Vol. 15 No. 46 November 18, 1996

News from the School of Medicine-Kansas City and Wichita

The next medical faculty council meeting will be from 7:30 to 9 a.m. Nov. 20 in 2004 Orr-Major at the Kansas City campus and in the Great Plains Room at the Wichita campus.

News from the School of Medicine-Kansas City

The deadline for School of Medicine sabbatical leave for Fiscal Year 1998 (July 1, 1997- June 30, 1998) is Dec. 10. Sabbatical leave agreement forms are available in the dean's office, 3015 Murphy, or by calling Jo Halverson, ext. 5274. The search committees for chair of pediatrics and chair of obstetrics and gynecology are active and request any comments related to the search be sent to Paul Cheney, PhD, professor of physiology and chair of the pediatrics search, or Arlo Hermreck, MD, PhD, professor of surgery and chair of the ob/gyn search. All School of Medicine faculty are invited to attend the School of Medicine Faculty Recognition and Awards Ceremony at 4 p.m. Dec. 6 in Battenfeld Auditorium. A reception will begin at 3:30 p.m. Norboerto Gonzalez, MD, professor of physiology, has been named a member of the respiratory and applied physiology study section, Division of Research Grants, National Institutes of Health. His term is from September 1996 to June 2000. Larry Lawson, MD, Kenneth Iczkowski, MD, Sahar Samaha, MD, and Garth Fraga, MD, residents in pathology and laboratory medicine, made presentations at the scientific session of the annual fall meeting of the Kansas Society of Pathologists Nov. 9 in Topeka, Kirkman Baxter, MD, associate professor of radiology, received certification in nuclear cardiology during the first examination of the Certification Council of Nuclear Cardiology. This examination is sponsored by the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology, an association of cardiologists, radiologists and nuclear medicine physicians specializing in the techniques of nuclear cardiology.

News from the School of Allied Health

Lydia Wingate, PhD, dean of the School of Allied Health presented "Ease of Career Placement of Graduates in the Allied Health Professions" at the Allied Health Summit Conference co-sponsored by the Association of Schools of Allied Health Professions (ASAHP) and the Federal Bureau of Health Professions Oct. 30 to Nov. 1 in Charleston, S.C. She is a member of the ASAHP board of directors. She also was named to the organization's cultural diversity task force. Alice Junghans, MA, RRA, interim chair, and Sandy Johnston, RRA, teaching associate, both in of health information management, presented "Model Curriculum in the Year 2006" at the Nov. 7 Kansas City Health Information Management Association meeting at St. Joseph Medical Center, Kansas City, Mo.

News from Primary Care Physician Education

At the Nov. 9 KU vs. K-State Football game in Lawrence, more than 200 preceptors and their guests attended the event with faculty and staff from the office of primary care and the preceptorship program. At a luncheon held for the preceptors prior to the game, Executive Vice Chancellor Donald Hagen, MD, introduced Larry Anderson, DVM, MD, as Preceptor of the Year. Anderson, a family physician, has been a preceptor for more than 20 years with Joel Weigand, MD, in Wellington. The preceptorship program allows students to work alongside physicians in smaller communities and to learn about medical care provided in private practices. Each student works with a physician who serves as a preceptor for one month. The program is directed by the department of family medicine. Anderson was selected from about 100 top preceptors by seven primary care departments. He earned his veterinary degree cum laude from Kansas State University, Manhattan, in 1967, and medical degree from KU in 1973. He has been president of the Kansas Medical Society and the Kansas Academy of Family Physicians, and in 1990 the academy named him Kansas Family Doctor of the Year. He is a diplomat of the American Board of Family Practice and a fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians. A Faculty Development Conference on "Writing Competency-Based Curriculum for Clinical Clerkships" was held in Kansas City Nov. 16 It was designed to provide the faculty with a common set of skills and methods for writing the curriculum as mandated by the curriculum initiative passed by the education council and the faculty executive committee last year. This new curriculum and the clerkships designed around it are to be implemented for Year 3 in July 1997. The conference facilitators were Susan Skochelak, MD, MPH, associate dean for academic affairs at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and Mike Hosokawa, EdD, assistant for curriculum and minority affairs at the University of Missouri, Columbia. There is a curriculum writing team for each of the clerkships.

News from the Kansas Cancer Institute

Jill Pelling, PhD, associate professor of pathology and laboratory medicine, presented "Response of Keratinocytes to UV Irradiation: An Approach to Chemoprevention?" at the Second International Experimental Skin Carcinogenesis Conference Oct. 28-31 at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Center, Science Park. Analee Beisecker, PhD, associate professor of preventive medicine and associate director of the Kansas Cancer Institute, received a one-year, $50,000 total costs grant from the National Institutes of Health for "Heartland Summit: Recruitment of Minorities to Clinical Trials." The conference will be April 26, 1997, at the downtown Kansas City Marriott. For more information about the conference, call Beisecker at ext. 4715. The Kansas Cancer Institute will reinstitute its Cancer Research Roundtable Seminars. The seminars will begin at noon on the first and third Tuesdays of each month. Free lunch will be provided for the first 25 attendees. With the exception of a few dates, all of the seminars will be in Lied Auditorium. Bruce Kimler, PhD, professor of radiation oncology, will present the first seminar, "Applications of Flow Cytometry in Biology and Medicine," at noon Nov. 19 in Lied Auditorium. (The location exceptions are: Dec. 3 - Wahl West Auditorium, Dec. 17 - Clendening Amphitheater, and Jan. 21 - Wahl West Auditorium.)

News from University Relations

Because of the Thanksgiving holiday, there will be no Faculty Report the week of Nov. 25. The next issue will be published Dec. 2.

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