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Insight into regulation of the genes that allow the immune system to recognize pathogens will help scientists rationally design new vaccines and prevent autoimmunity
WORCESTER, MA - UMass Medical School scientists Jeremy Luban, MD, and Manuel Garber, PhD, will be principal investigators on a 3-year, $6.1 million grant to develop a model for predicting whether a given gene will be turned on or off under specific conditions. Funding for the grant comes from the recently launched Genomics of Gene Regulation (GGR) program at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes of Health. In total, $28 million in new grants aimed at deciphering the language of gene expression were awarded.
"Why a certain gene is expressed in a specific cell at a given time is an essential biological question that is fundamental to our understanding of life and disease," said Dr. Luban, MD, the David J. Freelander Professor in AIDS Research and professor of molecular medicine. "This grant will help us decipher the rules that govern gene expression. Ultimately, such information will help explain why one person survives a viral infection and another person does not."
Dr. Garber, PhD, director of the Bioinformatics Core and associate professor of molecular medicine said "Understanding of the regulatory code network - the DNA elements that control when and for how long a gene is expressed - has been elusive. The work we'll carry out in this project will allow us to model and test the regulatory code of dendritic cells. As a result, we would be able to predict the impact of mutations that do not directly affect the gene product but that affect how and when the gene is made."
Over the past decade, new scientific evidence suggests that genomic regions outside of the primary protein-coding regions of our DNA harbor variations that play an important role in disease. These regions contain elements that control gene expression and, when altered, can increase the risk for a disease.
The GGR grants will allow researchers to study complex gene networks and pathways in different cells types and systems. The resulting insight into the mechanisms controlling gene expression may ultimately lead to new avenues for developing treatments for diseases affected by faulty gene regulation, such as cancer, diabetes and Parkinson's disease.
"There is a growing realization that the ways genes are regulated to work together can be important for understanding disease," said Mike Pazin, PhD, a program director in the Functional Analysis Program in NHGRI's Division of Genome Sciences. "The Genomics of Gene Regulation program aims to develop new ways for understanding how the genes and switches in the genome fit together as networks. Such knowledge is important for defining the role of genomic differences in human health and disease."
Luban and Garber will be working with UMMS colleagues Job Dekker, PhD, co-director of the Program in Systems Biology and professor of biochemistry & molecular pharmacology; Oliver Rando, PhD, MD, professor of biochemistry & molecular pharmacology, and Scot Wolfe, associate professor of biochemistry & molecular pharmacology, to develop a model system for exploring gene regulation using human dendritic cells.
The dendritic cell is a key part of the innate immune system that distinguishes self from non-self and, when appropriate, directs the body to attack invading pathogens. In its immature state dendritic cells help prevent autoimmunity by keeping the immune system's T-cells from attacking the body's own cells. When an immature dendritic cell encounters a pathogen, though, a developmental switch is activated and the cell undergoes profound changes in gene expression as it matures. In contrast to immature dendritic cells, these mature cells elicit a potent immune response from T-cells that targets the pathogen.
Luban, Garber and colleagues will examine the changes that the dendritic cell undergoes when it encounters a pathogen and moves from the immature to the mature state. Among the factors they will look at are the genes that are turned on and off during this process. They will examine changes in transcription factors, chromatin modifying enzymes and the cis-acting DNA elements. Linking these elements to specific changes in gene expression should provide a model for predicting the expression of specific genes in dendritic and other cells.
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Cancer patients treated at Holy Cross Hospital in Fort Lauderdale will have access to more clinical trials and medical treatments under a new agreement with Massachusetts General Hospital, the largest teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Patrick A. Taylor, president and CEO of Holy Cross Hospital, announced a five-year affiliation with the Massachusetts teaching hospital that expands a collaboration that began in 2010.
Patients treated at the Michael and Dianne Bienes Comprehensive Cancer Center at Holy Cross will now have available an increased number of clinical trials and medical treatments. Genetic counseling services will be expanded and offered to all cancer patients. Holy Cross patients also will have access to specialists at Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center and will receive referrals for second opinions and improved coordination of care.
