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FACULTY COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES Monday July 15 2019
Noon ndash 100 pm MEB Room 1120 and WebEx
TTUHSC El Paso PLFSOM 7152019 FACULTY COUNCIL
MEMBERS IN ATTENDANCE Marc Orlandi MD Anesthesiology Stormy Monks PhD Emergency Medicine Jennifer Molokwu MD MPH Family and Community Medicine Jorge Cervantes-Gonzalez MD PhD Medical Education Laxman Gangwani PhD Molecular amp Translational Medicine Anantha Vellipuram MD Neurology Lisa Kafchinski MD Orthopaedic Surgery amp Rehabilitation
Daniel Bustamante MD Pathology President-Elect Lisa Ayoub-Rodriguez MD Pediatrics Ricardo Salazar MD Psychiatry President Jose Gavito MD Radiology KoKo Aung MD MPH Assistant Vice President for Faculty Affairs TTUHSC El Paso Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs PLFSOM Ex-Officio Non-Voting Richard Lange MD MBA President TTUHSC El Paso Dean PLFSOM Ex-Officio Non-Voting
MEMBERS NOT IN ATTENDANCE Hernando Garcia MD Internal Medicine Mahesh Gajendran MD MPH Internal Medicine ndash Transmountain Sandra Lopez MD OBGYN
Brian Davis MD Surgery Richard McCallum MD Community Representative EPCMS Non-Voting
GUESTS Sanja Kupesic MD PhD Associate Dean for Faculty Development PLFSOM Zuber Mulla PhD Assistant Dean for Faculty Development PLFSOM J Manuel de la Rosa MD Vice President for Outreach amp Community Engagement Richard Brower MD Chair for Curriculum amp Educational Policy Committee Pedro Maldonado MD OBGYN (sub) Olof Sundin PhD Molecular amp Translational Medicine Alok Dwivedi PhD Molecular amp Translational Medicine Bharat Prakash MD Internal Medicine ndash Transmountain (via webex) Leslie Cortes MD MD Pediatrics (via webex) David Muron MD Surgery (via webex)
Subramanian Dhandayuthapani PhD Molecular amp Translational Medicine Wendy Walker PhD Molecular amp Translational Medicine David Cistola MD PhD Molecular amp Translational Medicine Jennifer Salinas PhD Molecular amp Translational Medicine Sudhagar Thangarasu MD Internal Medicine ndash Transmountain Peter Catinella MD Family Medicine ndash Transmountain (via webex) Dan Schuller MD Internal Medicine ndash Transmountain (via webex) Moataz Ragheb MD Psychiatry ndash Transmountain (via webex) Cindy Camarillo Faculty Affairs Miranda Alvarez Faculty Affairs Rita Nicolini Faculty Affairs
I CALL TO ORDER Ricardo Salazar MD
Faculty Council President Ricardo Salazar MD President of the Faculty Council called the meeting to order at 1207 pm and welcomed faculty participating via WebEx from the Kenworthy and Transmountain locations
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II REVIEW AND APPROVAL OF MINUTES Ricardo Salazar MD
Faculty Council President Having met quorum the Faculty Council members unanimously approved the June 17 2019 meeting minutes
III DEANrsquoS REPORT Richard Lange MD MBA
Dean PLFSOM President TTUHSC El Paso
Dr Lange reported the following bull A campus-wide values summit gathered to define the core values of the Paul L Foster School of Medicine A
total of 65 employees and learners ndash faculty staff medical students and residents ndash were selected to begin drafting a comprehensive article of the institutionrsquos values which will be used to guide the strategic plan as well as enable the community to evaluate one another and aid in accountability Seven to eight town hall meetings are scheduled across the next month to allow everyone an opportunity to present their thoughts and questions Additionally a video is being created for release at a later date to assist in reaching all employees
QampA Q What is the function or goal of the summit A To define the values that are important to us to detail what respect innovation and integrity actually look like These values will govern how we treat one another how we behave and guide us along the ideals of the strategic plan They will tell us if we have acceptable behavior and keep us accountable to one another These are not ldquowalk awayrdquo values or a single event values but rather a lens by which we view everything They are not handed down from above but rather cultivated among us Q When and how will the video be available A The video is just in draft form right now as are the values after only the first meeting They will be added to refined and compared with our sister institutions to be sure we didnrsquot miss anything Eventually the video will be edited voiced over and distributed campus-wide Q How are the values different than our current mission and vision statements A Values are often formed at a young age by our families culture and community whereas your mission equates with your profession or role We must ask ourselves how we live out the values important to us in order to achieve our common mission We come from very diverse backgrounds so this will require great cooperation
IV STANDING COMMITTEE REPORTS
Jorge Cervantes-Gonzalez MD PhD Chair Committee on Medical School Admissions
Dr Cervantes-Gonzalez reported the following
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7152019 FACULTY COUNCIL
CMSA CONTINUEDhellip
PLFSOM Committee on Medical School Admissions
ReportPresented to Faculty Council ndash 7152019
See attached report QampA Q When do prospective students take the CASPerreg How is it evaluated A It is a part of the application process Each individual is shown a series of videos and they respond to them Q Does everyone take it Who pays for the test A I am not certain but I will relay your questions to Dr Cynthia Perry Assistant Academic Dean for Admissions
IV STANDING COMMITTEE REPORTS (CONT) Richard Brower MD
Chair Curriculum and Educational Policy Committee
Dr Brower reported the following
Curriculum amp Educational Policy
Committee Report to the PLFSOM Faculty Council
Presented by Richard Brower MD
Date July 15 2019
See attached report QampA Q The MD MPH and the MD MBA programs seem to be going in opposite directions We have had direction from Lubbock on the MD MPH program but not for the MBA program Why the difference A Lubbock provides great instruction and support for the MPH program because like us they are an HSC We have a tighter relationship to them in general However there is a great advantage to having a local program with UTEP that allows for regional participation This allows students to study local issues and get to know our area more intimately There will always be the question ndash do we stay within the system which yields a less personal approach or do we partner locally
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7152019 FACULTY COUNCIL
CEPC Continuedhellip Q I see that two of your goals ndash class size expansion and curriculum 20 revision ndash seem to be competing How will you accommodate both of these A I see them as complementary to one another If there is a political a financial or an increased physician production desire from this region we must talk about class size growth and curriculum development which must be done effectively and efficiently
V OLD BUSINESS Ricardo Salazar MD
Faculty Council President
Dr Salazar reported the following bull Dr Salazar acknowledged and appreciated new members recently elected for the following
o Committee on Student Grading and Promotion Dr Lynn Hernan o Committee on Medical School Admissions Dr Lynn Hernan Dr Anantha Vellipuram and Dr Jose
Gavito bull Dr Salazar reminded the Council that representative seats were up for electionre-election for the following
departments o Anesthesiology o Emergency Medicine o Family amp Community Medicine o Molecular amp Translational Medicine
Dr Salazar reminded the Council that the Chairs of the departments would coordinate the election process
VI NEW BUSINESS Ricardo Salazar MD
Faculty Council President Dr Salazar reported the following
bull Dr Salazar introduced the 2019-2020 Faculty Council President-Elect nominees and invited them to speak bull Dr Ayoub-Rodriguez Assistant Professor of Pediatrics a native El Pasoan focused on border health and the
El Paso region and acknowledged the importance of recruitment and retention of talent that would transform healthcare along the border for the better
bull Dr Cervantes-Gonzalez Assistant Professor of Medical Education offered to lend an ear to the concerns of faculty particularly in the field of research in which many are struggling
bull Voting will take place by e-vote following the meeting The new President-Elect will take office in September VII DEPARTMENTAL REPORT Laxman Gangwani PhD
Representative Molecular amp Translational Medicine
Dr Gangwani reported the following
Department of Molecular and Translational Medicine (formerly Biomedical Sciences) ReportPRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCILBY LAXMAN GANGWANI
DATE JULY 15 2019
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PLFSOM Committee on
Medical School Admissions
Report
Presented to Faculty Council ndash 7152019
Committee Composition and Terms of Service 22 committee members 20 Voting Members
Chair Jorge Cervantes MD PhD
Vice-Chair Diana Pettit PhD
EPCMS Rep Raj Marwah MD
2 Ex-Officio (non-voting) Associate Dean of Admissions and Director of Admissions
Last Name First Name Degree Academic Rank Department Committee Position Term Start Date
Chambers Karinn MD Assistant Professor Surgery 2018
Chheda Sadhana MD Assistant Professor Peds 2018
Duran Patricia DNP RN CENP Assistant Professor GGHSON 2018
Patek Gregory MD Assistant Professor Emergency Med 2018
Rao Jo MD Assistant Professor Peds 2018
Chattopadhyay Munmun PhD Assistant Professor Biomedical Sciences 2018
Hogg Tanis PhD Associate Professor Medical Education 2018
Lakshmanaswamy Rajkumar PhD Professor Biomedical Sciences 2018
Andrade Alonso MD Assistant Professor Surgery 2017
Castro Jose MD Clinical Instructor Surgery 2017
Cervantes Jorge MD PhD Assistant Professor Medical Education Chair 2017
Belmares Ricardo PhD Instructor Medical Education 2017
Kafchinski Lisa MD Assistant Professor Orthopedics 2017
Tonarelli Sylvina MD Assistant Professor Psychiatry 2017
Rojas-Mendez Patricia MD Assistant Professor ObGyn 2017
Martinez Carla MD Assistant Professor ObGyn 2017
Marwah Raj MD Clinical Assistant Professor Family Medicine 2019
Manglik Niti MD Assistant Professor Medical Education 2019
Pettit Diana PhD Associate Professor Medical Education Vice Chair 2019
Hernan Lynn MD Associate Professor Peds 2019
Vellipuram Anantha MD Assistant Professor Neurology 2019
Gavito Jose MD Assistant Professor Radiology 2019
Perry Cynthia PhD Interim Assistant Dean for Admissions Admissions Ex Officio
Olivas Laura MBA Senior Director of Admissions Admissions Ex Officio
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Committee Charge
The Committee shall have full authority to select members of
the medical school entering class based on screening
assessments and interview evaluation reports and to fill
vacancies that may occur in any of the medical school classes
A list of recommended candidates to be offered positions
through the Texas Medical and Dental School Application Service
(TMDSAS) matching process will be prepared based on a ranking
determined following deliberations by the Committee
The Committee also shall have the responsibility to review the
requirements for admission and if necessary to recommend
revisions to the faculty
Actions taken since last report (Jan 2019)
Approval of Handbook revisions
Added COI policy Attendance policy CASPer Assessment
requirement (Pilot)
Sat 104 new students 12 repeaters
Interviewed 14 JAMP students on June 24th
(Round 1 eligible students here for JAMP Internship)
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No right wrong answers
Rating not influenced by-ESL -Age-Coaching -Reading Level
Rating is relative
What are raters looking for
Actions taken since last report Received 4471 primary applications amp 3079 completed applications
(increase of 350 complete appl compared to last year)
127 TX pre-match and 13 Out-of-state offers extended
Currently have 109 acceptances leading up to TMDSAS match
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EY2018
Received 3983 primary applications amp 2729 completed
applications
130 acceptances leading up to TMDSAS match
TTUHSC EP PLFSOM First Year Entering Students
EY 2019
38
(27506)
TX 37 (30) 37 (29) 37 (30) 37 (30) 37 (30) 37 (31) 373 (31) 38 (507) 38 (509)376
(266506)
US 37 (31) 37 (31) 37 (31) 37 (31) 37 (31) 37 (31) 37(31) 37 (509) 37 (510) 38 (27506)
Hispanic 8 (20) 6 (10) 5 (6) 12 (15) 23 (24) 32 (31) 24 (23) 35 (35) 37 (36) 24 (24) 28 (269)
Border Counties - - 7 (9) 13 (16) 24 (24) 28 (27) 26 (25) 32 (31) 33 (32) 21 (21) 27 (26)
El Paso 7 (17) 8 (13) 5 (6) 12 (15) 19 (19) 23 (22) 24 (23) 29 (28) 25 (24) 19 (19) 23 (221)
African American 0 0 0 0 0 1 (1) 3 (3) 1 (1) 3 (3) 2 (2) 6 (58)
Native American 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Class Size 40 60 81 80 100 104 104 103 103 100 104
Male 16 (40) 35 (58) 44 (54) 42 (52) 65 (65) 47 (45) 67 (64) 59 (57) 56 (54) 49 (49) 52 (50)
Female 24 (60) 25 (42) 37 (46) 38 (48) 35 (35) 57 (55) 37 (36) 44 (43) 47 (46) 51 (51) 52 (50)
Total Applicants 2503 2531 2719 2946 3105 3375 3694 4043 3950 3982 4472
Interviewed 389 378 593 548 626 566 538 510 535 546 602
EY 2018
374
(5077)
Underrepresented minority(URM)-Diversity ()
Class Size amp Gender ()
Applicants
37 (28) 37 (29)37
(28503)
368
(26505)
EY 2014 EY 2015 EY 2016 EY 2017
GPA(MCAT) 37 (28) 36 (29) 36 (29) 35 (29) 36 (29)
EY 2009 EY 2010 EY 2011 EY 2012 EY 2013
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Candidates discussed
Voting (high priority acceptable reject)
Categorized by vote
1 High Priority (unanimous high priority votes)
2 Highly Acceptable -1 -2 -3
3 Very Acceptable (4+ acceptable votes)
4 Acceptable (majority acceptable votes)
5 Reject
Ranked within category by weighted scores (Interview 30 MCAT 30 SGPA 35 GPA 5)
Rank list is generated after the first interview date and updated weekly throughout interview season
Admissions Committee Process
Upcoming actions
Joint Admission Medical Program (JAMP) Round 2 Match
(Friday Jan 25th) will match with 2
Rolling admissions continues until June 1
Created additional interview date for EY2020 (22 days)
New requirement added for EY2020 CASPer Assessment ndash
Situational Judgement Test (SJT)
Propose revision to By-Laws to add minimum attendance
requirements for committee members
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Current IssuesConcerns
Ongoing need to recruit more interviewers
Anticipating class size expansion
Meeting quorum
Standing Committee Report
Curriculum and Educational Policy
Committee
Richard Brower MD PhDAssociate Dean for Medical Education
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Curriculum amp
Educational Policy
Committee Report to the PLFSOM Faculty Council
Presented by Richard Brower MD
Date July 15 2019
Committee Composition and Terms of
Service
ldquoCandidates for lsquoat largersquo positions are to be
recommended by the associate dean for medical
education and appointed by the deanrdquo
ldquoTerms may be renewed by recommendation of the
associate dean for medical education and appointment by
the deanrdquo
ldquohelliplsquoat largersquo members may be appointed for no more than
two consecutive terms after which they are ineligible to
serve for 4 yearsrdquo
ldquoCandidates for these positions should demonstrate an
ongoing interest in medical educationrdquo
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Committee Composition and Terms of ServiceLast Name First Name Degree Academic Rank Department Committee Position Term Start Date
Term Expiration Date
Frances Mark MD ProfessorMedical Education
Member (College Master)
9120168312020
Pfarr Curt PhD ProfessorMedical Education
Member (College Master) 9242015 8312019
Gajendran Mahesh MD Assistant ProfessorInternal Medicine
Member (Clinician) 912017 8312021
Uga Aghaegbulam MD Assistant Professor
Psychiatry and Internal Medicine
Member (Clinician) 11192015 10312019
Kassar Darine MD Assistant Professor NeurologyMember (Clinician) 972016 8312020
Wojciechowska Joanna MD Assistant Professor Pediatrics
Member (Clinician) 212018 8312022
Nino DiegoMD PhD Assistant Professor
Medical Education
Member (Basic Sciences) 1142019 1142023
Padilla Osvaldo MD Assistant Professor PathologyMember (Basic Sciences) 12152014 8312022
Cervantes JorgeMD PhD Assistant Professor
Medical Education
Member (Basic Sciences) 8232016 8312020
Perry Cynthia PhD Assistant ProfessorMedical Education
Member (Basic Sciences) 9282015 8312019
Brower Richard MDAssociate Professor
Medical Education Chair NA NA
Three positions
opening soon ndash-
should have
demonstrated
interest and
engagement in
UME and a
willingness to
attend all
meetings and
participate in
team
assignments
Committee Composition and Terms of
Service Leadership
This committee is chaired by the associate dean for medical education
The committee reports to the Faculty Council
Membership will include
2 college masters (one basic scientist one clinician) with 4-year terms
4 members from the basic sciences faculty with 4-year terms (staggered)
4 members from the clinical sciences faculty with 4-year terms (staggered)
Ex Officio members
Dean or their designee
Associate dean for student affairs
Assistant deans for medication education
Managing director of the libraries (ldquoAssociate Director of the Libraryrdquo)
Director of information technology or their designee
Director of assessment and evaluation (position no longer exists)
Two student reps from each of the four classes (from the Student Curriculum and Evaluation Committee)
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Committee Charge Faculty Bylaws Article IX Section C2
The Committee on Curriculum and Educational Policy is charged with planning coordinating
reviewing and evaluating the curriculum to ensure that it adheres to the
written educational policies goals and objectives of the Paul L Foster School
of Medicine Further the Committee shall have full authority to make changes in
educational policy or in the organization of the curriculum with the
concurrence of the Dean and with comment and input from the Faculty Council The Faculty of the Paul L Foster School of Medicine has the responsibility to define course objectives create
and deliver content to meet those objectives and modify their activities in response to appropriate feedback
from peers and students The Committee will provide updates on its activities at least
twice a year to the Faculty Council In order to accomplish the mission of the Committee the
Chair may appoint subcommittees that may include members who are not
members of the Committee It shall be the responsibility of the Committee to coordinate the
activities and reports of these subcommittees In addition the Committee receives reports
from the Committee on Evaluation of Educational Programs
Current IssuesConcerns
Curriculum enhancementimprovement
Preparation for class size expansion
Preparation for next round of curriculum reviews
(ldquocurriculum as a wholerdquo)
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CEPC actions since last report
January 2019 (1 meeting)
Reviewed and approved revisions to the following
educational program polices
Clerkship Administration
Clerkship DirectorAssistant Director Position Description
Approval of two new 4th Year Electives
Pediatric Gastroenterology Hepatology and Nutrition
Emergency Medicine Ultrasound
Clerkship phase review FM and Surgery
CEPC actions since last report
February 2019 (2 meetings)
New educational program policy reviewed and approved
Grade Changes and Transcript Notations
Rollover of established educational program goals and
objectives (the ldquoPGOsrdquo) approved
Clerkship phase review Pediatrics and ObGyn
Preliminary data-driven discussion of revised educational
program policy covering Grading Promotion and Academic
Standing (ldquoGPASrdquo)
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CEPC actions since last report
March 2019 (2 meetings)
Clerkship phase review IM and Psych Critical Care and Sub-I
Selectives
Approval of new educational program policy
Grading Promotion and Academic Standing (ldquoGPASrdquo)
Notification of changes in clerkship directorship
Elimination of the PICE course (PICE 7001) from the year 2
curriculum approved (primarily administrative educational
elements re-distributed)
Associated review and approval of an updated PLSOM degree
plan (based on 157 credit hours)
CEPC actions since last report
April 2019 (1 meetings)
Clerkship phase review EM Neurology and Intersessions
Review and approval of revised educational program policy
Pre-Clerkship Phase Student Attendance and Participation
Policy
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CEPC actions since last report
May 2019 (1 meetings)
Review and approval of the ldquoCommon Clerkship Policiesrdquo
Notification of additional changes in the clerkship
directorship
Clerkship phase review
Phase data review (AAMC GQ NBME subject exams
USMLE Step 2 CK and CS Step 3 final grades EOY OSCE
and procedure workshop residency director survey)
Introduction of a 10-point plan for curriculum revision
(ldquoPLFSOM v20rdquo)
June 2019 (no quorum) July 2019 (cancelled)
CEPC actions since last report
Challenges and opportunities for improvement identified
through the AY208-19 clerkship phase review
Clear identification of contacts at affiliated sites
Academic support and remediation planning
Consistent resident preparation for participation in UME
Timeliness of grading (Sub-I and Critical Care Selectives)
Orientation modules for Sub-Q and Critical Care Selectives)
Scaling clerkships for anticipated class expansion
The summer doldrums
June 2019 (no quorum) July 2019 (cancelled)
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Upcoming actions
Ongoing educational program policy development
Maintain accreditation compliance related curriculum
review cycle (2019-20 ldquoCurriculum as a Wholerdquo)
Review and advance plans for curriculum renewalrevision
Review proposal to re-direct our MD-MPH affiliation to
TTUHSC GSBS Lubbock
Consider development of an MD-MBA option (potentially
with UTEP)
Links to related information
PLFSOM Committee on Curriculum and Educational Policy main page
httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCdefaultaspx
MD degree program policies
httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCpoliciesaspx
MD degree program information
httpselpasottuhscedusomomeUMEinfoaspx
Course and clerkship syllabi
httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCcoursereviewaspx
AY2017-18 medical education program evaluation report (e-Raider required)
httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPC_documentssecureAY2017-
2018MEPEvaluationAnnualReport-Draft-v2pdf
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Departmental Report
Molecular and Translational
Medicine
Laxman Gangwani PhDAssociate Professor Molecular amp
Translational Medicine
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20
Department of Molecular and
Translational Medicine (formerly
Biomedical Sciences) Report
PRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCIL
BY LAXMAN GANGWANI
DATE JULY 15 2019
Department BreakdownPlease provide the total number of faculty members in your department and break down this number by
rank Please list new faculty members that have joined your department within the last six months
Total Number of Faculty
Number of Faculty Associates 1
Number of Instructors 1
Number of Research Assistant Professor 1
Number of Assistant Professors 6
Number of Associate Professors 7
Number of Professors 4
New Faculty
None
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21
LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair
program director clerkship director chiefs etc
Department Chair Dr Peter Rotwein (VP Research Associate
Dean GSBS)
Director Center of Emphasis in Cancer Dr Rajkumar
Lakshmanaswamy (Dean GSBS) Co-Director Dr N Shokar
Director Center of Emphasis in Diabetes and Metabolism Dr
David Cistola
Director Center of Emphasis in Infectious Diseases Vacant
Director Center of Emphasis in Neurosciences Vacant
Chief Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology Vacant
AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional
appointments national appointments etc
Awards
Dr Mingtao Zeng
2018 The American Association of Immunologists (AAI) AAI Travel Grant for the 5th European Congress of Immunology
2018 Defense Techconnect Fall Summit amp Expo (2018) Techconnect Defense Innovation Award
Dr Shrikant Gadad
Eugenia Rosemberg Outstanding Abstract Award Endocrine Society Annual Meeting New Orleans March 23-26 2019
Dr Huanyu Dou
National Innovation Award Techconnect 2019
Honors
Dr Alok Dwivedi
Appointed as associated faculty at the Border Biomedical Research Center (BBRC) University of Texas El Paso (UTEP)
Dr Shrikant Gadad
Session Chair (OR09 Steroid Hormone Biology in Physiology and Disease) Endocrine Society Annual Meeting New Orleans March 23-26 2019
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22
AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional
appointments national appointments etc
NIH or DOD study sections appointments
Dr Guohua Yi
HIV special Emphasis Panel for RFA-AI-18-058 Genetic Engineering Technologies for HIV Cure Research (U19)
Dr Laxman Gangwani
Department of Defense (DOD) Reviewer for Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) 2018 -
NIHCSR Study ldquoProgram Evaluation of NIH Peer Review Processes The Role of Anonymizationrdquo 2019 ndash
Patents filings and publications
Patent Number 9862951 Title RNA Interference-Based Therapeutic against Anthrax Inventors Mingtao Zeng and Maria T AreacutevaloDate of Patent January 9 2018
Cistola D P Patel V (2018) Method and system for non-invasive measurement of metabolic health US Non-Provisional Utility Patent Application No 15911728 filed by Texas Tech University
Cistola D P Robinson M D (2018) Methods and tools for diagnosing insulin resistance and assessing health status using NMR relaxation times for water United States Patent Application Publication US 20180020947 A1 httpspatentsgooglecompatentUS20180020947A1en
AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional
appointments national appointments etc
News and Media Coverage of Research performed at TTUHSC EP
Dr David Cistola
MedPageToday 2 January 2019 Harris Scott Could a New Biomarker Help Predict Type 2 Diabetes -- Early datashow water T2 catches abnormalities before traditional testing but experts are cautiously optimistichttpswwwmedpagetodaycomreading-roomendocrine-societydiabetes77186
KTSM Channel 9 NBC El Paso 14 November 2018 Castillo Susy Research in El Paso aimed at detectingdiabetes earlyhttpswwwktsmcomlifestylehealthresearch-in-el-paso-aimed-at-detecting-diabetes-early1596408236apt_credirect=1
El Paso Inc 29 March 2019 TTUHSC El Paso Tackling diabetes cancer httpwwwelpasoinccomttuhsc-el-paso-tackling-diabetes-cancerarticle_613144fe-526a-11e9-b916-c35b701a5ef9html
Dr Laxman Gangwani
Cure SMA Awards $150000 Grant to Laxman Gangwani PhD Texas Tech University
httpwwwcuresmaorgnewsgangwani-grant-2019html
httpswwweurekalertorgpub_releases2019-05ttuh-gw050119php
httpswwwresearchgatenetscientific-contributions11984383_Laxman_Gangwani
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23
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Peer-reviewed publications 36 (In high-impact journals)
2018 highest impact factor (11561) journal Nucleic Acids Research
Abstracts 43
Presentations (i) Oral 11 (ii) Posters 28
Invited talks 13
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Peer-reviewed publications
Kannan A Bhatia K Branzei D and Gangwani L (2018) Combined deficiency of Senataxin and DNA-PKcscauses DNA damage accumulation and neurodegeneration in spinal muscular atrophy Nucleic Acids Research2018 Vol 46 No 16 8326-8346
Mishra I Jones C Patel V Deodhar S Cistola D P (2018) Early detection of metabolic dysregulation usingwater T2 analysis of biobanked samples Diabetes Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity Targets and Therapy 11 807-818
Patel V Dwivedi A K Deodhar S Mishra I Cistola D P (2018) Aptamer-based search for correlates of plasmaand serum water T2 Implications for early metabolic dysregulation and metabolic syndrome Biomarker Research6(1) 28
Garg H Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz T Joshi A 2018 Recent Advances in Zika Virus Vaccines Viruses Nov 1410 (11) Sundin OH Mendoza-Ladd A Zeng M Diaz-Areacutevalo D Morales E Fagan BMOrdontildeez J McCallum RW Does a
glucose-based hydrogen and methane breath test detect bacterial overgrowth in the jejunum NeurogastroenterolMotil 2018e13350
Zheng Z Diaz-Areacutevalo D Guan H and Mingtao Zeng Noninvasive vaccination against infectious diseases Humanvaccines amp immunotherapeutics 2018 14(7)1717-1733
Preeti Bharaj Chunting Ye Sean Petersen Qianghu Wang Baoli Hu N Manjunath Premlata Shankar Guohua Yi(2018) Gene array analysis of PD-1H overexpressing monocytes reveals a pro-inflammatory profile Heliyone00545
Bencomo-Alvarez AE Rubio AJ Gonzalez MA and Eiring AM Energy metabolism and drug response in myeloidleukaemic stem cells Br J Haematol 2019 In Press
9102019
24
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Peer-reviewed publications Yan D Pomicter AD Tantravahi S Mason CC Senina AV Ahmann JM Wang Q Than H Patel AB Heaton
WL Eiring AM Clair PM Gantz KC Redwine HM Swierczek SI Halverson BJ Baloglu E Shacham S KhorashadJS Kelley TW Salama ME Miles RR Boucher KM Prchal JT OHare T and Deininger MW Nuclear-cytoplasmic transport is a therapeutic target in myelofibrosis Clin Cancer Res 201925(7)2323-2335
Heipertz E Harper J Lopez CA Fikrig E Hughes ME Walker WE Circadian rhythms influence the severity of sepsis in mice via a TLR2-dependent leukocyte-intrinsic mechanism The Journal of Immunology 2018 201193-201
Khatri R Afzal MR Qureshi MA Maud A Huanyu D Jose Rodriguez G Pre-Existing Renal Failure Increases In-Hospital Mortality in Patients with Intracerebral Hemorrhage J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis 2019 Feb28(2)237-242
Zou L Lee SY Wu Q Zhang H Bastian A Orji C Payne G Galvez A Thomas T Zhang Z Dou H Facile Gene Delivery Derived from Branched Low Molecular Weight Polyethylenimine by High Efficient Chemistry J Biomed Nanotechnol 2018 Oct 114(10)1785-1795
Zhang C Brandon NR Koper K Tang P Xu Y Dou H Invasion of Peripheral Immune Cells into Brain Parenchyma after Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation Aging Dis 2018 Jun 19(3)412-425
Loza O Hernandez P Calderoacuten-Mora J Laks S Leiner M Reddy S Lara P amp Granados H (2018) Developing Trans-affirming health services in an underserved area An intersectional approach Transgender Health 3(1) 127-135
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Byrd T Calderoacuten-Mora J Salaiz R amp Shokar N (2019) Barriers and facilitators to colorectal cancer screening within a Hispanic population Hispanic Health Care International 17(1) 23-29 doi 1011771540415318818982
Haut SR Lipton RB Cornes S Dwivedi AK Wasson R Cotton S Strawn JR Privitera M (2018) Behavioral interventions as a treatment for epilepsy A multicenter randomized controlled trial Neurology 90(11) e963-e970 PMID 29444968
Jessica Bernica Sherif Elhanafi Neeharika Kalakota Yi Jia Christopher Dodoo Alok Dwivedi Robert J Sealock Kalpesh Patel Isaac Raijman Marc J Zuckerman Mohamed O Othman (2018) Cholangioscopy is safe and feasible in elderly patients Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology 16(8) 1293-1299
Benjamin D Wissel Alok K Dwivedi Danielle Chin Aristide Merola Cara Jacob Andrew P Duker Jennifer E Vaughan Lilia Lovera Kathrin LaFaver Ariel Levy Anthony E Lang Francesca Morgante Melissa J Nirenberg Christopher Stephen Nutan Sharma Alberto Romagnolo Leonardo Lopiano Bettina Balint Xin X Yu Kailash P Bhatia Alberto J Espay Functional neurological disorders in Parkinson disease Accepted for publication in Journal
of Neurology Neurosurgery amp Psychiatry 89(6)566-571
Danny J Avalos Marc J Zuckerman Alok Dwivedi Christopher Dodoo Jinendra Satiya Fernando J Castro(2018) Differences in prevalence of large polyps between Hispanic Americans from Mexican-and Non-Mexican-predominant states Digestive diseases and sciences PMID 30276570
Zeina Nahleh Salman Otoukesh Hamid Reza Mirshahidi Anthony Loc Nguyen Gayathri Nagaraj Nabeel Badri Gehan Botrus Nabih Diab Andres Alvarado Luis A Sanchez Alok K Dwivedi (2018) Disparities in breast cancer a multi-institutional comparative analysis focusing on American Hispanics Cancer Medicine (In press 05072018)
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Scholarly Activity Danny J Avalos Antonio Mendoza-Ladd Marc J Zuckerman Mohammad Bashashati Andres Alvarado Alok
Dwivedi Oriana M Damas (2018) Hispanics and Non-Hispanic Whites in the US have a Similar InflammatoryBowel Disease Phenotype A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis Digestive Diseases and Sciences 63(6)1558-1571
Aleli Campbell Rosalinda Heydarian Cecilia Ochoa Alok Kumar Dwivedi Zeina A Nahleh(2018) Single arm phaseII study of oral vitamin B12 for the treatment of musculoskeletal symptoms associated with aromatase inhibitors inwomen with early stage breast cancer The breast journal 24(3)260-268
Shaimaa Elzamly Nabeel Badri Osvaldo Padilla Alok Kumar Dwivedi Luis A Alvarado Matthew Hamilton NabihDiab Crosby Rock Ahmed Elfar Marwa Teleb Luis Sanchez Zeina Nahleh (2018) Epithelial-mesenchymaltransition markers in breast cancer and pathological responseafter neoadjuvant chemotherapy Breast Cancer
(Auckl) 2018 Aug 1121178223418788074
Jennifer C Molokwu Eribeth Penaranda Alok Dwivedi Indika Mallawaarachchi Navkiran Shokar (2018) Effect ofEducational Intervention on Self-Sampling Acceptability and Follow-Up Paps in Border Dwelling Hispanic FemalesJournal of Lower Genital Tract Disease
Ritika Suri Federico Rodriguez-Porcel Kelly Donohue Erin Jesse Lilia Lovera Alok Kumar Dwivedi Alberto JEspay (2018) Post-Stroke Movement Disorders The Clinical Neuroanatomic and Demographic Portrait of 284Published Cases Accepted for publication in Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases (In press05212018)
Zeina Nahleh Gehan Botrus Alok Dwivedi Nabeel Badri Salman Otoukesh Nabih Diab Sandip BiswasMichael Jennings Shaimaa Elzamly(2018) Clinico-pathologic disparities of breast cancer in HispanicLatina womenBreast disease 1-8
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Robert Gonzalez Trisha Suppes Jamie Zeitzer Colleen McClung Carol Tamminga Mauricio Tohen Angelica Forero Alok DwivediAndres Alvarado (2018) The association between mood state and chronobiological characteristics in bipolar I disorder a naturalisticvariable cluster analysis-based study International Journal of Bipolar Disorders 6(1)5Mohamed Teleb Aaron Shanker Alok Kumar Dwivedi Debabrata Mukherjee (2018) Effect of exercise on left ventricular mass index byechocardiography in mild and moderate hypertension a meta-analysis Res Cardiovasc Med 6(4)50-6Garnica O Das K Devasundaram S and Dhandayuthapani S Enhanced delivery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigens to antigenpresenting cells using RVG peptide Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Das K Garnica O and Dhandayuthapani S Utility of an oxidative stress response system for the expression of recombinant proteinsin mycobacteria and for the delivery of M tuberculosis antigens to the phagosomal compartments Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Palanichamy K Joshi A Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz T Fernando B Milan S Schiro F Naeem Y Garg H Braunschweig A 2019 Anti-ZikaActivity of a Library of Synthetic Carbohydrate Receptors Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 6284110-4119Anjali Joshi Erin B Punke Tugba Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz Diego P Peralta and Himanshu Garg 2019 TLR9 polymorphism correlates withimmune activation CD4 decline and plasma IP10 levels in HIV patients BMC Infect Dis 19 56Vargas-Medrano J Yang B Garza N T Segura-Ulate I and Perez R G (2018) Up-regulation of protective neuronal MicroRNAs byFTY720 and novel FTY720-derivatives Neuroscience letters 690 178-180Vidal-Martinez G Yang B Vargas-Medrano J and Perez R G (2018) Could alpha-Synuclein Modulation of Insulin and DopamineIdentify a Novel Link Between Parkinsons Disease and Diabetes as Well as Potential Therapies Frontiers in molecular
neuroscience 11 465
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Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Gil-Tommee C Vidal-Martinez G Annette Reyes C Vargas-Medrano J Herrera G V Martin S M Chaparro S A andPerez R G (2019) Parkinsonian GM2 synthase knockout mice lacking mature gangliosides develop urinary dysfunction andneurogenic bladder Experimental neurology 311265-273Vidal-Martinez G Najera K Miranda JD Gil-Tommee C Yang B Vargas-Medrano J Diaz-Pacheco V Barragan J ChaparroS Vargas-Medrano J Chinnasamy R Arterburn JB Perez RG FTY720 improves behavior increases Brain Derived NeurotrophicFactor and reduces α-synuclein pathology in parkinsonian GM2+minus
mice Neuroscience httpsdoiorg101016jneuroscience201905029Tasnim N Thakur V Chattopadhyay M Joddar B (2018) The efficacy of Graphene-foams towards the adhesion proliferationand expression of neuronal-phenotype by dopaminergic neurons differentiated from mesenchymal stem cells Stem cell
international Jun 3 20183410168 doi 10115520183410168Anil Kumar S Allen SC Tasnim N Akter T Park S Kumar A Chattopadhyay M Ito Y Suggs LJ Joddar B (2019) The applicabilityof furfuryl-gelatin as a novel bioink for tissue engineering applications J Biomed Mater Res B Appl Biomater 2019 107(2)314-323 doi 101002jbmb34123 Epub 2018 Apr 15Thakur V Chattopadhyay M (2018) Early urinary markers for diabetic and other kidney diseases Current drug targets 2018 Mar19Joddar B Tasnim N Thakur V Kumar A Mccallum R Chattopadhyay M (2018) Delivery of mesenchymal stem cells fromgelatin-alginate hydrogels to stomach lumen for treatment of gastroparesis Bioengineering 2018 5(1)Camacho CV Choudhari R Gadad SS (2018) Long noncoding RNAs and cancer an overview Steroids 13393-95
IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department
Large net loss (9) of MTM faculty members over the past 5 years
Vacant Director positions (i) Center for Neuroscience (ii) Center for InfectiousDiseases and (iii) Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
No steps have been taken to fill directors positions for more than 2 years
Neurosciences Center at the verge of collapse Only one faculty will be left at theend of this fiscal year
The size of Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology is shrinking
Lack of communication regarding vision and strategic plan for growing department
No faculty salary raises for the past 3 years
Serious concerns about recruitment retention and tenure and promotion decisionsmade in the department Faculty morale is extremely low
Lack of functional research core facility
Gradual elimination of service contracts of equipment essential for research trainingand education of graduate and medical students
A plethora of other issues with the department administration
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Questions
Departmental Report
Psychiatry
Ricardo Salazar MDAssociate Professor Psychiatry
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Department ReportPsychiatryPRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCIL
BY RICARDO SALAZAR MD
DATE MONDAY JULY 15 2019
Department BreakdownPlease provide the total number of faculty members in your department and break down this number by
rank Please list new faculty members that have joined your department within the last six months
Total Number of Faculty 12
Number of Instructors 1
Number of Assistant Professors 8
Number of Associate Professors 2
Number of Professors 2
New Faculty Melanie Longhurst MD Instructor
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LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair
program director clerkship director chiefs etc
Department Chair ndash Peter M Thompson MD MS
Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Sarah L Martin MD
Combined IMPsych Residency Program Director ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD
Psychiatry Clerkship Director ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD
Child amp Adolescent Fellowship Program Director ndash Cecilia De Vargas MD
Chief Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry ndash Sarah L Martin MD
Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Program Directorndash Ricardo Salazar MD
Chief Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences ndash Ricardo Salazar MD
Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Transmountain ndash Moataz Ragheb MD
AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in your department including awards honors regional
appointments national appointments etc
El Paso Behavioral Health Consortium ndash Board Member ndash Peter M Thompson MD
714 (50) of our graduating medical students this year choose and matched our resident training programs here at Paul L FosterSchool of Medicine Department of Psychiatry (Historical record) ndash Kudos for our Department Faculty
In appreciation for exceptional contributions to the 30th volume of the J Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences ndash Author contributions and review of 271 manuscripts submitted to the journal between September 2017 and August 2018 ndash Ricardo Salazar MD ndash Young Investigator Award Committee Member and Program Committee Member-Abstracts Sub-Committee Member of theAmerican Neuropsychiatric Association (ANPA)
Initial Accreditation with commendation and no citations from ACGME for our first Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Training Program for West Texas ndash Ricardo Salazar MD
Leadership in Education and Development Certificate Program (LEAD) Fellow -1-year program accredited from the Association ofAmerican Medical Colleges (AAMC) Silvina Tonarelli MD amp Ricardo Salazar MD (Selected Award)
Fully operating Southwest Brain Bank A Brain Tissue Repository for Research in Mental Illness ndashPeter M Thompson MD
Texas State Psychiatric Physicians Public Mental Health Services Committee ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD
Texas Health and Human Services Commission Behavioral Health Advisory Committee ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP
Fellow American College of Physicians ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP FACP
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Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Abstracts 31
Publications 5 (peer-review journals)
Presentations 17 ndash National (7) and International (6)
Invited Speaker 21 (including faculty residents fellows) ndash Local amp National
Book Chapters NA
Grants McKee Foundation Award ndash our Chair - Thompson
Intramural Grants Seed Grant 1 SARP Educational Grant 2 - Salazar
President`s Collaborative Research Initiative ndashMarch 2018 - Tonarelli
Scholarly Activity
Child and Adolescent Fellowship Presentations
INTERNATIONAL
- Curanderos and Limpias Cultural psychiatry
Poster presented at 6th Annual Scientific conference of the European Association of PsychosomaticMedicine Verona Italy Drs Garza Meissner De Vargas Mehta June 2018
-Case presentation 0f 49XXXXY Same conference same authors same city
-Resilience etiology protective and risk factors presentation C De Vargas by invitation Annual WorldPediatric summit Madrid June 2018
-Parents and their Children Fantastic journey Same conference on June 2019 Berlin Germany
NATIONAL
-Development of Psychopathology in children at risk for Bipolar Disorders Drs Escamilla Peter Sangra C DeVargas S Martin C Alvarado Andrea Rios (Poster) American Academy of Child and Adolescent PsychiatryAnnual Conference Seattle WA October 2018
Frank William Meissner MD Cynthia Elizabeth Garza MDJD Sarah L Martin MD rdquoDrug-Induced BrugadaSyndrome in a Middle-Aged Female Patient Drugs EKG Diagnosis Electrophysiology and SurveillanceRecommendationrdquo American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting San Francisco CA May 21 2019
Delinquency in a group of school children at risk for bipolar disorder D Haque M Escamilla C De VargasPresented at UCLA LA Ca June 2019
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Residency ProgramPlease provide information regarding your departmentrsquos residency program ie recent accreditation
number of residents and program updates (if applicable)
24 General Psychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)
8 Internal MedicinePsychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)
3 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellows
1 Geriatric Psychiatry Fellow- newly accredited program
IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department
RecruitmentRetention
Short staffed
Organizational Structure
Financial incentives
Protected time
Gender balance Attrition malefemale ratio 41
Program Coordinator turnover rate
Mentoring
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Departmental Organizational
Structure
Chair
Division ChiefsProgram Directors
Clerkship Director
Adm
Organizational Structure Model
Chair
Deputy Chair for Education
Program
Directors
Deputy Chair for Research
Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs
Vicechair
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Roles
Deputy Chair for Education
Oversee undergraduate graduate and CME including the development of teachers and educational scholars Monitor quality and safety across the department
Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs
Faculty appointments Faculty Development and Promotion andor Tenure Develop programs in different domains such as research education personal improvement and leadership Support clinical activities by improving the efficiency of operations and in helping to fit clinical programs into those in the rest of the medical center Allocation of space
Deputy Chair for Research
Develop and direct department-wide programs for faculty recruitment development and support of mentors recognition of excellence and funding of pilot grants bridge funding and grants to nurture multi-principal investigator and trans-division or trans-department projects Allocation of space among divisions
Bottom Line
We need more funds
Institutional support
The investments needed to recruit faculty are beyond the capacity of the
department`s operational revenue
Recruiting a leading investigator or one with great potential for
example may require an investment of $ 1 million and sometimes more
Endowments are the departmentrsquos foundational financial capital the
keel that maintains momentum and balance through the headwinds
and rough seas each department will navigate Endowments increase
the departmentrsquos independence in sustaining its core mission
Thus creation of endowments should be a high priority for any
department that plans for the long term and they increase capacity to
recruit the best faculty in a competitive environment
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II REVIEW AND APPROVAL OF MINUTES Ricardo Salazar MD
Faculty Council President Having met quorum the Faculty Council members unanimously approved the June 17 2019 meeting minutes
III DEANrsquoS REPORT Richard Lange MD MBA
Dean PLFSOM President TTUHSC El Paso
Dr Lange reported the following bull A campus-wide values summit gathered to define the core values of the Paul L Foster School of Medicine A
total of 65 employees and learners ndash faculty staff medical students and residents ndash were selected to begin drafting a comprehensive article of the institutionrsquos values which will be used to guide the strategic plan as well as enable the community to evaluate one another and aid in accountability Seven to eight town hall meetings are scheduled across the next month to allow everyone an opportunity to present their thoughts and questions Additionally a video is being created for release at a later date to assist in reaching all employees
QampA Q What is the function or goal of the summit A To define the values that are important to us to detail what respect innovation and integrity actually look like These values will govern how we treat one another how we behave and guide us along the ideals of the strategic plan They will tell us if we have acceptable behavior and keep us accountable to one another These are not ldquowalk awayrdquo values or a single event values but rather a lens by which we view everything They are not handed down from above but rather cultivated among us Q When and how will the video be available A The video is just in draft form right now as are the values after only the first meeting They will be added to refined and compared with our sister institutions to be sure we didnrsquot miss anything Eventually the video will be edited voiced over and distributed campus-wide Q How are the values different than our current mission and vision statements A Values are often formed at a young age by our families culture and community whereas your mission equates with your profession or role We must ask ourselves how we live out the values important to us in order to achieve our common mission We come from very diverse backgrounds so this will require great cooperation
IV STANDING COMMITTEE REPORTS
Jorge Cervantes-Gonzalez MD PhD Chair Committee on Medical School Admissions
Dr Cervantes-Gonzalez reported the following
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CMSA CONTINUEDhellip
PLFSOM Committee on Medical School Admissions
ReportPresented to Faculty Council ndash 7152019
See attached report QampA Q When do prospective students take the CASPerreg How is it evaluated A It is a part of the application process Each individual is shown a series of videos and they respond to them Q Does everyone take it Who pays for the test A I am not certain but I will relay your questions to Dr Cynthia Perry Assistant Academic Dean for Admissions
IV STANDING COMMITTEE REPORTS (CONT) Richard Brower MD
Chair Curriculum and Educational Policy Committee
Dr Brower reported the following
Curriculum amp Educational Policy
Committee Report to the PLFSOM Faculty Council
Presented by Richard Brower MD
Date July 15 2019
See attached report QampA Q The MD MPH and the MD MBA programs seem to be going in opposite directions We have had direction from Lubbock on the MD MPH program but not for the MBA program Why the difference A Lubbock provides great instruction and support for the MPH program because like us they are an HSC We have a tighter relationship to them in general However there is a great advantage to having a local program with UTEP that allows for regional participation This allows students to study local issues and get to know our area more intimately There will always be the question ndash do we stay within the system which yields a less personal approach or do we partner locally
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CEPC Continuedhellip Q I see that two of your goals ndash class size expansion and curriculum 20 revision ndash seem to be competing How will you accommodate both of these A I see them as complementary to one another If there is a political a financial or an increased physician production desire from this region we must talk about class size growth and curriculum development which must be done effectively and efficiently
V OLD BUSINESS Ricardo Salazar MD
Faculty Council President
Dr Salazar reported the following bull Dr Salazar acknowledged and appreciated new members recently elected for the following
o Committee on Student Grading and Promotion Dr Lynn Hernan o Committee on Medical School Admissions Dr Lynn Hernan Dr Anantha Vellipuram and Dr Jose
Gavito bull Dr Salazar reminded the Council that representative seats were up for electionre-election for the following
departments o Anesthesiology o Emergency Medicine o Family amp Community Medicine o Molecular amp Translational Medicine
Dr Salazar reminded the Council that the Chairs of the departments would coordinate the election process
VI NEW BUSINESS Ricardo Salazar MD
Faculty Council President Dr Salazar reported the following
bull Dr Salazar introduced the 2019-2020 Faculty Council President-Elect nominees and invited them to speak bull Dr Ayoub-Rodriguez Assistant Professor of Pediatrics a native El Pasoan focused on border health and the
El Paso region and acknowledged the importance of recruitment and retention of talent that would transform healthcare along the border for the better
bull Dr Cervantes-Gonzalez Assistant Professor of Medical Education offered to lend an ear to the concerns of faculty particularly in the field of research in which many are struggling
bull Voting will take place by e-vote following the meeting The new President-Elect will take office in September VII DEPARTMENTAL REPORT Laxman Gangwani PhD
Representative Molecular amp Translational Medicine
Dr Gangwani reported the following
Department of Molecular and Translational Medicine (formerly Biomedical Sciences) ReportPRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCILBY LAXMAN GANGWANI
DATE JULY 15 2019
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PLFSOM Committee on
Medical School Admissions
Report
Presented to Faculty Council ndash 7152019
Committee Composition and Terms of Service 22 committee members 20 Voting Members
Chair Jorge Cervantes MD PhD
Vice-Chair Diana Pettit PhD
EPCMS Rep Raj Marwah MD
2 Ex-Officio (non-voting) Associate Dean of Admissions and Director of Admissions
Last Name First Name Degree Academic Rank Department Committee Position Term Start Date
Chambers Karinn MD Assistant Professor Surgery 2018
Chheda Sadhana MD Assistant Professor Peds 2018
Duran Patricia DNP RN CENP Assistant Professor GGHSON 2018
Patek Gregory MD Assistant Professor Emergency Med 2018
Rao Jo MD Assistant Professor Peds 2018
Chattopadhyay Munmun PhD Assistant Professor Biomedical Sciences 2018
Hogg Tanis PhD Associate Professor Medical Education 2018
Lakshmanaswamy Rajkumar PhD Professor Biomedical Sciences 2018
Andrade Alonso MD Assistant Professor Surgery 2017
Castro Jose MD Clinical Instructor Surgery 2017
Cervantes Jorge MD PhD Assistant Professor Medical Education Chair 2017
Belmares Ricardo PhD Instructor Medical Education 2017
Kafchinski Lisa MD Assistant Professor Orthopedics 2017
Tonarelli Sylvina MD Assistant Professor Psychiatry 2017
Rojas-Mendez Patricia MD Assistant Professor ObGyn 2017
Martinez Carla MD Assistant Professor ObGyn 2017
Marwah Raj MD Clinical Assistant Professor Family Medicine 2019
Manglik Niti MD Assistant Professor Medical Education 2019
Pettit Diana PhD Associate Professor Medical Education Vice Chair 2019
Hernan Lynn MD Associate Professor Peds 2019
Vellipuram Anantha MD Assistant Professor Neurology 2019
Gavito Jose MD Assistant Professor Radiology 2019
Perry Cynthia PhD Interim Assistant Dean for Admissions Admissions Ex Officio
Olivas Laura MBA Senior Director of Admissions Admissions Ex Officio
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Committee Charge
The Committee shall have full authority to select members of
the medical school entering class based on screening
assessments and interview evaluation reports and to fill
vacancies that may occur in any of the medical school classes
A list of recommended candidates to be offered positions
through the Texas Medical and Dental School Application Service
(TMDSAS) matching process will be prepared based on a ranking
determined following deliberations by the Committee
The Committee also shall have the responsibility to review the
requirements for admission and if necessary to recommend
revisions to the faculty
Actions taken since last report (Jan 2019)
Approval of Handbook revisions
Added COI policy Attendance policy CASPer Assessment
requirement (Pilot)
Sat 104 new students 12 repeaters
Interviewed 14 JAMP students on June 24th
(Round 1 eligible students here for JAMP Internship)
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No right wrong answers
Rating not influenced by-ESL -Age-Coaching -Reading Level
Rating is relative
What are raters looking for
Actions taken since last report Received 4471 primary applications amp 3079 completed applications
(increase of 350 complete appl compared to last year)
127 TX pre-match and 13 Out-of-state offers extended
Currently have 109 acceptances leading up to TMDSAS match
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EY2018
Received 3983 primary applications amp 2729 completed
applications
130 acceptances leading up to TMDSAS match
TTUHSC EP PLFSOM First Year Entering Students
EY 2019
38
(27506)
TX 37 (30) 37 (29) 37 (30) 37 (30) 37 (30) 37 (31) 373 (31) 38 (507) 38 (509)376
(266506)
US 37 (31) 37 (31) 37 (31) 37 (31) 37 (31) 37 (31) 37(31) 37 (509) 37 (510) 38 (27506)
Hispanic 8 (20) 6 (10) 5 (6) 12 (15) 23 (24) 32 (31) 24 (23) 35 (35) 37 (36) 24 (24) 28 (269)
Border Counties - - 7 (9) 13 (16) 24 (24) 28 (27) 26 (25) 32 (31) 33 (32) 21 (21) 27 (26)
El Paso 7 (17) 8 (13) 5 (6) 12 (15) 19 (19) 23 (22) 24 (23) 29 (28) 25 (24) 19 (19) 23 (221)
African American 0 0 0 0 0 1 (1) 3 (3) 1 (1) 3 (3) 2 (2) 6 (58)
Native American 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Class Size 40 60 81 80 100 104 104 103 103 100 104
Male 16 (40) 35 (58) 44 (54) 42 (52) 65 (65) 47 (45) 67 (64) 59 (57) 56 (54) 49 (49) 52 (50)
Female 24 (60) 25 (42) 37 (46) 38 (48) 35 (35) 57 (55) 37 (36) 44 (43) 47 (46) 51 (51) 52 (50)
Total Applicants 2503 2531 2719 2946 3105 3375 3694 4043 3950 3982 4472
Interviewed 389 378 593 548 626 566 538 510 535 546 602
EY 2018
374
(5077)
Underrepresented minority(URM)-Diversity ()
Class Size amp Gender ()
Applicants
37 (28) 37 (29)37
(28503)
368
(26505)
EY 2014 EY 2015 EY 2016 EY 2017
GPA(MCAT) 37 (28) 36 (29) 36 (29) 35 (29) 36 (29)
EY 2009 EY 2010 EY 2011 EY 2012 EY 2013
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Candidates discussed
Voting (high priority acceptable reject)
Categorized by vote
1 High Priority (unanimous high priority votes)
2 Highly Acceptable -1 -2 -3
3 Very Acceptable (4+ acceptable votes)
4 Acceptable (majority acceptable votes)
5 Reject
Ranked within category by weighted scores (Interview 30 MCAT 30 SGPA 35 GPA 5)
Rank list is generated after the first interview date and updated weekly throughout interview season
Admissions Committee Process
Upcoming actions
Joint Admission Medical Program (JAMP) Round 2 Match
(Friday Jan 25th) will match with 2
Rolling admissions continues until June 1
Created additional interview date for EY2020 (22 days)
New requirement added for EY2020 CASPer Assessment ndash
Situational Judgement Test (SJT)
Propose revision to By-Laws to add minimum attendance
requirements for committee members
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Current IssuesConcerns
Ongoing need to recruit more interviewers
Anticipating class size expansion
Meeting quorum
Standing Committee Report
Curriculum and Educational Policy
Committee
Richard Brower MD PhDAssociate Dean for Medical Education
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9
Curriculum amp
Educational Policy
Committee Report to the PLFSOM Faculty Council
Presented by Richard Brower MD
Date July 15 2019
Committee Composition and Terms of
Service
ldquoCandidates for lsquoat largersquo positions are to be
recommended by the associate dean for medical
education and appointed by the deanrdquo
ldquoTerms may be renewed by recommendation of the
associate dean for medical education and appointment by
the deanrdquo
ldquohelliplsquoat largersquo members may be appointed for no more than
two consecutive terms after which they are ineligible to
serve for 4 yearsrdquo
ldquoCandidates for these positions should demonstrate an
ongoing interest in medical educationrdquo
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Committee Composition and Terms of ServiceLast Name First Name Degree Academic Rank Department Committee Position Term Start Date
Term Expiration Date
Frances Mark MD ProfessorMedical Education
Member (College Master)
9120168312020
Pfarr Curt PhD ProfessorMedical Education
Member (College Master) 9242015 8312019
Gajendran Mahesh MD Assistant ProfessorInternal Medicine
Member (Clinician) 912017 8312021
Uga Aghaegbulam MD Assistant Professor
Psychiatry and Internal Medicine
Member (Clinician) 11192015 10312019
Kassar Darine MD Assistant Professor NeurologyMember (Clinician) 972016 8312020
Wojciechowska Joanna MD Assistant Professor Pediatrics
Member (Clinician) 212018 8312022
Nino DiegoMD PhD Assistant Professor
Medical Education
Member (Basic Sciences) 1142019 1142023
Padilla Osvaldo MD Assistant Professor PathologyMember (Basic Sciences) 12152014 8312022
Cervantes JorgeMD PhD Assistant Professor
Medical Education
Member (Basic Sciences) 8232016 8312020
Perry Cynthia PhD Assistant ProfessorMedical Education
Member (Basic Sciences) 9282015 8312019
Brower Richard MDAssociate Professor
Medical Education Chair NA NA
Three positions
opening soon ndash-
should have
demonstrated
interest and
engagement in
UME and a
willingness to
attend all
meetings and
participate in
team
assignments
Committee Composition and Terms of
Service Leadership
This committee is chaired by the associate dean for medical education
The committee reports to the Faculty Council
Membership will include
2 college masters (one basic scientist one clinician) with 4-year terms
4 members from the basic sciences faculty with 4-year terms (staggered)
4 members from the clinical sciences faculty with 4-year terms (staggered)
Ex Officio members
Dean or their designee
Associate dean for student affairs
Assistant deans for medication education
Managing director of the libraries (ldquoAssociate Director of the Libraryrdquo)
Director of information technology or their designee
Director of assessment and evaluation (position no longer exists)
Two student reps from each of the four classes (from the Student Curriculum and Evaluation Committee)
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Committee Charge Faculty Bylaws Article IX Section C2
The Committee on Curriculum and Educational Policy is charged with planning coordinating
reviewing and evaluating the curriculum to ensure that it adheres to the
written educational policies goals and objectives of the Paul L Foster School
of Medicine Further the Committee shall have full authority to make changes in
educational policy or in the organization of the curriculum with the
concurrence of the Dean and with comment and input from the Faculty Council The Faculty of the Paul L Foster School of Medicine has the responsibility to define course objectives create
and deliver content to meet those objectives and modify their activities in response to appropriate feedback
from peers and students The Committee will provide updates on its activities at least
twice a year to the Faculty Council In order to accomplish the mission of the Committee the
Chair may appoint subcommittees that may include members who are not
members of the Committee It shall be the responsibility of the Committee to coordinate the
activities and reports of these subcommittees In addition the Committee receives reports
from the Committee on Evaluation of Educational Programs
Current IssuesConcerns
Curriculum enhancementimprovement
Preparation for class size expansion
Preparation for next round of curriculum reviews
(ldquocurriculum as a wholerdquo)
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CEPC actions since last report
January 2019 (1 meeting)
Reviewed and approved revisions to the following
educational program polices
Clerkship Administration
Clerkship DirectorAssistant Director Position Description
Approval of two new 4th Year Electives
Pediatric Gastroenterology Hepatology and Nutrition
Emergency Medicine Ultrasound
Clerkship phase review FM and Surgery
CEPC actions since last report
February 2019 (2 meetings)
New educational program policy reviewed and approved
Grade Changes and Transcript Notations
Rollover of established educational program goals and
objectives (the ldquoPGOsrdquo) approved
Clerkship phase review Pediatrics and ObGyn
Preliminary data-driven discussion of revised educational
program policy covering Grading Promotion and Academic
Standing (ldquoGPASrdquo)
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CEPC actions since last report
March 2019 (2 meetings)
Clerkship phase review IM and Psych Critical Care and Sub-I
Selectives
Approval of new educational program policy
Grading Promotion and Academic Standing (ldquoGPASrdquo)
Notification of changes in clerkship directorship
Elimination of the PICE course (PICE 7001) from the year 2
curriculum approved (primarily administrative educational
elements re-distributed)
Associated review and approval of an updated PLSOM degree
plan (based on 157 credit hours)
CEPC actions since last report
April 2019 (1 meetings)
Clerkship phase review EM Neurology and Intersessions
Review and approval of revised educational program policy
Pre-Clerkship Phase Student Attendance and Participation
Policy
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CEPC actions since last report
May 2019 (1 meetings)
Review and approval of the ldquoCommon Clerkship Policiesrdquo
Notification of additional changes in the clerkship
directorship
Clerkship phase review
Phase data review (AAMC GQ NBME subject exams
USMLE Step 2 CK and CS Step 3 final grades EOY OSCE
and procedure workshop residency director survey)
Introduction of a 10-point plan for curriculum revision
(ldquoPLFSOM v20rdquo)
June 2019 (no quorum) July 2019 (cancelled)
CEPC actions since last report
Challenges and opportunities for improvement identified
through the AY208-19 clerkship phase review
Clear identification of contacts at affiliated sites
Academic support and remediation planning
Consistent resident preparation for participation in UME
Timeliness of grading (Sub-I and Critical Care Selectives)
Orientation modules for Sub-Q and Critical Care Selectives)
Scaling clerkships for anticipated class expansion
The summer doldrums
June 2019 (no quorum) July 2019 (cancelled)
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Upcoming actions
Ongoing educational program policy development
Maintain accreditation compliance related curriculum
review cycle (2019-20 ldquoCurriculum as a Wholerdquo)
Review and advance plans for curriculum renewalrevision
Review proposal to re-direct our MD-MPH affiliation to
TTUHSC GSBS Lubbock
Consider development of an MD-MBA option (potentially
with UTEP)
Links to related information
PLFSOM Committee on Curriculum and Educational Policy main page
httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCdefaultaspx
MD degree program policies
httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCpoliciesaspx
MD degree program information
httpselpasottuhscedusomomeUMEinfoaspx
Course and clerkship syllabi
httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCcoursereviewaspx
AY2017-18 medical education program evaluation report (e-Raider required)
httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPC_documentssecureAY2017-
2018MEPEvaluationAnnualReport-Draft-v2pdf
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Departmental Report
Molecular and Translational
Medicine
Laxman Gangwani PhDAssociate Professor Molecular amp
Translational Medicine
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Department of Molecular and
Translational Medicine (formerly
Biomedical Sciences) Report
PRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCIL
BY LAXMAN GANGWANI
DATE JULY 15 2019
Department BreakdownPlease provide the total number of faculty members in your department and break down this number by
rank Please list new faculty members that have joined your department within the last six months
Total Number of Faculty
Number of Faculty Associates 1
Number of Instructors 1
Number of Research Assistant Professor 1
Number of Assistant Professors 6
Number of Associate Professors 7
Number of Professors 4
New Faculty
None
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LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair
program director clerkship director chiefs etc
Department Chair Dr Peter Rotwein (VP Research Associate
Dean GSBS)
Director Center of Emphasis in Cancer Dr Rajkumar
Lakshmanaswamy (Dean GSBS) Co-Director Dr N Shokar
Director Center of Emphasis in Diabetes and Metabolism Dr
David Cistola
Director Center of Emphasis in Infectious Diseases Vacant
Director Center of Emphasis in Neurosciences Vacant
Chief Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology Vacant
AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional
appointments national appointments etc
Awards
Dr Mingtao Zeng
2018 The American Association of Immunologists (AAI) AAI Travel Grant for the 5th European Congress of Immunology
2018 Defense Techconnect Fall Summit amp Expo (2018) Techconnect Defense Innovation Award
Dr Shrikant Gadad
Eugenia Rosemberg Outstanding Abstract Award Endocrine Society Annual Meeting New Orleans March 23-26 2019
Dr Huanyu Dou
National Innovation Award Techconnect 2019
Honors
Dr Alok Dwivedi
Appointed as associated faculty at the Border Biomedical Research Center (BBRC) University of Texas El Paso (UTEP)
Dr Shrikant Gadad
Session Chair (OR09 Steroid Hormone Biology in Physiology and Disease) Endocrine Society Annual Meeting New Orleans March 23-26 2019
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AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional
appointments national appointments etc
NIH or DOD study sections appointments
Dr Guohua Yi
HIV special Emphasis Panel for RFA-AI-18-058 Genetic Engineering Technologies for HIV Cure Research (U19)
Dr Laxman Gangwani
Department of Defense (DOD) Reviewer for Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) 2018 -
NIHCSR Study ldquoProgram Evaluation of NIH Peer Review Processes The Role of Anonymizationrdquo 2019 ndash
Patents filings and publications
Patent Number 9862951 Title RNA Interference-Based Therapeutic against Anthrax Inventors Mingtao Zeng and Maria T AreacutevaloDate of Patent January 9 2018
Cistola D P Patel V (2018) Method and system for non-invasive measurement of metabolic health US Non-Provisional Utility Patent Application No 15911728 filed by Texas Tech University
Cistola D P Robinson M D (2018) Methods and tools for diagnosing insulin resistance and assessing health status using NMR relaxation times for water United States Patent Application Publication US 20180020947 A1 httpspatentsgooglecompatentUS20180020947A1en
AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional
appointments national appointments etc
News and Media Coverage of Research performed at TTUHSC EP
Dr David Cistola
MedPageToday 2 January 2019 Harris Scott Could a New Biomarker Help Predict Type 2 Diabetes -- Early datashow water T2 catches abnormalities before traditional testing but experts are cautiously optimistichttpswwwmedpagetodaycomreading-roomendocrine-societydiabetes77186
KTSM Channel 9 NBC El Paso 14 November 2018 Castillo Susy Research in El Paso aimed at detectingdiabetes earlyhttpswwwktsmcomlifestylehealthresearch-in-el-paso-aimed-at-detecting-diabetes-early1596408236apt_credirect=1
El Paso Inc 29 March 2019 TTUHSC El Paso Tackling diabetes cancer httpwwwelpasoinccomttuhsc-el-paso-tackling-diabetes-cancerarticle_613144fe-526a-11e9-b916-c35b701a5ef9html
Dr Laxman Gangwani
Cure SMA Awards $150000 Grant to Laxman Gangwani PhD Texas Tech University
httpwwwcuresmaorgnewsgangwani-grant-2019html
httpswwweurekalertorgpub_releases2019-05ttuh-gw050119php
httpswwwresearchgatenetscientific-contributions11984383_Laxman_Gangwani
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Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Peer-reviewed publications 36 (In high-impact journals)
2018 highest impact factor (11561) journal Nucleic Acids Research
Abstracts 43
Presentations (i) Oral 11 (ii) Posters 28
Invited talks 13
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Peer-reviewed publications
Kannan A Bhatia K Branzei D and Gangwani L (2018) Combined deficiency of Senataxin and DNA-PKcscauses DNA damage accumulation and neurodegeneration in spinal muscular atrophy Nucleic Acids Research2018 Vol 46 No 16 8326-8346
Mishra I Jones C Patel V Deodhar S Cistola D P (2018) Early detection of metabolic dysregulation usingwater T2 analysis of biobanked samples Diabetes Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity Targets and Therapy 11 807-818
Patel V Dwivedi A K Deodhar S Mishra I Cistola D P (2018) Aptamer-based search for correlates of plasmaand serum water T2 Implications for early metabolic dysregulation and metabolic syndrome Biomarker Research6(1) 28
Garg H Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz T Joshi A 2018 Recent Advances in Zika Virus Vaccines Viruses Nov 1410 (11) Sundin OH Mendoza-Ladd A Zeng M Diaz-Areacutevalo D Morales E Fagan BMOrdontildeez J McCallum RW Does a
glucose-based hydrogen and methane breath test detect bacterial overgrowth in the jejunum NeurogastroenterolMotil 2018e13350
Zheng Z Diaz-Areacutevalo D Guan H and Mingtao Zeng Noninvasive vaccination against infectious diseases Humanvaccines amp immunotherapeutics 2018 14(7)1717-1733
Preeti Bharaj Chunting Ye Sean Petersen Qianghu Wang Baoli Hu N Manjunath Premlata Shankar Guohua Yi(2018) Gene array analysis of PD-1H overexpressing monocytes reveals a pro-inflammatory profile Heliyone00545
Bencomo-Alvarez AE Rubio AJ Gonzalez MA and Eiring AM Energy metabolism and drug response in myeloidleukaemic stem cells Br J Haematol 2019 In Press
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24
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Peer-reviewed publications Yan D Pomicter AD Tantravahi S Mason CC Senina AV Ahmann JM Wang Q Than H Patel AB Heaton
WL Eiring AM Clair PM Gantz KC Redwine HM Swierczek SI Halverson BJ Baloglu E Shacham S KhorashadJS Kelley TW Salama ME Miles RR Boucher KM Prchal JT OHare T and Deininger MW Nuclear-cytoplasmic transport is a therapeutic target in myelofibrosis Clin Cancer Res 201925(7)2323-2335
Heipertz E Harper J Lopez CA Fikrig E Hughes ME Walker WE Circadian rhythms influence the severity of sepsis in mice via a TLR2-dependent leukocyte-intrinsic mechanism The Journal of Immunology 2018 201193-201
Khatri R Afzal MR Qureshi MA Maud A Huanyu D Jose Rodriguez G Pre-Existing Renal Failure Increases In-Hospital Mortality in Patients with Intracerebral Hemorrhage J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis 2019 Feb28(2)237-242
Zou L Lee SY Wu Q Zhang H Bastian A Orji C Payne G Galvez A Thomas T Zhang Z Dou H Facile Gene Delivery Derived from Branched Low Molecular Weight Polyethylenimine by High Efficient Chemistry J Biomed Nanotechnol 2018 Oct 114(10)1785-1795
Zhang C Brandon NR Koper K Tang P Xu Y Dou H Invasion of Peripheral Immune Cells into Brain Parenchyma after Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation Aging Dis 2018 Jun 19(3)412-425
Loza O Hernandez P Calderoacuten-Mora J Laks S Leiner M Reddy S Lara P amp Granados H (2018) Developing Trans-affirming health services in an underserved area An intersectional approach Transgender Health 3(1) 127-135
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Byrd T Calderoacuten-Mora J Salaiz R amp Shokar N (2019) Barriers and facilitators to colorectal cancer screening within a Hispanic population Hispanic Health Care International 17(1) 23-29 doi 1011771540415318818982
Haut SR Lipton RB Cornes S Dwivedi AK Wasson R Cotton S Strawn JR Privitera M (2018) Behavioral interventions as a treatment for epilepsy A multicenter randomized controlled trial Neurology 90(11) e963-e970 PMID 29444968
Jessica Bernica Sherif Elhanafi Neeharika Kalakota Yi Jia Christopher Dodoo Alok Dwivedi Robert J Sealock Kalpesh Patel Isaac Raijman Marc J Zuckerman Mohamed O Othman (2018) Cholangioscopy is safe and feasible in elderly patients Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology 16(8) 1293-1299
Benjamin D Wissel Alok K Dwivedi Danielle Chin Aristide Merola Cara Jacob Andrew P Duker Jennifer E Vaughan Lilia Lovera Kathrin LaFaver Ariel Levy Anthony E Lang Francesca Morgante Melissa J Nirenberg Christopher Stephen Nutan Sharma Alberto Romagnolo Leonardo Lopiano Bettina Balint Xin X Yu Kailash P Bhatia Alberto J Espay Functional neurological disorders in Parkinson disease Accepted for publication in Journal
of Neurology Neurosurgery amp Psychiatry 89(6)566-571
Danny J Avalos Marc J Zuckerman Alok Dwivedi Christopher Dodoo Jinendra Satiya Fernando J Castro(2018) Differences in prevalence of large polyps between Hispanic Americans from Mexican-and Non-Mexican-predominant states Digestive diseases and sciences PMID 30276570
Zeina Nahleh Salman Otoukesh Hamid Reza Mirshahidi Anthony Loc Nguyen Gayathri Nagaraj Nabeel Badri Gehan Botrus Nabih Diab Andres Alvarado Luis A Sanchez Alok K Dwivedi (2018) Disparities in breast cancer a multi-institutional comparative analysis focusing on American Hispanics Cancer Medicine (In press 05072018)
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25
Scholarly Activity Danny J Avalos Antonio Mendoza-Ladd Marc J Zuckerman Mohammad Bashashati Andres Alvarado Alok
Dwivedi Oriana M Damas (2018) Hispanics and Non-Hispanic Whites in the US have a Similar InflammatoryBowel Disease Phenotype A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis Digestive Diseases and Sciences 63(6)1558-1571
Aleli Campbell Rosalinda Heydarian Cecilia Ochoa Alok Kumar Dwivedi Zeina A Nahleh(2018) Single arm phaseII study of oral vitamin B12 for the treatment of musculoskeletal symptoms associated with aromatase inhibitors inwomen with early stage breast cancer The breast journal 24(3)260-268
Shaimaa Elzamly Nabeel Badri Osvaldo Padilla Alok Kumar Dwivedi Luis A Alvarado Matthew Hamilton NabihDiab Crosby Rock Ahmed Elfar Marwa Teleb Luis Sanchez Zeina Nahleh (2018) Epithelial-mesenchymaltransition markers in breast cancer and pathological responseafter neoadjuvant chemotherapy Breast Cancer
(Auckl) 2018 Aug 1121178223418788074
Jennifer C Molokwu Eribeth Penaranda Alok Dwivedi Indika Mallawaarachchi Navkiran Shokar (2018) Effect ofEducational Intervention on Self-Sampling Acceptability and Follow-Up Paps in Border Dwelling Hispanic FemalesJournal of Lower Genital Tract Disease
Ritika Suri Federico Rodriguez-Porcel Kelly Donohue Erin Jesse Lilia Lovera Alok Kumar Dwivedi Alberto JEspay (2018) Post-Stroke Movement Disorders The Clinical Neuroanatomic and Demographic Portrait of 284Published Cases Accepted for publication in Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases (In press05212018)
Zeina Nahleh Gehan Botrus Alok Dwivedi Nabeel Badri Salman Otoukesh Nabih Diab Sandip BiswasMichael Jennings Shaimaa Elzamly(2018) Clinico-pathologic disparities of breast cancer in HispanicLatina womenBreast disease 1-8
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Robert Gonzalez Trisha Suppes Jamie Zeitzer Colleen McClung Carol Tamminga Mauricio Tohen Angelica Forero Alok DwivediAndres Alvarado (2018) The association between mood state and chronobiological characteristics in bipolar I disorder a naturalisticvariable cluster analysis-based study International Journal of Bipolar Disorders 6(1)5Mohamed Teleb Aaron Shanker Alok Kumar Dwivedi Debabrata Mukherjee (2018) Effect of exercise on left ventricular mass index byechocardiography in mild and moderate hypertension a meta-analysis Res Cardiovasc Med 6(4)50-6Garnica O Das K Devasundaram S and Dhandayuthapani S Enhanced delivery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigens to antigenpresenting cells using RVG peptide Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Das K Garnica O and Dhandayuthapani S Utility of an oxidative stress response system for the expression of recombinant proteinsin mycobacteria and for the delivery of M tuberculosis antigens to the phagosomal compartments Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Palanichamy K Joshi A Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz T Fernando B Milan S Schiro F Naeem Y Garg H Braunschweig A 2019 Anti-ZikaActivity of a Library of Synthetic Carbohydrate Receptors Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 6284110-4119Anjali Joshi Erin B Punke Tugba Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz Diego P Peralta and Himanshu Garg 2019 TLR9 polymorphism correlates withimmune activation CD4 decline and plasma IP10 levels in HIV patients BMC Infect Dis 19 56Vargas-Medrano J Yang B Garza N T Segura-Ulate I and Perez R G (2018) Up-regulation of protective neuronal MicroRNAs byFTY720 and novel FTY720-derivatives Neuroscience letters 690 178-180Vidal-Martinez G Yang B Vargas-Medrano J and Perez R G (2018) Could alpha-Synuclein Modulation of Insulin and DopamineIdentify a Novel Link Between Parkinsons Disease and Diabetes as Well as Potential Therapies Frontiers in molecular
neuroscience 11 465
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Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Gil-Tommee C Vidal-Martinez G Annette Reyes C Vargas-Medrano J Herrera G V Martin S M Chaparro S A andPerez R G (2019) Parkinsonian GM2 synthase knockout mice lacking mature gangliosides develop urinary dysfunction andneurogenic bladder Experimental neurology 311265-273Vidal-Martinez G Najera K Miranda JD Gil-Tommee C Yang B Vargas-Medrano J Diaz-Pacheco V Barragan J ChaparroS Vargas-Medrano J Chinnasamy R Arterburn JB Perez RG FTY720 improves behavior increases Brain Derived NeurotrophicFactor and reduces α-synuclein pathology in parkinsonian GM2+minus
