Department of Medicine Faculty Meeting

Department of Medicine Faculty Meeting November 16, 2011 Announcements Education, Research Clinical Updates Research Computing Update Centennial Celebration Planning Update... BMC Strate

Department of Medicine

Faculty Meeting November 16, 2011

Announcements Education, Research Clinical Updates

Research Computing Update Centennial Celebration Planning Update

BMC Strategic Plan released

Faculty Practice Plan negotiating with BMC regarding CARTS Model for Institutional Support

Update regarding Section Chief searches in Geriatrics and GI

Department’s Graduate Program in Molecular

Medicine to be refined with more translational

emphasis

– Name to be changed to Graduate Program in

Translational Biomedicine

– Linda Hyman chairing an implementation committee

Announcements (con’t)

BMC recruiting Physician Leader for the Wellness Program – Contact Dr Tom Barber if interested Finance Committee being established- volunteers sought

– Refine methodology for distribution of departmental funds to the sections

– Refine clinical performance targets

Department financial performance in QI

– Actual ($0.3 m)

– Budget ($1.2 m)

Faculty Development Seminar

Team-Based Science

Vasan Ramachandran, MD Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Wilkins Board Room 12:00-1:00 p.m

lunch served

Medical Grand Rounds

Nov 18: Is Hyperinsulinemia the Cause of Diabetes?

Barbara Corkey, PhD

Nov 25 – No Grand Rounds

Dec 2 Co-Morbidities of COPD: Chance or Fate

Bartolome Celli, M.D

Lecturer in Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Brigham & Women’s Hospital

Dec 9 AIDS: Panel Discussion

Moderator: Jerrold Ellner, M.D.

Discussants: Jon Fuller, Meg Sullivan

Dec 16 Clinical Problem Solving Case

Moderator: Robert Lowe, M.D.

To be Appointed on November 29, 2011, 3:30-5:00 pm at 670 Albany Auditorium (RSVP by Nov 18 to sgille@bu.edu or 617-638-4570)

– Barbara Corkey, Ph.D appointed Zoltan Kohn

Professor of Medicine

– Avi Spira, M.D will be appointed the Alexander

Graham Bell Professor of Health Care

Entrepeneurship

More Kudos

Richard Saitz, M.D will receive the R Brinkley

Smithers Distinguished Scientist Award from the American Society of Addiction Medicine

Eric Hardt, M.D received the Provider of the Year

Award from the International Medical Interpreters Association

Education Update

Intern recruitment interviews started November

14, 2011 – Interviewers sought

New Associate Program Director recruited-

Ashish Upadhyay, M.D (to start Jan 2012)

Three house staff retreats successfully

completed this fall

New Residency Program Administrative Director

recruited- Lauralee Dubois (to start Dec 2011)

New Research Funding by Year Department of Medicine ($m)

Number of New Research Grants

Department of Medicine

Faculty Survey

DOM funded Research Activities

Clinical Bench Researchers 51 49

% Time on Research 78 93

Major Findings:

1 >80% find Evans Days, Evans Center/ARC’s, First Step Programs, cores to

be useful

2 Some differences in usefulness of cores between clinical and bench

investigators

3 Pilot Grants and Bridge Funding programs are very popular with >90%

4 Social activities (DIM Sum, Evans Dinner, Summer Picnic) more variable

in appeal

Clinical Update

Volume

– wRVU’s up 4%

– Visits up 6%

– Discharges down 3.5%

Primary Care Redesign Initiative

DOM Inpatient Attg Documentation – 88%

Review of IT System by BMC underway shortly Joe Camillus hired to direct BMC Business

Development

Clinical Update wRVU Targets

YTD financial performance of the dept much

better than budget

Salary reductions in 2012-13 based on whether faculty reach wRVU targets in 2011-12 will NOT

be enacted

Finance Committee will offer recommendations regarding compensation models and

productivity targets

Evans Centennial Celebration

Friday, October 5, 2012

• 9:00-12:00 Poster display and judging

• 1:00-3:00 Looking Back, Moving Forward

– Mayor Tom Menino

– Kate Walsh

– Karen Antman

– Changes in treatments (hypertension, HIV, amyloidosis) – Changes in research (Barbara Corkey, Katya Ravid)

• 3:00-4:00 Campus tours

• 6:00 Section and residency dinners

Saturday, October 6, 2012

• 9:00-9:45 Evans Then and Now

• Aram Chobanian, Wilkins Visiting Professor

• 10:00-12:00 Training Clinicians in Urban Healthcare

– Louis Sullivan

– Harvey Fineberg

– Thomas Nasca

• 12:00-2:00 Creating a Sustainable Healthcare System

– Governor Deval Patrick

– Donald Berwick (or Maureen Bisognano)

– David Blumenthal

– Glenn Hackbarth

Saturday, October 6, 2012 cont’d.

• 3:00-5:00 Enhancing Translational Research

– Francis Collins, Ingelfinger Visiting Professor

– Joseph Loscalzo

– Framingham Heart Study

– NHLBI director

• 7:00 Gala dinner at MFA

– Recognize past chairs, donors, and award winners