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Bill would expand U. of Utah medical school class
Higher education The requested $10 million would admit 20 new students in the fall, 20 more later.
Last year, Utah legislators shut down an effort to admit more medical students at the University of Utah despite a physician shortage that ranks among the worst in the country.
This year, the outlook appears rosier though it will still have to contend with other high-dollar desires in higher education.
SB42, sponsored by Sen. John Valentine, R-Orem, is more ambitious than last years request, calling for $10 million to quickly replace 20 spots cut over the last four years and prepare for another 20 students, building toward a U. School of Medicine class of 122.
"Forty would have been the number we should have moved to during this time period to keep pace," Valentine said Friday on the Senate floor. "Doctors in my generation, the baby boom generation, they are retiring in droves. We need to make sure we are aware of this problem and we take proactive steps to [fix] it, and this is a proactive step to do it."
One of the first bills considered after the session opened Monday, it passed through the Senate Education committee unanimously and got another unanimous thumbs up with a second reading on the Senate floor Friday. The Senate is expected to vote on the proposal early this week; it will then go to the House for consideration.
If it passes, Dean Vivian Lee said, the school will admit 20 additional students this fall, and admit the other 20 students in the next two years.
Facing federal and state funding cuts, the medical school cut its annual class size to 82 students in 2009 a time when it should have been expanding, Lee said.
"Theres no way we can keep up," Lee said, citing Utahs rapid population growth, an aging population and demands brought about by the new national health care law.
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WORCESTER Craig C. Mello was the first person at University of Massachusetts Medical School to win the Nobel Prize, but he won't be the last.
This was the optimistic theme repeated by speakers at a lavish grand opening Wednesday of the $400 million new research building called the Albert Sherman Center.
Dr. Michael F. Collins, chancellor of the medical school, said the building will allow researchers to change the history of the course of diseases.
The Sherman Center was built with the help of $90 million in state funds from the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center. Elected officials, including Gov. Deval L. Patrick, called the building an important investment in the future of the life sciences industry in Massachusetts.
It is about jobs and investment, but for so many people and families, it's about hopes and cures and therapies, Lt. Gov. Timothy P. Murray said.
The Sherman Center doubles the medical school's research capacity and will bring under one roof researchers who currently work in different locations. The building was designed to encourage collaboration.
Researchers have started moving into their new labs, a process that will continue through April. UMass has recruited many top-flight scientists over the last five years to work in the new building. Through stem cells, gene therapy, RNA interference and other types of research, they're working on treatments for a variety of ailments including cancer, diabetes, heart disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS.
The facility, House Speaker Robert A. DeLeo said, represents the best of what we in government can do.
U.S. Rep. James P. McGovern joked that he was so excited with what he saw in the more-than-500,000 square-foot building that he wanted to donate his body to medical research.
The building is named for Albert Albie Sherman, who formerly served as UMass vice chancellor of university relations and is well-known in political circles.
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Newswise New Brunswick, NJ Three members of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School faculty have been named 2013 recipients of the prestigious Edward J. Ill Excellence in Medicine Awards, highlighting their expertise as exceptional educators or researchers.
These honorees are: Suhayl Dhib-Jalbut, MD, professor and chair, Department of Neurology, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, and chief, Neurology Service, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, who will receive the Outstanding Medical Research Scientist Award for Clinical Research. Dr. Dhib-Jalbut, a resident of Princeton, conducts research in the area of multiple sclerosis, funded by the National Institutes of Health and the National MS Society. He is currently president-elect of ACTRIMS, the Americas Committee for Treatment and Research in Multiple Sclerosis, a prestigious international organization. Smita S. Patel, PhD, professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, who will receive the Outstanding Medical Research Scientist Award for Basic Biomedical Research. Dr. Patel's recent research includes studies of helicase and polymerase enzymes in mitochondrial DNA replication and transcription, and in recognition of viruses for antiviral immune response. Dr. Patel lives in Whitehouse Station. Carol A. Terregino, MD, senior associate dean for education (interim) and associate dean for admissions and student affairs at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, who will receive the Outstanding Medical Educator Award. A Cranford native who currently lives in Mt. Laurel, Dr. Terregino also serves as the senior associate dean for admissions (interim) for the Camden regional campus.
