Dr. Larry Schlesinger Podcast on 610 WTVN
Dr. Larry Schlesinger was on 610 WTVN yesterday discussing flesh eating bacteria. Recently, there’s been an increase in media coverage on the bacteria and Dr. Schlesinger went on the air to discuss the bacteria and shed some light on its causes, symptoms, and treatments.
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Each year, the U.S. Schweitzer Fellows Program® competitively selects students from the nation’s top universities to become Schweitzer Fellows. These graduate and professional students partner with community-based organizations to identify an unmet health need, design a yearlong service project with a demonstrable impact on that need, and bring that project from idea to implementation and impact.
This year, 243 multidisciplinary graduate students have been selected in the U.S., 13 of whom are Ohio State University students. Among them are two College of Medicine students and three School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences students.
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Last week the Ohio State University Center for Clinical and Translational Science coupled with the Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital hosted 2012 Trainee Research Day. One of the most exciting annual events for the medical community at the Ohio State University kicked off on Wednesday, April 18 with a lecture titled, “Innovation: Value Creation, Capture and Delivery” delivered by Michael Bills from the OSU Fisher College of Business and continued through Thursday evening.
The two-day event included a judging of trainee research posters as well as keynote speeches by physician researchers and distinguished professors. More than 350 MD/PhD students, postdoctoral trainees, residents, medical students, graduate students, and undergraduate students presented their research. Fifteen winners of the poster competition were chosen to receive travel awards which will allow them to attend a medical conference of their choice.
The excitement surrounding 2012 Trainee Research Day was echoed by the participants, who stood proudly by their work and presented to judges, members of the medical community, and Ohio State faculty and staff. Keynote speaker Louis Ptácek, MD, Distinguished Professor of Neurodegenerative Diseases at the University of California, San Francisco, spoke between judging sessions about his work on familial advanced sleep phase syndrome (FASPS), the first Mendelian variant of circadian behavior in humans. FASPS is an autosomal dominant trait that is prevalent in 0.3% to 0.5% of the population. Dr. Ptácek mentioned in his presentation that the continued study of FASPS may have implications for chronotherapy and sleep cycle drugs.
The event concluded with an awards ceremony and a social hour where participants gathered to recap the highlights of the event and discuss possible future collaborations at the College of Medicine and Wexner Medical Center. John Davis, PhD, MD Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine, Assistant Dean for Student Life, was named The OSUMC Research Day Distinguished Biomedical Research Mentor of the Year based on nominations submitted by trainees.
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Tagged medical schools, medicine, ohio state, osu, research day, wexner medical center
The OSU College of Medicine will pay tribute to Clotilde Dent Bowen, MD (Class of 1947), in a ceremony to be held on April 10 in the Meiling Hall Lobby on The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center Campus.
Dr. Bowen was the first African-American female to graduate from Ohio State’s medical school, as well as the first African-American female physician in the U.S. Army. She once described herself as having lived a “blessed” life, due largely to her faith and her education at Ohio State.
Dr. Bowen, who worked her way through undergraduate and medical school at Ohio State, traces her belief in the power of education back to her grandparents who were born into slavery on a plantation outside of Atlanta, Georgia. As a young boy, her grandfather witnessed General Sherman’s destructive march through the South. After the Civil War, both her grandparents were granted freedom and an education. That gift to her grandparents – the opportunity to participate in a formal learning program – began a family legacy of improving lives through education.
To ensure that today’s young people have similar opportunities, Bowen established the Clotilde Dent Bowen M.D. Endowed Scholarship Fund for the College of Medicine to support students with financial need who share Bowen’s passion to help others through medicine. She has been quoted as saying:
“Everything in my life started with going to OSU medical school and being the first black woman to graduate with a medical degree. From then on, it’s been a life that most people can’t imagine.”
Dr. Bowen’s list of accomplishments often begins with “first,” as in the first African-American female to earn the rank of colonel, to command a military hospital clinic and to be named chief of psychiatry in two Veterans Administration hospitals and two Army medical centers.
Dr. Bowen was honored with the Bronze Star and the Legion of Merit in 1971 for her work to set up drug treatment centers and her efforts to lessen racial conflicts during the Vietnam War. She was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal in 1974.
Dr. Bowen passed away on March 3, 2011.
In honor of Dr. Bowen’s life’s work and inspiration to others, the College of Medicine has named a lectures series after her – The Clotilde D. Bowen, MD, Diversity Lecture Series. The inaugural lecture will be held on Thursday, April 12, from 12:30 until 2:00 pm in 234 Meiling Hall and will feature pioneering orthopedic surgeon Augustus A. White III, MD, PhD. The title of his presentation is “Diversity and Sensitivity Training-It’s Importance In Education.”
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On March 16, 4th year medical students across the nation participated in residency Match Day– the day these medical school graduates find out where they will be spending the next three to seven years in their residency training programs. Among them were a total of 207 Ohio State University medical student seniors.
