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needs of junior faculty who are launching
careers while balancing family priorities.”
Clinical mentoring
Francis Lu, a professor of clinical
psychiatry and director of cultural
psychiatry and associate department
chair for Medical Student Education, was
honored for clinical mentoring. Pomeroy
said a colleague complimented Lu for his
“genuine love for his field and true caring
for those of us whom he inspires.”
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Excellence in Mentoring
An Excellence in Mentoring Award
recognized Judith Turgeon for her lead
role in developing the Mentoring Academy
for the UC Davis Schools of Health.
Turgeon, a professor in the Department of
Internal Medicine, created the concept of a
“mentoring mosaic” to describe her plan to
link each junior faculty mentee with teams
of mentors with specialized expertise.
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Dean’s Award for Excellence
Three faculty members received the Dean’s
Award for Excellence, which honors
outstanding contributions of faculty
members to UC Davis Health System’s core
missions: education, research, clinical care
and community engagement.
Dean’s Award for Excellence
in Research
Two faculty members received the Dean’s
Award for Excellence in Research, which
recognizes faculty who offer their students
outstanding learning opportunities and an
integrated, dynamic curriculum.
Patrick Romano, a professor of
medicine and pediatrics, delivered 20
invited national, international and regional
lectures during the 2009–10 academic
year. Pomeroy said that the quality of
the translational research that is being
conducted at UC Davis has improved
dramatically as a result of Romano’s
teaching, mentoring and leadership.
Sally Rogers, a professor of psychiatry
and behavioral sciences and a key member
of the UC Davis MIND Institute, is an
international leader in autism intervention.
Pomeroy recognized Rogers’ development
of the Denver Model, which is among the
few treatments for autism have been shown
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studies.
members. Jan Nolta, director of the
Stem Cell Program and the Institute for
Regenerative Cures, accepted the award
n Dean’s Award for Excellence in
on behalf of her team.
Education
An award was presented to the
Deborah Ward, associate dean for the
Center
for Biophotonics Science
Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing,
and
Technology
(CBST) Education
received the Dean’s Award for Excellence in
and
Outreach
Program,
which has
Education in recognition of her leadership
developed and nurtured multiple
enabling admission of the inaugural class
pathways for diverse high school,
of graduate students last September.
community college, undergraduate,
Pomeroy said that Ward’s leadership was
graduate students and instructors
instrumental in the school reaching this
to engage in cutting-edge science,
milestone.
research and science education. Dennis
n Dean’s Award for Excellence
Matthews, professor and CBST director,
in Clinical Care
accepted the award on behalf of his team.
Gary Raff, an associate professor of
A team award for clinical care was
pediatric cardiothoracic surgery, received
presented
to Peter Belafsky, an associate
the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Clinical
professor
of
otolaryngology, and to his
Care, which recognizes quality, compassion
disciplinarily
divergent colleagues on his
and patient focus in delivering medical
swallowing
disorders
team. The team
care. “Those training under our honoree
includes
members
from
the School of
find him to be selfless, often taking the
Medicine, School of Veterinary Medicine,
assistant role in cases to allow those he is
working with to gain valuable training and Center for Health and Environment,
National Primate Research Center, Center
experience without sacrificing quality of
for Laboratory Animal Science, and Food
care,” Pomeroy said.
Science and Nutrition.
n Dean’s Award for Excellence in
Otolaryngologist Gregory Farwell
Community Engagement
and
his laryngeal transplant team
Geriatrician Michael McCloud, a clinical
made
international headlines for
professor of medicine, was honored
enabling
a patient to regain her voice
with the Dean’s Award for Excellence in
by
means
of an exceptionally intricate
Community Engagement. McCloud is the
18-hour
procedure
in January. Farwell,
creator of “Aging and Medical Science: A
an
associate
professor
who specializes
Mini Medical School to Prepare for Life’s
in
head
and
neck,
facial
plastic and
Second Half,” which he has conducted
reconstructive, and microvascular
voluntarily for the past nine years.
surgeries, worked with an international
Pomeroy said McCloud “inspires others
team of medical professionals.
to fight for public policies that promote
healthy aging.”
Dean’s Team Award for
Community Engagement
Dean’s Team Award for
Excellence
The Healthy Youth/Healthy Regions
team, which applied a mixed-method,
Four groups received a Dean’s
multi-disciplinary and multi-scalar
Team Award for Excellence, which
approach to understanding the interrecognizes outstanding performance of
dependence of youth and regional health
multidisciplinary teams in one or more of
and well-being, received the Dean’s Team
the health system’s mission areas.
The Stem Cell Program was honored Award for Community Engagement.
Estella M. Geraghty, an assistant
for its work in tackling severe diseases
professor of internal medicine, accepted
for which therapies are limited or nonthe award on behalf of the team.
existent. The program consists of 15
disease teams encompassing 147 faculty
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Dean’s recognition awards given for stellar service
The School of Medicine acknowledged
the outstanding achievements of nine
faculty members and five teams in the
annual Vice Chancellor and Dean’s
Recognition Awards reception, held
March 1 in the Education Building.
“These awards recognize stellar
service in mentoring, mission
excellence and teamwork in our
community,” said Claire Pomeroy, M.D.,
M.B.A., vice chancellor for Human
Health Sciences, dean of the School of
Medicine, and chief executive officer of
UC Davis Health System.
Karen Eilers Staff Award
Jeanine Stiles, associate director for
administration at the UC Davis Cancer
Center, received the Karen Eilers Award
for Staff Excellence, which recognizes
outstanding service, leadership and
dedication. Stiles oversees award
management of grants, is involved
in planning the center’s expansion,
and has been a leader in information
technology.
Dean’s Excellence in
Mentoring Award
Three faculty members received the
Dean’s Excellence in Mentoring Award,
which honors faculty members who
serve as role models and help newer
faculty members attain their full
potential.
Education mentoring
This year’s honoree for education
mentoring is electrophysiologist
Nipavan Chiamvimonvat, professor
of cardiovascular medicine. She
oversees or is co-principal investigator
for numerous research and training
grants. Pomeroy said Chiamvimonvat
has an exceptional understanding of the
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A WELCOME TO NEW
FACULTY COLLEAGUES
CLIFFORD MARR INSPIRES RESIDENTS
TO ENTER PEDIATRIC SURGERY PRACTICE
UC Davis general surgical
residents have access to an
excellent pediatric surgery
rotation thanks in large part to a
private-practice pediatric surgeon
and his medical group. Clifford
C. Marr, a partner in Children’s
Specialists Medical Group of
Sacramento (CSMGS), has a
significant role in the clinical
education of UC Davis general
surgery residents and patient care
on the pediatric surgery service.
UC Davis, which employs no
pediatric surgeons of its own,
relies on affiliate relationships
with CSMGS for pediatric surgical care,
grand rounds and residency training.
