February 14, 2002
In Brief
A faculty development workshop on “Leadership and Institutional Change” has been scheduled from 8:30 a.m. to noon, Tuesday, Feb. 26, in room 316 of South Campus Center. The workshop will focus on how leadership is defined in the profession of medicine and thestyles and skills of effective physician leaders, as well as relationships among leaders, organizational cultures and structures. Faculty leading the session are Dr. David Masuda, lecturer in the Department of Medical Education, and Thomas McWhinnie, deputy director of the Center for Education and Development at the VA Puget Sound Health Care System. McWhinnie is also a clinical faculty member at the UW School of Public Health and Community Medicine. The workshop is organized by the Department of Medical Education and is open to health sciences faculty. Registration is required at the Web Site http://www.dme.washington.edu/workshops.html.
Dr. F. Bruder Stapleton, Ford/Morgan professor and chair of the UW Department of Pediatrics, is editor in chief of a new newsletter published by the Massachusetts Medical Society as part of the “Journal Watch” series. All of the newsletters in the series provide physicians with concise summaries of current, clinically significant studies reported in the literature. Journal Watch Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine (JWPAM) will survey 28 medical journals each month. Comments from the physician editors accompany each summary. Dr. Harlan Gephart, clinical professor of pediatrics at the UW and a pediatrician at Group Health, is an associate editor for the newsletter. The Massachusetts Medical Society also publishes the New England Journal of Medicine. For more information on the new newsletter and the Journal Watch series, see http://www.jwatch.org.
UW Medical Center’s Multiple Sclerosis Rehabilitation Research and Training Center presents free information sessions for patients and others. These MS Forums are usually held on the fourth Wednesday of the month. The next Forum, with social worker Mary Cunniffe discussing “Psychosocial Issues in Health Care and the Proactive Patient,” will be from 7 to 8 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 27, in the meeting rooms at Plaza Cafe, first floor of UW Medical Center. Registration is not needed. For more information, call 221-5302.
“Touring the UW Health Sciences Center,” a video produced for use in conjunction with the Health Sciences Center’s high school tour program, won a Gold World Medal in the career guidance category at the New York Festivals competition for film and non-broadcast video. The executive producer was Julie Collier of Health Sciences/Medical Affairs News and Community Relations. Michelle Mansfield of UWTV was the producer/director and Kathy Medak, also of UWTV, was the editor and graphic designer. The New York Festivals organization, founded in 1957, is based in Chappaqua.