"Our relationship with the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center has been very successful as we collaborate on new ways to provide leading-edge oncology care to our mutual patients," Taylor said in a written statement. "This agreement brings additional access to advanced care for cancer patients living in South Florida as well as a continuity of care for their patients as they travel to our community."
Physicians in both organizations will participate in weekly multidisciplinary patient case presentations and regular quality improvement reviews. Patients may choose to have their medical records shared between specialists at the two hospitals. Under the agreement, physicians practicing in the Holy Cross Hospital Michael and Dianne Bienes Comprehensive Cancer Center will become non-clinical consultant members of the Massachusetts General Hospital medical staff.
"We are thrilled with the enhanced relationship we have now with Holy Cross Hospital in Fort Lauderdale," said Dr. David P. Ryan, clinical director of Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center and chief of Hematology Oncology at Mass General. "This is our first integrated collaboration outside the New England area, and we could not have chosen a better partner for this new way of providing the world's best oncology care to our mutual patients."
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Newswise Neptune, NJ January 5, 2015 Meridian Health welcomes Kenneth N. Sable, M.D., MBA, FACEP as the new president of Jersey Shore University Medical Center, the not-for-profit teaching hospital and home to K. Hovnanian Childrens Hospital the first childrens hospital in Monmouth and Ocean counties.
As president of Jersey Shore, Dr. Sable will assume lead administrative responsibility for the 658bed independent academic medical center, part of Meridian Health.
Dr. Sable most recently served as executive vice president and chief operating officer of Saint Peters Healthcare System in New Brunswick, NJ, where he led the renovation of the 26,000 square foot emergency department, created successful performance improvement plans and introduced innovative clinical integration models with physicians. He also renewed the hospitals academic relationship with Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.
Prior to his role at Saint Peters, Dr. Sable was vice chairman for operations in the Emergency Department at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, NY, where he led a team of 500 and used his information technology background to design a clinician portal to the hospitals information systems, as well as an automated interactive process managing short stay admissions.
Dr. Sable earned his Doctor of Medicine from Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, rotating as a medical student at Jersey Shore, and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. He completed his residency in Emergency Medicine at Cooper University Medical Center in Camden, NJ, and holds an MBA from the University of Massachusetts.
Ken is a proven leader, outstanding clinician, and a great fit for the Meridian Health family. And, after conducting a national search, we are lucky to have found a leader who lives right in Monroe Township and is familiar with Jersey Shore to serve as the hospitals next president, says Steven G. Littleson, FACHE, Executive Vice President, Meridian Health and President, Meridian Hospitals Corporation.
About Jersey Shore University Medical Center: Jersey Shore University Medical Center, a member of the Meridian Health family, is a not-for-profit teaching hospital and home to K. Hovnanian Childrens Hospital the first childrens hospital in Monmouth and Ocean counties. Jersey Shore is the regional provider of cardiac surgery, a program which has been ranked among the best in the Northeast, and is home to the only trauma center and stroke rescue center in the region. Through the hospitals clinical research program, and its affiliation with Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Jersey Shore serves as an academic center dedicated to advancing medical knowledge, training future physicians and providing the community with access to promising medical breakthroughs. For more information about Jersey Shore University Medical Center call 1-800-DOCTORS, or visit http://www.JerseyShoreUniversityMedicalCenter.com.