“My CSMGS colleagues and I are
involved with pediatric surgical patients
in the clinics, emergency room, hospital
wards, critical-care units and the operating
room,” said Marr, a UC Davis clinical
professor of surgery. “We also have a role
in didactic teaching of medical students
and pediatric residents in addition to that
of our general surgery residents.”
Children’s Specialists Medical Group
(www.csmgs.com) is an independently
owned, multi-specialty pediatric medical
and surgical practice closely affiliated
with Sutter Health and UC Davis Health
System. Marr, a member of the UC Davis
Children’s Hospital Clinical Advisory
Board, said CSMGS’s relationships with
Sutter Health and UC Davis give him and
his colleagues a coordinated overview
of pediatric surgical care throughout the
Sacramento region.
From that vantage point, he conveys
to physicians and patients an important
observation: “The care of children, in
particular surgical care, is very different
from that of adults. The commonalities
of adult and children’s care are far
overshadowed by their differences,” said
Marr, a UC Davis volunteer clinical faculty
member for 30 years.
Marr, who completed his
residency in general surgery
with Case Western Reserve
University’s Department of
Surgery and his pediatric
surgery residency at Children’s
Hospital of Pittsburgh, said
he was drawn to the technical
aspects of surgery.
“The relative immediacy
of the result appealed to me,”
Marr said. “I found myself
fascinated by congenital
developmental anomalies and
their correction, the innocence
of
the
child
as
a patient, and that their
“My CSMGS colleagues and I have
problems
were
not often self-inflicted by
been successful in sharing our enthusiasm
poor
lifestyle
choices.”
for pediatric surgery with our surgery
Marr came to Sacramento in 1981
residents. Since the inception of the
to join the practice of Kenneth Tyson,
surgery residency program at UC Davis,
who was then the region’s only full11 have become pediatric surgeons, two
time pediatric surgeon. Tyson was doing
of whom are currently my associates.
With this year’s group of chief residents,
volunteer clinical faculty work with UC
we placed three in pediatric surgery
Davis, and Marr followed suit. When UC
fellowship programs – a nearly unmatched Davis hired a pediatric surgeon in 1983,
accomplishment nationally, especially
Marr and Tyson collaborated with him,
considering the competitiveness for these
functioning as a group. Tyson retired
positions,” Marr observed.
eight years later, Marr and several of his
Born in New York City, Marr obtained colleagues, encompassing several medical
his undergraduate degree in mechanical
specialties, began the process of founding
engineering at the Massachusetts Institute CSMGS. “The group formed in 1995, when
of Technology. “I had a strong interest in
the component subgroups realized that
science and math that translated into an
small offices were no longer a viable way
interest in technology, which continues
to practice,” Marr said. He is one of 23
to this day,” explained Marr, whose father
shareholder physicians in the group, which
was a civil engineer. He subsequently
additionally encompasses several employee
enrolled at Albany Medical College in
physicians.
Albany, N.Y., where he obtained his M.D.
For pleasure, Marr enjoys running, road
degree in 1974. “Interestingly, one uncle
cycling,
hiking and alpine skiing, and is a
of mine who was an engineer made a late
connoisseur
of food, cooking and baking.
career change and entered medical school
His
wife,
Jerilyn,
who has a graduate
at age 40. My older brother felt the same
degree
in
health-care
administration, is
influence and is an MIT-trained engineer
a
credentialed
teacher
with experience
who went into medicine. One uncle of my
at the secondary and community college
wife’s also was an MIT-trained engineer,
levels. They have three daughters and three
so there’s a bit of a legacy and a source of
grandchildren.
amusement.”
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Jyoti Mayadev
George Thompson
NEW INSTITUTE FOR
POPULATION HEALTH
IMPROVEMENT LAUNCHED
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.
Microbiology and Immunology’s CocJyoti Mayadev investigates
image-guided brachytherapy for cidioidomycosis Serology Laboratory. He
serves on the Mycoses Study Group Educervical cancer treatment
cation Committee, which is responsible for
Radiation oncologist Jyoti Mayadev,
information to help clinicians nationwide
M.D., who specializes in treatment
improve care of patients with fungal infecof gynecologic and breast cancer, is
tions. He is studying the host-pathogen
conducting research to advance and
interaction of humans and both Coccidioioptimize brachytherapy and threedes spp. (the agent of “Valley Fever”) and
dimensional radiation treatment
Cryptococcus spp.
planning. An assistant professor in the
Department of Radiation Oncology, she
Other new colleagues
is investigating the application of imagen Anatomic and clinical pathologist
guided brachytherapy for locally advanced
Mingyi Chen, M.D., Ph.D., an
cervical cancer, focusing on ways to
assistant professor of pathology and
improve the therapeutic ratio to maximize
laboratory medicine, has expertise in
tumor control and minimize normal tissue
aspects of hematopathology related to
toxicity.
lymphoma and leukemia, as well as
She is preparing for a trial to evaluate
flow cytometry, pulmonary pathology
intrafraction cervical motion during
and diagnostic molecular pathology.
external beam radiation, and motion
Board-certified in anatomic and clinical
between treatments for radiation treatment
pathology and hematology, he has
planning implications. She also is
research interests in atherosclerosis,
investigating optimal dose delivery for
thrombosis, vascular biology,
breast cancer patients who are treated after
lipid metabolism, and molecular
a mastectomy, and for women undergoing
pathogenesis of lymphoma and
accelerated partial breast irradiation.
leukemia.
George Thompson specializes
in diagnosis and treatment of
invasive fungal infections
George R. Thompson, M.D., an
assistant professor of medicine with
joint appointments in the Department of
Medical Microbiology and Immunology
and the Department of Internal Medicine’s
Division of Infectious Diseases, treats
patients with invasive fungal infections
and investigates fungal diagnostics and
host immunogenetics.
Thompson, board-certified in internal
medicine and infectious diseases, is clinical director of the Department of Medical
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Sports medicine and arthroscopy
physician Cassandra A. Lee, M.D.,
an assistant professor of orthopaedic
surgery, specializes in arthroscopy
and reconstruction of the knees and
shoulders. She treats rotator cuff
damage, anterior cruciate ligament tears
and other orthopedic injuries that affect
athletes of all ages. She is investigating
meniscal transplantation techniques,
ways to improve repair of cartilage
defects, and restoration of cartilage. She
is interested in debilitating cartilage
defects that affect younger, active
patients.
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advisoryteam
BY KENNETH W. KIZER
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Improving the health of populations
– whether defined by governmental
jurisdiction, geography, race, ethnicity,
age, occupation, health condition or other
characteristic – will become an essential
core competency for health systems in the
years ahead. Because of their critical roles
in training future health professionals and
in creating and applying new knowledge,
as well as providing health care, academic
health systems have an especially acute
responsibility to become expert in
population health management. This
belief prompted my return to UC Davis
to launch the new Institute for Population
Health Improvement (IPHI).
In many ways, the emerging field
of population health is a marriage of
clinical medicine and public health.
