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leadership. As part of the nine-month
curriculum, each participant develops an
innovative scholarly project exploring some
aspect of teaching or continuing education
methodology.
“After I completed the program, my
ITSP scholarly project was accepted for
presentation at the Radiological Society of
North America conference,” she said.
The 11 inaugural ITSP scholars, consisting of a research scientist, a physician
assistant, a nurse and eight physicians,
included John A. Payne, Ph.D., a professor
of physiology and membrane biology.
“My project for the Interprofessional
Teaching Scholars Program centered on
implementing active learning into the
first-year medical physiology course,”
Payne said. “While I have not abandoned
lectures, some classroom sessions have
been converted to case-based, small-group
discussions. It is my hope that such form
of instruction will help students become
independent lifelong learners.”
The program’s three-hour sessions
are held in the Education Building
classrooms, using various interactive
teaching approaches, including smallgroup discussion, lectures, games and
videos. Sessions are videotaped, enabling
participants to review the sessions and
analyze their teaching styles.
“The ITSP curriculum focuses on
teaching and learning, leadership, diversity
and inclusion, interprofessionalism, and
educational scholarship,” explains Jeri
Bigbee, Ph.D., R.N., an adjunct professor
in the Betty Irene Moore School of
Nursing. She co-directs the ITSP with
Craig Keenan, M.D., a professor in the
Department of Internal Medicine, the
Residency Program of which he oversees.
Cheryl Busman, program manager of
the Faculty Development Program in the
Office of Academic Personnel, performs
administrative support. ITSP receives
funding from the School of Medicine and
the School of Nursing.
“Interprofessionalism represents
a collaborative approach to practice,
education and scholarship that includes all
the health professions with an emphasis on
teamwork. The unique perspectives and
contributions of each of the professions
Faculty Development Program
are recognized and valued, along with the
common views and goals shared by all
health professionals,” Bigbee explained. “In
the practice environment, interprofessional
collaboration promotes safety and patientand family-centered care. It also serves to
break down traditional hierarchies and
silos in health care, thereby promoting
cooperation and teamwork. A strong
interprofessional foundation in health
professions educational programs is
required for these positive outcomes.”
Craig Keenan views interprofessionalism as the means by which people from
different health professions — MDs, RNs,
PAs, NPs, social workers, pharmacists,
physical therapists and others — learn together how to teach our students and care
for our patients.
“Regardless of the profession, we need
to share much more with our colleagues
when it comes to education. Good teaching
skills transcend what one’s profession
is,” Keenan observes. “We are more alike
than different. We very often share the
same goals, ideals and passions. The ITSP
will play an important role in creating a
tight-knit cadre of educators from different
professional backgrounds who learn from
the program and from each other how
to be better teachers, pursue scholarly
work in education, and become leaders of
educational programs at UC Davis.”
The ITSP curriculum encompasses
learning theory, individual learning styles,
the ways in which personality affects
teaching and learning, and skills for
teaching in divergent settings and formats.
Leadership, interprofessionalism, diversity
and inclusion, and educational scholarship
are elements that are interwoven
throughout the program.
“Sessions in the program also focus on
methods and approaches to educational
research and scholarship, including
curriculum development and evaluation,
learner assessment, and educational
scholarship publication and presentation,”
Bigbee said. “These topics are often new
for ITSP scholars whose backgrounds
have focused primarily on clinical or basic
science research.”
Piri Ackerman-Barger, Ph.D., R.N., an
assistant adjunct professor and assistant
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director of the Master’s Entry Program
in Nursing, said that the ITSP enabled
her to synthesize how medical education
and nursing education are different and
similar.
“In advancing an interprofessional
healthcare pedagogy, we must both
appreciate and unpack the many beliefs
that we have held about how to educate
health care professionals,” AckermanBarger said. “Further, there are distinct
parallels between the skill and humility
involved in interprofessional education
and culturally competent health
care. ITSP has enhanced my depth of
scholarship in this area.”
By means of ongoing and summative
program evaluations, the participating
scholars registered a high degree of
satisfaction with the program and
indicated that what they have learned
through their ITSP experience has
enhanced their teaching, career
development and scholarship.
“Their feedback confirms that the
nurturing of a cohesive community of
educational scholars is a critical element
of the program. Our scholars, who are
all passionate about education, often
expressed that they felt isolated in their
academic environments that focused
more heavily on research or practice.
By developing close collegial relationships with their fellow ITSP scholars,
they established a supportive network of
like-minded colleagues to support their
leadership as they move forward in their
careers,” Bigbee said. “The ITSP embodies the values and the future of UC Davis
schools of health. It is foundational in
terms of our interprofessional perspective, our commitment to diversity and
inclusion, and the valuing of teaching
within our institution.”
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You are invited! We encourage you to
enroll in one of the various workshops
and events sponsored by the Faculty
Development Program. For more event
details and to register, visit
www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/facultydev/
and click Enroll Online. (Event
co-sponsors are indicated within
parentheses.) Volunteer Clinical
Faculty members are also welcome
and encouraged to attend faculty
development events.
December
October
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1 New Faculty Workshop – Tools for
Success
8 Workshop: Understanding Your Compensation Plan
8 Workshop: Introduction to MyInfoVault
12 Special Guest Speaker, Catherine D.
DeAngelis, M.D. (WIMHS)
10 Workshop: Enhanced Training for Faculty Search Committee Members
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professional and career development needs of
UC Davis Health System faculty members.
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Visit http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/
teachingscholars/ to learn more about
ITSP. No fee is charged for enrollment
in the ITSP. Applicants must obtain a
letter of nomination from their academic
leader, along with authorization for
protected time – four to five hours a
week over the duration of the ninemonth program.
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EditPros LLC
Writing and Editing
www.editpros.com
15 Breakfast with the Vice Chancellor /
Dean
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Act of Communicating, Part 1
(ECLP/MCLP)
January
21 Workshop: Enhanced Training for
Faculty Search Committee Members
8 The Visualization of Data: Telling a Story with Numbers, Part 1 (ECLP/MCLP)
‘Smartly designed, brilliantly executed’ program draws praise
Rigorous medical and nursing school
curricula and internships, residencies
and fellowships do an exceptional job
of preparing participants for clinical,
research and public health career paths.
But health care professionals who enter
academic roles may find themselves
lacking in one important area of
training: teaching methods.
Shadi Aminololama-Shakeri came
to that realization after joining the UC
Davis faculty in 2010. AminololamaShakeri, M.D., an assistant professor of
diagnostic radiology, recognized that
she would improve the effectiveness
of her teaching by becoming more
of a facilitator rather than strictly a
lecturer. She found the additional
training she sought by enrolling as a
scholar in the UC Davis Health System’s
Interprofessional Teaching Scholars
Program (ITSP). Inaugurated a year
ago, this faculty development program
is drawing praise from its first-year
participants.
“The ITSP is a smartly designed
and brilliantly executed program,
which has given me tools immediately
applicable to my educational mission.
I use my ITSP methodologies daily at
the workstation and in the classroom.
Using strategies that the program taught
me, I am slowly updating ingrained
habits as an educator,” AminololamaShakeri said. “By shifting from lecturer
to facilitator, I am able to bring a
more interactive and learner-focused
environment to my students.”
