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ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR:
Edwin Silverman, M.D.,Ph.D.
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR:
Erik Alexander, M.D.
Daniel Chasman, Ph.D.
Daniel Forman, M.D.
Sonia Friedman, M.D.
Shelley Hurwitz, Ph.D.
Manish Sagar, M.D.
Sonya Shin, M.D.
INSTRUCTOR:
Agnes-Laurence Chenine, Ph.D.
Charlene
Chiang-Roy, M.D.
Jian Li, Ph.D.
Soko
Setogutchi-Iwata, M.D.
Maitreyi Sharma, M.D.
Paul Zei, M.D., Ph.D.
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Department of Medicine
Holiday Reception
Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2005
6:30 p.m.
Cabot Atrium
45 Francis Street
2006 Physician-in-Chief Pro Tempore
Black Tie Reception
Thursday, May 4, 2006
6:30 p.m.
Four Seasons Hotel
Keynote Speaker:
Elizabeth Nabel, MD
Director, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Congratulations
David Bates, M.D. & Troyen Brennan, M.D.
Newly Elected Members of the Institute of Medicine
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Congratulations
David Golan, M.D.
Association of American Medical Colleges' Robert J. Glaser AOA Distinguished
Teacher Awardee
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Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health (BIRCWH) Award Available for
Junior Faculty
Deadline:
January 10, 2006
New Partner for the BWH Section of Colon and Rectal Surgery
Joel E. Goldberg, M.D.
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On Plants, Genes, and Clinical Inspiration:
Christine “Kricket” Seidman, MD, named
Thomas W. Smith Professor of Medicine
By Susan Holman
 Photograph taken by Justin Knight Photography
At the celebration above are Seidman
(second from right) and (from left) Thomas
Smith's widow Sherley Gardner Smith;
his daughter, Allison McDonough;
and son, Geoffrey Smith. Sara Midda opened her now-classic gift book, In and Out of the Garden (Workman, 1981), by telling readers, “Every page, including the text, has been hand painted. Dip into it for recipes, poems, proverbs, and garden thoughts.” Midda’s book crossed classification boundaries (was it art, horticulture, cookery, literature?), inspiring readers, gardeners and painters alike, and creating a new genre.
The same might be said, where art meets science, for the career of Christine “Kricket” Seidman, MD, recently named the first incumbent for the Thomas W. Smith Professorship in Medicine. “Few of us who have scientific aspirations set out to found a field,” said Peter Libby, Chief of Cardiovascular Medicine at BWH, at a Harvard Medical School celebration on November 3, 2005 to laud Drs. Smith and Seidman, “and it can be said with no exaggeration that Christine Seidman, in partnership with her husband, Jon Seidman, really founded the field of the genetics of cardiomyopathy.” Read more
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Protocol, Instinct and Judgement
By Anna Bortnick, M.D., Ph.D.
Our patients do not arrive in clinic complete with instructions. They come to us with symptoms that can be vaguely defined, outside of the classic descriptors that we have learned from reading and lectures. We become like detectives, eliciting clues, conducting interviews, sifting through evidence, and following leads to recreate a chronology of illness until the panel of suspects narrows and we are left with a culprit. Read More
Center for Older Adult Health Opens Its Doors
By Patricia Cleary
Any clinician knows that the words “10-minute appointment” and “geriatric patient” are oxymorons. Physicians in Brigham and Women’s Hospital’s Division of Aging, who understand this better than most, have designed their new outpatient clinic to serve these patients. Read More
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Great Teachers In Our Midst: Jean M. Jackson, M.D. |
Who are the great teachers in our midst and what makes them so exceptional? Your Medicine Online continues its series exploring the lives of some of the Department of Medicine’s greatest and most influential teachers. This month we focus on Jean M. Jackson, MD, Rheumatologist for the BWH Department of Medicine and Children’s Hospital.
A small-town girl from a Rhode Island farm, Dr. Jean Jackson often remembers her first teacher, a woman who taught eight grades in a one-room schoolhouse. “She was an excellent teacher” Dr. Jackson quips; “how else could she have dealt with all eight grades, all at once!” Little did the farm girl realize that this teacher would be a model for her own long and successful career in caring for both young and old. Dr. Jackson would go on to spend her life treating children and adults with rheumatologic and inflammatory diseases while educating young physicians in these clinical areas.
Following her medical residency at the University of Maryland, Jean M. Jackson, M.D. came to the Robert Breck Brigham Hospital in 1972 for her rheumatology fellowship; she was the hospital’s first female rheumatologist. After spending another year in Maryland as Chief Medical Resident, she returned to Boston in 1975 to launch her clinical practice and teaching career. In 1980, she joined the Rheumatology program at Children’s Hospital.