While integrating these two bodies of
knowledge will be a major challenge, the
confluence of circumstances nationally and
in California underscore the essentiality of
doing so.
UC Davis is exceptionally well suited
to become a leader in population health
improvement, and the new IPHI will be
directing its efforts in five areas:
Jennifer L. Plant, M.D., M.Ed.,
an assistant clinical professor in the
Department of Pediatrics’ Division of
Pediatric Critical Care, is conducting
research on medical education –
specifically, curriculum development
and evaluation and learner assessment
in the context of simulation-based
training. Plant treats pediatric patients
who are critically ill due to trauma,
heart disease and other conditions.
She is board-certified in pediatrics and
pediatric critical care.
Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
David E. Sahar, M.D., assistant
professor of surgery, is conducting
research in tissue engineering using
adipose-derived stem cells. His other
areas of research include study of
acellular dermal matrix biology,
cranial suture biology and wound
healing. Sahar’s clinical interests are
general plastic surgery, hand surgery,
cosmetic procedures and microvascular
free-tissue transfers related to breast
reconstruction (DIEP falp) in patients
with post-mastectomy radiation.
health care and eliminating disparities in
access to care; and
5.Working to increase health security and
strengthen the ability of individuals
and communities to withstand health
threats.
I envision the IPHI functioning
especially as a catalyst and integrator,
operating in a highly collaborative manner.
I see it as providing an “organizing
architecture” to synergize many disparate
population health-related activities within
UC Davis Health System; the greater UC
Davis community; local, state and federal
government agencies; philanthropic
and nonprofit organizations; and the
business sector and community-based
organizations.
I look forward to working with you in
this important initiative.
Kenneth W. Kizer, M.D., M.P.H.,
one of the nation’s preeminent
authorities on public health and health
care quality improvement, is director
of the newly established Institute for
Population Health Improvement (www.
ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/iphi) at UC Davis.
1.Being a central resource for health-care
reform in general and implementation of He is a Target of Excellence professor
in the School of Medicine and the Betty
the Affordable Care Act in particular;
Irene Moore School of Nursing. He
2.Pursuing strategies to increase the
was chair of the UC Davis Department
understanding of how psychosocial and of Community and International
environmental factors affect health, and Health and professor of emergency
how these factors can be influenced to
medicine from 1991 to 1994. In 1994,
improve health and health care;
President Clinton appointed him to be
3.Identifying and promoting ways to
the undersecretary for health in the
increase the capacity of individuals and U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs,
communities to enjoy chronic wellness; in which capacity he engineered the
widely acclaimed transformation of the
4.Seeking to improve the effectiveness
Veterans Healthcare System. For more
and efficiency of health care, including
information, call 916-734-4754.
improving the quality and safety of
Bioethicist Mark Yarborough, Ph.D.,
an associate professor of internal
medicine, is the Dean’s Professor of
Bioethics in the Bioethics Program and
director of clinical research ethics for
the UC Davis Clinical and Translational
Science Center. He is launching a
programmatic initiative on trust and
integrity in biomedical research,
specifically focusing on research
practices that define trustworthy
research and how those practices can
be best promoted. He also is working
with UC Davis colleagues to develop a
model research ethics curriculum for
UC Davis research training programs.
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Faculty Forward
Advisory Committee
The Advisory Committee is responsible
for assisting with the implementation of
the Faculty Forward survey, interpreting
the results and delivering a set of
recommendations to Health System
leadership.
Faculty Forward Advisory
Committee members
Claire Pomeroy, M.D., M.B.A., Vice
Chancellor for Human Health
Sciences and Dean (ex-officio
member)
Frederick J. Meyers, M.D., Executive
Associate Dean
Edward Callahan, Ph.D., Associate
Dean, Academic Personnel
Mark Servis, M.D., Associate Dean,
Curriculum and Competency
Development
Joseph Antognini, M.D., Anesthesiology
and Pain Medicine
Hilary Brodie, M.D, Ph.D.,
Otolaryngology
Peter Cala, Ph.D., Physiology and
Membrane Biology
Stephen Chilcott, J.D., Human
Resources
Michael Condrin, M.B.A., Dean’s Office
W. Suzanne Eidson-Ton, M.D., M.S.,
Family and Community Medicine
Jeffrey Gauvin, M.D., Surgery
Estella Geraghty, M.D., M.S., M.P.H.,
Internal Medicine
Donald W. Hilty, M.D., Psychiatry and
Behavioral Sciences
Lydia P. Howell, M.D., Pathology and
Laboratory Medicine
Karnjit Johl, M.D., Internal Medicine
Vincent L. Johnson, M.B.A., Hospital
Administration
Daniel J. Tancredi, Ph.D. Pediatrics
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FACULTY COLLEAGUES
CLIFFORD MARR INSPIRES RESIDENTS
TO ENTER PEDIATRIC SURGERY PRACTICE
UC Davis general surgical
residents have access to an
excellent pediatric surgery
rotation thanks in large part to a
private-practice pediatric surgeon
and his medical group. Clifford
C. Marr, a partner in Children’s
Specialists Medical Group of
Sacramento (CSMGS), has a
significant role in the clinical
education of UC Davis general
surgery residents and patient care
on the pediatric surgery service.
UC Davis, which employs no
pediatric surgeons of its own,
relies on affiliate relationships
with CSMGS for pediatric surgical care,
grand rounds and residency training.
“My CSMGS colleagues and I are
involved with pediatric surgical patients
in the clinics, emergency room, hospital
wards, critical-care units and the operating
room,” said Marr, a UC Davis clinical
professor of surgery. “We also have a role
in didactic teaching of medical students
and pediatric residents in addition to that
of our general surgery residents.”
Children’s Specialists Medical Group
(www.csmgs.com) is an independently
owned, multi-specialty pediatric medical
and surgical practice closely affiliated
with Sutter Health and UC Davis Health
System. Marr, a member of the UC Davis
Children’s Hospital Clinical Advisory
Board, said CSMGS’s relationships with
Sutter Health and UC Davis give him and
his colleagues a coordinated overview
of pediatric surgical care throughout the
Sacramento region.
From that vantage point, he conveys
to physicians and patients an important
observation: “The care of children, in
particular surgical care, is very different
from that of adults. The commonalities
of adult and children’s care are far
overshadowed by their differences,” said
Marr, a UC Davis volunteer clinical faculty
member for 30 years.
Marr, who completed his
residency in general surgery
with Case Western Reserve
University’s Department of
Surgery and his pediatric
surgery residency at Children’s
Hospital of Pittsburgh, said
he was drawn to the technical
aspects of surgery.
“The relative immediacy
of the result appealed to me,”
Marr said. “I found myself
fascinated by congenital
developmental anomalies and
their correction, the innocence
of
the
child
as
a patient, and that their
“My CSMGS colleagues and I have
problems
were
not often self-inflicted by
been successful in sharing our enthusiasm
poor
lifestyle
choices.”
for pediatric surgery with our surgery
Marr came to Sacramento in 1981
residents. Since the inception of the
to join the practice of Kenneth Tyson,
surgery residency program at UC Davis,
who was then the region’s only full11 have become pediatric surgeons, two
time pediatric surgeon. Tyson was doing
of whom are currently my associates.
