HEALTH-CARE DEBATE FROM PAGE 1
“A medical insurance card is of no
value whatsoever without someone to take
are drawn to higher-paying specialties that
care of you. Coverage must be sufficient
enable them to repay their medical school
to encourage physicians and health-care
debts more quickly.
systems to engage with patients,” said
A tabulation by the National Resident
Latimore, who insists that reimbursement
Matching Program showed that the
reform must accompany any increased
2,387 first-year residency positions in
health-care insurance access.
family medicine filled nationwide in
“Medicare sets the standard for how we
2008 constituted only 11.4 percent of the
reimburse,
with rates significantly higher
20,940 total slots encompassing all medical
for
technical
procedures than for cognitive
specialties.
actions,”
Latimore
said. “Not only should
Nuovo said that regardless of changes
that
reimbursement
inequity be rectified,
that may be legislated, schools of medicine
but
also
significantly
more money should be
will maintain their core focus of teaching
allocated
for
loan
repayment,
specifically for
patient care and safety, communication
students
who
agree
to
work
in
primary care
skills and other fundamentals.
or in rural or central urban areas.”
“So how can medical schools respond
to the need for more primary-care
physicians? UC Davis has a superb
track record in primary care,”
Nuovo said. “Our Rural Program in
Medical Education [PRIME], and our
advancements in the development
of telemedicine and supporting
technologies, are excellent
examples.”
Donald M. Hilty, Rural-PRIME
director, said that students in
the program gain insightful
understanding of the entire system
of care by virtue of the holistic
nature of rural practice.
“They’re able to wrap their
brain around a system and a community,
Latimore believes regulatory action
and as a result can engage themselves in
mandating
dedication of a fixed proportion
becoming part of a solution to improve
of
graduate
medical education slots to
access to care,” Hilty said. He doubts that
primary
care
may be needed to rectify
health-care reform will necessarily increase
shortages.
caseloads at the UC Davis Medical Center,
“I know that other people believe that
but says it could result in fiscal changes.
market economics rather than government
“We already furnish more than 50 percent
intervention should determine allocation
of the free care in the community, but if
reimbursement changes are enacted, other of residency slots,” Latimore said.
hospitals may be encouraged to help more. “However, in order to meet workforce
We may have to make some adjustments in demands, government intervention may be
how we generate salaries of clinical faculty necessary.”
Health-care reform should go one step
members.”
further,
in the view of first-year medical
Darin Latimore, director of medical
student Kaveh Zivari, co-president of the
student diversity, regards economics as a
School of Medicine class of 2013.
fulcrum point in health-care reform.
UC Davis Health System
“There is a need for more primarycare services to do preventative care,
and at the same time, a greater need
for physician assistants to help manage
patients over a longer period of time.
Unfortunately, chronic diseases such
as diabetes lead to heart attack, stroke
or other problems,” observed Zivari,
who believes that the food processing
industry must be considered part of
the equation. “We need to control
and curb these problems by adjusting
peoples’ eating habits, which will be
possible only through reforms in food
industries.”
He believes that medical students
can help influence change rather than
merely gird themselves to be
buffeted by it.
“Medical students feel that
finally something can be done,
and they can contribute,” Zivari
said. “This is the time to stand
up and bring one’s ideas to the
table. This is the time to lobby
for the right change. This is the
time for the students to go tell
Congress why they decided to
become doctors.”
Mark C. Henderson, associate
dean for admissions and outreach
says he likewise has detected an
“undercurrent wave of positive
energy” among students.
“Many students come to our school
because of their desire to work with
people who are medically underserved.
I think students are, as a whole, very
optimistic about the prospects for
health-care reform, and they want
be part of change in the system,”
Henderson said.
“We as leaders and mentors have
tremendous influence on students,
and we need to remain engaged in this
debate and help move it forward to the
extent we can,” Henderson added. “Our
role is to galvanize and channel the
interests of our students in ways that can
lead to constructive change.”
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INCENTIVES MAY BE NEEDED TO PROMOTE PRIMARY CARE
As the emotionally lathered debates
about health-care insurance reform
reverberated throughout the year in
Congress, the White House, on radio
and television talk programs, and in
town halls nationwide, the varied
proposals have been doggedly dissected
and excoriated. Lost amid shrill charges
and counter-charges, however, was
consideration about the ability of
already overextended primary-care
physicians to care for 40 million or
more additional patients who might
receive coverage under the various
proposed plans.
That implication of health-care
insurance reform is clearly evident,
however, to UC Davis School of
Medicine and UC Davis Health System
medical personnel and students.
James Nuovo, associate dean of
student affairs and graduate medical
education, said that the damaging
effects of impeded access to routine
health care are apparent to students
serving clerkships and to faculty and
student volunteers in community
clinics.
“In our hospital and community
clinics, UC Davis medical students
and physicians witness what happens
when social service agencies or health
insurance providers deny people
access to mental or medical health
care,” Nuovo said. “By experience they
know that patients who are unable to
continue taking prescribed medications
because they can’t afford them end up
in the hospital again.”
The American Academy of Family
Physicians calculates that U.S. medical
schools cumulatively produce only half
the number of primary-care physicians
the nation now needs, and has
predicted that the shortage of family
doctors will grow to 40,000 in 10 years.
Back in the mid-1950s, half of the
nation’s physicians practiced family-care
medicine; that number has dwindled
to 30 percent as a steadily increasing
proportion of medical school students
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DEAN’S EXCELLENCE AWARDS
A WELCOME TO NEW
FACULTY COLLEAGUES
D E N I S E S AT T E R F I E L D I S C H I E F C O O K
OF A PED I AT R I C O P H T H A L M O L O G Y P R A C T I C E
Colleen Clancy
Thousands of men and women
interest in teaching by becoming
whose medical insurance pays for
a volunteer clinical faculty memsurgical and other treatments to
ber for the UC Davis Department
correct strabismus owe gratitude
of Ophthalmology, for which she
in part to Denise Satterfield, a UC
serves in clinics and conducts
Davis Health System Volunteer
lectures.
Clinical Faculty member. Satterfield,
She also hosts rotation visits
a pediatric ophthalmologist who
by residents at her medical office
operates a solo private practice in
near Sutter Memorial Hospital. She
Sacramento, was the lead investigator
describes herself as “chief cook and
in a seminal 1990 research study
bottle washer” of her practice.
titled “The Psychosocial Aspects of
“I do payroll and taxes for my
Strabismus.”
three employees, handle accounts
At the time the study was
payable, computer upgrades and
conducted, insurance companies
Denise Satterfield with her husband, Dale Smith, on a
our office lease, and often work
paid to treat strabismus – misaligned recent trip to Santa Fe, New Mexico.
10-hour days. But I like being my
eyes – only for patients experiencing
own boss, and I wouldn’t change a
“My
friend
hated
it.
I
loved
it,”
double vision; they considered
thing,”
Satterfield said.
Satterfield
said.
