumulative service
as a member of the UTMB faculty, and must not have received a
Presidential Faculty Development Leave in the preceding six years.
Applications
and more detailed program information are available at http://www.utmb.edu/president/faculty_leaves/index.htm.
Applications should be submitted to the Office of the President,
campus mail route 0129 by March 1, 2002.
If
you have any questions or would like further information, you may also
contact Dr. Linda Phillips at extension 24778 or by email at lphillip@utmb.educ
<mailto:lphillip@utmb.educ>
.
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6.
NEW FORMS ARE AVAILABLE ON RESEARCH SERVICES WEB SITES
The new
Forms for PHS398 applications (revised May, 2001) have been adapted for
UTMB users and are available for downloading on the Research Services
web sites:
http://research.utmb.edu/osp/rashome.htm
http://research.utmb.edu/ocr/
The revised
forms must be used for submission on or after January 10, 2002 . Classes
in using the new forms in Adobe Acrobat 5 format are available.
Check the Research Education web site for details:
http://research.utmb.edu/ore/
Please be
reminded of the following when preparing your applications:
NIH
Grant Application Cover Page:
Per page 9 of the instructions, NIH requires that the signature
of the institutional official signing the application in item 15 match
the person named in item 13. “Per”
or “For” signatures are not acceptable.
Therefore, you should leave Block 13 of the Cover Page blank.
The name of the institutional official signing the application
will be completed by staff in the Office of Sponsored Programs or the
Office of Clinical Research, as appropriate.
NIH
FY2002 Salary Cap: The
FY2002 NIH salary cap remains at the current Executive Level 1 rate of
$161,200.00 as approved within the DHHS appropriations bill and expected
to be signed into law very soon by the President.
New
UTMB Equipment Definition:
The UTMB equipment capitalization threshold increases to $5,000
effective September 1, 2002. For
sponsored project accounts, this increase will necessitate a change in
the calculation of F&A (indirect) costs since items costing less
than $5,000 will be considered consumables and thus subject to F&A
calculations. For research
proposals submitted on or after January 1, 2002, researchers should use
$5,000 as the equipment capitalization threshold on all research
applications.
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7.
STATISTICS
& EPIDEMIOLOGY COURSE
“Epidemiological
& Statistical Methods in Clinical Investigation”, is a series of
12 hourly sessions offered by the Department of Preventive Medicine
& Community Health (Hari H. Dayal, Ph.D., F.A.C.E., Course Director)
and General Clinical Research Center, and Clinical Research Education
Office as a module in the course, “Clinical Research: Tools &
Techniques”. This module will begin Monday, March 4, 2002, 5:15 p.m.,
Children’s Hospital, Room 2.312. The sessions provide an overview of
epidemiological and statistical methods in research involving human
subjects. Participants may attend any or all sessions. A brochure
further describing the sessions is available upon request or at
“Clinical Research Education and Training” on http://www2.utmb.edu/gcrc/
. CME and GME credits are available for all sessions.
To
register, complete and submit the registration form located at the
brochure internet site, or contact Cheryl Benskin of the Clinical
Research Education Office by email chbenski@utmb.edu
or phone 772-1484. The course fee of $45 covers registration, GME
credit, letter of completion, and refreshments. An additional $45 covers
optional CME credit for physicians. (Those who have already registered
for this year’s course do not need to register again for this module.)
The schedule of this and other components of the Clinical
Research Education and Training Program are available from the GCRC web
page.
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8.
WORKSHOP
PRESENTATIONS AVAILABLE ON SOM WEB SITE
A
copy of the slide presentations given at the APT Workshop held on
January 9, 2002 and the Mentoring Workshop for Senior Faculty held on
January 28, 2002 are available at: http://www.som.utmb.edu/Faculty.htm.
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The
UTMB School of Medicine 2002 Admissions Match List is posted to the
following web site: http://www.utmb.edu/iutmbevents/som_list.asp.
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Chair,
Department of Internal Medicine:
The Dean is continuing discussions with the lead candidate.
Chair,
Department of Neurology:
The Dean is continuing discussions with the lead candidate.
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·
Kessel,
Ivan.
Radiation Oncology.
Radiation Therapy Oncology Group.
National Cancer
Institute/American College of Radiology.
·
Leary,
James.
Center for Biomedical
Engineering. Nanoparticle
Delivery of Repair Enzymes for Radiation Protection/DNA Repair.
NASA - Ames Research Center.
$1,266,685/3 yrs.
·
Navarro,
Javier. Physiology
& Biophysics. Crystal Structure of Sensory Receptors: Mechanism of
Activation. American Heart
Association. $214,500/3 yrs.
·
Nowicki,
Bodgan.
OB/GYN.
CD556, Infection and Race in Preterm Delivery.
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
$1,490,000/5 yrs.
·
Pajor,
Ana. Physiology
and Biophysics. Molecular
Mechanism of Renal NA + Dependent Cotransport.
National Institute of
Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.
$1,750,750/5 yrs.
·
Stanberry,
Lawrence R.
Pediatrics.
Adult Aids Clinical Trial
Unit. National
Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
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The
Alton Ochsner Award Relating Smoking and Health
An
annual award of $15,000 will be presented to one or more clinical and/or
basic science investigators for outstanding scientific achievements in
relating the role of tobacco consumption to the pathogenesis of various
diseases. The Award is
sponsored by the Ochsner Clinic Foundation.
Deadline for nominations is March 29, 2002.
For more details, please visit: http://www.som.utmb.edu/announcements/
The Research Funding
Library has posted internal review deadlines for invited funding
opportunities to a special web site calendar with links to contact
information. The calendar
may be viewed at: http://www.utmbhealthcare.org/scripts/we3.07/webevent.pl?cmd=opencal&cal=cal19&
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2001, The University of Texas Medical Branch
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