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Health Sciences Massive Uncovered Negev Winter2013 Settlement Age Bronze Martin-Springer Center for Center Martin-Springer Conflict Studies and Negotiation and Studies Conflict Dedicated Being Different Kingdom United from Delegation Means Making for Opportunities Explores a Difference Cooperative Research Cooperative International Dig in Northern in Dig International Health Sciences Massive Uncovered Negev winter2013 Settlement Age Bronze Triglycerides Research Finds Research Triglycerides Newsletter of the Faculty of Health Sciences at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev News Heart of Predictor Greetings from the Dean Men Young in Disease Converging on research “Everything in the world began with a yes. One molecule said excellence yes to another molecule and life was born. But before prehistory there was the prehistory of prehistory and there was the never and there was the yes. It was ever so. I do not know why, but I do know that the universe never began.” The Hour of Star, her 3 last novel, was written by Clarice Lispector, a Brazilian Jewish author, in 1977, the year of her death from a proliferative disease. BGU scientists make breakthrough in drug By saying yes to oneself and to the “Other”, each day the universe can be created for oneself and for the “Other”. delivery system across Just as I said yes to accepting the role of dean this past year, “blood-brain barrier” Lispector’s “yes” is a good concept to describe the steps taken to 5 Prof. Gabriel Schreiber achieve our educational and research goals. Yes to a new pilot initiative for research excellence. Promoting convergence of disciplines as Program launched a route to breakthroughs, the initiative includes more than 50 researchers from the Faculty to establish lines of and Soroka University Medical Center. For this first of its kind initiative, the Faculty and the University have allocated a startup budget for a five year period and are looking for matching communication between funds from donors. health professionals Yes to the enlargement of the Joyce and Irving Goldman Medical School: As we started a new 6 school year, we increased the number of students by 25% without compromising quality - only 5% of 1400 applicants were accepted. We have also created a new Pre-Med program for Faculty established new 50 undergraduate students this year. Mentoring Program for Medical Students Yes to the enlargement of the Nursing Program in the Leon and Mathilde Recanati School for Health Professions. The shortage of nurses, especially in the Negev, is expected to be even greater than the shortage of physicians. The number of nursing students rose last 8 year by 35% and will increase next year by 80% to 90 students. Faculty signs MOU with Yes to refining the quality of teaching of medicine and health professions by introducing humanistic studies, professional and inter-professional education, a new UC Irvine School of mentoring program, and using our simulation center to improve teaching. Medicine Yes to improving health services in the Negev through cooperative programs with the medical centers in the Negev area and continuous student initiatives. 11 Yes to reducing disparity. We intend to use our expertise to enable dozens of students from the Bedouin community and the Negev to study health Mabruk to Jordanian professions in FOHS, and to establish a preparatory course in health sciences emergency medicine for the ultra-orthodox religious population after completing core general subjects. graduates As we begin a new year, we say Yes to growth, development, quality, 16 involvement, and Yes to the “Other”. 1 Health Sciences News Health Field Family Foundation Medical Simulation Health Center to be built Sciences News of the of Health Faculty Sciences at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Prof. Rivka Carmi (far left) joins Larry Field (left) with his extended family and friend Rivka Seiden (far right) at the ceremony The family foundation of real estate developer and and updating physicians and the IDF units that are philanthropist Lawrence N. Field has agreed to support moving to the South in the next five years, she added. building the Field Family Foundation Medical Simulation Center at the Faculty. Their pledge was recognized The new Center will be invaluable in providing the most recently in the presence of Larry Field and his extended advanced training for the medical professions in the family. Last year, the New York-based Joyce and Irving Faculty while helping to ensure patients’ safety and well- Goldman Family Foundation contributed the seed money being. It will allow the Faculty to continue its work in to initiate the Center. human-oriented medicine, by producing graduates who will become expert practitioners with strong humane The new facility will provide students with the values and ethics, contributing to the well-being of their opportunity to practice clinical-based skills in a risk-free communities in Israel and worldwide. environment, utilizing realistic materials, allowing for mistakes, which are inevitable in the learning process, Dean of the Faculty, Prof. Gabriel Schreiber, said that the to be