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Volume 10, Issue 4May/June 2010

28th Annual Research Week

Awards

Internal MedicineHonors

Congratulations

Presentations andPublications

2010 IncomingResidents and

Fellows

Note to PI

“Press OutDomestic Violence”

Fundraiser

Continuing MedicalEducation

SAVE THE DATENuts and Bolts

August 29, 2010

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28th Annual Research Awards

The UTCOMC and Erlanger Health Systems presented this year’s Research Week, April 12 - April 16th. This event, which dates back to 1983, was the vision of Robert Coddington, MD, Chair of the Dept. of Orthopaedic Sur-gery, and the first Associate Dean for the Chattanooga Campus. This event is open to all faculty, residents, and medical students visiting the UT COMC campus. Research posters were on display in the Erlanger Medical Mall Atrium all week, and included eight resi-dent research projects, eight resident case reports, and a faculty research project by Ann Rybolt, MD, Attitudes of residents, patients and caregivers to house calls. The Scientific Review Committee served as the abstract selection committee for this year’s presentations. Poster rounds and selected oral presenta-tions were held on Friday, and the week culminated with the presentation of awards at dinner at the Waldon Club on Friday evening.

Awards were presented by the UTCOMC Dean, David C. Seaberg, MD. The top research award was presented to Venita Singh, MD (PGY 1, Transitional Year) by Robert C. Coddington, MD. Dr. Singh presented on behalf of her co-authors, Dominique Arce, MD (PGY 1, Tran-sitional Year), Brandy Merritt, MD (PGY3, Pediatrics), and Ashley Laing, MD (PGY 1, Transitional Year). Their research was titled Disclosures of unintended medical outcomes: is the documentation complete?

Judges for the event were Louis R. Lambi-ase, MD (Assistant Dean for Clinical Affairs and Associate Professor, UTCOMC Dept. of Medicine), Eugene C. Mangiante, Jr., MD (Executive Associate Dean for Gradu-ate Medical Education, UTHSC College of Medicine), and Mel W. Twiest, MD (Clinical Associate Professor, UTCOMC Dept. of Sur-gery, past EHS Chief Medical Officer).

Congratulations to all who participated in this notable College of Medicine event. Please see page two for a complete listing of the award winners.

Dr. Ann Rybolt

(L-R) Dr. Seaberg, Dr. Coddington, Dr. Singh, Dr. Arce

(L-R) Dr. Mangiante, Dr. Twiest, Dr. Lambiase

Author(s) Award Title Dept.Vinita Singh, MDDominique Arce, MDBrandy Merritt, MDAshley Laing, MD

Coddington Award Best Research Presentation

Disclosure of unintended medical events: Is the documentation complete

Transitional Year and Pediatrics

Yuvraj, Kalra, MD 2nd Place Research Presentation

Intrauterine growth restriction alters glucocorticoid receptor and 11BHSD1 mRNA expression in rat adipose tissue in a gender and depot specific manner

Pediatrics

Jon Boroughs, MDBritney Bertsch, MDDevon Greene, MD

3rd Place Research Presentation

Assessment of control among self-iden-tified asthmatics

Pediatrics

Bradley Thomas, MDSean ClaarSteve Greer

4th Place Research Presentation

Scheduled repeat computed tomography scanning for traumatic brain injury re-mains important in assessing head injury progression independent of Glasgow coma score

Surgery

Chad Corrigan, MD 1st Place Case Study Traumatic complete dislocation of the fibula: a case report

Orthopaedic Surgery

Yuvraj Kalra, MD 2nd Place Case Study Group B streptococcal endocarditis of the tricuspid valve: a rare case presenta-tion

Pediatrics

Jacob Dowden, MD 3rd Place Case Study Obstructive defecation following stapled hemorrhoidopexy: a report of four cases

Surgery

2010 Resident Research Awardees

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Internal Medicine Honors

Angel Brown, MD (PGY1) and Andrew Todd, MD (PGY2) were selected by the leadership of the Southeast Center of Excellence in Geriatric Medicine (SCEGM) to participate in the 7th Annual SCEGM Resident Award Summit. The SCEGM, a joint program of Emory University and the University of Alabama at Bir-mingham (UAB) was established in 1998 to promote the career development of physicians as clinician edu-cators and researchers. This conference, held May 21-22, 2010 at UAB, provided an opportunity for select residents in Internal Medicine and Family Medicine programs to learn about the impact of an aging society on the practice of medicine.

