Faculty Achievements
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September 2024
View September's Faculty Spotlight here.
Grants
Autumn Versace, DNP, CNM, Assistant Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology
The Division of Midwifery at Baystate Medical Center was recently awarded $690,000 through the Massachusetts Department of Public Health’s Grants to Increase Maternal Care Access and Expand Delivery Models. The purpose of this investment is to: 1.) Improve access to prenatal and postpartum services. 2.) Build the infrastructure to elevate the capacity of communities to address inequities. 3.) Expand and support the workforce serving pregnant and postpartum people. The Division of Midwifery will use this funding to: 1.) Expand and diversify the Midwifery Education Program. 2.) Undertake business planning, quality and value modeling, and staff education necessary to support opening an Alongside Midwifery Unit at Baystate.
Professional Society
Michael Yunes, MD, FACR, Associate Professor of Radiology
Dr. Yunes was named to the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) Payer Relations Subcommittee in addition to his Ex Officio Education Committee position.
Publications
Kimberley Geissler, PhD, Associate Professor of Healthcare Delivery and Population Sciences
Dr. Geissler recently had "Associations of Medicaid Accountable Care Organizations with Disparities in Pediatric Asthma Care" accepted to JAMA Pediatrics.
Podcasts
Kathryn Jobbins, DO, MS, FACP, Associate Professor of Medicine
Dr. Jobbins was recently a featured guest on two podcasts:
Vital Signs: Thriving as a Woman in Medicine with Diane W. Shannon, MD, MPH, Drs. Jobbins & Shannon investigate the causes, costs, and solutions for perfectionism.
Reinventing the White Coat with Dr. Jennifer Shaer, Dr. Jobbins discusses well-being and what she and Baystate Health are doing to support this both on the individual and system level.
August 2024
View August's Faculty Spotlight here.
Oral Presentations
Natalya Maharaj, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Dr. Maharaj was invited to present at the national Pediatric Hospital Medicine Conference in Minneapolis, MN on August 3, 2024. Her platform presentation entitled "'Harriet Lane's Revenge' - An Escape Room to Improve the Pediatric Resident Admission Process" reviewed a fun, creative, and innovative educational approach to improving the process of pediatric admissions from history-taking to medication reconciliation implemented at Baystate last July. The associated study demonstrated a profound effect on perceptions of quality and accuracy of inpatient pediatric admissions.
Professional Society
Sidak Pannu, MD, Assistant Professor of Radiology
Dr. Pannu was named a member of the RadExam Editorial Board Committee by the American Academy of Radiology.
Publications
Kenneth Bujold, DO, MS, FAAP, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Dr. Bujold recently had “Givosiran for the Treatment of Pediatric Acute Intermittent Porphyria” accepted by the Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology.
Jessie Dorne, PA, Instructor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Jessie Dorne co-wrote the article "Addressing the Unmet Need of Sexual Health in Oncology Patients," in the Association of Cancer Care Center’s (ACCC) Oncology Issues.
Sajjad Hassan, MD, Assistant Professor of Pathology
Dr. Hassan was second author on " Neutrophil Antigen Antibodies Affect Engraftment and Secondary Graft Failure in Hematopoietic Progenitor Cell Transplantation,” published in The Journal of Association for the Advancement of Blood & Biotherapies (AABB).
Dr. Hassan was also second author on “Performance of Two Modified Two-Tier Algorithms for the Serologic Diagnosis of Lyme Disease,” published in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology.
July 2024
Grants
Mustafa Barbhuiya, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pathology
Dr. Barbhuiya was the recipient of the Early Career Professional in Pathology of Clinical Sciences’ travel grant from the Association of Clinical Scientists. This program is designed to encourage professionals early in their career to attend the Association of Clinical Scientists annual meeting, share their research, and network with senior membership.
Jennifer E. Jones, MD; Howard Smithline, MD; Elizabeth Schoenfeld, MD, MS
Drs. Jones, Smithline, and Schoenfeld were each recipients of the inaugural UMass Chan-Baystate Emergency Medicine Pilot/New Research Projects (PNRP) grant. Dr. Jones’ grant is for ‘Adapting a Layperson Hemorrhage Control Training Program to the Peruvian Amazon: An Action Research Study.’ Dr. Smithline’s grant is for ‘Alcohol Use Disorder Emergency Department Treatment Feasibility Study.’ Dr. Schoenfeld’s grant is for ‘Shared Decision-Making without Shared Language.’
