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Rowan medical student's studies are taking him far

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Halfway through his studies at Camden's Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, Jonathan Kanen is leaving, flying 3,500 miles away.

Kanen has been named one of 40 U.S. recipients of the Gates Cambridge Scholarships program. An additional 55 students from outside the country each year receive grants to study at the University of Cambridge in any field.

As Rowan University's first Gates Cambridge scholar, Kanen, 27, will wrap up his second year of medical school before taking off for three years to study for a Ph.D. in psychology at Cambridge.

"The whole Gates thing started with the realization Cambridge was by far the best fit for me. . . . They are a complete exemplar of how I think new discoveries about mental illness will likely occur in a big way," Kanen, a native of Ridgewood, N.J., said, citing integration of various disciplines and types of research, including rodent and human studies.

"This multitiered, very interdisciplinary approach is happening in a very big way at Cambridge," he said.

A perfect place, then, for a medical student who hopes to work on cutting-edge research and practice psychiatry.

At Cambridge, Kanen will be joined by other Gates scholars from the region, including Elizabeth Ann Walsh, an alumna of New Jersey's Passaic County Community College. Others include Nicolette Taku, Jocelyn Perry, and Cassi Henderson from the University of Pennsylvania; Cameron Langford, Samuel Kim, and Laura Cooper from Princeton University; and Christopher Rae from Pennsylvania State University.

Kanen's interest in human behavior led him to study psychology at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., where he earned a bachelor's degree in 2009, but he still found himself seeking answers about the neural bases of psychiatric maladies such as obsessive-compulsive disorder.

After Vassar, Kanen worked in a New York University lab that was studying the neural processes underlying the modification of memories of fear. That line of research may someday translate into treatment of conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder, said Daniela Schiller, a psychiatry and neuroscience professor at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine who was involved in the project as a student.

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After USF failure in the Villages, top official finds job there

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By Jodie Tillman

Times Staff Writer

TAMPA University of South Florida officials had envisioned the multimillion-dollar medical center 80 miles away in the Villages retirement community as a bold expression of the medical school's wider ambitions.

But so few patients turned up for care that the university last summer abandoned its work at the clinic and turned over millions of dollars in assets to the for-profit Villages Health System. Now the failure has created a job opportunity for a former USF official, which is worrying some university leaders.

"It raises questions and concerns," said USF trustee Scott Hopes of the fact that the same doctor who presided over the start and end of the university's venture is now working for Villages Health.

That doctor is Jeff Lowenkron, who in December resigned his post as chief executive officer of the USF Physicians Group, the medical school faculty's practice, to become chief medical officer for Villages Health.

Villages Health is the entity that emerged from efforts by former USF medical school dean Stephen Klasko to transform the Villages, near Ocala, into "America's Healthiest Hometown."

As part of that program, USF's physician practice invested millions in patient revenues into creating a center offering such specialties as gynecology and orthopedics at the Villages. But only a few months after opening early last year, patient numbers were so far below projections that USF administrators determined they were on track to lose $2million.

So in June, USF pulled the plug, turning over assets the leased building, employee operations and medical equipment to Villages Health. The university's medical practice wrote off nearly $5million on the deal, Hopes said.

Lowenkron said in an interview that he wished the USF partnership had worked out. But in the months after USF decided to get out of the business, he began talking with Villages officials about taking a job there, a position similar to one he held before coming to USF in 2012. He resigned on Dec. 22 and started at the Villages this month.

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School Bus Careens Out of Control After Driver Suffers Medical Emergency

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Dramatic dash-camera footage shows a school bus in Minnesota out of control after its driver had a medical emergency.

The video from Wednesday afternoon shows the bus with 11 school children on board swerve into a ditch and almost tip over.

Authorities in Aitkin County say the bus careened and weaved at speeds of 35 to 40 mph - at one point narrowly avoiding a head-on collision with another car.

At least one student on board called 911 to alert authorities to the driver's medical emergency.

To stop the bus, Minnesota state troopers blew out its tires.

"That's not something that any of us would expect when we hop on in any vehicle, let alone a school bus," said Aitkin County Sheriff Scott Turner.

No children inside the bus were injured.

Police say the driver may have suffered a possible diabetic reaction. He was treated at a local hospital and has since been released.

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USF's downtown medical school hopes rest in Tallahassee

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This week, supporters of the University of South Florida's proposed urban medical school will again seek the approval of the Board of Governors, which oversees the State University System.

It's another big vote for the USF project. But it's not the vote.

That's because the fate of the $157 million development will ultimately be decided by Florida's most powerful politicians.

"It's about he who holds the purse strings," said former Sen. Paula Dockery, "and he who controls the one holding the purse strings."

USF's project needs state funding. The BOG recommends projects to lawmakers, but it cannot fund them. That's the job of the Florida Legislature more specifically, the powerful chairmen of the House and Senate appropriations committees.