About Meridian Health: Meridian Health is a leading not-for-profit health care organization in New Jersey, comprising Jersey Shore University Medical Center and K. Hovnanian Childrens Hospital in Neptune, Ocean Medical Center in Brick, Riverview Medical Center in Red Bank, Southern Ocean Medical Center in Manahawkin, Bayshore Community Hospital in Holmdel, and Meridian Partner Companies that include home health services, skilled nursing and rehabilitation centers, ambulatory care, ambulance services, fitness and wellness centers, and outpatient centers. In September 2014, Meridian Health and Raritan Bay Medical Center signed a Letter of Intent to merge. In October 2014, Meridian Health and Hackensack University Health Network signed a Memorandum of Understanding to merge. Meridian Health has consistently been rated among the top performing health systems in New Jersey for clinical quality, is one of the FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For for five consecutive years, and is the recipient of numerous state and national recognitions for patient care and nursing excellence. Meridian Health is a member of AllSpire Health Partners, an interstate consortium alongside six of the nations leading health systems, to focus on the sharing of best practices in clinical care and achieving efficiencies. With more than 100 convenient locations, over 1,800 beds, nearly 13,000 team members, and affiliations with more than 2,000 of the areas finest physicians, Meridian Health is a leading health care provider in New Jersey, providing quality health services, facilities, and programs. For more information, please visit http://www.MeridianHealth.com.
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The popular sitcom Seinfeld may have finished in 1998, but its eccentric characters have found new life as a teaching aide for medical students.
Professor Anthony Tobia teaches his students about psychiatric disorders by making them appraise the characters' quirks in an exercise dubbed "Psy-feld", which he has run as a mandatory part of his course since 2009.
Third and fourth year students at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Jersey are required to watch two episodes a week and then discuss the behaviours in each.
Tobia has categorised all 180 episodes and every character in a database, nearly all of which can be used in teaching, he says.
When you get these friends together the dynamic is such that it literally creates a plot: Jerrys obsessive compulsive traits combined with Kramers schizoid traits, with Elaines inability to forge meaningful relationships and with George being egocentric.
It isn't just the principal characters who have interesting minds. Tobia has cited five of Elaine's boyfriends in a paper about the themes of delusional disorder, and told the website NJ.com that the show's antagonist Newman was "very sick".
Third year student Marlene Wang said that using a television programme brought teaching to life: In this way, it just gives you a more solid picture of the pathology rather than just giving you words.
Medicine has featured in several memorable Seinfeld scenes, most notably in its 60th episode The Junior Mint in which Jerry accidentally drops a sweet inside a body cavity watch how in this clip.
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"Seinfeld" may have been a show about nothing, but a psychiatry professor is using it for much more than that.
Medical students at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School are learning about psychiatric disorders through Dr. Anthony Tobia's "Psy-feld" teaching tool, NJ.com reports (http://bit.ly/1I4iQJn).
Tobia has created a database of teaching points from all the show's episodes. Third- and fourth-year medical students are assigned to watch two episodes a week and then gather to discuss the psychopathology demonstrated on each.
"You have a very diverse group of personality traits that are maladaptive on the individual level," Tobia said. "When you get these friends together the dynamic is such that it literally creates a plot: Jerry's obsessive compulsive traits combined with Kramer's schizoid traits, with Elaine's inability to forge meaningful relationships and with George being egocentric."
His diagnosis of Newman? "Very sick."
The students gathered around a conference table on a recent day, analyzing an episode from the night before. Third-year student Marlene Wang said that the exercise leads to having more practical and relatable examples than a textbook.
"In this way, it just gives you a more solid picture of the pathology rather than just giving you words," Wang said.
Tobia has also written an academic paper that analyzes five of Elaine's boyfriends from the show to explain delusional disorder.
He also teaches a course where students tweet thoughts about characters' potential psychiatric disorders while watching films like "Fargo."
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TIME Newsfeed society Medical Students Now Watch Seinfeld to Learn About Psychiatric Disorders From "The Junior Mint" episode, pictured: (upper left) Jerry Seinfeld as Jerry Seinfeld, Michael Richards as Cosmo Kramer. Spike Nannarello/NBC/NBCU Photo BankGetty Images An exercise called "Psy-feld"
Aspiring doctors now have an excuse to binge-watch Seinfeld.
At Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Brunswick, N.J., psychiatry professor Anthony Tobia is teaching third and fourth-year medical students in the hospitals psychiatric rotation about psychiatric disorders through the hit TV shows eccentric characters an exercise dubbed Psy-feld, NJ.com reports.
The students are required to watch two repeat episodes of the show a week on TBS and come to class ready to discuss the psychopathology demonstrated in each one. As Tobia told NJ.com,
When you get these friends together the dynamic is such that it literally creates a plot: Jerrys obsessive compulsive traits combined with Kramers schizoid traits, with Elaines inability to forge meaningful relationships and with George being egocentric.
It reminds us of the Seinfeld episode in which Kramer (Michael Richards) acted out the symptoms of gonorrhea so medical students could practice their diagnostic skills:
And that time the klutz was watching a surgery from the observation deck and accidentally dropped a Junior Mint into the patients abdominal cavity:
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The New Jersey strip club that was the real-life stand-in for the Bada Bing on HBO's "Sopranos" has been hit by criminals again. Two armed men robbed Satin Dolls in Lodi a few days before Christmas. Now, police said someone broke into the club early Friday morning.
The New Jersey strip club that was the real-life stand-in for the Bada Bing on HBO's "Sopranos" has been hit by criminals again. Two armed men robbed Satin Dolls in Lodi a few days before Christmas. Now, police said someone broke into the club early Friday morning.
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"Seinfeld" may have been a show about nothing, but a psychiatry professor is using it for much more than that. Medical students at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital are learning about psychiatric disorders through Dr. Anthony Tobia's "Psy-feld" teaching tool.
"Seinfeld" may have been a show about nothing, but a psychiatry professor is using it for much more than that. Medical students at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital are learning about psychiatric disorders through Dr. Anthony Tobia's "Psy-feld" teaching tool.
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The Roselle Park community has rallied together to help a family who lost everything in the early morning fire on New Year's Day.The Roselle Park Fire Department answered an alarm early New Year's morning at the home of the Mosquera family at 45 East Webster Ave. Flames could be seen coming from the roof and heavy smoke filled the area surrounding the residence. The fire appeared to be contained to the second level of the home but the family lost everything.
The Roselle Park community has rallied together to help a family who lost everything in the early morning fire on New Year's Day.The Roselle Park Fire Department answered an alarm early New Year's morning at the home of the Mosquera family at 45 East Webster Ave. Flames could be seen coming from the roof and heavy smoke filled the area surrounding the residence. The fire appeared to be contained to the second level of the home but the family lost everything.
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AP File photo. You were doing medical school-level work back in the day when you watched Seinfeld.
Every Monday and Thursday, third- and fourth-year medical students in a New Brunswick, New Jersey hospitals psychiatric rotation are assigned to watch a syndicated episode of Seinfeld, NJ.com writes today.
Anthony Tobia, an associate professor of psychiatry at Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, created the teaching tool to help medical students recognize psychiatric indicators.
Tobia is so sold on the concept hes created a database of every Seinfeld episode and its teaching points. All 180 episodes and nearly every character in the series can be used for Psy-feld, he said.
For instance, five of Elaines boyfriends are the topic of an academic paper Tobia penned explaining how the men display core character traits that match the themes of delusional disorder.
Other characters, like Jerrys foil, Newman, are very sick, Tobia said.
Newmans sense of self, his meaning in life, is to ensure that he frustrates Jerry, Tobia said. We actually have talked about Newman in that context and related him to Erik in The Phantom of the Opera. The Phantom, while he starts out as being the tutor to the Prima Donna, actually has his life change and he is bent on revenge and that becomes who he is and thats Newman.
You start watching and youre like, What is going on with George? one student said.
Another said shes getting more practical information out of watching Seinfeld than she is out of textbooks on psychiatry.
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Editors Note: Each year, the Times Record newsroom staff votes on the Top 10 local stories of the year. Plans for an osteopathic medical school to open at Chaffee Crossing is the No. 1 story of 2014.