Once the envelopes had been opened, most were happy to discover that one of their top three choices had been successfully matched. Of those participating, 40 students matched to either The Wexner Medical Center or Nationwide Children’s Hospital for their residencies. Seventy- nine will spend their first year of residency in Ohio, with 128 going to other programs across the country. Internal Medicine was the most selected specialty, with 47 trainees, followed by pediatrics with 25 and emergency medicine with 18.
Students are matched nationwide through the National Resident Matching Program, a private, not-for-profit corporation that provides a uniform date of appointment to positions in graduate medical education (GME) in the United States. The 2011 Main Residency Match included more than 48,507 applicants from around the world competing for more than 24,034 residency training positions.
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On Friday, February 24 2012 we had the distinct honor of hosting the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius, at our recently expanded clinical skills training and simulation center. It was an incredible opportunity to showcase the amazing technology now available for simulation including, basic clinical skills, and advanced surgical, ultrasound and medical scenarios. More importantly, the day offered our young physician and research scholars a chance to present their research — which truly is the future of medicine. We were also able to highlight our community outreach efforts by showcasing our Moms2B program.
The visit/tour also included the opportunity to view an anesthesia simulation in progress and for the secretary to perform a simulated laparoscopy (during which she found the target within seconds!) Many thanks to Carol Hasbrouck who was able to explain the full range of features available at the center including our virtual colonoscopy device and the ability of our simulation center to promote trans-disciplinary training of physicians, nurses, and pharmacists.
What a day! The secretary seemed impressed with the sophistication of the research being presented and the advances in simulation training. Secretary Sebelius was able to see a glimpse of the future of medical education at The Ohio State University College of Medicine which will incorporate simulation and standardized patients in our new Lead. Serve. Inspire curriculum. Thank you, Secretary Sebelius for taking the time to visit the center and learn more about the great things happening at The Ohio State University College of Medicine.
- Charly Lockwood
After several years of construction and approximately $13,000,000 in construction costs, the new floor atop Prior Hall created to house an expansion of the existing Clinical Skills Education and Assessment Center is preparing to open its doors. An open house celebration is planned for March 1 when faculty, staff and students will have an opportunity to tour the new space.
The sixth floor addition increases the on-site space designated for training medical students, as well as other health sciences students, residents and faculty, by an expansive 18,000 square feet from the original 8,100 square foot center located in the basement of Prior Hall.
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One of the hallmarks of modern technology is the avalanche of information available about seemingly every subject, every aspect of our lives. Despite the wealth of data available, it can be difficult to use when the pieces of information needed reside in different databases or formats that are not easily combined. Medical records present a perfect example of the problem of multiple datasets and formats. At The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Albert Lai, PhD, research assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Informatics, devotes his research to “information fusion,” or the integration of information from multiple, disparate sources to enhance the information signal.
With a family heavily involved in medicine, Lai always wanted to combine his education in computer science with his long-standing interest in medicine. As a graduate student in biomedical informatics, his research focused on the use of telemedicine to support chronic-disease management. Since arriving at Ohio State in 2009, he has focused on creating a cohesive and accurate picture of a patient’s health history. Lai hypothesizes that it is possible to use semantic and temporal data in the health record to create a health history timeline.
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In the ever-changing world of technology, finding a place for it in the classroom can be a challenging and laborious task. From implementing new technology to actually getting students to use it, it is often an uphill battle.
But at The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Doug Danforth, PhD, has emerged as a leader for implementing new technology and creating smart classrooms.
When the LeadServeInspire curriculum rolls out this year, Danforth will be the leader for Part I of the new curriculum. “With the new curriculum, we’re trying to reduce our emphasis on traditional lectures to deliver content. That type of learning doesn’t always promote long-term retention or significant learning with students,” explains Danforth. “Students typically remember 10 to 20 percent of what’s in those lectures. Retention rates are much higher when material is presented in an interactive way.”
We sat down and interviewed Pete Geier, CEO of the OSU Health System and COO of OSU Medical Center to get his view on healthcare reform and how The Ohio State University Medical Center is positioned to handle the coming changes.
1. Timing-wise, when do you foresee healthcare reform happening and how do you see it affecting the University?
I think it’s happening right now, maybe not from all the provisions of the healthcare reform law going into affect on items like exchanges, but I think a lot of the factors and forces that are not going to go away are already affecting us. Issues like the continuing emphasis on quality, bringing readmissions down, population management, those things are all happening now. So I think the impact of reform is here sooner than I think a lot of people have realized.
2. What do you think healthcare reform means for academic medical centers?
I think there are challenges and there are opportunities. I think academic medical centers are really well positioned. I think OSU is well positioned for a number of reasons: our electronic medical record implementation, our own health plan, and our Faculty Group Practice is integrated into the University and our scores are ranked nationally in the Quality and Safety outcomes by the University Health System Consortium. I think the challenge for academic medical centers is how do you fund the research and teaching missions under healthcare reform, and that will be a challenge for us.
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COO of OSU Medical Center
and CEO, James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute
