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Inside: NIH Grant to Transform Clinical Research | 5 UIC Cancer Center Unites Researchers | 28 New Understanding of Neurological Disorders | 32 Leadership in Patient Safety | 34 UIC MEDICINE A Publication for Alumni and Friends of the University of Illinois College of Medicine and the University of Illinois Medical Center Volume 13, No. 1 Fall 2009 Insights andSoundings The University of Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary — 1858–Present Fall 2009 UICMedicine x The Prescription: Rx Make a Gift Inside to the 2009–2010 Volume 13, Number 1 Fall 2009 FEATURES AND HIGHLIGHTS MEDICINE College of Medicine College of Medicine Administration Joseph A. Flaherty ’68, MD ’71, Res ’75 UIC Dean Insights and Soundings | 20 Annual Fund Sarah J. Kilpatrick, MD, PhD Vice Dean The Departments of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology Advance Leslie J. Sandlow ’56, MD a 150-Year Legacy Senior Associate Dean for Educational Affairs Larry Tobacman, MD Senior Associate Dean for Research and Education Sara L. Rusch, MD, Res ’81, FACP Regional Dean, Peoria Common Cause | 28 Martin Lipsky, MD Cancer Center Director Gary Kruh Aims to Unite UIC’s Cancer Research Regional Dean, Rockford Bradford S. Schwartz ’74, MD Regional Dean, Urbana-Champaign L. Keith Todd Chief Development Officer for Medicine Associate Dean for Advancement Engineering Excellence | 30 Vice President, University of Illinois Foundation Mark Gonzalez, Head of Orthopaedic Surgery, Is Building Better Joints and Doctors UIC Medicine Editorial Staff Kimberly Gosell, CFRE Executive Director of Development Programs, Publisher Kevin McKeough Steadying Nerves 32 Editor | Kathleen Kopitke Anatomy and Cell Biology Head Scott Brady Leads the Quest Copy Editor to Understand Neurological Disorders Jim Burwitz, Kevin Davis, Jeanne Galatzer- Levy, Sherri McGinnis Gonzaléz, Cynthia Hall, Lisa Haufschild, Steve Hendershot, Pat Kampert, Dan Liberty, Chris Martin, Lynne Olson, Susan Reich, Terri Yablonsky Stat Contributing Writers Schooled in Safety | 34 Michael D. Bailie, MD, PhD Patient Safety Now Integrated Into Medicine Curriculum Sarah J. Kilpatrick, MD, PhD Leslie J. Sandlow ’56, MD UIC Medicine Editorial Board Anne Boyle, Boyle Design Associates Design Consultants New Hope 36 A College of Medicine student conducts a clinical interview, circa 1967. | Steve Becker, Lloyd DeGrane, Barry Donald, Roberta Dupuis-Devlin, Katie Marchetti, Innovative Treatment at UIC Helps Kids in Battle Against Obesity Mike McCafrey, Susan Reich, Brian Thomas Your contribution provides critical unrestricted income Photography that directly supports faculty recruitment, student scholarships, UIC Medicine is a publication of the D E PA R T M E N T S O U R M I S S I O N O N T H E C O V E R O N L I N E UIC Office of Medical Advancement. UIC Medicine ©2009 All rights reserved. Dean’s Message | 2 The mission of the J. Regan Thomas, MD, magazine is University of Illinois FACS, Francis Lederer online at www.medicine.uic.edu. research, classroom renovation and more. Campus News 3 All inquiries should be addressed to: | College of Medicine is Professor and head of UIC Medicine Campus Rounds | 12 to enhance the health of otolaryngology–head and correction S UIC Office of Medical Advancement (MC/792) the citizens of Illinois by neck surgery (left) and Dimitri An article about the College of Medicine’s Alumni Connections 15 1747 W. Roosevelt Rd., Suite 302 | educating physicians and T. Azar, MD, B.A. Field Chair 125th anniversary gala in the Spring Chicago, Illinois 60608-1203 Student News | 16 biomedical scientists, of Opthalmologic Research, 2008 issue of UIC Medicine included an Phone: (312) 996-4470 Faculty News | 17 advancing knowledge of professor and head of incorrect name for the wife of Truman E-mail: [email protected] or health and disease, and ophthalmology and visual Anderson ’50, PhD ’55, MD ’60, Res ’61, Support your school today. Reunion 18 www.medicine.uic.edu | providing healthcare in sciences (right). Photograph professor emeritus of medicine. Her name Philanthropy | 38 a setting of education by Susan Reich. is Mary Ann Anderson. HIPAA This publication may contain and research. Please make your contribution to the annual fund by sending your gift in the enclosed envelope, or make your gift online at www.medicine.uic.edu. information used for fundraising purposes. Distinguished Alumni | 48 An obituary for College of Medicine alumnus Tanya Andric, MS ’04, in the If you would rather not receive fundraising Class Notes | 50 materials from us, please contact us at same issue incorrectly stated that her (312) 996-4470 or [email protected]. In Memoriam | 56 survivors included two sisters. Her siblings Collections | 64 are her brother, Milan Andric, and sister, College of MediCine AnnuAl fund Natasha Andric. For more information, contact the Office of Annual Giving at (312) 996-1511 or [email protected]. Dean’s Message Campus News | Chicago New Chancellor Paula Allen-Meares Plans to Medicine is forever