September 2023
View September's Faculty Spotlight here.
Awards/Honors
Donna Jackson-Kohlin, MSN, CNM, Assistant Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology at UMass Chan-Baystate.
Awarded the 2023 Advanced Practice Provider Council and Director Advance Practitioner's Advocate Excellence Award.
Jain Lattes, MSN, CNM, PMHNP, Instructor of Obstetrics & Gynecology at UMass Chan-Baystate.
Awarded the 2023 Advanced Practice Provider Council and Director Advance Practitioner's Community Outreach Excellence Award.
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.
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
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. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37589516/
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 “A Multi-faceted Intervention to Improve Teamwork on an Inpatient Pediatric Neurosurgery Service.” in the 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.
August 2023
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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
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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