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1. Dr.
Chadwick honored with vision award
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4. Have a
bright idea? Win an award!
5.
6. Spring
faculty meeting set for April 14
7. National
public health conference to be held in
8. Public
health grand rounds - spring schedule
9. Faculty appointments & promotions
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1. DR.
CHADWICK HONORED WITH VISION AWARD
The Commission on the Status
of Women (CSW) has selected
In 1989 the Arizona Board of
Regents (ABOR) created a statewide Commission on the Status of Women to assess
conditions of employment for women at
The UA Commission on the
Status of Women created the CSW Vision Awards in 1999 to honor those
individuals who are managing their units in a way that embodies the Vision set
out by the original ABOR Commission.
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2.
Responding to continued requests
to add more educational and entertaining medical lectures, the Office of Public
Affairs will offer two new programs in 2003.
The new programs are Genomics:
What's Next? and Women's
Health Education Series: The Latest News on Women's Health. The lectures will be taught by leading
experts in the fields of genomics and women's health.
The genomics series runs in
April. The topics are: A Look Back at
Watson & Crick: Their Discovery and
How it Changed Science presented by Manfred Laubichler,
Arizona State University; Identifying Genes That are Involved in Disease
Processes (presenter to be announced); Status of Human Genome Project presented
by Cynthia Adamson, PhD, UA Sarver Heart Center; Gene Expression presented by
The women's health series is
in May. The topics are: Women's Health Initiative and the hormone
replacement therapy debate presented by Marietta Anthony, PhD, Women's Health
Research at Arizona Health Sciences Center; Cardiovascular Disease and the
American Heart Association Recommendations presented by Lorraine Mackstaller, MD, UA Sarver Heart Center; osteoporosis
presented by Oscar Gluck, MD, Arizona Rheumatology
Center; breast cancer presented by Coral Quiet, MD, radiation oncologist,
Scottsdale Healthcare; arthritis presented by Kelly Sems,
MD, Arthritis Health; and menopause presented by John Mattox, MD, Ob/Gyn, Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center.
Both programs are open to the
public and are now accepting registration.
Seating is limited so early registration is recommended. For more information about the lecture series,
please call (602) 631-6555.
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3.
The Best Practices of Medical
Educators 2003 series began its spring sessions, which will run through
May. The program consists of interactive
seminars prepared by faculty or professional staff for the edification of their
colleagues, and is offered to clinical faculty and residents without charge.
Don't miss out on February's
sessions:
Feb. 11 - “Clinical Teaching Microskills” presented by L. Carr, PhD and “Living the
Golden Rule in Our Careers” presented by G. Caputo, MD, MPH and D. Holland, MD
Feb. 18 - “Giving Feedback to
Learners” presented to J. Kipp Charlton, MD and “Promoting Professionalism in
Ourselves & Our Colleagues” presented by G. Caputo, MD, MPH and D. Holland,
MD
Registration is being
accepted for one or more sessions from any of the four faculty development
tracks (Clinical Teaching, Professionalism, Medical Informatics, or Curriculum
Development). To register for February's
sessions, or to see the other sessions being offered through May, contact
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4. HAVE A BRIGHT IDEA?
WIN AN AWARD!
The Phoenix Faculty
Development Program is calling for bright ideas. The new Bright Idea Network was created to
encourage faculty to promote sharing and learning from each other.
Faculty are encouraged to
submit an entry that describes a “bright idea” that they have used in their
teaching that enhances learning and teaching in clinical education (at the
bedside, at morning report, at grand rounds, in ward encounters, and in both
hospital and outpatient settings).
Those with the best idea will
win an award that will be presented at the Innovations in Medical Education
Event on
Deadline for bright ideas is
To download an application,
visit the
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5.
The popular and fun UA
Mini-Medical School spring session, which begins Wed., Feb. 19, is booked to
capacity. This unique six-week spring
lecture series is taught by leading experts from the UA College of
Medicine. This spring's lectures will
cover, The Biology of Aging, Ethics in
Medicine, Valley Fever, Medication Errors:
The Hidden Disease, and Issues of Death and Dying.
It's open to the public;
however, seating is limited so early registration is recommended. The next
For more information, call
(602) 631-4600.
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6. SPRING FACULTY MEETING SET FOR APRIL 14
The AHSC
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7. NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH CONFERENCE TO BE HELD IN
U.S. Surgeon General Richard Carmona and the leadership of the nation's major federal
health agencies will explore the future of public health care in the opening
forum of the 2003 U.S. Public Health Services conference, which will be held
June 15-18 at the brand-new Westin Kierland Resort
& Spa in
Federal, state, tribal and
local health providers, administrators and educators are invited to attend this
three-day conference which will look at the latest trends and issues in public
health care and examine effective examples of federal, state and local
cooperation. The conference will include one day of category-specific workshops
(i.e. pharmacy, nursing, medicine, etc.) Continuing education credits are
available.
For more details on the
conference or to register for one day or the full conference, visit http://conference.coausphs.org or
call toll-free (866) 544-9677.
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8. PUBLIC HEALTH GRAND ROUNDS - SPRING SCHEDULE
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Tuesday, FEB. 18
Healing
the Diabetic Wound and Keeping it Healed by David Armstrong, DPM, Southern
Arizona Veterans Affairs Medical Center
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Tuesday, MAR. 4
TBA
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Tuesday, MAR. 18
Beyond
Borders: Tohono
O'odham Community Health Assessment by Silvia Parra, TODHS Executive Director; Cynthia Norris, Community
Health Manager; and Susan Kunz, Community Health Assistant Manager
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Tuesday, APR. 1 and 15
TBA
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Tuesday, APRIL 29
Nutro-metabolic
conditions of Mexican and U.S. Pima Indians:
the importance of genetics and environment by Mauro
Public
Health Grand Rounds: Sponsored by the
Mel and Enid Zuckerman Arizona College of Public Health in partnership with the
University of Arizona Colleges of Nursing, Pharmacy and Center for Health
Outcomes and PharmacoEconomic Research. All presentations are teleconferenced to the
AHSC
Continuing
Education credits are available.
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9. Faculty
appointments & promotions
The following individuals
have been promoted or awarded a faculty appointment to the AHSC
Alaina B. Jose, MD, clinical assistant professor of family
& community medicine
Eric Gross, MD, clinical
assistant professor of emergency medicine
Gordon B. Davis, MD, clinical
professor of obstetrics and gynecology
Michael J. Monfils, MD, clinical assistant professor of surgery
R.
Richard J. Harding, MD,
clinical assistant professor of surgery
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