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Dr Dianne Li, Master of Surgery 2013 Recipient Gordon Gordon Taylor Medal for first place SET Surgical Science (Generic) Examination, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, October 2014.
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Stanley M. Aronson, the founding dean of Brown Universitys medical school and a weekly contributor to The Providence Journals Monday commentary page, has died at 92.
Aronson died Wednesday morning at the Philip Hulitar Inpatient Center, which is run by Home and Hospice Care of Rhode island. Aronson was a founder of the organization and served on its board.
In 2014, Aronson was honored by Brownwith a $3 million research fund named in his honor.The fund is used to support innovative investments in medical education and research.
Dr. Aronson is an adored giant of in the worlds of medicine and medical education and also in the life of Brown and Rhode Island, Chancellor Thomas J. Tisch said at the time of the funds establishment.
Aronsons column typically dealt with history and medicine. His first column ran in December of 1992. On the occasion of his 1,000th essay in January of 2011, he joked that he had clung to this Monday morning site, much like herpes tenacious but only rarely fatal.
Arthur Robbins, a friend of Aronson and a member of the Butler Hospital Foundation, wrote the following about Aronson in the Providence Journal in 2013:
I could go on at length about Dr. Aronsons achievements as a pioneering neurologist, teacher and clinician, as the founding dean of the Alpert School of Medicine, eradicating Tay Sachs, to be the first to identify Lewy Body Dementia, just to name a few. But, suffice it to say, Stan has dedicated his career to championing those suffering from the most debilitating neurological disorders and mentoring generations of physicians.
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PHOENIX State lawmakers are moving to get more doctors into rural and medically underserved areas of the state.
A Senate panel voted Tuesday to expand an existing program that helps doctors repay their medical school debts if they agree to go where they are needed. SB 1194, proposed by Sen. Gail Griffin, R-Hereford, now goes to the full Senate.
Rep. Heather Carter, R-Cave Creek, introduced similar legislation in the House. That measure, HB 2495, is awaiting a hearing.
The states challenged finances should not impede final approval because the expansion is structured so it would not require any additional state dollars.
Kristen Boilini, lobbyist for the Arizona Alliance for Community Health Centers, said the change permits the program to take private donations, which she said will be offered.
She said Arizona needs another 442 full-time primary care physicians, 441 dentists and 204 behavioral-health providers and psychiatrists.
That includes not just in rural areas. She said while physicians are attracted to some urban areas, there are inner-city areas in both Pima and Maricopa counties where the number of medical providers falls short.
Generally, theyre communities with high uninsured, underinsured folks, Boilini said, with a high percentage of residents getting their coverage through the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System, the states Medicaid program. And that presents a problem of its own.
AHCCCS provider payment rates are so low, you dont get a lot of private practice groups that want to go work in those areas, she said. That makes these communities dependent on nonprofit groups and community health centers.
But even they have a hard time attracting physicians because they dont pay what a private practice in north Scottsdale is going to pay, Boilini said.
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In her 56 years, Lisa Swinton McLaughlin racked up more accomplishments than most who live decades longer manage to do: A Creighton University law school grad, she worked for 13 years as a Nebraska special assistant attorney generalbefore heading to medical school and ultimately becoming executive medical officer with the American Red Cross in Baltimore.
As a 2009 press release explained, McLaughlin "specialized in child abuse and neglect cases. Her exposure to the medical issues of these children led her to apply to medical school." But there remained one void: children of her own.
McLaughlin married husband Mike in 1999, and spent a decade undergoing various fertility and in-vitro procedures. And then, last year, she became pregnant with twins. She gave birth to premature boys, both healthy, on Dec. 27, reports the Omaha World-Herald.
Sons Jordan, 3 pounds and 3 ounces, and Dylan, 3 pounds, remained in the hospital when McLaughlin headed home four days later. Mike says she was in pain but attributed it to the cesarean section incision.
Though she was able to hold the babies and "stroke them and love them," McLaughlin died of a bowel obstruction on Jan. 4. Death "wasn't even in her vocabulary," Mike tells the World-Herald.
The 67-year-old plans to move back to his native Nebraska so that family members can help him raise the boys. (A Phoenix woman died before she could hold her newborn quadruplets.)
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Study finds the demand for positions strongly influences medical residents' salaries.