2013 marks the fifth consecutive year in which Robert Wood Johnson Medical School faculty members will be honored for their work as medical research scientists.
Named for a New Jersey physician who pioneered the promotion of continuing education in ways that set the national standard, the Edward J. Ill Excellence in Medicine Awards--created in 1939--honors exemplary New Jersey physicians whose dedication to education, research, and public service have significantly impacted the delivery of health care state- and nationwide. Since 2003, the annual awards have been sponsored by the MDAdvantage Insurance Company of New Jersey.
In addition to the honors listed above, recognition is also given in the following categories: Outstanding Medical Executive Award, Edward J. Ill Physician's Award, Verice M. Mason Community Service Leader Award, and the Peter W. Rodino Jr. Citizen's Award. This year's awards will be presented during a May 1 ceremony at Greenacres Country Club in Lawrenceville.
More information about the awards and the upcoming ceremony can be found online at the Edward J. Ill Excellence in Medicine Foundation website, http://www.EJIawards.org, or by calling 609-803-2350.
About UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School As one of the nation's leading comprehensive medical schools, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in education, research, health care delivery, and the promotion of community health. In cooperation with Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, the medical school's principal affiliate, they comprise one of the nation's premier academic medical centers. In addition, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School has 34 other hospital affiliates and ambulatory care sites throughout the region.
As one of the eight schools of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, with 2,800 full-time and volunteer faculty, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School encompasses 22 basic science and clinical departments, and hosts centers and institutes including The Cancer Institute of New Jersey, the Child Health Institute of New Jersey, the Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine, the Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute, and the Stem Cell Institute of New Jersey. The medical school maintains educational programs at the undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate levels for more than 1,500 students on its campuses in New Brunswick, Piscataway, and Camden, and provides continuing education courses for health care professionals and community education programs. To learn more about Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, visit rwjms.umdnj.edu. Find us online at http://www.Facebook.com/RWJMS and http://www.twitter.com/UMDNJ_RWJMS. --#--
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The University of Texas at Austin hopes to enroll its first class of medical students on its campus by 2016 with the help of a $50 million gift from the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation.
The Dell Foundation announced on Wednesday a $50 million commitment to establish the Dell Medical School at UT-Austin. The foundation has promised to donate another $10 million to Austin and Travis County community health quality and access programs over the next 10 years.
"This gift truly saves lives," said Francisco Cigarroa, UT System Chancellor, who is also a transplant surgeon. "Investments in medical education, biomedical research and health care touch all citizens."
In November, Travis County voters approved a property-tax increase that included a plan to build a research-based medical school on UT-Austin's campus.
The Dell Medical School is scheduled to enroll its first class of 50 students in 2016, according to a news release.
"UT is a world class university, an the medical school will be able to attract top talent, advance medical research and practices and improve family health for generations to come," said Susan Dell, co-founder and board chair of the foundation."
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Gift from Dell Foundation will help launch UT-Austin medical school
Faced with a faculty petition demanding his ouster and a new report citing decreasing morale, Pascal Goldschmidt, dean of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, confronted his critics with an impassioned defense of his administration.
Speaking to a packed, often heated faculty senate meeting of about 150 to 200 at the medical school Wednesday, Goldschmidt said he understood staff anger and vowed to make changes.
Shortly after the meeting, he issued a formal letter stating that, after hearing the concerns of faculty and staff, he had decided a change in course and team was warranted. He also pledged pay raises to faculty members still steaming over massive layoffs last year.
Perhaps the most dramatic moment during the meeting, according to several attendees, came when former dean Bernie Fogel, a longtime UM fixture, rose to tell Goldschmidt that the faculty had lost confidence in the schools leadership.
