News & Events

For 2008

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April 21, 2008: Family Medicine residency informational meeting for M-3 students - Family Medicine’s educational development team hosted meeting to provide information about the match process and residency selection with opportunities to talk to faculty and residents. Faculty and residents attendance encouraged. Location and time: University Hospital Dining Room A/B from 6:00 - 8:00 pm; food and beverages available.

April 12, 2008:  Huron River Clean-Up Day - Family Medicine residents recruit other residents to volunteer for Huron River Clean-Up Day.  If interested, contact House Officer Andrew M. LaFleur, MD, at alafleu@umich.edu.

March 28, 2008:  Announcement - Two new department chief residents chosen, Hobart H. Lee, MD and Laura M. Distel, MD, to begin in May 2008.

March 23, 2008:  ClinfoTracker™ now named Cielo Clinic™ - Professor Lee Green, MD, MPH, announces name change and upgrade for the “Clinfotracker” universal registry and reminder system software applied by Department of Family Medicine physicians, begun in early 2004.  This program is known for its “improvement in the quality of care for chronic diseases and preventive services” within the department and has been acquired by “hundreds of primary care physicians” according to Green.  

March 20, 2008: Assistant professor James M. Cooke, MD, announces Match Day results of medical students who have now been accepted to the Department of Family Medicine’s residency program as follows (they are to arrive on June 16th). For the match list see the Residency homepage.

March 15, 2008:  Assistant professor James M. Cook, MD, writes on the use of simulation as a teaching method for residents entitled: Simulation enhances resident confidence in critical care and procedural skills.” Fam Med 40(3):165-7, 2008.  Co-authors are Larsen J, Hamstra SJ and Andreatta PB.

February 27, 2008:  Professor Mack T. Ruffin, MD, MPH co-authors article entitled “Plasma Glycoprotein Profiling for Colorectal Cancer Biomarker Identification by Lectin Glycoarray and Lectin Blot” in J Proteome Res.  Other Authors are Qiu Y, Patwa TH, Xu L, Shedden K, Misek DE, Tuck M, Jin G, Ruffin MT, Turgeon DK, Synal S, Bresalier R, Marcon N, Brenner DE, Lubman DM.

February 27, 2008: Dr. James Aikens’ research on changes in depressive symptoms and secondary outcomes, especially hopefulness is highlighted on Web MD and the UM-Gateway For the original article see: Aikens JE, Kroenke K, Nease DE Jr, Klinkman MS, Sen A. “Trajectories of improvement for six depression-related outcomes.” Gen Hosp Psychiatry. 2008 Jan-Feb;30(1):26-31.

February 26, 2008: Professor Lee Green, MD, MPH, et al write guidelines for Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation.  The article is titled “ACC/AHA/Physician Consortium 2008 Clinical Performance Measures for Adults with Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation or Atrial Flutter: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Performance Measures and the Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement (Writing Committee to Develop Clinical Performance Measures for Atrial Fibrillation)”.  Co-authors are Estes NA 3rd, Halperin JL, Calkins H, Ezekowitz MD, Gitman P, Go AS, McNamara RL, Messer JV, Ritchie JL, Romeo SJ, Waldo AL, Wyse DG, Bonow RO, DeLong E, Goff DC Jr, Grady K, Hiniker A, Linderbaum JA, Masoudi FA, Piña IL, Pressler S, Radford MJ, Rumsfeld JS; American College of Cardiology; American Heart Association Task Force on Performance Measures; Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement.  J Am Coll Cardiol 51(8):865-84, 2008.

February 8, 2008: 86 people attended the family medicine Mid-Winter Update conference in Boyne Highlands,

February 8, 2008: Professor and Assistant Chair of Research Mack Ruffin IV, MD, MPH, will present “Top Five Medical Articles Relevant to Primary Care in 2007” during the Mid-Winter Update, Boyne Highlands, Harbor Springs, Michigan.

February 6, 2008: Professor and Assistant Chair of Research Mack Ruffin IV, MD, MPH, will present “Old and New Agents for Smoking Cessation” during the Mid-Winter Update, Boyne Highlands, Harbor Springs, Michigan.

February 4-8, 2008: Mid-Winter Update, Boyne Highlands, Michigan. There is still time to sign up for this faculty retreat. Contact Professor and Assistant Chair of Research Mack Ruffin IV, MD, MPH, at (734) 998-7120, ext. 310.

February 1, 2008: Two residents in Family Medicine will be starting their Sports Medicine Fellowships this July 2008: Susan Bettcher, MD, at Ohio State University and Tanika Pinn, MD, at the University of Tennessee – Knoxville.