Oral Presentations
Vanessa Ross, MSN, CNM, WHNP, MSCP, Instructor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Dr. Ross presented a webinar “Timing is Everything: What Every Midwife Needs to Know about Hormone Therapy in Perimenopause, Menopause, and Beyond,” for the American College of Nurse Midwives (ACNM). The webinar is now available as a continuing education course on the ACNM online learning platform.
Jessica Wozniak, PsyD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Dr. Wozniak Wozniak presented “Trauma Treatment through Beyonce and Beethoven: Using Music as a Tool for Engagement,” at the 4th International Child Abuse and Neglect Congress in Leuven Belgium.
Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) annual meeting presentations
Many faculty members from the Department of Emergency Medicine at UMass Chan-Baystate presented at the 2024 SAEM annual meeting, the premier forum for the presentation of original education and research in academic emergency medicine. See the list of presenters below:
- Rebecca Barron, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
Future Directions in Research on Violence Against Women (VAW). This didactic/abstract highlighted the relevance of specific VAW topics in the ED ranging from intimate partner violence screening to trauma recovery centers. - Tala Elia, MD, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine
Pathways to Parity: Navigating Financial and Nonfinancial Compensation. This didactic discussed how to address a significant unmet need in academic emergency medicine: achieving gender equity. - Lauren McNickle, MD, Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellow
Provider Perspectives on Respiratory Pathogen Testing. The objective of this study was to examine the current use of RPPs in academic pediatric emergency (PEM) departments, with a focus on PEM clinicians' attitudes towards the perceived utility of these tests. - Elizabeth Schoenfeld, MD, MS, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine
Talk About It (TAI) — Medications for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD) in the ED. TAI is a conversation aid developed with clinicians and people with lived experience to address individual and interpersonal barriers to initiation of MOUD. - Howard Smithline, MD, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine
Evaluating a Novel Rapid Sepsis Test Measuring Leucocyte Biophysical Properties in Suspected Sepsis. The objective was to evaluate the accuracy of sepsis diagnosis using the a rapid assessment of sepsis probability test in ED patients. - Natalie Strokes, DO, MS, Instructor of Emergency Medicine
Words Matter: Destigmatizing the Language of Medicine; Abstract: Safer Smokes: Developing Harm Reduction for ED patients who use crack/cocaine. The didactic reviewed the current research regarding how stigmatizing language from health care providers contributes to mistrust and poor outcomes. Participants received the tools needed to incorporate the principles of inclusive language into their current practice, teaching, and research. - William Soares, MD, MS, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
Social Vulnerability Predicts buprenorphine Retention in People with an Opioid Related ED Visit; Association of State Legislation and Guideline Congruent Opioid Prescribing for ED Patients; Association of Future Opioid Prescriptions with State Opioid Legislation for Patients with Low. This study uses a national claims database to evaluate the relationship between social vulnerability and buprenorphine treatment retention in people with an opioid-related ED visit. - Lauren Westafer, DO, MPH, MS, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
Trends in Initial Anticoagulation Among Patients Hospitalized with Acute Pulmonary Embolism Between 2011-2020; Clinician Insights into an Audit-Feedback Strategy to De-Implement Low-Value Evaluation for Pulmonary Embolism. This study is aimed to explore nationwide trends and characteristics of initial anticoagulation management among hospitalized patients with a diagnosis of acute PE. - Jeannette Wolfe, MD, Professor of Emergency Medicine
Co-lead the SAEM RAMS Phoenix Hunt (ADIEM, AWAEM, RAMS and Sex & Gender in EM Interest Group) at the 2024 Annual SAEM Meeting. This unique experience allows residency programs to compete against each other while exploring Phoenix and testing their knowledge about unique aspects of emergency medicine.
Professional Society
Benjamin Freda, DO, Assistant Professor of Medicine
Dr. Freda was appointed Secretary for the Society of Hospital Medicine Interhospital Transfer Special Interest Group.
