NEW GRANTS

• Jill Halterman, 2006, received a 4-year, $3.1 million award from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to study medication adjustments for children with asthma, and an environmental tobacco smoke reduction program for children exposed to smoke in the home.
• Valerie King, 2006, is associate director of Oregon Health and Science University's Eisenberg Decision Sciences Center, which is funded by a $4.5 million contract from AHRQ.
• Saul Weiner, 2005, received a VA Merit award for a study entitled "Identifying and Predicting Contextual Errors in Medical Decision Making."
• Steve Woloshin, 2006, and Lisa Schwartz, 2007, received a $394,333 grant from the State of Oregon Attorney General's office, "Helping physicians critically evaluate drug information: A curriculum and method for enhancing sensible decision making during office visits."

RECENTLY PUBLISHED

• Lisa Schwartz AND Steve Woloshin, (with H. Gilbert Welsh published an essay in the January 2nd 2007 New York Times titled, “What’s making us sick is an epidemic of diagnoses.”
• Rosa Solario’s, her research on homeless youth and health insurance was cited by English and Spanish news outlets in December 2006.

RECENTLY MOVED

• Scott Shipman moved to Dartmouth Medical School for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences

PROMOTIONS

• Lauris Kaldjian, 2006, was promoted to associate professor with tenure at University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine. He also was appointed Director of the Program in Biomedical Ethics and Medical Humanities.
• Valerie King, 2006 to Associate Professor at Oregon Health and Science University.
• Erik Lindbloom, 2006, to associate professor with tenure at University of Missouri-Columbia.
• Walt Schalick III, 2006, was named Associate Director for the Study of Ethics and Human Values at Washington University in St. Louis because of his ongoing advocacy for the care of children with disabilities in an interdisciplinary fashion.

AWARDS

• Mary McGrae McDermott has been recommended (2007) for membership in the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI).

