DEPARTMENT OF FAMILY AND SOCIAL MEDICINE
MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER
ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE
DFSM Monthly E- Newsletter - Vol 1.5, June 2005
We hope that you are enjoying our monthly newsletter. Remember the deadline for submissions is the
20th of each month! We look forward to hearing from you!
Editors-at-Large:
Mark Polisar, MD
Tami Rivera
Peter Selwyn, MD, MPH
Becky Williams, MD, MPHE
PUBLICATIONS
Dyche L. The significance of self-awareness, curiosity, and the caring physician communication. Medical
Encounter 2005; 19:20-22.
Dyche L, Swiderski D. The effect of physician solicitation approaches on ability to identify patient
concerns. J Gen Intern Med 2005; 20:267-270.
PRESENTATIONS
Sean O’Mahony MB, BCh, BAO, Arthur Blank PhD, Judy Persaud MS, Jennifer McEliveen RN, FNP, Selwyn
P, MD, MPH. A Palliative Care and Case Management Project for the Elderly in the Emergency
Department: A Case for Enhanced Access. American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, New
Orleans, LA, January 2005.
DFSM Presentations at the 38th STFM Annual Conference, April 30 - May 4, 2005, New Orleans, Louisiana
Title: Celebrating Women in Family Medicine
Presenters: Katherine Patterson-Neely, MD; Cherie Glazner, MD, MSPH; Rachel Bramson, MD, MS; Valerie
Gilchrist, MD; Marji Gold, MD; Linda Prine, MD
Title: Voluntary Partner Notification Program for HIV in Guatemala City
Presenter: Amy Miglani, MD
Title: Health Literacy, Depressive Symptomatology, and Contraceptive Adherence
Presenter: Wendy Barr, MD, MPH
Title: Checking for Understanding: Efficacy and Patient Preferences
Presenters: Evelyn Kemp, PsyD, RN; Michael Floyd, EdD; Elizabeth McCord, MD; Forrest Lang, MD
Title: Reframing July - Building a "Learning Home" for Residents with an Introduction to Family Medicine
Rotation
Presenters: Mary Duggan, MD; Janet Townsend, MD; Eliana Korin, DiplPsic; Alice Fornari, EdD, RD; Rose
Guilbe, MD; Lisa Baron, MD
Title: Improving Women's Health: The Reproductive Health Model Curriculum
Presenters: Jen Hurlburt, MPH; Marji Gold, MD; Susan Eisendrath, MPH; Shana Brown, MPH
Title: Your STFM Proposal: Guidelines for Maximum Points
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Presenters: Craig Gjerde, PhD; James Tysinger, PhD; Stephen Wilson, MD; Patricia Lebensohn, MD;
Karen Connell, MS; Crystal Cash, MD; Sam Cullison, MD; Susan Hadley, MD
Title: Skills for Procedure Training for Faculty Development in Reproductive Health
Presenters: Marji Gold, MD; Suzan Goodman, MD, MPH; Linda Prine, MD; Larry Leeman, MD, MPH
Title: Reducing the Incidence of Prematurity: A New Partnership Between Family Medicine and the March
of Dimes
Presenters: Stephen Ratcliffe, MD, MSPH; Karla Damus, PhD, RN; Laurence Bauer, MSW; Janice
Anderson, MD
Title: Designing and Implementing a Competency- and Evidence-based Curriculum in Maternal Child
Health
Presenters: Francesco Leanza, MD; Janet Townsend, MD; Alice Fornari, EdD
Title: Empowering Communities: Using Learners as Teachers to Produce Healthy Lifestyle Change
Presenters: Jose Rodriguez, MD; Assaf Yosha, MD; Kimberly Painter, MD
Title: Implementing Incremental and Discontinuous Change From Continuous Provisional to Fully
Accredited Status in 13 Months
Presenters: Nicole Kirchen, MD; Carmen Dominguez-Rafer, MD
Title: Nutrition Hot Topics: Type 2 Diabetes, Hyperlipidemia, Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, Gestational
Diabetes, Hypertension, Breast-feeding
