The Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences is in the first phase of a $60 million, five-year expansion plan.

It's a step forward for a university that is recovering from controversy that began in 2009, when then-president Karen Pletz was fired and several administrators resigned. Pletz was later charged with embezzling more than $1.5 million, engaging in money laundering and falsifying tax returns. The university sued Pletz and she countersued before she committed suicide in November 2011.

All litigation involving the school and Pletz has been settled, The Kansas City Star reported ( http://bit.ly/1aHOFHC).

The new construction "demonstrates that we are committed to move forward," said Marc B. Hahn, the osteopathic medical school's president and CEO. "The only thing that we can control is what we do now. We have a great story to tell."

Work began two months ago to convert Weaver Auditorium into an academic center, and the administration building is being renovated. Other upgrades, which have not been fully detailed, are planned for the Strickland Education Pavilion and classrooms in Smith Hall. And in the future, the clinical training center at Kesselheim Hall is expected to be replaced by a 33,000-square-foot medical simulation building and clinical training facility.

Hahn, who began his job last July, said he also plans to improve the university's relationship with the city, particularly in the northeast area where the university has been located since 1916.

The university recently agreed to allow seven of its professors to treat patients at the Samuel U. Rodgers Health Center, a clinic for low-income residents, said university spokeswoman Lisa Cambridge. Faculty and medical students also work with neighborhood residents to tend a community garden that produces 2,000 pounds of fruit and vegetables a year.

With nearly 1,000 medical students, the university is the 14th largest medical school by class size in the country. It is the largest in Missouri or Kansas and is the second leading producer of primary care physicians in the two states.

The university also hopes to increase its enrollment by 50 percent or more through its two bioscience master's programs, additional bioscience programs and the possible opening of satellite campuses.

"As we do well, so does the neighborhood," Cambridge said.

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Martinsville, VA - A group of doctors in Martinsville want to build something pretty important in that area, a new medical school.

The founder of the Virginia Museum of Natural History is the man behind this big project.

It's been a couple of years in the making, but he said when the school is finally open, it will have great impact on the city of Martinsville.

Dr. Noel Boaz of Martinsville, hopes that in the next couple of years, an old grocery store on Fayette Street in Martinsville will be transformed into a 22,000 square foot building, turning out doctors to serve the local area.

It will be called the College of Henricopolis School of Medicine. Right now they're working on getting accredited and plan to open in the year 2015.

"With more people coming in with Obamacare in terms of being covered, the need for primary care doctors is even worse than it was originally," said Boaz.

Boaz said the Henricopolis School of Medicine will be a little different from other med schools.

"We can do all sorts of active learning procedures , so students don't memorize anatomy they really learn it themselves," he said.

While the medical school is in the making, Boaz's team has started the Integrated Centers for Science and Medicine. It already offers classes for students at Patrick Henry Community College.

"We are sustaining operations that are still in this same three big areas of what we do, which will be education, research and clinic service and eventually that's what the medical school will do as well," added Boaz.

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MIAMI, FL and WORCESTER, MA, (January 8, 2014) Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS) have been commissioned by the Alpha-1 Project (TAP) to develop a PiZ antibody. The antibody will be used to track the presence of mutant alpha-1 PiZ protein in human blood serum, an essential tool in testing potential therapies for Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency (Alpha-1).

Alpha-1 is a genetic condition characterized by low or absent levels of alpha-1 protein in the blood. Normal alpha-1 protein protects the lungs against damage caused by neutrophil elastase. In Alpha-1, the mutant PiZ protein is misfolded and cannot be transported into the blood. This can lead to emphysema due to the loss of the alpha-1 protein's protective effects in the lung, and liver disease caused by the abnormal buildup of alpha-1 protein in the liver cells.

UMass Medical School scientists plan to optimize the antibody to track the PiZ protein in human macrophages (white blood cells) and liver tissue. The antibody could be used, along with a currently available antibody that tracks normal (PiM) protein, to test a dual-function viral strategy to both reduce the body's production of abnormal PiZ protein and increase production of the normal PiM protein. The contract also calls for the PiZ antibody to be made available to other researchers and industry who request it.

"The production and dissemination of the PiZ antibody is another example of our commitment to provide tools to researchers and industry in finding a cure for Alpha-1," said Jean-Marc Quach, executive director of TAP.

"Tremendous progress has been made over the last several years in the search for a breakthrough treatment for Alpha-1," said Terence R. Flotte, MD, the Celia and Isaac Haidak Professor of Medical Education, executive deputy chancellor, provost, dean of the School of Medicine and professor of pediatrics and microbiology & physiological systems at UMMS. "While tools have been available to assess total amounts of alpha-1 and PiM protein, there has not been a specific assay to pick up only the mutant PiZ protein in human serum and liver tissue samples. As more therapeutic options aimed at down regulating or degrading PiZ become available, it is essential we have a way to easily and efficiently track its release and evaluate new potential treatments."