NEW ARRIVALS

PREVIOUS ITEMS

• Carlos Jaen, 1999, has been named to the national advisory council of the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). His term of service extends through November 2008.
• Scott Shipman, Class of 2008, has moved to the Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences at Dartmouth Medical School and the Dept. of Pediatrics at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center. You can find updated contact information at Scott's profile: http://www.gpscholar.uthscsa.edu/gpscholar/FacultyScholars/CR/ScholarProfile.asp?R2=193.Poehling KA. Invasive pneumococcal disease among infants before and after introduction of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine. JAMA. 2006;295:1668-1674. Other research findings of Kathy's were among the data that led a CDC panel to vote to immunize all children aged 2-5 years against influenza annually, according to a story in the March issue of Pediatric News. The AAP's Committee on Infectious Disease is expected to endorse the recommendation later this year, the article reported.
• Steven Woloshin, 2006, and Lisa Schwartz, 2007, explained P values to a lay audience in their most recent Washington Post piece published March 14, 2006 in the Health section.
• The March/April issue of Annals Of Family Medicine features an article authored by 6 scholars, past and present: Jean S. Kutner, 2004; John M. Westfall, 2001; Elizabeth H. Morrison, 2004; Mary Catherine Beach, 2007; Elizabeth A. Jacobs, 2007; and former NAC member Roger A. Rosenblatt. Check out the article, "Facilitating Collaboration Among Academic Generalist Disciplines: A Call to Action."
• Saul Weiner, 2005, tapped into a "hot button" issue in Chicago with his article on "Avoiding Free Care at All Costs," published in the Journal of Urban Health. He was interviewed on WBEZ Public Radio and articles appeared in local newspapers.
• Rosa Solorio, 2007, enjoyed media coverage on a paper recently published online with Lillian Gelberg, 1999. Solorio MR, Milburn N, Rotheram-Borus MJ, Higgins C, Gelberg L. Predictors of STD Testing Among Newly Homeless Youth. AIDS and Behavior, online publication Feb. 15, 2006; paper print May 2006. News stories appeared on KCSN Radio, Red Orbit, Medical News Today and News-Medical. Diane McKee, Class of 2005, received a 2-year, $100,000 project from NICHD to develop an intervention to decrease vaginal douching among adolescent and young adult Latinas. She also was funded in Round 2 of RWJF's Prescription for Health Program to test a practice-based intervention to identify children at risk for obesity and provide family-based counseling.
• Diane McKee, Class of 2005, received a 2-year, $100,000 project from NICHD to develop an intervention to decrease vaginal douching among adolescent and young adult Latinas. She also was funded in Round 2 of RWJF’s Prescription for Health Program to test a practice-based intervention to identify children at risk for obesity and provide family-based counseling.
• Rita Mangione-Smith, Class of 2004, has moved to the University of Washington’s Child Health Institute in Seattle
• Michael Weitzman, NAC, became the new chairman of pediatrics at New York University Jan. 1. You can find his new contact information in the online database.
• Jonathan Finkelstein, Class of 2007, was promoted to associate professor at Harvard Medical School.
• David Fiellin, Class of 2005, was promoted to associate professor at Yale University.
• Rose Maly, Class of 2003, has been promoted to associate professor in the Department of Family Medicine at UCLA.
• Amy Heneghan, Class of 2005, has been promoted to associate professor at Case Western Reserve University, where she is associate dean for admissions.
• Kathy Bradley, Class of 2004, has been promoted to associate professor at The University of Washington.
• Susan Dorr Goold, Class of 2003, has been promoted to associate professor at The University of Michigan.
• Carrie Byington, Class of 2002, has been promoted to professor of pediatrics and infectious diseases at The University of Utah School of Medicine.
• Anthony Jerantv, Class of 2004, has been promoted to associate professor at UC-Davis.
• Iris Borowskyv, Class of 2003, has been promoted to associate professor at The University of Minnesota Gateway. Mary Whooley, Class of 2005, will receive the American Psychosomatic Society's Herbert Weiner Early Career Award for Contributions to Psychosomatic Medicine Meeting in Denver, Colorado in March.
• Thomas M. Gill, Class of 2001, received a MERIT Award from the National Institutes of Health. It will provide up to 10 additional years of support for his ongoing longitudinal study, "Epidemiology of Disability and Recovery in Older Persons", which has led to over 20 published reports.
• Erik Lindbloom, Class of 2006, received The University of Missouri-Columbia’s Distinguished Research Award. He delivers the keynote address for Missouri's Research Day Nov. 10.
• Tom Boat, NAC, received The University of Cincinnati’s College of Medicine’s highest honor, the Daniel Drake Medal for outstanding or unique contributions to medical education, scholarship or research.
• Malathi Srinivasan, Class of 2008, was elected 2006 President of the California Society of General Internal Medicine. She was selected as co-editor for the SGIM Forum.
• Gehi A, Haas D, Pipkin S, Whooley MA. Depression and medication adherence in outpatients with coronary heart disease: Findings from the Heart and Soul Study. Arch Int Med 2005;165:2508-2513.
• Otte C, Neylan TC, Pipkin SS, Browner WS, Whooley MA. Depressive symptoms and 24-hour Urinary Norepinephrine Excretion in Patients with Coronary Disease: Findings from The Heart and Soul Study. Am J Psychiatry 2005;162:2139-2145.