mice Neuroscience httpsdoiorg101016jneuroscience201905029Tasnim N Thakur V Chattopadhyay M Joddar B (2018) The efficacy of Graphene-foams towards the adhesion proliferationand expression of neuronal-phenotype by dopaminergic neurons differentiated from mesenchymal stem cells Stem cell
international Jun 3 20183410168 doi 10115520183410168Anil Kumar S Allen SC Tasnim N Akter T Park S Kumar A Chattopadhyay M Ito Y Suggs LJ Joddar B (2019) The applicabilityof furfuryl-gelatin as a novel bioink for tissue engineering applications J Biomed Mater Res B Appl Biomater 2019 107(2)314-323 doi 101002jbmb34123 Epub 2018 Apr 15Thakur V Chattopadhyay M (2018) Early urinary markers for diabetic and other kidney diseases Current drug targets 2018 Mar19Joddar B Tasnim N Thakur V Kumar A Mccallum R Chattopadhyay M (2018) Delivery of mesenchymal stem cells fromgelatin-alginate hydrogels to stomach lumen for treatment of gastroparesis Bioengineering 2018 5(1)Camacho CV Choudhari R Gadad SS (2018) Long noncoding RNAs and cancer an overview Steroids 13393-95
IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department
Large net loss (9) of MTM faculty members over the past 5 years
Vacant Director positions (i) Center for Neuroscience (ii) Center for InfectiousDiseases and (iii) Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
No steps have been taken to fill directors positions for more than 2 years
Neurosciences Center at the verge of collapse Only one faculty will be left at theend of this fiscal year
The size of Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology is shrinking
Lack of communication regarding vision and strategic plan for growing department
No faculty salary raises for the past 3 years
Serious concerns about recruitment retention and tenure and promotion decisionsmade in the department Faculty morale is extremely low
Lack of functional research core facility
Gradual elimination of service contracts of equipment essential for research trainingand education of graduate and medical students
A plethora of other issues with the department administration
9102019
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Questions
Departmental Report
Psychiatry
Ricardo Salazar MDAssociate Professor Psychiatry
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28
Department ReportPsychiatryPRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCIL
BY RICARDO SALAZAR MD
DATE MONDAY JULY 15 2019
Department BreakdownPlease provide the total number of faculty members in your department and break down this number by
rank Please list new faculty members that have joined your department within the last six months
Total Number of Faculty 12
Number of Instructors 1
Number of Assistant Professors 8
Number of Associate Professors 2
Number of Professors 2
New Faculty Melanie Longhurst MD Instructor
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LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair
program director clerkship director chiefs etc
Department Chair ndash Peter M Thompson MD MS
Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Sarah L Martin MD
Combined IMPsych Residency Program Director ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD
Psychiatry Clerkship Director ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD
Child amp Adolescent Fellowship Program Director ndash Cecilia De Vargas MD
Chief Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry ndash Sarah L Martin MD
Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Program Directorndash Ricardo Salazar MD
Chief Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences ndash Ricardo Salazar MD
Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Transmountain ndash Moataz Ragheb MD
AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in your department including awards honors regional
appointments national appointments etc
El Paso Behavioral Health Consortium ndash Board Member ndash Peter M Thompson MD
714 (50) of our graduating medical students this year choose and matched our resident training programs here at Paul L FosterSchool of Medicine Department of Psychiatry (Historical record) ndash Kudos for our Department Faculty
In appreciation for exceptional contributions to the 30th volume of the J Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences ndash Author contributions and review of 271 manuscripts submitted to the journal between September 2017 and August 2018 ndash Ricardo Salazar MD ndash Young Investigator Award Committee Member and Program Committee Member-Abstracts Sub-Committee Member of theAmerican Neuropsychiatric Association (ANPA)
Initial Accreditation with commendation and no citations from ACGME for our first Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Training Program for West Texas ndash Ricardo Salazar MD
Leadership in Education and Development Certificate Program (LEAD) Fellow -1-year program accredited from the Association ofAmerican Medical Colleges (AAMC) Silvina Tonarelli MD amp Ricardo Salazar MD (Selected Award)
Fully operating Southwest Brain Bank A Brain Tissue Repository for Research in Mental Illness ndashPeter M Thompson MD
Texas State Psychiatric Physicians Public Mental Health Services Committee ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD
Texas Health and Human Services Commission Behavioral Health Advisory Committee ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP
Fellow American College of Physicians ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP FACP
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Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Abstracts 31
Publications 5 (peer-review journals)
Presentations 17 ndash National (7) and International (6)
Invited Speaker 21 (including faculty residents fellows) ndash Local amp National
Book Chapters NA
Grants McKee Foundation Award ndash our Chair - Thompson
Intramural Grants Seed Grant 1 SARP Educational Grant 2 - Salazar
President`s Collaborative Research Initiative ndashMarch 2018 - Tonarelli
Scholarly Activity
Child and Adolescent Fellowship Presentations
INTERNATIONAL
- Curanderos and Limpias Cultural psychiatry
Poster presented at 6th Annual Scientific conference of the European Association of PsychosomaticMedicine Verona Italy Drs Garza Meissner De Vargas Mehta June 2018
-Case presentation 0f 49XXXXY Same conference same authors same city
-Resilience etiology protective and risk factors presentation C De Vargas by invitation Annual WorldPediatric summit Madrid June 2018
-Parents and their Children Fantastic journey Same conference on June 2019 Berlin Germany
NATIONAL
-Development of Psychopathology in children at risk for Bipolar Disorders Drs Escamilla Peter Sangra C DeVargas S Martin C Alvarado Andrea Rios (Poster) American Academy of Child and Adolescent PsychiatryAnnual Conference Seattle WA October 2018
Frank William Meissner MD Cynthia Elizabeth Garza MDJD Sarah L Martin MD rdquoDrug-Induced BrugadaSyndrome in a Middle-Aged Female Patient Drugs EKG Diagnosis Electrophysiology and SurveillanceRecommendationrdquo American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting San Francisco CA May 21 2019
Delinquency in a group of school children at risk for bipolar disorder D Haque M Escamilla C De VargasPresented at UCLA LA Ca June 2019
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Residency ProgramPlease provide information regarding your departmentrsquos residency program ie recent accreditation
number of residents and program updates (if applicable)
24 General Psychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)
8 Internal MedicinePsychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)
3 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellows
1 Geriatric Psychiatry Fellow- newly accredited program
IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department
RecruitmentRetention
Short staffed
Organizational Structure
Financial incentives
Protected time
Gender balance Attrition malefemale ratio 41
Program Coordinator turnover rate
Mentoring
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Departmental Organizational
Structure
Chair
Division ChiefsProgram Directors
Clerkship Director
Adm
Organizational Structure Model
Chair
Deputy Chair for Education
Program
Directors
Deputy Chair for Research
Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs
Vicechair
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Roles
Deputy Chair for Education
Oversee undergraduate graduate and CME including the development of teachers and educational scholars Monitor quality and safety across the department
Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs
Faculty appointments Faculty Development and Promotion andor Tenure Develop programs in different domains such as research education personal improvement and leadership Support clinical activities by improving the efficiency of operations and in helping to fit clinical programs into those in the rest of the medical center Allocation of space
Deputy Chair for Research
Develop and direct department-wide programs for faculty recruitment development and support of mentors recognition of excellence and funding of pilot grants bridge funding and grants to nurture multi-principal investigator and trans-division or trans-department projects Allocation of space among divisions
Bottom Line
We need more funds
Institutional support
The investments needed to recruit faculty are beyond the capacity of the
department`s operational revenue
Recruiting a leading investigator or one with great potential for
example may require an investment of $ 1 million and sometimes more
Endowments are the departmentrsquos foundational financial capital the
keel that maintains momentum and balance through the headwinds
and rough seas each department will navigate Endowments increase
the departmentrsquos independence in sustaining its core mission
Thus creation of endowments should be a high priority for any
department that plans for the long term and they increase capacity to
recruit the best faculty in a competitive environment
3 TTUHSC El Paso PLFSOM
7152019 FACULTY COUNCIL
CMSA CONTINUEDhellip
PLFSOM Committee on Medical School Admissions
ReportPresented to Faculty Council ndash 7152019
See attached report QampA Q When do prospective students take the CASPerreg How is it evaluated A It is a part of the application process Each individual is shown a series of videos and they respond to them Q Does everyone take it Who pays for the test A I am not certain but I will relay your questions to Dr Cynthia Perry Assistant Academic Dean for Admissions
IV STANDING COMMITTEE REPORTS (CONT) Richard Brower MD
Chair Curriculum and Educational Policy Committee
Dr Brower reported the following
Curriculum amp Educational Policy
Committee Report to the PLFSOM Faculty Council
Presented by Richard Brower MD
Date July 15 2019
See attached report QampA Q The MD MPH and the MD MBA programs seem to be going in opposite directions We have had direction from Lubbock on the MD MPH program but not for the MBA program Why the difference A Lubbock provides great instruction and support for the MPH program because like us they are an HSC We have a tighter relationship to them in general However there is a great advantage to having a local program with UTEP that allows for regional participation This allows students to study local issues and get to know our area more intimately There will always be the question ndash do we stay within the system which yields a less personal approach or do we partner locally
4 TTUHSC El Paso PLFSOM
7152019 FACULTY COUNCIL
CEPC Continuedhellip Q I see that two of your goals ndash class size expansion and curriculum 20 revision ndash seem to be competing How will you accommodate both of these A I see them as complementary to one another If there is a political a financial or an increased physician production desire from this region we must talk about class size growth and curriculum development which must be done effectively and efficiently
V OLD BUSINESS Ricardo Salazar MD
Faculty Council President
Dr Salazar reported the following bull Dr Salazar acknowledged and appreciated new members recently elected for the following
o Committee on Student Grading and Promotion Dr Lynn Hernan o Committee on Medical School Admissions Dr Lynn Hernan Dr Anantha Vellipuram and Dr Jose
Gavito bull Dr Salazar reminded the Council that representative seats were up for electionre-election for the following
departments o Anesthesiology o Emergency Medicine o Family amp Community Medicine o Molecular amp Translational Medicine
Dr Salazar reminded the Council that the Chairs of the departments would coordinate the election process
VI NEW BUSINESS Ricardo Salazar MD
Faculty Council President Dr Salazar reported the following
bull Dr Salazar introduced the 2019-2020 Faculty Council President-Elect nominees and invited them to speak bull Dr Ayoub-Rodriguez Assistant Professor of Pediatrics a native El Pasoan focused on border health and the
El Paso region and acknowledged the importance of recruitment and retention of talent that would transform healthcare along the border for the better
bull Dr Cervantes-Gonzalez Assistant Professor of Medical Education offered to lend an ear to the concerns of faculty particularly in the field of research in which many are struggling
bull Voting will take place by e-vote following the meeting The new President-Elect will take office in September VII DEPARTMENTAL REPORT Laxman Gangwani PhD
Representative Molecular amp Translational Medicine
Dr Gangwani reported the following
Department of Molecular and Translational Medicine (formerly Biomedical Sciences) ReportPRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCILBY LAXMAN GANGWANI
DATE JULY 15 2019
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3
PLFSOM Committee on
Medical School Admissions
Report
Presented to Faculty Council ndash 7152019
Committee Composition and Terms of Service 22 committee members 20 Voting Members
Chair Jorge Cervantes MD PhD
Vice-Chair Diana Pettit PhD
EPCMS Rep Raj Marwah MD
2 Ex-Officio (non-voting) Associate Dean of Admissions and Director of Admissions
Last Name First Name Degree Academic Rank Department Committee Position Term Start Date
Chambers Karinn MD Assistant Professor Surgery 2018
Chheda Sadhana MD Assistant Professor Peds 2018
Duran Patricia DNP RN CENP Assistant Professor GGHSON 2018
Patek Gregory MD Assistant Professor Emergency Med 2018
Rao Jo MD Assistant Professor Peds 2018
Chattopadhyay Munmun PhD Assistant Professor Biomedical Sciences 2018
Hogg Tanis PhD Associate Professor Medical Education 2018
Lakshmanaswamy Rajkumar PhD Professor Biomedical Sciences 2018
Andrade Alonso MD Assistant Professor Surgery 2017
Castro Jose MD Clinical Instructor Surgery 2017
Cervantes Jorge MD PhD Assistant Professor Medical Education Chair 2017
Belmares Ricardo PhD Instructor Medical Education 2017
Kafchinski Lisa MD Assistant Professor Orthopedics 2017
Tonarelli Sylvina MD Assistant Professor Psychiatry 2017
Rojas-Mendez Patricia MD Assistant Professor ObGyn 2017
Martinez Carla MD Assistant Professor ObGyn 2017
Marwah Raj MD Clinical Assistant Professor Family Medicine 2019
Manglik Niti MD Assistant Professor Medical Education 2019
Pettit Diana PhD Associate Professor Medical Education Vice Chair 2019
Hernan Lynn MD Associate Professor Peds 2019
Vellipuram Anantha MD Assistant Professor Neurology 2019
Gavito Jose MD Assistant Professor Radiology 2019
Perry Cynthia PhD Interim Assistant Dean for Admissions Admissions Ex Officio
Olivas Laura MBA Senior Director of Admissions Admissions Ex Officio
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Committee Charge
The Committee shall have full authority to select members of
the medical school entering class based on screening
assessments and interview evaluation reports and to fill
vacancies that may occur in any of the medical school classes
A list of recommended candidates to be offered positions
through the Texas Medical and Dental School Application Service
(TMDSAS) matching process will be prepared based on a ranking
determined following deliberations by the Committee
The Committee also shall have the responsibility to review the
requirements for admission and if necessary to recommend
revisions to the faculty
Actions taken since last report (Jan 2019)
Approval of Handbook revisions
Added COI policy Attendance policy CASPer Assessment
requirement (Pilot)
Sat 104 new students 12 repeaters
Interviewed 14 JAMP students on June 24th
(Round 1 eligible students here for JAMP Internship)
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No right wrong answers
Rating not influenced by-ESL -Age-Coaching -Reading Level
Rating is relative
What are raters looking for
Actions taken since last report Received 4471 primary applications amp 3079 completed applications
(increase of 350 complete appl compared to last year)
127 TX pre-match and 13 Out-of-state offers extended
Currently have 109 acceptances leading up to TMDSAS match
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EY2018
Received 3983 primary applications amp 2729 completed
applications
130 acceptances leading up to TMDSAS match
TTUHSC EP PLFSOM First Year Entering Students
EY 2019
38
(27506)
TX 37 (30) 37 (29) 37 (30) 37 (30) 37 (30) 37 (31) 373 (31) 38 (507) 38 (509)376
(266506)
US 37 (31) 37 (31) 37 (31) 37 (31) 37 (31) 37 (31) 37(31) 37 (509) 37 (510) 38 (27506)
Hispanic 8 (20) 6 (10) 5 (6) 12 (15) 23 (24) 32 (31) 24 (23) 35 (35) 37 (36) 24 (24) 28 (269)
Border Counties - - 7 (9) 13 (16) 24 (24) 28 (27) 26 (25) 32 (31) 33 (32) 21 (21) 27 (26)
El Paso 7 (17) 8 (13) 5 (6) 12 (15) 19 (19) 23 (22) 24 (23) 29 (28) 25 (24) 19 (19) 23 (221)
African American 0 0 0 0 0 1 (1) 3 (3) 1 (1) 3 (3) 2 (2) 6 (58)
Native American 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Class Size 40 60 81 80 100 104 104 103 103 100 104
Male 16 (40) 35 (58) 44 (54) 42 (52) 65 (65) 47 (45) 67 (64) 59 (57) 56 (54) 49 (49) 52 (50)
Female 24 (60) 25 (42) 37 (46) 38 (48) 35 (35) 57 (55) 37 (36) 44 (43) 47 (46) 51 (51) 52 (50)
Total Applicants 2503 2531 2719 2946 3105 3375 3694 4043 3950 3982 4472
Interviewed 389 378 593 548 626 566 538 510 535 546 602
EY 2018
374
(5077)
Underrepresented minority(URM)-Diversity ()
Class Size amp Gender ()
Applicants
37 (28) 37 (29)37
(28503)
368
(26505)
EY 2014 EY 2015 EY 2016 EY 2017
GPA(MCAT) 37 (28) 36 (29) 36 (29) 35 (29) 36 (29)
EY 2009 EY 2010 EY 2011 EY 2012 EY 2013
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Candidates discussed
Voting (high priority acceptable reject)
Categorized by vote
1 High Priority (unanimous high priority votes)
2 Highly Acceptable -1 -2 -3
3 Very Acceptable (4+ acceptable votes)
4 Acceptable (majority acceptable votes)
5 Reject
Ranked within category by weighted scores (Interview 30 MCAT 30 SGPA 35 GPA 5)
Rank list is generated after the first interview date and updated weekly throughout interview season
Admissions Committee Process
Upcoming actions
Joint Admission Medical Program (JAMP) Round 2 Match
(Friday Jan 25th) will match with 2
Rolling admissions continues until June 1
Created additional interview date for EY2020 (22 days)
New requirement added for EY2020 CASPer Assessment ndash
Situational Judgement Test (SJT)
Propose revision to By-Laws to add minimum attendance
requirements for committee members
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Current IssuesConcerns
Ongoing need to recruit more interviewers
Anticipating class size expansion
Meeting quorum
Standing Committee Report
Curriculum and Educational Policy
Committee
Richard Brower MD PhDAssociate Dean for Medical Education
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Curriculum amp
Educational Policy
Committee Report to the PLFSOM Faculty Council
Presented by Richard Brower MD
Date July 15 2019
Committee Composition and Terms of
Service
ldquoCandidates for lsquoat largersquo positions are to be
recommended by the associate dean for medical
education and appointed by the deanrdquo
ldquoTerms may be renewed by recommendation of the
associate dean for medical education and appointment by
the deanrdquo
ldquohelliplsquoat largersquo members may be appointed for no more than
two consecutive terms after which they are ineligible to
serve for 4 yearsrdquo
ldquoCandidates for these positions should demonstrate an
ongoing interest in medical educationrdquo
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Committee Composition and Terms of ServiceLast Name First Name Degree Academic Rank Department Committee Position Term Start Date
Term Expiration Date
Frances Mark MD ProfessorMedical Education
Member (College Master)
9120168312020
Pfarr Curt PhD ProfessorMedical Education
Member (College Master) 9242015 8312019
Gajendran Mahesh MD Assistant ProfessorInternal Medicine
Member (Clinician) 912017 8312021
Uga Aghaegbulam MD Assistant Professor
Psychiatry and Internal Medicine
Member (Clinician) 11192015 10312019
Kassar Darine MD Assistant Professor NeurologyMember (Clinician) 972016 8312020
Wojciechowska Joanna MD Assistant Professor Pediatrics
Member (Clinician) 212018 8312022
Nino DiegoMD PhD Assistant Professor
Medical Education
Member (Basic Sciences) 1142019 1142023
Padilla Osvaldo MD Assistant Professor PathologyMember (Basic Sciences) 12152014 8312022
Cervantes JorgeMD PhD Assistant Professor
Medical Education
Member (Basic Sciences) 8232016 8312020
Perry Cynthia PhD Assistant ProfessorMedical Education
Member (Basic Sciences) 9282015 8312019
Brower Richard MDAssociate Professor
Medical Education Chair NA NA
Three positions
opening soon ndash-
should have
demonstrated
interest and
engagement in
UME and a
willingness to
attend all
meetings and
participate in
team
assignments
Committee Composition and Terms of
Service Leadership
This committee is chaired by the associate dean for medical education
The committee reports to the Faculty Council
Membership will include
2 college masters (one basic scientist one clinician) with 4-year terms
4 members from the basic sciences faculty with 4-year terms (staggered)
4 members from the clinical sciences faculty with 4-year terms (staggered)
Ex Officio members
Dean or their designee
Associate dean for student affairs
Assistant deans for medication education
Managing director of the libraries (ldquoAssociate Director of the Libraryrdquo)
Director of information technology or their designee
Director of assessment and evaluation (position no longer exists)
Two student reps from each of the four classes (from the Student Curriculum and Evaluation Committee)
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Committee Charge Faculty Bylaws Article IX Section C2
The Committee on Curriculum and Educational Policy is charged with planning coordinating
reviewing and evaluating the curriculum to ensure that it adheres to the
written educational policies goals and objectives of the Paul L Foster School
of Medicine Further the Committee shall have full authority to make changes in
educational policy or in the organization of the curriculum with the
concurrence of the Dean and with comment and input from the Faculty Council The Faculty of the Paul L Foster School of Medicine has the responsibility to define course objectives create
and deliver content to meet those objectives and modify their activities in response to appropriate feedback
from peers and students The Committee will provide updates on its activities at least
twice a year to the Faculty Council In order to accomplish the mission of the Committee the
Chair may appoint subcommittees that may include members who are not
members of the Committee It shall be the responsibility of the Committee to coordinate the
activities and reports of these subcommittees In addition the Committee receives reports
from the Committee on Evaluation of Educational Programs
Current IssuesConcerns
Curriculum enhancementimprovement
Preparation for class size expansion
Preparation for next round of curriculum reviews
(ldquocurriculum as a wholerdquo)
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CEPC actions since last report
January 2019 (1 meeting)
Reviewed and approved revisions to the following
educational program polices
Clerkship Administration
Clerkship DirectorAssistant Director Position Description
Approval of two new 4th Year Electives
Pediatric Gastroenterology Hepatology and Nutrition
Emergency Medicine Ultrasound
Clerkship phase review FM and Surgery
CEPC actions since last report
February 2019 (2 meetings)
New educational program policy reviewed and approved
Grade Changes and Transcript Notations
Rollover of established educational program goals and
objectives (the ldquoPGOsrdquo) approved
Clerkship phase review Pediatrics and ObGyn
Preliminary data-driven discussion of revised educational
program policy covering Grading Promotion and Academic
Standing (ldquoGPASrdquo)
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CEPC actions since last report
March 2019 (2 meetings)
Clerkship phase review IM and Psych Critical Care and Sub-I
Selectives
Approval of new educational program policy
Grading Promotion and Academic Standing (ldquoGPASrdquo)
Notification of changes in clerkship directorship
Elimination of the PICE course (PICE 7001) from the year 2
curriculum approved (primarily administrative educational
elements re-distributed)
Associated review and approval of an updated PLSOM degree
plan (based on 157 credit hours)
CEPC actions since last report
April 2019 (1 meetings)
Clerkship phase review EM Neurology and Intersessions
Review and approval of revised educational program policy
Pre-Clerkship Phase Student Attendance and Participation
Policy
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14
CEPC actions since last report
May 2019 (1 meetings)
Review and approval of the ldquoCommon Clerkship Policiesrdquo
Notification of additional changes in the clerkship
directorship
Clerkship phase review
Phase data review (AAMC GQ NBME subject exams
USMLE Step 2 CK and CS Step 3 final grades EOY OSCE
and procedure workshop residency director survey)
Introduction of a 10-point plan for curriculum revision
(ldquoPLFSOM v20rdquo)
June 2019 (no quorum) July 2019 (cancelled)
CEPC actions since last report
Challenges and opportunities for improvement identified
through the AY208-19 clerkship phase review
Clear identification of contacts at affiliated sites
Academic support and remediation planning
Consistent resident preparation for participation in UME
Timeliness of grading (Sub-I and Critical Care Selectives)
Orientation modules for Sub-Q and Critical Care Selectives)
Scaling clerkships for anticipated class expansion
The summer doldrums
June 2019 (no quorum) July 2019 (cancelled)
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Upcoming actions
Ongoing educational program policy development
Maintain accreditation compliance related curriculum
review cycle (2019-20 ldquoCurriculum as a Wholerdquo)
Review and advance plans for curriculum renewalrevision
Review proposal to re-direct our MD-MPH affiliation to
TTUHSC GSBS Lubbock
Consider development of an MD-MBA option (potentially
with UTEP)
Links to related information
PLFSOM Committee on Curriculum and Educational Policy main page
httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCdefaultaspx
MD degree program policies
httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCpoliciesaspx
MD degree program information
httpselpasottuhscedusomomeUMEinfoaspx
Course and clerkship syllabi
httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCcoursereviewaspx
AY2017-18 medical education program evaluation report (e-Raider required)
httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPC_documentssecureAY2017-
2018MEPEvaluationAnnualReport-Draft-v2pdf
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19
Departmental Report
Molecular and Translational
Medicine
Laxman Gangwani PhDAssociate Professor Molecular amp
Translational Medicine
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20
Department of Molecular and
Translational Medicine (formerly
Biomedical Sciences) Report
PRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCIL
BY LAXMAN GANGWANI
DATE JULY 15 2019
Department BreakdownPlease provide the total number of faculty members in your department and break down this number by
rank Please list new faculty members that have joined your department within the last six months
Total Number of Faculty
Number of Faculty Associates 1
Number of Instructors 1
Number of Research Assistant Professor 1
Number of Assistant Professors 6
Number of Associate Professors 7
Number of Professors 4
New Faculty
None
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21
LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair
program director clerkship director chiefs etc
Department Chair Dr Peter Rotwein (VP Research Associate
Dean GSBS)
Director Center of Emphasis in Cancer Dr Rajkumar
Lakshmanaswamy (Dean GSBS) Co-Director Dr N Shokar
Director Center of Emphasis in Diabetes and Metabolism Dr
David Cistola
Director Center of Emphasis in Infectious Diseases Vacant
Director Center of Emphasis in Neurosciences Vacant
Chief Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology Vacant
AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional
appointments national appointments etc
Awards
Dr Mingtao Zeng
2018 The American Association of Immunologists (AAI) AAI Travel Grant for the 5th European Congress of Immunology
2018 Defense Techconnect Fall Summit amp Expo (2018) Techconnect Defense Innovation Award
Dr Shrikant Gadad
Eugenia Rosemberg Outstanding Abstract Award Endocrine Society Annual Meeting New Orleans March 23-26 2019
Dr Huanyu Dou
National Innovation Award Techconnect 2019
Honors
Dr Alok Dwivedi
Appointed as associated faculty at the Border Biomedical Research Center (BBRC) University of Texas El Paso (UTEP)
Dr Shrikant Gadad
Session Chair (OR09 Steroid Hormone Biology in Physiology and Disease) Endocrine Society Annual Meeting New Orleans March 23-26 2019
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22
AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional
appointments national appointments etc
NIH or DOD study sections appointments
Dr Guohua Yi
HIV special Emphasis Panel for RFA-AI-18-058 Genetic Engineering Technologies for HIV Cure Research (U19)
Dr Laxman Gangwani
Department of Defense (DOD) Reviewer for Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) 2018 -
NIHCSR Study ldquoProgram Evaluation of NIH Peer Review Processes The Role of Anonymizationrdquo 2019 ndash
Patents filings and publications
Patent Number 9862951 Title RNA Interference-Based Therapeutic against Anthrax Inventors Mingtao Zeng and Maria T AreacutevaloDate of Patent January 9 2018
Cistola D P Patel V (2018) Method and system for non-invasive measurement of metabolic health US Non-Provisional Utility Patent Application No 15911728 filed by Texas Tech University
Cistola D P Robinson M D (2018) Methods and tools for diagnosing insulin resistance and assessing health status using NMR relaxation times for water United States Patent Application Publication US 20180020947 A1 httpspatentsgooglecompatentUS20180020947A1en
AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional
appointments national appointments etc
News and Media Coverage of Research performed at TTUHSC EP
Dr David Cistola
MedPageToday 2 January 2019 Harris Scott Could a New Biomarker Help Predict Type 2 Diabetes -- Early datashow water T2 catches abnormalities before traditional testing but experts are cautiously optimistichttpswwwmedpagetodaycomreading-roomendocrine-societydiabetes77186
KTSM Channel 9 NBC El Paso 14 November 2018 Castillo Susy Research in El Paso aimed at detectingdiabetes earlyhttpswwwktsmcomlifestylehealthresearch-in-el-paso-aimed-at-detecting-diabetes-early1596408236apt_credirect=1
El Paso Inc 29 March 2019 TTUHSC El Paso Tackling diabetes cancer httpwwwelpasoinccomttuhsc-el-paso-tackling-diabetes-cancerarticle_613144fe-526a-11e9-b916-c35b701a5ef9html
Dr Laxman Gangwani
Cure SMA Awards $150000 Grant to Laxman Gangwani PhD Texas Tech University
httpwwwcuresmaorgnewsgangwani-grant-2019html
httpswwweurekalertorgpub_releases2019-05ttuh-gw050119php
httpswwwresearchgatenetscientific-contributions11984383_Laxman_Gangwani
9102019
23
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Peer-reviewed publications 36 (In high-impact journals)
2018 highest impact factor (11561) journal Nucleic Acids Research
Abstracts 43
Presentations (i) Oral 11 (ii) Posters 28
Invited talks 13
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Peer-reviewed publications
Kannan A Bhatia K Branzei D and Gangwani L (2018) Combined deficiency of Senataxin and DNA-PKcscauses DNA damage accumulation and neurodegeneration in spinal muscular atrophy Nucleic Acids Research2018 Vol 46 No 16 8326-8346
Mishra I Jones C Patel V Deodhar S Cistola D P (2018) Early detection of metabolic dysregulation usingwater T2 analysis of biobanked samples Diabetes Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity Targets and Therapy 11 807-818
Patel V Dwivedi A K Deodhar S Mishra I Cistola D P (2018) Aptamer-based search for correlates of plasmaand serum water T2 Implications for early metabolic dysregulation and metabolic syndrome Biomarker Research6(1) 28
Garg H Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz T Joshi A 2018 Recent Advances in Zika Virus Vaccines Viruses Nov 1410 (11) Sundin OH Mendoza-Ladd A Zeng M Diaz-Areacutevalo D Morales E Fagan BMOrdontildeez J McCallum RW Does a
glucose-based hydrogen and methane breath test detect bacterial overgrowth in the jejunum NeurogastroenterolMotil 2018e13350
Zheng Z Diaz-Areacutevalo D Guan H and Mingtao Zeng Noninvasive vaccination against infectious diseases Humanvaccines amp immunotherapeutics 2018 14(7)1717-1733
Preeti Bharaj Chunting Ye Sean Petersen Qianghu Wang Baoli Hu N Manjunath Premlata Shankar Guohua Yi(2018) Gene array analysis of PD-1H overexpressing monocytes reveals a pro-inflammatory profile Heliyone00545
Bencomo-Alvarez AE Rubio AJ Gonzalez MA and Eiring AM Energy metabolism and drug response in myeloidleukaemic stem cells Br J Haematol 2019 In Press
9102019
24
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Peer-reviewed publications Yan D Pomicter AD Tantravahi S Mason CC Senina AV Ahmann JM Wang Q Than H Patel AB Heaton
WL Eiring AM Clair PM Gantz KC Redwine HM Swierczek SI Halverson BJ Baloglu E Shacham S KhorashadJS Kelley TW Salama ME Miles RR Boucher KM Prchal JT OHare T and Deininger MW Nuclear-cytoplasmic transport is a therapeutic target in myelofibrosis Clin Cancer Res 201925(7)2323-2335
Heipertz E Harper J Lopez CA Fikrig E Hughes ME Walker WE Circadian rhythms influence the severity of sepsis in mice via a TLR2-dependent leukocyte-intrinsic mechanism The Journal of Immunology 2018 201193-201
Khatri R Afzal MR Qureshi MA Maud A Huanyu D Jose Rodriguez G Pre-Existing Renal Failure Increases In-Hospital Mortality in Patients with Intracerebral Hemorrhage J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis 2019 Feb28(2)237-242
Zou L Lee SY Wu Q Zhang H Bastian A Orji C Payne G Galvez A Thomas T Zhang Z Dou H Facile Gene Delivery Derived from Branched Low Molecular Weight Polyethylenimine by High Efficient Chemistry J Biomed Nanotechnol 2018 Oct 114(10)1785-1795
Zhang C Brandon NR Koper K Tang P Xu Y Dou H Invasion of Peripheral Immune Cells into Brain Parenchyma after Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation Aging Dis 2018 Jun 19(3)412-425
Loza O Hernandez P Calderoacuten-Mora J Laks S Leiner M Reddy S Lara P amp Granados H (2018) Developing Trans-affirming health services in an underserved area An intersectional approach Transgender Health 3(1) 127-135
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Byrd T Calderoacuten-Mora J Salaiz R amp Shokar N (2019) Barriers and facilitators to colorectal cancer screening within a Hispanic population Hispanic Health Care International 17(1) 23-29 doi 1011771540415318818982
Haut SR Lipton RB Cornes S Dwivedi AK Wasson R Cotton S Strawn JR Privitera M (2018) Behavioral interventions as a treatment for epilepsy A multicenter randomized controlled trial Neurology 90(11) e963-e970 PMID 29444968
Jessica Bernica Sherif Elhanafi Neeharika Kalakota Yi Jia Christopher Dodoo Alok Dwivedi Robert J Sealock Kalpesh Patel Isaac Raijman Marc J Zuckerman Mohamed O Othman (2018) Cholangioscopy is safe and feasible in elderly patients Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology 16(8) 1293-1299
Benjamin D Wissel Alok K Dwivedi Danielle Chin Aristide Merola Cara Jacob Andrew P Duker Jennifer E Vaughan Lilia Lovera Kathrin LaFaver Ariel Levy Anthony E Lang Francesca Morgante Melissa J Nirenberg Christopher Stephen Nutan Sharma Alberto Romagnolo Leonardo Lopiano Bettina Balint Xin X Yu Kailash P Bhatia Alberto J Espay Functional neurological disorders in Parkinson disease Accepted for publication in Journal
of Neurology Neurosurgery amp Psychiatry 89(6)566-571
Danny J Avalos Marc J Zuckerman Alok Dwivedi Christopher Dodoo Jinendra Satiya Fernando J Castro(2018) Differences in prevalence of large polyps between Hispanic Americans from Mexican-and Non-Mexican-predominant states Digestive diseases and sciences PMID 30276570
Zeina Nahleh Salman Otoukesh Hamid Reza Mirshahidi Anthony Loc Nguyen Gayathri Nagaraj Nabeel Badri Gehan Botrus Nabih Diab Andres Alvarado Luis A Sanchez Alok K Dwivedi (2018) Disparities in breast cancer a multi-institutional comparative analysis focusing on American Hispanics Cancer Medicine (In press 05072018)
9102019
25
Scholarly Activity Danny J Avalos Antonio Mendoza-Ladd Marc J Zuckerman Mohammad Bashashati Andres Alvarado Alok
Dwivedi Oriana M Damas (2018) Hispanics and Non-Hispanic Whites in the US have a Similar InflammatoryBowel Disease Phenotype A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis Digestive Diseases and Sciences 63(6)1558-1571
Aleli Campbell Rosalinda Heydarian Cecilia Ochoa Alok Kumar Dwivedi Zeina A Nahleh(2018) Single arm phaseII study of oral vitamin B12 for the treatment of musculoskeletal symptoms associated with aromatase inhibitors inwomen with early stage breast cancer The breast journal 24(3)260-268
Shaimaa Elzamly Nabeel Badri Osvaldo Padilla Alok Kumar Dwivedi Luis A Alvarado Matthew Hamilton NabihDiab Crosby Rock Ahmed Elfar Marwa Teleb Luis Sanchez Zeina Nahleh (2018) Epithelial-mesenchymaltransition markers in breast cancer and pathological responseafter neoadjuvant chemotherapy Breast Cancer
(Auckl) 2018 Aug 1121178223418788074
Jennifer C Molokwu Eribeth Penaranda Alok Dwivedi Indika Mallawaarachchi Navkiran Shokar (2018) Effect ofEducational Intervention on Self-Sampling Acceptability and Follow-Up Paps in Border Dwelling Hispanic FemalesJournal of Lower Genital Tract Disease
Ritika Suri Federico Rodriguez-Porcel Kelly Donohue Erin Jesse Lilia Lovera Alok Kumar Dwivedi Alberto JEspay (2018) Post-Stroke Movement Disorders The Clinical Neuroanatomic and Demographic Portrait of 284Published Cases Accepted for publication in Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases (In press05212018)
Zeina Nahleh Gehan Botrus Alok Dwivedi Nabeel Badri Salman Otoukesh Nabih Diab Sandip BiswasMichael Jennings Shaimaa Elzamly(2018) Clinico-pathologic disparities of breast cancer in HispanicLatina womenBreast disease 1-8
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Robert Gonzalez Trisha Suppes Jamie Zeitzer Colleen McClung Carol Tamminga Mauricio Tohen Angelica Forero Alok DwivediAndres Alvarado (2018) The association between mood state and chronobiological characteristics in bipolar I disorder a naturalisticvariable cluster analysis-based study International Journal of Bipolar Disorders 6(1)5Mohamed Teleb Aaron Shanker Alok Kumar Dwivedi Debabrata Mukherjee (2018) Effect of exercise on left ventricular mass index byechocardiography in mild and moderate hypertension a meta-analysis Res Cardiovasc Med 6(4)50-6Garnica O Das K Devasundaram S and Dhandayuthapani S Enhanced delivery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigens to antigenpresenting cells using RVG peptide Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Das K Garnica O and Dhandayuthapani S Utility of an oxidative stress response system for the expression of recombinant proteinsin mycobacteria and for the delivery of M tuberculosis antigens to the phagosomal compartments Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Palanichamy K Joshi A Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz T Fernando B Milan S Schiro F Naeem Y Garg H Braunschweig A 2019 Anti-ZikaActivity of a Library of Synthetic Carbohydrate Receptors Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 6284110-4119Anjali Joshi Erin B Punke Tugba Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz Diego P Peralta and Himanshu Garg 2019 TLR9 polymorphism correlates withimmune activation CD4 decline and plasma IP10 levels in HIV patients BMC Infect Dis 19 56Vargas-Medrano J Yang B Garza N T Segura-Ulate I and Perez R G (2018) Up-regulation of protective neuronal MicroRNAs byFTY720 and novel FTY720-derivatives Neuroscience letters 690 178-180Vidal-Martinez G Yang B Vargas-Medrano J and Perez R G (2018) Could alpha-Synuclein Modulation of Insulin and DopamineIdentify a Novel Link Between Parkinsons Disease and Diabetes as Well as Potential Therapies Frontiers in molecular
neuroscience 11 465
9102019
26
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Gil-Tommee C Vidal-Martinez G Annette Reyes C Vargas-Medrano J Herrera G V Martin S M Chaparro S A andPerez R G (2019) Parkinsonian GM2 synthase knockout mice lacking mature gangliosides develop urinary dysfunction andneurogenic bladder Experimental neurology 311265-273Vidal-Martinez G Najera K Miranda JD Gil-Tommee C Yang B Vargas-Medrano J Diaz-Pacheco V Barragan J ChaparroS Vargas-Medrano J Chinnasamy R Arterburn JB Perez RG FTY720 improves behavior increases Brain Derived NeurotrophicFactor and reduces α-synuclein pathology in parkinsonian GM2+minus
mice Neuroscience httpsdoiorg101016jneuroscience201905029Tasnim N Thakur V Chattopadhyay M Joddar B (2018) The efficacy of Graphene-foams towards the adhesion proliferationand expression of neuronal-phenotype by dopaminergic neurons differentiated from mesenchymal stem cells Stem cell
international Jun 3 20183410168 doi 10115520183410168Anil Kumar S Allen SC Tasnim N Akter T Park S Kumar A Chattopadhyay M Ito Y Suggs LJ Joddar B (2019) The applicabilityof furfuryl-gelatin as a novel bioink for tissue engineering applications J Biomed Mater Res B Appl Biomater 2019 107(2)314-323 doi 101002jbmb34123 Epub 2018 Apr 15Thakur V Chattopadhyay M (2018) Early urinary markers for diabetic and other kidney diseases Current drug targets 2018 Mar19Joddar B Tasnim N Thakur V Kumar A Mccallum R Chattopadhyay M (2018) Delivery of mesenchymal stem cells fromgelatin-alginate hydrogels to stomach lumen for treatment of gastroparesis Bioengineering 2018 5(1)Camacho CV Choudhari R Gadad SS (2018) Long noncoding RNAs and cancer an overview Steroids 13393-95
IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department
Large net loss (9) of MTM faculty members over the past 5 years
Vacant Director positions (i) Center for Neuroscience (ii) Center for InfectiousDiseases and (iii) Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
No steps have been taken to fill directors positions for more than 2 years
Neurosciences Center at the verge of collapse Only one faculty will be left at theend of this fiscal year
The size of Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology is shrinking
Lack of communication regarding vision and strategic plan for growing department
No faculty salary raises for the past 3 years
Serious concerns about recruitment retention and tenure and promotion decisionsmade in the department Faculty morale is extremely low
Lack of functional research core facility
Gradual elimination of service contracts of equipment essential for research trainingand education of graduate and medical students
A plethora of other issues with the department administration
9102019
27
Questions
Departmental Report
Psychiatry
Ricardo Salazar MDAssociate Professor Psychiatry
9102019
28
Department ReportPsychiatryPRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCIL
BY RICARDO SALAZAR MD
DATE MONDAY JULY 15 2019
Department BreakdownPlease provide the total number of faculty members in your department and break down this number by
rank Please list new faculty members that have joined your department within the last six months
Total Number of Faculty 12
Number of Instructors 1
Number of Assistant Professors 8
Number of Associate Professors 2
Number of Professors 2
New Faculty Melanie Longhurst MD Instructor
9102019
29
LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair
program director clerkship director chiefs etc
Department Chair ndash Peter M Thompson MD MS
Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Sarah L Martin MD
Combined IMPsych Residency Program Director ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD
Psychiatry Clerkship Director ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD
Child amp Adolescent Fellowship Program Director ndash Cecilia De Vargas MD
Chief Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry ndash Sarah L Martin MD
Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Program Directorndash Ricardo Salazar MD
Chief Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences ndash Ricardo Salazar MD
Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Transmountain ndash Moataz Ragheb MD
AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in your department including awards honors regional
appointments national appointments etc
El Paso Behavioral Health Consortium ndash Board Member ndash Peter M Thompson MD
714 (50) of our graduating medical students this year choose and matched our resident training programs here at Paul L FosterSchool of Medicine Department of Psychiatry (Historical record) ndash Kudos for our Department Faculty
In appreciation for exceptional contributions to the 30th volume of the J Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences ndash Author contributions and review of 271 manuscripts submitted to the journal between September 2017 and August 2018 ndash Ricardo Salazar MD ndash Young Investigator Award Committee Member and Program Committee Member-Abstracts Sub-Committee Member of theAmerican Neuropsychiatric Association (ANPA)
Initial Accreditation with commendation and no citations from ACGME for our first Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Training Program for West Texas ndash Ricardo Salazar MD
Leadership in Education and Development Certificate Program (LEAD) Fellow -1-year program accredited from the Association ofAmerican Medical Colleges (AAMC) Silvina Tonarelli MD amp Ricardo Salazar MD (Selected Award)
Fully operating Southwest Brain Bank A Brain Tissue Repository for Research in Mental Illness ndashPeter M Thompson MD
Texas State Psychiatric Physicians Public Mental Health Services Committee ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD
Texas Health and Human Services Commission Behavioral Health Advisory Committee ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP
Fellow American College of Physicians ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP FACP
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Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Abstracts 31
Publications 5 (peer-review journals)
Presentations 17 ndash National (7) and International (6)
Invited Speaker 21 (including faculty residents fellows) ndash Local amp National
Book Chapters NA
Grants McKee Foundation Award ndash our Chair - Thompson
Intramural Grants Seed Grant 1 SARP Educational Grant 2 - Salazar
President`s Collaborative Research Initiative ndashMarch 2018 - Tonarelli
Scholarly Activity
Child and Adolescent Fellowship Presentations
INTERNATIONAL
- Curanderos and Limpias Cultural psychiatry
Poster presented at 6th Annual Scientific conference of the European Association of PsychosomaticMedicine Verona Italy Drs Garza Meissner De Vargas Mehta June 2018
-Case presentation 0f 49XXXXY Same conference same authors same city
-Resilience etiology protective and risk factors presentation C De Vargas by invitation Annual WorldPediatric summit Madrid June 2018
-Parents and their Children Fantastic journey Same conference on June 2019 Berlin Germany
NATIONAL
-Development of Psychopathology in children at risk for Bipolar Disorders Drs Escamilla Peter Sangra C DeVargas S Martin C Alvarado Andrea Rios (Poster) American Academy of Child and Adolescent PsychiatryAnnual Conference Seattle WA October 2018
Frank William Meissner MD Cynthia Elizabeth Garza MDJD Sarah L Martin MD rdquoDrug-Induced BrugadaSyndrome in a Middle-Aged Female Patient Drugs EKG Diagnosis Electrophysiology and SurveillanceRecommendationrdquo American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting San Francisco CA May 21 2019
Delinquency in a group of school children at risk for bipolar disorder D Haque M Escamilla C De VargasPresented at UCLA LA Ca June 2019
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Residency ProgramPlease provide information regarding your departmentrsquos residency program ie recent accreditation
number of residents and program updates (if applicable)
24 General Psychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)
8 Internal MedicinePsychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)
3 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellows
1 Geriatric Psychiatry Fellow- newly accredited program
IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department
RecruitmentRetention
Short staffed
Organizational Structure
Financial incentives
Protected time
Gender balance Attrition malefemale ratio 41
Program Coordinator turnover rate
Mentoring
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Departmental Organizational
Structure
Chair
Division ChiefsProgram Directors
Clerkship Director
Adm
Organizational Structure Model
Chair
Deputy Chair for Education
Program
Directors
Deputy Chair for Research
Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs
Vicechair
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Roles
Deputy Chair for Education
Oversee undergraduate graduate and CME including the development of teachers and educational scholars Monitor quality and safety across the department
Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs
Faculty appointments Faculty Development and Promotion andor Tenure Develop programs in different domains such as research education personal improvement and leadership Support clinical activities by improving the efficiency of operations and in helping to fit clinical programs into those in the rest of the medical center Allocation of space
Deputy Chair for Research
Develop and direct department-wide programs for faculty recruitment development and support of mentors recognition of excellence and funding of pilot grants bridge funding and grants to nurture multi-principal investigator and trans-division or trans-department projects Allocation of space among divisions
Bottom Line
We need more funds
Institutional support
The investments needed to recruit faculty are beyond the capacity of the
department`s operational revenue
Recruiting a leading investigator or one with great potential for
example may require an investment of $ 1 million and sometimes more
Endowments are the departmentrsquos foundational financial capital the
keel that maintains momentum and balance through the headwinds
and rough seas each department will navigate Endowments increase
the departmentrsquos independence in sustaining its core mission
Thus creation of endowments should be a high priority for any
department that plans for the long term and they increase capacity to
recruit the best faculty in a competitive environment
4 TTUHSC El Paso PLFSOM
7152019 FACULTY COUNCIL
CEPC Continuedhellip Q I see that two of your goals ndash class size expansion and curriculum 20 revision ndash seem to be competing How will you accommodate both of these A I see them as complementary to one another If there is a political a financial or an increased physician production desire from this region we must talk about class size growth and curriculum development which must be done effectively and efficiently
V OLD BUSINESS Ricardo Salazar MD
Faculty Council President
Dr Salazar reported the following bull Dr Salazar acknowledged and appreciated new members recently elected for the following
o Committee on Student Grading and Promotion Dr Lynn Hernan o Committee on Medical School Admissions Dr Lynn Hernan Dr Anantha Vellipuram and Dr Jose
Gavito bull Dr Salazar reminded the Council that representative seats were up for electionre-election for the following
departments o Anesthesiology o Emergency Medicine o Family amp Community Medicine o Molecular amp Translational Medicine
Dr Salazar reminded the Council that the Chairs of the departments would coordinate the election process
VI NEW BUSINESS Ricardo Salazar MD
Faculty Council President Dr Salazar reported the following
bull Dr Salazar introduced the 2019-2020 Faculty Council President-Elect nominees and invited them to speak bull Dr Ayoub-Rodriguez Assistant Professor of Pediatrics a native El Pasoan focused on border health and the
El Paso region and acknowledged the importance of recruitment and retention of talent that would transform healthcare along the border for the better
bull Dr Cervantes-Gonzalez Assistant Professor of Medical Education offered to lend an ear to the concerns of faculty particularly in the field of research in which many are struggling
bull Voting will take place by e-vote following the meeting The new President-Elect will take office in September VII DEPARTMENTAL REPORT Laxman Gangwani PhD
Representative Molecular amp Translational Medicine
Dr Gangwani reported the following
Department of Molecular and Translational Medicine (formerly Biomedical Sciences) ReportPRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCILBY LAXMAN GANGWANI
DATE JULY 15 2019
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PLFSOM Committee on
Medical School Admissions
Report
Presented to Faculty Council ndash 7152019
Committee Composition and Terms of Service 22 committee members 20 Voting Members
Chair Jorge Cervantes MD PhD
Vice-Chair Diana Pettit PhD
EPCMS Rep Raj Marwah MD
2 Ex-Officio (non-voting) Associate Dean of Admissions and Director of Admissions
Last Name First Name Degree Academic Rank Department Committee Position Term Start Date
Chambers Karinn MD Assistant Professor Surgery 2018
Chheda Sadhana MD Assistant Professor Peds 2018
Duran Patricia DNP RN CENP Assistant Professor GGHSON 2018
Patek Gregory MD Assistant Professor Emergency Med 2018
Rao Jo MD Assistant Professor Peds 2018
Chattopadhyay Munmun PhD Assistant Professor Biomedical Sciences 2018
Hogg Tanis PhD Associate Professor Medical Education 2018
Lakshmanaswamy Rajkumar PhD Professor Biomedical Sciences 2018
Andrade Alonso MD Assistant Professor Surgery 2017
Castro Jose MD Clinical Instructor Surgery 2017
Cervantes Jorge MD PhD Assistant Professor Medical Education Chair 2017
Belmares Ricardo PhD Instructor Medical Education 2017
Kafchinski Lisa MD Assistant Professor Orthopedics 2017
Tonarelli Sylvina MD Assistant Professor Psychiatry 2017
Rojas-Mendez Patricia MD Assistant Professor ObGyn 2017
Martinez Carla MD Assistant Professor ObGyn 2017
Marwah Raj MD Clinical Assistant Professor Family Medicine 2019
Manglik Niti MD Assistant Professor Medical Education 2019
Pettit Diana PhD Associate Professor Medical Education Vice Chair 2019
Hernan Lynn MD Associate Professor Peds 2019
Vellipuram Anantha MD Assistant Professor Neurology 2019
Gavito Jose MD Assistant Professor Radiology 2019
Perry Cynthia PhD Interim Assistant Dean for Admissions Admissions Ex Officio
Olivas Laura MBA Senior Director of Admissions Admissions Ex Officio
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4
Committee Charge
The Committee shall have full authority to select members of
the medical school entering class based on screening
assessments and interview evaluation reports and to fill
vacancies that may occur in any of the medical school classes
A list of recommended candidates to be offered positions
through the Texas Medical and Dental School Application Service
(TMDSAS) matching process will be prepared based on a ranking
determined following deliberations by the Committee
The Committee also shall have the responsibility to review the
requirements for admission and if necessary to recommend
revisions to the faculty
Actions taken since last report (Jan 2019)
Approval of Handbook revisions
Added COI policy Attendance policy CASPer Assessment
requirement (Pilot)
Sat 104 new students 12 repeaters
Interviewed 14 JAMP students on June 24th
(Round 1 eligible students here for JAMP Internship)
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No right wrong answers
Rating not influenced by-ESL -Age-Coaching -Reading Level
Rating is relative
What are raters looking for
Actions taken since last report Received 4471 primary applications amp 3079 completed applications
(increase of 350 complete appl compared to last year)
127 TX pre-match and 13 Out-of-state offers extended
Currently have 109 acceptances leading up to TMDSAS match
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6
EY2018
Received 3983 primary applications amp 2729 completed
applications
130 acceptances leading up to TMDSAS match
TTUHSC EP PLFSOM First Year Entering Students
EY 2019
38
(27506)
TX 37 (30) 37 (29) 37 (30) 37 (30) 37 (30) 37 (31) 373 (31) 38 (507) 38 (509)376
(266506)
US 37 (31) 37 (31) 37 (31) 37 (31) 37 (31) 37 (31) 37(31) 37 (509) 37 (510) 38 (27506)
Hispanic 8 (20) 6 (10) 5 (6) 12 (15) 23 (24) 32 (31) 24 (23) 35 (35) 37 (36) 24 (24) 28 (269)
Border Counties - - 7 (9) 13 (16) 24 (24) 28 (27) 26 (25) 32 (31) 33 (32) 21 (21) 27 (26)
El Paso 7 (17) 8 (13) 5 (6) 12 (15) 19 (19) 23 (22) 24 (23) 29 (28) 25 (24) 19 (19) 23 (221)
African American 0 0 0 0 0 1 (1) 3 (3) 1 (1) 3 (3) 2 (2) 6 (58)
Native American 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Class Size 40 60 81 80 100 104 104 103 103 100 104
Male 16 (40) 35 (58) 44 (54) 42 (52) 65 (65) 47 (45) 67 (64) 59 (57) 56 (54) 49 (49) 52 (50)
Female 24 (60) 25 (42) 37 (46) 38 (48) 35 (35) 57 (55) 37 (36) 44 (43) 47 (46) 51 (51) 52 (50)
Total Applicants 2503 2531 2719 2946 3105 3375 3694 4043 3950 3982 4472
Interviewed 389 378 593 548 626 566 538 510 535 546 602
EY 2018
374
(5077)
Underrepresented minority(URM)-Diversity ()
Class Size amp Gender ()
Applicants
37 (28) 37 (29)37
(28503)
368
(26505)
EY 2014 EY 2015 EY 2016 EY 2017
GPA(MCAT) 37 (28) 36 (29) 36 (29) 35 (29) 36 (29)
EY 2009 EY 2010 EY 2011 EY 2012 EY 2013
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Candidates discussed
Voting (high priority acceptable reject)
Categorized by vote
1 High Priority (unanimous high priority votes)
2 Highly Acceptable -1 -2 -3
3 Very Acceptable (4+ acceptable votes)
4 Acceptable (majority acceptable votes)
5 Reject
Ranked within category by weighted scores (Interview 30 MCAT 30 SGPA 35 GPA 5)
Rank list is generated after the first interview date and updated weekly throughout interview season
Admissions Committee Process
Upcoming actions
Joint Admission Medical Program (JAMP) Round 2 Match
(Friday Jan 25th) will match with 2
Rolling admissions continues until June 1
Created additional interview date for EY2020 (22 days)
New requirement added for EY2020 CASPer Assessment ndash
Situational Judgement Test (SJT)
Propose revision to By-Laws to add minimum attendance
requirements for committee members
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8
Current IssuesConcerns
Ongoing need to recruit more interviewers
Anticipating class size expansion
Meeting quorum
Standing Committee Report
Curriculum and Educational Policy
Committee
Richard Brower MD PhDAssociate Dean for Medical Education
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9
Curriculum amp
Educational Policy
Committee Report to the PLFSOM Faculty Council
Presented by Richard Brower MD
Date July 15 2019
Committee Composition and Terms of
Service
ldquoCandidates for lsquoat largersquo positions are to be
recommended by the associate dean for medical
education and appointed by the deanrdquo
ldquoTerms may be renewed by recommendation of the
associate dean for medical education and appointment by
the deanrdquo
ldquohelliplsquoat largersquo members may be appointed for no more than
two consecutive terms after which they are ineligible to
serve for 4 yearsrdquo
ldquoCandidates for these positions should demonstrate an
ongoing interest in medical educationrdquo
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10
Committee Composition and Terms of ServiceLast Name First Name Degree Academic Rank Department Committee Position Term Start Date
Term Expiration Date
Frances Mark MD ProfessorMedical Education
Member (College Master)
9120168312020
Pfarr Curt PhD ProfessorMedical Education
Member (College Master) 9242015 8312019
Gajendran Mahesh MD Assistant ProfessorInternal Medicine
Member (Clinician) 912017 8312021
Uga Aghaegbulam MD Assistant Professor
Psychiatry and Internal Medicine
Member (Clinician) 11192015 10312019
Kassar Darine MD Assistant Professor NeurologyMember (Clinician) 972016 8312020
Wojciechowska Joanna MD Assistant Professor Pediatrics
Member (Clinician) 212018 8312022
Nino DiegoMD PhD Assistant Professor
Medical Education
Member (Basic Sciences) 1142019 1142023
Padilla Osvaldo MD Assistant Professor PathologyMember (Basic Sciences) 12152014 8312022
Cervantes JorgeMD PhD Assistant Professor
Medical Education
Member (Basic Sciences) 8232016 8312020
Perry Cynthia PhD Assistant ProfessorMedical Education
Member (Basic Sciences) 9282015 8312019
Brower Richard MDAssociate Professor
Medical Education Chair NA NA
Three positions
opening soon ndash-
should have
demonstrated
interest and
engagement in
UME and a
willingness to
attend all
meetings and
participate in
team
assignments
Committee Composition and Terms of
Service Leadership
This committee is chaired by the associate dean for medical education
The committee reports to the Faculty Council
Membership will include
2 college masters (one basic scientist one clinician) with 4-year terms
4 members from the basic sciences faculty with 4-year terms (staggered)
4 members from the clinical sciences faculty with 4-year terms (staggered)
Ex Officio members
Dean or their designee
Associate dean for student affairs
Assistant deans for medication education
Managing director of the libraries (ldquoAssociate Director of the Libraryrdquo)
Director of information technology or their designee
Director of assessment and evaluation (position no longer exists)
Two student reps from each of the four classes (from the Student Curriculum and Evaluation Committee)
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11
Committee Charge Faculty Bylaws Article IX Section C2
The Committee on Curriculum and Educational Policy is charged with planning coordinating
reviewing and evaluating the curriculum to ensure that it adheres to the
written educational policies goals and objectives of the Paul L Foster School
of Medicine Further the Committee shall have full authority to make changes in
educational policy or in the organization of the curriculum with the
concurrence of the Dean and with comment and input from the Faculty Council The Faculty of the Paul L Foster School of Medicine has the responsibility to define course objectives create
and deliver content to meet those objectives and modify their activities in response to appropriate feedback
from peers and students The Committee will provide updates on its activities at least
twice a year to the Faculty Council In order to accomplish the mission of the Committee the
Chair may appoint subcommittees that may include members who are not
members of the Committee It shall be the responsibility of the Committee to coordinate the
activities and reports of these subcommittees In addition the Committee receives reports
from the Committee on Evaluation of Educational Programs
Current IssuesConcerns
Curriculum enhancementimprovement
Preparation for class size expansion
Preparation for next round of curriculum reviews
(ldquocurriculum as a wholerdquo)
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CEPC actions since last report
January 2019 (1 meeting)
Reviewed and approved revisions to the following
educational program polices
Clerkship Administration
Clerkship DirectorAssistant Director Position Description
Approval of two new 4th Year Electives
Pediatric Gastroenterology Hepatology and Nutrition
Emergency Medicine Ultrasound
Clerkship phase review FM and Surgery
CEPC actions since last report
February 2019 (2 meetings)
New educational program policy reviewed and approved
Grade Changes and Transcript Notations
Rollover of established educational program goals and
objectives (the ldquoPGOsrdquo) approved
Clerkship phase review Pediatrics and ObGyn
Preliminary data-driven discussion of revised educational
program policy covering Grading Promotion and Academic
Standing (ldquoGPASrdquo)
9102019
13
CEPC actions since last report
March 2019 (2 meetings)
Clerkship phase review IM and Psych Critical Care and Sub-I
Selectives
Approval of new educational program policy
Grading Promotion and Academic Standing (ldquoGPASrdquo)
Notification of changes in clerkship directorship
Elimination of the PICE course (PICE 7001) from the year 2
curriculum approved (primarily administrative educational
elements re-distributed)
Associated review and approval of an updated PLSOM degree
plan (based on 157 credit hours)
CEPC actions since last report
April 2019 (1 meetings)
Clerkship phase review EM Neurology and Intersessions
Review and approval of revised educational program policy
Pre-Clerkship Phase Student Attendance and Participation
Policy
9102019
14
CEPC actions since last report
May 2019 (1 meetings)
Review and approval of the ldquoCommon Clerkship Policiesrdquo
Notification of additional changes in the clerkship
directorship
Clerkship phase review
Phase data review (AAMC GQ NBME subject exams
USMLE Step 2 CK and CS Step 3 final grades EOY OSCE
and procedure workshop residency director survey)
Introduction of a 10-point plan for curriculum revision
(ldquoPLFSOM v20rdquo)
June 2019 (no quorum) July 2019 (cancelled)
CEPC actions since last report
Challenges and opportunities for improvement identified
through the AY208-19 clerkship phase review
Clear identification of contacts at affiliated sites
Academic support and remediation planning
Consistent resident preparation for participation in UME
Timeliness of grading (Sub-I and Critical Care Selectives)
Orientation modules for Sub-Q and Critical Care Selectives)
Scaling clerkships for anticipated class expansion
The summer doldrums
June 2019 (no quorum) July 2019 (cancelled)
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15
Upcoming actions
Ongoing educational program policy development
Maintain accreditation compliance related curriculum
review cycle (2019-20 ldquoCurriculum as a Wholerdquo)
Review and advance plans for curriculum renewalrevision
Review proposal to re-direct our MD-MPH affiliation to
TTUHSC GSBS Lubbock
Consider development of an MD-MBA option (potentially
with UTEP)
Links to related information
PLFSOM Committee on Curriculum and Educational Policy main page
httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCdefaultaspx
MD degree program policies
httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCpoliciesaspx
MD degree program information
httpselpasottuhscedusomomeUMEinfoaspx
Course and clerkship syllabi
httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCcoursereviewaspx
AY2017-18 medical education program evaluation report (e-Raider required)
httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPC_documentssecureAY2017-
2018MEPEvaluationAnnualReport-Draft-v2pdf
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19
Departmental Report
Molecular and Translational
Medicine
Laxman Gangwani PhDAssociate Professor Molecular amp
Translational Medicine
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20
Department of Molecular and
Translational Medicine (formerly
Biomedical Sciences) Report
PRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCIL
BY LAXMAN GANGWANI
DATE JULY 15 2019
Department BreakdownPlease provide the total number of faculty members in your department and break down this number by
rank Please list new faculty members that have joined your department within the last six months
Total Number of Faculty
Number of Faculty Associates 1
Number of Instructors 1
Number of Research Assistant Professor 1
Number of Assistant Professors 6
Number of Associate Professors 7
Number of Professors 4
New Faculty
None
9102019
21
LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair
program director clerkship director chiefs etc
Department Chair Dr Peter Rotwein (VP Research Associate
Dean GSBS)
Director Center of Emphasis in Cancer Dr Rajkumar
Lakshmanaswamy (Dean GSBS) Co-Director Dr N Shokar
Director Center of Emphasis in Diabetes and Metabolism Dr
David Cistola
Director Center of Emphasis in Infectious Diseases Vacant
Director Center of Emphasis in Neurosciences Vacant
Chief Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology Vacant
AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional
appointments national appointments etc
Awards
Dr Mingtao Zeng
2018 The American Association of Immunologists (AAI) AAI Travel Grant for the 5th European Congress of Immunology
2018 Defense Techconnect Fall Summit amp Expo (2018) Techconnect Defense Innovation Award
Dr Shrikant Gadad
Eugenia Rosemberg Outstanding Abstract Award Endocrine Society Annual Meeting New Orleans March 23-26 2019
Dr Huanyu Dou
National Innovation Award Techconnect 2019
Honors
Dr Alok Dwivedi
Appointed as associated faculty at the Border Biomedical Research Center (BBRC) University of Texas El Paso (UTEP)
Dr Shrikant Gadad
Session Chair (OR09 Steroid Hormone Biology in Physiology and Disease) Endocrine Society Annual Meeting New Orleans March 23-26 2019
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22
AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional
appointments national appointments etc
NIH or DOD study sections appointments
Dr Guohua Yi
HIV special Emphasis Panel for RFA-AI-18-058 Genetic Engineering Technologies for HIV Cure Research (U19)
Dr Laxman Gangwani
Department of Defense (DOD) Reviewer for Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) 2018 -
NIHCSR Study ldquoProgram Evaluation of NIH Peer Review Processes The Role of Anonymizationrdquo 2019 ndash
Patents filings and publications
Patent Number 9862951 Title RNA Interference-Based Therapeutic against Anthrax Inventors Mingtao Zeng and Maria T AreacutevaloDate of Patent January 9 2018
Cistola D P Patel V (2018) Method and system for non-invasive measurement of metabolic health US Non-Provisional Utility Patent Application No 15911728 filed by Texas Tech University
Cistola D P Robinson M D (2018) Methods and tools for diagnosing insulin resistance and assessing health status using NMR relaxation times for water United States Patent Application Publication US 20180020947 A1 httpspatentsgooglecompatentUS20180020947A1en
AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional
appointments national appointments etc
News and Media Coverage of Research performed at TTUHSC EP
Dr David Cistola
MedPageToday 2 January 2019 Harris Scott Could a New Biomarker Help Predict Type 2 Diabetes -- Early datashow water T2 catches abnormalities before traditional testing but experts are cautiously optimistichttpswwwmedpagetodaycomreading-roomendocrine-societydiabetes77186
KTSM Channel 9 NBC El Paso 14 November 2018 Castillo Susy Research in El Paso aimed at detectingdiabetes earlyhttpswwwktsmcomlifestylehealthresearch-in-el-paso-aimed-at-detecting-diabetes-early1596408236apt_credirect=1
El Paso Inc 29 March 2019 TTUHSC El Paso Tackling diabetes cancer httpwwwelpasoinccomttuhsc-el-paso-tackling-diabetes-cancerarticle_613144fe-526a-11e9-b916-c35b701a5ef9html
Dr Laxman Gangwani
Cure SMA Awards $150000 Grant to Laxman Gangwani PhD Texas Tech University
httpwwwcuresmaorgnewsgangwani-grant-2019html
httpswwweurekalertorgpub_releases2019-05ttuh-gw050119php
httpswwwresearchgatenetscientific-contributions11984383_Laxman_Gangwani
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23
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Peer-reviewed publications 36 (In high-impact journals)
2018 highest impact factor (11561) journal Nucleic Acids Research
Abstracts 43
Presentations (i) Oral 11 (ii) Posters 28
Invited talks 13
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Peer-reviewed publications
Kannan A Bhatia K Branzei D and Gangwani L (2018) Combined deficiency of Senataxin and DNA-PKcscauses DNA damage accumulation and neurodegeneration in spinal muscular atrophy Nucleic Acids Research2018 Vol 46 No 16 8326-8346
Mishra I Jones C Patel V Deodhar S Cistola D P (2018) Early detection of metabolic dysregulation usingwater T2 analysis of biobanked samples Diabetes Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity Targets and Therapy 11 807-818
Patel V Dwivedi A K Deodhar S Mishra I Cistola D P (2018) Aptamer-based search for correlates of plasmaand serum water T2 Implications for early metabolic dysregulation and metabolic syndrome Biomarker Research6(1) 28
Garg H Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz T Joshi A 2018 Recent Advances in Zika Virus Vaccines Viruses Nov 1410 (11) Sundin OH Mendoza-Ladd A Zeng M Diaz-Areacutevalo D Morales E Fagan BMOrdontildeez J McCallum RW Does a
glucose-based hydrogen and methane breath test detect bacterial overgrowth in the jejunum NeurogastroenterolMotil 2018e13350
Zheng Z Diaz-Areacutevalo D Guan H and Mingtao Zeng Noninvasive vaccination against infectious diseases Humanvaccines amp immunotherapeutics 2018 14(7)1717-1733
Preeti Bharaj Chunting Ye Sean Petersen Qianghu Wang Baoli Hu N Manjunath Premlata Shankar Guohua Yi(2018) Gene array analysis of PD-1H overexpressing monocytes reveals a pro-inflammatory profile Heliyone00545
Bencomo-Alvarez AE Rubio AJ Gonzalez MA and Eiring AM Energy metabolism and drug response in myeloidleukaemic stem cells Br J Haematol 2019 In Press
9102019
24
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Peer-reviewed publications Yan D Pomicter AD Tantravahi S Mason CC Senina AV Ahmann JM Wang Q Than H Patel AB Heaton
WL Eiring AM Clair PM Gantz KC Redwine HM Swierczek SI Halverson BJ Baloglu E Shacham S KhorashadJS Kelley TW Salama ME Miles RR Boucher KM Prchal JT OHare T and Deininger MW Nuclear-cytoplasmic transport is a therapeutic target in myelofibrosis Clin Cancer Res 201925(7)2323-2335
Heipertz E Harper J Lopez CA Fikrig E Hughes ME Walker WE Circadian rhythms influence the severity of sepsis in mice via a TLR2-dependent leukocyte-intrinsic mechanism The Journal of Immunology 2018 201193-201
Khatri R Afzal MR Qureshi MA Maud A Huanyu D Jose Rodriguez G Pre-Existing Renal Failure Increases In-Hospital Mortality in Patients with Intracerebral Hemorrhage J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis 2019 Feb28(2)237-242
Zou L Lee SY Wu Q Zhang H Bastian A Orji C Payne G Galvez A Thomas T Zhang Z Dou H Facile Gene Delivery Derived from Branched Low Molecular Weight Polyethylenimine by High Efficient Chemistry J Biomed Nanotechnol 2018 Oct 114(10)1785-1795
Zhang C Brandon NR Koper K Tang P Xu Y Dou H Invasion of Peripheral Immune Cells into Brain Parenchyma after Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation Aging Dis 2018 Jun 19(3)412-425
Loza O Hernandez P Calderoacuten-Mora J Laks S Leiner M Reddy S Lara P amp Granados H (2018) Developing Trans-affirming health services in an underserved area An intersectional approach Transgender Health 3(1) 127-135
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Byrd T Calderoacuten-Mora J Salaiz R amp Shokar N (2019) Barriers and facilitators to colorectal cancer screening within a Hispanic population Hispanic Health Care International 17(1) 23-29 doi 1011771540415318818982
Haut SR Lipton RB Cornes S Dwivedi AK Wasson R Cotton S Strawn JR Privitera M (2018) Behavioral interventions as a treatment for epilepsy A multicenter randomized controlled trial Neurology 90(11) e963-e970 PMID 29444968
Jessica Bernica Sherif Elhanafi Neeharika Kalakota Yi Jia Christopher Dodoo Alok Dwivedi Robert J Sealock Kalpesh Patel Isaac Raijman Marc J Zuckerman Mohamed O Othman (2018) Cholangioscopy is safe and feasible in elderly patients Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology 16(8) 1293-1299
Benjamin D Wissel Alok K Dwivedi Danielle Chin Aristide Merola Cara Jacob Andrew P Duker Jennifer E Vaughan Lilia Lovera Kathrin LaFaver Ariel Levy Anthony E Lang Francesca Morgante Melissa J Nirenberg Christopher Stephen Nutan Sharma Alberto Romagnolo Leonardo Lopiano Bettina Balint Xin X Yu Kailash P Bhatia Alberto J Espay Functional neurological disorders in Parkinson disease Accepted for publication in Journal
of Neurology Neurosurgery amp Psychiatry 89(6)566-571
Danny J Avalos Marc J Zuckerman Alok Dwivedi Christopher Dodoo Jinendra Satiya Fernando J Castro(2018) Differences in prevalence of large polyps between Hispanic Americans from Mexican-and Non-Mexican-predominant states Digestive diseases and sciences PMID 30276570
Zeina Nahleh Salman Otoukesh Hamid Reza Mirshahidi Anthony Loc Nguyen Gayathri Nagaraj Nabeel Badri Gehan Botrus Nabih Diab Andres Alvarado Luis A Sanchez Alok K Dwivedi (2018) Disparities in breast cancer a multi-institutional comparative analysis focusing on American Hispanics Cancer Medicine (In press 05072018)
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Scholarly Activity Danny J Avalos Antonio Mendoza-Ladd Marc J Zuckerman Mohammad Bashashati Andres Alvarado Alok
Dwivedi Oriana M Damas (2018) Hispanics and Non-Hispanic Whites in the US have a Similar InflammatoryBowel Disease Phenotype A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis Digestive Diseases and Sciences 63(6)1558-1571
Aleli Campbell Rosalinda Heydarian Cecilia Ochoa Alok Kumar Dwivedi Zeina A Nahleh(2018) Single arm phaseII study of oral vitamin B12 for the treatment of musculoskeletal symptoms associated with aromatase inhibitors inwomen with early stage breast cancer The breast journal 24(3)260-268
Shaimaa Elzamly Nabeel Badri Osvaldo Padilla Alok Kumar Dwivedi Luis A Alvarado Matthew Hamilton NabihDiab Crosby Rock Ahmed Elfar Marwa Teleb Luis Sanchez Zeina Nahleh (2018) Epithelial-mesenchymaltransition markers in breast cancer and pathological responseafter neoadjuvant chemotherapy Breast Cancer
(Auckl) 2018 Aug 1121178223418788074
Jennifer C Molokwu Eribeth Penaranda Alok Dwivedi Indika Mallawaarachchi Navkiran Shokar (2018) Effect ofEducational Intervention on Self-Sampling Acceptability and Follow-Up Paps in Border Dwelling Hispanic FemalesJournal of Lower Genital Tract Disease
Ritika Suri Federico Rodriguez-Porcel Kelly Donohue Erin Jesse Lilia Lovera Alok Kumar Dwivedi Alberto JEspay (2018) Post-Stroke Movement Disorders The Clinical Neuroanatomic and Demographic Portrait of 284Published Cases Accepted for publication in Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases (In press05212018)
Zeina Nahleh Gehan Botrus Alok Dwivedi Nabeel Badri Salman Otoukesh Nabih Diab Sandip BiswasMichael Jennings Shaimaa Elzamly(2018) Clinico-pathologic disparities of breast cancer in HispanicLatina womenBreast disease 1-8
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Robert Gonzalez Trisha Suppes Jamie Zeitzer Colleen McClung Carol Tamminga Mauricio Tohen Angelica Forero Alok DwivediAndres Alvarado (2018) The association between mood state and chronobiological characteristics in bipolar I disorder a naturalisticvariable cluster analysis-based study International Journal of Bipolar Disorders 6(1)5Mohamed Teleb Aaron Shanker Alok Kumar Dwivedi Debabrata Mukherjee (2018) Effect of exercise on left ventricular mass index byechocardiography in mild and moderate hypertension a meta-analysis Res Cardiovasc Med 6(4)50-6Garnica O Das K Devasundaram S and Dhandayuthapani S Enhanced delivery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigens to antigenpresenting cells using RVG peptide Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Das K Garnica O and Dhandayuthapani S Utility of an oxidative stress response system for the expression of recombinant proteinsin mycobacteria and for the delivery of M tuberculosis antigens to the phagosomal compartments Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Palanichamy K Joshi A Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz T Fernando B Milan S Schiro F Naeem Y Garg H Braunschweig A 2019 Anti-ZikaActivity of a Library of Synthetic Carbohydrate Receptors Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 6284110-4119Anjali Joshi Erin B Punke Tugba Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz Diego P Peralta and Himanshu Garg 2019 TLR9 polymorphism correlates withimmune activation CD4 decline and plasma IP10 levels in HIV patients BMC Infect Dis 19 56Vargas-Medrano J Yang B Garza N T Segura-Ulate I and Perez R G (2018) Up-regulation of protective neuronal MicroRNAs byFTY720 and novel FTY720-derivatives Neuroscience letters 690 178-180Vidal-Martinez G Yang B Vargas-Medrano J and Perez R G (2018) Could alpha-Synuclein Modulation of Insulin and DopamineIdentify a Novel Link Between Parkinsons Disease and Diabetes as Well as Potential Therapies Frontiers in molecular
