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FACULTY PROMOTIONS & APPOINTMENTS
Professor:
David Beier, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor:
Elizabeth Karlson, M.D.
Martin Pollak, M.D.
Sebastian
Schneeweiss, M.D.
Assistant Professor:
Susana Campos, M.D.
Eunyoung Cho, D. Sc.
Frederic Resnic, M.D.
Jagesh Shah, M.D.
Steven Treon, M.D.
Instructor:
Susan Abookire, M.D.
Linda Brown, M.D.
Marcus Cooper, M.D.
Benjamin Ebert,
M.D., Ph.D.
Gullu Gorgun, Ph.D.
Zoe Lewis, M.D.
Samia Mora, M.D.
Chander Nagpaul, M.D.
William Shrank, M.D.
Xiaolong Wei, M.D., Ph.D.
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MARK YOUR CALENDARS!
Reception Honoring the Clinical Fellows
Wed. Nov. 9, 2005
One Brigham Circle
4th Floor, 6:00 p.m.
Speaker:
Joseph Loscalzo,
M.D., Ph.D.
Chairman,
Department of Medicine
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
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Congratulations
Partners in Health!
Recipient of the 2005 Conrad N. Hilton Foundation's Humanitarian Prize.
Christopher Thompson, M.D., M.S.
Director of
Developmental Endoscopy
Recipient of the 2005 DOM Clinical
Innovation Grant
"Development of a Bariatric Endoscopy Program"
Meet the 2005-2006
Intern Class!
Click here to View Their Photos and Bios
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Tribute to Jamie S. Winshall, M.D.
By Susan Holman
 He was called a “zany teacher” and “not your average, staid doctor and professor.”[1] He loved “terrible” rock music and fixed breakfast for his kids on the weekends. He was a doctor’s doctor and a “cool guy.” These are just a few of the memories shared of Dr. James Winshall, 41, primary care physician and medical director for Brigham Circle Medical Associates, who died on September 8, 2005, when his Vespa scooter was struck by a tractor-trailer on Massachusetts Avenue in the Back Bay. Over 700 colleagues, friends, and patients came to his memorial service on September 11. A Detroit native, Dr. Winshall earned his undergraduate degree in biology at Brown, and his MD from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in 1992, where he met his wife, Gail Levine, now a physician at the Southern Jamaica Plain Health Center. Your Medicine Online asked a few of Dr. Winshall’s colleagues to share their memories of the physician they knew. Read more
Memorial Service for Jamie S. Winshall, M.D.
Friday, November 4, 2005
2:00 p.m. in the Bornstein Family Amphitheatre
followed by a reception in the Cabot Atrium
Contributions can be made to:
James S. Winshall Memorial Children's Fund
P.O. Box 301840
Boston, MA 02130
or
Brigham and Women's Development Office
James S. Winshall Fund
116 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02116
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Day-by-Day: Settling In
By Anna Bortnick, M.D., Ph.D.
In the early days of internship I asked myself: “If I am a ‘house officer’, when will I feel fully ‘at home’?” “At home” means being at ease in a new hospital, a new apartment, a new city and a new role as a doctor.
Apparently, the transition is not as easy as one might think. To humorously remind myself of this, I have permanently stored a message from the ED on my pager: “Anna, Please Call re: patient Bortnick.” Reflecting on the past few months, I realize what is critical to feel comfortable in unfamiliar surroundings: predictable transportation, emotional and intellectual resources and accessible and useful information.
Read More The Only Fat Man in Lascahobas
By Evan Lyon, M.D.
Department of Medicine's very own Evan Lyon, MD, writes about his and Dr. David Waltham's experiences in Lascahobas, Haiti. Featured in the Fall 2005 issue of New York University's Bellevue Literary Review, he shares a poignant story of the health disparaties plaguing Lascahobas. Read More |
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A Couple of Cardiologists, A Couple of Professors;
Drs. Bill & Lynne Stevenson |
He liked deep sea fishing, she liked photography. He played lead guitar in a rock band; she sang madrigals with the Tigerlilies, Princeton University’s first women’s a cappella group. He was computer savvy, she covered yellow tablets with tiny print. They found common ground in cardiovascular medicine and now married 21 years with one daughter, Kimberly, 14, Drs. William (Bill) and Lynne Stevenson have served in the Department of Medicine’s Cardiovascular Division for over a decade. Recently each passed a career milestone: promotion to Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
So how do they do it? How do they juggle their academic medical careers, their marriage, a teenager, and the family dog, Cider, along with the responsibilities and commitments that come with being national leaders and innovators in their fields? “Just barely”, they say, but they are smiling. What have they learned, about themselves, their careers and how to juggle life as Brigham’s first husband-and-wife Professor team in clinical cardiology? We asked them.
“As a husband and wife recruitment to the division, they called us a “Twofer”, they recall. The couple met during their residency at the UCLA Medical Center, married, and served on the UCLA faculty for ten years before Dr. Gilbert “Punky” Mudge and Dr. Thomas Smith, then Chief of Cardiology at Brigham and Women’s, lured them to Boston. “The timing was right because they were looking to fill positions in both fields,” Lynne reflects. “And professionally,” Bill adds, “it was a great time to relocate because the expanding fields of heart failure and electrophysiology were creating many new career opportunities for us. We feel very fortunate to have been able to join Brigham and Women’s Hospital during these exciting times. Both professionally and personally the Brigham has been a wonderful place for us.”
Bill Stevenson was recruited as Co-director, then became Director of the BWH Arrhythmia Service and Electrophysiology Lab, and was subsequently appointed Director of the Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology Fellowship Program, committed to developing young clinical investigators. Read More
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Piloting a Path to the Bridge: The Principal
Clinical Year Experience |
Chaim Potok said “All beginnings are hard”[1]. This is as true of starting first grade as starting each new year in medical school. Beginning a new educational curriculum has much in common with beginning to see patients. How do we write the doctor’s scripts so that generations will benefit? This interface of new curriculum and clinical experience is central in the education reform initiative at Harvard Medical School, now transitioning the “New Pathway” curriculum, launched in 1985, into a new plan, called “Building Bridges.” The new curricular highway will have four “lanes”: education, research, clinical care, and community service [2]. Central to all is the “Principal Clinical Year” (PCY), traditionally third-year Harvard Medical School students’ transition into seeing patients. The new curriculum hopes to fine-tune the old model for third-year rotations, a series of short experiences (clerkships) in different HMS teaching affiliates, to a more longitudinal approach, where all or a large part of the third year is spent in a single institution.
Before launching the new “Building Bridges” curriculum, however, three pilot programs offer HMS3 students a chance to experience and shape the PCY component. The first pilot, which started in 2004 at Cambridge Hospital, offers all of its eight students an “Integrated Clerkship” that entirely replaces traditional block rotations with a year-long immersion, for each student, in the illnesses, treatments, and lives of some 40 to 50 patients throughout the year, beginning with their initial symptoms [3]. The second pilot, which launched in July 2005 at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, follows 12 from the class of 60 total HMS3 students at BWH in another variant of this longitudinal model. A third pilot is underway with 8 students at the Beth Israel-Deaconess Hospital. The PCY experience at BWH retains the traditional clerkship structure, but all twelve students remain at BWH throughout the year (except for their pediatrics clerkship, which takes place at Children’s Hospital). To this foundation, says Dr. Erik Alexander, the pilot’s Department of Medicine liaison, “we overlay additional activities that promote this continuity of education.” The pilot group, for example, shares core interdepartmental curriculum tutorials, an interdisciplinary faculty mentorship “team,” and gets to contribute to the longitudinal core-faculty assessment of each student.
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