Academic Update Archives
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The Medical Library and Archives wants Ochsner users to be aware that the National Library of Medicine (NLM) has announced a major redesign of its free PubMed online database will be released later this fall. Get a first look at what the new site will look like!
View the preview | Learn more about our Medical Library
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The Academics Division has invested in a new analytic resource for your use: the PASW/SPSS software package, among the most popular statistical analysis applications available. For access to SPSS, please contact: Robert Jones (rjones@ochsner.org).
Learn more about the Center for Knowledge Management.
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The Selection Committee for the 2009 Alton Ochsner A ward Relating Smoking and Disease is pleased to announce the selection of Steven A. Belinsky, PhD, as this year’s recipient. Dr. Belinsky is the Director of the Lung Cancer Program, Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute; Co-Director of the Cancer Epidemiology and Control Program for the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque; and Associate Director of the Johns Hopkins University Lung Specialized Program of Research Excellence. Read the article.
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Ronald Amedee, MD, and Hector O. Ventura, MD, will be taking on new leadership responsibilities within Ochsner’s Graduate Medical Education (GME) area.
Learn more about Dr. Amedee and Dr. Ventura | Learn more about Graduate Medical Education
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Richard Deichmann, Jr., MD, Associate Medical Director of Adult Primary
Care, has been invited to deliver a lecture entitled “Disaster Preparedness: Lessons from Katrina” as part of The University of Queensland (UQ) School of Medicine’s Head of School Lecture Series on Wednesday, September 16, in Australia.
Read the article | Learn more about the UQ/Ochsner program
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The Ochsner Palliative Care Seminar is scheduled for Friday, October 2, in the Brent House Conference Center. This conference seeks to update physicians, nurses, social workers, chaplains, and administrators who are involved in the care of patients with terminal and advanced chronic illness. For more information, please see the meeting brochure.
Ochsner staff may attend this conference at no charge, but the Continuing Medical Education office asks that you register no later than Friday, September 25. For more information, or to register, please visit www.ochsner.org/cme or call 504-842-3702.
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Engaging Communities in Recruitment and Retention of Clinical Trials: It’s All About Communication
Presented by Mona N. Fouad, MD, MPH - Professor, Medicine/Division of Preventive Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Monday, September 28, 2009 2:00 - 4:00 pm at Monroe Hall, Ochsner Medical Center - New Orleans
View the Flyer | Learn more about Dr. Fouad | Learn more about the Department of Clinical Research Support
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Ochsner Orthopedic Surgery Research Wins Award
A poster presentation by Misty Suri, MD, orthopedic surgeon in the Section of Sports Medicine of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, was honored by being selected as the “Best Poster” by the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine (AOSSM). The poster will represent AOSSM at the Orthopaedic Research Society’s 56th Annual Meeting, to be held in New Orleans, March 6-9, 2010.
Dr. Suri was also selected as an AOSSM 2009 Annual Meeting Poster Award recipient, awarded second place at the AOSSM Annual Meeting held in Keystone, Coloroado, July 9-12, 2009.
The title of Dr. Suri’s poster is “Improved Percentage Fill After Microfracture with Complete vs. Central Hole Placement in a Mature Lapine Model,” and coauthors are Juan J. Rodrigo, MD; John D. Des-Jardins, PhD; Douglas J. Wyland, MD; Steven B. Singleton, MD; Paige Boatwright, BS; and Matthew Hoyle, BA.
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Since 2007, Ochsner has awarded and funded scholarships annually to 10 students in conjunction with Jefferson Dollars for Scholars. The students must be Jefferson Parish public high school seniors attending Louisiana colleges or universities View the list of award winners.
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On July 30, Nital Sheridan, Manager of the Ochsner Medical Library and Archives, was a guest presenter at the meeting of the Palliative Care Institute of Southeast Louisiana and the Louisiana-Mississippi Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, held in the Pimsoll Club of the World Trade Center in New Orleans. Read the article.
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Amy Zhang, a Duke University sophomore studying economics and premedicine, spent 8 weeks of her summer at Ochsner shadowing physicians, working with new Ochsner initiatives, and assisting Academic Community Outreach staff. Amy lent most of her time to the Reach Out and Read program spearheaded by the Ochsner for Children physicians and staff. Read the article.
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New Orleans native Dale Hanan spent the summer of 2009 interviewing executives, teaching teenagers about career choices, working on library initiatives, and developing creative solutions for organizational problems, an extraordinary summer for a 21-year-old rising college senior. Read the article.
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Ochsner Clinic Foundation will be reconstituting its Bone Marrow Transplant program in partnership with joint physician faculty from Ochsner and the LSU School of Medicine, to be located within the Ochsner Cancer Institute at the Main Campus. Read the article.
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Ochsner’s Department of Neurology, in partnership with Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals (LDHH) and the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association, has been awarded a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Optional Funding grant of $200,000/year for 3 years to support a stroke telemedicine program for rural hospitals.
