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UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL FALL 2016 PAGE 8 The Cancer Moonshot mission Industry partnerships boost U advances 12 Photos capture 20 How 40 years of Duluth 22 U experts tackle autism hospitalized kids’ reality campus alumni stack up on many fronts PAGE 12 A new perspective /&ƛ&+%*"+',("0/,2+!4&1%%&0!!Ǿ 2/1Ǿ,+,+",#%&0$,,!!601+&3"/0&16 of Minnesota Masonic Children’s Hospital. PHOTO: JILL DAHMEN PHOTO: The Medical Bulletin is published twice a year For more information or to update University of Minnesota Foundation by the University of Minnesota Foundation. your address, please contact: 200 Oak Street SE, Suite 500 Minneapolis, MN 55455 Editor Design and Production Meredith McNab, editor Meredith McNab Woychick Design give.umn.edu 612-625-0657 or 800-775-2187 Managing Editor Printing and Distribution [email protected] The University of Minnesota is an equal Nicole Endres Sexton Printing opportunity educator and employer. © 2016 University of Minnesota Foundation. 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Medical Bulletin FALL 2016 8 The Cancer Moonshot mission Why the University needs partnerships with private industry — and vice versa 8 12 A new perspective +"*,1&,+ȒƜ))"!-%,1,-/,'" 1!"-& 10$,,!!60Ǿ hard days, and everything in between for hospitalized children and their families 20 The big 4-0 Medical School’s Duluth campus marks four decades of graduating small-town doctors and Native American physicians 22 A spectrum of expertise From large prevalence studies to brain imaging, the University is investigating the best ways to serve 20 children who have autism spectrum disorder ALSO IN THIS ISSUE MORE ONLINE 2 Medical School News Visit medicalbulletin.umn.edu 1,Ɯ+!4"Ȓ,+)6 ,+1"+1+! 6 Global Outreach the online edition of the Reducing health Medical Bulletin. disparities for people on the move 28 Alumni Spotlight Set to retire, Steven Web extras produced by Nicole &)"0ǾǽǽǾ/"Ɲ" 10 Endres and Shawn Sullivan on his career Go green 30 Scholarship Winner Email us at [email protected] Sarah Roe applies rugby to receive the Medical Bulletin lessons to medicine by email instead of as a 32 Alumni Connections paper copy. 34 In Memoriam 22 36 A Look Back At 50, CUHCC meets more needs than ever FIND THE MEDICAL BULLETIN ONLINE AT: medicalbulletin.umn.edu Cover illustration by Dan Woychick Medical School News Our path toward a true academic health system Being part of an LAST FALL I ANNOUNCED in the advancing health care through academic health Medical Bulletin that the University groundbreaking research, and of Minnesota and University of delivering the highest quality system is critical Minnesota Physicians (UMP) were care to patients from Minnesota as we strive to negotiating with Fairview Health and beyond. deliver on our Services to form a new, fully Our overall goal has not integrated academic health changed. We know that a world- clinical care, system. This was a significant step class medical school requires a education, and toward an important goal. Being 4,/)!Ȓ )00%")1%0601"*Ǿ'201 research mission. part of an academic health system as a world-class health system is critical as we strive to deliver on our clinical care, requires a world-class medical school. We are committed education, and research mission. to finding a new path to get there. Unfortunately, after nine months of negotiations, we The Academic Health Center and UMP have started a were unable to reach an agreement with Fairview. In July, strategic planning process that will consider a range of the University and UMP terminated the letter of intent options going forward. We have heard from several health and began looking for other partners and paths that care organizations since the Fairview talks ended. We are could help us achieve our goals. lucky to live in a state with excellent health care options, We were disappointed that we could not reach an agree- providing many exciting possibilities for collaboration and ment. In the end, it became apparent that the University partnership. In the meantime, we continue to work with and Fairview don’t share a common vision for what a true Fairview through our existing University of Minnesota academic health system needs to be. The University could Health partnership. not enter into an agreement that did not protect the aca- We are confident that we will find new, innovative ways demic and research mission that is so critical for this state. to ensure a positive future for our health sciences schools, The University of Minnesota and UMP share a mission faculty, patients, and state. M|B rooted in academic medicine. We are dedicated to educat- Brooks Jackson, M.D., M.B.A., Medical School Dean ing the next generation of care providers for our state, and Vice President for Health Sciences Medical School names Tolar executive vice dean Renowned pediatric blood and marrow trans- scholarship activity, work with centers and Tolar — who also directs the University’s plant physician and researcher Jakub Tolar, institutes to maximize productivity and Stem