April 22, 2024

What you will learn in this week's RYSE edition of the Bulletin:

Upcoming DIEO Diversity Courses
LGBTQ+ Affinity Group Mixer Recap
Register for 2024 Health Equity Day
DEI Publications
Celebrating Arab American Heritage Month & Autism Awareness Month

Tomorrow is Resident Research Day
Celebrating DOM's administrative professionals
DOM honors & recognitions
ICYMI: Seavey Lectureship in GIM
Emory Safe app

Scroll down to read more!

RYSE ANNOUNCEMENTS

Save your spot: DIEO Diversity Courses

The Emory University's Human Resources' Diversity and Inclusion Education and Outreach (DIEO) team is offering nine different Diversity and Inclusion courses from April through June 2024. Sign up today via Brainier!

Intro to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion | Thursday, April 18 | 10–11:30 a.m.
Addressing Microaggressions | Thursday, April 25 | 2–3:30 p.m.
Intro to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion | Wednesday, May 8 | 2–3:30 p.m.
Practicing Allyship Series: Introduction to Transgender Communities | Tuesday, May 14 | 10 a.m.–noon
Practicing Allyship Series: Navigating a Multigenerational Workplace | Wednesday, May 22, 2–3:30 p.m.
Intro to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion | Wednesday, June 12, , 10–11:30 a.m.
Addressing Microaggressions | Tuesday, June 18, 2024, 10–11:30 a.m.
Practicing Allyship Series: Introduction to Neurodiversity | Tuesday, June 25, 2024, 2–3:30 p.m.
Cultural Appropriation & Appreciation | Thursday, June 27, 2024, 2–3:30 p.m.

To register, log into Brainier and search for the course title. You can also learn more about each course by visiting the online calendar.

Jada Bussey-Jones, MD, honored by Atlanta Medical Association

Congratulations to Jada Bussey-Jones, MD, (General Internal Medicine) for receiving the Atlanta Medical Association's Trailblazer Award! Dr. Bussey-Jones has been selected for this distinguished award as a person of high stature who demonstrates themselves as a trailblazer in medicine through her practice, leadership, and/or community engagement.

ICYMI: DOM LGBTQ+ Affinity Group Mixer Recap

Last month, DOM faculty, staff, trainees (and friends!) gathered at their annual LGBTQ+ Affinity Group Social. It was an evening full of food, drinks, and good conversation. Thanks to everyone who came out! For more information about DOM Affinity Groups, check out our website.

AFFINITY GROUPS

UAB's CMO, Kierstin Kennedy’s visiting professorship
with the Emory's Division of Hospital Medicine

In case you missed it, we had the honor of having Kierstin Kennedy, MD, MSHA, FACP, SFHM, Chief Medical Officer at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, join us for a visiting professorship with the Division of Hospital Medicine. It was a true pleasure to hear from her and to have her here on campus!

Darlington Pobee named Grady Memorial Hospital Chief Resident

Congratulations to Churchwell Diversity and Inclusion Collective's President, Darlington Pobee, for being named one of the 2025–2026 Grady Memorial Hospital chief residents! We are excited to watch you continue to shine through your leadership and service.

READ DARLINGTON'S Q&A

RYSE & DEI EVENTS

Department of Medicine's 4th Annual Health Equity Day
Tuesday, May 21 | 9 a.m.–2 p.m. | Register

Attention colleagues! DOM Health Equity Day (HED) is less than one month away, taking place on Tuesday, May 21, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Have you registered yet?

This half-day conference, organized by the Department of Medicine's RYSE and the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Council, aims to raise awareness and encourage action around the systemic health disparities that exist across racial, ethnic, cultural, and social groups while also recognizing interventions and research centered on health equity and historically underrepresented groups in medicine. This year, in collaboration with the School of Medicine Diversity Week, the event will bring together stakeholders from across the institution, providing a platform to share compelling new findings, facilitate scientific exchange, and identify opportunities for collaboration.

The theme of this year's Health Equity Day is Empowering Emerging Voices and our keynote will be presented by three emerging leaders in their fields, Lashyra Nolan, Jennifer Tsai, MD, MEd, and Darshali Vyas, MD. To learn more about HED 2024, click the button below!

LEARN MORE ABOUT HED 2024

Mark your calendars for Diversity and Inclusion Week 2024

May 20–24 | Register

Registration for this year’s Diversity and Inclusion Week is now open. This year’s theme, From Being to Belonging, seeks to advance the results from last year’s Diversity Engagement Survey which showed an increased demand for a better sense of belonging among our School of Medicine community.

Join us for engaging lectures that showcase the incredible DEI work our remarkable community does year-round, cultural activities, an art gallery, a SOM Block Party and much more. Click here for full schedule.

