Volume 2, Issue 45 – July 11, 2014 Updates from the Chair Patricia W. Finn, MD - Department Chair George T. Kondos, MD ([email protected]) – Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs Fred Zar, MD ([email protected]) – Vice Chair for Education Jose A.L. Arruda, MD ([email protected]) – Vice Chair for Faculty Affairs Chet Szerlag, MBA, FACHE ([email protected]) – Vice Chair for Finance Marian L. Fitzgibbon, PhD ([email protected]) – Vice Chair for Scholarly Activities Max Brito, MD, MPH ([email protected]) – Vice Chair for Urban Global Health News from the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology The Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology held the annual Stephen L. Winter Lecture on June 18, 2014. Dr. Winter was a highly respected physician and faculty member in the Division until his untimely death in 1983. His loss was felt profoundly by his patients, students and colleagues. Through generous contributions from the Winter family, a lectureship and the Winter Library were created in his honor to commemorate his dedication to academic medicine. Over thirty people were in attendance to hear Dr. Jorge Marrero speak on the topic of Early Detection and Diagnosis of Hepatocellular Carcinoma. Dr. Marrero is Professor of Medicine, Chief of Clinical Hepatology and Medical Director of the Liver Transplant Program at UT Southwestern Medical Center. He received his Gastroenterology training here at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he discovered his interest in liver disease and liver transplantation. It was a pleasure to welcome Dr. Marrero back to UIC! Pictured (Left): Dr. Marrero and UIC Gastroenterology and Hepatology Fellows Back Row: Jorge Marrero, MD, Cemal Yazici, MD, Jonathan Gaspar, MD, Brett Sleesman, DO, Ben Bryant, MD, Praveen Mettu, MD Front Row: Priti Marwaha, MD, Elise Malecki, MD, Shilpa Ravella, MD, Miguel Malespin, MD, Jorge Guzman, MD, Rupa Sharma, MD Pictured (Right): Barbara Jung, MD, Enrico Benedetti, MD, Jorge Marrero, MD, Carolyn Winter, Patricia W. Finn, MD ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Chancellor’s Discovery Fund for Multidisciplinary Research The University of Illinois at Chicago Chancellor, Dr. Paula Allen-Meares, has announced the Fiscal Year 2014 recipients of the Chancellor’s Discovery Fund for Multidisciplinary Research. The focus of the fund is to “facilitate new or emerging multidisciplinary collaborations, nurture research career trajectories of promising early-stage investigators, and create and leverage pilot data into extramural funding.” The grant support will be for June 2014 thru Mary 2016. There were 57 applicant teams and 5 winning teams. The Department of Medicine was represented in the list of winning teams. Dr. Marcello Bonini, assistant professor of medicine in the division of cardiology, is a PI on the project titled: Chronic inflammation-induced unproductive angiogenesis non-healing diabetic wounds. The other PIs and Co-Is are: Richard Minshall, associate professor of anesthesiology and pharmacology, Timothy Koh, associate professor of kinesiology and nutrition, and William Ennis, director in surgery. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ DOM Advisory Committee The Department of Medicine Advisory Committee elections are now taking place and all DOM faculty are encouraged to vote. Faculty were emailed the election link on Thursday with the election deadline of Thursday, July 17, 2014 at 11:59pm. The election is to fill two vacancies which will serve a three year term. The nominees for election are: Fred Zar, MD; Pradeep Dudeja, PhD; Nadim Mahmud, MD, PhD; Mladen Vidovich, MD. The functions and responsibilities of the DOM Advisory Committee are: A. Any faculty member shall be entitled to a conference with the Committee, or with any member of it, on any matter properly within the purview of the Committee for faculty consultation and grievance. B. The Department Chair shall seek the advice of the Advisory Committee for issues of dismissal of non-tenured faculty or those who are in the probation period. C. The Committee may serve to consider sanctions, short of non-retention, of faculty of the Department. D. The Committee may serve as a monitoring group for faculty awards and honors. The current members of the advisory committee (with expiring term) are: George T. Kondos, MD (2016), Jose A.L. Arruda, MD (2016), Joan Briller, MD (2015), and Melvin Lopata (2015). Upcoming Events Wednesday, July 23, 2014, 8:15 am – 9:00 am, CSB, 840 S. Wood St., Room 1018 What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger: Iron and the liver Kyle Brown, MD, Associate Professor, Division of Gastroenterology-Hepatology, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA Wednesday, July 30, 2014, 8:15 am – 9:00 am, CSB, 840 S. Wood St., Room 1018 New Insights Into the Ethiology of IBS Christopher Chang, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA Friday, August 15, 2014, 9:00 am – 2:00 pm, COMRB, 909 S. Wolcott Ave., Moss Auditorium UIC Center for Cardiovascular Research – Research Day 2014 Presenters include Drs. Brenda Russell and Nadia Rosenthal and a Poster Presentation Wednesday, August 20, 2014, 5:00 pm – 6:15 pm, UIH, 1740 W. Taylor St., Room 1130 DOM Quarterly Faculty Meeting All Department of Medicine faculty are encouraged to attend DOM Grand Rounds have recessed for the summer and will continue on October 7, 2014. 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