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In other positive news, our own Esa Davis, MD, MPH joined lawmakers and local leaders in Annapolis last week as a speaker for National Maternal Health Awareness Day. I am proud to have our SOM leaders represent us on important issues in the community. You can read about Dr. Davis’ story and more about the celebration here. Additionally, Dr. Davis is being honored by the Baltimore Sun among the “2024 Black Marylanders to Watch.” Congratulations to her!
In the same vein of maternal/fetal health, UMMS just received a $6.3M fetal monitoring unit known as the NEST. The NEST will serve as a safety and quality hub for fetal monitoring across the seven hospitals of the UMMS, providing obstetrics services. 24/7 nursing at the NEST will utilize AI technology to identify fetal monitoring strips requiring higher surveillance and will communicate with nursing in respective hospitals. The NEST will also be used for education of new nurses and new providers. It is the first of its kind on the East Coast!
In an effort to strengthen our cross-institution collaborations, we just hosted the first annual mini-retreat for our SOM-NIH Physician-Scientist Incubator Program. The retreat focused on the program’s first four trainees, two from the NIH and two from the SOM, and included research presentations and information on support and resources for them. Fostering our next-generation of physician-scientists is an exciting and worthwhile opportunity and we are looking to expand programs across multiple NIH Institutes as well as with other external partners.
Although I completed my large, initial tour of the SOM and its many departments, centers, institutes, programs, etc. when I first arrived last year, there is always more to learn and see. I just visited the University of Maryland Capital Region Medical Center with Mohan Suntha, MD, President and CEO of UMMS. We toured the hospital, met the medical teams, and shared our vision on our expanding academic medical center partnership.
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