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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO

DEPARTMENT OF FAMILY MEDICINE

Volume 7, Issue 2

Family Medicine Spring 2010 Newsletter

The 43rd Annual Spring Conference of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine was held in Vancouver, British Columbia on April 24-28, 2010. The conference theme was “LEAD the Way: Leadership, Education, and Advocacy Development to Create a Patient-centered Medical Home”. The annual meeting offers more than 400 peer-developed and peer-reviewed sessions on the issues facing medical educators today. Interactive and thought-provoking, these oral and poster presentations focus on best practices, new teaching technologies, emerging research, and public

policy issues.

DFM FACULTY PRESENT AT 43RD ANNUAL STFM CONFERENCE

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OUR PRESENTERS!

� Bell D, Abbas Hyderi, MD, MPH, Brakman A. Advocating for Young Men’s Reproductive and Sexual Health in Your Practice.

� Karen Connell, MS, Maureen Gecht, MPH, Blanca Lopez, MPH. Evaluation of an Innovative Self-Management Skills Curriculum for Family Medicine Residents.

� Andrew Dykens, MD, MPH. Implementing a Longitudinal Global Community Health Curriculum for Resi-dents: Focusing on Disparity, Domestically and Abroad.

� Freeman J, Canib L, Emily Godfrey, MD, MPH, Gold M, Paladine H. Teaching Advocacy: Lessons from the Fam-ily Medicine Response to the Murder of George Tiller.

� Emily Godfrey, MD, MPH, Tombros Korman A. Effective Female Sexual Function Counseling: Breaking Through the Barriers.

� Samuel Grief, MD. Nutrition Newsletter: An Experiential and Didactic Approach to Teaching Nutrition.

� Memoona Hasnain, MD, MHPE, PhD, Karen Connell, MS, Diane Kondratowicz, PhD, Abbas Hyderi, MD, MPH, An-drew Dykens, MD, MPH, Sonia Oyola, MD, Nimmi Rajagopal, MD. Training Future Physicians to Care for the Underserved.

� Memoona Hasnain, MD, MHPE, PhD, Karen Connell, MS, Diane Kondratowicz, PhD, Patrick Tranmer, MD MPH. A Longitudinal Curriculum in Patient-centered Medicine: The UIC Experience.

� Memoona Hasnain, MD, MHPE, PhD, Menon U, Ferrans C, Szalacha L. Creating Medical Homes for Minorities: Understanding Barriers to Mammography Screening for Immigrant Muslim Women.

� Jeffrey Tiemstra, MD. Effectiveness of Nutritional Counseling in Cancer Prevention.

� Paladine H, Emily Godfrey, MD, MPH, Howard J, Kaminiski A, Rosenthal D. Behavioral Medicine Faculty and Abortion Care Curriculum in the Family Medicine Residency.

� Vanderleest J, Abbas Hyderi, MD, MPH. Strategies for Enhancing LGBT Medical Education through Im-proving Curricular Inclusion and Academic-Community Partnerships.


UIC COM GRADUATES MATCHED INTO FAMILY MEDICINE The UIC College of Medicine commencement ceremony will be held Friday, May 7th at 2:00pm at the UIC Pavilion, 525 South Racine Avenue. Twenty-two 2010 UIC College of Medicine graduates (listed below) have

matched into Family Medicine Programs throughout the country.

Abbas Hyderi, MD, MPH (left) has been appointed to the Illinois Academy of Family Physicians (IAFP) Membership/Member Ser-

vices Task Force for the year 2010.

Ruchi Arora, MD, R3 for being a co-author on the publication “Predictors of diastolic dysfunction among minority patients with newly

diagnosed type 2 diabetes”. To read article please go to: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20189673

Emily Godfrey, MD, MPH for being accepted into a 2 year reproductive health fellowship at the Centers of Dis-ease Control and Prevention to assist with the adaptation of

evidence-based World Health Organization contraceptive guidelines for the

United States. Dr. Godfrey will be moving to Atlanta, GA in August, 2010.

Douglas Pepple, MD and Ambica Soni, MD have been appointed to serve as the Chief Residents for the

year 2010-2011 administrative year.

CONGRATULATIONS!