“I
became
president
of
treatment for other patients cosmetic and
the
candy
stripers,
initiated
a
teaching
In
2000,
Satterfield became involved
declined coverage.
program
enabling
candy
stripers
to
be
with the School of Medicine Alumni
“My study showed that adults
more useful to the nursing staff, and
Association as a board member and
experience improvement in psychosocial
became a certified nurses’ aide.”
functioning with correction of their
completed a four-year term as president.
She obtained a nursing degree and
strabismus, a benefit not previously
Beth Abad, the alumni association’s
entered the medical field as a criticalreported in the literature,” Satterfield
development officer, speaks glowingly of
said. “Since then, numerous other studies care registered nurse in 1977. But even
Satterfield.
have corroborated our findings. Insurance during nursing school she felt a tugging to
“She is a consensus builder who leads
become a physician after participating in
companies now usually cover strabismus
by example. She never asks anyone to
surgery to correct a child’s crossed eyes.
surgery in adults.”
do something that she is unwilling to do
“I had an open mind about other fields
Like many other pediatric ophthalmoloherself,” Abad said. “She also happens to
of medicine, but kept coming back to
gists, she also specializes in treatment of
be a fabulous cook, specializing in Thai,
ophthalmology, and specifically pediatric
adult strabismus because the condition
Indian and other cuisines. She prepares
commonly develops in children – although ophthalmology,” Satterfield said. Although
remarkable meals for events she routinely
she discovered that she enjoyed teaching
it can emerge in adulthood as a result of
hosts at her home for medical students
while she was a resident at UC Davis, she
traumatic injury, tumors, stroke, diabetes,
and alumni.” Satterfield, a largely selfdeclined an invitation to join the School
botulism or Guillain-Barré syndrome.
taught cook, also smokes and vacuumof Medicine faculty because she prefers
Satterfield conducted her research
packs fish and meats in large quantities to
during her residency in ophthalmology
private practice.
at the UC Davis Medical Center, where
After completing a fellowship in pedi- give to colleagues and friends.
She and her husband, urologist Dale
she also obtained her medical degree and
atric ophthalmology and strabismus at the
completed her internship in pediatrics.
Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute in Smith, have two grown daughters: Megan,
an innovative cook with a degree in
When in high school in Southern
San Francisco, she launched her practice
molecular biology and biochemistry who
California, she had planned to become a
in 1993 by following guidelines in the
hopes to own a restaurant someday; and
foreign-language teacher – until she and a American Medical Association’s “Starting
classmate volunteered as “candy stripers”
Lindsey, who has a degree in biology and
Your Practice” kit. Once she established
at a local hospital.
a client base, she embraced her enduring
plans a career in nursing.
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The School of Medicine is soliciting
nominations for three annual awards that
bestow recognition on outstanding faculty
members and faculty-led teams. Recipients
of all three awards will receive a cash prize
and will be honored at a faculty recognition
reception to be held on the evening of
March 2, 2010.
Neil Hunter
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.
Colleen Clancy investigating
cardiac arrhythmia
chromosome transmission during meiosis,
genome stability and tumorigenesis.
His findings could lead to greater
understanding of activation of oncogenes,
and the ways in which defective
recombination is related to infertility,
miscarriage and genetic diseases including
Down syndrome. Hunter, a UC Davis
Chancellor’s Fellow for 2009–2010, is an
associate professor in the departments
of Microbiology (College of Biological
Sciences), Molecular and Cellular Biology,
and Cell Biology and Human Anatomy
(School of Medicine).
•
Forensic psychiatrist Jason G. Roof,
M.D., conducts sanity evaluations,
competency to stand trial evaluations,
sexual offender evaluations and
disposition evaluations of adults
and adolescents in his capacity
as a member of the California
Superior Court Expert Panel. Roof
is an assistant clinical professor in
the Department of Psychiatry and
Behavioral Sciences’ Division of
Psychiatry and the Law. He also is
the medical student and resident site
director for Sacramento County Jail
Psychiatric Services; and an attending
physician at the inpatient psychiatric
unit of the Sacramento County Main
Jail; and an outpatient physician
for Jail Psychiatric Services at the
Sacramento County Main Jail and the
Rio Cosumnes Correctional Center.
Dean’s Award for Excellence
Medical scientists have long sought,
without success, to develop drugs
to control cardiac arrhythmia and
other excitable disorders. Colleen E.
Clancy, Ph.D., an associate professor of
pharmacology, says that pharmacological
management of cardiac arrhythmia has
been impeded by lack of an adequate
framework to predict how drugs that
target cardiac ion channels will alter the
emergent electrical behavior generated
in the heart. Clancy’s research group is
working to develop such a framework
Other new colleagues
using computational modeling.
• Loren T. Davidson, M.D., an assistant
Simulations that Clancy and
professor of physical medicine and
her associates have conducted in
rehabilitation, conducts inpatient
virtual cardiac tissue suggest that a
pediatric rehabilitation, outpatient
clinically relevant concentration of the
clinics for children with physical
antiarrhythmic drug flecainide may initiate
and developmental disabilities and
• Cynthia Mills Schumann, Ph.D.,
re-entrant arrhythmias in the setting of
consults at UC Davis Medical Center
director of The M.I.N.D. Institute
ectopic stimuli. The study could form the
and Shriners Hospitals for Children
Brain Tissue Resource Center with
foundation to develop a high-throughput
– Northern California. He also
expertise in the neuropathology
virtual drug testing system enabling
attends California Children Services
of autism, is investigating brain
integration of data on drug channel
(CCS) clinics at local medical therapy
development in children with autism.
units to prescribe therapy, bracing
interactions and prediction of drug effects
Schumann, an assistant professor
and equipment needs for qualifying
on emergent dynamics in a complex
in residence in the Department of
children. Certified by the American
excitable system.
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences,
Board of Physical Medicine and
Neil Hunter is UC Davis’ first
is studying postmortem brain tissue
Rehabilitation, Davidson is researching
HHMI scientist
with the intention of identifying the
spasticity management in patients with
Geneticist Neil Hunter, Ph.D., has
underlying neuropathology that leads
cerebral palsy.
become the first UC Davis faculty member
to severe behavioral and cognitive
selected as an Early Career Scientist by
• Bahareh Nejad, M.D., an assistant
impairments of autism at the cellular
the prestigious Howard Hughes Medical
professor of obstetrics and gynecology,
level. She explains that acquisition
Institute (HHMI). Hunter, whose expertise
maintains a practice at the UC Davis
of human brain tissue is critical to
encompasses DNA repair, chromosome
Medical Group office in Roseville.
examine the organization of neurons
biology, and cancer biology, is investigating
Her practice encompasses general
in the brain and the contribution
the mechanism and regulation of
obstetrics and gynecology, and
of certain genes and proteins in
homologous recombination and its role in
minimally invasive surgery.
development.