"This is an exciting step forward in seeking new therapies for Alpha-1," said John Walsh, president and CEO of the Alpha-1 Foundation and member of TAP's board of directors. "UMMS researchers are doing cutting-edge research on both reducing the amount of defective PiZ protein and increasing the amount of healthy PiM protein in the body. The PiZ antibody will speed their progress."

Christian Mueller, PhD, assistant professor of pediatrics and the Gene Therapy Center at UMMS said, "Recently we characterized an antibody clone that was able to differentiate between human PiZ and PiM protein in mice sera. By further characterizing this antibody specifically for human serum we can more readily detect the presence of the disease-causing PiZ protein circulating in the blood using standard diagnostic tools."

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Since its inception more than a century ago, modern medical education has undergone a series of quiet revolutions. Yet this comprehensive expansion in one critical area masks a relative neglect of another: Medical curricula today largely omit training on health policy.

The result? Even as todays medical students graduate with a deep scientific fluency, they leave all but illiterate when it comes to the health care system.

I can bear witness to this firsthand. The curriculum of Stanford Medical School, where I am a deferred first-year student, does not incorporate a single required course on health policy or the health care system across four years and 249 credits of training.

And this oversight comes with consequences. To illustrate, recent research in JAMA Internal Medicine found that fewer than half of medical students nationwide understand even the basic components of the Affordable Care Act.

On a systemic level, this illiteracy directly impedes our ability to institute meaningful health policy reforms that tackle such thorny issues as quality-based physician payments, comparative effectiveness guidelines or end-of-life care. Without willing and capable physician leaders to guide, implement and sustain such major shifts for the decades to come, reform efforts almost certainly will founder.

Consequently, efforts to rein in health care costs and improve patient outcomes must begin by modernizing medical curricula to incorporate health policy training.

For example, a national mandate that fundamental knowledge of health systems be a prerequisite for medical licensing would encourage medical schools to incorporate course work on basic principles of health policy and economics. This teaching, moreover, should be nonpartisan and nonideological, focusing instead on the nuts and bolts of health systems akin to what law or business school students learn about policymaking and institutional governance.

Furthermore, the advent of so-called massive open online courses, or MOOCs, means that financial concerns the costs of expanding medical curricula to encompass health care policy may be unwarranted. Online health policy courses, such as the one taught by physician/policymaker Ezekiel Emanuel at the University of Pennsylvania, could serve as a functional stand-in when a university lacks a department or set of instructors dedicated to health policy.

Whatever the medium, it is imperative that we install health policy as an integral part of the national medical curricula, lest we continue to churn out a generation of students who are ill-equipped to make sense of the challenges and changes to come.

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Students from Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine (VCOM) present a "mini med school" training workshop Wednesday at the South Carolina School for the Deaf and the Blind in Spartanburg, Aryeona Freeman, center, practices CPR on a manikin with medical students Rosmery Victoria, left, and Lauren Hildebran, right, during the workshop.

A "mini-medical school" in Spartanburg Wednesday was a learning experience for students of both S.C. School for the Deaf and the Blind and Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine (VCOM).

Thirteen second-year medical students from VCOM visited the SCSDB campus, teaching hands-on presentations about the heart and other organs, bones, muscles and CPR.

About 60 middle and high school students attended the extracurricular program. The mini-med school was coordinated by VCOM student Matt Fenlason.

"You're going to get to touch a real lung, a real heart and brain," Fenlason told a group of students before the hands-on activities began, using sign language as he talked.

"Eeeewww," several students responded, but curiosity won out. The students donned rubber gloves and handled the organs (covered in a preservative plastic). They also took a pulse, listened to heartbeats with a stethoscope, pumped the chest of a CPR simulator and performed jumping jacks to learn how the heart rate increases during physical activity. Students crowded around the presentation tables and spoke or signed enthusiastically as they participated.

The presentations stressed the importance of a healthy lifestyle and even impressed some of the staff members when they saw the difference between a healthy lung and the lung of a smoker.

"This benefits any teenager," said SCSDB President Maggie Park, who stopped by to check out the presentation. "While other students may be able to hear this on the radio or watch TV, our students may not. Having an interpreter here helping them access the information makes a big difference."

Fenlason, of Colorado, grew up with sign language because his mother is a professional interpreter, and he is now a sign language interpreter at First Baptist Church in Spartanburg. He chose VCOM partly because it was near the location of the SCSDB, where he volunteers as a wrestling coach.

The VCOM students have conducted mini-med schools at Dorman and Spartanburg high schools, but this was the first time they visited SCSDB. Most of the medical students had to learn some sign language in order to be able to conduct the presentation. The VCOM students arrived at the campus two hours early to practice signing, said Cora Richardson, after-school program coordinator and resident life services director for SCSDB.

