UTMB Announcements for 1/5/2009

John P. McGovern Academy of Oslerian Medicine
Excellence in Clinical Teaching Awards

Each year, five faculty will be selected for the Excellence in Clinical Teaching Award.  This award recognizes the fundamental concept, exemplified by Sir William Osler, that the development of outstanding physicians occurs primarily in clinical settings (ambulatory or in-patient).  Each recipient of the award will receive $5,000 for support of his or her professional development and/or teaching programs.

The following attributes are used to define excellence in clinical teaching:

1. Demonstrates patient-centered focus of excellent teaching and care;
2. Serves as a role model of care and compassion of learners and patients and exemplifies professional behavior; shows respect for the learner, patient, and other health care providers;
3. Demonstrates enthusiasm and enjoyment;
4. Demonstrates inquisitiveness and values inquiry;
5. Creates an enjoyable, challenging, and “safe” learning environment;
6. Sets high, but obtainable, standards;
7. Assists in the development of clinical skills, including patient history, physical exam, procedures, and clinical reasoning;
8. Integrates basic science with clinical care;
9. Demonstrates patience;
10. Demonstrates flexibility and adaptability; is open-minded;
11. Provides useful and relevant feedback;
12. Demonstrates teamwork and multi-disciplinary care;
13. Is genuine.

Nominations can come from students, house staff, faculty and staff and must include a statement no more than 200 words in length describing how the candidate exemplifies excellence in clinical teaching.  (Current Osler Scholars are not eligible.)  Letters of nomination should be addressed to the John P. McGovern Academy of Oslerian Medicine and sent to Ms. Rosemary Lindley, 8.208 Rebecca Sealy Hospital, Route 0162, or electronically as a Word document (to rmlindle@utmb.edu).  The deadline for nominations is 5:00 p.m., Friday, February 27, 2009. 

Individuals selected will be ineligible for two subsequent years after selection.
• 2008 awardees: Drs. Sandra Hatch, John Luk, William Nealon, Juan Sarria and Roger Soloway
• 2007 awardees: Drs. Michael Boyars, Mukaila Raji and Cindy Wigg

The recipients will be announced in July 2009 during the 8th annual Osler Oration.

The Osler Club at Temple B’nai Israel

Sir William Osler (1849-1919), a Canadian, graduated from the School of Medicine at McGill University in Montreal in 1872. He served on the faculty of medicine at McGill, University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, and Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore where he was one of the founders of that medical faculty in 1892. Osler moved to the United Kingdom in 1905 where he joined the faculty of medicine at Oxford University and was knighted by King George V.

Osler believed that physicians should have a strong background in science, that physicians should always do what is right and best for individual patients, and that medical care should be delivered humanely. He was recognized as a very astute and empathic physician, a highly effective yet understanding teacher, a passionate bibliophile, and an outstanding humanist. He was a prolific writer having published over 1,000 papers on a wide variety of medical topics and nearly 250 manuscripts in the humanities. William Osler was loved by nearly everyone who ever met him, and at the time of his death in 1919, Osler was thought to be the best known physician in the English speaking world.

The Osler Club at UTMB serves as a forum to study the life and teachings of Sir William Osler, the history of medicine, and the medical humanities. The club is sponsored by the John P. McGovern Academy of Oslerian Medicine, an endowed organization on the campus of the University of Texas Medical Branch. The Academy is dedicated to keeping alive and promoting Oslerian ideals in the practice of medicine in the 21st century. Members of the Academy are called Osler Scholars and are all practicing physicians on the faculty at UTMB.

At 6:00 PM on Tuesday, February 17, 2009 the Osler Club will meet at Temple B’nai Israel. The presentation will be given by Megan Cole, a highly accomplished and acclaimed actress, who will give a lecture/performance that will explore connections between medicine and literature. Ms. Cole will combine some of William Osler’s famous aphorisms with readings from poetry, plays, and short stories. The focus of Ms. Cole’s presentation will be how medicine and art can be illuminated by cross-reference.  The public is invited to this meeting of the Osler Club. 

Please note there is no fee to attend the performance by Ms. Cole. Wine and cheese will be served at the conclusion of her performance. Since food is being served, please make reservations by calling Ms. Rosemary Lindley at 747-9681. Ms Lindley is the Program Manager of the John P. McGovern Academy of Oslerian Medicine.

Vascular Lab services are now being offered Monday through Friday on the second floor of the University Hospital Clinics Building, Room 2.514 (in the Radiology area). Services are available for inpatients and ambulatory patients, and same-day vascular testing is offered for all clinics. The Vascular Lab is now open for scheduling; for more information, please call its new number, (409) 772-6726.

Topic:  Audits and the Audit Process
Date:   Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Time:  10:30 am – 2:30 pm
Location:  Rebecca Sealy East 4.302

Please RSVP at https://my.utmb.edu/PStraining/.

Please bring your lunch and join us and we'll provide drinks.

The audit process can be intimidating to those inexperienced with it, especially when an auditor shows up unexpectedly: How should you respond? Do you have to respond? What if the auditor presents an inspector general’s badge? 

Topics to be discussed:
• the differences between audits, reviews, inspections and investigations
• how auditors approach an audit
• the various institutional roles including that of the institutional audit and compliance officer, the central research administrator, and the departmental research administrator.

