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7/28/2015 June Message from College of Medicine https://ui.constantcontact.com/visualeditor/visual_editor_preview.jsp?agent.uid=1121465191266&format=html&printFrame=true 1/4 Having trouble viewing this email? Click here! Bridging Science, Health and Community Upcoming White Coats 4 Care August 3 White Coats Ceremony August 7 Honors & Recognition Wilkes Medical Program Graduates First Student Emily Senderey recently became the first student to graduate from FAUʹs highly selective Wilkes Medical Scholars Program, which awards students with a B.A. from the Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College and early admission to the College. She completed her first year of medical school during her senior year of undergraduate study. A graduate of Nova High School in Fort Lauderdale, Senderey served as president of the National Honor Society. She selected the Wilkes Medical Scholars Program because of its small class sizes, emphasis on teaching through problem‑based learning, and early exposure to College Earns Full Accreditation from the Liaison Committee on Medical Education In less than four years since admitting its inaugural class, the College has earned full accreditation from the Liaison Committee on Medical Education. Accreditation signifies that national standards for structure, function, and performance are met by a medical schoolʹs education program leading to the M.D. degree. Read more...

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        Bridging Science, Health and Community

Upcoming

White Coats 4 CareAugust 3 White Coats CeremonyAugust 7

Honors &Recognition  Wilkes Medical ProgramGraduates First Student

Emily Senderey recently became thefirst student to graduate from FAUʹshighly selective Wilkes MedicalScholars Program, which awardsstudents with a B.A. from the HarrietL. Wilkes Honors College and earlyadmission to the College. Shecompleted her first year of medicalschool during her senior year ofundergraduate study. A graduate ofNova High School in FortLauderdale, Senderey served aspresident of the National HonorSociety. She selected the WilkesMedical Scholars Program because ofits small class sizes, emphasis onteaching through problem‑basedlearning, and early exposure to

College Earns Full Accreditationfrom the Liaison Committee onMedical Education In less than four years since admitting its inaugural class,the College has earned full accreditation from the LiaisonCommittee on Medical Education. 

Accreditation signifies that national standards forstructure, function, and performance are met by a medicalschoolʹs education program leading to the M.D. degree. 

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patient care.Read more...

‑‑‑‑‑Charles H. Hennekens, M.D.,Dr.P.H., published an invitededitorial in the current issue of Trendsin Cardiovascular Medicine aboutguidance for clinicians based on themost recent updated guidelines fromthe American Heart Association andAmerican College of Cardiology. Hisguidance will assist clinicians toaddress the clinical and public healthchallenges to increase utilization ofstatins in the treatment andprevention of heart attacks andstrokes.

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AMA‑MSS Competition Results

Medical students Alex Levy, KenanAshouri, Genevieve Tuveson, andDeborah Soong attended theAmerican Medical Association(AMA) conference in Chicago fromJune 4‑6 to compete in the NationalAMA‑MSS Public Health CaseCompetition. They submitted theiridea during the online qualifyingrounds in March and their group wasone of 6 teams and 6 schools to makeit to the national finals. In March, theobjective was to create an innovativeproject to address mental health careamong the homeless population.They developed a mobile clinictermed ʺMiami‑Dade Brain Busʺ toserve the homeless population inMiami‑Dade County, where theincidence of homelessness is high andeconomic disparities are vast.  Theywon second place after AlbanyMedicine, beating out RutgersUniversity (NJEM), University ofLouisville, Rowan Cooper, and theUniversity of Chicago.

Award‑Winning NeuroscientistJoins FAU James E. Galvin, M.D., M.P.H., joins the College ofMedicine as Professor of Clinical Biomedical Science witha joint appointment as a Professor in the College ofNursing. He also will serve as the Associate Dean forClinical Research in the College of Medicine and Medical Director of the Louis and Anne Green Memory and

Wellness Center. In hisnew roles, he will workin two key areas: Tobuild a clinical researchinfrastructure that willrapidly test newtherapies and acceleratethese innovations tomarket; and to create anovel clinicalcomponent that willdevelop new,

comprehensive approaches of care for people withAlzheimerʹs disease and dementia and their families toimprove their quality of life. 

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College of Medicine Awarded$2.1M Clinical Trial Contract

John W. Newcomer, M.D., was awarded a $2.1 millioncontract to study the effectiveness of an injectable long‑acting antipsychotic medication in individuals withschizophrenia.

The contract with Otsuka America Pharmaceutical Inc.will last two years. During that time, investigators fromFAU and collaborators that include faculty at the Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicinewill evaluate hospitalization rates and metabolicmeasurements during treatment with long‑actinginjectable aripiprazole, compared with daily oralantipsychotic treatment in the six months following aninpatient hospital stay related to schizophrenia.

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 This & That Trip to Haiti

Third‑year medical student, CaraReitz, spent four days in Haitirecently shadowing and assistingwith the surgery there. Cara hopes tospecialize in surgery during herresidency.

‑‑‑‑‑New NIH Biosketch Format WentInto Effect May 25 

Please see MedWrite for the newformat and sample.

‑‑‑‑‑TeamSTEPPS Advanced MasterTraining Course to take place in NewOrleans at the Tulane Center forAdvanced Medical Simulation &Team Training on July 16 from 8:30a.m. ‑ 4:30 p.m. Click here for details.

‑‑‑‑‑Construction Progress

The walls are up! We will continue toprovide a progress picture in eachnewsletter.

 

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 ʺThis research is importantbecause the availability ofsecond‑generation long‑actingantipsychotic medications offersan important tool to assistpatients with medicationadherence, which in turn mayhelp lower health care costs andimprove quality of life,ʺ said Newcomer.

Medical Student PerformsLife‑Saving CPR

Medical student, Jacob ʺCobyʺ Grand was at preceptor,Dr. Nicholas Breuerʹs office when a patient in the

podiatristʹs office next door hada heart attack. Patients from thepodiatristʹs office rushed intothe internistʹs office for help.Coby immediately took action,performing life‑saving CPR onthe patient before theambulance arrived! ʺWe are allso proud of Coby,ʺ said Dr.

Breuer and Dr. Lizotte‑Waniewski, who witnessed Cobyʹsheroic effort.

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Charles E. Schmidt College ofMedicineFlorida Atlantic University777 Glades RoadBoca Raton, Florida [email protected]

 

 

     

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