December 2023
Awards/Honors
Kristina Kramer, MD, Assistant Professor of Surgery at UMass Chan-Baystate.
Chosen for the Future Trauma Leaders Program through the American College of Surgeons (ACS) Committee on Trauma (COT). The program is a 2-year commitment with opportunities to work with leaders in the field of trauma and acute care surgery, have individualized mentorship, involvement in projects and COT committees, and funding to attend multiple conferences. It is a unique way for the ACS COT to offer an in-depth training and mentoring opportunity to early career trauma and acute care surgeons.
John Romanelli, MD, Professor of Surgery at UMass Chan-Baystate.
Awarded the annual Excellence in Medical Leadership Award from the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES) Foundation. The purpose of this scholarship is to optimize one’s impact in the medical industry so they can deliver sustainable results driven by their greatest capabilities and purpose as a leader by exposing one SAGES member to the leading minds in leadership development, strategy, management, and execution.
Oral Presentations
Flannery Merideth, MD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at UMass Chan-Baystate presented "Sherlock Holmes-ing it: C-L Psychiatrists as Neuropsychiatric Detectives Across the Lifespan" with Drs. Becker, Nicolson, and Sivaraman at the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry's annual meeting in Austin, TX.
Dr. Merideth also presented "N-Acetyl-Cysteine in the Treatment of Refractory Psychiatric Symptoms Across the Lifespan with Drs. Ratnakaran, Noufi, Kilciksiz, and Winston.
David B. Tashijan, MD, Associate Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics at UMass Chan-Baystate.
Presented a lecture "Transition to Practice, Navigating your Niche" at the Pediatric Surgery Fellows course hosted at American Academy of Pediatrics (APP) national meeting.
Society Leadership
Sukey Krause, CNM, MSN, FACNM, Assistant Professor Obstetrics & Gynecology at UMass Chan-Baystate.
Appointed Criterion 3 Subcommittee Chair of the Accreditation Criterion Revision Committee for the Accreditation Commission of Midwifery Education (ACME).
David B. Tashijan, MD, Associate Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics at UMass Chan-Baystate.
Appointed as a Massachusetts Representative to the GME & Candidate Membership Committee for the New England Surgical Society.
October 2023
Oral Presentations
Harry Hoar, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at UMass Chan-Baystate.
Dr. Hoar served as Co-Chair of the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine's National Meeting 10/8 - 10/12/23 in Cleveland. During the meeting he served as a moderator for several sessions including: the "Diagnostic Quality Improvement Summit," "Keynote Address by CNN's Jake Tapper and Alice Paul Tapper," and "The Future of Diagnosis." In addition, he presented the closing plenary for the conference: "Clinical Problem Solving in Action." At the conclusion of the meeting, he was asked to serve as the Lead Chair for the 2024 meeting.
Publications
Abdallah Alameddine, MD, Assistant Professor of Surgery at UMass Chan-Baystate.
A book chapter entitled "Systems Biology Modeling of Cancer Nonlinear Dynamics" will be published next December by Springer Nature publishing company. "Not unlike the climate or what holds the galaxies and planetary motions together, cancer biology has an intrinsic nonlinear dynamic. In this chapter, we outline how to connect temporal measurements of a nonlinear dynamical and unstable complex system, such as cancer, with well-established engineering/mathematical methods, old and new, that are applied and approximately solved by linear dynamical models," says Dr. Alameddine.
Eduardo R. Nunez, MD, MS, Assistant Professor of Medicine and Healthcare Delivery & Population Sciences at UMass Chan-Baystate.
First Author "What Goes into Patient Selection for Lung Cancer Screening? Factors Associated with Clinician Judgments of Suitability for Screening" published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. This work highlights the need for evidence-based guidance and point-of-care decision support to aid clinicians in optimizing lung cancer screening patient selection to maximize benefits and minimize potential harms. Additionally, this work earned an invitation to be presented as a plenary session at the 2023 American Thoracic Society International Conference.
September 2023
Awards/Honors
Donna Jackson-Kohlin, MSN, CNM, Assistant Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology at UMass Chan-Baystate.
Awarded the Baystate Health's 2023 APP Advocacy Excellence Award for work with incarcerated women improving care, proactive guidelines, policies including breastfeeding, and reproductive rights including sterilization and contraception.
Jain Lattes, MSN, CNM, PMHNP, Instructor of Obstetrics & Gynecology at UMass Chan-Baystate.
Awarded the Baystate Health's 2023 APP Outstanding Achievement Award for Community Outreach.
Wael N. Sayej, MD, MBA, FAAP, Associate Professor of Pediatrics at UMass Chan-Baystate.
Awarded the U.S. Food & Drug Administration Office of Pediatric Therapeutics' 2023 Pediatric Advisory Committee Service Award. This award is presented in appreciation for leadership, service, and dedication to the Pediatric Advisory Committee.
External Grants
Elizabeth Schoenfeld, MD, MS, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Healthcare Delivery & Population Sciences at UMass Chan-Baystate.
Received an R34 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) for a 3 year project entitled “Conversations can save lives: TALKing About Buprenorphine & Methadone for Opioid Use Treatment Initiation (TALK ABOUT It).” This project, which continues work started via an Office of Research RPAP grant, refines and tests a decision aid aimed at helping ED clinicians and patients talk about options for the treatment of opioid use disorder, such as starting methadone or buprenorphine. Other key personnel include William Soares, MD, Lauren Westafer, DO, MPH, MS and Peter Friedmann, MD, MPH.
Oral Presentations
Weijen Chang, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics at UMass Chan-Baystate.
