5.
DEPARTMENT NAME CHANGE
6.
FUNDING
OPPORTUNITIES
7.
The Harvard Macy Institute Program for Leaders in
Healthcare Education
8.
we want your news!
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1. UPCOMING EVENTS
APT
WORKSHOP
The Office of the Dean of Medicine will once
again offer the Appointment, Promotion, and Tenure (APT) Workshop to be held
on Wednesday, December 7, 2005 from 5-7 PM in the Caduceus Room, 6th Floor
of the Administration Building. This informative session is designed to
clarify the APT process. Please see the following agenda:
--Linda G. Phillips, M.D., Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs
Welcome and Introduction: The Goals of the Workshop
--Susan L. Rosenthal, Ph.D., Chair, School of Medicine APT Committee
Discuss the SOM committee process, evaluation and actions the committee
might take
--Steven A. Lieberman, M.D., Vice Dean for Academic Affairs
Discuss the nature of the different appointments, especially what the
different tracks and titles mean
--Mr. Christopher N. Johnsen, Attorney, Legal
Affairs
Discuss the contract between the university and the faculty member, with
particular attention to Regents’ Rules and State Laws; discuss the
post-tenure review process
--Linda G. Phillips, M.D., Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs
Discuss the departmental activity which precedes the SOM committee
evaluation, including initiation of the process
Discuss assembly of the packet: what it contains, who provides what and when
--Q&A
Refreshments will be served. Seating is limited, therefore please RSVP to
Denise Gonzalez by email, djgonzal@utmb.edu, or call ext. 23967. Thank you.
FACULTY OF MEDICINE MEETING
The December Faculty of Medicine Meeting initially scheduled on Tuesday,
December 6, 2005 has been rescheduled to Tuesday, December 13, 2005, 5:00
PM, Levin Hall.
DEPARTMENTAL REVIEWS
Microbiology & Immunology: February 22-24, 2006
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2.
SCHOOL
OF MEDICINE RECOGNITION OF FACULTY ACHIEVEMENTS
The following SOM faculty
recently were recognized
at the October 18th Faculty of Medicine Meeting
for their outstanding
achievements:
Class of 1947 Excellence In Education Awards:
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| Ping Wu, M.D., Ph.D. |
R. David Baker, Ph.D. |
James E. Blankenship,
Ph.D. |
Presidential Curriculum Innovation Award & 2005 Innovation in Medical
Education Award:
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| Robert J. Bulik, Ph.D. |
Gurjeet S. Shokar, M.D. |
Presidential Curriculum Innovation Award:
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| Kirk Smith, M.D., Ph.D. |
America’s Top Doctor Award:
2005 Rhoda Benham Award from the Medical Mycological Society of the
Americas:
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| Michael R. McGinnis, Ph.D. |
2005 Texas Higher Education Star Award:
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| David G. Gorenstein, Ph.D. |
Honorary Professor Degree from the State University of Karhkiv,Ukraine:
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| Reuben Matalon, M.D.,
Ph.D. |
D’Feet Breast Cancer 2005 Honoree:
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| Baiba J. Grube, M.D. |
Awarded NIH Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health:
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| Abbey B. Berenson, M.D. |
Awarded “Distinguished G. Heiner Sell Lectureship” – American Spinal Injury
Association:
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| Claire E. Hulsebosch,
Ph.D. |
Invited Lecturers at the 11th World Congress of Pain Int’l Association for
the Study of Pain Meeting (IASP) – Sydney, Australia (Aug. 21-26, 2005):
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| Jin Mo Chung, Ph.D. |
Qing Lin, M.D., Ph.D. |
Susan M. Carlton, Ph.D. |
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| Volker E. Neugebauer,
M.D., Ph.D. |
Claire E. Hulsebosch, Ph.D. |
Awarded 1st John J. Bonica Lectureship at the 11th World Congress of Pain (IASP)
– Sydney, Australia (Aug. 21-26, 2005):
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| William D. Willis, Jr.,
M.D., Ph.D. |
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3.
NEW FACULTY HONORED AT RECEPTION
New members of the Faculty of Medicine, appointed
between April 16, 2005 and September 15, 2005, were introduced at a
reception on October 18, 2005. These receptions are held as an opportunity
for new faculty members to meet the UTMB community. See pictures at:
http://www.som.utmb.edu/New%20School%20of%20MedicineFaculty1_files/Reception101805.htm
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4.
CENTER FOR ADDICTION RESEARCH 2005 PILOT GRANT PROGRAM ANNOUNCES
AWARDEES
The Center for Addiction 2005
Frontiers in Addiction Research and Treatment Pilot Awards fund research
in the mechanisms of action of abused drugs, the processes underlying
drug addiction, or the diagnosis, prognosis, treatment and/or prevention
of drug use, abuse or dependence. The Center is proud to announce the
following three grantees whose projects were awarded $30,000 each for
one year.