With this year’s group of chief residents,
volunteer clinical faculty work with UC
we placed three in pediatric surgery
Davis, and Marr followed suit. When UC
fellowship programs – a nearly unmatched Davis hired a pediatric surgeon in 1983,
accomplishment nationally, especially
Marr and Tyson collaborated with him,
considering the competitiveness for these
functioning as a group. Tyson retired
positions,” Marr observed.
eight years later, Marr and several of his
Born in New York City, Marr obtained colleagues, encompassing several medical
his undergraduate degree in mechanical
specialties, began the process of founding
engineering at the Massachusetts Institute CSMGS. “The group formed in 1995, when
of Technology. “I had a strong interest in
the component subgroups realized that
science and math that translated into an
small offices were no longer a viable way
interest in technology, which continues
to practice,” Marr said. He is one of 23
to this day,” explained Marr, whose father
shareholder physicians in the group, which
was a civil engineer. He subsequently
additionally encompasses several employee
enrolled at Albany Medical College in
physicians.
Albany, N.Y., where he obtained his M.D.
For pleasure, Marr enjoys running, road
degree in 1974. “Interestingly, one uncle
cycling,
hiking and alpine skiing, and is a
of mine who was an engineer made a late
connoisseur
of food, cooking and baking.
career change and entered medical school
His
wife,
Jerilyn,
who has a graduate
at age 40. My older brother felt the same
degree
in
health-care
administration, is
influence and is an MIT-trained engineer
a
credentialed
teacher
with experience
who went into medicine. One uncle of my
at the secondary and community college
wife’s also was an MIT-trained engineer,
levels. They have three daughters and three
so there’s a bit of a legacy and a source of
grandchildren.
amusement.”
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Jyoti Mayadev
George Thompson
NEW INSTITUTE FOR
POPULATION HEALTH
IMPROVEMENT LAUNCHED
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.
Microbiology and Immunology’s CocJyoti Mayadev investigates
image-guided brachytherapy for cidioidomycosis Serology Laboratory. He
serves on the Mycoses Study Group Educervical cancer treatment
cation Committee, which is responsible for
Radiation oncologist Jyoti Mayadev,
information to help clinicians nationwide
M.D., who specializes in treatment
improve care of patients with fungal infecof gynecologic and breast cancer, is
tions. He is studying the host-pathogen
conducting research to advance and
interaction of humans and both Coccidioioptimize brachytherapy and threedes spp. (the agent of “Valley Fever”) and
dimensional radiation treatment
Cryptococcus spp.
planning. An assistant professor in the
Department of Radiation Oncology, she
Other new colleagues
is investigating the application of imagen Anatomic and clinical pathologist
guided brachytherapy for locally advanced
Mingyi Chen, M.D., Ph.D., an
cervical cancer, focusing on ways to
assistant professor of pathology and
improve the therapeutic ratio to maximize
laboratory medicine, has expertise in
tumor control and minimize normal tissue
aspects of hematopathology related to
toxicity.
lymphoma and leukemia, as well as
She is preparing for a trial to evaluate
flow cytometry, pulmonary pathology
intrafraction cervical motion during
and diagnostic molecular pathology.
external beam radiation, and motion
Board-certified in anatomic and clinical
between treatments for radiation treatment
pathology and hematology, he has
planning implications. She also is
research interests in atherosclerosis,
investigating optimal dose delivery for
thrombosis, vascular biology,
breast cancer patients who are treated after
lipid metabolism, and molecular
a mastectomy, and for women undergoing
pathogenesis of lymphoma and
accelerated partial breast irradiation.
leukemia.
George Thompson specializes
in diagnosis and treatment of
invasive fungal infections
George R. Thompson, M.D., an
assistant professor of medicine with
joint appointments in the Department of
Medical Microbiology and Immunology
and the Department of Internal Medicine’s
Division of Infectious Diseases, treats
patients with invasive fungal infections
and investigates fungal diagnostics and
host immunogenetics.
Thompson, board-certified in internal
medicine and infectious diseases, is clinical director of the Department of Medical
n
Sports medicine and arthroscopy
physician Cassandra A. Lee, M.D.,
an assistant professor of orthopaedic
surgery, specializes in arthroscopy
and reconstruction of the knees and
shoulders. She treats rotator cuff
damage, anterior cruciate ligament tears
and other orthopedic injuries that affect
athletes of all ages. She is investigating
meniscal transplantation techniques,
ways to improve repair of cartilage
defects, and restoration of cartilage. She
is interested in debilitating cartilage
defects that affect younger, active
patients.
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advisoryteam
BY KENNETH W. KIZER
n
n
n
Improving the health of populations
– whether defined by governmental
jurisdiction, geography, race, ethnicity,
age, occupation, health condition or other
characteristic – will become an essential
core competency for health systems in the
years ahead. Because of their critical roles
in training future health professionals and
in creating and applying new knowledge,
as well as providing health care, academic
health systems have an especially acute
responsibility to become expert in
population health management. This
belief prompted my return to UC Davis
to launch the new Institute for Population
Health Improvement (IPHI).
In many ways, the emerging field
of population health is a marriage of
clinical medicine and public health.
While integrating these two bodies of
knowledge will be a major challenge, the
confluence of circumstances nationally and
in California underscore the essentiality of
doing so.
UC Davis is exceptionally well suited
to become a leader in population health
improvement, and the new IPHI will be
directing its efforts in five areas:
Jennifer L. Plant, M.D., M.Ed.,
an assistant clinical professor in the
Department of Pediatrics’ Division of
Pediatric Critical Care, is conducting
research on medical education –
specifically, curriculum development
and evaluation and learner assessment
in the context of simulation-based
training. Plant treats pediatric patients
who are critically ill due to trauma,
heart disease and other conditions.
She is board-certified in pediatrics and
pediatric critical care.
Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
David E. Sahar, M.D., assistant
professor of surgery, is conducting
research in tissue engineering using
adipose-derived stem cells. His other
areas of research include study of
acellular dermal matrix biology,
cranial suture biology and wound
healing. Sahar’s clinical interests are
general plastic surgery, hand surgery,
cosmetic procedures and microvascular
free-tissue transfers related to breast
reconstruction (DIEP falp) in patients
with post-mastectomy radiation.
health care and eliminating disparities in
access to care; and
5.Working to increase health security and
strengthen the ability of individuals
and communities to withstand health
threats.
I envision the IPHI functioning
especially as a catalyst and integrator,
operating in a highly collaborative manner.
I see it as providing an “organizing
architecture” to synergize many disparate
population health-related activities within
UC Davis Health System; the greater UC
Davis community; local, state and federal
government agencies; philanthropic
and nonprofit organizations; and the
business sector and community-based
organizations.