Ahmad Kaako, MD (PGY3) was selected by the Tennessee Comprehensive Cancer Control Coalition to at-tend the Summit on the Burden of Cancer in Tennessee, April 21-22, 2010 in Pigeon Forge.

Internal Medicine residents and faculty were well represented at the Southern Society of General Internal Medicine. Three oral presentations and nine posters were presented by six residents (Drs. Brett Krummert, Molly Tveite, Mohammad Anower, Poonam Kafle, Ahmad Kaako, and Christine Chhakchhuak) and one medical student (Philip Sutherland). In addition, Drs. Panda and Staton and colleagues presented a workshop entitled, “How to be an effective resident teacher.”

Comments, articles, and announcements for the COMmunicator can be submitted in publishable format to Sylvia Friedl, Office of Research Compliance, Sylvia.Friedl@erlanger.org, 423.778.3899.

Congratulations

Phyllis Miller, MD, UTCOMC Clinical Assistant Professor of OB/GYN, recently received two very special honors.

She was named one of three remarkable women who share the 2010 Tennessee Woman of Distinction award, given by the American Lung Association. “[Dr. Miller] was born in rural Ocoee, TN, grew up in a home that had no electricity, running water or telephone. She at-tended college on scholarships and work-study programs supplemented by myriad odd jobs. One of just six women in her class of 100 medical students, [she] graduated from UT Medical School and be-came the first female doctor from Polk County. ‘I never saw myself as a trailblazer,’ she says. She has been in private practice specializing in gynecology and obstetrics for 33 years, served on the boards of Women’s Pavilion East and Chattanooga Medical Foundation, and as a trustee for the Tennessee Medical Association. And along the way she’s managed to deliver more than 5,000 babies into this world.”

In addition, Dr. Miller was honored by the Tennessee Medical Association (TMA) at their annual meeting in Nashville, April 9-10, 2010. Dr. Miller received TMA’s Outstanding Physician Award for her overall contri-butions to medicine, for being the first woman elected president of the Medical Society, the first female chief of staff at Erlanger Hospital, and the first woman elected president of the TMA. According to Rae Bond, executive director of the Chattanooga-Hamilton County Medical Society, Dr. Miller pursued ongoing issues of medical malpractice reform and public health issues, but she also launched a broad-based public awareness campaign to focus on health risks and challenges faced by women in her role as president of TMA.

Mark Brzezienski, MD, UTCOMC Assistant Professor of Plastic Surgery, received the Ten-nessee Medical Association’s Distinguished Service Award for “his tireless efforts to encour-age youth to choose a career in medicine. He is the founder and chair of the Medical Society’s Youth Leadership Forum on Medicine, which gives high school students the opportunity to learn about life as a physician.”

Billy Arant, Jr., MD, former Professor and Chairman of the UTCOMC Department of Pediatrics, was named Fellow of the American Society of Hypertension, an honor awarded to only 102 physicians nationwide. Dr. Arant was awarded this status based on excellence in his professional scientific and clinical achievements, scholarship and significant contributions to the field of hypertension and cardiovascular health. During his academic career, Dr. Arant studied how blood pressure is regulated and has contributed more than 200 publications to the medical literature, has presented his research in the U.S. and abroad, has served in an official capacity for national and international organizations,

and has testified before the U.S. Congress on 11 occasions about research needs in nephrology and hyperten-sion. Dr. Arant came to Erlanger Hospital in 1992 as Medical Director of T.C. Thompson Children’s Hospital and Chairman of the UTCOMC Department of Pediatrics. During his tenure at Children’s Dr. Arant was the sole provider of care for children with kidney diseases and hypertension. In 2007 Dr. Arant decided to devote his clinical practice to treating hypertension and lipid disorders for all ages. Although retired from academic medicine, Dr. Arant continues to devote two days a week to clinical activities at Erlanger.