Believed by many to be a game changer for the region, the Arkansas College of Osteopathic Medicine at Chaffee Crossing is expected to have a significant local economic impact and improve health care access to one of the most underserved regions in the country.
Officially announced in February, the school will graduate its first class of doctors in 2020, and about 80 percent of them are expected to set up shop in western Arkansas, according to Kyle Parker, CEO and president of the Arkansas Colleges of Health Education.
In order to keep doctors here, there has been a huge emphasis on graduate medical education with hospitals across the region and the state, Parker said. If you dont do that, more than 50 percent of the doctors will leave. Were fortunate that the hospitals here want residents.
Two-year residencies will begin by 2018 at hospitals and clinics with Sparks Health System, Mercy Health, Cooper Clinic, and the Choctaw Nation to name a few. Third- and fourth-year medical students will have the opportunity to take residencies being arranged by the college as far as Lake Village and Dumas in southeast Arkansas, Baptist Medical and private practices.
With 150 medical students per class, and 100 college employees with doctorates and medical degrees, the estimated annual economic impact of the college is expected to be $100 million, Parker said. The cultural impact could be immeasurable.
Cream of the Crop
By mid-November, there were about 155,000 applicants for 6,100 slots at osteopathic medical colleges across the nation. About 70 percent of first-year medical students are age 21 to 30. They have an average GPA of 3.5 with an average MCAT (Medical College Admission Test) score of 27, Parker noted.
These will be the cream of the crop, Parker said of the college applicants. But if I get an applicant from Seattle who has the same scores as someone from Waldron, I want that one from Waldron because I know they will be more likely to stay in the area.
In fall 2016, the four-year, private medical college will have 150 students with slots for at least 75 physician assistant students to take part in a 28-month program. After four years, the school will support up to 600 students.
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One patient might be oddly reticent and distrustful of doctors. Another could exhibit mysterious symptoms, like recurring skin abrasions or rashes. Yet another might have a deep chest rumble even though he doesnt smoke and has no family history of lung disease.
Kevin Parks, a former U.S. Army medic who served in Iraq, is a fourth-year medical student at Rutgers' Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and taking part in a special training program for dealing with veterans' health problems.
All of these outward signs, and many more, could be symptoms of lingering trauma or exposure to elements that are common to combat veterans, but might go unrecognized by physicians and health professionals who have little experience treating them and no tools for penetrating what experts say is a mind-set thats unique to them.
An intensive new focus on health care for veterans, especially those who saw action, has led Rutgers Universitys Robert Wood Johnson Medical School to develop a program it hopes will become a model for other schools and a magnet for health professionals who now work, or may soon work, with vets.
The program comes as a new crop of veterans nationwide is expected to seek medical treatment from civilian doctors rather than government hospitals and clinics. In the wake of egregious wait-time delays and poor care at some U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs medical facilities nationwide, Congress last year passed a law that gives vets the option of visiting a non-military doctor if they live more than 40 miles from a VA location or have to wait more than 30 days for an appointment.
There are 428,000 veterans in New Jersey, 312,000 of whom have served in combat, according to VA data.
Passaic County Veterans Service Officer John Harris said educating civilian doctors is sorely needed if only to encourage men and women who have avoided the VA network to seek medical care.
I really think that in the medical field the professionals the doctors, nurses the people who work hands-on with patients do need some generalized information on this, said Harris, a Vietnam War veteran.
Robert Wood Johnsons one-day training program is designed to prompt doctors to ask key questions that could help them better identify health problems and their causes. Students hear from the creators of a program at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, then from a panel of veterans who share their experiences in both military service and in health care. And they learn how to build a medical history, said Dr. Carol Terregino, senior associate dean of education at the school in Piscataway.
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The United States spends more money on health care than any other country in the world. So how does Costa Rica outperform the United States in every measure of health of its population? Costa Ricas government spends more money per capita than ours on prevention and wellness.
Sadly, it has become the American way to leave many chronic diseases untreated until they become emergency situations at exorbitant cost to the U.S. health care system. For many patients, this care is too late to prevent life-changing disabilities and an early death.