neuroscience 11 465
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Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Gil-Tommee C Vidal-Martinez G Annette Reyes C Vargas-Medrano J Herrera G V Martin S M Chaparro S A andPerez R G (2019) Parkinsonian GM2 synthase knockout mice lacking mature gangliosides develop urinary dysfunction andneurogenic bladder Experimental neurology 311265-273Vidal-Martinez G Najera K Miranda JD Gil-Tommee C Yang B Vargas-Medrano J Diaz-Pacheco V Barragan J ChaparroS Vargas-Medrano J Chinnasamy R Arterburn JB Perez RG FTY720 improves behavior increases Brain Derived NeurotrophicFactor and reduces α-synuclein pathology in parkinsonian GM2+minus
mice Neuroscience httpsdoiorg101016jneuroscience201905029Tasnim N Thakur V Chattopadhyay M Joddar B (2018) The efficacy of Graphene-foams towards the adhesion proliferationand expression of neuronal-phenotype by dopaminergic neurons differentiated from mesenchymal stem cells Stem cell
international Jun 3 20183410168 doi 10115520183410168Anil Kumar S Allen SC Tasnim N Akter T Park S Kumar A Chattopadhyay M Ito Y Suggs LJ Joddar B (2019) The applicabilityof furfuryl-gelatin as a novel bioink for tissue engineering applications J Biomed Mater Res B Appl Biomater 2019 107(2)314-323 doi 101002jbmb34123 Epub 2018 Apr 15Thakur V Chattopadhyay M (2018) Early urinary markers for diabetic and other kidney diseases Current drug targets 2018 Mar19Joddar B Tasnim N Thakur V Kumar A Mccallum R Chattopadhyay M (2018) Delivery of mesenchymal stem cells fromgelatin-alginate hydrogels to stomach lumen for treatment of gastroparesis Bioengineering 2018 5(1)Camacho CV Choudhari R Gadad SS (2018) Long noncoding RNAs and cancer an overview Steroids 13393-95
IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department
Large net loss (9) of MTM faculty members over the past 5 years
Vacant Director positions (i) Center for Neuroscience (ii) Center for InfectiousDiseases and (iii) Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
No steps have been taken to fill directors positions for more than 2 years
Neurosciences Center at the verge of collapse Only one faculty will be left at theend of this fiscal year
The size of Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology is shrinking
Lack of communication regarding vision and strategic plan for growing department
No faculty salary raises for the past 3 years
Serious concerns about recruitment retention and tenure and promotion decisionsmade in the department Faculty morale is extremely low
Lack of functional research core facility
Gradual elimination of service contracts of equipment essential for research trainingand education of graduate and medical students
A plethora of other issues with the department administration
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Questions
Departmental Report
Psychiatry
Ricardo Salazar MDAssociate Professor Psychiatry
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Department ReportPsychiatryPRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCIL
BY RICARDO SALAZAR MD
DATE MONDAY JULY 15 2019
Department BreakdownPlease provide the total number of faculty members in your department and break down this number by
rank Please list new faculty members that have joined your department within the last six months
Total Number of Faculty 12
Number of Instructors 1
Number of Assistant Professors 8
Number of Associate Professors 2
Number of Professors 2
New Faculty Melanie Longhurst MD Instructor
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LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair
program director clerkship director chiefs etc
Department Chair ndash Peter M Thompson MD MS
Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Sarah L Martin MD
Combined IMPsych Residency Program Director ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD
Psychiatry Clerkship Director ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD
Child amp Adolescent Fellowship Program Director ndash Cecilia De Vargas MD
Chief Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry ndash Sarah L Martin MD
Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Program Directorndash Ricardo Salazar MD
Chief Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences ndash Ricardo Salazar MD
Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Transmountain ndash Moataz Ragheb MD
AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in your department including awards honors regional
appointments national appointments etc
El Paso Behavioral Health Consortium ndash Board Member ndash Peter M Thompson MD
714 (50) of our graduating medical students this year choose and matched our resident training programs here at Paul L FosterSchool of Medicine Department of Psychiatry (Historical record) ndash Kudos for our Department Faculty
In appreciation for exceptional contributions to the 30th volume of the J Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences ndash Author contributions and review of 271 manuscripts submitted to the journal between September 2017 and August 2018 ndash Ricardo Salazar MD ndash Young Investigator Award Committee Member and Program Committee Member-Abstracts Sub-Committee Member of theAmerican Neuropsychiatric Association (ANPA)
Initial Accreditation with commendation and no citations from ACGME for our first Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Training Program for West Texas ndash Ricardo Salazar MD
Leadership in Education and Development Certificate Program (LEAD) Fellow -1-year program accredited from the Association ofAmerican Medical Colleges (AAMC) Silvina Tonarelli MD amp Ricardo Salazar MD (Selected Award)
Fully operating Southwest Brain Bank A Brain Tissue Repository for Research in Mental Illness ndashPeter M Thompson MD
Texas State Psychiatric Physicians Public Mental Health Services Committee ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD
Texas Health and Human Services Commission Behavioral Health Advisory Committee ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP
Fellow American College of Physicians ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP FACP
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Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Abstracts 31
Publications 5 (peer-review journals)
Presentations 17 ndash National (7) and International (6)
Invited Speaker 21 (including faculty residents fellows) ndash Local amp National
Book Chapters NA
Grants McKee Foundation Award ndash our Chair - Thompson
Intramural Grants Seed Grant 1 SARP Educational Grant 2 - Salazar
President`s Collaborative Research Initiative ndashMarch 2018 - Tonarelli
Scholarly Activity
Child and Adolescent Fellowship Presentations
INTERNATIONAL
- Curanderos and Limpias Cultural psychiatry
Poster presented at 6th Annual Scientific conference of the European Association of PsychosomaticMedicine Verona Italy Drs Garza Meissner De Vargas Mehta June 2018
-Case presentation 0f 49XXXXY Same conference same authors same city
-Resilience etiology protective and risk factors presentation C De Vargas by invitation Annual WorldPediatric summit Madrid June 2018
-Parents and their Children Fantastic journey Same conference on June 2019 Berlin Germany
NATIONAL
-Development of Psychopathology in children at risk for Bipolar Disorders Drs Escamilla Peter Sangra C DeVargas S Martin C Alvarado Andrea Rios (Poster) American Academy of Child and Adolescent PsychiatryAnnual Conference Seattle WA October 2018
Frank William Meissner MD Cynthia Elizabeth Garza MDJD Sarah L Martin MD rdquoDrug-Induced BrugadaSyndrome in a Middle-Aged Female Patient Drugs EKG Diagnosis Electrophysiology and SurveillanceRecommendationrdquo American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting San Francisco CA May 21 2019
Delinquency in a group of school children at risk for bipolar disorder D Haque M Escamilla C De VargasPresented at UCLA LA Ca June 2019
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Residency ProgramPlease provide information regarding your departmentrsquos residency program ie recent accreditation
number of residents and program updates (if applicable)
24 General Psychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)
8 Internal MedicinePsychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)
3 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellows
1 Geriatric Psychiatry Fellow- newly accredited program
IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department
RecruitmentRetention
Short staffed
Organizational Structure
Financial incentives
Protected time
Gender balance Attrition malefemale ratio 41
Program Coordinator turnover rate
Mentoring
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Departmental Organizational
Structure
Chair
Division ChiefsProgram Directors
Clerkship Director
Adm
Organizational Structure Model
Chair
Deputy Chair for Education
Program
Directors
Deputy Chair for Research
Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs
Vicechair
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Roles
Deputy Chair for Education
Oversee undergraduate graduate and CME including the development of teachers and educational scholars Monitor quality and safety across the department
Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs
Faculty appointments Faculty Development and Promotion andor Tenure Develop programs in different domains such as research education personal improvement and leadership Support clinical activities by improving the efficiency of operations and in helping to fit clinical programs into those in the rest of the medical center Allocation of space
Deputy Chair for Research
Develop and direct department-wide programs for faculty recruitment development and support of mentors recognition of excellence and funding of pilot grants bridge funding and grants to nurture multi-principal investigator and trans-division or trans-department projects Allocation of space among divisions
Bottom Line
We need more funds
Institutional support
The investments needed to recruit faculty are beyond the capacity of the
department`s operational revenue
Recruiting a leading investigator or one with great potential for
example may require an investment of $ 1 million and sometimes more
Endowments are the departmentrsquos foundational financial capital the
keel that maintains momentum and balance through the headwinds
and rough seas each department will navigate Endowments increase
the departmentrsquos independence in sustaining its core mission
Thus creation of endowments should be a high priority for any
department that plans for the long term and they increase capacity to
recruit the best faculty in a competitive environment
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PLFSOM Committee on
Medical School Admissions
Report
Presented to Faculty Council ndash 7152019
Committee Composition and Terms of Service 22 committee members 20 Voting Members
Chair Jorge Cervantes MD PhD
Vice-Chair Diana Pettit PhD
EPCMS Rep Raj Marwah MD
2 Ex-Officio (non-voting) Associate Dean of Admissions and Director of Admissions
Last Name First Name Degree Academic Rank Department Committee Position Term Start Date
Chambers Karinn MD Assistant Professor Surgery 2018
Chheda Sadhana MD Assistant Professor Peds 2018
Duran Patricia DNP RN CENP Assistant Professor GGHSON 2018
Patek Gregory MD Assistant Professor Emergency Med 2018
Rao Jo MD Assistant Professor Peds 2018
Chattopadhyay Munmun PhD Assistant Professor Biomedical Sciences 2018
Hogg Tanis PhD Associate Professor Medical Education 2018
Lakshmanaswamy Rajkumar PhD Professor Biomedical Sciences 2018
Andrade Alonso MD Assistant Professor Surgery 2017
Castro Jose MD Clinical Instructor Surgery 2017
Cervantes Jorge MD PhD Assistant Professor Medical Education Chair 2017
Belmares Ricardo PhD Instructor Medical Education 2017
Kafchinski Lisa MD Assistant Professor Orthopedics 2017
Tonarelli Sylvina MD Assistant Professor Psychiatry 2017
Rojas-Mendez Patricia MD Assistant Professor ObGyn 2017
Martinez Carla MD Assistant Professor ObGyn 2017
Marwah Raj MD Clinical Assistant Professor Family Medicine 2019
Manglik Niti MD Assistant Professor Medical Education 2019
Pettit Diana PhD Associate Professor Medical Education Vice Chair 2019
Hernan Lynn MD Associate Professor Peds 2019
Vellipuram Anantha MD Assistant Professor Neurology 2019
Gavito Jose MD Assistant Professor Radiology 2019
Perry Cynthia PhD Interim Assistant Dean for Admissions Admissions Ex Officio
Olivas Laura MBA Senior Director of Admissions Admissions Ex Officio
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4
Committee Charge
The Committee shall have full authority to select members of
the medical school entering class based on screening
assessments and interview evaluation reports and to fill
vacancies that may occur in any of the medical school classes
A list of recommended candidates to be offered positions
through the Texas Medical and Dental School Application Service
(TMDSAS) matching process will be prepared based on a ranking
determined following deliberations by the Committee
The Committee also shall have the responsibility to review the
requirements for admission and if necessary to recommend
revisions to the faculty
Actions taken since last report (Jan 2019)
Approval of Handbook revisions
Added COI policy Attendance policy CASPer Assessment
requirement (Pilot)
Sat 104 new students 12 repeaters
Interviewed 14 JAMP students on June 24th
(Round 1 eligible students here for JAMP Internship)
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No right wrong answers
Rating not influenced by-ESL -Age-Coaching -Reading Level
Rating is relative
What are raters looking for
Actions taken since last report Received 4471 primary applications amp 3079 completed applications
(increase of 350 complete appl compared to last year)
127 TX pre-match and 13 Out-of-state offers extended
Currently have 109 acceptances leading up to TMDSAS match
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EY2018
Received 3983 primary applications amp 2729 completed
applications
130 acceptances leading up to TMDSAS match
TTUHSC EP PLFSOM First Year Entering Students
EY 2019
38
(27506)
TX 37 (30) 37 (29) 37 (30) 37 (30) 37 (30) 37 (31) 373 (31) 38 (507) 38 (509)376
(266506)
US 37 (31) 37 (31) 37 (31) 37 (31) 37 (31) 37 (31) 37(31) 37 (509) 37 (510) 38 (27506)
Hispanic 8 (20) 6 (10) 5 (6) 12 (15) 23 (24) 32 (31) 24 (23) 35 (35) 37 (36) 24 (24) 28 (269)
Border Counties - - 7 (9) 13 (16) 24 (24) 28 (27) 26 (25) 32 (31) 33 (32) 21 (21) 27 (26)
El Paso 7 (17) 8 (13) 5 (6) 12 (15) 19 (19) 23 (22) 24 (23) 29 (28) 25 (24) 19 (19) 23 (221)
African American 0 0 0 0 0 1 (1) 3 (3) 1 (1) 3 (3) 2 (2) 6 (58)
Native American 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Class Size 40 60 81 80 100 104 104 103 103 100 104
Male 16 (40) 35 (58) 44 (54) 42 (52) 65 (65) 47 (45) 67 (64) 59 (57) 56 (54) 49 (49) 52 (50)
Female 24 (60) 25 (42) 37 (46) 38 (48) 35 (35) 57 (55) 37 (36) 44 (43) 47 (46) 51 (51) 52 (50)
Total Applicants 2503 2531 2719 2946 3105 3375 3694 4043 3950 3982 4472
Interviewed 389 378 593 548 626 566 538 510 535 546 602
EY 2018
374
(5077)
Underrepresented minority(URM)-Diversity ()
Class Size amp Gender ()
Applicants
37 (28) 37 (29)37
(28503)
368
(26505)
EY 2014 EY 2015 EY 2016 EY 2017
GPA(MCAT) 37 (28) 36 (29) 36 (29) 35 (29) 36 (29)
EY 2009 EY 2010 EY 2011 EY 2012 EY 2013
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Candidates discussed
Voting (high priority acceptable reject)
Categorized by vote
1 High Priority (unanimous high priority votes)
2 Highly Acceptable -1 -2 -3
3 Very Acceptable (4+ acceptable votes)
4 Acceptable (majority acceptable votes)
5 Reject
Ranked within category by weighted scores (Interview 30 MCAT 30 SGPA 35 GPA 5)
Rank list is generated after the first interview date and updated weekly throughout interview season
Admissions Committee Process
Upcoming actions
Joint Admission Medical Program (JAMP) Round 2 Match
(Friday Jan 25th) will match with 2
Rolling admissions continues until June 1
Created additional interview date for EY2020 (22 days)
New requirement added for EY2020 CASPer Assessment ndash
Situational Judgement Test (SJT)
Propose revision to By-Laws to add minimum attendance
requirements for committee members
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Current IssuesConcerns
Ongoing need to recruit more interviewers
Anticipating class size expansion
Meeting quorum
Standing Committee Report
Curriculum and Educational Policy
Committee
Richard Brower MD PhDAssociate Dean for Medical Education
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Curriculum amp
Educational Policy
Committee Report to the PLFSOM Faculty Council
Presented by Richard Brower MD
Date July 15 2019
Committee Composition and Terms of
Service
ldquoCandidates for lsquoat largersquo positions are to be
recommended by the associate dean for medical
education and appointed by the deanrdquo
ldquoTerms may be renewed by recommendation of the
associate dean for medical education and appointment by
the deanrdquo
ldquohelliplsquoat largersquo members may be appointed for no more than
two consecutive terms after which they are ineligible to
serve for 4 yearsrdquo
ldquoCandidates for these positions should demonstrate an
ongoing interest in medical educationrdquo
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Committee Composition and Terms of ServiceLast Name First Name Degree Academic Rank Department Committee Position Term Start Date
Term Expiration Date
Frances Mark MD ProfessorMedical Education
Member (College Master)
9120168312020
Pfarr Curt PhD ProfessorMedical Education
Member (College Master) 9242015 8312019
Gajendran Mahesh MD Assistant ProfessorInternal Medicine
Member (Clinician) 912017 8312021
Uga Aghaegbulam MD Assistant Professor
Psychiatry and Internal Medicine
Member (Clinician) 11192015 10312019
Kassar Darine MD Assistant Professor NeurologyMember (Clinician) 972016 8312020
Wojciechowska Joanna MD Assistant Professor Pediatrics
Member (Clinician) 212018 8312022
Nino DiegoMD PhD Assistant Professor
Medical Education
Member (Basic Sciences) 1142019 1142023
Padilla Osvaldo MD Assistant Professor PathologyMember (Basic Sciences) 12152014 8312022
Cervantes JorgeMD PhD Assistant Professor
Medical Education
Member (Basic Sciences) 8232016 8312020
Perry Cynthia PhD Assistant ProfessorMedical Education
Member (Basic Sciences) 9282015 8312019
Brower Richard MDAssociate Professor
Medical Education Chair NA NA
Three positions
opening soon ndash-
should have
demonstrated
interest and
engagement in
UME and a
willingness to
attend all
meetings and
participate in
team
assignments
Committee Composition and Terms of
Service Leadership
This committee is chaired by the associate dean for medical education
The committee reports to the Faculty Council
Membership will include
2 college masters (one basic scientist one clinician) with 4-year terms
4 members from the basic sciences faculty with 4-year terms (staggered)
4 members from the clinical sciences faculty with 4-year terms (staggered)
Ex Officio members
Dean or their designee
Associate dean for student affairs
Assistant deans for medication education
Managing director of the libraries (ldquoAssociate Director of the Libraryrdquo)
Director of information technology or their designee
Director of assessment and evaluation (position no longer exists)
Two student reps from each of the four classes (from the Student Curriculum and Evaluation Committee)
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Committee Charge Faculty Bylaws Article IX Section C2
The Committee on Curriculum and Educational Policy is charged with planning coordinating
reviewing and evaluating the curriculum to ensure that it adheres to the
written educational policies goals and objectives of the Paul L Foster School
of Medicine Further the Committee shall have full authority to make changes in
educational policy or in the organization of the curriculum with the
concurrence of the Dean and with comment and input from the Faculty Council The Faculty of the Paul L Foster School of Medicine has the responsibility to define course objectives create
and deliver content to meet those objectives and modify their activities in response to appropriate feedback
from peers and students The Committee will provide updates on its activities at least
twice a year to the Faculty Council In order to accomplish the mission of the Committee the
Chair may appoint subcommittees that may include members who are not
members of the Committee It shall be the responsibility of the Committee to coordinate the
activities and reports of these subcommittees In addition the Committee receives reports
from the Committee on Evaluation of Educational Programs
Current IssuesConcerns
Curriculum enhancementimprovement
Preparation for class size expansion
Preparation for next round of curriculum reviews
(ldquocurriculum as a wholerdquo)
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CEPC actions since last report
January 2019 (1 meeting)
Reviewed and approved revisions to the following
educational program polices
Clerkship Administration
Clerkship DirectorAssistant Director Position Description
Approval of two new 4th Year Electives
Pediatric Gastroenterology Hepatology and Nutrition
Emergency Medicine Ultrasound
Clerkship phase review FM and Surgery
CEPC actions since last report
February 2019 (2 meetings)
New educational program policy reviewed and approved
Grade Changes and Transcript Notations
Rollover of established educational program goals and
objectives (the ldquoPGOsrdquo) approved
Clerkship phase review Pediatrics and ObGyn
Preliminary data-driven discussion of revised educational
program policy covering Grading Promotion and Academic
Standing (ldquoGPASrdquo)
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CEPC actions since last report
March 2019 (2 meetings)
Clerkship phase review IM and Psych Critical Care and Sub-I
Selectives
Approval of new educational program policy
Grading Promotion and Academic Standing (ldquoGPASrdquo)
Notification of changes in clerkship directorship
Elimination of the PICE course (PICE 7001) from the year 2
curriculum approved (primarily administrative educational
elements re-distributed)
Associated review and approval of an updated PLSOM degree
plan (based on 157 credit hours)
CEPC actions since last report
April 2019 (1 meetings)
Clerkship phase review EM Neurology and Intersessions
Review and approval of revised educational program policy
Pre-Clerkship Phase Student Attendance and Participation
Policy
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CEPC actions since last report
May 2019 (1 meetings)
Review and approval of the ldquoCommon Clerkship Policiesrdquo
Notification of additional changes in the clerkship
directorship
Clerkship phase review
Phase data review (AAMC GQ NBME subject exams
USMLE Step 2 CK and CS Step 3 final grades EOY OSCE
and procedure workshop residency director survey)
Introduction of a 10-point plan for curriculum revision
(ldquoPLFSOM v20rdquo)
June 2019 (no quorum) July 2019 (cancelled)
CEPC actions since last report
Challenges and opportunities for improvement identified
through the AY208-19 clerkship phase review
Clear identification of contacts at affiliated sites
Academic support and remediation planning
Consistent resident preparation for participation in UME
Timeliness of grading (Sub-I and Critical Care Selectives)
Orientation modules for Sub-Q and Critical Care Selectives)
Scaling clerkships for anticipated class expansion
The summer doldrums
June 2019 (no quorum) July 2019 (cancelled)
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Upcoming actions
Ongoing educational program policy development
Maintain accreditation compliance related curriculum
review cycle (2019-20 ldquoCurriculum as a Wholerdquo)
Review and advance plans for curriculum renewalrevision
Review proposal to re-direct our MD-MPH affiliation to
TTUHSC GSBS Lubbock
Consider development of an MD-MBA option (potentially
with UTEP)
Links to related information
PLFSOM Committee on Curriculum and Educational Policy main page
httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCdefaultaspx
MD degree program policies
httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCpoliciesaspx
MD degree program information
httpselpasottuhscedusomomeUMEinfoaspx
Course and clerkship syllabi
httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCcoursereviewaspx
AY2017-18 medical education program evaluation report (e-Raider required)
httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPC_documentssecureAY2017-
2018MEPEvaluationAnnualReport-Draft-v2pdf
9102019
19
Departmental Report
Molecular and Translational
Medicine
Laxman Gangwani PhDAssociate Professor Molecular amp
Translational Medicine
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20
Department of Molecular and
Translational Medicine (formerly
Biomedical Sciences) Report
PRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCIL
BY LAXMAN GANGWANI
DATE JULY 15 2019
Department BreakdownPlease provide the total number of faculty members in your department and break down this number by
rank Please list new faculty members that have joined your department within the last six months
Total Number of Faculty
Number of Faculty Associates 1
Number of Instructors 1
Number of Research Assistant Professor 1
Number of Assistant Professors 6
Number of Associate Professors 7
Number of Professors 4
New Faculty
None
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LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair
program director clerkship director chiefs etc
Department Chair Dr Peter Rotwein (VP Research Associate
Dean GSBS)
Director Center of Emphasis in Cancer Dr Rajkumar
Lakshmanaswamy (Dean GSBS) Co-Director Dr N Shokar
Director Center of Emphasis in Diabetes and Metabolism Dr
David Cistola
Director Center of Emphasis in Infectious Diseases Vacant
Director Center of Emphasis in Neurosciences Vacant
Chief Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology Vacant
AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional
appointments national appointments etc
Awards
Dr Mingtao Zeng
2018 The American Association of Immunologists (AAI) AAI Travel Grant for the 5th European Congress of Immunology
2018 Defense Techconnect Fall Summit amp Expo (2018) Techconnect Defense Innovation Award
Dr Shrikant Gadad
Eugenia Rosemberg Outstanding Abstract Award Endocrine Society Annual Meeting New Orleans March 23-26 2019
Dr Huanyu Dou
National Innovation Award Techconnect 2019
Honors
Dr Alok Dwivedi
Appointed as associated faculty at the Border Biomedical Research Center (BBRC) University of Texas El Paso (UTEP)
Dr Shrikant Gadad
Session Chair (OR09 Steroid Hormone Biology in Physiology and Disease) Endocrine Society Annual Meeting New Orleans March 23-26 2019
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AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional
appointments national appointments etc
NIH or DOD study sections appointments
Dr Guohua Yi
HIV special Emphasis Panel for RFA-AI-18-058 Genetic Engineering Technologies for HIV Cure Research (U19)
Dr Laxman Gangwani
Department of Defense (DOD) Reviewer for Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) 2018 -
NIHCSR Study ldquoProgram Evaluation of NIH Peer Review Processes The Role of Anonymizationrdquo 2019 ndash
Patents filings and publications
Patent Number 9862951 Title RNA Interference-Based Therapeutic against Anthrax Inventors Mingtao Zeng and Maria T AreacutevaloDate of Patent January 9 2018
Cistola D P Patel V (2018) Method and system for non-invasive measurement of metabolic health US Non-Provisional Utility Patent Application No 15911728 filed by Texas Tech University
Cistola D P Robinson M D (2018) Methods and tools for diagnosing insulin resistance and assessing health status using NMR relaxation times for water United States Patent Application Publication US 20180020947 A1 httpspatentsgooglecompatentUS20180020947A1en
AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional
appointments national appointments etc
News and Media Coverage of Research performed at TTUHSC EP
Dr David Cistola
MedPageToday 2 January 2019 Harris Scott Could a New Biomarker Help Predict Type 2 Diabetes -- Early datashow water T2 catches abnormalities before traditional testing but experts are cautiously optimistichttpswwwmedpagetodaycomreading-roomendocrine-societydiabetes77186
KTSM Channel 9 NBC El Paso 14 November 2018 Castillo Susy Research in El Paso aimed at detectingdiabetes earlyhttpswwwktsmcomlifestylehealthresearch-in-el-paso-aimed-at-detecting-diabetes-early1596408236apt_credirect=1
El Paso Inc 29 March 2019 TTUHSC El Paso Tackling diabetes cancer httpwwwelpasoinccomttuhsc-el-paso-tackling-diabetes-cancerarticle_613144fe-526a-11e9-b916-c35b701a5ef9html
Dr Laxman Gangwani
Cure SMA Awards $150000 Grant to Laxman Gangwani PhD Texas Tech University
httpwwwcuresmaorgnewsgangwani-grant-2019html
httpswwweurekalertorgpub_releases2019-05ttuh-gw050119php
httpswwwresearchgatenetscientific-contributions11984383_Laxman_Gangwani
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Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Peer-reviewed publications 36 (In high-impact journals)
2018 highest impact factor (11561) journal Nucleic Acids Research
Abstracts 43
Presentations (i) Oral 11 (ii) Posters 28
Invited talks 13
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Peer-reviewed publications
Kannan A Bhatia K Branzei D and Gangwani L (2018) Combined deficiency of Senataxin and DNA-PKcscauses DNA damage accumulation and neurodegeneration in spinal muscular atrophy Nucleic Acids Research2018 Vol 46 No 16 8326-8346
Mishra I Jones C Patel V Deodhar S Cistola D P (2018) Early detection of metabolic dysregulation usingwater T2 analysis of biobanked samples Diabetes Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity Targets and Therapy 11 807-818
Patel V Dwivedi A K Deodhar S Mishra I Cistola D P (2018) Aptamer-based search for correlates of plasmaand serum water T2 Implications for early metabolic dysregulation and metabolic syndrome Biomarker Research6(1) 28
Garg H Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz T Joshi A 2018 Recent Advances in Zika Virus Vaccines Viruses Nov 1410 (11) Sundin OH Mendoza-Ladd A Zeng M Diaz-Areacutevalo D Morales E Fagan BMOrdontildeez J McCallum RW Does a
glucose-based hydrogen and methane breath test detect bacterial overgrowth in the jejunum NeurogastroenterolMotil 2018e13350
Zheng Z Diaz-Areacutevalo D Guan H and Mingtao Zeng Noninvasive vaccination against infectious diseases Humanvaccines amp immunotherapeutics 2018 14(7)1717-1733
Preeti Bharaj Chunting Ye Sean Petersen Qianghu Wang Baoli Hu N Manjunath Premlata Shankar Guohua Yi(2018) Gene array analysis of PD-1H overexpressing monocytes reveals a pro-inflammatory profile Heliyone00545
Bencomo-Alvarez AE Rubio AJ Gonzalez MA and Eiring AM Energy metabolism and drug response in myeloidleukaemic stem cells Br J Haematol 2019 In Press
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Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Peer-reviewed publications Yan D Pomicter AD Tantravahi S Mason CC Senina AV Ahmann JM Wang Q Than H Patel AB Heaton
WL Eiring AM Clair PM Gantz KC Redwine HM Swierczek SI Halverson BJ Baloglu E Shacham S KhorashadJS Kelley TW Salama ME Miles RR Boucher KM Prchal JT OHare T and Deininger MW Nuclear-cytoplasmic transport is a therapeutic target in myelofibrosis Clin Cancer Res 201925(7)2323-2335
Heipertz E Harper J Lopez CA Fikrig E Hughes ME Walker WE Circadian rhythms influence the severity of sepsis in mice via a TLR2-dependent leukocyte-intrinsic mechanism The Journal of Immunology 2018 201193-201
Khatri R Afzal MR Qureshi MA Maud A Huanyu D Jose Rodriguez G Pre-Existing Renal Failure Increases In-Hospital Mortality in Patients with Intracerebral Hemorrhage J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis 2019 Feb28(2)237-242
Zou L Lee SY Wu Q Zhang H Bastian A Orji C Payne G Galvez A Thomas T Zhang Z Dou H Facile Gene Delivery Derived from Branched Low Molecular Weight Polyethylenimine by High Efficient Chemistry J Biomed Nanotechnol 2018 Oct 114(10)1785-1795
Zhang C Brandon NR Koper K Tang P Xu Y Dou H Invasion of Peripheral Immune Cells into Brain Parenchyma after Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation Aging Dis 2018 Jun 19(3)412-425
Loza O Hernandez P Calderoacuten-Mora J Laks S Leiner M Reddy S Lara P amp Granados H (2018) Developing Trans-affirming health services in an underserved area An intersectional approach Transgender Health 3(1) 127-135
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Byrd T Calderoacuten-Mora J Salaiz R amp Shokar N (2019) Barriers and facilitators to colorectal cancer screening within a Hispanic population Hispanic Health Care International 17(1) 23-29 doi 1011771540415318818982
Haut SR Lipton RB Cornes S Dwivedi AK Wasson R Cotton S Strawn JR Privitera M (2018) Behavioral interventions as a treatment for epilepsy A multicenter randomized controlled trial Neurology 90(11) e963-e970 PMID 29444968
Jessica Bernica Sherif Elhanafi Neeharika Kalakota Yi Jia Christopher Dodoo Alok Dwivedi Robert J Sealock Kalpesh Patel Isaac Raijman Marc J Zuckerman Mohamed O Othman (2018) Cholangioscopy is safe and feasible in elderly patients Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology 16(8) 1293-1299
Benjamin D Wissel Alok K Dwivedi Danielle Chin Aristide Merola Cara Jacob Andrew P Duker Jennifer E Vaughan Lilia Lovera Kathrin LaFaver Ariel Levy Anthony E Lang Francesca Morgante Melissa J Nirenberg Christopher Stephen Nutan Sharma Alberto Romagnolo Leonardo Lopiano Bettina Balint Xin X Yu Kailash P Bhatia Alberto J Espay Functional neurological disorders in Parkinson disease Accepted for publication in Journal
of Neurology Neurosurgery amp Psychiatry 89(6)566-571
Danny J Avalos Marc J Zuckerman Alok Dwivedi Christopher Dodoo Jinendra Satiya Fernando J Castro(2018) Differences in prevalence of large polyps between Hispanic Americans from Mexican-and Non-Mexican-predominant states Digestive diseases and sciences PMID 30276570
Zeina Nahleh Salman Otoukesh Hamid Reza Mirshahidi Anthony Loc Nguyen Gayathri Nagaraj Nabeel Badri Gehan Botrus Nabih Diab Andres Alvarado Luis A Sanchez Alok K Dwivedi (2018) Disparities in breast cancer a multi-institutional comparative analysis focusing on American Hispanics Cancer Medicine (In press 05072018)
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Scholarly Activity Danny J Avalos Antonio Mendoza-Ladd Marc J Zuckerman Mohammad Bashashati Andres Alvarado Alok
Dwivedi Oriana M Damas (2018) Hispanics and Non-Hispanic Whites in the US have a Similar InflammatoryBowel Disease Phenotype A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis Digestive Diseases and Sciences 63(6)1558-1571
Aleli Campbell Rosalinda Heydarian Cecilia Ochoa Alok Kumar Dwivedi Zeina A Nahleh(2018) Single arm phaseII study of oral vitamin B12 for the treatment of musculoskeletal symptoms associated with aromatase inhibitors inwomen with early stage breast cancer The breast journal 24(3)260-268
Shaimaa Elzamly Nabeel Badri Osvaldo Padilla Alok Kumar Dwivedi Luis A Alvarado Matthew Hamilton NabihDiab Crosby Rock Ahmed Elfar Marwa Teleb Luis Sanchez Zeina Nahleh (2018) Epithelial-mesenchymaltransition markers in breast cancer and pathological responseafter neoadjuvant chemotherapy Breast Cancer
(Auckl) 2018 Aug 1121178223418788074
Jennifer C Molokwu Eribeth Penaranda Alok Dwivedi Indika Mallawaarachchi Navkiran Shokar (2018) Effect ofEducational Intervention on Self-Sampling Acceptability and Follow-Up Paps in Border Dwelling Hispanic FemalesJournal of Lower Genital Tract Disease
Ritika Suri Federico Rodriguez-Porcel Kelly Donohue Erin Jesse Lilia Lovera Alok Kumar Dwivedi Alberto JEspay (2018) Post-Stroke Movement Disorders The Clinical Neuroanatomic and Demographic Portrait of 284Published Cases Accepted for publication in Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases (In press05212018)
Zeina Nahleh Gehan Botrus Alok Dwivedi Nabeel Badri Salman Otoukesh Nabih Diab Sandip BiswasMichael Jennings Shaimaa Elzamly(2018) Clinico-pathologic disparities of breast cancer in HispanicLatina womenBreast disease 1-8
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Robert Gonzalez Trisha Suppes Jamie Zeitzer Colleen McClung Carol Tamminga Mauricio Tohen Angelica Forero Alok DwivediAndres Alvarado (2018) The association between mood state and chronobiological characteristics in bipolar I disorder a naturalisticvariable cluster analysis-based study International Journal of Bipolar Disorders 6(1)5Mohamed Teleb Aaron Shanker Alok Kumar Dwivedi Debabrata Mukherjee (2018) Effect of exercise on left ventricular mass index byechocardiography in mild and moderate hypertension a meta-analysis Res Cardiovasc Med 6(4)50-6Garnica O Das K Devasundaram S and Dhandayuthapani S Enhanced delivery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigens to antigenpresenting cells using RVG peptide Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Das K Garnica O and Dhandayuthapani S Utility of an oxidative stress response system for the expression of recombinant proteinsin mycobacteria and for the delivery of M tuberculosis antigens to the phagosomal compartments Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Palanichamy K Joshi A Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz T Fernando B Milan S Schiro F Naeem Y Garg H Braunschweig A 2019 Anti-ZikaActivity of a Library of Synthetic Carbohydrate Receptors Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 6284110-4119Anjali Joshi Erin B Punke Tugba Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz Diego P Peralta and Himanshu Garg 2019 TLR9 polymorphism correlates withimmune activation CD4 decline and plasma IP10 levels in HIV patients BMC Infect Dis 19 56Vargas-Medrano J Yang B Garza N T Segura-Ulate I and Perez R G (2018) Up-regulation of protective neuronal MicroRNAs byFTY720 and novel FTY720-derivatives Neuroscience letters 690 178-180Vidal-Martinez G Yang B Vargas-Medrano J and Perez R G (2018) Could alpha-Synuclein Modulation of Insulin and DopamineIdentify a Novel Link Between Parkinsons Disease and Diabetes as Well as Potential Therapies Frontiers in molecular
neuroscience 11 465
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Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Gil-Tommee C Vidal-Martinez G Annette Reyes C Vargas-Medrano J Herrera G V Martin S M Chaparro S A andPerez R G (2019) Parkinsonian GM2 synthase knockout mice lacking mature gangliosides develop urinary dysfunction andneurogenic bladder Experimental neurology 311265-273Vidal-Martinez G Najera K Miranda JD Gil-Tommee C Yang B Vargas-Medrano J Diaz-Pacheco V Barragan J ChaparroS Vargas-Medrano J Chinnasamy R Arterburn JB Perez RG FTY720 improves behavior increases Brain Derived NeurotrophicFactor and reduces α-synuclein pathology in parkinsonian GM2+minus
mice Neuroscience httpsdoiorg101016jneuroscience201905029Tasnim N Thakur V Chattopadhyay M Joddar B (2018) The efficacy of Graphene-foams towards the adhesion proliferationand expression of neuronal-phenotype by dopaminergic neurons differentiated from mesenchymal stem cells Stem cell
international Jun 3 20183410168 doi 10115520183410168Anil Kumar S Allen SC Tasnim N Akter T Park S Kumar A Chattopadhyay M Ito Y Suggs LJ Joddar B (2019) The applicabilityof furfuryl-gelatin as a novel bioink for tissue engineering applications J Biomed Mater Res B Appl Biomater 2019 107(2)314-323 doi 101002jbmb34123 Epub 2018 Apr 15Thakur V Chattopadhyay M (2018) Early urinary markers for diabetic and other kidney diseases Current drug targets 2018 Mar19Joddar B Tasnim N Thakur V Kumar A Mccallum R Chattopadhyay M (2018) Delivery of mesenchymal stem cells fromgelatin-alginate hydrogels to stomach lumen for treatment of gastroparesis Bioengineering 2018 5(1)Camacho CV Choudhari R Gadad SS (2018) Long noncoding RNAs and cancer an overview Steroids 13393-95
IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department
Large net loss (9) of MTM faculty members over the past 5 years
Vacant Director positions (i) Center for Neuroscience (ii) Center for InfectiousDiseases and (iii) Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
No steps have been taken to fill directors positions for more than 2 years
Neurosciences Center at the verge of collapse Only one faculty will be left at theend of this fiscal year
The size of Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology is shrinking
Lack of communication regarding vision and strategic plan for growing department
No faculty salary raises for the past 3 years
Serious concerns about recruitment retention and tenure and promotion decisionsmade in the department Faculty morale is extremely low
Lack of functional research core facility
Gradual elimination of service contracts of equipment essential for research trainingand education of graduate and medical students
A plethora of other issues with the department administration
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Questions
Departmental Report
Psychiatry
Ricardo Salazar MDAssociate Professor Psychiatry
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Department ReportPsychiatryPRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCIL
BY RICARDO SALAZAR MD
DATE MONDAY JULY 15 2019
Department BreakdownPlease provide the total number of faculty members in your department and break down this number by
rank Please list new faculty members that have joined your department within the last six months
Total Number of Faculty 12
Number of Instructors 1
Number of Assistant Professors 8
Number of Associate Professors 2
Number of Professors 2
New Faculty Melanie Longhurst MD Instructor
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29
LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair
program director clerkship director chiefs etc
Department Chair ndash Peter M Thompson MD MS
Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Sarah L Martin MD
Combined IMPsych Residency Program Director ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD
Psychiatry Clerkship Director ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD
Child amp Adolescent Fellowship Program Director ndash Cecilia De Vargas MD
Chief Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry ndash Sarah L Martin MD
Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Program Directorndash Ricardo Salazar MD
Chief Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences ndash Ricardo Salazar MD
Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Transmountain ndash Moataz Ragheb MD
AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in your department including awards honors regional
appointments national appointments etc
El Paso Behavioral Health Consortium ndash Board Member ndash Peter M Thompson MD
714 (50) of our graduating medical students this year choose and matched our resident training programs here at Paul L FosterSchool of Medicine Department of Psychiatry (Historical record) ndash Kudos for our Department Faculty
In appreciation for exceptional contributions to the 30th volume of the J Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences ndash Author contributions and review of 271 manuscripts submitted to the journal between September 2017 and August 2018 ndash Ricardo Salazar MD ndash Young Investigator Award Committee Member and Program Committee Member-Abstracts Sub-Committee Member of theAmerican Neuropsychiatric Association (ANPA)
Initial Accreditation with commendation and no citations from ACGME for our first Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Training Program for West Texas ndash Ricardo Salazar MD
Leadership in Education and Development Certificate Program (LEAD) Fellow -1-year program accredited from the Association ofAmerican Medical Colleges (AAMC) Silvina Tonarelli MD amp Ricardo Salazar MD (Selected Award)
Fully operating Southwest Brain Bank A Brain Tissue Repository for Research in Mental Illness ndashPeter M Thompson MD
Texas State Psychiatric Physicians Public Mental Health Services Committee ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD
Texas Health and Human Services Commission Behavioral Health Advisory Committee ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP
Fellow American College of Physicians ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP FACP
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Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Abstracts 31
Publications 5 (peer-review journals)
Presentations 17 ndash National (7) and International (6)
Invited Speaker 21 (including faculty residents fellows) ndash Local amp National
Book Chapters NA
Grants McKee Foundation Award ndash our Chair - Thompson
Intramural Grants Seed Grant 1 SARP Educational Grant 2 - Salazar
President`s Collaborative Research Initiative ndashMarch 2018 - Tonarelli
Scholarly Activity
Child and Adolescent Fellowship Presentations
INTERNATIONAL
- Curanderos and Limpias Cultural psychiatry
Poster presented at 6th Annual Scientific conference of the European Association of PsychosomaticMedicine Verona Italy Drs Garza Meissner De Vargas Mehta June 2018
-Case presentation 0f 49XXXXY Same conference same authors same city
-Resilience etiology protective and risk factors presentation C De Vargas by invitation Annual WorldPediatric summit Madrid June 2018
-Parents and their Children Fantastic journey Same conference on June 2019 Berlin Germany
NATIONAL
-Development of Psychopathology in children at risk for Bipolar Disorders Drs Escamilla Peter Sangra C DeVargas S Martin C Alvarado Andrea Rios (Poster) American Academy of Child and Adolescent PsychiatryAnnual Conference Seattle WA October 2018
Frank William Meissner MD Cynthia Elizabeth Garza MDJD Sarah L Martin MD rdquoDrug-Induced BrugadaSyndrome in a Middle-Aged Female Patient Drugs EKG Diagnosis Electrophysiology and SurveillanceRecommendationrdquo American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting San Francisco CA May 21 2019
Delinquency in a group of school children at risk for bipolar disorder D Haque M Escamilla C De VargasPresented at UCLA LA Ca June 2019
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Residency ProgramPlease provide information regarding your departmentrsquos residency program ie recent accreditation
number of residents and program updates (if applicable)
24 General Psychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)
8 Internal MedicinePsychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)
3 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellows
1 Geriatric Psychiatry Fellow- newly accredited program
IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department
RecruitmentRetention
Short staffed
Organizational Structure
Financial incentives
Protected time
Gender balance Attrition malefemale ratio 41
Program Coordinator turnover rate
Mentoring
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Departmental Organizational
Structure
Chair
Division ChiefsProgram Directors
Clerkship Director
Adm
Organizational Structure Model
Chair
Deputy Chair for Education
Program
Directors
Deputy Chair for Research
Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs
Vicechair
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Roles
Deputy Chair for Education
Oversee undergraduate graduate and CME including the development of teachers and educational scholars Monitor quality and safety across the department
Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs
Faculty appointments Faculty Development and Promotion andor Tenure Develop programs in different domains such as research education personal improvement and leadership Support clinical activities by improving the efficiency of operations and in helping to fit clinical programs into those in the rest of the medical center Allocation of space
Deputy Chair for Research
Develop and direct department-wide programs for faculty recruitment development and support of mentors recognition of excellence and funding of pilot grants bridge funding and grants to nurture multi-principal investigator and trans-division or trans-department projects Allocation of space among divisions
Bottom Line
We need more funds
Institutional support
The investments needed to recruit faculty are beyond the capacity of the
department`s operational revenue
Recruiting a leading investigator or one with great potential for
example may require an investment of $ 1 million and sometimes more
Endowments are the departmentrsquos foundational financial capital the
keel that maintains momentum and balance through the headwinds
and rough seas each department will navigate Endowments increase
the departmentrsquos independence in sustaining its core mission
Thus creation of endowments should be a high priority for any
department that plans for the long term and they increase capacity to
recruit the best faculty in a competitive environment
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4
Committee Charge
The Committee shall have full authority to select members of
the medical school entering class based on screening
assessments and interview evaluation reports and to fill
vacancies that may occur in any of the medical school classes
A list of recommended candidates to be offered positions
through the Texas Medical and Dental School Application Service
(TMDSAS) matching process will be prepared based on a ranking
determined following deliberations by the Committee
The Committee also shall have the responsibility to review the
requirements for admission and if necessary to recommend
revisions to the faculty
Actions taken since last report (Jan 2019)
Approval of Handbook revisions
Added COI policy Attendance policy CASPer Assessment
requirement (Pilot)
Sat 104 new students 12 repeaters
Interviewed 14 JAMP students on June 24th
(Round 1 eligible students here for JAMP Internship)
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No right wrong answers
Rating not influenced by-ESL -Age-Coaching -Reading Level
Rating is relative
What are raters looking for
Actions taken since last report Received 4471 primary applications amp 3079 completed applications
(increase of 350 complete appl compared to last year)
127 TX pre-match and 13 Out-of-state offers extended
Currently have 109 acceptances leading up to TMDSAS match
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EY2018
Received 3983 primary applications amp 2729 completed
applications
130 acceptances leading up to TMDSAS match
TTUHSC EP PLFSOM First Year Entering Students
EY 2019
38
(27506)
TX 37 (30) 37 (29) 37 (30) 37 (30) 37 (30) 37 (31) 373 (31) 38 (507) 38 (509)376
(266506)
US 37 (31) 37 (31) 37 (31) 37 (31) 37 (31) 37 (31) 37(31) 37 (509) 37 (510) 38 (27506)
Hispanic 8 (20) 6 (10) 5 (6) 12 (15) 23 (24) 32 (31) 24 (23) 35 (35) 37 (36) 24 (24) 28 (269)
Border Counties - - 7 (9) 13 (16) 24 (24) 28 (27) 26 (25) 32 (31) 33 (32) 21 (21) 27 (26)
El Paso 7 (17) 8 (13) 5 (6) 12 (15) 19 (19) 23 (22) 24 (23) 29 (28) 25 (24) 19 (19) 23 (221)
African American 0 0 0 0 0 1 (1) 3 (3) 1 (1) 3 (3) 2 (2) 6 (58)
Native American 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Class Size 40 60 81 80 100 104 104 103 103 100 104
Male 16 (40) 35 (58) 44 (54) 42 (52) 65 (65) 47 (45) 67 (64) 59 (57) 56 (54) 49 (49) 52 (50)
Female 24 (60) 25 (42) 37 (46) 38 (48) 35 (35) 57 (55) 37 (36) 44 (43) 47 (46) 51 (51) 52 (50)
Total Applicants 2503 2531 2719 2946 3105 3375 3694 4043 3950 3982 4472
Interviewed 389 378 593 548 626 566 538 510 535 546 602
EY 2018
374
(5077)
Underrepresented minority(URM)-Diversity ()
Class Size amp Gender ()
Applicants
37 (28) 37 (29)37
(28503)
368
(26505)
EY 2014 EY 2015 EY 2016 EY 2017
GPA(MCAT) 37 (28) 36 (29) 36 (29) 35 (29) 36 (29)
EY 2009 EY 2010 EY 2011 EY 2012 EY 2013
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Candidates discussed
Voting (high priority acceptable reject)
Categorized by vote
1 High Priority (unanimous high priority votes)
2 Highly Acceptable -1 -2 -3
3 Very Acceptable (4+ acceptable votes)
4 Acceptable (majority acceptable votes)
5 Reject
Ranked within category by weighted scores (Interview 30 MCAT 30 SGPA 35 GPA 5)
Rank list is generated after the first interview date and updated weekly throughout interview season
Admissions Committee Process
Upcoming actions
Joint Admission Medical Program (JAMP) Round 2 Match
(Friday Jan 25th) will match with 2
Rolling admissions continues until June 1
Created additional interview date for EY2020 (22 days)
New requirement added for EY2020 CASPer Assessment ndash
Situational Judgement Test (SJT)
Propose revision to By-Laws to add minimum attendance
requirements for committee members
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Current IssuesConcerns
Ongoing need to recruit more interviewers
Anticipating class size expansion
Meeting quorum
Standing Committee Report
Curriculum and Educational Policy
Committee
Richard Brower MD PhDAssociate Dean for Medical Education
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Curriculum amp
Educational Policy
Committee Report to the PLFSOM Faculty Council
Presented by Richard Brower MD
Date July 15 2019
Committee Composition and Terms of
Service
ldquoCandidates for lsquoat largersquo positions are to be
recommended by the associate dean for medical
education and appointed by the deanrdquo
ldquoTerms may be renewed by recommendation of the
associate dean for medical education and appointment by
the deanrdquo
ldquohelliplsquoat largersquo members may be appointed for no more than
two consecutive terms after which they are ineligible to
serve for 4 yearsrdquo
ldquoCandidates for these positions should demonstrate an
ongoing interest in medical educationrdquo
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Committee Composition and Terms of ServiceLast Name First Name Degree Academic Rank Department Committee Position Term Start Date
Term Expiration Date
Frances Mark MD ProfessorMedical Education
Member (College Master)
9120168312020
Pfarr Curt PhD ProfessorMedical Education
Member (College Master) 9242015 8312019
Gajendran Mahesh MD Assistant ProfessorInternal Medicine
Member (Clinician) 912017 8312021
Uga Aghaegbulam MD Assistant Professor
Psychiatry and Internal Medicine
Member (Clinician) 11192015 10312019
Kassar Darine MD Assistant Professor NeurologyMember (Clinician) 972016 8312020
Wojciechowska Joanna MD Assistant Professor Pediatrics
Member (Clinician) 212018 8312022
Nino DiegoMD PhD Assistant Professor
Medical Education
Member (Basic Sciences) 1142019 1142023
Padilla Osvaldo MD Assistant Professor PathologyMember (Basic Sciences) 12152014 8312022
Cervantes JorgeMD PhD Assistant Professor
Medical Education
Member (Basic Sciences) 8232016 8312020
Perry Cynthia PhD Assistant ProfessorMedical Education
Member (Basic Sciences) 9282015 8312019
Brower Richard MDAssociate Professor
Medical Education Chair NA NA
Three positions
opening soon ndash-
should have
demonstrated
interest and
engagement in
UME and a
willingness to
attend all
meetings and
participate in
team
assignments
Committee Composition and Terms of
Service Leadership
This committee is chaired by the associate dean for medical education
The committee reports to the Faculty Council
Membership will include
2 college masters (one basic scientist one clinician) with 4-year terms
4 members from the basic sciences faculty with 4-year terms (staggered)
4 members from the clinical sciences faculty with 4-year terms (staggered)
Ex Officio members
Dean or their designee
Associate dean for student affairs
Assistant deans for medication education
Managing director of the libraries (ldquoAssociate Director of the Libraryrdquo)
Director of information technology or their designee
Director of assessment and evaluation (position no longer exists)
Two student reps from each of the four classes (from the Student Curriculum and Evaluation Committee)
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Committee Charge Faculty Bylaws Article IX Section C2
The Committee on Curriculum and Educational Policy is charged with planning coordinating
reviewing and evaluating the curriculum to ensure that it adheres to the
written educational policies goals and objectives of the Paul L Foster School
of Medicine Further the Committee shall have full authority to make changes in
educational policy or in the organization of the curriculum with the
concurrence of the Dean and with comment and input from the Faculty Council The Faculty of the Paul L Foster School of Medicine has the responsibility to define course objectives create
and deliver content to meet those objectives and modify their activities in response to appropriate feedback
from peers and students The Committee will provide updates on its activities at least
twice a year to the Faculty Council In order to accomplish the mission of the Committee the
Chair may appoint subcommittees that may include members who are not
members of the Committee It shall be the responsibility of the Committee to coordinate the
activities and reports of these subcommittees In addition the Committee receives reports
from the Committee on Evaluation of Educational Programs
Current IssuesConcerns
Curriculum enhancementimprovement
Preparation for class size expansion
Preparation for next round of curriculum reviews
(ldquocurriculum as a wholerdquo)
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CEPC actions since last report
January 2019 (1 meeting)
Reviewed and approved revisions to the following
educational program polices
Clerkship Administration
Clerkship DirectorAssistant Director Position Description
Approval of two new 4th Year Electives
Pediatric Gastroenterology Hepatology and Nutrition
Emergency Medicine Ultrasound
Clerkship phase review FM and Surgery
CEPC actions since last report
February 2019 (2 meetings)
New educational program policy reviewed and approved
Grade Changes and Transcript Notations
Rollover of established educational program goals and
objectives (the ldquoPGOsrdquo) approved
Clerkship phase review Pediatrics and ObGyn
Preliminary data-driven discussion of revised educational
program policy covering Grading Promotion and Academic
Standing (ldquoGPASrdquo)
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CEPC actions since last report
March 2019 (2 meetings)
Clerkship phase review IM and Psych Critical Care and Sub-I
Selectives
Approval of new educational program policy
Grading Promotion and Academic Standing (ldquoGPASrdquo)
Notification of changes in clerkship directorship
Elimination of the PICE course (PICE 7001) from the year 2
curriculum approved (primarily administrative educational
elements re-distributed)
Associated review and approval of an updated PLSOM degree
plan (based on 157 credit hours)
CEPC actions since last report
April 2019 (1 meetings)
Clerkship phase review EM Neurology and Intersessions
Review and approval of revised educational program policy
Pre-Clerkship Phase Student Attendance and Participation
Policy
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CEPC actions since last report
May 2019 (1 meetings)
Review and approval of the ldquoCommon Clerkship Policiesrdquo
Notification of additional changes in the clerkship
directorship
Clerkship phase review
Phase data review (AAMC GQ NBME subject exams
USMLE Step 2 CK and CS Step 3 final grades EOY OSCE
and procedure workshop residency director survey)
Introduction of a 10-point plan for curriculum revision
(ldquoPLFSOM v20rdquo)
June 2019 (no quorum) July 2019 (cancelled)
CEPC actions since last report
Challenges and opportunities for improvement identified
through the AY208-19 clerkship phase review
Clear identification of contacts at affiliated sites
Academic support and remediation planning
Consistent resident preparation for participation in UME
Timeliness of grading (Sub-I and Critical Care Selectives)
Orientation modules for Sub-Q and Critical Care Selectives)
Scaling clerkships for anticipated class expansion
The summer doldrums
June 2019 (no quorum) July 2019 (cancelled)
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Upcoming actions
Ongoing educational program policy development
Maintain accreditation compliance related curriculum
review cycle (2019-20 ldquoCurriculum as a Wholerdquo)
Review and advance plans for curriculum renewalrevision
Review proposal to re-direct our MD-MPH affiliation to
TTUHSC GSBS Lubbock
Consider development of an MD-MBA option (potentially
with UTEP)
Links to related information
PLFSOM Committee on Curriculum and Educational Policy main page
httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCdefaultaspx
MD degree program policies
httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCpoliciesaspx
MD degree program information
httpselpasottuhscedusomomeUMEinfoaspx
Course and clerkship syllabi
httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCcoursereviewaspx
AY2017-18 medical education program evaluation report (e-Raider required)
httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPC_documentssecureAY2017-
2018MEPEvaluationAnnualReport-Draft-v2pdf
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Departmental Report
Molecular and Translational
Medicine
Laxman Gangwani PhDAssociate Professor Molecular amp
Translational Medicine
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Department of Molecular and
Translational Medicine (formerly
Biomedical Sciences) Report
PRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCIL
BY LAXMAN GANGWANI
DATE JULY 15 2019
Department BreakdownPlease provide the total number of faculty members in your department and break down this number by
rank Please list new faculty members that have joined your department within the last six months
Total Number of Faculty
Number of Faculty Associates 1
Number of Instructors 1
Number of Research Assistant Professor 1
Number of Assistant Professors 6
Number of Associate Professors 7
Number of Professors 4
New Faculty
None
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LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair
program director clerkship director chiefs etc
Department Chair Dr Peter Rotwein (VP Research Associate
Dean GSBS)
Director Center of Emphasis in Cancer Dr Rajkumar
Lakshmanaswamy (Dean GSBS) Co-Director Dr N Shokar
Director Center of Emphasis in Diabetes and Metabolism Dr
David Cistola
Director Center of Emphasis in Infectious Diseases Vacant
Director Center of Emphasis in Neurosciences Vacant
Chief Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology Vacant
AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional
appointments national appointments etc
Awards
Dr Mingtao Zeng
2018 The American Association of Immunologists (AAI) AAI Travel Grant for the 5th European Congress of Immunology
2018 Defense Techconnect Fall Summit amp Expo (2018) Techconnect Defense Innovation Award
Dr Shrikant Gadad
Eugenia Rosemberg Outstanding Abstract Award Endocrine Society Annual Meeting New Orleans March 23-26 2019
Dr Huanyu Dou
National Innovation Award Techconnect 2019
Honors
Dr Alok Dwivedi
Appointed as associated faculty at the Border Biomedical Research Center (BBRC) University of Texas El Paso (UTEP)
Dr Shrikant Gadad
Session Chair (OR09 Steroid Hormone Biology in Physiology and Disease) Endocrine Society Annual Meeting New Orleans March 23-26 2019
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AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional
appointments national appointments etc
NIH or DOD study sections appointments
Dr Guohua Yi
HIV special Emphasis Panel for RFA-AI-18-058 Genetic Engineering Technologies for HIV Cure Research (U19)
Dr Laxman Gangwani
Department of Defense (DOD) Reviewer for Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) 2018 -
NIHCSR Study ldquoProgram Evaluation of NIH Peer Review Processes The Role of Anonymizationrdquo 2019 ndash
Patents filings and publications
Patent Number 9862951 Title RNA Interference-Based Therapeutic against Anthrax Inventors Mingtao Zeng and Maria T AreacutevaloDate of Patent January 9 2018
Cistola D P Patel V (2018) Method and system for non-invasive measurement of metabolic health US Non-Provisional Utility Patent Application No 15911728 filed by Texas Tech University
Cistola D P Robinson M D (2018) Methods and tools for diagnosing insulin resistance and assessing health status using NMR relaxation times for water United States Patent Application Publication US 20180020947 A1 httpspatentsgooglecompatentUS20180020947A1en
AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional
appointments national appointments etc
News and Media Coverage of Research performed at TTUHSC EP
Dr David Cistola
MedPageToday 2 January 2019 Harris Scott Could a New Biomarker Help Predict Type 2 Diabetes -- Early datashow water T2 catches abnormalities before traditional testing but experts are cautiously optimistichttpswwwmedpagetodaycomreading-roomendocrine-societydiabetes77186
KTSM Channel 9 NBC El Paso 14 November 2018 Castillo Susy Research in El Paso aimed at detectingdiabetes earlyhttpswwwktsmcomlifestylehealthresearch-in-el-paso-aimed-at-detecting-diabetes-early1596408236apt_credirect=1
El Paso Inc 29 March 2019 TTUHSC El Paso Tackling diabetes cancer httpwwwelpasoinccomttuhsc-el-paso-tackling-diabetes-cancerarticle_613144fe-526a-11e9-b916-c35b701a5ef9html
Dr Laxman Gangwani
Cure SMA Awards $150000 Grant to Laxman Gangwani PhD Texas Tech University
httpwwwcuresmaorgnewsgangwani-grant-2019html
httpswwweurekalertorgpub_releases2019-05ttuh-gw050119php
httpswwwresearchgatenetscientific-contributions11984383_Laxman_Gangwani
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Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Peer-reviewed publications 36 (In high-impact journals)
2018 highest impact factor (11561) journal Nucleic Acids Research
Abstracts 43
Presentations (i) Oral 11 (ii) Posters 28
Invited talks 13
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Peer-reviewed publications
Kannan A Bhatia K Branzei D and Gangwani L (2018) Combined deficiency of Senataxin and DNA-PKcscauses DNA damage accumulation and neurodegeneration in spinal muscular atrophy Nucleic Acids Research2018 Vol 46 No 16 8326-8346
Mishra I Jones C Patel V Deodhar S Cistola D P (2018) Early detection of metabolic dysregulation usingwater T2 analysis of biobanked samples Diabetes Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity Targets and Therapy 11 807-818
Patel V Dwivedi A K Deodhar S Mishra I Cistola D P (2018) Aptamer-based search for correlates of plasmaand serum water T2 Implications for early metabolic dysregulation and metabolic syndrome Biomarker Research6(1) 28
Garg H Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz T Joshi A 2018 Recent Advances in Zika Virus Vaccines Viruses Nov 1410 (11) Sundin OH Mendoza-Ladd A Zeng M Diaz-Areacutevalo D Morales E Fagan BMOrdontildeez J McCallum RW Does a
glucose-based hydrogen and methane breath test detect bacterial overgrowth in the jejunum NeurogastroenterolMotil 2018e13350
Zheng Z Diaz-Areacutevalo D Guan H and Mingtao Zeng Noninvasive vaccination against infectious diseases Humanvaccines amp immunotherapeutics 2018 14(7)1717-1733
Preeti Bharaj Chunting Ye Sean Petersen Qianghu Wang Baoli Hu N Manjunath Premlata Shankar Guohua Yi(2018) Gene array analysis of PD-1H overexpressing monocytes reveals a pro-inflammatory profile Heliyone00545
Bencomo-Alvarez AE Rubio AJ Gonzalez MA and Eiring AM Energy metabolism and drug response in myeloidleukaemic stem cells Br J Haematol 2019 In Press
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Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Peer-reviewed publications Yan D Pomicter AD Tantravahi S Mason CC Senina AV Ahmann JM Wang Q Than H Patel AB Heaton
WL Eiring AM Clair PM Gantz KC Redwine HM Swierczek SI Halverson BJ Baloglu E Shacham S KhorashadJS Kelley TW Salama ME Miles RR Boucher KM Prchal JT OHare T and Deininger MW Nuclear-cytoplasmic transport is a therapeutic target in myelofibrosis Clin Cancer Res 201925(7)2323-2335
Heipertz E Harper J Lopez CA Fikrig E Hughes ME Walker WE Circadian rhythms influence the severity of sepsis in mice via a TLR2-dependent leukocyte-intrinsic mechanism The Journal of Immunology 2018 201193-201
Khatri R Afzal MR Qureshi MA Maud A Huanyu D Jose Rodriguez G Pre-Existing Renal Failure Increases In-Hospital Mortality in Patients with Intracerebral Hemorrhage J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis 2019 Feb28(2)237-242
Zou L Lee SY Wu Q Zhang H Bastian A Orji C Payne G Galvez A Thomas T Zhang Z Dou H Facile Gene Delivery Derived from Branched Low Molecular Weight Polyethylenimine by High Efficient Chemistry J Biomed Nanotechnol 2018 Oct 114(10)1785-1795
Zhang C Brandon NR Koper K Tang P Xu Y Dou H Invasion of Peripheral Immune Cells into Brain Parenchyma after Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation Aging Dis 2018 Jun 19(3)412-425
Loza O Hernandez P Calderoacuten-Mora J Laks S Leiner M Reddy S Lara P amp Granados H (2018) Developing Trans-affirming health services in an underserved area An intersectional approach Transgender Health 3(1) 127-135
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Byrd T Calderoacuten-Mora J Salaiz R amp Shokar N (2019) Barriers and facilitators to colorectal cancer screening within a Hispanic population Hispanic Health Care International 17(1) 23-29 doi 1011771540415318818982
Haut SR Lipton RB Cornes S Dwivedi AK Wasson R Cotton S Strawn JR Privitera M (2018) Behavioral interventions as a treatment for epilepsy A multicenter randomized controlled trial Neurology 90(11) e963-e970 PMID 29444968
Jessica Bernica Sherif Elhanafi Neeharika Kalakota Yi Jia Christopher Dodoo Alok Dwivedi Robert J Sealock Kalpesh Patel Isaac Raijman Marc J Zuckerman Mohamed O Othman (2018) Cholangioscopy is safe and feasible in elderly patients Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology 16(8) 1293-1299
Benjamin D Wissel Alok K Dwivedi Danielle Chin Aristide Merola Cara Jacob Andrew P Duker Jennifer E Vaughan Lilia Lovera Kathrin LaFaver Ariel Levy Anthony E Lang Francesca Morgante Melissa J Nirenberg Christopher Stephen Nutan Sharma Alberto Romagnolo Leonardo Lopiano Bettina Balint Xin X Yu Kailash P Bhatia Alberto J Espay Functional neurological disorders in Parkinson disease Accepted for publication in Journal
of Neurology Neurosurgery amp Psychiatry 89(6)566-571
Danny J Avalos Marc J Zuckerman Alok Dwivedi Christopher Dodoo Jinendra Satiya Fernando J Castro(2018) Differences in prevalence of large polyps between Hispanic Americans from Mexican-and Non-Mexican-predominant states Digestive diseases and sciences PMID 30276570
Zeina Nahleh Salman Otoukesh Hamid Reza Mirshahidi Anthony Loc Nguyen Gayathri Nagaraj Nabeel Badri Gehan Botrus Nabih Diab Andres Alvarado Luis A Sanchez Alok K Dwivedi (2018) Disparities in breast cancer a multi-institutional comparative analysis focusing on American Hispanics Cancer Medicine (In press 05072018)
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Scholarly Activity Danny J Avalos Antonio Mendoza-Ladd Marc J Zuckerman Mohammad Bashashati Andres Alvarado Alok
Dwivedi Oriana M Damas (2018) Hispanics and Non-Hispanic Whites in the US have a Similar InflammatoryBowel Disease Phenotype A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis Digestive Diseases and Sciences 63(6)1558-1571
Aleli Campbell Rosalinda Heydarian Cecilia Ochoa Alok Kumar Dwivedi Zeina A Nahleh(2018) Single arm phaseII study of oral vitamin B12 for the treatment of musculoskeletal symptoms associated with aromatase inhibitors inwomen with early stage breast cancer The breast journal 24(3)260-268
Shaimaa Elzamly Nabeel Badri Osvaldo Padilla Alok Kumar Dwivedi Luis A Alvarado Matthew Hamilton NabihDiab Crosby Rock Ahmed Elfar Marwa Teleb Luis Sanchez Zeina Nahleh (2018) Epithelial-mesenchymaltransition markers in breast cancer and pathological responseafter neoadjuvant chemotherapy Breast Cancer
(Auckl) 2018 Aug 1121178223418788074
Jennifer C Molokwu Eribeth Penaranda Alok Dwivedi Indika Mallawaarachchi Navkiran Shokar (2018) Effect ofEducational Intervention on Self-Sampling Acceptability and Follow-Up Paps in Border Dwelling Hispanic FemalesJournal of Lower Genital Tract Disease
Ritika Suri Federico Rodriguez-Porcel Kelly Donohue Erin Jesse Lilia Lovera Alok Kumar Dwivedi Alberto JEspay (2018) Post-Stroke Movement Disorders The Clinical Neuroanatomic and Demographic Portrait of 284Published Cases Accepted for publication in Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases (In press05212018)
Zeina Nahleh Gehan Botrus Alok Dwivedi Nabeel Badri Salman Otoukesh Nabih Diab Sandip BiswasMichael Jennings Shaimaa Elzamly(2018) Clinico-pathologic disparities of breast cancer in HispanicLatina womenBreast disease 1-8
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Robert Gonzalez Trisha Suppes Jamie Zeitzer Colleen McClung Carol Tamminga Mauricio Tohen Angelica Forero Alok DwivediAndres Alvarado (2018) The association between mood state and chronobiological characteristics in bipolar I disorder a naturalisticvariable cluster analysis-based study International Journal of Bipolar Disorders 6(1)5Mohamed Teleb Aaron Shanker Alok Kumar Dwivedi Debabrata Mukherjee (2018) Effect of exercise on left ventricular mass index byechocardiography in mild and moderate hypertension a meta-analysis Res Cardiovasc Med 6(4)50-6Garnica O Das K Devasundaram S and Dhandayuthapani S Enhanced delivery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigens to antigenpresenting cells using RVG peptide Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Das K Garnica O and Dhandayuthapani S Utility of an oxidative stress response system for the expression of recombinant proteinsin mycobacteria and for the delivery of M tuberculosis antigens to the phagosomal compartments Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Palanichamy K Joshi A Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz T Fernando B Milan S Schiro F Naeem Y Garg H Braunschweig A 2019 Anti-ZikaActivity of a Library of Synthetic Carbohydrate Receptors Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 6284110-4119Anjali Joshi Erin B Punke Tugba Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz Diego P Peralta and Himanshu Garg 2019 TLR9 polymorphism correlates withimmune activation CD4 decline and plasma IP10 levels in HIV patients BMC Infect Dis 19 56Vargas-Medrano J Yang B Garza N T Segura-Ulate I and Perez R G (2018) Up-regulation of protective neuronal MicroRNAs byFTY720 and novel FTY720-derivatives Neuroscience letters 690 178-180Vidal-Martinez G Yang B Vargas-Medrano J and Perez R G (2018) Could alpha-Synuclein Modulation of Insulin and DopamineIdentify a Novel Link Between Parkinsons Disease and Diabetes as Well as Potential Therapies Frontiers in molecular
neuroscience 11 465
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Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Gil-Tommee C Vidal-Martinez G Annette Reyes C Vargas-Medrano J Herrera G V Martin S M Chaparro S A andPerez R G (2019) Parkinsonian GM2 synthase knockout mice lacking mature gangliosides develop urinary dysfunction andneurogenic bladder Experimental neurology 311265-273Vidal-Martinez G Najera K Miranda JD Gil-Tommee C Yang B Vargas-Medrano J Diaz-Pacheco V Barragan J ChaparroS Vargas-Medrano J Chinnasamy R Arterburn JB Perez RG FTY720 improves behavior increases Brain Derived NeurotrophicFactor and reduces α-synuclein pathology in parkinsonian GM2+minus
mice Neuroscience httpsdoiorg101016jneuroscience201905029Tasnim N Thakur V Chattopadhyay M Joddar B (2018) The efficacy of Graphene-foams towards the adhesion proliferationand expression of neuronal-phenotype by dopaminergic neurons differentiated from mesenchymal stem cells Stem cell
international Jun 3 20183410168 doi 10115520183410168Anil Kumar S Allen SC Tasnim N Akter T Park S Kumar A Chattopadhyay M Ito Y Suggs LJ Joddar B (2019) The applicabilityof furfuryl-gelatin as a novel bioink for tissue engineering applications J Biomed Mater Res B Appl Biomater 2019 107(2)314-323 doi 101002jbmb34123 Epub 2018 Apr 15Thakur V Chattopadhyay M (2018) Early urinary markers for diabetic and other kidney diseases Current drug targets 2018 Mar19Joddar B Tasnim N Thakur V Kumar A Mccallum R Chattopadhyay M (2018) Delivery of mesenchymal stem cells fromgelatin-alginate hydrogels to stomach lumen for treatment of gastroparesis Bioengineering 2018 5(1)Camacho CV Choudhari R Gadad SS (2018) Long noncoding RNAs and cancer an overview Steroids 13393-95
IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department
Large net loss (9) of MTM faculty members over the past 5 years
Vacant Director positions (i) Center for Neuroscience (ii) Center for InfectiousDiseases and (iii) Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
No steps have been taken to fill directors positions for more than 2 years
Neurosciences Center at the verge of collapse Only one faculty will be left at theend of this fiscal year
The size of Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology is shrinking
Lack of communication regarding vision and strategic plan for growing department
No faculty salary raises for the past 3 years
Serious concerns about recruitment retention and tenure and promotion decisionsmade in the department Faculty morale is extremely low
Lack of functional research core facility
Gradual elimination of service contracts of equipment essential for research trainingand education of graduate and medical students
A plethora of other issues with the department administration
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Questions
Departmental Report
Psychiatry
Ricardo Salazar MDAssociate Professor Psychiatry
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Department ReportPsychiatryPRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCIL
BY RICARDO SALAZAR MD
DATE MONDAY JULY 15 2019
Department BreakdownPlease provide the total number of faculty members in your department and break down this number by
rank Please list new faculty members that have joined your department within the last six months
Total Number of Faculty 12
Number of Instructors 1
Number of Assistant Professors 8
Number of Associate Professors 2
Number of Professors 2
New Faculty Melanie Longhurst MD Instructor
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LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair
program director clerkship director chiefs etc
Department Chair ndash Peter M Thompson MD MS
Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Sarah L Martin MD
Combined IMPsych Residency Program Director ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD
Psychiatry Clerkship Director ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD
Child amp Adolescent Fellowship Program Director ndash Cecilia De Vargas MD
Chief Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry ndash Sarah L Martin MD
Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Program Directorndash Ricardo Salazar MD
Chief Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences ndash Ricardo Salazar MD
Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Transmountain ndash Moataz Ragheb MD
AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in your department including awards honors regional
appointments national appointments etc
El Paso Behavioral Health Consortium ndash Board Member ndash Peter M Thompson MD
714 (50) of our graduating medical students this year choose and matched our resident training programs here at Paul L FosterSchool of Medicine Department of Psychiatry (Historical record) ndash Kudos for our Department Faculty
In appreciation for exceptional contributions to the 30th volume of the J Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences ndash Author contributions and review of 271 manuscripts submitted to the journal between September 2017 and August 2018 ndash Ricardo Salazar MD ndash Young Investigator Award Committee Member and Program Committee Member-Abstracts Sub-Committee Member of theAmerican Neuropsychiatric Association (ANPA)
Initial Accreditation with commendation and no citations from ACGME for our first Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Training Program for West Texas ndash Ricardo Salazar MD
Leadership in Education and Development Certificate Program (LEAD) Fellow -1-year program accredited from the Association ofAmerican Medical Colleges (AAMC) Silvina Tonarelli MD amp Ricardo Salazar MD (Selected Award)
Fully operating Southwest Brain Bank A Brain Tissue Repository for Research in Mental Illness ndashPeter M Thompson MD
Texas State Psychiatric Physicians Public Mental Health Services Committee ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD
Texas Health and Human Services Commission Behavioral Health Advisory Committee ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP
Fellow American College of Physicians ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP FACP
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Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Abstracts 31
Publications 5 (peer-review journals)
Presentations 17 ndash National (7) and International (6)
Invited Speaker 21 (including faculty residents fellows) ndash Local amp National
Book Chapters NA
Grants McKee Foundation Award ndash our Chair - Thompson
Intramural Grants Seed Grant 1 SARP Educational Grant 2 - Salazar
President`s Collaborative Research Initiative ndashMarch 2018 - Tonarelli
Scholarly Activity
Child and Adolescent Fellowship Presentations
INTERNATIONAL
- Curanderos and Limpias Cultural psychiatry
Poster presented at 6th Annual Scientific conference of the European Association of PsychosomaticMedicine Verona Italy Drs Garza Meissner De Vargas Mehta June 2018
-Case presentation 0f 49XXXXY Same conference same authors same city
-Resilience etiology protective and risk factors presentation C De Vargas by invitation Annual WorldPediatric summit Madrid June 2018
-Parents and their Children Fantastic journey Same conference on June 2019 Berlin Germany
NATIONAL
-Development of Psychopathology in children at risk for Bipolar Disorders Drs Escamilla Peter Sangra C DeVargas S Martin C Alvarado Andrea Rios (Poster) American Academy of Child and Adolescent PsychiatryAnnual Conference Seattle WA October 2018
Frank William Meissner MD Cynthia Elizabeth Garza MDJD Sarah L Martin MD rdquoDrug-Induced BrugadaSyndrome in a Middle-Aged Female Patient Drugs EKG Diagnosis Electrophysiology and SurveillanceRecommendationrdquo American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting San Francisco CA May 21 2019
Delinquency in a group of school children at risk for bipolar disorder D Haque M Escamilla C De VargasPresented at UCLA LA Ca June 2019
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Residency ProgramPlease provide information regarding your departmentrsquos residency program ie recent accreditation
number of residents and program updates (if applicable)
24 General Psychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)
8 Internal MedicinePsychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)
3 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellows
1 Geriatric Psychiatry Fellow- newly accredited program
IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department
RecruitmentRetention
Short staffed
Organizational Structure
Financial incentives
Protected time
Gender balance Attrition malefemale ratio 41
Program Coordinator turnover rate
Mentoring
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Departmental Organizational
Structure
Chair
Division ChiefsProgram Directors
Clerkship Director
Adm
Organizational Structure Model
Chair
Deputy Chair for Education
Program
Directors
Deputy Chair for Research
Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs
Vicechair
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Roles
Deputy Chair for Education
Oversee undergraduate graduate and CME including the development of teachers and educational scholars Monitor quality and safety across the department
Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs
Faculty appointments Faculty Development and Promotion andor Tenure Develop programs in different domains such as research education personal improvement and leadership Support clinical activities by improving the efficiency of operations and in helping to fit clinical programs into those in the rest of the medical center Allocation of space
Deputy Chair for Research
Develop and direct department-wide programs for faculty recruitment development and support of mentors recognition of excellence and funding of pilot grants bridge funding and grants to nurture multi-principal investigator and trans-division or trans-department projects Allocation of space among divisions
Bottom Line
We need more funds
Institutional support
The investments needed to recruit faculty are beyond the capacity of the
department`s operational revenue
Recruiting a leading investigator or one with great potential for
example may require an investment of $ 1 million and sometimes more
Endowments are the departmentrsquos foundational financial capital the
keel that maintains momentum and balance through the headwinds
and rough seas each department will navigate Endowments increase
the departmentrsquos independence in sustaining its core mission
Thus creation of endowments should be a high priority for any
department that plans for the long term and they increase capacity to
recruit the best faculty in a competitive environment
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No right wrong answers
Rating not influenced by-ESL -Age-Coaching -Reading Level
Rating is relative
What are raters looking for
Actions taken since last report Received 4471 primary applications amp 3079 completed applications
(increase of 350 complete appl compared to last year)
127 TX pre-match and 13 Out-of-state offers extended
Currently have 109 acceptances leading up to TMDSAS match
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EY2018
Received 3983 primary applications amp 2729 completed
applications
130 acceptances leading up to TMDSAS match
TTUHSC EP PLFSOM First Year Entering Students
EY 2019
38
(27506)
TX 37 (30) 37 (29) 37 (30) 37 (30) 37 (30) 37 (31) 373 (31) 38 (507) 38 (509)376
(266506)
US 37 (31) 37 (31) 37 (31) 37 (31) 37 (31) 37 (31) 37(31) 37 (509) 37 (510) 38 (27506)
Hispanic 8 (20) 6 (10) 5 (6) 12 (15) 23 (24) 32 (31) 24 (23) 35 (35) 37 (36) 24 (24) 28 (269)
Border Counties - - 7 (9) 13 (16) 24 (24) 28 (27) 26 (25) 32 (31) 33 (32) 21 (21) 27 (26)
El Paso 7 (17) 8 (13) 5 (6) 12 (15) 19 (19) 23 (22) 24 (23) 29 (28) 25 (24) 19 (19) 23 (221)
African American 0 0 0 0 0 1 (1) 3 (3) 1 (1) 3 (3) 2 (2) 6 (58)
Native American 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Class Size 40 60 81 80 100 104 104 103 103 100 104
Male 16 (40) 35 (58) 44 (54) 42 (52) 65 (65) 47 (45) 67 (64) 59 (57) 56 (54) 49 (49) 52 (50)
Female 24 (60) 25 (42) 37 (46) 38 (48) 35 (35) 57 (55) 37 (36) 44 (43) 47 (46) 51 (51) 52 (50)
Total Applicants 2503 2531 2719 2946 3105 3375 3694 4043 3950 3982 4472
Interviewed 389 378 593 548 626 566 538 510 535 546 602
EY 2018
374
(5077)
Underrepresented minority(URM)-Diversity ()
Class Size amp Gender ()
Applicants
37 (28) 37 (29)37
(28503)
368
(26505)
EY 2014 EY 2015 EY 2016 EY 2017
GPA(MCAT) 37 (28) 36 (29) 36 (29) 35 (29) 36 (29)
EY 2009 EY 2010 EY 2011 EY 2012 EY 2013
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Candidates discussed
Voting (high priority acceptable reject)
Categorized by vote
1 High Priority (unanimous high priority votes)
2 Highly Acceptable -1 -2 -3
3 Very Acceptable (4+ acceptable votes)
4 Acceptable (majority acceptable votes)
5 Reject
Ranked within category by weighted scores (Interview 30 MCAT 30 SGPA 35 GPA 5)
Rank list is generated after the first interview date and updated weekly throughout interview season
Admissions Committee Process
Upcoming actions
Joint Admission Medical Program (JAMP) Round 2 Match
(Friday Jan 25th) will match with 2
Rolling admissions continues until June 1
Created additional interview date for EY2020 (22 days)
New requirement added for EY2020 CASPer Assessment ndash
Situational Judgement Test (SJT)
Propose revision to By-Laws to add minimum attendance
requirements for committee members
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8
Current IssuesConcerns
Ongoing need to recruit more interviewers
Anticipating class size expansion
Meeting quorum
Standing Committee Report
Curriculum and Educational Policy
Committee
Richard Brower MD PhDAssociate Dean for Medical Education
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9
Curriculum amp
Educational Policy
Committee Report to the PLFSOM Faculty Council
Presented by Richard Brower MD
Date July 15 2019
Committee Composition and Terms of
Service
ldquoCandidates for lsquoat largersquo positions are to be
recommended by the associate dean for medical
education and appointed by the deanrdquo
ldquoTerms may be renewed by recommendation of the
associate dean for medical education and appointment by
the deanrdquo
ldquohelliplsquoat largersquo members may be appointed for no more than
two consecutive terms after which they are ineligible to
serve for 4 yearsrdquo
ldquoCandidates for these positions should demonstrate an
ongoing interest in medical educationrdquo
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Committee Composition and Terms of ServiceLast Name First Name Degree Academic Rank Department Committee Position Term Start Date
Term Expiration Date
Frances Mark MD ProfessorMedical Education
Member (College Master)
9120168312020
Pfarr Curt PhD ProfessorMedical Education
Member (College Master) 9242015 8312019
Gajendran Mahesh MD Assistant ProfessorInternal Medicine
Member (Clinician) 912017 8312021
Uga Aghaegbulam MD Assistant Professor
Psychiatry and Internal Medicine
Member (Clinician) 11192015 10312019
Kassar Darine MD Assistant Professor NeurologyMember (Clinician) 972016 8312020
Wojciechowska Joanna MD Assistant Professor Pediatrics
Member (Clinician) 212018 8312022
Nino DiegoMD PhD Assistant Professor
Medical Education
Member (Basic Sciences) 1142019 1142023
Padilla Osvaldo MD Assistant Professor PathologyMember (Basic Sciences) 12152014 8312022
Cervantes JorgeMD PhD Assistant Professor
Medical Education
Member (Basic Sciences) 8232016 8312020
Perry Cynthia PhD Assistant ProfessorMedical Education
Member (Basic Sciences) 9282015 8312019
Brower Richard MDAssociate Professor
Medical Education Chair NA NA
Three positions
opening soon ndash-
should have
demonstrated
interest and
engagement in
UME and a
willingness to
attend all
meetings and
participate in
team
assignments
Committee Composition and Terms of
Service Leadership
This committee is chaired by the associate dean for medical education
The committee reports to the Faculty Council
Membership will include
2 college masters (one basic scientist one clinician) with 4-year terms
4 members from the basic sciences faculty with 4-year terms (staggered)
4 members from the clinical sciences faculty with 4-year terms (staggered)
Ex Officio members
Dean or their designee
Associate dean for student affairs
Assistant deans for medication education
Managing director of the libraries (ldquoAssociate Director of the Libraryrdquo)
Director of information technology or their designee
Director of assessment and evaluation (position no longer exists)
Two student reps from each of the four classes (from the Student Curriculum and Evaluation Committee)
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Committee Charge Faculty Bylaws Article IX Section C2
The Committee on Curriculum and Educational Policy is charged with planning coordinating
reviewing and evaluating the curriculum to ensure that it adheres to the
written educational policies goals and objectives of the Paul L Foster School
of Medicine Further the Committee shall have full authority to make changes in
educational policy or in the organization of the curriculum with the
concurrence of the Dean and with comment and input from the Faculty Council The Faculty of the Paul L Foster School of Medicine has the responsibility to define course objectives create
and deliver content to meet those objectives and modify their activities in response to appropriate feedback
from peers and students The Committee will provide updates on its activities at least
twice a year to the Faculty Council In order to accomplish the mission of the Committee the
Chair may appoint subcommittees that may include members who are not
members of the Committee It shall be the responsibility of the Committee to coordinate the
activities and reports of these subcommittees In addition the Committee receives reports
from the Committee on Evaluation of Educational Programs
Current IssuesConcerns
Curriculum enhancementimprovement
Preparation for class size expansion
Preparation for next round of curriculum reviews
(ldquocurriculum as a wholerdquo)
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CEPC actions since last report
January 2019 (1 meeting)
Reviewed and approved revisions to the following
educational program polices
Clerkship Administration
Clerkship DirectorAssistant Director Position Description
Approval of two new 4th Year Electives
Pediatric Gastroenterology Hepatology and Nutrition
Emergency Medicine Ultrasound
Clerkship phase review FM and Surgery
CEPC actions since last report
February 2019 (2 meetings)
New educational program policy reviewed and approved
Grade Changes and Transcript Notations
Rollover of established educational program goals and
objectives (the ldquoPGOsrdquo) approved
Clerkship phase review Pediatrics and ObGyn
Preliminary data-driven discussion of revised educational
program policy covering Grading Promotion and Academic
Standing (ldquoGPASrdquo)
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CEPC actions since last report
March 2019 (2 meetings)
Clerkship phase review IM and Psych Critical Care and Sub-I
Selectives
Approval of new educational program policy
Grading Promotion and Academic Standing (ldquoGPASrdquo)
Notification of changes in clerkship directorship
Elimination of the PICE course (PICE 7001) from the year 2
curriculum approved (primarily administrative educational
elements re-distributed)
Associated review and approval of an updated PLSOM degree
plan (based on 157 credit hours)
CEPC actions since last report
April 2019 (1 meetings)
Clerkship phase review EM Neurology and Intersessions
Review and approval of revised educational program policy
Pre-Clerkship Phase Student Attendance and Participation
Policy
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CEPC actions since last report
May 2019 (1 meetings)
Review and approval of the ldquoCommon Clerkship Policiesrdquo
Notification of additional changes in the clerkship
directorship
Clerkship phase review
Phase data review (AAMC GQ NBME subject exams
USMLE Step 2 CK and CS Step 3 final grades EOY OSCE
and procedure workshop residency director survey)
Introduction of a 10-point plan for curriculum revision
(ldquoPLFSOM v20rdquo)
June 2019 (no quorum) July 2019 (cancelled)
CEPC actions since last report
Challenges and opportunities for improvement identified
through the AY208-19 clerkship phase review
Clear identification of contacts at affiliated sites
Academic support and remediation planning
Consistent resident preparation for participation in UME
Timeliness of grading (Sub-I and Critical Care Selectives)
Orientation modules for Sub-Q and Critical Care Selectives)
Scaling clerkships for anticipated class expansion
The summer doldrums
June 2019 (no quorum) July 2019 (cancelled)
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Upcoming actions
Ongoing educational program policy development
Maintain accreditation compliance related curriculum
review cycle (2019-20 ldquoCurriculum as a Wholerdquo)
Review and advance plans for curriculum renewalrevision
Review proposal to re-direct our MD-MPH affiliation to
TTUHSC GSBS Lubbock
Consider development of an MD-MBA option (potentially
with UTEP)
Links to related information
PLFSOM Committee on Curriculum and Educational Policy main page
httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCdefaultaspx
MD degree program policies
httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCpoliciesaspx
MD degree program information
httpselpasottuhscedusomomeUMEinfoaspx
Course and clerkship syllabi
httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCcoursereviewaspx
AY2017-18 medical education program evaluation report (e-Raider required)
httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPC_documentssecureAY2017-
2018MEPEvaluationAnnualReport-Draft-v2pdf
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Departmental Report
Molecular and Translational
Medicine
Laxman Gangwani PhDAssociate Professor Molecular amp
Translational Medicine
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Department of Molecular and
Translational Medicine (formerly
Biomedical Sciences) Report
PRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCIL
BY LAXMAN GANGWANI
DATE JULY 15 2019
Department BreakdownPlease provide the total number of faculty members in your department and break down this number by
rank Please list new faculty members that have joined your department within the last six months
Total Number of Faculty
Number of Faculty Associates 1
Number of Instructors 1
Number of Research Assistant Professor 1
Number of Assistant Professors 6
Number of Associate Professors 7
Number of Professors 4
New Faculty
None
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LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair
program director clerkship director chiefs etc
Department Chair Dr Peter Rotwein (VP Research Associate
Dean GSBS)
Director Center of Emphasis in Cancer Dr Rajkumar
Lakshmanaswamy (Dean GSBS) Co-Director Dr N Shokar
Director Center of Emphasis in Diabetes and Metabolism Dr
David Cistola
Director Center of Emphasis in Infectious Diseases Vacant
Director Center of Emphasis in Neurosciences Vacant
Chief Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology Vacant
AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional
appointments national appointments etc
Awards
Dr Mingtao Zeng
2018 The American Association of Immunologists (AAI) AAI Travel Grant for the 5th European Congress of Immunology
2018 Defense Techconnect Fall Summit amp Expo (2018) Techconnect Defense Innovation Award
Dr Shrikant Gadad
Eugenia Rosemberg Outstanding Abstract Award Endocrine Society Annual Meeting New Orleans March 23-26 2019
Dr Huanyu Dou
National Innovation Award Techconnect 2019
Honors
Dr Alok Dwivedi
Appointed as associated faculty at the Border Biomedical Research Center (BBRC) University of Texas El Paso (UTEP)
Dr Shrikant Gadad
Session Chair (OR09 Steroid Hormone Biology in Physiology and Disease) Endocrine Society Annual Meeting New Orleans March 23-26 2019
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AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional
appointments national appointments etc
NIH or DOD study sections appointments
Dr Guohua Yi
HIV special Emphasis Panel for RFA-AI-18-058 Genetic Engineering Technologies for HIV Cure Research (U19)
Dr Laxman Gangwani
Department of Defense (DOD) Reviewer for Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) 2018 -
NIHCSR Study ldquoProgram Evaluation of NIH Peer Review Processes The Role of Anonymizationrdquo 2019 ndash
Patents filings and publications
Patent Number 9862951 Title RNA Interference-Based Therapeutic against Anthrax Inventors Mingtao Zeng and Maria T AreacutevaloDate of Patent January 9 2018
Cistola D P Patel V (2018) Method and system for non-invasive measurement of metabolic health US Non-Provisional Utility Patent Application No 15911728 filed by Texas Tech University
Cistola D P Robinson M D (2018) Methods and tools for diagnosing insulin resistance and assessing health status using NMR relaxation times for water United States Patent Application Publication US 20180020947 A1 httpspatentsgooglecompatentUS20180020947A1en
AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional
appointments national appointments etc
News and Media Coverage of Research performed at TTUHSC EP
Dr David Cistola
MedPageToday 2 January 2019 Harris Scott Could a New Biomarker Help Predict Type 2 Diabetes -- Early datashow water T2 catches abnormalities before traditional testing but experts are cautiously optimistichttpswwwmedpagetodaycomreading-roomendocrine-societydiabetes77186
KTSM Channel 9 NBC El Paso 14 November 2018 Castillo Susy Research in El Paso aimed at detectingdiabetes earlyhttpswwwktsmcomlifestylehealthresearch-in-el-paso-aimed-at-detecting-diabetes-early1596408236apt_credirect=1
El Paso Inc 29 March 2019 TTUHSC El Paso Tackling diabetes cancer httpwwwelpasoinccomttuhsc-el-paso-tackling-diabetes-cancerarticle_613144fe-526a-11e9-b916-c35b701a5ef9html
Dr Laxman Gangwani
Cure SMA Awards $150000 Grant to Laxman Gangwani PhD Texas Tech University
httpwwwcuresmaorgnewsgangwani-grant-2019html
httpswwweurekalertorgpub_releases2019-05ttuh-gw050119php
httpswwwresearchgatenetscientific-contributions11984383_Laxman_Gangwani
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Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Peer-reviewed publications 36 (In high-impact journals)
2018 highest impact factor (11561) journal Nucleic Acids Research
Abstracts 43
Presentations (i) Oral 11 (ii) Posters 28
Invited talks 13
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Peer-reviewed publications
Kannan A Bhatia K Branzei D and Gangwani L (2018) Combined deficiency of Senataxin and DNA-PKcscauses DNA damage accumulation and neurodegeneration in spinal muscular atrophy Nucleic Acids Research2018 Vol 46 No 16 8326-8346
Mishra I Jones C Patel V Deodhar S Cistola D P (2018) Early detection of metabolic dysregulation usingwater T2 analysis of biobanked samples Diabetes Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity Targets and Therapy 11 807-818
Patel V Dwivedi A K Deodhar S Mishra I Cistola D P (2018) Aptamer-based search for correlates of plasmaand serum water T2 Implications for early metabolic dysregulation and metabolic syndrome Biomarker Research6(1) 28
Garg H Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz T Joshi A 2018 Recent Advances in Zika Virus Vaccines Viruses Nov 1410 (11) Sundin OH Mendoza-Ladd A Zeng M Diaz-Areacutevalo D Morales E Fagan BMOrdontildeez J McCallum RW Does a
glucose-based hydrogen and methane breath test detect bacterial overgrowth in the jejunum NeurogastroenterolMotil 2018e13350
Zheng Z Diaz-Areacutevalo D Guan H and Mingtao Zeng Noninvasive vaccination against infectious diseases Humanvaccines amp immunotherapeutics 2018 14(7)1717-1733
Preeti Bharaj Chunting Ye Sean Petersen Qianghu Wang Baoli Hu N Manjunath Premlata Shankar Guohua Yi(2018) Gene array analysis of PD-1H overexpressing monocytes reveals a pro-inflammatory profile Heliyone00545
Bencomo-Alvarez AE Rubio AJ Gonzalez MA and Eiring AM Energy metabolism and drug response in myeloidleukaemic stem cells Br J Haematol 2019 In Press
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24
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Peer-reviewed publications Yan D Pomicter AD Tantravahi S Mason CC Senina AV Ahmann JM Wang Q Than H Patel AB Heaton
WL Eiring AM Clair PM Gantz KC Redwine HM Swierczek SI Halverson BJ Baloglu E Shacham S KhorashadJS Kelley TW Salama ME Miles RR Boucher KM Prchal JT OHare T and Deininger MW Nuclear-cytoplasmic transport is a therapeutic target in myelofibrosis Clin Cancer Res 201925(7)2323-2335
Heipertz E Harper J Lopez CA Fikrig E Hughes ME Walker WE Circadian rhythms influence the severity of sepsis in mice via a TLR2-dependent leukocyte-intrinsic mechanism The Journal of Immunology 2018 201193-201
Khatri R Afzal MR Qureshi MA Maud A Huanyu D Jose Rodriguez G Pre-Existing Renal Failure Increases In-Hospital Mortality in Patients with Intracerebral Hemorrhage J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis 2019 Feb28(2)237-242
Zou L Lee SY Wu Q Zhang H Bastian A Orji C Payne G Galvez A Thomas T Zhang Z Dou H Facile Gene Delivery Derived from Branched Low Molecular Weight Polyethylenimine by High Efficient Chemistry J Biomed Nanotechnol 2018 Oct 114(10)1785-1795
Zhang C Brandon NR Koper K Tang P Xu Y Dou H Invasion of Peripheral Immune Cells into Brain Parenchyma after Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation Aging Dis 2018 Jun 19(3)412-425
Loza O Hernandez P Calderoacuten-Mora J Laks S Leiner M Reddy S Lara P amp Granados H (2018) Developing Trans-affirming health services in an underserved area An intersectional approach Transgender Health 3(1) 127-135
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Byrd T Calderoacuten-Mora J Salaiz R amp Shokar N (2019) Barriers and facilitators to colorectal cancer screening within a Hispanic population Hispanic Health Care International 17(1) 23-29 doi 1011771540415318818982
Haut SR Lipton RB Cornes S Dwivedi AK Wasson R Cotton S Strawn JR Privitera M (2018) Behavioral interventions as a treatment for epilepsy A multicenter randomized controlled trial Neurology 90(11) e963-e970 PMID 29444968
Jessica Bernica Sherif Elhanafi Neeharika Kalakota Yi Jia Christopher Dodoo Alok Dwivedi Robert J Sealock Kalpesh Patel Isaac Raijman Marc J Zuckerman Mohamed O Othman (2018) Cholangioscopy is safe and feasible in elderly patients Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology 16(8) 1293-1299
Benjamin D Wissel Alok K Dwivedi Danielle Chin Aristide Merola Cara Jacob Andrew P Duker Jennifer E Vaughan Lilia Lovera Kathrin LaFaver Ariel Levy Anthony E Lang Francesca Morgante Melissa J Nirenberg Christopher Stephen Nutan Sharma Alberto Romagnolo Leonardo Lopiano Bettina Balint Xin X Yu Kailash P Bhatia Alberto J Espay Functional neurological disorders in Parkinson disease Accepted for publication in Journal
of Neurology Neurosurgery amp Psychiatry 89(6)566-571
Danny J Avalos Marc J Zuckerman Alok Dwivedi Christopher Dodoo Jinendra Satiya Fernando J Castro(2018) Differences in prevalence of large polyps between Hispanic Americans from Mexican-and Non-Mexican-predominant states Digestive diseases and sciences PMID 30276570
Zeina Nahleh Salman Otoukesh Hamid Reza Mirshahidi Anthony Loc Nguyen Gayathri Nagaraj Nabeel Badri Gehan Botrus Nabih Diab Andres Alvarado Luis A Sanchez Alok K Dwivedi (2018) Disparities in breast cancer a multi-institutional comparative analysis focusing on American Hispanics Cancer Medicine (In press 05072018)
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25
Scholarly Activity Danny J Avalos Antonio Mendoza-Ladd Marc J Zuckerman Mohammad Bashashati Andres Alvarado Alok
Dwivedi Oriana M Damas (2018) Hispanics and Non-Hispanic Whites in the US have a Similar InflammatoryBowel Disease Phenotype A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis Digestive Diseases and Sciences 63(6)1558-1571
Aleli Campbell Rosalinda Heydarian Cecilia Ochoa Alok Kumar Dwivedi Zeina A Nahleh(2018) Single arm phaseII study of oral vitamin B12 for the treatment of musculoskeletal symptoms associated with aromatase inhibitors inwomen with early stage breast cancer The breast journal 24(3)260-268
Shaimaa Elzamly Nabeel Badri Osvaldo Padilla Alok Kumar Dwivedi Luis A Alvarado Matthew Hamilton NabihDiab Crosby Rock Ahmed Elfar Marwa Teleb Luis Sanchez Zeina Nahleh (2018) Epithelial-mesenchymaltransition markers in breast cancer and pathological responseafter neoadjuvant chemotherapy Breast Cancer
(Auckl) 2018 Aug 1121178223418788074
Jennifer C Molokwu Eribeth Penaranda Alok Dwivedi Indika Mallawaarachchi Navkiran Shokar (2018) Effect ofEducational Intervention on Self-Sampling Acceptability and Follow-Up Paps in Border Dwelling Hispanic FemalesJournal of Lower Genital Tract Disease
Ritika Suri Federico Rodriguez-Porcel Kelly Donohue Erin Jesse Lilia Lovera Alok Kumar Dwivedi Alberto JEspay (2018) Post-Stroke Movement Disorders The Clinical Neuroanatomic and Demographic Portrait of 284Published Cases Accepted for publication in Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases (In press05212018)
Zeina Nahleh Gehan Botrus Alok Dwivedi Nabeel Badri Salman Otoukesh Nabih Diab Sandip BiswasMichael Jennings Shaimaa Elzamly(2018) Clinico-pathologic disparities of breast cancer in HispanicLatina womenBreast disease 1-8
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Robert Gonzalez Trisha Suppes Jamie Zeitzer Colleen McClung Carol Tamminga Mauricio Tohen Angelica Forero Alok DwivediAndres Alvarado (2018) The association between mood state and chronobiological characteristics in bipolar I disorder a naturalisticvariable cluster analysis-based study International Journal of Bipolar Disorders 6(1)5Mohamed Teleb Aaron Shanker Alok Kumar Dwivedi Debabrata Mukherjee (2018) Effect of exercise on left ventricular mass index byechocardiography in mild and moderate hypertension a meta-analysis Res Cardiovasc Med 6(4)50-6Garnica O Das K Devasundaram S and Dhandayuthapani S Enhanced delivery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigens to antigenpresenting cells using RVG peptide Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Das K Garnica O and Dhandayuthapani S Utility of an oxidative stress response system for the expression of recombinant proteinsin mycobacteria and for the delivery of M tuberculosis antigens to the phagosomal compartments Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Palanichamy K Joshi A Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz T Fernando B Milan S Schiro F Naeem Y Garg H Braunschweig A 2019 Anti-ZikaActivity of a Library of Synthetic Carbohydrate Receptors Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 6284110-4119Anjali Joshi Erin B Punke Tugba Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz Diego P Peralta and Himanshu Garg 2019 TLR9 polymorphism correlates withimmune activation CD4 decline and plasma IP10 levels in HIV patients BMC Infect Dis 19 56Vargas-Medrano J Yang B Garza N T Segura-Ulate I and Perez R G (2018) Up-regulation of protective neuronal MicroRNAs byFTY720 and novel FTY720-derivatives Neuroscience letters 690 178-180Vidal-Martinez G Yang B Vargas-Medrano J and Perez R G (2018) Could alpha-Synuclein Modulation of Insulin and DopamineIdentify a Novel Link Between Parkinsons Disease and Diabetes as Well as Potential Therapies Frontiers in molecular
neuroscience 11 465
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26
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Gil-Tommee C Vidal-Martinez G Annette Reyes C Vargas-Medrano J Herrera G V Martin S M Chaparro S A andPerez R G (2019) Parkinsonian GM2 synthase knockout mice lacking mature gangliosides develop urinary dysfunction andneurogenic bladder Experimental neurology 311265-273Vidal-Martinez G Najera K Miranda JD Gil-Tommee C Yang B Vargas-Medrano J Diaz-Pacheco V Barragan J ChaparroS Vargas-Medrano J Chinnasamy R Arterburn JB Perez RG FTY720 improves behavior increases Brain Derived NeurotrophicFactor and reduces α-synuclein pathology in parkinsonian GM2+minus
mice Neuroscience httpsdoiorg101016jneuroscience201905029Tasnim N Thakur V Chattopadhyay M Joddar B (2018) The efficacy of Graphene-foams towards the adhesion proliferationand expression of neuronal-phenotype by dopaminergic neurons differentiated from mesenchymal stem cells Stem cell
international Jun 3 20183410168 doi 10115520183410168Anil Kumar S Allen SC Tasnim N Akter T Park S Kumar A Chattopadhyay M Ito Y Suggs LJ Joddar B (2019) The applicabilityof furfuryl-gelatin as a novel bioink for tissue engineering applications J Biomed Mater Res B Appl Biomater 2019 107(2)314-323 doi 101002jbmb34123 Epub 2018 Apr 15Thakur V Chattopadhyay M (2018) Early urinary markers for diabetic and other kidney diseases Current drug targets 2018 Mar19Joddar B Tasnim N Thakur V Kumar A Mccallum R Chattopadhyay M (2018) Delivery of mesenchymal stem cells fromgelatin-alginate hydrogels to stomach lumen for treatment of gastroparesis Bioengineering 2018 5(1)Camacho CV Choudhari R Gadad SS (2018) Long noncoding RNAs and cancer an overview Steroids 13393-95
IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department
Large net loss (9) of MTM faculty members over the past 5 years
Vacant Director positions (i) Center for Neuroscience (ii) Center for InfectiousDiseases and (iii) Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
No steps have been taken to fill directors positions for more than 2 years
Neurosciences Center at the verge of collapse Only one faculty will be left at theend of this fiscal year
The size of Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology is shrinking
Lack of communication regarding vision and strategic plan for growing department
No faculty salary raises for the past 3 years
Serious concerns about recruitment retention and tenure and promotion decisionsmade in the department Faculty morale is extremely low
Lack of functional research core facility
Gradual elimination of service contracts of equipment essential for research trainingand education of graduate and medical students
A plethora of other issues with the department administration
9102019
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Questions
Departmental Report
Psychiatry
Ricardo Salazar MDAssociate Professor Psychiatry
9102019
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Department ReportPsychiatryPRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCIL
BY RICARDO SALAZAR MD
DATE MONDAY JULY 15 2019
Department BreakdownPlease provide the total number of faculty members in your department and break down this number by
rank Please list new faculty members that have joined your department within the last six months
Total Number of Faculty 12
Number of Instructors 1
Number of Assistant Professors 8
Number of Associate Professors 2
Number of Professors 2
New Faculty Melanie Longhurst MD Instructor
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LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair
program director clerkship director chiefs etc
Department Chair ndash Peter M Thompson MD MS
Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Sarah L Martin MD
Combined IMPsych Residency Program Director ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD
Psychiatry Clerkship Director ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD
Child amp Adolescent Fellowship Program Director ndash Cecilia De Vargas MD
Chief Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry ndash Sarah L Martin MD
Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Program Directorndash Ricardo Salazar MD
Chief Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences ndash Ricardo Salazar MD
Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Transmountain ndash Moataz Ragheb MD
AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in your department including awards honors regional
appointments national appointments etc
El Paso Behavioral Health Consortium ndash Board Member ndash Peter M Thompson MD
714 (50) of our graduating medical students this year choose and matched our resident training programs here at Paul L FosterSchool of Medicine Department of Psychiatry (Historical record) ndash Kudos for our Department Faculty
In appreciation for exceptional contributions to the 30th volume of the J Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences ndash Author contributions and review of 271 manuscripts submitted to the journal between September 2017 and August 2018 ndash Ricardo Salazar MD ndash Young Investigator Award Committee Member and Program Committee Member-Abstracts Sub-Committee Member of theAmerican Neuropsychiatric Association (ANPA)
Initial Accreditation with commendation and no citations from ACGME for our first Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Training Program for West Texas ndash Ricardo Salazar MD
Leadership in Education and Development Certificate Program (LEAD) Fellow -1-year program accredited from the Association ofAmerican Medical Colleges (AAMC) Silvina Tonarelli MD amp Ricardo Salazar MD (Selected Award)
Fully operating Southwest Brain Bank A Brain Tissue Repository for Research in Mental Illness ndashPeter M Thompson MD
Texas State Psychiatric Physicians Public Mental Health Services Committee ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD
Texas Health and Human Services Commission Behavioral Health Advisory Committee ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP
Fellow American College of Physicians ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP FACP
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Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Abstracts 31
Publications 5 (peer-review journals)
Presentations 17 ndash National (7) and International (6)
Invited Speaker 21 (including faculty residents fellows) ndash Local amp National
Book Chapters NA
Grants McKee Foundation Award ndash our Chair - Thompson
Intramural Grants Seed Grant 1 SARP Educational Grant 2 - Salazar
President`s Collaborative Research Initiative ndashMarch 2018 - Tonarelli
Scholarly Activity
Child and Adolescent Fellowship Presentations
INTERNATIONAL
- Curanderos and Limpias Cultural psychiatry
Poster presented at 6th Annual Scientific conference of the European Association of PsychosomaticMedicine Verona Italy Drs Garza Meissner De Vargas Mehta June 2018
-Case presentation 0f 49XXXXY Same conference same authors same city
-Resilience etiology protective and risk factors presentation C De Vargas by invitation Annual WorldPediatric summit Madrid June 2018
-Parents and their Children Fantastic journey Same conference on June 2019 Berlin Germany
NATIONAL
-Development of Psychopathology in children at risk for Bipolar Disorders Drs Escamilla Peter Sangra C DeVargas S Martin C Alvarado Andrea Rios (Poster) American Academy of Child and Adolescent PsychiatryAnnual Conference Seattle WA October 2018
Frank William Meissner MD Cynthia Elizabeth Garza MDJD Sarah L Martin MD rdquoDrug-Induced BrugadaSyndrome in a Middle-Aged Female Patient Drugs EKG Diagnosis Electrophysiology and SurveillanceRecommendationrdquo American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting San Francisco CA May 21 2019
Delinquency in a group of school children at risk for bipolar disorder D Haque M Escamilla C De VargasPresented at UCLA LA Ca June 2019
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Residency ProgramPlease provide information regarding your departmentrsquos residency program ie recent accreditation
number of residents and program updates (if applicable)
24 General Psychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)
8 Internal MedicinePsychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)
3 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellows
1 Geriatric Psychiatry Fellow- newly accredited program
IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department
RecruitmentRetention
Short staffed
Organizational Structure
Financial incentives
Protected time
Gender balance Attrition malefemale ratio 41
Program Coordinator turnover rate
Mentoring
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Departmental Organizational
Structure
Chair
Division ChiefsProgram Directors
Clerkship Director
Adm
Organizational Structure Model
Chair
Deputy Chair for Education
Program
Directors
Deputy Chair for Research
Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs
Vicechair
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Roles
Deputy Chair for Education
Oversee undergraduate graduate and CME including the development of teachers and educational scholars Monitor quality and safety across the department
Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs
Faculty appointments Faculty Development and Promotion andor Tenure Develop programs in different domains such as research education personal improvement and leadership Support clinical activities by improving the efficiency of operations and in helping to fit clinical programs into those in the rest of the medical center Allocation of space
Deputy Chair for Research
Develop and direct department-wide programs for faculty recruitment development and support of mentors recognition of excellence and funding of pilot grants bridge funding and grants to nurture multi-principal investigator and trans-division or trans-department projects Allocation of space among divisions
Bottom Line
We need more funds
Institutional support
The investments needed to recruit faculty are beyond the capacity of the
department`s operational revenue
Recruiting a leading investigator or one with great potential for
example may require an investment of $ 1 million and sometimes more
Endowments are the departmentrsquos foundational financial capital the
keel that maintains momentum and balance through the headwinds
and rough seas each department will navigate Endowments increase
the departmentrsquos independence in sustaining its core mission
Thus creation of endowments should be a high priority for any
department that plans for the long term and they increase capacity to
recruit the best faculty in a competitive environment
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6
EY2018
Received 3983 primary applications amp 2729 completed
applications
130 acceptances leading up to TMDSAS match
TTUHSC EP PLFSOM First Year Entering Students
EY 2019
38
(27506)
TX 37 (30) 37 (29) 37 (30) 37 (30) 37 (30) 37 (31) 373 (31) 38 (507) 38 (509)376
(266506)
US 37 (31) 37 (31) 37 (31) 37 (31) 37 (31) 37 (31) 37(31) 37 (509) 37 (510) 38 (27506)
Hispanic 8 (20) 6 (10) 5 (6) 12 (15) 23 (24) 32 (31) 24 (23) 35 (35) 37 (36) 24 (24) 28 (269)
Border Counties - - 7 (9) 13 (16) 24 (24) 28 (27) 26 (25) 32 (31) 33 (32) 21 (21) 27 (26)
El Paso 7 (17) 8 (13) 5 (6) 12 (15) 19 (19) 23 (22) 24 (23) 29 (28) 25 (24) 19 (19) 23 (221)
African American 0 0 0 0 0 1 (1) 3 (3) 1 (1) 3 (3) 2 (2) 6 (58)
Native American 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Class Size 40 60 81 80 100 104 104 103 103 100 104
Male 16 (40) 35 (58) 44 (54) 42 (52) 65 (65) 47 (45) 67 (64) 59 (57) 56 (54) 49 (49) 52 (50)
Female 24 (60) 25 (42) 37 (46) 38 (48) 35 (35) 57 (55) 37 (36) 44 (43) 47 (46) 51 (51) 52 (50)
Total Applicants 2503 2531 2719 2946 3105 3375 3694 4043 3950 3982 4472
Interviewed 389 378 593 548 626 566 538 510 535 546 602
EY 2018
374
(5077)
Underrepresented minority(URM)-Diversity ()
Class Size amp Gender ()
Applicants
37 (28) 37 (29)37
(28503)
368
(26505)
EY 2014 EY 2015 EY 2016 EY 2017
GPA(MCAT) 37 (28) 36 (29) 36 (29) 35 (29) 36 (29)
EY 2009 EY 2010 EY 2011 EY 2012 EY 2013
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Candidates discussed
Voting (high priority acceptable reject)
Categorized by vote
1 High Priority (unanimous high priority votes)
2 Highly Acceptable -1 -2 -3
3 Very Acceptable (4+ acceptable votes)
4 Acceptable (majority acceptable votes)
5 Reject
Ranked within category by weighted scores (Interview 30 MCAT 30 SGPA 35 GPA 5)
Rank list is generated after the first interview date and updated weekly throughout interview season
Admissions Committee Process
Upcoming actions
Joint Admission Medical Program (JAMP) Round 2 Match
(Friday Jan 25th) will match with 2
Rolling admissions continues until June 1
Created additional interview date for EY2020 (22 days)
New requirement added for EY2020 CASPer Assessment ndash
Situational Judgement Test (SJT)
Propose revision to By-Laws to add minimum attendance
requirements for committee members
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Current IssuesConcerns
Ongoing need to recruit more interviewers
Anticipating class size expansion
Meeting quorum
Standing Committee Report
Curriculum and Educational Policy
Committee
Richard Brower MD PhDAssociate Dean for Medical Education
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Curriculum amp
Educational Policy
Committee Report to the PLFSOM Faculty Council
Presented by Richard Brower MD
Date July 15 2019
Committee Composition and Terms of
Service
ldquoCandidates for lsquoat largersquo positions are to be
recommended by the associate dean for medical
education and appointed by the deanrdquo
ldquoTerms may be renewed by recommendation of the
associate dean for medical education and appointment by
the deanrdquo
ldquohelliplsquoat largersquo members may be appointed for no more than
two consecutive terms after which they are ineligible to
serve for 4 yearsrdquo
ldquoCandidates for these positions should demonstrate an
ongoing interest in medical educationrdquo
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Committee Composition and Terms of ServiceLast Name First Name Degree Academic Rank Department Committee Position Term Start Date
Term Expiration Date
Frances Mark MD ProfessorMedical Education
Member (College Master)
9120168312020
Pfarr Curt PhD ProfessorMedical Education
Member (College Master) 9242015 8312019
Gajendran Mahesh MD Assistant ProfessorInternal Medicine
Member (Clinician) 912017 8312021
Uga Aghaegbulam MD Assistant Professor
Psychiatry and Internal Medicine
Member (Clinician) 11192015 10312019
Kassar Darine MD Assistant Professor NeurologyMember (Clinician) 972016 8312020
Wojciechowska Joanna MD Assistant Professor Pediatrics
Member (Clinician) 212018 8312022
Nino DiegoMD PhD Assistant Professor
Medical Education
Member (Basic Sciences) 1142019 1142023
Padilla Osvaldo MD Assistant Professor PathologyMember (Basic Sciences) 12152014 8312022
Cervantes JorgeMD PhD Assistant Professor
Medical Education
Member (Basic Sciences) 8232016 8312020
Perry Cynthia PhD Assistant ProfessorMedical Education
Member (Basic Sciences) 9282015 8312019
Brower Richard MDAssociate Professor
Medical Education Chair NA NA
Three positions
opening soon ndash-
should have
demonstrated
interest and
engagement in
UME and a
willingness to
attend all
meetings and
participate in
team
assignments
Committee Composition and Terms of
Service Leadership
This committee is chaired by the associate dean for medical education
The committee reports to the Faculty Council
Membership will include
2 college masters (one basic scientist one clinician) with 4-year terms
4 members from the basic sciences faculty with 4-year terms (staggered)
4 members from the clinical sciences faculty with 4-year terms (staggered)
Ex Officio members
Dean or their designee
Associate dean for student affairs
Assistant deans for medication education
Managing director of the libraries (ldquoAssociate Director of the Libraryrdquo)
Director of information technology or their designee
Director of assessment and evaluation (position no longer exists)
Two student reps from each of the four classes (from the Student Curriculum and Evaluation Committee)
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Committee Charge Faculty Bylaws Article IX Section C2
The Committee on Curriculum and Educational Policy is charged with planning coordinating
reviewing and evaluating the curriculum to ensure that it adheres to the
written educational policies goals and objectives of the Paul L Foster School
of Medicine Further the Committee shall have full authority to make changes in
educational policy or in the organization of the curriculum with the
concurrence of the Dean and with comment and input from the Faculty Council The Faculty of the Paul L Foster School of Medicine has the responsibility to define course objectives create
and deliver content to meet those objectives and modify their activities in response to appropriate feedback
from peers and students The Committee will provide updates on its activities at least
twice a year to the Faculty Council In order to accomplish the mission of the Committee the
Chair may appoint subcommittees that may include members who are not
members of the Committee It shall be the responsibility of the Committee to coordinate the
activities and reports of these subcommittees In addition the Committee receives reports
from the Committee on Evaluation of Educational Programs
Current IssuesConcerns
Curriculum enhancementimprovement
Preparation for class size expansion
Preparation for next round of curriculum reviews
(ldquocurriculum as a wholerdquo)
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CEPC actions since last report
January 2019 (1 meeting)
Reviewed and approved revisions to the following
educational program polices
Clerkship Administration
Clerkship DirectorAssistant Director Position Description
Approval of two new 4th Year Electives
Pediatric Gastroenterology Hepatology and Nutrition
Emergency Medicine Ultrasound
Clerkship phase review FM and Surgery
CEPC actions since last report
February 2019 (2 meetings)
New educational program policy reviewed and approved
Grade Changes and Transcript Notations
Rollover of established educational program goals and
objectives (the ldquoPGOsrdquo) approved
Clerkship phase review Pediatrics and ObGyn
Preliminary data-driven discussion of revised educational
program policy covering Grading Promotion and Academic
Standing (ldquoGPASrdquo)
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CEPC actions since last report
March 2019 (2 meetings)
Clerkship phase review IM and Psych Critical Care and Sub-I
Selectives
Approval of new educational program policy
Grading Promotion and Academic Standing (ldquoGPASrdquo)
Notification of changes in clerkship directorship
Elimination of the PICE course (PICE 7001) from the year 2
curriculum approved (primarily administrative educational
elements re-distributed)
Associated review and approval of an updated PLSOM degree
plan (based on 157 credit hours)
CEPC actions since last report
April 2019 (1 meetings)
Clerkship phase review EM Neurology and Intersessions
Review and approval of revised educational program policy
Pre-Clerkship Phase Student Attendance and Participation
Policy
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CEPC actions since last report
May 2019 (1 meetings)
Review and approval of the ldquoCommon Clerkship Policiesrdquo
Notification of additional changes in the clerkship
directorship
Clerkship phase review
Phase data review (AAMC GQ NBME subject exams
USMLE Step 2 CK and CS Step 3 final grades EOY OSCE
and procedure workshop residency director survey)
Introduction of a 10-point plan for curriculum revision
(ldquoPLFSOM v20rdquo)
June 2019 (no quorum) July 2019 (cancelled)
CEPC actions since last report
Challenges and opportunities for improvement identified
through the AY208-19 clerkship phase review
Clear identification of contacts at affiliated sites
Academic support and remediation planning
Consistent resident preparation for participation in UME
Timeliness of grading (Sub-I and Critical Care Selectives)
Orientation modules for Sub-Q and Critical Care Selectives)
Scaling clerkships for anticipated class expansion
The summer doldrums
June 2019 (no quorum) July 2019 (cancelled)
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Upcoming actions
Ongoing educational program policy development
Maintain accreditation compliance related curriculum
review cycle (2019-20 ldquoCurriculum as a Wholerdquo)
Review and advance plans for curriculum renewalrevision
Review proposal to re-direct our MD-MPH affiliation to
TTUHSC GSBS Lubbock
Consider development of an MD-MBA option (potentially
with UTEP)
Links to related information
PLFSOM Committee on Curriculum and Educational Policy main page
httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCdefaultaspx
MD degree program policies
httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCpoliciesaspx
MD degree program information
httpselpasottuhscedusomomeUMEinfoaspx
Course and clerkship syllabi
httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCcoursereviewaspx
AY2017-18 medical education program evaluation report (e-Raider required)
httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPC_documentssecureAY2017-
2018MEPEvaluationAnnualReport-Draft-v2pdf
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Departmental Report
Molecular and Translational
Medicine
Laxman Gangwani PhDAssociate Professor Molecular amp
Translational Medicine
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20
Department of Molecular and
Translational Medicine (formerly
Biomedical Sciences) Report
PRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCIL
BY LAXMAN GANGWANI
DATE JULY 15 2019
Department BreakdownPlease provide the total number of faculty members in your department and break down this number by
rank Please list new faculty members that have joined your department within the last six months
Total Number of Faculty
Number of Faculty Associates 1
Number of Instructors 1
Number of Research Assistant Professor 1
Number of Assistant Professors 6
Number of Associate Professors 7
Number of Professors 4
New Faculty
None
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21
LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair
program director clerkship director chiefs etc
Department Chair Dr Peter Rotwein (VP Research Associate
Dean GSBS)
Director Center of Emphasis in Cancer Dr Rajkumar
Lakshmanaswamy (Dean GSBS) Co-Director Dr N Shokar
Director Center of Emphasis in Diabetes and Metabolism Dr
David Cistola
Director Center of Emphasis in Infectious Diseases Vacant
Director Center of Emphasis in Neurosciences Vacant
Chief Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology Vacant
AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional
appointments national appointments etc
Awards
Dr Mingtao Zeng
2018 The American Association of Immunologists (AAI) AAI Travel Grant for the 5th European Congress of Immunology
2018 Defense Techconnect Fall Summit amp Expo (2018) Techconnect Defense Innovation Award
Dr Shrikant Gadad
Eugenia Rosemberg Outstanding Abstract Award Endocrine Society Annual Meeting New Orleans March 23-26 2019
Dr Huanyu Dou
National Innovation Award Techconnect 2019
Honors
Dr Alok Dwivedi
Appointed as associated faculty at the Border Biomedical Research Center (BBRC) University of Texas El Paso (UTEP)
Dr Shrikant Gadad
Session Chair (OR09 Steroid Hormone Biology in Physiology and Disease) Endocrine Society Annual Meeting New Orleans March 23-26 2019
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AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional
appointments national appointments etc
NIH or DOD study sections appointments
Dr Guohua Yi
HIV special Emphasis Panel for RFA-AI-18-058 Genetic Engineering Technologies for HIV Cure Research (U19)
Dr Laxman Gangwani
Department of Defense (DOD) Reviewer for Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) 2018 -
NIHCSR Study ldquoProgram Evaluation of NIH Peer Review Processes The Role of Anonymizationrdquo 2019 ndash
Patents filings and publications
Patent Number 9862951 Title RNA Interference-Based Therapeutic against Anthrax Inventors Mingtao Zeng and Maria T AreacutevaloDate of Patent January 9 2018
Cistola D P Patel V (2018) Method and system for non-invasive measurement of metabolic health US Non-Provisional Utility Patent Application No 15911728 filed by Texas Tech University
Cistola D P Robinson M D (2018) Methods and tools for diagnosing insulin resistance and assessing health status using NMR relaxation times for water United States Patent Application Publication US 20180020947 A1 httpspatentsgooglecompatentUS20180020947A1en
AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional
appointments national appointments etc
News and Media Coverage of Research performed at TTUHSC EP
Dr David Cistola
MedPageToday 2 January 2019 Harris Scott Could a New Biomarker Help Predict Type 2 Diabetes -- Early datashow water T2 catches abnormalities before traditional testing but experts are cautiously optimistichttpswwwmedpagetodaycomreading-roomendocrine-societydiabetes77186
KTSM Channel 9 NBC El Paso 14 November 2018 Castillo Susy Research in El Paso aimed at detectingdiabetes earlyhttpswwwktsmcomlifestylehealthresearch-in-el-paso-aimed-at-detecting-diabetes-early1596408236apt_credirect=1
El Paso Inc 29 March 2019 TTUHSC El Paso Tackling diabetes cancer httpwwwelpasoinccomttuhsc-el-paso-tackling-diabetes-cancerarticle_613144fe-526a-11e9-b916-c35b701a5ef9html
Dr Laxman Gangwani
Cure SMA Awards $150000 Grant to Laxman Gangwani PhD Texas Tech University
httpwwwcuresmaorgnewsgangwani-grant-2019html
httpswwweurekalertorgpub_releases2019-05ttuh-gw050119php
httpswwwresearchgatenetscientific-contributions11984383_Laxman_Gangwani
9102019
23
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Peer-reviewed publications 36 (In high-impact journals)
2018 highest impact factor (11561) journal Nucleic Acids Research
Abstracts 43
Presentations (i) Oral 11 (ii) Posters 28
Invited talks 13
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Peer-reviewed publications
Kannan A Bhatia K Branzei D and Gangwani L (2018) Combined deficiency of Senataxin and DNA-PKcscauses DNA damage accumulation and neurodegeneration in spinal muscular atrophy Nucleic Acids Research2018 Vol 46 No 16 8326-8346
Mishra I Jones C Patel V Deodhar S Cistola D P (2018) Early detection of metabolic dysregulation usingwater T2 analysis of biobanked samples Diabetes Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity Targets and Therapy 11 807-818
Patel V Dwivedi A K Deodhar S Mishra I Cistola D P (2018) Aptamer-based search for correlates of plasmaand serum water T2 Implications for early metabolic dysregulation and metabolic syndrome Biomarker Research6(1) 28
Garg H Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz T Joshi A 2018 Recent Advances in Zika Virus Vaccines Viruses Nov 1410 (11) Sundin OH Mendoza-Ladd A Zeng M Diaz-Areacutevalo D Morales E Fagan BMOrdontildeez J McCallum RW Does a
glucose-based hydrogen and methane breath test detect bacterial overgrowth in the jejunum NeurogastroenterolMotil 2018e13350
Zheng Z Diaz-Areacutevalo D Guan H and Mingtao Zeng Noninvasive vaccination against infectious diseases Humanvaccines amp immunotherapeutics 2018 14(7)1717-1733
Preeti Bharaj Chunting Ye Sean Petersen Qianghu Wang Baoli Hu N Manjunath Premlata Shankar Guohua Yi(2018) Gene array analysis of PD-1H overexpressing monocytes reveals a pro-inflammatory profile Heliyone00545
Bencomo-Alvarez AE Rubio AJ Gonzalez MA and Eiring AM Energy metabolism and drug response in myeloidleukaemic stem cells Br J Haematol 2019 In Press
9102019
24
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Peer-reviewed publications Yan D Pomicter AD Tantravahi S Mason CC Senina AV Ahmann JM Wang Q Than H Patel AB Heaton
WL Eiring AM Clair PM Gantz KC Redwine HM Swierczek SI Halverson BJ Baloglu E Shacham S KhorashadJS Kelley TW Salama ME Miles RR Boucher KM Prchal JT OHare T and Deininger MW Nuclear-cytoplasmic transport is a therapeutic target in myelofibrosis Clin Cancer Res 201925(7)2323-2335
Heipertz E Harper J Lopez CA Fikrig E Hughes ME Walker WE Circadian rhythms influence the severity of sepsis in mice via a TLR2-dependent leukocyte-intrinsic mechanism The Journal of Immunology 2018 201193-201
Khatri R Afzal MR Qureshi MA Maud A Huanyu D Jose Rodriguez G Pre-Existing Renal Failure Increases In-Hospital Mortality in Patients with Intracerebral Hemorrhage J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis 2019 Feb28(2)237-242
Zou L Lee SY Wu Q Zhang H Bastian A Orji C Payne G Galvez A Thomas T Zhang Z Dou H Facile Gene Delivery Derived from Branched Low Molecular Weight Polyethylenimine by High Efficient Chemistry J Biomed Nanotechnol 2018 Oct 114(10)1785-1795
Zhang C Brandon NR Koper K Tang P Xu Y Dou H Invasion of Peripheral Immune Cells into Brain Parenchyma after Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation Aging Dis 2018 Jun 19(3)412-425
Loza O Hernandez P Calderoacuten-Mora J Laks S Leiner M Reddy S Lara P amp Granados H (2018) Developing Trans-affirming health services in an underserved area An intersectional approach Transgender Health 3(1) 127-135
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Byrd T Calderoacuten-Mora J Salaiz R amp Shokar N (2019) Barriers and facilitators to colorectal cancer screening within a Hispanic population Hispanic Health Care International 17(1) 23-29 doi 1011771540415318818982
Haut SR Lipton RB Cornes S Dwivedi AK Wasson R Cotton S Strawn JR Privitera M (2018) Behavioral interventions as a treatment for epilepsy A multicenter randomized controlled trial Neurology 90(11) e963-e970 PMID 29444968
Jessica Bernica Sherif Elhanafi Neeharika Kalakota Yi Jia Christopher Dodoo Alok Dwivedi Robert J Sealock Kalpesh Patel Isaac Raijman Marc J Zuckerman Mohamed O Othman (2018) Cholangioscopy is safe and feasible in elderly patients Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology 16(8) 1293-1299
Benjamin D Wissel Alok K Dwivedi Danielle Chin Aristide Merola Cara Jacob Andrew P Duker Jennifer E Vaughan Lilia Lovera Kathrin LaFaver Ariel Levy Anthony E Lang Francesca Morgante Melissa J Nirenberg Christopher Stephen Nutan Sharma Alberto Romagnolo Leonardo Lopiano Bettina Balint Xin X Yu Kailash P Bhatia Alberto J Espay Functional neurological disorders in Parkinson disease Accepted for publication in Journal
of Neurology Neurosurgery amp Psychiatry 89(6)566-571
Danny J Avalos Marc J Zuckerman Alok Dwivedi Christopher Dodoo Jinendra Satiya Fernando J Castro(2018) Differences in prevalence of large polyps between Hispanic Americans from Mexican-and Non-Mexican-predominant states Digestive diseases and sciences PMID 30276570
Zeina Nahleh Salman Otoukesh Hamid Reza Mirshahidi Anthony Loc Nguyen Gayathri Nagaraj Nabeel Badri Gehan Botrus Nabih Diab Andres Alvarado Luis A Sanchez Alok K Dwivedi (2018) Disparities in breast cancer a multi-institutional comparative analysis focusing on American Hispanics Cancer Medicine (In press 05072018)
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25
Scholarly Activity Danny J Avalos Antonio Mendoza-Ladd Marc J Zuckerman Mohammad Bashashati Andres Alvarado Alok
Dwivedi Oriana M Damas (2018) Hispanics and Non-Hispanic Whites in the US have a Similar InflammatoryBowel Disease Phenotype A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis Digestive Diseases and Sciences 63(6)1558-1571
Aleli Campbell Rosalinda Heydarian Cecilia Ochoa Alok Kumar Dwivedi Zeina A Nahleh(2018) Single arm phaseII study of oral vitamin B12 for the treatment of musculoskeletal symptoms associated with aromatase inhibitors inwomen with early stage breast cancer The breast journal 24(3)260-268
Shaimaa Elzamly Nabeel Badri Osvaldo Padilla Alok Kumar Dwivedi Luis A Alvarado Matthew Hamilton NabihDiab Crosby Rock Ahmed Elfar Marwa Teleb Luis Sanchez Zeina Nahleh (2018) Epithelial-mesenchymaltransition markers in breast cancer and pathological responseafter neoadjuvant chemotherapy Breast Cancer
(Auckl) 2018 Aug 1121178223418788074
Jennifer C Molokwu Eribeth Penaranda Alok Dwivedi Indika Mallawaarachchi Navkiran Shokar (2018) Effect ofEducational Intervention on Self-Sampling Acceptability and Follow-Up Paps in Border Dwelling Hispanic FemalesJournal of Lower Genital Tract Disease
Ritika Suri Federico Rodriguez-Porcel Kelly Donohue Erin Jesse Lilia Lovera Alok Kumar Dwivedi Alberto JEspay (2018) Post-Stroke Movement Disorders The Clinical Neuroanatomic and Demographic Portrait of 284Published Cases Accepted for publication in Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases (In press05212018)
Zeina Nahleh Gehan Botrus Alok Dwivedi Nabeel Badri Salman Otoukesh Nabih Diab Sandip BiswasMichael Jennings Shaimaa Elzamly(2018) Clinico-pathologic disparities of breast cancer in HispanicLatina womenBreast disease 1-8
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Robert Gonzalez Trisha Suppes Jamie Zeitzer Colleen McClung Carol Tamminga Mauricio Tohen Angelica Forero Alok DwivediAndres Alvarado (2018) The association between mood state and chronobiological characteristics in bipolar I disorder a naturalisticvariable cluster analysis-based study International Journal of Bipolar Disorders 6(1)5Mohamed Teleb Aaron Shanker Alok Kumar Dwivedi Debabrata Mukherjee (2018) Effect of exercise on left ventricular mass index byechocardiography in mild and moderate hypertension a meta-analysis Res Cardiovasc Med 6(4)50-6Garnica O Das K Devasundaram S and Dhandayuthapani S Enhanced delivery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigens to antigenpresenting cells using RVG peptide Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Das K Garnica O and Dhandayuthapani S Utility of an oxidative stress response system for the expression of recombinant proteinsin mycobacteria and for the delivery of M tuberculosis antigens to the phagosomal compartments Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Palanichamy K Joshi A Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz T Fernando B Milan S Schiro F Naeem Y Garg H Braunschweig A 2019 Anti-ZikaActivity of a Library of Synthetic Carbohydrate Receptors Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 6284110-4119Anjali Joshi Erin B Punke Tugba Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz Diego P Peralta and Himanshu Garg 2019 TLR9 polymorphism correlates withimmune activation CD4 decline and plasma IP10 levels in HIV patients BMC Infect Dis 19 56Vargas-Medrano J Yang B Garza N T Segura-Ulate I and Perez R G (2018) Up-regulation of protective neuronal MicroRNAs byFTY720 and novel FTY720-derivatives Neuroscience letters 690 178-180Vidal-Martinez G Yang B Vargas-Medrano J and Perez R G (2018) Could alpha-Synuclein Modulation of Insulin and DopamineIdentify a Novel Link Between Parkinsons Disease and Diabetes as Well as Potential Therapies Frontiers in molecular
neuroscience 11 465
9102019
26
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Gil-Tommee C Vidal-Martinez G Annette Reyes C Vargas-Medrano J Herrera G V Martin S M Chaparro S A andPerez R G (2019) Parkinsonian GM2 synthase knockout mice lacking mature gangliosides develop urinary dysfunction andneurogenic bladder Experimental neurology 311265-273Vidal-Martinez G Najera K Miranda JD Gil-Tommee C Yang B Vargas-Medrano J Diaz-Pacheco V Barragan J ChaparroS Vargas-Medrano J Chinnasamy R Arterburn JB Perez RG FTY720 improves behavior increases Brain Derived NeurotrophicFactor and reduces α-synuclein pathology in parkinsonian GM2+minus
mice Neuroscience httpsdoiorg101016jneuroscience201905029Tasnim N Thakur V Chattopadhyay M Joddar B (2018) The efficacy of Graphene-foams towards the adhesion proliferationand expression of neuronal-phenotype by dopaminergic neurons differentiated from mesenchymal stem cells Stem cell
international Jun 3 20183410168 doi 10115520183410168Anil Kumar S Allen SC Tasnim N Akter T Park S Kumar A Chattopadhyay M Ito Y Suggs LJ Joddar B (2019) The applicabilityof furfuryl-gelatin as a novel bioink for tissue engineering applications J Biomed Mater Res B Appl Biomater 2019 107(2)314-323 doi 101002jbmb34123 Epub 2018 Apr 15Thakur V Chattopadhyay M (2018) Early urinary markers for diabetic and other kidney diseases Current drug targets 2018 Mar19Joddar B Tasnim N Thakur V Kumar A Mccallum R Chattopadhyay M (2018) Delivery of mesenchymal stem cells fromgelatin-alginate hydrogels to stomach lumen for treatment of gastroparesis Bioengineering 2018 5(1)Camacho CV Choudhari R Gadad SS (2018) Long noncoding RNAs and cancer an overview Steroids 13393-95
IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department
Large net loss (9) of MTM faculty members over the past 5 years
Vacant Director positions (i) Center for Neuroscience (ii) Center for InfectiousDiseases and (iii) Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
No steps have been taken to fill directors positions for more than 2 years
Neurosciences Center at the verge of collapse Only one faculty will be left at theend of this fiscal year
The size of Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology is shrinking
Lack of communication regarding vision and strategic plan for growing department
No faculty salary raises for the past 3 years
Serious concerns about recruitment retention and tenure and promotion decisionsmade in the department Faculty morale is extremely low
Lack of functional research core facility
Gradual elimination of service contracts of equipment essential for research trainingand education of graduate and medical students
A plethora of other issues with the department administration
9102019
27
Questions
Departmental Report
Psychiatry
Ricardo Salazar MDAssociate Professor Psychiatry
9102019
28
Department ReportPsychiatryPRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCIL
BY RICARDO SALAZAR MD
DATE MONDAY JULY 15 2019
Department BreakdownPlease provide the total number of faculty members in your department and break down this number by
rank Please list new faculty members that have joined your department within the last six months
Total Number of Faculty 12
Number of Instructors 1
Number of Assistant Professors 8
Number of Associate Professors 2
Number of Professors 2
New Faculty Melanie Longhurst MD Instructor
9102019
29
LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair
program director clerkship director chiefs etc
Department Chair ndash Peter M Thompson MD MS
Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Sarah L Martin MD
Combined IMPsych Residency Program Director ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD
Psychiatry Clerkship Director ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD
Child amp Adolescent Fellowship Program Director ndash Cecilia De Vargas MD
Chief Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry ndash Sarah L Martin MD
Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Program Directorndash Ricardo Salazar MD
Chief Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences ndash Ricardo Salazar MD
Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Transmountain ndash Moataz Ragheb MD
AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in your department including awards honors regional
appointments national appointments etc
El Paso Behavioral Health Consortium ndash Board Member ndash Peter M Thompson MD
714 (50) of our graduating medical students this year choose and matched our resident training programs here at Paul L FosterSchool of Medicine Department of Psychiatry (Historical record) ndash Kudos for our Department Faculty
In appreciation for exceptional contributions to the 30th volume of the J Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences ndash Author contributions and review of 271 manuscripts submitted to the journal between September 2017 and August 2018 ndash Ricardo Salazar MD ndash Young Investigator Award Committee Member and Program Committee Member-Abstracts Sub-Committee Member of theAmerican Neuropsychiatric Association (ANPA)
Initial Accreditation with commendation and no citations from ACGME for our first Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Training Program for West Texas ndash Ricardo Salazar MD
Leadership in Education and Development Certificate Program (LEAD) Fellow -1-year program accredited from the Association ofAmerican Medical Colleges (AAMC) Silvina Tonarelli MD amp Ricardo Salazar MD (Selected Award)
Fully operating Southwest Brain Bank A Brain Tissue Repository for Research in Mental Illness ndashPeter M Thompson MD
Texas State Psychiatric Physicians Public Mental Health Services Committee ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD
Texas Health and Human Services Commission Behavioral Health Advisory Committee ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP
Fellow American College of Physicians ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP FACP
9102019
30
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Abstracts 31
Publications 5 (peer-review journals)
Presentations 17 ndash National (7) and International (6)
Invited Speaker 21 (including faculty residents fellows) ndash Local amp National
Book Chapters NA
Grants McKee Foundation Award ndash our Chair - Thompson
Intramural Grants Seed Grant 1 SARP Educational Grant 2 - Salazar
President`s Collaborative Research Initiative ndashMarch 2018 - Tonarelli
Scholarly Activity
Child and Adolescent Fellowship Presentations
INTERNATIONAL
- Curanderos and Limpias Cultural psychiatry
Poster presented at 6th Annual Scientific conference of the European Association of PsychosomaticMedicine Verona Italy Drs Garza Meissner De Vargas Mehta June 2018
-Case presentation 0f 49XXXXY Same conference same authors same city
-Resilience etiology protective and risk factors presentation C De Vargas by invitation Annual WorldPediatric summit Madrid June 2018
-Parents and their Children Fantastic journey Same conference on June 2019 Berlin Germany
NATIONAL
-Development of Psychopathology in children at risk for Bipolar Disorders Drs Escamilla Peter Sangra C DeVargas S Martin C Alvarado Andrea Rios (Poster) American Academy of Child and Adolescent PsychiatryAnnual Conference Seattle WA October 2018
Frank William Meissner MD Cynthia Elizabeth Garza MDJD Sarah L Martin MD rdquoDrug-Induced BrugadaSyndrome in a Middle-Aged Female Patient Drugs EKG Diagnosis Electrophysiology and SurveillanceRecommendationrdquo American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting San Francisco CA May 21 2019
Delinquency in a group of school children at risk for bipolar disorder D Haque M Escamilla C De VargasPresented at UCLA LA Ca June 2019
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Residency ProgramPlease provide information regarding your departmentrsquos residency program ie recent accreditation
number of residents and program updates (if applicable)
24 General Psychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)
8 Internal MedicinePsychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)
3 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellows
1 Geriatric Psychiatry Fellow- newly accredited program
IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department
RecruitmentRetention
Short staffed
Organizational Structure
Financial incentives
Protected time
Gender balance Attrition malefemale ratio 41
Program Coordinator turnover rate
Mentoring
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Departmental Organizational
Structure
Chair
Division ChiefsProgram Directors
Clerkship Director
Adm
Organizational Structure Model
Chair
Deputy Chair for Education
Program
Directors
Deputy Chair for Research
Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs
Vicechair
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Roles
Deputy Chair for Education
Oversee undergraduate graduate and CME including the development of teachers and educational scholars Monitor quality and safety across the department
Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs
Faculty appointments Faculty Development and Promotion andor Tenure Develop programs in different domains such as research education personal improvement and leadership Support clinical activities by improving the efficiency of operations and in helping to fit clinical programs into those in the rest of the medical center Allocation of space
Deputy Chair for Research
Develop and direct department-wide programs for faculty recruitment development and support of mentors recognition of excellence and funding of pilot grants bridge funding and grants to nurture multi-principal investigator and trans-division or trans-department projects Allocation of space among divisions
Bottom Line
We need more funds
Institutional support
The investments needed to recruit faculty are beyond the capacity of the
department`s operational revenue
Recruiting a leading investigator or one with great potential for
example may require an investment of $ 1 million and sometimes more
Endowments are the departmentrsquos foundational financial capital the
keel that maintains momentum and balance through the headwinds
and rough seas each department will navigate Endowments increase
the departmentrsquos independence in sustaining its core mission
Thus creation of endowments should be a high priority for any
department that plans for the long term and they increase capacity to
recruit the best faculty in a competitive environment
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Candidates discussed
Voting (high priority acceptable reject)
Categorized by vote
1 High Priority (unanimous high priority votes)
2 Highly Acceptable -1 -2 -3
3 Very Acceptable (4+ acceptable votes)
4 Acceptable (majority acceptable votes)
5 Reject
Ranked within category by weighted scores (Interview 30 MCAT 30 SGPA 35 GPA 5)
Rank list is generated after the first interview date and updated weekly throughout interview season
Admissions Committee Process
Upcoming actions
Joint Admission Medical Program (JAMP) Round 2 Match
(Friday Jan 25th) will match with 2
Rolling admissions continues until June 1
Created additional interview date for EY2020 (22 days)
New requirement added for EY2020 CASPer Assessment ndash
Situational Judgement Test (SJT)
Propose revision to By-Laws to add minimum attendance
requirements for committee members
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Current IssuesConcerns
Ongoing need to recruit more interviewers
Anticipating class size expansion
Meeting quorum
Standing Committee Report
Curriculum and Educational Policy
Committee
Richard Brower MD PhDAssociate Dean for Medical Education
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Curriculum amp
Educational Policy
Committee Report to the PLFSOM Faculty Council
Presented by Richard Brower MD
Date July 15 2019
Committee Composition and Terms of
Service
ldquoCandidates for lsquoat largersquo positions are to be
recommended by the associate dean for medical
education and appointed by the deanrdquo
ldquoTerms may be renewed by recommendation of the
associate dean for medical education and appointment by
the deanrdquo
ldquohelliplsquoat largersquo members may be appointed for no more than
two consecutive terms after which they are ineligible to
serve for 4 yearsrdquo
ldquoCandidates for these positions should demonstrate an
ongoing interest in medical educationrdquo
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Committee Composition and Terms of ServiceLast Name First Name Degree Academic Rank Department Committee Position Term Start Date
Term Expiration Date
Frances Mark MD ProfessorMedical Education
Member (College Master)
9120168312020
Pfarr Curt PhD ProfessorMedical Education
Member (College Master) 9242015 8312019
Gajendran Mahesh MD Assistant ProfessorInternal Medicine
Member (Clinician) 912017 8312021
Uga Aghaegbulam MD Assistant Professor
Psychiatry and Internal Medicine
Member (Clinician) 11192015 10312019
Kassar Darine MD Assistant Professor NeurologyMember (Clinician) 972016 8312020
Wojciechowska Joanna MD Assistant Professor Pediatrics
Member (Clinician) 212018 8312022
Nino DiegoMD PhD Assistant Professor
Medical Education
Member (Basic Sciences) 1142019 1142023
Padilla Osvaldo MD Assistant Professor PathologyMember (Basic Sciences) 12152014 8312022
Cervantes JorgeMD PhD Assistant Professor
Medical Education
Member (Basic Sciences) 8232016 8312020
Perry Cynthia PhD Assistant ProfessorMedical Education
Member (Basic Sciences) 9282015 8312019
Brower Richard MDAssociate Professor
Medical Education Chair NA NA
Three positions
opening soon ndash-
should have
demonstrated
interest and
engagement in
UME and a
willingness to
attend all
meetings and
participate in
team
assignments
Committee Composition and Terms of
Service Leadership
This committee is chaired by the associate dean for medical education
The committee reports to the Faculty Council
Membership will include
2 college masters (one basic scientist one clinician) with 4-year terms
4 members from the basic sciences faculty with 4-year terms (staggered)
4 members from the clinical sciences faculty with 4-year terms (staggered)
Ex Officio members
Dean or their designee
Associate dean for student affairs
Assistant deans for medication education
Managing director of the libraries (ldquoAssociate Director of the Libraryrdquo)
Director of information technology or their designee
Director of assessment and evaluation (position no longer exists)
Two student reps from each of the four classes (from the Student Curriculum and Evaluation Committee)
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Committee Charge Faculty Bylaws Article IX Section C2
The Committee on Curriculum and Educational Policy is charged with planning coordinating
reviewing and evaluating the curriculum to ensure that it adheres to the
written educational policies goals and objectives of the Paul L Foster School
of Medicine Further the Committee shall have full authority to make changes in
educational policy or in the organization of the curriculum with the
concurrence of the Dean and with comment and input from the Faculty Council The Faculty of the Paul L Foster School of Medicine has the responsibility to define course objectives create
and deliver content to meet those objectives and modify their activities in response to appropriate feedback
from peers and students The Committee will provide updates on its activities at least
twice a year to the Faculty Council In order to accomplish the mission of the Committee the
Chair may appoint subcommittees that may include members who are not
members of the Committee It shall be the responsibility of the Committee to coordinate the
activities and reports of these subcommittees In addition the Committee receives reports
from the Committee on Evaluation of Educational Programs
Current IssuesConcerns
Curriculum enhancementimprovement
Preparation for class size expansion
Preparation for next round of curriculum reviews
(ldquocurriculum as a wholerdquo)
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CEPC actions since last report
January 2019 (1 meeting)
Reviewed and approved revisions to the following
educational program polices
Clerkship Administration
Clerkship DirectorAssistant Director Position Description
Approval of two new 4th Year Electives
Pediatric Gastroenterology Hepatology and Nutrition
Emergency Medicine Ultrasound
Clerkship phase review FM and Surgery
CEPC actions since last report
February 2019 (2 meetings)
New educational program policy reviewed and approved
Grade Changes and Transcript Notations
Rollover of established educational program goals and
objectives (the ldquoPGOsrdquo) approved
Clerkship phase review Pediatrics and ObGyn
Preliminary data-driven discussion of revised educational
program policy covering Grading Promotion and Academic
Standing (ldquoGPASrdquo)
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CEPC actions since last report
March 2019 (2 meetings)
Clerkship phase review IM and Psych Critical Care and Sub-I
Selectives
Approval of new educational program policy
Grading Promotion and Academic Standing (ldquoGPASrdquo)
Notification of changes in clerkship directorship
Elimination of the PICE course (PICE 7001) from the year 2
curriculum approved (primarily administrative educational
elements re-distributed)
Associated review and approval of an updated PLSOM degree
plan (based on 157 credit hours)
CEPC actions since last report
April 2019 (1 meetings)
Clerkship phase review EM Neurology and Intersessions
Review and approval of revised educational program policy
Pre-Clerkship Phase Student Attendance and Participation
Policy
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14
CEPC actions since last report
May 2019 (1 meetings)
Review and approval of the ldquoCommon Clerkship Policiesrdquo
Notification of additional changes in the clerkship
directorship
Clerkship phase review
Phase data review (AAMC GQ NBME subject exams
USMLE Step 2 CK and CS Step 3 final grades EOY OSCE
and procedure workshop residency director survey)
Introduction of a 10-point plan for curriculum revision
(ldquoPLFSOM v20rdquo)
June 2019 (no quorum) July 2019 (cancelled)
CEPC actions since last report
Challenges and opportunities for improvement identified
through the AY208-19 clerkship phase review
Clear identification of contacts at affiliated sites
Academic support and remediation planning
Consistent resident preparation for participation in UME
Timeliness of grading (Sub-I and Critical Care Selectives)
Orientation modules for Sub-Q and Critical Care Selectives)
Scaling clerkships for anticipated class expansion
The summer doldrums
June 2019 (no quorum) July 2019 (cancelled)
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Upcoming actions
Ongoing educational program policy development
Maintain accreditation compliance related curriculum
review cycle (2019-20 ldquoCurriculum as a Wholerdquo)
Review and advance plans for curriculum renewalrevision
Review proposal to re-direct our MD-MPH affiliation to
TTUHSC GSBS Lubbock
Consider development of an MD-MBA option (potentially
with UTEP)
Links to related information
PLFSOM Committee on Curriculum and Educational Policy main page
httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCdefaultaspx
MD degree program policies
httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCpoliciesaspx
MD degree program information
httpselpasottuhscedusomomeUMEinfoaspx
Course and clerkship syllabi
httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCcoursereviewaspx
AY2017-18 medical education program evaluation report (e-Raider required)
httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPC_documentssecureAY2017-
2018MEPEvaluationAnnualReport-Draft-v2pdf
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19
Departmental Report
Molecular and Translational
Medicine
Laxman Gangwani PhDAssociate Professor Molecular amp
Translational Medicine
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20
Department of Molecular and
Translational Medicine (formerly
Biomedical Sciences) Report
PRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCIL
BY LAXMAN GANGWANI
DATE JULY 15 2019
Department BreakdownPlease provide the total number of faculty members in your department and break down this number by
rank Please list new faculty members that have joined your department within the last six months
Total Number of Faculty
Number of Faculty Associates 1
Number of Instructors 1
Number of Research Assistant Professor 1
Number of Assistant Professors 6
Number of Associate Professors 7
Number of Professors 4
New Faculty
None
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21
LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair
program director clerkship director chiefs etc
Department Chair Dr Peter Rotwein (VP Research Associate
Dean GSBS)
Director Center of Emphasis in Cancer Dr Rajkumar
Lakshmanaswamy (Dean GSBS) Co-Director Dr N Shokar
Director Center of Emphasis in Diabetes and Metabolism Dr
David Cistola
Director Center of Emphasis in Infectious Diseases Vacant
Director Center of Emphasis in Neurosciences Vacant
Chief Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology Vacant
AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional
appointments national appointments etc
Awards
Dr Mingtao Zeng
2018 The American Association of Immunologists (AAI) AAI Travel Grant for the 5th European Congress of Immunology
2018 Defense Techconnect Fall Summit amp Expo (2018) Techconnect Defense Innovation Award
Dr Shrikant Gadad
Eugenia Rosemberg Outstanding Abstract Award Endocrine Society Annual Meeting New Orleans March 23-26 2019
Dr Huanyu Dou
National Innovation Award Techconnect 2019
Honors
Dr Alok Dwivedi
Appointed as associated faculty at the Border Biomedical Research Center (BBRC) University of Texas El Paso (UTEP)
Dr Shrikant Gadad
Session Chair (OR09 Steroid Hormone Biology in Physiology and Disease) Endocrine Society Annual Meeting New Orleans March 23-26 2019
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22
AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional
appointments national appointments etc
NIH or DOD study sections appointments
Dr Guohua Yi
HIV special Emphasis Panel for RFA-AI-18-058 Genetic Engineering Technologies for HIV Cure Research (U19)
Dr Laxman Gangwani
Department of Defense (DOD) Reviewer for Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) 2018 -
NIHCSR Study ldquoProgram Evaluation of NIH Peer Review Processes The Role of Anonymizationrdquo 2019 ndash
Patents filings and publications
Patent Number 9862951 Title RNA Interference-Based Therapeutic against Anthrax Inventors Mingtao Zeng and Maria T AreacutevaloDate of Patent January 9 2018
Cistola D P Patel V (2018) Method and system for non-invasive measurement of metabolic health US Non-Provisional Utility Patent Application No 15911728 filed by Texas Tech University
Cistola D P Robinson M D (2018) Methods and tools for diagnosing insulin resistance and assessing health status using NMR relaxation times for water United States Patent Application Publication US 20180020947 A1 httpspatentsgooglecompatentUS20180020947A1en
AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional
appointments national appointments etc
News and Media Coverage of Research performed at TTUHSC EP
Dr David Cistola
MedPageToday 2 January 2019 Harris Scott Could a New Biomarker Help Predict Type 2 Diabetes -- Early datashow water T2 catches abnormalities before traditional testing but experts are cautiously optimistichttpswwwmedpagetodaycomreading-roomendocrine-societydiabetes77186
KTSM Channel 9 NBC El Paso 14 November 2018 Castillo Susy Research in El Paso aimed at detectingdiabetes earlyhttpswwwktsmcomlifestylehealthresearch-in-el-paso-aimed-at-detecting-diabetes-early1596408236apt_credirect=1
El Paso Inc 29 March 2019 TTUHSC El Paso Tackling diabetes cancer httpwwwelpasoinccomttuhsc-el-paso-tackling-diabetes-cancerarticle_613144fe-526a-11e9-b916-c35b701a5ef9html
Dr Laxman Gangwani
Cure SMA Awards $150000 Grant to Laxman Gangwani PhD Texas Tech University
httpwwwcuresmaorgnewsgangwani-grant-2019html
httpswwweurekalertorgpub_releases2019-05ttuh-gw050119php
httpswwwresearchgatenetscientific-contributions11984383_Laxman_Gangwani
9102019
23
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Peer-reviewed publications 36 (In high-impact journals)
2018 highest impact factor (11561) journal Nucleic Acids Research
Abstracts 43
Presentations (i) Oral 11 (ii) Posters 28
Invited talks 13
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Peer-reviewed publications
Kannan A Bhatia K Branzei D and Gangwani L (2018) Combined deficiency of Senataxin and DNA-PKcscauses DNA damage accumulation and neurodegeneration in spinal muscular atrophy Nucleic Acids Research2018 Vol 46 No 16 8326-8346
Mishra I Jones C Patel V Deodhar S Cistola D P (2018) Early detection of metabolic dysregulation usingwater T2 analysis of biobanked samples Diabetes Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity Targets and Therapy 11 807-818
Patel V Dwivedi A K Deodhar S Mishra I Cistola D P (2018) Aptamer-based search for correlates of plasmaand serum water T2 Implications for early metabolic dysregulation and metabolic syndrome Biomarker Research6(1) 28
Garg H Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz T Joshi A 2018 Recent Advances in Zika Virus Vaccines Viruses Nov 1410 (11) Sundin OH Mendoza-Ladd A Zeng M Diaz-Areacutevalo D Morales E Fagan BMOrdontildeez J McCallum RW Does a
glucose-based hydrogen and methane breath test detect bacterial overgrowth in the jejunum NeurogastroenterolMotil 2018e13350
Zheng Z Diaz-Areacutevalo D Guan H and Mingtao Zeng Noninvasive vaccination against infectious diseases Humanvaccines amp immunotherapeutics 2018 14(7)1717-1733
Preeti Bharaj Chunting Ye Sean Petersen Qianghu Wang Baoli Hu N Manjunath Premlata Shankar Guohua Yi(2018) Gene array analysis of PD-1H overexpressing monocytes reveals a pro-inflammatory profile Heliyone00545
Bencomo-Alvarez AE Rubio AJ Gonzalez MA and Eiring AM Energy metabolism and drug response in myeloidleukaemic stem cells Br J Haematol 2019 In Press
9102019
24
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Peer-reviewed publications Yan D Pomicter AD Tantravahi S Mason CC Senina AV Ahmann JM Wang Q Than H Patel AB Heaton
WL Eiring AM Clair PM Gantz KC Redwine HM Swierczek SI Halverson BJ Baloglu E Shacham S KhorashadJS Kelley TW Salama ME Miles RR Boucher KM Prchal JT OHare T and Deininger MW Nuclear-cytoplasmic transport is a therapeutic target in myelofibrosis Clin Cancer Res 201925(7)2323-2335
Heipertz E Harper J Lopez CA Fikrig E Hughes ME Walker WE Circadian rhythms influence the severity of sepsis in mice via a TLR2-dependent leukocyte-intrinsic mechanism The Journal of Immunology 2018 201193-201
Khatri R Afzal MR Qureshi MA Maud A Huanyu D Jose Rodriguez G Pre-Existing Renal Failure Increases In-Hospital Mortality in Patients with Intracerebral Hemorrhage J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis 2019 Feb28(2)237-242
Zou L Lee SY Wu Q Zhang H Bastian A Orji C Payne G Galvez A Thomas T Zhang Z Dou H Facile Gene Delivery Derived from Branched Low Molecular Weight Polyethylenimine by High Efficient Chemistry J Biomed Nanotechnol 2018 Oct 114(10)1785-1795
Zhang C Brandon NR Koper K Tang P Xu Y Dou H Invasion of Peripheral Immune Cells into Brain Parenchyma after Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation Aging Dis 2018 Jun 19(3)412-425
Loza O Hernandez P Calderoacuten-Mora J Laks S Leiner M Reddy S Lara P amp Granados H (2018) Developing Trans-affirming health services in an underserved area An intersectional approach Transgender Health 3(1) 127-135
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Byrd T Calderoacuten-Mora J Salaiz R amp Shokar N (2019) Barriers and facilitators to colorectal cancer screening within a Hispanic population Hispanic Health Care International 17(1) 23-29 doi 1011771540415318818982
Haut SR Lipton RB Cornes S Dwivedi AK Wasson R Cotton S Strawn JR Privitera M (2018) Behavioral interventions as a treatment for epilepsy A multicenter randomized controlled trial Neurology 90(11) e963-e970 PMID 29444968
Jessica Bernica Sherif Elhanafi Neeharika Kalakota Yi Jia Christopher Dodoo Alok Dwivedi Robert J Sealock Kalpesh Patel Isaac Raijman Marc J Zuckerman Mohamed O Othman (2018) Cholangioscopy is safe and feasible in elderly patients Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology 16(8) 1293-1299
Benjamin D Wissel Alok K Dwivedi Danielle Chin Aristide Merola Cara Jacob Andrew P Duker Jennifer E Vaughan Lilia Lovera Kathrin LaFaver Ariel Levy Anthony E Lang Francesca Morgante Melissa J Nirenberg Christopher Stephen Nutan Sharma Alberto Romagnolo Leonardo Lopiano Bettina Balint Xin X Yu Kailash P Bhatia Alberto J Espay Functional neurological disorders in Parkinson disease Accepted for publication in Journal
of Neurology Neurosurgery amp Psychiatry 89(6)566-571
Danny J Avalos Marc J Zuckerman Alok Dwivedi Christopher Dodoo Jinendra Satiya Fernando J Castro(2018) Differences in prevalence of large polyps between Hispanic Americans from Mexican-and Non-Mexican-predominant states Digestive diseases and sciences PMID 30276570
Zeina Nahleh Salman Otoukesh Hamid Reza Mirshahidi Anthony Loc Nguyen Gayathri Nagaraj Nabeel Badri Gehan Botrus Nabih Diab Andres Alvarado Luis A Sanchez Alok K Dwivedi (2018) Disparities in breast cancer a multi-institutional comparative analysis focusing on American Hispanics Cancer Medicine (In press 05072018)
9102019
25
Scholarly Activity Danny J Avalos Antonio Mendoza-Ladd Marc J Zuckerman Mohammad Bashashati Andres Alvarado Alok
Dwivedi Oriana M Damas (2018) Hispanics and Non-Hispanic Whites in the US have a Similar InflammatoryBowel Disease Phenotype A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis Digestive Diseases and Sciences 63(6)1558-1571
Aleli Campbell Rosalinda Heydarian Cecilia Ochoa Alok Kumar Dwivedi Zeina A Nahleh(2018) Single arm phaseII study of oral vitamin B12 for the treatment of musculoskeletal symptoms associated with aromatase inhibitors inwomen with early stage breast cancer The breast journal 24(3)260-268
Shaimaa Elzamly Nabeel Badri Osvaldo Padilla Alok Kumar Dwivedi Luis A Alvarado Matthew Hamilton NabihDiab Crosby Rock Ahmed Elfar Marwa Teleb Luis Sanchez Zeina Nahleh (2018) Epithelial-mesenchymaltransition markers in breast cancer and pathological responseafter neoadjuvant chemotherapy Breast Cancer
(Auckl) 2018 Aug 1121178223418788074
Jennifer C Molokwu Eribeth Penaranda Alok Dwivedi Indika Mallawaarachchi Navkiran Shokar (2018) Effect ofEducational Intervention on Self-Sampling Acceptability and Follow-Up Paps in Border Dwelling Hispanic FemalesJournal of Lower Genital Tract Disease
Ritika Suri Federico Rodriguez-Porcel Kelly Donohue Erin Jesse Lilia Lovera Alok Kumar Dwivedi Alberto JEspay (2018) Post-Stroke Movement Disorders The Clinical Neuroanatomic and Demographic Portrait of 284Published Cases Accepted for publication in Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases (In press05212018)
Zeina Nahleh Gehan Botrus Alok Dwivedi Nabeel Badri Salman Otoukesh Nabih Diab Sandip BiswasMichael Jennings Shaimaa Elzamly(2018) Clinico-pathologic disparities of breast cancer in HispanicLatina womenBreast disease 1-8
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Robert Gonzalez Trisha Suppes Jamie Zeitzer Colleen McClung Carol Tamminga Mauricio Tohen Angelica Forero Alok DwivediAndres Alvarado (2018) The association between mood state and chronobiological characteristics in bipolar I disorder a naturalisticvariable cluster analysis-based study International Journal of Bipolar Disorders 6(1)5Mohamed Teleb Aaron Shanker Alok Kumar Dwivedi Debabrata Mukherjee (2018) Effect of exercise on left ventricular mass index byechocardiography in mild and moderate hypertension a meta-analysis Res Cardiovasc Med 6(4)50-6Garnica O Das K Devasundaram S and Dhandayuthapani S Enhanced delivery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigens to antigenpresenting cells using RVG peptide Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Das K Garnica O and Dhandayuthapani S Utility of an oxidative stress response system for the expression of recombinant proteinsin mycobacteria and for the delivery of M tuberculosis antigens to the phagosomal compartments Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Palanichamy K Joshi A Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz T Fernando B Milan S Schiro F Naeem Y Garg H Braunschweig A 2019 Anti-ZikaActivity of a Library of Synthetic Carbohydrate Receptors Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 6284110-4119Anjali Joshi Erin B Punke Tugba Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz Diego P Peralta and Himanshu Garg 2019 TLR9 polymorphism correlates withimmune activation CD4 decline and plasma IP10 levels in HIV patients BMC Infect Dis 19 56Vargas-Medrano J Yang B Garza N T Segura-Ulate I and Perez R G (2018) Up-regulation of protective neuronal MicroRNAs byFTY720 and novel FTY720-derivatives Neuroscience letters 690 178-180Vidal-Martinez G Yang B Vargas-Medrano J and Perez R G (2018) Could alpha-Synuclein Modulation of Insulin and DopamineIdentify a Novel Link Between Parkinsons Disease and Diabetes as Well as Potential Therapies Frontiers in molecular
neuroscience 11 465
9102019
26
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Gil-Tommee C Vidal-Martinez G Annette Reyes C Vargas-Medrano J Herrera G V Martin S M Chaparro S A andPerez R G (2019) Parkinsonian GM2 synthase knockout mice lacking mature gangliosides develop urinary dysfunction andneurogenic bladder Experimental neurology 311265-273Vidal-Martinez G Najera K Miranda JD Gil-Tommee C Yang B Vargas-Medrano J Diaz-Pacheco V Barragan J ChaparroS Vargas-Medrano J Chinnasamy R Arterburn JB Perez RG FTY720 improves behavior increases Brain Derived NeurotrophicFactor and reduces α-synuclein pathology in parkinsonian GM2+minus
mice Neuroscience httpsdoiorg101016jneuroscience201905029Tasnim N Thakur V Chattopadhyay M Joddar B (2018) The efficacy of Graphene-foams towards the adhesion proliferationand expression of neuronal-phenotype by dopaminergic neurons differentiated from mesenchymal stem cells Stem cell
international Jun 3 20183410168 doi 10115520183410168Anil Kumar S Allen SC Tasnim N Akter T Park S Kumar A Chattopadhyay M Ito Y Suggs LJ Joddar B (2019) The applicabilityof furfuryl-gelatin as a novel bioink for tissue engineering applications J Biomed Mater Res B Appl Biomater 2019 107(2)314-323 doi 101002jbmb34123 Epub 2018 Apr 15Thakur V Chattopadhyay M (2018) Early urinary markers for diabetic and other kidney diseases Current drug targets 2018 Mar19Joddar B Tasnim N Thakur V Kumar A Mccallum R Chattopadhyay M (2018) Delivery of mesenchymal stem cells fromgelatin-alginate hydrogels to stomach lumen for treatment of gastroparesis Bioengineering 2018 5(1)Camacho CV Choudhari R Gadad SS (2018) Long noncoding RNAs and cancer an overview Steroids 13393-95
IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department
Large net loss (9) of MTM faculty members over the past 5 years
Vacant Director positions (i) Center for Neuroscience (ii) Center for InfectiousDiseases and (iii) Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
No steps have been taken to fill directors positions for more than 2 years
Neurosciences Center at the verge of collapse Only one faculty will be left at theend of this fiscal year
The size of Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology is shrinking
Lack of communication regarding vision and strategic plan for growing department
No faculty salary raises for the past 3 years
Serious concerns about recruitment retention and tenure and promotion decisionsmade in the department Faculty morale is extremely low
Lack of functional research core facility
Gradual elimination of service contracts of equipment essential for research trainingand education of graduate and medical students
A plethora of other issues with the department administration
9102019
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Questions
Departmental Report
Psychiatry
Ricardo Salazar MDAssociate Professor Psychiatry
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Department ReportPsychiatryPRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCIL
BY RICARDO SALAZAR MD
DATE MONDAY JULY 15 2019
Department BreakdownPlease provide the total number of faculty members in your department and break down this number by
rank Please list new faculty members that have joined your department within the last six months
Total Number of Faculty 12
Number of Instructors 1
Number of Assistant Professors 8
Number of Associate Professors 2
Number of Professors 2
New Faculty Melanie Longhurst MD Instructor
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LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair
program director clerkship director chiefs etc
Department Chair ndash Peter M Thompson MD MS
Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Sarah L Martin MD
Combined IMPsych Residency Program Director ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD
Psychiatry Clerkship Director ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD
Child amp Adolescent Fellowship Program Director ndash Cecilia De Vargas MD
Chief Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry ndash Sarah L Martin MD
Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Program Directorndash Ricardo Salazar MD
Chief Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences ndash Ricardo Salazar MD
Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Transmountain ndash Moataz Ragheb MD
AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in your department including awards honors regional
appointments national appointments etc
El Paso Behavioral Health Consortium ndash Board Member ndash Peter M Thompson MD
714 (50) of our graduating medical students this year choose and matched our resident training programs here at Paul L FosterSchool of Medicine Department of Psychiatry (Historical record) ndash Kudos for our Department Faculty
In appreciation for exceptional contributions to the 30th volume of the J Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences ndash Author contributions and review of 271 manuscripts submitted to the journal between September 2017 and August 2018 ndash Ricardo Salazar MD ndash Young Investigator Award Committee Member and Program Committee Member-Abstracts Sub-Committee Member of theAmerican Neuropsychiatric Association (ANPA)
Initial Accreditation with commendation and no citations from ACGME for our first Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Training Program for West Texas ndash Ricardo Salazar MD
Leadership in Education and Development Certificate Program (LEAD) Fellow -1-year program accredited from the Association ofAmerican Medical Colleges (AAMC) Silvina Tonarelli MD amp Ricardo Salazar MD (Selected Award)
Fully operating Southwest Brain Bank A Brain Tissue Repository for Research in Mental Illness ndashPeter M Thompson MD
Texas State Psychiatric Physicians Public Mental Health Services Committee ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD
Texas Health and Human Services Commission Behavioral Health Advisory Committee ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP
Fellow American College of Physicians ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP FACP
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Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Abstracts 31
Publications 5 (peer-review journals)
Presentations 17 ndash National (7) and International (6)
Invited Speaker 21 (including faculty residents fellows) ndash Local amp National
Book Chapters NA
Grants McKee Foundation Award ndash our Chair - Thompson
Intramural Grants Seed Grant 1 SARP Educational Grant 2 - Salazar
President`s Collaborative Research Initiative ndashMarch 2018 - Tonarelli
Scholarly Activity
Child and Adolescent Fellowship Presentations
INTERNATIONAL
- Curanderos and Limpias Cultural psychiatry
Poster presented at 6th Annual Scientific conference of the European Association of PsychosomaticMedicine Verona Italy Drs Garza Meissner De Vargas Mehta June 2018
-Case presentation 0f 49XXXXY Same conference same authors same city
-Resilience etiology protective and risk factors presentation C De Vargas by invitation Annual WorldPediatric summit Madrid June 2018
-Parents and their Children Fantastic journey Same conference on June 2019 Berlin Germany
NATIONAL
-Development of Psychopathology in children at risk for Bipolar Disorders Drs Escamilla Peter Sangra C DeVargas S Martin C Alvarado Andrea Rios (Poster) American Academy of Child and Adolescent PsychiatryAnnual Conference Seattle WA October 2018
Frank William Meissner MD Cynthia Elizabeth Garza MDJD Sarah L Martin MD rdquoDrug-Induced BrugadaSyndrome in a Middle-Aged Female Patient Drugs EKG Diagnosis Electrophysiology and SurveillanceRecommendationrdquo American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting San Francisco CA May 21 2019
Delinquency in a group of school children at risk for bipolar disorder D Haque M Escamilla C De VargasPresented at UCLA LA Ca June 2019
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Residency ProgramPlease provide information regarding your departmentrsquos residency program ie recent accreditation
number of residents and program updates (if applicable)
24 General Psychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)
8 Internal MedicinePsychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)
3 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellows
1 Geriatric Psychiatry Fellow- newly accredited program
IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department
RecruitmentRetention
Short staffed
Organizational Structure
Financial incentives
Protected time
Gender balance Attrition malefemale ratio 41
Program Coordinator turnover rate
Mentoring
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Departmental Organizational
Structure
Chair
Division ChiefsProgram Directors
Clerkship Director
Adm
Organizational Structure Model
Chair
Deputy Chair for Education
Program
Directors
Deputy Chair for Research
Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs
Vicechair
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Roles
Deputy Chair for Education
Oversee undergraduate graduate and CME including the development of teachers and educational scholars Monitor quality and safety across the department
Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs
Faculty appointments Faculty Development and Promotion andor Tenure Develop programs in different domains such as research education personal improvement and leadership Support clinical activities by improving the efficiency of operations and in helping to fit clinical programs into those in the rest of the medical center Allocation of space
Deputy Chair for Research
Develop and direct department-wide programs for faculty recruitment development and support of mentors recognition of excellence and funding of pilot grants bridge funding and grants to nurture multi-principal investigator and trans-division or trans-department projects Allocation of space among divisions
Bottom Line
We need more funds
Institutional support
The investments needed to recruit faculty are beyond the capacity of the
department`s operational revenue
Recruiting a leading investigator or one with great potential for
example may require an investment of $ 1 million and sometimes more
Endowments are the departmentrsquos foundational financial capital the
keel that maintains momentum and balance through the headwinds
and rough seas each department will navigate Endowments increase
the departmentrsquos independence in sustaining its core mission
Thus creation of endowments should be a high priority for any
department that plans for the long term and they increase capacity to
recruit the best faculty in a competitive environment
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Current IssuesConcerns
Ongoing need to recruit more interviewers
Anticipating class size expansion
Meeting quorum
Standing Committee Report
Curriculum and Educational Policy
Committee
Richard Brower MD PhDAssociate Dean for Medical Education
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Curriculum amp
Educational Policy
Committee Report to the PLFSOM Faculty Council
Presented by Richard Brower MD
Date July 15 2019
Committee Composition and Terms of
Service
ldquoCandidates for lsquoat largersquo positions are to be
recommended by the associate dean for medical
education and appointed by the deanrdquo
ldquoTerms may be renewed by recommendation of the
associate dean for medical education and appointment by
the deanrdquo
ldquohelliplsquoat largersquo members may be appointed for no more than
two consecutive terms after which they are ineligible to
serve for 4 yearsrdquo
ldquoCandidates for these positions should demonstrate an
ongoing interest in medical educationrdquo
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Committee Composition and Terms of ServiceLast Name First Name Degree Academic Rank Department Committee Position Term Start Date
Term Expiration Date
Frances Mark MD ProfessorMedical Education
Member (College Master)
9120168312020
Pfarr Curt PhD ProfessorMedical Education
Member (College Master) 9242015 8312019
Gajendran Mahesh MD Assistant ProfessorInternal Medicine
Member (Clinician) 912017 8312021
Uga Aghaegbulam MD Assistant Professor
Psychiatry and Internal Medicine
Member (Clinician) 11192015 10312019
Kassar Darine MD Assistant Professor NeurologyMember (Clinician) 972016 8312020
Wojciechowska Joanna MD Assistant Professor Pediatrics
Member (Clinician) 212018 8312022
Nino DiegoMD PhD Assistant Professor
Medical Education
Member (Basic Sciences) 1142019 1142023
Padilla Osvaldo MD Assistant Professor PathologyMember (Basic Sciences) 12152014 8312022
Cervantes JorgeMD PhD Assistant Professor
Medical Education
Member (Basic Sciences) 8232016 8312020
Perry Cynthia PhD Assistant ProfessorMedical Education
Member (Basic Sciences) 9282015 8312019
Brower Richard MDAssociate Professor
Medical Education Chair NA NA
Three positions
opening soon ndash-
should have
demonstrated
interest and
engagement in
UME and a
willingness to
attend all
meetings and
participate in
team
assignments
Committee Composition and Terms of
Service Leadership
This committee is chaired by the associate dean for medical education
The committee reports to the Faculty Council
Membership will include
2 college masters (one basic scientist one clinician) with 4-year terms
4 members from the basic sciences faculty with 4-year terms (staggered)
4 members from the clinical sciences faculty with 4-year terms (staggered)
Ex Officio members
Dean or their designee
Associate dean for student affairs
Assistant deans for medication education
Managing director of the libraries (ldquoAssociate Director of the Libraryrdquo)
Director of information technology or their designee
Director of assessment and evaluation (position no longer exists)
Two student reps from each of the four classes (from the Student Curriculum and Evaluation Committee)
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Committee Charge Faculty Bylaws Article IX Section C2
The Committee on Curriculum and Educational Policy is charged with planning coordinating
reviewing and evaluating the curriculum to ensure that it adheres to the
written educational policies goals and objectives of the Paul L Foster School
of Medicine Further the Committee shall have full authority to make changes in
educational policy or in the organization of the curriculum with the
concurrence of the Dean and with comment and input from the Faculty Council The Faculty of the Paul L Foster School of Medicine has the responsibility to define course objectives create
and deliver content to meet those objectives and modify their activities in response to appropriate feedback
from peers and students The Committee will provide updates on its activities at least
twice a year to the Faculty Council In order to accomplish the mission of the Committee the
Chair may appoint subcommittees that may include members who are not
members of the Committee It shall be the responsibility of the Committee to coordinate the
activities and reports of these subcommittees In addition the Committee receives reports
from the Committee on Evaluation of Educational Programs
Current IssuesConcerns
Curriculum enhancementimprovement
Preparation for class size expansion
Preparation for next round of curriculum reviews
(ldquocurriculum as a wholerdquo)
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CEPC actions since last report
January 2019 (1 meeting)
Reviewed and approved revisions to the following
educational program polices
Clerkship Administration
Clerkship DirectorAssistant Director Position Description
Approval of two new 4th Year Electives
Pediatric Gastroenterology Hepatology and Nutrition
Emergency Medicine Ultrasound
Clerkship phase review FM and Surgery
CEPC actions since last report
February 2019 (2 meetings)
New educational program policy reviewed and approved
Grade Changes and Transcript Notations
Rollover of established educational program goals and
objectives (the ldquoPGOsrdquo) approved
Clerkship phase review Pediatrics and ObGyn
Preliminary data-driven discussion of revised educational
program policy covering Grading Promotion and Academic
Standing (ldquoGPASrdquo)
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CEPC actions since last report
March 2019 (2 meetings)
Clerkship phase review IM and Psych Critical Care and Sub-I
Selectives
Approval of new educational program policy
Grading Promotion and Academic Standing (ldquoGPASrdquo)
Notification of changes in clerkship directorship
Elimination of the PICE course (PICE 7001) from the year 2
curriculum approved (primarily administrative educational
elements re-distributed)
Associated review and approval of an updated PLSOM degree
plan (based on 157 credit hours)
CEPC actions since last report
April 2019 (1 meetings)
Clerkship phase review EM Neurology and Intersessions
Review and approval of revised educational program policy
Pre-Clerkship Phase Student Attendance and Participation
Policy
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CEPC actions since last report
May 2019 (1 meetings)
Review and approval of the ldquoCommon Clerkship Policiesrdquo
Notification of additional changes in the clerkship
directorship
Clerkship phase review
Phase data review (AAMC GQ NBME subject exams
USMLE Step 2 CK and CS Step 3 final grades EOY OSCE
and procedure workshop residency director survey)
Introduction of a 10-point plan for curriculum revision
(ldquoPLFSOM v20rdquo)
June 2019 (no quorum) July 2019 (cancelled)
CEPC actions since last report
Challenges and opportunities for improvement identified
through the AY208-19 clerkship phase review
Clear identification of contacts at affiliated sites
Academic support and remediation planning
Consistent resident preparation for participation in UME
Timeliness of grading (Sub-I and Critical Care Selectives)
Orientation modules for Sub-Q and Critical Care Selectives)
Scaling clerkships for anticipated class expansion
The summer doldrums
June 2019 (no quorum) July 2019 (cancelled)
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Upcoming actions
Ongoing educational program policy development
Maintain accreditation compliance related curriculum
review cycle (2019-20 ldquoCurriculum as a Wholerdquo)
Review and advance plans for curriculum renewalrevision
Review proposal to re-direct our MD-MPH affiliation to
TTUHSC GSBS Lubbock
Consider development of an MD-MBA option (potentially
with UTEP)
Links to related information
PLFSOM Committee on Curriculum and Educational Policy main page
httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCdefaultaspx
MD degree program policies
httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCpoliciesaspx
MD degree program information
httpselpasottuhscedusomomeUMEinfoaspx
Course and clerkship syllabi
httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCcoursereviewaspx
AY2017-18 medical education program evaluation report (e-Raider required)
httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPC_documentssecureAY2017-
2018MEPEvaluationAnnualReport-Draft-v2pdf
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Departmental Report
Molecular and Translational
Medicine
Laxman Gangwani PhDAssociate Professor Molecular amp
Translational Medicine
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20
Department of Molecular and
Translational Medicine (formerly
Biomedical Sciences) Report
PRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCIL
BY LAXMAN GANGWANI
DATE JULY 15 2019
Department BreakdownPlease provide the total number of faculty members in your department and break down this number by
rank Please list new faculty members that have joined your department within the last six months
Total Number of Faculty
Number of Faculty Associates 1
Number of Instructors 1
Number of Research Assistant Professor 1
Number of Assistant Professors 6
Number of Associate Professors 7
Number of Professors 4
New Faculty
None
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21
LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair
program director clerkship director chiefs etc
Department Chair Dr Peter Rotwein (VP Research Associate
Dean GSBS)
Director Center of Emphasis in Cancer Dr Rajkumar
Lakshmanaswamy (Dean GSBS) Co-Director Dr N Shokar
Director Center of Emphasis in Diabetes and Metabolism Dr
David Cistola
Director Center of Emphasis in Infectious Diseases Vacant
Director Center of Emphasis in Neurosciences Vacant
Chief Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology Vacant
AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional
appointments national appointments etc
Awards
Dr Mingtao Zeng
2018 The American Association of Immunologists (AAI) AAI Travel Grant for the 5th European Congress of Immunology
2018 Defense Techconnect Fall Summit amp Expo (2018) Techconnect Defense Innovation Award
Dr Shrikant Gadad
Eugenia Rosemberg Outstanding Abstract Award Endocrine Society Annual Meeting New Orleans March 23-26 2019
Dr Huanyu Dou
National Innovation Award Techconnect 2019
Honors
Dr Alok Dwivedi
Appointed as associated faculty at the Border Biomedical Research Center (BBRC) University of Texas El Paso (UTEP)
Dr Shrikant Gadad
Session Chair (OR09 Steroid Hormone Biology in Physiology and Disease) Endocrine Society Annual Meeting New Orleans March 23-26 2019
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AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional
appointments national appointments etc
NIH or DOD study sections appointments
Dr Guohua Yi
HIV special Emphasis Panel for RFA-AI-18-058 Genetic Engineering Technologies for HIV Cure Research (U19)
Dr Laxman Gangwani
Department of Defense (DOD) Reviewer for Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) 2018 -
NIHCSR Study ldquoProgram Evaluation of NIH Peer Review Processes The Role of Anonymizationrdquo 2019 ndash
Patents filings and publications
Patent Number 9862951 Title RNA Interference-Based Therapeutic against Anthrax Inventors Mingtao Zeng and Maria T AreacutevaloDate of Patent January 9 2018
Cistola D P Patel V (2018) Method and system for non-invasive measurement of metabolic health US Non-Provisional Utility Patent Application No 15911728 filed by Texas Tech University
Cistola D P Robinson M D (2018) Methods and tools for diagnosing insulin resistance and assessing health status using NMR relaxation times for water United States Patent Application Publication US 20180020947 A1 httpspatentsgooglecompatentUS20180020947A1en
AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional
appointments national appointments etc
News and Media Coverage of Research performed at TTUHSC EP
Dr David Cistola
MedPageToday 2 January 2019 Harris Scott Could a New Biomarker Help Predict Type 2 Diabetes -- Early datashow water T2 catches abnormalities before traditional testing but experts are cautiously optimistichttpswwwmedpagetodaycomreading-roomendocrine-societydiabetes77186
KTSM Channel 9 NBC El Paso 14 November 2018 Castillo Susy Research in El Paso aimed at detectingdiabetes earlyhttpswwwktsmcomlifestylehealthresearch-in-el-paso-aimed-at-detecting-diabetes-early1596408236apt_credirect=1
El Paso Inc 29 March 2019 TTUHSC El Paso Tackling diabetes cancer httpwwwelpasoinccomttuhsc-el-paso-tackling-diabetes-cancerarticle_613144fe-526a-11e9-b916-c35b701a5ef9html
Dr Laxman Gangwani
Cure SMA Awards $150000 Grant to Laxman Gangwani PhD Texas Tech University
httpwwwcuresmaorgnewsgangwani-grant-2019html
httpswwweurekalertorgpub_releases2019-05ttuh-gw050119php
httpswwwresearchgatenetscientific-contributions11984383_Laxman_Gangwani
9102019
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Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Peer-reviewed publications 36 (In high-impact journals)
2018 highest impact factor (11561) journal Nucleic Acids Research
Abstracts 43
Presentations (i) Oral 11 (ii) Posters 28
Invited talks 13
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Peer-reviewed publications
Kannan A Bhatia K Branzei D and Gangwani L (2018) Combined deficiency of Senataxin and DNA-PKcscauses DNA damage accumulation and neurodegeneration in spinal muscular atrophy Nucleic Acids Research2018 Vol 46 No 16 8326-8346
Mishra I Jones C Patel V Deodhar S Cistola D P (2018) Early detection of metabolic dysregulation usingwater T2 analysis of biobanked samples Diabetes Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity Targets and Therapy 11 807-818
Patel V Dwivedi A K Deodhar S Mishra I Cistola D P (2018) Aptamer-based search for correlates of plasmaand serum water T2 Implications for early metabolic dysregulation and metabolic syndrome Biomarker Research6(1) 28
Garg H Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz T Joshi A 2018 Recent Advances in Zika Virus Vaccines Viruses Nov 1410 (11) Sundin OH Mendoza-Ladd A Zeng M Diaz-Areacutevalo D Morales E Fagan BMOrdontildeez J McCallum RW Does a
glucose-based hydrogen and methane breath test detect bacterial overgrowth in the jejunum NeurogastroenterolMotil 2018e13350
Zheng Z Diaz-Areacutevalo D Guan H and Mingtao Zeng Noninvasive vaccination against infectious diseases Humanvaccines amp immunotherapeutics 2018 14(7)1717-1733
Preeti Bharaj Chunting Ye Sean Petersen Qianghu Wang Baoli Hu N Manjunath Premlata Shankar Guohua Yi(2018) Gene array analysis of PD-1H overexpressing monocytes reveals a pro-inflammatory profile Heliyone00545
Bencomo-Alvarez AE Rubio AJ Gonzalez MA and Eiring AM Energy metabolism and drug response in myeloidleukaemic stem cells Br J Haematol 2019 In Press
9102019
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Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Peer-reviewed publications Yan D Pomicter AD Tantravahi S Mason CC Senina AV Ahmann JM Wang Q Than H Patel AB Heaton
WL Eiring AM Clair PM Gantz KC Redwine HM Swierczek SI Halverson BJ Baloglu E Shacham S KhorashadJS Kelley TW Salama ME Miles RR Boucher KM Prchal JT OHare T and Deininger MW Nuclear-cytoplasmic transport is a therapeutic target in myelofibrosis Clin Cancer Res 201925(7)2323-2335
Heipertz E Harper J Lopez CA Fikrig E Hughes ME Walker WE Circadian rhythms influence the severity of sepsis in mice via a TLR2-dependent leukocyte-intrinsic mechanism The Journal of Immunology 2018 201193-201
Khatri R Afzal MR Qureshi MA Maud A Huanyu D Jose Rodriguez G Pre-Existing Renal Failure Increases In-Hospital Mortality in Patients with Intracerebral Hemorrhage J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis 2019 Feb28(2)237-242
Zou L Lee SY Wu Q Zhang H Bastian A Orji C Payne G Galvez A Thomas T Zhang Z Dou H Facile Gene Delivery Derived from Branched Low Molecular Weight Polyethylenimine by High Efficient Chemistry J Biomed Nanotechnol 2018 Oct 114(10)1785-1795
Zhang C Brandon NR Koper K Tang P Xu Y Dou H Invasion of Peripheral Immune Cells into Brain Parenchyma after Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation Aging Dis 2018 Jun 19(3)412-425
Loza O Hernandez P Calderoacuten-Mora J Laks S Leiner M Reddy S Lara P amp Granados H (2018) Developing Trans-affirming health services in an underserved area An intersectional approach Transgender Health 3(1) 127-135
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Byrd T Calderoacuten-Mora J Salaiz R amp Shokar N (2019) Barriers and facilitators to colorectal cancer screening within a Hispanic population Hispanic Health Care International 17(1) 23-29 doi 1011771540415318818982
Haut SR Lipton RB Cornes S Dwivedi AK Wasson R Cotton S Strawn JR Privitera M (2018) Behavioral interventions as a treatment for epilepsy A multicenter randomized controlled trial Neurology 90(11) e963-e970 PMID 29444968
Jessica Bernica Sherif Elhanafi Neeharika Kalakota Yi Jia Christopher Dodoo Alok Dwivedi Robert J Sealock Kalpesh Patel Isaac Raijman Marc J Zuckerman Mohamed O Othman (2018) Cholangioscopy is safe and feasible in elderly patients Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology 16(8) 1293-1299
Benjamin D Wissel Alok K Dwivedi Danielle Chin Aristide Merola Cara Jacob Andrew P Duker Jennifer E Vaughan Lilia Lovera Kathrin LaFaver Ariel Levy Anthony E Lang Francesca Morgante Melissa J Nirenberg Christopher Stephen Nutan Sharma Alberto Romagnolo Leonardo Lopiano Bettina Balint Xin X Yu Kailash P Bhatia Alberto J Espay Functional neurological disorders in Parkinson disease Accepted for publication in Journal
of Neurology Neurosurgery amp Psychiatry 89(6)566-571
Danny J Avalos Marc J Zuckerman Alok Dwivedi Christopher Dodoo Jinendra Satiya Fernando J Castro(2018) Differences in prevalence of large polyps between Hispanic Americans from Mexican-and Non-Mexican-predominant states Digestive diseases and sciences PMID 30276570
Zeina Nahleh Salman Otoukesh Hamid Reza Mirshahidi Anthony Loc Nguyen Gayathri Nagaraj Nabeel Badri Gehan Botrus Nabih Diab Andres Alvarado Luis A Sanchez Alok K Dwivedi (2018) Disparities in breast cancer a multi-institutional comparative analysis focusing on American Hispanics Cancer Medicine (In press 05072018)
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25
Scholarly Activity Danny J Avalos Antonio Mendoza-Ladd Marc J Zuckerman Mohammad Bashashati Andres Alvarado Alok
Dwivedi Oriana M Damas (2018) Hispanics and Non-Hispanic Whites in the US have a Similar InflammatoryBowel Disease Phenotype A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis Digestive Diseases and Sciences 63(6)1558-1571
Aleli Campbell Rosalinda Heydarian Cecilia Ochoa Alok Kumar Dwivedi Zeina A Nahleh(2018) Single arm phaseII study of oral vitamin B12 for the treatment of musculoskeletal symptoms associated with aromatase inhibitors inwomen with early stage breast cancer The breast journal 24(3)260-268
Shaimaa Elzamly Nabeel Badri Osvaldo Padilla Alok Kumar Dwivedi Luis A Alvarado Matthew Hamilton NabihDiab Crosby Rock Ahmed Elfar Marwa Teleb Luis Sanchez Zeina Nahleh (2018) Epithelial-mesenchymaltransition markers in breast cancer and pathological responseafter neoadjuvant chemotherapy Breast Cancer
(Auckl) 2018 Aug 1121178223418788074
Jennifer C Molokwu Eribeth Penaranda Alok Dwivedi Indika Mallawaarachchi Navkiran Shokar (2018) Effect ofEducational Intervention on Self-Sampling Acceptability and Follow-Up Paps in Border Dwelling Hispanic FemalesJournal of Lower Genital Tract Disease
Ritika Suri Federico Rodriguez-Porcel Kelly Donohue Erin Jesse Lilia Lovera Alok Kumar Dwivedi Alberto JEspay (2018) Post-Stroke Movement Disorders The Clinical Neuroanatomic and Demographic Portrait of 284Published Cases Accepted for publication in Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases (In press05212018)
Zeina Nahleh Gehan Botrus Alok Dwivedi Nabeel Badri Salman Otoukesh Nabih Diab Sandip BiswasMichael Jennings Shaimaa Elzamly(2018) Clinico-pathologic disparities of breast cancer in HispanicLatina womenBreast disease 1-8
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Robert Gonzalez Trisha Suppes Jamie Zeitzer Colleen McClung Carol Tamminga Mauricio Tohen Angelica Forero Alok DwivediAndres Alvarado (2018) The association between mood state and chronobiological characteristics in bipolar I disorder a naturalisticvariable cluster analysis-based study International Journal of Bipolar Disorders 6(1)5Mohamed Teleb Aaron Shanker Alok Kumar Dwivedi Debabrata Mukherjee (2018) Effect of exercise on left ventricular mass index byechocardiography in mild and moderate hypertension a meta-analysis Res Cardiovasc Med 6(4)50-6Garnica O Das K Devasundaram S and Dhandayuthapani S Enhanced delivery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigens to antigenpresenting cells using RVG peptide Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Das K Garnica O and Dhandayuthapani S Utility of an oxidative stress response system for the expression of recombinant proteinsin mycobacteria and for the delivery of M tuberculosis antigens to the phagosomal compartments Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Palanichamy K Joshi A Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz T Fernando B Milan S Schiro F Naeem Y Garg H Braunschweig A 2019 Anti-ZikaActivity of a Library of Synthetic Carbohydrate Receptors Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 6284110-4119Anjali Joshi Erin B Punke Tugba Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz Diego P Peralta and Himanshu Garg 2019 TLR9 polymorphism correlates withimmune activation CD4 decline and plasma IP10 levels in HIV patients BMC Infect Dis 19 56Vargas-Medrano J Yang B Garza N T Segura-Ulate I and Perez R G (2018) Up-regulation of protective neuronal MicroRNAs byFTY720 and novel FTY720-derivatives Neuroscience letters 690 178-180Vidal-Martinez G Yang B Vargas-Medrano J and Perez R G (2018) Could alpha-Synuclein Modulation of Insulin and DopamineIdentify a Novel Link Between Parkinsons Disease and Diabetes as Well as Potential Therapies Frontiers in molecular
neuroscience 11 465
9102019
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Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Gil-Tommee C Vidal-Martinez G Annette Reyes C Vargas-Medrano J Herrera G V Martin S M Chaparro S A andPerez R G (2019) Parkinsonian GM2 synthase knockout mice lacking mature gangliosides develop urinary dysfunction andneurogenic bladder Experimental neurology 311265-273Vidal-Martinez G Najera K Miranda JD Gil-Tommee C Yang B Vargas-Medrano J Diaz-Pacheco V Barragan J ChaparroS Vargas-Medrano J Chinnasamy R Arterburn JB Perez RG FTY720 improves behavior increases Brain Derived NeurotrophicFactor and reduces α-synuclein pathology in parkinsonian GM2+minus
mice Neuroscience httpsdoiorg101016jneuroscience201905029Tasnim N Thakur V Chattopadhyay M Joddar B (2018) The efficacy of Graphene-foams towards the adhesion proliferationand expression of neuronal-phenotype by dopaminergic neurons differentiated from mesenchymal stem cells Stem cell
international Jun 3 20183410168 doi 10115520183410168Anil Kumar S Allen SC Tasnim N Akter T Park S Kumar A Chattopadhyay M Ito Y Suggs LJ Joddar B (2019) The applicabilityof furfuryl-gelatin as a novel bioink for tissue engineering applications J Biomed Mater Res B Appl Biomater 2019 107(2)314-323 doi 101002jbmb34123 Epub 2018 Apr 15Thakur V Chattopadhyay M (2018) Early urinary markers for diabetic and other kidney diseases Current drug targets 2018 Mar19Joddar B Tasnim N Thakur V Kumar A Mccallum R Chattopadhyay M (2018) Delivery of mesenchymal stem cells fromgelatin-alginate hydrogels to stomach lumen for treatment of gastroparesis Bioengineering 2018 5(1)Camacho CV Choudhari R Gadad SS (2018) Long noncoding RNAs and cancer an overview Steroids 13393-95
IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department
Large net loss (9) of MTM faculty members over the past 5 years
Vacant Director positions (i) Center for Neuroscience (ii) Center for InfectiousDiseases and (iii) Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
No steps have been taken to fill directors positions for more than 2 years
Neurosciences Center at the verge of collapse Only one faculty will be left at theend of this fiscal year
The size of Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology is shrinking
Lack of communication regarding vision and strategic plan for growing department
No faculty salary raises for the past 3 years
Serious concerns about recruitment retention and tenure and promotion decisionsmade in the department Faculty morale is extremely low
Lack of functional research core facility
Gradual elimination of service contracts of equipment essential for research trainingand education of graduate and medical students
A plethora of other issues with the department administration
9102019
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Questions
Departmental Report
Psychiatry
Ricardo Salazar MDAssociate Professor Psychiatry
9102019
28
Department ReportPsychiatryPRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCIL
BY RICARDO SALAZAR MD
DATE MONDAY JULY 15 2019
Department BreakdownPlease provide the total number of faculty members in your department and break down this number by
rank Please list new faculty members that have joined your department within the last six months
Total Number of Faculty 12
Number of Instructors 1
Number of Assistant Professors 8
Number of Associate Professors 2
Number of Professors 2
New Faculty Melanie Longhurst MD Instructor
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LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair
program director clerkship director chiefs etc
Department Chair ndash Peter M Thompson MD MS
Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Sarah L Martin MD
Combined IMPsych Residency Program Director ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD
Psychiatry Clerkship Director ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD
Child amp Adolescent Fellowship Program Director ndash Cecilia De Vargas MD
Chief Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry ndash Sarah L Martin MD
Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Program Directorndash Ricardo Salazar MD
Chief Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences ndash Ricardo Salazar MD
Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Transmountain ndash Moataz Ragheb MD
AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in your department including awards honors regional
appointments national appointments etc
El Paso Behavioral Health Consortium ndash Board Member ndash Peter M Thompson MD
714 (50) of our graduating medical students this year choose and matched our resident training programs here at Paul L FosterSchool of Medicine Department of Psychiatry (Historical record) ndash Kudos for our Department Faculty
In appreciation for exceptional contributions to the 30th volume of the J Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences ndash Author contributions and review of 271 manuscripts submitted to the journal between September 2017 and August 2018 ndash Ricardo Salazar MD ndash Young Investigator Award Committee Member and Program Committee Member-Abstracts Sub-Committee Member of theAmerican Neuropsychiatric Association (ANPA)
Initial Accreditation with commendation and no citations from ACGME for our first Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Training Program for West Texas ndash Ricardo Salazar MD
Leadership in Education and Development Certificate Program (LEAD) Fellow -1-year program accredited from the Association ofAmerican Medical Colleges (AAMC) Silvina Tonarelli MD amp Ricardo Salazar MD (Selected Award)
Fully operating Southwest Brain Bank A Brain Tissue Repository for Research in Mental Illness ndashPeter M Thompson MD
Texas State Psychiatric Physicians Public Mental Health Services Committee ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD
Texas Health and Human Services Commission Behavioral Health Advisory Committee ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP
Fellow American College of Physicians ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP FACP
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Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Abstracts 31
Publications 5 (peer-review journals)
Presentations 17 ndash National (7) and International (6)
Invited Speaker 21 (including faculty residents fellows) ndash Local amp National
Book Chapters NA
Grants McKee Foundation Award ndash our Chair - Thompson
Intramural Grants Seed Grant 1 SARP Educational Grant 2 - Salazar
President`s Collaborative Research Initiative ndashMarch 2018 - Tonarelli
Scholarly Activity
Child and Adolescent Fellowship Presentations
INTERNATIONAL
- Curanderos and Limpias Cultural psychiatry
Poster presented at 6th Annual Scientific conference of the European Association of PsychosomaticMedicine Verona Italy Drs Garza Meissner De Vargas Mehta June 2018
-Case presentation 0f 49XXXXY Same conference same authors same city
-Resilience etiology protective and risk factors presentation C De Vargas by invitation Annual WorldPediatric summit Madrid June 2018
-Parents and their Children Fantastic journey Same conference on June 2019 Berlin Germany
NATIONAL
-Development of Psychopathology in children at risk for Bipolar Disorders Drs Escamilla Peter Sangra C DeVargas S Martin C Alvarado Andrea Rios (Poster) American Academy of Child and Adolescent PsychiatryAnnual Conference Seattle WA October 2018
Frank William Meissner MD Cynthia Elizabeth Garza MDJD Sarah L Martin MD rdquoDrug-Induced BrugadaSyndrome in a Middle-Aged Female Patient Drugs EKG Diagnosis Electrophysiology and SurveillanceRecommendationrdquo American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting San Francisco CA May 21 2019
Delinquency in a group of school children at risk for bipolar disorder D Haque M Escamilla C De VargasPresented at UCLA LA Ca June 2019
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Residency ProgramPlease provide information regarding your departmentrsquos residency program ie recent accreditation
number of residents and program updates (if applicable)
24 General Psychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)
8 Internal MedicinePsychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)
3 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellows
1 Geriatric Psychiatry Fellow- newly accredited program
IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department
RecruitmentRetention
Short staffed
Organizational Structure
Financial incentives
Protected time
Gender balance Attrition malefemale ratio 41
Program Coordinator turnover rate
Mentoring
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Departmental Organizational
Structure
Chair
Division ChiefsProgram Directors
Clerkship Director
Adm
Organizational Structure Model
Chair
Deputy Chair for Education
Program
Directors
Deputy Chair for Research
Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs
Vicechair
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Roles
Deputy Chair for Education
Oversee undergraduate graduate and CME including the development of teachers and educational scholars Monitor quality and safety across the department
Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs
Faculty appointments Faculty Development and Promotion andor Tenure Develop programs in different domains such as research education personal improvement and leadership Support clinical activities by improving the efficiency of operations and in helping to fit clinical programs into those in the rest of the medical center Allocation of space
Deputy Chair for Research
Develop and direct department-wide programs for faculty recruitment development and support of mentors recognition of excellence and funding of pilot grants bridge funding and grants to nurture multi-principal investigator and trans-division or trans-department projects Allocation of space among divisions
Bottom Line
We need more funds
Institutional support
The investments needed to recruit faculty are beyond the capacity of the
department`s operational revenue
Recruiting a leading investigator or one with great potential for
example may require an investment of $ 1 million and sometimes more
Endowments are the departmentrsquos foundational financial capital the
keel that maintains momentum and balance through the headwinds
and rough seas each department will navigate Endowments increase
the departmentrsquos independence in sustaining its core mission
Thus creation of endowments should be a high priority for any
department that plans for the long term and they increase capacity to
recruit the best faculty in a competitive environment
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Curriculum amp
Educational Policy
Committee Report to the PLFSOM Faculty Council
Presented by Richard Brower MD
Date July 15 2019
Committee Composition and Terms of
Service
ldquoCandidates for lsquoat largersquo positions are to be
recommended by the associate dean for medical
education and appointed by the deanrdquo
ldquoTerms may be renewed by recommendation of the
associate dean for medical education and appointment by
the deanrdquo
ldquohelliplsquoat largersquo members may be appointed for no more than
two consecutive terms after which they are ineligible to
serve for 4 yearsrdquo
ldquoCandidates for these positions should demonstrate an
ongoing interest in medical educationrdquo
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Committee Composition and Terms of ServiceLast Name First Name Degree Academic Rank Department Committee Position Term Start Date
Term Expiration Date
Frances Mark MD ProfessorMedical Education
Member (College Master)
9120168312020
Pfarr Curt PhD ProfessorMedical Education
Member (College Master) 9242015 8312019
Gajendran Mahesh MD Assistant ProfessorInternal Medicine
Member (Clinician) 912017 8312021
Uga Aghaegbulam MD Assistant Professor
Psychiatry and Internal Medicine
Member (Clinician) 11192015 10312019
Kassar Darine MD Assistant Professor NeurologyMember (Clinician) 972016 8312020
Wojciechowska Joanna MD Assistant Professor Pediatrics
Member (Clinician) 212018 8312022
Nino DiegoMD PhD Assistant Professor
Medical Education
Member (Basic Sciences) 1142019 1142023
Padilla Osvaldo MD Assistant Professor PathologyMember (Basic Sciences) 12152014 8312022
Cervantes JorgeMD PhD Assistant Professor
Medical Education
Member (Basic Sciences) 8232016 8312020
Perry Cynthia PhD Assistant ProfessorMedical Education
Member (Basic Sciences) 9282015 8312019
Brower Richard MDAssociate Professor
Medical Education Chair NA NA
Three positions
opening soon ndash-
should have
demonstrated
interest and
engagement in
UME and a
willingness to
attend all
meetings and
participate in
team
assignments
Committee Composition and Terms of
Service Leadership
This committee is chaired by the associate dean for medical education
The committee reports to the Faculty Council
Membership will include
2 college masters (one basic scientist one clinician) with 4-year terms
4 members from the basic sciences faculty with 4-year terms (staggered)
4 members from the clinical sciences faculty with 4-year terms (staggered)
Ex Officio members
Dean or their designee
Associate dean for student affairs
Assistant deans for medication education
Managing director of the libraries (ldquoAssociate Director of the Libraryrdquo)
Director of information technology or their designee
Director of assessment and evaluation (position no longer exists)
Two student reps from each of the four classes (from the Student Curriculum and Evaluation Committee)
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Committee Charge Faculty Bylaws Article IX Section C2
The Committee on Curriculum and Educational Policy is charged with planning coordinating
reviewing and evaluating the curriculum to ensure that it adheres to the
written educational policies goals and objectives of the Paul L Foster School
of Medicine Further the Committee shall have full authority to make changes in
educational policy or in the organization of the curriculum with the
concurrence of the Dean and with comment and input from the Faculty Council The Faculty of the Paul L Foster School of Medicine has the responsibility to define course objectives create
and deliver content to meet those objectives and modify their activities in response to appropriate feedback
from peers and students The Committee will provide updates on its activities at least
twice a year to the Faculty Council In order to accomplish the mission of the Committee the
Chair may appoint subcommittees that may include members who are not
members of the Committee It shall be the responsibility of the Committee to coordinate the
activities and reports of these subcommittees In addition the Committee receives reports
from the Committee on Evaluation of Educational Programs
Current IssuesConcerns
Curriculum enhancementimprovement
Preparation for class size expansion
Preparation for next round of curriculum reviews
(ldquocurriculum as a wholerdquo)
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CEPC actions since last report
January 2019 (1 meeting)
Reviewed and approved revisions to the following
educational program polices
Clerkship Administration
Clerkship DirectorAssistant Director Position Description
Approval of two new 4th Year Electives
Pediatric Gastroenterology Hepatology and Nutrition
Emergency Medicine Ultrasound
Clerkship phase review FM and Surgery
CEPC actions since last report
February 2019 (2 meetings)
New educational program policy reviewed and approved
Grade Changes and Transcript Notations
Rollover of established educational program goals and
objectives (the ldquoPGOsrdquo) approved
Clerkship phase review Pediatrics and ObGyn
Preliminary data-driven discussion of revised educational
program policy covering Grading Promotion and Academic
Standing (ldquoGPASrdquo)
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CEPC actions since last report
March 2019 (2 meetings)
Clerkship phase review IM and Psych Critical Care and Sub-I
Selectives
Approval of new educational program policy
Grading Promotion and Academic Standing (ldquoGPASrdquo)
Notification of changes in clerkship directorship
Elimination of the PICE course (PICE 7001) from the year 2
curriculum approved (primarily administrative educational
elements re-distributed)
Associated review and approval of an updated PLSOM degree
plan (based on 157 credit hours)
CEPC actions since last report
April 2019 (1 meetings)
Clerkship phase review EM Neurology and Intersessions
Review and approval of revised educational program policy
Pre-Clerkship Phase Student Attendance and Participation
Policy
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14
CEPC actions since last report
May 2019 (1 meetings)
Review and approval of the ldquoCommon Clerkship Policiesrdquo
Notification of additional changes in the clerkship
directorship
Clerkship phase review
Phase data review (AAMC GQ NBME subject exams
USMLE Step 2 CK and CS Step 3 final grades EOY OSCE
and procedure workshop residency director survey)
Introduction of a 10-point plan for curriculum revision
(ldquoPLFSOM v20rdquo)
June 2019 (no quorum) July 2019 (cancelled)
CEPC actions since last report
Challenges and opportunities for improvement identified
through the AY208-19 clerkship phase review
Clear identification of contacts at affiliated sites
Academic support and remediation planning
Consistent resident preparation for participation in UME
Timeliness of grading (Sub-I and Critical Care Selectives)
Orientation modules for Sub-Q and Critical Care Selectives)
Scaling clerkships for anticipated class expansion
The summer doldrums
June 2019 (no quorum) July 2019 (cancelled)
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Upcoming actions
Ongoing educational program policy development
Maintain accreditation compliance related curriculum
review cycle (2019-20 ldquoCurriculum as a Wholerdquo)
Review and advance plans for curriculum renewalrevision
Review proposal to re-direct our MD-MPH affiliation to
TTUHSC GSBS Lubbock
Consider development of an MD-MBA option (potentially
with UTEP)
Links to related information
PLFSOM Committee on Curriculum and Educational Policy main page
httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCdefaultaspx
MD degree program policies
httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCpoliciesaspx
MD degree program information
httpselpasottuhscedusomomeUMEinfoaspx
Course and clerkship syllabi
httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCcoursereviewaspx
AY2017-18 medical education program evaluation report (e-Raider required)
httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPC_documentssecureAY2017-
2018MEPEvaluationAnnualReport-Draft-v2pdf
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19
Departmental Report
Molecular and Translational
Medicine
Laxman Gangwani PhDAssociate Professor Molecular amp
Translational Medicine
9102019
20
Department of Molecular and
Translational Medicine (formerly
Biomedical Sciences) Report
PRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCIL
BY LAXMAN GANGWANI
DATE JULY 15 2019
Department BreakdownPlease provide the total number of faculty members in your department and break down this number by
rank Please list new faculty members that have joined your department within the last six months
Total Number of Faculty
Number of Faculty Associates 1
Number of Instructors 1
Number of Research Assistant Professor 1
Number of Assistant Professors 6
Number of Associate Professors 7
Number of Professors 4
New Faculty
None
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21
LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair
program director clerkship director chiefs etc
Department Chair Dr Peter Rotwein (VP Research Associate
Dean GSBS)
Director Center of Emphasis in Cancer Dr Rajkumar
Lakshmanaswamy (Dean GSBS) Co-Director Dr N Shokar
Director Center of Emphasis in Diabetes and Metabolism Dr
David Cistola
Director Center of Emphasis in Infectious Diseases Vacant
Director Center of Emphasis in Neurosciences Vacant
Chief Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology Vacant
AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional
appointments national appointments etc
Awards
Dr Mingtao Zeng
2018 The American Association of Immunologists (AAI) AAI Travel Grant for the 5th European Congress of Immunology
2018 Defense Techconnect Fall Summit amp Expo (2018) Techconnect Defense Innovation Award
Dr Shrikant Gadad
Eugenia Rosemberg Outstanding Abstract Award Endocrine Society Annual Meeting New Orleans March 23-26 2019
Dr Huanyu Dou
National Innovation Award Techconnect 2019
Honors
Dr Alok Dwivedi
Appointed as associated faculty at the Border Biomedical Research Center (BBRC) University of Texas El Paso (UTEP)
Dr Shrikant Gadad
Session Chair (OR09 Steroid Hormone Biology in Physiology and Disease) Endocrine Society Annual Meeting New Orleans March 23-26 2019
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AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional
appointments national appointments etc
NIH or DOD study sections appointments
Dr Guohua Yi
HIV special Emphasis Panel for RFA-AI-18-058 Genetic Engineering Technologies for HIV Cure Research (U19)
Dr Laxman Gangwani
Department of Defense (DOD) Reviewer for Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) 2018 -
NIHCSR Study ldquoProgram Evaluation of NIH Peer Review Processes The Role of Anonymizationrdquo 2019 ndash
Patents filings and publications
Patent Number 9862951 Title RNA Interference-Based Therapeutic against Anthrax Inventors Mingtao Zeng and Maria T AreacutevaloDate of Patent January 9 2018
Cistola D P Patel V (2018) Method and system for non-invasive measurement of metabolic health US Non-Provisional Utility Patent Application No 15911728 filed by Texas Tech University
Cistola D P Robinson M D (2018) Methods and tools for diagnosing insulin resistance and assessing health status using NMR relaxation times for water United States Patent Application Publication US 20180020947 A1 httpspatentsgooglecompatentUS20180020947A1en
AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional
appointments national appointments etc
News and Media Coverage of Research performed at TTUHSC EP
Dr David Cistola
MedPageToday 2 January 2019 Harris Scott Could a New Biomarker Help Predict Type 2 Diabetes -- Early datashow water T2 catches abnormalities before traditional testing but experts are cautiously optimistichttpswwwmedpagetodaycomreading-roomendocrine-societydiabetes77186
KTSM Channel 9 NBC El Paso 14 November 2018 Castillo Susy Research in El Paso aimed at detectingdiabetes earlyhttpswwwktsmcomlifestylehealthresearch-in-el-paso-aimed-at-detecting-diabetes-early1596408236apt_credirect=1
El Paso Inc 29 March 2019 TTUHSC El Paso Tackling diabetes cancer httpwwwelpasoinccomttuhsc-el-paso-tackling-diabetes-cancerarticle_613144fe-526a-11e9-b916-c35b701a5ef9html
Dr Laxman Gangwani
Cure SMA Awards $150000 Grant to Laxman Gangwani PhD Texas Tech University
httpwwwcuresmaorgnewsgangwani-grant-2019html
httpswwweurekalertorgpub_releases2019-05ttuh-gw050119php
httpswwwresearchgatenetscientific-contributions11984383_Laxman_Gangwani
9102019
23
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Peer-reviewed publications 36 (In high-impact journals)
2018 highest impact factor (11561) journal Nucleic Acids Research
Abstracts 43
Presentations (i) Oral 11 (ii) Posters 28
Invited talks 13
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Peer-reviewed publications
Kannan A Bhatia K Branzei D and Gangwani L (2018) Combined deficiency of Senataxin and DNA-PKcscauses DNA damage accumulation and neurodegeneration in spinal muscular atrophy Nucleic Acids Research2018 Vol 46 No 16 8326-8346
Mishra I Jones C Patel V Deodhar S Cistola D P (2018) Early detection of metabolic dysregulation usingwater T2 analysis of biobanked samples Diabetes Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity Targets and Therapy 11 807-818
Patel V Dwivedi A K Deodhar S Mishra I Cistola D P (2018) Aptamer-based search for correlates of plasmaand serum water T2 Implications for early metabolic dysregulation and metabolic syndrome Biomarker Research6(1) 28
Garg H Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz T Joshi A 2018 Recent Advances in Zika Virus Vaccines Viruses Nov 1410 (11) Sundin OH Mendoza-Ladd A Zeng M Diaz-Areacutevalo D Morales E Fagan BMOrdontildeez J McCallum RW Does a
glucose-based hydrogen and methane breath test detect bacterial overgrowth in the jejunum NeurogastroenterolMotil 2018e13350
Zheng Z Diaz-Areacutevalo D Guan H and Mingtao Zeng Noninvasive vaccination against infectious diseases Humanvaccines amp immunotherapeutics 2018 14(7)1717-1733
Preeti Bharaj Chunting Ye Sean Petersen Qianghu Wang Baoli Hu N Manjunath Premlata Shankar Guohua Yi(2018) Gene array analysis of PD-1H overexpressing monocytes reveals a pro-inflammatory profile Heliyone00545
Bencomo-Alvarez AE Rubio AJ Gonzalez MA and Eiring AM Energy metabolism and drug response in myeloidleukaemic stem cells Br J Haematol 2019 In Press
9102019
24
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Peer-reviewed publications Yan D Pomicter AD Tantravahi S Mason CC Senina AV Ahmann JM Wang Q Than H Patel AB Heaton
WL Eiring AM Clair PM Gantz KC Redwine HM Swierczek SI Halverson BJ Baloglu E Shacham S KhorashadJS Kelley TW Salama ME Miles RR Boucher KM Prchal JT OHare T and Deininger MW Nuclear-cytoplasmic transport is a therapeutic target in myelofibrosis Clin Cancer Res 201925(7)2323-2335
Heipertz E Harper J Lopez CA Fikrig E Hughes ME Walker WE Circadian rhythms influence the severity of sepsis in mice via a TLR2-dependent leukocyte-intrinsic mechanism The Journal of Immunology 2018 201193-201
Khatri R Afzal MR Qureshi MA Maud A Huanyu D Jose Rodriguez G Pre-Existing Renal Failure Increases In-Hospital Mortality in Patients with Intracerebral Hemorrhage J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis 2019 Feb28(2)237-242
Zou L Lee SY Wu Q Zhang H Bastian A Orji C Payne G Galvez A Thomas T Zhang Z Dou H Facile Gene Delivery Derived from Branched Low Molecular Weight Polyethylenimine by High Efficient Chemistry J Biomed Nanotechnol 2018 Oct 114(10)1785-1795
Zhang C Brandon NR Koper K Tang P Xu Y Dou H Invasion of Peripheral Immune Cells into Brain Parenchyma after Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation Aging Dis 2018 Jun 19(3)412-425
Loza O Hernandez P Calderoacuten-Mora J Laks S Leiner M Reddy S Lara P amp Granados H (2018) Developing Trans-affirming health services in an underserved area An intersectional approach Transgender Health 3(1) 127-135
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Byrd T Calderoacuten-Mora J Salaiz R amp Shokar N (2019) Barriers and facilitators to colorectal cancer screening within a Hispanic population Hispanic Health Care International 17(1) 23-29 doi 1011771540415318818982
Haut SR Lipton RB Cornes S Dwivedi AK Wasson R Cotton S Strawn JR Privitera M (2018) Behavioral interventions as a treatment for epilepsy A multicenter randomized controlled trial Neurology 90(11) e963-e970 PMID 29444968
Jessica Bernica Sherif Elhanafi Neeharika Kalakota Yi Jia Christopher Dodoo Alok Dwivedi Robert J Sealock Kalpesh Patel Isaac Raijman Marc J Zuckerman Mohamed O Othman (2018) Cholangioscopy is safe and feasible in elderly patients Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology 16(8) 1293-1299
Benjamin D Wissel Alok K Dwivedi Danielle Chin Aristide Merola Cara Jacob Andrew P Duker Jennifer E Vaughan Lilia Lovera Kathrin LaFaver Ariel Levy Anthony E Lang Francesca Morgante Melissa J Nirenberg Christopher Stephen Nutan Sharma Alberto Romagnolo Leonardo Lopiano Bettina Balint Xin X Yu Kailash P Bhatia Alberto J Espay Functional neurological disorders in Parkinson disease Accepted for publication in Journal
of Neurology Neurosurgery amp Psychiatry 89(6)566-571
Danny J Avalos Marc J Zuckerman Alok Dwivedi Christopher Dodoo Jinendra Satiya Fernando J Castro(2018) Differences in prevalence of large polyps between Hispanic Americans from Mexican-and Non-Mexican-predominant states Digestive diseases and sciences PMID 30276570
Zeina Nahleh Salman Otoukesh Hamid Reza Mirshahidi Anthony Loc Nguyen Gayathri Nagaraj Nabeel Badri Gehan Botrus Nabih Diab Andres Alvarado Luis A Sanchez Alok K Dwivedi (2018) Disparities in breast cancer a multi-institutional comparative analysis focusing on American Hispanics Cancer Medicine (In press 05072018)
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25
Scholarly Activity Danny J Avalos Antonio Mendoza-Ladd Marc J Zuckerman Mohammad Bashashati Andres Alvarado Alok
Dwivedi Oriana M Damas (2018) Hispanics and Non-Hispanic Whites in the US have a Similar InflammatoryBowel Disease Phenotype A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis Digestive Diseases and Sciences 63(6)1558-1571
Aleli Campbell Rosalinda Heydarian Cecilia Ochoa Alok Kumar Dwivedi Zeina A Nahleh(2018) Single arm phaseII study of oral vitamin B12 for the treatment of musculoskeletal symptoms associated with aromatase inhibitors inwomen with early stage breast cancer The breast journal 24(3)260-268
Shaimaa Elzamly Nabeel Badri Osvaldo Padilla Alok Kumar Dwivedi Luis A Alvarado Matthew Hamilton NabihDiab Crosby Rock Ahmed Elfar Marwa Teleb Luis Sanchez Zeina Nahleh (2018) Epithelial-mesenchymaltransition markers in breast cancer and pathological responseafter neoadjuvant chemotherapy Breast Cancer
(Auckl) 2018 Aug 1121178223418788074
Jennifer C Molokwu Eribeth Penaranda Alok Dwivedi Indika Mallawaarachchi Navkiran Shokar (2018) Effect ofEducational Intervention on Self-Sampling Acceptability and Follow-Up Paps in Border Dwelling Hispanic FemalesJournal of Lower Genital Tract Disease
Ritika Suri Federico Rodriguez-Porcel Kelly Donohue Erin Jesse Lilia Lovera Alok Kumar Dwivedi Alberto JEspay (2018) Post-Stroke Movement Disorders The Clinical Neuroanatomic and Demographic Portrait of 284Published Cases Accepted for publication in Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases (In press05212018)
Zeina Nahleh Gehan Botrus Alok Dwivedi Nabeel Badri Salman Otoukesh Nabih Diab Sandip BiswasMichael Jennings Shaimaa Elzamly(2018) Clinico-pathologic disparities of breast cancer in HispanicLatina womenBreast disease 1-8
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Robert Gonzalez Trisha Suppes Jamie Zeitzer Colleen McClung Carol Tamminga Mauricio Tohen Angelica Forero Alok DwivediAndres Alvarado (2018) The association between mood state and chronobiological characteristics in bipolar I disorder a naturalisticvariable cluster analysis-based study International Journal of Bipolar Disorders 6(1)5Mohamed Teleb Aaron Shanker Alok Kumar Dwivedi Debabrata Mukherjee (2018) Effect of exercise on left ventricular mass index byechocardiography in mild and moderate hypertension a meta-analysis Res Cardiovasc Med 6(4)50-6Garnica O Das K Devasundaram S and Dhandayuthapani S Enhanced delivery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigens to antigenpresenting cells using RVG peptide Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Das K Garnica O and Dhandayuthapani S Utility of an oxidative stress response system for the expression of recombinant proteinsin mycobacteria and for the delivery of M tuberculosis antigens to the phagosomal compartments Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Palanichamy K Joshi A Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz T Fernando B Milan S Schiro F Naeem Y Garg H Braunschweig A 2019 Anti-ZikaActivity of a Library of Synthetic Carbohydrate Receptors Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 6284110-4119Anjali Joshi Erin B Punke Tugba Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz Diego P Peralta and Himanshu Garg 2019 TLR9 polymorphism correlates withimmune activation CD4 decline and plasma IP10 levels in HIV patients BMC Infect Dis 19 56Vargas-Medrano J Yang B Garza N T Segura-Ulate I and Perez R G (2018) Up-regulation of protective neuronal MicroRNAs byFTY720 and novel FTY720-derivatives Neuroscience letters 690 178-180Vidal-Martinez G Yang B Vargas-Medrano J and Perez R G (2018) Could alpha-Synuclein Modulation of Insulin and DopamineIdentify a Novel Link Between Parkinsons Disease and Diabetes as Well as Potential Therapies Frontiers in molecular