And if the medical school gets its money, then it has to survive Gov. Rick Scott's veto pen.

The governor, experienced Tallahassee hands suggest, could be the real wild card in all this.

USF wants to build a 12-story building at the corner of Channelside Drive and Meridian Avenue that would house the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine and Heart Institute.

Both were separate projects once headed for the main Tampa campus. But then Jeff Vinik, who owns the Tampa Bay Lightning, donated an acre of his downtown property to bring both to his $1billion urban renewal project.

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First medical school on NMSU campus moving forward

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LAS CRUCES Construction began this week on the $105 million Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine at Arrowhead Research Park on the campus of New Mexico State University.

The private medical school will be the first in Las Cruces, and only the second medical school in the state. It will also be the states only school devoted to osteopathy.

Schools of osteopathic medicine are similar to traditional medical schools, graduating doctors who can practice medicine, prescribe medications and perform surgery, like medical doctors, according to the National Institutes of Health. Doctors of osteopathic medicine, however, spend additional time studying the bodys musculoskeletal system, according to NIH.

Everything is going according to plan, according to John Hummer, executive board member and the schools CEO.

On Monday, excavation and grading began, said Hummer. Were looking to begin vertical construction in April, and will have a ceremonial event to coincide with that. It will also coincide with the next step in our accreditation, as we apply for provisional accreditation.

Burrell College will be a freestanding, privately funded, separately licensed and independently operated entity. No taxpayer dollars will go toward its construction or operation, officials have said.

Dr. George Mychaskiw, an Orlando-based pediatric cardiac anesthesiologist who will be BCOMs dean, said he believes the school will begin student applications in May, pending provisional accreditation.

We plan on beginning the application process in May for the schools first students, to begin in the fall 2016 semester, said Mychaskiw. The school will serve 150 students in its first year, adding students each year to reach the planned 1,200 total.

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First medical school on NMSU campus moving forward ahead of schedule

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LAS CRUCES >> Construction began this week on the $105 million Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine at Arrowhead Research Park on the campus of New Mexico State University.

The private medical school will be the first in Las Cruces, and only the second medical school in the state. It will also be the state's only school devoted to osteopathy.

Schools of osteopathic medicine are similar to traditional medical schools, graduating doctors who can practice medicine, prescribe medications and perform surgery, like medical doctors, according to the National Institutes of Health. Doctors of osteopathic medicine, however, spend additional time studying the body's musculoskeletal system, according to NIH.

Everything is going according to plan, according to John Hummer, executive board member and the school's CEO.

"On Monday, excavation and grading began," said Hummer. "We're looking to begin vertical construction in April, and will have a ceremonial event to coincide with that. It will also coincide with the next step in our accreditation, as we apply for provisional accreditation."

Burrell College will be a freestanding, privately funded, separately licensed and independently operated entity. No taxpayer dollars will go toward its construction or operation, officials have said.

Dr. George Mychaskiw, an Orlando-based pediatric cardiac anesthesiologist who will be BCOM's dean, said he believes the school will begin student applications in May, pending provisional accreditation.

"We plan on beginning the application process in May for the school's first students, to begin in the fall 2016 semester," said Mychaskiw. The school will serve 150 students in its first year, adding students each year to reach the planned 1,200 total.

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Witness Project: Livia Gyarmathy, Hungary (Full Interview)
Growing up under constant fear and suspicion in communist Hungary, Livia Gyarmathy was ordered by the state to become a chemist, despite wanting to go to medical school. She eventually became...

By: Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation

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WSU med school bills advance – Wed, 11 Feb 2015 PST

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OLYMPIA Washington State University is two steps closer to starting its own medical school inSpokane.

Legislative committees in each chamber agreed overwhelmingly Tuesday that a state law restricting medical education to the University of Washington should be changed. But both indicated tough decisions lie ahead on paying for a new school. The bills would give WSU the authority to offer medical education at the Spokane campus but dont set aside money to doit.

The Senate Higher Education Committee unanimously sent the medical school authorization bill to the full Senate after rejecting on a party-line vote an amendment

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OLYMPIA Washington State University is two steps closer to starting its own medical school inSpokane.

Legislative committees in each chamber agreed overwhelmingly Tuesday that a state law restricting medical education to the University of Washington should be changed. But both indicated tough decisions lie ahead on paying for a new school. The bills would give WSU the authority to offer medical education at the Spokane campus but dont set aside money to doit.

The Senate Higher Education Committee unanimously sent the medical school authorization bill to the full Senate after rejecting on a party-line vote an amendment that tried to sort out a funding dispute between the two universities over the WWAMI medical school training they shared in Spokane until lastfall.

Funding questions will be decided later by the budget writers, Republicanssaid.

Ways and Means is the proper venue for those discussions to be held, Sen. Mike Baumgartner, R-Spokane, said. I do believe it will be workedout.

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