Melina Beaton Contra Costa Reg Med Center-CA Martinez, CA Christina Chavez UC San Francisco-Fresno-CA Fresno, CA Gabriela Delgado MacNeal Mem Hospital-IL Berwyn, IL Rhonda DePaul Halifax Med Center-FL DAaytona Beach, FL Clifford Gazda Scottsdale Healthcare-Osborn-AZ Scottsdale, AZ Catherine Jiam Advocate Lutheran Gen Hospital-IL Park Ridge, IL Ariel Leifer West Suburban Med Center-IL Oak Park, IL Maximiliano Luna MacNeal Mem Hospital-IL Berwyn, IL Ann Navarro-Leahy Exempla St Joseph Hospital-CO Denver, CO Roxie Oliver U IL-Methodist Med Center Peoria, IL Tony Park UIC/Illinois Masonic FMR Chicago, IL Julia Philip-Kuli Advocate Christ Med Center-IL Oak Lawn, IL Evan Plowgian Med Coll Wisconsin Affiliated Hosps Milwaukee, WI Steven Saito Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton Camp Pendleton, CA Margo Smith St Joseph Hospital-IL Chicago, IL Jennifer Stromberg MacNeal Mem Hospital-IL Berwyn, IL Shea Suskin Harbor-UCLA Med Center-CA Torrance, CA Kathya Valdez St Joseph Hospital Chicago, IL Tiffany Wang Advocate Lutheran Gen Hospital-IL Park Ridge, IL Santina Wheat Northwestern McGaw/NMH/VA-IL Chicago, IL Gregory Winter Long Beach Mem Med Center-CA Long Beach, CA Donald Woznica St Joseph Hospital-IL Chicago, IL

Volume 7, Issue 2

Cherilyn G. Murer, J.D., C.R.A., founder and president of Murer Consultants, Inc. – celebrating its 25th anniversary – was inducted into the Chicago Area Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame at a dinner at the Chicago Hilton & Towers in downtown Chicago on Thurs-day, February 25, 2010. Established 25 years ago by the University of Illinois at Chicago’s Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies, the award recognizes innovative business leaders who have demonstrated an entrepreneurial spirit and business talent by founding or growing their respective businesses. Murer Consultants has provided guidance and counsel to more than 500 hospitals and healthcare systems in 42 states; navigating the complex regu-latory, strategic and financial issues facing healthcare today. She and her business partners, Michael Murer and Lyndean Brick, have co-authored five healthcare textbooks published by McGraw-Hill. Ms. Murer also holds an appointment on the faculty of the University of Illinois at Chicago College

of Medicine as a Clinical Assistant Professor of Law in the Department of Family Medicine.

Developing a Research Agenda for Women’s Health in Jazan, Saudi Arabia. In March Drs. Memoona Hasnain and Stacie Geller, UIC Center for Research for Women & Gender and the National Center of Excellence in Women’s Health, visited Jazan Medical College, Saudi Arabia. The purpose of the visit was to conduct an initial needs assessment for developing a women’s health research agenda and capacity building for the Jazan region. Dean Hussein Ageely and Dr. Ibrahim Bani of Jazan Medical College invited and organized the visit The initial site visit included a number of meetings and focus group discussions with

various stakeholders, including key university leaders, teaching faculty, female and male medical students, health care providers, administrators, and female patients. A one day research workshop for medical students and faculty also was

conducted.

Evelyn Figueroa, MD (right) was featured in the Sun-Times on March 17 commenting on the possible cuts of Chicago Public Schools’ Science fairs. To read the article go to: http://www.suntimes.com/news/

commentary/2106514,CST-EDT-edit17.article

Javette Orgain, MD, MPH (left) appeared on the front page of the Sun-Times on March 23, 2010 commenting on the effects of health reform. To read the article go to: http://www.suntimes.com/lifestyles/

health/2117578,032310healthfolog.photogallery

DFM ANNOUNCEMENTS

The 2010 Service Learning Showcase, which highlighted students’ experiences, was held on March 17th. Program fac-ulty congratulated M2 program participants and gratefully acknowledged the contributions of our Community Part-ners: AIDSCare/EdgeAlliance, Cathedral Shelter of Chicago, Connections for Abused Women & their Children (CAWC), and Heartland Alliance for Human Needs and Human Rights. M4 Co-Tutors: Anita Bordoloi, Vikas Desai, Christina Gamboa, Ariel Leifer, Jennifer Stromberg, Shea Suskin, and Renee Westley. Program Faculty: Memoona Hasnain, MD, MHPE, PhD, Program Director; Karen J. Connell, MS, Program Co-Director; Diane M. Kondratowicz, PhD, Program Coordinator; Abbas Hyderi, MD, MPH, HIV/AIDS Con-centration Leader; Nimmi Rajagopal, MD, Homelessness Concentration Leader; Sonia Oyola, MD; Domestic Violence

Concentration Leader; and Andrew Dykens, MD, MPH, Immigrant and Refugee Health Concentration Leader.


