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It’s long been said you can’t have too much of a good thing and I agree chosen to be part of a pilot project by Dr. Ferguson, who spent on many fronts. Things like moderate exercise and the love of your 20 years as chief of medicine at Union Memorial Hospital. family come to mind. To that list I would add civility, which is why I’m so proud today to tell you about the University of Maryland Medicine Trainees will be asked questions such as: Professionalism Enhancement Initiative, a growing program based in • A gree or disagree — a spirit of cooperation and teamwork the School of Medicine. exists in my work group?

Acting professional — being courteous to colleagues, clients, and • C ompared to what you think it should be, how satisfied patients — has been a hallmark of my administration since becoming are you with relationships you have with your co-workers? president in 2010. Civility is part of our strategic plan, is in our mission and vision statements, is one of our core values, and was the topic of our The questions will be asked by medical students as part of Dean Reece’s 2012-2013 President’s Fellows’ White Paper Project. FRCT program (Foundations of Research and Critical Thinking) to urge all medical students to become involved in research. So I couldn’t be happier that the School of Medicine is taking this topic several steps further. Once an abundance of data is gathered, it will be shipped to College Park, where Michelle Gelfand, PhD, a professor of psychology and a world- Dean E. Albert Reece, MD, PhD, MBA, the University’s vice president known figure in dealing with professionalism, has been hired as a for medical affairs, created this initiative to examine the medical consultant on the Professionalism Enhancement Initiative. Good school’s culture in terms of professionalism. Clinical professor Robert communication and professional behavior are encouraged because they Ferguson, MD, is physician director of the initiative, a position to which improve the work environment, improve patient care, and reduce turnover. he was recruited by Richard “Robin” Pierson, MD, senior associate dean The Professionalism Enhancement Initiative should bolster all three. for academic affairs. But for now, Dr. Ferguson and his colleagues are approaching the Groundwork started last summer getting information from large parts initiative one three-month block at a time. This quarter in addition of the medical school. Committees were formed and discussions were to getting the pilot programs launched and the data system set up, held on how best to proceed, gathering what Dr. Ferguson calls a Dr. Ferguson was glad to involve the medical school in the University’s “critical mass.” Soon input from the schools of pharmacy and nursing second annual Interprofessional Education Day on Feb. 19. He’s also was added to the mix. What began as a medical school project is working with Dr. Mallott on a new method to help identify conflicts expanding with hopes of perhaps one day being a campuswide initiative. between groups in real time to allow for early intervention. He’s also This only makes sense with so many of us from so many disciplines been asked to develop a Day of Professionalism for the students this working side by side on behalf of our patients. summer before they start their third-year rotations.

Dr. Ferguson and his colleagues are intent on taking something that is In the beginning it’s a lot of work, Dr. Ferguson admits. But citing a good and making it better. Led by the likes of John Talbott, MD, David Canadian study that Dr. Talbott passed on to him, Dr. Ferguson adds Mallott, MD, and Donna Parker, MD, FACP, the medical school had that eventually exemplary professional behavior becomes self-sustaining. developed such admirable entities as a Code of Conduct Committee “You get to the point where you don’t have to continue to put on the gas and the Gold Foundation, where people are honored for the positive … you can just let it coast.” things they do. But Dean Reece thought a more coordinated effort could produce sustained, long-term changes and the Professionalism I applaud the School of Medicine for its Professionalism Enhancement Enhancement Initiative was born. Initiative and I’m confident it will continue to grow. We can discuss this and anything you like at our next group Q&A on April 17 at Dr. Mallott’s Graduate Questionnaire developed several years ago is 11:30 a.m. at Hosick Lecture Hall in the Bressler Building. James L. the basis for many of the steps being taken. Trainee feedback is at the Hughes, MBA, chief enterprise and economic development officer core of the initiative based on the belief that the School wasn’t retaining and vice president, will discuss the University of Maryland BioPark’s some of its best graduates due to issues that were cultural. So three new Master Plan, which seeks to create a vibrant innovation community areas very interested in the topic of professionalism that have a high with a broad array of technology companies, expanded retail, a percentage of trainees — the medical/surgical unit at the Baltimore residential building, a hotel, and a mass transit station. Veterans Affairs Medical Center; the ambulatory outpatient pediatrics and internal medicine practice on Paca Street; and the cardiac surgical unit at the University of Maryland Medical Center — have been