She observes that in addition to
teaching a broad base of topics from
adult learning theory to education
policy, the ITSP emphasizes and
supports education scholarship and
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26 Emotional Intelligence: Practical Tools to Develop More, Part 1 (ECLP/MCLP)
November
Event co-sponsors
MCLP: Mid-Career Leadership Program
2 Workshop: Health Sciences
Clinical Professor (HSCP) Faculty
Promotions Processs
WIMHS: Women in Medicine and
Health Sciences
3 Workshop: Faculty Merits,
Promotions and Tenure
ECLP: Early Career Leadership Program
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Mind works Under Pressure, Part 1
(ECLP/MCLP)
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officeVISIT
MEDICAL INTERNET PIONEER GEORGE LUNDBERG
CHAIRED UC DAVIS PATHOLOGY FOR FIVE YEARS
Patients during the past two decades
have become far more educated than
ever before about physiology, health
and disease progression. Knowledge
enabling lay people to participate in
informed medical decisions has reshaped
the dynamics between patients and
physicians. That shift is largely attributable
to the proliferation of medical information
on the Internet, of which former UC
Davis School of Medicine faculty member
George D. Lundberg has been an
influential pioneer.
Lundberg, whom founding Dean John
Tupper recruited to become chair of the
UC Davis Department of Pathology in
1977, subsequently soared to international
prominence with a series of high-profile
appointments. For 17 years beginning
in 1982, Lundberg held editorial
administrative positions at the American
Medical Association, serving as editor of
JAMA and overseeing 38 affiliated medical
journals. In 1999 he became editor-inchief of Medscape and the founding editor
of both CBS HealthWatch and Medscape
General Medicine, the original open-access
general medical journal (later renamed
the Medscape Journal of Medicine). In 2006,
he added the role of editor-in-chief of
eMedicine from WebMD, an innovative,
open access, multidisciplinary medical
reference source. Now a sprightly octogenarian,
Lundberg holds five positions: chief
medical officer and editor-in-chief of
CollabRx, a NASDAQ-traded company
specializing in applied oncogenomics;
president and chair of the board of
directors of The Lundberg Institute, a
nonprofit organization that presents
medical lectures by distinguished
speakers; executive adviser for the online
medical journal Cureus (pronounced
“curious,” but intimating “cure us”);
columnist and editor at large for Medscape
from WebMD; and a volunteer consulting
professor for Stanford University’s
George Lundberg (courtesy photo)
departments of pathology, and health
research and policy.
Raised in “L.A.” — Lower Alabama,
that is — Lundberg is fiercely loyal to
the Crimson Tide of the University of
Alabama, where he did his undergraduate
work in chemistry before obtaining his
M.D. degree from the Medical College
of Alabama in 1957. Lundberg’s interest
in medicine was kindled when he was 5
years old by his family physician. But his
father’s work as a music teacher and his
mother’s career as a teacher and part-time
writer for local newspapers inspired his
interest in writing and in academics. He
wound up combining all of that into a
career that he shaped, evolving from an
academician to a medical journalist.
After 11 years as a commissioned
officer (Vietnam-era veteran) in the U.S.
Army and a decade at the University of
Southern California, Lundberg jumped at
Tupper’s offer to join UC Davis because it
gave him the opportunity to administer an
academic department.
“I am proud of how well UC Davis has
done over the years, and how honored
I was to have the opportunity to serve
as a professor and chair of its pathology
department for five years,” Lundberg said.
Hanne Jensen, a founding member of
the UC Davis School of Medicine faculty
and current director of the department’s
transfusion medicine service, remembers
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BY JULIE A. FREISCHLAG, VICE CHANCELLOR AND DEAN
Angela Haczku
INCLUSION EXCELLENCE: GETTING
TO KNOW EACH OTHER BETTER
Brad Pollock
Each edition of the Faculty Newsletter introduces several faculty colleagues who recently joined the UC Davis
Health System community. Watch for more new clinical and research staff members in the next issue.
Lundberg’s groundbreaking work
establishing critical values for laboratory
tests – an innovative concept for the time
that has become a laboratory standard
worldwide. Jensen recalls when the
laboratory personnel first began calling
critical values to the primary care team,
an important practice that continues
today and has become a requirement for
laboratory accreditation by the College of
American Pathologists.
Lydia Howell, current chair of the
UC Davis Department of Pathology and
Laboratory Medicine, said, “In developing
and implementing the concept of critical
values, as well as the importance of
lab test turnaround time for medical
decision-making, Dr. Lundberg was at
the forefront of establishing the patientfocused laboratory. This patient-centric
focus forms the core of our values in
delivering laboratory services today.”
Even though Lundberg has earned
his living throughout the past 30 years
as a medical journalist and editor, he still
considers himself foremost a pathologist.
“I practice pathology every day
in what I do,” said Lundberg, whose
medical license and board certifications
remain valid. “I’ve remained very active
in pathology organizations, and in the
literature of the field, through much of
my time as an editor.”
Lundberg advises medical students
that the field of pathology is a metaphorical bridge between fundamental science
and the practice of medicine.
“That’s one discipline in which
you can remain a scientist while
influencing clinicians in their various
best practices,” he observed. “It
remains the most fundamental science
that informs how medical practice
should be done, and offers great
flexibility for careers. Pathologists
work in all kinds of interesting and
medically important endeavors, in and
out of the laboratory.”
Angela Haczku studying
pulmonary immune responses
HIV and obesity. He envisions creation
of a new academic Division of Health
Informatics, as well as a new Division
Pulmonary medicine and immunology
of Health Services Research/Health
specialist Angela Haczku, M.D., Ph.D.,
a professor of internal medicine, is director Economics.
of the UC Davis Translational Lung
Other new colleagues
Biology Research Center. Her research
n Amy Barnhorst, M.D., an assistant
focuses on how the innate and adaptive
clinical professor of psychiatry and
immune systems cooperate during
behavioral sciences, is associate
development and resolution of pulmonary
medical director of crisis services at
inflammation.
the Sacramento County Mental Health
Research fellows in her laboratory
Treatment Center. There she oversees
are involved in projects exploring
the county’s psychiatric crisis unit
the role of environmental exposures,
attached to a 50-bed inpatient facility.
including cigarette smoke, air pollution
In her research, she studies firearms law
and psychosocial stress. Haczku and
and mental illness, and violence risk
her colleagues are investigating lung
assessment. She is board-certified in
collectins, immunoglobin E-mediated
psychiatry.
immune mechanisms, promoter regulation
n Board-certified obstetrician and
of the surfactant protein D gene and
gynecologist Jocylen Glassberg,
mechanisms of corticosteroid resistance.
M.D., an assistant clinical professor,
Brad Pollock envisions creating
performs prenatal and pregnancy care,
health research informatics units
pre-conceptual counseling, well woman
exams, and contraception care. She
Pediatric cancer epidemiology expert
has expertise in sexually transmitted
Brad Pollock, Ph.D., M.P.H., professor
infection testing and treatment for
and chair of the Department of Public
women, vaginal and intercourse-related
Health Sciences, is principal investigator
pain, menopausal concerns and FDAof a $19 million NCI grant to engage
approved treatments, problems with
community physicians in cancer clinical
periods, and some urinary incontinence
trials. He formerly chaired the Biostatistics,
problems.
