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Celebrating Our Nurses
In honor of Nurses Week (May 6 to 12), you can express your gratitude for a deserving nurse with a Happy Nurses Week e-card, which can be found in the e-card section of UMatter Central. Take a few moments between May 6 and 12 to thank a fellow nurse for all they’ve done for you, your fellow caregivers and our lucky patients!
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Update To Minimum Required Personal Protective Equipment
In effect Monday, May 2, update To Minimum Required Personal Protective Equipment in Clinical Care and Non-Clinical Care Areas. Per a recent announcement from the chair, DOM is recommending following the same protocol.
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Supporting Ukraine and Our Caregivers
As Russian forces continue their brutal attack on Ukraine – forcing millions of Ukrainian refugees to flee their homes for safety in neighboring nations – our UMass Memorial Health caregivers are doing what caregivers do: find ways to help.
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2022 Caregiver Survey
The 2022 Caregiver Survey will open to all caregivers this Wednesday, May 11. Caregivers systemwide are encouraged to participate in the anonymous survey through June 1. There has never been a more important time to hear your voice. Every two years, our caregiver survey reveals how you are doing and how you think we are doing as an organization. In the past two years, we’ve gone through not just a pandemic, but a rollercoaster of adrenaline, stress, exhaustion and hope. We have been challenged as a health care organization, as caregivers and as human beings in ways we have never been before, so let’s take a pause and acknowledge that. And that is why, at this moment in time, it is essential for us to better understand your caregiver experience and well-being.
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Chancellor Collins named to Worcester Business Journal’s Power 50
The 2022 UMass Chan Medical School Educational Recognition Awards celebration was held on Tuesday, April 26, to honor achievement by faculty of the Tan Chingfen Graduate School of Nursing, Morningside Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and T.H. Chan School of Medicine. Vivian Budnik, PhD, was named recipient of the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring, and Pang-Yen Fan, MD, delivered the honorary Last Lecture.
Learn More.
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Shuttle van capacity to be reduced, effective May 11
The capacity for campus shuttle vans is being reduced beginning Wednesday, May 11. As a consequence, shuttle wait times may increase. Shuttle riders are also reminded that walking is an option; the Sherman Center entrance on North Road is accessible by badge access to all University Campus employees.
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Save the Date!
Department of Medicine
Clinical Research Symposium
May 31, 2022
5:00-6:00 p.m.
Lazare Auditorium (S1-607)
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DOM Funding for Medical Student presentations
The Department of Medicine is pleased to announce a new program to help fund medical student presentations at national meetings. Please see the attached policy for details on this exciting opportunity to recognize and reward our students for their outstanding scholarly work!
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Continuing Medical Education
“Advances in Advanced Endoscopy–Yeah, we can do that”
Neil Marya, MD, Assistant Professor
Division of Gastroenterology UMass Memorial Health Care
Thursday, May 12th , 2022
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Streamed Remotely via Zoom
Register in advance for this webinar:
https://umassmed.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_qsBdErX1SjSiyUobQFnGQA
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Department of Medicine Virtual Lecture Series
“Can Digital Medicine Advance Health Equity?”
Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS,
Professor and Chair, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Lee Goldman, MD Endowed Chair in Medicine
Vice Dean for Population Health and Health Equity, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
Wednesday, May 18th, 2022
12:00-1:00 p.m.
Streamed Remotely via Zoom
https://umassmed.zoom.us/j/96760350573?pwd=THdoUWdQa0ZySk4rcHVsRW1OQXdpdz09
Password: 585921
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May 12, 2022 - Please save the date for our upcoming Annual Lupus Day Symposium.
This virtual symposium is open to researchers, doctors, patients and their families at no cost, but registration is required at www.lupusne.org.