• Diane Rittenhouse and Charles Sakai are enjoying their baby girl Katherine Reece Sakai born December 13, 2005. She weighed in at 7 lbs. 7 oz.
• Benjamin Levi received the Hinkle Award, given to the physician-research judged to have demonstrated outstanding achievement in research and academic activity at the Penn State University.
• M. Diane McKee just became the first family physician to be promoted to Associate Professor on the unmodified (research) track at Albert Einstein Medical School.
• Laura Petersen was promoted to Associate Director and Chief of the Division of Health Policy and Quality within the Houston Center for Quality of Care and Utilization Studies.
• Lee Sanders and former scholars Tom Robinson and Jeffrey Brosco, et al. “From bedside to neighborhood: a bridge for evidence-based community pediatrics.” Pediatrics, 2005;115: 1142-1147.
• Maria Trent, et al. “Pelvic Inflammatory Disease in Adolescents: Care Delivery in Pediatric Ambulatory Settings.” Pediatric Emergency Care, 2005, 21 (7).
• Jill Halterman et al. “A Randomized Trial of Provider Prompting to Enhance Preventive Asthma Therapy.” Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med, 2005;159:422-427.
• Bruce Barrett, et al. “Sufficiently important difference: Expanding the framework of clinical significance. Medical Decision Making, 25(2):1-11;2005.
• Bruce Barrett, et al. “Using benefit harm trade-offs to estimate sufficiently important difference: The case of the common cold.” Medical Decision Making 25(1):47-55, 2005.
• Bruce Barrett, et al. “The Wisconsin Upper Respiratory Symptom Survey is responsive, reliable, and valid.” Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 58(6):609-617, 2005.
• Elizabeth Morrison, Class of 2004, et al. “Resident physicians’ understanding of their roles as clinical teachers.” Med Educ. 2005;39:137-144.
• Elizabeth Morrison, et al. “The on-line Clinical Teaching Perception Inventory®: a ‘snapshot’ of medical teachers.” Fam Med. 2005;37:48-53.
• Melanie Gold, Class of 2002, et al. “Changes in Young Women’s Awareness, Attitudes, and Perceived Barriers to Using Emergency Contraception. Journal of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology, 2005;18(1):25-32.
• Melanie Gold, Class of 2002, et al. “Body piercing practices and attitudes among urban adolescents.” Journal of Adolescent Health, 2005;36(4):352-353.
• Laura Petersen received a $1.4 million grant from VHA Health Services Research and Development for “RCT of Financial Incentives to Translate ALLHAT into Practice.”
• Jean Kutner, Class of 2004, received an R21-funded feasibility study on the use of health information technology to facilitate communication between patient, family caregiver and hospice nurse, with the overall goal of decreasing symptom distress and improving quality of life.
• Kevin Oeffinger, Class of 2003, has moved to Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Department of Pediatrics, 1275 York Avenue, Howard #1109, New York, NY 10021, 212-639-8469, oeffingk@mskcc.org
• Sean David was promoted to Research Director in the Department of Family Medicine at Brown University.
• Tom Nesbitt, Class of 1997, has just been appointed as the Executive Associate Dean of the School of Medicine at UC-Davis.
• Chien-Wen Tseng is enjoying her new son, who entered the world April 25, weighing 8 pounds, 8 ounces. She reports they are doing great, and he's "a really easy baby."
• Karen De Salvo received an endowed chair, the C. Thorpe Ray Chair in Internal Medicine in May. She likened the investiture to "attending your own funeral, but you get to enjoy it, and continue life afterwards." She also shone as program chair for SGIM's Annual Meeting in New Orleans.
• More kudos from the SGIM meeting: Alumnus Carol Mangione won a Mid-Career Research Mentorship Award. Alumni Mary McDermott was treasurer and Jas Ahluwhalia was elected to the SGIM Council. Katrina Armstrong, who served as president of the Mid-Atlantic Region, chaired the Prevention Scientific Abstract Review Committee, while Som Saha chaired the Workshop Review Committee on Health Disparities. Alumnus David Meltzer presented at the plenary a study showing that in a randomized, 6 academic centers study, hospitalist run medical services had similar length of stay, satisfaction, and clinical outcomes as non-hospitalist attending physicians despite having more "case experience." Alumnus Nananda Col chaired the committee that organizing that session.
• At the Pediatric Academic Society meetings, Michael Weitzman reports that alumnus Elena Fuentes-Affleck chaired a session, Jill Halterman and Shari Barkin were highly visible, as were Jim Sargent and Glenn Flores. Evan Charney was sighted wearing a tee shirt in the audience at the plenary session. Glenn Flores also recently participated in an ethics symposium at Yale, and Scott Shipman was representing the AAP in collaboration with the Robert Graham Center of the AAFP in Washington, DC on a study of the primary care workforce for children.
• Jean Kutner has been officially named the "permanent" GIM Division Head at the University Colorado Health Sciences Center, after having been "acting" the role for the past 2 years and 8 months.
• Bob Ferrer. "The Family Contribution to Health Status: A Population Level Estimate." Annals of Family Medicine (2005;3:102-108). The paper receive d a brief mention in Newsweek's recent cover story on families and health.
• Scholars and mentors from the Generalist Physician Faculty Scholars Program published a supplement, The Future of Generalism in Medicine, April 19, 2005 in the Annals of Internal Medicine. Titles and authors of the individual articles are below.
• Processes for Effective Communication in Primary Care
  Saul J. Weiner, Beth Barnet, Tina L. Cheng, Timothy P. Daaleman
  
