September 2000
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In this issue: 1. C. Everett Koop Lecture
2. Health Care Summit
3. Life Sciences Symposium
4. More Events
5. Appointment
6. Faculty
7. Staff
8. DMS Artifacts Sought
1. C. EVERETT KOOP LECTURE
- Thursday, September 7, 12:15 - 1:15 p.m., DHMC Aud. E-F. Jonathan Teich, MD, PhD, assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, will deliver the fifth annual Koop Lecture on Medical Informatics, "Computerized Records, Quality of Care and Medical Errors."
2. HEALTH CARE SUMMIT
- Friday, September 8, 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. The New Hampshire Medical Society will host a health care summit as part of its annual meeting. DMS Dean John Baldwin, MD, will moderate a panel on federal and state health care initiatives. Speakers will include U.S. Surgeon General David Satcher, MD; New Hampshire governor Jeanne Shaheen; Canadian Medical Association president Hugh Scully, MD; and American Medical Association trustee chairman Ted Lewers, MD. The summit is open to non-NHMS members; for more information or to register, please contact NHMS at 1-800-564-1909.
3. LIFE SCIENCES SYMPOSIUM
- Tuesday, October 17, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m., Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center. All DMS faculty, students, and scientists are invited to attend the seventh annual Dartmouth Symposium in the Life Sciences, "Circadian Rhythms: The Time of Your Life." Jay Dunlap, MD, DMS genetics, and Rob McClung, PhD, Dartmouth College biological sciences, along with other distinguished scientists from Columbia, Harvard, Texas A&M and the University of Massachusetts, will be among the featured speakers. The full-day program is free and includes a full luncheon in Alumni Hall.
4. MORE EVENTS
- Handel Society Auditions -- September 10 -17. The DMS community is welcome to audition for the Handel Society of Dartmouth College, which will perform several concerts of major choral/orchestral music throughout the 2000-2001 academic year. For an audition time or more information call the Music Department at 646-2530.
- "In Poetry and Prose" Bag Lunch -- September 12, 12 noon, DHMC Auditorium E. Collage artist Joan Burch will present a primarily visual program of her work, "Healing and Revealing," expressing her feelings about breast cancer. Admission is free. Contact Gail Malsin at 650-1419 for more information.
- "White Coat" Reception -- Friday, September 15, 4:15 - 5 p.m., Derzon Courtyard. Congratulate the Class of 2004 following "The White Coat Ceremony: Becoming A Physician" program for new medical students and their guests.
- Class of 2003 Reception -- Friday, September 22, 6 - 8 p.m., DHMC Auditorium E-F. Welcome the Class of 2003 and their families as part of Family Weekend 2000. Please RSVP to Susan Lynaugh via BlitzMail or at 650-1553 by Sept. 18.
- DCMS Fall Series -- October 5 - November 9 The Dartmouth Community Medical School program "Medicine 2000 - New Options, Hard Choices" will be held at the Derryfield School in Manchester, NH, for six consecutive Thursdays, 7 - 9:30 p.m. For more information please call the Center for Continuing Education at 653-1568.
5. APPOINTMENT
- William Hickey MD, pathology, has been appointed senior associate dean for academic affairs, beginning October 1. He succeeds William Culp, PhD, who has been at DMS for 26 years and who will continue as director of the C. Everett Koop Institute at Dartmouth. An expert on neuroimmunology, Hickey has been on the DMS faculty for eight years.
6. FACULTY
- John Baldwin, MD, dean of DMS, was invited to participate in the sessions on recent advances in heart transplantation and in lung transplantation at the XVIII Annual International Congress of the Transplantation Society in Rome.
- William Black, MD, radiology and community & family medicine, published an editorial, "Overdiagnosis: an Unrecognized Cause of Confusion and Harm in Cancer Screening," in the August 16 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer. Commenting on a long-term study that showed no mortality reduction in a lung cancer screening trial, Black wrote that cancer screening can distort statistics on incidence and mortality rates because of overdiagnosing: finding tumors that have little clinical relevance but that add to statistics.