Fogel, who spent virtually his entire career at UM, was dean at the medical school for 13 years until 1995. When he finished speaking, the faculty responded with loud applause.
On Thursday, when contacted by the Herald, Fogel, confirmed his statements. It was heartbreaking for me to point out that there is a lack of trust and confidence in the leadership of this school.
A new committee report issued at the meeting acknowledged significant recent steps taken by the university to address faculty complaints. But it also noted, However, we are aware of deep and worsening skepticism among many medical school faculty and staff concerning whether leaders of the medical school share these values. The fear of retribution persists.
Goldschmidt told the gathering that he has never punished his critics.
University of Miami President Donna Shalala spoke for about 30 minutes at the meeting. According to three attendees, Shalala said tough decisions had to be made to fix the schools finances. She acknowledged that mistakes had been made but when asked, did not offer specifics. They also quoted her as saying that retaliation against faculty had absolutely no place in an academic setting. Richard Williamson, a law professor who serves as senate chair, has said that a large number of medical school faculty have signed a petition protesting the failed leadership of Goldschmidt and Jack Lord, who was chief operating officer until earlier this month when the dean announced he was stepping down.
Goldschmidts formal letter to faculty Wednesday said he had to make painful decisions that resulted in laying off almost a thousand full-time and part-time employees.
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Medical school policies that restrict gifts to physicians from the pharmaceutical and device industries are becoming increasingly common, but the effect of such policies on physician prescribing behaviour after graduation into clinical practice is unknown.
So a team of US researchers set out to examine whether attending a medical school with a gift restriction policy affected subsequent prescribing of three newly marketed psychotropic (stimulant, antidepressant, and antipsychotic) drugs.
They identified 14 US medical schools with an active gift restriction policy in place by 2004.
They then analysed prescribing patterns in 2008 and 2009 of physicians attending one of these 14 schools compared with physicians graduating from the same schools before the policy was implemented, as well as a control sample of 20 schools that only adopted a gift restriction policy in 2008.
For two of the three drugs examined, attending a medical school with an active gift restriction policy was associated with reduced prescribing of the new drug over older alternatives within the same drug class.
A significant effect was not seen for the third drug.
Among students who had a longer exposure to the policy, or were exposed to more stringent policies, prescribing rates were further reduced.
"Our findings suggest that conflict of interest policies, which have been increasingly adopted by medical schools since 2002, may have the potential to substantially impact clinical practice and reduce prescribing of newly marketed pharmaceuticals," say the authors.
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Medical school gift restriction policies linked to subsequent prescribing behavior
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On Wednesday, the Michael and Susan Dell Foundation announced their $50 million investment into the project, which is set to be as close to The 40 Acres as possible.
Thursday morning, a UT spokesperson said in an email to YNN that building the school as close to University Medical Center Brackenridge is one option, or where the Penick-Allison Tennis Courts are currently located.
UT's Board of Regents first approved a medical school on campus last May. In November, Travis County voters passed Central Health Proposition 1, which raises property taxes to fund training for medical students. UT has agreed to fund the medical school itself, but the Dell Foundation's donation reduces a huge amount of its cost. According to a press release, the school will be named the Dell Medical School at The University of Texas at Austin.
Travis County Central Health Official Rosie Mendoza says local taxpayers are the catalyst to starting the medical school engine.
"It was because they said yes to Central to increase their taxes that we are going to be able to bring this medical school to life," she said.
It's estimated the school will bring 15,000 jobs to the area, and $2 billion a year will impact the greater Austin area when the school is complete.
Michael Dell said his foundations contribution will pay off for the entire community.
"In addition to improved health outcome, the medical school will attract leading medical practitioners, researchers to the Austin area, Dell said. That's going to spur all sorts of medical technology innovations which will be available on a yearly basis to our entire community and also will drive a new wave of economic growth around biotech technologies"
Construction costs for the medical school are estimated at $233 million. Operating costs over 12 years could reach $4.1 billion.
