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March 4, 2024
What you will learn in this week's edition of the Bulletin:
- Emory's IM Residency Program names StARR grant recipients
- Be ‘Emory Ready’ with the new Emory Safe app
- Carlos del Rio, MD, honored among Atlanta 500
- Stacy Higgins, MD, named a 2024 IPECP project awardee
- ICYMI: Hospital Medicine Annual Division Awards Celebration
- NEW procedures for claiming MGR CME credits
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DOM ANNOUNCEMENTS
Emory's IM Residency Program names StARR grant recipients
The J. Willis Hurst Internal Medicine Residency Program has named two first-year residents, Daniel Rzewnicki, MD, (mentor Siva Bhavani, MD) and Nancy Wareing, MD, (mentor Nadine Rouphael, MD), as well as one third-year resident, Anamaria Dragan, MD (mentor Rebecca Levit, MD), as the three 2024 recipients of the “Stimulating Access to Research in Residency” (StARR) grant.
Emory was initially selected to receive the highly competitive StARR award in 2018. The initiative was created by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) to address a nationwide shortage of physician scientists. Professor of Medicines, Igho Ofotokun, MD, and Nadine Rouphael, MD, (Infectious Diseases) serve as co-directors of the program.
Be ‘Emory Ready’ with the new 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.
2024 Staff Engagement and Future of Work Survey
Emory University has now launched a new staff engagement survey which is the perfect opportunity for our staff members to share their feedback.
The survey, which launched last Friday, March 1 and will remain open until Friday, March 15, asks staff members several questions such as "how you feel about working at Emory", "what it is like interacting with your work team", as well as questions about your satisfaction with your job, and your opinions about trust, respect, and belonging. The survey also asks additional questions about Emory's culture in order to provide important data for the "Future of Work" campus-wide project sponsored by Business and Administration, a project that strives to create a shared vision for the future of work at the University.
Things to note:
- On March 1, you should have received an email from Emory – Ctrl HR – Talent Mgt. with the subject line "2024 Staff Engagement and Future of Work Survey." The email included a link to the survey.
- The survey, which launched on March 1, 2024, will remain open for two weeks. The deadline to take the survey is March 15.
- The survey is confidential; individual responses will not be identified or shared, except in the aggregate.
- Key demographics will be collected, but these are optional and will not be used to identify anyone individually.
- The survey will take approximately 20-25 minutes. You can use work time to complete the survey.
All staff members who complete the survey will be automatically entered into a prize drawing for some Emory swag from the Emory Barnes and Noble Bookstore! A total of 40 winners will be drawn on Friday, March 29 and the winners will be notified via email.
Carlos del Rio, MD, honored among Atlanta 500
Atlanta Magazine's Atlanta 500 is a list of the city's most powerful leaders including not just corporate CEOs, but also the people who shape what we eat, the music we listen to, and the causes we embrace. Interim dean Carlos del Rio, MD, (Infectious Diseases) is included in the education and healthcare list among others like Emory University President Gregory Fenves, Emory Healthcare CEO Joon Lee, and more.
Stacy Higgins, MD, named a 2024 IPECP project awardee
The Woodruff Health Sciences Center (WHSC) Office of Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice (IPECP) has announced its 2024 IPECP Project Award recipients. The awards support interprofessional learning opportunities across Emory’s three health professional schools for medicine, nursing, and public health. Stacy Higgins, MD, (General Internal Medicine) is one of three PIs who received this grant for the project titled, "DPT and MD Program Student Engagement in Emory Farmworker Project."
Launched in 1996, the Emory Farmworker Project provides free health care to more than 2,000 farmworkers and their families annually in pop-up clinics in Bainbridge and Valdosta, Georgia. Led by the Emory University School of Medicine’s Physician Assistant Program, this project will support the inclusion of DPT and MD students in the program.
“One of the key components of health care is the ability to work on interprofessional teams to deliver the best care to the patient. IPECP funding for MD and DPT students to attend the Emory Farmworker Project will allow several of our students to utilize concepts they have learned in the classroom and practice these skills under supervision in the field. The funding will also allow us to measure the attitudes about interprofessional collaboration and team psychological safety.”
— Stacey Higgins, project principal investigator
March 7, 2024 is National Hospitalist Day!
National Hospitalist Day recognizes the contributions of more than 60,000 hospitalists nationwide on the first Thursday in March annually. According to Society of Hospital Medicine, the founding organization of National Hospitalist Day, this year's focus celebrates the human in hospitalist.
In honor of this year's Hospitalist Day theme, we celebrate the people who make our Division of Hospital Medicine so renowned! Please see the story below to read about the Division's recent awards celebration and those honored for their excellence.
ICYMI: Hospital Medicine Annual Division Awards Celebration
Recently the Division of Hospital Medicine held their Annual Division Awards Celebration. Thanks to the Faculty Development team (Drs. Monica Perkins, Annie Massart, and Manpreet Malik) and the Accolades Committee for leading the nomination/selection process and organizing our recognitions. Please join us in congratulating the award winners this year!
