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Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center of West Virginia University | NEWS WVU School of Medicine Names New Dean Arthur J. Ross III, M.D., M.B.A., dean of Chicago Medical School and vice president for medical affairs of Rosalind Franklin University, was named dean Dr. Ross of the West Virginia University School of Medicine June 4. He officially began his work at WVU on Aug. 16. A respected researcher and award-winning teacher, Dr. Ross, 61, was selected by WVU Chancellor Christopher Colenda, M.D., M.P.H., following a national search. “Dr. Ross is an outstanding individual and we are very fortunate to have him lead the School of Medicine,” Chancellor Colenda said. “Dr. Ross has a distinguished track record as a pediatric surgeon and as an academic leader in Chicago. He brings vision, energy and considerable talent to this important position.” Ross is board certified in both general surgery and pediatric surgery. He graduated with honors from Trinity College in Hartford, Conn., earned his medical degree at Case Western Reserve University and did his residency at Duke University Medical Center. “I am greatly honored by this appointment. WVU is one of the nation’s finest medical schools, and I look forward to serving the students, faculty and staff as their dean,” Ross said. “I have every confidence that we can work together to make the school even greater and to enhance the way our Health Sciences Center meets our mission of education, research, patient care and outreach in the land-grant tradition.” Ross has been dean at the Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin University since 2004. In 2005 he was also named vice president for medical affairs there. He has also practiced and served as a faculty physician at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia - University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine; and at Gundersen Lutheran Health System, the western clinical campus of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. While at Penn, Ross received the Teaching Excellence Award. Upon his departure from Wisconsin, the Health System named its new distance learning facility the “Ross Distance Education Center” in his honor. In 2007 the Chicago Medical School Alumni Association awarded him its Outstanding Service Award. Ross is only the ninth person to hold the title of dean of the WVU School of Medicine since 1912. He is the first among the school’s deans to have served in that post at another medical school. He is also the first new medical dean since 1983 not drawn from among the university’s faculty. WVU Healthcare Featured on ABC News Doctors, nurses and patients of WVU Healthcare appeared in ABC News’ four-part series called “Secrets of Your Mind: Why We Do What We Do,” which premiered Aug. 19. Beginning in March, crews from the network videotaped in clinics, surgery and patient rooms, and visited homes of patients and physicians to tell the stories of how medicine, science and technology are working to solve the mysteries of the brain. WVU Children’s Hospital Unveils New Critical Care Ambulance Anchored by Nightline’s Martin Bashir and Terry Moran, the stories revolved around WVU’s efforts to treat epilepsy, obesity, head trauma, brain tumors, stroke and more. Critically ill and injured children from all over the state and region are regularly transported to West Virginia University Children’s Hospital. Now, thanks to a partnership with Jan-Care Ambulance, they will arrive in a stateof-the-art critical care ambulance. “Essentially, it’s a critical care unit on wheels,” Cheryl Jones, R.N., director of WVU Children’s Hospital, said. “It is equipped to do exactly what an ICU can do.” Inside the ambulance is everything you would find inside the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) or Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) at WVU Children’s Hospital from medications to equipment. The ambulance is spacious enough to transport children from birth through adolescence and is certified as a critical care transport unit through the West Virginia Office of Emergency Medical Services. 38 West Virginia Medical Journal
Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine | NEWS Med School No. 16 Nationally in “Social Mission” Outcomes A national study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine ranks Marshall University’s medical school among the top 20 in the United States in fulfilling medical schools’ fundamental mission: training physicians to care for the nation’s population as a whole. The George Washington University study breaks new ground by providing what the journal’s news release called “a real-time and real-place report” on doctors who graduated between 1999 and 2001: what their backgrounds are, where they work, and what kind of medicine they practice. Led by Dr. Fitzhugh Mullan, the researchers then calculated a “social mission score” for each medical school based on the percentage of graduates who practice primary care, who work in health professional shortage areas, or who are underrepresented minorities (since this group historically provides a disproportionate amount of health care to minority and underserved populations). Marshall’s Dr. John Walden said the study offers a longoverdue look at how medical education performs in creating a physician workforce that effectively reaches the population to provide treatment and preventive care. “It seems about time someone looked at these kinds of things,” said Dr. Walden, an associate dean and chairman of the Department of Family and Dr. John Walden Community Health. “The study is a positive take on rethinking, in part, priorities in medical education, and recognizing that improving the nation’s health is not necessarily so much about developing a new drug as about actually getting treatment to people.” He was matter-of-fact about Marshall’s No. 16 rank. “Given where we are and the mission of our school, focusing on these delivery issues is second nature, not something we’ve had to be taught,” he said. “We’ve done this all along without even knowing we were doing it.” The researchers noted that the study results differ greatly from rankings based on indirect factors such as research funding and reputation surveys. “We have essentially inverted the U.S. News and World Report rankings, for those of you that follow them,” Dr. Mullan told an audience at Dartmouth College in April, noting that those rankings are based heavily on research and reputation, rather than outcomes. Dean Charles H. McKown Jr., M.D., said the school’s distinction is especially valued since it results from unsolicited analytical and Dr. Charles McKown objective analysis. “Dr. Mullan is one of the nation’s most experienced, insightful, authoritative physicians, and his expertise in this particular field is essentially unchallenged,” he said. “Providing well-trained and highly skilled primary care physicians to practice in West Virginia remains the solid foundation of our mission. We are very proud of our results, and also pleased with our contribution – with the state’s other two medical schools – toward making primary care accessible to people across West Virginia.” Neurophysiology Lab Accredited Cabell Huntington Hospital’s Neurophysiology Lab recently was granted fiveyear national accreditation by the American Board Dr. Mark Stecker of Registration of Electroencephalographic and Evoked Potential Technologists (ABRET). Only one other neuroscience lab in West Virginia is ABRET-accredited. “This is a measure of our commitment to provide excellent neuroscience care for our patients, including EEGs, EMGs and epilepsy monitoring,” said Mark Stecker, MD, PhD, director of Marshall’s epilepsy program and the hospital’s neurophysiology lab. Under Stecker’s guidance, Cabell Huntington developed the region’s first center staffed by specialists in epilepsy, and the program has shown rapid growth in the past year. Stecker is a past president of the American Society of Neurophysiologic Monitoring and has served on the American Board of Neurophysiologic Monitoring. He is founding chair of both the American Board for the Accreditation of Neurophysiologic Monitoring Programs and the Neurophysiology Research and Education Consortium. September/October, 2010, Vol. 106 39
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