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Announcements
Upcoming Meet the Author Event at UMass
May 9, 2024, 5:30pm, UMass Chan Medical School - Lazare Auditorium
Worcester District Medical Society and the Lamar Soutter Library are proud to offer this Meet the Author Event featuring Dr. Sunita Puri. Dr. Sunita Puri is the Program Director of the UMass Chan Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship and Associate Professor of medicine. A graduate of Yale and a Rhodes Scholar, she completed medical school and residency in internal medicine at UCSF and her palliative medicine fellowship at Stanford. She is a contributor to the NY Times, LA Times, and JAMA. She is the author of That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour, a critically acclaimed literary memoir examining her journey to the practice of palliative medicine, and her quest to help patients and families redefine what it means to live and die well in the face of a serious illness.
Please RSVP here.
UMass Memorial Children’s Medical Center is hosting a Teddy Bear Clinic on
May 18th, 2024. This year’s Teddy Bear Clinic is sure to be an exciting adventure that kids will love. Not only will they get to learn more about the doctor's office but also meet some educational professionals who will help teach them about proper hygiene and healthy habits. If you are interested in hosting a booth, please fill out the form here: https://forms.office.com/r/QhusB1NXCw. Please note, all booth volunteers who are not already UMass Memorial employees will need to be onboarded by our volunteer services group and will need to be pre-registered with UMass Chan to be on site. If you have any questions or would like to talk more about the Teddy Bear Clinic, please feel free to reach out to Alison.LeBlanc@umassmemorial.org.
Announcing the second annual Thomas Zand Lecture: Dr. Marc Altshuler, Professor of Family Medicine at Jefferson University is one of the national leaders in refugee health and primary care. He established resident-based refugee health clinic, helped lead the development of Philadelphia Refugee Health Collaborative, and most recently partnered with a community-based organization to develop a dedicated primary care clinic for newly arriving refugees. Dr. Altshuler will give a Grand Rounds lecture on 5/21 12-1pm at Hiatt Auditorium on academic-community partnership and opportunities faculty and learners have in impacting refugee health. There will be a community celebration on 5/20 6-8pm at 18 Chestnut Street (entrance from 1 Maple St.) Worcester, where Dr. Altshuler will meet the Worcester refugee and refugee-serving community to lead a discussion around community engagement and support for newly arriving refugee families. RSVP to olga@worcesterrise.org
The next meeting of the FM POCUS Workgroup is May 30th from 7:00-8:00am.
The workgroup has recently re-launched with an aim to improve collaboration around POCUS clinical and educational efforts. All are welcome. Please email
erin.cathcart@umassmemorial.org if you are interested in joining!
Please complete the 2024 POCUS Needs Assessment at the link below. The survey is intended to gather additional data about the current state of POCUS within FMCH and be used to guide future work. The survey is IRB exemption approved. It will likely take 10-15 minutes to complete.
https://umassmed.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_2craREY8JQIwk6y
The primary care seminar series on Global Health will feature family physician, Dr. Jeff Markuns on June 11th, 6-8pm in the Faculty Conference Room. Dr. Markuns is the Executive Director of the Global Health Collaborative at the Department of Family Medicine, Boston University and has done extensive work in promoting primary care globally including through collaborations in Vietnam and Lesotho around Family Medicine residency training and Primary Care centers development as well as through his recent role as the Executive Director of Primary Health Care Performance Initiative (https://improvingphc.org) where he supported a multinational, multiorganization effort including Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, World Bank, WHO, etc., in development outcome measures to address primary care shortages world-wide. A clinician, teacher and advocate of primary care globally, Dr. Markuns is passionate about sharing the role clinicians can play in promoting and advocating for primary care world-wide. RSVP to olga.valdman2@umassmed.edu.
The Gender Affirming Care Learning Collaborative (GAC-LC) is sponsored by the UMass Chan Department of Family Medicine and Community Health (FMCH) and Co-Led by Melissa Gleckel, MD, and Amber Cahill, PsyD, who will be joined by visiting expert faculty across the UMass system. The purpose of the GAC-LC is to provide primary care clinicians within the UMass community a place to learn about the foundations of providing gender affirming care to adults from faculty peers and experts. The goal is to fuse silos of knowledge and enhance interdisciplinary, cross-system, and collaborative care to meet the needs of our gender diverse and transgender community in Central Massachusetts. The GAC-LC will offer a 6-session Foundations in Gender Affirming Care for Adults series that includes monthly 60-minute virtual meetings (typically first Wednesday of the month, 12:15-1:15). Each session will offer 1-hour of CME credits, sponsored by the New England AIDS Education & Training Center; https://www.neaetc.org/.
See announcement for more information
How to Register:
See GAC-LC Annoucement for additional information.
ForHealth Consulting, a division of UMass Chan Medical School, is conducting an evaluation of the 1115 Medicaid waiver programs. One of the programs is about workforce incentive initiatives including student loan repayment program, residency grant program, etc. The evaluation needs to assess the impact of these financial incentives on primary care clinicians and behavioral health providers to work and stay at community health centers. The evaluation team plans to conduct a survey among clinicians (and prospective clinicians) about financial and non-financial incentives that are impactful on their choices of workplace. To develop the survey, the evaluation team hopes to have a brief discussion during the next 2-3 weeks with 3-5 primary and BH clinicians and/or graduating students about the relevance of incentive scenarios. It will take 10-15 minutes. If you’d like to contribute to this process and/or to share your opinion by email, please contact Yara Halasa-Rappel, PhD, DMD.
(yara.halasarappel@umassmed.edu). Your information will allow the evaluator to gather information that the State Medicaid agency may consider to combat the issue of provider shortages. Thanks for your interest!
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