When people ask me why we started the UC Riverside School of Medicine last year the first new public medical school on the West Coast in more than four decades I talk about the need for well-trained doctors in inland Southern California. But we also wanted to demonstrate that a health care system that rewards keeping people healthy is better than one which rewards not treating people until they become terribly ill.
At UC Riverside, we are supplementing the traditional medical school curriculum with training in the delivery of preventive care and in outpatient settings. Our approach is three-pronged.
First, we work with local schools and students to increase access to medical school through programs that stimulate an interest in medicine and help disadvantaged students become competitive applicants for admission to medical school or other professional health education programs. These activities start with students at middle school age, when students begin to formulate ideas about what they want to be when they grow up.
Second, we focus on students from Inland Southern California because students who live here now will be among those best equipped to provide medical care to our increasingly diverse patient population. Doctors who share their patients backgrounds are better at influencing their health behaviors. And we need to increase the number of physicians in Inland Southern California in primary care and short-supply specialties. Our region has just 40 primary care physicians per 100,000 people far below the 60 to 80 recommended and a shortage in nearly every kind of medical specialty. Students who have been heavily involved in service such as the Peace Corps, or who are engaged in community-based causes, are more likely to go into primary care specialties and practice in their hometowns.
Then, we teach our medical students an innovative curriculum. For instance, the Longitudinal Ambulatory Care Experience, called LACE for short, replaces the traditional shadowing preceptorship, where students follow around different physicians. Instead, our students follow a panel of patients and gain an in-depth understanding of the importance of primary care, prevention and wellness. Our approach also includes community-based research that grounds medical students in public health issues such as the social determinants of health, smoking cessation, early identification of prediabetic patients, weight loss management and the use of mammograms to detect breast cancer.
We try to remove the powerful financial incentive for medical students to choose the highest paying specialties in order to pay off educational loans. We do this with mission scholarships that cover tuition in all four years of our medical school. This type of scholarship provides an incentive for students to go into primary care and the shortest-supply specialties and to remain in inland Southern California for at least five years following medical school education and residency training. If the recipients practice outside of the region or go into another field of practice before the end of those five years, the scholarships become repayable loans.
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Researchers from Harvard Medical School conducted a study on high school students. Some of the students did a 10-week yoga PE class, and some did a regular PE class. The yoga class included meditation along with yoga poses. At the beginning of the study, all the students took a number of psychological tests for things like mood problems, anxiety and anger expression.
The researchers found teens who did not do yoga during their PE classes scored higher for mood problems or anxiety, while those who did do yoga scored lower on these tests, or their scores remained the same. Teens who didn't do yoga reported more negative emotions, while the teens who did do yoga reported fewer negative emotions.
Experience, not a formal study, had already proven to me benefits of yoga for teens. I joyfully agreed when a Utah County private school, Liahona Preparatory Academy asked if I would teach a semester of yoga. Teaching yoga along with 12 spiritual thought patterns, with a God focus, can happen at a private school. The curriculum reinforced principles of faith while also using yoga poses. By combining religious concepts, breathing exercises and yoga poses -- students experienced balanced learning.
The first week of class was magical! The library transformed into one of the most beautiful yoga spaces because of the open hearts of the students. Ninety percent of the students had never done any yoga but they were brave and willing to learn anyways.
Every week of the semester I saw transformations in these amazing teens. They became comfortable with Warrior 1 and started to long for longer savasanas. Ujiah breath, aka Darth Vader breathing, filled the air as we talked about self-worth, prayer and forgiveness. Learning thought patterns that focused on God and guiding students into down dog. When the pressures of life became overwhelming the teens would move and then we prayed. Over time, both students and teacher, were transformed.
The semester final was a celebration. As a teacher I watched as the students moved through their sun salutations with no cueing from me. Students shared vulnerable answers on their written final about how anger and self-hatred has departed since they have started yoga.
