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NEW FACULTY APPOINTMENTS
INSTRUCTOR:
Jun Dai, PhD
Melissa Minor, MD
Sheri Qi, MD
Mahmooda Qureshi, MD
David Rubin, MD
Stefanie Sarantopoulos, MD
Kathryn Tinckam, MD
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ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Young Investigators in Medicine Awards
Applications due
September 1, 2005!
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Meet the 2005-2006
Intern Class!
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Need to Revise Your CV into HMS Format
and Wondering How?
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REMINDERS :
General Billing Complicance Training for All Faculty
deadline for completion
September 30
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Mandatory Professionalism Training
for all DOM Physicians
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MARK YOUR CALENDARS!
Medical Grand Rounds
Friday, Sept. 9, 2005
Bornstein Amphitheatre
12:00 p.m.
Speaker: Joseph
Loscalzo, MD, PhD
Chairman,
Department of Medicine
"Internal Medicine in BWH: Past, Present
and Future"
immediately followed by
New Faculty Reception
Carrie Hall
15 Francis Street
Department of Medicine Holiday Party
Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2005
6:30 p.m.
Cabot Atrium
45 Francis Street
2006 Physician-in-Chief Pro Tempore
Black Tie Gala
Thursday, May 4, 2006
6:30 p.m.
Four Seasons Hotel
Keynote Speaker:
Elizabeth Nabel, MD
Director, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
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A Visit with Department of Medicine
Research Affiliates, Part I.
Joslin Diabetes Center
By Susan Holman
  Left: C. Ronald Kahn, MD. Photo by Kathy Tarantola. Copyright 2005 Joslin Diabetes Center
Right: George King, MD. Photo by MJ Maloney. Copyright 2005 Joslin Diabetes Center How many institutions have the courage to construct a brand new center with an elevator shaft that ascends like an overgrown chimney, three stories above the roof, visible to its neighboring medical centers for over a decade as its leaders plan for expansion? Joslin Diabetes Center did, thanks to the faith that its former Chairman of the Board, Arthur O. Choate Jr., had in the fast-growing world-class diabetes center founded by Elliott P. Joslin, M.D. (1869-1962). And the risk paid off. The building we see today, surrounded by its small park and entered on one level through an inviting skylit atrium, has those three extra floors and more. Within its walls the vision continues. “While the Joslin represents many things to many people, what it should represent in everyone’s mind is the world leader in diabetes research,” says C. Ronald Kahn, M.D., President of Joslin Diabetes Center and the Mary K. Iacocca Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Read more |
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Meet David McCready, Executive Administrator
By SooJin Kim
 Photo by Susan Symonds
at Mainframe Photographics When new Department of Medicine Executive Administrator, David McCready, comes to work on Monday mornings, he jumps into challenges that echo the way he spent his weekends: remodeling, making a great old house even better. At home he and his wife, Susan, are remodeling her childhood home, building on their knowledge of architecture, electrical wiring and plumbing. Read More |
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Building Community-Oriented Physicians:
Brigham Urban Intern Learning Day |
Jamaica Plain Walking Tour Group at Jamaica Pond
June 15th was an unusually chilly spring morning. After a week in the 80s and 90s, the temperatures dipped 30 degrees overnight, a bracing welcome to Boston for Brigham's newest medical interns, rising out of their warm beds and stepping over unpacked boxes to attend their second day of orientation at Brigham and Women's Hospital. Just days after their momentous move from their home towns, medical schools and the comfort of familiar things, the 2005-2006 intern class were already rushing to the hospital. Today, they were rushing to the Brigham Urban Intern Learning Day (BUILD).
Piloted in 2003, BUILD is a one-day program designed and implemented by internal medicine residents, including Alexandra Molnar, MD, Chief Primary Care Resident and recipient of the 2004 Support for Excellence in Educational Development (SEED) Grant. They launched the BUILD program with the hope to provide fellow residents with the knowledge they need to become physicians who understand the cultural and societal issues that affect their patients' health. This yearly event starts with panel discussions by leaders from the Dorchester, Roxbury, Mission Hill, and Jamaica Plain communities, who address the new interns on the history and culture of their neighborhoods. The goal is to make interns better "community oriented physicians," said Dr. Molnar. Afterwards, interns get a first-hand look into their future patients' lives through walking tours and service projects.
To lighten the "first day of school" apprehension still lingering in the air, Dr. Sarah Kaplan, this year's resident coordinator, kicked off the day with a warm welcome to the interns and introduction to the community panelists. This year's panelists, included Jeffrey Sanchez, the Massachusetts State Representative for Jamaica Plain and Mission Hill; Jacque Furtado, a community health worker and former resident of Jamaica Plain; and Ana Reyes, a health promoter with the BWH Division of Social Medicine and Inequalities PACT Project. Each panelist offered the unique perspectives of their different organizational roles, but all shared from personal experiences, with the same message: Cultural, language and socio-economic barriers have life-long affects on the health of Brigham's surrounding communities. Interns were faced with the challenge that will meet them each day as they leave the hospital to go home: Boston may have the highest concentration of health centers in the country with 16 hospitals and 26 community health centers, but this has not decreased the high rate of obesity, diabetes, asthma and the lack of health insurance.
 Jeffrey Sanchez Leading the Mission Hill Walking Tour Group
Jacque Furtado has devoted much of her career to working with inner city women who struggle with inadequate resources to maintain health or obtain proper healthcare. "Their own health gets put in the back burner when their children are involved in gangs and violence," says Furtado. She also noted the irony of food prices in the lives of those struggling with poverty, as she described the results of the Boston’s Reach 2010 Breast and Cervical Cancer Program activity to compare supermarket prices in low and high-income neighborhoods. She and her fellow community health workers found that supermarkets in poorer areas, such as Roslindale and Jamaica Plain, tended to higher prices than supermarkets in West Roxbury or Brookline. Low-income communities also tend to lack fresh produce, organic foods and salad bars. This means, Furtado reminded the interns, that many low-income BWH patients, especially diabetics, lack the resources to maintain the healthy diet they need, simply because they live in the wrong part of the city. Read More and View Photos
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