Dr. Jackson has become known as one dedicated to treating patients with the utmost compassion and individualized medical attention. This fall she received the Arthritis Foundation’s 2005 Marian Ropes Physician Achievement Award for her extraordinary contributions to the lives of patients who are affected by arthritis. Dr. Ron Anderson, who has known Dr. Jackson since her fellowship, says “Jean is the most outstanding patient advocate. No one knows their patients better than Jean. She truly understands her patients and has a remarkable gift of empathizing with their fears and concerns.” Janalee Taylor, Chair of the American Juvenile Arthritis Organization, a council of the Arthritis Foundation, praised her with these words: “Throughout your practice you have earned enormous respect from those who understand how devoted you are to the practice of pediatric rheumatology. Your patients universally feel your humanistic approach is unmatched. From discussions with your patients and their families the common response is, ‘there was no such thing as a time limit when it came to seeing Jean; she spent as much time as each patient needed. And so every patient in the waiting room waiting to see her knew, once they got in that exam room, they would be treated as a whole person with compassion and empathy. Every patient felt she was worth waiting for.’” [1]
Dr. Jackson’s students and trainees feel the same way. Peter Nigrovic, M.D., now the Director of the Center for Adults with Pediatric Rheumatic Illness at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, who is board certified in both medicine and pediatrics, is one of these individuals. “Dr. Jackson has been of enormous importance in my career,” he says. “As a third-year medical student, I was so impressed with her encyclopedic knowledge that I set up a special rotation to shadow her for a month as she took care of complex rheumatologic cases in both adults and kids. As a direct result of this experience, I went on to do a med/peds residency, then a combined med/peds rheumatology fellowship, before joining the staff at both hospitals. Now that she is out on leave I am left trying to fill her shoes as the ‘glue’ between BWH and Children's Rheumatology. Last January I started a small clinical program within the BWH Arthritis Center entitled CAPRI (Center for Adults with Pediatric Rheumatic Illness) with the goal of formalizing the process of transitioning patients from Children's to BWH rheumatology. This clinic takes place twice a month in the room Jean used for many years, and where I used to shadow her.” Asked for the most important lessons he’s learned from watching Dr. Jackson work, Dr. Nigrovic says, “the importance of a thorough physical examination; the importance of the social history in the care of the patient; and the importance of non-medical interventions (pillows, braces, etc.) in rendering the life of the patient more comfortable.”
Recently, this Your Medicine Online reporter had the pleasure of visiting Dr. Jackson at Newton home, in fact sitting down together with her in her kitchen. She invited me in as if I were a friend of many years, and we spoke of common interests, such as cooking, living in Boston and visiting museums. This summer, she told me, she experimented with three ways to make the best corn chowder; her taste-testing friends often ask if they’re having a “GP” (guinea pig) meal. “Makes things fun that way,” she smiled. It was clear why so many admire Dr. Jackson and consider her a “true friend.” Her reflections on medicine and teaching (below) radiated with this same positive outlook on life, sincere effort to relate to everyone, and great enthusiasm for all that she has learned. Read More
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On Their Own Time |
By Robert Handin, M.D.
 Your Medicine Online is over a year old now and has been well if somewhat quietly received. While we cannot claim precise circulation numbers like a printed publication, we can monitor the number and the duration of “hits”. To translate into plain English, we know how many people have looked at each edition of the eZine and for how long. We do not use spyware and we do not deposit cookies into your account so we do not know who looked and what he/she thought about the material.
The original purpose of the eZINE was to improve communication within our large and far-flung Department. We hoped it would help disseminate information about members of our community and provide summaries of notable events and notable visitors. The editorial team is pleased with the mixture of announcements, news and human interest we have published to date. Our problem is that we have no idea what our readers are thinking. I urge you to dash off a quick email to us after you look at this edition. We want to know what you liked or perhaps more important what you didn’t like. We believe that communication needs to be bi-directional. We want to be more than the town crier announcing events.
To enhance communication we make the following offer. We will publish, suitably edited, letters to the editor, essays, commentary, short stories, poetry or pictures from our readers. While our mission is traditional and related to the practice, teaching and study of medicine, we are interested in also presenting a broader humanistic view. As examples, we have started a monthly column by Anna Bortnick, a medical intern, who is also a talented writer. Anna provides us with insights into what transpires as one makes the challenging transition from medical student to physician. We reprinted a piece from the Bellevue Literary Review by Evan Lyon, one of our residents, on an experience with the death of a patient in Haiti. We have contracted with Evan for at least two more Haitian stories.
This month we are publishing our first photographs. I was struck by the photographic talent of Larry Sloss, a cardiologist with a long BWH affiliation, who displayed some beautiful work at the BWH On My Own Time exhibit and the staff convinced me to post a picture from a recent trip to the Galapagos.
Again, let me ask for your help and participation. This is your electronic journal. We welcome your participation as readers but we also welcome your work as commentators, critics, writers and photographers. We strive to make the magazine worthy of the Department and our readers. Please help us and let us know how we are doing.
Robert I. Handin, MD
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By SooJin Kim
 It’s not enough that Brigham and Women’s Hospital has some of the nation’s most talented people in medicine. They also are highly gifted in music, photography, crafts, and other arts. Your Medicine Online is determined to uncover these closet artists, who pass in white-coat disguise through the Brigham halls and lurk in our very own Department. We’ve already discovered the brilliant writing of our columnist, Anna Bortnick, who gives us her poignant thoughts on life as a medical intern. Then last month essayist and resident, Evan Lyon joined us, sharing a compelling personal story about his time in Haiti.
This month we spotlight two other members of our faculty, both known by their friends and family to have a camera “permanently attached” wherever they go. Both love to watch nature unfold before their eyes through the lens of a camera. Who could they be? Meet Dr. Laurence Sloss, Co-Director of the Boston Adult Congenital Heart Service at Children’s Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital; and our very own Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Robert Handin, Chief of the Division of Hematology. Read, below, in their own words, how they capture the complexities and intricacies that nature reveals. Gaze on samples of their art. We hope you enjoy, and we hope you are inspired!
Laurence Sloss, M.D.
This photograph was taken in August 2003 during a family vacation at Priest Lake, Idaho. I was paddling around in my kayak, carrying my pocket digital camera, when I came across an area where a little creek was flowing into the lake. Near the creek mouth and in about ten feet of water was a sunken tree lying amid rocks, festooned with bright green algae. Read More |
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