School of Public Health and Health Professions

Annual Meeting

2009

Faculty CouncilSPHHP

President: Marc Kiviniemi, Ph.D.

Faculty Council Purpose/Mission• Facilitate success for faculty in all aspects of their

University roles

• Represent faculty at the school administrative level

• Build connections across the school for faculty and

staff

• Serve as a channel for communicating information,

ideas, concerns from faculty to school-level

administration

Faculty Council Activities – 2008/09Get Connected

• Coffee socials/school happy hour events

Get Accredited

• Faculty Forum on Preparing for Site Visit

Get Better

• Faculty Forum on Research

One or more of the above…

• Input on university level committee membership

• representation on Executive and Planning Committee

Faculty Council Membership

Biostatistics: Jihnhee Yu; Albert Vexler

Exercise and Nutrition Sciences: Atif Awad; Jennifer Temple

Health Behavior: Gregory Homish; Marc Kiviniemi

Rehabilitation Sciences: Jim Lenker; Diane Wrisley

Social and Preventive Medicine: Pavani Ram; Carole Rudra

Dean’s Representative: Scott White

Faculty Council Membership

Biostatistics: Jihnhee Yu; Albert Vexler

Exercise and Nutrition Sciences: Atif Awad; Jennifer Temple

Health Behavior: Gregory Homish; Marc Kiviniemi

Rehabilitation Sciences: Jim Lenker; Diane Wrisley

Social and Preventive Medicine: Pavani Ram; Carole Rudra

Dean’s Representative: Scott White

UB SPHHP Senate Representative

Robert Burkard, Ph.D.

Dr. Lynn Kozlowski, Dean

School of Public Health and Health Professions

New Faculty

• Lina Mu, Assistant Professor, SPM• Heather Orom, Assistant Professor, HB• Andy Ray, Assistant Professor, RS• Jennifer Temple, Assistant Professor, ENS• Candi Possinger, Clinical Instructor, Academic

Advisor, ENS

New Staff

• Traci Jackson, Ed.D.Director, Research Administration

UB Service/Recognition

• 10-years of Service at UB • Melissa Chabot• Keith Conroy

UB Service/Recognition

• 20-years of Service at UB • Sue Bennett • Peter Horvath• Joe Lane• Barb Putzig

Alpha Eta – Allied Health Honor Society

• Faculty Inductees• Patricia Ohtake – Physical Therapy• Elizabeth Raleigh - Dietetics• Jo Schweitzer – Occupational Therapy

SPHHP Outstanding Researcher of the Year

John X. Wilson, Ph.D.Exercise & Nutrition Sciences

SPHHP Outstanding Leadership Award

Michael Anton Sciortino, J.D., M.S.Assistant Director, Information Technology Services

SPHHP Dean’s Award for Community Service

Pavani K. Ram, MDSocial & Preventive Medicine

SPHHP Dean’s Award

Dale R. Fish, PT, Ph.D.Rehabilitation Science

Development• With state allocations decreasing, development is more

important to the success of the school and departments than ever before

• We have had tremendous success thanks to the work of many of our faculty

• You can help raise funds by identifying opportunities and opening doors for the development office

• UB’s office of corporate and foundation relations is available to help you secure funding from private entities

• John Crawford and Tracy Oun are now in Squire Hall and support the dental school as well as SPHHP. You can reach John at johncraw@buffalo.org / 829-3931 and Tracy at tracyoun@buffalo.edu / 829-6420

Financial Items

• For the upcoming fiscal year (2009 – 2010), at least a 3% permanent state operating cut is expected, which would mean a loss of ~$250,000 to the School.

• Further cuts are a possibility depending on the fiscal health of the State.

Space Improvements

Several ongoing projects:

• 3rd floor Kimball will be completed in May.

• 4th floor Kimball is completed.

• Renovation of 5th and 6th floors in Kimball scheduled to begin Oct./Nov. 2009.

• Improved building signage.