  
• Coordinating Care across Diseases, Settings, and Clinicians: A Key Role for the Generalist in Practice
  Christopher J. Stille, Anthony Jerant, Douglas Bell, David Meltzer, Joann G. Elmore
  
  
• The Essential Role of Generalists in Health Care Systems
  Robert L. Ferrer, Simon Hambidge, Rose Maly
  
  
• Rekindling Student Interest in Generalist Careers
  Mark D. Schwartz, William T. Basco, Jr., Michael R. Grey, Joann G. Elmore, Arthur Rubenstein
  
  
• Editorial: The Future of Generalism in Medicine
  Eric B. Larson, Kevin Grumbach, Kenneth B. Roberts.
  
  
• Steve Woloshin and Lisa Schwartz published an op-ed article in the Boston Globe about the RWJ drug box project. You can read it at: http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2005/04/20/whats_needed_on_prescription_labels/
• David Fiellin. An Evidence-Based Guide to Writing Grant Proposals for Clinical Research, Ann Intern Med. 2005;142:274-282.
• Alumnus Richard Saitz. "Unhealthy Alcohol Use," N Engl J Med 2005;352:596-607.
• M. Diane McKee is principal investigator on two new grants--one of 9 funded networks in RWJF's Presciption for Health program, and a 2-year, $100,000 R03 from the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development using mixed methods to develop an intervention to decrease vaginal douching among adolescent and young adult Latinas.
• Bob Ferrer was another recipient of a new RWJF Prescription for Health grant for 2005-07.
• Alumnus Carrie Byington just received NIH funding for 2 projects directly related to her RWJ project. She is principal investigator on a 5-year $625,591 Mid Career Investigator Award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, "Decision Support for Evaluation of the Febrile Infant." She is co-investigator on a 4-year $4M grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, "PCR Identification of Respiratory Viruses including SARS."
• Rosa Solorio is a co-PI on new 5-year National Institutes of Mental Health Grant #R01, "Diverting Newly Homeless Youth From Chronic Homelessness and HIV."
• Alumnus Steve Rothemich received a two-year grant from AHRQ to fund project "QuitLink: A leverage solution to tobacco counseling."
• Maria Trent is back from maternity leave after giving birth to Safi Trent Hampton, born three days after Christmas. Safi weighed in at 8lbs. 5.9 oz. and measured 20 inches.
• Alumnus Patrick Vivier was promoted to Associate Professor of Community Health and Pediatrics at Brown University's School of Medicine.
• Simon Hambidge. Hambidge SJ, Davidson AJ, Phibbs SL, Chandramouli V, Zerbe G, LeBaron CW, Steiner JF. Strategies to improve immunization rates and well child care in a disadvantaged population: a cluster randomized controlled trial. Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine 2004;158:162-169.
  Simon TD, Bublitz C, Hambidge SJ. External Causes of Pediatric Injury-Related Emergency Department Visits in the United States. Academic Emergency Medicine 2004;11/10:1042-1048.
• Christopher Stille. Stille CJ, Antonelli RC. Coordination of care for children with special health care needs. Curr Opin Pediatr. 2004 Dec;16(6):700-5.
• Christopher Stille, Jonathan Finkelstein. Stille CJ, Andrade SE, Huang SS, Nordin J, Raebel MA, Go AS, Chan KA, Finkelstein JA. Increased use of second-generation macrolide antibiotics for children in nine health plans in the United States. Pediatrics. 2004 Nov;114(5):1206-11.
• Simon Hambidge has been promoted to Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine
• Laura Petersen has received the American Heart Association's (AHA) National Established Investigator Award. She will use the $500,000 grant to evaluate the effectiveness of financial incentives to improve the translation of best evidence into best preventive care for patients with cardiovascular disease.
• Jane Liebschutz and husband, Roger, welcomed the third (and last, says Jane!) child to their family Jan. 12. At birth, Maya Lynn Zimmerman measured 7 lbs. 3 oz., 19 in. Jane reports everyone is doing well.