Joseph Cofer, MD, UTCOMC Professor of Surgery, was inducted into the American Surgical Association on April 8, 2010. The ASA was founded in 1880 and is the nation’s oldest and most prestigious surgical organization. The primary mission of the Association is to be the premier organization for surgical science and scholarship and to provide a national forum for presenting the developing state of the art and science of general and sub-specialty surgery and the elevation of the standards of the medical/surgical profession.

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Publications and Presentations

Adair CD, Buckalew VM, Graves SW, Lam GK, Johnson DD, Saade G, Lewis DF, Robinson C, Danoff TM, Chauhan N, Hopoate-Sitake M, Porter KB, Humphrey RG, Trofatter KF, Amon E, Ward S, Kennedy L, Mason L, Johnston JA. Digoxin immune Fab treatment for severe preeclampsia. Am J perinatol. 2010 Mar 15 [Epub ahead of print]

Arant BS, Schaefer F, van de Walle J et al. Efficacy, safety and pharmacokinetics of candesartan cilexetil in hypertensive children from 1 to less than 6 years of age. J Hypertens. 2010 May;28(5):1083-90.

Austin SC, Sanchez-Ramos L, Adair CD. Labor induction with intravaginal misoprostol compared with the dinoprostone vaginal insert: a systematic review and met analysis. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2010 Apr 27 [Epub ahead of print]

Ballew P, Brownson RC, Haire-Joshu D, Heath GW, Kreuter MW. Dissemination of effective physical activity interventions: are we applying the evidence? Health Educ Res. 2010 Apr;25(2):185-98. Epub 2010 Feb 15.

Bateman CM, Colman SM, Chaplin T, Young BD, Eden TO, Bhakta M, Gratias EJ, vanWering ER, Cazzaniga G, Harrison CJ, Hai R, Ancliff P, Ford AM, Kearney L, Greaves M. Acquisition of genome-wide copy number alterations of monozygotic twins with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Blood. 2010 Apr;115(17):3553-8.

Bhattarai N, Maxwell S, Shah, J. A catheter in vein causing chest pain. Poster presented at the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Society of General Internal Medicine in Minneapolis, MN, April 28-May 1, 2010.

Bhattarai N, Kafle P, Panda M. Beer potomania: a case report. BMJ Case Reports 2010;doi:10. 1136/bcr.10.2009.2414.

Bledsoe BE, Nowicki K, Creel JH Jr, Carrison D, Severance HW. Use of pulse co-oximetry as a screening and monitoring tool in mass carbon monoxide poisoning. Prehosp Emerg Care. 2010 Jan-Mar;14(1):131-3.

Boom JA, Nelson CS, Kohrt AE, Kozinetz CA. Utilizing peer academic detailing to improve childhood immunization coverage levels. Health Promot Pract. 2010 May;11(3):377-86. Epub 2008 Oct 27.

Brown A, Cunningham J. Good morning bruit: an uncommon presentation to a common illness. Poster presented at the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Society of General Internal Medicine in Minneapolis, MN, April 28-May 1, 2010.

CDC. (Brown DR, Heath GW, Martin SL, editors). Promoting Physical Activity: A Guide to Community Action. 2nd edition. Human Kinetics, Champaign-Urbana, 2010.

Cofer JB, Adams RB. Fundamentals of liver surgery for the practicing general surgeon. Am Surg. 2010 May;76(5)461-9.