Epidemiology, Research Design (BERD)
n Li-En Jao, Ph.D., an assistant
Key Function Committee of the Clinical
professor of cell biology and human
Translational Science Award (CTSA)
anatomy, seeks to understand how the
National Consortium.
centrosome regulates cell function and
Pollock, an epidemiologist and
influences development. Dysfunction
biostatistician with extensive experience
of centrosomes has been linked to
in clinical and translational research,
cancer, dwarfism, microcephaly
developed nationwide prominence
(disorders with small head size),
conducting and participating in multiand various ciliopathies. He and his
institutional studies in oncology, diabetes,
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Julie A. Freischlag
colleagues use proteomics, cell biology,
zebrafish genetics and other approaches
in their research.
n
Board-certified otolaryngologist Maggie
A. Kuhn, M.D., treats complex voice,
swallowing and airway disorders in
patients of all ages. Kuhn, an assistant
professor of otolaryngology–head and
neck surgery and clinical director of the
Center for Voice and Swallowing, is a
scholar in the Clinical and Translational
Science Center’s mentored clinical
research training program. Her research
on swallowing disorders focuses on
improving quality of life for patients
with head and neck cancers.
n
Board-certified internist Eleanor Bimla
Schwarz, M.D., M.S., a professor of
internal medicine and health services
researcher who specializes in women’s
health, is a senior medical consultant
for the California Department of
Health Care Services’ Office of Family
Planning. She studies lactation and
women’s risk of cardiovascular disease,
as well as the use of health information
technology to improve access to
contraception and preconception
counseling for women at risk of adverse
pregnancy outcomes due to chronic
medical conditions, medication use or
limited access to health care.
n
The leaders at UC Davis Health System,
and UC Davis as a whole, who initiated
the commitment to inclusion excellence
recognize that success depends on
everyone understanding what inclusion
excellence is. Many people think it is a
new concept devised within the realm
of academia. Definitions of inclusion
excellence and explanations of how it
functions vary widely, but I’m fond of this
statement:
“We are trying to construct a more
inclusive society. We are going to make a
country in which no one is left out.”
That statement is not mine. It
originated some 80 years ago. That is how,
in a radio talk during the first term of his
presidency, Franklin Delano Roosevelt
succinctly explained the intentions of his
sweeping New Deal program.
Our goal at UC Davis likewise is to
make certain that no one is or feels left
out. David Acosta, the health system’s
associate vice chancellor of Diversity
and Inclusion, and Adrienne LawsonThompson, director of Institutional
Campus Climate and Community
Engagement, are guiding implementation
of inclusion excellence throughout our
educational, research, clinical, recruitment
and personnel-related activities. I view
inclusion excellence as a framework
through which institutions can integrate
diversity and quality.
Many people think inclusion excellence
concerns diversity in gender, race,
ethnicity or sexual preference. That is an
important element of the equation, but
inclusion excellence has much broader
horizons. It also encompasses diversity in
how we approach problems, by teaming
people from various disciplines, with
Yan Zhao, M.D., an assistant clinical
professor of obstetrics and gynecology,
sees patients at the UC Davis Medical
Group offices on Douglas Boulevard in
Roseville. Board-certified in advanced
cardiac life support, she incorporates
discussion about alternative medicines
into her interactions with patients.
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differing and complementary experience
and skills, in devising creative
resolutions. It is a philosophy that
recognizes and values the contributions
that each person in each job
classification can make to fulfilling and
advancing our health system mission.
Those goals are exemplified by the
52 honorees we recognized last May at
our Employee Excellence and Diversity
Celebration Breakfast. They earned
awards in various categories, including
compassion, leadership, diversity,
social responsibility, and teamwork/
collaboration. I congratulate and thank
all of them.
...inclusion excellence has
much broader horizons. It also
encompasses diversity in how we
approach problems, by teaming
people from various disciplines,
with differing and complementary
experience and skills, in devising
creative resolutions.
—Julie Freischlag
This autumn, we are presented with
an opportunity to more deeply imprint
inclusion excellence in our policies.
The process of developing a new fiveyear UC Davis Health System strategic
plan includes re-examining our six
stated guiding principles: excellence,
compassion, leadership, diversity,
social responsibility, and teamwork/
collaboration. These may align with the
new strategic plan, but we will invite
every member of the health system to
revisit them to make certain they have
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not become dated, to see if any points need
to be amplified or modified, and to make
certain that those six guiding principals do
not overlook any important initiatives that
we should undertake.
I will discuss the strategic plan,
along with other topics of interest and
importance, as part of a new video series
called “Three Things with Vice Chancellor
and Dean Freischlag,” which I launched
in August. These brief videos in which I
discuss three items of interest are being
distributed the third Thursday of every
month on The Insider, where they will be
archived. They also will be available from a
link in our Friday Update e-mail messages.
I hope you find the videos enjoyable
and worthwhile, and I welcome your
suggestions for topics.
We also are inaugurating a dinner series
for early academic career faculty members,
as a means for them to get to meet us and
fellow early-career faculty in different
departments and centers. We’re asking
each chair or center director to submit
names for future invitations. If you would
like to be invited, I encourage you to
contact your chair. The dinners will begin
in October, and we’ll likely host about six
of them during the coming year.
That’s in addition to this year’s new
faculty picnic, scheduled for October 16
at 5 p.m. on the grassy area by the MIND
Institute.
Through these and other activities,
we are creating opportunities to get to
know and understand each other better.
Friendship naturally leads to development
of greater mutual appreciation for our
experiences and the ways in which our
skills are complementary, and will help
contribute to improvements in health care
training and outcomes.
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MEDICAL INTERNET PIONEER GEORGE LUNDBERG
CHAIRED UC DAVIS PATHOLOGY FOR FIVE YEARS
Patients during the past two decades
have become far more educated than
ever before about physiology, health
and disease progression. Knowledge
enabling lay people to participate in
informed medical decisions has reshaped
the dynamics between patients and
physicians. That shift is largely attributable
to the proliferation of medical information
on the Internet, of which former UC
Davis School of Medicine faculty member
George D. Lundberg has been an
influential pioneer.
Lundberg, whom founding Dean John
Tupper recruited to become chair of the
UC Davis Department of Pathology in
1977, subsequently soared to international
prominence with a series of high-profile
appointments. For 17 years beginning
in 1982, Lundberg held editorial
administrative positions at the American
Medical Association, serving as editor of
JAMA and overseeing 38 affiliated medical
journals. In 1999 he became editor-inchief of Medscape and the founding editor
of both CBS HealthWatch and Medscape
General Medicine, the original open-access
general medical journal (later renamed
the Medscape Journal of Medicine). In 2006,
he added the role of editor-in-chief of
eMedicine from WebMD, an innovative,
open access, multidisciplinary medical
reference source. Now a sprightly octogenarian,
Lundberg holds five positions: chief
medical officer and editor-in-chief of
CollabRx, a NASDAQ-traded company
specializing in applied oncogenomics;
president and chair of the board of
directors of The Lundberg Institute, a
nonprofit organization that presents
medical lectures by distinguished
speakers; executive adviser for the online
medical journal Cureus (pronounced
“curious,” but intimating “cure us”);
columnist and editor at large for Medscape
from WebMD; and a volunteer consulting
professor for Stanford University’s
George Lundberg (courtesy photo)
departments of pathology, and health
research and policy.
Raised in “L.A.” — Lower Alabama,
that is — Lundberg is fiercely loyal to
the Crimson Tide of the University of
Alabama, where he did his undergraduate
work in chemistry before obtaining his
M.D. degree from the Medical College
of Alabama in 1957. Lundberg’s interest
in medicine was kindled when he was 5
years old by his family physician. But his
father’s work as a music teacher and his
mother’s career as a teacher and part-time
writer for local newspapers inspired his
interest in writing and in academics. He
wound up combining all of that into a
career that he shaped, evolving from an
academician to a medical journalist.
After 11 years as a commissioned
officer (Vietnam-era veteran) in the U.S.
Army and a decade at the University of
Southern California, Lundberg jumped at
Tupper’s offer to join UC Davis because it
gave him the opportunity to administer an
academic department.
“I am proud of how well UC Davis has
done over the years, and how honored
I was to have the opportunity to serve
as a professor and chair of its pathology
department for five years,” Lundberg said.
Hanne Jensen, a founding member of
the UC Davis School of Medicine faculty
and current director of the department’s
transfusion medicine service, remembers
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A WELCOME TO NEW
FACULTY COLLEAGUES
BY JULIE A. FREISCHLAG, VICE CHANCELLOR AND DEAN
Angela Haczku
INCLUSION EXCELLENCE: GETTING
TO KNOW EACH OTHER BETTER
Brad Pollock
Each edition of the Faculty Newsletter introduces several faculty colleagues who recently joined the UC Davis
Health System community. Watch for more new clinical and research staff members in the next issue.
