AMSSM Sports Medicine Conference in Haiti to Advance Athletic Care by Teaching the Teacher

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Newswise Port-au-Prince, Haiti Seven members of the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine (AMSSM) are in Haiti this week to provide sports medicine education for nearly 300 physicians, medical students, athletic trainers and first responders.

In partnership with the Haitian Sports Medicine Society (SHAMS), the AMSSM will host its first Sports Medicine/Sports Trauma and Event Medicine Conference in Haiti on June 29 July 3, 2013. The conference is designed as a teach-the-teacher course with the goal of advancing the education of professionals in Haiti who care for active people, from the professional athlete to the weekend warrior.

Led by Dr. Thomas Trojian, Chair of AMSSMs International and Inter-Organizational Relations Committee, the project is an AMSSM humanitarian initiative to reach out to sports medicine societies in underserved areas of the world to promote healthy lifestyles and heal people from athletic injuries.

AMSSM is interested in promoting the health of athletic people here in the United States and throughout the world and that is one of the reasons we decided to do this, Dr. Trojian said. If we can equip the physicians, trainers and first responders in Haiti with the tools and skills needed to improve athletic care of their patients, we will have succeeded.

The conference is divided into four components: 1) demonstrations of musculoskeletal ultrasound-guided and surgical procedures; 2) an Introduction to Sports Medicine course for medical students; 3) lectures on topics requested by members of SHAMS such as concussion, sideline management and pre-participation screenings for cardiac issues; and 4) clinical time spent with Haitian physicians treating patients.

In addition to AMSSM members, an orthopedic surgeon from the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine (AOSSM) and a neurologist from the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) will be joining the volunteer faculty.

AMSSM gratefully acknowledges SonoSite, Inc. for lending an ultrasound machine, SAM Medical Products for providing splints and the AMSSM Foundation for the shipment of 100 sports medicine books to Haiti.

About the AMSSM: The AMSSM is a multi-disciplinary organization of sports medicine physicians whose members are dedicated to education, research, advocacy and the care of athletes of all ages. Founded in 1991, the AMSSM now comprises more than 2,300 sports medicine physicians whose goal is to provide a link between the rapidly expanding core of knowledge related to sports medicine and its application to patients in a clinical setting. http://www.amssm.org

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Mariell Jessup, MD, Penn Medicine Cardiologist, Becomes President of the American Heart Association

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PHILADELPHIA Mariell Jessup, MD, professor of Medicine, associate chief, Clinical Affairs, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, and medical director of the Penn Medicine Heart and Vascular Center, has become the president of the American Heart Association (AHA). Her term begins July 1, 2013.

I am thrilled and honored to serve as the president of the AHA. It is an outstanding organization dedicated to building healthier lives, free of cardiovascular disease and stroke, said Jessup, who is also a member of the Penn Medicine Cardiovascular Institute. These goals are the same as those I have dedicated my professional life to, so this new role is a perfect fit.

Dr. Jessups focus throughout her career has been on the optimal management of patients with heart failure, including the appropriate selection of patients for heart transplant or ventricular assist devices (VADs). As medical director of the Penn Medicine Heart and Vascular Center, she works with a multi-disciplinary team of cardiologists, cardiac and vascular surgeons, nurse practitioners, and nurses to deliver collaborative, cutting-edge care to heart patients.

Dr. Jessup ascends to this position of national leadership at a critical moment in the field of cardiovascular disease. In doing so, she follows on the rich tradition of Penn Medicine in the nation's service, said Richard P. Shannon, MD, Frank Wister Thomas Professor of Medicine and chair, Department of Medicine at Penn. Her detailed understanding of the importance of discovery toward the betterment of the human condition will inform her tenure. Her experience as a clinician will insure that the voice of the patient burdened with heart disease will be heard above all else.

As a world renowned expert, Jessup has been an integral member of numerous guidelines committees aimed at directing optimal decisions and criteria regarding diagnosis, management, and treatment of patients with heart failure. A volunteer for more than 15 years, she was chairperson of the AHAs Committee on Scientific Sessions Program in 2009 and 2010, and chaired the committee that created the 2009 revision of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association Guidelines for the Management of Congestive Heart Failure.

She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania and her medical degree from Hahnemann Medical College. She completed her residency in Internal Medicine at Hahnemann University Hospital and a cardiovascular fellowship at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.

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Penn Medicine is one of the world's leading academic medical centers, dedicated to the related missions of medical education, biomedical research, and excellence in patient care. Penn Medicine consists of the Raymond and Ruth Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (founded in 1765 as the nation's first medical school) and the University of Pennsylvania Health System, which together form a $4.3 billion enterprise.