DEI PUBLICATIONS

Tracey Henry and Francois Rollin: How to Create a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Curriculum: More Than Checking a Box.
Robin Klein: Correction: Exploring gender and thematic differences in qualitative assessments of internal medicine resident performance.
Kimberly Manning: Catalyzing Restructure of a Broken Health Care System.
Lesley Miller and Shelly-Ann Fluker: A contactless cure: Leveraging telehealth to improve hepatitis C treatment at a safety-net hospital and Large-Scale, Primary Care-Based Hepatitis C Treatment in an Urban, Medically Underserved Patient Population with the Grady Liver Clinic team.
Modele Ogunniyi: Implementation science to achieve equity in heart failure care: A scientific statement from the American Heart Association.
Francois Rollin and Mehul Tejani: The Importance of Naming Structural Racism as a Root Cause of Racial Inequities in Breast Cancer Outcomes.
Jason Schneider: Access to healthcare among transgender women living with and without HIV in the United States: associations with gender minority stress and resilience factors.
Boghuma K Titanji: Culturing the Future of Medicine: The Imperative of Strengthening the ID Physician-Scientist Pipeline
Zanthia Wiley and Annelys Roque Gardner: Adult Influenza Vaccination — Seizing Every Opportunity
Zanthia Wiley: Advancing health equity through action in antimicrobial stewardship and healthcare epidemiology

CELEBRATING EMORY'S DIVERSITY

Arab-American Heritage Month

April is Arab-American Heritage Month. In celebration of the diversity of our community, as well as promoting awareness and learning, check out the stories and experiences of our colleagues in the School of Medicine. View this month's SOM recognition feature.

The DOM is also highlighting three Arab American DOM faculty members, Shirine Allam, MD, Mohama d Kazem Moussa, MD, and Nadine Rouphael, MD, in celebration of this year's Arab American Heritage Month. Click the button below to learn how being a part of the Arab American community has influenced their professional lives as well as how they engage with their community outside of Emory.

READ THE FULL STORY

Autism Awareness Month

April is also Autism Awareness Month. Join Emory University in the 2024 Autism Celebration: Pathways and Passions. Learn more.

DOM ANNOUNCEMENTS

Resident Research Day is Tomorrow!

ADD TO CALENDAR

The J. Willis Hurst Internal Medicine Residency Program invites you to attend the 2024 Annual Resident Research Day tomorrow, Tuesday, April 23. This annual event showcases our residents' research achievements and celebrates the collaboration between residents and our dedicated faculty.

The keynote Speaker and Oral Presentations will be held during tomorrow's Medicine Grand Rounds from noon to 1 p.m. and poster presentations will be held later from 4–6 p.m. Scroll down in this newsletter or click HERE for more details.

This Wednesday, April 24, is Administrative Professionals Day! Please join us in thanking and celebrating our incredible administrative colleagues. We appreciate everything they do for the Department of Medicine.

Joan Adamson
Kelly Johnson Campbell
Linda Clarke
Adrianne Clarke-Williams
Whitney Davison
Susanna Faulkner
Elizabeth Francis
Laquanda Jackson
Dondanae Lane
Deborah Long
Phyllis Mitchell
Hillary Moe
Brianne Bower Moore

Sheneaka Pugh
Danielle Robbins
Michael Roe
Ivana Salmikova
DeAnna Smith
Kandice Stevenson
Marisa Warner
Joyce Watford
Maxine Williamson
Nicole Wilson
Jeanette Zahler
Alexis Ziller

DOM Honors & Recognitions

Betty Web, Administrative Manager for the Grady section of General Internal Medicine received the Emory Award of Distinction. This is the highest award for university staff which annually recognizes university employees who have made outstanding contributions to the Emory community. Read about the awards

Jeann Sabino-Carvalho, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Division of Renal Medicine, recently won the Poster and Professors competition as a part of the American Physiological Society's 2024 Postdoctoral Excellence in Renal Research Awards. This was in recogonition of his work with Jeanie Park, MD, on baroreflex and sympathetic transduction in Chronic Kidney disease. Read about the awards

Julianna Cruz, member of Jeanie Park’s human integrative physiology lab, receives the prestigious Goldwater Scholarship

Two exceptional undergraduate researchers in Emory College of Arts and Sciences have been named 2024 Goldwater Scholars, the nation’s premier scholarship for students of math, the natural sciences and engineering. Junior, Julianna Cruz is among 508 undergraduate scholars selected nationwide for this year’s award. Recipients represent the scientific talent needed to ensure the U.S. maintains global competitiveness and security.

About Julianna Cruz:

Growing up as the daughter of Mexican immigrants in Texas, Cruz dreamed of becoming a doctor who understands how demographics affect health, especially in vulnerable communities. Research opportunities first intimidated Cruz, who is also a QuestBridge Scholar. She focused instead on building connections through Emory FirstSTEM, the orientation program for first-generation students, and sampling broad coursework.

Since last fall, Cruz has analyzed additional non-pharmaceutical interventions for patients with chronic kidney disease, studying the effects of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) meditation in physician Jeanie Park’s human integrative physiology lab at the Emory University School of Medicine. She plans to continue that work this summer when she will begin recruiting Latinx patients with chronic kidney disease for her honors thesis. For that project, Cruz will conduct interviews to examine how factors such as ethnicity and citizenship status affect views on health care and biomedical research.

READ FULL ARTICLE

ICYMI: Paul W. Seavey Lectureship in General Internal Medicine

Missed the 2024 Paul W. Seavey Lectureship in General Internal Medicine? Check out the recording of the event on DOM's YouTube channel HERE or by clicking the video below!