Mustafa Barbhuiya, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pathology
Dr. Barbhuiya was appointed as Guest Academic Editor for Public Library of Science (PLOS) Global Public Health. PLOS Global Public Health is an Open Access journal for diverse research addressing global public health challenges and inequities.
Dr. Barbhuiya was also elected as a member of the Association of Clinical Scientists’ Executive Committee (2024-2026) and appointed as their Newsletter Editor.
Publications
Nimish N. Shah, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine
Dr. Shah published “Pragmatic Trial of Messaging to Providers About Treatment of Hyperlipidemia (PTOMPT-LIPID): A Randomized Clinical Trial,” in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes. The team researched whether real-time, targeted, individualized Electronic Health Record (EHR) alerts led to increased lipid-lowering therapy among patients with very high-risk atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. Although the primary outcome did not meet statistical significance, there was numerically greater lipid lowering therapy intensification among the group receiving EHR alerts, and >2-fold increase in lipid lowering therapy intensification among clinicians who did not dismiss the alert. EHR alerts such as these may be a strategy to help address significant gaps in lipid lowering therapy intensification among patients with very high-risk ASCVD.
June 2024
Publications
Eduardo Núñez, MD, MS, Assistant Professor of Healthcare Delivery & Population Sciences and Medicine at UMass Chan-Baystate.
Dr. Núñez was first author on “"It Can't Hurt!": Why Many Patients with Limited Life Expectancy Decide to Accept Lung Cancer Screening,” published in Annals of Family Medicine. Co-authors were Rendelle E. Bolton, PhD, MPH, MA; Jacqueline H. Boudreau, MPH; Samantha K. Sliwinski, MPH; Abigail N. Herbst, MPH; Lauren E. Kearney, MD; Tanner J. Caverly, MD, MPH; and Renda Soylemez Wiener, MD, MPH.
Dr. Núñez was also first author on “Review of interventions that improve uptake of lung cancer screening: a cataloging of strategies that have been shown to work (or not),” published in Chest. Co-authors were Mayuko Ito Fukunaga, Gregg A Stevens, James K Yang, Sarah E Reid, Jennifer L Spiegel, Molly R Ingemi, and Renda Soylemez Wiener.
Oral Presentations
Carolyn Garcia, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine at UMass Chan-Baystate.
Dr. Garcia recently presented “Long-term Outcomes Associated with the Super-Exacerbator Phenotype in COPD at the American Thoracic Society’s (ATS) annual meeting. Co-authors: Aruna Priya, MA, MSc; Penelope Pekow, PhD; Eduardo Núñez, MD, MS; Yael Tarshish, MD; Peter Lindenauer, MD, MSc. Dr. Garcia also received Subspecialty Teacher of the Year from the Internal Medicine Residency Program at UMass Chan-Baystate.
Additional presentations from this year’s ATS conference included:
“Trajectory of patients admitted to a hospital with a COPD exacerbation after enrolling in hospice.” Authors: Yael Tarshish, MD; Aruna Priya, PhD(c), MA, MSc; Eduardo Núñez, MD, MS; Carolyn Garcia, MD; Penelope S. Pekow, PhD; Peter K. Lindenauer, MD, MSc
“Association of income with long-term survival following hospitalization for chronic obstructive lung disease.” Authors: Eduardo R. Núñez, MD, MS; Aruna Priya, PhD(c), MA, MSc; Penelope Pekow, PhD; Carolyn Garcia, MD; Yael Tarshish MD; Peter K. Lindenauer, MD, MSc
April 2024
Oral Presentations
Sundeep M. Shukla, MD, MBA, FACEP, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Healthcare Delivery & Population Sciences at UMass Chan-Baystate.
Dr. Shukla presented two posters at the New England Regional Meeting of the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine on April 2, 2024 in Worcester, MA; Pilot Emergency Callback Program and The Baystate Noble Fast Track: Assessment of the addition of a fast track to decrease low acuity walkouts: A Quality Improvement Project.
Natalie Strokes, DO, MS, Instructor of Emergency Medicine at UMass Chan-Baystate.
