·
THE APPLE SERIES
The APPLE Series
(Advancing the Professional and Personal Learning of Educators) is a new
resource which offers nourishing information for busy educators. Below is
a preview of the schedule for the spring:
-- Thursday,
January 23, 2003, noon, Room 2.208 SAHS, presentation by Karen Szauter,
M.D. titled, “Are Faculty Professional Role Models? A Student
Perspective.”
-- Tuesday,
February 18, 2003, noon, presentation by Suzanne Peloquin, Ph.D., OTR,
FAOTA titled, “Strategies for Creating a Clinical Climate in Classrooms.”
--Tentative dates with speakers
and topics in progress:
March 25th at noon
Loree Primeau, Elicia Cruz,
Tina Esparza, and Debbie Heater from Occupational Therapy
Community-Based Service
Learning Initiatives
April 24th at noon
Carolyn Utsey from Physical
Therapy
Self-Regulated Learning
Concepts
For more
details, please visit:
http://sahs.utmb.edu/apples/.
· DEVELOPMENT
BOARD WEEKEND
January 24-25, 2003
· APPOINTMENT,
PROMOTION & TENURE WORKSHOP
The Office of the
Dean of Medicine again will offer the Appointment, Promotion, and Tenure
(APT) Workshop to be held on Wednesday, January 29, 2003, 5PM-7PM, in the
Levin Hall Dining Room. Faculty and administrators are invited to attend.
The purpose of this workshop is to clarify the APT process.
Dinner and
refreshments will be served. Please RSVP to Ms. Eartha Dotson by email,
edotson@utmb.edu
<mailto:edotson@utmb.edu>,
or call 22671.
· “HOW
TO SUCCEED IN ACADEMIA: PROFILES OF SUCCESSFUL WOMEN ACADEMICIANS”
January 31, 2003, 7:30 AM –
2:45 PM, John P. McGovern Texas Medical Center Commons, 6550 Bertner
Avenue, Houston, presented by The Association of Women Faculty, UTHSC at
Houston. The conference is limited to the first 125 registrants; the
deadline to register is January 10, 2003. For registration information,
please visit:
http://www.uth.tmc.edu/ut_general/special_interest/committees/awf/index.html.
· FACULTY
OF MEDICINE MEETING & NEW FACULTY RECEPTION
The February
Faculty of Medicine Meeting will be held on Tuesday, February 4, 2003,
4:30 PM, Levin Hall South Auditorium.
At this meeting the Dean of Medicine, with the assistance of his staff,
will present the "State of the School." A reception honoring new School
of Medicine faculty will be held immediately after the meeting in the
Levin Hall Dining Room.
Future meetings:
-- Tuesday, April
1, 2003
-- Thursday, May
22, 2003 (4:00 PM)
· CV
WORKSHOP
The Office of the
Dean of Medicine will host a CV workshop on
Wednesday,
February 5, 2003 from 5-7 PM
(location TBA).
The purpose of the workshop is to review the CV format with a primary
focus on "building the CV." Featured speakers include:
Steven A.
Lieberman, M.D.
Associate
Professor, Department of Internal Medicine
Associate Dean
for Educational Affairs
Kyriakos S.
Markides, Ph.D.
Professor,
Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health
Holder, Annie
and John Gnitzinger Research Professorship
Alice J. Speer,
M.D.
Vice Chair for
Undergraduate Education
Associate
Professor, Department of Internal Medicine
Director,
Division of General Medicine
Time is allotted
for a question and answer session. Faculty and staff are invited to
attend the workshop; please RSVP to Ms. Eartha Dotson by email,
edotson@utmb.edu <mailto:edotson@utmb.edu>,
or call extension 22671. Refreshments will be served.
· DEPARTMENTAL
REVIEWS
--Institute for
the Medical Humanities: March 2-5, 2003
--Radiation
Oncology: March 23-25, 2003
--Surgery: May
12-15, 2003
--Orthopaedic
Surgery & Rehabilitation: May 18-20, 2003
· MATCH
WEEK
--
Monday, March 17, 2003 -
Thursday, March
20, 2003.
Match Day
Ceremony-
March 20, 2003
11:00 a.m. –
Levin Hall, Main Auditorium
· HOMECOMING
--
Friday & Saturday, March 28-29, 2003 (School of Medicine reception will be
held on Thursday evening, March 27th)
· SCHOOL
OF MEDICINE COMMENCEMENT
--Saturday,
May 24, 2003, 10:00 AM, Moody Gardens Convention Center
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The Center for
Interdisciplinary Research in Women’s Health (CIRWH) at UTMB announces the
winners of its first seed grants. CIRWH will award two grants of $12,500
each to help finance pilot research on the effect of enhancement drugs on
female reproduction and on the use of health facilities by lupus patients.
