July 2019      News from Family & Preventive Medicine

Transformative Research

Dr. Jennifer Mascaro's Laboratory for Lifestyle Medicine has been awarded funding for two pilot projects. The first, from Winship Cancer Institute, will examine a team-based, compassion-centered spiritual health program from the clinical research coordinators. The second, from the Seavey Foundation, will study a team-based compassion and resilience training program for providers in the ED.

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The Georgia Memory Net started its 3rd year on July 1. All 5 Memory Assessment Centers (MACs) are set to be fully operational in this fiscal year. Dr. Ted Johnson, Primary Care Engagement Lead and Dr. Miranda Moore, Population Health Lead, look forward to continuing their advocacy work with each of the 5 primary care advisory board.

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Presentations:

1.     She Z, Gaglioti A, Moore MA,* Baltrus P, Li C, Immergluck L, Rao A, Ayer T. Primary Care Centrality in Robust Specialist Networks Results in Lower Emergency Department Utilization: A Network Analysis of Physician Networks in Texas Medicaid. American Society of Health Economists 8th Annual Conference, Washington, DC, June 23-26 2019 (poster presentation)

Publications:

Liaw WR, Jetty A, Coffman M, Petterson S, Moore MA, Sridhar G, Gordon AS, Stephenson JJ, Adamson W, Bazemore AW. Disconnected: a survey of users and nonusers of telehealth and their use of primary care. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2019 May 1;26(5):420-428. doi: 10.1093/jamia/ocy182. PubMed PMID: 30865777.

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Educational Investments for our future

The Family Medicine Residency Certificate Ceremony was held on June 22 at the Emory Conference Center. The evening kicked off with a social hour at 5 pm, followed by dinner, remarks by Dr. José Villalón-Gómez, presentation of annual awards, and then the presentation of certificates. It was a wonderful celebration of a year of outstanding accomplishments! Big thanks to the planning committee (Pat Woodard, Porsha Clayton, Chariss Smith, Tammi Teeters-McDade, and Yan Zhang) for another wonderful evening!

Pictured below: Dr. Villalón-Gómez with the Class of 2019, followed by FM faculty and Class of 2019 group shot.

2018-2019 FM Residency
Program Awards:

PGY-1 Resident Award: Sarah Dupont, MD, MPH

PGY-2 Resident Award: Gabrielle Williams MD

PGY-3 Resident Award: Aparna Mark, MBChB

Program Staff Award: Yan Zhang, BA

Inpatient Faculty Teaching Award:  James Jo, MD

Outpatient Faculty Teaching Award: Matthew McKenna, MD, MPH

Rotation Teaching Award: Lee Kneer, MD

Didactics Teaching Award: José Villalón-Gómez, MD, MPH

Clinic Staff Award: Ebonee Harris

Nursing Staff Award: Ayres Ford, LPN

Community Engagement Faculty Award: Oguchi Nwosu, MD

Community Engagement Resident Award: Nonglin Mel, MD

Scholarly Project Award: Aparna Mark, MBChB

Ruthanne Ramsey Humanitarian Award: Brock Vanderbush, MD

Family Medicine Speed Networking, August 6th

The date is set for the Annual Family Medicine “Speed Networking” Dinner Panel! Join us on Tuesday, August 6th at Emory University School of Medicine at 5:00 pm. This is an excellent chance for first and second year medical students to speak directly with different family medicine providers about what makes our specialty truly unique. Volunteering physicians and residents will speak to students on topics such as residency life, academic medicine, women’s health, research, global health, loan repayment, transgender medicine/underserved population health, and much more. Dr. Megha Shah is the keynote speaker and will present on topic of Improving Health through Community Partnership and the Role of the Family Physician. Dinner and dessert provided. Please contact Dr. Kyle Wilson (adam.kyle.wilson@emory.edu) or Porsha Clayton (porsha.clayton@emory.edu) if you are interested in attending or volunteering for this event.