- Robert Drake, MD, psychiatry; Gregory McHugo, PhD, and Haiyi Xie, PhD, community & family medicine; and a Harvard medical colleague coauthored "The effects of clozapine on alcohol and drug use disorders among schizophrenic patients," in the spring issue of Schizophrenia Bulletin.
- Douglas Eddy, MD, medicine, has been inducted as a fellow in the American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine.
- Leigh Hamby, MD, and William Weeks, MD, of community & family medicine, and their colleague Carolyn Malikowski, PharmD, of the VA Medical Center, published a report, "Complications of Warfarin Therapy: Causes, Costs, and the Role of the Anticoagulation Clinic," in the July/August issue of Effective Clinical Practice.
- Diane Harper, MD, obstetrics & gynecology and community & family medicine, published "The Natural History of Cervical Cryosurgical Healing" in the August issue of The Journal of Family Medicine. Harper co-chaired the economic evaluation sessions and the quality of life sessions for the 18th International Papillomavirus Conference held in July in Barcelona, Spain. She also presented a poster and discussed her research on self-sampling for cervical cancer screening.
- Leslie Henderson, PhD, and Robert Maue, PhD, physiology and biochemistry, and Ta Yuan Chang, PhD, biochemistry, published a study, "Embryonic striatal neurons from Niemann-Pick type C mice exhibit defects in cholesterol metabolism and growth factor responsiveness," in the Journal of Biological Chemistry (June 30). Li Lin, laboratory technician, and Anita Prasad, PhD, research associate, physiology, contributed to the study. The study was subsequently highlighted as an "editor's choice" in Science (July 14).
- Kristine Karlson, MD, community & family medicine, served as team physician for the US National Rowing team at the World Championships in Zagreb, Croatia, in August.
- Katherine Little, MD, medicine, published an article, "Screening for domestic violence: identifying, assisting and empowering adult victims of abuse," in the August issue of Postgraduate Medicine.
- Dennis McCullough, MD, community & family medicine, was recently named a certified medical director in long-term care. McCullough is one of 67 physicians granted the title by the American Medical Directors Certification Program for competence to health care providers and consumers.
- Peter Mogielnicki, MD, medicine, was elected chair of the Chiefs of Medicine Field Advisory Group by the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Service for a three-year term. The advisory group advises the Veterans Affairs Central Office on policy and professional matters of importance to internal medicine.
- Michael Sateia, MD, psychiatry, spoke on "Aging and Sleep Disorders" at the Thompson Senior Center in Woodstock, VT, in July. Sateia directs the Sleep Disorders Center at DHMC.
- Jack Singer, MD, surgery (ophthalmology), is participating in one of three clinical trials nationwide to evaluate a new method of vision correction for myopia and hyperopia. The method involves placing a refractive lens inside the eye between the iris and the eye's natural lens, providing correction similar to the way a contact lens provides protection. For more information, please contact Jennifer Young, study coordinator.
- Bruce Stanton, MD, physiology, is one of two recipients of the newly established Roy P. Forster Fellowships, honoring the contributions of Roy and Dorothy Forster to the Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory. Stanton is using the dogfish shark as a model for cystic fibrosis studies.
7. STAFF
- Deana Bragg will join the DMS Admissions Office as office manager on September 6. Bragg has been an administrative assistant in the Animal Resources Center since 1996.
8. DMS ARTIFACTS SOUGHT
- Dartmouth student Amanda Potter ('02) has recently begun to catalogue the DMS collection of medical artifacts, most of which have been in storage since last fall, when the Dean's Office moved to Rope Ferry Road. After completing an inventory of the artifacts, DMS hopes to display them in the cases around the DMS campus and at DHMC. Many artifacts listed in the last inventory of these items -- back in the 1970s -- have not been located. If you have any information about the locations of objects formerly in the medical school's possession, or think you could be of help in identifying these artifacts, please contact Amanda Potter.
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