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AUSTIN (KXAN) - On Wednesday, the Michael and Susan Dell Foundation announced that the organization is committing $50 million to help establish the Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin.
In November, Travis County voters approved Proposition 1, which raised property taxes as the main source of revenue to support health care services in the area.
"Between the generosity of the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation and the great citizens of Travis County who voted to transform health care in the community, a powerful public-private partnership has emerged," said Gene Powell, chairman of the UT System Board of Regents. Austin is the new beneficiary of enhanced health care and countless economic development opportunities.
In addition to the $50 million, the Dell family foundation is donating another $10 million to Austin and Travis County community health quality and access programs over the next 10 years.
The Dell foundation was established in 1999. Since then, the organization has helped fun the Dell Children's Medical Center of Central Texas as well as numerous other health services across Central Texas.
The Dell Medical School is scheduled to enroll its first class of 50 students in 2016.
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The Michael & Susan Dell Foundation will donate $50 million toward a new medical school at the University of Texas, along with $10 million dedicated to improving local healthcare.
The announcement came Wednesday at the foundation's headquarters.
UT's Board of Regents approved a medical school on campus last May. In November, Travis County voters passed Central Health Proposition 1, which raises property taxes to fund training for medical students. UT has agreed to fund the medical school itself, but the Dell Foundation's donation reduces a huge amount of its cost. According to a press release, the school will be named the Dell Medical School at The University of Texas at Austin.
"In addition to improved health outcomes, the medical school is going to attract leading medical practitioners and researchers to the Austin area," Michael Dell said. "That's going to spur all sorts of medical technology innovations, which will be available on an early basis to our entire community, and will also, I think, drive a new wave of economic growth around the biotech industry in Austin."
The foundation has donated more than $100 million toward healthcare in Central Texas since 2003, including $32 million for the Dell Children's Medical Center in East Austin.
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AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 30, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Michael & Susan Dell Foundation announced today a new $50 million commitment to establish the Dell Medical School at The University of Texas at Austin. Additionally, the Dell family foundation committed another $10 million to Austin and Travis County community health quality and access programs over the next ten years. Since its inception in 1999, the foundation has invested nearly $1 billion in health and education programs around the globe, including $150 million over the past decade to promote family and childhood health in Central Texas.
"This gift truly saves lives," said UT System Chancellor Francisco G. Cigarroa. "Investments in medical education, biomedical research, and health care touch all citizens. Nobody has done more for the people of Central Texas than Michael and Susan Dell. Their generosity not only benefits UT, it also lifts up our entire community. "
Gene Powell, Chairman of the UT System Board of Regents added, "Between the generosity of the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation and the great citizens of Travis County who voted to transform health care in the community, a powerful public-private partnership has emerged. Austin is the new beneficiary of enhanced health care, and countless economic development opportunities."
The Dell Medical School is scheduled to enroll its first class of 50 students in 2016.
"A medical school at UT-Austin further establishes Central Texas as a center of excellence for family health and research," said Susan Dell, co-founder and board chair of the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation. "UT is a world-class university, and the medical school will be able to attract top talent, advance medical research and practices, and improve family health for generations to come."
The Michael & Susan Dell Foundation previously funded $90 million of grants in the Dell Children's Medical Center of Central Texas, UT Austin's Dell Pediatric Research Institute, UT's Michael & Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living, and the Texas Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Childhood Obesity as well as basic health services like community clinics and health supports like electronic medical records and mobile health programs.
"No university could ask for better friends than Susan and Michael Dell, whose generosity has transformed the health care landscape," said UT Austin president Bill Powers. "The Dells' support has allowed UT Austin to conduct game-changing medical research and will now allow us to provide game-changing medical care."
The new medical school will provide community-focused medical services, bring more medical professionals to Austin and create jobs. It will build on the world-class scientific research that UT-Austin faculty are conducting in related disciplines and is expected to attract top faculty and students. Campus officials are currently seeking accreditation, working on state approvals, searching for permanent leadership and examining building sites for the medical school.