This lecture featured Helene Gayle, MD, MPH, President of Spelman College, in conversation with Daniele Fallin, PhD, Dean of Rollins School of Public Health. The Paul W. Seavey Distinguished Lecturer in General Internal Medicine lecture series provides a forum for scholarly discourse on the practice of medicine and recognizes dynamic leaders at the crossroads of medicine and public health.

Reminder: Be ‘Emory Ready’ with the Emory Safe app

At Emory, everyone is empowered to play a role in creating a safe and prepared community. What is Emory Safe?

Free personal safety mobile app provided by Emory University
Can help prevent crimes and incidents before they happen by leveraging the community’s eyes and ears
Provides a quick, convenient, and discreet way to communicate directly with EU safety officials, enhancing your overall safety and allowing Emory Police to better protect you.
Replaces the Live Safe app but has a much more robust set of features and functionality

Download Emory Safe from the App Store or Google Play right now! To take full advantage of the app, be sure to enable location services and push notifications when prompted.

MORE INFO

MEDICINE GRAND ROUNDS

Tomorrow is Resident Research Day Grand Rounds

Tuesday, April 23
Hybrid: Zoom or in-person at EUH auditorium
Zoom Link - Meeting ID: 941 8304 9108
Session ID #18277

Keynote Speaker and Oral Presentations
noon–1 p.m.

Poster Presentations
Emory School of Medicine Lobby
4–6 p.m.
Light refreshments will be served.

Resident Research Day Oral Presentations:

Original Research Projects:

Lana Aleuy, DO, PGY2 Resident
Maya Patel, MD, PGY2 Resident

Clinical Vignette Project:

Youssef Saklawi, MD, PGY3 Resident

Keynote Speaker:

Siva Bhavani, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine

ADD TO CALENDAR

All upcoming sessions will be hosted on Zoom, and recordings will be available on the DOM YouTube channel for CME credits.

NEW procedure for claiming MGR CME credits

The process of receiving Medicine Grand Rounds CME has recently changed. CME credit will no longer be assigned by completing the survey. As of Tuesday, March 5, 2024, Medicine Grand Rounds, the Department of Medicine will use Emory's CME Tracker for CME credits.

Please note, that claiming your CME credit is TIME SENSITIVE. You must text within seven business days of the CME presentation.

Have questions or need assistance?

Download Emory CME's instructional slides
Visit Emory's CME office webpage
Contact the Emory CME Office at (404) 727-3612
Email Tiffney Stringer in the Emory CME office

Click below to read instructions on how you now need to claim your CME credits for future Medicine Grand Rounds.

VIEW INSTRUCTIONS

STAFF NEWS

Check out the latest list of open staff jobs within the DOM. See a job you are interested in or know someone who would be a good fit? Click the job title below to read the full description and apply. Be sure to follow the DOM LinkedIn page to stay up-to-date on the latest job openings!

EVENTS

DOM Grand Rounds - Resident Research Day
Tuesday, April 23 | noon–1 p.m. | Zoom

Staff Council Leadership Lunchtime Social
Tuesday, April 23 | noon–1:30 p.m. | Margaret H. Rollins Room R. Randall Rollins Building (Plaza level)

10th Annual Health and Services Research Day
Tuesday, May 7 | 8 a.m.–3 p.m. | Rollins School of Public Health Auditorium

School of Medicine Diversity and Inclusion Week
Monday, May 20–Friday, May 24 | Hybrid

Department of Medicine's 4th Annual Health Equity Day
Tuesday, May 21 | 9 a.m.–2 p.m. | Zoom

2024 Juha P. Kokko Lecture in Nephrology
Tuesday, May 21 | 5–8 p.m. | Emory Student Center

22nd Annual ESCAPE 2024: Emory Symposium on Coronary Atherosclerosis Prevention & Education
Wednesday, May 29–Sunday, June 2 | OMNI Amelia Island Resort

Emory Cardiology Research Day
Friday, June 14 | HSRB I Auditorium 1 (Main Session) & HSRB II (Poster Session)

7th Annual Southeast Review and Update on Medical Care of Older Adults
Friday, July 19, 11 a.m.–Saturday, July 20, 5 p.m. | Hilton Peachtree City Atlanta Hotel and Conference Center

17th Annual Department of Medicine Research Day
Thursday, November 7 | 7:30 a.m.–5 p.m. | Emory Student Center

IN THE NEWS

Recent Department of Medicine News

Gizmodo: Fen-Phen again? Why Ozempic and new weight-loss drugs are different (Guillermo Umpierrez quoted)
Healio: Twice-yearly injectable antihypertensive drug lowers BP at 6 months: KARDIA-2 (Nanette K. Wenger quoted)
Healio: Heart disease prevalence among former NFL players extremely common (Jonathan Kim cited)
New York Times: 5 tips for exercising during allergy season (Pedro Lamothe quoted)
WABE-FM: Emory professor advises Georgians on how to control their allergies amid pollen season (Pedro Lamothe interviewed)
WAGA-TV: Concerns over rapidly rising measles cases (Neil Winawer interviewed)

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