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UNIVERSITYWIDE scale. The students’ glowing reviews Center at the School of Medicine, and were part of her nomination package. Jia Bei Wang, PhD, professor in the Four Win Regents Awards Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences Lastly, Jill Morgan, PharmD, Four UMB faculty members have at the School of Pharmacy, received a BCPS, an associate professor at the been named winners of the University three-year, $856,871 grant from the School of Pharmacy and its former System of Maryland Board of Regents Stanley Medical Research Institute associate dean for student affairs, Faculty Awards. for “Treatment of Schizophrenia With won the regents’ mentoring award. I-Tetrahydropalmatine (I-THP): Bruce Anderson, PharmD, DABAT, She has been tireless in her efforts, A Novel Dopamine Antagonist was named the public service winner exceeding the yearly average of six to With Anti-inflammatory and Anti- for his work as director of the School eight students for academic advising protozoal Activity.” of Pharmacy’s Maryland Poison with more than 100 PharmD students Center (MPC). Initially just serving per year in Baltimore and at the physicians, the MPC has grown into a Universities at Shady Grove, and she free public service responding to more oversees 10 students annually in her than 60,000 calls per year, operating pediatric experiential elective. It is not 24 hours a day, seven days a week. It uncommon for Morgan to write 90- has updated its technology, with an plus letters of recommendation every MPC website and social media joining year for past and current students, who

such things as Mr. Yuk stickers. now work at places such as Children’s Jia Bei Wang Dnean a Kelly Hospital in Texas and a pediatric Stephen Bartlett, MD, chair of intensive care clinic in Saudi Arabia. the Department of Surgery at the “Health Literacy and Consent School of Medicine, was recognized Thanks to our Faculty Senate for Forms: Librarians Support Research in the regents’ scholarship/research/ gathering and rating the nominations on Human Subjects,” written by creative activity category for blazing and congratulations to our University Health Sciences and Human Services the trail for revolutionary transplant System of Maryland Board of Regents Library staff Paula Raimondo, MLS, procedures. Under Bartlett, the Faculty Award winners! AHIP, head of research, education, Division of Transplantation has and outreach services; Ryan Harris, grown into one of the largest and most MLIS, AHIP, reference services comprehensive transplant programs manager; Michele Nance, reference in the world. His pioneering work has associate; and Everly Brown, MLIS, dramatically improved access to viable head of information services; was organs, for instance, reducing the published in the Journal of the Medical waiting time for an African-American Library Association. patient to receive a kidney transplant at the University of Maryland Medical Bruce Anderson Se t phen Bartlett “My Experience With the Academy Center from the national average of of Health Information Professionals,” 1,335 days to 681 days. written by Andrew Youngkin, MLS, AHIP, emerging technologies/ Megan Meyer, PhD, MSW, associate evaluation coordinator, National professor and associate dean of Network of academic affairs at the School of Social Libraries of Work, won the regents’ teaching Medicine excellence award. An esteemed teacher Southeastern/ and mentor who has twice received Megan Meyer Jill Morgan Atlantic Region, the Dean’s Teaching Award based on Health Sciences evaluations completed by students, and Human Meyer continues to meet the standard Deanna Kelly, PharmD, professor Services Library, in the Department of Psychiatry and of 95 percent of her students must score Andrew Youngkin was published in her performance as a 15 on a 15-point director of the Treatment Research MLA News. Program and the Brief Stay Unit at the Maryland Psychiatric Research

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SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY a health care policy essay contest Michael sponsored by the Jayne Koskinas Greenberger, The School’s Hispanic Dental Ted Giovanis Foundation for Health JD, professor and Association chapter, which was and Policy. director of the named National Student Chapter of Center for Health the Year by the National Hispanic Abraham and Homeland Dental Association in September, Schneider, DDS, Security, was received the Outstanding UMB PhD, assistant invited to be a professor in the Michael Student Award as part of the Dr. Greenberger member of the Martin Luther King Jr. Diversity Department faculty advisory Recognition Awards, presented of Oncology board for the Center for the Study Feb. 10 during the University’s Black and Diagnostic of Business Ethics, Regulation, and History Month celebration. The Sciences, received Abraham Schneider Crime at the Robert H. Smith School chapter was recognized for its service, a five-year, of Business at the University of leadership, education, and advocacy in $1.9 million Maryland, College Park. Baltimore’s Hispanic community. grant from the National Institutes of Health for the project “Role Phoebe A. of OCT-3 on Metformin Action Haddon, JD, in Oral Carcinogenesis.” LLM, dean and professor, was “Metabolic named “one of the Brain Activity most influential Suggestive of people in legal Persistent Pain education” by The Hispanic dental Association members in a Rat Model Phoebe A. Haddon National Jurist with Dean Reynolds, Dr. Perman, and MLK of Neuropathic Keynote Speaker Joseph Jones (left). magazine for the Pain,” co- second consecutive year. Haddon written by David “What Every Dentist Needs to David Seminowicz was ranked ninth among the 25 Know About the Human Microbiome Seminowicz, people recognized in the publication’s and Probiotics,” written by student PhD, assistant January issue. Haddon is also on Andrew Klish; Judith Porter, professor in the Department of Neural the Power 100 List compiled by On DDS, EdD, interim assistant dean of and Pain Sciences, was published in Being a Black Lawyer, a company that admissions and recruitment; and Nasir the journal Neuroimage. promotes the causes and contributions Bashirelahi, PhD, PharmD, professor of African-American attorneys. in the Department of Oncology and Diagnostic Sciences; was published FRANCIS KING CAREY The Legal Profession: What Is Wrong in the journal General Dentistry. SCHOOL OF LAW and How to Fix It, a book written by Sheldon Krantz, JD, distinguished “The Challenge of Containing U.S. Leigh Goodmark, JD, visiting visiting professor, was published Healthcare Costs From an Economic professor, was among the presenters of in November. Perspective,” an essay written by the Battered Women’s Justice Project Student Jessica Kyle was awarded a Andrew Nolan, DPA, MBA, CPA, national online seminar “Transgender two-year clerkship with Christopher director of clinic business operations People, IPV, and the Legal System.” and finance, earned first place in Conner, JD, chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania.