Doty JF, Alvarez RG, Asbury BS, Rudd JN, Baxter WB. Arteriovenous fistula and pseudoaneurysm of the posterior tibial artery after calcaneal slide osteotomy: a case report. Foot Ankle Int. 2010 Apr;31(4):329-32.

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SAVE THIS EVENING!Monday, June 28, 2010

Annual New Resident Welcome on the Southern Belle Riverboat

All faculty, residents, fellows, and administrative staff will be invited

Publications and Presentations --continued

Giles WH, Arnold JD, Layman TS, Sumida MP, Brown PW, Burns RP, Cofer JB. Education of the rural surgeon: experience from Tennessee. Surg Clin North Am. 2009 Dec;89(6):1319-9m, vii.

Gratias E. Update on and future directions of COG renal tumors clinical trials. Presented at the International Society of Paediatric Oncology Renal Tumors Study Group (SIOP-RTSG) Meeting, Homburg, Germany, May 17, 2010.

Gupta R, Garg P, Kottoor R, Munoz JC, Jamal MM, Lambiase LR, Vega KJ. Overuse of acid suppression therapy in hospitalized patients. South Med J. 2010 Mar; 103(3):207-11.

Heath GW. If you build it they will come and use it: the role of the built environment and active living among children and youth. Presented by invitation at the MTSU Distinguished Lecture Series on Physical Activity, Health and Youth, April 15, 2010.

Howell JM, Eddy OL, Lukens TW, Thiessen ME, Weingart SD, Decker WW, Seaberg DC; American College of Emergency Physicians . Clinical policy: Critical issues in the evaluation and management of emergency department patients with suspected appendicitis. Ann Emerg Med. 2010 Jan;55(1):71-116.

Jacobson TB, Kolade VO. Massive GI bleeding in a patient with 2 small AVMs in the small intestine: a case report. Cases J. 2010 Jan 28;3:39.

Kaako A. Moment of grief. Yale J for Humanities in Med. 2009 Dec.

Kaako A. Seeds of wisdom. Yale J for Humanities in Med. 2010 Apr.

Makdsi F, Fall A. Acute renal infarction. J Hosp Med. 2010;5(4):E29.

Kyle W. APRV vs ARDSnet protocol ventilation for ARDS/ALI. Poster presented at the 2010 International Conference of the American Thoracic Society, May 14-19, 2010 in New Orleans. Co-authors were Drs. J Tumlin, J Shah, J Boldt Jr, and E Fraire, M Laeser.

Makdsi F, Fall A. Acute pancreatitis with eruptive xanthomas. J Hosp Med. 2010;5(2):115.

Middlebrooks EH, Panda M, Caine W. Multiple recurrent stent thrombosis in a patient with coexisting clopidogrel resistance and increased anticardiolipin antibodies: a case report. Case Reports in Med. Epub 2010 May 12.

Mitchell AM, Jones AE, Tumlin JA, Kline JA. Incidence of contrast-induced nephropathy after contrast-enhanced computed tomography in the outpatient setting. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2010 Jan;5(1):4-9.

Munoz JC, Rascon-Aguilar I, Lambiase LR, Awad ZT, Vega KJ. Extraction of surgical clip-induced “lollipop” choledocholithiasis. Endoscopy. 2010;42 Suppl 2:E15-6. Epub 2010 Jan 13.

Navaid M, Melvin T. A palliative care approach in treating patients with sickle cell disease using exchange transfusion. Am J of Hospice and Pall Med. 2010 Feb.

Navaid M, Melvin T, Berube J, Dotson S. Principles of wound care in hospice and palliative medicine. Am J of Hospice and Pall Med. 2010 Feb. 5

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Publications and Presentations --continued

Panda M, Cunningham C. Addressing and preventing stress, fatigue and burnout in health care providers. Oral presentation at the SSGIM conference in New Orleans, LA, Feb. 25-27, 2010.

