Department of Medicine Faculty Meeting

November 16, 2011Announcements

Education, Research Clinical UpdatesResearch Computing Update

Centennial Celebration Planning Update

Announcements

BMC Strategic Plan releasedFaculty Practice Plan negotiating with BMC regarding

CARTS Model for Institutional SupportUpdate regarding Section Chief searches in Geriatrics

and GIDepartment’s Graduate Program in Molecular

Medicine to be refined with more translational emphasis– Name to be changed to Graduate Program in

Translational Biomedicine– Linda Hyman chairing an implementation committee

Announcements (con’t)BMC recruiting Physician Leader for the Wellness

Program – Contact Dr. Tom Barber if interestedFinance Committee being established- volunteers

sought– Refine methodology for distribution of departmental

funds to the sections– Refine clinical performance targets

Department financial performance in QI– Actual ($0.3 m)– Budget ($1.2 m)

Faculty Development Seminar

Team-Based ScienceVasan Ramachandran, MD

Tuesday, December 6, 2011Wilkins Board Room

12:00-1:00 p.m.lunch served

Medical Grand RoundsNov 18: Is Hyperinsulinemia the Cause of Diabetes?

Barbara Corkey, PhDNov 25 – No Grand Rounds

Dec 2 Co-Morbidities of COPD: Chance or FateBartolome Celli, M.DLecturer in Medicine, Harvard Medical SchoolBrigham & Women’s Hospital

Dec 9 AIDS: Panel DiscussionModerator: Jerrold Ellner, M.D.Discussants: Jon Fuller, Meg Sullivan

Dec 16 Clinical Problem Solving CaseModerator: Robert Lowe, M.D.

Kudos

To be Appointed on November 29, 2011, 3:30-5:00 pm at 670 Albany Auditorium (RSVP by Nov. 18 to sgille@bu.edu or 617-638-4570)

– Barbara Corkey, Ph.D. appointed Zoltan Kohn Professor of Medicine

– Avi Spira, M.D. will be appointed the Alexander Graham Bell Professor of Health Care Entrepeneurship

More Kudos

Richard Saitz, M.D. will receive the R. Brinkley Smithers Distinguished Scientist Award from the American Society of Addiction Medicine

Eric Hardt, M.D. received the Provider of the Year Award from the International Medical Interpreters Association

Education Update

Intern recruitment interviews started November 14, 2011 – Interviewers sought

New Associate Program Director recruited- Ashish Upadhyay, M.D. (to start Jan 2012)

Three house staff retreats successfully completed this fall

New Residency Program Administrative Director recruited- Lauralee Dubois (to start Dec 2011)

New Research Funding by YearDepartment of Medicine ($m)

Number of New Research GrantsDepartment of Medicine

Faculty SurveyDOM funded Research Activities

Clinical BenchResearchers 51 49

% Time on Research 78 93

Major Findings:1. >80% find Evans Days, Evans Center/ARC’s, First Step Programs, cores to

be useful2. Some differences in usefulness of cores between clinical and bench

investigators3. Pilot Grants and Bridge Funding programs are very popular with >90%4. Social activities (DIM Sum, Evans Dinner, Summer Picnic) more variable

in appeal

Clinical Update

Volume– wRVU’s up 4%– Visits up 6%– Discharges down 3.5%

Primary Care Redesign InitiativeDOM Inpatient Attg Documentation – 88%Review of IT System by BMC underway shortlyJoe Camillus hired to direct BMC Business

Development

Clinical Update wRVU Targets

YTD financial performance of the dept much better than budget

Salary reductions in 2012-13 based on whether faculty reach wRVU targets in 2011-12 will NOT be enacted

Finance Committee will offer recommendations regarding compensation models and productivity targets

Evans Centennial Celebration

Friday, October 5, 2012• 9:00-12:00 Poster display and judging• 1:00-3:00 Looking Back, Moving Forward– Mayor Tom Menino– Kate Walsh– Karen Antman– Changes in treatments (hypertension, HIV, amyloidosis)– Changes in research (Barbara Corkey, Katya Ravid)

• 3:00-4:00 Campus tours• 6:00 Section and residency dinners

Saturday, October 6, 2012• 9:00-9:45 Evans Then and Now• Aram Chobanian, Wilkins Visiting Professor

• 10:00-12:00 Training Clinicians in Urban Healthcare – Louis Sullivan– Harvey Fineberg– Thomas Nasca

• 12:00-2:00 Creating a Sustainable Healthcare System– Governor Deval Patrick– Donald Berwick (or Maureen Bisognano)– David Blumenthal– Glenn Hackbarth

Saturday, October 6, 2012 cont’d.

• 3:00-5:00 Enhancing Translational Research– Francis Collins, Ingelfinger Visiting Professor– Joseph Loscalzo– Framingham Heart Study – NHLBI director

• 7:00 Gala dinner at MFA– Recognize past chairs, donors, and award winners