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Robert Percival, JD, MA, Robert F. Earl Stoddard III, PhD, MPH, competitive Stanton Professor of Law and director public health program manager at renewed contract of the Environmental Law Program, the Center for Health and Homeland from the was an invited contributor Feb. 6 to Security (CHHS), developed the CounterVail Corp. the SCOTUSblog online symposium panels and moderated a daylong (prime sponsor: about greenhouse-gas cases before session for the Public Health the Biomedical the U.S. Supreme Court. Also on Emergency Preparedness Conference Advanced Feb. 6, Percival co-led a program held at the Universities at Shady Research and Edson on the environmental cases before Grove in February. CHHS hosted Albuquerque Development the Supreme Court this year for the the conference in partnership with Authority) for American Law Institute Continuing the Middle Atlantic Regional Center “Nerve Agent Countermeasure for Legal Education Group’s Annual of Excellence for Biodefense and Sub-lethal Exposures.” Albuquerque Advanced Course of Study program Emerging Infectious Diseases. also received a $215,340 subcontract on environmental law, which was held from CounterVail (prime sponsor: in Washington, D.C. National Institutes of Health) for the six-month Small Business Innovation “Criminal Research project “Galantamine for Records, Race, Pre-Exposure Administration in and Redemption,” Conjunction With Post-Exposure written by Standard Care as Treatment Against Michael Pinard, Intoxication by Sarin.” JD, professor and director Brian Berman, MD, professor

of the Clinical CHHS’ Earl Stoddard moderates the in the Department of Family and Michael Pinard Law Program, emergency preparedness conference. Community Medicine and director of was published in the Center for Integrative Medicine, the New York University Journal of was quoted in the National Public Legislation and Public Policy. Pinard Maureen Radio online article “Western was also a panelist at the Mid-Atlantic Sweeney, JD, Scientists Look to Chinese Medicine People of Color Legal Scholarship associate professor for Fresh Leads.” Conference, held at the University of and director of Baltimore School of Law. the Immigration Brian Browne, Clinic, won a MD, professor “The New case before the and chair in the Territorialism 4th U.S. Circuit Department in the Not-So- Maureen Sweeney Court of Appeals of Emergency New Frontier that recognized Medicine, of Cyberspace,” the possibility of asylum for people won the 2013 co-written who are threatened after making Health Services Brian Browne by William a “decision of conscience” to end Leadership Reynolds, JD, membership in a violent gang. Award from William Reynolds Jacob A. France the Baltimore Area Council of the Professor of Boy Scouts of America. The award Judicial Process, was published in recognizes Browne for outstanding the Cornell Law Review. SCHOOL OF MEDICINE work in the medical community Edson Albuquerque, MD, PhD, and for his support of special needs professor in the Department of Scouting in Maryland. Epidemiology and Public Health, received a 15-month, $3,611,115

