Med.E.Mail Weekly Information from the Dean’s Offices Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto March 15, 2004 Volume 12, Number 25 IN THIS ISSUE: FAST FACULTY FACT GOVERNING COUNCIL ELECTION DALAI LAMA TO VISIT THE UofT UNDERGRADUATE MD PROGRAM CACMS/LCME ACCREDITATION FACULTY COUNCIL MEETING FITZGERALD ACADEMY - DIRECTORSHIP AVAILABLE HONOURS AND AWARDS GORDON CRESSY STUDENT LEADERSHIP AWARDS CANADA FOUNDATION FOR INNOVATION AWARDS DEPARTMENT OF PHYSIOLOGY TEACHING AWARDS MEDICAL STUDENT RESEARCH DAY FACULTY DEVELOPMENT GRAND ROUNDS ISSUES IN CLINICAL RESEARCH - ST. MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL MEDIA TRAINING SESSION EVENTS AND LINKS TO EVENT WEBSITES LINKS TO OTHER NEWSLETTERS/WEBSITES FAST FACULTY FACT Academies were introduced at the Faculty of Medicine in 1994. The Academy system provides professional program students with a clinical “home” – a base hospital, access to libraries, medical education administrators, support staff, and a community of clinical and didactic tutors. The Faculty’s three academies are the WightmanBerris, the FitzGerald, and the Peters-Boyd. The primary objective of the Academies is to strengthen the ties between the UofT and its clinical partners through a framework that facilitates decentralized curriculum delivery. Through their contacts with students, the Directors and staff provide both academic and personal support to students. Results of Elections for Students on the Governing Council The results of the student elections for Governing Council and the Academic Board elections for 2004 are included below. The teaching staff and administrative staff mail ballot elections for the Governing Council close at 5:00 p.m. on Friday, March 26, and the results will be announced on March 31, 2004. Nominations will re-open on Monday, April 5 and close on Friday, April 16 for the six seats on the Academic Board that remain to be filled. Results of Governing Council Elections 2004 for Students Full-time Undergraduate Constituency II 2 seats Mr. Andrew Pinto (Medicine) 482 elected Part-time Undergraduate Constituency 1 2 seats Ms Holly Andrews-Taylor (Woodsworth) 98 elected Ms Murphy Browne (Woodsworth) 78 Mr Shaun Chen (Woodsworth) 124 elected Valid Votes Cast: 300 Invalid/Spoiled Ballots: 4 Constituency Size: 7,499 Graduate Constituency II 1 seat Ms Françoise Ko (Pharmacology) acclaimed Academic Board Elections 2004 Teaching Staff Medicine 11 seats, 4 of which are open Professor Raisa Deber - acclaimed Dr. Cindy Woodland - acclaimed 2 seats rem DALAI LAMA TO VISIT THE UofT The UofT Chancellor, the Honourable Vivienne Poy, will confer the degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, upon His Holiness the Dalai Lama at a special convocation on Tuesday, April 27, 2004 at 4:00 p.m. His Holiness will also receive the International Acharya Sushil Kumar Peace Award at this ceremony scheduled to take place in Convocation Hall. Any faculty who would like to be members of the academic procession should contact rsvp.president@utoronto.ca by April 19, 2004. Instructions for members of the academic procession will be sent out at a later date. If you have any questions, contact Brenda Ichikawa at 416-978-1049. His Holiness will be in Toronto from April 25 to May 5, 2004 for the Kalachakra for World Peace. For more information, go to www.kalachakra2004.com UNDERGRADUATE MD PROGRAM CACMS/LCME ACCREDITATION The Committee on Accreditation of Canadian Medical Schools/Liaison Committee on Medical Education (CACMS/LCME) will review our MD program from May 16 to 19, 2004. The survey team includes: Ian Bowmer, Team Chair (Memorial University of Newfoundland); Robert Eaglen, Team Secretary (AAMC), Brendan Kenny (Université de Sherbrooke); Christopher Cheeseman, (University of Alberta); Mary Wells, (Memorial Health University Medical Center) and Carol Aschenbrener, Observer (AAMC/LCME Co-Secretary Designate). To prepare for accreditation, the Faculty has conducted a self-study for the past 18 months. The self-study involved representatives of the administration, faculty, student body, and staff. Six issue-specific committees were struck to collect and review data