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The Tar Wars program is operated by the American
Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) and teaches
fourth- and fifth-grade students about the dangers of
tobacco.
Created in 1988, the program takes place in classrooms
across the U.S. and is run completely by volunteer
educators.
Here in Wichita, our medical students are those
volunteers. In particular, the students in the Family
Medicine Interest Group (FMIG).
Third-year medical student Whitney Weixelman, FMIG
secretary, serves on the national Tar Wars Medical
Advisory committee, which advises AAFP Health of the
Public and Science staff on administration and
development of the Tar Wars activities and programs.
These panel members serve a one-year term and the
panel includes only one medical student representative.
The FMIG students recently held an educational session
at Magdalen Elementary where they were able to use
pig and human lungs to demonstrate how tobacco
affects them.
First-year student Kurtis Klecan shows the effects of tobacco smoke
on a pig’s lung at Magdalen Elementary.
Reports are that the presentations are going great and
the kids are being interactive (especially when it comes
to feeling the lungs).
Their goal is to present to all Wichita-area elementary
schools before April 2015.
If you’re interested in learning more about Tar Wars,
visit their website.
They also presented a session to Washington
Elementary fourth-graders just this week.
There’s still room for you in the Riverfest Parade!
Don’t miss out on this fun event. Call me at 293-3534
or email me at [email protected] to reserve a
spot. Remember, it’s a walking entry and you’ll be
required to wear a costume consisting of a T-shirt
and Jayhawk mask.
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Public AFFAIRS
Join the next KU Pride casual day for the KU Cares campaign
Wednesday, May 21. With supervisor’s approval, you may wear
jeans to work if you purchased a year pass or by purchasing a
sticker for $2.50 in human resources. All proceeds benefit KU
Cares organizations. For more information, contact Jennica King
at 293-3535 or [email protected].
Noon to 1:30 p.m.
Tuesday, May 13
Roberts Amphitheater
Connie Marsh, M.D.
Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences clinical associate professor
KU School of Medicine–Wichita
Did you miss the April 8 lecture about suicide prevention with Dr. Susan Carr?
FREE audio recordings and notes are available online within a week after each lecture.
Is there a special event happening in your department? Do you know a student who has an
interesting hobby, or who has made a significant accomplishment?
Are you involved in community outreach? An educational program? A hands-on workshop or
training session?
Public affairs wants to know about any and all of these events. There are a variety of ways we
can publicize events and accomplishments in the school, but we can’t promote them if we don’t
know they’re happening.
Though not every event is going to catch the attention of the media, we can still promote your
event through one of our social media accounts, our monthly community newsletter, or by writing
our own feature story for the school’s website.
Keep us informed. Drop us an email and tell us what’s happening. We’ll share the good news.
Appreciation at Work
10 a.m. to noon OR 2 to 4 p.m.
Tuesday, May 13
According to a recent study, 65 percent of North Americans report that they received no
recognition or appreciation at their workplace in the past year. Join us for a special two-hour
version of “Appreciation at Work” training, based on the best-selling book, “The 5 Languages of
Appreciation in the Workplace.” You will quickly learn how to effectively communicate
appreciation and encouragement to others at any level of the organization. Contact Crystal
Nevins at [email protected] to sign up.
Need to renew your Sam’s Club membership? Take advantage of the state employee discount
through the STAR program. Learn more on the discount flier.
We are excited to announce the State Employee Health Plan transition to providing your open
enrollment materials exclusively on the KDHE website beginning with Plan Year 2015. Not only is
the online material conveniently accessible 24/7, this move will positively impact our environment
by reducing our carbon footprint.
For Plan Year 2015, members that would like to receive printed materials can simply go to
www.surveymonkey.com/s/OEmaterials and complete the required fields by Friday, May 2.
Success Academy is a professional development program
developed specifically for KU and covers topics such as goal
setting, dealing with difficult situations, and effective
communication skills. Participants will attend one all-day
session each month for three months. This program has been
very successful on the KUMC campus and will be offered here on the Wichita campus beginning
in September 2014. Get more information. Supervisors/managers should email a list of their
employees who want to attend to Crystal Nevins in HR by June 30.
HUMAN RESOURCES
The next KU Pride is Tuesday, May 13. Join us at 9 a.m. in the Sunflower Room to learn more
about public affairs. Breakfast will be provided.
Family & Community Medicine
FM residency faculty
Geriatrician (2 FTEs)
Instructor
Research faculty
Residency pediatrician
Internal Medicine
Ambulatory care/general
internal medicine (3 FTEs)
Clerkship director/neurologist
Gastroenterologist (2 FTEs)
Hospitalist (4 FTEs)
Medical Sciences
Assistant/associate professor
of anatomy
Staff
PMPH
Clinician investigator
ASA
Standardized Patient pool
Student services coordinator
Psychiatry
Chair
Child and adolescent
psychiatrist
IT Services
Support specialist
Office of Research
Senior scientist/director of
Mid-Continent Center for
Outcomes and Health
Services Research
HR
Faculty
Psychiatry
Fellow
Research assistant/clinical
research coordinator
For more information,
contact Stacey Hawkins,
human resources, 293-1868,
or [email protected]. For
a complete and up-to-date
listing, click on JOB
VACANCIES.