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Academics Staff Victorious in Spelling Bee
Polly Gonzalez, RN, and Ana Dardis, RN, of the Center for Health Research—competing as the Mexican Jumping Bees—won first place in Ochsner’s 4th Annual Spelling Bee for Adult Education, held in May. The spelling bee raised more than $430 for the Adult Education Fund, which pays for General Equivalency Diploma tutoring for Ochsner employees. The event is coordinated by the Organizational Development arm of Human Resources.
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With the new 2009 residents and fellows beginning their programs in July, the library has been included in many orientations, from Anesthesiology to Pediatrics. Library orientations include an overview of services and resources: how to access articles from online journals, requesting literature searches and articles, using MyLibrary for remote access, and much more! View the July 8 Anesthesiology Orientation presented by Jessica Delgado, Systems Librarian. If you would like to schedule a quick overview for your next departmental meeting, please email infodesk@ochsner.org.
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On Tuesday, June 9, 63 Ochsner residents and fellows completed their graduate medical training in 17 specialty and subspecialty areas and were awarded certificates of completion.
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The 2009 Ochsner Science, Technology, Academics, and Research (STAR) Program students have implemented a new and exciting feature to this year’s program: a weekly newsletter created, written, and published by the students. It features weekly recaps and updates, a word of the week, and a quote of the week. This newsletter will help keep the program’s students, faculty, and administration up-to-speed on the happenings of the STAR Class of 2009.
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Congratulations go to Kathy Dixon, Program Manager, Radiology Residency, who was recently elected to the Board of the Association of Program Coordinators in Radiology. Additionally, she serves on the Training Administrators for Graduate Medical Education task force, the Residency Review Committee ad hoc committee, and the website, survey, and long-range planning committees.
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The LSU/Ochsner Ophthalmology Residency Training Program welcomes eight new residents on June 15 for orientation and basic science instruction prior to beginning their 3-year residency. They will be training in basic and clinical science orientation sessions at LSU and Ochsner from June 15-30 and will report to normal clinic assignments July 1. They will alternate between Ochsner, LSU, and affiliated locations during their training.
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It is well known that being overweight or obese leads to many health complications, particularly cardiovascular disease and the risk factors associated with it. A new study led by Dr. Carl Lavie, Medical Director, Cardiac Rehabilitation and Prevention, investigated the effect of the “obesity paradox” on mortality rates in elderly patients with cardiovascular disease.
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On Monday, June 1, the 2009 Ochsner Science, Technology, Academics, and Research (STAR) Program has accepted 12 new students hailing from parishes across the New Orleans metropolitan area. Keep an eye out for our 12 rising STARs around the Ochsner Main Campus, Elmwood Medical Office Building and Elmwood Fitness Center between June 1 and July 10, 2009!
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The 10th Annual Southern Hospital Medicine Conference, “Advancing Healthcare Delivery: The Role of the Hospitalist,” is being held October 15-17, 2009, with a pre-course being held October 14, at The Roosevelt Hotel in downtown New Orleans. This conference provides practicing physicians, pharmacists, and other healthcare providers with the newest concepts in healthcare delivery in the hospital setting, such as clinical disease management, practice management, quality improvement, pharmacology, medical technology, evidence-based standards of care, and practice guidelines. Learn more!
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Quarterly Research Forums Coming Up
Dr. William W. Pinsky invites you to attend the Quarterly Noon Research Forum scheduled for Tuesday, June 9th, @ Noon in Monroe Hall. Lunch will be served, and the Physicians Dining Room will be closed.
- BEST! Science, presented by Dr. Jawed Alam
- Vitamin D Supplementation in Breast-Fed Children, presented by Dr. Robert Gensure
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Students from The University of Queensland School of Medicine in Brisbane, Australia arrived in New Orleans January 25, 2009 to embark on elective and core clinical rotations at Ochsner Medical Center. Their arrival marks the first group of UQ medical students to complete rotations at Ochsner in the newly developed partnership between The University of Queensland and the Ochsner Medical Center, which offers students a unique, exciting opportunity to be part of a global medical school experience. Learn more!
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Ochsner Academic Community Outreach has been awarded a $36,000 grant from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana to fund the 2009 Science, Technology, Academics, and Research (STAR) summer program for local high school students. This grant will cover the cost of numerous research supplies, classroom supplies, and, most impressively, a brand new Gel Documentation System that will provide technological advancements to the students while they are working in the iLab. This is the second year that Blue Cross Blue Shield has provided funding for the program. Without this partnership, the STAR program would not be able to provide the advanced and extensive programming that it does today. Learn more!
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On March 14, Ochsner hosted 25 Junior Girl Scouts from three different troops as part of its annual Girl Scouts Science Discovery Day, a free program that Ochsner offers in conjunction with Girl Scouts, Louisiana East. The troops hailed from Baton Rouge and Marrero. Learn more!