Lundberg’s groundbreaking work
establishing critical values for laboratory
tests – an innovative concept for the time
that has become a laboratory standard
worldwide. Jensen recalls when the
laboratory personnel first began calling
critical values to the primary care team,
an important practice that continues
today and has become a requirement for
laboratory accreditation by the College of
American Pathologists.
Lydia Howell, current chair of the
UC Davis Department of Pathology and
Laboratory Medicine, said, “In developing
and implementing the concept of critical
values, as well as the importance of
lab test turnaround time for medical
decision-making, Dr. Lundberg was at
the forefront of establishing the patientfocused laboratory. This patient-centric
focus forms the core of our values in
delivering laboratory services today.”
Even though Lundberg has earned
his living throughout the past 30 years
as a medical journalist and editor, he still
considers himself foremost a pathologist.
“I practice pathology every day
in what I do,” said Lundberg, whose
medical license and board certifications
remain valid. “I’ve remained very active
in pathology organizations, and in the
literature of the field, through much of
my time as an editor.”
Lundberg advises medical students
that the field of pathology is a metaphorical bridge between fundamental science
and the practice of medicine.
“That’s one discipline in which
you can remain a scientist while
influencing clinicians in their various
best practices,” he observed. “It
remains the most fundamental science
that informs how medical practice
should be done, and offers great
flexibility for careers. Pathologists
work in all kinds of interesting and
medically important endeavors, in and
out of the laboratory.”
Angela Haczku studying
pulmonary immune responses
HIV and obesity. He envisions creation
of a new academic Division of Health
Informatics, as well as a new Division
Pulmonary medicine and immunology
of Health Services Research/Health
specialist Angela Haczku, M.D., Ph.D.,
a professor of internal medicine, is director Economics.
of the UC Davis Translational Lung
Other new colleagues
Biology Research Center. Her research
n Amy Barnhorst, M.D., an assistant
focuses on how the innate and adaptive
clinical professor of psychiatry and
immune systems cooperate during
behavioral sciences, is associate
development and resolution of pulmonary
medical director of crisis services at
inflammation.
the Sacramento County Mental Health
Research fellows in her laboratory
Treatment Center. There she oversees
are involved in projects exploring
the county’s psychiatric crisis unit
the role of environmental exposures,
attached to a 50-bed inpatient facility.
including cigarette smoke, air pollution
In her research, she studies firearms law
and psychosocial stress. Haczku and
and mental illness, and violence risk
her colleagues are investigating lung
assessment. She is board-certified in
collectins, immunoglobin E-mediated
psychiatry.
immune mechanisms, promoter regulation
n Board-certified obstetrician and
of the surfactant protein D gene and
gynecologist Jocylen Glassberg,
mechanisms of corticosteroid resistance.
M.D., an assistant clinical professor,
Brad Pollock envisions creating
performs prenatal and pregnancy care,
health research informatics units
pre-conceptual counseling, well woman
exams, and contraception care. She
Pediatric cancer epidemiology expert
has expertise in sexually transmitted
Brad Pollock, Ph.D., M.P.H., professor
infection testing and treatment for
and chair of the Department of Public
women, vaginal and intercourse-related
Health Sciences, is principal investigator
pain, menopausal concerns and FDAof a $19 million NCI grant to engage
approved treatments, problems with
community physicians in cancer clinical
periods, and some urinary incontinence
trials. He formerly chaired the Biostatistics,
problems.
Epidemiology, Research Design (BERD)
n Li-En Jao, Ph.D., an assistant
Key Function Committee of the Clinical
professor of cell biology and human
Translational Science Award (CTSA)
anatomy, seeks to understand how the
National Consortium.
centrosome regulates cell function and
Pollock, an epidemiologist and
influences development. Dysfunction
biostatistician with extensive experience
of centrosomes has been linked to
in clinical and translational research,
cancer, dwarfism, microcephaly
developed nationwide prominence
(disorders with small head size),
conducting and participating in multiand various ciliopathies. He and his
institutional studies in oncology, diabetes,
2
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colleagues use proteomics, cell biology,
zebrafish genetics and other approaches
in their research.
n
Board-certified otolaryngologist Maggie
A. Kuhn, M.D., treats complex voice,
swallowing and airway disorders in
patients of all ages. Kuhn, an assistant
professor of otolaryngology–head and
neck surgery and clinical director of the
Center for Voice and Swallowing, is a
scholar in the Clinical and Translational
Science Center’s mentored clinical
research training program. Her research
on swallowing disorders focuses on
improving quality of life for patients
with head and neck cancers.
n
Board-certified internist Eleanor Bimla
Schwarz, M.D., M.S., a professor of
internal medicine and health services
researcher who specializes in women’s
health, is a senior medical consultant
for the California Department of
Health Care Services’ Office of Family
Planning. She studies lactation and
women’s risk of cardiovascular disease,
as well as the use of health information
technology to improve access to
contraception and preconception
counseling for women at risk of adverse
pregnancy outcomes due to chronic
medical conditions, medication use or
limited access to health care.
n
The leaders at UC Davis Health System,
and UC Davis as a whole, who initiated
the commitment to inclusion excellence
recognize that success depends on
everyone understanding what inclusion
excellence is. Many people think it is a
new concept devised within the realm
of academia. Definitions of inclusion
excellence and explanations of how it
functions vary widely, but I’m fond of this
statement:
“We are trying to construct a more
inclusive society. We are going to make a
country in which no one is left out.”
That statement is not mine. It
originated some 80 years ago. That is how,
in a radio talk during the first term of his
presidency, Franklin Delano Roosevelt
succinctly explained the intentions of his
sweeping New Deal program.
Our goal at UC Davis likewise is to
make certain that no one is or feels left
out. David Acosta, the health system’s
associate vice chancellor of Diversity
and Inclusion, and Adrienne LawsonThompson, director of Institutional
Campus Climate and Community
Engagement, are guiding implementation
of inclusion excellence throughout our
educational, research, clinical, recruitment
and personnel-related activities. I view
inclusion excellence as a framework
through which institutions can integrate
diversity and quality.
Many people think inclusion excellence
concerns diversity in gender, race,
ethnicity or sexual preference. That is an
important element of the equation, but
inclusion excellence has much broader
horizons. It also encompasses diversity in
how we approach problems, by teaming
people from various disciplines, with
Yan Zhao, M.D., an assistant clinical
professor of obstetrics and gynecology,
sees patients at the UC Davis Medical
Group offices on Douglas Boulevard in
Roseville. Board-certified in advanced
cardiac life support, she incorporates
discussion about alternative medicines
into her interactions with patients.
3
differing and complementary experience
and skills, in devising creative
resolutions. It is a philosophy that
recognizes and values the contributions
that each person in each job
classification can make to fulfilling and
advancing our health system mission.
Those goals are exemplified by the
52 honorees we recognized last May at
our Employee Excellence and Diversity
Celebration Breakfast. They earned
awards in various categories, including
compassion, leadership, diversity,
social responsibility, and teamwork/
collaboration. I congratulate and thank
all of them.
...inclusion excellence has
much broader horizons. It also
encompasses diversity in how we
approach problems, by teaming
people from various disciplines,
with differing and complementary
experience and skills, in devising
creative resolutions.
—Julie Freischlag
This autumn, we are presented with
an opportunity to more deeply imprint
inclusion excellence in our policies.
The process of developing a new fiveyear UC Davis Health System strategic
plan includes re-examining our six
stated guiding principles: excellence,
compassion, leadership, diversity,
social responsibility, and teamwork/
collaboration. These may align with the
new strategic plan, but we will invite
every member of the health system to
revisit them to make certain they have
facultyNEWSLETTER | Autumn 2015 | www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/facultydev
not become dated, to see if any points need
to be amplified or modified, and to make
certain that those six guiding principals do
not overlook any important initiatives that
we should undertake.
