April 2001
In this issue:
1. Science Court: HIV/AIDS in Africa
2. Class Day 2001
3. Upcoming Events
4. Faculty and Staff
5. Students
6. Announcements
1. SCIENCE COURT
- "HIV/AIDS in Africa: How Should the USA Respond?" April 28, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Cook Auditorium. The symposium features panelists from Africa and the US and opportunities for audience dialogue with speakers. Following the symposium, undergraduates, medical and graduate students will vote on a series of controversial questions. The results will be announced on the web. Guest speakers are:
- Nils Daulaire, MD, president and CEO, Global Health Council; DMS overseer
- Philip Hedger, executive managing director, International Affairs, Pfizer, Inc.
- Bernard Lo, MD, director, Program in Medical Ethics, UCSF School of Medicine; member, National Bioethics Commission
- Kisali Pallangyo, MD, dean, medicine, Muhimbili University College of Health Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
- Jimmy Volmink, MD, PhD, the Cochrane Center, Cape Town, South Africa; Global Health Council
- C. Fordham von Reyn, MD, medicine and DMS chief of infectious diseases
- Richard Waddell, DSc, medicine/DMS director of HIV research studies
- Beatrice Were, coordinator, National Community of Women with HIV/AIDS in Uganda, Kampala, Uganda
- Catherine Wilfert, MD, scientific director, Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation
- Lee Witters, MD, medicine and biochemistry; director of Humanitates Vitae
- Rachel Naomi Remen, MD, author and pioneer of the mind/body health movement, will be the keynote speaker for Class Day 2001 June 9. She is clinical professor of family and community medicine at UCSF School of Medicine, where she directs an innovative course, the Healer's Art. Faculty Marshall is Harold M. Friedman, MD, medicine. Student speakers are Rachel Solotaroff and Adam Lee Hersh. Ceremonies are in the Derzon Court Yard at 9:30 a.m; in the event of rain, 11:30 a.m. Leede Arena in the John W. Berry Sports Center.
- Dartmouth Biomedical Libraries Workshops, Matthews-Fuller Library,
DHMC 5th floor
- Tuesdays, April 3 and April 9, 12-1:30 p.m., Introduction to Presentations with PowerPoint
- Thursday, April 5, 12-1:30 p.m., Introduction to Ovid MEDLINE
- Friday, April 6, 12-1:30 p.m., Introduction to the EndNote
- Tuesday, April 17, 11:30 a.m., Library Tour
- Tuesday, April 24, 12-1:30 p.m., Advanced PowerPoint (New!)
- Department of Psychiatry, Grand Rounds, DHMC, Auditorium E, Tuesdays 8:30 a.m.-10 a.m.
- April 3, "Molecular Genetics and Development Psychopathology: Tourette Syndrome from the Clinic to the Bench:" Matthew W. State, MD, assistant professor of child and adolescent psychiatry, Yale Child Study Center, New Haven
- April 17, Clinical case conference: Thomas E. Oxman, MD, psychiatry
- April 24, "The Treatment of Sexual Deviation Using a Pharmacological Approach," John Bradford, MD, clinical and forensic program director, sexual behaviors clinic, Royal Ottawa Hospital, Canada (sponsored by Pfizer Corporation).
- Kathleen Allden, MD, psychiatry, traveled to Thailand February 1-15 to work with Burmese refugees on the Burma/Thailand border. She was invited by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees as an American delegate at the International Conference on Re-settling Refugees in Norrkoping, Sweden April 25 Ð 27, and will speak on the psychological consequences of torture and mass violence.
- John C. Baldwin, dean, was selected as the Alpha Omega Alpha Distinguished Professor at the University of Rochester School of Medicine for 2001 where he served as a visiting professor of cardiothoracic surgery March 15 -16. He also gave lectures on medical eduction to the AOA group, on genetics in medical therapeutics to the medical school community, and on the meaning of excellence in medical practice to the AOA banquet for newly-elected members.
- Reed Brozen, MD, medicine, will participate in an abstract/poster session at the Critical Care Transport Medicine Conference, CCTMC, in San Antonio, April 9. The title of his presentation is "Decision to Transfer: Arrival Times at a Tertiary Care Facility, Air versus Ground Transport."
- T.Y. Chang, MD, biochemistry and Catherine Chang, MS, both biochemistry, were keynote speakers for 13th Annual Mid-Atlantic Lipid Research Symposium in Atlantic City, March 1-2. The title of their talk was: "ACAT and NPC1: two integral membrane proteins involved in intracellular cholesterol metabolism and trafficking." The symposium focussed on lipid metabolism related to health issues as diabetes, arterial disease and obesity.
- Paul Gorman, EdD, has joined the psychiatry department as research associate and director of the West Institute to oversee the initiative involving patients who have severe mental illness and substance addiction and head the training component for health care professionals.