January 24, 2008: Washington Post article - Title: Putting on Pedometer Helps Walkers Shed Pounds” by assistant professor Caroline R. Richardson, M.D., http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/24/AR2008012402128.html
For complete article see: Richardson CR, Newton TL, Abraham JJ, Sen A, Jimbo M, Swartz AM.  A meta-analysis of pedometer-based walking interventions and weight loss. Ann Fam Med Jan-Feb;6(1):69-77, 2008.

January 16, 2008: Jennifer Weibel, DO, began the Family Medicine Sports Medicine Fellowship. She arrives from the Chicago Osteopathic Medicine program (Medical School) and the Appleton Medical Center (Residency).

January 15, 2008: Lee Green, MD, MPH, announces that Timothy D. Morris has been promoted to IT Manager for the department; in addition he is now an "Application System Analyst / Programmer Senior" and serves on the MCIT-CSM-CAP-Client Server" team.

January 15, 2008: Clinical lecturer David Serlin, MD, announces recruitment for resident and faculty physicians to staff Family Medicine’s outreach clinic in Quito, Ecuador for 1-2 week sessions mid-June to mid-July 2008. Check the website at www.thequitoproject.org for details or email Dave at dserlin@med.umich.edu.

January 14, 2008:  Assistant professor Dr. Caroline D. Richardson’s article entitled “A Meta-Analysis of Pedometer-Based walking Interventions and Weight Loss” to be published in January/February 2008 issue of Annals of Family Medicine.  Richardson, MD, et al learned that a meta-analysis of the results of nine studies where participants used a pedometer to track their number of walking steps, moderate weight loss occurred in overweight or obese, sedentary people without any dietary change.  Results also pointed to the finding that with greater duration of time spent in some of the studies, an even greater amount of weight loss occurred.

January 14, 2008: Chelsea assistant residency director, Tara Master-Hunter, MD, announces that clinical assistant professor Dr. Randall Forsch, MD, MPH, is to accept the role as new Chelsea Family Medicine Service Chief.

January 4, 2008: “ACC/AHA Primary Prevention of CVD Performance Measures”, for which Professor Lee Green, MD, MPH, is to become lead reviewer. He also has responsibility to ensure that the chair of the writing committee has considered and responded to all of the official peer reviewers’ comments.

January 1, 2008:  Eric Skye, MD, is elected to the position of Chief of Staff for Chelsea Hospital in Chelsea, Michigan.

January, 2008: Book chapter entitled “Organizing Preventive Healthcare in Men”, written by Assistant Professor Masahito Jimbo, MD, PhD, MPH, has been published (in) Clinical Men’s Health: Evidence in Practice, (ed) Heidelbaugh J, Philadelphia: Elsevier Science, 2008: 3-12. The chapter seeks to identify the special challenges in providing preventative care in men and the steps to overcome them.

January, 2008: Book chapter entitled “Nephrology” written by Assistant Professor Masahito Jimbo MD, PhD, MPH, has been published (in) Clinical Men’s Health: Evidence in Practice, (ed) Heidelbaugh J, Philadelphia: Elsevier Science, 2008: 207-219. The chapter aims to address the important issue of chronic kidney disease and how it affects men.

January, 2008: Joy C. Williams, MD, and Clinical Lecturer, announces publication of article written by herself and four other authors, entitled “Developing a Novel Poverty in Healthcare Curriculum for Medical Students at the University of Michigan Medical School”. Other authors are: Doran, Kelly M. MD; Kirley, Katherine MD; Barnosky, Andrew R. DO, MPH, and Cheng, Jason E. Source citation: Academic Medicine. 83(1):5-13. For more information, see the following abstract.

January, 2008:  Tarannum Master-Hunter, MD and Leslie Wimsatt, PhD have been awarded a $10,000 CRLT Faculty Development Fund Grant entitled “Revitalizing an Orthopedics/Sports Medicine Residency Rotation”.  Tara is the Project Director and Leslie will provide curriculum development support.  Together they will work on the restructuring of the orthopedics/sports medicine curriculum for the residents at the UM. 

January, 2008:  Associate Professor James E. Aikens, PhD, has written an article that has been published by the journal General Hospital Psychiatry entitled “Trajectories of improvement for six depression-related outcomes.” This article challenges assumptions about the nature and process of improvement in secondary outcomes for unipolar depression.  His colleagues within Family Medicine have collaborated as well.  These are:  Donald E. Nease Jr., MD, Michael S. Klinkman, MD, MS and Ananda Sen, PhD.

January, 2008 issue: ”Asking the Right Questions.” The Journal of Family Practice, an editorial written by Lee A. Green, MD, MPH, Professor. http://www.jfponline.com/CurrentIssue.asp