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Joana Carneiro da Silva, PhD, Samer El- Sunjay Kaushal, MD, PhD, associate assistant professor in the Department Kamary, MD, professor in the Department of of Microbiology and Immunology MPH, associate Surgery, operated on children with and at the Institute for Genome professor in the congenital heart defects in Karkov, Sciences, was a featured speaker on Department of Ukraine, and provided training genomics and vaccine development Epidemiology and to cardiac surgeons and nursing staff. during the first meeting of the East Public Health, Coast Fever Consortium, held at the received a 2 1/2- International Livestock Research Samer El-Kamary year, $3,871,908 Institute in Nairobi, Kenya. Carneiro contract from da Silva also made the presentation pharmaceutical company Rottapharm- “Characterization of Genomic Madaus for “Phase II/III Treatment Diversity in Hard-to-Culture Trial Using Legalon SIL and Ribavirin Pathogens” as an invited speaker at a for Patients With Chronic Hepatitis National Institutes of Health Global C Who Never Received Interferon Sunjay kaushal and one of his young Health Interest Group symposium in Therapy (HEPASIL).” heart patients in karkov, ukraine. Bethesda, Md. Anthony Harris, MD, MPH, “Literature Watch Implications for professor in the Transplantation: Transplantation of a Department of Recellularized Rate Renal Scaffold,” Epidemiology and written by John LaMattina, MD, Public Health, assistant professor in the Department received a four- of Surgery, and Jonathan Bromberg, year, $1,355,622 MD, PhD, professor and head of Anthony Harris award from the Division of Transplantation in Joana Carneiro da silva and three the Agency for the Department of Surgery, was Masai villagers in kenya. Healthcare Research and Quality for published in the American Journal “Use of Electronic Data to Improve of Transplantation. LaMattina was “Soy Foods and Supplementation: Risk Adjustment for Hospital also among the winners of the Best A Review of Commonly Perceived Infection Rates.” Poster Award during the American Health Benefits and Risks,” written Society of Transplant Surgeons’ by Christopher D’Adamo, PhD, TheJACQUES Initiative, a program 14th Annual State of the Art Winter assistant professor in the Department of the Institute of Human Virology, Symposium, held in Miami in of Family and Community Medicine received the Outstanding UMB Staff January. Other presenters of the poster and director of research at the Center Award as part of the Dr. Martin Luther — “Belatacept Is Safe and Effective for Integrative Medicine, and alumna King Jr. Diversity Recognition Awards, Bridging Immunosuppression in Azize Sahin, MD ’11, was published presented Feb. 10 during the University’s Liver Transplant Recipients With in the journal Alternative Therapies in Black History Month celebration. The Renal Dysfunction” — included Rolf Health and Medicine. JACQUES Initiative’s multidisciplinary Barth, MD, and Steven Hanish, staff addresses HIV primary care and MD, associate professors in the outreach in Maryland. Department of Surgery; William Hutson, MD, and David Klassen, MD, professors in the Department of Medicine; Shane Ottmann, MD, clinical assistant professor in the Department of Surgery; and Darryn Potosky, MD, assistant professor in the Department of Medicine. Dean Reece, Executive Director Derek Spencer (with trophy), dr. perman, and the jacques initiative team.

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The January issue of the journal Health Mikulas Popovic, MD, PhD, SCHOOL OF NURSING Physics featured a series of articles adjunct professor in the Department on work by Thomas MacVittie, of Medicine and at the Institute of The following faculty members PhD, professor in the Department Human Virology, received Česká were awarded a $30,000 Nursing of Radiation Oncology, and Hlava, a prestigious Czech Republic Educator Doctoral Grant for Practice collaborators at the University and in scientific award, during a ceremony in and Dissertation Research from the Medical Countermeasures Against Prague. Popovic was honored for his the Maryland Health Services Cost Radiological Threats consortium. contributions to the field of human Review Commission’s Nurse Support Colleagues from the Department of retrovirology and to development Program: Bimbola Akintade, PhD Radiation Oncology who co-wrote of the HIV blood test. ’11, MS ’05, MBA, MHA, BSN ’03, articles in the journal with MacVittie ACNP-BC, CCRN, assistant professor include Karl Prado, PhD, professor; in the Department of Organizational Zeljko Vujaskovic, MD, PhD, Systems and Adult Health (OSAH) professor and director of the Division and director of the trauma clinical of Translational Radiation Sciences; care specialty; Deborah Busch, DNP, assistant professors Ann Farese, MA, CPNP-PC, CLC, assistant professor MS; Isabel Jackson, PhD; Abdul in the Department of Family and Kazi, PhD; Giovanni Lasio, PhD; Community Health; Mary Fey, MS Wei Lu, PhD; and Puting Xu, ’01, RN, assistant professor in OSAH Mikulas popovic (right) receives his PhD, MM; and research associates award in the czech republic. and director of the Clinical Simulation Wanchang Cui, PhD, and Kim Laboratories; Margaret Hammersla, Hankey, PhD. MS ’05, BSN ’95, RN, CRNP, assistant Sandra professor in OSAH and co-director Jay Magaziner, McCombe of the adult-gerontology primary care PhD, MSHyg, Waller, PT, nurse practitioner specialty; and Rachel professor and chair PhD, MS, NCS, Onello, MS ’07, CNL, RN, clinical of the Department associate professor instructor in OSAH. of Epidemiology and co-director of and Public Health, the Sensorimotor Jane Lipscomb, received a five- Development and PhD, RN, MS, Sandra McCombe FAAN, professor year, $1,623,190 Waller Rehabilitation Lab Jay Magaziner National Institutes in the Department in the Department of Health of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation of Family and grant for “Research Training in the Science, was appointed by the Community Epidemiology of Aging.” American Board of Physical Therapy Health and Specialties to its specialty council director of the Silke Niederhaus, on neurologic physical therapy for Jane Lipscomb Work and Health MD, assistant a four-year term. The appointment Research Center professor in the is in recognition of her national and the University’s Center for Department of profile and her expertise in neurologic Community-Based Engagement and Surgery, presented physical therapy. Learning, was elected a fellow of the the poster Collegium Ramazzini. The work of the “Maximizing international academy, which is based Living Donor in Italy, includes advancing the study Silke Niederhaus Transplants of occupational and environmental Through National health issues. PKE Programs” during the American Society of Transplant Surgeons’ Winter Symposium, held in Miami in January.