about the medical school and its educational programs; identify institutional strengths and issues requiring action, and define strategies to ensure that the strengths are maintained and any problems addressed. A Faculty Institutional Self-Study Task Force oversaw the self-study, reviewed the individual committee recommendations, and synthesized the findings into a final executive summary, the Faculty Institutional Self-Study. Simultaneously, but at arms-length, medical students conducted their own self-study in compliance with accreditation guidelines. Both the Faculty and Student Self-Study Reports can now be accessed on the Accreditation web site at http://bul.med.utoronto.ca/accreditation/. FACULTY COUNCIL MEETING A meeting of the Faculty Council will be held on March 22, 2004, at 4:00 p.m. in Room 3153 Medical Sciences Building, University of Toronto. Agenda 1. Minutes of the previous meeting – February 2, 2004 Speaker 1.1 Business Arising 2. Communications Speaker 3. Reports from the Dean’s Office Vice-Dean, Research Chair, Education Deans P. Lewis M. Urowitz 4. STANDING COMMITTEE REPORT – FOR ACTION Agenda Committee B. Schimmer i) “That the May 31, 2004 meeting of Faculty Council be considered the last meeting of 2003-04 session instead of being the first meeting of 2004-05 session.” ii) “That the Transition Plan resulting from the changes to the Constitution and By-Laws of the Faculty of Medicine be approved as submitted.” 5. Sounding Board Speaker 6. Question Period Speaker 7. Adjournment Speaker FITZGERALD ACADEMY - DIRECTORSHIP AVAILABLE St. Michael’s Hospital and the students and teachers of the FitzGerald Academy have been fortunate to have Dr. Ian Taylor as Director for the past six years. Dr. Taylor who has provided exemplary leadership to the Academy will be stepping down as Director effective June 30, 2004. A Search Committee, co-chaired by Dr. Rick Frecker and Dr. Bob Howard, invites applications from interested faculty to be sent to Ms. M. Betro (416) 864-5521 or at betrom@smh.toronto.on.ca. For questions or for a copy of the job description be contact Ms. Betro. The deadline for receipt of applications with an updated CV is April 15, 2004. HONOURS AND AWARDS Julia Alleyne (Department of Family and Community Medicine) has been named as one of twenty-one women from across Canada to the 2003 Women of Influence in Sport and Physical Activity List - compiled by the Canadian Association for the Advancement of Women and Sport and Physical Activity (CAAWS). The list recognizes women who have made a significant impact as athletes, volunteers, officials, administrators, coaches, board members, advocates, journalists, executives, businesswomen, educators and community leaders. The final list was compiled by the CAAWS selection panel from both public nominations, and contributions from knowledgeable sport and physical activity leaders. The panel reviewed the submissions and based its decision on the scope of activities in the 2003 calendar year. John Bradley (Department of Anaesthesia) Director of the Wightman-Berris Academy and Staff Anaesthesiologist at UHN has been awarded the Canadian Anaesthesiologists' Society 2004 Clinical Teacher Award. This award will be presented to Dr. Bradley at the annual meeting of the CAS in Quebec City on Monday, June 21, 2004. Richard Weisel (Department of Surgery) was awarded the Earl Bakken Scientific Achievement Award of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons at their annual meeting in San Antonio, Texas in January. GORDON CRESSY STUDENT LEADERSHIP AWARDS The Faculty of Medicine will be well represented once again this year at the Cressy Awards Ceremony, taking place on Wednesday, March 24, 2004 at the Great Hall, Hart House. The Gordon Cressy Student Leadership Awards were established in 1994 by the University of Toronto Alumni Association (UTAA) and the Division of University of Advancement in order to recognize students who have made outstanding extracurricular contributions to their college, faculty, school, or to the university as a whole. Congratulations to the following students who will be honoured for their contributions to the Faculty of Medicine