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This weekly e-newsletter goes out to all OU-COM and CORE personnel and students.
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OU-COM
received $2.3 million—the second largest gift in the history of the
college—from the Osteopathic Heritage Foundation. The gift will fund
renovations for the Osteopathic Heritage Foundation Center for Clinical
Training and Assessment and Free Community Health Clinic.
The facility will unite the clinical skills training lab with
the college’s Community Health Programs’ Free Clinic in renovated spaces in
Grosvenor Hall.
Construction will begin soon, with completion scheduled for early 2011.
· For more, go to www.oucom.ohiou.edu/News/stories/OFD-Grant09/index.htm.
Watson receives Crystal Apple, Rice becomes CORE Board chair
Keith Watson, D.O., CORE chief academic officer, received the Crystal Apple award for his years of outstanding service to the CORE and the CORE Board at their April 3 board meeting. After serving as CORE Board chair since 2001—the only CORE chair to serve consecutive terms—Watson is stepping down from the position this year.
Kathleen Rice, president and chief operating officer at Cuyahoga Falls General Hospital, assumes the two-year chairmanship of CORE in June. James Preston, D.O., assistant dean at Firelands Regional Medical Center, assumes the vice-chair duties for the next two years and subsequently will become chair in 2011.
Malgor receives NIH grant
Ramiro Malgor, M.D., assistant professor of biological sciences, is the principal investigator on a new, two-year $221,250 grant from the National Institutes of Health for the project, “Understanding WNT-5A and TLR-4 cross-signaling during atherosclerosis.”
Malgor will examine whether WNT-5A, a protein first noticed in embryogenesis and later linked to cancer development, plays a role in atherosclerosis. Malgor’s team, which includes Kelly McCall, Ph.D., assistant professor of specialty medicine, was the first to notice the presence of WNT-5A in atherosclerosis.
Two chosen as academic affairs “employees of the year”
Deb Woods, director of CORE residency program advisory committees (RPACs), and Pam Henderson, supervisor of the Clinical Training and Assessment Center, both received 2008 Academic Affairs Outstanding Employee of the Year awards.
Other academic affairs employees nominated this year include:
· Jeff Creamer, multi-media specialist
· Norma Daniels, northeast CORE administrator
· Steve Davis, Ph.D., director of faculty development
· Judith Edinger, director of predoctoral education
· Nell Ann Kittle, administrative associate
· Angie Mowrer, years one and two curriculum coordinator
· Kim Ramey, administrative associate
RSAF fellows announced
The 2009 Research and Scholarly Advancement Fellowship (RSAF) program announced nine first-year student participants.
This ten-week summer program provides selected OU-COM students with an introduction to basic science and clinical research and scholarly activities under the guidance of a faculty member. In addition to performing research, participants are required to attend seminars on various research-related topics, write a research paper, and present a poster of their project at OU-COM Research Day next fall.
This year’s RSAF fellows, and their mentors, include:
Fellows Mentors
Change to Service Awards presentations
Due to budgetary issues, the annual OU-COM Service Awards will no longer be held as a separate event, said Beth Maxon, director of human resources and administrative services.
“We greatly appreciate our employees, and we feel it is important to recognize the faculty and staff for all their efforts, but we plan to do it in a different way in the future,” Maxon said.
Faculty and staff employment milestones for five, 10, 15, 20, 25 and 30 years of service now will be recognized at the respective university-wide annual recognition events held by Administrative, Classified and Faculty Senates.
Other Service Awards recognitions will be announced during the annual fall-quarter State of the College address by Dean Jack Brose, D.O.
DOC Awards still accepting reservations
Reservations are still being accepted for the 2009 Distinguished Osteopathic Commitment (DOC) Awards dinner.
Robert S. Juhasz, D.O., a member of the AOA Board of Trustees, will deliver the keynote address. Dress is semi-formal.
· Event: Wednesday, April 22, 5:30 p.m., Baker Center Ballroom
· RSVP to affairsga@oucom.ohiou.edu and let them know about any dietary restrictions and whether you are bringing a guest.
OOA/CORE 2009 Research Competition call for abstracts
The abstract deadline has been extended to May 8 for the OOA/CORE 2009 Research Poster Exhibition and Competition, which will take place at the 111th OOA Convention.
The poster exhibition is open to students, interns, residents, faculty and physicians presenting clinical/biomedical research, case reports or health policy/educational issues.