DFM ANNOUNCEMENTS cont’d

Linda Morgan, MD, MPH (left) and Sandra Kim (right), Clinical Pharmacist presented a lecture on “Travel Medicine for Primary Care” at the Chicago Medical Society Conference held on March 18-

19, 2010. Dr. Morgan was also invited to speak at the Black History Month event held by UIC-COM Chapter of the Student National Medical Association on February 15, 2010. The title of her presentation was “Having a Vision: Opportunities in Community Medicine and Public

Health”.

Nancy Miranda, MD (left: 4th in 1st row, center) along with John Williams, MD from Emergency Medicine and 5 other medical staff members from Children’s Memorial Hospital, University of Chicago, Rush University and Access Community Health Network were part of a Chicago volunteer team who left on March 11, 2010 to Haiti for two

weeks of service with the International Medical Corps to help after the disaster earthquake.

Congratulations Diane Kondratowicz, PhD, Karen Connell, MS, Memoona Hasnain, MD, MHPE, PhD and everyone in the DFM who contributed to the application for the Departmental Outstanding Teaching/Participation Award through the COM Department of Medical Edu-cation. The DFM has been awarded $25,000 on behalf of the Board and the members of the Academy for Excellence in Teach-

ing.

Congratulations Andrew Dykens, MD, MPH (left) who was named Interim Co-Director for the Global Health Directors Network in April 2010 at the Global Health Education Con-

sortium Meeting in Cuernavaca, Mexico.

Left to right: Diane Kondratowicz, PhD, Karen Connell, MS and Memoona Hasnain, MD, MHPE,

PhD

Memoona Hasnain, MD, MHPE, PhD, (1st row, 3rd from left) was an instructor at the 36th Annual STFM Predoctoral Edu-cation Conference, in Jacksonville, FL on January 28, 2010 for the STFM Faculty Development Workshop III: Administrative and Management Skills for Academic Leadership. The Instructors team was lead by James Tysinger, PhD, Univ of Texas Health Sciences Center along with Susan Cochella, MD, MPH, Univ of Utah School of Medicine and Jennifer Joyce, MD, Univ of Ken-

tucky.

Residency Program Hosts 1st Annual Overnight Retreat

On March 9th & 10th, the residency program hosted the 1st annual overnight retreat at Devil's Head Resort in Merrimac, Wisconsin. The residents, faculty & staff, and their families enjoyed a relaxing din-ner on Tuesday evening. Wednesday morning residents and faculty participated in a workshop led by facilitator Carol Jungman. Following the morning workshop, the residents joined by Drs. Hyderi, Potter, and Shah, braved the foggy ski slopes and skied in 60 degree weather! Overall, the retreat was very beneficial as it generated many great ideas to help improve the residency program and it created many

unforgettable memories.

DFM NEWSLETTER STAFF Special thanks to Rosalba Angulo, Project Coordinator, Admin.; Abby Irvine, Project Coordinator, Residency; and Meg Oberholtzer, Assis-

tant to the Head for their contributions to this newsletter. Please direct questions and comments to Meg Oberholtzer at [email protected].

The 2010 Faculty Retreat was held on Saturday, March 13, 2010 at the Hyatt in Oak Brook with Dr. Martin Lipsky, UI COM Dean at Rockford as the facilitator. Many thanks to those who helped make

it a great success!

Left to right: Noah Walman, MD, Douglas Pepple, MD and

Abbas Hyderi, MD, MPH

Mydhili Moorthie, MD, Jayasri Dasar Raju, MD and Ruchi

Arora, MD

Mary Callis, MD, Nathan McLaugh-lin, MD, Ashish Ansal, MD, Sofia Adawy, MD, Mydhili Moorthie, MD

and Magdaline Piatek, MD

2010 Faculty Retreat

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