Cell Institute, conducts research, and M.D., Ph.D., has been named to the new posi- impact, and partner with Medical School sees patients — is familiar with the challenges tion of executive vice dean for the Dean Brooks Jackson, M.D., M.B.A., to achieve faced by clinicians, physician-scientists, and Medical School. philanthropic and legislative goals. basic scientists alike. In this role, Tolar is “Jakub has ambition, experience, leader- “I believe this Medical School has the focusing on implement- ship skills, and a strong track record of people we need to make us one of the best ing the Medical School’s research, clinical, and administrative suc- in the nation,” he says. “I hope to work with strategic plan. He cess,” Jackson says. “He brings 24 years of faculty and staff to identify and remove will work closely commitment to our school, having served in obstacles to success in recruiting and retain- with departments roles as varied as student, resident, fellow, ing faculty, performing meaningful research, on recruiting and faculty, physician, administrator, and mentor. and excelling at scholarship at the highest, retaining faculty and It is this breadth of experience that will be most creative level.” M|B increasing research and critical as he focuses on implementing the strategic plans for scholarship and research.” 2 MEDICAL BULLETIN FALL 2016 UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL Vinogradov tapped to lead Brooks Jackson, M.D., M.B.A. Department of Psychiatry Dean Jakub Tolar, M.D., Ph.D. Internationally recognized schizophrenia which we focus on Executive Vice Dean physician-scientist Sophia Vinogradov, M.D., prevention, preemp- in August took over as the new head of the tion, and the rever- TWIN CITIES CAMPUS Medical School’s Department of Psychiatry. sal of a potentially John Andrews, M.D. Vinogradov comes to the University of deteriorating Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education Minnesota from the University of California, course.” Felix Ankel, M.D. San Francisco School of Medicine, where she The hire is a high- Assistant Dean for Medical School was professor and vice chair of the Depart- stakes one, as the Dr. Vinogradov is the right Faculty at HealthPartners ment of Psychiatry and associate chief of University moves for- Bruce Blazar, M.D. staff for mental health at the San Francisco ward with important leader to implement the highest Vice Dean for Clinical Investigation VA Medical Center. reformations to its standards of ethical research; Kent Crossley, M.D. Vinogradov is studying the use of cognitive policies on protecting Assistant Dean for Medical School and to build a new culture of Faculty at Veterans Affairs Health Care training and other approaches to improve human research par- trust and cooperation. Bobbi Daniels, M.D. neural system function in the brains of people ticipants, especially Vice Dean for Clinical Affairs who have mental illnesses. She has pioneered those who have – Brooks Jackson, M.D., M.B.A. Robert Englander, M.D., M.P.H. the use of cognitive training exercises that diminished mental Associate Dean for Undergraduate specifically target deficient areas in the capacity, says Medical School Dean Brooks Medical Education brain to restore more normal neural system Jackson, M.D., M.B.A. Michael Kim, M.D. functioning. With early intervention in young “Dr. Vinogradov is the right leader to move Assistant Dean for Student Affairs people who are struggling with their first reforms forward; to implement the highest Tucker LeBien, Ph.D. symptoms of mental illness, she is hopeful standards of ethical research; and to build a Vice Dean for Research that information-processing abnormalities new culture of trust and cooperation as the Dimple Patel, M.S. can be slowed down or reversed with cogni- department works to develop innovative, Associate Dean of Admissions tive training, perhaps in many cases without state-of-the-art programs of care for patients, Anne Pereira, M.D., M.P.H. Assistant Dean for Curriculum the need for medication. and to conduct important scientific investiga- “This starts to open a revolutionary new tions that will lead to better outcomes for Mark Rosenberg, M.D. Vice Dean for Medical Education path in psychiatry,” says Vinogradov, “one in those with mental illness,” Jackson says. M|B ,'&%&*&72Ǿ%ǽǽ Assistant Dean for Graduate Education U RESEARCHERS IDENTIFY A NONINVASIVE EYE TEST TO DETECT ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE Clifford Steer, M.D. Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs For the first time, technology designed to detect retinal changes linked Meghan Walsh, M.D. Assistant Dean for Medical to early Alzheimer’s disease has been proven effective in live animals. School Faculty at Hennepin The study, conducted by researchers in the University of Minnesota County Medical Center "+1"/#,//2$"0&$++!-2)&0%"!&+1%"',2/+)Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences in June, explored the use of a camera DULUTH CAMPUS to noninvasively study the retina and detect any signs of Alzheimer’s Paula Termuhlen, M.D.