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TABLE OF CONTENTSDr. Schenk Appointed to Dean’s Office3 Greetings from the Chair4 New Faculty5 FTA and Voluntary Faculty6 In MemoriamFrank Raiford, MD7 Community at the Heart of FM8 FM Residency10 OEM Residency12 External Funding14 Teaching Awards15 Honors16 Publication Highlights19 Publications21 Interpersonal Violence22 Editorial and Peer Review Activities24 Faculty Development25 Great Lakes Review26 UME27 Behavioral Science28 Presentations31 “People of Detroit” project32 Practice-based Research33 Increasing Influenza Vaccinations34 Cancer Epidemiology35 Student Grant Awards36 UFP - Detroit37 UFP - RO38 WSU Service Awards39 DFM WebsiteMaryjean Schenk, M.D., M.P.H., M.S.Chair of the Department of FamilyMedicine, was appointed interimassociate dean for academic and studentprograms at Wayne State UniversitySchool of Medicine. In this role, Dr.Schenk will be devoting her effortsto providing overall leadership to ourundergraduate medical educationenterprise, with a focus of leadingthe 2006 LCME accreditation process.During this time, Dr. Schenk alsowill continue to serve as chair of theDepartment of Family Medicine.Dr. Schenk joined Wayne StateUniversity in 1991 and became chairof the Department of Family Medicinein 2001. She has been a leader incurriculum development at the Schoolof Medicine.After joining the faculty, Dr. Schenkbegan work on designing andimplementing a National Instituteof Environmental Health Sciencesfundedmedical student curriculumon occupational and environmentalhealth that has since been integratedinto all four years of the medicalschool curriculum. As director ofclinical curriculum development, shewas responsible for the reorganizationof the School’s public health andpreventive medicine course andimplementation of the communityclinic clerkship. She also served asdirector of the highly competitiveUndergraduate Medical Educationfor the 21st Century academic awardfrom the U.S. Department of Healthand Human Services Bureau of HealthProfessions and played an integral rolein the institutional self-study for themedical school’s highly successful 1998LCME accreditation.As an alumna of the School of Medicine,Dr. Schenk holds master’s degrees inhealth planning and administration andindustrial health from the Universityof Michigan. Her research focuses oncancer epidemiology.2 Department of Family Medicine 2004 Annual Report