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A startup club for doctors only

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Dr. Tim Gueramy and Dr. Tracey Haas launched The Walters Physician Incubator last year to help doctors pursue their startups.

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Last March, the husband-wife team launched The Walters Physician Incubator, an Austin, Texas, nonprofit that's open only to physicians with a startup idea.

In less than a year, the incubator has grown from five to 56 physicians, ranging from newly minted doctors to seasoned physicians in their late 60s. Their ideas range from innovative medical devices to interactive websites.

"Doctors come to this incubator typically because they have been batting around an idea that could help their patients or change the way medicine is currently being practiced," said Haas. "Very few consider leaving medicine."

Each month, Gueramy and Haas invite lawyers, marketing execs, venture capitalists and business school professors to coach doctors about startup fundamentals like how to craft business plans, pitch ideas, draft patents and fund raise.

Related: They ditched medical school to start a business

"We toyed with the idea of mandatory meetings but haven't done it because we know doctors are very busy," said Haas.

Currently, the doctors decide how long they want to stay in the program, which is free, but that could change.

"As we grow and look for funding, we'll likely tie membership with a commitment to attending 80% of meetings and start charging fees," she said.

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Family Medicine Residency Training Program in Palm Springs Receives Accreditation

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UCR School of Medicine-sponsored program will receive its first eight residents in July 2015

By Kathy Barton on February 6, 2014

PALM SPRINGS, Calif. The UCR School of Medicine residency training program in family medicine, in partnership with Desert Regional Medical Center, has received accreditation and will accept its first residents for the three-year training program in July 2015.

The program designed and located in Palm Springs to help address the shortage of primary care physicians in the Coachella Valley was granted accreditation in late January by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), the national body responsible for post-M.D. training programs in the U.S.

Family medicine is a primary care medical specialty in which physicians provide comprehensive medical care to patients of all ages and, increasingly, coordinate patients care by subspecialists. It is estimated that the area of the Coachella Valley served by Desert Regional Medical Center has a 50 percent shortage of family medicine physicians.

Family medicine will remain pivotal in addressing the healthcare needs of both our region

Gemma Kim, MD

and our nation, said Dr. Gemma Kim, program director of the medical schools family medicine residency training program in Palm Springs. We hope to expand access and strengthen primary care in the Coachella Valley while providing personalized care of the highest quality that is patient-, family- and community-centered.

Residents will train primarily at Desert Regional Medical Center and the UCR Health Family Medicine Center adjacent to the medical center. The three-year program will enroll eight residents each year, meaning there will be a total of 24 residents when the family medicine program is fully developed. Eight family physicians will graduate from the residency program each year starting in 2018.

The approval of the UCR residency program at Desert Regional Medical Center is such an exciting event for our hospital, as we continue to grow as an academic medical center, said Carolyn Caldwell, president and chief executive officer of Desert Regional Medical Center. The physician faculty of UCR Health have already provided a wonderful resource to patients through the primary care offices they have opened on our campus. They are already making a difference in helping to solve the primary care physician shortage in our Valley.

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University of Chicago Medicine Names First Deans for Faculty Affairs

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Newswise The University of Chicago Medicine named its first two deans for faculty affairs, appointments designed to support the needs of faculty within the Biological Sciences Division.

Melina Hale, PhD, professor in the Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, and Karen Kim, MD, professor in the Department of Medicine, will report to Kenneth Polonsky, MD, executive vice president for medical affairs at the University of Chicago and dean of the Biological Sciences Division and the Pritzker School of Medicine, and work closely with faculty, the elected Faculty Advisory Committee, department chairs and section chiefs.

Both Drs. Hale and Kim have extensive experience in leadership and initiatives that support and promote faculty efforts, said Polonsky, who is also the Richard T. Crane Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine.

Hale and Kim will concentrate on identifying issues that are important to the faculty and developing mechanisms to address areas of concern. Kim will focus on clinical faculty, while Hales attention will be on basic science faculty, but their activities will not be restricted to these areas.

They will work with Melissa Gilliam, MD, MPH, in her role as dean of diversity and inclusion, and Martin Feder, PhD, dean for academic affairs, who will concentrate on academic appointments and reappointments, promotion and tenure, and other academic issues, Polonsky said.

Hale is chair of the Research Resources Oversight Committee, the faculty committee that oversees BSD core facilities, and she works with faculty across the university as the spokesperson for the Committee of the Council of the University Senate.

She also serves on various committees related to institutional initiatives and education, including the University of Chicago-Marine Biological Laboratories Faculty Advisory Committee and the College Council. Nationally, she has served on National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation proposal review panels and been involved in NSFs efforts to develop priorities related to the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) initiative.

Kim is director of the University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Centers Office of Community Engagement and Cancer Disparities, where she works with faculty across the institution to develop and support community-based research. She is chair of the Department of Medicines Womens Committee and is serving a three-year term on the Universitys Womens Leadership Council.