Community Relations and Clinical Affairs

Michael F. Noe, MD, MPH

Office of Public Health PracticeDirector, Donald W. Rowe, Ph.D.

PURPOSE

• Serve as major interface with the health care community, including health departments, providers, MCO’s, community organizations

• Identify, cultivate and expand relationships

Recent Activities

• Workshops• Resume writing for Public Health students (exploring

expansion)• Interviewing skills (same)

• OPHP sponsored seminars• Kim Rook “HIV Prevention in High Risk Urban Communities”• Dave Hoffman “Chronic Disease in New York State”• Sheila Kee “Berger Commission Update”• Ann Monroe “The Role of the Foundation in Health Care”

MMWR Club

• Informal learning opportunity• Funding from recent MPH graduate• Grown from an average of 4-5 participants to 10-

12 • Includes other departments• Public health practitioners

New Program

• Fireside chats • Informal learning opportunity for students to meet with a

practicing public health professionals

• Dr. Scott Zimmerman – Director , Erie County Public Health Laboratory, Epidemiology and Environmental Health

• Mr. Robert Furlani - Assistant Regional Director, New York State Department of Health, Western Regional Office

Field Trips

• Niagara County Board of Health

• Batavia Sewage Treatment Plant

Collaborations• WNY Public Health Alliance, Inc. – Advanced Practice

Center Emergency Preparedness

• WNYPHA/ Eight county health departments, Regional Community Health Assessments

• American Heart Association/School of Medicine and Biomedical Science and Wilson Greatbatch- “The Heart of Research”

• P2 Collaborative- Data Action Advisory Team, and the Equity in Health Care Task Force

• Susan G. Komen for the Cure WNY Affiliate- Community Profile Team

Major agency representation

• NYS Rural Health Council – Governors appointment

• NYS Association for Rural Health – Board member

• Area Health Education Center – Board member

• WNY Public Health Alliance, Inc. – Board member

Recruitment

• SUNY Fredonia

• Roberts Wesleyan

Grant Application

• Perry Grant application $49,000 (pending)

• CBPR educational workshops and creation of virtual CBPR network

Academic and Student Affairs

Dale Fish, PT, Ph.D.

CEPH Site Visit: May 4-6

• How to prepare for the visit:• Supply Resource File materials as requested!• Anticipate Questions/Topics

• CEPH sample questions• Agenda shows criteria for discussion at each session

• Spend some time in the Self-Study document• Learn about the site visitors• Know SPHHP’s recent, substantial changes

CEPH Site Visit: May 4-6

• Site Visitors:• D. Marie Swanson, PhD, MPH – Epi/Biostat

• Professor & Chair, Public Health• Indiana University, School of Medicine• Chair of Site Visit Team

• Mollie Mulvanity, MPH – Dir of Accreditation• Maureen Lichtveld, MD, MPH – Environ Health

• Professor & Chair, Environ Health Sciences• Tulane University

CEPH Site Visit: May 4-6

• David Potenziani, PhD, MA – History/Economics• Sr. Assoc Dean for Planning, Coord, Admin• University of North Carolina

• Mathew Stefanak, MPH – Health Policy• County Health Commissioner• Youngstown, OH

• Edmund Napieralski – CEPH Board Member• Former Assoc VP for Academic Affairs• Prof Emeritus (English) at King’s College (PA)

SPHHP’s Recent Improvements

• Strategic plan revised in spring 2008 (1.1, 1.2.c)• Mission, vision, values• Goals, objectives, measurable outcomes

• Competencies for all programs (2.6)• Enhanced syllabi

• Show which competencies are addressed• Relate competencies to course objectives

SPHHP’s Recent Improvements

• PhD in Community Health refined and relocated to HB (2.1.a, 2.10)• Plan to revise further to PhD in CH & HB

• More students on committees (1.5.c)• Student Leadership Forum - spring 2009 (1.5.c)• Faculty Council (1.5.c)• Core curriculum and related efforts (2.8.b, 2.9.b)