I will discuss the strategic plan,
along with other topics of interest and
importance, as part of a new video series
called “Three Things with Vice Chancellor
and Dean Freischlag,” which I launched
in August. These brief videos in which I
discuss three items of interest are being
distributed the third Thursday of every
month on The Insider, where they will be
archived. They also will be available from a
link in our Friday Update e-mail messages.
I hope you find the videos enjoyable
and worthwhile, and I welcome your
suggestions for topics.
We also are inaugurating a dinner series
for early academic career faculty members,
as a means for them to get to meet us and
fellow early-career faculty in different
departments and centers. We’re asking
each chair or center director to submit
names for future invitations. If you would
like to be invited, I encourage you to
contact your chair. The dinners will begin
in October, and we’ll likely host about six
of them during the coming year.
That’s in addition to this year’s new
faculty picnic, scheduled for October 16
at 5 p.m. on the grassy area by the MIND
Institute.
Through these and other activities,
we are creating opportunities to get to
know and understand each other better.
Friendship naturally leads to development
of greater mutual appreciation for our
experiences and the ways in which our
skills are complementary, and will help
contribute to improvements in health care
training and outcomes.
4
officeVISIT
MEDICAL INTERNET PIONEER GEORGE LUNDBERG
CHAIRED UC DAVIS PATHOLOGY FOR FIVE YEARS
Patients during the past two decades
have become far more educated than
ever before about physiology, health
and disease progression. Knowledge
enabling lay people to participate in
informed medical decisions has reshaped
the dynamics between patients and
physicians. That shift is largely attributable
to the proliferation of medical information
on the Internet, of which former UC
Davis School of Medicine faculty member
George D. Lundberg has been an
influential pioneer.
Lundberg, whom founding Dean John
Tupper recruited to become chair of the
UC Davis Department of Pathology in
1977, subsequently soared to international
prominence with a series of high-profile
appointments. For 17 years beginning
in 1982, Lundberg held editorial
administrative positions at the American
Medical Association, serving as editor of
JAMA and overseeing 38 affiliated medical
journals. In 1999 he became editor-inchief of Medscape and the founding editor
of both CBS HealthWatch and Medscape
General Medicine, the original open-access
general medical journal (later renamed
the Medscape Journal of Medicine). In 2006,
he added the role of editor-in-chief of
eMedicine from WebMD, an innovative,
open access, multidisciplinary medical
reference source. Now a sprightly octogenarian,
Lundberg holds five positions: chief
medical officer and editor-in-chief of
CollabRx, a NASDAQ-traded company
specializing in applied oncogenomics;
president and chair of the board of
directors of The Lundberg Institute, a
nonprofit organization that presents
medical lectures by distinguished
speakers; executive adviser for the online
medical journal Cureus (pronounced
“curious,” but intimating “cure us”);
columnist and editor at large for Medscape
from WebMD; and a volunteer consulting
professor for Stanford University’s
George Lundberg (courtesy photo)
departments of pathology, and health
research and policy.
Raised in “L.A.” — Lower Alabama,
that is — Lundberg is fiercely loyal to
the Crimson Tide of the University of
Alabama, where he did his undergraduate
work in chemistry before obtaining his
M.D. degree from the Medical College
of Alabama in 1957. Lundberg’s interest
in medicine was kindled when he was 5
years old by his family physician. But his
father’s work as a music teacher and his
mother’s career as a teacher and part-time
writer for local newspapers inspired his
interest in writing and in academics. He
wound up combining all of that into a
career that he shaped, evolving from an
academician to a medical journalist.
After 11 years as a commissioned
officer (Vietnam-era veteran) in the U.S.
Army and a decade at the University of
Southern California, Lundberg jumped at
Tupper’s offer to join UC Davis because it
gave him the opportunity to administer an
academic department.
“I am proud of how well UC Davis has
done over the years, and how honored
I was to have the opportunity to serve
as a professor and chair of its pathology
department for five years,” Lundberg said.
Hanne Jensen, a founding member of
the UC Davis School of Medicine faculty
and current director of the department’s
transfusion medicine service, remembers
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A WELCOME TO NEW
FACULTY COLLEAGUES
BY JULIE A. FREISCHLAG, VICE CHANCELLOR AND DEAN
Angela Haczku
INCLUSION EXCELLENCE: GETTING
TO KNOW EACH OTHER BETTER
Brad Pollock
Each edition of the Faculty Newsletter introduces several faculty colleagues who recently joined the UC Davis
Health System community. Watch for more new clinical and research staff members in the next issue.
Lundberg’s groundbreaking work
establishing critical values for laboratory
tests – an innovative concept for the time
that has become a laboratory standard
worldwide. Jensen recalls when the
laboratory personnel first began calling
critical values to the primary care team,
an important practice that continues
today and has become a requirement for
laboratory accreditation by the College of
American Pathologists.
Lydia Howell, current chair of the
UC Davis Department of Pathology and
Laboratory Medicine, said, “In developing
and implementing the concept of critical
values, as well as the importance of
lab test turnaround time for medical
decision-making, Dr. Lundberg was at
the forefront of establishing the patientfocused laboratory. This patient-centric
focus forms the core of our values in
delivering laboratory services today.”
Even though Lundberg has earned
his living throughout the past 30 years
as a medical journalist and editor, he still
considers himself foremost a pathologist.
“I practice pathology every day
in what I do,” said Lundberg, whose
medical license and board certifications
remain valid. “I’ve remained very active
in pathology organizations, and in the
literature of the field, through much of
my time as an editor.”
Lundberg advises medical students
that the field of pathology is a metaphorical bridge between fundamental science
and the practice of medicine.
“That’s one discipline in which
you can remain a scientist while
influencing clinicians in their various
best practices,” he observed. “It
remains the most fundamental science
that informs how medical practice
should be done, and offers great
flexibility for careers. Pathologists
work in all kinds of interesting and
medically important endeavors, in and
out of the laboratory.”
Angela Haczku studying
pulmonary immune responses
HIV and obesity. He envisions creation
of a new academic Division of Health
Informatics, as well as a new Division
Pulmonary medicine and immunology
of Health Services Research/Health
specialist Angela Haczku, M.D., Ph.D.,
a professor of internal medicine, is director Economics.
of the UC Davis Translational Lung
Other new colleagues
Biology Research Center. Her research
n Amy Barnhorst, M.D., an assistant
focuses on how the innate and adaptive
clinical professor of psychiatry and
immune systems cooperate during
behavioral sciences, is associate
development and resolution of pulmonary
medical director of crisis services at
inflammation.
the Sacramento County Mental Health
Research fellows in her laboratory
Treatment Center. There she oversees
are involved in projects exploring
the county’s psychiatric crisis unit
the role of environmental exposures,
attached to a 50-bed inpatient facility.
including cigarette smoke, air pollution
In her research, she studies firearms law
and psychosocial stress. Haczku and
and mental illness, and violence risk
her colleagues are investigating lung
assessment. She is board-certified in
collectins, immunoglobin E-mediated
psychiatry.
immune mechanisms, promoter regulation
n Board-certified obstetrician and
of the surfactant protein D gene and
gynecologist Jocylen Glassberg,
mechanisms of corticosteroid resistance.
M.D., an assistant clinical professor,
Brad Pollock envisions creating
performs prenatal and pregnancy care,
health research informatics units
pre-conceptual counseling, well woman
exams, and contraception care. She
Pediatric cancer epidemiology expert
has expertise in sexually transmitted
Brad Pollock, Ph.D., M.P.H., professor
infection testing and treatment for
and chair of the Department of Public
women, vaginal and intercourse-related
Health Sciences, is principal investigator
pain, menopausal concerns and FDAof a $19 million NCI grant to engage
approved treatments, problems with
community physicians in cancer clinical
periods, and some urinary incontinence
trials. He formerly chaired the Biostatistics,
problems.