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The School of Medicine is seeking
nominees for the third annual Dean’s
Award for Excellence, which recognizes
outstanding faculty contributions in the
core mission areas of research, education,
clinical care, and community engagement.
Up to four awards will be presented – one
in each of the four mission concentrations.
The award is intended not only to
reward outstanding performance, but
also to acknowledge contributions
in transformational leadership in our
collegial community. The Dean’s Award for
Excellence acknowledge faculty members
who clearly and consistently contribute to
the stature of UC Davis Health System as a
destination of choice for all those we serve.
Who may submit nominations:
Department chairs, vice chairs, division
chiefs and section heads are invited to
submit nominations of faculty members
who meet the criteria for the award.
Team Award for Excellence
Nominations are being sought for the
newly established Dean’s Team Award for
Excellence, which is intended to acknowledge outstanding multi-disciplinary and/or
other inter-disciplinary group efforts and
contributions to advancement of the missions of the health system.
Up to four awards will be presented
to honor multi-disciplinary and interdisciplinary teams, members of which
promote and exemplify a collaborative,
collegial approach and model of working
cohesively to serve at least one of the
four mission areas. Nominees should
exhibit compelling performance that
embodies and exemplifies a sustainable
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collaborative approach that aligns our
collegial community with our mission of
discovering and sharing knowledge to
advance health. The nominees’ teamwork
and team efforts must clearly contribute to
instilling confidence in UC Davis Health
System as a destination of choice among
all those we serve.
Who may submit nominations:
Department chairs, vice chairs, division
chiefs and section heads are invited to
submit nominations of faculty-led teams
and their members who meet the criteria
for the award.
Award for Excellence in Mentoring
Nominations are being accepted for the
10th annual Dean’s Award for Excellence
in Mentoring. This award recognizes and
rewards School of Medicine scholars who
excel in mentoring and thus contribute to
the success of our faculty and our health
system. This presentation is a means of
bringing recognition to mentors who have
specifically helped junior faculty members
to succeed.
Past honorees have played a key role
as mentors in professional and personal
mentoring. Faculty at the level of associate
professor and full professor are eligible
to be nominated. The mentoring awards
recognize excellence in research, teaching,
clinical, and/or leadership mentoring. You
may designate a nominee for outstanding
performance in one or more than one of
these categories. The primary criterion
for an award is evidence of excellent
mentoring that supports junior faculty
development.
Who may submit nominations: Only
assistant professors or newly promoted
associate professors (Step I) may submit
nominations.
The deadline to submit nominations is
Dec. 28, 2009. Nomination instructions
and forms for each of these awards are
available on the Faculty Development
Office Web site at www.ucdmc.ucdavis.
edu/facultydev/awards.html.
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advisoryteam
Faculty Forward Task Force
The Task Force 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. Names in bold type indicate
Task Force Executive Committee
members.
Faculty Forward Task Force
members
Claire Pomeroy, M.D., M.B.A., Vice
Chancellor for Human Health
Sciences and Dean (ex-officio
member)
Frederick J. Meyers, M.D., MACP,
Executive Associate Dean
Edward Callahan, Ph.D., Associate
Dean, Academic Personnel
Gregg Servis, M.Div., Director, Faculty
Development
Hilary Brodie, M.D, Ph.D.,
Otolaryngology
Peter Cala, Ph.D., Physiology and
Membrane Biology
Michael Condrin, M.B.A., Dean’s Office
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
Vincent L. Johnson, M.B.A., Hospital
Administration
Darin Latimore, M.D., Internal Medicine
and Office of Diversity
Cindy Oropeza, Human Resources
Annisa Routon, Dean’s Office
Andreea L. Seritan, M.D., Psychiatry and
Behavioral Sciences
Lloyd H. Smith, M.D., Ph.D., Obstetrics
and Gynecology
Peter Sokolove, M.D., Emergency
Medicine
Daniel J. Tancredi, Ph.D. Pediatrics
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OF A PED I AT R I C O P H T H A L M O L O G Y P R A C T I C E
Colleen Clancy
Thousands of men and women
interest in teaching by becoming
whose medical insurance pays for
a volunteer clinical faculty memsurgical and other treatments to
ber for the UC Davis Department
correct strabismus owe gratitude
of Ophthalmology, for which she
in part to Denise Satterfield, a UC
serves in clinics and conducts
Davis Health System Volunteer
lectures.
Clinical Faculty member. Satterfield,
She also hosts rotation visits
a pediatric ophthalmologist who
by residents at her medical office
operates a solo private practice in
near Sutter Memorial Hospital. She
Sacramento, was the lead investigator
describes herself as “chief cook and
in a seminal 1990 research study
bottle washer” of her practice.
titled “The Psychosocial Aspects of
“I do payroll and taxes for my
Strabismus.”
three employees, handle accounts
At the time the study was
payable, computer upgrades and
conducted, insurance companies
Denise Satterfield with her husband, Dale Smith, on a
our office lease, and often work
paid to treat strabismus – misaligned recent trip to Santa Fe, New Mexico.
10-hour days. But I like being my
eyes – only for patients experiencing
own boss, and I wouldn’t change a
“My
friend
hated
it.
I
loved
it,”
double vision; they considered
thing,”
Satterfield said.
Satterfield
said.
“I
became
president
of
treatment for other patients cosmetic and
the
candy
stripers,
initiated
a
teaching
In
2000,
Satterfield became involved
declined coverage.
program
enabling
candy
stripers
to
be
with the School of Medicine Alumni
“My study showed that adults
more useful to the nursing staff, and
Association as a board member and
experience improvement in psychosocial
became a certified nurses’ aide.”
functioning with correction of their
completed a four-year term as president.
She obtained a nursing degree and
strabismus, a benefit not previously
Beth Abad, the alumni association’s
entered the medical field as a criticalreported in the literature,” Satterfield
development officer, speaks glowingly of
said. “Since then, numerous other studies care registered nurse in 1977. But even
Satterfield.
have corroborated our findings. Insurance during nursing school she felt a tugging to
“She is a consensus builder who leads
become a physician after participating in
companies now usually cover strabismus
by example. She never asks anyone to
surgery to correct a child’s crossed eyes.
surgery in adults.”
do something that she is unwilling to do
“I had an open mind about other fields
Like many other pediatric ophthalmoloherself,” Abad said. “She also happens to
of medicine, but kept coming back to
gists, she also specializes in treatment of
be a fabulous cook, specializing in Thai,
ophthalmology, and specifically pediatric
adult strabismus because the condition
Indian and other cuisines. She prepares
commonly develops in children – although ophthalmology,” Satterfield said. Although
remarkable meals for events she routinely
she discovered that she enjoyed teaching
it can emerge in adulthood as a result of
hosts at her home for medical students
while she was a resident at UC Davis, she
traumatic injury, tumors, stroke, diabetes,
and alumni.” Satterfield, a largely selfdeclined an invitation to join the School
botulism or Guillain-Barré syndrome.
taught cook, also smokes and vacuumof Medicine faculty because she prefers
Satterfield conducted her research
packs fish and meats in large quantities to
during her residency in ophthalmology
private practice.
at the UC Davis Medical Center, where
After completing a fellowship in pedi- give to colleagues and friends.