I look forward to working with you in
this important initiative.
Kenneth W. Kizer, M.D., M.P.H.,
one of the nation’s preeminent
authorities on public health and health
care quality improvement, is director
of the newly established Institute for
Population Health Improvement (www.
ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/iphi) at UC Davis.
1.Being a central resource for health-care
reform in general and implementation of He is a Target of Excellence professor
in the School of Medicine and the Betty
the Affordable Care Act in particular;
Irene Moore School of Nursing. He
2.Pursuing strategies to increase the
was chair of the UC Davis Department
understanding of how psychosocial and of Community and International
environmental factors affect health, and Health and professor of emergency
how these factors can be influenced to
medicine from 1991 to 1994. In 1994,
improve health and health care;
President Clinton appointed him to be
3.Identifying and promoting ways to
the undersecretary for health in the
increase the capacity of individuals and U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs,
communities to enjoy chronic wellness; in which capacity he engineered the
widely acclaimed transformation of the
4.Seeking to improve the effectiveness
Veterans Healthcare System. For more
and efficiency of health care, including
information, call 916-734-4754.
improving the quality and safety of
Bioethicist Mark Yarborough, Ph.D.,
an associate professor of internal
medicine, is the Dean’s Professor of
Bioethics in the Bioethics Program and
director of clinical research ethics for
the UC Davis Clinical and Translational
Science Center. He is launching a
programmatic initiative on trust and
integrity in biomedical research,
specifically focusing on research
practices that define trustworthy
research and how those practices can
be best promoted. He also is working
with UC Davis colleagues to develop a
model research ethics curriculum for
UC Davis research training programs.
3
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Faculty Forward
Advisory Committee
The Advisory Committee is responsible
for assisting with the implementation of
the Faculty Forward survey, interpreting
the results and delivering a set of
recommendations to Health System
leadership.
Faculty Forward Advisory
Committee members
Claire Pomeroy, M.D., M.B.A., Vice
Chancellor for Human Health
Sciences and Dean (ex-officio
member)
Frederick J. Meyers, M.D., Executive
Associate Dean
Edward Callahan, Ph.D., Associate
Dean, Academic Personnel
Mark Servis, M.D., Associate Dean,
Curriculum and Competency
Development
Joseph Antognini, M.D., Anesthesiology
and Pain Medicine
Hilary Brodie, M.D, Ph.D.,
Otolaryngology
Peter Cala, Ph.D., Physiology and
Membrane Biology
Stephen Chilcott, J.D., Human
Resources
Michael Condrin, M.B.A., Dean’s Office
W. Suzanne Eidson-Ton, M.D., M.S.,
Family and Community Medicine
Jeffrey Gauvin, M.D., Surgery
Estella Geraghty, M.D., M.S., M.P.H.,
Internal Medicine
Donald W. Hilty, M.D., Psychiatry and
Behavioral Sciences
Lydia P. Howell, M.D., Pathology and
Laboratory Medicine
Karnjit Johl, M.D., Internal Medicine
Vincent L. Johnson, M.B.A., Hospital
Administration
Daniel J. Tancredi, Ph.D. Pediatrics
4
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facultyROUNDS
A WELCOME TO NEW
FACULTY COLLEAGUES
CLIFFORD MARR INSPIRES RESIDENTS
TO ENTER PEDIATRIC SURGERY PRACTICE
UC Davis general surgical
residents have access to an
excellent pediatric surgery
rotation thanks in large part to a
private-practice pediatric surgeon
and his medical group. Clifford
C. Marr, a partner in Children’s
Specialists Medical Group of
Sacramento (CSMGS), has a
significant role in the clinical
education of UC Davis general
surgery residents and patient care
on the pediatric surgery service.
UC Davis, which employs no
pediatric surgeons of its own,
relies on affiliate relationships
with CSMGS for pediatric surgical care,
grand rounds and residency training.
“My CSMGS colleagues and I are
involved with pediatric surgical patients
in the clinics, emergency room, hospital
wards, critical-care units and the operating
room,” said Marr, a UC Davis clinical
professor of surgery. “We also have a role
in didactic teaching of medical students
and pediatric residents in addition to that
of our general surgery residents.”
Children’s Specialists Medical Group
(www.csmgs.com) is an independently
owned, multi-specialty pediatric medical
and surgical practice closely affiliated
with Sutter Health and UC Davis Health
System. Marr, a member of the UC Davis
Children’s Hospital Clinical Advisory
Board, said CSMGS’s relationships with
Sutter Health and UC Davis give him and
his colleagues a coordinated overview
of pediatric surgical care throughout the
Sacramento region.
From that vantage point, he conveys
to physicians and patients an important
observation: “The care of children, in
particular surgical care, is very different
from that of adults. The commonalities
of adult and children’s care are far
overshadowed by their differences,” said
Marr, a UC Davis volunteer clinical faculty
member for 30 years.
Marr, who completed his
residency in general surgery
with Case Western Reserve
University’s Department of
Surgery and his pediatric
surgery residency at Children’s
Hospital of Pittsburgh, said
he was drawn to the technical
aspects of surgery.
“The relative immediacy
of the result appealed to me,”
Marr said. “I found myself
fascinated by congenital
developmental anomalies and
their correction, the innocence
of
the
child
as
a patient, and that their
“My CSMGS colleagues and I have
problems
were
not often self-inflicted by
been successful in sharing our enthusiasm
poor
lifestyle
choices.”
for pediatric surgery with our surgery
Marr came to Sacramento in 1981
residents. Since the inception of the
to join the practice of Kenneth Tyson,
surgery residency program at UC Davis,
who was then the region’s only full11 have become pediatric surgeons, two
time pediatric surgeon. Tyson was doing
of whom are currently my associates.
With this year’s group of chief residents,
volunteer clinical faculty work with UC
we placed three in pediatric surgery
Davis, and Marr followed suit. When UC
fellowship programs – a nearly unmatched Davis hired a pediatric surgeon in 1983,
accomplishment nationally, especially
Marr and Tyson collaborated with him,
considering the competitiveness for these
functioning as a group. Tyson retired
positions,” Marr observed.
eight years later, Marr and several of his
Born in New York City, Marr obtained colleagues, encompassing several medical
his undergraduate degree in mechanical
specialties, began the process of founding
engineering at the Massachusetts Institute CSMGS. “The group formed in 1995, when
of Technology. “I had a strong interest in
the component subgroups realized that
science and math that translated into an
small offices were no longer a viable way
interest in technology, which continues
to practice,” Marr said. He is one of 23
to this day,” explained Marr, whose father
shareholder physicians in the group, which
was a civil engineer. He subsequently
additionally encompasses several employee
enrolled at Albany Medical College in
physicians.
Albany, N.Y., where he obtained his M.D.
