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LSU Health budget cuts

Shreveport's largest employer is being faced with staggering cuts to its operational budget that would cripple the LSU Health Shreveport Medical School.

"State funding would be reduced to a point that we couldn't operate anymore," says Sally Croom, spokesperson for LSU Health Shreveport.

Croom says if the state's proposed $25 million budget cuts pass the senate, the medical school and hospital would eventually collapse.

"Hundreds of thousands of people depend on this institution for health care," says Croom.

People like Aaron Selber, who not only serves on the LSU Foundation Board but also visits the hospital as a patient.

"I'm older. I know I'm gonna get sick and I'd like to be treated by a competent medical staff," Selber says.

Selber says the Med School produces about 70 % of the doctors who practice in Louisiana.

He says the closure of the school would send shock waves throughout the community.

"This represents a tremendous potential step backwards," he says.

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Newswise In her native Iran, Sepanta Shamel saw patients every day as a pediatrician. When she came to America four years ago, she wanted a new career that was just as rewarding. She started anew by attending the Harris County Hospital District School of Diagnostic Medical Imaging and is about to embark on her second career as a sonographer.

She, along with 56 others, recently graduated from the public hospital-based school, marking its 20th graduating class. The school was created in 1993 to supply the Harris County Hospital District with an available pool of diagnostic medical imaging professionals.

The unique program offers students the valuable opportunity to train using leading-edge technology, and to learn from expert physicians affiliated with The University of Texas Medical School (UTHealth) at Houston and Baylor College of Medicine.

While this was Shamels first time to graduate from the school, it was fellow graduate Anh Dangs second time. Dang graduated from the schools radiography program two years ago and with the encouragement of the schools staff, continued her education and graduated from the sonography program.

Donning black caps and gowns, graduates listened to remarks by Cleveland Black, PhD, administrative director, Education, Harris County Hospital District and U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, who delivered the commencement address, just as she did at the schools first commencement almost two decades ago.

Today is a special day for you and your family members. I am grateful we live in a nation that has given you all the opportunity to pursue interests such as this. Today, we celebrate your accomplishments, Jackson Lee said.

During the schools 22-year history, it has added new programs. Today, it has four: diagnostic medical radiography, diagnostic medical sonography, computerized topography (CT) graduate fellowship and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) graduate fellowship.

After successfully completing the programs, graduates are prepared to work in various medical settings like hospital, clinic or private practice. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the diagnostic medical imaging field has a growth rate of 20 percent or better through 2020, and is considered one of the most in demand.

To date, 413 students have graduated from the Harris County Hospital District School of Diagnostic Medical Imaging. While many find employment with the Harris County Hospital District ultimate the goal of the school others find employment in the other institutions of the Texas Medical Center, the worlds largest complex with healthcare institutions, research and schools, located in Houston.

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The University at Buffalo has chosen an architectural firm to design its new $375 million medical school at Main and High streets.

The well-known, international firm HOK Helmuth, Obata & Kassabaum was selected to lead the building design over the next 13 months in preparation for the groundbreaking in fall 2013, UB announced.

Part of the process includes exhibiting four design concepts for public feedback.

"You don't get many opportunities to do a project of this size and scope on Main Street," said Robert G. Shibley, dean of the UB School of Architecture and Planning. "It's just a tremendous opportunity for downtown, Allentown and the entire neighborhood."

UB plans to move its School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences from the South Campus on Main to the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus by 2016.

Nineteen architectural teams were pared down to four finalists that were asked to compete for the UB contract by designing a concept for the new medical school.

UB anticipates building a 12-, nine- or seven-story medical school with more than a half-million square feet of space.

The architectural competition was a chance to consider possibilities for a building on a site with some complex urban-design challenges: adding green space, walkways and an extension of Allen Street; incorporating the Allen-Medical Campus Metro Station; blending with Allentown and several historic buildings nearby; and serving as a signature "front door" for the Medical Campus along Main.

"We will not build any of the four designs," Shibley said. "This process was never intended to produce a winning design, but to reveal how the architects were thinking about and approaching the project."

The four design concepts will be on display for public input in the Greatbatch Pavilion of the Darwin Martin House, 125 Jewett Parkway, through next Thursday and then in the Central Library on Lafayette Square through June 8.

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Dr. Richard V. Aghababian, a Southborough resident and the founding chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, was elected president of the Massachusetts Medical Society this morning, according to a society press release.

Dr. Aghababian has a long record of distinguished service with the state medical society, the release states, serving as president-elect and vice president in the last two years.

Aghababian chaired the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School from 1994 to 2007, the society said.

A Fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians, he is still active in education in disaster response and international development of emergency medical systems, it said.

Aghababian has also served as president of the Worcester District Medical Society, the Massachusetts College of Emergency Physicians, American College of Emergency Physicians and the Society for Airway Management, the release says. He now serves as the secretary-treasurer of the Society for Chest Pain Centers, a national group that helps hospitals improve management of cardiac patients in an observation setting.

An editor-in-chief, associate editor and contributing author for several textbooks and a widely-published author and lecturer on topics in emergency medicine, disaster response and preparedness, Dr. Aghababian has received honors and awards for his contributions to medicine and the community from the American Red Cross, the Worcester District Medical Society, Massachusetts College of Emergency Physicians and the University of Massachusetts the society wrote. In 2007, he was a recipient of the Annual Health Care Heroes Award from the Worcester Business Journal.

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At one Indiana medical school, students are taught to think of their cadavers as their first patients and may even meet their families. Critics contend this may cross an ethical line and put students in an uncomfortable position.

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First year medical students dissect a cadaver at a gross anatomy lab at Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, Nov. 5, 2009.

Kyle Gospodarek expected to feel nervous about seeing a dead body up close on his first day of anatomy lab. He steeled himself for the smell a pungent blend of latex, embalming fluid and something indescribable whose odor would cling to his clothes for days but he never imagined he would have to get in touch with the cadavers family. Ill be honest: when I first heard about what we were doing, I was weirded out, he says. I didnt know what to say to them.

At Indiana University Northwest, an IU branch campus located in Gary, Ind., anatomy professor Ernest Talarico instructs his medical students to probe beyond the nerves and muscles of the bodies lying on their examination tables and think of the cadavers as their first patients. We ask students to use the name of the patient out of respect and to acknowledge that this was a person, he says. His students also typically exchange letters with family members to glean more information about their patients medical histories, hobbies and interests. They may even meet the family in person at the conclusion of the course during a memorial service held in the laboratory.

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The annals of medical school training are filled with sordid tales of students taking glam shots with corpses or assigning unflattering nicknames to cadavers. When Talarico was in medical school, he remembers his classmates calling one cadaver Salty because of the tattoo of the naked woman on his chest. These people had lives and names, he says, and to use other names disrespects them.

Talarico believes his approach not only helps students be more respectful of the individuals who have given their bodies to science but also prepares them to act as empathetic clinicians when theyre faced with the cold, hard medical decisions theyll have to make in their careers. He has no formal data to prove his approach gets better results, but anecdotally, the students say they feel better prepared to address patients as individuals and consider their feelings. As one student, Adam Harker, explains: I think it translates into better post-op care and compliance.

While Talarico has won praise from many of the individuals involved in the program, hes also raised concerns among critics who question the ethics of his teaching technique. When donated bodies are passed on to medical schools, the institutions are usually only given the basics the donors name, gender, age and immediate cause of death. The name of the donor is typically not shared with students, and students do not usually interact with the donors next of kin.

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