The Perelman School of Medicine has been ranked among the top five medical schools in the United States for the past 16 years, according to U.S. News & World Report's survey of research-oriented medical schools. The School is consistently among the nation's top recipients of funding from the National Institutes of Health, with $398 million awarded in the 2012 fiscal year.

The University of Pennsylvania Health System's patient care facilities include: The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania -- recognized as one of the nation's top "Honor Roll" hospitals by U.S. News & World Report; Penn Presbyterian Medical Center; and Pennsylvania Hospital -- the nation's first hospital, founded in 1751. Penn Medicine also includes additional patient care facilities and services throughout the Philadelphia region.

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Penn Medicine researchers discover link between fear and sound perception

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Contact: Jessica Mikulski jessica.mikulski@uphs.upenn.edu 215-349-8369 University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

PHILADELPHIA - Anyone who's ever heard a Beethoven sonata or a Beatles song knows how powerfully sound can affect our emotions. But it can work the other way as well our emotions can actually affect how we hear and process sound. When certain types of sounds become associated in our brains with strong emotions, hearing similar sounds can evoke those same feelings, even far removed from their original context. It's a phenomenon commonly seen in combat veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), in whom harrowing memories of the battlefield can be triggered by something as common as the sound of thunder. But the brain mechanisms responsible for creating those troubling associations remain unknown. Now, a pair of researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania has discovered how fear can actually increase or decrease the ability to discriminate among sounds depending on context, providing new insight into the distorted perceptions of victims of PTSD. Their study is published in Nature Neuroscience.

"Emotions are closely linked to perception and very often our emotional response really helps us deal with reality," says senior study author Maria N. Geffen, PhD, assistant professor of Otorhinolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery and Neuroscience at Penn. "For example, a fear response helps you escape potentially dangerous situations and react quickly. But there are also situations where things can go wrong in the way the fear response develops. That's what happens in anxiety and also in PTSD -- the emotional response to the events is generalized to the point where the fear response starts getting developed to a very broad range of stimuli."

Geffen and the first author of the study, Mark Aizenberg, PhD, a postdoctoral researcher in her laboratory, used emotional conditioning in mice to investigate how hearing acuity (the ability to distinguish between tones of different frequencies) can change following a traumatic event, known as emotional learning. In these experiments, which are based on classical (Pavlovian) conditioning, animals learn to distinguish between potentially dangerous and safe sounds -- called "emotional discrimination learning." This type of conditioning tends to result in relatively poor learning, but Aizenberg and Geffen designed a series of learning tasks intended to create progressively greater emotional discrimination in the mice, varying the difficulty of the task. What really interested them was how different levels of emotional discrimination would affect hearing acuity in other words, how emotional responses affect perception and discrimination of sounds. This study established the link between emotions and perception of the world something that has not been understood before.

The researchers found that, as expected, fine emotional learning tasks produced greater learning specificity than tests in which the tones were farther apart in frequency. As Geffen explains, "The animals presented with sounds that were very far apart generalize the fear that they developed to the danger tone over a whole range of frequencies, whereas the animals presented with the two sounds that were very similar exhibited specialization of their emotional response. Following the fine conditioning task, they figured out that it's a very narrow range of pitches that are potentially dangerous."

When pitch discrimination abilities were measured in the animals, the mice with more specific responses displayed much finer auditory acuity than the mice who were frightened by a broader range of frequencies. "There was a relationship between how much their emotional response generalized and how well they could tell different tones apart," says Geffen. "In the animals that specialized their emotional response, pitch discrimination actually became sharper. They could discriminate two tones that they previously could not tell apart."

Another interesting finding of this study is that the effects of emotional learning on hearing perception were mediated by a specific brain region, the auditory cortex. The auditory cortex has been known as an important area responsible for auditory plasticity. Surprisingly, Aizenberg and Geffen found that the auditory cortex did not play a role in emotional learning. Likely, the specificity of emotional learning is controlled by the amygdala and sub-cortical auditory areas. "We know the auditory cortex is involved, we know that the emotional response is important so the amygdala is involved, but how do the amygdala and cortex interact together?" says Geffen. "Our hypothesis is that the amygdala and cortex are modifying subcortical auditory processing areas. The sensory cortex is responsible for the changes in frequency discrimination, but it's not necessary for developing specialized or generalized emotional responses. So it's kind of a puzzle."