For pleasure, Marr enjoys running, road
degree in 1974. “Interestingly, one uncle
cycling,
hiking and alpine skiing, and is a
of mine who was an engineer made a late
connoisseur
of food, cooking and baking.
career change and entered medical school
His
wife,
Jerilyn,
who has a graduate
at age 40. My older brother felt the same
degree
in
health-care
administration, is
influence and is an MIT-trained engineer
a
credentialed
teacher
with experience
who went into medicine. One uncle of my
at the secondary and community college
wife’s also was an MIT-trained engineer,
levels. They have three daughters and three
so there’s a bit of a legacy and a source of
grandchildren.
amusement.”
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Jyoti Mayadev
George Thompson
NEW INSTITUTE FOR
POPULATION HEALTH
IMPROVEMENT LAUNCHED
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.
Microbiology and Immunology’s CocJyoti Mayadev investigates
image-guided brachytherapy for cidioidomycosis Serology Laboratory. He
serves on the Mycoses Study Group Educervical cancer treatment
cation Committee, which is responsible for
Radiation oncologist Jyoti Mayadev,
information to help clinicians nationwide
M.D., who specializes in treatment
improve care of patients with fungal infecof gynecologic and breast cancer, is
tions. He is studying the host-pathogen
conducting research to advance and
interaction of humans and both Coccidioioptimize brachytherapy and threedes spp. (the agent of “Valley Fever”) and
dimensional radiation treatment
Cryptococcus spp.
planning. An assistant professor in the
Department of Radiation Oncology, she
Other new colleagues
is investigating the application of imagen Anatomic and clinical pathologist
guided brachytherapy for locally advanced
Mingyi Chen, M.D., Ph.D., an
cervical cancer, focusing on ways to
assistant professor of pathology and
improve the therapeutic ratio to maximize
laboratory medicine, has expertise in
tumor control and minimize normal tissue
aspects of hematopathology related to
toxicity.
lymphoma and leukemia, as well as
She is preparing for a trial to evaluate
flow cytometry, pulmonary pathology
intrafraction cervical motion during
and diagnostic molecular pathology.
external beam radiation, and motion
Board-certified in anatomic and clinical
between treatments for radiation treatment
pathology and hematology, he has
planning implications. She also is
research interests in atherosclerosis,
investigating optimal dose delivery for
thrombosis, vascular biology,
breast cancer patients who are treated after
lipid metabolism, and molecular
a mastectomy, and for women undergoing
pathogenesis of lymphoma and
accelerated partial breast irradiation.
leukemia.
George Thompson specializes
in diagnosis and treatment of
invasive fungal infections
George R. Thompson, M.D., an
assistant professor of medicine with
joint appointments in the Department of
Medical Microbiology and Immunology
and the Department of Internal Medicine’s
Division of Infectious Diseases, treats
patients with invasive fungal infections
and investigates fungal diagnostics and
host immunogenetics.
Thompson, board-certified in internal
medicine and infectious diseases, is clinical director of the Department of Medical
n
Sports medicine and arthroscopy
physician Cassandra A. Lee, M.D.,
an assistant professor of orthopaedic
surgery, specializes in arthroscopy
and reconstruction of the knees and
shoulders. She treats rotator cuff
damage, anterior cruciate ligament tears
and other orthopedic injuries that affect
athletes of all ages. She is investigating
meniscal transplantation techniques,
ways to improve repair of cartilage
defects, and restoration of cartilage. She
is interested in debilitating cartilage
defects that affect younger, active
patients.
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advisoryteam
BY KENNETH W. KIZER
n
n
n
Improving the health of populations
– whether defined by governmental
jurisdiction, geography, race, ethnicity,
age, occupation, health condition or other
characteristic – will become an essential
core competency for health systems in the
years ahead. Because of their critical roles
in training future health professionals and
in creating and applying new knowledge,
as well as providing health care, academic
health systems have an especially acute
responsibility to become expert in
population health management. This
belief prompted my return to UC Davis
to launch the new Institute for Population
Health Improvement (IPHI).
In many ways, the emerging field
of population health is a marriage of
clinical medicine and public health.
While integrating these two bodies of
knowledge will be a major challenge, the
confluence of circumstances nationally and
in California underscore the essentiality of
doing so.
UC Davis is exceptionally well suited
to become a leader in population health
improvement, and the new IPHI will be
directing its efforts in five areas:
Jennifer L. Plant, M.D., M.Ed.,
an assistant clinical professor in the
Department of Pediatrics’ Division of
Pediatric Critical Care, is conducting
research on medical education –
specifically, curriculum development
and evaluation and learner assessment
in the context of simulation-based
training. Plant treats pediatric patients
who are critically ill due to trauma,
heart disease and other conditions.
She is board-certified in pediatrics and
pediatric critical care.
Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
David E. Sahar, M.D., assistant
professor of surgery, is conducting
research in tissue engineering using
adipose-derived stem cells. His other
areas of research include study of
acellular dermal matrix biology,
cranial suture biology and wound
healing. Sahar’s clinical interests are
general plastic surgery, hand surgery,
cosmetic procedures and microvascular
free-tissue transfers related to breast
reconstruction (DIEP falp) in patients
with post-mastectomy radiation.
health care and eliminating disparities in
access to care; and
5.Working to increase health security and
strengthen the ability of individuals
and communities to withstand health
threats.
I envision the IPHI functioning
especially as a catalyst and integrator,
operating in a highly collaborative manner.
I see it as providing an “organizing
architecture” to synergize many disparate
population health-related activities within
UC Davis Health System; the greater UC
Davis community; local, state and federal
government agencies; philanthropic
and nonprofit organizations; and the
business sector and community-based
organizations.
I look forward to working with you in
this important initiative.
Kenneth W. Kizer, M.D., M.P.H.,
one of the nation’s preeminent
authorities on public health and health
care quality improvement, is director
of the newly established Institute for
Population Health Improvement (www.
ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/iphi) at UC Davis.
1.Being a central resource for health-care
reform in general and implementation of He is a Target of Excellence professor
in the School of Medicine and the Betty
the Affordable Care Act in particular;
Irene Moore School of Nursing. He
2.Pursuing strategies to increase the
was chair of the UC Davis Department
understanding of how psychosocial and of Community and International
environmental factors affect health, and Health and professor of emergency
how these factors can be influenced to
medicine from 1991 to 1994. In 1994,
improve health and health care;
President Clinton appointed him to be
3.Identifying and promoting ways to
the undersecretary for health in the
increase the capacity of individuals and U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs,
communities to enjoy chronic wellness; in which capacity he engineered the
widely acclaimed transformation of the
4.Seeking to improve the effectiveness
Veterans Healthcare System. For more
and efficiency of health care, including
information, call 916-734-4754.
improving the quality and safety of
Bioethicist Mark Yarborough, Ph.D.,
an associate professor of internal
medicine, is the Dean’s Professor of
Bioethics in the Bioethics Program and
director of clinical research ethics for
the UC Davis Clinical and Translational
Science Center. He is launching a
programmatic initiative on trust and
integrity in biomedical research,
specifically focusing on research
practices that define trustworthy
research and how those practices can
be best promoted. He also is working
with UC Davis colleagues to develop a
model research ethics curriculum for
UC Davis research training programs.