Dr. Strokes, currently a Health Equity Fellow in the Department of Emergency Medicine, was invited to be a plenary speaker, presenting her team’s project, “Safer Smokes: Developing Harm Reduction for ED Patients Who Use Crack/Cocaine” at the New England Regional Meeting of the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine (Also known as the New England Research Directors Meeting, or NERDS).
Professional Societies
Benjamin Freda, DO, Assistant Professor of Medicine at UMass Chan-Baystate.
Dr. Freda has been appointed secretary for the Society of Hospital Medicine’s National Inter-Hospital Transfer Group. He says the role will allow him to work closely and collaborate with hospitalists nationwide on common challenges they face in the area of capacity and care delivery of patients transferred with a health system.
March 2024
Awards/Honors
Kenneth Knowles, MD, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at UMass Chan-Baystate.
The Western Massachusetts Emergency Medical Service Regional Council has voted Dr. Kenneth Knowles as their new Regional Medical Director.
Jessica Wozniak, PsyD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at UMass Chan-Baystate.
Awarded the One Mission Justice Award from the Hampden County Coalition for advocacy, contributions, and dedication to supporting those who have experienced trafficking and exploitation.
Michael Yunes, MD, FACR, Associate Professor of Radiology at UMass Chan-Baystate.
Awarded an accelerated Fellowship in the American College of Radiation Oncology. These fellowships are usually restricted to members with 10 years or more of membership but due to Dr. Yunes' academic accomplishments he was awarded an early fellowship prior to the usual ten years.
Oral Presentations
Kate Atkinson, MD, FAAFP, Assistant Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health at UMass Chan.
Dr. Atkinson presented “Navigating the Complexities of the U.S. Healthcare System as a Family Physician and as a Women Business Leader” to the Amherst Woman’s Club. The presentation included the complexities of navigating the US health insurance system to try to provide the best possible medical care to individuals in a community, her decision to offer a Concierge Medical practice option, the experience of being a woman business leader in a small town, and her hopes for a global change in our health care delivery system.
Mustafa A. Barbhuiya, MSc, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pathology at UMass Chan-Baystate.
Dr. Barbhuiya was invited to present “Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia (HIT) testing, method selections and dilemma of confirmatory testing," at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the Association of Clinical Scientists in Jacksonville Beach, Florida. The primary area of CE/CME of this abstract is Hematology and Coagulation. The secondary area of CE/CME is Clinical and Diagnostic Immunology.
Ethan Eisdorfer, PsyD, Assistant Professor of Family Medicine at UMass Chan-Baystate and
Nathan Macedo, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Family Medicine at UMass Chan-Baystate.
Drs. Eisdorfer and Macedo presented “Meeting the Needs of Adults with ADHD in Primary Care,“ at the Spring Conference of the Massachusetts Academy of Family Physicians in Boston, MA.
Corina Schoen, MD, Associate Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology at UMass Chan-Baystate.
Dr. Schoen was chosen to speak at the Society of Maternal Fetal Medicine national meeting as an expert on labor induction, addressing controversies in this area of obstetric practice. She will go on to present in Parma, Italy in March at the "Update on Labour & Delivery" meeting as an invited speaker addressing difficult cases of labor induction.
Michael Tirabassi, MD, Associate Professor of Surgery at UMass Chan-Baystate.
Work investigating the association between pediatric motor vehicle collision patients' higher rate of re-hospitalization and the social vulnerability index, for which Dr. Tirabassi is the primary investigator, was presented at the Academic Surgical Congress 2024. This work is being expanded to a multi-center study with the ultimate goal of improving patient outcomes through development of a targeted post-discharge support plan.
Additionally, Dr. Tirabassi was the senior author on “Success in the national care of pediatric trauma patients,” published in the Journal of Pediatric Surgery Open.
Jeffrey Wint, MD, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Surgery at UMass Chan-Baystate.
Dr. Wint presented "Approaches to symptoms of pathophysiology in hand specialty care," on January 18, 2024. Hand P Panel Discussion with a combined panel of the American Society for Surgery of the Hand (ASSH) Quality, Access, and Metrics Committee and the ASSH Business of Hand Committee.
