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Dean Valerie Parisi of Wayne States School of Medicine, along with six other deans of major medical schools in Michigan, signed her name to an opinion piece on Congresss recent efforts to manage the budget Dec. 21.
These efforts have the potential to implement significant reductions in operating funds in Michigans health care system.
We know that cuts to providers are likely to be part of any discussion about the future of Medicare and Medicaid, the document says, according to The Detroit News. We do not expect that health systems will be spared while all other sectors are cut. However, we hope that Congress can foresee that disproportionate cuts to health systems, asking them to take more than their share of the budget reduction, will result in fewer doctors, less access to care and layoffs. Michigan, as well as other states, is at the forefront of what many are calling the nations most important legislation since Franklin D. Roosevelts expansive New Deal: The Affordable Care Act.
This legislation aims to reform unsustainable systems (such as Medicare) that have plagued taxpayers with massive amounts of accumulated debt. Hospitals, especially those working with medical schools utilizing cutting-edge technology, depend on Medicare payments for residency positions, and a large portion of their revenue may come from clinical care services provided by faculty.
Research institutions, such as WSU, that lead the way for medical breakthroughs will indeed suffer a short-term loss, but the new plan could also create potential for long-term rewards.
We are examining the potential impacts of the Affordable Care Act, but it is just too early in the implementation of this legislation to determine definitive effects on the School of Medicine, said Kenneth Lee, vice dean of business affairs for WSUs SOM. There are so many details yet to be worked out in relation to the Affordable Care Act that many experts are still undecided on the impact.
According to USLegal.com, Medicare funding that a hospital receives for each patient depends on Diagnosis Related Groups, which divide patients into subsets based on gender, age, treatment, procedure and discharge status.
A chosen group of experts assigned within the stipulations of the Affordable Care Act will examine already compiled research to decide what treatments would be noted as viable or effective. Comparative effectiveness research partially funded by the Affordable Care Act should shed light on what works and what doesnt in todays hospitals. This panel of experts will interpret the data. Thus, some Diagnosis Related Groups may be phased out. Whether that would be for the better or for the worse depends on the reliability of the research, how representative the data is based on the hospitals location and the population of that area.
Congress managed to avoid a 26.5 percent cut to health care with institutions such as the American Medical Association voicing their concern before a temporary, but substantial deal was made Jan. 1, implementing a tax increase on the wealthy. More specifically, a 4.6 percent tax increase was implemented on individuals and families making $400,000 and $450,000 per year, respectively. However, the 2 percent cut to payroll tax was not renewed and would raise taxes for 160 million workers, according to The New York Times.
The New York Times also states that with the nation so close to the debt ceiling, a short-term cliffhanger is loosely dangling in place before a budget plan and a rising debt ceiling that is said to be finalized in the coming two months.
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When Mort Levitt graduated from Duke Medical School in 1972, he got an unusual present.
My parents sat me down and told me they were setting up a trust that would make me a beneficiary, with the remainder designated to a medical program, said Levitt, chairman of the integrated medical science department and a teacher of clinical biomedical science at Florida Atlantic Universitys Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine.
They were doing that to indicate their support of my decision to enter the medical profession.
During much of his medical career, Levitt was an Air Force officer teaching medicine, so it took him a while to decide how he would distribute the philanthropic portion of the trust. But soon after he arrived at FAU in 2007, he made his choice.
This month, at a gala for the medical school, officials announced a $3 million gift from Levitt and his wife, Cynthia. The Levitt endowment will pay for the tuition of four medical students each year.
The newly minted Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine welcomed its inaugural class of 64 students in August 2011, and 64 more students in August 2012. Officials have already received 3,000 applications for the incoming class of 64 students.
For the fledgling medical school, the Levitts gift is a piece of the puzzle of gaining national accreditation, a process now underway and expected to be complete in 2015.
Other faculty members have also been donors, but so far the Levitts gift is the largest.
Mort is clearly not only a leader but a person who is absolutely dedicated to the college of medicine, said medical school dean David Bjorkman. He spends a lot of time with students. He is a person who is always looking to make students successful.
Levitts parents were real estate attorneys who became philanthropists and they wanted to instill charity into their family.
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Several local doctors have decided to pay for medical school for three women in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, a war-torn region in the south of the country known to be a Taliban stronghold.