Payne C, Staton L, Malakoff G, Panda M, Kolade V. Promoting professionalism in internal medicine residency: can it be quantified. Poster presentation at the 2010 ACGME Annual Educational Conference, Nashville, TN, March 4-7, 2010.

Rowin ME. Predictors of failure for high flow high humidity nasal cannula therapy in viral bronchiolitis. Poster presented at Pediatric Academic Society/Society of Pediatric Research, Vancouver BC, May 2010.

Rybolt A, Cunningham C, Panda M. Attitudes of residents, patients and caregivers to house calls: better than sliced bread? Poster presented at the SSGIM conference in New Orleans, LA, Feb. 25-27, 2010.

Seaberg DC. Novel model of care for low-acuity pediatric emergency department patients. Presented at the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Meeting, June 4, 2010 in Phoenix, AZ.

Shah J. Carved tracheostomy tubes--art or havoc. Poster presented at the 2010 International Conference of the American Thoracic Society, May 14-19, 2010 in New Orleans. Co-authors were Drs. N. Gupta, J. Boldt., Jr.

Soler RE, Leeks KD, Buchanan LR, Brownson RC, Heath GW, Hopkins DH, Task Force on Community Preventive Services. Point-of-decision prompts to increase stair use: a systematic review update. Am J Prev Med. 2010 Feb;38(2 Suppl):S292-300. Review.

Stanley JD, Burns RP. Clostridium difficile and the surgeon. Am Surg. 2010 Mar;76(3):235-44. Review.

Staton L et al. Does internet advertisement increase traffic in a CME web-based cultural competency curriculum? Poter presented at the SSGIM conference in New Orleans, LA, Feb 25-27, 2010.

Thomas BW, Mejia VA, Maxwell RA, Dart BW, Smith PW, Gallagher MR, Claar SC, Greer SH, Barker DE. Scheduled repeat CT scanning for traumatic brain injury remains important in assessing head injury progression. J Am Coll Surg. 2010 May;(5):824-30, 831-2.

Thomasson J. Intercostal hernias-case presentation and review. Poster presented at the Southeastern Surgical Congress (SESC), Savannah, GA, Feb 20-23, 2010. Co-authors were Drs. J. Rand and R. Maxwell [correction to the March/April COMmunicator listing]

Willett LL, Wellons MF, Hartig JR, Roenigk L, Panda M, Dearinger AT, Allison J, Houston TK. Do women residents delay childbearing due to perceived career threats? Acad Med. 2010 Apr;85(4):640-6.

Zylstra RG. Delirium as proxy for health care reform. South Med J. 2010 Feb;103(2):104.

2010 UTCOMC Incoming Residents and FellowsProgram Name Medical School Degree

Emergency Medicine Campbell, Doug UT MDEmergency Medicine England, Bryan UT MDEmergency Medicine English, Warren University of Mississippi MDEmergency Medicine Lambert, Robert (Ben) University of Mississippi MDEmergency Medicine Shell, Jared Mercer University MDEmergency Medicine Vance, Bryan East Tennessee State University MD

Family Medicine Adcock, Brandon Virginia College of Osteopathic Med DOFamily Medicine Fox, Steven Marshall University MDFamily Medicine Harris, Jewel University of South Alabama MDFamily Medicine Hutchinson, Amanda UT MDFamily Medicine Lightfoot, Nancy Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Med DOFamily Medicine Slots, Henrik American University of the Caribbean MD

Geriatric Med Fellow Corrington, Suzanne University of South Alabama MD

Hospice Fellow Locker, Kathleen University of South Alabama MD

Internal Medicine Haddock, Jody American University of the Caribbean MDInternal Medicine Bosu, Dimple Chittagong Medical College (Bangladesh) MDInternal Medicine Dolinay, Tamas University of Decbrecen (Hungary) MDInternal Medicine Dwuma, Alex UT MDInternal Medicine Huang, Sean Peking University (China) MDInternal Medicine Revana, Haritha Sri Venkatesvara Medical College (India) MDInternal Medicine Pathy, Sumit Government Med. College Surat (India) MDInternal Medicine Siddegowda, Bhavaria Kempegowda Institute of Med Sciences