and the greater university community: Jessica Altoft, Farhan Asrar, Karim Bandali, Janice Waugh Bennett, Megan Boyko, Christine Choi, Michael Cohen, Douglas Cook, Robin Duncan, Rahim Hirji, Kelly Holloway, Fok-Han Leung, Rene Mader, David Maslove, Anisa Mnyusiwalla, Tim Poon, Fayez Quereshy, Amanda Ritchie, Irini Shehata, Chelsea Taylor and Shahnaz Uddin. CANADA FOUNDATION FOR INNOVATION AWARDS The Canada Foundation for Innovation has awarded at total of $42M to faculty members and their projects in the Faculty of Medicine. Medicine on and off campus accounted for 64% of all CFI funding received by the University and affiliated institutions in this competition, a percentage that mirrors our share of all research operating funds attributable to the University. Total project funding with matching by the Ontario Innovation Trust and other sponsors will be more than $100M. The list follows: Aled Edwards (Banting and Best Department of Medical Research). Structural Genomics Consortium, $7,200,000. Geoffrey Fernie (Department of Surgery, Graduate Department of Rehabilitation Science, and Toronto Rehabilitation Institute). Intelligent Design for Adaptation, Participation and Technology (IDAPT): Innovative Rehabilitation for People in Challenging Environments, $7,358,556. David Jaffray (Department of Radiation Oncology and University Health Network). Spatio-temporal Targeting and Amplification of Radiation Response (STARR) Innovation Centre, $3,893,177. Gary Levy (Department of Medicine and University Health Network). Research Program in Immune Tolerance and Transplantation, $4,271,956. Tak Mak (Department of Medical Biophysics and University Health Network). Advanced Medical Discovery Institute, $10,000,000. Tony Pawson (Department of Medical Genetics and Microbiology and Mount Sinai Hospital). A Program in Integrated Systems Biology, $6,047,729. Steven Scherer (Department of Medical Genetics and Microbiology and Hospital for Sick Children). Integrative Genomics for Health Research, $3,600,262. The CFI New Opportunities awardees in this most recent round are: Michele Anderson, Immunology Julie Audet, Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering Jonathan Rast, Medical Biophysics and Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre DEPARTMENT OF PHYSIOLOGY TEACHING AWARDS In January, the Department of Physiology presented its awards for teaching excellence in 2002/2003. The following faculty received awards: Nicola Jones - for her contribution to the Human Physiology course, PSL 302Y. Bob Goode: Year 4 Teaching Prize for his course Adaptation to Environment (PSL 471H) and his contribution to PSL 303Y Ken Norwich: Lifetime Achievement Prize for his dedication to teaching Mathematics for Physiology MEDICAL STUDENT RESEARCH DAY The 18th Annual Undergraduate Medical Student Research Day was held in January. A total of eighty-two abstracts from a broad range of research areas were presented by students in all years of the MD program. The following students received awards. George Brown Awards for Best Poster Presentation Basic Science Category: Ben Beheshti (supervisor - Jeremy Squire, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology) - for his project, “High resolution genomic analysis of prostate cancer using CGH Microarrays”. Clinical Science Category: Ally Murji (supervisor - DJ Anastakis, Department of Surgery) - for his project, “Cortical Plasticity Following Thumb Reconstruction”. Health Care Category: Julie Lovshin (supervisor - Angela Cheung, Department of Medicine) -for her project, “Analysis of Lifestyle Risk Factors for Determinants of Bone Health in a Cohort of Female Medical Trainees at Ontario Teaching Hospitals”. MD/PhD Category: Victor Yang (supervisor - Brian Wilson, Department of Medical Biophysics) - for his project, “Imaging Microcirculation With Novel Endoscopic Doppler Optical Coherence Tomography”. First Year Category: Christopher Franco (supervisor - Michelle Bendeck, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology) - for his project, “The MMP inhibitor doxycycline prevents smooth muscle cell contraction of threedimensional collagen gels”. Eastern-Atlantic Student