• Means by which all students in professional (2.8.b) and academic (2.9.b) programs gain a foundational knowledge of public health

• Required for all students admitted to SPHHP after fall 2009

SPHHP’s Recent Improvements

• New Standing Committees (1.5.c)• MPH program committee/subcommittees• Strategic plan data committee• Strategic plan evaluation committee• Core curriculum steering committee• Student services committee• Service & workforce development committee

Research

R. Lorraine Collins, Ph.D.

Trend: FYs 04-08 Active Awards

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SPHHP

Research Administrative Services

May 1, 2008 – April 30, 2009

165 Proposals

(an increase of 23 from the previous year)

Ongoing Programs

• Workshop on NIH Grant writing (Challenge grants)

External reviews of grant applications

• Internal reviews of grant applications and reviewer feedback

• Research mentoring for non-tenured faculty

Research Administrative Services

• Monthly requests for planned grant submissions– Face-to-Face meetings with all PIs

• Solicitation of feedback on satisfaction with RAS services– Anonymous evaluation forms: PI → Associate Dean

• Meeting with SPHHP research administrators

Initiatives for 2009-2010

• Populate the SPHHP Research Development Advisory Committee

• Begin program to fund pilot studies

Enhance SPHHP’s capacity to use IT in data collection/research

Faculty Affairs

Scott C. White, Ph.D.

Promotion and Tenure

• Full Professor → Full Professor (Tenured)

R. Lorraine Collins, Health Behavior

Promotion and Tenure

• SPHHP Guiding Statements for Promotion and Tenurehttp://sphhp.buffalo.edu/faculty_affairs/pt_guiding_statements.php

• Mid-stream (3rd yr.), pre-tenure review for all Assistant Professors (04/02/2009)• Feedback to Chairs and Assistant Professors• Assistance with the honing of research, service and

teaching statements

Awards & Recognition

Jean Wactawski-Wende: UB Exceptional Scholar, 2009 Sustained Achievement Award

• This award is for a body of work completed over a number of years. The award is not intended as a lifetime achievement award, but rather as recognition for outstanding performance in a recent segment of a scholar's career.

In the Spring 2009 Research Navigator they noted: • Jean ranks 1st and 4th as a co-author on the list of most highly

cited UB journal articles over the last five years.

20th Annual J. Warren Perry Lecture, 2008

• James S. Marks, MD, MPH• Senior Vice President of the Robert Wood Johnson

Foundation (RWJF) Health Group, Princeton, NJ

http://www.rwjf.org/newsroom/search.jsp?catid=18&typeid=152&start=10

• SPHHP Outstanding Teacher of the Year, 2008• Outstanding contributions to education within SPHHP Gaspar Farkas, ENS

• Perry Lecture Fall of 2009• Searching for a Keynote Speaker

Annual Faculty Reports

• UB’s web-based Faculty Annual Reporting System (Digital Measures)

From Satish K. Tripathi, Provost & VP for Academic Affairs (01/15/2009):

“We expect this faculty contribution resource to provide our departments, schools, and university as a whole with valuable faculty and, more broadly, institutional information.”

“Over the last year, the selected product from Digital Measures has been implemented and/or piloted in several schools with very positive feedback.”

“… it is my expectation that all faculty (…) will utilize this automated tool to complete their annual faculty report due at the conclusion of the Spring semester.”

Annual Faculty ReportsExpectations: 2008 – 2009

• All faculty must update information on activities and achievements conducted during the last year (05/2008 – 05/2009).

• Activities reported from previous years must be checked for accuracy (citations).

• This year’s Annual Report is due no later than the end of UB’s 2008-09 academic year (May 14, 2009) or prior to that date if requested by your department Chair.

• Access by:– “MyUB” portal > Faculty Affairs > Faculty Annual Report– Note: Project Overview, Instructions, and Update Your Faculty

Annual Report links.

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