June 2001
In this issue:
1. Commencement Activities
2. Upcoming Events
3. Faculty and Staff
4. Students
5. Announcements
1. COMMENCEMENT ACTIVITIES
- Dean's Graduation Celebration/Picnic Dinner, Friday, June 8, 6-8 p.m., Derzon Courtyard, Dartmouth Medical School. RSVP by Friday, June 1, 2001, to Deirdre.R.Berthiaume@Dartmouth.Edu or phone: 650-1470.
- Class Day 2001, Saturday, June 9. Keynote speaker: Rachel Naomi Remen, MD. Student speakers: Rachel Solotaroff and Adam Lee Hersh. Faculty Marshall: Harold M. Friedman, MD, medicine. 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.
- Department of Psychiatry, Grand Rounds, Tuesdays 8:30 a.m.-10 a.m. DHMC,
Aud. E,
- June 5, Diane A. Demallie, MD, Mindfulness Meditation and Its Use in DHMC's Psychiatric Partial Hospitalization Program.
- June 12, Joffree R. Barrnett, MD, psychiatry, Philbrook Center, NH Hospital; Iva Pravdova, MD, psychiatry, DMS and Lynn Wickberg, MD, psychiatry - Clinical Case Conference Child Psychiatry
- June 19, Robert W. Buchanan, MD, psychiatry, University of Maryland, New Generation Antipsychotics: What is the Evidence for Their Efficacy in Schizophrenia?
- June 26, Paula Terese Trzepacz, MD, psychiatry, Tufts University, and medical director, US Neurosciences, Phenomenology and Neuropathophysiology of Delirium.
- Joint Anesthesia/Surgical Grand Rounds Wednesday, June 6, 7 a.m., DHMC, Aud. A & B, The Conundrum of Wrong Site Surgery: Seeking Solutions for a Medical Error that Society is Unwilling to Forgive Ð John Webster, MD, Naval Medical Center, San Diego, CA
- Pediatric Grand Rounds, Wednesday, June 6, a.m., DHMC, Aud. E, GBS Infection in the Newborn Ð Abhinav Garg, MD, pediatrics
- Ob/Gyn Grand Rounds, Thursday, June 7, 4 p.m., Borwell 758W, Naturopathic Medicine & Women's Health, Maureen Williams, Naturopathic Doctor.
- Medical Grand Rounds, Friday, June 8, 8 a.m., DHMC, Aud. E , Current Issues in the Management of Pancreatitis, Philip Toskes, MD, University of Florida.
- Department of Anesthesiology - Multidisciplinary Pain and Palliative Medicine Seminar, June 12, 4 p.m.,DHMC, Aud. B, Opiate Pharmacology: Cancer and Clinical Pain, Stephen Abram, MD, University of New Mexico School of Medicine.
- Biomedical Libraries Workshops, Matthews-Fuller Library, DHMC 5th floor
or Dana Biomedical Library:
- Tuesday, June 5 or Friday, June 15, 12-1:30 p.m., Introductions to Presentations with PowerPoint
- Monday, June 11, 12-1:00 p.m., Ovid's New Look: Enhancements, New Features, and More
- Tuesday, June 19, 11:30 a.m., Library Tour
- Tuesday, June 19, 12-1:30 p.m., Advanced PowerPoint
- Thursday, June 21, 12-1:30 p.m., EndNote
- C. Everett Koop Institute/DHMC/NH Council for the Arts: Monday, June 4, 12-1 p.m., DHMC, Aud. G. Reading and final celebration of "I Give You My Word," poetry residency with Veranda Porsche.
- The first Excellence in Medical Education awards were presented at a barbeque May 21 by the DMS Class '04 to recognize DMS faculty members for excellence in teaching clinical and basic sciences. Recipients were: Matthew Heintzleman, PhD, anatomy and pathology; Lee Witters, MD, biochemistry and medicine; Elmer Pfefferkorn, PhD, microbiology and immunology; and Ronald Taylor, PhD, microbiology and immunology.