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Dr. Dineley |
Dr. Denner |
Proteome Map
of Nicotine Addiction. Principal Investigators: Kelly T. Dineley,
Ph.D. (Neurology), and Larry Denner, Ph.D. (Internal Medicine; Stark
Diabetes Center). Drs. Dineley and
Denner are employing a systems biology approach to understand how
proteins regulate nicotine-induced addictive behaviors. Over the past
year, this group has worked to establish a behavioral model to measure
the association of environmental cues with nicotine exposure, and has
optimized methods for analyzing changes in protein expression. As a
result, the group is currently equipped to proceed with the proposed
studies, which seek to identify the signaling mechanisms and
differentially-expressed proteins and phosphoproteins that subserve
acute and chronic nicotine actions in brain reward circuits.
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| Dr. Smith |
Enhancing the
Assessment of Treatment Needs and Integration of a Responsive Parenting
Program for Mothers with Newborns Identified as Cocaine Exposed.
Principal Investigator: Karen E. Smith, Ph.D. (Neurology, Pediatrics).
Dr. Smith, in collaboration with the Galveston County Family Court and
Children’s Protective Services, will pilot test a new process for
assessing the treatment needs of mothers of cocaine-exposed newborns,
which aims to provide a “centralized” assessment that is more efficient,
informative, and cost effective than current assessment protocols. In
addition, Dr. Smith will modify and expand the home-based, “hands on”
responsive parenting skills course developed in collaboration with Dr.
Susan Landry, UT-Houston Health Science Center, to meet the needs of
this special population of parents of cocaine-exposed newborns beginning
when their infants are as young as 2 months of age. Success of these
programs will be appraised through a battery of parental and infant
assessments ranging from standardized measurements of addiction severity
and infant development to observation of parent-infant interactions, of
which outcomes are expected to improve over time. These studies are
anticipated to improve the quality of life of these infants and their
caregivers and to promote successful family and child development into
the school age years.
Improved Treatment Outcomes through Coordinated Service Delivery.
Principal Investigators: The Signals of Sobriety (Gulf Coast
Center). The members of Signals of Sobriety, a consortium of residential
substance abuse treatment centers in Galveston and Brazoria Counties,
will pilot test a novel substance abuse treatment program aimed at
improving treatment outcomes. This new program, coordinated through a
resource specialist, will incorporate a comprehensive web-based
screening process; customize social, legal and medical referrals according to patient needs; offer a plan for treatment adherence and
transition into the community; as well as monthly follow up sessions for
9 months after discharge from inpatient treatment. Treatment outcomes
such as program retention, patient involvement in the criminal justice
system, and patient medical expenses will be compared with longitudinal
data collected using the traditional treatment program.
The Center for Addiction Research will announce the 2006 Frontiers in
Addiction Research and Treatment grant competition in the near future.
Announcements for this 2006 award applications will be posted on the
following
website, www.utmb.edu/addiction,
and published in the Daily Announcements, Impact, SOM e-NEWS, and the UTMB
Yellow Sheet.
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5.
DEPARTMENT NAME CHANGE
The University of Texas System and the Texas Higher Education
Coordinating Board recently approved the name change
of the Department of Human Biological Chemistry and Genetics to
"Biochemistry and Molecular Biology." This
name change more accurately reflects the
research focus of the faculty. In addition, it provides
a more appropriate characterization of the department and better allows us
to track our standing in terms of sponsored research activities across the
United States.
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6.
FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
Listed below are recently announced funding opportunities:
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The Daniel C.
Tosteson, M.D. Award for Leadership in Medical Education (deadline is
January 6, 2006).
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The TIAA-CREF
Distinguished Medical Educator Award (deadline is January 16, 2006).
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Ellison Medical Foundation New Scholars Award in Aging
(internal deadline: February 1, 2006; external deadline: March 2, 2006).
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Damon Runyon Clinical Investigator Award (internal deadline: February 1,
2006; external deadline: March 1, 2006).
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Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical
Research Award (internal deadline: December 5, 2005; external deadline:
January 6, 2006).
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Public
Health Informatics Fellowship Program at the Centers for Disease Control
(deadline is December 15, 2005)
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National
Hispanic Medical Association 2006 Leadership Fellowship (deadline is
January 31, 2006).
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7.
The
Harvard Macy Institute Program for Leaders in Healthcare Education
The Harvard Macy Program for
Leaders in Healthcare Education will be held on June 11-16, 2006 at the
Harvard Medical School and Harvard Medical International. The program is
designed for leaders with major responsibilities for healthcare education
across various disciplines, especially those leaders who will introduce or
manage significant organizational change or innovation in their
institutions. The program is intended for teams of two or three leaders from
the same institution, though