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Yolanda Ogbolu, PhD, RN, CRNP, SCHOOL OF PHARMACY for “Optimization of Small Molecule assistant professor in the Department Inhibitors of the BRD4 Protein.” of Family and Community Health and Andrew Coop, PhD, professor deputy director of the Office of Global and chair of the Department of Students Priyanka Gaitonde, Bilal Health, received the Outstanding Pharmaceutical Sciences, was featured Khokhar, Elisabeth Oehrlein, UMB Faculty Award as part of the in The Scientist magazine for his work Melissa Ross, and Xian Shen Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Diversity on UMB 425, an opioid drug with won second place in the America’s Recognition Awards, presented Feb. 10 potential to advance treatment and Got Regulatory Science Talent during the University’s Black History improve quality of life for people competition, presented by the Center Month celebration. Ogbolu was with chronic pain. of Excellence in Regulatory Science honored for 20 years of working across and Innovation. The students won Sandeep local, state, national, and international for their presentation on enhancing Devabhakthuni, levels to address issues of health the Food and Drug Administration’s PharmD, assistant disparities and cultural competency, website for consumer information professor in the especially regarding newborns. on medication safety and efficacy. Department of Student Abdulafeez Oluyadi won Pharmacy Practice third place for his idea to expand and Science, was the role of pharmacogenomics elected to the in clinical studies by combining Sandeep Devabhakthuni Maryland Society patients’ pharmacogenomic and of Health-System proteomic information. Pharmacists’ board of directors for a three-year term.

Susan dosReis, PhD, associate Yolanda Ogbolu and her mother (center) with Dr. Perman, Dean professor in the Department of Kirschling, and MLK keynote speaker Pharmaceutical Health Services Joseph Jones. Research, received a three-year, Health Informatics: $937,812 contract from the Patient- Centered Outcomes Research An Interprofessional Priyanka Gaitonde Bilal Khokhar Institute for “Methods for Prioritizing Approach, a Surrogate Desired Health Outcomes textbook co- for Patients.” written by Nancy Staggers, PhD Students Shamia Faison and Sarah ’92, RN, FAAN, Sushchyk received travel awards professor in the from the Committee on Behavior, Nancy Staggers Department of Biology, and Chemistry: Translational Organizational Research in Addiction to attend Systems and Adult Health, is the the committee’s annual meeting in Elisabeth Oehrlein Melissa Ross winner of a Book of the Year Award San Antonio. from the American Journal of Nursing. The book won in the information Steven Fletcher, technology/informatics category. The PhD, assistant award winners were featured in the professor in the journal’s January issue. Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, received

$19,895 from Xian Shen Abdulafeez Oluyadi Convergence Steven Fletcher Pharmaceuticals