• Elizabeth Jacobs and her husband Paul welcomed daughter, Johanna Louise Rathouz, arrived on 7/28/04 at 9:23 pm a week past her due date. She weighed 8 lbs 3oz and was 20 inches long.
• Congratulations to Malathi Srinivasan, who "honeymooned" on the Riviera after her wedding Aug. 22 in Chicago.
• Best wishes to Iris Litt, on her marriage July 24 to Dale C. Garell, M.D.
• Robert Ferrer. "Variations in Health Status Within and Between Socioeconomic Strata." Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 2004 58:381-387.
• Glenn Flores. "Why culture and language matter: the clinical consequences of providing culturally and linguistically appropriate services to children in the emergency department. Clinical Pediatric Emergency Medicine 2004;5:76-84.
• Mary Catherine Beach. Evidence report for AHRQ, "Strategies for Improving Minority Healthcare Quality." No.90 AHRQ Publication No. 04-E008-02. January 2004.
• Maria Britto. Article in Clinical Pediatrics, "Are outpatient settings adolescent friendly? An exploration of attitudes and preferences." 2004; 43:55-61.
• Melanie Gold. Article entitled "The Effects of Advance Provision of Emergency Contraception on Adolescent Women's Sexual and Contraceptive Behaviors," Journal of Pediatrics and Adolescent Gynecology, 17:87-96, 2004.
• Beatrice Golomb. Two articles about the side effects of statin drugs: Quarterly Journal of Medicine, 97:229-235, 2004; and Geriatric Times, 5(3):18-20, May/June 2004.
• Jill Halterman. Article in Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine in May 2004, "Benefits of a School-Based Asthma Treatment program in the Absence of Secondhand Smoke Exposure: Results of a Randomized Clinical Trial."
• Amy Heneghan. Article "Will mothers discuss parenting stress and depressive symptoms with their child's pediatrician?" Pediatrics 2004; 113: 460-467. Paper also received extensive media coverage.
• Erik Lindbloom published an on practice-based research networks in Medical Care 2004, 42(Suppl:III45-9).
• Rita Mangione-Smith. Article entitled "Racial/Ethnic Variation in Parent Expectations for Antibiotics: Implications for Public Health Campaigns." Pediatrics, 113(5): e385-e394, 2004.
• Lauris Kaldjian's article "An empirically derived taxonomy of factors affecting physicians' willingness to disclose medical errors" appeared in JGIM, Volume 19 (S1):177, 2004.
• Kudos to Kim Griswold, who received tenure from SUNY-Buffalo where she is associate professor.
• Michael Shlipak was promoted to Associate Professor at University of California, San Francisco.
• Mary Whooley has been promoted to Associate Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology and Biostatistics at UC, San Francisco.
• Craig Garfield has been promoted to Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Northwestern University.
• Class of 2003 scholar John Wiecha's RWJF project won the 2004 Medical Library Association Research Award. Wiecha and his colleagues were honored for "The Impact of Online Training on Information-Retrieval Skills and Clinical Decision-Making in a Family Medicine Clerkship" at the MLA's annual meeting in Washing ton, DC in May.
• Glenn Flores has been selected as a member of the Institute of Medicine Planning Committee on American Medical Schools and Physician Supply.
• Jane Liebschutz received the Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award from Boston University School of Medicine.
• Elizabeth Morrison received an Excellence in Teaching award from UC, Irvine, as well as their Office of Educational Affairs' Most Valuable Player Outstanding Service award. Elizabeth's RWJF research paper won Outstanding Oral Presentation of AAMC Western Group on Educational Affairs.
• Jane Liebschutz received a 5 year career development award from NIDA (NIH) to study Co-occurring Chronic Pain, PTSD and Substance Abuse in Primary Care.