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Ignacio Sanz, MD
Chief, Division of Rheumatology,
Director of The Lowance Center for Human Immunology Emory University School of Medicine
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Theresa Lu, MD, PhD
St. Giles Chair for Pediatric Research Autoimmunity and
Inflammation Program and Pediatric Rheumatology Hospital for Special Surgery Research Institute
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Roberto Caricchio, MD
Professor of Medicine Chief, Section of
Rheumatology Director, Temple Lupus Program Lewis Katz School of Medicine Temple University
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Ruth Wilson
Patient Advocate
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SAVE THE DATE
27th Annual
UMass Chan Medical School Research Retreat
November 3rd & 4th, 2022
Tentatively Scheduled at the UMass Amherst Conference Center
We cordially invite you to attend the UMMS 27th Annual Research Retreat, November 3-4, 2022.
The retreat is tentatively scheduled for the UMass Amherst Conference Center and will feature talks from new UMMS faculty.
Registration details for the Research Retreat, the agenda and information about the poster session will be posted on the CCTS website as we get closer to the event.
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Dr. Ann Rothstein, Professor of Medicine in the Division of Rheumatology in the Department of Medicine, has been selected as the winner of this year’s Women in Science and Health Achievements Award by the Women’s Faculty Committee at UMass Chan. This award is presented to a woman faculty member who has made exceptional contributions to the basic or clinical sciences in medicine. Dr. Rothstein has an outstanding record of achievements in the field of autoimmunity. Throughout her career she has combined her exceptional knowledge of autoimmunity with state-of-the-art approaches to unravel the immunologic basis for lupus and other autoinflammatory diseases, including most recently her work on the autoinflammatory diseases associated with STING gain-of-function mutations and DNase II mutations in humans. She is also an outstanding mentor who has dedicated herself to the training and mentorship of the next generation of scientists throughout her career, and has boundless energy and enthusiasm about her science and that of her trainees and colleagues.
“I am really honored to be recognized by this group of amazing colleagues for whom I have so much respect!”, said Dr. Rothstein on receiving this award.
Dr. Rothstein will be honored at the Women’s Faculty Committee Awards and Luncheon event on Tuesday, May 24, 2022, in the ASC Cube.
Congratulations Dr. Rothstein!
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The Office of Clinical Integration honored Trudy Manchester, MD on her recent retirement. Trudy had already retired from clinical medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine in Benedict, and now was saying goodbye as an Associate Medical Director of OCI and the Director of Quality, Population Health. She is a terrific doctor and an amazing talent with population health analytics and data synthesis. Her unique skills will be greatly missed and we wish to extend our deepest thanks and appreciation for your wonderful career and for all of your contributions to GIM, the DOM and UMass.
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The 2022 Geriatric Interdisciplinary Immersion Training (GIIT) weekend retreat was held on April 29 – May 1 in Brewster, Massachusetts. The retreat brings together rising chief residents from across various disciplines with NP students from the Tan Chingfen Graduate School of Nursing, and pharmacy students from the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. The purpose of the retreat is to foster the principles of high quality, geriatric team-based care. Dr. Erika Zimmons, Director of Education in the Division of Geriatric Medicine, served as overall director of the event. Other participating DOM faculty included Drs. Randy Morse, Sarah McGee, Rick Forster, and Jerry Gurwitz. The event is sponsored by Fallon Health and Meyers Health Care Institute. | | | |
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Congratulations to Howard J. Sachs, MD who was presented with the Lamar Soutter Award for Excellence in Medical Education at the UMMS Awards Ceremony. | | | |
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Congratulations to Dr. Alvaro Alonso for receiving the UMass Memorial May 2022 Safety Award. Working together with Deborah Nadler, he prevented an unnecessary test for a patient and went above and beyond to deliver exceptional patient care. Well done! | | |
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Katherine Cooper, who’s abstracts have recently been accepted to the International Liver Congress. Great work! | |
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Department of Medicine
UMass Memorial Health|UMass Chan Medical School, University Campus,
Worcester, MA 01655
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