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Joga Gobburu, Leah Sera, SCHOOL OF PhD, MBA, PharmD, assistant SOCIAL WORK professor in the professor in the Department of Department of Student Elizabeth Aparicio, MSW, Pharmacy Practice Pharmacy Practice LCSW-C, presented her dissertation and Science and Science, research on the experience of and director of received board motherhood among teenagers in foster the Center for certification as a care at the University of Hawaii’s Joga Gobburu Translational Leah Sera pharmacotherapy Myron B. Thompson School of Medicine, specialist. Social Work. Aparicio will join the received a one-year, $200,000 faculty at the University of Hawaii Paul Shapiro, contract from pharmaceutical in August and will continue her PhD manufacturer Wockhardt. , vice chair of scholarly work focused on practice and Gobburu also was appointed academic affairs policy related to teen pregnancy and chair of the Pharmacometrics and and associate parenting, mental health, trauma, Pharmacokinetics Section of the professor in the and attachment issues. American Society for Clinical Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics. Pharmaceutical Sciences, received a Raymond Love, Paul Shapiro one-year, $42,106 PharmD, FASHP, contract from professor in the medical research and development Department of organization Biomed Valley Discoveries Pharmacy Practice for “Determining Structural Interactions and Science, Between ERK2 and BVD-523.” was reappointed co-chair of the Hongbing Wang, Raymond Love PhD, associate Elizabeth Aparicio is researching teen Pharmacy Quality mothers in foster care. Alliance’s mental professor in the health work group for 2014. Department of Pharmaceutical Lisa Berlin, PhD, James Polli, Sciences, was MS, associate PhD , Ralph F. named a standing professor, is Shangraw/Noxell member of the Hongbing Wang the lead author Endowed Chair National Institutes of “Promoting in Industrial of Health’s Supportive Pharmacy and Xenobiotic and Nutrient Disposition Parenting in New Pharmaceutics in and Action Study Section. Mothers With the Department Lisa Berlin Substance-Use James Polli of Pharmaceutical Problems: A Pilot Sciences and co- Randomized Trial of Residential director of the Center of Excellence in Treatment Plus an Attachment-Based Regulatory Science and Innovation, Parenting Program,” which was was featured in the Member Spotlight published in the Infant Mental section of the AAPS Newsmagazine, a Health Journal. publication of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists.

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“Does the Village Model Help to Jeff Singer, MSW, clinical instructor, Foster Age-Friendly Communities?” delivered two Martin Luther King Jr. — written by Joan Davitt, PhD, Day lectures on activism and political MSW, MLSP, associate professor; engagement at Kenyon College in Amanda Lehning, PhD, MSW, Gambier, Ohio. assistant professor, and others — was published in the Journal of Aging & Social Policy in an issue about age-friendly cities and communities. “Local and Regional Governments and Age-Friendly Communities: A Case Study of the San Francisco Bay A Snowy Area,” written by Lehning, also was published in the issue. hank You T

Joan Davitt Amanda Lehning

Stephanie Geller, I would like to commend the men and women in facilities MSW, clinical and plant operations, parking services, public safety, and instructor and other related departments who are here all hours of the day coordinator and night, regardless of weather, making sure we have a of Southwest safe environment. Baltimore initiatives for Our workforce has stepped up in recent months, removing the Social Work Stephanie Geller snow and ice from our campus and braving the frigid Community temperatures. Even for this native of Chicago, it has been a Outreach Service, winter to remember. was recognized by the Warnock Foundation as a “social innovator.” So thanks to all of you who went the extra mile to help the Geller is among 13 winners of cash University survive the elements. Now, let’s look forward to awards from the foundation for spring, and some warmth! their ideas — chosen from more than 600 submitted — on how to Jay A. Perman, MD make Baltimore a better place. Her President project, which addresses “redirecting purchasing by anchor institutions to create jobs and lift the local economy,” was featured in The Baltimore Social Innovation Journal and on WYPR-FM.

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Dr. Perman’s quarterly group Q&A Coordinating this effort will be an executive director of session was held on Feb. 4 at the Francis community initiatives and engagement. A search committee has taken 65 applicants for the new position down to a final King Carey School of Law. Dr. Perman four with a job offer expected to be extended in late March. and members of his leadership team The executive director will face a full agenda. Among the began the Q&A with presentations on items in Community Promise are focusing the University’s the Middle States reaccreditation and the efforts in specific schools to enhance and multiply the University’s financial outlook, excerpts of positive impact of the work UMB does there, addressing which appeared in Dr. Perman’s February health disparities in the West Baltimore community in areas such as obesity, asthma, and heart disease, providing access newsletter. Below is a story that grew to career opportunities and creating workforce development out of Dr. Perman’s presentation on activities for community residents, building on the BioPark’s community engagement and excerpts planning and development efforts, and working with the office of Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake to of some of the questions that followed develop and implement a property development plan. those three presentations on Feb. 4. “This University is insufficiently appreciated in this city and the state for what we already do,” Perman said at the Q&A. Community Promise “We have done a lot of wonderful things, but we haven’t President Perman believes in keeping his promises, which is quite packaged them in a way that makes the rest of the why he’s happy to see early progress on UMB’s Community world say, ‘Look at what UMB is doing.’ There is no reason Promise, an initiative that will bring meaningful why we should not get credit for what we are doing. Because, improvement to the quality of life in the West Baltimore very practically speaking, if we project ourselves well, we community, one of his goals since becoming president will get the additional resources from the public and private in 2010. University advocates will address health care community to do more. I will need everyone’s engagement disparities, provide improvements in education for children, as we continue to define this initiative, so look forward to attend to basic needs, provide opportunities for access to hearing about this in the months to come.” careers, promote physical redevelopment, and look to attract retailers and residents.

