Dear colleague:
The School of Medicine Faculty Senate held its first meeting of this academic year last Tuesday afternoon. Brian Dwinnell, MD, associate dean for student life, gave an update on the office’s efforts to update technology used in the process of reviewing medical school applicants. For our class of 184 students in the Class of 2021, the School of Medicine received 7,058 applications, interviewed 614 candidates and issued acceptances to 299 applicants. With so many students vying for a seat in the class, technology is an important tool for helping evaluate candidates. The composition of this year’s class is 64 percent Colorado residents and 36 percent from out-of-state, 48 percent of the new students are female, 51 percent male and combined they had a median grade point average of 3.69.
In discussing the Office of Student Life, Brian praised Jeffrey Druck, MD, and Kristina Tocce, MD, the assistant deans for student affairs for the past year and
Amanda Pennington,
Congratulations to Wendy Macklin,
Three major grants have recently been awarded to investigators at the School of Medicine’s Adult and Child Consortium for Health Outcomes Research and Delivery Science (ACCORDS):
Russell Glasgow, MS, PhD, professor of family medicine, and Edward Havranek, MD, professor of medicine, have received a $2.9 million funding award by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) to train MD and PhD investigators in the integration of implementation science in the study of heart, lung, and blood diseases. This five-year training grant provides in-depth training including involvement in embedded research projects in healthcare settings.
A team of investigators led by Bethany Kwan,
The Maternal and Child Health Research Network Program of the Health Resources and Services Administration awarded a five-year, $5 million cooperative agreement to ACCORDS, to establish a Children with Special Health Needs Research Network in collaboration with three other academic research centers across the United States and the National Association of Children’s Hospitals and Related Institutions. Christopher Stille, MD, MPH, professor of pediatrics, is the principal investigator. The agreement will establish and maintain a new interdisciplinary, multi-site, collaborative research network that will lead, promote, and coordinate national research activities to strengthen the evidence base related to key components of a comprehensive, high-quality system of care for children and youth with special health care needs.
Satish Garg, MD, professor of medicine and pediatrics at the Barbara Davis Center, is the first author of an article, “Effects of Sotagliflozin Added to Insulin in Patients with Type 1 Diabetes,” published Sept. 13 by The New England Journal of Medicine. Satish and 14 co-authors conducted and report on a multi-center trial of Sotagliflozin, a new oral drug for treating patients with type 1 diabetes. The trial, conducted at 133 sites in 19 countries, evaluated the safety and efficacy of the drug in combination with insulin therapy. In the randomized trial that included 1,402 participants between October 2015 and September 2016, the drug showed clinically meaningful and statistically significant effects on glucose control. This is yet another example of how scholars and leaders from our campus are leading the way in improving the lives of people around the world.
Howard Miller, MD, has been named
University of Colorado Hospital (UCH) was named one of the nation’s best-performing academic hospitals in rankings released last week by Vizient Inc., a health care performance company. The 2017 Vizient Bernard A. Birnbaum, MD, Quality Leadership Award recognizes UCH, which is one of seven hospitals in the UCHealth system, for demonstrating superior quality and safety performance as measured by the Vizient Quality and Accountability Study. This year, 107 academic medical centers and 161 community hospitals were included in the Vizient Quality and Accountability Study and
The CU Medical Alumni Association is hosting a night at the opera with a reception and performance of “La Bohème” by Opera Colorado at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House, Denver Performing Arts Complex, on Wednesday, Nov. 15. Registration deadline is Friday, Sept. 29.
The inaugural Ruth Fuller Lectureship will be at noon Wednesday, Sept. 20, featuring Velma McBride Murry,
The original Mini Medical School will begin on Monday, October 2. Mini Medical School is a free online course offered by the School of Medicine that teaches the basic science of modern medicine. The course instructors are J. John Cohen, MDCM,
This month marks the 100th anniversary of the death of Lt. William T. Fitzsimons, MD. Our Building 500 on the Anschutz Medical Campus was named in honor Dr. Fitzsimons in 1920 and carried his name through the rest of the 20th Century. Dr. Fizsimons was an officer in the Medical Reserve Corps and the first U.S. Army officer to die in World War I. He died from wounds suffered during a German air raid on Sept. 4, 1917, while stationed at Base Hospital No. 5 near Dannes-Camiers in Pas-de-Calais, France. He was 28 years old. Dr. Fitzsimons earned his medical degree from the University of Kansas School of Medicine, interned in Kansas City, Kansas, trained in New York City, and then accompanied the Red Cross in Europe. He volunteered his medical services in England for six months under the direction of Sir William Osler, and after Dr. Fitzsimons died, he was memorialized former U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt in an editorial in the Kansas City Star: “There is sometimes a symbolic significance in the first death in a war. It is so in this case. To the mother he leaves, the personal grief must in some degree be relieved by the pride in the fine and gallant life which has been crowned by the great sacrifice. We, his fellow countrymen, share this pride and sympathize with this sorrow.”
Have a good week,
John J. Reilly, Jr., MD
Richard D. Krugman Endowed Chair
Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs and
Dean, School of Medicine
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