- Diane Harper, MD, obstetrics & gynecology and community & family medicine, is a member of the steering committee to develop guidelines for the ASCUS/LSIL Triage Study (ALTS), helping to design the colposcopy quality control and is leader of the studyÕs quality of life and cost effectiveness analysis. The group reported results in an article, "Interobserver Reproducibility of Cervical Cytologic and Histologic Interpretations Realistic Estimates From the ASCUS-LSIL Triage Study" in the March 21 Journal of the American Medical Association and, "The ASCUS/LSIL Study (ALTS) Group, Human Papillomavirus Testing for Triage of Women with Cytologic Evidence of Low-Grade Squamous Intraepithelial Lesions: Baseline Data From a Randomized Trial," in the March 1 Journal of the National Cancer Institute, (Vol. 92, No. 5).
- Robert D. Harris, MD, radiology and obstetrics & gynecology, contributed an editorial "Yuppie Scans" in the January issue of Applied Radiology, and co-authored an article, " Endometriosis: Epidemiology, Current Pathophysiological Concepts; and Imagining Consideration" with Ellen Gerety, MD, senior radiology resident. He spoke at the New England Roentgen Ray Society on "New Concepts of Scrotal Imaging" March 3. He will address the Rhode Island Society of Sonographers on "Placental Sonography" and "Imaging of Maternal Complications of Pregnancy" April 7.
- Margaret R. Karagas, PhD, community & family medicine, and coauthors T.A. Shukel, J.S. Morris, T.D. Tosteson, J.E. Weiss, S.K. Spencer, and E.R. Greenberg, published an article in the March American Journal of Epidemiology, "Skin cancer risk in relation to toenail arsenic concentrations in a US population-based case-control study." 153(6):559-565.
- Diane Kittredge, MD, pediatrics and community & family medicine, has developed the Web Curriculum related to Immunization website, effective March 23. It is at: http://www2.edserv.musc.edu/tide/.
- Ben Lewis, EdD, psychiatry, was invited by Governor Jeanne Shaheen to become a member of the Program and Monitoring and Evaluation Task Force of the Governor's Commission on Alcohol and Drug Prevention and Treatment.
- Virginia A. Reed, PhD, and G. Christian Jernstedt, PhD, both center for educational outcomes at the Koop Institute and community & family medicine, co-authored, "Teaching children about health: an example of secondary gain in an academic-community partnership," published in the November 2000 issue of Education for Health.
- Ben Lannon, '03 attended the 27th annual Society of Teachers of Family Medicine Predoctural Educational Conference in Long Beach, California, February 2-4. Along with Sarah Culkin, MD '99, and Kathy Pipas, MD, community & family medicine, he presented a poster entitled "Applying Computer Technology to Enhance Medical Education." He received funding for the trip from the DMS Student Government Travel Fund.
- Tim Burdick '02, was selected by the Wilderness Medical Society Board of Directors as the national student representative-elect.
- Yousseff Tanagho, '03, gave a presentation on his experience last summer as Dartmouth International Health Group Dickey fellow. His talk was entitled, "Living with Leprosy: A perspective from Egypt."
- Leslieanne Yen, '03, presented a poster on her medical experience as a Dartmouth International Health Group Dickey fellow with Burmese migrant workers and medics at Mae Tao Clinic in Mae Sot, Thailand.
- The NH/VT Schweitzer Fellows Program announced that the following DMS students have been awarded Schweitzer Fellowships for 2001-2002:
- Amanjit Dhatt '04: design and conduct workshops through the Good Neighbor Health Clinic for the medically underserved in order to promote diabetes prevention for diabetic patients, their families and patients at risk for developing this disease.
- Catherine Lenkoski '04: work with the women at Hannah House in Lebanon throughout their pregnancy to help them understand the changes in their bodies; to support them as a DOULA while they are in labor and to teach parenting classes.
- Shannon Lucas '04: work as a health educator with the Women-to-Women Program of the New Hampshire Minority Health Coalition to help Latino women learn about health care issues and help them access the US health care system.
- Gerri Mournian '04: work with local agencies to compile and circulate a cookbook of low-cost, nutritionally balanced recipes oriented toward individuals and/or families living on a fixed income; implement after-school cooking classes for teenagers in the Upper Valley using recipes from the cookbook; teach that a healthy and appetizing diet can be achieved for relatively little cost; teach how to plan, shop for and cook nutritious meals that can then be shared with family and friends.
- Ted Sears '04: organize and engage in the direct education of gun owners, health care workers and at-risk populations about risk factors and harm reduction strategies for firearm violence.
- Stan Weinberger '04: design a resource guide for health and health related services in the Upper Valley in conjunction with the Good Neighbor Health Clinic; publish a pocket guide for low-income residents in the area and a web-based resource.
- Diversity Training Ð The DMS Vertical Integration Group (VIG) developed through the Medical Education Committee, has released its diversity report that evaluates the school's efforts to teach cultural competency and encourage an atmosphere receptive to diversity. As a result of recommendations the committee adopted, DMS will offer diversity training for faculty, in partnership with the college's Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Office, pending budget approval. For information, contact the Office of Multicultural Affairs, 650-1582.
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