Solving that puzzle promises new insight into the causes and possible treatment of PTSD, and the question of why some individuals develop it and others subjected to the same events do not. "We think there's a strong link between mechanisms that control emotional learning, including fear generalization, and the brain mechanisms responsible for PTSD, where generalization of fear is abnormal," Geffen notes. Future research will focus on defining and studying that link.

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Dr. Christian Schupp of Methodist Orthopedics & Sports Medicine Publishes Research Findings in American College of …

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HOUSTON, TX--(Marketwired - July 01, 2013) - Dr. Christian Schupp, a primary care sports medicine physician who is board certified in family medicine and fellowship trained in sports medicine, publishes work and furthers research at Methodist Orthopedics & Sports Medicine-- home to an elite group of orthopedic and sports medicine physicians.His work appears in the recent issue of Current Sports Medicine Reports, the official journal of the American College of Sports Medicine.

Collaborating with colleague, Dr. Alysia Bedgood, the article, "Sideline Management from Head to Toe of the Skeletally Immature Athlete," provides valuable insight into the differences between musculoskeletal injuries affecting the young verses the adult athlete and the importance of an individualized treatment plan.

According to Schupp, while there are many articles on specific injury patterns and types of injuries that occur in sports, there is very little addressing the sideline management with a specific focus on the injuries affecting young athletes.

"Our article reviews the most common injuries that can occur with the young athlete from head to toe in comparison to a skeletally mature or adult athlete. We address how to approach these injuries from a sideline and sports medicine perspective, thus providing insight for health care professionals to evaluate and treat young athletes -- as well as determine when they can safely return to sports," said Schupp.

Dr. Schupp is part of one of the most innovative Primary Care Sports Medicine (PCSM) Fellowship programs in the country and lectures nationally on sideline preparedness.He holds a certificate of added qualifications in sports medicine and is a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine.He is the medical director for The Woodlands Marathon and is a team physician for several local Houston high schools. He also serves as an advisor to a number of professional groups -- including NCAA Football and Basketball, Iron Man (Kona and The Woodlands), triathlons, marathons and professional tennis and cycling.

"We have a unique team focused on the overall health of the athlete, not just a disease process or organ system -- but rather the whole athlete and active individual.This type of research and the work that Dr. Schupp does with athletes of all ages in our community is gradually changing the future of sports medicine," said Dr. Scott Rand, director of the PCSM Fellowship Program and the Methodist Center for Sports Medicine's Human Performance Lab located on the Methodist Willowbrook Hospital campus.

Dr. Schupp is part of a 10-physician orthopedic and sports medicine group.Board certified and fellowship trained, many of the physicians serve as team physicians for high school, collegiate and professional sports teams throughout Texas.Many also work in extended educational realms for organized sports clubs and travel with US teams, including the US Youth Olympic Weightlifting team and the US Soccer team.

The next "All School Activities" sports physicals are scheduled for August 3 from 8 a.m. - noon. Weekend Sports Injury Clinics begin Saturday, August 24 -- both at 13802 Centerfield Drive. To learn more about the Methodist Center for Sports Medicine and upcoming sports health activities call 281-737-0902.

Methodist Willowbrook Hospital has received its chest pain and stroke accreditations, performs complex surgeries such as neurosurgery and open heart, and focuses on women and children in its new Womens & Childrens Pavilion. Utilizing the latest research and state-of-the-art technology, Methodist Orthopedics & Sports Medicine at Willowbrook has become the leader in orthopedic care in northwest Houston. For a physician referral, call 281-737-2500.

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RIC to Launch New Era in Rehabilitation Medicine, Break Ground July 1 on New $550 Million Research Hospital

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CHICAGO, July 1, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- A new era in physical medicine and rehabilitation starts today. That's when the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC) breaks ground for a $550 million research hospital that will transform the field by uniting research and clinical care to advance human ability.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Sens. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and RIC President and CEO, Dr. Joanne C. Smith, will speak today at the groundbreaking event, which begins at 9 a.m. at the site of the new hospital, two blocks south of the RIC's current flagship. An interactive area with live demonstrations of RIC's cutting-edge innovations, including bionic arms and wearable robots, will showcase RIC's pioneering work in biomedical science.

Recognized for more than 20 years as the nation's best rehabilitation hospital, RIC will disrupt the field yet again by introducing a novel model of care that will set the global standard to deliver faster and better outcomes for patients. The heart of RIC's audacious new approach to physical medicine is the fluid integration of researchers, engineers, doctors, nurses, therapists and patients working to identify real-time research breakthroughs that are immediately translated to patient care.