For more information, visit our site at http://www.msdf.org/Dell-Medical-School.
About the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation The Michael & Susan Dell Foundation (www.msdf.org) is dedicated to improving the lives of children living in urban poverty around the world. With offices in Austin, TX and New Delhi, India, and Cape Town, South Africa, the Dell family foundation funds programs that foster high-quality public education and childhood health, and improve the economic stability of families living in poverty. The foundation has committed more than $915 million (as of January 1, 2013) to global children's issues and community initiatives to date.
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Michael Dells family foundation will provide $50 million for a medical school to be built in Austin, Texas, plus $10 million for health care in the city.
The new Dell Medical School will be a partnership that includes the University of Texas, hospital group Seton Healthcare Family and Travis County, which encompasses Austin. The university, whose flagship campus is in the states capital city, runs medical schools in Dallas, Galveston, Houston, San Antonio and Tyler.
Dell, who dropped out of the state school in 1984 to start computer maker Dell Inc. (DELL), gave $38 million to help build a pediatric research center on the Austin campus in 2007, said Gary Susswein, a university spokesman. The Dell family foundation also provided $32 million for a childrens hospital in the city.
It is the right investment for our family, our university and our community, Dell said yesterday at a briefing to announce the latest gift. The effects of the medical school will be felt well beyond the campus.
The university plans to start building the facility this year and enroll students by 2016, said Austin campus President Bill Powers. Voters in the county approved raising taxes by 5 cents per $100 of assessed property value in November, partly to fund the new medical schools operations.
Dell Inc., where Michael Dell is chairman and chief executive officer, is the focus of a plan by the entrepreneur to take it private and regain majority control. The deal would combine Michael Dells almost 16 percent stake with as much as $1 billion of his personal funds in a buyout led by Silver Lake Management LLC and Microsoft Corp. (MSFT), said people familiar with the matter. The company is based in suburban Round Rock and employs 14,000 in the Austin area, spokesman David Frink said.
Dell had a net worth estimated at more than $14 billion this week, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, a daily ranking of the worlds richest people.
The Michael and Susan Dell Foundation pledged $5 million a year for a decade to support the medical school, officials said during the briefing at the charitable organizations Austin headquarters.
The foundations additional commitment of $10 million over a decade will go to support health quality and access programs in Travis County and Austin, according to a statement from the charitable organization.
To contact the reporter on this story: David Mildenberg in Austin at dmildenberg@bloomberg.net
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OGDEN A 15-year-old Ogden teen is just two years away from attending medical school.
Jessica Brooke said she only has a few more semesters until she gets her degree.
Ive always enjoyed school, Jessica said. Ive never hated going to school.
Jessica started college when she was 12 years old, and she already has two associate degrees. Shes the youngest student at Weber State University, and she came to campus with a 4.0 GPA.
It was hard for me to go from having a whole year to learn a concept to like three to four months, Jessica said.
She said it didnt take long to adjust. Shes taking classes like chemistry and calculus, ones that make other college students cringe.
A lot of students have a hard time and have to work really hard to be successful in this class, said general chemistry professor Tim Herzog, who teaches Jessica in the subject. Its really fun to see somebody who is 15 years old and doing that great.
She may be the youngest student on campus, and she has to be driven to school by her mom, but Jessica said she doesnt feel singled out.
They dont treat me any differently when they find out or anything, which I love, Jessica said. You know, I dont want to be babied, or think that I cant do anything.
She said math has always been easy for her, and her family has always been very supportive of her early college career.
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Alpert Medical School of Brown University is introducing a program meant to teach primary care doctors to think beyond the care of individual patients. The school is planning a dual degree program, to begin in 2015, in which doctors in training can earn a masters degree in population health.
The program will enroll 24 people per class who plan to work in primary care, and the curriculum will include disease prevention and the needs of certain patient groups, such as newborns and new mothers or the elderly, said Dr. Edward Wing, dean of medicine and biological sciences. It will emphasize teamwork across medical disciplines and cover new health care delivery models, such as patient-centered medical homes.