Presenters: Roger Shewmake, PhD, LN; Katherine Chauncey, PhD, RD, FADA; Kathryn Kolasa, PhD, RD,
LDN; Darwin Deen, MD, MS; Sylvia Moore, PhD, RD, FADA
Title: Why Delay? The Evidence for Timely Initiation of Contraception
Presenters: Linda Prine, MD; Ruth Lesnewski, MD; Panna Lossy, MD; Norma Jo Waxman, MD
Title: Teaching Domestic Violence Diagnosis in the Context of HIV Testing and Partner Notification:
Training Trainers
Presenters: Robert Morrow, MD; Alice Fornari, EdD, RD
Title: Home Visits and Cultural Immersion: Introducing Medical Students to a Different Way of Healing
Presenters: Hugh Silk, MD; Catherine Weber, PhD; Navid Mahooti, MS; Duarte Machado, MS
Title: Teaching Integrative Medicine Within an Innovative 4-year Family Medicine Residency-Fellowship
Presenters: Howard Silverman, MD, MS; Ben Kligler, MD; Susan Hadley, MD; Margaret Hayes, MD;
Patricia Lebensohn, MD; Dave Rakel, MD; Craig Schneider, MD
Title: The Church in the Exam Room: The Impact of Religious Restrictions on the Practice of Medicine
Presenters: Emiko Otsubo, MSW; Susan Hadley, MD; Debra Stulberg, MD; Portia Jones, MD, MPH, ABFP
Title: The Inner Workings of the Active Management of Risk in Pregnancy at Term
Presenters: James Nicholson, MD; Wendy Barr, MD
Title: The Effect of Training, Gender, and Academic Factors on Communications Skills Assessment
Presenters: Forrest Lang, MD; Michael Floyd, EdD
Title: The Women's Health Content Validity of the Family Medicine In-Training Examination
Presenter: Rebecca Williams, MD
Title: Engaging PGY1 Residents in COPC: Experiential Learning Through Community Mapping
Presenters: Janet Townsend, MD; Alice Fornari, EdD, RD
GRANTS & AWARDS
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Dr. Sean O'Mahony received a $200,000 grant from the Altman Foundation to develop a Palliative Care
Program in the Montefiore Medical Center Intensive Care Units. The grant will enable an advance practice
nurse and pastoral care provider to provide clinical service to patients in intensive care units at the Weiler
Division of MMC as well as development of educational curricula for health care providers.
Congratulations to Emily Jackson, MD for having getting the Reach Out and Read funded. We are sure
that her efforts will result in a longlasting, "hard-wired," program at the Family Health Center. In
addition, the ROR should also form a 'seed' by which to grow other important projects related to
increasing literacy of patients at FHC.
CLINICAL INITIATIVES
A new rotation: Family Centered Maternity Care begins this summer. In this rotation residents will follow
a group of patients who will deliver during their FCMC month. This requires coordination of prenatal
patient assignments. At Williamsbridge, centralized scheduling for new prenatal patients will be done by
Danette. Please contact her to schedule new prenatal patients with residents. At Family Health Center,
please check the schedule posted in the Precepting rooms.
WELCOMES & FAREWELLS
Welcome to Janice Simpson, RN, ANP who will develop the Palliative Care and Case management project
in the Emergency Department at Montefiore Medical Center in collaboration with the Fan-Fox and Leslie
R. Samuels Foundation . Ms Simpson is currently a registered nurse on the surgical step down unit.
Welcome to Phil Higgins MSW: Phil Higgins is a medical social worker who joins us from the Department
of Pain and Palliative Medicine at Beth Israel Medical Center where he coordinated a case finding
palliative care program for underserved elderly patients.