Preventive Medicine Alumni wins Arnold P. Gold Foundation Humanism Award

Dr. Nana Twum-Danso was awarded the Arnold P. Gold Foundation Humanism in Medicine Award during the Annual Meeting of the American College of Preventive Medicine this past May. Dr. Twum-Danso is a graduate of the Emory Preventive Medicine Residency Program and a public health and preventive medicine physician with 20 years of experience in health policy, practice, strategy, monitoring, learning, evaluation and research at local, national and international levels. She is currently an independent consultant in quality improvement (QI), large-scale change management and learning systems development as well as an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Maternal and Child Health at the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University
of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Most recently, Dr. Twum-Danso was the Founder and CEO of MAZA, a social enterprise that provided urgent health transportation for pregnant women and sick infants in remote areas of Ghana. Prior to that, she designed, led and managed large-scale QI initiatives in maternal and child health at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and parasitic disease control programs
at the Task Force for Global Health, in partnership with national governments and nongovernmental organizations. For the past decade, Dr. Twum-Danso has served on advisory committees for global health
institutions such as the World Health Organization, the US National Academy of Medicine and the Canadian International Development Research Centre. She was also a Commissioner in the recently
published Lancet Global Health Commission on High Quality Health Systems in the SDG era.

Dr. Twum-Danso received her undergraduate and medical education from Harvard University and her public health and preventive medicine residency training from Emory University. She has been a Fellow
of the American College of Preventive Medicine since 2006 and a member of the International Society for Quality in Health Care since 2010.

Pictured below: Dr. Twum-Danso receiving the Arnold P. Gold Foundation Humanism in Medicine Award

Being of Service

South Georgia Farm Worker Health Project

For the 23rd year, the Emory PA Program spent two weeks this summer serving the migrant farmworker population in South Georgia, both in Bainbridge and Valdosta.  This program, a hallmark of the Emory PA Program, is led by Assistant Professor Erin Lepp, who works all year coordinating the program with community partners in South GA.  This year, the Emory Doctor of Physical Therapy students joined the program for a few clinics each week as did several medical students.  More than 1600 patients received free and compassionate care in pop-up clinic sites during these two weeks.  The students, interpreters, preceptors, Teen Corp and logistics support set up clinics in fields, packing plants and housing sites two times a day.

Pictured below:  Dr. Susy Alfonso, Medical Director, Dr. Jodie Guest, Associate Program Director, Karen Newell, PA faculty and Erin Lepp, PA Faculty and Director of the Emory Farmworker Project.

Below: Clinics occur late into the night, rain or shine.

In addition to providing care to patients during the week, 13 PA students also served as mentors to Teen Corp, a group of youth interested in medicine and social justice issues.  Teen Corp has been participating in Emory Farmworker Project since 2011 and is led by Dr. Jodie Guest.  

Pictured below: Teen Corp

Pictured below: Emory PA students, Emory faculty, preceptors, interpreters, Teen Corp, and logistics support in Bainbridge, GA.

Hitting the perfect Fundraising Rhythm
for SGFWHP

Every year, Emory School of Medicine faculty member Karen Newell and her private lesson percussion students put together a fun, entertaining, advocacy fundraising concert for the South Georgia Farm Worker Health Project. The theme this year was  “T-Rex” and included percussion ensemble selections played on common household items such as plastic buckets and wooden dowels as well as drum set and other percussion instruments.  The event took place on Sunday June 2nd at The Central Dekalb Senior Center in Decatur and generated $1400.  Additionally, Karen Newell's partner Lisa Powell collected and sorted enough clothing, shoes, hats and water bottles to fill two over sized vans, pictured below.  Lisa and her team of two others distributed these items during the project.

Click on the video above for concert pictures set to music. Follow the links below to enjoy more of the performance. 

• https://youtu.be/a-fw2B4kBF4 (2019 Percussion Ensemble Concert Video- part one)
• https://youtu.be/62V-ID0YtnQ (2019 Percussion Ensemble Concert Video- part two)
• https://youtu.be/7YjOvg6jKvM (2019 Percussion Ensemble Concert Video- part three)

Evidence of our Awesomeness!

Zhang and Robertson celebrate
20 years in FPM!

Yan Zhang  (pictured below holding her 20th year award with Luke Anderson) celebrated her 20th year in the Department in 2018.  Emory feels like home in more ways than one to Yan. Her husband, who graduated from Emory's FM Residency Program (2003), is Medical Director at the Brookhaven Health Center, her daughter Rosie Tang graduated from Emory College (2011) and Rollins School of Public Health (2014), and her daughter Cathy Tang graduated from Emory College (2017). What Yan loves most about Emory? Working in a diverse environment with fantastic people!

Don't miss events and opportunities!

Interprofessional Education & Collaborative Practice Synergy Awards

The IPECP Synergy Award seeks to elevate IPECP as a central educational theme across WHSC in the core areas of faculty development, student curriculum, research, simulation, and clinical practice. For consideration, all proposals must be received by Monday, August 5, 2019 at 5:00 PM.

