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2012 Incubator Fund Award Winners

The Baystate Incubator Fund, begun in 2005, provides internal grants in the form of “seed” money to encourage research by Baystate faculty. The goal of this program is to support projects that will lead to publications and novel external funding.

Winning proposals were awarded December 2011 for a January 2012 start date. For full abstracts, see the Incubator Fund page on eWorkplace

• Relationships Between Early Life Somatype and Breast Cancer Phenotype 
  Co-PIs: Grace Makari-Judson, Giovanna Crisi
  Co-Investigators: Sue Hankinson, Joseph Jerry
• Intramuscular Transplantation of Autologus CD34+ stem Cells for Non-Healing Diabetic Lower Limb Wounds: A Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial
  Co-PIs: Sabyasachi Sen, Patrick Lee, Armando Paez
  Co-Investigators: Ashequl Islam, Chester Andrzejewski, Paul Visintainer
• Metabolic Factors Regulating p53-Mediated Surveillance Pathways in Breast Epithelium
  PI: Richard Arenas
  Co- Investigators: Grace Makari-Judson, Q.Jackie Cao, D. Joseph Jerry, Nagendra Yadava, Sallie S. Schneider

• Assisted Egg Activation: Protocol Development and Treatment Options for Patients with ISCI Failure
  PI: Teru Jellerette-Nolan
  Co-Investigators: Daniel Grow, Rafael Fissore

Heather Sankey, MD Receives Promotions

Dr. Heather Sankey, Program Director of the Obstetrics-Gynecology Residency, has been promoted to Associate Professor of Obstetrics-Gynecology at Tufts University School of Medicine.

Dr. Sankey has also been promoted to Vice Chair for Education, Obstetrics-Gynecology Department. She will take a more active role in coordinating all of the students that come through the department, as well as being more involved in CME and faculty development. 

Ellen Brassil, Health Sciences Library Director, Recognized by Medical Library Association

The Medical Library Association in Chicago has recognized Ellen Brassil as a Distinguished Member of the Academy of Health Information Professionals. This is the primary credential for Health Sciences Librarianship.

Barbara Richard, Director of Sponsored Programs Administration, Receives National Council of University Research Administrators Appointments

Barbara Richard has been re-appointed for the second year as Subcommittee Chair of the RADG (Research Administrator’s Discussion Group) for the NCURA (National Council of University Research Administrators) Region 1.

Ms. Richard's involvement in NCURA Region 1 also includes:

• Appointed 2012 Co-chair of the Curriculum Committee

• Member of the Chair’s Advisory Committee

• Member of the 2012 Annual Meeting Program Committee

Jenny Wertheim Promoted to Undergraduate Medical Education Program Coordinator

Jenny Wertheim has been promoted to Program Coordinator, Undergraduate Medical Education in Resident and Student Affairs effective January 8, 2012.

Jenny started at Baystate Medical Center in January 2011 in Academic Affairs Administration. She has worked closely with Resident and Student Affairs, where she was integral in covering Allied Health Services.

Jenny obtained her Bachelor of Arts from Houghton College. 

You can reach her at Jenny.Wertheim@baystatehealth.org or x 4-4280.

Department of Radiology Residents and Faculty Active at Conferences

2011 Radiological Society of North America Annual Meeting

14 education exhibits from 7 residents were accepted for presentation:

Jonathan R. Cogley, MD

• Now That's Some Bad Gas: Case-based Review of Ectopic Gas in the Abdomen/Pelvis

• Diffusion-weighted MR Imaging of Benign and Malignant Genitourinary Lesions: Review of Current Concepts

Peter M. Ghobrial, MD

• There Will Be Blood: Imaging Appearance of Blood and Blood Products--A Multimodality Review

• Left Upper Quadrant Pain: From Common Causes to Less Common Surprises

Roozbeh Houshyar, MD

• MRI of the Bowel: Review of Indications, Techniques, and Representative Cases
  

Shan Li, MD

• What Displaces the Spinal Cord? What You See Is Not What You Think: Differentiation of the Idiopathic Transdural Spinal Cord Herniation (ISCH) and Space-occupying Cystic Lesions within the Spinal Canal--A Pictorial Essay
  
  This paper, co-authored by Marc Haber, MD, won a Certificate of Merit, and was solicited for publication in Radiographics.

Grace S. Mitchell, MD

• When CHF Anatomy Meets Physiology: Correlating Chest Plain Film and CT Findings with Pulmonary Capillary Wedge Pressure

Cheri Nguyen, MD

• Male Breast Disease: A Multimodality Pictorial Review with Pathologic Correlation
  
  This paper was solicited for publication in Radiographics.

• High-Resolution MR Imaging of Anorectal Disease with Emphasis on Isotropic Post-contrast Acquisition: A Pictorial Essay

• Postoperative Complications Associated with Upper Gastrointestinal (GI) Surgery: A Pictorial Review with Emphasis on CT and Fluoroscopy

• All Wheezes Are Not Created Equal: A Multimodality Pictorial Review of the Uncommon Asthma Mimics in Infants and Children with Pathologic and Bronchoscopic Correlation

Ajay Puri, MD

• Show Me the Money: Primer of Key Sequences for Junior Residents Reading Emergent Body and Musculoskeletal MRI Cases on Call

• Meningeal Enhancement: What Every Radiologist Should Know

• Image Gently: Imaging of Pectus Excavatum Revisited

2011 Society of Computed Body Tomography and Magnetic Resonance Annual Conference

Residents and faculty presented 2 educational exhibits:

Dustin Nguyen, MD and Dmitry Rakita, MD

• High-Resolution MR Imaging of Anorectal Disease with Emphasis on Isotropic Post-contrast Acquistition: A Pictorial Essay

Margaret Yacobozzi, MD, Tara Catanzano, MD,  and Dmitry Rakita, MD

• Contrast-enhanced Cross Sectional Body Imaging Protocols: What is seen when?

Special Issue of Seminars in Ultrasound CT and MRI

Department of Radiology faculty, Drs. Tara Catanzano and Stephen O'Connor, were guest editors for the February 2012 issue, "Multimodality Imaging of the Pregnant Patient", which included 9 articles by Baystate Medical Center residents and faculty.

Streamlined Website for the Health Sciences Library

The Redesigned Health Sciences Library Home Page

The Health Sciences Library website has been redesigned to increase functionality and usability—and it has a sharp new look.

Enhancements include:

• Optimized site for mobile devices

• Navigation is easier and more direct

• Digital resources are accessible with fewer clicks

• Expanded, full text eBook access via the journals tab

Explore the Library Website's Resources

• Local and remote access to dozens of bibliographic and point-of-care databases such as PubMed, Scopus, MDConsult and Best Practice, as well as access to the full text of thousands of electronic journal titles.

• Online request forms for online searches, instruction on using resources such as EndNote and TurningPoint, reserving the audience response system, or requesting a book or article (even those not owned by the library)

• Subject guides on resident information resources, author resources, citation management, and more.

• Connect to Tufts’ Hirsch Medical Library

• Tutorials on copyright or earning CME credit by accessing UpToDate through Cerner.