The grants will be awarded in
January. The successful candidates are UTMB faculty members, Drs. Shilla
Chakrabarty and Gayle Weaver.
Dr. Chakrabarty, Assistant
Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, will use animal
models to study the consequences of long-term use of enhancement drugs on
the growth and functions of young women’s reproductive systems. She hopes
to determine the cause of undeveloped reproductive systems and infertility
in young athletic women.
Dr. Weaver, Associate Professor
in the Division of Rehabilitation Sciences, plans to study how African
American women residing in Boston with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)
use health facilities. African American women have a higher rate of SLE.
Using women in Pearland for comparison, Dr. Weaver plans to see if there
is a difference between how women in the Northern and the Southern regions
of the U.S. use health facilities. Dr. Weaver is currently studying health
care among underprivileged populations in Boston. The seed grant will
enable her to proceed with a new facet of those studies.
CIRWH was inaugurated in
February 2002. Its mission is to promote, stimulate and support
interdisciplinary research related to the health of women across the life
span. Another round of seed grants is scheduled for the spring. Watch the
CIRWH web page at
http://www.utmb.edu/cirwh/seedgrant.htm for announcements about
application deadlines.
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The Community Outreach and
Education Program (COEP) of the NIEHS Center in Environmental Toxicology
at UTMB is featured in the national spotlight for its asthma intervention
programs. Please see the full article at:
http://www-apps.niehs.nih.gov/coeprc/spotlight/1102.cfm.
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New School of
Medicine faculty, appointed from September 1, 2002 through November 15,
2002, were honored at a holiday reception sponsored by the Office of the
Dean of Medicine and Faculty Group Practice on December 3, 2002. These
receptions are held as an opportunity for our new faculty members to meet
the UTMB community. See pictures at:
http://www.som.utmb.edu/ under New
School of
Medicine Faculty.
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UTMB full time and part time
physicians who have clinical admitting privileges will be surveyed by
University Healthsystem Consortium (UHC)/ Press Ganey in January and
February. This will not include residents or physicians who do research
with no patient care.
Physicians are encouraged to
answer the survey which will be sent to their office mailing address.
Responses will be confidential. The timeline is as follows:
Projected start
date: 1/13/03
Projected 2nd wave:
2/3/03 (will only be sent to non-respondents from first wave)
Projected end date:
2/24/03
Contact: Kathy J. Jinkins,
Business Operations Analyst, Faculty Group Practice, 409-747-3201;
409-747-3298 fax;
kjjinkin@utmb.edu.
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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, 2003,
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 February 1, 2003.
If you have any
questions or would like further information, you can also contact Dr.
Linda Phillips at extension 24778 or by email at
lphillip@utmb.edu.
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The National Institutes of
Health (NIH) is now accepting applications to its five Loan Repayment
Programs. The deadline for receipt of online applications is January 31,
2003. The NIH Loan Repayment Programs can repay up to $35,000 a year of
qualified educational debt for health professionals pursuing careers in
clinical, pediatric, clinical research for individuals from disadvantaged
background, contraception and infertility, or health disparities research.
The programs also provide coverage for Federal and State tax liabilities.
Participants must have achieved
a doctorate-level degree, devote 50% or more of their time to research
funded by either a non-profit organization or government entity (Federal,
State, or Local) and have educational loan debt equal to or exceeding 20%
of their institutional base salary. US citizens and permanent residents
can apply.
Please share this information
with researchers in your department and your colleagues who may be
interested in the NIH Loan Repayment Programs.
These programs are excellent recruitment/retention tools and provide an
opportunity to
enhance the
quality and diversity of the scientific community.
Please visit
http://www.lrp.nih.gov for information and to apply online, or call
the Helpline at 866-849-4047 if you have any questions.
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Chair, Department of Anatomy &
Neurosciences - J. Regino Perez-Polo, Ph.D., Search Committee Chair
One candidate has come in for a
first visit in December and several candidates are scheduled to visit in
January.
Chair, Department of
Otolaryngology -
Donald Prough, MD, Search Committee Chair
Two candidates
are scheduled to come in February, one for a first visit and the other for
a second visit.
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Below is a list
of School of Medicine faculty who were recommended by the Appointment,
Promotion and Tenure Committee and/or approved by the Executive Committee
of the Faculty of Medicine for promotion and/or tenure. These actions are
effective September 1, 2003 and are pending System approval:
TEJINDER S. AHUJA,
M.D., Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine, Department of Internal
Medicine, be promoted to Associate Professor of Internal Medicine.
