ROSALIND FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY
OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE
· Chicago Medical School
· College of Health Profession· College of Pharmacy· Dr. William M. Scholl College
· School of Graduate
and Postdoctoral Studies
A National Leader in
Interprofessional Medical
and Healthcare Education
LIFE IN DISCOVERY
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Preliminary construction has begun on the $5 million Interprofessional Education Centger (IPEC), home of the new College of Pharmacy. |
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Michelle Hastings, PhD, is investigating a treatment for SMA, a fatal childhood disease. |
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Kara Etolen, Executive Assistant to the Dean of Scholl College, is the August 2010 Employee of the Month. |
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James Sturino, CMS Department of Medicine, was appointed to the Waukegan PAD/AED Board of Directors. |
Rosalind Franklin University was featured in the 18th Annual Kids 1st Health Fair.
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James Carlson, MS, PA-C, Director of the EEC, received the 2010 PA Foundation Breitman-Dorn Endowed Research Fellowship Award. |
A farewell reception was held on July 28 for Art Ross, MD, MBA, CMS Dean. |
Faculty, staff and students on July 30 celebrated the Annual University Picnic. |
About 1205 children and 500 families were served at the 18th Annual Kids 1st Health Fair. |
Orientation was held the week of August 9 for new students |
The CMS White Coat Ceremony was held on August 13. |
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Announcements and Feature News
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Preliminary construction has now begun on the $5 million, three-story Interprofessional Education Center (IPEC), home to the new College of Pharmacy. Click here to view a five-minute video of the speakers from the July 22 groundbreaking event. Click here to see recent photos.
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The research of Michelle Hastings, PhD, Cell Biology and Anatomy, shows promise for the treatment of SMA, a fatal childhood disease. Click here to learn more about it.
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Kara Etolen, Executive Assistant to the Dean of the Scholl College, has been selected as the August 2010 Employee of the Month. To see her profile, click here.
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James Sturino, Administrative Director of the CMS Department of Medicine, has been appointed to Board of Directors of the Waukegan Public Access Defibrillator (PAD/AED) Initiative. To learn more about it, click here.
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The Lake County Health Department has reported that several mosquito pools have tested positive for the West Nile virus in the area. Click here to see the news release.
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The Washington Post published a news story on the difficulty of attracting physicians to rural areas and the role of the National Health Services Corps. Click here to read it.
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Oxford University announced the Royal Society's 2010 recipient of the Rosalind Franklin Award. For more information, click here.
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Rosalind Franklin University was featured as one of the key sponsors of the 18th Annual Kids 1st Health Fair as reported on August 5 in the Lake County News-Sun and the Daily Herald. Click here to read the News-Sun story. Click here to read the Daily Herald article.
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On August 12, the Orland Park edition of the Trib Local e-newspaper, published a story about Advocate Health Care and its invitation for congressional staffers to experience training with a medical resident. The news story cited Advocate's strong relationship with the Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin University. To read it, click here.
- The Lake County Journal on August 12 reported on the personnel from Great Lakes Navy Training Center who volunteered at the 2010 Kids 1st Health Fair. Rosalind Franklin University was listed as one of the major sponsors. Click here to see the news story.
- Lise Eliot, PhD, Neuroscience, was interviewed about male and female ability differences in Great Britain's Guardian newspaper which was then picked up by online news outlets in India and New Zealand. To see it, click here.
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James Carlson, MS, PA-C, Director of the Education and Evaluation Center, received the 2010 Physician Assistant Foundation's Breitman-Dorn Endowed Research Fellowship Award. He was honored at the 38th Annual American Academy Physician Assistants Conference. Click here to see the presentation photo.
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The abstract of lead author Jeffrey Damaschke, PT, DPT, MS, OCS, Physical Therapy, was selected for the American Physical Therapy Association Abstract Recognition of Excellence. Titled "Correlation Between the Clinical Single Leg Stance Test (SLST) and Three Dimensional (3D) Body Segment Motion Using a 3D Accelerator/Gyroscope: A Pilot Study," it was co-authored by B. Nijafi, C. Fisher, E. Kronenberg, I.Mora and J. Simonson.
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Evangelos Ntrivalas, MD, PhD, HCLD (ABB), Clinical Immunology Laboratory, has successfully passed the American Board of Bioanalysis (ABB) examination and received a certificate of High-Complexity Clinical Laboratory Director HCLD (ABB). In addition, Dr. Ntrivalas also obtained the Clinical Laboratory Leadership and Management Certificate from the American Association of Clinical Chemistry (AACC).
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Mary Ellen Smajo, PhD, DABR, Director of Clinical Education, Medical Radiation Physics, received the Innovations in Medical Physics Education Award at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine. Click here to see the presentation photo.
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Campus Events and Community Outreach
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A farewell celebration in honor of Arthur J. Ross, III, MD, MBA, Vice President of Medical Affairs and CMS Dean, was held on July 28. Dr. Ross was appointed Dean of the University of West Virginia Medical School. To see the event photos taken by Sandra Mesrine, click here. -
On July 29, Rosalind Franklin University hosted the Eighth Annual Clinical Skills Education and Assessment Chicago Style Conference. Barbara Eulenberg and James Carlson were principal coordinators. About 50 participants attended from 12 Chicagoland universities and medical schools, including guests from Kansas and Wisconsin. Click here to see conference photos. -
The Annual University Picnic was held on July 30. Click here to see photos of faculty, staff and students taken by Ryan Miller. -
The 18th Annual Kids 1st Health Fair was held on August 4 at Miguel Juarez Middle School in Waukegan, IL.
Approximately 1205 children and 526 families were served with physical exams, immunizations, nutrition information, physical therapy assessments, footcare assessments and other assistance. The primary sponsors were Rosalind Franklin University, Lake County Health Department and United Way of Lake County.
There were 214 University faculty, staff and students who volunteered about 1,200 hours of service. Click here to see photos of the children and their families. Click here to see a listing of children services provided.
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Orientation for new students was held during the week of August 9. To see photos of some of the events, click here.
- On August 13, the CMS White Coat Ceremony was held for first-year students, families and friends. Click here to see photos from the event taken by Phil Levasseur.
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Martin S. Tallman, MD '80, has been appointed Chief of the Leukemia Service in the Department of Medicine at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Professor of Medicine at the Weill Cornell Medical College. Click here to see the news release.
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We are pleased to announce that the Materials and Resources Sustainability Subcommittee at Rosalind Franklin University is the recipient of a grant from the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO). The focus of this program is on the so-called traditional recyclables including paper, plastics, glass, and metals.
The $51,913 grant from the DCEO focuses on enhancing the University's recycling program by purchasing additional indoor and outdoor recycling receptacles, with an emphasis on the on-campus student housing apartment complex. Each individual student housing apartment has been provided one or two recycling bins which the resident(s) will use to collect their recyclables, thereby diverting them from the solid waste stream. Once a week the residents will conveniently place their recycling bin(s) in the hallway just outside of their apartment entrance for the Facilities Management department to empty. The recyclables collected will be placed in curb-side bins which will be emptied by the University's contracted waste hauler and transferred to a local recycling process center. Additional recycling receptacles of various types will soon be placed throughout the University's main facilities in areas such as the Learning Resource Center, classrooms, study rooms, offices, and entrance ways. In the near term, the University intends that this project will increase the amount of solid waste the University diverts from Illinois landfills by approximately 45 tons (18%), based on recent historical data. This change will bring the University in line with the Solid Waste Agency of Lake County (SWALCO) residential recycling average of 38%. The University's long-term goal is to recycle a minimum of 50% of its traditional solid waste.
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