neuroscience 11 465
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Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Gil-Tommee C Vidal-Martinez G Annette Reyes C Vargas-Medrano J Herrera G V Martin S M Chaparro S A andPerez R G (2019) Parkinsonian GM2 synthase knockout mice lacking mature gangliosides develop urinary dysfunction andneurogenic bladder Experimental neurology 311265-273Vidal-Martinez G Najera K Miranda JD Gil-Tommee C Yang B Vargas-Medrano J Diaz-Pacheco V Barragan J ChaparroS Vargas-Medrano J Chinnasamy R Arterburn JB Perez RG FTY720 improves behavior increases Brain Derived NeurotrophicFactor and reduces α-synuclein pathology in parkinsonian GM2+minus
mice Neuroscience httpsdoiorg101016jneuroscience201905029Tasnim N Thakur V Chattopadhyay M Joddar B (2018) The efficacy of Graphene-foams towards the adhesion proliferationand expression of neuronal-phenotype by dopaminergic neurons differentiated from mesenchymal stem cells Stem cell
international Jun 3 20183410168 doi 10115520183410168Anil Kumar S Allen SC Tasnim N Akter T Park S Kumar A Chattopadhyay M Ito Y Suggs LJ Joddar B (2019) The applicabilityof furfuryl-gelatin as a novel bioink for tissue engineering applications J Biomed Mater Res B Appl Biomater 2019 107(2)314-323 doi 101002jbmb34123 Epub 2018 Apr 15Thakur V Chattopadhyay M (2018) Early urinary markers for diabetic and other kidney diseases Current drug targets 2018 Mar19Joddar B Tasnim N Thakur V Kumar A Mccallum R Chattopadhyay M (2018) Delivery of mesenchymal stem cells fromgelatin-alginate hydrogels to stomach lumen for treatment of gastroparesis Bioengineering 2018 5(1)Camacho CV Choudhari R Gadad SS (2018) Long noncoding RNAs and cancer an overview Steroids 13393-95
IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department
Large net loss (9) of MTM faculty members over the past 5 years
Vacant Director positions (i) Center for Neuroscience (ii) Center for InfectiousDiseases and (iii) Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
No steps have been taken to fill directors positions for more than 2 years
Neurosciences Center at the verge of collapse Only one faculty will be left at theend of this fiscal year
The size of Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology is shrinking
Lack of communication regarding vision and strategic plan for growing department
No faculty salary raises for the past 3 years
Serious concerns about recruitment retention and tenure and promotion decisionsmade in the department Faculty morale is extremely low
Lack of functional research core facility
Gradual elimination of service contracts of equipment essential for research trainingand education of graduate and medical students
A plethora of other issues with the department administration
9102019
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Questions
Departmental Report
Psychiatry
Ricardo Salazar MDAssociate Professor Psychiatry
9102019
28
Department ReportPsychiatryPRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCIL
BY RICARDO SALAZAR MD
DATE MONDAY JULY 15 2019
Department BreakdownPlease provide the total number of faculty members in your department and break down this number by
rank Please list new faculty members that have joined your department within the last six months
Total Number of Faculty 12
Number of Instructors 1
Number of Assistant Professors 8
Number of Associate Professors 2
Number of Professors 2
New Faculty Melanie Longhurst MD Instructor
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LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair
program director clerkship director chiefs etc
Department Chair ndash Peter M Thompson MD MS
Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Sarah L Martin MD
Combined IMPsych Residency Program Director ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD
Psychiatry Clerkship Director ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD
Child amp Adolescent Fellowship Program Director ndash Cecilia De Vargas MD
Chief Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry ndash Sarah L Martin MD
Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Program Directorndash Ricardo Salazar MD
Chief Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences ndash Ricardo Salazar MD
Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Transmountain ndash Moataz Ragheb MD
AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in your department including awards honors regional
appointments national appointments etc
El Paso Behavioral Health Consortium ndash Board Member ndash Peter M Thompson MD
714 (50) of our graduating medical students this year choose and matched our resident training programs here at Paul L FosterSchool of Medicine Department of Psychiatry (Historical record) ndash Kudos for our Department Faculty
In appreciation for exceptional contributions to the 30th volume of the J Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences ndash Author contributions and review of 271 manuscripts submitted to the journal between September 2017 and August 2018 ndash Ricardo Salazar MD ndash Young Investigator Award Committee Member and Program Committee Member-Abstracts Sub-Committee Member of theAmerican Neuropsychiatric Association (ANPA)
Initial Accreditation with commendation and no citations from ACGME for our first Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Training Program for West Texas ndash Ricardo Salazar MD
Leadership in Education and Development Certificate Program (LEAD) Fellow -1-year program accredited from the Association ofAmerican Medical Colleges (AAMC) Silvina Tonarelli MD amp Ricardo Salazar MD (Selected Award)
Fully operating Southwest Brain Bank A Brain Tissue Repository for Research in Mental Illness ndashPeter M Thompson MD
Texas State Psychiatric Physicians Public Mental Health Services Committee ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD
Texas Health and Human Services Commission Behavioral Health Advisory Committee ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP
Fellow American College of Physicians ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP FACP
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Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Abstracts 31
Publications 5 (peer-review journals)
Presentations 17 ndash National (7) and International (6)
Invited Speaker 21 (including faculty residents fellows) ndash Local amp National
Book Chapters NA
Grants McKee Foundation Award ndash our Chair - Thompson
Intramural Grants Seed Grant 1 SARP Educational Grant 2 - Salazar
President`s Collaborative Research Initiative ndashMarch 2018 - Tonarelli
Scholarly Activity
Child and Adolescent Fellowship Presentations
INTERNATIONAL
- Curanderos and Limpias Cultural psychiatry
Poster presented at 6th Annual Scientific conference of the European Association of PsychosomaticMedicine Verona Italy Drs Garza Meissner De Vargas Mehta June 2018
-Case presentation 0f 49XXXXY Same conference same authors same city
-Resilience etiology protective and risk factors presentation C De Vargas by invitation Annual WorldPediatric summit Madrid June 2018
-Parents and their Children Fantastic journey Same conference on June 2019 Berlin Germany
NATIONAL
-Development of Psychopathology in children at risk for Bipolar Disorders Drs Escamilla Peter Sangra C DeVargas S Martin C Alvarado Andrea Rios (Poster) American Academy of Child and Adolescent PsychiatryAnnual Conference Seattle WA October 2018
Frank William Meissner MD Cynthia Elizabeth Garza MDJD Sarah L Martin MD rdquoDrug-Induced BrugadaSyndrome in a Middle-Aged Female Patient Drugs EKG Diagnosis Electrophysiology and SurveillanceRecommendationrdquo American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting San Francisco CA May 21 2019
Delinquency in a group of school children at risk for bipolar disorder D Haque M Escamilla C De VargasPresented at UCLA LA Ca June 2019
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Residency ProgramPlease provide information regarding your departmentrsquos residency program ie recent accreditation
number of residents and program updates (if applicable)
24 General Psychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)
8 Internal MedicinePsychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)
3 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellows
1 Geriatric Psychiatry Fellow- newly accredited program
IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department
RecruitmentRetention
Short staffed
Organizational Structure
Financial incentives
Protected time
Gender balance Attrition malefemale ratio 41
Program Coordinator turnover rate
Mentoring
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Departmental Organizational
Structure
Chair
Division ChiefsProgram Directors
Clerkship Director
Adm
Organizational Structure Model
Chair
Deputy Chair for Education
Program
Directors
Deputy Chair for Research
Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs
Vicechair
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Roles
Deputy Chair for Education
Oversee undergraduate graduate and CME including the development of teachers and educational scholars Monitor quality and safety across the department
Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs
Faculty appointments Faculty Development and Promotion andor Tenure Develop programs in different domains such as research education personal improvement and leadership Support clinical activities by improving the efficiency of operations and in helping to fit clinical programs into those in the rest of the medical center Allocation of space
Deputy Chair for Research
Develop and direct department-wide programs for faculty recruitment development and support of mentors recognition of excellence and funding of pilot grants bridge funding and grants to nurture multi-principal investigator and trans-division or trans-department projects Allocation of space among divisions
Bottom Line
We need more funds
Institutional support
The investments needed to recruit faculty are beyond the capacity of the
department`s operational revenue
Recruiting a leading investigator or one with great potential for
example may require an investment of $ 1 million and sometimes more
Endowments are the departmentrsquos foundational financial capital the
keel that maintains momentum and balance through the headwinds
and rough seas each department will navigate Endowments increase
the departmentrsquos independence in sustaining its core mission
Thus creation of endowments should be a high priority for any
department that plans for the long term and they increase capacity to
recruit the best faculty in a competitive environment
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Committee Composition and Terms of ServiceLast Name First Name Degree Academic Rank Department Committee Position Term Start Date
Term Expiration Date
Frances Mark MD ProfessorMedical Education
Member (College Master)
9120168312020
Pfarr Curt PhD ProfessorMedical Education
Member (College Master) 9242015 8312019
Gajendran Mahesh MD Assistant ProfessorInternal Medicine
Member (Clinician) 912017 8312021
Uga Aghaegbulam MD Assistant Professor
Psychiatry and Internal Medicine
Member (Clinician) 11192015 10312019
Kassar Darine MD Assistant Professor NeurologyMember (Clinician) 972016 8312020
Wojciechowska Joanna MD Assistant Professor Pediatrics
Member (Clinician) 212018 8312022
Nino DiegoMD PhD Assistant Professor
Medical Education
Member (Basic Sciences) 1142019 1142023
Padilla Osvaldo MD Assistant Professor PathologyMember (Basic Sciences) 12152014 8312022
Cervantes JorgeMD PhD Assistant Professor
Medical Education
Member (Basic Sciences) 8232016 8312020
Perry Cynthia PhD Assistant ProfessorMedical Education
Member (Basic Sciences) 9282015 8312019
Brower Richard MDAssociate Professor
Medical Education Chair NA NA
Three positions
opening soon ndash-
should have
demonstrated
interest and
engagement in
UME and a
willingness to
attend all
meetings and
participate in
team
assignments
Committee Composition and Terms of
Service Leadership
This committee is chaired by the associate dean for medical education
The committee reports to the Faculty Council
Membership will include
2 college masters (one basic scientist one clinician) with 4-year terms
4 members from the basic sciences faculty with 4-year terms (staggered)
4 members from the clinical sciences faculty with 4-year terms (staggered)
Ex Officio members
Dean or their designee
Associate dean for student affairs
Assistant deans for medication education
Managing director of the libraries (ldquoAssociate Director of the Libraryrdquo)
Director of information technology or their designee
Director of assessment and evaluation (position no longer exists)
Two student reps from each of the four classes (from the Student Curriculum and Evaluation Committee)
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Committee Charge Faculty Bylaws Article IX Section C2
The Committee on Curriculum and Educational Policy is charged with planning coordinating
reviewing and evaluating the curriculum to ensure that it adheres to the
written educational policies goals and objectives of the Paul L Foster School
of Medicine Further the Committee shall have full authority to make changes in
educational policy or in the organization of the curriculum with the
concurrence of the Dean and with comment and input from the Faculty Council The Faculty of the Paul L Foster School of Medicine has the responsibility to define course objectives create
and deliver content to meet those objectives and modify their activities in response to appropriate feedback
from peers and students The Committee will provide updates on its activities at least
twice a year to the Faculty Council In order to accomplish the mission of the Committee the
Chair may appoint subcommittees that may include members who are not
members of the Committee It shall be the responsibility of the Committee to coordinate the
activities and reports of these subcommittees In addition the Committee receives reports
from the Committee on Evaluation of Educational Programs
Current IssuesConcerns
Curriculum enhancementimprovement
Preparation for class size expansion
Preparation for next round of curriculum reviews
(ldquocurriculum as a wholerdquo)
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CEPC actions since last report
January 2019 (1 meeting)
Reviewed and approved revisions to the following
educational program polices
Clerkship Administration
Clerkship DirectorAssistant Director Position Description
Approval of two new 4th Year Electives
Pediatric Gastroenterology Hepatology and Nutrition
Emergency Medicine Ultrasound
Clerkship phase review FM and Surgery
CEPC actions since last report
February 2019 (2 meetings)
New educational program policy reviewed and approved
Grade Changes and Transcript Notations
Rollover of established educational program goals and
objectives (the ldquoPGOsrdquo) approved
Clerkship phase review Pediatrics and ObGyn
Preliminary data-driven discussion of revised educational
program policy covering Grading Promotion and Academic
Standing (ldquoGPASrdquo)
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CEPC actions since last report
March 2019 (2 meetings)
Clerkship phase review IM and Psych Critical Care and Sub-I
Selectives
Approval of new educational program policy
Grading Promotion and Academic Standing (ldquoGPASrdquo)
Notification of changes in clerkship directorship
Elimination of the PICE course (PICE 7001) from the year 2
curriculum approved (primarily administrative educational
elements re-distributed)
Associated review and approval of an updated PLSOM degree
plan (based on 157 credit hours)
CEPC actions since last report
April 2019 (1 meetings)
Clerkship phase review EM Neurology and Intersessions
Review and approval of revised educational program policy
Pre-Clerkship Phase Student Attendance and Participation
Policy
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CEPC actions since last report
May 2019 (1 meetings)
Review and approval of the ldquoCommon Clerkship Policiesrdquo
Notification of additional changes in the clerkship
directorship
Clerkship phase review
Phase data review (AAMC GQ NBME subject exams
USMLE Step 2 CK and CS Step 3 final grades EOY OSCE
and procedure workshop residency director survey)
Introduction of a 10-point plan for curriculum revision
(ldquoPLFSOM v20rdquo)
June 2019 (no quorum) July 2019 (cancelled)
CEPC actions since last report
Challenges and opportunities for improvement identified
through the AY208-19 clerkship phase review
Clear identification of contacts at affiliated sites
Academic support and remediation planning
Consistent resident preparation for participation in UME
Timeliness of grading (Sub-I and Critical Care Selectives)
Orientation modules for Sub-Q and Critical Care Selectives)
Scaling clerkships for anticipated class expansion
The summer doldrums
June 2019 (no quorum) July 2019 (cancelled)
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Upcoming actions
Ongoing educational program policy development
Maintain accreditation compliance related curriculum
review cycle (2019-20 ldquoCurriculum as a Wholerdquo)
Review and advance plans for curriculum renewalrevision
Review proposal to re-direct our MD-MPH affiliation to
TTUHSC GSBS Lubbock
Consider development of an MD-MBA option (potentially
with UTEP)
Links to related information
PLFSOM Committee on Curriculum and Educational Policy main page
httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCdefaultaspx
MD degree program policies
httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCpoliciesaspx
MD degree program information
httpselpasottuhscedusomomeUMEinfoaspx
Course and clerkship syllabi
httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCcoursereviewaspx
AY2017-18 medical education program evaluation report (e-Raider required)
httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPC_documentssecureAY2017-
2018MEPEvaluationAnnualReport-Draft-v2pdf
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Departmental Report
Molecular and Translational
Medicine
Laxman Gangwani PhDAssociate Professor Molecular amp
Translational Medicine
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Department of Molecular and
Translational Medicine (formerly
Biomedical Sciences) Report
PRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCIL
BY LAXMAN GANGWANI
DATE JULY 15 2019
Department BreakdownPlease provide the total number of faculty members in your department and break down this number by
rank Please list new faculty members that have joined your department within the last six months
Total Number of Faculty
Number of Faculty Associates 1
Number of Instructors 1
Number of Research Assistant Professor 1
Number of Assistant Professors 6
Number of Associate Professors 7
Number of Professors 4
New Faculty
None
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21
LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair
program director clerkship director chiefs etc
Department Chair Dr Peter Rotwein (VP Research Associate
Dean GSBS)
Director Center of Emphasis in Cancer Dr Rajkumar
Lakshmanaswamy (Dean GSBS) Co-Director Dr N Shokar
Director Center of Emphasis in Diabetes and Metabolism Dr
David Cistola
Director Center of Emphasis in Infectious Diseases Vacant
Director Center of Emphasis in Neurosciences Vacant
Chief Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology Vacant
AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional
appointments national appointments etc
Awards
Dr Mingtao Zeng
2018 The American Association of Immunologists (AAI) AAI Travel Grant for the 5th European Congress of Immunology
2018 Defense Techconnect Fall Summit amp Expo (2018) Techconnect Defense Innovation Award
Dr Shrikant Gadad
Eugenia Rosemberg Outstanding Abstract Award Endocrine Society Annual Meeting New Orleans March 23-26 2019
Dr Huanyu Dou
National Innovation Award Techconnect 2019
Honors
Dr Alok Dwivedi
Appointed as associated faculty at the Border Biomedical Research Center (BBRC) University of Texas El Paso (UTEP)
Dr Shrikant Gadad
Session Chair (OR09 Steroid Hormone Biology in Physiology and Disease) Endocrine Society Annual Meeting New Orleans March 23-26 2019
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AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional
appointments national appointments etc
NIH or DOD study sections appointments
Dr Guohua Yi
HIV special Emphasis Panel for RFA-AI-18-058 Genetic Engineering Technologies for HIV Cure Research (U19)
Dr Laxman Gangwani
Department of Defense (DOD) Reviewer for Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) 2018 -
NIHCSR Study ldquoProgram Evaluation of NIH Peer Review Processes The Role of Anonymizationrdquo 2019 ndash
Patents filings and publications
Patent Number 9862951 Title RNA Interference-Based Therapeutic against Anthrax Inventors Mingtao Zeng and Maria T AreacutevaloDate of Patent January 9 2018
Cistola D P Patel V (2018) Method and system for non-invasive measurement of metabolic health US Non-Provisional Utility Patent Application No 15911728 filed by Texas Tech University
Cistola D P Robinson M D (2018) Methods and tools for diagnosing insulin resistance and assessing health status using NMR relaxation times for water United States Patent Application Publication US 20180020947 A1 httpspatentsgooglecompatentUS20180020947A1en
AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional
appointments national appointments etc
News and Media Coverage of Research performed at TTUHSC EP
Dr David Cistola
MedPageToday 2 January 2019 Harris Scott Could a New Biomarker Help Predict Type 2 Diabetes -- Early datashow water T2 catches abnormalities before traditional testing but experts are cautiously optimistichttpswwwmedpagetodaycomreading-roomendocrine-societydiabetes77186
KTSM Channel 9 NBC El Paso 14 November 2018 Castillo Susy Research in El Paso aimed at detectingdiabetes earlyhttpswwwktsmcomlifestylehealthresearch-in-el-paso-aimed-at-detecting-diabetes-early1596408236apt_credirect=1
El Paso Inc 29 March 2019 TTUHSC El Paso Tackling diabetes cancer httpwwwelpasoinccomttuhsc-el-paso-tackling-diabetes-cancerarticle_613144fe-526a-11e9-b916-c35b701a5ef9html
Dr Laxman Gangwani
Cure SMA Awards $150000 Grant to Laxman Gangwani PhD Texas Tech University
httpwwwcuresmaorgnewsgangwani-grant-2019html
httpswwweurekalertorgpub_releases2019-05ttuh-gw050119php
httpswwwresearchgatenetscientific-contributions11984383_Laxman_Gangwani
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Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Peer-reviewed publications 36 (In high-impact journals)
2018 highest impact factor (11561) journal Nucleic Acids Research
Abstracts 43
Presentations (i) Oral 11 (ii) Posters 28
Invited talks 13
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Peer-reviewed publications
Kannan A Bhatia K Branzei D and Gangwani L (2018) Combined deficiency of Senataxin and DNA-PKcscauses DNA damage accumulation and neurodegeneration in spinal muscular atrophy Nucleic Acids Research2018 Vol 46 No 16 8326-8346
Mishra I Jones C Patel V Deodhar S Cistola D P (2018) Early detection of metabolic dysregulation usingwater T2 analysis of biobanked samples Diabetes Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity Targets and Therapy 11 807-818
Patel V Dwivedi A K Deodhar S Mishra I Cistola D P (2018) Aptamer-based search for correlates of plasmaand serum water T2 Implications for early metabolic dysregulation and metabolic syndrome Biomarker Research6(1) 28
Garg H Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz T Joshi A 2018 Recent Advances in Zika Virus Vaccines Viruses Nov 1410 (11) Sundin OH Mendoza-Ladd A Zeng M Diaz-Areacutevalo D Morales E Fagan BMOrdontildeez J McCallum RW Does a
glucose-based hydrogen and methane breath test detect bacterial overgrowth in the jejunum NeurogastroenterolMotil 2018e13350
Zheng Z Diaz-Areacutevalo D Guan H and Mingtao Zeng Noninvasive vaccination against infectious diseases Humanvaccines amp immunotherapeutics 2018 14(7)1717-1733
Preeti Bharaj Chunting Ye Sean Petersen Qianghu Wang Baoli Hu N Manjunath Premlata Shankar Guohua Yi(2018) Gene array analysis of PD-1H overexpressing monocytes reveals a pro-inflammatory profile Heliyone00545
Bencomo-Alvarez AE Rubio AJ Gonzalez MA and Eiring AM Energy metabolism and drug response in myeloidleukaemic stem cells Br J Haematol 2019 In Press
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Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Peer-reviewed publications Yan D Pomicter AD Tantravahi S Mason CC Senina AV Ahmann JM Wang Q Than H Patel AB Heaton
WL Eiring AM Clair PM Gantz KC Redwine HM Swierczek SI Halverson BJ Baloglu E Shacham S KhorashadJS Kelley TW Salama ME Miles RR Boucher KM Prchal JT OHare T and Deininger MW Nuclear-cytoplasmic transport is a therapeutic target in myelofibrosis Clin Cancer Res 201925(7)2323-2335
Heipertz E Harper J Lopez CA Fikrig E Hughes ME Walker WE Circadian rhythms influence the severity of sepsis in mice via a TLR2-dependent leukocyte-intrinsic mechanism The Journal of Immunology 2018 201193-201
Khatri R Afzal MR Qureshi MA Maud A Huanyu D Jose Rodriguez G Pre-Existing Renal Failure Increases In-Hospital Mortality in Patients with Intracerebral Hemorrhage J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis 2019 Feb28(2)237-242
Zou L Lee SY Wu Q Zhang H Bastian A Orji C Payne G Galvez A Thomas T Zhang Z Dou H Facile Gene Delivery Derived from Branched Low Molecular Weight Polyethylenimine by High Efficient Chemistry J Biomed Nanotechnol 2018 Oct 114(10)1785-1795
Zhang C Brandon NR Koper K Tang P Xu Y Dou H Invasion of Peripheral Immune Cells into Brain Parenchyma after Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation Aging Dis 2018 Jun 19(3)412-425
Loza O Hernandez P Calderoacuten-Mora J Laks S Leiner M Reddy S Lara P amp Granados H (2018) Developing Trans-affirming health services in an underserved area An intersectional approach Transgender Health 3(1) 127-135
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Byrd T Calderoacuten-Mora J Salaiz R amp Shokar N (2019) Barriers and facilitators to colorectal cancer screening within a Hispanic population Hispanic Health Care International 17(1) 23-29 doi 1011771540415318818982
Haut SR Lipton RB Cornes S Dwivedi AK Wasson R Cotton S Strawn JR Privitera M (2018) Behavioral interventions as a treatment for epilepsy A multicenter randomized controlled trial Neurology 90(11) e963-e970 PMID 29444968
Jessica Bernica Sherif Elhanafi Neeharika Kalakota Yi Jia Christopher Dodoo Alok Dwivedi Robert J Sealock Kalpesh Patel Isaac Raijman Marc J Zuckerman Mohamed O Othman (2018) Cholangioscopy is safe and feasible in elderly patients Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology 16(8) 1293-1299
Benjamin D Wissel Alok K Dwivedi Danielle Chin Aristide Merola Cara Jacob Andrew P Duker Jennifer E Vaughan Lilia Lovera Kathrin LaFaver Ariel Levy Anthony E Lang Francesca Morgante Melissa J Nirenberg Christopher Stephen Nutan Sharma Alberto Romagnolo Leonardo Lopiano Bettina Balint Xin X Yu Kailash P Bhatia Alberto J Espay Functional neurological disorders in Parkinson disease Accepted for publication in Journal
of Neurology Neurosurgery amp Psychiatry 89(6)566-571
Danny J Avalos Marc J Zuckerman Alok Dwivedi Christopher Dodoo Jinendra Satiya Fernando J Castro(2018) Differences in prevalence of large polyps between Hispanic Americans from Mexican-and Non-Mexican-predominant states Digestive diseases and sciences PMID 30276570
Zeina Nahleh Salman Otoukesh Hamid Reza Mirshahidi Anthony Loc Nguyen Gayathri Nagaraj Nabeel Badri Gehan Botrus Nabih Diab Andres Alvarado Luis A Sanchez Alok K Dwivedi (2018) Disparities in breast cancer a multi-institutional comparative analysis focusing on American Hispanics Cancer Medicine (In press 05072018)
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25
Scholarly Activity Danny J Avalos Antonio Mendoza-Ladd Marc J Zuckerman Mohammad Bashashati Andres Alvarado Alok
Dwivedi Oriana M Damas (2018) Hispanics and Non-Hispanic Whites in the US have a Similar InflammatoryBowel Disease Phenotype A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis Digestive Diseases and Sciences 63(6)1558-1571
Aleli Campbell Rosalinda Heydarian Cecilia Ochoa Alok Kumar Dwivedi Zeina A Nahleh(2018) Single arm phaseII study of oral vitamin B12 for the treatment of musculoskeletal symptoms associated with aromatase inhibitors inwomen with early stage breast cancer The breast journal 24(3)260-268
Shaimaa Elzamly Nabeel Badri Osvaldo Padilla Alok Kumar Dwivedi Luis A Alvarado Matthew Hamilton NabihDiab Crosby Rock Ahmed Elfar Marwa Teleb Luis Sanchez Zeina Nahleh (2018) Epithelial-mesenchymaltransition markers in breast cancer and pathological responseafter neoadjuvant chemotherapy Breast Cancer
(Auckl) 2018 Aug 1121178223418788074
Jennifer C Molokwu Eribeth Penaranda Alok Dwivedi Indika Mallawaarachchi Navkiran Shokar (2018) Effect ofEducational Intervention on Self-Sampling Acceptability and Follow-Up Paps in Border Dwelling Hispanic FemalesJournal of Lower Genital Tract Disease
Ritika Suri Federico Rodriguez-Porcel Kelly Donohue Erin Jesse Lilia Lovera Alok Kumar Dwivedi Alberto JEspay (2018) Post-Stroke Movement Disorders The Clinical Neuroanatomic and Demographic Portrait of 284Published Cases Accepted for publication in Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases (In press05212018)
Zeina Nahleh Gehan Botrus Alok Dwivedi Nabeel Badri Salman Otoukesh Nabih Diab Sandip BiswasMichael Jennings Shaimaa Elzamly(2018) Clinico-pathologic disparities of breast cancer in HispanicLatina womenBreast disease 1-8
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Robert Gonzalez Trisha Suppes Jamie Zeitzer Colleen McClung Carol Tamminga Mauricio Tohen Angelica Forero Alok DwivediAndres Alvarado (2018) The association between mood state and chronobiological characteristics in bipolar I disorder a naturalisticvariable cluster analysis-based study International Journal of Bipolar Disorders 6(1)5Mohamed Teleb Aaron Shanker Alok Kumar Dwivedi Debabrata Mukherjee (2018) Effect of exercise on left ventricular mass index byechocardiography in mild and moderate hypertension a meta-analysis Res Cardiovasc Med 6(4)50-6Garnica O Das K Devasundaram S and Dhandayuthapani S Enhanced delivery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigens to antigenpresenting cells using RVG peptide Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Das K Garnica O and Dhandayuthapani S Utility of an oxidative stress response system for the expression of recombinant proteinsin mycobacteria and for the delivery of M tuberculosis antigens to the phagosomal compartments Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Palanichamy K Joshi A Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz T Fernando B Milan S Schiro F Naeem Y Garg H Braunschweig A 2019 Anti-ZikaActivity of a Library of Synthetic Carbohydrate Receptors Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 6284110-4119Anjali Joshi Erin B Punke Tugba Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz Diego P Peralta and Himanshu Garg 2019 TLR9 polymorphism correlates withimmune activation CD4 decline and plasma IP10 levels in HIV patients BMC Infect Dis 19 56Vargas-Medrano J Yang B Garza N T Segura-Ulate I and Perez R G (2018) Up-regulation of protective neuronal MicroRNAs byFTY720 and novel FTY720-derivatives Neuroscience letters 690 178-180Vidal-Martinez G Yang B Vargas-Medrano J and Perez R G (2018) Could alpha-Synuclein Modulation of Insulin and DopamineIdentify a Novel Link Between Parkinsons Disease and Diabetes as Well as Potential Therapies Frontiers in molecular
neuroscience 11 465
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26
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Gil-Tommee C Vidal-Martinez G Annette Reyes C Vargas-Medrano J Herrera G V Martin S M Chaparro S A andPerez R G (2019) Parkinsonian GM2 synthase knockout mice lacking mature gangliosides develop urinary dysfunction andneurogenic bladder Experimental neurology 311265-273Vidal-Martinez G Najera K Miranda JD Gil-Tommee C Yang B Vargas-Medrano J Diaz-Pacheco V Barragan J ChaparroS Vargas-Medrano J Chinnasamy R Arterburn JB Perez RG FTY720 improves behavior increases Brain Derived NeurotrophicFactor and reduces α-synuclein pathology in parkinsonian GM2+minus
mice Neuroscience httpsdoiorg101016jneuroscience201905029Tasnim N Thakur V Chattopadhyay M Joddar B (2018) The efficacy of Graphene-foams towards the adhesion proliferationand expression of neuronal-phenotype by dopaminergic neurons differentiated from mesenchymal stem cells Stem cell
international Jun 3 20183410168 doi 10115520183410168Anil Kumar S Allen SC Tasnim N Akter T Park S Kumar A Chattopadhyay M Ito Y Suggs LJ Joddar B (2019) The applicabilityof furfuryl-gelatin as a novel bioink for tissue engineering applications J Biomed Mater Res B Appl Biomater 2019 107(2)314-323 doi 101002jbmb34123 Epub 2018 Apr 15Thakur V Chattopadhyay M (2018) Early urinary markers for diabetic and other kidney diseases Current drug targets 2018 Mar19Joddar B Tasnim N Thakur V Kumar A Mccallum R Chattopadhyay M (2018) Delivery of mesenchymal stem cells fromgelatin-alginate hydrogels to stomach lumen for treatment of gastroparesis Bioengineering 2018 5(1)Camacho CV Choudhari R Gadad SS (2018) Long noncoding RNAs and cancer an overview Steroids 13393-95
IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department
Large net loss (9) of MTM faculty members over the past 5 years
Vacant Director positions (i) Center for Neuroscience (ii) Center for InfectiousDiseases and (iii) Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
No steps have been taken to fill directors positions for more than 2 years
Neurosciences Center at the verge of collapse Only one faculty will be left at theend of this fiscal year
The size of Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology is shrinking
Lack of communication regarding vision and strategic plan for growing department
No faculty salary raises for the past 3 years
Serious concerns about recruitment retention and tenure and promotion decisionsmade in the department Faculty morale is extremely low
Lack of functional research core facility
Gradual elimination of service contracts of equipment essential for research trainingand education of graduate and medical students
A plethora of other issues with the department administration
9102019
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Questions
Departmental Report
Psychiatry
Ricardo Salazar MDAssociate Professor Psychiatry
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Department ReportPsychiatryPRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCIL
BY RICARDO SALAZAR MD
DATE MONDAY JULY 15 2019
Department BreakdownPlease provide the total number of faculty members in your department and break down this number by
rank Please list new faculty members that have joined your department within the last six months
Total Number of Faculty 12
Number of Instructors 1
Number of Assistant Professors 8
Number of Associate Professors 2
Number of Professors 2
New Faculty Melanie Longhurst MD Instructor
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29
LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair
program director clerkship director chiefs etc
Department Chair ndash Peter M Thompson MD MS
Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Sarah L Martin MD
Combined IMPsych Residency Program Director ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD
Psychiatry Clerkship Director ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD
Child amp Adolescent Fellowship Program Director ndash Cecilia De Vargas MD
Chief Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry ndash Sarah L Martin MD
Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Program Directorndash Ricardo Salazar MD
Chief Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences ndash Ricardo Salazar MD
Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Transmountain ndash Moataz Ragheb MD
AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in your department including awards honors regional
appointments national appointments etc
El Paso Behavioral Health Consortium ndash Board Member ndash Peter M Thompson MD
714 (50) of our graduating medical students this year choose and matched our resident training programs here at Paul L FosterSchool of Medicine Department of Psychiatry (Historical record) ndash Kudos for our Department Faculty
In appreciation for exceptional contributions to the 30th volume of the J Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences ndash Author contributions and review of 271 manuscripts submitted to the journal between September 2017 and August 2018 ndash Ricardo Salazar MD ndash Young Investigator Award Committee Member and Program Committee Member-Abstracts Sub-Committee Member of theAmerican Neuropsychiatric Association (ANPA)
Initial Accreditation with commendation and no citations from ACGME for our first Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Training Program for West Texas ndash Ricardo Salazar MD
Leadership in Education and Development Certificate Program (LEAD) Fellow -1-year program accredited from the Association ofAmerican Medical Colleges (AAMC) Silvina Tonarelli MD amp Ricardo Salazar MD (Selected Award)
Fully operating Southwest Brain Bank A Brain Tissue Repository for Research in Mental Illness ndashPeter M Thompson MD
Texas State Psychiatric Physicians Public Mental Health Services Committee ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD
Texas Health and Human Services Commission Behavioral Health Advisory Committee ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP
Fellow American College of Physicians ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP FACP
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Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Abstracts 31
Publications 5 (peer-review journals)
Presentations 17 ndash National (7) and International (6)
Invited Speaker 21 (including faculty residents fellows) ndash Local amp National
Book Chapters NA
Grants McKee Foundation Award ndash our Chair - Thompson
Intramural Grants Seed Grant 1 SARP Educational Grant 2 - Salazar
President`s Collaborative Research Initiative ndashMarch 2018 - Tonarelli
Scholarly Activity
Child and Adolescent Fellowship Presentations
INTERNATIONAL
- Curanderos and Limpias Cultural psychiatry
Poster presented at 6th Annual Scientific conference of the European Association of PsychosomaticMedicine Verona Italy Drs Garza Meissner De Vargas Mehta June 2018
-Case presentation 0f 49XXXXY Same conference same authors same city
-Resilience etiology protective and risk factors presentation C De Vargas by invitation Annual WorldPediatric summit Madrid June 2018
-Parents and their Children Fantastic journey Same conference on June 2019 Berlin Germany
NATIONAL
-Development of Psychopathology in children at risk for Bipolar Disorders Drs Escamilla Peter Sangra C DeVargas S Martin C Alvarado Andrea Rios (Poster) American Academy of Child and Adolescent PsychiatryAnnual Conference Seattle WA October 2018
Frank William Meissner MD Cynthia Elizabeth Garza MDJD Sarah L Martin MD rdquoDrug-Induced BrugadaSyndrome in a Middle-Aged Female Patient Drugs EKG Diagnosis Electrophysiology and SurveillanceRecommendationrdquo American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting San Francisco CA May 21 2019
Delinquency in a group of school children at risk for bipolar disorder D Haque M Escamilla C De VargasPresented at UCLA LA Ca June 2019
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Residency ProgramPlease provide information regarding your departmentrsquos residency program ie recent accreditation
number of residents and program updates (if applicable)
24 General Psychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)
8 Internal MedicinePsychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)
3 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellows
1 Geriatric Psychiatry Fellow- newly accredited program
IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department
RecruitmentRetention
Short staffed
Organizational Structure
Financial incentives
Protected time
Gender balance Attrition malefemale ratio 41
Program Coordinator turnover rate
Mentoring
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Departmental Organizational
Structure
Chair
Division ChiefsProgram Directors
Clerkship Director
Adm
Organizational Structure Model
Chair
Deputy Chair for Education
Program
Directors
Deputy Chair for Research
Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs
Vicechair
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Roles
Deputy Chair for Education
Oversee undergraduate graduate and CME including the development of teachers and educational scholars Monitor quality and safety across the department
Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs
Faculty appointments Faculty Development and Promotion andor Tenure Develop programs in different domains such as research education personal improvement and leadership Support clinical activities by improving the efficiency of operations and in helping to fit clinical programs into those in the rest of the medical center Allocation of space
Deputy Chair for Research
Develop and direct department-wide programs for faculty recruitment development and support of mentors recognition of excellence and funding of pilot grants bridge funding and grants to nurture multi-principal investigator and trans-division or trans-department projects Allocation of space among divisions
Bottom Line
We need more funds
Institutional support
The investments needed to recruit faculty are beyond the capacity of the
department`s operational revenue
Recruiting a leading investigator or one with great potential for
example may require an investment of $ 1 million and sometimes more
Endowments are the departmentrsquos foundational financial capital the
keel that maintains momentum and balance through the headwinds
and rough seas each department will navigate Endowments increase
the departmentrsquos independence in sustaining its core mission
Thus creation of endowments should be a high priority for any
department that plans for the long term and they increase capacity to
recruit the best faculty in a competitive environment
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Committee Charge Faculty Bylaws Article IX Section C2
The Committee on Curriculum and Educational Policy is charged with planning coordinating
reviewing and evaluating the curriculum to ensure that it adheres to the
written educational policies goals and objectives of the Paul L Foster School
of Medicine Further the Committee shall have full authority to make changes in
educational policy or in the organization of the curriculum with the
concurrence of the Dean and with comment and input from the Faculty Council The Faculty of the Paul L Foster School of Medicine has the responsibility to define course objectives create
and deliver content to meet those objectives and modify their activities in response to appropriate feedback
from peers and students The Committee will provide updates on its activities at least
twice a year to the Faculty Council In order to accomplish the mission of the Committee the
Chair may appoint subcommittees that may include members who are not
members of the Committee It shall be the responsibility of the Committee to coordinate the
activities and reports of these subcommittees In addition the Committee receives reports
from the Committee on Evaluation of Educational Programs
Current IssuesConcerns
Curriculum enhancementimprovement
Preparation for class size expansion
Preparation for next round of curriculum reviews
(ldquocurriculum as a wholerdquo)
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CEPC actions since last report
January 2019 (1 meeting)
Reviewed and approved revisions to the following
educational program polices
Clerkship Administration
Clerkship DirectorAssistant Director Position Description
Approval of two new 4th Year Electives
Pediatric Gastroenterology Hepatology and Nutrition
Emergency Medicine Ultrasound
Clerkship phase review FM and Surgery
CEPC actions since last report
February 2019 (2 meetings)
New educational program policy reviewed and approved
Grade Changes and Transcript Notations
Rollover of established educational program goals and
objectives (the ldquoPGOsrdquo) approved
Clerkship phase review Pediatrics and ObGyn
Preliminary data-driven discussion of revised educational
program policy covering Grading Promotion and Academic
Standing (ldquoGPASrdquo)
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CEPC actions since last report
March 2019 (2 meetings)
Clerkship phase review IM and Psych Critical Care and Sub-I
Selectives
Approval of new educational program policy
Grading Promotion and Academic Standing (ldquoGPASrdquo)
Notification of changes in clerkship directorship
Elimination of the PICE course (PICE 7001) from the year 2
curriculum approved (primarily administrative educational
elements re-distributed)
Associated review and approval of an updated PLSOM degree
plan (based on 157 credit hours)
CEPC actions since last report
April 2019 (1 meetings)
Clerkship phase review EM Neurology and Intersessions
Review and approval of revised educational program policy
Pre-Clerkship Phase Student Attendance and Participation
Policy
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CEPC actions since last report
May 2019 (1 meetings)
Review and approval of the ldquoCommon Clerkship Policiesrdquo
Notification of additional changes in the clerkship
directorship
Clerkship phase review
Phase data review (AAMC GQ NBME subject exams
USMLE Step 2 CK and CS Step 3 final grades EOY OSCE
and procedure workshop residency director survey)
Introduction of a 10-point plan for curriculum revision
(ldquoPLFSOM v20rdquo)
June 2019 (no quorum) July 2019 (cancelled)
CEPC actions since last report
Challenges and opportunities for improvement identified
through the AY208-19 clerkship phase review
Clear identification of contacts at affiliated sites
Academic support and remediation planning
Consistent resident preparation for participation in UME
Timeliness of grading (Sub-I and Critical Care Selectives)
Orientation modules for Sub-Q and Critical Care Selectives)
Scaling clerkships for anticipated class expansion
The summer doldrums
June 2019 (no quorum) July 2019 (cancelled)
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Upcoming actions
Ongoing educational program policy development
Maintain accreditation compliance related curriculum
review cycle (2019-20 ldquoCurriculum as a Wholerdquo)
Review and advance plans for curriculum renewalrevision
Review proposal to re-direct our MD-MPH affiliation to
TTUHSC GSBS Lubbock
Consider development of an MD-MBA option (potentially
with UTEP)
Links to related information
PLFSOM Committee on Curriculum and Educational Policy main page
httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCdefaultaspx
MD degree program policies
httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCpoliciesaspx
MD degree program information
httpselpasottuhscedusomomeUMEinfoaspx
Course and clerkship syllabi
httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCcoursereviewaspx
AY2017-18 medical education program evaluation report (e-Raider required)
httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPC_documentssecureAY2017-
2018MEPEvaluationAnnualReport-Draft-v2pdf
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Departmental Report
Molecular and Translational
Medicine
Laxman Gangwani PhDAssociate Professor Molecular amp
Translational Medicine
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Department of Molecular and
Translational Medicine (formerly
Biomedical Sciences) Report
PRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCIL
BY LAXMAN GANGWANI
DATE JULY 15 2019
Department BreakdownPlease provide the total number of faculty members in your department and break down this number by
rank Please list new faculty members that have joined your department within the last six months
Total Number of Faculty
Number of Faculty Associates 1
Number of Instructors 1
Number of Research Assistant Professor 1
Number of Assistant Professors 6
Number of Associate Professors 7
Number of Professors 4
New Faculty
None
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LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair
program director clerkship director chiefs etc
Department Chair Dr Peter Rotwein (VP Research Associate
Dean GSBS)
Director Center of Emphasis in Cancer Dr Rajkumar
Lakshmanaswamy (Dean GSBS) Co-Director Dr N Shokar
Director Center of Emphasis in Diabetes and Metabolism Dr
David Cistola
Director Center of Emphasis in Infectious Diseases Vacant
Director Center of Emphasis in Neurosciences Vacant
Chief Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology Vacant
AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional
appointments national appointments etc
Awards
Dr Mingtao Zeng
2018 The American Association of Immunologists (AAI) AAI Travel Grant for the 5th European Congress of Immunology
2018 Defense Techconnect Fall Summit amp Expo (2018) Techconnect Defense Innovation Award
Dr Shrikant Gadad
Eugenia Rosemberg Outstanding Abstract Award Endocrine Society Annual Meeting New Orleans March 23-26 2019
Dr Huanyu Dou
National Innovation Award Techconnect 2019
Honors
Dr Alok Dwivedi
Appointed as associated faculty at the Border Biomedical Research Center (BBRC) University of Texas El Paso (UTEP)
Dr Shrikant Gadad
Session Chair (OR09 Steroid Hormone Biology in Physiology and Disease) Endocrine Society Annual Meeting New Orleans March 23-26 2019
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AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional
appointments national appointments etc
NIH or DOD study sections appointments
Dr Guohua Yi
HIV special Emphasis Panel for RFA-AI-18-058 Genetic Engineering Technologies for HIV Cure Research (U19)
Dr Laxman Gangwani
Department of Defense (DOD) Reviewer for Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) 2018 -
NIHCSR Study ldquoProgram Evaluation of NIH Peer Review Processes The Role of Anonymizationrdquo 2019 ndash
Patents filings and publications
Patent Number 9862951 Title RNA Interference-Based Therapeutic against Anthrax Inventors Mingtao Zeng and Maria T AreacutevaloDate of Patent January 9 2018
Cistola D P Patel V (2018) Method and system for non-invasive measurement of metabolic health US Non-Provisional Utility Patent Application No 15911728 filed by Texas Tech University
Cistola D P Robinson M D (2018) Methods and tools for diagnosing insulin resistance and assessing health status using NMR relaxation times for water United States Patent Application Publication US 20180020947 A1 httpspatentsgooglecompatentUS20180020947A1en
AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional
appointments national appointments etc
News and Media Coverage of Research performed at TTUHSC EP
Dr David Cistola
MedPageToday 2 January 2019 Harris Scott Could a New Biomarker Help Predict Type 2 Diabetes -- Early datashow water T2 catches abnormalities before traditional testing but experts are cautiously optimistichttpswwwmedpagetodaycomreading-roomendocrine-societydiabetes77186
KTSM Channel 9 NBC El Paso 14 November 2018 Castillo Susy Research in El Paso aimed at detectingdiabetes earlyhttpswwwktsmcomlifestylehealthresearch-in-el-paso-aimed-at-detecting-diabetes-early1596408236apt_credirect=1
El Paso Inc 29 March 2019 TTUHSC El Paso Tackling diabetes cancer httpwwwelpasoinccomttuhsc-el-paso-tackling-diabetes-cancerarticle_613144fe-526a-11e9-b916-c35b701a5ef9html
Dr Laxman Gangwani
Cure SMA Awards $150000 Grant to Laxman Gangwani PhD Texas Tech University
httpwwwcuresmaorgnewsgangwani-grant-2019html
httpswwweurekalertorgpub_releases2019-05ttuh-gw050119php
httpswwwresearchgatenetscientific-contributions11984383_Laxman_Gangwani
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Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Peer-reviewed publications 36 (In high-impact journals)
2018 highest impact factor (11561) journal Nucleic Acids Research
Abstracts 43
Presentations (i) Oral 11 (ii) Posters 28
Invited talks 13
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Peer-reviewed publications
Kannan A Bhatia K Branzei D and Gangwani L (2018) Combined deficiency of Senataxin and DNA-PKcscauses DNA damage accumulation and neurodegeneration in spinal muscular atrophy Nucleic Acids Research2018 Vol 46 No 16 8326-8346
Mishra I Jones C Patel V Deodhar S Cistola D P (2018) Early detection of metabolic dysregulation usingwater T2 analysis of biobanked samples Diabetes Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity Targets and Therapy 11 807-818
Patel V Dwivedi A K Deodhar S Mishra I Cistola D P (2018) Aptamer-based search for correlates of plasmaand serum water T2 Implications for early metabolic dysregulation and metabolic syndrome Biomarker Research6(1) 28
Garg H Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz T Joshi A 2018 Recent Advances in Zika Virus Vaccines Viruses Nov 1410 (11) Sundin OH Mendoza-Ladd A Zeng M Diaz-Areacutevalo D Morales E Fagan BMOrdontildeez J McCallum RW Does a
glucose-based hydrogen and methane breath test detect bacterial overgrowth in the jejunum NeurogastroenterolMotil 2018e13350
Zheng Z Diaz-Areacutevalo D Guan H and Mingtao Zeng Noninvasive vaccination against infectious diseases Humanvaccines amp immunotherapeutics 2018 14(7)1717-1733
Preeti Bharaj Chunting Ye Sean Petersen Qianghu Wang Baoli Hu N Manjunath Premlata Shankar Guohua Yi(2018) Gene array analysis of PD-1H overexpressing monocytes reveals a pro-inflammatory profile Heliyone00545
Bencomo-Alvarez AE Rubio AJ Gonzalez MA and Eiring AM Energy metabolism and drug response in myeloidleukaemic stem cells Br J Haematol 2019 In Press
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Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Peer-reviewed publications Yan D Pomicter AD Tantravahi S Mason CC Senina AV Ahmann JM Wang Q Than H Patel AB Heaton
WL Eiring AM Clair PM Gantz KC Redwine HM Swierczek SI Halverson BJ Baloglu E Shacham S KhorashadJS Kelley TW Salama ME Miles RR Boucher KM Prchal JT OHare T and Deininger MW Nuclear-cytoplasmic transport is a therapeutic target in myelofibrosis Clin Cancer Res 201925(7)2323-2335
Heipertz E Harper J Lopez CA Fikrig E Hughes ME Walker WE Circadian rhythms influence the severity of sepsis in mice via a TLR2-dependent leukocyte-intrinsic mechanism The Journal of Immunology 2018 201193-201
Khatri R Afzal MR Qureshi MA Maud A Huanyu D Jose Rodriguez G Pre-Existing Renal Failure Increases In-Hospital Mortality in Patients with Intracerebral Hemorrhage J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis 2019 Feb28(2)237-242
Zou L Lee SY Wu Q Zhang H Bastian A Orji C Payne G Galvez A Thomas T Zhang Z Dou H Facile Gene Delivery Derived from Branched Low Molecular Weight Polyethylenimine by High Efficient Chemistry J Biomed Nanotechnol 2018 Oct 114(10)1785-1795
Zhang C Brandon NR Koper K Tang P Xu Y Dou H Invasion of Peripheral Immune Cells into Brain Parenchyma after Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation Aging Dis 2018 Jun 19(3)412-425
Loza O Hernandez P Calderoacuten-Mora J Laks S Leiner M Reddy S Lara P amp Granados H (2018) Developing Trans-affirming health services in an underserved area An intersectional approach Transgender Health 3(1) 127-135
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Byrd T Calderoacuten-Mora J Salaiz R amp Shokar N (2019) Barriers and facilitators to colorectal cancer screening within a Hispanic population Hispanic Health Care International 17(1) 23-29 doi 1011771540415318818982
Haut SR Lipton RB Cornes S Dwivedi AK Wasson R Cotton S Strawn JR Privitera M (2018) Behavioral interventions as a treatment for epilepsy A multicenter randomized controlled trial Neurology 90(11) e963-e970 PMID 29444968
Jessica Bernica Sherif Elhanafi Neeharika Kalakota Yi Jia Christopher Dodoo Alok Dwivedi Robert J Sealock Kalpesh Patel Isaac Raijman Marc J Zuckerman Mohamed O Othman (2018) Cholangioscopy is safe and feasible in elderly patients Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology 16(8) 1293-1299
Benjamin D Wissel Alok K Dwivedi Danielle Chin Aristide Merola Cara Jacob Andrew P Duker Jennifer E Vaughan Lilia Lovera Kathrin LaFaver Ariel Levy Anthony E Lang Francesca Morgante Melissa J Nirenberg Christopher Stephen Nutan Sharma Alberto Romagnolo Leonardo Lopiano Bettina Balint Xin X Yu Kailash P Bhatia Alberto J Espay Functional neurological disorders in Parkinson disease Accepted for publication in Journal
of Neurology Neurosurgery amp Psychiatry 89(6)566-571
Danny J Avalos Marc J Zuckerman Alok Dwivedi Christopher Dodoo Jinendra Satiya Fernando J Castro(2018) Differences in prevalence of large polyps between Hispanic Americans from Mexican-and Non-Mexican-predominant states Digestive diseases and sciences PMID 30276570
Zeina Nahleh Salman Otoukesh Hamid Reza Mirshahidi Anthony Loc Nguyen Gayathri Nagaraj Nabeel Badri Gehan Botrus Nabih Diab Andres Alvarado Luis A Sanchez Alok K Dwivedi (2018) Disparities in breast cancer a multi-institutional comparative analysis focusing on American Hispanics Cancer Medicine (In press 05072018)
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Scholarly Activity Danny J Avalos Antonio Mendoza-Ladd Marc J Zuckerman Mohammad Bashashati Andres Alvarado Alok
Dwivedi Oriana M Damas (2018) Hispanics and Non-Hispanic Whites in the US have a Similar InflammatoryBowel Disease Phenotype A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis Digestive Diseases and Sciences 63(6)1558-1571
Aleli Campbell Rosalinda Heydarian Cecilia Ochoa Alok Kumar Dwivedi Zeina A Nahleh(2018) Single arm phaseII study of oral vitamin B12 for the treatment of musculoskeletal symptoms associated with aromatase inhibitors inwomen with early stage breast cancer The breast journal 24(3)260-268
Shaimaa Elzamly Nabeel Badri Osvaldo Padilla Alok Kumar Dwivedi Luis A Alvarado Matthew Hamilton NabihDiab Crosby Rock Ahmed Elfar Marwa Teleb Luis Sanchez Zeina Nahleh (2018) Epithelial-mesenchymaltransition markers in breast cancer and pathological responseafter neoadjuvant chemotherapy Breast Cancer
(Auckl) 2018 Aug 1121178223418788074
Jennifer C Molokwu Eribeth Penaranda Alok Dwivedi Indika Mallawaarachchi Navkiran Shokar (2018) Effect ofEducational Intervention on Self-Sampling Acceptability and Follow-Up Paps in Border Dwelling Hispanic FemalesJournal of Lower Genital Tract Disease
Ritika Suri Federico Rodriguez-Porcel Kelly Donohue Erin Jesse Lilia Lovera Alok Kumar Dwivedi Alberto JEspay (2018) Post-Stroke Movement Disorders The Clinical Neuroanatomic and Demographic Portrait of 284Published Cases Accepted for publication in Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases (In press05212018)
Zeina Nahleh Gehan Botrus Alok Dwivedi Nabeel Badri Salman Otoukesh Nabih Diab Sandip BiswasMichael Jennings Shaimaa Elzamly(2018) Clinico-pathologic disparities of breast cancer in HispanicLatina womenBreast disease 1-8
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Robert Gonzalez Trisha Suppes Jamie Zeitzer Colleen McClung Carol Tamminga Mauricio Tohen Angelica Forero Alok DwivediAndres Alvarado (2018) The association between mood state and chronobiological characteristics in bipolar I disorder a naturalisticvariable cluster analysis-based study International Journal of Bipolar Disorders 6(1)5Mohamed Teleb Aaron Shanker Alok Kumar Dwivedi Debabrata Mukherjee (2018) Effect of exercise on left ventricular mass index byechocardiography in mild and moderate hypertension a meta-analysis Res Cardiovasc Med 6(4)50-6Garnica O Das K Devasundaram S and Dhandayuthapani S Enhanced delivery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigens to antigenpresenting cells using RVG peptide Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Das K Garnica O and Dhandayuthapani S Utility of an oxidative stress response system for the expression of recombinant proteinsin mycobacteria and for the delivery of M tuberculosis antigens to the phagosomal compartments Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Palanichamy K Joshi A Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz T Fernando B Milan S Schiro F Naeem Y Garg H Braunschweig A 2019 Anti-ZikaActivity of a Library of Synthetic Carbohydrate Receptors Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 6284110-4119Anjali Joshi Erin B Punke Tugba Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz Diego P Peralta and Himanshu Garg 2019 TLR9 polymorphism correlates withimmune activation CD4 decline and plasma IP10 levels in HIV patients BMC Infect Dis 19 56Vargas-Medrano J Yang B Garza N T Segura-Ulate I and Perez R G (2018) Up-regulation of protective neuronal MicroRNAs byFTY720 and novel FTY720-derivatives Neuroscience letters 690 178-180Vidal-Martinez G Yang B Vargas-Medrano J and Perez R G (2018) Could alpha-Synuclein Modulation of Insulin and DopamineIdentify a Novel Link Between Parkinsons Disease and Diabetes as Well as Potential Therapies Frontiers in molecular
neuroscience 11 465
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Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Gil-Tommee C Vidal-Martinez G Annette Reyes C Vargas-Medrano J Herrera G V Martin S M Chaparro S A andPerez R G (2019) Parkinsonian GM2 synthase knockout mice lacking mature gangliosides develop urinary dysfunction andneurogenic bladder Experimental neurology 311265-273Vidal-Martinez G Najera K Miranda JD Gil-Tommee C Yang B Vargas-Medrano J Diaz-Pacheco V Barragan J ChaparroS Vargas-Medrano J Chinnasamy R Arterburn JB Perez RG FTY720 improves behavior increases Brain Derived NeurotrophicFactor and reduces α-synuclein pathology in parkinsonian GM2+minus
mice Neuroscience httpsdoiorg101016jneuroscience201905029Tasnim N Thakur V Chattopadhyay M Joddar B (2018) The efficacy of Graphene-foams towards the adhesion proliferationand expression of neuronal-phenotype by dopaminergic neurons differentiated from mesenchymal stem cells Stem cell
international Jun 3 20183410168 doi 10115520183410168Anil Kumar S Allen SC Tasnim N Akter T Park S Kumar A Chattopadhyay M Ito Y Suggs LJ Joddar B (2019) The applicabilityof furfuryl-gelatin as a novel bioink for tissue engineering applications J Biomed Mater Res B Appl Biomater 2019 107(2)314-323 doi 101002jbmb34123 Epub 2018 Apr 15Thakur V Chattopadhyay M (2018) Early urinary markers for diabetic and other kidney diseases Current drug targets 2018 Mar19Joddar B Tasnim N Thakur V Kumar A Mccallum R Chattopadhyay M (2018) Delivery of mesenchymal stem cells fromgelatin-alginate hydrogels to stomach lumen for treatment of gastroparesis Bioengineering 2018 5(1)Camacho CV Choudhari R Gadad SS (2018) Long noncoding RNAs and cancer an overview Steroids 13393-95
IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department
Large net loss (9) of MTM faculty members over the past 5 years
Vacant Director positions (i) Center for Neuroscience (ii) Center for InfectiousDiseases and (iii) Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
No steps have been taken to fill directors positions for more than 2 years
Neurosciences Center at the verge of collapse Only one faculty will be left at theend of this fiscal year
The size of Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology is shrinking
Lack of communication regarding vision and strategic plan for growing department
No faculty salary raises for the past 3 years
Serious concerns about recruitment retention and tenure and promotion decisionsmade in the department Faculty morale is extremely low
Lack of functional research core facility
Gradual elimination of service contracts of equipment essential for research trainingand education of graduate and medical students
A plethora of other issues with the department administration
9102019
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Questions
Departmental Report
Psychiatry
Ricardo Salazar MDAssociate Professor Psychiatry
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Department ReportPsychiatryPRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCIL
BY RICARDO SALAZAR MD
DATE MONDAY JULY 15 2019
Department BreakdownPlease provide the total number of faculty members in your department and break down this number by
rank Please list new faculty members that have joined your department within the last six months
Total Number of Faculty 12
Number of Instructors 1
Number of Assistant Professors 8
Number of Associate Professors 2
Number of Professors 2
New Faculty Melanie Longhurst MD Instructor
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LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair
program director clerkship director chiefs etc
Department Chair ndash Peter M Thompson MD MS
Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Sarah L Martin MD
Combined IMPsych Residency Program Director ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD
Psychiatry Clerkship Director ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD
Child amp Adolescent Fellowship Program Director ndash Cecilia De Vargas MD
Chief Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry ndash Sarah L Martin MD
Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Program Directorndash Ricardo Salazar MD
Chief Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences ndash Ricardo Salazar MD
Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Transmountain ndash Moataz Ragheb MD
AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in your department including awards honors regional
appointments national appointments etc
El Paso Behavioral Health Consortium ndash Board Member ndash Peter M Thompson MD
714 (50) of our graduating medical students this year choose and matched our resident training programs here at Paul L FosterSchool of Medicine Department of Psychiatry (Historical record) ndash Kudos for our Department Faculty
In appreciation for exceptional contributions to the 30th volume of the J Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences ndash Author contributions and review of 271 manuscripts submitted to the journal between September 2017 and August 2018 ndash Ricardo Salazar MD ndash Young Investigator Award Committee Member and Program Committee Member-Abstracts Sub-Committee Member of theAmerican Neuropsychiatric Association (ANPA)
Initial Accreditation with commendation and no citations from ACGME for our first Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Training Program for West Texas ndash Ricardo Salazar MD
Leadership in Education and Development Certificate Program (LEAD) Fellow -1-year program accredited from the Association ofAmerican Medical Colleges (AAMC) Silvina Tonarelli MD amp Ricardo Salazar MD (Selected Award)
Fully operating Southwest Brain Bank A Brain Tissue Repository for Research in Mental Illness ndashPeter M Thompson MD
Texas State Psychiatric Physicians Public Mental Health Services Committee ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD
Texas Health and Human Services Commission Behavioral Health Advisory Committee ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP
Fellow American College of Physicians ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP FACP
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30
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Abstracts 31
Publications 5 (peer-review journals)
Presentations 17 ndash National (7) and International (6)
Invited Speaker 21 (including faculty residents fellows) ndash Local amp National
Book Chapters NA
Grants McKee Foundation Award ndash our Chair - Thompson
Intramural Grants Seed Grant 1 SARP Educational Grant 2 - Salazar
President`s Collaborative Research Initiative ndashMarch 2018 - Tonarelli
Scholarly Activity
Child and Adolescent Fellowship Presentations
INTERNATIONAL
- Curanderos and Limpias Cultural psychiatry
Poster presented at 6th Annual Scientific conference of the European Association of PsychosomaticMedicine Verona Italy Drs Garza Meissner De Vargas Mehta June 2018
-Case presentation 0f 49XXXXY Same conference same authors same city
-Resilience etiology protective and risk factors presentation C De Vargas by invitation Annual WorldPediatric summit Madrid June 2018
-Parents and their Children Fantastic journey Same conference on June 2019 Berlin Germany
NATIONAL
-Development of Psychopathology in children at risk for Bipolar Disorders Drs Escamilla Peter Sangra C DeVargas S Martin C Alvarado Andrea Rios (Poster) American Academy of Child and Adolescent PsychiatryAnnual Conference Seattle WA October 2018
Frank William Meissner MD Cynthia Elizabeth Garza MDJD Sarah L Martin MD rdquoDrug-Induced BrugadaSyndrome in a Middle-Aged Female Patient Drugs EKG Diagnosis Electrophysiology and SurveillanceRecommendationrdquo American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting San Francisco CA May 21 2019
Delinquency in a group of school children at risk for bipolar disorder D Haque M Escamilla C De VargasPresented at UCLA LA Ca June 2019
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Residency ProgramPlease provide information regarding your departmentrsquos residency program ie recent accreditation
number of residents and program updates (if applicable)
24 General Psychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)
8 Internal MedicinePsychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)
3 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellows
1 Geriatric Psychiatry Fellow- newly accredited program
IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department
RecruitmentRetention
Short staffed
Organizational Structure
Financial incentives
Protected time
Gender balance Attrition malefemale ratio 41
Program Coordinator turnover rate
Mentoring
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Departmental Organizational
Structure
Chair
Division ChiefsProgram Directors
Clerkship Director
Adm
Organizational Structure Model
Chair
Deputy Chair for Education
Program
Directors
Deputy Chair for Research
Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs
Vicechair
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Roles
Deputy Chair for Education
Oversee undergraduate graduate and CME including the development of teachers and educational scholars Monitor quality and safety across the department
Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs
Faculty appointments Faculty Development and Promotion andor Tenure Develop programs in different domains such as research education personal improvement and leadership Support clinical activities by improving the efficiency of operations and in helping to fit clinical programs into those in the rest of the medical center Allocation of space
Deputy Chair for Research
Develop and direct department-wide programs for faculty recruitment development and support of mentors recognition of excellence and funding of pilot grants bridge funding and grants to nurture multi-principal investigator and trans-division or trans-department projects Allocation of space among divisions
Bottom Line
We need more funds
Institutional support
The investments needed to recruit faculty are beyond the capacity of the
department`s operational revenue
Recruiting a leading investigator or one with great potential for
example may require an investment of $ 1 million and sometimes more
Endowments are the departmentrsquos foundational financial capital the
keel that maintains momentum and balance through the headwinds
and rough seas each department will navigate Endowments increase
the departmentrsquos independence in sustaining its core mission
Thus creation of endowments should be a high priority for any
department that plans for the long term and they increase capacity to
recruit the best faculty in a competitive environment
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CEPC actions since last report
January 2019 (1 meeting)
Reviewed and approved revisions to the following
educational program polices
Clerkship Administration
Clerkship DirectorAssistant Director Position Description
Approval of two new 4th Year Electives
Pediatric Gastroenterology Hepatology and Nutrition
Emergency Medicine Ultrasound
Clerkship phase review FM and Surgery
CEPC actions since last report
February 2019 (2 meetings)
New educational program policy reviewed and approved
Grade Changes and Transcript Notations
Rollover of established educational program goals and
objectives (the ldquoPGOsrdquo) approved
Clerkship phase review Pediatrics and ObGyn
Preliminary data-driven discussion of revised educational
program policy covering Grading Promotion and Academic
Standing (ldquoGPASrdquo)
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CEPC actions since last report
March 2019 (2 meetings)
Clerkship phase review IM and Psych Critical Care and Sub-I
Selectives
Approval of new educational program policy
Grading Promotion and Academic Standing (ldquoGPASrdquo)
Notification of changes in clerkship directorship
Elimination of the PICE course (PICE 7001) from the year 2
curriculum approved (primarily administrative educational
elements re-distributed)
Associated review and approval of an updated PLSOM degree
plan (based on 157 credit hours)
CEPC actions since last report
April 2019 (1 meetings)
Clerkship phase review EM Neurology and Intersessions
Review and approval of revised educational program policy
Pre-Clerkship Phase Student Attendance and Participation
Policy
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CEPC actions since last report
May 2019 (1 meetings)
Review and approval of the ldquoCommon Clerkship Policiesrdquo
Notification of additional changes in the clerkship
directorship
Clerkship phase review
Phase data review (AAMC GQ NBME subject exams
USMLE Step 2 CK and CS Step 3 final grades EOY OSCE
and procedure workshop residency director survey)
Introduction of a 10-point plan for curriculum revision
(ldquoPLFSOM v20rdquo)
June 2019 (no quorum) July 2019 (cancelled)
CEPC actions since last report
Challenges and opportunities for improvement identified
through the AY208-19 clerkship phase review
Clear identification of contacts at affiliated sites
Academic support and remediation planning
Consistent resident preparation for participation in UME
Timeliness of grading (Sub-I and Critical Care Selectives)
Orientation modules for Sub-Q and Critical Care Selectives)
Scaling clerkships for anticipated class expansion
The summer doldrums
June 2019 (no quorum) July 2019 (cancelled)
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Upcoming actions
Ongoing educational program policy development
Maintain accreditation compliance related curriculum
review cycle (2019-20 ldquoCurriculum as a Wholerdquo)
Review and advance plans for curriculum renewalrevision
Review proposal to re-direct our MD-MPH affiliation to
TTUHSC GSBS Lubbock
Consider development of an MD-MBA option (potentially
with UTEP)
Links to related information
PLFSOM Committee on Curriculum and Educational Policy main page
httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCdefaultaspx
MD degree program policies
httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCpoliciesaspx
MD degree program information
httpselpasottuhscedusomomeUMEinfoaspx
Course and clerkship syllabi
httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCcoursereviewaspx
AY2017-18 medical education program evaluation report (e-Raider required)
httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPC_documentssecureAY2017-
2018MEPEvaluationAnnualReport-Draft-v2pdf
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Departmental Report
Molecular and Translational
Medicine
Laxman Gangwani PhDAssociate Professor Molecular amp
Translational Medicine
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Department of Molecular and
Translational Medicine (formerly
Biomedical Sciences) Report
PRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCIL
BY LAXMAN GANGWANI
DATE JULY 15 2019
Department BreakdownPlease provide the total number of faculty members in your department and break down this number by
rank Please list new faculty members that have joined your department within the last six months
Total Number of Faculty
Number of Faculty Associates 1
Number of Instructors 1
Number of Research Assistant Professor 1
Number of Assistant Professors 6
Number of Associate Professors 7
Number of Professors 4
New Faculty
None
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LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair
program director clerkship director chiefs etc
Department Chair Dr Peter Rotwein (VP Research Associate
Dean GSBS)
Director Center of Emphasis in Cancer Dr Rajkumar
Lakshmanaswamy (Dean GSBS) Co-Director Dr N Shokar
Director Center of Emphasis in Diabetes and Metabolism Dr
David Cistola
Director Center of Emphasis in Infectious Diseases Vacant
Director Center of Emphasis in Neurosciences Vacant
Chief Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology Vacant
AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional
appointments national appointments etc
Awards
Dr Mingtao Zeng
2018 The American Association of Immunologists (AAI) AAI Travel Grant for the 5th European Congress of Immunology
2018 Defense Techconnect Fall Summit amp Expo (2018) Techconnect Defense Innovation Award
Dr Shrikant Gadad
Eugenia Rosemberg Outstanding Abstract Award Endocrine Society Annual Meeting New Orleans March 23-26 2019
Dr Huanyu Dou
National Innovation Award Techconnect 2019
Honors
Dr Alok Dwivedi
Appointed as associated faculty at the Border Biomedical Research Center (BBRC) University of Texas El Paso (UTEP)
Dr Shrikant Gadad
Session Chair (OR09 Steroid Hormone Biology in Physiology and Disease) Endocrine Society Annual Meeting New Orleans March 23-26 2019
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AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional
appointments national appointments etc
NIH or DOD study sections appointments
Dr Guohua Yi
HIV special Emphasis Panel for RFA-AI-18-058 Genetic Engineering Technologies for HIV Cure Research (U19)
Dr Laxman Gangwani
Department of Defense (DOD) Reviewer for Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) 2018 -
NIHCSR Study ldquoProgram Evaluation of NIH Peer Review Processes The Role of Anonymizationrdquo 2019 ndash
Patents filings and publications
Patent Number 9862951 Title RNA Interference-Based Therapeutic against Anthrax Inventors Mingtao Zeng and Maria T AreacutevaloDate of Patent January 9 2018
Cistola D P Patel V (2018) Method and system for non-invasive measurement of metabolic health US Non-Provisional Utility Patent Application No 15911728 filed by Texas Tech University
Cistola D P Robinson M D (2018) Methods and tools for diagnosing insulin resistance and assessing health status using NMR relaxation times for water United States Patent Application Publication US 20180020947 A1 httpspatentsgooglecompatentUS20180020947A1en
AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional
appointments national appointments etc
News and Media Coverage of Research performed at TTUHSC EP
Dr David Cistola
MedPageToday 2 January 2019 Harris Scott Could a New Biomarker Help Predict Type 2 Diabetes -- Early datashow water T2 catches abnormalities before traditional testing but experts are cautiously optimistichttpswwwmedpagetodaycomreading-roomendocrine-societydiabetes77186
KTSM Channel 9 NBC El Paso 14 November 2018 Castillo Susy Research in El Paso aimed at detectingdiabetes earlyhttpswwwktsmcomlifestylehealthresearch-in-el-paso-aimed-at-detecting-diabetes-early1596408236apt_credirect=1
El Paso Inc 29 March 2019 TTUHSC El Paso Tackling diabetes cancer httpwwwelpasoinccomttuhsc-el-paso-tackling-diabetes-cancerarticle_613144fe-526a-11e9-b916-c35b701a5ef9html
Dr Laxman Gangwani
Cure SMA Awards $150000 Grant to Laxman Gangwani PhD Texas Tech University
httpwwwcuresmaorgnewsgangwani-grant-2019html
httpswwweurekalertorgpub_releases2019-05ttuh-gw050119php
httpswwwresearchgatenetscientific-contributions11984383_Laxman_Gangwani
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Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Peer-reviewed publications 36 (In high-impact journals)
2018 highest impact factor (11561) journal Nucleic Acids Research
Abstracts 43
Presentations (i) Oral 11 (ii) Posters 28
Invited talks 13
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Peer-reviewed publications
Kannan A Bhatia K Branzei D and Gangwani L (2018) Combined deficiency of Senataxin and DNA-PKcscauses DNA damage accumulation and neurodegeneration in spinal muscular atrophy Nucleic Acids Research2018 Vol 46 No 16 8326-8346