New exhibit coming soon.
For more information about the William J. Reals Gallery of Art, contact Jennifer Eaton at
293-3534 or [email protected].
Art Galleries
“Mother and Son”
An exhibit by Linda Jordan and Howard Levy
Photographs and paintings
April 10 to May 30
Birthdays
May 1
Michael Scheve
Mary Spachek
May 2
Charese Dakhil
Nam Dinh
Yolanda Lewis
May 3
Sheldon Preskorn
Stephanie Shields
May 4
Janna Chibry
Jill Longstaff
May 5
Jennifer Baas
Sean Jahansooz
Marty Runge
May 6
Keith Brewer
Christopher Hubener
Lance Larson
Michael Lemon
Christa Morgan
Ronald Nold, Jr.
Peds
May 7
Gerald Drocton, III
Scott Moser
Donnita Pelser
David Smith
May 8
Dawn Boender
Emily Lawson
Meggan Linck
Jeffrey Shepherd
Darcie Spresser
May 9
Vanessa Montano
Maddisen Moutray-Means
Kyle Renner
Justin Walden
May 10
Michael Cowan
Julie Slade
Dixie Thomas
May 11
Nicholas Cahoj
Anthony Downs
Michael Haden
Clive Lusk
May 12
Thomas Greaves
Lisa Longhofer
Hasmet Uner
May 13
Linda Jordan
Sue Kennedy
Sapna Shah-Haque
Donnita Pelser, medical student education administrator, received the
Excellence in Clerkship Administration award from the Council on Medical
Student Education in Pediatrics (COMSEP) on March 27 at their annual
meeting in Ottawa, Canada.
Donnita, along with co-director Gretchen Shawver of Stanford School of
Medicine, is also now leading the Medical Education and Clerkship
Administrator Certification Program for the Association of American Medical Colleges’ (AAMC)
Central Group on Educational Affairs (CGEA). They have held workshops for the AAMC Western
Group on Educational Affairs, COMSEP, KU Medical Center, and KU School of Medicine–
Wichita. They have additional workshops scheduled for CGEA, University of Arizona, Creighton
University, University of Virginia, and Johns Hopkins University in the next year.
The study will focus on those within the African-American community with low levels of activity
and who experience pain and discomfort when walking.
Participants will be compensated. For more information, call 316-293-3567 or 913-588-4009.
We are looking for African-American women 60 and older to participate in a research study about
how diet and exercise affects peripheral arterial disease.
If you have been diagnosed with high blood pressure, diabetes, and/or high cholesterol, and/or
you are a current or former smoker, you may qualify for the study.
Recruits should call Michelle Redmond, Ph.D., at 316-293-1813 or email
[email protected].
PMPH holds a monthly noon series titled Research in Progress (RiP). This series is part of an
effort to engage faculty throughout the school and locally in research ideas originating from
PMPH faculty. It offers an opportunity for collaboration and development of research ideas. RiP is
held the 4th Tuesday of every month at noon.
The next session is May 27 in the Roberts Conference Center.
If you are faculty interested in research, please join RiP. You are welcome to bring your lunch.
LaVonda Cash, accountant I, recently won several ribbons from the
Wichita Daffodil Society for her garden flowers. Prizes included
first, second, and third place.
PMPH
The KU School of Medicine–Wichita is looking for persons with Peripheral Arterial Disease
(PAD) to participate in a study examining poor leg circulation.
ASA
Help us welcome the Class of 2016 to Wichita by attending the Introphase picnic at Eberly
Farm. Introphase has been moved to May due to changes in the academic calendar. Also, the
picnic will start earlier this year to allow attendees more time to enjoy the fun activities such as the
petting zoo and hayrack rides.
Doors will open at 4 p.m., dinner will be served at 5 p.m., the presentation will begin at 6
p.m., and the doors will close at 8:30 p.m. In addition to a delicious meal, we’ll have our annual
presentation by Dr. Minns to introduce each medical student in the Class of 2016.
There is indoor seating with AC or outdoor seating available for dinner. This fun, annual event is
open to all faculty, staff, residents, and medical students and their families, and it is FREE.
4 to 8:30 p.m.
Wednesday, May 28
Eberly Farm, 13111 W. 21st North
Facilities
Please RSVP before May 14.
Facilities management will host a closed bid public surplus auction from 10 a.m. Monday, May 5,
through noon Wednesday, May 7. Things up for auction include an assortment of desks,
shelves, filing cabinets, and other miscellaneous office furniture. The items will be located in the
basement hallway leading to the storage area under Roberts Amphitheater.
The auction items will be assigned an item tag number by 3 p.m. Friday, May 2, for those who
would like to preview what is available for bidding.
Facilities reserves the right to reassign tag numbers and/or remove or add items to the
auction inventory prior to the start of the auction at 10 a.m. Monday, May 5.
