Once again, web-based balloting will be utilized for the
election of faculty to the committees of the School of Medicine.
Eligible faculty may access a ballot at the URL address
http://www.utmb.edu/SOMBallot/Committees which will allow them to vote
for their choice of candidates to fill vacancies on the following
committees: Academic Planning and Policy, Curriculum, Nominating,
Student Affairs, and the Executive Committee of the Faculty of Medicine.
To login, use your e-mail username without the “@utmb.edu” portion and
your email password. The polls are now open and close at 12 Noon on
Wednesday, September 4, 2002.
The Bylaws of the
Faculty of Medicine provide that full members (faculty appointed at the
ranks of Professor, Associate Professor, Assistant Professor or
Instructor) are entitled to participate in the deliberations of the
Faculty of Medicine and to vote upon all business brought before the
Faculty of Medicine. These rights and privileges extend to tenured,
tenure track and non-tenure track appointees.
Faculty are
encouraged to exercise their right to vote.
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Rosalyn W. Stewart, M.D., Assistant Professor, Departments of Internal
Medicine and Pediatrics, has been nominated to submit an application to
the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Generalist Physician Faculty Scholars
Program for 2003.
This program is
intended to strengthen the presence of generalist physician faculty in the
nation's medical schools through career development awards to outstanding
junior faculty in medical school departments/divisions of family practice,
general internal medicine and general pediatrics.
Dr. Stewart's research proposal is entitled, "Interaction of Oxidative
Stress and Nutrition in the Development of Individuals Born at Very Low
Birth Weight."
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Krystal
F.Z. Revai, M.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, and Neena
L. Champaigne, M.D.,
Instructor, Department
of Pediatrics, have been
nominated by the School to submit an application to the AAMC
Minority
Faculty Career Development
Seminar scheduled from September 28-October
1, 2002 in Bethesda,
Maryland.
The program
is designed for junior faculty
(senior fellows, instructors, and assistant professors) who
are
also under-represented minorities and who wish to pursue
positions
of
leadership in academic medicine.
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Karen D. Wagner, M.D., Ph.D., Clarence Ross Miller Professor and Vice
Chair, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, recently was
invited to serve on the National Advisory Mental Health Council of the
National Institutes of Health for a term beginning October 1, 2002 and
ending September 30, 2006. The National Advisory Mental Health Council
advises the Secretary of Health and Human Services; the Director, National
Institutes of Health; and the Director, National Institute of Mental
Health (NIMH), on all policies and activities relating to the conduct and
support of mental health research, research training, and other programs
of the NIMH.
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Anne Hudson Jones, Ph.D., Member, Institute for the Medical Humanities,
has received an award from the Harris and Eliza
Kempner Fund in the amount of $2,500 for her film series project that will
educate the public to the fact
that mental illness can occur in young adults.
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Thomas R. Cole, Joseph and Anne Painter
Distinguished Professor, and Director, IMH Graduate Program, is creator
and executive producer of Still Life: The Humanity of Anatomy, a film
aimed at helping students cope with first year anatomy class. The film
was selected for the 2002 Double Take Documentary Film Festival and has
been requested by the anatomy programs around the country.
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Eugene V. Boisaubin, M.D., Professor in the
Department of Internal Medicine and Adjunct Professor for the Institute
for the Medical Humanities, recently was given the Master Teacher Award by
the University of Texas at Houston. He will receive a $100,000 stipend
over the next three years to develop and evaluate a program in Medical
Professionalism for the Departments of Medicine, Pediatrics and Family
Practice at UT-Houston.
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The Fellowship
Committee of the Jeane B. Kempner Scholar Award Fund has announced that
applications for the 2003 postdoctoral fellowship awards are now being
accepted. These awards present an excellent opportunity for UTMB MD or PhD
graduates interested in an academic career to train anywhere in the world.