Allison Burton, a hospitalist doctor at St. Joseph Hospital in Eureka, said the idea came about when hospital staff learned three of their colleagues from Afghanistan were planning to leave the area. Burton and several other St. Joseph physicians wanted to give them a going away present, she said.
We realized this gift could really go a long way, Burton said of the medical school funding.
Burton's brother works for Green Village Schools, a nonprofit which helps build schools and fund health education in Helmand Province. It was an easy fit, Burton said, to join forces with her brother's organization. Seven other St. Joseph physicians wanted to contribute, too.
By American education standards, a medical school degree in Afghanistan is a bargain. A student can attend medical school in Helmand Province for about $150 a month, Burton said. Their contribution to the three women might go toward their tuition, or related items like books and housing, she said.
The ultimate goal is for the students to eventually return to their home villages to practice as the first female physicians there, a press release from the hospital said.
That would be very progressive, said Burton, who attended the Medical College of Georgia. Having
Afghanistan has the third-highest infant mortality rate in the world, according to the World Health Organization. The southerly part of the country, of which Helmand is a part, has just two hospitals, according to Doctors Without Borders. The organization reports the province's children have a chronic problem of malnutrition.
Burton said her brother has been to Afghanistan to meet the three women, all of whom have been accepted into medical school.
Hospital spokeswoman Leslie Broomall said she had never heard of St. Joseph doctors teaming up for such a cause before.
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Correction appended More than two years after Jeffrey Akman was named interim dean of the School of Medicine and Health Sciences, he was announced Monday as the permanent leader of GWs most selective and richest school.
The move was one made with urgency after hastening by top administrators in the fall following two years without a permanent dean to leader the college as it undergoes curriculum changes and budget shifts.
Akman also stays on as senior vice president for health affairs, making him one of the most influential administrators at GW and allowing him to oversee the Universitys relationship with the Medical Faculty Associates and GW Hospital, which are separate corporations but share use of medical faculty as doctors.
Akman said in an email that while his former temporary role did not hold him back, the the permanent position would help solidify the school.
Removing the interim title does provide an additional sense of stability for our students, faculty, alumni and the greater SMHS community, Akman said. Undoubtedly, it will help as I recruit for key positions within SMHS, including [administrative] positions and chairs.
He said he would be focused on hiring going forward, particularly by bulking up the schools research and improving staff diversity. While the medical school is perennially one of the most coveted colleges in the country for aspiring doctors, it is still the most expensive one to not crack U.S. News & World Reports top 50 for research.
University President Knapp ordered an expedited search to fill the position in November, and some professors said they hoped permanent leadership would ease the process of filling senior positions in the schools administration. Five of the schools 23 departments are still headed by interim chairs.
Provost Steven Lerman declined to say if a committee in the medical school considered any other candidates during the accelerated search.
We have had interim dean for two years, and President Knapp and I decided now was the right time to expedite filling the position, Lerman said. The School of Medicine and Health Sciences bylaws explicitly provide a mechanism for a shorter search.
Akman, a psychiatry specialist who has spent 25 years at the school, first landed in the deans office in 2010 after an impromptu resignation from former dean James Scott. The decision came as GW was breaking up the medical school from the former Medical Center, which also included the school of public health and the school of nursing.
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SALISBURY, Md. - Delmarva could be home to Maryland's fourth medical school.
Peninsula Regional Medical Center has teamed up with Salisbury University and The University of Maryland Eastern Shore in hopes of starting the lower Eastern Shore's first medical school.
The President and CEOof PRMC, Dr. Peggy Naleppa says there's a significant shortage of physicians in the area and the new school would help fill the void. "We know that physicians will reside - 40 to 50 % will reside and stay in the community in which they are trained. 18 out of our 30 specialties require new physicians over the next several years, and we want to be sensitive to that for the region," she said.
Officials say plans are starting to take shape. The first step is to focus on a residency program that's expected to launch sometime in 2014. Then, they will move to make plans in building a medical school.
President of Salisbury University, Dr. Janet Dudley-Eshbach released this statement regarding the plans:
Peninsula Regional Medical Center; the University of Maryland, Baltimore; Salisbury University; and the University of Maryland, Eastern Shore have signed a Memorandum of Understanding for an Eastern Shore of Maryland Medical and Health Science Education Partnership.
A feasibility study by an independent consulting firm recommends such a partnership to develop a regional medical and health science education and research campus. According to the consultants, the most feasible model to assure an adequate future physician workforce for the area is to establish a four-year medical school as a regional campus of UMB in close partnership with SU and UMES, leveraging the strengths of these two institutions. The goal is ultimately to attract doctors to this area.
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BISMARCK University of North Dakota leaders were hoping Tuesday to convince legislators that the most expensive option for expanding its medical school would be the best value for the state.
The UND representatives spoke to the Senate Appropriations Committee to provide details about Senate Bill 2003, the University Systems proposed budget, and highlight the need for a $124 million new medical facility rather than a $68 million expansion favored by Gov. Jack Dalrymple.
North Dakota is facing a major health care delivery challenge, where the health care needs of the people are exceeding the ability of the health care system to meet those needs, UND President Robert Kelley said. And the problem is only going to get worse ... we at UND are trying to do everything we can to help meet this challenge.
An assessment that looked at the needs of the medical school provided three options, the first and second options would renovate the existing space and add some additional space at $38 million and $68 million, respectively.
Dave Molmen, CEO of Altru Health System in Grand Forks and chairman of the schools Advisory Council, said a new building would have a significant impact on the medical school and state, he said.
The third option, supported unanimously by the 2012 interim Health Service Committee, would provide a brand new medical school at a total $124 million.
The new facility would allow for more students to attend UNDs medical school, consolidate programs to provide more more opportunities in other medical areas and provide $1 million in economic impact for the state annually from each additional physician employed in North Dakota, said Joshua Wynne, dean of the School of Medicine and Health Sciences.
He added that a new building, paid for by the state, would make the university more viable for federal grants.
The other two options require more maintenance since they would use older existing buildings, he said.
Committee Chairman Ray Holmberg, R-Grand Forks, said a subcommittee will be formed to look at the University Systems budget.
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A large number of faculty at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine have signed a petition complaining about the schools leadership, the head of the faculty senate said in an email Monday.
Richard Williamson, a law professor who is chair of the senate, sent the email to faculty assuring them anonymity if they signed and saying that the deadline for submitting copies of the petition is Friday, in order to make a final report in a timely manner.
Williamsons email was the first official confirmation about the size of the protest. The medical school did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
A copy of the petition obtained by The Herald stated that faculty decried the failed leadership of Dean Pascal Goldschmidt and Chief Operating Officer Jack Lord. We want to make clear that the faculty has lost confidence in the ability of these men to lead the school.
Earlier this month, Goldschmidt announced that Lord was stepping down as COO but gave no indication what he would be doing next. Last week, spokeswoman Lisa Worley said, We are working on a transition with Dr. Lord, and it will be resolved in the near future.
Several anonymous sources have said that the number of signatures has climbed to 700. Total faculty at the medical school is about 1,200. On Monday, a faculty senate spokeswoman said her office nothing more to add to the Williamson email. Williamson did not respond to a request for comment.
Williamsons memo said faculty signing the petition must include identifying information but we have gone to very considerable lengths to protect the anonymity of the petitioners. People who claim to have seen or received the official list of those who signed are either misinformed or are being disingenuous, as no such list exists. Once the final report is complete, all petitions will be destroyed.
Williamson told The Herald last month that only a small number of people had seen the signed petitions and none of them would talk about it.
Please note that the fact that we serve as a conduit for a petition does not make the petition a Senate document, Williamson wrote Monday. Having said that, the Senate is very interested in the well-being of the Miller School of Medicine and its faculty. Indeed, our ad hoc Medical Committee has spent considerable time looking into problems at the School, has already provided one report that the Senate endorsed, and will present a follow-on report to the Senates General Welfare Committee shortly.
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The opening of the Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences was celebrated July 23, 2008 with the dedication of Butler-Haney Hall in Yakima, Wash. (AP photo/Yakima Herald-Republic, Gordon King)
Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences is set to nearly double the size of its medical college class next year, increasing the number of students from 70 to 135.
The increase will take effect in time for new students entering the school in fall 2013.
Administrators and faculty are thrilled that the Commission of Osteopathic College Accreditation, or COCA, approved the schools application for a class increase, said Dr. Keith Watson, PNWUs president.
This is another step towards realizing PNWUs vision as a leader in community-based primary care education and our efforts to increase the numbers of primary care physicians in the healthcare force, Watson said in a news release. Our graduates will become well-trained, primary-care-focused osteopathic physicians addressing the vast and significant physician workforce shortage areas in the Pacific Northwest and beyond.