Research Forum Attendees The students who had the three overall best poster projects will represent the UofT at the Eastern-Atlantic Student Research Forum in Miami, Florida. The three students are: Julie Lovshin – winner of the Health Care Category Victor Yang – winner of the MD/PhD category Nikila Ravindran (supervisor – Catherine Chalin, Department of Public Health Sciences) - for her project “Relationship Between Ocular Morbidity, Socioeconomic Status And Health Attitudes In An Urban South Indian Population – A Pilot Study”. FACULTY DEVELOPMENT GRAND ROUNDS On Tuesday, April 6, the Centre for Faculty Development (CFD) will host monthly Grand Rounds in Faculty Development. The session will explore the topic, “Is Teaching a Social or Solitary Practice? Implications for Teachers, Faculty Development, and Research” with Marcel D’Eon (University of Saskatchewan). The rounds will take place from noon to 1:00 p.m. This event is an accredited group learning activity as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. For more information, visit http://www.cfd.med.utoronto.ca/rounds.htm or contact Dawn Carpenter at 416-8646060 x6546 or carpenterd@smh.toronto.on.ca. ISSUES IN CLINICAL RESEARCH - ST. MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL On Wednesday March 17, the Issues in Clinical Research session at St. Michael's Hospital will feature Duncan Stewart (Department of Medicine) presenting on the topic, "Cell-Based Gene Therapy for Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension - Scientific and Ethical Considerations". The session will be held from 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. at St. Michael's Hospital, 2 Bond Assembly Hall, Room 2010, Bond Wing, 30 Bond Street. A light lunch will be provided. The Issues in Clinical Research speakers' series, sponsored by the St. Michael's Hospital Office of Research Administration, is open to all members of the health sciences research community. MEDIA TRAINING SESSION Does the thought of a media interview send shudders through your system? Are you convinced those news folks will never get things right, no matter how clearly you explain your research? Do you fear looking foolish on camera? Let U of T public affairs staff help put these worries to rest. Join us for a media training session on Thursday, April 15 at 10 a.m. in the Medical Science Building, 1 King's College Circle. In 90 minutes, you'll learn how to get your message across, how to handle an antagonistic interviewer and when you can speak off the record. FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED - CLASS SIZE LIMITED TO 15. Call Elaine Smith at 416-9785949 or Jessica Whiteside at 416-978-5948 to reserve your spot EVENTS AND LINKS TO EVENT WEBSITES Faculty Of Medicine Educational Achievement Event 2004 - Annual forum celebrating excellence in teaching - keynote address (Good to Great Medical Education) by Gary Donnington (Southern Illinois University, Illinois), poster presentations of Dean’s Excellence Fund projects, Faculty Awards ceremony, reception - Monday, May 3, 2004, 3:00 to 7:00 p.m., 89 Chestnut (formerly the Colony Hotel): Allison Hardisty at 416-946-8067 or a.hardisty@utoronto.ca. Faculty Development Workshop - Centre for Faculty Development, Faculty of Medicine, UofT at Saint Michael’s Hospital – Teaching and Learning Technical Skills – Stan Hamstra (Department of Surgery) and Richard Pittini (Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology) – Tuesday, March 23, 2004, 1:00 to 5:00 p.m., Surgical Skills Centre, Mt. Sinai Hospital: carpenterd@smh.toronto.on.ca or http://www.cfd.med.utoronto.ca/workshops.htm Faculty Development Workshop - Centre for Faculty Development, Faculty of Medicine, UofT at Saint Michael’s Hospital – Small Group Teaching – Denyse Richardson (Department of Medicine) and Danny Panisko (Department of Medicine) – Thursday, April 29, 2004, 8:00 a.m. to noon: carpenterd@smh.toronto.on.ca or http://www.cfd.med.utoronto.ca/workshops.htm Faculty Development Workshop - Centre for Faculty Development, Faculty of Medicine, UofT at Saint Michael’s Hospital – Divergent Case Based Teaching Method – Helene Polatajko (Department