Welcome Janet McHenry, CNS to our hospital-based Palliative Care Service. Janet will be working as a
Palliative Care Nurse Specialist in the Medical and Surgical Intensive Care Unit at Weiler Hospital, where
she will be conducting palliative care consults as well as conducting educational activities and
coordinating the operations of the ICU palliative care project. Janet can be reached at: 920-7309 and
via email: jmchenry@montefiore.org.
We are sad to say farewell to Lyla Correoso MD, Franca Martino-Starvuggi MSW, Mari Hinrichs MSW. Lyla
Correoso leaves us to become Medical Director of the Visiting Nurse Service Hospice in the Bronx. Franca
Martino-Starvuggi is joining Doctor Joe-Marie Zeleznik in a private geriatrics practice in the Bronx. Mari
Hinrichs is joining the Emergency Department at the Weiler Division of Montefiore Medical Center. We
wish Lyla, Franca and Mari the best of luck in the next phases of their careers!
SCHEDULE HIGHLIGHTS
June 2
4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Special Visiting Scholar Presentation on at the Department of Family and Social Medicine, 3544 Jerome
Avenue, 3rd Floor Conference Room. Dr. Maria Felisa will present: Primary Health Care in Rosario,
Argentina and Leishmaniasis in a Nicaraguan War Zone.
June 10-17
National Hispanic Science Network on Drug Abuse, 2005 Summer Research Training Institute. The Office
for Drug & Social Policy Research (ODSPR) is currently accepting applications for this 8 day Institute,
funded by the National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Drug Abuse at the University of
Houston. The purpose of the training institute is to promote interest and professional commitment to
Hispanic drug abuse research and to foster mentoring relationships between fellows and leading Hispanic
drug abuse researchers. For further information contact Evelio Salinas Escamilla, Coordinator, National
Hispanic Science Network, Summer Research Training Institute at (713) 743-8345.
June 25
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DFMCH graduation. More information to follow.
PERSONAL HAPPENINGS
Congratulations to Dr. Hal Strelnick for receiving the 2005 Pfizer/AAFPF Visiting Professorships in Family
Medicine Award from the Pfizer Medical Humanities Initiative and the American Academy of Family
Physicians Foundation.
Blanche Doati, Administrator of Williamsbridge Family Practice, was honored with the President's Award
on May 10 at a Montefiore Board of Trustees meeting. Terry Goodwin, VP for Clinical Services introduced
Blanche as Dr. Foreman presented the award. She emphasized Blanche's 10 year history with MMG as a
can-do manager, her strong devotion to customer service and physician support, and her many
accomplishments in practice redesign and improved clinical care in her work with Dr. Noel Brown and
faculty at Williamsbridge. Congratulations Blanche, we are very proud of you!
Congratulations to Benjamin Kligler, MD on his promotion to Associate Professor in the Department of
Family and Social Medicine.
It is with deep regrets that we inform you of the passing of our beloved, Hermes Caraballo, husband of
Rosa Caraballo. Hermes was a longtime staff member of the Bronx Borough President's Office and he will
be missed.
MISCELLANEOUS
DFSM Departmental Transitions:
Research Department
Drs. Arthur Blank and Diane McKee have been appointed as Co-Directors of the Division of Research in
the Department of Family and Social Medicine. Diane and Arthur are eminently qualified to take on these
responsibilities, and their combined talents and experience will provide a strong and effective basis for
implementing our collective research agenda, further integrating research with QI activities, supporting
research activities of junior faculty and residents, and promoting the growth and development of our
practice-based research network.