She and her husband, urologist Dale
she also obtained her medical degree and
atric ophthalmology and strabismus at the
completed her internship in pediatrics.
Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute in Smith, have two grown daughters: Megan,
an innovative cook with a degree in
When in high school in Southern
San Francisco, she launched her practice
molecular biology and biochemistry who
California, she had planned to become a
in 1993 by following guidelines in the
hopes to own a restaurant someday; and
foreign-language teacher – until she and a American Medical Association’s “Starting
classmate volunteered as “candy stripers”
Lindsey, who has a degree in biology and
Your Practice” kit. Once she established
at a local hospital.
a client base, she embraced her enduring
plans a career in nursing.
facultyNEWSLETTER | December 2009 – January 2010 | www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/facultydev
call for SUBMISSIONS
The School of Medicine is soliciting
nominations for three annual awards that
bestow recognition on outstanding faculty
members and faculty-led teams. Recipients
of all three awards will receive a cash prize
and will be honored at a faculty recognition
reception to be held on the evening of
March 2, 2010.
Neil Hunter
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.
Colleen Clancy investigating
cardiac arrhythmia
chromosome transmission during meiosis,
genome stability and tumorigenesis.
His findings could lead to greater
understanding of activation of oncogenes,
and the ways in which defective
recombination is related to infertility,
miscarriage and genetic diseases including
Down syndrome. Hunter, a UC Davis
Chancellor’s Fellow for 2009–2010, is an
associate professor in the departments
of Microbiology (College of Biological
Sciences), Molecular and Cellular Biology,
and Cell Biology and Human Anatomy
(School of Medicine).
•
Forensic psychiatrist Jason G. Roof,
M.D., conducts sanity evaluations,
competency to stand trial evaluations,
sexual offender evaluations and
disposition evaluations of adults
and adolescents in his capacity
as a member of the California
Superior Court Expert Panel. Roof
is an assistant clinical professor in
the Department of Psychiatry and
Behavioral Sciences’ Division of
Psychiatry and the Law. He also is
the medical student and resident site
director for Sacramento County Jail
Psychiatric Services; and an attending
physician at the inpatient psychiatric
unit of the Sacramento County Main
Jail; and an outpatient physician
for Jail Psychiatric Services at the
Sacramento County Main Jail and the
Rio Cosumnes Correctional Center.
Dean’s Award for Excellence
Medical scientists have long sought,
without success, to develop drugs
to control cardiac arrhythmia and
other excitable disorders. Colleen E.
Clancy, Ph.D., an associate professor of
pharmacology, says that pharmacological
management of cardiac arrhythmia has
been impeded by lack of an adequate
framework to predict how drugs that
target cardiac ion channels will alter the
emergent electrical behavior generated
in the heart. Clancy’s research group is
working to develop such a framework
Other new colleagues
using computational modeling.
• Loren T. Davidson, M.D., an assistant
Simulations that Clancy and
professor of physical medicine and
her associates have conducted in
rehabilitation, conducts inpatient
virtual cardiac tissue suggest that a
pediatric rehabilitation, outpatient
clinically relevant concentration of the
clinics for children with physical
antiarrhythmic drug flecainide may initiate
and developmental disabilities and
• Cynthia Mills Schumann, Ph.D.,
re-entrant arrhythmias in the setting of
consults at UC Davis Medical Center
director of The M.I.N.D. Institute
ectopic stimuli. The study could form the
and Shriners Hospitals for Children
Brain Tissue Resource Center with
foundation to develop a high-throughput
– Northern California. He also
expertise in the neuropathology
virtual drug testing system enabling
attends California Children Services
of autism, is investigating brain
integration of data on drug channel
(CCS) clinics at local medical therapy
development in children with autism.
units to prescribe therapy, bracing
interactions and prediction of drug effects
Schumann, an assistant professor
and equipment needs for qualifying
on emergent dynamics in a complex
in residence in the Department of
children. Certified by the American
excitable system.
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences,
Board of Physical Medicine and
Neil Hunter is UC Davis’ first
is studying postmortem brain tissue
Rehabilitation, Davidson is researching
HHMI scientist
with the intention of identifying the
spasticity management in patients with
Geneticist Neil Hunter, Ph.D., has
underlying neuropathology that leads
cerebral palsy.
become the first UC Davis faculty member
to severe behavioral and cognitive
selected as an Early Career Scientist by
• Bahareh Nejad, M.D., an assistant
impairments of autism at the cellular
the prestigious Howard Hughes Medical
professor of obstetrics and gynecology,
level. She explains that acquisition
Institute (HHMI). Hunter, whose expertise
maintains a practice at the UC Davis
of human brain tissue is critical to
encompasses DNA repair, chromosome
Medical Group office in Roseville.
examine the organization of neurons
biology, and cancer biology, is investigating
Her practice encompasses general
in the brain and the contribution
the mechanism and regulation of
obstetrics and gynecology, and
of certain genes and proteins in
homologous recombination and its role in
minimally invasive surgery.
development.
2
facultyNEWSLETTER | December 2009 – January 2010 | www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/facultydev
The School of Medicine is seeking
nominees for the third annual Dean’s
Award for Excellence, which recognizes
outstanding faculty contributions in the
core mission areas of research, education,
clinical care, and community engagement.
Up to four awards will be presented – one
in each of the four mission concentrations.
The award is intended not only to
reward outstanding performance, but
also to acknowledge contributions
in transformational leadership in our
collegial community. The Dean’s Award for
Excellence acknowledge faculty members
who clearly and consistently contribute to
the stature of UC Davis Health System as a
destination of choice for all those we serve.
Who may submit nominations:
Department chairs, vice chairs, division
chiefs and section heads are invited to
submit nominations of faculty members
who meet the criteria for the award.
Team Award for Excellence
Nominations are being sought for the
newly established Dean’s Team Award for
Excellence, which is intended to acknowledge outstanding multi-disciplinary and/or
other inter-disciplinary group efforts and
contributions to advancement of the missions of the health system.
Up to four awards will be presented
to honor multi-disciplinary and interdisciplinary teams, members of which
promote and exemplify a collaborative,
collegial approach and model of working
cohesively to serve at least one of the
four mission areas. Nominees should
exhibit compelling performance that
embodies and exemplifies a sustainable
3
collaborative approach that aligns our
collegial community with our mission of
discovering and sharing knowledge to
advance health. The nominees’ teamwork
and team efforts must clearly contribute to
instilling confidence in UC Davis Health
System as a destination of choice among
all those we serve.
Who may submit nominations:
Department chairs, vice chairs, division
chiefs and section heads are invited to
submit nominations of faculty-led teams
and their members who meet the criteria
for the award.