Primary care doctors are playing a central role in the planned overhaul of the US health care system and coordinating patient care across many specialties. They also are under pressure to address factors affecting the overall health of the communities they serve and to provide more preventive care.
For example, Wing said, primary care physicians need to look at the individual and the systemic causes of obesity among their patients. How do you actually address that? he said. The medical system simply hasnt done it very well.
As health care changes fast, those who train medical professionals are pushing to keep up. Many are tweaking programs and introducing new ones to help health care leaders to be as prepared as possible for the changes.
Dartmouth College this month graduated the first class from its masters program in Health Care Delivery Science, a partial distance learning program that combines class time and hands-on projects meant for people already in leadership positions in health care. David Sell of The Philadelphia Inquirer described the program this way when it got started in 2011:
We were trying to attract a student body that was in the real world, said Al Mulley, director of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Care Delivery Science, who has spent 30-plus years as a doctor and teacher in Boston hospitals and at Harvard. We werent sure we wanted people who could afford to take two years off or whose organizations could afford to send them away for two years. Our argument to CEOs was that this really will be unique.
Wing said the Brown program may be the first of its kind in the country to integrate population health into a four-year medical school in this way. The program will include a clerkship program modeled after one that was piloted by Cambridge Health Alliance, in which students work with a primary care physician to follow a group of patients with varied needs over time. In a traditional model, students instead rotate among specialties, such as obstetrics, surgery, and pediatrics.
We really have to reimagine our medical education, he said.
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Alpert Medical School plans population health degree program for doctors in training
SAGINAW, MI Eventually, Central Michigan University expects to have more than 400students enrolled each year in its new medical college.
Roughly half of those students, those in their third and fourth years, will completely the majority of their coursework in two Saginaw hospitals and the adjacent facilities that CMU plans to build in 2013 and 2014.
Grant Elmquist, development officer for the new college, outlined the plans for the $25 million capital campaign and the impact it will have on the community to city leaders Monday, Jan. 25, during a tour of economic development initiatives in Saginaw.
"Hopefully next time you guys are here, you'll be wearing hardhats," Elmquist said. "We'll be breaking ground here fairly quickly."
He said this will the largest capital campaign in CMU history, though the $25 million will include construction on the Mount Pleasant campus as well.
In Saginaw, facilities are planned on both the campuses of Covenant HealthCare and St. Mary's of Michigan.
Elmquist said local leaders could expect the college moving into Saginaw will have a positive economic impact.
According to a 2008 study by the American Association of Medical Colleges, each $1 spent by medical schools and teaching hospitals can be expected to generate $1.30 in indirect revenue for the community. Having a college of medicine in the area can also eventually become a boon for the economy through a greater availability of grants for medical research, Elmquist said.
"That, to me, is one of the most exciting components," hesaid."
JoAnn Crary, presidentand CEO of Saginaw Future, said she plans to workclosely with CMU and local developers in hopes to connect students and faculty with residential and other opportunities nearby.
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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) Mississippi House lawmakers say they're ready to borrow $31 million for a new medical school building, but a top Senate lawmaker remains noncommittal.
The House voted 118-1 Wednesday to approve a bill to issue $31 million in bonds for a new five-story building on the University of Mississippi Medical Center campus in Jackson. Earlier Wednesday, the House Ways and Means Committee unanimously approved the measure.
Officials said the project's price tag has risen to $76 million from the $63 million previously estimated. Lawmakers provided $4 million for project planning earlier, and Gov. Phil Bryant's administration steered $10 million in federal grant money in October.
Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jeff Smith, R-Columbus, said House lawmakers intend to provide another $31 million next year to cover the remainder of the cost. He and other House members lauded UMMC's plan to train another 30 to 40 physicians per year in the expanded quarters. Now, each class of physicians has 135 students.