Departmental Reorganization
Maria Pasa will be taking on a new role as Manager of Operations at our Jerome Avenue offices. Maria
will bring her long experience within the Department to help manage many aspects of our Montefiore
departmental operations, including office management, physical plant, telecommunications and
information technology, the flow of paperwork and materials, and interactions with internal and external
offices and agencies. She will also help to develop better and more efficient departmental systems for
information management and retrieval, working closely with the other members of our core
administrative group, who will each continue to develop their own roles and areas of specialization: Mona
Weinberger will continue to be responsible for overall financial management, working closely with Jacinta
O'Flynn, whose efforts will now focus more intensively on overseeing budgets and grants on the
Montefiore side; Paul Meissner will direct his efforts more fully on program and project development,
planning, and fundraising; Tami Rivera will continue to function as my assistant and also be responsible
for departmental publications and other special projects. We have a talented administrative team with
multi-faceted skills; this functional reorganization is part of an ongoing attempt to clarify roles and
responsibilities, and make the best use of people's skills and contributions to the whole. I am confident
that Maria, Mona, Jacinta, Paul, and Tami will continue to excel in their evolving roles.
CME Credit for Departmental Meetings, Matt Anderson, MD:
We are very pleased to announce that as of 4/1/05, CME credit will be available for Departmental Grand
Rounds, Social Medicine Rounds and the projected Second Thursday Ambulatory Rounds. The committee
that brought this together included Janet Townsend, Margaret Coughlan, Dan O'Connell and myself; we
had lots of help from Taneka Banks and Nicole Lewis.
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Below is a review of the (not very complicated) logistics of getting CME:
1. You must attend the conference and initial the attendance sheet.
2. Shortly after the conference you will receive an email asking you to log on to New Innovations and
complete an evaluation form.
3. Once your evaluation has been completed, you have the CME.
Most of the Department's Attendings are already registered on New
Innovations. Log on info can be found in the attached powerpoint presentation. If you have problems,
please get in touch with Nicole Lewis at nlewis@montefiore.org.
New phone numbers for DFSM administrative assistants at Jerome Avenue:
Taneka Banks, 920-4484
Wilma Burgos, 920-6003
Elba Carpio, 920-4221
Kimberly Eady, 920-2812
Zenaida Izquierdo, 920-2627
Audrey Stephens, 920-2826
CLASSIFIED ADS
Faculty Position: Social Pediatrics Track Director
As we begin the search for a new director for the Social Pediatrics Track, all suggestions and nominations
of qualified candidates will be gratefully accepted. Please send all inquiries or suggestions in confidence
to Peter Selwyn, MD, MPH, Department of Family and Social Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, 3544
Jerome Ave, Bronx, NY, 10467, or via e-mail at pselwyn@montefiore.org. Dr. Selwyn can be reached at
(718) 920-8434.
MONTHLY SCHEDULE REMINDERS
All Faculty Administrative meetings for 2005
1:30 to 3:00 p.m., 3544 Jerome Ave, 3rd Floor Conference Room:
July 5
Presenter: Jonathan Swartz, MD
Topic: Clinical
September 6
Presenter: Jonathan Swartz, MD
Topic: Education
November 1
Presenter: Hal Strelnick, MD
Topic: Community Medicine
December 6
Presenter: Peter Selwyn, MD
Topic: Departmental Review and Strategic Planning
Social Medicine Rounds
Convener: Matt Anderson, MD
4:30 - 6:00 p.m., 3544 Jerome Ave, 3rd Floor Conference Room:
June 7
Topic: Resident Presentations Continued
DFSM Grand Rounds
8:00 - 9:15 a.m., Moses II Conference Room:
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June 24
Speaker: Robert Robinson, MD
Topic: Tobacoo Use and Smoking Cessation: Racial and Ethnic Disparities
Palliative Care Grand Rounds:
This event is open to the public.
8:00 - 9:00 a.m., Tishman A Conference Room, North 2 MMC:
June 8
Speaker: Renee Moadel
Topic: The Truth about CATS and PETS
June 22
Speaker: Melanie Harris
Topic: TBA
If you wish to receive a copy of a previously released electronic newsletter, please contact
Tami Rivera at (718) 920-8434 or at the e-mail listed below.
Please send email submissions for upcoming newsletters, by the 20th of each month, to:
Becky Williams
Mark Polisar
Tami Rivera
Peter Selwyn
rewillia@montefiore.org
mpolisar@montefiore.org
tariver@montefiore.org
pselwyn@montefiore.org
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