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Wayne State University #39;s Street Medicine Detroit Organization was given the Organizational Community Leadership Award at the university #39;s Martin Luther King Jr. Tribute, January 16, 2015.

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USF medical school plans for downtown Tampa delayed

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JACKSONVILLE It has been a smooth ride for the University of South Florida's proposed downtown Tampa medical school. In the past four months the project has won nothing but accolades and approving votes.

The victory tour came to an abrupt halt on Wednesday.

The medical school faced a crucial vote for state funding from the Board of Governors, which oversees the State University System. But the meeting quickly unraveled when a handful of governors complained they didn't know enough to start spending tens of millions.

"I don't understand why we don't have a presentation on this so we can be prepared," said board member Dean Colson. "I shouldn't have to fly to Tampa to get the details."

The BOG's facilities committee authorized USF to spend just a fraction of the money $5 million but delayed approving the rest of the $57 million it is seeking until they get more answers.

Instead, the governors told USF to come back Feb. 19 to give a more detailed presentation.

USF could have made a presentation on Wednesday but officials were never told to do so.

The committee chair, Fort Lauderdale businessman H. Wayne Huizenga Jr., took the blame for the confusion.

"I accept full responsibility for that," he said.

USF president Judy Genshaft vowed to give the board whatever information it needs to secure funding for the medical campus.

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WSU medical school in Spokane gets legislative support – Thu, 22 Jan 2015 PST

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OLYMPIA Identical bills that could pave the way for Washington State University to start its own medical school in Spokane were filed Wednesday in the Senate andHouse.

Rep. Marcus Riccelli, a Democrat, and Sen. Mike Baumgartner, a Republican, introduced matching legislation to remove the provision in state law that gives medical school education exclusively to the University ofWashington.

The bills were filed as UW announced its leadership team for curriculum for Spokane, with local physician William Sayres Jr. being selected as assistant dean. WSU, meanwhile, is advertising for faculty for the medical school it wants to start, hoping

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OLYMPIA Identical bills that could pave the way for Washington State University to start its own medical school in Spokane were filed Wednesday in the Senate andHouse.

Rep. Marcus Riccelli, a Democrat, and Sen. Mike Baumgartner, a Republican, introduced matching legislation to remove the provision in state law that gives medical school education exclusively to the University ofWashington.

The bills were filed as UW announced its leadership team for curriculum for Spokane, with local physician William Sayres Jr. being selected as assistant dean. WSU, meanwhile, is advertising for faculty for the medical school it wants to start, hoping to recruit from the local medicalcommunity.

In the works since late last year, the legislators delayed introducing the bills until Wednesday to gather bipartisan support from around thestate.

Riccellis bill, HB 1559, already has 60 co-sponsors in the 98-member House, with support from all 10 House members whose districts are completely or partly in Spokane County. Baumgartners bill, SB 5487, has 17 co-sponsors in the 49-member Senate. Both bills have co-sponsors in Puget Sound districts as well as EasternWashington.

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Dayton wants $30M for U med school

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Gov. Mark Dayton laid out a funding plan Wednesday designed to elevate the University of Minnesota Medical School's national reputation and bolster its role as a driver of health innovation and job creation.

As part of his slow rollout of pieces of his budget plan, which will be revealed in full Tuesday, Dayton said he'll ask for $30 million this two-year budget cycle for the medical school.

He said he intends to follow that up with $50 million in the next biennium and envisions a total of $230 million for the decade.

The money, which Dayton said he would not pit against other funding requests the U has made this session, would pay for 50 more medical researchers over the next eight years. The school has lost about 100 tenured faculty over the past 20 years, officials said.

The new faculty would form "medical discovery teams" to tackle pressing health issues and attempt to attract additional National Institutes of Health grants.

Dr. Brooks Jackson, the medical school dean, said the U ranks 30th out of 144 medical schools, based on NIH grants.

Jackson's goal with the new funding would be to get to 20th within five years. Within a decade, he said, he hopes to move the school into the top 14 or even the top 10.

