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University of Illinois President Robert Easter on Wednesday endorsed a new medical school at the Urbana-Champaign campus, the most significant signal yet that the project will go forward.

The idea of an engineering-based medical school has been championed for a year by campus Chancellor Phyllis Wise, who has called it a "game-changer" and one that is necessary for the university to compete in fields such as biomedicine. The new school would be separate from the university's existing College of Medicine, which is overseen by the University of Illinois at Chicago campus.

"I truly believe we are on the cusp of transformational changes in health care and health care delivery," Easter said at a board of trustees' committee meeting Wednesday afternoon. "The University of Illinois has an opportunity to gain a position of national leadership in this new era."

Easter recommended that the board approve the campus' proposal at its meeting Thursday. Board approval would mean that the campus could begin steps to open the school, including entering into a contract with partner Carle Health System. The first class of medical students could begin as soon as fall 2017.

The proposal calls for a small, specialized engineering-based medical college with up to 50 students per class. The college would draw on the university's strengths in engineering and technology to graduate physician-scientists and engineers who may work in clinical practice but also would have the skills and inclination to develop new medical equipment and innovations.

"When we think about health care, it is going to be all about new sensors, new materials, new robotics, new imaging, new uses of big data put to application in the field of medicine. We have a unique capacity to do this," Wise said in an interview with the Tribune. "When I think about the next 150 years and how the College of Medicine will add to our ability to have a huge impact, it is a game-changer."

As proposed, the new school would not rely on state funding. It would be supported in part through a partnership with Carle Health System. The health system has pledged $100 million over the first 10 years. Other revenue would come from tuition, donors, grants and contracts, patient fees and the commercialization of medical technology. Wise said the goal is to secure $135 million from donors in the first 10 years, and that one donor has committed $10 million.

Wise has said that without a medical school, the state's flagship public campus is at risk of falling behind its peers, as it can't compete for certain grants or attract and retain researchers and scientists whose work relies on a medical school.

Trustees at Wednesday's meeting seemed poised to approve the plan, though some wanted assurance that a new medical school would not drain financial resources from other academic programs. Easter said that the plan to partner with a private entity could serve as a model for future programs as state funding declines. He also said he was initially "skeptical" of the financial feasibility of the plan but has come around.

"For me, the financial risk makes sense, the need makes sense and we need to make sure the two colleges are working in full unison to the extent they can to make both enterprises better," said Patrick Fitzgerald, a trustee.

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The former Hoffmann-La Roche site in Clifton and Nutley.

The state Board of Medical Examiners has approved the opening of a new medical school at the former Hoffmann-LaRoche site in Clifton and Nutley.

The conditional approval is the first of two application processes for the venture between Hackensack University Medical Centers parent company and Seton Hall University, which is planning to open a four-year, private medical school in 2017.

First we have to be licensed through the state, said Robert C. Garrett, president and chief executive officer of Hackensack University Health Network. Now were through. It was a big hurdle.

The next move is to get approval from the Liaison Committee for Medical Education, a branch of the American Medical Association, which takes a look at their dean, curriculum and facilities. That process is expected to take 12 to 15 months.

Its a tight timetable, but we hope to welcome the first class in the fall of 2017, Garrett said.

The new school, as yet unnamed would be the first private medical school to open in New Jersey in 50 years.

The school is expected to have 125 to 150 students in each class when it matures, an effort that is expected to ease the shortage of physicians in New Jersey. By 2020, the nation will need 50,000 more physicians, experts say.

Architects are working to redesign two buildings the medical school will take over at the 116-acre campus.

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URBANA After a year of study, a proposal for a new engineering-focused medical school in Urbana could get a green light from top university administrators today.

UI President Bob Easter, who is scheduled to give his recommendation to UI trustees this afternoon, has held his conclusions close to the vest, with numerous administrators and faculty saying this week they didn't know what the president will say.

But there's an "expectant buzz" on campus, as one professor put it, and one trustee said Tuesday he expected the decision to be favorable to Urbana.

"My understanding is that it will be a recommendation to go forward," said Board of Trustees' Chairman Edward McMillan.

Easter will present a resolution on the proposal at a videoconferenced meeting of the Board of Trustees' Academic and Student Affairs Committee this afternoon in Urbana. Trustees are scheduled to vote on the resolution Thursday morning when they meet at the Illini Union.

Last spring, at the direction of Chancellor Phyllis Wise, consultants proposed a small medical school fusing medicine, bioengineering and "big data," developed in partnership with Carle Health System. As designed, it would use no state funding; Carle has pledged more than $100 million over the first 10 years.

It would be independent of the existing College of Medicine headquartered in Chicago, which operates regional campuses in Peoria, Rockford and Urbana.

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Carle Foundation Hospital in Urbana.

URBANA With trustee approval expected today, the University of Illinois will be on a "fast march" toward opening a new College of Medicine in Urbana by the fall 2017 target, officials say.

The engineering-based medical school, to be developed in partnership with Carle Health System, was endorsed Wednesday by UI President Bob Easter and received support from UI trustees, though they voiced concerns about long-term financing.

"We ask these questions because ... we have high aspirations for this medical school," Trustee James Montgomery said at a board committee meeting. "We're getting ready now to embark on a cutting-edge medical engineering project that can bring to this university the kind of prestige that its engineering department currently enjoys. All I hear is commitment around this table."

