Long-time associate dean to return to return to current position afterwards by Henry Pflager | Oct 09 2014 | 10/09/14 12:06am

University officials announced Dr. Randolph J. Canterbury accepted his appointment to Interim Medical School Dean earlier this week. His term will begin Dec. 1, 2014.

Canterbury, the senior associate dean for education at the Medical School, will replace Medical School Dean Nancy Dunlap, who is stepping down after 18-months in the position.

Dunlap said in an email that she came to the Medical School during a period of turnover and was allotted an 18-month period to ensure everything went smoothly.

Randy is a thoughtful individual who understands the issues that are being addressed, Dunlap said. I have no doubt that the transition to Randy's leadership will be smooth. The other senior associate deans are very talented and will help Randy if issues arise. We have completed a strategic planning process and are implementing our initiatives. Teams are in place to help carry out our plans.

Dr. Richard Shannon, the executive vice president for Health Affairs, said in an email that Canterbury has been close advisor to the dean for more than a decade, and is taking on the role out of a deep sense of duty to the University.

Shannon said the interim position was not a lame duck position and would require skilled leadership.

The unfinished work of the SOM [Medical School] strategic plan and important administrative restructuring will begin under Randys leadership, Shannon said.

Canterbury said he has been meeting with Dunlap for the past 18 months as part of the Medical Schools management team. While the strategic plan represents an ongoing project which started nine months ago under Dunlaps watch, implementation will continue under Canterbury.

We have an institutional plan that was developed by members of the Medical School community with a strategy to move forward, Canterbury said. I think my job will be I wont say simple, but itll [be] pretty clear, and that is to implement that plan over the next 7-8 months.

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New School of Medicine building to be used for research, education by Hailey Ross | Oct 07 2014 | 10/07/14 9:18pm

The Medical School dedicated the Ivy Foundation Translational Research Building Friday in honor of a $45 million dollar gift from the Ivy Foundation.

Peggy Shupnik, senior associate dean for research at the Medical School, said the building will house researchers studying the regulatory processes of various drugs and devices, clinical trials, epilepsy and childrens diseases.

This is the first building that the Medical School has had for training in translational research, Shupnik said.

Translational research focuses on turning scientific findings into practical applications to enhance human health.

Psychiatry Prof. Boris Kovatchev will lead one of the many translational research groups in the building. His team is working to create model mathematics of how insulin, glucagon and glucose change within the body.

This research is part of the artificial pancreas project, which aims to drastically change the way patients with Type 1 diabetes live their lives by allowing them to wear an artificial pancreas device around their waist.

Another group in the building focuses research on epilepsy, and will use the new space to carry out clinical trials.

Other projects include studies of population sciences as well as disease prevention and control.

The new building will primarily be used for research, but will also serve educational purposes. Faculty and students will be taught how to effectively market products and applications, as well as how to get them through the Federal Drug Association's regulatory processes.

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TAMPA A university proposes a big expansion from its outlying campus to the heart of downtown. The mayor calls it a game changer. Downtown business folks rejoice.

That sounds a lot like the University of South Floridas recent announcement that it is considering relocating its medical school to downtown Tampa. But it is also a scene playing out in Orlando, where the University of Central Florida wants to push into the city center.

And both Florida schools point to Phoenix, where Arizona State University has strayed from its main Tempe campus into the land of the skyscrapers to tremendous success.

Kansas City, Milwaukee, San Diego all are hoping to lure university expansions in their city centers.

It is a trend, said Wellington Duke Reiter, a senior adviser to ASUs president who was instrumental in that schools expansion from the so-called East Valley into downtown Phoenix. It tends to be in cities whose downtown is not as vibrant as they might like. Many of these cities have wonderful downtowns, but they want to see more activities.

Reiter said major sports centers do a lot for downtown revitalization, but not consistently. Major company relocations, of course, also help beef up a moribund downtown.

But universities might be the best answer in that once they are located in an area, they never leave, he said. They continue to grow, they continue to plan. Theyre a good play.

Rumors had swirled that USF was interested in moving its crowded Morsani School of Medicine from the main Fowler Avenue campus to downtown Tampa, and last month President Judy Genshaft confirmed it was on the table.

On Oct. 14, a USF trustees committee revealed that Jeff Vinik, owner of the Tampa Bay Lightning and a major downtown real estate developer, was offering a parcel at Meridian Avenue and Channelside Drive to the university for the medical school.

If youre sitting in Judy Genshafts seat, the opportunity to create a signature building in the downtown core with USF establishing a footprint there is a game-changer for USF and for downtown Tampa, said Mayor Bob Buckhorn.

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Donning a hard hat, Temple University Health System president and chief executive Larry Kaiser watched Friday as demolition workers pried out the 84-year-old cornerstone box - a time capsule of sorts - from behind the cornerstone of the Old Medical School Building.

The handsome but obsolete edifice at Broad and Ontario Streets, dedicated in 1930, is cordoned off and vacant, and will soon be razed.

No one knew what was in the tin container, a bit bigger than a toolbox.