Mishra I Jones C Patel V Deodhar S Cistola D P (2018) Early detection of metabolic dysregulation usingwater T2 analysis of biobanked samples Diabetes Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity Targets and Therapy 11 807-818
Patel V Dwivedi A K Deodhar S Mishra I Cistola D P (2018) Aptamer-based search for correlates of plasmaand serum water T2 Implications for early metabolic dysregulation and metabolic syndrome Biomarker Research6(1) 28
Garg H Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz T Joshi A 2018 Recent Advances in Zika Virus Vaccines Viruses Nov 1410 (11) Sundin OH Mendoza-Ladd A Zeng M Diaz-Areacutevalo D Morales E Fagan BMOrdontildeez J McCallum RW Does a
glucose-based hydrogen and methane breath test detect bacterial overgrowth in the jejunum NeurogastroenterolMotil 2018e13350
Zheng Z Diaz-Areacutevalo D Guan H and Mingtao Zeng Noninvasive vaccination against infectious diseases Humanvaccines amp immunotherapeutics 2018 14(7)1717-1733
Preeti Bharaj Chunting Ye Sean Petersen Qianghu Wang Baoli Hu N Manjunath Premlata Shankar Guohua Yi(2018) Gene array analysis of PD-1H overexpressing monocytes reveals a pro-inflammatory profile Heliyone00545
Bencomo-Alvarez AE Rubio AJ Gonzalez MA and Eiring AM Energy metabolism and drug response in myeloidleukaemic stem cells Br J Haematol 2019 In Press
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Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Peer-reviewed publications Yan D Pomicter AD Tantravahi S Mason CC Senina AV Ahmann JM Wang Q Than H Patel AB Heaton
WL Eiring AM Clair PM Gantz KC Redwine HM Swierczek SI Halverson BJ Baloglu E Shacham S KhorashadJS Kelley TW Salama ME Miles RR Boucher KM Prchal JT OHare T and Deininger MW Nuclear-cytoplasmic transport is a therapeutic target in myelofibrosis Clin Cancer Res 201925(7)2323-2335
Heipertz E Harper J Lopez CA Fikrig E Hughes ME Walker WE Circadian rhythms influence the severity of sepsis in mice via a TLR2-dependent leukocyte-intrinsic mechanism The Journal of Immunology 2018 201193-201
Khatri R Afzal MR Qureshi MA Maud A Huanyu D Jose Rodriguez G Pre-Existing Renal Failure Increases In-Hospital Mortality in Patients with Intracerebral Hemorrhage J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis 2019 Feb28(2)237-242
Zou L Lee SY Wu Q Zhang H Bastian A Orji C Payne G Galvez A Thomas T Zhang Z Dou H Facile Gene Delivery Derived from Branched Low Molecular Weight Polyethylenimine by High Efficient Chemistry J Biomed Nanotechnol 2018 Oct 114(10)1785-1795
Zhang C Brandon NR Koper K Tang P Xu Y Dou H Invasion of Peripheral Immune Cells into Brain Parenchyma after Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation Aging Dis 2018 Jun 19(3)412-425
Loza O Hernandez P Calderoacuten-Mora J Laks S Leiner M Reddy S Lara P amp Granados H (2018) Developing Trans-affirming health services in an underserved area An intersectional approach Transgender Health 3(1) 127-135
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Byrd T Calderoacuten-Mora J Salaiz R amp Shokar N (2019) Barriers and facilitators to colorectal cancer screening within a Hispanic population Hispanic Health Care International 17(1) 23-29 doi 1011771540415318818982
Haut SR Lipton RB Cornes S Dwivedi AK Wasson R Cotton S Strawn JR Privitera M (2018) Behavioral interventions as a treatment for epilepsy A multicenter randomized controlled trial Neurology 90(11) e963-e970 PMID 29444968
Jessica Bernica Sherif Elhanafi Neeharika Kalakota Yi Jia Christopher Dodoo Alok Dwivedi Robert J Sealock Kalpesh Patel Isaac Raijman Marc J Zuckerman Mohamed O Othman (2018) Cholangioscopy is safe and feasible in elderly patients Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology 16(8) 1293-1299
Benjamin D Wissel Alok K Dwivedi Danielle Chin Aristide Merola Cara Jacob Andrew P Duker Jennifer E Vaughan Lilia Lovera Kathrin LaFaver Ariel Levy Anthony E Lang Francesca Morgante Melissa J Nirenberg Christopher Stephen Nutan Sharma Alberto Romagnolo Leonardo Lopiano Bettina Balint Xin X Yu Kailash P Bhatia Alberto J Espay Functional neurological disorders in Parkinson disease Accepted for publication in Journal
of Neurology Neurosurgery amp Psychiatry 89(6)566-571
Danny J Avalos Marc J Zuckerman Alok Dwivedi Christopher Dodoo Jinendra Satiya Fernando J Castro(2018) Differences in prevalence of large polyps between Hispanic Americans from Mexican-and Non-Mexican-predominant states Digestive diseases and sciences PMID 30276570
Zeina Nahleh Salman Otoukesh Hamid Reza Mirshahidi Anthony Loc Nguyen Gayathri Nagaraj Nabeel Badri Gehan Botrus Nabih Diab Andres Alvarado Luis A Sanchez Alok K Dwivedi (2018) Disparities in breast cancer a multi-institutional comparative analysis focusing on American Hispanics Cancer Medicine (In press 05072018)
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25
Scholarly Activity Danny J Avalos Antonio Mendoza-Ladd Marc J Zuckerman Mohammad Bashashati Andres Alvarado Alok
Dwivedi Oriana M Damas (2018) Hispanics and Non-Hispanic Whites in the US have a Similar InflammatoryBowel Disease Phenotype A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis Digestive Diseases and Sciences 63(6)1558-1571
Aleli Campbell Rosalinda Heydarian Cecilia Ochoa Alok Kumar Dwivedi Zeina A Nahleh(2018) Single arm phaseII study of oral vitamin B12 for the treatment of musculoskeletal symptoms associated with aromatase inhibitors inwomen with early stage breast cancer The breast journal 24(3)260-268
Shaimaa Elzamly Nabeel Badri Osvaldo Padilla Alok Kumar Dwivedi Luis A Alvarado Matthew Hamilton NabihDiab Crosby Rock Ahmed Elfar Marwa Teleb Luis Sanchez Zeina Nahleh (2018) Epithelial-mesenchymaltransition markers in breast cancer and pathological responseafter neoadjuvant chemotherapy Breast Cancer
(Auckl) 2018 Aug 1121178223418788074
Jennifer C Molokwu Eribeth Penaranda Alok Dwivedi Indika Mallawaarachchi Navkiran Shokar (2018) Effect ofEducational Intervention on Self-Sampling Acceptability and Follow-Up Paps in Border Dwelling Hispanic FemalesJournal of Lower Genital Tract Disease
Ritika Suri Federico Rodriguez-Porcel Kelly Donohue Erin Jesse Lilia Lovera Alok Kumar Dwivedi Alberto JEspay (2018) Post-Stroke Movement Disorders The Clinical Neuroanatomic and Demographic Portrait of 284Published Cases Accepted for publication in Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases (In press05212018)
Zeina Nahleh Gehan Botrus Alok Dwivedi Nabeel Badri Salman Otoukesh Nabih Diab Sandip BiswasMichael Jennings Shaimaa Elzamly(2018) Clinico-pathologic disparities of breast cancer in HispanicLatina womenBreast disease 1-8
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Robert Gonzalez Trisha Suppes Jamie Zeitzer Colleen McClung Carol Tamminga Mauricio Tohen Angelica Forero Alok DwivediAndres Alvarado (2018) The association between mood state and chronobiological characteristics in bipolar I disorder a naturalisticvariable cluster analysis-based study International Journal of Bipolar Disorders 6(1)5Mohamed Teleb Aaron Shanker Alok Kumar Dwivedi Debabrata Mukherjee (2018) Effect of exercise on left ventricular mass index byechocardiography in mild and moderate hypertension a meta-analysis Res Cardiovasc Med 6(4)50-6Garnica O Das K Devasundaram S and Dhandayuthapani S Enhanced delivery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigens to antigenpresenting cells using RVG peptide Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Das K Garnica O and Dhandayuthapani S Utility of an oxidative stress response system for the expression of recombinant proteinsin mycobacteria and for the delivery of M tuberculosis antigens to the phagosomal compartments Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Palanichamy K Joshi A Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz T Fernando B Milan S Schiro F Naeem Y Garg H Braunschweig A 2019 Anti-ZikaActivity of a Library of Synthetic Carbohydrate Receptors Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 6284110-4119Anjali Joshi Erin B Punke Tugba Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz Diego P Peralta and Himanshu Garg 2019 TLR9 polymorphism correlates withimmune activation CD4 decline and plasma IP10 levels in HIV patients BMC Infect Dis 19 56Vargas-Medrano J Yang B Garza N T Segura-Ulate I and Perez R G (2018) Up-regulation of protective neuronal MicroRNAs byFTY720 and novel FTY720-derivatives Neuroscience letters 690 178-180Vidal-Martinez G Yang B Vargas-Medrano J and Perez R G (2018) Could alpha-Synuclein Modulation of Insulin and DopamineIdentify a Novel Link Between Parkinsons Disease and Diabetes as Well as Potential Therapies Frontiers in molecular
neuroscience 11 465
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Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Gil-Tommee C Vidal-Martinez G Annette Reyes C Vargas-Medrano J Herrera G V Martin S M Chaparro S A andPerez R G (2019) Parkinsonian GM2 synthase knockout mice lacking mature gangliosides develop urinary dysfunction andneurogenic bladder Experimental neurology 311265-273Vidal-Martinez G Najera K Miranda JD Gil-Tommee C Yang B Vargas-Medrano J Diaz-Pacheco V Barragan J ChaparroS Vargas-Medrano J Chinnasamy R Arterburn JB Perez RG FTY720 improves behavior increases Brain Derived NeurotrophicFactor and reduces α-synuclein pathology in parkinsonian GM2+minus
mice Neuroscience httpsdoiorg101016jneuroscience201905029Tasnim N Thakur V Chattopadhyay M Joddar B (2018) The efficacy of Graphene-foams towards the adhesion proliferationand expression of neuronal-phenotype by dopaminergic neurons differentiated from mesenchymal stem cells Stem cell
international Jun 3 20183410168 doi 10115520183410168Anil Kumar S Allen SC Tasnim N Akter T Park S Kumar A Chattopadhyay M Ito Y Suggs LJ Joddar B (2019) The applicabilityof furfuryl-gelatin as a novel bioink for tissue engineering applications J Biomed Mater Res B Appl Biomater 2019 107(2)314-323 doi 101002jbmb34123 Epub 2018 Apr 15Thakur V Chattopadhyay M (2018) Early urinary markers for diabetic and other kidney diseases Current drug targets 2018 Mar19Joddar B Tasnim N Thakur V Kumar A Mccallum R Chattopadhyay M (2018) Delivery of mesenchymal stem cells fromgelatin-alginate hydrogels to stomach lumen for treatment of gastroparesis Bioengineering 2018 5(1)Camacho CV Choudhari R Gadad SS (2018) Long noncoding RNAs and cancer an overview Steroids 13393-95
IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department
Large net loss (9) of MTM faculty members over the past 5 years
Vacant Director positions (i) Center for Neuroscience (ii) Center for InfectiousDiseases and (iii) Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
No steps have been taken to fill directors positions for more than 2 years
Neurosciences Center at the verge of collapse Only one faculty will be left at theend of this fiscal year
The size of Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology is shrinking
Lack of communication regarding vision and strategic plan for growing department
No faculty salary raises for the past 3 years
Serious concerns about recruitment retention and tenure and promotion decisionsmade in the department Faculty morale is extremely low
Lack of functional research core facility
Gradual elimination of service contracts of equipment essential for research trainingand education of graduate and medical students
A plethora of other issues with the department administration
9102019
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Questions
Departmental Report
Psychiatry
Ricardo Salazar MDAssociate Professor Psychiatry
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Department ReportPsychiatryPRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCIL
BY RICARDO SALAZAR MD
DATE MONDAY JULY 15 2019
Department BreakdownPlease provide the total number of faculty members in your department and break down this number by
rank Please list new faculty members that have joined your department within the last six months
Total Number of Faculty 12
Number of Instructors 1
Number of Assistant Professors 8
Number of Associate Professors 2
Number of Professors 2
New Faculty Melanie Longhurst MD Instructor
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LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair
program director clerkship director chiefs etc
Department Chair ndash Peter M Thompson MD MS
Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Sarah L Martin MD
Combined IMPsych Residency Program Director ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD
Psychiatry Clerkship Director ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD
Child amp Adolescent Fellowship Program Director ndash Cecilia De Vargas MD
Chief Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry ndash Sarah L Martin MD
Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Program Directorndash Ricardo Salazar MD
Chief Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences ndash Ricardo Salazar MD
Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Transmountain ndash Moataz Ragheb MD
AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in your department including awards honors regional
appointments national appointments etc
El Paso Behavioral Health Consortium ndash Board Member ndash Peter M Thompson MD
714 (50) of our graduating medical students this year choose and matched our resident training programs here at Paul L FosterSchool of Medicine Department of Psychiatry (Historical record) ndash Kudos for our Department Faculty
In appreciation for exceptional contributions to the 30th volume of the J Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences ndash Author contributions and review of 271 manuscripts submitted to the journal between September 2017 and August 2018 ndash Ricardo Salazar MD ndash Young Investigator Award Committee Member and Program Committee Member-Abstracts Sub-Committee Member of theAmerican Neuropsychiatric Association (ANPA)
Initial Accreditation with commendation and no citations from ACGME for our first Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Training Program for West Texas ndash Ricardo Salazar MD
Leadership in Education and Development Certificate Program (LEAD) Fellow -1-year program accredited from the Association ofAmerican Medical Colleges (AAMC) Silvina Tonarelli MD amp Ricardo Salazar MD (Selected Award)
Fully operating Southwest Brain Bank A Brain Tissue Repository for Research in Mental Illness ndashPeter M Thompson MD
Texas State Psychiatric Physicians Public Mental Health Services Committee ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD
Texas Health and Human Services Commission Behavioral Health Advisory Committee ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP
Fellow American College of Physicians ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP FACP
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Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Abstracts 31
Publications 5 (peer-review journals)
Presentations 17 ndash National (7) and International (6)
Invited Speaker 21 (including faculty residents fellows) ndash Local amp National
Book Chapters NA
Grants McKee Foundation Award ndash our Chair - Thompson
Intramural Grants Seed Grant 1 SARP Educational Grant 2 - Salazar
President`s Collaborative Research Initiative ndashMarch 2018 - Tonarelli
Scholarly Activity
Child and Adolescent Fellowship Presentations
INTERNATIONAL
- Curanderos and Limpias Cultural psychiatry
Poster presented at 6th Annual Scientific conference of the European Association of PsychosomaticMedicine Verona Italy Drs Garza Meissner De Vargas Mehta June 2018
-Case presentation 0f 49XXXXY Same conference same authors same city
-Resilience etiology protective and risk factors presentation C De Vargas by invitation Annual WorldPediatric summit Madrid June 2018
-Parents and their Children Fantastic journey Same conference on June 2019 Berlin Germany
NATIONAL
-Development of Psychopathology in children at risk for Bipolar Disorders Drs Escamilla Peter Sangra C DeVargas S Martin C Alvarado Andrea Rios (Poster) American Academy of Child and Adolescent PsychiatryAnnual Conference Seattle WA October 2018
Frank William Meissner MD Cynthia Elizabeth Garza MDJD Sarah L Martin MD rdquoDrug-Induced BrugadaSyndrome in a Middle-Aged Female Patient Drugs EKG Diagnosis Electrophysiology and SurveillanceRecommendationrdquo American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting San Francisco CA May 21 2019
Delinquency in a group of school children at risk for bipolar disorder D Haque M Escamilla C De VargasPresented at UCLA LA Ca June 2019
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Residency ProgramPlease provide information regarding your departmentrsquos residency program ie recent accreditation
number of residents and program updates (if applicable)
24 General Psychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)
8 Internal MedicinePsychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)
3 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellows
1 Geriatric Psychiatry Fellow- newly accredited program
IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department
RecruitmentRetention
Short staffed
Organizational Structure
Financial incentives
Protected time
Gender balance Attrition malefemale ratio 41
Program Coordinator turnover rate
Mentoring
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Departmental Organizational
Structure
Chair
Division ChiefsProgram Directors
Clerkship Director
Adm
Organizational Structure Model
Chair
Deputy Chair for Education
Program
Directors
Deputy Chair for Research
Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs
Vicechair
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Roles
Deputy Chair for Education
Oversee undergraduate graduate and CME including the development of teachers and educational scholars Monitor quality and safety across the department
Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs
Faculty appointments Faculty Development and Promotion andor Tenure Develop programs in different domains such as research education personal improvement and leadership Support clinical activities by improving the efficiency of operations and in helping to fit clinical programs into those in the rest of the medical center Allocation of space
Deputy Chair for Research
Develop and direct department-wide programs for faculty recruitment development and support of mentors recognition of excellence and funding of pilot grants bridge funding and grants to nurture multi-principal investigator and trans-division or trans-department projects Allocation of space among divisions
Bottom Line
We need more funds
Institutional support
The investments needed to recruit faculty are beyond the capacity of the
department`s operational revenue
Recruiting a leading investigator or one with great potential for
example may require an investment of $ 1 million and sometimes more
Endowments are the departmentrsquos foundational financial capital the
keel that maintains momentum and balance through the headwinds
and rough seas each department will navigate Endowments increase
the departmentrsquos independence in sustaining its core mission
Thus creation of endowments should be a high priority for any
department that plans for the long term and they increase capacity to
recruit the best faculty in a competitive environment
9102019
13
CEPC actions since last report
March 2019 (2 meetings)
Clerkship phase review IM and Psych Critical Care and Sub-I
Selectives
Approval of new educational program policy
Grading Promotion and Academic Standing (ldquoGPASrdquo)
Notification of changes in clerkship directorship
Elimination of the PICE course (PICE 7001) from the year 2
curriculum approved (primarily administrative educational
elements re-distributed)
Associated review and approval of an updated PLSOM degree
plan (based on 157 credit hours)
CEPC actions since last report
April 2019 (1 meetings)
Clerkship phase review EM Neurology and Intersessions
Review and approval of revised educational program policy
Pre-Clerkship Phase Student Attendance and Participation
Policy
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CEPC actions since last report
May 2019 (1 meetings)
Review and approval of the ldquoCommon Clerkship Policiesrdquo
Notification of additional changes in the clerkship
directorship
Clerkship phase review
Phase data review (AAMC GQ NBME subject exams
USMLE Step 2 CK and CS Step 3 final grades EOY OSCE
and procedure workshop residency director survey)
Introduction of a 10-point plan for curriculum revision
(ldquoPLFSOM v20rdquo)
June 2019 (no quorum) July 2019 (cancelled)
CEPC actions since last report
Challenges and opportunities for improvement identified
through the AY208-19 clerkship phase review
Clear identification of contacts at affiliated sites
Academic support and remediation planning
Consistent resident preparation for participation in UME
Timeliness of grading (Sub-I and Critical Care Selectives)
Orientation modules for Sub-Q and Critical Care Selectives)
Scaling clerkships for anticipated class expansion
The summer doldrums
June 2019 (no quorum) July 2019 (cancelled)
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Upcoming actions
Ongoing educational program policy development
Maintain accreditation compliance related curriculum
review cycle (2019-20 ldquoCurriculum as a Wholerdquo)
Review and advance plans for curriculum renewalrevision
Review proposal to re-direct our MD-MPH affiliation to
TTUHSC GSBS Lubbock
Consider development of an MD-MBA option (potentially
with UTEP)
Links to related information
PLFSOM Committee on Curriculum and Educational Policy main page
httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCdefaultaspx
MD degree program policies
httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCpoliciesaspx
MD degree program information
httpselpasottuhscedusomomeUMEinfoaspx
Course and clerkship syllabi
httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCcoursereviewaspx
AY2017-18 medical education program evaluation report (e-Raider required)
httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPC_documentssecureAY2017-
2018MEPEvaluationAnnualReport-Draft-v2pdf
9102019
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Departmental Report
Molecular and Translational
Medicine
Laxman Gangwani PhDAssociate Professor Molecular amp
Translational Medicine
9102019
20
Department of Molecular and
Translational Medicine (formerly
Biomedical Sciences) Report
PRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCIL
BY LAXMAN GANGWANI
DATE JULY 15 2019
Department BreakdownPlease provide the total number of faculty members in your department and break down this number by
rank Please list new faculty members that have joined your department within the last six months
Total Number of Faculty
Number of Faculty Associates 1
Number of Instructors 1
Number of Research Assistant Professor 1
Number of Assistant Professors 6
Number of Associate Professors 7
Number of Professors 4
New Faculty
None
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LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair
program director clerkship director chiefs etc
Department Chair Dr Peter Rotwein (VP Research Associate
Dean GSBS)
Director Center of Emphasis in Cancer Dr Rajkumar
Lakshmanaswamy (Dean GSBS) Co-Director Dr N Shokar
Director Center of Emphasis in Diabetes and Metabolism Dr
David Cistola
Director Center of Emphasis in Infectious Diseases Vacant
Director Center of Emphasis in Neurosciences Vacant
Chief Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology Vacant
AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional
appointments national appointments etc
Awards
Dr Mingtao Zeng
2018 The American Association of Immunologists (AAI) AAI Travel Grant for the 5th European Congress of Immunology
2018 Defense Techconnect Fall Summit amp Expo (2018) Techconnect Defense Innovation Award
Dr Shrikant Gadad
Eugenia Rosemberg Outstanding Abstract Award Endocrine Society Annual Meeting New Orleans March 23-26 2019
Dr Huanyu Dou
National Innovation Award Techconnect 2019
Honors
Dr Alok Dwivedi
Appointed as associated faculty at the Border Biomedical Research Center (BBRC) University of Texas El Paso (UTEP)
Dr Shrikant Gadad
Session Chair (OR09 Steroid Hormone Biology in Physiology and Disease) Endocrine Society Annual Meeting New Orleans March 23-26 2019
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AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional
appointments national appointments etc
NIH or DOD study sections appointments
Dr Guohua Yi
HIV special Emphasis Panel for RFA-AI-18-058 Genetic Engineering Technologies for HIV Cure Research (U19)
Dr Laxman Gangwani
Department of Defense (DOD) Reviewer for Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) 2018 -
NIHCSR Study ldquoProgram Evaluation of NIH Peer Review Processes The Role of Anonymizationrdquo 2019 ndash
Patents filings and publications
Patent Number 9862951 Title RNA Interference-Based Therapeutic against Anthrax Inventors Mingtao Zeng and Maria T AreacutevaloDate of Patent January 9 2018
Cistola D P Patel V (2018) Method and system for non-invasive measurement of metabolic health US Non-Provisional Utility Patent Application No 15911728 filed by Texas Tech University
Cistola D P Robinson M D (2018) Methods and tools for diagnosing insulin resistance and assessing health status using NMR relaxation times for water United States Patent Application Publication US 20180020947 A1 httpspatentsgooglecompatentUS20180020947A1en
AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional
appointments national appointments etc
News and Media Coverage of Research performed at TTUHSC EP
Dr David Cistola
MedPageToday 2 January 2019 Harris Scott Could a New Biomarker Help Predict Type 2 Diabetes -- Early datashow water T2 catches abnormalities before traditional testing but experts are cautiously optimistichttpswwwmedpagetodaycomreading-roomendocrine-societydiabetes77186
KTSM Channel 9 NBC El Paso 14 November 2018 Castillo Susy Research in El Paso aimed at detectingdiabetes earlyhttpswwwktsmcomlifestylehealthresearch-in-el-paso-aimed-at-detecting-diabetes-early1596408236apt_credirect=1
El Paso Inc 29 March 2019 TTUHSC El Paso Tackling diabetes cancer httpwwwelpasoinccomttuhsc-el-paso-tackling-diabetes-cancerarticle_613144fe-526a-11e9-b916-c35b701a5ef9html
Dr Laxman Gangwani
Cure SMA Awards $150000 Grant to Laxman Gangwani PhD Texas Tech University
httpwwwcuresmaorgnewsgangwani-grant-2019html
httpswwweurekalertorgpub_releases2019-05ttuh-gw050119php
httpswwwresearchgatenetscientific-contributions11984383_Laxman_Gangwani
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Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Peer-reviewed publications 36 (In high-impact journals)
2018 highest impact factor (11561) journal Nucleic Acids Research
Abstracts 43
Presentations (i) Oral 11 (ii) Posters 28
Invited talks 13
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Peer-reviewed publications
Kannan A Bhatia K Branzei D and Gangwani L (2018) Combined deficiency of Senataxin and DNA-PKcscauses DNA damage accumulation and neurodegeneration in spinal muscular atrophy Nucleic Acids Research2018 Vol 46 No 16 8326-8346
Mishra I Jones C Patel V Deodhar S Cistola D P (2018) Early detection of metabolic dysregulation usingwater T2 analysis of biobanked samples Diabetes Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity Targets and Therapy 11 807-818
Patel V Dwivedi A K Deodhar S Mishra I Cistola D P (2018) Aptamer-based search for correlates of plasmaand serum water T2 Implications for early metabolic dysregulation and metabolic syndrome Biomarker Research6(1) 28
Garg H Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz T Joshi A 2018 Recent Advances in Zika Virus Vaccines Viruses Nov 1410 (11) Sundin OH Mendoza-Ladd A Zeng M Diaz-Areacutevalo D Morales E Fagan BMOrdontildeez J McCallum RW Does a
glucose-based hydrogen and methane breath test detect bacterial overgrowth in the jejunum NeurogastroenterolMotil 2018e13350
Zheng Z Diaz-Areacutevalo D Guan H and Mingtao Zeng Noninvasive vaccination against infectious diseases Humanvaccines amp immunotherapeutics 2018 14(7)1717-1733
Preeti Bharaj Chunting Ye Sean Petersen Qianghu Wang Baoli Hu N Manjunath Premlata Shankar Guohua Yi(2018) Gene array analysis of PD-1H overexpressing monocytes reveals a pro-inflammatory profile Heliyone00545
Bencomo-Alvarez AE Rubio AJ Gonzalez MA and Eiring AM Energy metabolism and drug response in myeloidleukaemic stem cells Br J Haematol 2019 In Press
9102019
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Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Peer-reviewed publications Yan D Pomicter AD Tantravahi S Mason CC Senina AV Ahmann JM Wang Q Than H Patel AB Heaton
WL Eiring AM Clair PM Gantz KC Redwine HM Swierczek SI Halverson BJ Baloglu E Shacham S KhorashadJS Kelley TW Salama ME Miles RR Boucher KM Prchal JT OHare T and Deininger MW Nuclear-cytoplasmic transport is a therapeutic target in myelofibrosis Clin Cancer Res 201925(7)2323-2335
Heipertz E Harper J Lopez CA Fikrig E Hughes ME Walker WE Circadian rhythms influence the severity of sepsis in mice via a TLR2-dependent leukocyte-intrinsic mechanism The Journal of Immunology 2018 201193-201
Khatri R Afzal MR Qureshi MA Maud A Huanyu D Jose Rodriguez G Pre-Existing Renal Failure Increases In-Hospital Mortality in Patients with Intracerebral Hemorrhage J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis 2019 Feb28(2)237-242
Zou L Lee SY Wu Q Zhang H Bastian A Orji C Payne G Galvez A Thomas T Zhang Z Dou H Facile Gene Delivery Derived from Branched Low Molecular Weight Polyethylenimine by High Efficient Chemistry J Biomed Nanotechnol 2018 Oct 114(10)1785-1795
Zhang C Brandon NR Koper K Tang P Xu Y Dou H Invasion of Peripheral Immune Cells into Brain Parenchyma after Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation Aging Dis 2018 Jun 19(3)412-425
Loza O Hernandez P Calderoacuten-Mora J Laks S Leiner M Reddy S Lara P amp Granados H (2018) Developing Trans-affirming health services in an underserved area An intersectional approach Transgender Health 3(1) 127-135
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Byrd T Calderoacuten-Mora J Salaiz R amp Shokar N (2019) Barriers and facilitators to colorectal cancer screening within a Hispanic population Hispanic Health Care International 17(1) 23-29 doi 1011771540415318818982
Haut SR Lipton RB Cornes S Dwivedi AK Wasson R Cotton S Strawn JR Privitera M (2018) Behavioral interventions as a treatment for epilepsy A multicenter randomized controlled trial Neurology 90(11) e963-e970 PMID 29444968
Jessica Bernica Sherif Elhanafi Neeharika Kalakota Yi Jia Christopher Dodoo Alok Dwivedi Robert J Sealock Kalpesh Patel Isaac Raijman Marc J Zuckerman Mohamed O Othman (2018) Cholangioscopy is safe and feasible in elderly patients Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology 16(8) 1293-1299
Benjamin D Wissel Alok K Dwivedi Danielle Chin Aristide Merola Cara Jacob Andrew P Duker Jennifer E Vaughan Lilia Lovera Kathrin LaFaver Ariel Levy Anthony E Lang Francesca Morgante Melissa J Nirenberg Christopher Stephen Nutan Sharma Alberto Romagnolo Leonardo Lopiano Bettina Balint Xin X Yu Kailash P Bhatia Alberto J Espay Functional neurological disorders in Parkinson disease Accepted for publication in Journal
of Neurology Neurosurgery amp Psychiatry 89(6)566-571
Danny J Avalos Marc J Zuckerman Alok Dwivedi Christopher Dodoo Jinendra Satiya Fernando J Castro(2018) Differences in prevalence of large polyps between Hispanic Americans from Mexican-and Non-Mexican-predominant states Digestive diseases and sciences PMID 30276570
Zeina Nahleh Salman Otoukesh Hamid Reza Mirshahidi Anthony Loc Nguyen Gayathri Nagaraj Nabeel Badri Gehan Botrus Nabih Diab Andres Alvarado Luis A Sanchez Alok K Dwivedi (2018) Disparities in breast cancer a multi-institutional comparative analysis focusing on American Hispanics Cancer Medicine (In press 05072018)
9102019
25
Scholarly Activity Danny J Avalos Antonio Mendoza-Ladd Marc J Zuckerman Mohammad Bashashati Andres Alvarado Alok
Dwivedi Oriana M Damas (2018) Hispanics and Non-Hispanic Whites in the US have a Similar InflammatoryBowel Disease Phenotype A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis Digestive Diseases and Sciences 63(6)1558-1571
Aleli Campbell Rosalinda Heydarian Cecilia Ochoa Alok Kumar Dwivedi Zeina A Nahleh(2018) Single arm phaseII study of oral vitamin B12 for the treatment of musculoskeletal symptoms associated with aromatase inhibitors inwomen with early stage breast cancer The breast journal 24(3)260-268
Shaimaa Elzamly Nabeel Badri Osvaldo Padilla Alok Kumar Dwivedi Luis A Alvarado Matthew Hamilton NabihDiab Crosby Rock Ahmed Elfar Marwa Teleb Luis Sanchez Zeina Nahleh (2018) Epithelial-mesenchymaltransition markers in breast cancer and pathological responseafter neoadjuvant chemotherapy Breast Cancer
(Auckl) 2018 Aug 1121178223418788074
Jennifer C Molokwu Eribeth Penaranda Alok Dwivedi Indika Mallawaarachchi Navkiran Shokar (2018) Effect ofEducational Intervention on Self-Sampling Acceptability and Follow-Up Paps in Border Dwelling Hispanic FemalesJournal of Lower Genital Tract Disease
Ritika Suri Federico Rodriguez-Porcel Kelly Donohue Erin Jesse Lilia Lovera Alok Kumar Dwivedi Alberto JEspay (2018) Post-Stroke Movement Disorders The Clinical Neuroanatomic and Demographic Portrait of 284Published Cases Accepted for publication in Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases (In press05212018)
Zeina Nahleh Gehan Botrus Alok Dwivedi Nabeel Badri Salman Otoukesh Nabih Diab Sandip BiswasMichael Jennings Shaimaa Elzamly(2018) Clinico-pathologic disparities of breast cancer in HispanicLatina womenBreast disease 1-8
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Robert Gonzalez Trisha Suppes Jamie Zeitzer Colleen McClung Carol Tamminga Mauricio Tohen Angelica Forero Alok DwivediAndres Alvarado (2018) The association between mood state and chronobiological characteristics in bipolar I disorder a naturalisticvariable cluster analysis-based study International Journal of Bipolar Disorders 6(1)5Mohamed Teleb Aaron Shanker Alok Kumar Dwivedi Debabrata Mukherjee (2018) Effect of exercise on left ventricular mass index byechocardiography in mild and moderate hypertension a meta-analysis Res Cardiovasc Med 6(4)50-6Garnica O Das K Devasundaram S and Dhandayuthapani S Enhanced delivery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigens to antigenpresenting cells using RVG peptide Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Das K Garnica O and Dhandayuthapani S Utility of an oxidative stress response system for the expression of recombinant proteinsin mycobacteria and for the delivery of M tuberculosis antigens to the phagosomal compartments Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Palanichamy K Joshi A Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz T Fernando B Milan S Schiro F Naeem Y Garg H Braunschweig A 2019 Anti-ZikaActivity of a Library of Synthetic Carbohydrate Receptors Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 6284110-4119Anjali Joshi Erin B Punke Tugba Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz Diego P Peralta and Himanshu Garg 2019 TLR9 polymorphism correlates withimmune activation CD4 decline and plasma IP10 levels in HIV patients BMC Infect Dis 19 56Vargas-Medrano J Yang B Garza N T Segura-Ulate I and Perez R G (2018) Up-regulation of protective neuronal MicroRNAs byFTY720 and novel FTY720-derivatives Neuroscience letters 690 178-180Vidal-Martinez G Yang B Vargas-Medrano J and Perez R G (2018) Could alpha-Synuclein Modulation of Insulin and DopamineIdentify a Novel Link Between Parkinsons Disease and Diabetes as Well as Potential Therapies Frontiers in molecular
neuroscience 11 465
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Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Gil-Tommee C Vidal-Martinez G Annette Reyes C Vargas-Medrano J Herrera G V Martin S M Chaparro S A andPerez R G (2019) Parkinsonian GM2 synthase knockout mice lacking mature gangliosides develop urinary dysfunction andneurogenic bladder Experimental neurology 311265-273Vidal-Martinez G Najera K Miranda JD Gil-Tommee C Yang B Vargas-Medrano J Diaz-Pacheco V Barragan J ChaparroS Vargas-Medrano J Chinnasamy R Arterburn JB Perez RG FTY720 improves behavior increases Brain Derived NeurotrophicFactor and reduces α-synuclein pathology in parkinsonian GM2+minus
mice Neuroscience httpsdoiorg101016jneuroscience201905029Tasnim N Thakur V Chattopadhyay M Joddar B (2018) The efficacy of Graphene-foams towards the adhesion proliferationand expression of neuronal-phenotype by dopaminergic neurons differentiated from mesenchymal stem cells Stem cell
international Jun 3 20183410168 doi 10115520183410168Anil Kumar S Allen SC Tasnim N Akter T Park S Kumar A Chattopadhyay M Ito Y Suggs LJ Joddar B (2019) The applicabilityof furfuryl-gelatin as a novel bioink for tissue engineering applications J Biomed Mater Res B Appl Biomater 2019 107(2)314-323 doi 101002jbmb34123 Epub 2018 Apr 15Thakur V Chattopadhyay M (2018) Early urinary markers for diabetic and other kidney diseases Current drug targets 2018 Mar19Joddar B Tasnim N Thakur V Kumar A Mccallum R Chattopadhyay M (2018) Delivery of mesenchymal stem cells fromgelatin-alginate hydrogels to stomach lumen for treatment of gastroparesis Bioengineering 2018 5(1)Camacho CV Choudhari R Gadad SS (2018) Long noncoding RNAs and cancer an overview Steroids 13393-95
IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department
Large net loss (9) of MTM faculty members over the past 5 years
Vacant Director positions (i) Center for Neuroscience (ii) Center for InfectiousDiseases and (iii) Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
No steps have been taken to fill directors positions for more than 2 years
Neurosciences Center at the verge of collapse Only one faculty will be left at theend of this fiscal year
The size of Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology is shrinking
Lack of communication regarding vision and strategic plan for growing department
No faculty salary raises for the past 3 years
Serious concerns about recruitment retention and tenure and promotion decisionsmade in the department Faculty morale is extremely low
Lack of functional research core facility
Gradual elimination of service contracts of equipment essential for research trainingand education of graduate and medical students
A plethora of other issues with the department administration
9102019
27
Questions
Departmental Report
Psychiatry
Ricardo Salazar MDAssociate Professor Psychiatry
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28
Department ReportPsychiatryPRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCIL
BY RICARDO SALAZAR MD
DATE MONDAY JULY 15 2019
Department BreakdownPlease provide the total number of faculty members in your department and break down this number by
rank Please list new faculty members that have joined your department within the last six months
Total Number of Faculty 12
Number of Instructors 1
Number of Assistant Professors 8
Number of Associate Professors 2
Number of Professors 2
New Faculty Melanie Longhurst MD Instructor
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LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair
program director clerkship director chiefs etc
Department Chair ndash Peter M Thompson MD MS
Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Sarah L Martin MD
Combined IMPsych Residency Program Director ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD
Psychiatry Clerkship Director ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD
Child amp Adolescent Fellowship Program Director ndash Cecilia De Vargas MD
Chief Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry ndash Sarah L Martin MD
Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Program Directorndash Ricardo Salazar MD
Chief Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences ndash Ricardo Salazar MD
Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Transmountain ndash Moataz Ragheb MD
AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in your department including awards honors regional
appointments national appointments etc
El Paso Behavioral Health Consortium ndash Board Member ndash Peter M Thompson MD
714 (50) of our graduating medical students this year choose and matched our resident training programs here at Paul L FosterSchool of Medicine Department of Psychiatry (Historical record) ndash Kudos for our Department Faculty
In appreciation for exceptional contributions to the 30th volume of the J Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences ndash Author contributions and review of 271 manuscripts submitted to the journal between September 2017 and August 2018 ndash Ricardo Salazar MD ndash Young Investigator Award Committee Member and Program Committee Member-Abstracts Sub-Committee Member of theAmerican Neuropsychiatric Association (ANPA)
Initial Accreditation with commendation and no citations from ACGME for our first Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Training Program for West Texas ndash Ricardo Salazar MD
Leadership in Education and Development Certificate Program (LEAD) Fellow -1-year program accredited from the Association ofAmerican Medical Colleges (AAMC) Silvina Tonarelli MD amp Ricardo Salazar MD (Selected Award)
Fully operating Southwest Brain Bank A Brain Tissue Repository for Research in Mental Illness ndashPeter M Thompson MD
Texas State Psychiatric Physicians Public Mental Health Services Committee ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD
Texas Health and Human Services Commission Behavioral Health Advisory Committee ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP
Fellow American College of Physicians ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP FACP
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Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Abstracts 31
Publications 5 (peer-review journals)
Presentations 17 ndash National (7) and International (6)
Invited Speaker 21 (including faculty residents fellows) ndash Local amp National
Book Chapters NA
Grants McKee Foundation Award ndash our Chair - Thompson
Intramural Grants Seed Grant 1 SARP Educational Grant 2 - Salazar
President`s Collaborative Research Initiative ndashMarch 2018 - Tonarelli
Scholarly Activity
Child and Adolescent Fellowship Presentations
INTERNATIONAL
- Curanderos and Limpias Cultural psychiatry
Poster presented at 6th Annual Scientific conference of the European Association of PsychosomaticMedicine Verona Italy Drs Garza Meissner De Vargas Mehta June 2018
-Case presentation 0f 49XXXXY Same conference same authors same city
-Resilience etiology protective and risk factors presentation C De Vargas by invitation Annual WorldPediatric summit Madrid June 2018
-Parents and their Children Fantastic journey Same conference on June 2019 Berlin Germany
NATIONAL
-Development of Psychopathology in children at risk for Bipolar Disorders Drs Escamilla Peter Sangra C DeVargas S Martin C Alvarado Andrea Rios (Poster) American Academy of Child and Adolescent PsychiatryAnnual Conference Seattle WA October 2018
Frank William Meissner MD Cynthia Elizabeth Garza MDJD Sarah L Martin MD rdquoDrug-Induced BrugadaSyndrome in a Middle-Aged Female Patient Drugs EKG Diagnosis Electrophysiology and SurveillanceRecommendationrdquo American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting San Francisco CA May 21 2019
Delinquency in a group of school children at risk for bipolar disorder D Haque M Escamilla C De VargasPresented at UCLA LA Ca June 2019
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Residency ProgramPlease provide information regarding your departmentrsquos residency program ie recent accreditation
number of residents and program updates (if applicable)
24 General Psychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)
8 Internal MedicinePsychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)
3 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellows
1 Geriatric Psychiatry Fellow- newly accredited program
IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department
RecruitmentRetention
Short staffed
Organizational Structure
Financial incentives
Protected time
Gender balance Attrition malefemale ratio 41
Program Coordinator turnover rate
Mentoring
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Departmental Organizational
Structure
Chair
Division ChiefsProgram Directors
Clerkship Director
Adm
Organizational Structure Model
Chair
Deputy Chair for Education
Program
Directors
Deputy Chair for Research
Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs
Vicechair
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Roles
Deputy Chair for Education
Oversee undergraduate graduate and CME including the development of teachers and educational scholars Monitor quality and safety across the department
Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs
Faculty appointments Faculty Development and Promotion andor Tenure Develop programs in different domains such as research education personal improvement and leadership Support clinical activities by improving the efficiency of operations and in helping to fit clinical programs into those in the rest of the medical center Allocation of space
Deputy Chair for Research
Develop and direct department-wide programs for faculty recruitment development and support of mentors recognition of excellence and funding of pilot grants bridge funding and grants to nurture multi-principal investigator and trans-division or trans-department projects Allocation of space among divisions
Bottom Line
We need more funds
Institutional support
The investments needed to recruit faculty are beyond the capacity of the
department`s operational revenue
Recruiting a leading investigator or one with great potential for
example may require an investment of $ 1 million and sometimes more
Endowments are the departmentrsquos foundational financial capital the
keel that maintains momentum and balance through the headwinds
and rough seas each department will navigate Endowments increase
the departmentrsquos independence in sustaining its core mission
Thus creation of endowments should be a high priority for any
department that plans for the long term and they increase capacity to
recruit the best faculty in a competitive environment
9102019
14
CEPC actions since last report
May 2019 (1 meetings)
Review and approval of the ldquoCommon Clerkship Policiesrdquo
Notification of additional changes in the clerkship
directorship
Clerkship phase review
Phase data review (AAMC GQ NBME subject exams
USMLE Step 2 CK and CS Step 3 final grades EOY OSCE
and procedure workshop residency director survey)
Introduction of a 10-point plan for curriculum revision
(ldquoPLFSOM v20rdquo)
June 2019 (no quorum) July 2019 (cancelled)
CEPC actions since last report
Challenges and opportunities for improvement identified
through the AY208-19 clerkship phase review
Clear identification of contacts at affiliated sites
Academic support and remediation planning
Consistent resident preparation for participation in UME
Timeliness of grading (Sub-I and Critical Care Selectives)
Orientation modules for Sub-Q and Critical Care Selectives)
Scaling clerkships for anticipated class expansion
The summer doldrums
June 2019 (no quorum) July 2019 (cancelled)
9102019
15
Upcoming actions
Ongoing educational program policy development
Maintain accreditation compliance related curriculum
review cycle (2019-20 ldquoCurriculum as a Wholerdquo)
Review and advance plans for curriculum renewalrevision
Review proposal to re-direct our MD-MPH affiliation to
TTUHSC GSBS Lubbock
Consider development of an MD-MBA option (potentially
with UTEP)
Links to related information
PLFSOM Committee on Curriculum and Educational Policy main page
httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCdefaultaspx
MD degree program policies
httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCpoliciesaspx
MD degree program information
httpselpasottuhscedusomomeUMEinfoaspx
Course and clerkship syllabi
httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCcoursereviewaspx
AY2017-18 medical education program evaluation report (e-Raider required)
httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPC_documentssecureAY2017-
2018MEPEvaluationAnnualReport-Draft-v2pdf
9102019
19
Departmental Report
Molecular and Translational
Medicine
Laxman Gangwani PhDAssociate Professor Molecular amp
Translational Medicine
9102019
20
Department of Molecular and
Translational Medicine (formerly
Biomedical Sciences) Report
PRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCIL
BY LAXMAN GANGWANI
DATE JULY 15 2019
Department BreakdownPlease provide the total number of faculty members in your department and break down this number by
rank Please list new faculty members that have joined your department within the last six months
Total Number of Faculty
Number of Faculty Associates 1
Number of Instructors 1
Number of Research Assistant Professor 1
Number of Assistant Professors 6
Number of Associate Professors 7
Number of Professors 4
New Faculty
None
9102019
21
LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair
program director clerkship director chiefs etc
Department Chair Dr Peter Rotwein (VP Research Associate
Dean GSBS)
Director Center of Emphasis in Cancer Dr Rajkumar
Lakshmanaswamy (Dean GSBS) Co-Director Dr N Shokar
Director Center of Emphasis in Diabetes and Metabolism Dr
David Cistola
Director Center of Emphasis in Infectious Diseases Vacant
Director Center of Emphasis in Neurosciences Vacant
Chief Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology Vacant
AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional
appointments national appointments etc
Awards
Dr Mingtao Zeng
2018 The American Association of Immunologists (AAI) AAI Travel Grant for the 5th European Congress of Immunology
2018 Defense Techconnect Fall Summit amp Expo (2018) Techconnect Defense Innovation Award
Dr Shrikant Gadad
Eugenia Rosemberg Outstanding Abstract Award Endocrine Society Annual Meeting New Orleans March 23-26 2019
Dr Huanyu Dou
National Innovation Award Techconnect 2019
Honors
Dr Alok Dwivedi
Appointed as associated faculty at the Border Biomedical Research Center (BBRC) University of Texas El Paso (UTEP)
Dr Shrikant Gadad
Session Chair (OR09 Steroid Hormone Biology in Physiology and Disease) Endocrine Society Annual Meeting New Orleans March 23-26 2019
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22
AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional
appointments national appointments etc
NIH or DOD study sections appointments
Dr Guohua Yi
HIV special Emphasis Panel for RFA-AI-18-058 Genetic Engineering Technologies for HIV Cure Research (U19)
Dr Laxman Gangwani
Department of Defense (DOD) Reviewer for Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) 2018 -
NIHCSR Study ldquoProgram Evaluation of NIH Peer Review Processes The Role of Anonymizationrdquo 2019 ndash
Patents filings and publications
Patent Number 9862951 Title RNA Interference-Based Therapeutic against Anthrax Inventors Mingtao Zeng and Maria T AreacutevaloDate of Patent January 9 2018
Cistola D P Patel V (2018) Method and system for non-invasive measurement of metabolic health US Non-Provisional Utility Patent Application No 15911728 filed by Texas Tech University
Cistola D P Robinson M D (2018) Methods and tools for diagnosing insulin resistance and assessing health status using NMR relaxation times for water United States Patent Application Publication US 20180020947 A1 httpspatentsgooglecompatentUS20180020947A1en
AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional
appointments national appointments etc
News and Media Coverage of Research performed at TTUHSC EP
Dr David Cistola
MedPageToday 2 January 2019 Harris Scott Could a New Biomarker Help Predict Type 2 Diabetes -- Early datashow water T2 catches abnormalities before traditional testing but experts are cautiously optimistichttpswwwmedpagetodaycomreading-roomendocrine-societydiabetes77186
KTSM Channel 9 NBC El Paso 14 November 2018 Castillo Susy Research in El Paso aimed at detectingdiabetes earlyhttpswwwktsmcomlifestylehealthresearch-in-el-paso-aimed-at-detecting-diabetes-early1596408236apt_credirect=1
El Paso Inc 29 March 2019 TTUHSC El Paso Tackling diabetes cancer httpwwwelpasoinccomttuhsc-el-paso-tackling-diabetes-cancerarticle_613144fe-526a-11e9-b916-c35b701a5ef9html
Dr Laxman Gangwani
Cure SMA Awards $150000 Grant to Laxman Gangwani PhD Texas Tech University
httpwwwcuresmaorgnewsgangwani-grant-2019html
httpswwweurekalertorgpub_releases2019-05ttuh-gw050119php
httpswwwresearchgatenetscientific-contributions11984383_Laxman_Gangwani
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Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Peer-reviewed publications 36 (In high-impact journals)
2018 highest impact factor (11561) journal Nucleic Acids Research
Abstracts 43
Presentations (i) Oral 11 (ii) Posters 28
Invited talks 13
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Peer-reviewed publications
Kannan A Bhatia K Branzei D and Gangwani L (2018) Combined deficiency of Senataxin and DNA-PKcscauses DNA damage accumulation and neurodegeneration in spinal muscular atrophy Nucleic Acids Research2018 Vol 46 No 16 8326-8346
Mishra I Jones C Patel V Deodhar S Cistola D P (2018) Early detection of metabolic dysregulation usingwater T2 analysis of biobanked samples Diabetes Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity Targets and Therapy 11 807-818
Patel V Dwivedi A K Deodhar S Mishra I Cistola D P (2018) Aptamer-based search for correlates of plasmaand serum water T2 Implications for early metabolic dysregulation and metabolic syndrome Biomarker Research6(1) 28
Garg H Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz T Joshi A 2018 Recent Advances in Zika Virus Vaccines Viruses Nov 1410 (11) Sundin OH Mendoza-Ladd A Zeng M Diaz-Areacutevalo D Morales E Fagan BMOrdontildeez J McCallum RW Does a
glucose-based hydrogen and methane breath test detect bacterial overgrowth in the jejunum NeurogastroenterolMotil 2018e13350
Zheng Z Diaz-Areacutevalo D Guan H and Mingtao Zeng Noninvasive vaccination against infectious diseases Humanvaccines amp immunotherapeutics 2018 14(7)1717-1733
Preeti Bharaj Chunting Ye Sean Petersen Qianghu Wang Baoli Hu N Manjunath Premlata Shankar Guohua Yi(2018) Gene array analysis of PD-1H overexpressing monocytes reveals a pro-inflammatory profile Heliyone00545
Bencomo-Alvarez AE Rubio AJ Gonzalez MA and Eiring AM Energy metabolism and drug response in myeloidleukaemic stem cells Br J Haematol 2019 In Press
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Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Peer-reviewed publications Yan D Pomicter AD Tantravahi S Mason CC Senina AV Ahmann JM Wang Q Than H Patel AB Heaton
WL Eiring AM Clair PM Gantz KC Redwine HM Swierczek SI Halverson BJ Baloglu E Shacham S KhorashadJS Kelley TW Salama ME Miles RR Boucher KM Prchal JT OHare T and Deininger MW Nuclear-cytoplasmic transport is a therapeutic target in myelofibrosis Clin Cancer Res 201925(7)2323-2335
Heipertz E Harper J Lopez CA Fikrig E Hughes ME Walker WE Circadian rhythms influence the severity of sepsis in mice via a TLR2-dependent leukocyte-intrinsic mechanism The Journal of Immunology 2018 201193-201
Khatri R Afzal MR Qureshi MA Maud A Huanyu D Jose Rodriguez G Pre-Existing Renal Failure Increases In-Hospital Mortality in Patients with Intracerebral Hemorrhage J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis 2019 Feb28(2)237-242
Zou L Lee SY Wu Q Zhang H Bastian A Orji C Payne G Galvez A Thomas T Zhang Z Dou H Facile Gene Delivery Derived from Branched Low Molecular Weight Polyethylenimine by High Efficient Chemistry J Biomed Nanotechnol 2018 Oct 114(10)1785-1795
Zhang C Brandon NR Koper K Tang P Xu Y Dou H Invasion of Peripheral Immune Cells into Brain Parenchyma after Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation Aging Dis 2018 Jun 19(3)412-425
Loza O Hernandez P Calderoacuten-Mora J Laks S Leiner M Reddy S Lara P amp Granados H (2018) Developing Trans-affirming health services in an underserved area An intersectional approach Transgender Health 3(1) 127-135
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Byrd T Calderoacuten-Mora J Salaiz R amp Shokar N (2019) Barriers and facilitators to colorectal cancer screening within a Hispanic population Hispanic Health Care International 17(1) 23-29 doi 1011771540415318818982
Haut SR Lipton RB Cornes S Dwivedi AK Wasson R Cotton S Strawn JR Privitera M (2018) Behavioral interventions as a treatment for epilepsy A multicenter randomized controlled trial Neurology 90(11) e963-e970 PMID 29444968
Jessica Bernica Sherif Elhanafi Neeharika Kalakota Yi Jia Christopher Dodoo Alok Dwivedi Robert J Sealock Kalpesh Patel Isaac Raijman Marc J Zuckerman Mohamed O Othman (2018) Cholangioscopy is safe and feasible in elderly patients Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology 16(8) 1293-1299
Benjamin D Wissel Alok K Dwivedi Danielle Chin Aristide Merola Cara Jacob Andrew P Duker Jennifer E Vaughan Lilia Lovera Kathrin LaFaver Ariel Levy Anthony E Lang Francesca Morgante Melissa J Nirenberg Christopher Stephen Nutan Sharma Alberto Romagnolo Leonardo Lopiano Bettina Balint Xin X Yu Kailash P Bhatia Alberto J Espay Functional neurological disorders in Parkinson disease Accepted for publication in Journal
of Neurology Neurosurgery amp Psychiatry 89(6)566-571
Danny J Avalos Marc J Zuckerman Alok Dwivedi Christopher Dodoo Jinendra Satiya Fernando J Castro(2018) Differences in prevalence of large polyps between Hispanic Americans from Mexican-and Non-Mexican-predominant states Digestive diseases and sciences PMID 30276570
Zeina Nahleh Salman Otoukesh Hamid Reza Mirshahidi Anthony Loc Nguyen Gayathri Nagaraj Nabeel Badri Gehan Botrus Nabih Diab Andres Alvarado Luis A Sanchez Alok K Dwivedi (2018) Disparities in breast cancer a multi-institutional comparative analysis focusing on American Hispanics Cancer Medicine (In press 05072018)
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Scholarly Activity Danny J Avalos Antonio Mendoza-Ladd Marc J Zuckerman Mohammad Bashashati Andres Alvarado Alok
Dwivedi Oriana M Damas (2018) Hispanics and Non-Hispanic Whites in the US have a Similar InflammatoryBowel Disease Phenotype A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis Digestive Diseases and Sciences 63(6)1558-1571
Aleli Campbell Rosalinda Heydarian Cecilia Ochoa Alok Kumar Dwivedi Zeina A Nahleh(2018) Single arm phaseII study of oral vitamin B12 for the treatment of musculoskeletal symptoms associated with aromatase inhibitors inwomen with early stage breast cancer The breast journal 24(3)260-268
Shaimaa Elzamly Nabeel Badri Osvaldo Padilla Alok Kumar Dwivedi Luis A Alvarado Matthew Hamilton NabihDiab Crosby Rock Ahmed Elfar Marwa Teleb Luis Sanchez Zeina Nahleh (2018) Epithelial-mesenchymaltransition markers in breast cancer and pathological responseafter neoadjuvant chemotherapy Breast Cancer
(Auckl) 2018 Aug 1121178223418788074
Jennifer C Molokwu Eribeth Penaranda Alok Dwivedi Indika Mallawaarachchi Navkiran Shokar (2018) Effect ofEducational Intervention on Self-Sampling Acceptability and Follow-Up Paps in Border Dwelling Hispanic FemalesJournal of Lower Genital Tract Disease
Ritika Suri Federico Rodriguez-Porcel Kelly Donohue Erin Jesse Lilia Lovera Alok Kumar Dwivedi Alberto JEspay (2018) Post-Stroke Movement Disorders The Clinical Neuroanatomic and Demographic Portrait of 284Published Cases Accepted for publication in Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases (In press05212018)
Zeina Nahleh Gehan Botrus Alok Dwivedi Nabeel Badri Salman Otoukesh Nabih Diab Sandip BiswasMichael Jennings Shaimaa Elzamly(2018) Clinico-pathologic disparities of breast cancer in HispanicLatina womenBreast disease 1-8
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Robert Gonzalez Trisha Suppes Jamie Zeitzer Colleen McClung Carol Tamminga Mauricio Tohen Angelica Forero Alok DwivediAndres Alvarado (2018) The association between mood state and chronobiological characteristics in bipolar I disorder a naturalisticvariable cluster analysis-based study International Journal of Bipolar Disorders 6(1)5Mohamed Teleb Aaron Shanker Alok Kumar Dwivedi Debabrata Mukherjee (2018) Effect of exercise on left ventricular mass index byechocardiography in mild and moderate hypertension a meta-analysis Res Cardiovasc Med 6(4)50-6Garnica O Das K Devasundaram S and Dhandayuthapani S Enhanced delivery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigens to antigenpresenting cells using RVG peptide Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Das K Garnica O and Dhandayuthapani S Utility of an oxidative stress response system for the expression of recombinant proteinsin mycobacteria and for the delivery of M tuberculosis antigens to the phagosomal compartments Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Palanichamy K Joshi A Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz T Fernando B Milan S Schiro F Naeem Y Garg H Braunschweig A 2019 Anti-ZikaActivity of a Library of Synthetic Carbohydrate Receptors Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 6284110-4119Anjali Joshi Erin B Punke Tugba Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz Diego P Peralta and Himanshu Garg 2019 TLR9 polymorphism correlates withimmune activation CD4 decline and plasma IP10 levels in HIV patients BMC Infect Dis 19 56Vargas-Medrano J Yang B Garza N T Segura-Ulate I and Perez R G (2018) Up-regulation of protective neuronal MicroRNAs byFTY720 and novel FTY720-derivatives Neuroscience letters 690 178-180Vidal-Martinez G Yang B Vargas-Medrano J and Perez R G (2018) Could alpha-Synuclein Modulation of Insulin and DopamineIdentify a Novel Link Between Parkinsons Disease and Diabetes as Well as Potential Therapies Frontiers in molecular
neuroscience 11 465
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Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Gil-Tommee C Vidal-Martinez G Annette Reyes C Vargas-Medrano J Herrera G V Martin S M Chaparro S A andPerez R G (2019) Parkinsonian GM2 synthase knockout mice lacking mature gangliosides develop urinary dysfunction andneurogenic bladder Experimental neurology 311265-273Vidal-Martinez G Najera K Miranda JD Gil-Tommee C Yang B Vargas-Medrano J Diaz-Pacheco V Barragan J ChaparroS Vargas-Medrano J Chinnasamy R Arterburn JB Perez RG FTY720 improves behavior increases Brain Derived NeurotrophicFactor and reduces α-synuclein pathology in parkinsonian GM2+minus
mice Neuroscience httpsdoiorg101016jneuroscience201905029Tasnim N Thakur V Chattopadhyay M Joddar B (2018) The efficacy of Graphene-foams towards the adhesion proliferationand expression of neuronal-phenotype by dopaminergic neurons differentiated from mesenchymal stem cells Stem cell
international Jun 3 20183410168 doi 10115520183410168Anil Kumar S Allen SC Tasnim N Akter T Park S Kumar A Chattopadhyay M Ito Y Suggs LJ Joddar B (2019) The applicabilityof furfuryl-gelatin as a novel bioink for tissue engineering applications J Biomed Mater Res B Appl Biomater 2019 107(2)314-323 doi 101002jbmb34123 Epub 2018 Apr 15Thakur V Chattopadhyay M (2018) Early urinary markers for diabetic and other kidney diseases Current drug targets 2018 Mar19Joddar B Tasnim N Thakur V Kumar A Mccallum R Chattopadhyay M (2018) Delivery of mesenchymal stem cells fromgelatin-alginate hydrogels to stomach lumen for treatment of gastroparesis Bioengineering 2018 5(1)Camacho CV Choudhari R Gadad SS (2018) Long noncoding RNAs and cancer an overview Steroids 13393-95
IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department
Large net loss (9) of MTM faculty members over the past 5 years
Vacant Director positions (i) Center for Neuroscience (ii) Center for InfectiousDiseases and (iii) Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
No steps have been taken to fill directors positions for more than 2 years
Neurosciences Center at the verge of collapse Only one faculty will be left at theend of this fiscal year
The size of Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology is shrinking
Lack of communication regarding vision and strategic plan for growing department
No faculty salary raises for the past 3 years
Serious concerns about recruitment retention and tenure and promotion decisionsmade in the department Faculty morale is extremely low
Lack of functional research core facility
Gradual elimination of service contracts of equipment essential for research trainingand education of graduate and medical students
A plethora of other issues with the department administration
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Questions
Departmental Report
Psychiatry
Ricardo Salazar MDAssociate Professor Psychiatry
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Department ReportPsychiatryPRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCIL
BY RICARDO SALAZAR MD
DATE MONDAY JULY 15 2019
Department BreakdownPlease provide the total number of faculty members in your department and break down this number by
rank Please list new faculty members that have joined your department within the last six months
Total Number of Faculty 12
Number of Instructors 1
Number of Assistant Professors 8
Number of Associate Professors 2
Number of Professors 2
New Faculty Melanie Longhurst MD Instructor
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LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair
program director clerkship director chiefs etc
Department Chair ndash Peter M Thompson MD MS
Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Sarah L Martin MD
Combined IMPsych Residency Program Director ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD
Psychiatry Clerkship Director ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD
Child amp Adolescent Fellowship Program Director ndash Cecilia De Vargas MD
Chief Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry ndash Sarah L Martin MD
Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Program Directorndash Ricardo Salazar MD
Chief Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences ndash Ricardo Salazar MD
Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Transmountain ndash Moataz Ragheb MD
AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in your department including awards honors regional
appointments national appointments etc
El Paso Behavioral Health Consortium ndash Board Member ndash Peter M Thompson MD
714 (50) of our graduating medical students this year choose and matched our resident training programs here at Paul L FosterSchool of Medicine Department of Psychiatry (Historical record) ndash Kudos for our Department Faculty
In appreciation for exceptional contributions to the 30th volume of the J Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences ndash Author contributions and review of 271 manuscripts submitted to the journal between September 2017 and August 2018 ndash Ricardo Salazar MD ndash Young Investigator Award Committee Member and Program Committee Member-Abstracts Sub-Committee Member of theAmerican Neuropsychiatric Association (ANPA)
Initial Accreditation with commendation and no citations from ACGME for our first Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Training Program for West Texas ndash Ricardo Salazar MD
Leadership in Education and Development Certificate Program (LEAD) Fellow -1-year program accredited from the Association ofAmerican Medical Colleges (AAMC) Silvina Tonarelli MD amp Ricardo Salazar MD (Selected Award)
Fully operating Southwest Brain Bank A Brain Tissue Repository for Research in Mental Illness ndashPeter M Thompson MD
Texas State Psychiatric Physicians Public Mental Health Services Committee ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD
Texas Health and Human Services Commission Behavioral Health Advisory Committee ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP
Fellow American College of Physicians ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP FACP
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Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Abstracts 31
Publications 5 (peer-review journals)
Presentations 17 ndash National (7) and International (6)
Invited Speaker 21 (including faculty residents fellows) ndash Local amp National
Book Chapters NA
Grants McKee Foundation Award ndash our Chair - Thompson
Intramural Grants Seed Grant 1 SARP Educational Grant 2 - Salazar
President`s Collaborative Research Initiative ndashMarch 2018 - Tonarelli
Scholarly Activity
Child and Adolescent Fellowship Presentations
INTERNATIONAL
- Curanderos and Limpias Cultural psychiatry
Poster presented at 6th Annual Scientific conference of the European Association of PsychosomaticMedicine Verona Italy Drs Garza Meissner De Vargas Mehta June 2018
-Case presentation 0f 49XXXXY Same conference same authors same city
-Resilience etiology protective and risk factors presentation C De Vargas by invitation Annual WorldPediatric summit Madrid June 2018
-Parents and their Children Fantastic journey Same conference on June 2019 Berlin Germany
NATIONAL
-Development of Psychopathology in children at risk for Bipolar Disorders Drs Escamilla Peter Sangra C DeVargas S Martin C Alvarado Andrea Rios (Poster) American Academy of Child and Adolescent PsychiatryAnnual Conference Seattle WA October 2018
Frank William Meissner MD Cynthia Elizabeth Garza MDJD Sarah L Martin MD rdquoDrug-Induced BrugadaSyndrome in a Middle-Aged Female Patient Drugs EKG Diagnosis Electrophysiology and SurveillanceRecommendationrdquo American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting San Francisco CA May 21 2019
Delinquency in a group of school children at risk for bipolar disorder D Haque M Escamilla C De VargasPresented at UCLA LA Ca June 2019
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Residency ProgramPlease provide information regarding your departmentrsquos residency program ie recent accreditation
number of residents and program updates (if applicable)
24 General Psychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)
8 Internal MedicinePsychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)
3 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellows
1 Geriatric Psychiatry Fellow- newly accredited program
IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department
RecruitmentRetention
Short staffed
Organizational Structure
Financial incentives
Protected time
Gender balance Attrition malefemale ratio 41
Program Coordinator turnover rate
Mentoring
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Departmental Organizational
Structure
Chair
Division ChiefsProgram Directors
Clerkship Director
Adm
Organizational Structure Model
Chair
Deputy Chair for Education
Program
Directors
Deputy Chair for Research
Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs
Vicechair
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Roles
Deputy Chair for Education
Oversee undergraduate graduate and CME including the development of teachers and educational scholars Monitor quality and safety across the department
Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs
Faculty appointments Faculty Development and Promotion andor Tenure Develop programs in different domains such as research education personal improvement and leadership Support clinical activities by improving the efficiency of operations and in helping to fit clinical programs into those in the rest of the medical center Allocation of space
Deputy Chair for Research
Develop and direct department-wide programs for faculty recruitment development and support of mentors recognition of excellence and funding of pilot grants bridge funding and grants to nurture multi-principal investigator and trans-division or trans-department projects Allocation of space among divisions
Bottom Line
We need more funds
Institutional support
The investments needed to recruit faculty are beyond the capacity of the
department`s operational revenue
Recruiting a leading investigator or one with great potential for
example may require an investment of $ 1 million and sometimes more
Endowments are the departmentrsquos foundational financial capital the
keel that maintains momentum and balance through the headwinds
and rough seas each department will navigate Endowments increase
the departmentrsquos independence in sustaining its core mission
Thus creation of endowments should be a high priority for any
department that plans for the long term and they increase capacity to
recruit the best faculty in a competitive environment
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Upcoming actions
Ongoing educational program policy development
Maintain accreditation compliance related curriculum
review cycle (2019-20 ldquoCurriculum as a Wholerdquo)
Review and advance plans for curriculum renewalrevision
Review proposal to re-direct our MD-MPH affiliation to
TTUHSC GSBS Lubbock
Consider development of an MD-MBA option (potentially
with UTEP)
Links to related information
PLFSOM Committee on Curriculum and Educational Policy main page
httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCdefaultaspx
MD degree program policies
httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCpoliciesaspx
MD degree program information
httpselpasottuhscedusomomeUMEinfoaspx
Course and clerkship syllabi
httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCcoursereviewaspx
AY2017-18 medical education program evaluation report (e-Raider required)
httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPC_documentssecureAY2017-
2018MEPEvaluationAnnualReport-Draft-v2pdf
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Departmental Report
Molecular and Translational
Medicine
Laxman Gangwani PhDAssociate Professor Molecular amp
Translational Medicine
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Department of Molecular and
Translational Medicine (formerly
Biomedical Sciences) Report
PRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCIL
BY LAXMAN GANGWANI
DATE JULY 15 2019
Department BreakdownPlease provide the total number of faculty members in your department and break down this number by
rank Please list new faculty members that have joined your department within the last six months
Total Number of Faculty
Number of Faculty Associates 1
Number of Instructors 1
Number of Research Assistant Professor 1
Number of Assistant Professors 6
Number of Associate Professors 7
Number of Professors 4
New Faculty
None
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LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair
program director clerkship director chiefs etc
Department Chair Dr Peter Rotwein (VP Research Associate
Dean GSBS)
Director Center of Emphasis in Cancer Dr Rajkumar
Lakshmanaswamy (Dean GSBS) Co-Director Dr N Shokar
Director Center of Emphasis in Diabetes and Metabolism Dr
David Cistola
Director Center of Emphasis in Infectious Diseases Vacant
Director Center of Emphasis in Neurosciences Vacant
Chief Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology Vacant
AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional
appointments national appointments etc
Awards
Dr Mingtao Zeng
2018 The American Association of Immunologists (AAI) AAI Travel Grant for the 5th European Congress of Immunology
2018 Defense Techconnect Fall Summit amp Expo (2018) Techconnect Defense Innovation Award
Dr Shrikant Gadad
Eugenia Rosemberg Outstanding Abstract Award Endocrine Society Annual Meeting New Orleans March 23-26 2019
Dr Huanyu Dou
National Innovation Award Techconnect 2019
Honors
Dr Alok Dwivedi
Appointed as associated faculty at the Border Biomedical Research Center (BBRC) University of Texas El Paso (UTEP)
Dr Shrikant Gadad
Session Chair (OR09 Steroid Hormone Biology in Physiology and Disease) Endocrine Society Annual Meeting New Orleans March 23-26 2019
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AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional
appointments national appointments etc
NIH or DOD study sections appointments
Dr Guohua Yi
HIV special Emphasis Panel for RFA-AI-18-058 Genetic Engineering Technologies for HIV Cure Research (U19)
Dr Laxman Gangwani
Department of Defense (DOD) Reviewer for Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) 2018 -
NIHCSR Study ldquoProgram Evaluation of NIH Peer Review Processes The Role of Anonymizationrdquo 2019 ndash
Patents filings and publications
Patent Number 9862951 Title RNA Interference-Based Therapeutic against Anthrax Inventors Mingtao Zeng and Maria T AreacutevaloDate of Patent January 9 2018
Cistola D P Patel V (2018) Method and system for non-invasive measurement of metabolic health US Non-Provisional Utility Patent Application No 15911728 filed by Texas Tech University
Cistola D P Robinson M D (2018) Methods and tools for diagnosing insulin resistance and assessing health status using NMR relaxation times for water United States Patent Application Publication US 20180020947 A1 httpspatentsgooglecompatentUS20180020947A1en
AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional
appointments national appointments etc
News and Media Coverage of Research performed at TTUHSC EP
Dr David Cistola
MedPageToday 2 January 2019 Harris Scott Could a New Biomarker Help Predict Type 2 Diabetes -- Early datashow water T2 catches abnormalities before traditional testing but experts are cautiously optimistichttpswwwmedpagetodaycomreading-roomendocrine-societydiabetes77186
KTSM Channel 9 NBC El Paso 14 November 2018 Castillo Susy Research in El Paso aimed at detectingdiabetes earlyhttpswwwktsmcomlifestylehealthresearch-in-el-paso-aimed-at-detecting-diabetes-early1596408236apt_credirect=1
El Paso Inc 29 March 2019 TTUHSC El Paso Tackling diabetes cancer httpwwwelpasoinccomttuhsc-el-paso-tackling-diabetes-cancerarticle_613144fe-526a-11e9-b916-c35b701a5ef9html
Dr Laxman Gangwani
Cure SMA Awards $150000 Grant to Laxman Gangwani PhD Texas Tech University
httpwwwcuresmaorgnewsgangwani-grant-2019html
httpswwweurekalertorgpub_releases2019-05ttuh-gw050119php
httpswwwresearchgatenetscientific-contributions11984383_Laxman_Gangwani
9102019
23
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Peer-reviewed publications 36 (In high-impact journals)
2018 highest impact factor (11561) journal Nucleic Acids Research
Abstracts 43
Presentations (i) Oral 11 (ii) Posters 28
Invited talks 13
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Peer-reviewed publications
Kannan A Bhatia K Branzei D and Gangwani L (2018) Combined deficiency of Senataxin and DNA-PKcscauses DNA damage accumulation and neurodegeneration in spinal muscular atrophy Nucleic Acids Research2018 Vol 46 No 16 8326-8346
Mishra I Jones C Patel V Deodhar S Cistola D P (2018) Early detection of metabolic dysregulation usingwater T2 analysis of biobanked samples Diabetes Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity Targets and Therapy 11 807-818
Patel V Dwivedi A K Deodhar S Mishra I Cistola D P (2018) Aptamer-based search for correlates of plasmaand serum water T2 Implications for early metabolic dysregulation and metabolic syndrome Biomarker Research6(1) 28
Garg H Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz T Joshi A 2018 Recent Advances in Zika Virus Vaccines Viruses Nov 1410 (11) Sundin OH Mendoza-Ladd A Zeng M Diaz-Areacutevalo D Morales E Fagan BMOrdontildeez J McCallum RW Does a
glucose-based hydrogen and methane breath test detect bacterial overgrowth in the jejunum NeurogastroenterolMotil 2018e13350
Zheng Z Diaz-Areacutevalo D Guan H and Mingtao Zeng Noninvasive vaccination against infectious diseases Humanvaccines amp immunotherapeutics 2018 14(7)1717-1733
Preeti Bharaj Chunting Ye Sean Petersen Qianghu Wang Baoli Hu N Manjunath Premlata Shankar Guohua Yi(2018) Gene array analysis of PD-1H overexpressing monocytes reveals a pro-inflammatory profile Heliyone00545
Bencomo-Alvarez AE Rubio AJ Gonzalez MA and Eiring AM Energy metabolism and drug response in myeloidleukaemic stem cells Br J Haematol 2019 In Press
9102019
24
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Peer-reviewed publications Yan D Pomicter AD Tantravahi S Mason CC Senina AV Ahmann JM Wang Q Than H Patel AB Heaton
WL Eiring AM Clair PM Gantz KC Redwine HM Swierczek SI Halverson BJ Baloglu E Shacham S KhorashadJS Kelley TW Salama ME Miles RR Boucher KM Prchal JT OHare T and Deininger MW Nuclear-cytoplasmic transport is a therapeutic target in myelofibrosis Clin Cancer Res 201925(7)2323-2335
Heipertz E Harper J Lopez CA Fikrig E Hughes ME Walker WE Circadian rhythms influence the severity of sepsis in mice via a TLR2-dependent leukocyte-intrinsic mechanism The Journal of Immunology 2018 201193-201
Khatri R Afzal MR Qureshi MA Maud A Huanyu D Jose Rodriguez G Pre-Existing Renal Failure Increases In-Hospital Mortality in Patients with Intracerebral Hemorrhage J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis 2019 Feb28(2)237-242
Zou L Lee SY Wu Q Zhang H Bastian A Orji C Payne G Galvez A Thomas T Zhang Z Dou H Facile Gene Delivery Derived from Branched Low Molecular Weight Polyethylenimine by High Efficient Chemistry J Biomed Nanotechnol 2018 Oct 114(10)1785-1795