"This is far more than a new hospital. We are reinventing and reframing a model of physical medicine and rehabilitation that did not exist until now embedding research and clinical care, 24/7," said Dr. Smith. "Most medical institutions have research facilities separate from hospitals. At RIC, however, everyone will be in the same place, working shoulder to shoulder around each patient."

Futuristic Model of CareCentral to the new hospital will be five Innovation Centers that leverage RIC's core expertise and market leadership in brain, spinal cord, neuro-musculoskeletal, pediatric and cancer research and recovery. Each Innovation Center will introduce a futuristic model of care that infuses 21st century biomedical science into the clinical environment in ways unlike any other hospital. All human-subject research, applied research and proof-of-concept testing will be embedded with the clinical units in dynamic spaces, called AbilityLabs.

As the active nucleus of each Innovation Center, the five uniquely designed AbilityLabs will bring together clinicians and patients in the same space as scientists, engineers and device developers. Collaboratively, they will focus on the most important challenges their patients face. Inspiration will abound when these teams are intimately knit together with the single-minded purpose to advance a patient's ability. The concept was first introduced in January 2012 via a test-bed prototype on the ninth floor of the current hospital.

"This integrated model of care enables research to become available for patients sooner. Breakthrough research that used to take 10 years from lab to scientific journal to hospital may now be introduced to patients right away," said Dr. Smith. "We will see an enormous acceleration in our ability to understand and to solve patients' problems."

The world's only AbilityLabs will address speech and cognition (speak and think), fine motor (arms and hands), gait and locomotion (legs and walking), coordination and endurance (total body) and pediatrics (all abilities for kids). Each of the differentiated AbilityLabs will have a unique, purpose-based configuration.

"This is a great day for rehabilitation research," said Sen. Kirk, who received state-of-the-art, integrated research and clinical care in RIC's prototype AbilityLab after his stroke last year. "My research and clinical team worked side-by-side with me to help me achieve a number of personal goals. Whenever I thought the task was impossible, everyone at the RIC said, 'You will be able to.' I am living proof of the extraordinary work of this institution and humbled by the generosity of donors who are helping to advance its mission."

Urgent and Ever-Growing Need Nowhere has this extraordinary work made more of an impact than on the nation's military healthcare system. RIC's commitment to developing rehabilitation services for veterans dates back 60 years. Bionic limb innovations led by RIC's Dr. Todd Kuiken and Dr. Levi Hargrove have enabled injured veterans to gain the ability to use their lost limbs via prosthetics that can be controlled by thought.

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Brown names new medical school dean

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AP/July 1, 2013

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) Brown University has selected the chairman of the department of medicine at Yales School of Medicine as dean of its medical school.

Brown announced the appointment of Dr. Jack Elias as dean of medicine and biological sciences last week. He is a specialist in immunobiology and pulmonary medicine who also serves as physician-in-chief at Yale-New Haven Hospital.

He succeeds Dr. Edward Wing, who is stepping down as of Monday. Brown Provost Mark Schlissel will serve as interim dean until Elias begins on Sept. 1.

Brown President Christina Paxson said Elias will bring great experience in teaching, research, patient care and administration to Brown. She says Browns medical school and research programs are undergoing significant growth and the university has a new strategic plan to continue the momentum.

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MEDICAL SCHOOL: Governor’s signature final step in funding quest

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SACRAMENTO Gov. Jerry Brown has signed legislation that earmarks $15 million in last months budget package to a school of medicine at UC Riverside, capping years of efforts to secure the money.

The centerpiece of the higher education budget trailer bill signed Monday was the creation of a college scholarship program for middle-income families. The assistance was a priority of Assembly Speaker John A. Perez, D-Los Angeles.

The measure, though, also included language directing the University of California to spend $15 million to open the medical school. The money will come from a $125.1 million UC funding increase in the $96.3 billion general fund budget bill signed last Thursday.

Supporters of the school said a state funding commitment was vital to the schools future and to maintain its accreditation. The region, they said, has a serious shortage of primary-care physicians at a time when the federal healthcare law will increase the number of insured residents seeking doctors.

Inland lawmakers from both sides of the aisle praised Mondays action.

My main focus from day one was to ensure that this becomes a continuing appropriation by UC to ensure that the accreditation process is not compromised, state Sen. Bill Emmerson, R-Redlands, the top Republican on the Senate budget panel, said in a statement.

This ongoing funding commitment is a victory for the UCR Medical School, the health of the people of Inland Southern California, and our regional economy, state Sen. Richard Roth, D-Riverside, said.

Added Assemblyman Jose Medina, D-Riverside: I felt good on Thursday. Its the end of a long, community-wide process.

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