Please submit proposals to: IPECP@emory.edu 

Direct all inquiries to: Ashley Freeman, IPECP@emory.edu 

Primary Care Consortium grant deadline
August 15th

Emory Primary Care Consortium provides grants up to $2,500 to support any project that involves research, quality improvement, advocacy, development of clinical decision support tools, or educational activities in support of advancements in primary care (as it relates to patient safety, innovations in healthcare delivery, addressing disparities in healthcare, etc.). The next deadline for application submission is August 15. Awardees will be announced by September 15. More information available here.

SOM Imagine, Innovate, and Impact (I3) Awards

Innovation is the cornerstone of the emerging SOM Strategic Plan and is key to all three SOM missions: research, education, and clinical care. A key innovation strategy is to promote interdisciplinary and cross-departmental and -divisional research, i.e., collaborations at the boundaries of disciplines or research requiring input from scientists, clinicians, and/or educators in diverse disciplines. Problems in biology, medicine, and education today are often so complex that such approaches are necessary to tackle them successfully. Often novel insights emerge only when you juxtapose individuals with deep but disparate expertise around a common goal. The SOM Imagine, Innovate and Impact (I3) Nexus Awards are soliciting proposals to spur interdisciplinary research projects that have the potential to impact health or generate biomedical knowledge. Proposals due 5:00 pm on September 15, 2019.

• The I3 Nexus Research Awards will provide seed money to fundamental biological and translational investigators for obtaining sufficient data to ultimately develop external collaborative funding applications, and to investigators who may not otherwise engage in multi- and interdisciplinary research. The goal is to take programs to the level at which extramural funding may be pursued. These awards require interdisciplinary team collaboration, with at least one collaborator outside of the home department/division (within the SOM) who brings a different discipline, expertise, or methodology to the project.
• More information available here: SOM Imagine, Innovate and Impact (I3) Awards – Nexus

PA Annual Board Review

The Emory Physician Assistant Program has provided quality board review courses for twenty eight years. The review is a great refresher course, providing 38 hours of high quality CME. The course will take place on September 17-20, Tuesday through Friday 7:00 am to 6:00 pm. Lunch and snacks are provided. The course is limited to 250 participants.

Location: The Completely Renovated Atlanta Marriott Century Center, near the intersection of I-85 and Clairmont Road - 2000 Century Boulevard NE, Atlanta GA 30345, Phone 404-325-0000 Room rate $119 per night

Tuition is $650 prior to 8/1/2019, $675 after 8/1/2019, and $700 on-site (Pre-registration closes on 9/10/19; on-site registration is limited and payment on-site is by cash or certified check only).
Emory employees and active military attending the conference will receive a $75 discount for the full conference. Please indicate your status on the registration form.

Tuition includes:

• 38 hours of live lectures with power outlets. 38 Cat 1 AAPA CME hours credit, 10 hours pharmacology credit
• Free Parking
• Continental breakfasts, snacks, and lunches daily
• Free WiFi access in the conference area, online speaker videos, and power point files. You can take e-notes with your laptop or tablet
• The Home study version of the Fall 2018 Board Review conference with MP3 audio files, and speaker video.
• Digital and printed syllabus with notes, slides and study pearls
• Four weeks of  PANCE/PANRE practice tests using Exam Master Online
• Online access to the daily speaker videos, power point slides, and PDF handouts

For more details , online brochure and online registration visit
http://med.emory.edu/pa/education/board_review

Save the date: Georgia CTSA Clinical and Translational Conference- February 27-29, 2020 Callaway Resort and Gardens

The annual conference describes how the Georgia CTSA can support your research and increase grant funding; allows attendees to network with national leaders and NIH staff in translational science and education; and share research with others and develop new collaborations. 

Please Consider Participating in the
 All of Us Research Program

The Georgia CTSA recently partnered with the All of Us Research Program. All of Us is a health research program funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Its goal is to help researchers better understand why people get sick or stay healthy. The mission of the All of Us Research Program is simple: to speed up health research and medical breakthroughs. To do this, All of Us is asking one million people from across the U.S. to share their health data and samples to build the one of the largest health database of its kind. You are invited to participate and share! To learn more about Georgia enrollment in the project through Emory, email: allofus@emory.edu or call 404-778-1284.

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