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JUDY WOODRUFF: Now, Jeffrey Brown continues his series with U.S. poet laureate Natasha Trethewey called "Where Poetry Lives," taking us to places where poetry and literature connect to everyday life.

In past stories, they visited a program for Alzheimer's patients in New York, and one in Detroit that encourages young students to write about themselves and their city.

Tonight, a different kind of connection, through the practice of medicine and healing.

JEFFREY BROWN: Outside Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital on a recent frigid morning, Natasha Trethewey met up with a former poetry student of hers from Emory University.

Do you remember her as a teacher?

SAMYUKTA MULLANGI, student at Harvard Medical School: Of course I do.

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A national training bottleneck threatens Minnesotas ability to fill increased demand for doctors in coming years, University of Minnesota medical school officials warn.

Stagnant federal and state funding has limited the number of residency positions where they can train. Unless the number of residencies increases Minnesota will be short a projected 2,000 physicians a decade from now, they say.

If you want to be able to control your workforce and have workforce available in the future, youve got to build your own, said Troy Taubenheim, director of the Metro Minnesota Council on Graduate Medical Education.

Tens of thousands of new patients are expected to flood hospitals in the state over the next decade many of them aging Baby Boomers and those newly insured under the Affordable Care Act, according to numbers provided by Taubenheim.

Meanwhile, close to half of the states physicians will be old enough to retire within a decade. If they do, Taubenheims figures indicate, under current conditions the state will be able to replace fewer than half of them.

Simply expanding medical school enrollment wont produce enough doctors to fill such gaps because of a training bottleneck, health officials say.

After students graduate from medical school, they cant practice until they receive several years of training in hospitals and clinics training known as a residency.

The problem is that the number of residencies is effectively capped by government funding.

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WORCESTER, MA University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS) Assistant Professor Thomas G. Fazzio, PhD, was recognized as a rising scientific star by President Obama with a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

The Presidential Award is the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on outstanding scientists and engineers in the early phases of their research careers. The award embodies the high priority the Obama Administration places on producing the next generation of scientists and engineers to advance the nation's goals, tackle grand challenges, and contribute to the American economy. Dr. Fazzio was one of 102 scientists and engineers selected for this year's award.

"It's an honor to be chosen, among so many outstanding scientists, for this award by President Obama," said Dr. Fazzio of the Program in Gene Function and Expression at UMMS. "It means a lot to have our work recognized at the national level and to know the value that the President and his administration has for biomedical research and advancing scientific inquiry."

Presidential awardees are selected for their pursuit of innovative research at the frontiers of science and technology and their commitment to community service as demonstrated through scientific leadership, public education, or community outreach. Granted to a select group each year, the awards are intended to showcase and nurture some of the finest scientists and engineers who, while early in their research careers, show exceptional potential for leadership at the frontiers of scientific knowledge.

"Dr. Fazzio is a truly outstanding young investigator. He brings a fresh new perspective to the field, studying the regulation of genes in stem cells from an exciting new angle," said Terence R. Flotte, MD, the Celia and Isaac Haidak Professor of Medical Education, executive deputy chancellor, provost, dean of the School of Medicine and professor of pediatrics. "We are fortunate and very proud to have him as a member of the UMMS scientific community."

A member of the UMass Medical School faculty since 2010, Fazzio's research focuses on understanding how DNA is packaged into tiny chromatin structures inside the nucleus of stem cells. Through his work, Fazzio has uncovered previously unknown processes governing how the chromatin structure of a cell's DNA influences gene expression in stem cells, conferring on these cells the unique ability to replicate and differentiate into many different types of cells.

"We're interested in understanding the biological processes that allow a stem cell to become a muscle cell, a blood cell, or any other kind of cell," said Fazzio. "The knowledge we gain from answering these questions can be used to identify potential new targets for drugs that attack cancer stem cells within tumors and pave the way for the development of stem cell-based therapies for degenerative diseases."

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While a medical school at UC Merced is years away, the university is three years deep into a program training doctors with hopes that theyll stick around after they graduate.

UC Merceds San Joaquin Valley Program in Medical Education, also called PRIME, is a joint program among UC Merced; UC Davis School of Medicine; and the University of California, San Francisco, Fresno Medical Education Program. It enrolled its first UC Merced students in 2011.

Its a huge accomplishment, right now, that we can say we are training physicians in the San Joaquin Valley for the San Joaquin Valley, said Brandy Ramos Nikaido, director of external relations and special projects for UC Merced.

Nikaido said the plans to open a full-fledged medical school at UC Merced are progressing, but its too early to estimate an opening date. The process is a long and expensive one, she said. It does not help the public universitys cause that the state saw budget deficits year after year in the late 2000s.

In the meantime, the school moves forward on educating doctors.