Speakers:
David Mayo, Director, Sponsored Research, California Institute of Technology
Denise Clark, Assistant Vice President for Research Administration and Advancement, University of Maryland, College Park
Thomas Cooley, Chief Financial Officer and Director, Office of Budget, Finance and Award Management, National Science Foundation
Lillie Ryans-Culclager, Director, Engineering Research Administration, School of Engineering, Stanford University

Grants for Lunch returns with "Confessions of NIH Grant Reviewers," noon to 1 p.m. Jan. 13 in 2.312 Children's Hospital. Speakers are Dr. Claire Hulseboch, Professor of Neuroscience and Cell Biology, and Dr. Regino Perez-Polo, Professor and Chairman of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.

Please bring your lunch and join us.  RSVP here.

The Resource Help Center is hosting another great opportunity to visit with area employees who are interested in hiring UTMB employees.  Job Fairs will be located at 20740 Gulf Freeway, Suite 80 - Webster, TX.   Employers will be onsite both days from 10am - 2pm.

January 7, 2009 will be for Logistics, Transportation and Facilities Workers.  Representatives on hand will include:
  LOWE’S
  CLEAR CREEK ISD
  CITY OF HOUSTON
  TEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY
  HOME DEPOT
  GALVESTON COUNTY
  GALVESTON COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE
  KBR

January 8, 2009 will be for Information Services (IS) / Information Technology (IT) Positions and Information Services (IS) / Information Technology (IT) Support Positions. Representatives on hand will include:
  TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY
  UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON
  LOCKHEED MARTIN

THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH AT GALVESTON
GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES

Announces – The Final Examination of

Shainy B. Varghese

For the Degree of
Doctor of Philosophy
January 6, 2009
11:00 A.M. – 12:00 P.M.
SON Room 1.202
             

TITLE OF DISSERTATION
 
A NATURALISTIC INQUIRY ON CARING IN TELEHEALTH

SUPERVISORY COMMITTEE

Chair: Carolyn Phillips, RN, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Doctoral Nursing Graduate Program, The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston

M. Kay Sandor, Ph.D., RN, LPC, AHN-BC, Associate Professor, Doctoral Nursing Graduate Program, The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston

Linda Rounds, Ph.D., RN, FNP, FAANP, Professor, Doctoral Nursing Graduate Program, The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston

Christell Bray, RN, Ph.D., FNP, FAANP Associate Professor, Texas A&M Corpus Christi, College of Nursing and Health Sciences,   Corpus Christi, TX

Richard Rahr, EdD, PA-C, Professor, Doctoral Nursing Graduate Program, The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
                  

AREA OF CONCENTRATION
Doctoral Nursing

In January, a few changes to the Federal payroll tax withholding laws go into effect.  For your convenience, UTMB has outlined the revisions below.  This is a good time to carefully review your pay stub, make any necessary revisions to your withholding status, and ensure that your home address on file at UTMB is accurate. 

The withholding tables for Federal Income Tax in 2009 have changed.  This means employees may see a change in their tax withholding.  Your taxable income may also change if you received a salary increase, changed your contribution to a supplemental retirement plan.

Electronic W-2s available again for 2008

Click here for information on the E W-2 process.

Three years ago, UTMB began offering current employees the option of receiving their annual federal “W-2” forms electronically; more than 8,000 individuals have signed up for the service.  The speed and efficiency of the electronic W-2s allows those that opt for electronic delivery to securely receive their electronic W-2 earlier than they would receive the W-2 on paper.   If you are an employee who has already registered for an eW-2, you DO NOT need to re-register; watch for news in January about your form’s availability.  If you didn’t register for 2008 but want to try eW-2 this year, you can sign up at the eW-2 web site.  If you are not registered and do nothing, you’ll receive your W-2 on paper via the United States Post Office postmarked no later than February 2, 2009.  Employees that are no longer employed with UTMB, at the time of W-2 distribution, will receive their W-2 by US mail at the home address.  Please ensure that your home mailing address is correct with UTMB.  The address can be updated online through employee self service.

If you haven’t signed up for Electronic W-2 your W-2 form will be postmarked
no later than February 2, 2009,  per IRS Regulations.

Employees that are no longer employed with UTMB, at the time of W-2 distribution,
will receive their W-2 by US mail at the home address.

The Sealy Center for Environmental Health and Medicine cordially invites you to attend the Environmental Health Sciences Seminar Series featuring:

How can mechanistic data be incorporated into the human risk assessment process?

R. Julian Preston, Ph.D.
Acting Associate Director for Health
The National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Research Triangle Park, NC

Monday, January 5th, 2009
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
3.324 Levin Hall

Everyone is welcome to attend!

“Structure-Based Anti-Cancer Drug Development by Targeting Bcl2 Family Members”

Xingming Deng, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Division of Hematology/Oncology
Department of Medicine
University of Florida Shands Cancer Center
Gainesville, FL

Tuesday, January 6, 2009
12:00 -1:00 p.m.
Levin Hall Rm. 5.521

Lunch served at 11:30 a.m.

Everyone is Welcome