“We have a responsibility to the people and to the environment around us,” Perman said in his Feb. 4 Q&A. “Anyone who thinks that we can be an island — getting our work done on this campus with our backs to downtown and West Baltimore — is in my estimation sorely mistaken. If we don’t make the environment around us and the community around us better, this University will suffer.”

UMB has literally hundreds of outreach programs. By harnessing the power of all of them, Community Promise will see that groups and initiatives such as Promise Heights, CLUB UMB, and the Center for Community- Based Engagement and Learning (formerly the Center for Community Engagement) have the greatest impact, Glenn Rabut eliminating duplicative efforts in what Perman called “our zeal to do good things.” QUESTION: I’m with Local 1839 of AFSCME [American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees] representing the bargaining unit here at the University. I was wondering if there is any way we can be supportive of the University in budget hearings in Annapolis this year?

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ANSWER: ANSWER: Dr. Perman: I very much appreciate that question. I’m sure Pete Gilbert, chief operating officer and senior vice president: the answer is yes. The universities themselves engage in the All of the schools and Dr. Jarrell and I for the central unit process of the University System of Maryland, of which we’re have turned in our merit plans. Those have been reviewed a part, during the legislative session. This is largely focused on and we’re getting comments back on a number of items. Dr. testimony to the Senate Budget and Taxation Committee and Perman should get them at the end of next week at the latest the House Appropriations Committee and we as a University and then the approved language will go out. alternate years with other universities. So this is our year and we will be giving testimony, which I am preparing. QUESTION: Do you want to comment on IPE Day in a couple of weeks At the System level, our testimony will be very much in [Feb. 19]? support of the governor’s budget. The governor has been fair to higher education, particularly to what is my highest ANSWER: priority, which is to continue to push the compensation Thank you for the question. As passionate as I am about issue. I don’t need to remind anybody in community engagement I’m equally passionate recognizing this room that there were a lot of years the opportunity UMB has because of its constituencies. that you and we tolerated no increase in The delivery of health care is increasingly in need of an compensation. We’re in a position now, appreciation for and the execution of care by teams. fortunately, where we can push ahead When you and I see our provider for a sore throat or a as we discussed earlier with the COLAs laceration, we don’t need a team to treat it. But ours is a and the merit pool in April and hopefully population that is increasingly burdened by chronic illness, another COLA in January. So we’re going whether it’s diabetes, cardiovascular disease, obesity, cancer to be supporting the governor’s budget. — I could go on and on. Pete [Gilbert] told you we won’t know for sure how we fall out until the end The population is growing and with the Affordable Care Act, of the session because in Maryland the no matter what you think of it, that begins to address the legislature cannot add to the budget but fact that everyone is entitled to health care. they certainly can draw lines through what the governor proposes. So So we have to teach the people who are going to take care of we have to defend the budget. I’m also us in the future, which are the very people being educated in going to be talking about our capital this institution, how to work as a team. It’s no longer rugged plans. As we develop the testimony, individualists. You know this is Tuesday. And on Tuesday I will remember your offer, OK? afternoons about an hour and a half from now I will have the privilege of caring for patients at the President’s Clinic. QUESTION: There will be a single student or more from every one of I brought this up at the chancellors council meeting and the schools with me so I can play my part in showing our just want to make sure it is known to senior leadership that students why they need to appreciate one another and how when we can release the merit guidelines, please do it as soon they need to prepare to work as a team. as possible because it is creating angst among the staff not hearing anything only seven weeks out. I say this with apology to the law school colleagues in attendance but when I discuss this around the country and I explain that I have law students in the clinic with me, the usual response I get is ‘OK, Perman. We get it. But what do you do with the law students?’

