3Department of Family and Preventive Medicine News
2024: Volume 7, issue 3
55 Words from the Chair
The academic year may be winding down but our faculty, staff, and learners show no signs of slowing! Read on for achievements in research, education, and service, upcoming events, and a new free AI tool that Emory is making available to you. Submit good news anytime using subject: #newsletter in your email to Leigh Partington.
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Welcome to the DFPM!
Ms. Hayes currently serves as the sole advanced practice provider in Transplant Infectious Diseases at Emory University Hospital, and regularly precepts PA students and Emory Healthcare APP fellows. Additionally, she is a 2024-2025 Woodruff Health Educators Academy Teaching Fellow. She is passionate about optimizing the pedagogy and assessment of adult learners, enhancing learners’ clinical experiences, fostering clinician longevity in mentorship and preceptorship, and advocating for APPs’ joint pursuit of clinical and non-clinical healthcare avenues.
Calendar and Registration Quick Links
Staff Fest 2024: May 17, 2024. 11:30 AM - 2:00 PM
Palliative Care Center Awards Ceremony & Fellowship Graduation
June 18, 6:30-8:30 pm
Public Health and General Preventive Medicine Residency and Fellowship Graduation June 25, 6:30-8:30 pm
The Emory Office of Information Technology (OIT) is introducing a new tool, Microsoft Copilot, that offers an Emory-specific instance of an AI-powered platform that leverages OpenAI’s ChatGPT4 technology (formerly “Bing Chat Enterprise”). The Emory platform is a protected environment that provides greater security for Emory users and business data than external AI chat tools. The service is now available at no cost to all members of Emory University and Emory Healthcare.
More information, including the log-in, can be found here.
Updates from the VCs
New Additions to the JEDI Virtual Library
The Pillars of Health Disparities Science—Race, Ethnicity, and Socioeconomic Status.
Firearm Access and Gun Violence Exposure Among American Indian or Alaska Native and Black Adults.
Morbidity and Length of Stay After Injury Among People Experiencing Homelessness in North America.
Recommendations for Reporting Research About Racial Disparities in Medical and Scientific Journals.
Transformative Research
This groundbreaking research initiative, titled “Patient-centered Understanding of Quality of Life, Symptoms and Health Equity in Cystic Fibrosis (PULSE – CF),” will involve researchers from Emory, Augusta University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Georgia Cystic Fibrosis Research and Translation Center, and patient stakeholders. The research team will triangulate three data types to learn more about the relationship between symptoms and quality of life. Read more.
Abstract: In 2007, the Institute of Medicine called for quadrupling the number of Public Health and General Preventive Medicine (PH&GPM) graduates each year, from about 100 to 400. And yet, 16 years later, within the context of a global pandemic and growing demand for population-based initiatives in health care systems, the annual number of PH&GPM graduates has remained basically static. The reasons for this failure to respond to this national call for action are multifactorial and complex, one major obstacle in promoting this specialty is the name, “Public Health and General Preventive Medicine,” does not adequately reflect how the specialty has evolved with modern medical practice nor its unique training and characteristics. In this presentation, presenters review the origin of the specialty and its name, consider the precedent for changing medical specialty names, and discuss potential confounding factors. The stagnancy of the PH&GPM workforce, especially in the face of the continuing need for practitioners of the specialty, cannot be ignored as we emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic. One relatively simple first step is for the specialty to change its name. PH&GPM specialists are asked to urge our specialty organizations to address the issue. Otherwise, the specialty will remain an underutilized asset in the modern medical system.
Collaborative Publications
Dr. Ted Johnson, Jason Freiji, Dr. Miranda Moore, Dr. Dominique Munroe, and Grayson Baxter published Engaging partners, lay persons, and learners through effective marketing and messaging.
Dr. Jane Lowers, Dr. Alexandre Cammarata-Mouchtouris, and Dr. Dio Kavalieratos published Symptoms and quality of life in adults with cystic fibrosis: A cross-sectional analysis of the InSPIRe:CF trial. This article was also featured on Cystic Fibrosis News Today.
Dr. Jennifer Mascaro and Dr. Deanna Kaplan published A mixed-method evaluation of implementation determinants for chaplain intervention in a hospital setting.
Featured article
Dr. Sarah Cross, Dr. Jabeen Taj, and Dr. Dio Kavalieratos's article Racial DIfferences in Palliative Care Use in Heart Failure Decedents was featured on the front page of the Heart Failure Society of America newsletter.
Individual Publications
Dr. Mo Ali
Diabetes disparities in the United States: Trends by educational attainment from 2001 to 2020.
Dr. Paul DeSandre
Emergency Palliative Care: Severe Acute Neurological Injury With Poor Prognosis.
Dr. Jodie Guest
Disparities in Unmet Health Care Needs Among US Children During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Dr. Deanna Kaplan
What’s in a Name? Experimental Evidence of Gender Bias in Recommendation Letters Generated by ChatGPT
Dr. Dio Kavalieratos
A Pilot of a Telehealth-Hospice Transition Intervention for Children and Young Adults with Cancer.
Feeding after congenital heart surgery: a mixed-methods study of the caregiver experience.
Dr. Ambar Kulshreshtha
Contribution of Peripheral Microvascular Dysfunction to Mild Cognitive Impairment
Dr. Jennifer Mascaro
Dr.Miranda Moore
Protocol for the 2023 CERA Department Chair Survey
Use of Signaling in Family Medicine Residency Interviewing
Dr. Leigh Partington
"From Humanities Tenure Track to Medical School Communications" in Higher Education Careers Beyond the Professoriate
Dr. Megha Shah
Dr. Sathish Thirunavukkarasu
Nutritional Guidance for People with Prediabetes—Uniform or Tailored to Phenotypes?
Educational Investments for our future
Congratulations Family Medicine at Dunwoody!
New PA Program Leadership Roles
for Smith and Weinisch
Since transitioning to academic medicine, Ms. Smith's contributions have been widely recognized, as she was celebrated as the 2023 Faculty of the Year by the Emory PA Program, recognized as a Hidden Gem of Emory School of Medicine, and named a Rising Star by the Emory Alliance for Women in Medicine. She teaches ID during the didactic curriculum, oversees the clinical curriculum for the PA program, champions initiatives in DEI and student support, and advocates for the evolution of the clinical curriculum to meet contemporary healthcare challenges and educational standards.
With an impressive breadth and depth of clinical knowledge and academic skillsets, she has helped guide many of today's program’s successes. In 2022, she took on the role of Interim Director of Didactic Education and later accepted the formal position in March 2024. Since then, she has quickly transformed many areas of the program curriculum to include new interprofessional partnerships and a redesigned OSCE curriculum and she continues to reenvision a dynamic and high-caliber education for our PA students. Ms. Weinsich is involved and well recognized in the School of Medicine DEI Council, initiated a PA DEI Committee to provide inclusive education, and recently is regularly involved in the critical initiatives in the Physician Assistant Education Association – and aims to bring that knowledge back to Emory to benefit her students.
Thirunavukkarasu mentee presents
Student Health faculty present
Education as a Public Service
Elon Musk Equates DEI With Racism. An ER Doc Offers A Different Take (forbes.com) - Dr. Tammie Quest featured
Rare human case of bird flu detected in U.S.; CDC says public risk is low - CBS News - Dr. Jodie Guest featured
ABC news affiliates: It's the first drug shown to slow Alzheimer's. Why is it off to a slow start?- Dr. Ambar Kulshreshta featured
Dr. Richard Goodman published "Reducing the Risk of Travel-Related Illnesses" as a NYT Opinion Letter
Service for our future