RODRIGO MEJIA,
M.D., Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, Department of Anesthesiology,
be promoted to Associate Professor of Anesthesiology.
SEHAM A. ALI,
Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Radiology, Department of Radiology, be
promoted to Associate Professor of Radiology.
RITA M.
PATTERSON, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery &
Rehabilitation, be awarded tenure in her current rank.
IVAN L. KESSEL,
M.D., Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology, Department of Radiation
Oncology, be promoted to Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology.
TUENCHIT
KHAMAPIRAD, M.D., Assistant Professor of Radiology, Department of
Radiology, be promoted to Associate Professor of Radiology.
BRUCE A. LUXON,
Ph.D., Associate Professor of Human Biological Chemistry & Genetics,
Department of Human Biological Chemistry & Genetics, be promoted to
Professor and awarded tenure.
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The Dean of
Medicine welcomes the following new School of Medicine faculty who were
appointed from November 1, 2002 through December 31, 2002:
Jose Gonzalez,
M.D, Associate Professor, Pediatrics
William Grimes,
M.D., Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology
Richard Ortega,
Ed.D., Assistant Professor, Preventive Medicine & Community Health
Edouard Saade,
M.D., Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology
Betty Santiago,
M.D., Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine
Nancy
Setzer-Saade, M.D., Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology
Vahakn Shahinian,
M.D., Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine
Martha Trevino,
M.S.N., Maternal/Child Specialist, Obstetrics & Gynecology
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--MARY
KAY ASH CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
Innovative/Translational
Cancer Research Program
The Mary Kay Ash
Charitable Foundation is currently accepting applications for innovative
grants for translational research in ovarian, uterine, breast, or
cervical cancer. Only one grant application will be accepted from
each accredited school. The grant will be up to $100,000 (combined direct
and indirect costs) for a two-year period. The Foundation anticipates
funding at least five grants. To be eligible, the applicant must hold an
MD or PhD and be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident. Please note that
there are no restrictions as to faculty rank or length of time at a
specific faculty rank.
An internal
selection committee will review applications. If you are or know of
someone who would be interested in applying for this program, please
submit the following information to Don W. Powell, M.D., Associate Dean
for Research, Office of the Dean of Medicine, Route 0133, by Friday,
January 24, 2003 (the external deadline is March 7, 2003): a summary
of the proposal (not to exceed three pages), a copy of the applicant's CV,
and a letter of support from the applicant's Chair or Division Chief.
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--AMERICAN
GASTROENTEROLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
The American
Gastroenterological Association (AGA) is requesting nominations for a new
prize created by the AGA and endowed by a generous grant from AstraZeneca.
The AGA/AstraZeneca William Beaumont International Prize for Distinguished
Research in Digestive Diseases is intended to recognize an individual who
has made a major contribution to basic and/or clinical digestive disease
research. The prize consists of a $25,000 honorarium and a travel grant
to attend Digestive Disease Week 2003®
in Orlando,
Florida in May 2003. The recipient is required to present a 20-minute
lecture on his/her research at the AGA Plenary Session. Please note that
the deadline for submission of nominations is January 24, 2003.
Additional information is available on the Foundation for Digestive Health
and Nutrition web site,
www.fdhn.org.
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--BRAVEWELL
LEADERSHIP AWARD
The Philanthropic Collaborative
for Integrative Medicine announces the opening of nominations for the
inaugural Bravewell Leadership Award for Integrative Medicine. The purpose
of the award is to recognize, empower, and support champions of
integrative medicine in their efforts to transform the culture of
healthcare. The first $100,000 award will be conferred next fall at a
ceremony in New York City. The deadline for receipt of nominations is
February 28, 2003.
Any individual may submit a
nomination (of self or other) by completing the Bravewell Award Nomination
Form and sending it with a cover letter and the nominee’s CV to the
Philanthropic Collaborative for Integrative Medicine. Detailed
information on the eligibility, terms and conditions of the award are
available at
www.bravewell.org.
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--THE
ALTON OCHSNER AWARD RELATING SMOKING AND HEALTH
Nominations are now being
accepted for the Eighteenth Annual Alton Ochsner Award Relating Smoking
and Health. Nominations must be received by March 31, 2003. For more
information, please contact the Ochsner Clinic Foundation, 1514 Jefferson
Highway, New Orleans, Louisiana 70121, Telephone: (504) 842-3700; Fax:
(504) 842-3258.
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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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