There will be a minimum bid of $2 on all items unless otherwise posted. All bids must be sealed
and include your name, auction tag number, offering price for each item(s), department, daytime
phone number, and email address. Envelopes and bid sheets will be provided at the facilities front
desk for your convenience. Please deliver or send your sealed bid to the facilities front office by
noon Wednesday, May 7. If bids are sent via interoffice mail and not received before the deadline,
they will be considered void. Open, verbal, or emailed bids will not be accepted.
Notification to the winning bidder will be completed by phone or email no later than 10 a.m.
Thursday, May 8. All items sold in the auction must be paid for and removed from the facility by
noon Tuesday, May 13.
Items removed are the responsibility of the purchaser, and maintenance personnel will only be
available to assist on a limited basis with prior arrangements with facilities.
Please submit payment to the facilities office. If paying in cash, please have the exact amount.
Checks should be made out to KUSM–W. Credit card payments are also accepted.
When removing auction items from the building please be ready to present your paid receipt for
the tagged item if requested.
If you have any questions, contact facilities management at [email protected] or 293-2625.
Please see our research website for more details.
The Kansas Health Foundation issued a Request for Proposal (RFP) that will support
implementation of evidence-based strategies related to healthy eating, active living, and tobacco
prevention. For additional information, including the RFP, visit http://kansashealth.org/
healthylivinggrants.
Janice Koster
April 30
Susan Carr
May 1
Sid Sivamurthy
May 1
Steve Chavez
May 1
McKellia Dawson
May 1
Gretchen Dickson
May 2
Towanda Dobbs
May 4
Paul Callaway
May 5
Deborah Loewen
May 13
Tonya Charles
May 13
MPA
Congrats to the following for your yearly anniversary of employment. We’re glad you’re here.
Research
The WCGME Research Council has made changes to the grant program “KUSM–W WCGMEKBA Bioscience Matching Fund.” This funding mechanism supports collaborative relationships
between KUSM–W faculty (volunteer and full-time) and other researchers/faculty located in
businesses, health care systems, or other universities. The program is designed to further
collaborative research efforts that have formed (or are in early formation, i.e. beyond the planning
stage), to provide preliminary data which can be used for further larger grants.
psychiatry
Grand Rounds are held in the McNamara Center at Via Christi Hospital on Harry, 3600 E. Harry
Lunch is served at 11 a.m. and the speaker is from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Get more information about May presentations.
“Recent Data on Neuromodution Therapies in the Clinical Treatment of Psychiatric
Disorders”
Tuesday, May 13
William McDonald, M.D.
Vice-chair for education, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta
“Mapping the Neural Systems Supporting Food Motivation and Food Reward Inferences in
Healthy and Depressed Adults”
Tuesday, May 27
Kyle Simmons, Ph.D.
Assistant professor, Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa
KU Wichita Clinical Trial Unit needs participants with Alzheimer’s disease for a research study.
Volunteers may be able to participate in this study if he or she is 50-90 years old and has been
diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment due to Alzheimer’s disease or mild Alzheimer’s disease.
Those who qualify will be provided with all study medication or placebo and procedures at no
cost. You will receive an MRI and amyloid PET imaging. Study participation consists of 43 visits
over 90 weeks.
Study participants will be compensated for their travel. For more information, call 316-293-1833.
KU School of Medicine–Wichita researchers are looking for volunteers (age 18-55) who are
generally healthy and not suffering from any medical or psychiatric illness. Volunteers should not
be experiencing any inflammation and, other than contraception, should not be taking any
medications.
Those who qualify will have two visits that occur seven weeks apart. During each visit, volunteers
will undergo a brief history, physical examination, and provide a urine sample (to test for
inflammation). Each visit will last 20-30 minutes and participants will be compensated for their
time and effort.
There is no risk if you participate other than the risks associated with undergoing a physical
examination and providing a urine sample; participants are not required to take any experimental
drugs or undergo any additional testing.
If you are interested or want more information please call 316-293-1833.
The KU Wichita Clinical Trial Unit is supporting the 2014 Walk to End Alzheimer’s. Show your
support of Alzheimer’s research by joining the team or by making a donation via our team page.
Help advance research to treat and prevent Alzheimer's and provide programs and support to
improve the lives of millions of affected Americans. The walk is Saturday, Sept. 13.
April 8
Cherokee County News-Advocate
Gaines promoted to Associate Professor of Internal Medicine
April 8
Winfield Daily Courier
Winfield HOSA students attend state competitions
April 1
The Wichita Eagle
Kallail named to new post at KU’s Wichita campus
March 31
The Wichita Eagle
Suicide prevention is topic of upcoming KU-Wichita lecture
March 26
Kansas City infoZine
Members Appointed to Kansas Governor’s Council on Fitness
For all the latest news stories and press releases about
KUSM–W, visit our news page.
In the News
April 9
The Wichita Eagle
Sedgwick County honors dietitian with public health award
FCM
Endnotes
KMUW is a regional Edward R. Murrow Award winner in the Investigative Reporting small
market radio category for the story "Primary Care Doctors," which included interviews with Dr.
Rick Kellerman, KUSM–W student Rachael Svaty, and KUSM–W graduate Dr. Cayle Goertzen of
Belleville, Kansas.
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