3
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Faculty Forward
Advisory Committee
The Advisory Committee is responsible
for assisting with the implementation of
the Faculty Forward survey, interpreting
the results and delivering a set of
recommendations to Health System
leadership.
Faculty Forward Advisory
Committee members
Claire Pomeroy, M.D., M.B.A., Vice
Chancellor for Human Health
Sciences and Dean (ex-officio
member)
Frederick J. Meyers, M.D., Executive
Associate Dean
Edward Callahan, Ph.D., Associate
Dean, Academic Personnel
Mark Servis, M.D., Associate Dean,
Curriculum and Competency
Development
Joseph Antognini, M.D., Anesthesiology
and Pain Medicine
Hilary Brodie, M.D, Ph.D.,
Otolaryngology
Peter Cala, Ph.D., Physiology and
Membrane Biology
Stephen Chilcott, J.D., Human
Resources
Michael Condrin, M.B.A., Dean’s Office
W. Suzanne Eidson-Ton, M.D., M.S.,
Family and Community Medicine
Jeffrey Gauvin, M.D., Surgery
Estella Geraghty, M.D., M.S., M.P.H.,
Internal Medicine
Donald W. Hilty, M.D., Psychiatry and
Behavioral Sciences
Lydia P. Howell, M.D., Pathology and
Laboratory Medicine
Karnjit Johl, M.D., Internal Medicine
Vincent L. Johnson, M.B.A., Hospital
Administration
Daniel J. Tancredi, Ph.D. Pediatrics
4
UC Davis Health System
DEAN’S AWARDS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
needs of junior faculty who are launching
careers while balancing family priorities.”
Clinical mentoring
Francis Lu, a professor of clinical
psychiatry and director of cultural
psychiatry and associate department
chair for Medical Student Education, was
honored for clinical mentoring. Pomeroy
said a colleague complimented Lu for his
“genuine love for his field and true caring
for those of us whom he inspires.”
n
Excellence in Mentoring
An Excellence in Mentoring Award
recognized Judith Turgeon for her lead
role in developing the Mentoring Academy
for the UC Davis Schools of Health.
Turgeon, a professor in the Department of
Internal Medicine, created the concept of a
“mentoring mosaic” to describe her plan to
link each junior faculty mentee with teams
of mentors with specialized expertise.
n
Dean’s Award for Excellence
Three faculty members received the Dean’s
Award for Excellence, which honors
outstanding contributions of faculty
members to UC Davis Health System’s core
missions: education, research, clinical care
and community engagement.
Dean’s Award for Excellence
in Research
Two faculty members received the Dean’s
Award for Excellence in Research, which
recognizes faculty who offer their students
outstanding learning opportunities and an
integrated, dynamic curriculum.
Patrick Romano, a professor of
medicine and pediatrics, delivered 20
invited national, international and regional
lectures during the 2009–10 academic
year. Pomeroy said that the quality of
the translational research that is being
conducted at UC Davis has improved
dramatically as a result of Romano’s
teaching, mentoring and leadership.
Sally Rogers, a professor of psychiatry
and behavioral sciences and a key member
of the UC Davis MIND Institute, is an
international leader in autism intervention.
Pomeroy recognized Rogers’ development
of the Denver Model, which is among the
few treatments for autism have been shown
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to be effective through empirical research
studies.
members. Jan Nolta, director of the
Stem Cell Program and the Institute for
Regenerative Cures, accepted the award
n Dean’s Award for Excellence in
on behalf of her team.
Education
An award was presented to the
Deborah Ward, associate dean for the
Center
for Biophotonics Science
Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing,
and
Technology
(CBST) Education
received the Dean’s Award for Excellence in
and
Outreach
Program,
which has
Education in recognition of her leadership
developed and nurtured multiple
enabling admission of the inaugural class
pathways for diverse high school,
of graduate students last September.
community college, undergraduate,
Pomeroy said that Ward’s leadership was
graduate students and instructors
instrumental in the school reaching this
to engage in cutting-edge science,
milestone.
research and science education. Dennis
n Dean’s Award for Excellence
Matthews, professor and CBST director,
in Clinical Care
accepted the award on behalf of his team.
Gary Raff, an associate professor of
A team award for clinical care was
pediatric cardiothoracic surgery, received
presented
to Peter Belafsky, an associate
the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Clinical
professor
of
otolaryngology, and to his
Care, which recognizes quality, compassion
disciplinarily
divergent colleagues on his
and patient focus in delivering medical
swallowing
disorders
team. The team
care. “Those training under our honoree
includes
members
from
the School of
find him to be selfless, often taking the
Medicine, School of Veterinary Medicine,
assistant role in cases to allow those he is
working with to gain valuable training and Center for Health and Environment,
National Primate Research Center, Center
experience without sacrificing quality of
for Laboratory Animal Science, and Food
care,” Pomeroy said.
Science and Nutrition.
n Dean’s Award for Excellence in
Otolaryngologist Gregory Farwell
Community Engagement
and
his laryngeal transplant team
Geriatrician Michael McCloud, a clinical
made
international headlines for
professor of medicine, was honored
enabling
a patient to regain her voice
with the Dean’s Award for Excellence in
by
means
of an exceptionally intricate
Community Engagement. McCloud is the
18-hour
procedure
in January. Farwell,
creator of “Aging and Medical Science: A
an
associate
professor
who specializes
Mini Medical School to Prepare for Life’s
in
head
and
neck,
facial
plastic and
Second Half,” which he has conducted
reconstructive, and microvascular
voluntarily for the past nine years.
surgeries, worked with an international
Pomeroy said McCloud “inspires others
team of medical professionals.
to fight for public policies that promote
healthy aging.”
Dean’s Team Award for
Community Engagement
Dean’s Team Award for
Excellence
The Healthy Youth/Healthy Regions
team, which applied a mixed-method,
Four groups received a Dean’s
multi-disciplinary and multi-scalar
Team Award for Excellence, which
approach to understanding the interrecognizes outstanding performance of
dependence of youth and regional health
multidisciplinary teams in one or more of
and well-being, received the Dean’s Team
the health system’s mission areas.
The Stem Cell Program was honored Award for Community Engagement.
Estella M. Geraghty, an assistant
for its work in tackling severe diseases
professor of internal medicine, accepted
for which therapies are limited or nonthe award on behalf of the team.
existent. The program consists of 15
disease teams encompassing 147 faculty
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programs and events sponsored by the
Faculty Development Office. For more
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14 TEAMS AND INDIVIDUALS HONORED
Dean’s recognition awards given for stellar service
The School of Medicine acknowledged
the outstanding achievements of nine
faculty members and five teams in the
annual Vice Chancellor and Dean’s
Recognition Awards reception, held
March 1 in the Education Building.