Epidemiology, Research Design (BERD)
n Li-En Jao, Ph.D., an assistant
Key Function Committee of the Clinical
professor of cell biology and human
Translational Science Award (CTSA)
anatomy, seeks to understand how the
National Consortium.
centrosome regulates cell function and
Pollock, an epidemiologist and
influences development. Dysfunction
biostatistician with extensive experience
of centrosomes has been linked to
in clinical and translational research,
cancer, dwarfism, microcephaly
developed nationwide prominence
(disorders with small head size),
conducting and participating in multiand various ciliopathies. He and his
institutional studies in oncology, diabetes,
2
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Julie A. Freischlag
colleagues use proteomics, cell biology,
zebrafish genetics and other approaches
in their research.
n
Board-certified otolaryngologist Maggie
A. Kuhn, M.D., treats complex voice,
swallowing and airway disorders in
patients of all ages. Kuhn, an assistant
professor of otolaryngology–head and
neck surgery and clinical director of the
Center for Voice and Swallowing, is a
scholar in the Clinical and Translational
Science Center’s mentored clinical
research training program. Her research
on swallowing disorders focuses on
improving quality of life for patients
with head and neck cancers.
n
Board-certified internist Eleanor Bimla
Schwarz, M.D., M.S., a professor of
internal medicine and health services
researcher who specializes in women’s
health, is a senior medical consultant
for the California Department of
Health Care Services’ Office of Family
Planning. She studies lactation and
women’s risk of cardiovascular disease,
as well as the use of health information
technology to improve access to
contraception and preconception
counseling for women at risk of adverse
pregnancy outcomes due to chronic
medical conditions, medication use or
limited access to health care.
n
The leaders at UC Davis Health System,
and UC Davis as a whole, who initiated
the commitment to inclusion excellence
recognize that success depends on
everyone understanding what inclusion
excellence is. Many people think it is a
new concept devised within the realm
of academia. Definitions of inclusion
excellence and explanations of how it
functions vary widely, but I’m fond of this
statement:
“We are trying to construct a more
inclusive society. We are going to make a
country in which no one is left out.”
That statement is not mine. It
originated some 80 years ago. That is how,
in a radio talk during the first term of his
presidency, Franklin Delano Roosevelt
succinctly explained the intentions of his
sweeping New Deal program.
Our goal at UC Davis likewise is to
make certain that no one is or feels left
out. David Acosta, the health system’s
associate vice chancellor of Diversity
and Inclusion, and Adrienne LawsonThompson, director of Institutional
Campus Climate and Community
Engagement, are guiding implementation
of inclusion excellence throughout our
educational, research, clinical, recruitment
and personnel-related activities. I view
inclusion excellence as a framework
through which institutions can integrate
diversity and quality.
Many people think inclusion excellence
concerns diversity in gender, race,
ethnicity or sexual preference. That is an
important element of the equation, but
inclusion excellence has much broader
horizons. It also encompasses diversity in
how we approach problems, by teaming
people from various disciplines, with
Yan Zhao, M.D., an assistant clinical
professor of obstetrics and gynecology,
sees patients at the UC Davis Medical
Group offices on Douglas Boulevard in
Roseville. Board-certified in advanced
cardiac life support, she incorporates
discussion about alternative medicines
into her interactions with patients.
3
differing and complementary experience
and skills, in devising creative
resolutions. It is a philosophy that
recognizes and values the contributions
that each person in each job
classification can make to fulfilling and
advancing our health system mission.
Those goals are exemplified by the
52 honorees we recognized last May at
our Employee Excellence and Diversity
Celebration Breakfast. They earned
awards in various categories, including
compassion, leadership, diversity,
social responsibility, and teamwork/
collaboration. I congratulate and thank
all of them.
...inclusion excellence has
much broader horizons. It also
encompasses diversity in how we
approach problems, by teaming
people from various disciplines,
with differing and complementary
experience and skills, in devising
creative resolutions.
—Julie Freischlag
This autumn, we are presented with
an opportunity to more deeply imprint
inclusion excellence in our policies.
The process of developing a new fiveyear UC Davis Health System strategic
plan includes re-examining our six
stated guiding principles: excellence,
compassion, leadership, diversity,
social responsibility, and teamwork/
collaboration. These may align with the
new strategic plan, but we will invite
every member of the health system to
revisit them to make certain they have
facultyNEWSLETTER | Autumn 2015 | www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/facultydev
not become dated, to see if any points need
to be amplified or modified, and to make
certain that those six guiding principals do
not overlook any important initiatives that
we should undertake.
I will discuss the strategic plan,
along with other topics of interest and
importance, as part of a new video series
called “Three Things with Vice Chancellor
and Dean Freischlag,” which I launched
in August. These brief videos in which I
discuss three items of interest are being
distributed the third Thursday of every
month on The Insider, where they will be
archived. They also will be available from a
link in our Friday Update e-mail messages.
I hope you find the videos enjoyable
and worthwhile, and I welcome your
suggestions for topics.
We also are inaugurating a dinner series
for early academic career faculty members,
as a means for them to get to meet us and
fellow early-career faculty in different
departments and centers. We’re asking
each chair or center director to submit
names for future invitations. If you would
like to be invited, I encourage you to
contact your chair. The dinners will begin
in October, and we’ll likely host about six
of them during the coming year.
That’s in addition to this year’s new
faculty picnic, scheduled for October 16
at 5 p.m. on the grassy area by the MIND
Institute.
Through these and other activities,
we are creating opportunities to get to
know and understand each other better.
Friendship naturally leads to development
of greater mutual appreciation for our
experiences and the ways in which our
skills are complementary, and will help
contribute to improvements in health care
training and outcomes.
4
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leadership. As part of the nine-month
curriculum, each participant develops an
innovative scholarly project exploring some
aspect of teaching or continuing education
methodology.
“After I completed the program, my
ITSP scholarly project was accepted for
presentation at the Radiological Society of
North America conference,” she said.
The 11 inaugural ITSP scholars, consisting of a research scientist, a physician
assistant, a nurse and eight physicians,
included John A. Payne, Ph.D., a professor
of physiology and membrane biology.
“My project for the Interprofessional
Teaching Scholars Program centered on
implementing active learning into the
first-year medical physiology course,”
Payne said. “While I have not abandoned
lectures, some classroom sessions have
been converted to case-based, small-group
discussions. It is my hope that such form
of instruction will help students become
independent lifelong learners.”
The program’s three-hour sessions
are held in the Education Building
classrooms, using various interactive
teaching approaches, including smallgroup discussion, lectures, games and
videos. Sessions are videotaped, enabling
participants to review the sessions and
analyze their teaching styles.
“The ITSP curriculum focuses on
teaching and learning, leadership, diversity
and inclusion, interprofessionalism, and
educational scholarship,” explains Jeri
Bigbee, Ph.D., R.N., an adjunct professor
in the Betty Irene Moore School of
Nursing. She co-directs the ITSP with
Craig Keenan, M.D., a professor in the
Department of Internal Medicine, the
Residency Program of which he oversees.
Cheryl Busman, program manager of
the Faculty Development Program in the
Office of Academic Personnel, performs
administrative support. ITSP receives
funding from the School of Medicine and
the School of Nursing.