The COCA approval came two weeks ago after PNWU submitted its application on Dec. 1. But the efforts to make PNWU ready for a larger class go back much further.
The university has been looking to expand its 70-student limit since 2008, with the number of applicants growing from 1,976 for the inaugural class to 2,536 for the class that will graduate in 2016.
In certifying schools for class size increases, COCA examines classroom and lab space, school curriculum, adequacy of faculty and staff, and rotation openings for third- and fourth-year medical students, among other criteria.
In June, PNWU broke ground on a $5 million expansion of the main Butler-Haney Hall as part of the schools Phase II of construction, in anticipation of a larger class and the application it would file with COCA, administrators said at the time.
The school has also been working with a consultant who specializes in medical school buildings to learn how to optimize existing space for students and classes.
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MIDDLETOWN Touro College officials, the developer, local politicians and others on Thursday announced progress on an osteopathic medical school project for the former Horton Hospital campus that will create hundreds of jobs and bring hundreds of doctors to the mid-Hudson region. Renovation to the former hospital will start within the next 90 days, said Touro College President Alan Kadish, and the college's grand opening is planned for August 2014. They have already received a number of approvals they need from the city, including reaching a payment-in-lieu-of-taxes agreement; now, they're waiting for some educational approvals, which Kadish said he expects to get in the next six months. Touro College, welcome to Orange County, welcome to the community, said county Executive Ed Diana. We open our doors to you. The medical school has been in the works for several years, since Orange Regional Medical Center moved forward with its plans to close Horton in Middletown and Arden Hill Hospital in Goshen and consolidate them at the current ORMC in the Town of Wallkill. When fully operational, the college would enroll more than 500 students yearly, whose spending would help generate a $55 million yearly economic impact for Middletown and the surrounding communities. It's a very exciting day in the City of Middletown, said Mayor Joe DeStefano. Part of the campus may also be dedicated to other health-science related schools; as well as the osteopathic school itself, plans include dormitory housing, medical offices and an assisted-living facility. Touro would enter into a long-term lease with the property's owner, the Danza Lesser Group, and invest $24 million initially to renovate the former hospital. The project also got a $1 million state grant in December. According to news releases, the initiative will create some 800 jobs. Statistically, many doctors stay in the area where they train, and the school's backers hope it will drastically increase the number of doctors in the Hudson Valley and the Catskills, areas that don't have enough of them, and thus increase the region's overall health. Some parts of the Catskills have some of the poorest health indicators in the state. This is the right project with the right school at the right location at the right time, said Ron Israelski, director of medical education at Orange Regional Medical Center, who has been heavily involved in making the project a reality. The man who made it work was you, DeStefano told him. Tony Danza, one of the owners of Danza Lesser, said he wants to put two plaques in the school's center court one commemorating its history from 1924, when the Horton family developed an orphanage that soon became a hospital that served Middletown for decades, and one commemorating the people who made the medical school possible. Under it all is real estate, and there's a lot of history here I don't want to lose, he said. nbrown@th-record.com
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Inland lawmakers and officials see both good and bad in the state budget proposal released by Gov. Jerry Brown on Thursday, Jan. 10.
Educators are happy the governor wants to steer more money to schools and universities, but court officials are not pleased with funding cuts, and one state legislator questions why theres no money listed for UC Riversides medical school.
State Sen. Richard Roth, D-Riverside, said he was very disappointed not to see specific funding identified for the medical school, where classes for the first group of 50 students are set to begin this fall.
There is an immediate need for more doctors to provide critical health care services to our residents and to all of California, Roth said in a news release. I look forward to working with my colleagues in the California State Legislature and with Governor Brown to fully fund the UCR Medical School as the budget process now moves forward.
Local officials have sought state money for the medical school since 2008. In 2011, officials delayed the first freshman class because of the lack of state funding, and the schools medical accreditation was in peril at one point.
Last March, Brown said he wanted to hold off allocating state money for the school until California got its fiscal house in order. And although Brown bragged Thursday about the budget having a surplus for the first time in years thanks to voters earlier acceptance of his Prop. 30 tax proposal his spending plan did not specify any money for the medical school.
That issue may be settled in the Legislature where Roth and Assemblyman Jose Medina, D-Riverside, have introduced separate bills to provide the school $15 million a year in state funding.