Individuals who are currently in residency training at UTMB may be
considered if there are clear indications of commitment to academic
medicine. The deadline for the Jeane B. Kempner Scholar Award application
is December 2, 2002. Any questions concerning the application process
should be directed to:
Dr. Regino
Perez-Polo, Chairman, Fellowship Committee
Extension: 2-3667
Email:
jperezpo@utmb.edu
~~For more
information, please visit the Jeane B. Kempner Scholarship website at:
http://www2.utmb.edu/kempner/
~~A link has also
been added to the School of Medicine Home Page at:
http://www.som.utmb.edu/
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The Association
of American Medical Colleges is accepting nominations for the 2002 Women
in Medicine (WIM) Leadership Development Award. The deadline for
nominations has been extended to September 13, 2002. The purpose of this
award is to recognize an individual or a Women in Medicine Organization
for outstanding contributions to develop women leaders in academic
medicine on an institution or national level. Any AAMC constituent (group
or individual) may nominate one person per year for this award. An
individual nominated last year may be re-nominated without requested
back-up. The Award will be presented at the Women Liaison Officers and
Academic Chairs Reception/Dinner and Caucus, November 10th in
San Francisco. For more information and to obtain a nomination form,
please visit the following web site:
http://www.aamc.org/members/wim, click on right hand side of the
navigation bar, Women in Medicine Award.
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12. WE WANT YOUR NEWS!
Faculty
and administrators are encouraged to submit their department's news for
inclusion in SOM-eNEWS. This information may be submitted
to Denise Gonzalez, Office of the Dean of Medicine, either through campus
mail, Route 0133, or electronically.
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13. NEW FACULTY
APPOINTMENTS
The Dean of
Medicine welcomes the following new School of Medicine faculty who have
been appointed during the month of July, 2002:
Luis Amador,
M.D., Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine
Tetsuo Ashizawa,
M.D., Professor and Chair, Neurology
Beth Auslander,
Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Pediatrics
Radoslaw Bukowski,
M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Obstetrics & Gynecology
Cheryl Cothran,
B.S.N., Women's Healthcare Specialist, Obstetrics & Gynecology
Mahmoud Eltorky,
M.D., Ph.D., Professor, Pathology
Camille Graham,
M.D., Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology
Aimee Jackson,
M.S.N., Women's Healthcare Specialist, Obstetrics & Gynecology
Jong Lee, M.D.,
Assistant Professor, Surgery
Husong Li, M.D.,
Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology
Xi Lin, M.D.,
Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Neurology
Radhishya Miryala,
Assistant Professor, Surgery
Kazynori
Murakami, M.D., Ph.D., Instructor, Anesthesiology
Nicholas Nagrani,
M.D., Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine
Todd Nelson,
M.D., Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology
Michael Olson,
Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Family Medicine
Abdulfatah Osman,
M.D., Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine
Aytekin Oto,
M.D., Associate Professor, Radiology
Kerrie Pinkney,
M.D., Assistant Professor, Pediatrics
Bill Rampy,
Ph.D., Instructor, Pathology
Jeffrey Richards,
M.D., Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology
Wayne Rutledge,
M.D., Assistant Professor, Surgery
Vahakn Shahinian,
M.D., Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine
Rosalyn Stewart,
M.D., Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine
Vadim Vornik,
M.D., Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology
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14. GRANT OPPORTUNITIES
--CALL
FOR NOMINATIONS - THE 2003 MARCH OF DIMES PRIZE IN DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY
Nominations of candidates are
solicited for the 8th annual prize to be awarded in 2003. The
deadline for nominations is September 16, 2002. The Prize, consisting of
a medal and $250,000, is awarded to investigators whose research has
profoundly advanced the science that underlines our understanding of birth
defects. For further details and to download nomination forms, please
visit the following web site:
http://www.modimes.org/Research/370.htm
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For other funding
opportunities, please visit the following web site:
http://www.som.utmb.edu/announcements/
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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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We want your news!
Submit your information
for SOM e-NEWS:
·
Via email to djgonzal@utmb.edu
·
On the phone to ext. 23967
·
Via fax at 29598
SOM e-NEWS
is an initiative of the Office of the Dean of Medicine, to improve
communication with faculty and staff in the school. The editor of the
newsletter is Dr. Linda Phillips. An archive of the newsletter is
available on the SOM web site:
http://www.som.utmb.edu/e-NEWS/eNEWS-TOC.htm.
Thank you for your interest and time.
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2001, The University of Texas Medical Branch
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