“These awards recognize stellar
service in mentoring, mission
excellence and teamwork in our
community,” said Claire Pomeroy, M.D.,
M.B.A., vice chancellor for Human
Health Sciences, dean of the School of
Medicine, and chief executive officer of
UC Davis Health System.
Karen Eilers Staff Award
Jeanine Stiles, associate director for
administration at the UC Davis Cancer
Center, received the Karen Eilers Award
for Staff Excellence, which recognizes
outstanding service, leadership and
dedication. Stiles oversees award
management of grants, is involved
in planning the center’s expansion,
and has been a leader in information
technology.
Dean’s Excellence in
Mentoring Award
Three faculty members received the
Dean’s Excellence in Mentoring Award,
which honors faculty members who
serve as role models and help newer
faculty members attain their full
potential.
Education mentoring
This year’s honoree for education
mentoring is electrophysiologist
Nipavan Chiamvimonvat, professor
of cardiovascular medicine. She
oversees or is co-principal investigator
for numerous research and training
grants. Pomeroy said Chiamvimonvat
has an exceptional understanding of the
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needs of junior faculty who are launching
careers while balancing family priorities.”
Clinical mentoring
Francis Lu, a professor of clinical
psychiatry and director of cultural
psychiatry and associate department
chair for Medical Student Education, was
honored for clinical mentoring. Pomeroy
said a colleague complimented Lu for his
“genuine love for his field and true caring
for those of us whom he inspires.”
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Excellence in Mentoring
An Excellence in Mentoring Award
recognized Judith Turgeon for her lead
role in developing the Mentoring Academy
for the UC Davis Schools of Health.
Turgeon, a professor in the Department of
Internal Medicine, created the concept of a
“mentoring mosaic” to describe her plan to
link each junior faculty mentee with teams
of mentors with specialized expertise.
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Dean’s Award for Excellence
Three faculty members received the Dean’s
Award for Excellence, which honors
outstanding contributions of faculty
members to UC Davis Health System’s core
missions: education, research, clinical care
and community engagement.
Dean’s Award for Excellence
in Research
Two faculty members received the Dean’s
Award for Excellence in Research, which
recognizes faculty who offer their students
outstanding learning opportunities and an
integrated, dynamic curriculum.
Patrick Romano, a professor of
medicine and pediatrics, delivered 20
invited national, international and regional
lectures during the 2009–10 academic
year. Pomeroy said that the quality of
the translational research that is being
conducted at UC Davis has improved
dramatically as a result of Romano’s
teaching, mentoring and leadership.
Sally Rogers, a professor of psychiatry
and behavioral sciences and a key member
of the UC Davis MIND Institute, is an
international leader in autism intervention.
Pomeroy recognized Rogers’ development
of the Denver Model, which is among the
few treatments for autism have been shown
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members. Jan Nolta, director of the
Stem Cell Program and the Institute for
Regenerative Cures, accepted the award
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on behalf of her team.
Education
An award was presented to the
Deborah Ward, associate dean for the
Center
for Biophotonics Science
Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing,
and
Technology
(CBST) Education
received the Dean’s Award for Excellence in
and
Outreach
Program,
which has
Education in recognition of her leadership
developed and nurtured multiple
enabling admission of the inaugural class
pathways for diverse high school,
of graduate students last September.
community college, undergraduate,
Pomeroy said that Ward’s leadership was
graduate students and instructors
instrumental in the school reaching this
to engage in cutting-edge science,
milestone.
research and science education. Dennis
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Matthews, professor and CBST director,
in Clinical Care
accepted the award on behalf of his team.
Gary Raff, an associate professor of
A team award for clinical care was
pediatric cardiothoracic surgery, received
presented
to Peter Belafsky, an associate
the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Clinical
professor
of
otolaryngology, and to his
Care, which recognizes quality, compassion
disciplinarily
divergent colleagues on his
and patient focus in delivering medical
swallowing
disorders
team. The team
care. “Those training under our honoree
includes
members
from
the School of
find him to be selfless, often taking the
Medicine, School of Veterinary Medicine,
assistant role in cases to allow those he is
working with to gain valuable training and Center for Health and Environment,
National Primate Research Center, Center
experience without sacrificing quality of
for Laboratory Animal Science, and Food
care,” Pomeroy said.
Science and Nutrition.
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Otolaryngologist Gregory Farwell
Community Engagement
and
his laryngeal transplant team
Geriatrician Michael McCloud, a clinical
made
international headlines for
professor of medicine, was honored
enabling
a patient to regain her voice
with the Dean’s Award for Excellence in
by
means
of an exceptionally intricate
Community Engagement. McCloud is the
18-hour
procedure
in January. Farwell,
creator of “Aging and Medical Science: A
an
associate
professor
who specializes
Mini Medical School to Prepare for Life’s
in
head
and
neck,
facial
plastic and
Second Half,” which he has conducted
reconstructive, and microvascular
voluntarily for the past nine years.
surgeries, worked with an international
Pomeroy said McCloud “inspires others
team of medical professionals.
to fight for public policies that promote
healthy aging.”
Dean’s Team Award for
Community Engagement
Dean’s Team Award for
Excellence
The Healthy Youth/Healthy Regions
team, which applied a mixed-method,
Four groups received a Dean’s
multi-disciplinary and multi-scalar
Team Award for Excellence, which
approach to understanding the interrecognizes outstanding performance of
dependence of youth and regional health
multidisciplinary teams in one or more of
and well-being, received the Dean’s Team
the health system’s mission areas.
The Stem Cell Program was honored Award for Community Engagement.
Estella M. Geraghty, an assistant
for its work in tackling severe diseases
professor of internal medicine, accepted
for which therapies are limited or nonthe award on behalf of the team.
existent. The program consists of 15
disease teams encompassing 147 faculty
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Dean’s recognition awards given for stellar service
The School of Medicine acknowledged
the outstanding achievements of nine
faculty members and five teams in the
annual Vice Chancellor and Dean’s
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March 1 in the Education Building.
“These awards recognize stellar
service in mentoring, mission
excellence and teamwork in our
community,” said Claire Pomeroy, M.D.,
M.B.A., vice chancellor for Human
Health Sciences, dean of the School of
Medicine, and chief executive officer of
UC Davis Health System.
Karen Eilers Staff Award
Jeanine Stiles, associate director for
administration at the UC Davis Cancer
Center, received the Karen Eilers Award
for Staff Excellence, which recognizes
outstanding service, leadership and
dedication. Stiles oversees award
management of grants, is involved
in planning the center’s expansion,
and has been a leader in information
technology.
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Three faculty members received the
Dean’s Excellence in Mentoring Award,
which honors faculty members who
serve as role models and help newer
faculty members attain their full
potential.
Education mentoring
This year’s honoree for education
mentoring is electrophysiologist
Nipavan Chiamvimonvat, professor
of cardiovascular medicine. She
oversees or is co-principal investigator
for numerous research and training
grants. Pomeroy said Chiamvimonvat
has an exceptional understanding of the
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