"This could be like Al Capone's vault," Kaiser quipped, referring to Geraldo Rivera's much-hyped, live-on-TV opening of one of the gangster's secret vaults. That one contained a pile of dirt.

Two things were obvious as Kaiser gingerly began removing the box's contents.

First, protective plastic bags did not exist in 1930. The papers - there was nothing but - were damp, discolored, deteriorating.

Second, in an era way before TV and the Internet, magazines and newspapers were vital. The historic cache included dozens of Temple Medical College Bulletins dating to 1908, a copy of the Temple University News, an issue of the Philadelphia Medical Journal, and four daily newspapers - the Evening Bulletin, the Philadelphia Record, the Evening Public Ledger, and The Inquirer.

Although the medical school building was christened on Oct. 15, 1930, the newspapers were from four months earlier. The big news, besides a win by the Phillies, was President Herbert Hoover's signing of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff, which historians say helped transform a bad recession into the global Great Depression.

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PHILADELPHIA (CBS) As crews prepare to demolish an old Temple University medical school building on North Broad Street, a time capsule found behind the 1930 cornerstone was opened this afternoon.

Eighty-four years ago, artifacts were placed into a tin box and placed behind the buildings cornerstone.

Today, after construction workers removed the box, Dr. Larry Kaiser, the dean of the Temple University School of Medicine (center of photo), went through it.

Among the items rediscovered was a copy of the Philadelphia Record from June 18, 1930.

So we found the newspaper of the day when the cornerstone was put in, Kaiser tells KYW Newsradio. Several different newspapers, some of which no longer exist. We found a number of medical school periodicals and some photographs: photographs of the building, photographs of the old hospital, photographs of some of the facility. So, its very exciting to see that.

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Newswise It was the stuff of rock-n-roll dreams. Tom Stratton and his buddies from Cranford, N.J., had played in an indie-rock band since he was 13. When Tom was a Rowan University sophomore in 2004, the band called Socratic did a show in Los Angeles, and a record company offered them a contract that night.

He left school, played drums and guitar on tour in Asia and Australia and throughout the U.S., recorded albums, and now 10 years later is still earning high praise for his work, though not as a musician. Tom Stratton has become a very talented biomedical scientist conducting top-level pharmaceutical research in a lab at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School.

Stratton is doing this sophisticated work even though he still doesnt have a college degree, though at age 30 he is well on his way toward earning one as a chemistry major at Rutgers University-Newark.

Stratton returned to college last year after deciding that music as a career had played itself out. The music industry is very difficult, but it was a no-regrets experience, he says as he sits in a small room filled with whirring equipment on the top floor of the medical school, a white lab coat protecting his regular clothes. It was awesome and it made me who I am.

Theres a recording studio farm in Massachusetts that the Rolling Stones had built, Stratton recalls happily. There are horses, pigs they make breakfast for you and clean up after you. We recorded our first record there. We did our second album in Hollywood with a guy named Mark Hoppus. He was an idol of mine as a kid. Socratic made four albums that got wide distribution.

But as web streaming took over the music world, the bands record company folded. After self-producing and distributing its last album, the group disbanded and Stratton shifted mostly to audio mixing and other studio jobs to make his living. He considers that some of his finest and most satisfying work, but didnt see a durable career in it. He also bought, and still owns, a piece of a bar and music club in Kenilworth called 10th Street Live.

For his decision to return to college, Stratton gives great credit to his super supportive mother and stepfather. Mary Beth Occi is a nurse and James Occi is a biomedical researcher and for as long as Tom can remember, conversation at home was filled with discussions of science and the healing arts. The more they talked, the more Tom recognized their passions in himself.

His first time in college, he was a chemical engineering major. While he did fine, he says, school always took a back seat to his music. Now, with his parents guidance, his focus is firmly back on science.

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This state, this town, and even the Riverpoint Campus is big enough for two university medical-school programs, contends Lisa Brown, chancellor at Washington State University Spokane.

Brown says theres enough physical space in WSU Spokanes Biomedical Sciences building and other facilities on the Riverpoint Campus to launch WSUs envisioned four-year medical school and for UW to expand its WWAMI program.

WWAMI, which stands for Washington, Wyoming, Alaska and Idaho, is a UW School of Medicine regional medical education program. WWAMIs long standing partnership with WSU here is breaking up, largely over WSUs plans to launch its own fully accredited medical school.

That was part of our proposal from the beginning, she says of the concept of having two programs here, although WSU originally had envisioned partnering with UW in both programs. The Spokane community had always talked about a four-year medical school being done in partnership with the University of Washington and WWAMI.

While UW currently is looking for a new WWAMI partner, Brown says UW is welcome to continue to operate the program here in WSU facilities.

We have enough capacity for 120 medical students per class, she says. Im assuming as part of an agreement with UW, they would want to utilize that.

As part of the dissolution, though, UW wants to run WWAMI without WSUs faculty or administration, Brown says.

WSU plans to request $2.5 million during the next legislative session to proceed with the accreditation process for a full four-year medical school. WSU also will ask the Legislature to change a law that gives UW exclusive authority to operate a medical school through a state university in Washington.