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The fact of the matter is there are many conditions in which ANSWER: a lawyer is probably the most effective member of that health Thank you for that question. One of the things I charged care team. I use this illustration with the students. Some of Jane Kirschling, dean of our nursing school who is also you know I’m a pediatrician. If a child is lead poisoned in an leading our IPE effort with the help of many, is to break old Baltimore house because there is lead in the paint and down some of the impediments that have existed for years they come for treatment, we doctors are very good at getting in this and other places that again reflect our silos. It’s the lead out. very hard to get over the hump of the following kind of conversation: ‘If I teach your students, who’s going to get But the child needs to go home to an environment where he the tuition?’ I understand that’s a practical question. But we can’t get lead poisoned again. Now I was not trained, nor have to overcome it. So we have people working on this. was anyone in the health care professions trained, to get the landlord to obey the law. But the lawyers were! So that is one The students are always ahead of the rest of us. That’s always example of a lawyer on a health care team. the case and we should acknowledge it and celebrate it. The students understand what I’m talking about when we talk This leads me to IPE Day on Feb. 19. We need to rally as a about IPE and they manage themselves accordingly. When I university at least once each year and give an opportunity for talk to the pharmacy students who come to my clinic, what all of our students to come together. We did it last year for I often hear is ‘I came to this pharmacy school because there the first time and there were 425 students participating from is a law school here.’ So they are pharmacists who are going each and every one of the schools. It was not a time-wasting to do regulatory work. They need a law degree, too. So if day. There were scenarios that were put together by the the customer wants it, we have to deliver. And maybe it’s faculty and students who broke up into nine or 10 groups not always going to require ‘well we go to pharmacy school and solved problems together. during the day and law school at night.’ Maybe we can be a little more imaginative than that. Allow me to recall one of my favorite moments if I may. So the 425 students came back to the School of Nursing auditorium and I stood in the front with a microphone and I said ‘OK, tell me what you learned.’ And a master’s student in nursing raised her hand and said, ‘Here’s what I learned, Dr. Perman. The pharmacy students know everything.’ That’s what we’re after here. Thanks for bringing it up. I want the students there.

A recap of IPE Day 2014 is available here.

QUESTION: I’m not a clinical person but you piqued my interest about whether there would be a future for degree programs where there would be more interdisciplinary work done. Is that something the University might want to think about in the future? Maureen Kotlas

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UMB Police Force Reaccredited, Wins Meritorious Award

The UMB Police Force recently was reaccredited by the their police training academy or specifically for their Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement communications operations,” he said. “Our agency does law Agencies (CALEA) for the fifth consecutive time. Because enforcement accreditation, which applies to both our sworn this run of excellence extends more than 15 years, the police officers and our non-sworn security guards. It isn’t UMB Police Force also received a meritorious accreditation. easy. There are 481 standards CALEA requires you to meet. Their assessors review files, review policies, they look for Antonio “Tony” Williams, MS, chief of police and proof you’re meeting all the standards, ride along in police assistant vice president for public safety at the University cars, and talk to people in the street and at town halls. of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB), said CALEA’s recognition It’s a rigorous process.” made him feel “very proud.” But it’s one the UMB Police Force has excelled at since “What the reaccreditation says about our police force is that its initial accreditation in 1996, putting it in some rare the University of Maryland, Baltimore and our department company. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, there are committed to providing quality police service to our are 18,000 law enforcement agencies in the United States. University community,” said Williams. “I think our ability At CALEA’s conference in November, only 40 received to achieve and maintain accreditation is testimony not meritorious acknowledgment. only to the great men and women that comprise our And yes, pursuing accreditation is voluntary and some Department of Public Safety police departments are unwilling to spend the money and but also to all the people who manpower to attain it. But it’s still a big deal, so much so go to school here and who that the University System of Maryland (USM) Board of work here, because it takes Regents in 2008 mandated that all USM police departments all of us to do it.” be accredited by September 2013 or report why they weren’t accredited. So Towson University and the University of CALEA is a nonprofit Baltimore police departments, for instance, have just been organization that came accredited for the first time while UMB, being ahead into existence in 1979 in of the curve, received its fifth reaccreditation and sixth response to the demand accreditation overall. of the American public From left, CALEA Executive Director Sylvester Daughtry, UMB Police Force for improved professional Williams, who in January celebrated his fourth anniversary Accreditation Manager Portia Swinson, policing. It started with four at UMB, knew he had some big shoes to fill. “Chief UMB Police Chief Antonio Williams, and CALEA Commission Chair Louis Dekmar. founding organizations — the Cleveland Barnes had set the bar very high for me in various International Association of ways including accreditation. Quite frankly when I came Chiefs of Police, the National Sheriffs Association, the National here from UMBC the only thing I knew about accreditation Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives, and then was what I had read about it,” Williams said. “But with the Police Executive Research Forum, or PERF for short. the help of a great leadership team — including Milland Reed, our assistant chief of police, and Portia Swinson, Williams says CALEA provides various forms of three-year our accreditation manager, who is also a certified CALEA accreditations now after five-year accreditations until accessor — and the support of the University leadership and 2001. “Some departments might pursue accreditation for its staff and students, we have continued to meet our goals, including accreditation. I couldn’t be happier about it.”

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