A formal vote is scheduled at this morning's board meeting in Urbana.

After studying the proposal for more than a year, Easter recommended that trustees move ahead with plans for the independently accredited medical school fusing engineering, technology, big data and medicine.

He said it would "advance the research capabilities of the Urbana campus, not only in engineering and biological sciences but in other areas." It also has the potential to promote Champaign-Urbana as a "biomedical research hub and enhance regional economic development and beyond," he said.

Carle has pledged $100 million over 10 years for the new medical school, which is designed to use no state funding. Carle and the UI are negotiating a draft memorandum of understanding "that would constitute a nonbinding, good-faith commitment to the proposed project," Easter's resolution says. Easter said he hopes that can be wrapped up by May.

The resolution recommends that any agreement with Carle include a provision that "if for any reason Carle is unable or unwilling to execute the agreement and perform its obligations under it, the university will not seek to replace Carle as a partner and clinical provider and will not pursue a separately accredited College of Medicine on the Urbana-Champaign campus."

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The number of doctors trained in Washington could double in the next few years.

Legislation giving Washington State University the green light to establish a medical school in Spokane passed in the Washington State Senate on Tuesday morning, hours after an identical bill cleared the House of Representatives.

State Sen. Michael Baumgartner, R-Spokane: This shouldnt be the Apple Cup of medical education. This is really a choice for more doctors.

The legislation repeals a 98-year-old law that gives the University of Washington sole authority to operate a state-sponsored medical school. It also repeals a forestry school monopoly given to the UW in 1917.

Don Barbieri, a WSU Regent, described as great news the votes in Olympia. Elson Floyd, WSUs president, called the Legislatures action a powerful message that a century old policy is inadequate to the needs of 21st -entury Washington.

But the Legislature has yet to authorize any money to pay for the WSU med school. Wazzu is asking for $2.5 million to hire faculty and pursue accreditation. Eventually, with classes of 120 entering students, about $40 million would be needed to pay the states share of medical education.

The University of Washington Medical School accepts 120 students from this state each year. Yet, a total of 350 Washington undergraduates go on to study medicine, nearly two-thirds of them in out-of-state schools.

This shouldnt be the Apple Cup of medical education: This is really a choice for more doctors, said state Sen. Michael Baumgartner, R-Spokane, sponsor of the legislation. It passed by a 45-4 vote in the Legislature;s upper chamber.

The House vote was 85-17. We have a growing need in our state: We are not meeting that need currently or looking to the future, said State Rep. Marcus Riccelli, D-Spokane. We can do better in this state and change this 100-year-old law. This is about community based medical education. This is about patient-care access.

In a statement that will be tested, Riccelli argued that Spokane possesses the needed infrastructure to hit the ground running right away.

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Though the passage of identical bills in the state House on Monday and Senate on Tuesday looks promising for Washington State Universitys desire to build a new medical school, neither piece of legislation contains any money or funding mechanism.

Rather, if one passes both chambers and gets signed by the governor, Senate Bill 5487 and companion House Bill 1559 would clear the way for WSU to pursue accreditation for its own school, amending a nearly 100-year-old law that split up degree programs between WSU and the University of Washington.

Funding is still a huge unknown, as the state is strapped for cash. But a third medical school in the state specifically at WSUs Spokane campus is much needed, says Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences President Dr. Keith Watson.

PNWU and the UW together simply cannot produce enough primary care physicians to both alleviate the existing shortages and replace those physicians retiring from practice in the coming years, Watson wrote in an op-ed piece distributed Monday.

The UW med school is built on the WWAMI model, receiving state funding from Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana and Idaho to serve as the medical school for the five-state area. But that means only about half of UWs roughly 240 class spots each year go to Washington state students, Watson said Tuesday in an interview.

We need to make sure that whatever state dollars are invested are put into a program that delivers the goods, Watson said.

But it makes no sense to put a lot more dollars into the UW system thats incredibly expensive, and to keep doing the same old thing, but deny WSU money to get its own community-based medical school started, he said. I think we need to look at innovative ways, and I think WSU has put a good alternative on the table that should be funded.

In particular, he said, the goods need to be primary care doctors, in chronic shortage on this side of the state. PNWU was founded to specifically address that need, and Watson says a WSU medical school is necessary to fill the void, as well.

In this five-state catchment, theres over 9,000 physicians over the age of 60, and thus nearing retirement, he said. With only four medical schools UW, PNWU, Oregon University of Health Sciences in Portland and the University of Utah School of Medicine, two of which arent even in the catchment area were not gonna be able to produce enough physicians to replace them.

With such a looming shortage, Watson said, he doesnt see a WSU medical school as a potential competitor. Applicants may prefer one school over the other, but with PNWU now receiving more than 4,000 applications for its 135 class spots, there will be no dearth of aspiring medical students.

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ATLANTA (AP) - Emory Universitys medical school is sponsoring a regional critical care summit.

The university says the 2015 Southeastern Critical Care Summit will educate attendees on common critical care conditions and procedures.

Emory says critical care is one of the most multi-professional and team-oriented clinical areas in health care. Its also an area where the quality and value varies significantly.

The program includes interactive and case-based lectures from a variety of doctors, nurses and other medical personnel, as well as hands-on teaching sessions and more intimate discussions.

The summit is scheduled for April 2 and 3 at Emory Conference Center and Hotel. Its sponsored by Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine.

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