As part of the accreditation process, WSU would hire a founding dean, establish a curriculum, and hire faculty to teach the curriculum.

By 2017, we hope to start with a charter class of 40 students, Brown says.

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The Bertarelli Program in Translational Neuroscience and Neuroengineering, a collaborative program between Harvard Medical School and the cole Polytechnique Fdrale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland, has announced a new set of grants worth $3.6 million for five research projects. This is a further strengthening of the partnership between Harvard and Swiss scientists begun in 2010.

Three of the five projects will pursue new methods to diagnose and treat hearing loss. A fourth project focuses on the dynamics of brain networks in children with autism, and the fifth concentrates on cell transplantation strategies that could reverse certain forms of blindness.

The research projects were all selected for their scientific quality, the novelty of the approach proposed and the potential for genuine clinical impact. Three of them are a continuation of successful research projects from the Bertarelli Program focusing on novel approaches to understanding or treating sensory disorders.

To promote collaborations between U.S.- and Swiss-based scientists as well as between neuroscientists and engineers, the funding conditions stipulate that each project be an equal collaboration between Harvard and EPFL. This incentivized researchers to find new collaborators with complementary skills, leading in turn to new interdisciplinary projects that combine technologies and approaches in novel ways.

"We are delighted at the continued generosity of the Bertarelli Foundation," said Jeffrey S. Flier, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. "This type of forward-thinking support is exactly what's needed to help us continue to unravel the profound complexities of the human brain."

David Corey, HMS professor of neurobiology and director of the Bertarelli Program for Harvard Medical School, said, "The past 40 years of basic research in neuroscience have produced an extraordinary understanding of how the brain works and how it can malfunction in neurological and psychiatric disease. We are now at a point where we can use this understanding to treat these devastating diseases. The Bertarelli Program in Translational Neuroscience and Neuroengineering combines basic neuroscience with the technology and problem-solving focus of engineering to accelerate the delivery of new treatments to the clinic."

Commenting on the new research, Ernesto Bertarelli, co-chair of the Bertarelli Foundation, said, "When my family and I had the vision for this program, it was based upon bringing together scientists and medical specialists from different disciplines and countries to really push the boundaries of neuroscience and neuroengineering, creating a melting-pot of different talents, passions and visions united by a commitment to find ground-breaking ways to treat people and to make their lives better. What has been achieved since 2011 is highly encouraging. What might be achieved with these new research projects is just as exciting." Bertarelli, a graduate of Harvard Business School, is also a member of the Harvard Medical School Board of Fellows.

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There are programs underway in Worcester schools to help students achieve and excel.

One of them has high school students donning scrubs and lab coats and getting hand-on experience in the medical field.

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Created in 1996, the Worcester Pipeline Collaborative provides mentoring, job-shadowing, specialized programs, speakers and trips focused on learning. The overall goal is to challenge under-represented and disadvantaged students to pursue careers in health care and the biomedical and biotechnology industries.

One component is the Health and Sciences Academy at North High School. Students in middle school who show an interest in science and related studies can apply to attend and get a jump-start on a career.

"We're teaching them the clinical skills that a nursing assistant would need," said nurse and instructor Leigh Emery.

Students in Emery's class have the qualifications to become a nursing assistant once they graduate from high school. They can also continue on to college and pursue another medical career.

Former student Jonathan Quang said the Pipeline Program changed his life.

"I got to see a cadaver for the first time. I got to see a surgery. So, it was really amazing stuff at age 15 or 16," said Quang. "It gave me a really early exposure to that material, so before I even got to college, I knew what I wanted to major in."

Today, Quang is in medical school working his way to becoming a doctor in emergency medicine.

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University of Minnesota regents are keeping administrators on their toes as the Medical Schools leaders work to boost its prestige.

This month, a Board of Regents committee reviewed the schools progress toward improving its national ranking, a goal set last year when faculty members created a long-term strategy with designs to attract research dollars and revamp scholarships.

Many school officials say Medical School Dean and Vice President for Health Sciences Dr. Brooks Jackson, who has touted high hopes for the institution since he took the job in February, is well-positioned to ensure the school achieves a top standing.

Besides an internal push for success, Gov. Mark Dayton formed the Blue Ribbon Committee in August to provide guidance for the Medical School. Regents will discuss the committees recommendations in December.

I think having a premier medical school is just crucial to having a premier state university, Dayton said.

The governor noted that the schools current rankings like No. 34 in best research, according to the 2014 U.S. News and World Report are unacceptable.

Thats not good enough, he said.

In the next five years, Jackson said, he wants the Medical School to stand among the top 20 schools for its research. And eventually, he would like the school to rank in the nations top 14 medical schools.

The Medical Schools vision includes efforts like addressing leadership turnover, securing national funding for medical research, improving education and advancing clinical care. The plans step-by-step process aims to help the school regain its position of excellence by 2025.

Regents put the Academic Health Center and the Medical School at the top of their priority list beginning July 2013, when they created a special committee to examine the school more closely, said Regent Linda Cohen, who chairs the committee.

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