One student shared how his anxiety has disappeared because he is trusting God's love more than he is focusing on his mistakes. One student's back pain has now disappeared and he looks forward to yoga class more than any other class at school.
Why teach teens to do yoga?
How do spiritual thought patterns help eliminate adolescent anxiety?
One tender answer came from a brave, beautiful student in my yoga class. This young woman discovered that she now sees her body as a gift. She now recognizes how damaging her critical attitude had become. Spiritual thought patterns helped her see that her body is a stewardship to be cared for. Bodies aren't objects to hurt. Yoga is the new mirror she sees her true self in.
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It was about 3 a.m. July 30 when Dr. Katie Passaretti got the call from a concerned physician in the emergency room at Carolinas Medical Center. A patient with a fever, who had traveled from Liberia, could be infected with the Ebola virus.
As medical director for infection prevention at Carolinas HealthCare System, Passaretti knew the probability was low. There had never been a case of Ebola in the United States. But with the outbreak raging in West Africa and the ease of international travel, she knew it was possible and serious.
After making sure the patient was isolated and after asking more questions, she rushed to the hospital for an adrenaline-filled day. It was the first of many as she helped prepare the hospital system for the potential of caring for someone with the highly contagious, often deadly viral infection.
That patient turned out to have malaria instead of Ebola, but the incident got Passaretti and her colleagues focused on improving infection prevention protocols almost two months before most other U.S. hospitals. Many waited until late September, when Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan arrived in Dallas, where he transmitted his infection to two hospital nurses. Duncan died Oct. 8, but the nurses recovered.
We had the first real rule-out in the country, said Passaretti, 38, both an internist and an epidemiologist. It definitely ramped us up earlier on than a lot of facilities. The system worked just like it was supposed to. The right things happened, and nobody was at risk.
That Carolinas HealthCares system worked well is, in part, because of Passaretti, who has been on the job since April 2011, coordinating infection prevention for 14 Charlotte-area hospitals.
After that July case, Dr. Jim Hunter, chief medical officer for Carolinas HealthCare, said he got an outpouring of feedback from employees saying were glad Dr. Passaretti was here. We know that we can rely on what shes saying.
When he saw Passarettis interviews on national news, Hunter was proud of how she described the situation. Its her ability to connect, explain and communicate that sets her apart, Hunter said. She can sit with any scientist at the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) and then she can turn around and talk to a very different audience and make it very digestible.
Dr. Scott Furney, chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine at Carolinas HealthCare, said Passaretti is one of the rare physicians with both deep medical knowledge and great communication skills.
Her leadership in disseminating information to doctors and hospital employees about Ebola resulted in the best coordinated campaign I have ever seen, Furney said. That included websites, printed fliers and videos to teach employees how to screen patients by phone or in person and how to put on and take off protective gear. Im sure it was a group effort. But Katie is the content expert. She had to be driving much of that process, he said.
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Sir Murray Brennan, who has received a knighthood for his services to medicine. Photo by Linda Robertson.
A University of Otago graduate and a surgeon and researcher based in New York, the 74-year-old's clinical trials have produced major findings in the management of patients with soft-tissue sarcomas and pancreatic cancer.
He has helped create the world's largest database of sarcoma patients and developed a computer program that will help doctors predict patients' response to treatments and chances of surviving.
Sir Murray has been recognised for his life's work with one of the country's most senior honours,
Grand Knight Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, in the New Year Honours.
The appointments are limited to a maximum of 30 living people at one time.
Sir Murray said it was ''really special'' to be recognised in the country where he began studies as an Otago medical student in the 1960s and worked as a medical registrar at Dunedin Hospital.
He was ''very grateful'' for his Otago education and said the Otago Medical School was ''one of the finest medical schools in the world''.
During his medical studies, he played rugby for Otago, as a centre, was president of the Otago University Students' Association and completed a degree in mathematics.
In 1997, he received an honorary doctor of science degree from Otago University.
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