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YEAR in REVIEW Medicineuniversity of VERMONT COLLEGE of MEDICINE HEART & SOUL the Gift of Healing Flows Both Ways for Professor of Surgery Frank Ittleman, M.D VERMONT 2013 YEAR IN REVIEW medicineUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE HEART & SOUL The gift of healing flows both ways for Professor of Surgery Frank Ittleman, M.D. ALSO FEATURED: ▲ Graduate Education for the 21st Century ▲ Philanthropy Gift Report for 2013 VERMONT 2013 YEAR IN REVIEW UVM COLLEGE OF MEDICINE MAGAZINE 2 From the Dean 3 College News A Match A center on behavior and health is formed; research into trauma and clotting; thoughts of a student trustee; white coats for first- Made in years, and more. Vermont features Scholarship Support 12 18 46 Makes It Possible From the Vermont Integrated Curriculum to “Dr. Moo,” our first-year medical students are settling in and finding UVM to be the perfect match for their dreams of becoming physicians. Your help makes those dreams come true. By giving a financial leg up to today’s talented, motivated, and diverse students, generous donors like you carry on the legacy of giving Making Scientists for Taken to Heart Philanthropy 2013 that characterizes UVM and help ensure the 21st Century that today’s students get the same high- For more than three decades, Frank Thousands of people and organizations quality education you received with less As the nature of scientific inquiry has Ittleman, M.D., has offered the gifts of from across the nation helped the College debt than they would otherwise incur. become more interdisciplinary, and the compassion and surgical skill to his patients. of Medicine fulfill its missions during fiscal range of job expectations for new scientists In turn, his patients have given him back year 2013. This report thanks those partners To encourage even more scholarship support, has radically changed, UVM has reshaped something just as valuable. of the College, and details the major the Medical Alumni Association will provide the pathways that lead promising students By Sarah Zobel scholarships, professorships, and awards a 50 percent match for new gifts of $50,000 into careers in biomedical research. of this past year. to $100,000 that support endowed scholar- By Erin Post ships. Now that’s a match! For more information about how you can support medical students today, contact: Facts & Figures WebXtras in this issue: 10 Meredyth Armitage • Class of 2017 White Coat Coverage: more photos and video Departments & Centers Director of Major Gifts 26 • The mysteries of last issue’s “Flashback” revealed, as well 802-656-4567 as additional views of the College 60 years ago from Philanthropy Support [email protected] the camera of Philip Hastings, M.D.’50. 46 Go to: uvm.edu/medicine/vtmedicine 67 Hall A First-year medical ON THE COVER: Professor of Surgery Frank Ittleman, M.D., on morning 69 Class Notes students meet rounds at Fletcher Allen Health Care. Photograph by Raj Chawla. “Dr. Moo” during The College of Medicine is now on Facebook and Twitter. Check in to see what's happening today! Obituaries orientation week 74 in August. UVMF_COM_DRMOO_AD.indd 1 9/18/13 8:16:46 AM COLLEGE NEWS 2013 YEAR IN REVIEW PUBLISHED DECEMBER 2013 $34.7 Million Funds Behavior FROM THE DEAN and Health Research Center September was an extremely good month for the research efforts of Looking back on the year 2013, we have much to be Editor the College of Medicine, and in particular for Professor and Vice Stephen T. Higgins, Ph.D., thankful for at the College of Medicine. This has been a Edward Neuert Chair of Psychiatry and his colleagues. In year of solid achievement. In our core educational mission, Assistant Dean for just a single week, the College’s expertise attracted an unprecedented we continue to welcome an outstanding group of new Communications & Planning $34.7 million in federal funding to support behavior and health Carole Whitaker students. Though we are a small medical school, we remain research at the University. Contributing Writers The new Vermont Center on Behavior and Health, supported ranked among the top ten in the nation for selectivity. Jennifer Nachbur Prospective students do their research on us, and clearly they liked what they saw in our by an $11.5 million National Institutes of Health Institutional Erin Post Development Award Center of Biomedical Research Excellence innovative curriculum and dedicated faculty. For those reasons and many others we now Nina Shedd grant, was announced September 16. Three days later, a $19.5 have the most academically prepared student body in our history, as well as the most Assistant diverse one of any college at the University. And our graduating students have ranked their Hana Costello million Tobacco Centers of Regulatory Science (TCORS) award from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the experience very high when surveyed by the Association of American Medical Colleges; Art Director the College has scored in the top percentiles for curriculum quality, teaching, faculty Steve