When medical-school graduates apply for their residencies, they use a centralized clearinghouse that matches applicants with jobs. This system has sometimes been challenged, such as in a lawsuit several years ago that claimed salaries of residents were reduced by this centralized matching method.
But a forthcoming study by an MIT economist indicates that demand for a limited number of desirable residency positions can keep salaries low -- and introduces a new way of assessing that demand despite incomplete data that has previously restricted analysis of the issue.
"Salaries will likely remain low unless residency programs can increase the number of positions," says Nikhil Agarwal, an assistant professor of economics at MIT, and author of the paper on the subject.
On average, Agarwal's study finds, salaries of medical residents are lowered by an average of $23,000 due to the demand for slots. As the study puts it, residents are willing to accept an "implicit tuition" in their wages in return for experience and prestige. In the long run, residencies may be a worthwhile tradeoff for doctors establishing themselves in the profession, even with seemingly reduced wages.
Determining demand
Agarwal's paper, to be published in the American Economic Review, is based on data from 2003 to 2011 gathered by the National Graduate Medical Education census.
The central clearinghouse -- the National Residency Matching Program (NRMP) -- matches about 25,000 medical residents annually. Incoming residents rank the positions they would most like to have, and an algorithm matches these choices with the ranked preferences of the medical programs.
A 2002 lawsuit asserted that the residents have limited bargaining power because they are assigned to positions and cannot receive multiple job offers, unfairly lowering their compensation. That suit was eventually dismissed in 2004, a few months after Congress passed an antitrust exemption for the NRMP system.
But that resolution of the lawsuit did not resolve the question of whether or not the clearinghouse does affect residency salaries. As of 2010, residents had a mean salary of about $47,000, compared to $86,000 for physician assistants, who do comparable work. Medical residents also have notably long workweeks and shifts, which themselves are the subject of intermittent public debate.
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When medical-school graduates apply for their residencies, they use a centralized clearinghouse that matches applicants with jobs. This system has sometimes been challenged, such as in a lawsuit several years ago that claimed salaries of residents were reduced by this centralized matching method.
But a forthcoming study by an MIT economist indicates that demand for a limited number of desirable residency positions can keep salaries lowand introduces a new way of assessing that demand despite incomplete data that has previously restricted analysis of the issue.
"Salaries will likely remain low unless residency programs can increase the number of positions," says Nikhil Agarwal, an assistant professor of economics at MIT, and author of the paper on the subject.
On average, Agarwal's study finds, salaries of medical residents are lowered by an average of $23,000 due to the demand for slots. As the study puts it, residents are willing to accept an "implicit tuition" in their wages in return for experience and prestige. In the long run, residencies may be a worthwhile tradeoff for doctors establishing themselves in the profession, even with seemingly reduced wages.
Determining demand
Agarwal's paper, to be published in the American Economic Review, is based on data from 2003 to 2011 gathered by the National Graduate Medical Education census.
The central clearinghousethe National Residency Matching Program (NRMP)matches about 25,000 medical residents annually. Incoming residents rank the positions they would most like to have, and an algorithm matches these choices with the ranked preferences of the medical programs.
A 2002 lawsuit asserted that the residents have limited bargaining power because they are assigned to positions and cannot receive multiple job offers, unfairly lowering their compensation. That suit was eventually dismissed in 2004, a few months after Congress passed an antitrust exemption for the NRMP system.
But that resolution of the lawsuit did not resolve the question of whether or not the clearinghouse does affect residency salaries. As of 2010, residents had a mean salary of about $47,000, compared to $86,000 for physician assistants, who do comparable work. Medical residents also have notably long workweeks and shifts, which themselves are the subject of intermittent public debate.
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Marijuana use should be decriminalized and federal officials should reclassify cannabis as a less dangerous drug to spur vital medical research, the leading group of U.S. pediatricians recommended Monday.
In an update to its 2004 policy statement on pot, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) also recognized marijuana may be a treatment option for kids "with life-limiting or severely debilitating conditions for whom current therapies are inadequate."
That new stance is welcome news to some 200 families with ill children who recently moved to Colorado where marijuana is legal for adults in searches for last-ditch cures. Those remedies include the pot strain called Charlotte's Web, which anecdotally has been shown to control seizures in some kids.
"We don't want to marginalize families who feel like this is the only option for their child because of crisis," said Dr. Sharon Levy, chair of AAP's committee on substance abuse and assistant professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. She was one of the statement's co-authors.