Award for Excellence in Mentoring
Nominations are being accepted for the
10th annual Dean’s Award for Excellence
in Mentoring. This award recognizes and
rewards School of Medicine scholars who
excel in mentoring and thus contribute to
the success of our faculty and our health
system. This presentation is a means of
bringing recognition to mentors who have
specifically helped junior faculty members
to succeed.
Past honorees have played a key role
as mentors in professional and personal
mentoring. Faculty at the level of associate
professor and full professor are eligible
to be nominated. The mentoring awards
recognize excellence in research, teaching,
clinical, and/or leadership mentoring. You
may designate a nominee for outstanding
performance in one or more than one of
these categories. The primary criterion
for an award is evidence of excellent
mentoring that supports junior faculty
development.
Who may submit nominations: Only
assistant professors or newly promoted
associate professors (Step I) may submit
nominations.
The deadline to submit nominations is
Dec. 28, 2009. Nomination instructions
and forms for each of these awards are
available on the Faculty Development
Office Web site at www.ucdmc.ucdavis.
edu/facultydev/awards.html.
facultyNEWSLETTER | December 2009 – January 2010 | www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/facultydev
advisoryteam
Faculty Forward Task Force
The Task Force 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. Names in bold type indicate
Task Force Executive Committee
members.
Faculty Forward Task Force
members
Claire Pomeroy, M.D., M.B.A., Vice
Chancellor for Human Health
Sciences and Dean (ex-officio
member)
Frederick J. Meyers, M.D., MACP,
Executive Associate Dean
Edward Callahan, Ph.D., Associate
Dean, Academic Personnel
Gregg Servis, M.Div., Director, Faculty
Development
Hilary Brodie, M.D, Ph.D.,
Otolaryngology
Peter Cala, Ph.D., Physiology and
Membrane Biology
Michael Condrin, M.B.A., Dean’s Office
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
Vincent L. Johnson, M.B.A., Hospital
Administration
Darin Latimore, M.D., Internal Medicine
and Office of Diversity
Cindy Oropeza, Human Resources
Annisa Routon, Dean’s Office
Andreea L. Seritan, M.D., Psychiatry and
Behavioral Sciences
Lloyd H. Smith, M.D., Ph.D., Obstetrics
and Gynecology
Peter Sokolove, M.D., Emergency
Medicine
Daniel J. Tancredi, Ph.D. Pediatrics
4
officeVISIT
facultyROUNDS
NOMINEES SOUGHT FOR
DEAN’S EXCELLENCE AWARDS
A WELCOME TO NEW
FACULTY COLLEAGUES
D E N I S E S AT T E R F I E L D I S C H I E F C O O K
OF A PED I AT R I C O P H T H A L M O L O G Y P R A C T I C E
Colleen Clancy
Thousands of men and women
interest in teaching by becoming
whose medical insurance pays for
a volunteer clinical faculty memsurgical and other treatments to
ber for the UC Davis Department
correct strabismus owe gratitude
of Ophthalmology, for which she
in part to Denise Satterfield, a UC
serves in clinics and conducts
Davis Health System Volunteer
lectures.
Clinical Faculty member. Satterfield,
She also hosts rotation visits
a pediatric ophthalmologist who
by residents at her medical office
operates a solo private practice in
near Sutter Memorial Hospital. She
Sacramento, was the lead investigator
describes herself as “chief cook and
in a seminal 1990 research study
bottle washer” of her practice.
titled “The Psychosocial Aspects of
“I do payroll and taxes for my
Strabismus.”
three employees, handle accounts
At the time the study was
payable, computer upgrades and
conducted, insurance companies
Denise Satterfield with her husband, Dale Smith, on a
our office lease, and often work
paid to treat strabismus – misaligned recent trip to Santa Fe, New Mexico.
10-hour days. But I like being my
eyes – only for patients experiencing
own boss, and I wouldn’t change a
“My
friend
hated
it.
I
loved
it,”
double vision; they considered
thing,”
Satterfield said.
Satterfield
said.
“I
became
president
of
treatment for other patients cosmetic and
the
candy
stripers,
initiated
a
teaching
In
2000,
Satterfield became involved
declined coverage.
program
enabling
candy
stripers
to
be
with the School of Medicine Alumni
“My study showed that adults
more useful to the nursing staff, and
Association as a board member and
experience improvement in psychosocial
became a certified nurses’ aide.”
functioning with correction of their
completed a four-year term as president.
She obtained a nursing degree and
strabismus, a benefit not previously
Beth Abad, the alumni association’s
entered the medical field as a criticalreported in the literature,” Satterfield
development officer, speaks glowingly of
said. “Since then, numerous other studies care registered nurse in 1977. But even
Satterfield.
have corroborated our findings. Insurance during nursing school she felt a tugging to
“She is a consensus builder who leads
become a physician after participating in
companies now usually cover strabismus
by example. She never asks anyone to
surgery to correct a child’s crossed eyes.
surgery in adults.”
do something that she is unwilling to do
“I had an open mind about other fields
Like many other pediatric ophthalmoloherself,” Abad said. “She also happens to
of medicine, but kept coming back to
gists, she also specializes in treatment of
be a fabulous cook, specializing in Thai,
ophthalmology, and specifically pediatric
adult strabismus because the condition
Indian and other cuisines. She prepares
commonly develops in children – although ophthalmology,” Satterfield said. Although
remarkable meals for events she routinely
she discovered that she enjoyed teaching
it can emerge in adulthood as a result of
hosts at her home for medical students
while she was a resident at UC Davis, she
traumatic injury, tumors, stroke, diabetes,
and alumni.” Satterfield, a largely selfdeclined an invitation to join the School
botulism or Guillain-Barré syndrome.
taught cook, also smokes and vacuumof Medicine faculty because she prefers
Satterfield conducted her research
packs fish and meats in large quantities to
during her residency in ophthalmology
private practice.
at the UC Davis Medical Center, where
After completing a fellowship in pedi- give to colleagues and friends.
She and her husband, urologist Dale
she also obtained her medical degree and
atric ophthalmology and strabismus at the
completed her internship in pediatrics.
Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute in Smith, have two grown daughters: Megan,
an innovative cook with a degree in
When in high school in Southern
San Francisco, she launched her practice
molecular biology and biochemistry who
California, she had planned to become a
in 1993 by following guidelines in the
hopes to own a restaurant someday; and
foreign-language teacher – until she and a American Medical Association’s “Starting
classmate volunteered as “candy stripers”
Lindsey, who has a degree in biology and
Your Practice” kit. Once she established
at a local hospital.
a client base, she embraced her enduring
plans a career in nursing.
facultyNEWSLETTER | December 2009 – January 2010 | www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/facultydev
call for SUBMISSIONS
The School of Medicine is soliciting
nominations for three annual awards that
bestow recognition on outstanding faculty
members and faculty-led teams. Recipients
of all three awards will receive a cash prize
and will be honored at a faculty recognition
reception to be held on the evening of
March 2, 2010.