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Academic Community Outreach was recently awarded a $5,000 grant from Cox Charities for expanding the use of the iLab by middle schools throughout the New Orleans metropolitan area. This grant award is intended to support outreach to at least 10 area middle school classes, in the form of a classroom science experiment to be conducted in the iLab with Dr. Jawed Alam, the Outreach scientific director. Learn more!
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The John Ochsner Heart and Vascular Institute cardiologists are doing their part to help revitalize New Orleans' medical education initiatives as well as drive tourists to the area by supporting the 18th Annual All That Jazz Peripheral Angioplasty Cardiology Conference May 20-22 at the Sheraton Hotel, 500 Canal Street.
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Congratulations to the IRB staff!
Congratulations to the IRB staff on the publication of the article, “Protecting Human Subjects in Disasters: Reflections 3 Years Post Katrina,” in the February 2009 issue of the ACRP Monitor. If you would like to read this article, please request it through the Medical Library and Archives Interlibrary Loan System.
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Basic Science in Clinical Medicine Lecture
The next Basic Science in Clinical Medicine Lecture will be presented by Li Li, MD, PhD, Associate Director, Laboratory of Cellular Immunology, Ochsner Clinic Foundation, on Friday, March 20 at noon in Monroe Hall. Dr. Li will be presenting "Lymphoma Stem Cells." Learn more about Dr. Li and her research.
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Nursing Research Director to Present at AGS Conference
Karen Rice, DNS, APRN, ACNS-BC, ANP, Program Director for Ochsner’s Center for Nursing Research, has been selected as a presenter in the Presidential Poster Session at the 2009 Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Geriatrics Society (AGS). Rice’s presentation is titled “Nurses’ Recognition of Delirium in the Hospitalized Older Adult.”
Only abstracts receiving the highest scores during the peer review process are included in the Presidential Poster Session. Posters in this session will be reviewed by the AGS Research Committee, and one poster award will be given in each of the abstract review categories. Poster award winners will be announced the following morning at the AGS Awards Ceremony.
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Library Receives $20K Technology Award
The Ochsner Medical Library and Archives has received the Library Technology Award for 2009. The funding is for $20,000 and is awarded annually by the National Library of Medicine to assist member libraries that are interested in implementing large-scale technology applications to further library improvement and expand library services.
With this award, the Ochsner Medical Library and Archives will be digitizing a primary collection of historical items such as photographs and documents. This project will provide better search capabilities as well as the preservation of the delicate archival materials.
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2008-2009 Resident Writing Awards
To stimulate research and give experience in medical writing and publishing, the Ochsner Clinic Foundation gives annual awards for excellence in medical writing by residents and fellows at House Staff Graduation. Papers in manuscript form written between April 1, 2008, and March 30, 2009, are eligible for competition and must conform to the rules and instructions found on the Medical Editing website.
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On Wednesday, January 21, Ochsner’s Academics Division received a $5,000 grant to design a biotechnology program geared at middle school students. Learn more!
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Once again this year, Ochsner will be hosting the annual Girl Scouts Science Discovery Day, to be held Saturday, March 14, from 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. That day Ochsner researchers and administrators will host between 35 and 40 Junior Girls Scouts, providing experiment stations that offer innovative ways to learn about science and technology. The girls will conduct fun experiments, interview a female scientist, and explore the iLab. At the end of the day, all of the Junior Girl Scouts will receive their Science Discovery patch. We will need your help this year to facilitate exciting experiments, help the girls with rotations, and make it a fun experience for everyone involved. If you would like to participate, please contact Academic Community Outreach Senior Administrator/Project Coordinator Allison Fischtziur at 504-842-5321.
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The Sixth Annual Ochsner Health System Research Night is scheduled for Tuesday, May 12, 2009, from 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm in the Brent House Atrium. Research Night is always an excellent opportunity for our investigators to present to the Ochsner community their recent studies and findings. We are encouraging clinicians, researchers, residents, fellows, allied health professionals, and nurses throughout the Ochsner Health System to submit their work and to attend the evening’s reception. Continuing education credits are available for physicians, nurses and other health care professionals. Further details about the instructions for submission as well as the event itself may be found on the Research Night website.
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The Science, Technology, Academics, and Research (STAR) Program is an educational summer camp sponsored by the Academics Division of Ochsner Health System. It provides qualified high school students with a unique opportunity to conduct cutting-edge, inquiry-based scientific experiments in the student laboratory, the iLab; acquire hands-on experience with sophisticated medical technologies; learn about the latest advancements in medicine and health care from Ochsner physicians, nurses, and administrators; develop professional and life skills; and participate in other stimulating and informative activities such as stress management exercises, cardiopulmonary resuscitation certification, and debates on current social issues impacted by science and medicine. These and other activities are designed to fulfill STAR’s mission to inspire, educate, and prepare students for the future. The 2009 STAR Program will be held June 1 - July 10, Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
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