“Interprofessionalism represents
a collaborative approach to practice,
education and scholarship that includes all
the health professions with an emphasis on
teamwork. The unique perspectives and
contributions of each of the professions
Faculty Development Program
are recognized and valued, along with the
common views and goals shared by all
health professionals,” Bigbee explained. “In
the practice environment, interprofessional
collaboration promotes safety and patientand family-centered care. It also serves to
break down traditional hierarchies and
silos in health care, thereby promoting
cooperation and teamwork. A strong
interprofessional foundation in health
professions educational programs is
required for these positive outcomes.”
Craig Keenan views interprofessionalism as the means by which people from
different health professions — MDs, RNs,
PAs, NPs, social workers, pharmacists,
physical therapists and others — learn together how to teach our students and care
for our patients.
“Regardless of the profession, we need
to share much more with our colleagues
when it comes to education. Good teaching
skills transcend what one’s profession
is,” Keenan observes. “We are more alike
than different. We very often share the
same goals, ideals and passions. The ITSP
will play an important role in creating a
tight-knit cadre of educators from different
professional backgrounds who learn from
the program and from each other how
to be better teachers, pursue scholarly
work in education, and become leaders of
educational programs at UC Davis.”
The ITSP curriculum encompasses
learning theory, individual learning styles,
the ways in which personality affects
teaching and learning, and skills for
teaching in divergent settings and formats.
Leadership, interprofessionalism, diversity
and inclusion, and educational scholarship
are elements that are interwoven
throughout the program.
“Sessions in the program also focus on
methods and approaches to educational
research and scholarship, including
curriculum development and evaluation,
learner assessment, and educational
scholarship publication and presentation,”
Bigbee said. “These topics are often new
for ITSP scholars whose backgrounds
have focused primarily on clinical or basic
science research.”
Piri Ackerman-Barger, Ph.D., R.N., an
assistant adjunct professor and assistant
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director of the Master’s Entry Program
in Nursing, said that the ITSP enabled
her to synthesize how medical education
and nursing education are different and
similar.
“In advancing an interprofessional
healthcare pedagogy, we must both
appreciate and unpack the many beliefs
that we have held about how to educate
health care professionals,” AckermanBarger said. “Further, there are distinct
parallels between the skill and humility
involved in interprofessional education
and culturally competent health
care. ITSP has enhanced my depth of
scholarship in this area.”
By means of ongoing and summative
program evaluations, the participating
scholars registered a high degree of
satisfaction with the program and
indicated that what they have learned
through their ITSP experience has
enhanced their teaching, career
development and scholarship.
“Their feedback confirms that the
nurturing of a cohesive community of
educational scholars is a critical element
of the program. Our scholars, who are
all passionate about education, often
expressed that they felt isolated in their
academic environments that focused
more heavily on research or practice.
By developing close collegial relationships with their fellow ITSP scholars,
they established a supportive network of
like-minded colleagues to support their
leadership as they move forward in their
careers,” Bigbee said. “The ITSP embodies the values and the future of UC Davis
schools of health. It is foundational in
terms of our interprofessional perspective, our commitment to diversity and
inclusion, and the valuing of teaching
within our institution.”
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Workshops and other activities
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You are invited! We encourage you to
enroll in one of the various workshops
and events sponsored by the Faculty
Development Program. For more event
details and to register, visit
www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/facultydev/
and click Enroll Online. (Event
co-sponsors are indicated within
parentheses.) Volunteer Clinical
Faculty members are also welcome
and encouraged to attend faculty
development events.
December
October
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19 Workshop: Enhanced Training for Faculty Search Committee Members
1 New Faculty Workshop – Tools for
Success
8 Workshop: Understanding Your Compensation Plan
8 Workshop: Introduction to MyInfoVault
12 Special Guest Speaker, Catherine D.
DeAngelis, M.D. (WIMHS)
10 Workshop: Enhanced Training for Faculty Search Committee Members
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Development, which administers and
coordinates programs that respond to the
professional and career development needs of
UC Davis Health System faculty members.
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2315 Stockton Blvd.
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Edward Callahan, Ph.D.
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Brent Seifert, J.D.
Assistant Dean for Academic Personnel
Visit http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/
teachingscholars/ to learn more about
ITSP. No fee is charged for enrollment
in the ITSP. Applicants must obtain a
letter of nomination from their academic
leader, along with authorization for
protected time – four to five hours a
week over the duration of the ninemonth program.
Cheryl Busman
Program Manager, Faculty Development
cdbusman@ucdavis.edu
EditPros LLC
Writing and Editing
www.editpros.com
15 Breakfast with the Vice Chancellor /
Dean
16 The Complex Reality of the Simple
Act of Communicating, Part 1
(ECLP/MCLP)
January
21 Workshop: Enhanced Training for
Faculty Search Committee Members
8 The Visualization of Data: Telling a Story with Numbers, Part 1 (ECLP/MCLP)
‘Smartly designed, brilliantly executed’ program draws praise
Rigorous medical and nursing school
curricula and internships, residencies
and fellowships do an exceptional job
of preparing participants for clinical,
research and public health career paths.
But health care professionals who enter
academic roles may find themselves
lacking in one important area of
training: teaching methods.
Shadi Aminololama-Shakeri came
to that realization after joining the UC
Davis faculty in 2010. AminololamaShakeri, M.D., an assistant professor of
diagnostic radiology, recognized that
she would improve the effectiveness
of her teaching by becoming more
of a facilitator rather than strictly a
lecturer. She found the additional
training she sought by enrolling as a
scholar in the UC Davis Health System’s
Interprofessional Teaching Scholars
Program (ITSP). Inaugurated a year
ago, this faculty development program
is drawing praise from its first-year
participants.
“The ITSP is a smartly designed
and brilliantly executed program,
which has given me tools immediately
applicable to my educational mission.
I use my ITSP methodologies daily at
the workstation and in the classroom.
Using strategies that the program taught
me, I am slowly updating ingrained
habits as an educator,” AminololamaShakeri said. “By shifting from lecturer
to facilitator, I am able to bring a
more interactive and learner-focused
environment to my students.”
She observes that in addition to
teaching a broad base of topics from
adult learning theory to education
policy, the ITSP emphasizes and
supports education scholarship and
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Act of Communicating, Part 2
(ECLP/MCLP)
15 The Visualization of Data: Telling a Story with Numbers, Part 2 (ECLP/MCLP)
26 Emotional Intelligence: Practical Tools to Develop More, Part 1 (ECLP/MCLP)
November
Event co-sponsors
MCLP: Mid-Career Leadership Program
2 Workshop: Health Sciences
Clinical Professor (HSCP) Faculty
Promotions Processs
WIMHS: Women in Medicine and
Health Sciences
3 Workshop: Faculty Merits,
Promotions and Tenure
ECLP: Early Career Leadership Program
13 Lessons from Tenerife: How the
Mind works Under Pressure, Part 1
(ECLP/MCLP)
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Jeri Bigbee, Cheryl Busman and Craig Keenan (L-R) discuss an upcoming ITSP class session.
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leadership. As part of the nine-month
curriculum, each participant develops an
innovative scholarly project exploring some
aspect of teaching or continuing education
methodology.
“After I completed the program, my
ITSP scholarly project was accepted for
presentation at the Radiological Society of
North America conference,” she said.
The 11 inaugural ITSP scholars, consisting of a research scientist, a physician
assistant, a nurse and eight physicians,
included John A. Payne, Ph.D., a professor
of physiology and membrane biology.
“My project for the Interprofessional
Teaching Scholars Program centered on
implementing active learning into the
first-year medical physiology course,”
Payne said. “While I have not abandoned
lectures, some classroom sessions have
been converted to case-based, small-group
discussions. It is my hope that such form
of instruction will help students become
independent lifelong learners.”
The program’s three-hour sessions
are held in the Education Building
classrooms, using various interactive
teaching approaches, including smallgroup discussion, lectures, games and
videos. Sessions are videotaped, enabling
participants to review the sessions and
analyze their teaching styles.