of Occupational Therapy) – Tuesday, June 8, 2004, 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. and Thursday, June 10, 2004, 1:00 to 5:00 p.m.: carpenterd@smh.toronto.on.ca or http://www.cfd.med.utoronto.ca/workshops.htm Donalda J. McGeachy Memorial Lecture Series – Faculty of Medicine Graduate Department of Speech-Language Pathology – “An Evidence-Based Approach to Clinical Practice in Communication Disorders” – Christine Dollaghan (University of Pittsburgh) - Friday, May 28, 2004, 8:30 a.m. to noon, Mount Sinai Hospital (18th Floor – Ben Sadowski Auditorium), 600 University Avenue, no cost to participants: slp.rsvp@utoronto.ca 11th Biennial Canadian Neurooncology Meeting - Multi-disciplinary meeting of basic and clinician scientists plus affiliated health care workers in neurooncology - Invited speakers plus oral and poster presentations - May 28 to 30, 2004, Toronto: http://www.ccns.org/home.html#neuro_oncology or sandi.amaral@uhn.on.ca 29th Edna W. Park Lecture - UofT Household Science and Nutritional Sciences Alumni Association - Feeding for the Future - the major impact of early nutrition on long-term health - Alan Lucas (MRC Childhood Nutrition Research Centre Institute of Child Health, London, U.K.) - March 25, 2004, Sanford Fleming Building, room 1105, 5:30 p.m. – further info at 416-813-7844 (Debbie O'Connor): http://www.utoronto.ca/nutrisci/CurrentEdnaPark.html Changing Dynamics of Stroke Prevention and Management- for neurologists, family physicians, internists and residents - fully interactive session on secondary stroke prevention - Friday March 26, 2004, 7:30 to 10:00 a.m. Le Royal Meridien King Edward Hotel, 37 King St. East, Windsor Ballroom-Lower Level - to register contact Hollie Mullins, mullinsh@smh.toronto.on.ca or 416864-6060 x. 2815 UofT Knowledge Media Design Institute International Conference - Open Source and Free Software: Concepts, Controversies and Solutions – including a session on Open Source Systems in Health Care Computing with David Ryan (Department of Physical Therapy) - May 9 to 11, 2004: http://osconf.kmdi.utoronto.ca/panel_health.html Continuing Medical Education Congress 2004 – Toronto, May 15 to 18, 2004 - Final Program now on website: www.cmecongress.org Mini-Med School –Faculty of Medicine Continuing Education Office - spring session: February 19 to April 8, 2004: www.mini-med.utoronto.ca XIIIth International Vascular Biology Meeting - June 1 to 5, 2004, Westin Harbour Castle Hotel, Toronto: www.ivbm2004.ca Faculty of Medicine Continuing Education - Saturday at the University 2003/2004 - For general practitioners, family physicians, general internists, and nurse practitioners - March 27, 2004: ce.med@utoronto.ca or www.cme.utoronto.ca Faculty of Medicine Continuing Education courses: http://www.cme.utoronto.ca/education/listing.html Brain and Behaviour Program Distinguished Speaker Seminar Series – Brain and Behaviour Program, The Hospital for Sick Children - Multiple mechanisms of activity-dependent circuit development in vivo - Dr. Hollis Cline (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) - Thursday March 25, 2004, 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., Room 1246 Black Wing (Main Auditorium), The Hospital for Sick Children http://www.sickkids.ca/research/section.asp?s=Research+Programs&sID=1118& ss=Brain+%26+Behaviour+Research&ssID=1741&sss=Events+%26+Seminars& sssID=2008 Omen Education Grand Rounds Thursday, March 25, 2004, 7:30 am - 9:00 am, TGH, 1st floor, Eaton North Wing, Rm 429-430"What Virtue in Virtual Reality? Presented by Dr. Geoff Norman, McMaster University Dr. Anthony Levinson, Amit Garg, Geoff Norman, Lawrence Spero: Summary of three studies of learning spatial anatomy (wrist and brain) using computer simulation. These were experimental studies focusing on two variables: Active vs. passive control, and multiple views vs. key views (front, top, side etc.). The results are consistent and counter-intuitive. Implications for computer-assisted learning will be discussed. http://cre.med.utoronto.ca/omen/omenrounds.htm Med.E.Mail lists event websites with URL addresses. 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