Presented "Change Management" with Drs. Karen Wilson, Nell Hodo, and Douglas Carlson at the American Academy of Pediatrics Section of Hospital Medicine (AAP SOHM) Emerging Leaders Conference, as well as the AAP SOHM Fellows Conference. This conference was created to support and develop leadership skills amongst pediatric hospitalists who were selected based on their future leadership potential and was partially funded by Abbott Laboratories.
Publications
Mustafa A. Barbhuiya, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pathology at UMass Chan-Baystate.
First Author "Comparative analysis of platelet depleted plasma prepared on the Roche 8100 automation line and manually centrifuged platelet poor plasma for routine coagulation assays," published in Practical Laboratory Medicine. The study evaluated whether the routine coagulation tests can be performed using platelet depleted plasma (PDP, residual platelet count <40000/μL) to achieve maximum efficiency of the automated workflow and compare results of these tests performed with platelet poor plasma (PPP residual platelet count <10,000/μL) prepared manually ‘offline'. This is a practice changing publication and the Clinical Laboratory Standard Institute, USA.
Thomas Higgins, MD, Professor of Medicine at UMass Chan-Baystate.
First Author “Does Critical Care Really Make a Difference?” in Critical Care Medicine.
Emily Levoy, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at UMass Chan-Baystate.
First Author “A Multi-faceted Intervention to Improve Teamwork on an Inpatient Pediatric Neurosurgery Service,” in The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety. As the first fellowship-trained provider in Pediatric Hospital Medicine at Baystate, her work on improving psychological safety, leadership, engagement, and well-being has been published numerous times, and her commitment to the provision of high-quality care promises to advance the field of pediatric hospital medicine and improve patient care here at Baystate.
Sharon Weintraub, CNM, Instructor of Obstetrics & Gynecology at UMass Chan-Baystate.
First Author "Midwives Safeguarding Abortion Access; Establishing Medication Abortion Services,” in the Journal of Midwifery and Women's Health.
August 2023
Awards/Honors
Karin Johnson, MD, Professor of Neurology at UMass Chan-Baystate and
Lauren Westafer, DO, MPH, MS, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Healthcare Delivery & Population Sciences at UMass Chan-Baystate.
Awarded the 2023 Baystate Women in Medicine and Science Impact Award.
Oral Presentations
Carly Detterman, CNM, Instructor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at UMass Chan-Baystate and
Liza Winston, CNM.
Presented "Providing prerelease contraception to incarcerated individuals" at the International Confederation of Midwives meeting in Bali, Indonesia.
Andrew Healy, MD, Assistant Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology at UMass Chan-Baystate.
Selected to present a post graduate course at the upcoming Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM) annual conference. The course is entitled: "Focus on Outpatient: Quality and Safety for Ambulatory and Telemedicine MFM Care."
Elizabeth Peacock-Chambers, MD, MSc, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Healthcare Delivery & Population Sciences at UMass Chan-Baystate.
Presented "Feasibility and Acceptability of a New Train-the-Trainer Model for "Mothering from the Inside Out" at the World Association for Infant Mental Health (WAIMH) in Dublin, Ireland.
Society Leadership
Daniel Landry, DO, Associate Professor of Medicine at UMass Chan-Baystate.
Named President-Elect for the National Forum of End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Networks.
Publications
David R. Kattan, MD, Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at UMass Chan-Baystate.
Senior Author "Midwives Safeguarding Abortion Access: Establishing Medication Abortion Services" published in the Journal of Midwifery and Women's Health. The publication serves to support CNM practices establishing medication abortion as a service to bolster patient access especially in the context of the 2022 Supreme Court decision that overruled Roe v. Wade.
July 2023
Awards/Honors
Kristin Dardano, MD, Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at UMass Chan-Baystate.
Awarded the 2023 Healthcare Education Office's APP Distinguished Leader Award.
External Grants
Elizabeth Schoenfeld, MD, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Healthcare Delivery & Population Sciences at UMass Chan-Baystate.
Awarded $199,974 for "Safer Smokes" program. The "Safer Smokes" project will provide patients with appropriate harm reduction supplies and naloxone in the ED, and link patients to community resources focused on their individual needs, including those who smoke or snort drugs.
Stephanie Daly, MD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at UMass Chan- Baystate and
Jessica Wozniak, PsyD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at UMass Chan-Baystate.
Awarded $2.5 million, 5-year grant by Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) for Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health (IECMH). Funding will be used to develop the Baystate Behavioral Health Center for Young Children and Families.
Oral Presentations
Donna Jackson-Kohlin, CNM, Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at UMass Chan-Baystate.
Presented a seminar at the Triennial Congress of the International Confederation of Midwives on "Sexual Assault and SANE Examinations" in Bali, Indonesia.
Cynthia Sites, MD, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at UMass Chan-Baystate.
Invited to speak at the 39th Annual European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Society Leadership
Barry Sarvet, MD, Professor of Psychiatry at UMass Chan-Baystate.
Elected Treasurer of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP).
Neal Seymour, MD, Professor of Surgery at UMass Chan-Baystate.
Appointed Chair of the Fundamentals of Laparoscopy Committee for the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES).
Publications
Rebecca Barron, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at UMass Chan-Baystate.
First Author "Characteristics of Acute Sexual Assault Care in New England Emergency Departments" published in the Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians Open. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/emp2.12955
Mustafa A. Barbhuiya, PhD, FACSc, Assistant Professor of Pathology at UMass Chan-Baystate.
Senior Author "Analytical and Clinical Performance of Two Point of Care Rapid Antibody Assays for SARS-CoV-2" published in the Annals of Clinical & Laboratory Science. http://www.annclinlabsci.org/content/53/3/353.abstract