“The ITSP curriculum focuses on
teaching and learning, leadership, diversity
and inclusion, interprofessionalism, and
educational scholarship,” explains Jeri
Bigbee, Ph.D., R.N., an adjunct professor
in the Betty Irene Moore School of
Nursing. She co-directs the ITSP with
Craig Keenan, M.D., a professor in the
Department of Internal Medicine, the
Residency Program of which he oversees.
Cheryl Busman, program manager of
the Faculty Development Program in the
Office of Academic Personnel, performs
administrative support. ITSP receives
funding from the School of Medicine and
the School of Nursing.
“Interprofessionalism represents
a collaborative approach to practice,
education and scholarship that includes all
the health professions with an emphasis on
teamwork. The unique perspectives and
contributions of each of the professions
Faculty Development Program
are recognized and valued, along with the
common views and goals shared by all
health professionals,” Bigbee explained. “In
the practice environment, interprofessional
collaboration promotes safety and patientand family-centered care. It also serves to
break down traditional hierarchies and
silos in health care, thereby promoting
cooperation and teamwork. A strong
interprofessional foundation in health
professions educational programs is
required for these positive outcomes.”
Craig Keenan views interprofessionalism as the means by which people from
different health professions — MDs, RNs,
PAs, NPs, social workers, pharmacists,
physical therapists and others — learn together how to teach our students and care
for our patients.
“Regardless of the profession, we need
to share much more with our colleagues
when it comes to education. Good teaching
skills transcend what one’s profession
is,” Keenan observes. “We are more alike
than different. We very often share the
same goals, ideals and passions. The ITSP
will play an important role in creating a
tight-knit cadre of educators from different
professional backgrounds who learn from
the program and from each other how
to be better teachers, pursue scholarly
work in education, and become leaders of
educational programs at UC Davis.”
The ITSP curriculum encompasses
learning theory, individual learning styles,
the ways in which personality affects
teaching and learning, and skills for
teaching in divergent settings and formats.
Leadership, interprofessionalism, diversity
and inclusion, and educational scholarship
are elements that are interwoven
throughout the program.
“Sessions in the program also focus on
methods and approaches to educational
research and scholarship, including
curriculum development and evaluation,
learner assessment, and educational
scholarship publication and presentation,”
Bigbee said. “These topics are often new
for ITSP scholars whose backgrounds
have focused primarily on clinical or basic
science research.”
Piri Ackerman-Barger, Ph.D., R.N., an
assistant adjunct professor and assistant
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director of the Master’s Entry Program
in Nursing, said that the ITSP enabled
her to synthesize how medical education
and nursing education are different and
similar.
“In advancing an interprofessional
healthcare pedagogy, we must both
appreciate and unpack the many beliefs
that we have held about how to educate
health care professionals,” AckermanBarger said. “Further, there are distinct
parallels between the skill and humility
involved in interprofessional education
and culturally competent health
care. ITSP has enhanced my depth of
scholarship in this area.”
By means of ongoing and summative
program evaluations, the participating
scholars registered a high degree of
satisfaction with the program and
indicated that what they have learned
through their ITSP experience has
enhanced their teaching, career
development and scholarship.
“Their feedback confirms that the
nurturing of a cohesive community of
educational scholars is a critical element
of the program. Our scholars, who are
all passionate about education, often
expressed that they felt isolated in their
academic environments that focused
more heavily on research or practice.
By developing close collegial relationships with their fellow ITSP scholars,
they established a supportive network of
like-minded colleagues to support their
leadership as they move forward in their
careers,” Bigbee said. “The ITSP embodies the values and the future of UC Davis
schools of health. It is foundational in
terms of our interprofessional perspective, our commitment to diversity and
inclusion, and the valuing of teaching
within our institution.”
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Workshops and other activities
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You are invited! We encourage you to
enroll in one of the various workshops
and events sponsored by the Faculty
Development Program. For more event
details and to register, visit
www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/facultydev/
and click Enroll Online. (Event
co-sponsors are indicated within
parentheses.) Volunteer Clinical
Faculty members are also welcome
and encouraged to attend faculty
development events.
December
October
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19 Workshop: Enhanced Training for Faculty Search Committee Members
1 New Faculty Workshop – Tools for
Success
8 Workshop: Understanding Your Compensation Plan
8 Workshop: Introduction to MyInfoVault
12 Special Guest Speaker, Catherine D.
DeAngelis, M.D. (WIMHS)
10 Workshop: Enhanced Training for Faculty Search Committee Members
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Development, which administers and
coordinates programs that respond to the
professional and career development needs of
UC Davis Health System faculty members.
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2315 Stockton Blvd.
Sherman Building, Suite 3900
Sacramento, CA 95817
(916) 703-9230
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Brent Seifert, J.D.
Assistant Dean for Academic Personnel
Visit http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/
teachingscholars/ to learn more about
ITSP. No fee is charged for enrollment
in the ITSP. Applicants must obtain a
letter of nomination from their academic
leader, along with authorization for
protected time – four to five hours a
week over the duration of the ninemonth program.
Cheryl Busman
Program Manager, Faculty Development
cdbusman@ucdavis.edu
EditPros LLC
Writing and Editing
www.editpros.com
15 Breakfast with the Vice Chancellor /
Dean
16 The Complex Reality of the Simple
Act of Communicating, Part 1
(ECLP/MCLP)
January
21 Workshop: Enhanced Training for
Faculty Search Committee Members
8 The Visualization of Data: Telling a Story with Numbers, Part 1 (ECLP/MCLP)
‘Smartly designed, brilliantly executed’ program draws praise
Rigorous medical and nursing school
curricula and internships, residencies
and fellowships do an exceptional job
of preparing participants for clinical,
research and public health career paths.
But health care professionals who enter
academic roles may find themselves
lacking in one important area of
training: teaching methods.
Shadi Aminololama-Shakeri came
to that realization after joining the UC
Davis faculty in 2010. AminololamaShakeri, M.D., an assistant professor of
diagnostic radiology, recognized that
she would improve the effectiveness
of her teaching by becoming more
of a facilitator rather than strictly a
lecturer. She found the additional
training she sought by enrolling as a
scholar in the UC Davis Health System’s
Interprofessional Teaching Scholars
Program (ITSP). Inaugurated a year
ago, this faculty development program
is drawing praise from its first-year
participants.
“The ITSP is a smartly designed
and brilliantly executed program,
which has given me tools immediately
applicable to my educational mission.
I use my ITSP methodologies daily at
the workstation and in the classroom.
Using strategies that the program taught
me, I am slowly updating ingrained
habits as an educator,” AminololamaShakeri said. “By shifting from lecturer
to facilitator, I am able to bring a
more interactive and learner-focused
environment to my students.”
She observes that in addition to
teaching a broad base of topics from
adult learning theory to education
policy, the ITSP emphasizes and
supports education scholarship and
CONTINUED ON PAGE 5
23 The Complex Reality of the Simple
Act of Communicating, Part 2
(ECLP/MCLP)
15 The Visualization of Data: Telling a Story with Numbers, Part 2 (ECLP/MCLP)
26 Emotional Intelligence: Practical Tools to Develop More, Part 1 (ECLP/MCLP)
November
Event co-sponsors
MCLP: Mid-Career Leadership Program
2 Workshop: Health Sciences
Clinical Professor (HSCP) Faculty
Promotions Processs
WIMHS: Women in Medicine and
Health Sciences
3 Workshop: Faculty Merits,
Promotions and Tenure
ECLP: Early Career Leadership Program
13 Lessons from Tenerife: How the
Mind works Under Pressure, Part 1
(ECLP/MCLP)
CONTINUED ON PAGE 6
5
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Jeri Bigbee, Cheryl Busman and Craig Keenan (L-R) discuss an upcoming ITSP class session.