Students admitted to the program spend their first two years at the UC Davis campus in Sacramento. The groups third and fourth years are spent treating patients under the supervision of doctors at San Joaquin Valley clinics and hospitals.

There are 17 students enrolled in the UC Merced medical program, with a new crop coming in the fall. One requirement for students before being admitted to the program is a knowledge of and connection to the Valley, Nikaido said.

The program kicked off after getting a $5 million grant from the United Health Foundation in 2006.

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Author and expert on parenting in the digital age, Catherine Steiner-Adair, Ed D will speak at Glen Urquhart School on January 27 at 8:30 AM. Internationally renowned clinical psychologist, school consultant, and Harvard Medical School Instructor, Dr. Steiner-Adair is the author of The Big Disconnect; Protecting Childhood & Family Relationships in the Digital Age. Steiner- Adair has appeared on The Today Show, Good Morning America, The Discovery Channel, CNN, and PBS stations nationwide.

Steiner-Adair will speak with parents in the morning and meet with students, faculty, and administrators during the remainder of the school day. "Families in our school and, I suspect,

others struggle mightily with the issue of how to best contextualize the constant connectedness our digital world now affords. Our children are perpetually plugged in, and it is often difficult to come to terms with the impact on how we communicate and operate as a family. We are delighted to have Catherine Steiner-Adair with us to help make sense of such a timely and important topic, said David Provost, Head of School at Glen Urquhart.

The author and educator contends that not only do chronic tech distractions have deep and lasting effects, but children desperately need parents to provide what tech cannot: close, significant interactions with the adults in their lives. She broaches such hot button topics as how technology can put child development at risk, cyber-bullying, sexting, texting, and viral gossip among teens. She also offers advice on how to turn technology into an ally for closeness, creativity, and a sense of community.

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SOUTH BEND Dr. Rudolph Navari will step down in April as dean and director of Indiana University School of Medicine-South Bend to take a new job with the World Health Organization.

Navari has led the medical school program here since its new building at Notre Dame Avenue and Angela Boulevard opened in 2005. The program is a partnership with the University of Notre Dame.

With WHO, Navari will be based in Geneva, Switzerland, and will serve as director of the Cancer Care Program in Eastern Europe. WHO will work with pharmaceutical companies to help cancer patients and provide treatments at a greatly reduced cost in eastern European nations.

It was just an opportunity I couldnt pass up, Navari said Tuesday. Hes worked in South Bend since 1999, when he joined the Notre Dame faculty as director of Walther Cancer Research Center.

In 2005, he was named director of the IU School of Medicine program here, and has continued as a researcher and an adjunct Notre Dame faculty member. Hes also a practicing oncologist.

IU medical students have been able to take their first two years of training in South Bend since 1971 through a joint program run by IU School of Medicine and Notre Dame. The program has grown and changed and gained greater visibility in the community.

Since that time, 10 to 12 new IU teaching professors have been hired who also conduct medical research in collaboration with Notre Dame researchers, Navari said. Weve developed a significant collaboration with Notre Dames colleges of science and engineering, he said.

Under Navaris leadership, the medical school training program also grew from a two-year to a four-year program. That means students can complete all four years of medical school here, and dont have to transfer to Indianapolis for their last two years. That makes it more likely those graduates will stay and practice in the South Bend area. The expansion to a four-year program started six years ago.

The total number of medical students here has grown, as well. In 2005, there were about 32 medical students in the South Bend program, and now there are more than 100.

Annual research grants to the South Bend medical program faculty have grown from about $500,000 to about $2 million annually.

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Four years after controversy rocked the Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences, the campus is rocking again.

But this time its the banging of hammers, humming of drills and moan of heavy equipment marking the first phase of a $60 million, five-year master plan to expand the school.

The construction demonstrates that we are committed to move forward, said Marc B. Hahn, who arrived in July as the osteopathic medical schools new president and chief executive officer.

In 2009, then-president Karen Pletz was fired over mismanagement and misuse of money, and several top administrators resigned. The university sued Pletz; she countersued. Then a federal grand jury indicted Pletz, alleging she had embezzled more than $1.5 million from the university, engaged in money laundering and falsified tax returns. She committed suicide in November 2011.

A university spokesman said all litigation involving the school and Pletz or her estate has been settled.

The only thing that we can control is what we do now, Hahn said. We have a great story to tell.

Two months ago, work began on the campus at 1750 E. Independence Ave. to convert Weaver Auditorium into an academic center with two big lecture halls and several classrooms and study rooms.

The university is dividing up its auditorium because it needs classrooms more than it needs an auditorium, Hahn said. Its a more responsible use of the space, he said.

The auditorium was built in 2008 to host graduations and was used once or twice a year. It seated 1,500, but graduations drew about 2,200.

It was obsolete on the day it was built, Hahn said.

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