Browns proposal isnt a final draft and lawmakers can make changes between now and the June 15 deadline to pass a state budget.
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The proposed budget calls for cutting another $200 million from the state court system, as local court officials had feared.
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Strict federal guidelines for medical school financial aid programs have left the West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission with more than a quarter-million dollars and no one to give it to.
On Monday, higher education officials asked members of the Legislative Oversight Commission on Education Accountability to consider giving them more flexibility to work with the feds and help state medical students pay off their debts.
Strict federal guidelines for medical school financial aid programs have left the West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission with more than a quarter-million dollars and no one to give it to.
On Monday, higher education officials asked members of the Legislative Oversight Commission on Education Accountability to consider giving them more flexibility to work with the feds and help state medical students pay off their debts.
"Our people aren't using our money to go to school," Dr. Robert Walker, the commission's vice chancellor for health sciences, said during a legislative interim meeting Monday afternoon.
"We don't need more money; we may just need more flexibility to adapt."
Speaking after the meeting, Walker said both the state and federal governments offer loan forgiveness programs to medical students who agree to work in underserved areas.
A few years ago, the federal government changed the criteria for its programs so any student receiving money with post-graduation obligations from a state would not be eligible for any federal dollars.
Walker said that has caused many state medical students to opt for federal programs, since those typically pay more money: Some federal loan forgiveness programs pay up to $200,000 over a doctor's medical career.
Meanwhile, the state's fund for medical school financial aid continues to grow. Walker said a small percentage of each West Virginia medical school student's tuition goes into the pot. That has left the state with more than $750,000 collected over the last 17 years.
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The new medical school at Florida Atlantic University is named for his father, Charles E. Schmidt, so Dick Schmidt and his wife Barbara were the honorees at the inaugural Your Medical School Celebration on Jan. 5.
But as the final speaker, a Levitt family $3 million gift caught everyone by surprise at the sold-out event at Royal Palm Yacht Club. It was meant to.
"This brings to fruition a lifelong dream for me," Dr. Morton Levitt, chairman of the integrated medical science department, told nearly 300 people before announcing the Dr. Morton and Cynthia Levitt FAU Medical School Endowment Fund. Forty years ago his late parents asked him to give the charitable gift to a medical school, after they set up a trust in the 1970s, he said in an interview later.
"Isn't this a great way to start a new year?" Jon Kaye, who was chairman of the event with his wife, Bonnie Kaye, said to applause. "You have the opportunity to meet your medical students and raise the funds to keep your medical school competitive."
"I can't tell you how much this means to studentsyour overwhelming support," second-year class president Saima Siddiqi said in her remarks. "Now Palm Beach County is our home, and I plan to stay and practice medicine here."
"It speak volumes this community is aware we personally stand to benefit to have highly trained doctors stay here," the gala's honorary chairwoman Mayor Susan Whelchel said in her remarks, as medical students in white coats assembled in front of the podium. "This event was so successful, they couldn't even get stamps on the invitations"
FAU president Mary Jane Saunders also noted that invites never went out before the gala was at capacity, and the foundation's development director Kari Oeltjen got shout-outs with the Kayes, who own Kaye Communications Inc.
Dr. David Bjorkman, the medical school dean, presented the award to the Schmidts, who received a standing ovation. Dick Schmidt kissed the crystal vase, calling it his "Heisman trophy moment." His father would be "proud to see his name" on the medical school, he said.
Bjorkman said the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine has received 3,064 applications for the third medical school class with 64 openings.
"None of this would be possible without Dick and Barbara Schmidt," Saunders said, noting this is the third college at FAU that carries the Schmidt name.
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Lawyers for Tony Danza's development group are reviewing the payment-in-lieu-of-taxes agreement approved by the City of Middletown. Danza talks at a conference in 2009 about plans for a medical school at the Horton site.TOM BUSHEY/Times Herald-Record
Published: 2:00 AM - 01/04/13 Last updated: 7:53 AM - 01/04/13
MIDDLETOWN Middletown's Industrial Development Agency has approved a payment-in-lieu-of-taxes agreement for the planned medical college at the former Horton Hospital complex.
The owners would pay no property taxes in 2014. In 2015, they would pay $59,379. The payment would go up by about $60,000 a year, to $831,300 in 2028; after that, it would be taxed at its full assessed value.