Media accounts of medical-marijuana refugees in Colorado have given doctors "reason to suspect" that cannabinoids the chemical compounds secreted by cannabis flowers might have anticonvulsant properties, Levy said.
Charlotte's Web, for example, is selectively bred to contain low levels of the cannabinoid THC, which causes people to feel high, but elevated levels of cannabidiol, or CBD, which does not have psychoactive effects. In one medical trial, CBD was shown to be possibly effective in treating people with Parkinson's disease, though more study is needed, scientists have said.
"We understand why a desperate parent might say, 'Look it's going to take 10 years to do this research.' We think that kind of compassionate use should be limited to children who are truly debilitated or at the end of life," Levy said in an interview with NBC News. Asked to list those debilitating illnesses, Levy cited severe seizure disorders.
The AAP remains otherwise opposed to marijuana use among children and adolescents through the age of 21, and it continues to stand against the broader legalization of pot.
"The black market dealer will sell to anyone. We don't. While we can agree with the academy that marijuana may be harmful to children, (cannabis) prohibition has failed to keep our children safe." Michael Elliott, executive director of the Marijuana Industry Group.
But the pediatricians' group will now suggest that the federal government change marijuana from a Schedule I illegal drug (where it's classified along side heroin) to a Schedule II controlled substance, Levy said. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration lists Adderall or Ritalin as examples of Schedule II drugs.
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Dr. Scorpion
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Robert C. Garrett, president and CEO of Hackensack University Health Network speaks at the Hoffmann-La Roche campus in Nutley and Clifton about the joint venture to create a medical school with Seton Hall University as Gov. Chris Christie and University President Dr. A Gabriel Esteban look on. At center, Nutley Mayor Alphonse Petracco and Clifton Mayor James Anzaldi discuss their support for the project. The building pictured will house the new school.
CLIFTON Gov. Chris Christie and local dignitaries stood by as Hackensack University Medical Network and Seton Hall University announced a joint venture last week that will bring to the vacated Roche campus New Jerseys first private medical school.
Robert Garrett, the health network's CEO, and the South Orange universitys president, Dr. Gabriel Esteban, presented the major project to dozens of Roche executives, local officials and members of the press who were packed into the drugmakers Building 123 auditorium.
An official said the agreement shows the two sides are "in it for the long haul" with multiple sources with knowledge of the deal stating the partnership inked a 25-year lease agreement with Roche with three renewal options that could carry the life of the contract to more than 100 years.
The medical school is a nonprofit institution but sources say the new venture will pay a Payment In Lieu of Taxes instead of paying property taxes. A PILOT is typically less than what a city would receive in property taxes. And in this case, two City officials said 95 percent of the money will go to Clifton and 5 percent to Passaic County.
During the Jan. 15 press conference, Garrett said the two organizations "made history" by establishing the four-year medical school which, at its "full maturity" will become home to about 1,200 students and staff members.
Thomas Lyon, the site head of Hoffmann-La Roche's Route 3 campus, said the partnership first began to take form 18 months ago when Garrett contacted him to request a tour of the property.
"Since that time I was able to follow along as this whole vision came together," Lyon said. "As we progress to transfer the site to its new owners, the future of this campus is very bright."
The governor, a graduate of SHU's law school and whose wife received her master's degree from the Stillman School of Business, praised Roche for taking a decision which was disappointing for New Jerseyans at the time and working hard to turn it into a positive for tomorrow.
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OLYMPIA Washington State University wants to continue to collaborate with the University of Washington on medical education, WSU President Elson Floyd told legislators Thursday. But it wants its own medical school in Spokane,too.
UW isnt opposed to WSU starting a new medical school, officials from that university told the Senate Health Care Committee a few minutes later. With onecaveat:
We would only object to a proposal if it were done at the expense of the (UW) program, Regent Orin Smithsaid.
Leaders from both universities laid out their plans to expand medical school education in Spokane and
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OLYMPIA Washington State University wants to continue to collaborate with the University of Washington on medical education, WSU President Elson Floyd told legislators Thursday. But it wants its own medical school in Spokane,too.
UW isnt opposed to WSU starting a new medical school, officials from that university told the Senate Health Care Committee a few minutes later. With onecaveat:
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Harvard Medical School and the Dubai Healthcare City Authority have partnered to establish a center for training and research on health care and medical treatment in the United Arab Emirates, the University announced on Tuesday.
