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IN THE NEWS:
Women's Health Update - Winter 2008-2009: WHCOE Newsletter
Leading Effectively (CCL’s monthly e-newsletter). The January issue focuses on change. Articles include 4 Responses to Change, and Why You Need to Know Them; Tips for Managing Change; and Be a Change Leader, Not Just a Change Manager.
http://www.ccl.org/leadership/enewsletter/current.aspx?pageId=303
Wharton Leadership Digest, Jan 2009: Features include The Responsibilities of Leadership (Alex Gorsky, Worldwide Chairman, Johnson & Johnson’s Surgical Care Group) and book excerpt from Know What You Don’t Know: How Great Leaders Prevent Problems Before They Happen by Michael Roberto. http://leadership.wharton.upenn.edu/digest/index.shtml
Research project outlines the changes — positive and negative — experienced by faculty members who become administrators. http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/01/23/deans
NIH unveils new system for tracking funds: The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is using a new, computerized process to provide detailed funding information for 215 major categories. The Research, Condition, and Disease Categorization (RCDC) system will allow the public to view the total funds spent in each category for the current and previous fiscal years based on grants, contracts, and intramural research. Links to patents and publications associated with each project also will be available in the coming months. http://report.nih.gov/rcdc
An essay in a recent issue of the St. Louis Post Dispatch discusses problems and possible solutions to America's primary care crisis. The author is Dr. William A. Peck, who is now leading Washington University's Center for Health Policy and is the former head of the Wash. U. School of Medicine. Dr. Peck also is a past chair of the AAMC. http://tinyurl.com/cmjg8b
Academic Medicine editor poses 2009 "question of the year : In his first editorial as editor-in-chief of Academic Medicine last year, Steven Kanter, M.D., promised to use each year's January editorial to challenge the academic medicine community with a broad-based, thought-provoking, discussion-generating question. In this month's issue of the journal, Kanter poses his 2009 Question of the Year: How should academic medicine contribute to peace-building efforts around the world? While there have been, and continue to be, many efforts focused on humanitarian medical aid, the use of health initiatives to promote peace, and scholarly efforts to understand how medical interventions can contribute to peace, the 2009 Question of the Year targets specifically the role that academic medicine can and should play in peace-building. Information: Go to http://www.aamc.org/academicmedicine
Position Announcements from ELAM
Chair, Dept of Medicine – West Penn Allegheny Health System (PA)
Chair, Dept of Pathology – Medical College of GA SOM
Chair, Dept of Psychiatry – Rush Medical College
Chair, Dept of Surgery – West Penn Allegheny Health System (PA
Associate Dean, Clinic Administration and Patient Care – U Minnesota SOD
Associate Dean, Curriculum and Faculty Development – UMDNJ New Jersey Medical School
President and CEO – Federation of State Medical Boards |