DOMCOMM 6.14.2022

DOMCOMM

June 14, 2022

DoM News and Highlights

PY Fan Receives Manning Prize for Excellence in Teaching

Congratulations to PY Fan, MD, Professor of Medicine and Vice Chair for Education, who was one of five teachers across the University of Massachusetts system to receive this year’s Manning Prize for Excellence in Teaching.

Specializing in nephrology, Dr. Fan has been recognized seven times for the UMass Chan Outstanding Medical Educator Award, the Department of Medicine Teacher of the Year Award, and UMass Memorial Health Care’s Champion of Excellence Team Award, as well as other honors. He has served as a learning community mentor since 2010 and identifies more than 50 mentees.

The award is given out to UMass faculty who demonstrate exemplary dedication to students and the university, was established in 2016, and is named after UMass Lowell alumnus Robert Manning, the chair of the UMass Board of Trustees, and his wife Donna Manning.

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Jonathan Gerber Uses CAR-T Therapy to Treat Cancer Patients

Jonathan Gerber, MD, Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Division of Hematology-Oncology, Transfusion Medicine, and his team have implemented an effective cancer therapy, known as CAR-T Therapy, among patients at UMass.

CAR-T Therapy involves altering the patients white blood cells to target and eliminate cancer cells in the body. Two patients have been successfully treated using this therapy and Dr. Gerber looks forward to seeing the progression of this treatment as time goes on. Great work Dr. Gerber and team!

Recognitions

Graduating Fellow Celebrations

Please join us in congratulating our graduating fellows, who recently celebrated their accomplishments with faculty and classmates!

Gastroenterology

Gastroenterology team celebrating with graduating fellows: Mark Hanscom, Prashanth Rau and Matthew Petersile

Community Internal Medicine

PGY3 Internal Medicine Residents, Chief Residents for AY21-22, and Program Director Scott Kopec, MD

Pulmonary

Dr. Paulo Oliveira, Dr. Shaun Toomey, Dr. Lindsey Bazzone, Dr. Evan Jones, and Dr. William Wong

Palliative Care

Associate Program Director, Vandana Nagpal, MD, Palliative Care Fellow, Elizabeth Manzo, MD, and Division Chief, Jennifer Reidy, MD

General Internal Medicine

Edward Adams, Sandy Chan, Erin Thomas, Hung Vo, Danielle Leary, Or Bruck, Richard Palken, Beth Murphy, Jeeva Subramanian, Yael Rosen, Rick Lerner, Nancy Skehan, Elizabeth Ferzacca, Laura Hallett, and Sandeep Jubbal

A Note of Gratitude from the Chair to the 2022 Poster Day Judges

On Thursday, May 26, residents and fellows presented their Clinical Vignette, Research, and Quality Improvement posters at the 2022 Poster Day. Congratulations to all of our winners and participants, and a huge THANK YOU to our poster judges for the time they dedicated to this event!

With sincere gratitude, Dave

This year's judges included: Adarsha Bajracharya, Adriana Negrini, Aida Taku, Alok Kapoor, Amina Saghir, Andrea Poisson-Irani, Andrew Karson, Christine Donahue, Christine MacGinnis, Cristina Gavala, Dave Fish, Dave McManus, Elena Gkrouzman, Erika Zimmons, Greg Leslie, Jakub Pach, Jayanthi Kumar, Jeeva Subramanian, John, Solomonides, Jon Min, Jonathan Cheah, Juan Perez Velazquez, Jyothi Margapuri, Kimberly Eisenstock, Kimi Kobayashi, Kriti Mittal, Lara Kovell, Laura Hallett, Maria Garcia, Maria Hincapie, Matt Niemi, Mayuko Ito Fukunaga, Meghna Trivedi, Mike Devine, Mike Kalfopoulos, Mitch Gitkind, Nancy Lee, Nancy Skehan, Nneka Onwubueke, Oliver Marasigan, Or Bruck, Paula Cullinane, Prashant Veerreddy, PY Fan, Rick Forster, Sandhya Tagaram, Sara-Grace Reynolds, Sarah Velten, Saud Javed, Scott Kopec, Shahrzad Shidfar, Shrinkhala Khanna, Siddhartha Narayanan, Sonali Raju Harchandani, Srividhya Lakshmanan, Steven Baccei, Vandana Nagpal, Yoel Carrasquillo-Vega, and Zhenyang Jiang.

Clinical Updates

UMass Memorial Medical Center Honored as Finalist for Prestigious Foster McGaw

UMass Memorial Medical Center was selected as one of the top four nationwide finalists for the esteemed Foster G. McGaw Prize of the American Hospital Association. See the initiatives the nominating committee commended.

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School Updates

UMass Chan Medical School Class of 2022 celebrates science at 49th Commencement

The annual commencement proceedings returned to the UMass Chan Medical School campus in Worcester on Sunday, June 5, for the first time in three years in a jubilant gathering. The 49th Commencement Exercises, with classes from the Tan Chingfen Graduate School of Nursing, the Morningside Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and the T.H. Chan School of Medicine, were held under a tent on the campus green with faculty, family and friends in attendance.

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Extension of Indoor Mask Mandate

The requirement for all employees, students, and visitors to wear a mask while inside UMass Chan buildings is being extended until at least June 28.

Surgical masks will continue to be available at the lobby entrance of each building, and while some individuals may elect to wear KN95 or N95 masks, please note that cloth masks are not permitted.

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Last Chance! Important Notice/Reminder: UMass Chan Vacation Accrual Cap

As of the last pay period of each fiscal year (this year, the pay period ending June 18, 2022), the maximum number of vacation hours that an employee will be allowed to accrue and carry over to the next fiscal year is 240 hours. UMass Chan employees must take all vacation over 240 hours before 6/18/22.

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