- John Baldwin, MD, dean, represented DMS and DHMC at the annual meeting of the American Thoracic Society in San Francisco May 19-21. Baldwin also hosted a reception, May 18 in Hanover, recognizing the leadership of Joseph Henderson, MD, community & family medicine, who heads the Dartmouth Center for Public Health Preparedness, designated by the US Surgeon General as one of five such centers in the country; Assistant US Surgeon General, Edward Baker, MD, was also in attendance.
- Joyce A. DeLeo, PhD, anesthesiology and pharmacology & toxicology, is among 45 senior women from American medical and dental schools selected to participate in the 7th class of the Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) Program for Women of MCP Hahnemann University, Philadelphia, beginning in September.
- Diane Harper, MD, obstetrics & gynecology and community & family medicine, was elected to the DMS chapter of Alpha Omega Alpha, a national medical honor society, in May.
- G. Christian Jernstedt, PhD, and Virginia A. Reed, PhD, Center for Educational Outcomes and community & family medicine, co-authored, "Understanding and improving medical student specialty choice: A synthesis of the literature using decision theory as a referent," published in the April 2001 issue of Teaching and Learning in Medicine.
- Sarah G. Johansen, MD, medicine, and medical director of Emergency Services at New London Hospital and the C5 District of NH, hosted the first annual Emergency Medical Services Conference at Mount Sunapee Resort, April 27-29, in which 125 care providers from New Hampshire and other New England states participated.
- Donald Mahler, MD, medicine, speaks at the Spiriva Global Launch Meeting June 2-3 in Sardinia, Italy on "The Measurement of Dyspnea."
- James McInerney, MD, surgery, received the 2001 Cushing Fellowship from the Congress of Neurological Surgeons to help fund a six-month fellowship studying stereotactic and functional neurosurgery at the Center for Image Guided Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh. The award will be presented in October at the annual meeting in San Diego.
- Anna Tosteson, ScD, community & family medicine, spoke on "Economic Considerations" at a national consensus conference on Improving the Continuum of Care for Patients with Hip Fracture, held in Washington, DC, May 2-4 and organized by the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons in collaboration with national organizations involved in the care of hip fracture patients.
- Thomas N. Ward, MD, medicine (neurology), was elected chair of the American Academy of Neurology's Section of Headache and Facial Pain. He also co-chaired the scientific session "Novel Brain Mechanisms and Therapies of Migraine and Cluster Headache" at the annual meeting held in Philadelphia on May 9.
- Marie Whedon, MSN, medicine, was named Nurse of the Year by the New Hampshire Nurses Association during National Nurses Week, May 6-13.
- Newly elected student government officers are Paul Testa '03, president and Anthony Perrone '02, vice president.
- Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) elected Jennifer Noon, Morris Rivera and Alexa Reyentonvich, all class of '02, as new members of the DMS/AOA chapter. They will be inducted at the annual AOA banquet to be held June 5.
- Matthew Brady, who has been in the 2000-2001 Howard Hughes Medical Institute - National Institutes of Health Scholars Program studying melanocyte development in the National Human Genome Research Institute, will return to Dartmouth in July to join the class of 2002.
- Hussein Samji, '01, attended the American Medical Students Association (AMSA) national convention in Anaheim, CA, March 27-April 1. He was elected national co-coordinator for medical education of AMSA; among his primary initiatives will be to implement a national medical student wellness improvement program and to develop a wellness survey for assessing U.S. medical schools. For more information please blitz Hussein.Samji@Dartmouth.edu.
- DMS co-sponsored the second annual Rural Health Symposium May 9 in Sugar Hill, NH, in conjunction with the University of Vermont College of Medicine, the Northern NH Area Health Education Center (AHEC), the Northern VT AHEC, the VT Academy of Family Physicians (AFP), and the NH AFP, hosting more than 80 rural physicians, students and residents to celebrate and examine their work in rural practice.
- Quality Research Grant Program (QRGP) deadline is June 20. The program, managed by Judith Frank, MD, and Eugene C. Nelson, DSc, provides incentives, support and infrastructure for DHMC clinicians and employees to conduct quality research for cost reduction and improving efficiency and quality of DHMC services. It will make a total of 30 awards of $7,500 for research expenses and 300 hours of technical assistance. For further information, contact James Mills at 650-3841 or via blitzmail.
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