The new money "really will be transformative in the sense that it will allow us to leverage our current strengths to really become a world-class medical school, not just in terms of research but as well as training the next generation of students," Jackson said.

The chairs of the higher education committees in the state Senate and House said Wednesday they supported the governor's plan in concept.

Richard Beeson, who chairs the Board of Regents, the U's governing body, said the board will take up the proposal next month. He said regents are generally supportive of the plan because it is intended to be in addition to the funding requests they've made.

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State board holds up downtown medical USF medical school

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TAMPA The effort to build a University of South Florida medical school downtown hit a snag Wednesday when a committee overseeing the states 12 public universities delayed funding for the project until it hears more details.

USF officials will provide additional information on the $157 million project before the next State University System Board of Governors meeting on Feb. 19. The board technically does not fund projects, but prepares a legislative budget request to the Florida Legislature that indicates what projects are priorities for the system.

On Wednesday in Jacksonville, the boards facilities committee pulled a request for $17 million for the medical school from its list of recommended 2015-16 construction projects when members complained of a lack of specifics.

Whatever they ask for, were happy to give them, USF System President Judy Genshaft said after the committee action. Weve done so much work on this, were really ready to present whenever and however much they want.

The Board of Governors typically prepares its legislative budget request in January, but Mark Walsh, assistant vice president for government relations, said USF was assured that there would be ample time for the medical school request to move forward once the board is briefed.

The committee did recommend a $15.8 million allocation for the USF Health Heart Institute, which is slated to join the medical school downtown. With prior allocations, the new funding covers that projects full $50 million construction cost.

The panel also recommends another $12.3 million for the Tiedemann College of Business at USF St. Petersburg, allowing completion of that project. And the Florida Institute of Oceanography, a consortium hosted by USF, got the nod for a $6 million research vessel to replace an aging ship.

Genshaft said she did not consider Wednesdays move a setback, noting that the committee did free up a prior $5 million allocation to study the relocation of the medical school money USF hadnt been able to tap until board members signed off. Thats great, we can go ahead and spend that money, Genshaft said, adding that Wednesdays caution was not a send-it-back-to-the-drawing-board signal.

USF is seeking the $17 million this year, then $20 million the following two years to complete a 12-story building at Channelside Drive and Meridian Avenue. The Morsani College of Medicine would then relocate from the main Tampa campus.

Wednesdays move came despite pitches from Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn and from Tampa Bay Lightning owner Jeff Vinik, who donated land for the medical school.

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Medical school will be Roche tenant

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By Ron Leir

Observer Correspondent

NUTLEY

Roche USA, the Swiss-basedpharmaceutical companythat is marketing its118-acre property straddlingNutley and Clifton, continuesto seek a buyer for the sitebut has inked a tenant for partof the site.

Roche spokeswomanDarien Wilson said last weekthat the Tom Lyon, vicepresident of Roche Nutley (asthe property is designated),has signed a letter of intentwith Robert C. Garrett, president/CEO of HackensackUniversity Health Network,for the leasing of one ofRoches former researchbuildings for the operation ofa medical school.

Terms of the lease remainto be negotiated, Wilson said.

At the same time, Wilsonsaid, Roche which last yearpaid $7.1 million in taxes toNutley (supplemented by$2.7 million in special statetransitional aid) is stillin the process of identifyinga buyer for the [entire]site. Asked when Rocheanticipated a sale, Wilsonsaid: Were very close . We expect to identify a newowner by middle of the year.

Asked why the company wasentering into an lease agreementfor just a small part ofits property (about 13 acres)before disposing of the wholesite, Wilson acknowledged itcould be considered an atypicalapproach, but that all ofthe potential buyers were fullyaware, along with the Nutley-Clifton Joint RepurposingCommittee, that this was anopportunity that Roche wantedto pursue.

Wilson said that talks withHackensackUHN have beengoing on for a year and ahalf. She added that the leasebetween the parties would beassigned to whoever the newowner is.

The new four-year medicalschool, according to a statementposted on the HackensackUniversity MedicalSchool website, will be a jointventure by HackensackUHNand Seton Hall University andwill be the only private schoolof medicine currently in thestate.

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