"This will allow the doctor population in Mississippi to expand," Smith said.
Dr. LouAnn Woodward, UMMC's associate vice chancellor, said the money is enough to begin construction. She said site work is likely to begin in late spring.
"We are so grateful for the support from the state," Woodward said. "This is an investment."
Medical school officials say the 151,000 square-foot building will replace outdated student laboratories and relieve overcrowding that has forced the school's simulation program into converted closets and a basement.
But money for the medical school could get caught up in a renewed struggle between the House and the Senate over how much the state should borrow. Last year, House members wanted to borrow hundreds of millions of dollars and Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves wanted to borrow less. When the sides couldn't agree, no bond bill passed for the first time in years.
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Joey Fillingane, R-Sumrall, said the Senate was prepared to support money last year in its pared-down bond proposal, but wouldn't commit to supporting it again this year.
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The Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences is taking a second look at a possible satellite campus in Joplin, although no final decision is expected until April, city and school officials said.
Two representatives of the private osteopathic medical school's Strategic Expansion Task Force were in Joplin last week to visit potential sites and discuss the project with city and business leaders, said Lisa Cambridge, spokeswoman for the school.
The representatives visited Missouri Southern State University and heard a presentation from the city's master developer, David Wallace, Cambridge told The Joplin Globe.
The task force toured the university's Health Sciences Building and discussed student amenities and what type of research the faculty was conducting, said Pat Lipira, vice president of academic affairs at the university.
"For us, we'd just love to see a medical school, regardless of where it is located," Lipira said. "We know many of our students would be interested in that. We have a good rate of acceptance into medical schools."
Wallace told the Joplin City Council on Jan. 14 that he would make a presentation on a proposal to build a $79 million campus in downtown Joplin but other buildings and locations could be involved because the university had suggested it might want a downtown location for offices and classrooms but have students housed elsewhere.
Wallace told the city council a medical school could add $50 million a year to Joplin's economy.
"We are all for a medical education facility coming here, whether it be on the Missouri Southern campus or the downtown area," Mayor Melodee Colbert-Kean said. "We are just happy it would be in Joplin. It would be a catalyst to continuing downtown development. I think it will be a win all around for the city."
Expansion talks between the school and city were derailed in the spring of 2010 in the midst of a dispute between the university and it board. The university had fired its former president, Karen Pletz, and sued her, prompting a lawsuit from her. And the Internal Revenue Service was auditing the school.
Pletz later faced 24 federal charges alleging she had embezzled more than $1.5 million over seven years. She committed suicide in November 2011.
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East Tennessee State University's top medical school leader is stepping down -- Dr. Philip Bagnell, the Dean of the James H. Quillen College of Medicine, announced Tuesday he will retire this summer.
Bagnell became a faculty member more than two decades ago. He was the school's first full-time pediatric gastroenterologist.
School officials called Bagnell a highly respective leader and true champion for medical education and interdisciplinary learning.
Bagnell said he feels the College of Medicine and the university are in a good place right now. "We are attracting the brightest and best in east Tennessee. And that gives us the best chance for the future," he said.
Bagnell will continue to serve as dean until he officially retires July 31.
Bagnell, who is from Canada, said he and his wife are looking forward to moving back to Nova Scotia and being full-time grandparents.
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. -
East Tennessee State University's top medical school leader is stepping down -- Dr. Philip Bagnell, the Dean of the James H. Quillen College of Medicine, announced Tuesday he will retire this summer.
Bagnell became a faculty member more than two decades ago. He was the school's first full-time pediatric gastroenterologist.
School officials called Bagnell a highly respective leader and true champion for medical education and interdisciplinary learning.
Bagnell said he feels the College of Medicine and the university are in a good place right now. "We are attracting the brightest and best in east Tennessee. And that gives us the best chance for the future," he said.
Bagnell will continue to serve as dean until he officially retires July 31.
Bagnell, who is from Canada, said he and his wife are looking forward to moving back to Nova Scotia and being full-time grandparents.
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