Neil Hunter
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.
Colleen Clancy investigating
cardiac arrhythmia
chromosome transmission during meiosis,
genome stability and tumorigenesis.
His findings could lead to greater
understanding of activation of oncogenes,
and the ways in which defective
recombination is related to infertility,
miscarriage and genetic diseases including
Down syndrome. Hunter, a UC Davis
Chancellor’s Fellow for 2009–2010, is an
associate professor in the departments
of Microbiology (College of Biological
Sciences), Molecular and Cellular Biology,
and Cell Biology and Human Anatomy
(School of Medicine).
•
Forensic psychiatrist Jason G. Roof,
M.D., conducts sanity evaluations,
competency to stand trial evaluations,
sexual offender evaluations and
disposition evaluations of adults
and adolescents in his capacity
as a member of the California
Superior Court Expert Panel. Roof
is an assistant clinical professor in
the Department of Psychiatry and
Behavioral Sciences’ Division of
Psychiatry and the Law. He also is
the medical student and resident site
director for Sacramento County Jail
Psychiatric Services; and an attending
physician at the inpatient psychiatric
unit of the Sacramento County Main
Jail; and an outpatient physician
for Jail Psychiatric Services at the
Sacramento County Main Jail and the
Rio Cosumnes Correctional Center.
Dean’s Award for Excellence
Medical scientists have long sought,
without success, to develop drugs
to control cardiac arrhythmia and
other excitable disorders. Colleen E.
Clancy, Ph.D., an associate professor of
pharmacology, says that pharmacological
management of cardiac arrhythmia has
been impeded by lack of an adequate
framework to predict how drugs that
target cardiac ion channels will alter the
emergent electrical behavior generated
in the heart. Clancy’s research group is
working to develop such a framework
Other new colleagues
using computational modeling.
• Loren T. Davidson, M.D., an assistant
Simulations that Clancy and
professor of physical medicine and
her associates have conducted in
rehabilitation, conducts inpatient
virtual cardiac tissue suggest that a
pediatric rehabilitation, outpatient
clinically relevant concentration of the
clinics for children with physical
antiarrhythmic drug flecainide may initiate
and developmental disabilities and
• Cynthia Mills Schumann, Ph.D.,
re-entrant arrhythmias in the setting of
consults at UC Davis Medical Center
director of The M.I.N.D. Institute
ectopic stimuli. The study could form the
and Shriners Hospitals for Children
Brain Tissue Resource Center with
foundation to develop a high-throughput
– Northern California. He also
expertise in the neuropathology
virtual drug testing system enabling
attends California Children Services
of autism, is investigating brain
integration of data on drug channel
(CCS) clinics at local medical therapy
development in children with autism.
units to prescribe therapy, bracing
interactions and prediction of drug effects
Schumann, an assistant professor
and equipment needs for qualifying
on emergent dynamics in a complex
in residence in the Department of
children. Certified by the American
excitable system.
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences,
Board of Physical Medicine and
Neil Hunter is UC Davis’ first
is studying postmortem brain tissue
Rehabilitation, Davidson is researching
HHMI scientist
with the intention of identifying the
spasticity management in patients with
Geneticist Neil Hunter, Ph.D., has
underlying neuropathology that leads
cerebral palsy.
become the first UC Davis faculty member
to severe behavioral and cognitive
selected as an Early Career Scientist by
• Bahareh Nejad, M.D., an assistant
impairments of autism at the cellular
the prestigious Howard Hughes Medical
professor of obstetrics and gynecology,
level. She explains that acquisition
Institute (HHMI). Hunter, whose expertise
maintains a practice at the UC Davis
of human brain tissue is critical to
encompasses DNA repair, chromosome
Medical Group office in Roseville.
examine the organization of neurons
biology, and cancer biology, is investigating
Her practice encompasses general
in the brain and the contribution
the mechanism and regulation of
obstetrics and gynecology, and
of certain genes and proteins in
homologous recombination and its role in
minimally invasive surgery.
development.
2
facultyNEWSLETTER | December 2009 – January 2010 | www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/facultydev
The School of Medicine is seeking
nominees for the third annual Dean’s
Award for Excellence, which recognizes
outstanding faculty contributions in the
core mission areas of research, education,
clinical care, and community engagement.
Up to four awards will be presented – one
in each of the four mission concentrations.
The award is intended not only to
reward outstanding performance, but
also to acknowledge contributions
in transformational leadership in our
collegial community. The Dean’s Award for
Excellence acknowledge faculty members
who clearly and consistently contribute to
the stature of UC Davis Health System as a
destination of choice for all those we serve.
Who may submit nominations:
Department chairs, vice chairs, division
chiefs and section heads are invited to
submit nominations of faculty members
who meet the criteria for the award.
Team Award for Excellence
Nominations are being sought for the
newly established Dean’s Team Award for
Excellence, which is intended to acknowledge outstanding multi-disciplinary and/or
other inter-disciplinary group efforts and
contributions to advancement of the missions of the health system.
Up to four awards will be presented
to honor multi-disciplinary and interdisciplinary teams, members of which
promote and exemplify a collaborative,
collegial approach and model of working
cohesively to serve at least one of the
four mission areas. Nominees should
exhibit compelling performance that
embodies and exemplifies a sustainable
3
collaborative approach that aligns our
collegial community with our mission of
discovering and sharing knowledge to
advance health. The nominees’ teamwork
and team efforts must clearly contribute to
instilling confidence in UC Davis Health
System as a destination of choice among
all those we serve.
Who may submit nominations:
Department chairs, vice chairs, division
chiefs and section heads are invited to
submit nominations of faculty-led teams
and their members who meet the criteria
for the award.
Award for Excellence in Mentoring
Nominations are being accepted for the
10th annual Dean’s Award for Excellence
in Mentoring. This award recognizes and
rewards School of Medicine scholars who
excel in mentoring and thus contribute to
the success of our faculty and our health
system. This presentation is a means of
bringing recognition to mentors who have
specifically helped junior faculty members
to succeed.
Past honorees have played a key role
as mentors in professional and personal
mentoring. Faculty at the level of associate
professor and full professor are eligible
to be nominated. The mentoring awards
recognize excellence in research, teaching,
clinical, and/or leadership mentoring. You
may designate a nominee for outstanding
performance in one or more than one of
these categories. The primary criterion
for an award is evidence of excellent
mentoring that supports junior faculty
development.
Who may submit nominations: Only
assistant professors or newly promoted
associate professors (Step I) may submit
nominations.
The deadline to submit nominations is
Dec. 28, 2009. Nomination instructions
and forms for each of these awards are
available on the Faculty Development
Office Web site at www.ucdmc.ucdavis.
edu/facultydev/awards.html.
facultyNEWSLETTER | December 2009 – January 2010 | www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/facultydev
advisoryteam
Faculty Forward Task Force
The Task Force 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. Names in bold type indicate
Task Force Executive Committee
members.