Jessica Wozniak, PsyD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at UMass Chan-Baystate.
Lecture provided for over 500 professionals as part of the Association of Child and Adolescent Mental Health, United Kingdom. “Trauma Treatment by Beethoven and Beyoncé: Incorporating Music as a Tool for Engagement in Evidence-Based Treatments for Child Trauma.”
Additionally, Dr. Wozniak presented “From Mandated Reporting to Meaningful Supporting: How Multidisciplinary Teams Can Engage Caregivers,” at The 39th Annual San Diego International Conference on Child and Family Maltreatment.
January 2024
Awards/Honors
Mary Paterno, PhD, CNM,
Awarded the Excellence in Scientific Peer Review Award from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Ranked in the top 10% of reviewers for Obstetrics & Gynecology in 2023, among 1142 peer reviewers.
Oral Presentations
Daniel Engelman, MD, Professor of Surgery at UMass Chan-Baystate.
Dr. Engelman is the founder and President of the Enhanced Recovery After Cardiac Surgery (ERAS® Cardiac) International Nonprofit Society, with a mission to standardize evidence based best practices in perioperative care. In 2019, he was the first author on an international team to write the first consensus guidelines for cardiac surgical perioperative care in Jama Surgery. An updated expert consensus manuscript, officially endorsed by the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS), will be published in the Annals of Thoracic Surgery and presented by Dr. Engelman at the STS Annual Meeting on January 28, 2024. He is the Senior author of this manuscript.
Elizabeth Peacock-Chambers, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Healthcare Delivery & Population Sciences at UMass Chan-Baystate.
Chaired a panel entitled "Lessons Learned When Scaling Interventions and Policy for Families Affected by Substance Use Disorders" at the 16th Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation in Health. In this panel, Dr. Peacock-Chambers also presented on “Acceptability and Feasibility of a Train-the-Trainer Model for Implementation of a Parenting Intervention."
Lauren Westafer, DO, MPH, MS, FACEP Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Healthcare Delivery & Population Sciences at UMass Chan-Baystate.
Presented "Advancing the Quality of Healthcare for LGBTQAI+ Patients" at the University of Vermont's Emergency Medicine Update 2024
Publications
Lauren Westafer, DO, MPH, MS; Samantha Beck, BS; Caty Simon; Benjamin Potee, BA; William E. Soares, MD, MS; Elizabeth Schoenfeld, MD, MS
Published “Barriers and Facilitators to Harm Reduction for Opioid Use Disorder: A Qualitative Study of People With Lived Experience,” in the Annals of Emergency Medicine.
Past Faculty Achievements
December 2023
Awards/Honors
Kristina Kramer, MD, Assistant Professor of Surgery at UMass Chan-Baystate.
Chosen for the Future Trauma Leaders Program through the American College of Surgeons (ACS) Committee on Trauma (COT). The program is a 2-year commitment with opportunities to work with leaders in the field of trauma and acute care surgery, have individualized mentorship, involvement in projects and COT committees, and funding to attend multiple conferences. It is a unique way for the ACS COT to offer an in-depth training and mentoring opportunity to early career trauma and acute care surgeons.
John Romanelli, MD, Professor of Surgery at UMass Chan-Baystate.
Awarded the annual Excellence in Medical Leadership Award from the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES) Foundation. The purpose of this scholarship is to optimize one’s impact in the medical industry so they can deliver sustainable results driven by their greatest capabilities and purpose as a leader by exposing one SAGES member to the leading minds in leadership development, strategy, management, and execution.
Oral Presentations
Flannery Merideth, MD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at UMass Chan-Baystate presented "Sherlock Holmes-ing it: C-L Psychiatrists as Neuropsychiatric Detectives Across the Lifespan" with Drs. Becker, Nicolson, and Sivaraman at the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry's annual meeting in Austin, TX.
Dr. Merideth also presented "N-Acetyl-Cysteine in the Treatment of Refractory Psychiatric Symptoms Across the Lifespan with Drs. Ratnakaran, Noufi, Kilciksiz, and Winston.
David B. Tashijan, MD, Associate Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics at UMass Chan-Baystate.