The Harvard Medical School Center for Global Health DeliveryDubai, as the center is called, will house research for delivery methods of health care treatment throughout the UAE, but it will not provide patient care, according to Medical School spokesperson Gina Vild.
The center is a new space in the pre-existing Mohammed Bin Rashid Academic Medical Center in Dubai Healthcare City, and will focus on research and teaching to optimize systems for care delivery and patient outcomes, Vild said.
According to David E. Golan 75, dean for graduate education at the Medical School, the center will target four main areas: diabetes and obesity, improvements in surgical care, infectious diseases such as tuberculosis and hepatitis, and mental health. Harvard faculty will be involved in collaborative research projects, he said.
The center is going to focus initially on pressing health challenges in Dubai and the United Arab Emirates, Golan said. We think it can be a central location that can allow us to convene in research education and policy discussion.
Medical School associate professor Salmaan Keshavjee, who will direct the center, said it will work with care providers here to conduct research on how they can improve their treatment delivery, which Keshavjee said can come in a variety of different forms, ranging from a text message reminder to regular visits from a nurse.
The center hopes to offer Harvard Medical students the chance to do research there, according to Keshavjee, and may also involve Harvard undergraduates.
The new center is not the Medical Schools first collaboration in Dubai. With Partners Harvard Medical International and Dubai Healthcare City, the Medical School established the Harvard Medical School Dubai Center, an education and research institution, in 2004. That center evolved into the new global health delivery center, according to Medical School spokesperson David Cameron.
HMS has had a relationship with Dubai for many years, Keshavjee said. Much of that relationship has been focused on how to increase research capacity in Dubai and the region and to strengthen the health care delivery infrastructure.
According to Keshavjee, Dubai has become an vital hub for the Middle East and for parts of Africa and for a significant part of South Asia.
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JACKSONVILLE It has been a smooth ride for the University of South Florida's proposed downtown Tampa medical school. In the past four months the project has won nothing but accolades and approving votes.
The victory tour came to an abrupt halt on Wednesday.
The medical school faced a crucial vote for state funding from the Board of Governors, which oversees the State University System. But the meeting quickly unraveled when a handful of governors complained they didn't know enough to start spending tens of millions.
"I don't understand why we don't have a presentation on this so we can be prepared," said board member Dean Colson. "I shouldn't have to fly to Tampa to get the details."
The BOG's facilities committee authorized USF to spend just a fraction of the money $5 million but delayed approving the rest of the $57 million it is seeking until they get more answers.
Instead, the governors told USF to come back Feb. 19 to give a more detailed presentation.
USF could have made a presentation on Wednesday but officials were never told to do so.
The committee chair, Fort Lauderdale businessman H. Wayne Huizenga Jr., took the blame for the confusion.
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OLYMPIA Identical bills that could pave the way for Washington State University to start its own medical school in Spokane were filed Wednesday in the Senate andHouse.
Rep. Marcus Riccelli, a Democrat, and Sen. Mike Baumgartner, a Republican, introduced matching legislation to remove the provision in state law that gives medical school education exclusively to the University ofWashington.
The bills were filed as UW announced its leadership team for curriculum for Spokane, with local physician William Sayres Jr. being selected as assistant dean. WSU, meanwhile, is advertising for faculty for the medical school it wants to start, hoping
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OLYMPIA Identical bills that could pave the way for Washington State University to start its own medical school in Spokane were filed Wednesday in the Senate andHouse.
Rep. Marcus Riccelli, a Democrat, and Sen. Mike Baumgartner, a Republican, introduced matching legislation to remove the provision in state law that gives medical school education exclusively to the University ofWashington.
The bills were filed as UW announced its leadership team for curriculum for Spokane, with local physician William Sayres Jr. being selected as assistant dean. WSU, meanwhile, is advertising for faculty for the medical school it wants to start, hoping to recruit from the local medicalcommunity.
In the works since late last year, the legislators delayed introducing the bills until Wednesday to gather bipartisan support from around thestate.
Riccellis bill, HB 1559, already has 60 co-sponsors in the 98-member House, with support from all 10 House members whose districts are completely or partly in Spokane County. Baumgartners bill, SB 5487, has 17 co-sponsors in the 49-member Senate. Both bills have co-sponsors in Puget Sound districts as well as EasternWashington.
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