(India)MD

Internal Medicine Stewart, Christy Ross University (Dominican Republic) MDInternal Medicine Sunil, Meena Grant Medical College (India) MD

OB/GYN Dobyne, Amber Georgetown University MDOB/GYN Forney, Terri University of Alabama MDOB/GYN Haneline, Amanda East Tennessee State University MDOB/GYN Sanders, Mary Anna Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Med DO

Orthopaedic Surgery Doty, Daniel UT MDOrthopaedic Surgery Sanders, Kristopher Louisiana State University (Shreveport) MDOrthopaedic Surgery Sweets, Thomas University of Cincinnati MD

Orthopaedic TraumaFellow

Stewart, Christopher Ross University MD

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2010 UTCOMC Incoming Residents and Fellows--continuedProgram Name Medical School Degree

Pediatrics Adams, Merritt University of Sydney (Australia) MDPediatrics Broadhead, Kristen Ohio University of Osteopathic Medicine DOPediatrics Forsyth, Colleen Edward Via Virginia College of

Osteopathic MedicineDO

Pediatrics Hamm, Austin UT MDPediatrics Malandra, Michael American University of the Caribbean MDPediatrics Ott, Christy St. George’s University MD

Pediatrics Slots, Vanessa American University of the Caribbean MDPediatrics Vishwanath, Vijay Bangalore University (India) MDPediatrics Wilson, Esther UT MD

Plastic Surgery Davis, Flavia Federal University of Ceara (Brazil) MDPlastic Surgery Mooty, Robert “Clark” Texas Tech University MD

Surgery--Categorical Edeiken, Sara Mae University of Maryland MDSurgery--Categorical Jean, Robert UT MDSurgery--Categorical Major, Ralston Medical College of Georgia MDSurgery--Categorical Royer, Anna Boston University MD

Surgery--Prelim Bennett, Brant University of Oklahoma MDSurgery--Prelim Byrd, Jaron University of Texas Medical Branch

(Galveston)MD

Surgery--Prelim Haynes, James “Clif” Medical College of Georgia MDSurgery--Prelim Hinson, Kristen UT MDSurgery--Prelim Maclellan, Reid University of Alabama MDSurgery--Prelim Shah, Nimesh UT MDSurgery--Prelim Vandewalle, Robert Indiana University MD

Surgical CriticalCare Fellow

Croft, Chasen University of Texas Medical Branch(Galveston)

MD

Vascular Surgery Fellow

Schoch, Denny M. New York Medical College MD

Transitional Year Crudup III, John Brody School of Medicine East Carolina University

MD

Transitional Year Srinivasan, Ramya Kempegowda Institute of MedicalSciences (India)

MD

Transitional Year Hartley, Bryan Vanderbilt University MDTransitional Year Kinney, Erin Emory University MDTransitional Year Phillips, John Vanderbilt University MDTransitional Year Scherer, Philip University of Florida MD

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Note to PI

The following article is an excerpt from a PRIMR Webinar, 4/28/10: Investigator-Initiated Research and HITECH (The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act, 2009) Privacy Requirements, presented by Susan Stayn, JD, senior university counsel at Stanford University, and Mark Barnes, JD, LLM, chief compliance officer and director of sponsored research at Harvard University.

HITECH was passed in February 2009 as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) and was designed to expand privacy and security requirements in light of the ARRA’s focus on expanding the use of electronic medical records. HITECH has generated a wide range of new regulations, but some specifically affect the research community.