Presented a lecture "Transition to Practice, Navigating your Niche" at the Pediatric Surgery Fellows course hosted at American Academy of Pediatrics (APP) national meeting.
Society Leadership
Sukey Krause, CNM, MSN, FACNM, Assistant Professor Obstetrics & Gynecology at UMass Chan-Baystate.
Appointed Criterion 3 Subcommittee Chair of the Accreditation Criterion Revision Committee for the Accreditation Commission of Midwifery Education (ACME).
David B. Tashijan, MD, Associate Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics at UMass Chan-Baystate.
Appointed as a Massachusetts Representative to the GME & Candidate Membership Committee for the New England Surgical Society.
October 2023
Oral Presentations
Harry Hoar, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at UMass Chan-Baystate.
Dr. Hoar served as Co-Chair of the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine's National Meeting 10/8 - 10/12/23 in Cleveland. During the meeting he served as a moderator for several sessions including: the "Diagnostic Quality Improvement Summit," "Keynote Address by CNN's Jake Tapper and Alice Paul Tapper," and "The Future of Diagnosis." In addition, he presented the closing plenary for the conference: "Clinical Problem Solving in Action." At the conclusion of the meeting, he was asked to serve as the Lead Chair for the 2024 meeting.
Publications
Abdallah Alameddine, MD, Assistant Professor of Surgery at UMass Chan-Baystate.
A book chapter entitled "Systems Biology Modeling of Cancer Nonlinear Dynamics" will be published next December by Springer Nature publishing company. "Not unlike the climate or what holds the galaxies and planetary motions together, cancer biology has an intrinsic nonlinear dynamic. In this chapter, we outline how to connect temporal measurements of a nonlinear dynamical and unstable complex system, such as cancer, with well-established engineering/mathematical methods, old and new, that are applied and approximately solved by linear dynamical models," says Dr. Alameddine.
Eduardo R. Nunez, MD, MS, Assistant Professor of Medicine and Healthcare Delivery & Population Sciences at UMass Chan-Baystate.
First Author "What Goes into Patient Selection for Lung Cancer Screening? Factors Associated with Clinician Judgments of Suitability for Screening" published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. This work highlights the need for evidence-based guidance and point-of-care decision support to aid clinicians in optimizing lung cancer screening patient selection to maximize benefits and minimize potential harms. Additionally, this work earned an invitation to be presented as a plenary session at the 2023 American Thoracic Society International Conference.
September 2023
Awards/Honors
Donna Jackson-Kohlin, MSN, CNM, Assistant Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology at UMass Chan-Baystate.
Awarded the Baystate Health's 2023 APP Advocacy Excellence Award for work with incarcerated women improving care, proactive guidelines, policies including breastfeeding, and reproductive rights including sterilization and contraception.
Jain Lattes, MSN, CNM, PMHNP, Instructor of Obstetrics & Gynecology at UMass Chan-Baystate.
Awarded the Baystate Health's 2023 APP Outstanding Achievement Award for Community Outreach.
Wael N. Sayej, MD, MBA, FAAP, Associate Professor of Pediatrics at UMass Chan-Baystate.
Awarded the U.S. Food & Drug Administration Office of Pediatric Therapeutics' 2023 Pediatric Advisory Committee Service Award. This award is presented in appreciation for leadership, service, and dedication to the Pediatric Advisory Committee.
External Grants
Elizabeth Schoenfeld, MD, MS, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Healthcare Delivery & Population Sciences at UMass Chan-Baystate.
Received an R34 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) for a 3 year project entitled “Conversations can save lives: TALKing About Buprenorphine & Methadone for Opioid Use Treatment Initiation (TALK ABOUT It).” This project, which continues work started via an Office of Research RPAP grant, refines and tests a decision aid aimed at helping ED clinicians and patients talk about options for the treatment of opioid use disorder, such as starting methadone or buprenorphine. Other key personnel include William Soares, MD, Lauren Westafer, DO, MPH, MS and Peter Friedmann, MD, MPH.
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.
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.
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 "Midwives Safeguarding Abortion Access; Establishing Medication Abortion Services,” in the Journal of Midwifery and Women's Health.
August 2023
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
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
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