Faculty Forward Task Force
members
Claire Pomeroy, M.D., M.B.A., Vice
Chancellor for Human Health
Sciences and Dean (ex-officio
member)
Frederick J. Meyers, M.D., MACP,
Executive Associate Dean
Edward Callahan, Ph.D., Associate
Dean, Academic Personnel
Gregg Servis, M.Div., Director, Faculty
Development
Hilary Brodie, M.D, Ph.D.,
Otolaryngology
Peter Cala, Ph.D., Physiology and
Membrane Biology
Michael Condrin, M.B.A., Dean’s Office
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
Vincent L. Johnson, M.B.A., Hospital
Administration
Darin Latimore, M.D., Internal Medicine
and Office of Diversity
Cindy Oropeza, Human Resources
Annisa Routon, Dean’s Office
Andreea L. Seritan, M.D., Psychiatry and
Behavioral Sciences
Lloyd H. Smith, M.D., Ph.D., Obstetrics
and Gynecology
Peter Sokolove, M.D., Emergency
Medicine
Daniel J. Tancredi, Ph.D. Pediatrics
4
HEALTH-CARE DEBATE FROM PAGE 1
“A medical insurance card is of no
value whatsoever without someone to take
are drawn to higher-paying specialties that
care of you. Coverage must be sufficient
enable them to repay their medical school
to encourage physicians and health-care
debts more quickly.
systems to engage with patients,” said
A tabulation by the National Resident
Latimore, who insists that reimbursement
Matching Program showed that the
reform must accompany any increased
2,387 first-year residency positions in
health-care insurance access.
family medicine filled nationwide in
“Medicare sets the standard for how we
2008 constituted only 11.4 percent of the
reimburse,
with rates significantly higher
20,940 total slots encompassing all medical
for
technical
procedures than for cognitive
specialties.
actions,”
Latimore
said. “Not only should
Nuovo said that regardless of changes
that
reimbursement
inequity be rectified,
that may be legislated, schools of medicine
but
also
significantly
more money should be
will maintain their core focus of teaching
allocated
for
loan
repayment,
specifically for
patient care and safety, communication
students
who
agree
to
work
in
primary care
skills and other fundamentals.
or in rural or central urban areas.”
“So how can medical schools respond
to the need for more primary-care
physicians? UC Davis has a superb
track record in primary care,”
Nuovo said. “Our Rural Program in
Medical Education [PRIME], and our
advancements in the development
of telemedicine and supporting
technologies, are excellent
examples.”
Donald M. Hilty, Rural-PRIME
director, said that students in
the program gain insightful
understanding of the entire system
of care by virtue of the holistic
nature of rural practice.
“They’re able to wrap their
brain around a system and a community,
Latimore believes regulatory action
and as a result can engage themselves in
mandating
dedication of a fixed proportion
becoming part of a solution to improve
of
graduate
medical education slots to
access to care,” Hilty said. He doubts that
primary
care
may be needed to rectify
health-care reform will necessarily increase
shortages.
caseloads at the UC Davis Medical Center,
“I know that other people believe that
but says it could result in fiscal changes.
market economics rather than government
“We already furnish more than 50 percent
intervention should determine allocation
of the free care in the community, but if
reimbursement changes are enacted, other of residency slots,” Latimore said.
hospitals may be encouraged to help more. “However, in order to meet workforce
We may have to make some adjustments in demands, government intervention may be
how we generate salaries of clinical faculty necessary.”
Health-care reform should go one step
members.”
further,
in the view of first-year medical
Darin Latimore, director of medical
student Kaveh Zivari, co-president of the
student diversity, regards economics as a
School of Medicine class of 2013.
fulcrum point in health-care reform.
UC Davis Health System
“There is a need for more primarycare services to do preventative care,
and at the same time, a greater need
for physician assistants to help manage
patients over a longer period of time.
Unfortunately, chronic diseases such
as diabetes lead to heart attack, stroke
or other problems,” observed Zivari,
who believes that the food processing
industry must be considered part of
the equation. “We need to control
and curb these problems by adjusting
peoples’ eating habits, which will be
possible only through reforms in food
industries.”
He believes that medical students
can help influence change rather than
merely gird themselves to be
buffeted by it.
“Medical students feel that
finally something can be done,
and they can contribute,” Zivari
said. “This is the time to stand
up and bring one’s ideas to the
table. This is the time to lobby
for the right change. This is the
time for the students to go tell
Congress why they decided to
become doctors.”
Mark C. Henderson, associate
dean for admissions and outreach
says he likewise has detected an
“undercurrent wave of positive
energy” among students.
“Many students come to our school
because of their desire to work with
people who are medically underserved.
I think students are, as a whole, very
optimistic about the prospects for
health-care reform, and they want
be part of change in the system,”
Henderson said.
“We as leaders and mentors have
tremendous influence on students,
and we need to remain engaged in this
debate and help move it forward to the
extent we can,” Henderson added. “Our
role is to galvanize and channel the
interests of our students in ways that can
lead to constructive change.”
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Workshops and other activities
You are invited! We encourage you to enroll
in one of the various workshops, programs
and events sponsored by the Faculty
Development Office. 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.
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January
(CONTINUED)
15 Retaining and Nurturing a Diverse Faculty (MCLP)
20 Faculty Forward Task Force meeting
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Office, which administers and coordinates
programs that respond to the professional and
career development needs of UC Davis Health
System faculty members.
23Women’s Wellness Retreat (WIMS)
4
Workshop: Improving Leadership Performance: Using the Myers-Briggs
Personality Type Indicator To Your Advantage
9
Breakfast with the Dean
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A Mentee’s Guide to Being Mentored: How to Identify and
Nurture Your Goals (JCLP)
Edward Callahan, Ph.D.
Associate Dean for Academic Personnel
17
Faculty Forward Task Force meeting
19
A leadership Model for Faculty in Academic Medicine (MCLP)
20
Focused Workshop: Leading Complex Organizations (MCLP)
Gregg Servis, M.Div.
Director, Faculty Development
gregg.servis@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu
Cheryl Busman
Program Representative, Faculty Development
cheryl.busman@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu
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Felicia Carrillo
Program Assistant, Office of Diversity
felicia.carrillo@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu
April 16 New Faculty Orientation
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3 Breakfast with the Dean
7 Workshop: Crucial Conversations:
Tools for Talking When Stakes are
High, Part I
7 Teaching Scholars Program Reception
11 Negotiation Skills (JCLP)
14 Workshop: Crucial Conversations:
Tools for Talking When Stakes are
High, Part II
16 Faculty Forward Task Force meeting
18 Budget Management and Business
Reports: Finance & Professional
Billing (MCLP)
March 2 Dean’s Recognition Reception
January
Event co-sponsors
8
JCLP: Junior Career Leadership Program
MCLP: Mid-Career Leadership Program
Putting Together Your Academic
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15 Balancing: Personal and Academic
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INCENTIVES MAY BE NEEDED TO PROMOTE PRIMARY CARE
As the emotionally lathered debates
about health-care insurance reform
reverberated throughout the year in
Congress, the White House, on radio
and television talk programs, and in
town halls nationwide, the varied
proposals have been doggedly dissected
and excoriated. Lost amid shrill charges
and counter-charges, however, was
consideration about the ability of
already overextended primary-care
physicians to care for 40 million or
more additional patients who might
receive coverage under the various
proposed plans.