- EUH/EUOSH: Samantha Goldstein, DO
- EUHM: Javan Ferguson, MD
- EJCH: Srividya Koduru, MD
- ESJH: Shitaye Argaw, MD
- EDH: Allyson Herbst, MD
- LTACH: Deborah Saepharn, MD
- EHH: Hasset Sandler, NP
- VAMC Clinical: Soo Namgoong, MD
- VAMC Medical Education: Sneha Neurgaonkar, MD
- Grady: Abhi Kole, MD, and Malavika Kapuria, MD
Division Awards
- Mentoring Award: Manpreet Malik, MD (Grady)
- Research/ QI Award: Patricia Hwang, MD (EUHM)
- Advocacy Award: Toby Terwilliger, MD (Grady)
- The J. Allen Garner, MD Memorial Humanitarian Award: Reem Ahmed, MD (ESJH)
- Clinical Staff: Sara Millwee, NP (EUH)
- Non-Clinical Staff Award: Temekia Cotton (EUH)
- The Daisy Grover, PA Excellence in Patient and Family Centered Care Award: Bhanumathi Jayakumar, NP (EDH)
- Education Award: Shen Chen, MD (EJCH)
- Teaching Award: Monee Amin, MD (VAMC) and Hila Calev, MD (EUH)
- The Michel Heisler, MD Leadership in Hospital Medicine Award: TaRessa Wills, MD (Grady)
- Mark V. Williams, MD Overall Excellence in Hospital Medicine Award: Willie Smith Jr., MD (EUHM)
- Physician Nocturnist of the Year: Javan Ferguson, MD (EUHM)
- APP Nocturnist of the Year: Susan Ortiz, PA (EUH)
Jeann L. Sabino-Carvalho, PhD, receives Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (SSCI) Trainee Research Award
Congratulations to Jeann L. Sabino-Carvalho, PhD, postdoctoral fellow, Division of Renal Medicine, on receiving the Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (SSCI) Trainee Research Award! Annually, SSCI provides grants to acknowledge the fine work conducted by faculty or trainees.
"The work I presented at The Southern Regional Meeting investigated the potential involvement of baroreflex dysfunction in the cardiovascular disease burden within the chronic kidney disease (CKD) population. I do want to recognize my mentor, Dr. Jeanie Park. In the pursuit of unraveling critical kidney-nerve-heart interactions, particularly in the context of kidney failure, I have received direct mentorship from her. As a leading expert in the neural control of circulation, Dr. Park has taught me cutting-edge techniques that allowed me to conduct the work I presented in New Orleans. Noteworthy, this was my first in-person oral talk at a conference, so it was very special to me as a young scientist."
—Jeann L. Sabino-Carvalho, PhD
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. Beginning with the 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.
MEDICINE GRAND ROUNDS
Join us tomorrow for DOM Medicine Grand Rounds
#MedicineGrandRounds
Topic: Caught in the Political Crosshairs: The Current State of Gender-Affirming Care in the U.S.
Tuesday, March 5 | noon–1 p.m., Zoom
Zoom Link - Meeting ID: 941 8304 9108,
Speakers:
Sonya Haw, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Lipids
Emory University School of Medicine
Jason Schneider, MD
Professor of Medicine
Division of General Internal Medicine
Emory University School of Medicine
All upcoming sessions will be hosted on Zoom, and recordings will be available on the DOM YouTube channel for CME credits.
EVENTS
Cobb County Libraries/Cobb Collaborative: Book Talk: Dr. Dhaval Desai in Conversation with Jeff Jullinger *New*
Tuesday, March 5 | 6:30 p.m | Sewell Mill Library & Cultural Center
NIH's Chief Officer for Scientific Workforce Diversity (COSWD) for the virtual seminar “How Does Diversity Impact Innovation in Team Science?” *New*
Wednesday, March 13 | 10:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m. | Virtual | Registration is now open.
ATLANTIS Symposium
Thursday, March 14 | 9 a.m.–4 p.m. | HSRB I
Emory Cardiology Grand Rounds (featuring Keith Churchwell, MD)
Monday, March 18 | 7:30–8:30 a.m. | Hybrid: EUH - E450 (Hurst Conference Room) and Zoom
Emory FMD and SCAD Symposium
Saturday, March 23 | 9 a.m.–3 p.m. | Emory University Hospital Midtown
Paul W. Seavey Distinguished Lectureship in General Internal Medicine
Tuesday, March 26 | 5–6:30 p.m. | Miller-Ward Alumni House, Alumni Hall
2024 American College of Cardiology Meeting - Division of Cardiology Cocktail Reception
Sunday, April 7 | 6–9 p.m. | Ventanas
Bettye Rose Connell Memorial Lecture Series
Tuesday, April 9 | 5:30–7:30 p.m. | Miller-Ward Alumni House, Alumni Hall
DOM Faculty Enrichment, Education, and Development (FEED) Conference
Friday, April 12 | 8 a.m.–noon | Virtual
Emory Physician Scientist Symposium
Friday, May 17 | Convocation Hall | 9 a.m.–5 p.m.
Department of Medicine's 4th annual Health Equity Day
Tuesday, May 21 | 9 a.m.–2 p.m.
22nd Annual ESCAPE 2024: Emory Symposium on Coronary Atherosclerosis Prevention & Education
Wednesday, May 29–Sunday, June 2 | OMNI Amelia Island Resort
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!
Administrative Assistant, The Hope Clinic - School of Medicine: Infectious Disease
Research Administrator Post-Award I- School of Medicine - Medicine Research Administration Services
Assistant Manager of Clinical Trials - School of Medicine - Cardiology
Associate Director of Research Projects - School of Medicine - Cardiology
IN THE NEWS
Recent Department of Medicine News
Emory News Center: WHSC Office of Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice announces 2024 IPECP project awardees (Stacy Higgins mentioned)
WAGA-TV: Aromatherapy may help ease stress, headache and low energy (Sharon Bergquist interviewed)
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STAY CONNECTED
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