| February 10, 2012 President's Weekly Bulletin |
Department of Family Medicine Residency Program Receives Full Re-Accreditation
Hats off to the Department of Family and Community Medicine for the recent results of their residency program re-accreditation review. The Family Medicine Residency Review Committee, of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, approved full accreditation of our superb Family Medicine Residency Program for a full three year term. Congratulations to Roger Zoorob, M.D., MPH, FAAFP, Chair and Professor of the Department of Family and Community Medicine, Paul Juarez, Ph.D., Professor and Vice Chair of Academic Affairs, Mohamad Sidani, M.D., M.S., Associate Professor, Medical Director, and Vice Chair of Clinical Affairs and the entire Family and Community Medicine team for making this re-accreditation a reality. |
|
| January 11, 2012 |
|
|
The Sky’s The Limit:
Exploring subspecialties and opportunities for practice within family medicine
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
5pm-7pm
Nashville Metro General Hospital
Family & Community Medicine Department Conference Room, Rm. 3007
Dinner and discussion with Dr. Zoorob, Chair of the Family and Community Medicine Department at Meharry Medical College and family physicians representing a wide range of subspecialties and clinical experiences including Geriatrics, Maternal Health, Sports Medicine, Public Health, Emergency Medicine, and Palliative Care.
|
November 4, 2011 President’s Weekly Bulletin
Family and Community Medicine Well Represented at Annual APHA Conference
The Department of Family and Community Medicine presented six abstracts at the American Public Health Association (APHA) 139th Annual Meeting and Exposition in Washington, D.C. earlier this week. Roger Zoorob, M.D., MPH, FAAFP, Chair and Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, gave an oral presentation titled: “Chronic Disease Management Program: Does It Improve Health Outcomes? Preliminary Results.” The poster presentations were “Differences in Mortality Rates from Acute Myocardial Infarction after Implementation of a Comprehensive State-wide Smoking Ban in NY State” by Malgorzata Hasek, M.D., MPH, Robert S. Levine, M.D., Barbara Kilbourne, Ph.D. and Roger Zoorob, M.D. and “Barriers to Diagnosis of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome among Medical and Behavioral Health Professionals” by MSPH student Heather Snell, Kristy Durkin, MSW, LCSW, Muktar Aliyu, M.D., DrPH, Roger Zoorob, M.D. and Carmela Hayes, B.A. Residents in Preventive Medicine, along with their co-authors, also presented posters. Carmenza Mejia de Grubb, M.D., MSPH, presented “A Community Responds to a Natural Disaster: The Nashville Flood's Story Tellers.” Nia Foderingham, M.D., MSPH, presented “Assessing Risk Factors of the Hurricane Katrina on Preterm Birth: A Simulation Model” and “Assessing the Impact of Economic Factors on Low Birth Weight after a Natural Disaster: A Simulation Model.” Congratulations to the Family Medicine team for their great work at this prestigious national meeting. |
|
October 28, 2011 President’s Weekly Bulletin
Family & Community Medicine Presents at TNAFP Annual Assembly
The Department of Family & Community Medicine was very active at the Tennessee Academy of Family Physicians (TNAFP) 63rd Annual Scientific Assembly in Gatlinburg, Tennessee this week. Dr. Ruth Stewart and Dr. Roger Zoorob were elected as delegates for District 6 of TNAFP and Dr. Zoorob was also elected to the TNAFP board of directors. Additionally, Dr. Zoorob will chair the 2012-2013 Annual Scientific Assembly Program Committee while continuing to serve as a member of the Education Committee. This year’s conference will enjoy two oral presentations resulting from research conducted in collaboration among the department’s faculty, staff, residents and students. These presentations were selected by the research committee in a competitive process. We are especially proud to have these presentations delivered by Meharry student Ashley Fields and Family Medicine resident Maureen Seitz, M.D., Chief Resident, Department of Family Medicine respectively. The study that Ms. Fields is presenting is titled “Predictors Of Non-Compliance In Patients With Type II Diabetes”, and the study that Dr. Seitz is presenting is titled “Training Physicians in Alcohol Screening and Brief Intervention (SBI) for Prevention of FASD.” |
|
October 21, 2011 President’s Weekly Bulletin
Dr. Goldzweig Presents Keynote for NY Highway Safety Fall Symposium