The poster competition is restricted to student, intern and resident projects, and must be either clinical/biomedical research or case reports.
are available at www.ohiocore.org/research/OOA-CORE.htm.
Join us for Race for the Cure
The staff of OU-COM’s Area Health Education Center (AHEC) and Community Health Programs (CHP) invites college faculty, staff and students to join them in the annual Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure in downtown Columbus Saturday, May 16. According to Kathy Trace, director of both AHEC and CHP, the event raised $2.2 million last year through the participation of 40,000 people nationwide.
Minority Health Month events
Minority Health Month was created in 1989 to raise awareness about medical needs of and health care disparities among minority populations.
This year, the Student Affairs Office of OU-COM partnered with the Student Government Association Professionalism Committee, the Student National Medical Association, the Ohio Osteopathic Association, the HRSA Predoctoral Training in Family Medicine Grant and the Alumni Affairs Career Medical Specialty Series to bring in guest speakers from diverse backgrounds.
Film showing – “The Tuskegee Experiment” and panel discussion moderated by Harold Thompson, D.O., assistant professor of emergency medicine, and by Jo Ellen Sherow and Rebecca Cale, director and associate director, respectively, of Research Compliance at Ohio University
Lecture – former OU-COM dean Barbara Ross-Lee, D.O., SGA Professionalism Series
Lecture – Robert Polite, D.O. (’99), Career Medical Specialties Series
Lecture – Lee Dudley, D.O. (’98), SGA Professionalism Series
Geriatric Medicine/Gerontology Seminar
“Normal aging: A practical overview,” by Allison Batchelor, M.D., associate professor of geriatrics
· Seminar: Monday, April 20, noon, Medical Education Classroom 014, O’Bleness Memorial Hospital, and video conference to OU-COM CORE sites, Grosvenor West 029, and Tri-County Mental Health and Counseling Services sites
Administrative Professionals Week luncheon, seminar
The Athens Chapter of the International Association of Administrative Professionals will hold their annual luncheon and seminar as part of Administrative Professionals Week.
Brad Wenstrup, D.P.M., a major in the U.S. Army Reserves who practices podiatric medicine at Wellington Orthopedic and Sports Medicine in Cincinnati, will deliver the keynote address. Registration is $55 ($30 for students).
Free CME program
The OU-COM Department of Family Medicine, with support from a HRSA grant, will host a CME program, “Faculty development: Current concepts in medical education.” The event is free for all third- and fourth-year medical students, interns/residents and physicians (3.5 AOA category 1-A credit available).
· Event: Saturday, May 16, 7:30 a.m. to noon, Center for Medical Education and Innovation at Riverside Methodist Hospital in Columbus.
Faculty Development Tidbit: Teaching tips for Generation Y
Some experts have asserted a growing mismatch between faculty and students in terms of teaching and learning. Here are some tips for teaching Generation Y learners (born 1980-2001):
1. Incorporate experiential learning: small group discussions, team projects, in-class presentations, debates, peer critiques, service learning and field experiences.
2. Develop learning communities, small groups of students who discuss and analyze readings and assignments.
3. Provide lots of structure. Having grown up in a highly structured world, Generation Y learners like to know precisely what is required of them.
4. Provide lots of feedback. Frequent feedback lets them know whether they are headed in the right direction or getting off-track.
5. Incorporate technology into the classroom to help provide variety, stimulation and access to information. Today’s students respond well to technology, as they utilize it in most aspects of their daily lives.
(Source: http://honolulu.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacDevCom/guidebk/teachtip/GenY.htm)
Find more “Teaching Tips” at your OU-COM & CORE faculty development web resources: Click here for OU-COM and here for CORE
(Tidbits courtesy of your Office of Faculty Development with Steve Davis, Ph.D.; Robbin Kirkland, Ph.D.; and Olivia Sheehan, Ph.D.)
The Post (4-10-09)
“College of Osteopathic Medicine prescribes big plans for grant”
http://thepost.ohiou.edu/Main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=27811
The Athens News (4-9-09)
“$2.3 M grant to create new site for free clinic, clinical training center”
The Athens Messenger (4-9-09)
“Grant to fund training, free clinic”
(Article can be found on page 3, not yet posted to web site)
Akron Beacon Journal (4-8-09)
“Foundation providing grants for projects in four counties”
www.ohio.com/news/42653177.html
OUTLOOK (4-7-09)
“Faculty
probe academic restructuring plan:
Krendl, deans provide insight on initiative at forum”
www.ohio.edu/outlook/08-09/April/491.cfm
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