changing, as research and technological breakthroughs yield new understand- Build on College of Medicine’s Strengths ings of and treatments for illness and injury. Like all medical schools, the University of Illinois College of Medicine faces the exciting by Kevin McKeough MEDICINE and daunting task of adapting to these rapid changes as we prepare the clinicians and researchers of the future. These changes extend to this publication. As you’ve probably noticed, it’s been a while since the last issue of UIC Medicine, a UIC gap that reflects both changes in the magazine’s creative team and publication schedule. We now are publishing one issue of UIC Medicine each year to make room for the College of Medicine’s annual report and donor honor roll, which many of our alumni aula Allen-Meares, MSW ’71, University of Illinois President B. Joseph received this past spring. PhD ’75, became the sixth chan- White. There also have been major changes in the leadership of both the University of Illinois at Chicago and the College of Medicine’s P cellor of the University of Illinois Allen-Meares led Michigan’s School development office. As you’ll read on the following page, Paula Allen-Meares became the new chancellor of the university at the start at Chicago in January. of Social Work to a consistent ranking of of the year. A highly accomplished administrator and scholar, she also brings to her position a background in mental health that gives “I am very excited and enthusiastic No. 1 in the nation, improving its research her particular appreciation of the role of the College of Medicine and the university’s other health science colleges. about the opportunity to lead this great profile with externally funded interdisci- This past July, L. Keith Todd joined UIC as the new chief development officer for medicine, institution,” Allen-Meares says. “To- plinary research awards totaling more than vice president of the University of Illinois Foundation and associate dean for development in the day’s world needs UIC’s knowledge and $100 million. Under her leadership, the College of Medicine. Keith comes to UIC from Ohio State University, where he served as associate expertise. The university has taken and school established interdisciplinary degree vice president for university development at the university’s medical center since 2005. He also will continue to take a leadership role in programs that included law, public policy, has held senior development positions at the Medical College of Georgia, the University of North solving pressing societal needs, particularly psychology, sociology, anthropology and Carolina–Chapel Hill and the Medical University of South Carolina. Please join me in welcoming in the realm of healthcare.” economics and set up partnerships with Allen-Meares took other agencies, institutes him to the College of Medicine and wishing him well in his endeavors on its behalf. UIC Chancellor Paula Allen-Meares, MSW, PhD The College of Medicine and UIC as a whole also are changing the way research is conduct- over from Eric Gislason, and communities. ed, fostering greater collaborations across disciplines and even across colleges and emphasizing interim chancellor, who “Today’s world At Michigan, she chancellor was the opportunity to work the translation of basic science research into clinical applications. This effort received the highest served since the retire- needs UIC’s was principal investiga- with Joseph Flaherty to build on the level of affirmation and support in July, when the National Institutes of Health awarded UIC’s ment of Sylvia Manning, tor of the Global excellence of the College of Medicine,” knowledge and Center for Clinical and Translational Science a five-year, $20 million grant, the largest in the uni- former chancellor, in Program on Youth, an Allen-Meares says. “I’m very impressed Joseph A. Flaherty, MD versity’s history. You can read more about this breathtaking development on page five, and you can learn more about the cutting-edge December 2007. She expertise. The initiative sponsored by by the breadth and ambitiousness of the research and treatments that College of Medicine faculty are pioneering in the feature stories that begin on page 20. is the sixth chancellor university has taken the W.K. Kellogg research taking place in the college, its since the 1982 merger of Foundation, and the ability to attract top faculty to provide These advances, of course, build on decades and even centuries of scientific and medical progress, as can be seen in the Univer- and will continue sity of Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary, which celebrated its 150th anniversary last year. As you can read in the cover story beginning on the university’s former National Institute of outstanding medical education to future to take a leadership page 20, the departments of ophthalmology and otolaryngology–head and neck surgery are building on this history with cutting-edge Chicago Circle and Medi- Mental Health’s Social physicians, and the faculty’s commitment new research and treatments.