Category: What’s the Buzz?

What’s on my mind this month is how dramatically we recovered this year from the devastation of sequestration in fiscal year 2013, but how much more we wish to accomplish before we close the books in 2015. As my 2014…

What’s on my mind this month is the tenacity, bravery and dedication of the healthcare professionals who volunteer to go to the front lines of deadly infectious disease outbreaks because of their commitment to preserving the well-being of all people.

Since the news of an Ebola outbreak in Guinea was announced in March of this year, every day we hear updates about the toll this virus has taken on the people of West Africa. Ebola hemorrhagic fever has swept through multiple countries, killing an estimated 1 in 2 people who have become infected. The September 23, 2014 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), estimated that, under a worst-case scenario, 1.4 million people could be infected with the virus by January 20, 2015, and a similar report, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, predicted that Ebola might become endemic to Africa, along the lines of HIV/AIDS.

What’s on my mind is the School of Medicine’s long history in making major scientific discoveries which have led to significant advances in medicine and changed people’s lives. As America’s oldest public medical school, our students, faculty and leaders have…

SOMnews will be back in September with more feature stories about the accomplishments of our faculty, staff and students.

What’s on my mind this month are the many innovations in education we have implemented at the School of Medicine over the last year, fulfilling one of the key goals of Shared Vision 2020, to introduce a new teaching philosophy…

What’s on my mind this month are the many innovations in education we have implemented at the School of Medicine over the last year, fulfilling one of the key goals of Shared Vision 2020, to introduce a new teaching philosophy…

What’s on my mind this month are the major transitions occurring across the School of Medicine and how necessary change is for the advancement—of our students, our academic units, our educational curriculum and our leadership team. Students: This month we…

What’s on my mind this month is the public launch of the School of Medicine’s Accelerating Innovation and Discovery in Medicine (ACCEL-MED) Initiative, which forms the cornerstone of the research component of Shared Vision 2020. Shared Vision 2020 is our strategic plan for the near term, and has been implemented in partnership by the School of Medicine and Medical System. The goal is to accelerate the pace of discovery, collaboration, and innovation, and to provide the highest-quality, patient-centered care. Shared Vision 2020 is a roadmap for success in challenging times, addressing all of our key mission areas: education, clinical care, finance and philanthropy, and research. The emphasis of the research area is our new ACCEL-MED Initiative.

What’s on my mind this month is the changing academic medical and biomedical research workforce, and how the School of Medicine can position itself to be the institution of choice and an institution of change.

Over the last few months, and in my 2013 State of the School address, I discussed the challenges we are facing in academic medicine: the budget cuts to the NIH, the cuts to Medicare, and the slow economic recovery across the country. I also outlined how the School of Medicine plans to surmount the roadblocks in our path, as well as the launch of our Shared Vision 2020 initiative.