HITECH is relevant because protected health information (PHI) is routinely used in research, and breaches can occur with any form of data collection. Certain breaches of privacy or confidentiality must be reported to affected individuals and to the Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS). The following definitions are pertinent:

Unsecured PHI: PHI that is not secured by a technology or methodology in HHS guidance;Breach: An acquisition, access, use or disclosure of PHI that is not permitted under the Privacy Rule; andSignificant risk of harm: Significant risk of financial, reputational, or other harm to the individual.

There are many requirements for breach reporting. For example, a breach must be reported to the media if it affects more than 500 people in a state or jurisdiction. In determining whether or not an incident would be considered a breach under HITECH, ask the following questions:

Did the incident involve PHI?1. Was the PHI unsecured?2. Was there an impermissible use or disclosure?3. Does an exception apply4. Is the “significant risk of harm” threshold met?5.

Researchers should keep in mind that other reporting requirements may apply and carry different standards. There are different guidelines for reporting unanticipated problems, possibly including reporting to the De-partment of Health & Human Services, the Office of Human Research Protections, the state, and the media. For example, the hhs.gov/ocr website lists cases that include a 12/23/09 breach of TennCare paper records that affected approximately 3,900 individuals (reported in the media 12/09). The most current breach, at the time of this article, was the 5/9/10 report of a theft of a laptop from a physician’s practice which involved 653 individuals.

If you have any questions about patient or research subject records, limited data sets, safe computer storage of data (including obtaining an Ironkey jumpdrive, which EHS has approved and is encrypted and password protected) please contact Wayne Wilson, EHS HIPAA Compliance Officer, or Sylvia Friedl, the UTCOMC Compliance Officer.

Additional information, including breach reporting forms, is available at the HHS Health Information Privacy webpage, http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/ and search for HITECH.

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Continuing Medical EducationChronic Illness

Faculty and Resident Development SeriesMonday, June 14, 2010

NoonAlan E. Kohrt, MD, FAAP, Professor and Chair of the UTCOMC Dept. of Pediatrics

Probasco AuditoriumFor more information contact Sally Ward at: Sally Ward@erlanger.org

25th Annual Family Medicine ConferenceWednesday-Friday, June 16-18, 2010

The Chattanoogan HotelFor more information and registration click: http://222.utcomchatt.org/subpage.php?pageId-1093

Ethics QuarterlyEthical Considerations in Healthcare Allocation

Healthcare Crisis Management: The Haiti Experience Wednesday, June 16, 2010

NoonDaniel F. Fisher, MD, FACS, University Surgical Associates

Associate Professor, UTCOMC Dept. of SurgeryProbasco Auditorium

www.UTCOMChatt.org/CME

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Fifth Annual “Press Out Domestic Violence” Fundraiser

On May 20, 2010, the Transitional Year Program held their Fifth Annual Press Out Domestic Violence fundraiser. This weight lifting competition was held in the Er-langer Medical Mall and raised over $2,700 for the Partnership for Families, Children and Adults of Chattanooga. In addition to the weight lifting, there was a blood drive through Blood Assurance. There was very healthy competition between all of the de-partments , but the real winner was the Partnership for Families, Children and Adults of Chattanooga.

In the traditional “Battle of the Titans,” David Seaberg, MD (UTCOMC Dean) tied with James Brexler (EHS President and CEO). And Robert Fore, PhD (UTCOMC Associate Dean) tied with Cy Huffman, MD (EHS Chief Medical Officer).

Other awardees included: Strongest male Shane Asbury, MD Orthopaedic Surgery Strongest female Elizabeth Hartman, MD Surgery Strongest attending male Dirk Kiner, MD University Orthopaedics Strongest attending female Teabra Dixon, MD Internal Medicine/Hospitalist Most total weight lifted = 3,145 pounds Orthopaedic Surgery Most anemic (most blood donated by a program) Family Medicine Most participants Internal Medicine Loudest lifter Dirk Kiner, MD Most appreciated for music & help Ben Baker, MD