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Penn Medicine Study Reveals Genetics Impact Risk of Early Menopause Among Some Female Smokers

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PHILADELPHIA New research is lighting up yet another reason for women to quit smoking. In a study published online in the journal Menopause, researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania report the first evidence showing that smoking causes earlier signs of menopause in the case of heavy smokers, up to nine years earlier than average in white women with certain genetic variations.

Though previous studies have shown that smoking hastens menopause by approximately one to two years regardless of race or genetic background, this study is the first of its kind to demonstrate that genetic background is significantly associated with a further increased risk of menopause in some white women who smoke. No statistically significant relationships between smoking, the gene variants under investigation and earlier menopause were observed in African American women.

While symptoms of menopause such as hot flashes, anxiety and insomnia can result in discomfort, embarrassment, and irritability, the onset of menopause is also associated with risks of coronary artery disease, osteoporosis, and death from all causes. On average, women enter menopause at around 50 years of age. However, the research team now reports that menopause may begin at an earlier age in white female smokers who are carriers of two different gene variants. While the genes themselves do not result in early onset menopause, variations of the genes CYP3A4*1B and CYP1B1*3 were found to increase the risk of entering menopause at an earlier age in white smokers. The genetic variants were present in seven and 62 percent of white women in the study population, respectively.

This study could shed new light on how we think about the reproductive risks of smoking in women. We already know that smoking causes early menopause in women of all races, but these new results show that if you are a white smoker with these specific genetic variants, your risk of entering menopause at any given time increases dramatically, said the studys lead author Samantha F. Butts, MD, MSCE, assistant professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Penn Medicine.

Results of the study, which enrolled over 400 women aged 35 to 47 from the Penn Ovarian Aging Study, found that in carriers of the CYP3A4*1B variation, the average time-to-menopause after entering the study in heavy smokers, light smokers, and nonsmokers was 5.09 years, 11.36 years, and 13.91 years, respectively. This means that for heavily smoking white females with this genetic background, the average time-to-menopause was approximately nine years earlier than in nonsmoking carriers.

In white carriers of the CYP1B1*3 variation, the average time-to-menopause in heavy smokers, light smokers, and nonsmokers was 10.41 years, 10.42 years, and 11.08 years, respectively -- a statistically significant difference although not as stark as the findings for the CYP3A4*1B variant.

The Penn study did not examine why no statistically significant relationships between smoking, the gene variants under investigation, and earlier menopause were observed in African Americans.

It is possible that uniform relationships among white and African American women were not found due to other factors associated with race that modify the interaction between smoking and genes, said Butts. It is well known that race affects multiple features of menopause, and this could be another. Further investigation is needed to clarify this question.

In addition to Dr. Butts, Penn co-authors are Ellen W. Freeman from the department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Mary D. Sammel, and Timothy R. Rebbeck from the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics. Other co-authors are Christine Greer, University of Miami School of Medicine, and David W. Boorman, Drexel University School of Medicine in Philadelphia.

This study was supported by National Institutes of Health grant R01-AG-12745, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences grant 5P30ES013508-07, Perelman School of Medicine Translational and Clinical Research Center grant RR024134, and the Perelman School of Medicine Center of Excellence for Diversity grant.

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READER SUBMITTED: Physical Therapy & Sports Medicine Centers Welcomes The Perfect Workout To Avon

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Physical Therapy & Sports Medicine Centers (PTSMC) has formed a strategic relationship with the Perfect Workout. Alan Balavender, MS, PT, owner/president of PTSMC and Travis Lytle, PT, MSPT, OCS, partner/director of PTSMC in Avon welcomes Matt Saint Thomas, owner/president of the Perfect Workout, and his staff, who began seeing patients and clients Monday, Feb. 3 at PTSMC's Avon location at 44 Dale Road.

Matt Saint Thomas has over 15 years of experience in personal training and sports medicine. He is a graduate of Central Connecticut State University, Cum Laude, and has a B.S. in Physical Education/Athletic Training. Matt brings with him the expertise of two colleagues, Kurt Lillie, DPT, personal trainer, and Nancy Chilson, office manager.

Partner/Director Travis Lytle of PTSMC, comments "We are excited to begin this collaborative relationship. The Perfect Workout has been providing physical therapy, transitional rehabilitation, personal training and nutritional programs in the Farmington Valley for many years and will now complement the services of our Avon clinic."

Physical Therapy & Sports Medicine Centers of Avon has been a leading provider of outpatient physical therapy in Avon since 2003. PTSMC has a reputation of improving the quality of life for its patients, returning them to work, athletics and the lifestyle they enjoyed prior to injury or surgery. The practice offers physical therapy services specializing in musculoskeletal, orthopedic and sport-related injuries. Its physical therapists focus on the individual needs of each patient and develop treatment programs that are the safest, most efficient routes to fast recovery.

PTSMC is located at 44 Dale Road, Suite 203 and is open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., Monday through Friday. They welcome patients and personal training clients of all ages seeking exceptional physical therapy care and/or personal training. For more information, visit them on the web at http://www.ptsmc.com or call the office 860-674-1713.

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