• Michael Shlipak is PI of a new 5 yearRO1 from the NIDDK. The multi-center study ($2.5 million in direct costs distributed among the 7 participating clinical sites) is entitled "Heart failure detection and progression in renal disease."
• Benjamin Levi received grants from the Children's Miracle Network and the Ambulatory Pediatric Association to develop and test a CD-ROM based tutorial for pediatric residents addressing parents' concerns about childhood immunizations.
• Lisa Schwartz and Steve Woloshin are joint PIs on a new $1.2 million RO1 from the NCI, Iimproving the quality of news reporting on medicine."
• Elizabeth Morrison received a $640,000 grant from the HRSA.
• Maria Silveira begins a VA Career Development Award Oct. 1. She also received a $22,000 award from the Munn Foundation to conduct a small pilot study to explore disparities in access to hospice.
• Tony Jerant has been promoted to Associate Professor of Family and Community Medicine at the University of California-Davis School of Medicine.
• Check out Saul Weiner's article about factoring information related to patient context into the process of medical decision making in the March issue of the Journal of General Internal Medicine. J Gen Intern Med 2004;19:281-285.
• Four current or former scholars have articles in the February issue of Annals of Family Medicine. To see the work of Tony Jerant, Mike Fetters, Kevin Oeffinger, Mark Yeazal, Tim Daaleman and NAC member Larry Green, visit the journal's website, http://www.annfammed.org/current.shtml. Tony shared his reference information with us: Jerant AF, Azari RS, Nesbitt TS, Meyers, FJ. The TLC Model of Palliative Care in the Elderly: Preliminary Application in the Assisted Living Setting. Annals of Family Medicine 2004;2:54-60.
• Congratulations to Mary Ann Limbos, who gave birth to Davis Andrew Robinson on December 18, 2003, at 3:25 am. At 6 lbs 13 ounces, Mary says "Davis is an absolute joy and the best present we could ask for!"
• Therese Zink edited a special edition of the Sage Publication Violence Against Women on older women and domestic violence. Read her introduction and an article in Vol. 9, No. 12, Dec. 2003.
• Jane Liebschutz gave birth to Abigail Jaye Zimmerman October 2
• Kathy Poehling gave birth to Robert Lincoln Peters October 3
• Marshall Chin has a paper scheduled for press in the January 2004 issue of Diabetes Care.
• Carrie Byington published an article on "Serious bacterial infection in Febrile Infants Younger than 90 Days of Age: The Importance of Ampicillin-Resistant Pathogens." Pediatrics. 2003. 111:964-968.
• Tom Robinson has been promoted to associate professor of pediatrics and medicine with tenure at Stanford University. Results of Tom's study on dance and reducing television viewing to prevent weight gain in African-American girls were published recently in a peer-reviewed special issue of Ethnicity and Disease.
• Bill Basco has published two articles about rural medical school applicants.
  1. Selection for Medical School: The Desirability of Rural Applicants as Primary Care Providers. Journal of the South Carolina Medical Association 2003;99:4e-7e.
  2. The effect of undergraduate GPA selectivity adjustment on the pre-interview ranking of rural medical school applicants. The Journal of Rural Health 2003;19:101-4.
• Bruce Barrett and colleagues at the University of Wisconsin - Madison have been awarded a 4 year grant,"Placebo: Physician or Pill? A randomized trial in a common cold model," from the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine. The clinical trial will test echinacea, placebo and physician effects on the severity and duration of the common cold.
• Eric Thomas and others developed a Safety Climate Survey that The Institute for Healthcare Improvement now encourages hospitals to use. The Institute has posted the survey on the following website and reportedly, the survey has been downloaded over 2,000 times. Click here for the survey