Wetherby, Wetherby Design National Institutes of Health (NIH) was received by the Center. Higgins also received notification of a five-year, $3.7 million NIH accessibility, basic science integration, and overall satisfaction. Contributing Photographers Raj Chawla, Jeff Clarke, Alec Jacobson, grant for another smoking-related study, titled “Financial Incentives These ratings by our own students were right in line with the assessments of the Liaison Sally McCay, Mario Morgado for Smoking Cessation Among Disadvantaged Pregnant Women.” Committee on Medical Education (LCME), the accrediting body for medical schools The FDA and NIH formed an interagency partnership to fund TCORS — a first-of-its-kind regulatory science tobacco program, in the U.S. and Canada. I am please to tell you that the LCME notified us this fall, after University of Vermont their extensive site visit and review earlier in the year, that they had voted to continue College of Medicine which is designed to generate research to inform the regulation of Professor and Vice Chair of Psychiatry Stephen Higgins, Ph.D., is the director of the new accreditation of the College for a full eight-year term. I could not be more proud of our tobacco products to protect public health, and to train the next Vermont Center on Behavior & Health. faculty, staff, and students, whose enthusiasm and commitment to our education program, Dean generation of tobacco regulatory scientists. Despite decades of Frederick C. Morin III, M.D. to each other, and to the College was evident throughout the entire process. work to reduce tobacco use, it continues to be the leading cause Senior Associate Dean for of preventable death and disease, with cigarette smoking alone in the U.S. annually and substantially increase healthcare costs and In many other ways, the community we serve provides validation of the importance of the Medical Education health disparities by being overrepresented among economically William Jeffries, Ph.D. responsible for more than 440,000 premature deaths in the U.S. work that goes on at our academic medical center. One key example of that this year was annually. UVM is one of 14 institutions nationwide to obtain this disadvantaged populations,” says Higgins, who is also director of the the gift from a grateful patient treated by Professor of Surgery Frank Ittleman, M.D., which Senior Associate Dean prestigious award. Center for Substance Abuse Research & Treatment. “It is our goal for Research formed the basis of the funding of a new professorship that bears Dr. Ittleman’s name. You Ira Bernstein, M.D.’82 “Unhealthy personal behaviors — substance abuse, physical to better understand the causes and devise more effective prevention can read more about Dr. Ittleman in this issue of Vermont Medicine. You’ll also see inspiring and treatment interventions for such unhealthy behaviors.” Senior Associate Dean inactivity, obesity — account for 40 percent of premature deaths news of our surgery faculty’s collective generosity which has established a record-setting for Clinical Affairs 14 new Green & Gold professorships. We are not aware of any other department in the Howard Schapiro, M.D.’80 country making a donation of this magnitude to its college. These professorships will aid Senior Associate Dean for in the recruitment and retention of superlative faculty members for years to come. We are Finance & Administration Deschamps Named Senior Associate Dean and Medical Group President grateful to the department and Interim Chair Dr. Marion Couch for their support. Brian L. Cote, M.B.A. Claude Deschamps, M.D., UVMMG, he will lead nearly Midwest Strategy Work Group Finally, as in all our recent yearly reviews, we thank the alumni and friends of the College Send Us Your Stories chair of surgery at the Mayo 500 physicians at Fletcher Integration Project. who believe so deeply in our missions of education, research, improving patient care, and If you have an idea for something that Clinic, has been named Allen Health Care. He formally Deschamps received engaging with our community. These generous people and organizations are our unseen should be covered in Vermont Medicine, please email: [email protected] senior associate dean for begins both positions on his medical training in his colleagues. We never forget the effect they have as we look back at the achievements of this clinical affairs at the College January 1, 2014. hometown of Montreal, Quebec, year, and at the work ahead in 2014. Visit Vermont Medicine Online of Medicine and president Deschamps has served as at the University of Montreal For full current and past issues and exclusive webXtras at: and chief executive officer of the chair of Mayo’s Department and the University of Montreal www.uvm.edu/medicine/vtmedicine the University of Vermont of Surgery since 2005 and Affiliated Hospitals, and at Medical Group (UVMMG). was the Joseph I. and Barbara the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, In his role as senior associate Ashkins Professor of Surgery Minnesota.
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