made without endangering the lives of patients. Center would “enable us to improve medical training, And above all, it will improve patient safety. A variety of and teach preparedness and professionalism.” electronic mannequins and simulators will be available in the Center including an Advanced Lifesaving Simulator Larry Field recalled that his connection to BGU goes and birth process that exhibit life-like symptoms to back 40 years when he met BGU’s first president, Moshe simulate a variety of medical situations. Prywes, who later resigned to become the Founding Dean of the Faculty. “This is the institution with which I Once the Center is built, “We will not graduate any have worked the longest, I usually give anonymously,” students without their having experience in simulation so said Field. we make sure that they fulfill the dictum ‘Do No Harm’. It will represent the first simulation center created as part Noting that he often lectures about capitalism and of a medical school in Israel. Other medical schools are entrepreneurship, he explained that “One of the things I thinking about doing it and we are actually doing it”, often say is: if you can imagine it and work hard enough BGU President Prof. Rivka Carmi said at the ceremony in you have a great possibility of achieving it.” Beer-Sheva. The facility will also be used for retraining 2 Health SciencesConverging on research News excellence The Faculty has recently launched a new pilot initiative Dean Prof. Gabriel Schreiber. “The current structure to produce even more promising research. Building on of department heads, faculty deans, etc., is all geared its already stellar reputation, the Faculty has decided towards managing teachers, but not research,” he says. to increase its focus on research. Nine projects were The new system couples investment and productivity by recently selected for participation in the pilot project. supplying resources such as research space, facilities, equipment, student grants, technicians, and a reagent Twenty-seven proposals were whittled down to budget. “The projects will be evaluated again in a year nine through outside reviewers who assessed their and a half to see what they’ve produced and whether relative and absolute value. Following the concept of it was productive to keep funding them,” Faculty’s convergence of disciplines in bio-medical research as Vice Dean for Research Prof. Angel Porgador explains. a route to breakthroughs, the nine projects include “The general trend has been for researchers to become more than 50 researchers from the Faculty and Soroka experts on ever narrower topics, but in bio-medical University Medical Center. research, there is a lot of value in having a group with complementary expertise work together to produce Fourteen of the recipients of our initiative – 7 out of 9 breakthroughs,” according to Schreiber. winning cooperative projects – were awarded BSF or ISF grants, including the Helmsley Foundation grant “The group will be able to generate more papers and for the best annual BSF proposal of 2012 and the Klein grants as well as breakthroughs,” all elements that Foundation Prize for the leading ISF proposal for 2012. contribute to global medical research, Porgador added. Half of all university grant recipients were from the To facilitate this type of research, the university is Faculty – a 400% increase from the previous period. This constructing a laboratory building that will concentrate unprecedented success attests to the high quality of the the sometimes far flung faculty members in one hi-tech external and internal evaluation process. building. “The Research Excellence Initiative is the first of its kind at the University,” Schreiber said. The Faculty The project is funded in a tripartite manner – the Faculty, and the University have put up the initial funds and are the University, and the researcher. “The researchers looking for matching funds from donors. “As David Ben- must invest in their research, which is why they are Gurion said, ‘A vision that is not coupled with action is a to contribute a third from their research grants,” says false vision’,” Schreiber quotes. Prof. Ron Apte with his cancer research team 3 Health Sciences News Health HealthProf. Asher Bashiri awarded Edmond. Sciences J. Safra News Philanthropic Foundation 2012 Prize for Excellence Prof. Asher Bashiri, a member of the Faculty and a senior as possible as long as the society to which you belong of the of Health Faculty Sciences at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev physician at the Division of Gynecology and Obstetrics, does not value, assist, and invest in education,” he added. has been awarded the prestigious Edmond J. Safra Philanthropic Foundation Prize for Excellence for 2012. Bashiri has published over 70 articles, presented The award was given for his exceptional achievements in numerous research studies at medical conferences, medicine and academic excellence, and his contributions focusing both clinically and in his research on repeated to society, which are exemplified by his support of miscarriages, and has supervised over 20 student students during their studies.
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