That implication of health-care
insurance reform is clearly evident,
however, to UC Davis School of
Medicine and UC Davis Health System
medical personnel and students.
James Nuovo, associate dean of
student affairs and graduate medical
education, said that the damaging
effects of impeded access to routine
health care are apparent to students
serving clerkships and to faculty and
student volunteers in community
clinics.
“In our hospital and community
clinics, UC Davis medical students
and physicians witness what happens
when social service agencies or health
insurance providers deny people
access to mental or medical health
care,” Nuovo said. “By experience they
know that patients who are unable to
continue taking prescribed medications
because they can’t afford them end up
in the hospital again.”
The American Academy of Family
Physicians calculates that U.S. medical
schools cumulatively produce only half
the number of primary-care physicians
the nation now needs, and has
predicted that the shortage of family
doctors will grow to 40,000 in 10 years.
Back in the mid-1950s, half of the
nation’s physicians practiced family-care
medicine; that number has dwindled
to 30 percent as a steadily increasing
proportion of medical school students
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“A medical insurance card is of no
value whatsoever without someone to take
are drawn to higher-paying specialties that
care of you. Coverage must be sufficient
enable them to repay their medical school
to encourage physicians and health-care
debts more quickly.
systems to engage with patients,” said
A tabulation by the National Resident
Latimore, who insists that reimbursement
Matching Program showed that the
reform must accompany any increased
2,387 first-year residency positions in
health-care insurance access.
family medicine filled nationwide in
“Medicare sets the standard for how we
2008 constituted only 11.4 percent of the
reimburse,
with rates significantly higher
20,940 total slots encompassing all medical
for
technical
procedures than for cognitive
specialties.
actions,”
Latimore
said. “Not only should
Nuovo said that regardless of changes
that
reimbursement
inequity be rectified,
that may be legislated, schools of medicine
but
also
significantly
more money should be
will maintain their core focus of teaching
allocated
for
loan
repayment,
specifically for
patient care and safety, communication
students
who
agree
to
work
in
primary care
skills and other fundamentals.
or in rural or central urban areas.”
“So how can medical schools respond
to the need for more primary-care
physicians? UC Davis has a superb
track record in primary care,”
Nuovo said. “Our Rural Program in
Medical Education [PRIME], and our
advancements in the development
of telemedicine and supporting
technologies, are excellent
examples.”
Donald M. Hilty, Rural-PRIME
director, said that students in
the program gain insightful
understanding of the entire system
of care by virtue of the holistic
nature of rural practice.
“They’re able to wrap their
brain around a system and a community,
Latimore believes regulatory action
and as a result can engage themselves in
mandating
dedication of a fixed proportion
becoming part of a solution to improve
of
graduate
medical education slots to
access to care,” Hilty said. He doubts that
primary
care
may be needed to rectify
health-care reform will necessarily increase
shortages.
caseloads at the UC Davis Medical Center,
“I know that other people believe that
but says it could result in fiscal changes.
market economics rather than government
“We already furnish more than 50 percent
intervention should determine allocation
of the free care in the community, but if
reimbursement changes are enacted, other of residency slots,” Latimore said.
hospitals may be encouraged to help more. “However, in order to meet workforce
We may have to make some adjustments in demands, government intervention may be
how we generate salaries of clinical faculty necessary.”
Health-care reform should go one step
members.”
further,
in the view of first-year medical
Darin Latimore, director of medical
student Kaveh Zivari, co-president of the
student diversity, regards economics as a
School of Medicine class of 2013.
fulcrum point in health-care reform.
UC Davis Health System
“There is a need for more primarycare services to do preventative care,
and at the same time, a greater need
for physician assistants to help manage
patients over a longer period of time.
Unfortunately, chronic diseases such
as diabetes lead to heart attack, stroke
or other problems,” observed Zivari,
who believes that the food processing
industry must be considered part of
the equation. “We need to control
and curb these problems by adjusting
peoples’ eating habits, which will be
possible only through reforms in food
industries.”
He believes that medical students
can help influence change rather than
merely gird themselves to be
buffeted by it.
“Medical students feel that
finally something can be done,
and they can contribute,” Zivari
said. “This is the time to stand
up and bring one’s ideas to the
table. This is the time to lobby
for the right change. This is the
time for the students to go tell
Congress why they decided to
become doctors.”
Mark C. Henderson, associate
dean for admissions and outreach
says he likewise has detected an
“undercurrent wave of positive
energy” among students.
“Many students come to our school
because of their desire to work with
people who are medically underserved.
I think students are, as a whole, very
optimistic about the prospects for
health-care reform, and they want
be part of change in the system,”
Henderson said.
“We as leaders and mentors have
tremendous influence on students,
and we need to remain engaged in this
debate and help move it forward to the
extent we can,” Henderson added. “Our
role is to galvanize and channel the
interests of our students in ways that can
lead to constructive change.”
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Putting Together Your Academic
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15 Balancing: Personal and Academic
Career Planning (MCLP)
WIMS: Women in Medicine and Science
INCENTIVES MAY BE NEEDED TO PROMOTE PRIMARY CARE
As the emotionally lathered debates
about health-care insurance reform
reverberated throughout the year in
Congress, the White House, on radio
and television talk programs, and in
town halls nationwide, the varied
proposals have been doggedly dissected
and excoriated. Lost amid shrill charges
and counter-charges, however, was
consideration about the ability of
already overextended primary-care
physicians to care for 40 million or
more additional patients who might
receive coverage under the various
proposed plans.
That implication of health-care
insurance reform is clearly evident,
however, to UC Davis School of
Medicine and UC Davis Health System
medical personnel and students.
James Nuovo, associate dean of
student affairs and graduate medical
education, said that the damaging
effects of impeded access to routine
health care are apparent to students
serving clerkships and to faculty and
student volunteers in community
clinics.
“In our hospital and community
clinics, UC Davis medical students
and physicians witness what happens
when social service agencies or health
insurance providers deny people
access to mental or medical health
care,” Nuovo said. “By experience they
know that patients who are unable to
continue taking prescribed medications
because they can’t afford them end up
in the hospital again.”
The American Academy of Family
Physicians calculates that U.S. medical
schools cumulatively produce only half
the number of primary-care physicians
the nation now needs, and has
predicted that the shortage of family
doctors will grow to 40,000 in 10 years.
Back in the mid-1950s, half of the
nation’s physicians practiced family-care
medicine; that number has dwindled
to 30 percent as a steadily increasing
proportion of medical school students
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