Irwin Goldzweig, Ph.D., Assistant Professor and Director of the Injury Prevention Team, Division of Community Health, Department of Family& Community Medicine, gave the keynote presentation at the New York State Highway Safety Annual Fall Symposium: “Partnering for a Safer New York” on Tuesday, October 18 in Hauppauge, N.Y. The title of his presentation was, “Introduction to Multicultural Pathways to Seat Belt Excellence.” The presentation provided national minority highway safety data compiled from research by team Epidemiologist, Dr. James Ekundayo from the Department of Family & Community Medicine and team Behavioral Scientist, Dr. David Schlundt from Vanderbilt University’s Department of Psychology. |
October 7, 2011 President's Weekly Bulletin
Dr. Juarez Competes Successfully for Supplement Award
Congratulations to Paul Juarez, Ph.D., Vice-Chair, Department of Family and Community Medicine and Principal Investigator of the National Institute of Minority Health Disparities P20 Center of Excellence in Health Disparities at Meharry Medical College. Dr. Juarez and his research team successfully competed for a supplement to the parent grant entitled Environmental Context of Health Disparities. The overall purpose of this supplement is to develop and support research activities that will enable center investigators to study the environmental context of health disparities, improve access to healthy environments by disproportionately impacted communities and improve health outcomes and eliminate health disparities among communities at greatest risk. This new supplement award establishes an Environmental Health Disparities Core and expands the capacity of health services researchers and other biomedical scientists using a trans-disciplinary systems approach. Expansion of the current research program, via this award, will allow for (1) incorporation of data on the physical, built, social and policy environments (2) the use of High Throughput Analyses to analyze relationships between health disparities and environmental factors and (3) training in public participatory geographic information systems and interactive mapping that will support community participation in the research process. The core will be co-directed by Darryl B. Hood, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology and Wansoo Im, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine.
|
|
September 30, 2011 President’s Weekly Bulletin
Dr. Agboto Presents Paper at Cambridge University
Congratulations to Vincent K. Agboto, Ph.D., Director of Biostatistics and Assistant Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine, for being invited by the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom to present his statistical methodology paper titled, “A Comparison of Three Approaches for Constructing Robust Experimental Designs.” Dr. Agboto presented his work during a workshop on recent advances in methods and applications for designed experiments. The workshop was held at the Isaac Newton Institute of Mathematical Sciences from August 30 to September 2, 2011. |
September 9, 2011 President’s Weekly Bulletin
Tennessee Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Awareness Day
Today marks the third annual Tennessee Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) Awareness Day. Since 2002, the faculty of the Southeast Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Regional Training Center (FASD Southeast), which is based at the Meharry Medical College Department of Family & Community Medicine, have advanced the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) initiative for preventing and reducing Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASDs) through FASD curriculum development and delivery of FASD educational sessions to health trainees and professionals. Now in its third round of grant funding from CDC, the Center has delivered more than 680 hours of FASD training to 8,810 medical students, physicians, and allied health professionals. The Center has also mentored many junior faculty and has given them opportunities to participate as speakers in Grand Rounds and regional training. To learn more about Tennessee FASD Awareness Day and FASD Southeast’s efforts, visit our exhibit at the Metro Nashville General Hospital cafeteria entrance on September 9 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., or visit our website at www.fasdsoutheast.org. |
August 26, 2011 President’s Weekly Bulletin
Department of Family and Community Medicine Conference
The Department of Family and Community Medicine will host its annual Primary Care Update on September 17, 2011 from 8:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. This educational conference will provide the most updated information on clinical topics in primary care. This year’s keynote speaker is our own Dean of the School of Medicine, Dr. Charles Mouton. For more information, or to register, please visit familymedicine.mmc.edu. |