Lawyers for the city and for the Danza Leser Group, which owns the property, are reviewing the PILOT agreement now, Mayor Joe DeStefano said. The Danza Group plans to convert the property, which was a hospital from 1929 until it closed in 2011, into an osteopathic medical school that would be run by Touro College and would, when it is done, bring hundreds of medical students to Middletown who would train at area hospitals. There would be other, associated uses there too an assisted living facility, medical offices and dormitory housing for students and faculty. The PILOT only applies to the proposed use, DeStefano said if the college isn't built or the property is used for something else, the PILOT wouldn't apply, and if the property were to be sub-divided, the PILOT would only apply to these medical/educational uses.
The money would be divided between the city, school district, Orange County and the Middletown Thrall Library.
The hospital was tax-exempt, DeStefano said, so this would be the first time the property has paid taxes in many decades. DeStefano said he is more focused on the benefits of the project it is expected to generate hundreds of jobs and will, its backers hope, draw more doctors to an area that doesn't have enough of them.
"It'll change the character of the community, I believe, and health-care delivery for the whole region," he said. "There are so many benefits to it. ... The money was the least of our concerns."
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Newswise Boston (Jan. 4, 2013) Reza Dana, M.D., M.P.H., M.Sc. of Mass. Eye and Ear/Harvard Medical School, was awarded the Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB) Senior Scientific Investigator Award in the amount of $150,000 to support research into the causes, treatment and prevention of blinding diseases.
The RPB Senior Scientific Investigator Award supports nationally recognized scientists conducting eye research at medical institutions in the United States. Since the award was established in 1987, Dr. Dana is one of 184 scientists at 59 institutions to receive this highly sought-after, flexible research grant.
"I am delighted to have received this support from RPB, which will aid us tremendously in our investigations of ocular surface inflammation in eyes deemed at high risk of corneal transplant rejection, said Dr. Dana. With this support, we will be able to examine further how modulating inflammation and angiogenesis can promote transplant survival."
According to Joan W. Miller, M.D., FARVO, Chief and Chair of Ophthalmology at Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School (HMS), Dr. Dana leads one of the largest and most advanced corneal and ocular inflammation programs in the world, and his investigations have greatly clarified the cellular and molecular mechanisms of ocular surface biology. This award is a reflection of his extensive expertise and substantial achievements thus far and an investment in future advancements in the field of corneal immunology. We are very grateful to RPB for their continuing support of our departments research endeavors and this very significant award.
In addition to his position as Director of the Cornea and Refractive Surgery Service at Mass. Eye and Ear, Dr. Dana is the HMS Department of Ophthalmology Vice Chair for Academic Programs, the Claes H. Dohlman Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School, Director of the HMS Cornea Center of Excellence, and the W. Clement Stone Scholar and Senior Scientist at the Schepens Eye Research Institute/Mass. Eye and Ear.
About Mass. Eye and Ear Founded in 1824, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary is an independent specialty hospital providing patient care for disorders of the eye, ear, nose, throat, head and neck. Mass. Eye and Ear is an international leader in Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology research and a teaching partner of Harvard Medical School. Under the direction of Mass. Eye and Ears board of directors, the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and Schepens Eye Research Institute recently formed the worlds largest and most robust private basic and clinical ophthalmology research enterprise. For more information, call 617-523-7900 or visit http://www.masseyeandear.org.
About RPB RPB is the worlds leading voluntary organization supporting eye research. Since it was founded in 1960, RPB has channeled hundreds of millions of dollars to medical institutions for research into the causes, treatment and prevention of binding eye diseases. For information on RPB, RPB-funded research, eye disorders and the RPB Grants Program, go to http://www.rpbusa.org.
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MOUNT PLEASANT (AP) -- Central Michigan University says it has received additional accreditation as it prepares to open its medical school in summer 2013.
The university says the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education has granted five-year institutional accreditation to the new medical school's residency programs associated with Covenant HealthCare and St. Mary's of Michigan.
Residency is the clinical portion in a medical specialty following graduation from medical school and prepares physicians for the independent practice of medicine.
The College of Medicinesays it got 2,765 applications for its inaugural class by the Dec. 15 deadline. Sixty students will be accepted for the first class.
Last February, Central Michigan announced that it had received preliminary accreditation from the Liaison Committee on Medical Education to open the school.
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