Zhang C Brandon NR Koper K Tang P Xu Y Dou H Invasion of Peripheral Immune Cells into Brain Parenchyma after Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation Aging Dis 2018 Jun 19(3)412-425
Loza O Hernandez P Calderoacuten-Mora J Laks S Leiner M Reddy S Lara P amp Granados H (2018) Developing Trans-affirming health services in an underserved area An intersectional approach Transgender Health 3(1) 127-135
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Byrd T Calderoacuten-Mora J Salaiz R amp Shokar N (2019) Barriers and facilitators to colorectal cancer screening within a Hispanic population Hispanic Health Care International 17(1) 23-29 doi 1011771540415318818982
Haut SR Lipton RB Cornes S Dwivedi AK Wasson R Cotton S Strawn JR Privitera M (2018) Behavioral interventions as a treatment for epilepsy A multicenter randomized controlled trial Neurology 90(11) e963-e970 PMID 29444968
Jessica Bernica Sherif Elhanafi Neeharika Kalakota Yi Jia Christopher Dodoo Alok Dwivedi Robert J Sealock Kalpesh Patel Isaac Raijman Marc J Zuckerman Mohamed O Othman (2018) Cholangioscopy is safe and feasible in elderly patients Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology 16(8) 1293-1299
Benjamin D Wissel Alok K Dwivedi Danielle Chin Aristide Merola Cara Jacob Andrew P Duker Jennifer E Vaughan Lilia Lovera Kathrin LaFaver Ariel Levy Anthony E Lang Francesca Morgante Melissa J Nirenberg Christopher Stephen Nutan Sharma Alberto Romagnolo Leonardo Lopiano Bettina Balint Xin X Yu Kailash P Bhatia Alberto J Espay Functional neurological disorders in Parkinson disease Accepted for publication in Journal
of Neurology Neurosurgery amp Psychiatry 89(6)566-571
Danny J Avalos Marc J Zuckerman Alok Dwivedi Christopher Dodoo Jinendra Satiya Fernando J Castro(2018) Differences in prevalence of large polyps between Hispanic Americans from Mexican-and Non-Mexican-predominant states Digestive diseases and sciences PMID 30276570
Zeina Nahleh Salman Otoukesh Hamid Reza Mirshahidi Anthony Loc Nguyen Gayathri Nagaraj Nabeel Badri Gehan Botrus Nabih Diab Andres Alvarado Luis A Sanchez Alok K Dwivedi (2018) Disparities in breast cancer a multi-institutional comparative analysis focusing on American Hispanics Cancer Medicine (In press 05072018)
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Scholarly Activity Danny J Avalos Antonio Mendoza-Ladd Marc J Zuckerman Mohammad Bashashati Andres Alvarado Alok
Dwivedi Oriana M Damas (2018) Hispanics and Non-Hispanic Whites in the US have a Similar InflammatoryBowel Disease Phenotype A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis Digestive Diseases and Sciences 63(6)1558-1571
Aleli Campbell Rosalinda Heydarian Cecilia Ochoa Alok Kumar Dwivedi Zeina A Nahleh(2018) Single arm phaseII study of oral vitamin B12 for the treatment of musculoskeletal symptoms associated with aromatase inhibitors inwomen with early stage breast cancer The breast journal 24(3)260-268
Shaimaa Elzamly Nabeel Badri Osvaldo Padilla Alok Kumar Dwivedi Luis A Alvarado Matthew Hamilton NabihDiab Crosby Rock Ahmed Elfar Marwa Teleb Luis Sanchez Zeina Nahleh (2018) Epithelial-mesenchymaltransition markers in breast cancer and pathological responseafter neoadjuvant chemotherapy Breast Cancer
(Auckl) 2018 Aug 1121178223418788074
Jennifer C Molokwu Eribeth Penaranda Alok Dwivedi Indika Mallawaarachchi Navkiran Shokar (2018) Effect ofEducational Intervention on Self-Sampling Acceptability and Follow-Up Paps in Border Dwelling Hispanic FemalesJournal of Lower Genital Tract Disease
Ritika Suri Federico Rodriguez-Porcel Kelly Donohue Erin Jesse Lilia Lovera Alok Kumar Dwivedi Alberto JEspay (2018) Post-Stroke Movement Disorders The Clinical Neuroanatomic and Demographic Portrait of 284Published Cases Accepted for publication in Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases (In press05212018)
Zeina Nahleh Gehan Botrus Alok Dwivedi Nabeel Badri Salman Otoukesh Nabih Diab Sandip BiswasMichael Jennings Shaimaa Elzamly(2018) Clinico-pathologic disparities of breast cancer in HispanicLatina womenBreast disease 1-8
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Robert Gonzalez Trisha Suppes Jamie Zeitzer Colleen McClung Carol Tamminga Mauricio Tohen Angelica Forero Alok DwivediAndres Alvarado (2018) The association between mood state and chronobiological characteristics in bipolar I disorder a naturalisticvariable cluster analysis-based study International Journal of Bipolar Disorders 6(1)5Mohamed Teleb Aaron Shanker Alok Kumar Dwivedi Debabrata Mukherjee (2018) Effect of exercise on left ventricular mass index byechocardiography in mild and moderate hypertension a meta-analysis Res Cardiovasc Med 6(4)50-6Garnica O Das K Devasundaram S and Dhandayuthapani S Enhanced delivery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigens to antigenpresenting cells using RVG peptide Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Das K Garnica O and Dhandayuthapani S Utility of an oxidative stress response system for the expression of recombinant proteinsin mycobacteria and for the delivery of M tuberculosis antigens to the phagosomal compartments Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Palanichamy K Joshi A Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz T Fernando B Milan S Schiro F Naeem Y Garg H Braunschweig A 2019 Anti-ZikaActivity of a Library of Synthetic Carbohydrate Receptors Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 6284110-4119Anjali Joshi Erin B Punke Tugba Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz Diego P Peralta and Himanshu Garg 2019 TLR9 polymorphism correlates withimmune activation CD4 decline and plasma IP10 levels in HIV patients BMC Infect Dis 19 56Vargas-Medrano J Yang B Garza N T Segura-Ulate I and Perez R G (2018) Up-regulation of protective neuronal MicroRNAs byFTY720 and novel FTY720-derivatives Neuroscience letters 690 178-180Vidal-Martinez G Yang B Vargas-Medrano J and Perez R G (2018) Could alpha-Synuclein Modulation of Insulin and DopamineIdentify a Novel Link Between Parkinsons Disease and Diabetes as Well as Potential Therapies Frontiers in molecular
neuroscience 11 465
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Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Gil-Tommee C Vidal-Martinez G Annette Reyes C Vargas-Medrano J Herrera G V Martin S M Chaparro S A andPerez R G (2019) Parkinsonian GM2 synthase knockout mice lacking mature gangliosides develop urinary dysfunction andneurogenic bladder Experimental neurology 311265-273Vidal-Martinez G Najera K Miranda JD Gil-Tommee C Yang B Vargas-Medrano J Diaz-Pacheco V Barragan J ChaparroS Vargas-Medrano J Chinnasamy R Arterburn JB Perez RG FTY720 improves behavior increases Brain Derived NeurotrophicFactor and reduces α-synuclein pathology in parkinsonian GM2+minus
mice Neuroscience httpsdoiorg101016jneuroscience201905029Tasnim N Thakur V Chattopadhyay M Joddar B (2018) The efficacy of Graphene-foams towards the adhesion proliferationand expression of neuronal-phenotype by dopaminergic neurons differentiated from mesenchymal stem cells Stem cell
international Jun 3 20183410168 doi 10115520183410168Anil Kumar S Allen SC Tasnim N Akter T Park S Kumar A Chattopadhyay M Ito Y Suggs LJ Joddar B (2019) The applicabilityof furfuryl-gelatin as a novel bioink for tissue engineering applications J Biomed Mater Res B Appl Biomater 2019 107(2)314-323 doi 101002jbmb34123 Epub 2018 Apr 15Thakur V Chattopadhyay M (2018) Early urinary markers for diabetic and other kidney diseases Current drug targets 2018 Mar19Joddar B Tasnim N Thakur V Kumar A Mccallum R Chattopadhyay M (2018) Delivery of mesenchymal stem cells fromgelatin-alginate hydrogels to stomach lumen for treatment of gastroparesis Bioengineering 2018 5(1)Camacho CV Choudhari R Gadad SS (2018) Long noncoding RNAs and cancer an overview Steroids 13393-95
IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department
Large net loss (9) of MTM faculty members over the past 5 years
Vacant Director positions (i) Center for Neuroscience (ii) Center for InfectiousDiseases and (iii) Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
No steps have been taken to fill directors positions for more than 2 years
Neurosciences Center at the verge of collapse Only one faculty will be left at theend of this fiscal year
The size of Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology is shrinking
Lack of communication regarding vision and strategic plan for growing department
No faculty salary raises for the past 3 years
Serious concerns about recruitment retention and tenure and promotion decisionsmade in the department Faculty morale is extremely low
Lack of functional research core facility
Gradual elimination of service contracts of equipment essential for research trainingand education of graduate and medical students
A plethora of other issues with the department administration
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Questions
Departmental Report
Psychiatry
Ricardo Salazar MDAssociate Professor Psychiatry
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Department ReportPsychiatryPRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCIL
BY RICARDO SALAZAR MD
DATE MONDAY JULY 15 2019
Department BreakdownPlease provide the total number of faculty members in your department and break down this number by
rank Please list new faculty members that have joined your department within the last six months
Total Number of Faculty 12
Number of Instructors 1
Number of Assistant Professors 8
Number of Associate Professors 2
Number of Professors 2
New Faculty Melanie Longhurst MD Instructor
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LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair
program director clerkship director chiefs etc
Department Chair ndash Peter M Thompson MD MS
Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Sarah L Martin MD
Combined IMPsych Residency Program Director ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD
Psychiatry Clerkship Director ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD
Child amp Adolescent Fellowship Program Director ndash Cecilia De Vargas MD
Chief Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry ndash Sarah L Martin MD
Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Program Directorndash Ricardo Salazar MD
Chief Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences ndash Ricardo Salazar MD
Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Transmountain ndash Moataz Ragheb MD
AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in your department including awards honors regional
appointments national appointments etc
El Paso Behavioral Health Consortium ndash Board Member ndash Peter M Thompson MD
714 (50) of our graduating medical students this year choose and matched our resident training programs here at Paul L FosterSchool of Medicine Department of Psychiatry (Historical record) ndash Kudos for our Department Faculty
In appreciation for exceptional contributions to the 30th volume of the J Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences ndash Author contributions and review of 271 manuscripts submitted to the journal between September 2017 and August 2018 ndash Ricardo Salazar MD ndash Young Investigator Award Committee Member and Program Committee Member-Abstracts Sub-Committee Member of theAmerican Neuropsychiatric Association (ANPA)
Initial Accreditation with commendation and no citations from ACGME for our first Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Training Program for West Texas ndash Ricardo Salazar MD
Leadership in Education and Development Certificate Program (LEAD) Fellow -1-year program accredited from the Association ofAmerican Medical Colleges (AAMC) Silvina Tonarelli MD amp Ricardo Salazar MD (Selected Award)
Fully operating Southwest Brain Bank A Brain Tissue Repository for Research in Mental Illness ndashPeter M Thompson MD
Texas State Psychiatric Physicians Public Mental Health Services Committee ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD
Texas Health and Human Services Commission Behavioral Health Advisory Committee ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP
Fellow American College of Physicians ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP FACP
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Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Abstracts 31
Publications 5 (peer-review journals)
Presentations 17 ndash National (7) and International (6)
Invited Speaker 21 (including faculty residents fellows) ndash Local amp National
Book Chapters NA
Grants McKee Foundation Award ndash our Chair - Thompson
Intramural Grants Seed Grant 1 SARP Educational Grant 2 - Salazar
President`s Collaborative Research Initiative ndashMarch 2018 - Tonarelli
Scholarly Activity
Child and Adolescent Fellowship Presentations
INTERNATIONAL
- Curanderos and Limpias Cultural psychiatry
Poster presented at 6th Annual Scientific conference of the European Association of PsychosomaticMedicine Verona Italy Drs Garza Meissner De Vargas Mehta June 2018
-Case presentation 0f 49XXXXY Same conference same authors same city
-Resilience etiology protective and risk factors presentation C De Vargas by invitation Annual WorldPediatric summit Madrid June 2018
-Parents and their Children Fantastic journey Same conference on June 2019 Berlin Germany
NATIONAL
-Development of Psychopathology in children at risk for Bipolar Disorders Drs Escamilla Peter Sangra C DeVargas S Martin C Alvarado Andrea Rios (Poster) American Academy of Child and Adolescent PsychiatryAnnual Conference Seattle WA October 2018
Frank William Meissner MD Cynthia Elizabeth Garza MDJD Sarah L Martin MD rdquoDrug-Induced BrugadaSyndrome in a Middle-Aged Female Patient Drugs EKG Diagnosis Electrophysiology and SurveillanceRecommendationrdquo American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting San Francisco CA May 21 2019
Delinquency in a group of school children at risk for bipolar disorder D Haque M Escamilla C De VargasPresented at UCLA LA Ca June 2019
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Residency ProgramPlease provide information regarding your departmentrsquos residency program ie recent accreditation
number of residents and program updates (if applicable)
24 General Psychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)
8 Internal MedicinePsychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)
3 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellows
1 Geriatric Psychiatry Fellow- newly accredited program
IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department
RecruitmentRetention
Short staffed
Organizational Structure
Financial incentives
Protected time
Gender balance Attrition malefemale ratio 41
Program Coordinator turnover rate
Mentoring
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Departmental Organizational
Structure
Chair
Division ChiefsProgram Directors
Clerkship Director
Adm
Organizational Structure Model
Chair
Deputy Chair for Education
Program
Directors
Deputy Chair for Research
Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs
Vicechair
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Roles
Deputy Chair for Education
Oversee undergraduate graduate and CME including the development of teachers and educational scholars Monitor quality and safety across the department
Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs
Faculty appointments Faculty Development and Promotion andor Tenure Develop programs in different domains such as research education personal improvement and leadership Support clinical activities by improving the efficiency of operations and in helping to fit clinical programs into those in the rest of the medical center Allocation of space
Deputy Chair for Research
Develop and direct department-wide programs for faculty recruitment development and support of mentors recognition of excellence and funding of pilot grants bridge funding and grants to nurture multi-principal investigator and trans-division or trans-department projects Allocation of space among divisions
Bottom Line
We need more funds
Institutional support
The investments needed to recruit faculty are beyond the capacity of the
department`s operational revenue
Recruiting a leading investigator or one with great potential for
example may require an investment of $ 1 million and sometimes more
Endowments are the departmentrsquos foundational financial capital the
keel that maintains momentum and balance through the headwinds
and rough seas each department will navigate Endowments increase
the departmentrsquos independence in sustaining its core mission
Thus creation of endowments should be a high priority for any
department that plans for the long term and they increase capacity to
recruit the best faculty in a competitive environment
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Departmental Report
Molecular and Translational
Medicine
Laxman Gangwani PhDAssociate Professor Molecular amp
Translational Medicine
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Department of Molecular and
Translational Medicine (formerly
Biomedical Sciences) Report
PRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCIL
BY LAXMAN GANGWANI
DATE JULY 15 2019
Department BreakdownPlease provide the total number of faculty members in your department and break down this number by
rank Please list new faculty members that have joined your department within the last six months
Total Number of Faculty
Number of Faculty Associates 1
Number of Instructors 1
Number of Research Assistant Professor 1
Number of Assistant Professors 6
Number of Associate Professors 7
Number of Professors 4
New Faculty
None
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LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair
program director clerkship director chiefs etc
Department Chair Dr Peter Rotwein (VP Research Associate
Dean GSBS)
Director Center of Emphasis in Cancer Dr Rajkumar
Lakshmanaswamy (Dean GSBS) Co-Director Dr N Shokar
Director Center of Emphasis in Diabetes and Metabolism Dr
David Cistola
Director Center of Emphasis in Infectious Diseases Vacant
Director Center of Emphasis in Neurosciences Vacant
Chief Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology Vacant
AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional
appointments national appointments etc
Awards
Dr Mingtao Zeng
2018 The American Association of Immunologists (AAI) AAI Travel Grant for the 5th European Congress of Immunology
2018 Defense Techconnect Fall Summit amp Expo (2018) Techconnect Defense Innovation Award
Dr Shrikant Gadad
Eugenia Rosemberg Outstanding Abstract Award Endocrine Society Annual Meeting New Orleans March 23-26 2019
Dr Huanyu Dou
National Innovation Award Techconnect 2019
Honors
Dr Alok Dwivedi
Appointed as associated faculty at the Border Biomedical Research Center (BBRC) University of Texas El Paso (UTEP)
Dr Shrikant Gadad
Session Chair (OR09 Steroid Hormone Biology in Physiology and Disease) Endocrine Society Annual Meeting New Orleans March 23-26 2019
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AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional
appointments national appointments etc
NIH or DOD study sections appointments
Dr Guohua Yi
HIV special Emphasis Panel for RFA-AI-18-058 Genetic Engineering Technologies for HIV Cure Research (U19)
Dr Laxman Gangwani
Department of Defense (DOD) Reviewer for Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) 2018 -
NIHCSR Study ldquoProgram Evaluation of NIH Peer Review Processes The Role of Anonymizationrdquo 2019 ndash
Patents filings and publications
Patent Number 9862951 Title RNA Interference-Based Therapeutic against Anthrax Inventors Mingtao Zeng and Maria T AreacutevaloDate of Patent January 9 2018
Cistola D P Patel V (2018) Method and system for non-invasive measurement of metabolic health US Non-Provisional Utility Patent Application No 15911728 filed by Texas Tech University
Cistola D P Robinson M D (2018) Methods and tools for diagnosing insulin resistance and assessing health status using NMR relaxation times for water United States Patent Application Publication US 20180020947 A1 httpspatentsgooglecompatentUS20180020947A1en
AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional
appointments national appointments etc
News and Media Coverage of Research performed at TTUHSC EP
Dr David Cistola
MedPageToday 2 January 2019 Harris Scott Could a New Biomarker Help Predict Type 2 Diabetes -- Early datashow water T2 catches abnormalities before traditional testing but experts are cautiously optimistichttpswwwmedpagetodaycomreading-roomendocrine-societydiabetes77186
KTSM Channel 9 NBC El Paso 14 November 2018 Castillo Susy Research in El Paso aimed at detectingdiabetes earlyhttpswwwktsmcomlifestylehealthresearch-in-el-paso-aimed-at-detecting-diabetes-early1596408236apt_credirect=1
El Paso Inc 29 March 2019 TTUHSC El Paso Tackling diabetes cancer httpwwwelpasoinccomttuhsc-el-paso-tackling-diabetes-cancerarticle_613144fe-526a-11e9-b916-c35b701a5ef9html
Dr Laxman Gangwani
Cure SMA Awards $150000 Grant to Laxman Gangwani PhD Texas Tech University
httpwwwcuresmaorgnewsgangwani-grant-2019html
httpswwweurekalertorgpub_releases2019-05ttuh-gw050119php
httpswwwresearchgatenetscientific-contributions11984383_Laxman_Gangwani
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Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Peer-reviewed publications 36 (In high-impact journals)
2018 highest impact factor (11561) journal Nucleic Acids Research
Abstracts 43
Presentations (i) Oral 11 (ii) Posters 28
Invited talks 13
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Peer-reviewed publications
Kannan A Bhatia K Branzei D and Gangwani L (2018) Combined deficiency of Senataxin and DNA-PKcscauses DNA damage accumulation and neurodegeneration in spinal muscular atrophy Nucleic Acids Research2018 Vol 46 No 16 8326-8346
Mishra I Jones C Patel V Deodhar S Cistola D P (2018) Early detection of metabolic dysregulation usingwater T2 analysis of biobanked samples Diabetes Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity Targets and Therapy 11 807-818
Patel V Dwivedi A K Deodhar S Mishra I Cistola D P (2018) Aptamer-based search for correlates of plasmaand serum water T2 Implications for early metabolic dysregulation and metabolic syndrome Biomarker Research6(1) 28
Garg H Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz T Joshi A 2018 Recent Advances in Zika Virus Vaccines Viruses Nov 1410 (11) Sundin OH Mendoza-Ladd A Zeng M Diaz-Areacutevalo D Morales E Fagan BMOrdontildeez J McCallum RW Does a
glucose-based hydrogen and methane breath test detect bacterial overgrowth in the jejunum NeurogastroenterolMotil 2018e13350
Zheng Z Diaz-Areacutevalo D Guan H and Mingtao Zeng Noninvasive vaccination against infectious diseases Humanvaccines amp immunotherapeutics 2018 14(7)1717-1733
Preeti Bharaj Chunting Ye Sean Petersen Qianghu Wang Baoli Hu N Manjunath Premlata Shankar Guohua Yi(2018) Gene array analysis of PD-1H overexpressing monocytes reveals a pro-inflammatory profile Heliyone00545
Bencomo-Alvarez AE Rubio AJ Gonzalez MA and Eiring AM Energy metabolism and drug response in myeloidleukaemic stem cells Br J Haematol 2019 In Press
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Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Peer-reviewed publications Yan D Pomicter AD Tantravahi S Mason CC Senina AV Ahmann JM Wang Q Than H Patel AB Heaton
WL Eiring AM Clair PM Gantz KC Redwine HM Swierczek SI Halverson BJ Baloglu E Shacham S KhorashadJS Kelley TW Salama ME Miles RR Boucher KM Prchal JT OHare T and Deininger MW Nuclear-cytoplasmic transport is a therapeutic target in myelofibrosis Clin Cancer Res 201925(7)2323-2335
Heipertz E Harper J Lopez CA Fikrig E Hughes ME Walker WE Circadian rhythms influence the severity of sepsis in mice via a TLR2-dependent leukocyte-intrinsic mechanism The Journal of Immunology 2018 201193-201
Khatri R Afzal MR Qureshi MA Maud A Huanyu D Jose Rodriguez G Pre-Existing Renal Failure Increases In-Hospital Mortality in Patients with Intracerebral Hemorrhage J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis 2019 Feb28(2)237-242
Zou L Lee SY Wu Q Zhang H Bastian A Orji C Payne G Galvez A Thomas T Zhang Z Dou H Facile Gene Delivery Derived from Branched Low Molecular Weight Polyethylenimine by High Efficient Chemistry J Biomed Nanotechnol 2018 Oct 114(10)1785-1795
Zhang C Brandon NR Koper K Tang P Xu Y Dou H Invasion of Peripheral Immune Cells into Brain Parenchyma after Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation Aging Dis 2018 Jun 19(3)412-425
Loza O Hernandez P Calderoacuten-Mora J Laks S Leiner M Reddy S Lara P amp Granados H (2018) Developing Trans-affirming health services in an underserved area An intersectional approach Transgender Health 3(1) 127-135
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Byrd T Calderoacuten-Mora J Salaiz R amp Shokar N (2019) Barriers and facilitators to colorectal cancer screening within a Hispanic population Hispanic Health Care International 17(1) 23-29 doi 1011771540415318818982
Haut SR Lipton RB Cornes S Dwivedi AK Wasson R Cotton S Strawn JR Privitera M (2018) Behavioral interventions as a treatment for epilepsy A multicenter randomized controlled trial Neurology 90(11) e963-e970 PMID 29444968
Jessica Bernica Sherif Elhanafi Neeharika Kalakota Yi Jia Christopher Dodoo Alok Dwivedi Robert J Sealock Kalpesh Patel Isaac Raijman Marc J Zuckerman Mohamed O Othman (2018) Cholangioscopy is safe and feasible in elderly patients Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology 16(8) 1293-1299
Benjamin D Wissel Alok K Dwivedi Danielle Chin Aristide Merola Cara Jacob Andrew P Duker Jennifer E Vaughan Lilia Lovera Kathrin LaFaver Ariel Levy Anthony E Lang Francesca Morgante Melissa J Nirenberg Christopher Stephen Nutan Sharma Alberto Romagnolo Leonardo Lopiano Bettina Balint Xin X Yu Kailash P Bhatia Alberto J Espay Functional neurological disorders in Parkinson disease Accepted for publication in Journal
of Neurology Neurosurgery amp Psychiatry 89(6)566-571
Danny J Avalos Marc J Zuckerman Alok Dwivedi Christopher Dodoo Jinendra Satiya Fernando J Castro(2018) Differences in prevalence of large polyps between Hispanic Americans from Mexican-and Non-Mexican-predominant states Digestive diseases and sciences PMID 30276570
Zeina Nahleh Salman Otoukesh Hamid Reza Mirshahidi Anthony Loc Nguyen Gayathri Nagaraj Nabeel Badri Gehan Botrus Nabih Diab Andres Alvarado Luis A Sanchez Alok K Dwivedi (2018) Disparities in breast cancer a multi-institutional comparative analysis focusing on American Hispanics Cancer Medicine (In press 05072018)
9102019
25
Scholarly Activity Danny J Avalos Antonio Mendoza-Ladd Marc J Zuckerman Mohammad Bashashati Andres Alvarado Alok
Dwivedi Oriana M Damas (2018) Hispanics and Non-Hispanic Whites in the US have a Similar InflammatoryBowel Disease Phenotype A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis Digestive Diseases and Sciences 63(6)1558-1571
Aleli Campbell Rosalinda Heydarian Cecilia Ochoa Alok Kumar Dwivedi Zeina A Nahleh(2018) Single arm phaseII study of oral vitamin B12 for the treatment of musculoskeletal symptoms associated with aromatase inhibitors inwomen with early stage breast cancer The breast journal 24(3)260-268
Shaimaa Elzamly Nabeel Badri Osvaldo Padilla Alok Kumar Dwivedi Luis A Alvarado Matthew Hamilton NabihDiab Crosby Rock Ahmed Elfar Marwa Teleb Luis Sanchez Zeina Nahleh (2018) Epithelial-mesenchymaltransition markers in breast cancer and pathological responseafter neoadjuvant chemotherapy Breast Cancer
(Auckl) 2018 Aug 1121178223418788074
Jennifer C Molokwu Eribeth Penaranda Alok Dwivedi Indika Mallawaarachchi Navkiran Shokar (2018) Effect ofEducational Intervention on Self-Sampling Acceptability and Follow-Up Paps in Border Dwelling Hispanic FemalesJournal of Lower Genital Tract Disease
Ritika Suri Federico Rodriguez-Porcel Kelly Donohue Erin Jesse Lilia Lovera Alok Kumar Dwivedi Alberto JEspay (2018) Post-Stroke Movement Disorders The Clinical Neuroanatomic and Demographic Portrait of 284Published Cases Accepted for publication in Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases (In press05212018)
Zeina Nahleh Gehan Botrus Alok Dwivedi Nabeel Badri Salman Otoukesh Nabih Diab Sandip BiswasMichael Jennings Shaimaa Elzamly(2018) Clinico-pathologic disparities of breast cancer in HispanicLatina womenBreast disease 1-8
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Robert Gonzalez Trisha Suppes Jamie Zeitzer Colleen McClung Carol Tamminga Mauricio Tohen Angelica Forero Alok DwivediAndres Alvarado (2018) The association between mood state and chronobiological characteristics in bipolar I disorder a naturalisticvariable cluster analysis-based study International Journal of Bipolar Disorders 6(1)5Mohamed Teleb Aaron Shanker Alok Kumar Dwivedi Debabrata Mukherjee (2018) Effect of exercise on left ventricular mass index byechocardiography in mild and moderate hypertension a meta-analysis Res Cardiovasc Med 6(4)50-6Garnica O Das K Devasundaram S and Dhandayuthapani S Enhanced delivery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigens to antigenpresenting cells using RVG peptide Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Das K Garnica O and Dhandayuthapani S Utility of an oxidative stress response system for the expression of recombinant proteinsin mycobacteria and for the delivery of M tuberculosis antigens to the phagosomal compartments Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Palanichamy K Joshi A Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz T Fernando B Milan S Schiro F Naeem Y Garg H Braunschweig A 2019 Anti-ZikaActivity of a Library of Synthetic Carbohydrate Receptors Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 6284110-4119Anjali Joshi Erin B Punke Tugba Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz Diego P Peralta and Himanshu Garg 2019 TLR9 polymorphism correlates withimmune activation CD4 decline and plasma IP10 levels in HIV patients BMC Infect Dis 19 56Vargas-Medrano J Yang B Garza N T Segura-Ulate I and Perez R G (2018) Up-regulation of protective neuronal MicroRNAs byFTY720 and novel FTY720-derivatives Neuroscience letters 690 178-180Vidal-Martinez G Yang B Vargas-Medrano J and Perez R G (2018) Could alpha-Synuclein Modulation of Insulin and DopamineIdentify a Novel Link Between Parkinsons Disease and Diabetes as Well as Potential Therapies Frontiers in molecular
neuroscience 11 465
9102019
26
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Gil-Tommee C Vidal-Martinez G Annette Reyes C Vargas-Medrano J Herrera G V Martin S M Chaparro S A andPerez R G (2019) Parkinsonian GM2 synthase knockout mice lacking mature gangliosides develop urinary dysfunction andneurogenic bladder Experimental neurology 311265-273Vidal-Martinez G Najera K Miranda JD Gil-Tommee C Yang B Vargas-Medrano J Diaz-Pacheco V Barragan J ChaparroS Vargas-Medrano J Chinnasamy R Arterburn JB Perez RG FTY720 improves behavior increases Brain Derived NeurotrophicFactor and reduces α-synuclein pathology in parkinsonian GM2+minus
mice Neuroscience httpsdoiorg101016jneuroscience201905029Tasnim N Thakur V Chattopadhyay M Joddar B (2018) The efficacy of Graphene-foams towards the adhesion proliferationand expression of neuronal-phenotype by dopaminergic neurons differentiated from mesenchymal stem cells Stem cell
international Jun 3 20183410168 doi 10115520183410168Anil Kumar S Allen SC Tasnim N Akter T Park S Kumar A Chattopadhyay M Ito Y Suggs LJ Joddar B (2019) The applicabilityof furfuryl-gelatin as a novel bioink for tissue engineering applications J Biomed Mater Res B Appl Biomater 2019 107(2)314-323 doi 101002jbmb34123 Epub 2018 Apr 15Thakur V Chattopadhyay M (2018) Early urinary markers for diabetic and other kidney diseases Current drug targets 2018 Mar19Joddar B Tasnim N Thakur V Kumar A Mccallum R Chattopadhyay M (2018) Delivery of mesenchymal stem cells fromgelatin-alginate hydrogels to stomach lumen for treatment of gastroparesis Bioengineering 2018 5(1)Camacho CV Choudhari R Gadad SS (2018) Long noncoding RNAs and cancer an overview Steroids 13393-95
IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department
Large net loss (9) of MTM faculty members over the past 5 years
Vacant Director positions (i) Center for Neuroscience (ii) Center for InfectiousDiseases and (iii) Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
No steps have been taken to fill directors positions for more than 2 years
Neurosciences Center at the verge of collapse Only one faculty will be left at theend of this fiscal year
The size of Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology is shrinking
Lack of communication regarding vision and strategic plan for growing department
No faculty salary raises for the past 3 years
Serious concerns about recruitment retention and tenure and promotion decisionsmade in the department Faculty morale is extremely low
Lack of functional research core facility
Gradual elimination of service contracts of equipment essential for research trainingand education of graduate and medical students
A plethora of other issues with the department administration
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Questions
Departmental Report
Psychiatry
Ricardo Salazar MDAssociate Professor Psychiatry
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Department ReportPsychiatryPRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCIL
BY RICARDO SALAZAR MD
DATE MONDAY JULY 15 2019
Department BreakdownPlease provide the total number of faculty members in your department and break down this number by
rank Please list new faculty members that have joined your department within the last six months
Total Number of Faculty 12
Number of Instructors 1
Number of Assistant Professors 8
Number of Associate Professors 2
Number of Professors 2
New Faculty Melanie Longhurst MD Instructor
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LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair
program director clerkship director chiefs etc
Department Chair ndash Peter M Thompson MD MS
Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Sarah L Martin MD
Combined IMPsych Residency Program Director ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD
Psychiatry Clerkship Director ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD
Child amp Adolescent Fellowship Program Director ndash Cecilia De Vargas MD
Chief Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry ndash Sarah L Martin MD
Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Program Directorndash Ricardo Salazar MD
Chief Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences ndash Ricardo Salazar MD
Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Transmountain ndash Moataz Ragheb MD
AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in your department including awards honors regional
appointments national appointments etc
El Paso Behavioral Health Consortium ndash Board Member ndash Peter M Thompson MD
714 (50) of our graduating medical students this year choose and matched our resident training programs here at Paul L FosterSchool of Medicine Department of Psychiatry (Historical record) ndash Kudos for our Department Faculty
In appreciation for exceptional contributions to the 30th volume of the J Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences ndash Author contributions and review of 271 manuscripts submitted to the journal between September 2017 and August 2018 ndash Ricardo Salazar MD ndash Young Investigator Award Committee Member and Program Committee Member-Abstracts Sub-Committee Member of theAmerican Neuropsychiatric Association (ANPA)
Initial Accreditation with commendation and no citations from ACGME for our first Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Training Program for West Texas ndash Ricardo Salazar MD
Leadership in Education and Development Certificate Program (LEAD) Fellow -1-year program accredited from the Association ofAmerican Medical Colleges (AAMC) Silvina Tonarelli MD amp Ricardo Salazar MD (Selected Award)
Fully operating Southwest Brain Bank A Brain Tissue Repository for Research in Mental Illness ndashPeter M Thompson MD
Texas State Psychiatric Physicians Public Mental Health Services Committee ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD
Texas Health and Human Services Commission Behavioral Health Advisory Committee ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP
Fellow American College of Physicians ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP FACP
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Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Abstracts 31
Publications 5 (peer-review journals)
Presentations 17 ndash National (7) and International (6)
Invited Speaker 21 (including faculty residents fellows) ndash Local amp National
Book Chapters NA
Grants McKee Foundation Award ndash our Chair - Thompson
Intramural Grants Seed Grant 1 SARP Educational Grant 2 - Salazar
President`s Collaborative Research Initiative ndashMarch 2018 - Tonarelli
Scholarly Activity
Child and Adolescent Fellowship Presentations
INTERNATIONAL
- Curanderos and Limpias Cultural psychiatry
Poster presented at 6th Annual Scientific conference of the European Association of PsychosomaticMedicine Verona Italy Drs Garza Meissner De Vargas Mehta June 2018
-Case presentation 0f 49XXXXY Same conference same authors same city
-Resilience etiology protective and risk factors presentation C De Vargas by invitation Annual WorldPediatric summit Madrid June 2018
-Parents and their Children Fantastic journey Same conference on June 2019 Berlin Germany
NATIONAL
-Development of Psychopathology in children at risk for Bipolar Disorders Drs Escamilla Peter Sangra C DeVargas S Martin C Alvarado Andrea Rios (Poster) American Academy of Child and Adolescent PsychiatryAnnual Conference Seattle WA October 2018
Frank William Meissner MD Cynthia Elizabeth Garza MDJD Sarah L Martin MD rdquoDrug-Induced BrugadaSyndrome in a Middle-Aged Female Patient Drugs EKG Diagnosis Electrophysiology and SurveillanceRecommendationrdquo American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting San Francisco CA May 21 2019
Delinquency in a group of school children at risk for bipolar disorder D Haque M Escamilla C De VargasPresented at UCLA LA Ca June 2019
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Residency ProgramPlease provide information regarding your departmentrsquos residency program ie recent accreditation
number of residents and program updates (if applicable)
24 General Psychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)
8 Internal MedicinePsychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)
3 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellows
1 Geriatric Psychiatry Fellow- newly accredited program
IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department
RecruitmentRetention
Short staffed
Organizational Structure
Financial incentives
Protected time
Gender balance Attrition malefemale ratio 41
Program Coordinator turnover rate
Mentoring
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Departmental Organizational
Structure
Chair
Division ChiefsProgram Directors
Clerkship Director
Adm
Organizational Structure Model
Chair
Deputy Chair for Education
Program
Directors
Deputy Chair for Research
Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs
Vicechair
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Roles
Deputy Chair for Education
Oversee undergraduate graduate and CME including the development of teachers and educational scholars Monitor quality and safety across the department
Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs
Faculty appointments Faculty Development and Promotion andor Tenure Develop programs in different domains such as research education personal improvement and leadership Support clinical activities by improving the efficiency of operations and in helping to fit clinical programs into those in the rest of the medical center Allocation of space
Deputy Chair for Research
Develop and direct department-wide programs for faculty recruitment development and support of mentors recognition of excellence and funding of pilot grants bridge funding and grants to nurture multi-principal investigator and trans-division or trans-department projects Allocation of space among divisions
Bottom Line
We need more funds
Institutional support
The investments needed to recruit faculty are beyond the capacity of the
department`s operational revenue
Recruiting a leading investigator or one with great potential for
example may require an investment of $ 1 million and sometimes more
Endowments are the departmentrsquos foundational financial capital the
keel that maintains momentum and balance through the headwinds
and rough seas each department will navigate Endowments increase
the departmentrsquos independence in sustaining its core mission
Thus creation of endowments should be a high priority for any
department that plans for the long term and they increase capacity to
recruit the best faculty in a competitive environment
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Department of Molecular and
Translational Medicine (formerly
Biomedical Sciences) Report
PRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCIL
BY LAXMAN GANGWANI
DATE JULY 15 2019
Department BreakdownPlease provide the total number of faculty members in your department and break down this number by
rank Please list new faculty members that have joined your department within the last six months
Total Number of Faculty
Number of Faculty Associates 1
Number of Instructors 1
Number of Research Assistant Professor 1
Number of Assistant Professors 6
Number of Associate Professors 7
Number of Professors 4
New Faculty
None
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LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair
program director clerkship director chiefs etc
Department Chair Dr Peter Rotwein (VP Research Associate
Dean GSBS)
Director Center of Emphasis in Cancer Dr Rajkumar
Lakshmanaswamy (Dean GSBS) Co-Director Dr N Shokar
Director Center of Emphasis in Diabetes and Metabolism Dr
David Cistola
Director Center of Emphasis in Infectious Diseases Vacant
Director Center of Emphasis in Neurosciences Vacant
Chief Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology Vacant
AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional
appointments national appointments etc
Awards
Dr Mingtao Zeng
2018 The American Association of Immunologists (AAI) AAI Travel Grant for the 5th European Congress of Immunology
2018 Defense Techconnect Fall Summit amp Expo (2018) Techconnect Defense Innovation Award
Dr Shrikant Gadad
Eugenia Rosemberg Outstanding Abstract Award Endocrine Society Annual Meeting New Orleans March 23-26 2019
Dr Huanyu Dou
National Innovation Award Techconnect 2019
Honors
Dr Alok Dwivedi
Appointed as associated faculty at the Border Biomedical Research Center (BBRC) University of Texas El Paso (UTEP)
Dr Shrikant Gadad
Session Chair (OR09 Steroid Hormone Biology in Physiology and Disease) Endocrine Society Annual Meeting New Orleans March 23-26 2019
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AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional
appointments national appointments etc
NIH or DOD study sections appointments
Dr Guohua Yi
HIV special Emphasis Panel for RFA-AI-18-058 Genetic Engineering Technologies for HIV Cure Research (U19)
Dr Laxman Gangwani
Department of Defense (DOD) Reviewer for Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) 2018 -
NIHCSR Study ldquoProgram Evaluation of NIH Peer Review Processes The Role of Anonymizationrdquo 2019 ndash
Patents filings and publications
Patent Number 9862951 Title RNA Interference-Based Therapeutic against Anthrax Inventors Mingtao Zeng and Maria T AreacutevaloDate of Patent January 9 2018
Cistola D P Patel V (2018) Method and system for non-invasive measurement of metabolic health US Non-Provisional Utility Patent Application No 15911728 filed by Texas Tech University
Cistola D P Robinson M D (2018) Methods and tools for diagnosing insulin resistance and assessing health status using NMR relaxation times for water United States Patent Application Publication US 20180020947 A1 httpspatentsgooglecompatentUS20180020947A1en
AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional
appointments national appointments etc
News and Media Coverage of Research performed at TTUHSC EP
Dr David Cistola
MedPageToday 2 January 2019 Harris Scott Could a New Biomarker Help Predict Type 2 Diabetes -- Early datashow water T2 catches abnormalities before traditional testing but experts are cautiously optimistichttpswwwmedpagetodaycomreading-roomendocrine-societydiabetes77186
KTSM Channel 9 NBC El Paso 14 November 2018 Castillo Susy Research in El Paso aimed at detectingdiabetes earlyhttpswwwktsmcomlifestylehealthresearch-in-el-paso-aimed-at-detecting-diabetes-early1596408236apt_credirect=1
El Paso Inc 29 March 2019 TTUHSC El Paso Tackling diabetes cancer httpwwwelpasoinccomttuhsc-el-paso-tackling-diabetes-cancerarticle_613144fe-526a-11e9-b916-c35b701a5ef9html
Dr Laxman Gangwani
Cure SMA Awards $150000 Grant to Laxman Gangwani PhD Texas Tech University
httpwwwcuresmaorgnewsgangwani-grant-2019html
httpswwweurekalertorgpub_releases2019-05ttuh-gw050119php
httpswwwresearchgatenetscientific-contributions11984383_Laxman_Gangwani
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Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Peer-reviewed publications 36 (In high-impact journals)
2018 highest impact factor (11561) journal Nucleic Acids Research
Abstracts 43
Presentations (i) Oral 11 (ii) Posters 28
Invited talks 13
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Peer-reviewed publications
Kannan A Bhatia K Branzei D and Gangwani L (2018) Combined deficiency of Senataxin and DNA-PKcscauses DNA damage accumulation and neurodegeneration in spinal muscular atrophy Nucleic Acids Research2018 Vol 46 No 16 8326-8346
Mishra I Jones C Patel V Deodhar S Cistola D P (2018) Early detection of metabolic dysregulation usingwater T2 analysis of biobanked samples Diabetes Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity Targets and Therapy 11 807-818
Patel V Dwivedi A K Deodhar S Mishra I Cistola D P (2018) Aptamer-based search for correlates of plasmaand serum water T2 Implications for early metabolic dysregulation and metabolic syndrome Biomarker Research6(1) 28
Garg H Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz T Joshi A 2018 Recent Advances in Zika Virus Vaccines Viruses Nov 1410 (11) Sundin OH Mendoza-Ladd A Zeng M Diaz-Areacutevalo D Morales E Fagan BMOrdontildeez J McCallum RW Does a
glucose-based hydrogen and methane breath test detect bacterial overgrowth in the jejunum NeurogastroenterolMotil 2018e13350
Zheng Z Diaz-Areacutevalo D Guan H and Mingtao Zeng Noninvasive vaccination against infectious diseases Humanvaccines amp immunotherapeutics 2018 14(7)1717-1733
Preeti Bharaj Chunting Ye Sean Petersen Qianghu Wang Baoli Hu N Manjunath Premlata Shankar Guohua Yi(2018) Gene array analysis of PD-1H overexpressing monocytes reveals a pro-inflammatory profile Heliyone00545
Bencomo-Alvarez AE Rubio AJ Gonzalez MA and Eiring AM Energy metabolism and drug response in myeloidleukaemic stem cells Br J Haematol 2019 In Press
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24
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Peer-reviewed publications Yan D Pomicter AD Tantravahi S Mason CC Senina AV Ahmann JM Wang Q Than H Patel AB Heaton
WL Eiring AM Clair PM Gantz KC Redwine HM Swierczek SI Halverson BJ Baloglu E Shacham S KhorashadJS Kelley TW Salama ME Miles RR Boucher KM Prchal JT OHare T and Deininger MW Nuclear-cytoplasmic transport is a therapeutic target in myelofibrosis Clin Cancer Res 201925(7)2323-2335
Heipertz E Harper J Lopez CA Fikrig E Hughes ME Walker WE Circadian rhythms influence the severity of sepsis in mice via a TLR2-dependent leukocyte-intrinsic mechanism The Journal of Immunology 2018 201193-201
Khatri R Afzal MR Qureshi MA Maud A Huanyu D Jose Rodriguez G Pre-Existing Renal Failure Increases In-Hospital Mortality in Patients with Intracerebral Hemorrhage J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis 2019 Feb28(2)237-242
Zou L Lee SY Wu Q Zhang H Bastian A Orji C Payne G Galvez A Thomas T Zhang Z Dou H Facile Gene Delivery Derived from Branched Low Molecular Weight Polyethylenimine by High Efficient Chemistry J Biomed Nanotechnol 2018 Oct 114(10)1785-1795
Zhang C Brandon NR Koper K Tang P Xu Y Dou H Invasion of Peripheral Immune Cells into Brain Parenchyma after Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation Aging Dis 2018 Jun 19(3)412-425
Loza O Hernandez P Calderoacuten-Mora J Laks S Leiner M Reddy S Lara P amp Granados H (2018) Developing Trans-affirming health services in an underserved area An intersectional approach Transgender Health 3(1) 127-135
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Byrd T Calderoacuten-Mora J Salaiz R amp Shokar N (2019) Barriers and facilitators to colorectal cancer screening within a Hispanic population Hispanic Health Care International 17(1) 23-29 doi 1011771540415318818982
Haut SR Lipton RB Cornes S Dwivedi AK Wasson R Cotton S Strawn JR Privitera M (2018) Behavioral interventions as a treatment for epilepsy A multicenter randomized controlled trial Neurology 90(11) e963-e970 PMID 29444968
Jessica Bernica Sherif Elhanafi Neeharika Kalakota Yi Jia Christopher Dodoo Alok Dwivedi Robert J Sealock Kalpesh Patel Isaac Raijman Marc J Zuckerman Mohamed O Othman (2018) Cholangioscopy is safe and feasible in elderly patients Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology 16(8) 1293-1299
Benjamin D Wissel Alok K Dwivedi Danielle Chin Aristide Merola Cara Jacob Andrew P Duker Jennifer E Vaughan Lilia Lovera Kathrin LaFaver Ariel Levy Anthony E Lang Francesca Morgante Melissa J Nirenberg Christopher Stephen Nutan Sharma Alberto Romagnolo Leonardo Lopiano Bettina Balint Xin X Yu Kailash P Bhatia Alberto J Espay Functional neurological disorders in Parkinson disease Accepted for publication in Journal
of Neurology Neurosurgery amp Psychiatry 89(6)566-571
Danny J Avalos Marc J Zuckerman Alok Dwivedi Christopher Dodoo Jinendra Satiya Fernando J Castro(2018) Differences in prevalence of large polyps between Hispanic Americans from Mexican-and Non-Mexican-predominant states Digestive diseases and sciences PMID 30276570
Zeina Nahleh Salman Otoukesh Hamid Reza Mirshahidi Anthony Loc Nguyen Gayathri Nagaraj Nabeel Badri Gehan Botrus Nabih Diab Andres Alvarado Luis A Sanchez Alok K Dwivedi (2018) Disparities in breast cancer a multi-institutional comparative analysis focusing on American Hispanics Cancer Medicine (In press 05072018)
9102019
25
Scholarly Activity Danny J Avalos Antonio Mendoza-Ladd Marc J Zuckerman Mohammad Bashashati Andres Alvarado Alok
Dwivedi Oriana M Damas (2018) Hispanics and Non-Hispanic Whites in the US have a Similar InflammatoryBowel Disease Phenotype A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis Digestive Diseases and Sciences 63(6)1558-1571
Aleli Campbell Rosalinda Heydarian Cecilia Ochoa Alok Kumar Dwivedi Zeina A Nahleh(2018) Single arm phaseII study of oral vitamin B12 for the treatment of musculoskeletal symptoms associated with aromatase inhibitors inwomen with early stage breast cancer The breast journal 24(3)260-268
Shaimaa Elzamly Nabeel Badri Osvaldo Padilla Alok Kumar Dwivedi Luis A Alvarado Matthew Hamilton NabihDiab Crosby Rock Ahmed Elfar Marwa Teleb Luis Sanchez Zeina Nahleh (2018) Epithelial-mesenchymaltransition markers in breast cancer and pathological responseafter neoadjuvant chemotherapy Breast Cancer
(Auckl) 2018 Aug 1121178223418788074
Jennifer C Molokwu Eribeth Penaranda Alok Dwivedi Indika Mallawaarachchi Navkiran Shokar (2018) Effect ofEducational Intervention on Self-Sampling Acceptability and Follow-Up Paps in Border Dwelling Hispanic FemalesJournal of Lower Genital Tract Disease
Ritika Suri Federico Rodriguez-Porcel Kelly Donohue Erin Jesse Lilia Lovera Alok Kumar Dwivedi Alberto JEspay (2018) Post-Stroke Movement Disorders The Clinical Neuroanatomic and Demographic Portrait of 284Published Cases Accepted for publication in Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases (In press05212018)
Zeina Nahleh Gehan Botrus Alok Dwivedi Nabeel Badri Salman Otoukesh Nabih Diab Sandip BiswasMichael Jennings Shaimaa Elzamly(2018) Clinico-pathologic disparities of breast cancer in HispanicLatina womenBreast disease 1-8
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Robert Gonzalez Trisha Suppes Jamie Zeitzer Colleen McClung Carol Tamminga Mauricio Tohen Angelica Forero Alok DwivediAndres Alvarado (2018) The association between mood state and chronobiological characteristics in bipolar I disorder a naturalisticvariable cluster analysis-based study International Journal of Bipolar Disorders 6(1)5Mohamed Teleb Aaron Shanker Alok Kumar Dwivedi Debabrata Mukherjee (2018) Effect of exercise on left ventricular mass index byechocardiography in mild and moderate hypertension a meta-analysis Res Cardiovasc Med 6(4)50-6Garnica O Das K Devasundaram S and Dhandayuthapani S Enhanced delivery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigens to antigenpresenting cells using RVG peptide Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Das K Garnica O and Dhandayuthapani S Utility of an oxidative stress response system for the expression of recombinant proteinsin mycobacteria and for the delivery of M tuberculosis antigens to the phagosomal compartments Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Palanichamy K Joshi A Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz T Fernando B Milan S Schiro F Naeem Y Garg H Braunschweig A 2019 Anti-ZikaActivity of a Library of Synthetic Carbohydrate Receptors Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 6284110-4119Anjali Joshi Erin B Punke Tugba Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz Diego P Peralta and Himanshu Garg 2019 TLR9 polymorphism correlates withimmune activation CD4 decline and plasma IP10 levels in HIV patients BMC Infect Dis 19 56Vargas-Medrano J Yang B Garza N T Segura-Ulate I and Perez R G (2018) Up-regulation of protective neuronal MicroRNAs byFTY720 and novel FTY720-derivatives Neuroscience letters 690 178-180Vidal-Martinez G Yang B Vargas-Medrano J and Perez R G (2018) Could alpha-Synuclein Modulation of Insulin and DopamineIdentify a Novel Link Between Parkinsons Disease and Diabetes as Well as Potential Therapies Frontiers in molecular
neuroscience 11 465
9102019
26
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Gil-Tommee C Vidal-Martinez G Annette Reyes C Vargas-Medrano J Herrera G V Martin S M Chaparro S A andPerez R G (2019) Parkinsonian GM2 synthase knockout mice lacking mature gangliosides develop urinary dysfunction andneurogenic bladder Experimental neurology 311265-273Vidal-Martinez G Najera K Miranda JD Gil-Tommee C Yang B Vargas-Medrano J Diaz-Pacheco V Barragan J ChaparroS Vargas-Medrano J Chinnasamy R Arterburn JB Perez RG FTY720 improves behavior increases Brain Derived NeurotrophicFactor and reduces α-synuclein pathology in parkinsonian GM2+minus
mice Neuroscience httpsdoiorg101016jneuroscience201905029Tasnim N Thakur V Chattopadhyay M Joddar B (2018) The efficacy of Graphene-foams towards the adhesion proliferationand expression of neuronal-phenotype by dopaminergic neurons differentiated from mesenchymal stem cells Stem cell
international Jun 3 20183410168 doi 10115520183410168Anil Kumar S Allen SC Tasnim N Akter T Park S Kumar A Chattopadhyay M Ito Y Suggs LJ Joddar B (2019) The applicabilityof furfuryl-gelatin as a novel bioink for tissue engineering applications J Biomed Mater Res B Appl Biomater 2019 107(2)314-323 doi 101002jbmb34123 Epub 2018 Apr 15Thakur V Chattopadhyay M (2018) Early urinary markers for diabetic and other kidney diseases Current drug targets 2018 Mar19Joddar B Tasnim N Thakur V Kumar A Mccallum R Chattopadhyay M (2018) Delivery of mesenchymal stem cells fromgelatin-alginate hydrogels to stomach lumen for treatment of gastroparesis Bioengineering 2018 5(1)Camacho CV Choudhari R Gadad SS (2018) Long noncoding RNAs and cancer an overview Steroids 13393-95
IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department
Large net loss (9) of MTM faculty members over the past 5 years
Vacant Director positions (i) Center for Neuroscience (ii) Center for InfectiousDiseases and (iii) Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
No steps have been taken to fill directors positions for more than 2 years
Neurosciences Center at the verge of collapse Only one faculty will be left at theend of this fiscal year
The size of Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology is shrinking
Lack of communication regarding vision and strategic plan for growing department
No faculty salary raises for the past 3 years
Serious concerns about recruitment retention and tenure and promotion decisionsmade in the department Faculty morale is extremely low
Lack of functional research core facility
Gradual elimination of service contracts of equipment essential for research trainingand education of graduate and medical students
A plethora of other issues with the department administration
9102019
27
Questions
Departmental Report
Psychiatry
Ricardo Salazar MDAssociate Professor Psychiatry
9102019
28
Department ReportPsychiatryPRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCIL
BY RICARDO SALAZAR MD
DATE MONDAY JULY 15 2019
Department BreakdownPlease provide the total number of faculty members in your department and break down this number by
rank Please list new faculty members that have joined your department within the last six months
Total Number of Faculty 12
Number of Instructors 1
Number of Assistant Professors 8
Number of Associate Professors 2
Number of Professors 2
New Faculty Melanie Longhurst MD Instructor
9102019
29
LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair
program director clerkship director chiefs etc
Department Chair ndash Peter M Thompson MD MS
Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Sarah L Martin MD
Combined IMPsych Residency Program Director ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD
Psychiatry Clerkship Director ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD
Child amp Adolescent Fellowship Program Director ndash Cecilia De Vargas MD
Chief Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry ndash Sarah L Martin MD
Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Program Directorndash Ricardo Salazar MD
Chief Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences ndash Ricardo Salazar MD
Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Transmountain ndash Moataz Ragheb MD
AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in your department including awards honors regional
appointments national appointments etc
El Paso Behavioral Health Consortium ndash Board Member ndash Peter M Thompson MD
714 (50) of our graduating medical students this year choose and matched our resident training programs here at Paul L FosterSchool of Medicine Department of Psychiatry (Historical record) ndash Kudos for our Department Faculty
In appreciation for exceptional contributions to the 30th volume of the J Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences ndash Author contributions and review of 271 manuscripts submitted to the journal between September 2017 and August 2018 ndash Ricardo Salazar MD ndash Young Investigator Award Committee Member and Program Committee Member-Abstracts Sub-Committee Member of theAmerican Neuropsychiatric Association (ANPA)
Initial Accreditation with commendation and no citations from ACGME for our first Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Training Program for West Texas ndash Ricardo Salazar MD
Leadership in Education and Development Certificate Program (LEAD) Fellow -1-year program accredited from the Association ofAmerican Medical Colleges (AAMC) Silvina Tonarelli MD amp Ricardo Salazar MD (Selected Award)
Fully operating Southwest Brain Bank A Brain Tissue Repository for Research in Mental Illness ndashPeter M Thompson MD
Texas State Psychiatric Physicians Public Mental Health Services Committee ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD
Texas Health and Human Services Commission Behavioral Health Advisory Committee ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP
Fellow American College of Physicians ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP FACP
9102019
30
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Abstracts 31
Publications 5 (peer-review journals)
Presentations 17 ndash National (7) and International (6)
Invited Speaker 21 (including faculty residents fellows) ndash Local amp National
Book Chapters NA
Grants McKee Foundation Award ndash our Chair - Thompson
Intramural Grants Seed Grant 1 SARP Educational Grant 2 - Salazar
President`s Collaborative Research Initiative ndashMarch 2018 - Tonarelli
Scholarly Activity
Child and Adolescent Fellowship Presentations
INTERNATIONAL
- Curanderos and Limpias Cultural psychiatry
Poster presented at 6th Annual Scientific conference of the European Association of PsychosomaticMedicine Verona Italy Drs Garza Meissner De Vargas Mehta June 2018
-Case presentation 0f 49XXXXY Same conference same authors same city
-Resilience etiology protective and risk factors presentation C De Vargas by invitation Annual WorldPediatric summit Madrid June 2018
-Parents and their Children Fantastic journey Same conference on June 2019 Berlin Germany
NATIONAL
-Development of Psychopathology in children at risk for Bipolar Disorders Drs Escamilla Peter Sangra C DeVargas S Martin C Alvarado Andrea Rios (Poster) American Academy of Child and Adolescent PsychiatryAnnual Conference Seattle WA October 2018
Frank William Meissner MD Cynthia Elizabeth Garza MDJD Sarah L Martin MD rdquoDrug-Induced BrugadaSyndrome in a Middle-Aged Female Patient Drugs EKG Diagnosis Electrophysiology and SurveillanceRecommendationrdquo American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting San Francisco CA May 21 2019
Delinquency in a group of school children at risk for bipolar disorder D Haque M Escamilla C De VargasPresented at UCLA LA Ca June 2019
9102019
31
Residency ProgramPlease provide information regarding your departmentrsquos residency program ie recent accreditation
number of residents and program updates (if applicable)
24 General Psychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)
8 Internal MedicinePsychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)
3 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellows
1 Geriatric Psychiatry Fellow- newly accredited program
IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department
RecruitmentRetention
Short staffed
Organizational Structure
Financial incentives
Protected time
Gender balance Attrition malefemale ratio 41
Program Coordinator turnover rate
Mentoring
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Departmental Organizational
Structure
Chair
Division ChiefsProgram Directors
Clerkship Director
Adm
Organizational Structure Model
Chair
Deputy Chair for Education
Program
Directors
Deputy Chair for Research
Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs
Vicechair
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Roles
Deputy Chair for Education
Oversee undergraduate graduate and CME including the development of teachers and educational scholars Monitor quality and safety across the department
Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs
Faculty appointments Faculty Development and Promotion andor Tenure Develop programs in different domains such as research education personal improvement and leadership Support clinical activities by improving the efficiency of operations and in helping to fit clinical programs into those in the rest of the medical center Allocation of space
Deputy Chair for Research
Develop and direct department-wide programs for faculty recruitment development and support of mentors recognition of excellence and funding of pilot grants bridge funding and grants to nurture multi-principal investigator and trans-division or trans-department projects Allocation of space among divisions
Bottom Line
We need more funds
Institutional support
The investments needed to recruit faculty are beyond the capacity of the
department`s operational revenue
Recruiting a leading investigator or one with great potential for
example may require an investment of $ 1 million and sometimes more
Endowments are the departmentrsquos foundational financial capital the
keel that maintains momentum and balance through the headwinds
and rough seas each department will navigate Endowments increase
the departmentrsquos independence in sustaining its core mission
Thus creation of endowments should be a high priority for any
department that plans for the long term and they increase capacity to
recruit the best faculty in a competitive environment
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LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair
program director clerkship director chiefs etc
Department Chair Dr Peter Rotwein (VP Research Associate
Dean GSBS)
Director Center of Emphasis in Cancer Dr Rajkumar
Lakshmanaswamy (Dean GSBS) Co-Director Dr N Shokar
Director Center of Emphasis in Diabetes and Metabolism Dr
David Cistola
Director Center of Emphasis in Infectious Diseases Vacant
Director Center of Emphasis in Neurosciences Vacant
Chief Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology Vacant
AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional
appointments national appointments etc
Awards
Dr Mingtao Zeng
2018 The American Association of Immunologists (AAI) AAI Travel Grant for the 5th European Congress of Immunology
2018 Defense Techconnect Fall Summit amp Expo (2018) Techconnect Defense Innovation Award
Dr Shrikant Gadad
Eugenia Rosemberg Outstanding Abstract Award Endocrine Society Annual Meeting New Orleans March 23-26 2019
Dr Huanyu Dou
National Innovation Award Techconnect 2019
Honors
Dr Alok Dwivedi
Appointed as associated faculty at the Border Biomedical Research Center (BBRC) University of Texas El Paso (UTEP)
Dr Shrikant Gadad
Session Chair (OR09 Steroid Hormone Biology in Physiology and Disease) Endocrine Society Annual Meeting New Orleans March 23-26 2019
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AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional
appointments national appointments etc
NIH or DOD study sections appointments
Dr Guohua Yi
HIV special Emphasis Panel for RFA-AI-18-058 Genetic Engineering Technologies for HIV Cure Research (U19)
Dr Laxman Gangwani
Department of Defense (DOD) Reviewer for Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) 2018 -
NIHCSR Study ldquoProgram Evaluation of NIH Peer Review Processes The Role of Anonymizationrdquo 2019 ndash
Patents filings and publications
Patent Number 9862951 Title RNA Interference-Based Therapeutic against Anthrax Inventors Mingtao Zeng and Maria T AreacutevaloDate of Patent January 9 2018
Cistola D P Patel V (2018) Method and system for non-invasive measurement of metabolic health US Non-Provisional Utility Patent Application No 15911728 filed by Texas Tech University
Cistola D P Robinson M D (2018) Methods and tools for diagnosing insulin resistance and assessing health status using NMR relaxation times for water United States Patent Application Publication US 20180020947 A1 httpspatentsgooglecompatentUS20180020947A1en
AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional
appointments national appointments etc
News and Media Coverage of Research performed at TTUHSC EP
Dr David Cistola
MedPageToday 2 January 2019 Harris Scott Could a New Biomarker Help Predict Type 2 Diabetes -- Early datashow water T2 catches abnormalities before traditional testing but experts are cautiously optimistichttpswwwmedpagetodaycomreading-roomendocrine-societydiabetes77186
KTSM Channel 9 NBC El Paso 14 November 2018 Castillo Susy Research in El Paso aimed at detectingdiabetes earlyhttpswwwktsmcomlifestylehealthresearch-in-el-paso-aimed-at-detecting-diabetes-early1596408236apt_credirect=1
El Paso Inc 29 March 2019 TTUHSC El Paso Tackling diabetes cancer httpwwwelpasoinccomttuhsc-el-paso-tackling-diabetes-cancerarticle_613144fe-526a-11e9-b916-c35b701a5ef9html
Dr Laxman Gangwani
Cure SMA Awards $150000 Grant to Laxman Gangwani PhD Texas Tech University
httpwwwcuresmaorgnewsgangwani-grant-2019html
httpswwweurekalertorgpub_releases2019-05ttuh-gw050119php
httpswwwresearchgatenetscientific-contributions11984383_Laxman_Gangwani
9102019
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Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Peer-reviewed publications 36 (In high-impact journals)
2018 highest impact factor (11561) journal Nucleic Acids Research
Abstracts 43
Presentations (i) Oral 11 (ii) Posters 28
Invited talks 13
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Peer-reviewed publications
Kannan A Bhatia K Branzei D and Gangwani L (2018) Combined deficiency of Senataxin and DNA-PKcscauses DNA damage accumulation and neurodegeneration in spinal muscular atrophy Nucleic Acids Research2018 Vol 46 No 16 8326-8346
Mishra I Jones C Patel V Deodhar S Cistola D P (2018) Early detection of metabolic dysregulation usingwater T2 analysis of biobanked samples Diabetes Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity Targets and Therapy 11 807-818
Patel V Dwivedi A K Deodhar S Mishra I Cistola D P (2018) Aptamer-based search for correlates of plasmaand serum water T2 Implications for early metabolic dysregulation and metabolic syndrome Biomarker Research6(1) 28
Garg H Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz T Joshi A 2018 Recent Advances in Zika Virus Vaccines Viruses Nov 1410 (11) Sundin OH Mendoza-Ladd A Zeng M Diaz-Areacutevalo D Morales E Fagan BMOrdontildeez J McCallum RW Does a
glucose-based hydrogen and methane breath test detect bacterial overgrowth in the jejunum NeurogastroenterolMotil 2018e13350
Zheng Z Diaz-Areacutevalo D Guan H and Mingtao Zeng Noninvasive vaccination against infectious diseases Humanvaccines amp immunotherapeutics 2018 14(7)1717-1733
Preeti Bharaj Chunting Ye Sean Petersen Qianghu Wang Baoli Hu N Manjunath Premlata Shankar Guohua Yi(2018) Gene array analysis of PD-1H overexpressing monocytes reveals a pro-inflammatory profile Heliyone00545
Bencomo-Alvarez AE Rubio AJ Gonzalez MA and Eiring AM Energy metabolism and drug response in myeloidleukaemic stem cells Br J Haematol 2019 In Press
9102019
24
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Peer-reviewed publications Yan D Pomicter AD Tantravahi S Mason CC Senina AV Ahmann JM Wang Q Than H Patel AB Heaton
WL Eiring AM Clair PM Gantz KC Redwine HM Swierczek SI Halverson BJ Baloglu E Shacham S KhorashadJS Kelley TW Salama ME Miles RR Boucher KM Prchal JT OHare T and Deininger MW Nuclear-cytoplasmic transport is a therapeutic target in myelofibrosis Clin Cancer Res 201925(7)2323-2335
Heipertz E Harper J Lopez CA Fikrig E Hughes ME Walker WE Circadian rhythms influence the severity of sepsis in mice via a TLR2-dependent leukocyte-intrinsic mechanism The Journal of Immunology 2018 201193-201
Khatri R Afzal MR Qureshi MA Maud A Huanyu D Jose Rodriguez G Pre-Existing Renal Failure Increases In-Hospital Mortality in Patients with Intracerebral Hemorrhage J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis 2019 Feb28(2)237-242
Zou L Lee SY Wu Q Zhang H Bastian A Orji C Payne G Galvez A Thomas T Zhang Z Dou H Facile Gene Delivery Derived from Branched Low Molecular Weight Polyethylenimine by High Efficient Chemistry J Biomed Nanotechnol 2018 Oct 114(10)1785-1795
Zhang C Brandon NR Koper K Tang P Xu Y Dou H Invasion of Peripheral Immune Cells into Brain Parenchyma after Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation Aging Dis 2018 Jun 19(3)412-425
Loza O Hernandez P Calderoacuten-Mora J Laks S Leiner M Reddy S Lara P amp Granados H (2018) Developing Trans-affirming health services in an underserved area An intersectional approach Transgender Health 3(1) 127-135
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Byrd T Calderoacuten-Mora J Salaiz R amp Shokar N (2019) Barriers and facilitators to colorectal cancer screening within a Hispanic population Hispanic Health Care International 17(1) 23-29 doi 1011771540415318818982
Haut SR Lipton RB Cornes S Dwivedi AK Wasson R Cotton S Strawn JR Privitera M (2018) Behavioral interventions as a treatment for epilepsy A multicenter randomized controlled trial Neurology 90(11) e963-e970 PMID 29444968
Jessica Bernica Sherif Elhanafi Neeharika Kalakota Yi Jia Christopher Dodoo Alok Dwivedi Robert J Sealock Kalpesh Patel Isaac Raijman Marc J Zuckerman Mohamed O Othman (2018) Cholangioscopy is safe and feasible in elderly patients Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology 16(8) 1293-1299
Benjamin D Wissel Alok K Dwivedi Danielle Chin Aristide Merola Cara Jacob Andrew P Duker Jennifer E Vaughan Lilia Lovera Kathrin LaFaver Ariel Levy Anthony E Lang Francesca Morgante Melissa J Nirenberg Christopher Stephen Nutan Sharma Alberto Romagnolo Leonardo Lopiano Bettina Balint Xin X Yu Kailash P Bhatia Alberto J Espay Functional neurological disorders in Parkinson disease Accepted for publication in Journal
of Neurology Neurosurgery amp Psychiatry 89(6)566-571
Danny J Avalos Marc J Zuckerman Alok Dwivedi Christopher Dodoo Jinendra Satiya Fernando J Castro(2018) Differences in prevalence of large polyps between Hispanic Americans from Mexican-and Non-Mexican-predominant states Digestive diseases and sciences PMID 30276570
Zeina Nahleh Salman Otoukesh Hamid Reza Mirshahidi Anthony Loc Nguyen Gayathri Nagaraj Nabeel Badri Gehan Botrus Nabih Diab Andres Alvarado Luis A Sanchez Alok K Dwivedi (2018) Disparities in breast cancer a multi-institutional comparative analysis focusing on American Hispanics Cancer Medicine (In press 05072018)
9102019
25
Scholarly Activity Danny J Avalos Antonio Mendoza-Ladd Marc J Zuckerman Mohammad Bashashati Andres Alvarado Alok
Dwivedi Oriana M Damas (2018) Hispanics and Non-Hispanic Whites in the US have a Similar InflammatoryBowel Disease Phenotype A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis Digestive Diseases and Sciences 63(6)1558-1571
Aleli Campbell Rosalinda Heydarian Cecilia Ochoa Alok Kumar Dwivedi Zeina A Nahleh(2018) Single arm phaseII study of oral vitamin B12 for the treatment of musculoskeletal symptoms associated with aromatase inhibitors inwomen with early stage breast cancer The breast journal 24(3)260-268
Shaimaa Elzamly Nabeel Badri Osvaldo Padilla Alok Kumar Dwivedi Luis A Alvarado Matthew Hamilton NabihDiab Crosby Rock Ahmed Elfar Marwa Teleb Luis Sanchez Zeina Nahleh (2018) Epithelial-mesenchymaltransition markers in breast cancer and pathological responseafter neoadjuvant chemotherapy Breast Cancer
(Auckl) 2018 Aug 1121178223418788074
Jennifer C Molokwu Eribeth Penaranda Alok Dwivedi Indika Mallawaarachchi Navkiran Shokar (2018) Effect ofEducational Intervention on Self-Sampling Acceptability and Follow-Up Paps in Border Dwelling Hispanic FemalesJournal of Lower Genital Tract Disease
Ritika Suri Federico Rodriguez-Porcel Kelly Donohue Erin Jesse Lilia Lovera Alok Kumar Dwivedi Alberto JEspay (2018) Post-Stroke Movement Disorders The Clinical Neuroanatomic and Demographic Portrait of 284Published Cases Accepted for publication in Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases (In press05212018)
Zeina Nahleh Gehan Botrus Alok Dwivedi Nabeel Badri Salman Otoukesh Nabih Diab Sandip BiswasMichael Jennings Shaimaa Elzamly(2018) Clinico-pathologic disparities of breast cancer in HispanicLatina womenBreast disease 1-8
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Robert Gonzalez Trisha Suppes Jamie Zeitzer Colleen McClung Carol Tamminga Mauricio Tohen Angelica Forero Alok DwivediAndres Alvarado (2018) The association between mood state and chronobiological characteristics in bipolar I disorder a naturalisticvariable cluster analysis-based study International Journal of Bipolar Disorders 6(1)5Mohamed Teleb Aaron Shanker Alok Kumar Dwivedi Debabrata Mukherjee (2018) Effect of exercise on left ventricular mass index byechocardiography in mild and moderate hypertension a meta-analysis Res Cardiovasc Med 6(4)50-6Garnica O Das K Devasundaram S and Dhandayuthapani S Enhanced delivery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigens to antigenpresenting cells using RVG peptide Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Das K Garnica O and Dhandayuthapani S Utility of an oxidative stress response system for the expression of recombinant proteinsin mycobacteria and for the delivery of M tuberculosis antigens to the phagosomal compartments Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Palanichamy K Joshi A Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz T Fernando B Milan S Schiro F Naeem Y Garg H Braunschweig A 2019 Anti-ZikaActivity of a Library of Synthetic Carbohydrate Receptors Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 6284110-4119Anjali Joshi Erin B Punke Tugba Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz Diego P Peralta and Himanshu Garg 2019 TLR9 polymorphism correlates withimmune activation CD4 decline and plasma IP10 levels in HIV patients BMC Infect Dis 19 56Vargas-Medrano J Yang B Garza N T Segura-Ulate I and Perez R G (2018) Up-regulation of protective neuronal MicroRNAs byFTY720 and novel FTY720-derivatives Neuroscience letters 690 178-180Vidal-Martinez G Yang B Vargas-Medrano J and Perez R G (2018) Could alpha-Synuclein Modulation of Insulin and DopamineIdentify a Novel Link Between Parkinsons Disease and Diabetes as Well as Potential Therapies Frontiers in molecular
neuroscience 11 465
9102019
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Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Gil-Tommee C Vidal-Martinez G Annette Reyes C Vargas-Medrano J Herrera G V Martin S M Chaparro S A andPerez R G (2019) Parkinsonian GM2 synthase knockout mice lacking mature gangliosides develop urinary dysfunction andneurogenic bladder Experimental neurology 311265-273Vidal-Martinez G Najera K Miranda JD Gil-Tommee C Yang B Vargas-Medrano J Diaz-Pacheco V Barragan J ChaparroS Vargas-Medrano J Chinnasamy R Arterburn JB Perez RG FTY720 improves behavior increases Brain Derived NeurotrophicFactor and reduces α-synuclein pathology in parkinsonian GM2+minus
mice Neuroscience httpsdoiorg101016jneuroscience201905029Tasnim N Thakur V Chattopadhyay M Joddar B (2018) The efficacy of Graphene-foams towards the adhesion proliferationand expression of neuronal-phenotype by dopaminergic neurons differentiated from mesenchymal stem cells Stem cell
international Jun 3 20183410168 doi 10115520183410168Anil Kumar S Allen SC Tasnim N Akter T Park S Kumar A Chattopadhyay M Ito Y Suggs LJ Joddar B (2019) The applicabilityof furfuryl-gelatin as a novel bioink for tissue engineering applications J Biomed Mater Res B Appl Biomater 2019 107(2)314-323 doi 101002jbmb34123 Epub 2018 Apr 15Thakur V Chattopadhyay M (2018) Early urinary markers for diabetic and other kidney diseases Current drug targets 2018 Mar19Joddar B Tasnim N Thakur V Kumar A Mccallum R Chattopadhyay M (2018) Delivery of mesenchymal stem cells fromgelatin-alginate hydrogels to stomach lumen for treatment of gastroparesis Bioengineering 2018 5(1)Camacho CV Choudhari R Gadad SS (2018) Long noncoding RNAs and cancer an overview Steroids 13393-95
IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department
Large net loss (9) of MTM faculty members over the past 5 years
Vacant Director positions (i) Center for Neuroscience (ii) Center for InfectiousDiseases and (iii) Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
No steps have been taken to fill directors positions for more than 2 years
Neurosciences Center at the verge of collapse Only one faculty will be left at theend of this fiscal year
The size of Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology is shrinking
Lack of communication regarding vision and strategic plan for growing department
No faculty salary raises for the past 3 years
Serious concerns about recruitment retention and tenure and promotion decisionsmade in the department Faculty morale is extremely low
Lack of functional research core facility
Gradual elimination of service contracts of equipment essential for research trainingand education of graduate and medical students
A plethora of other issues with the department administration
9102019
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Questions
Departmental Report
Psychiatry
Ricardo Salazar MDAssociate Professor Psychiatry
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Department ReportPsychiatryPRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCIL
BY RICARDO SALAZAR MD
DATE MONDAY JULY 15 2019
Department BreakdownPlease provide the total number of faculty members in your department and break down this number by
rank Please list new faculty members that have joined your department within the last six months
Total Number of Faculty 12
Number of Instructors 1
Number of Assistant Professors 8
Number of Associate Professors 2
Number of Professors 2
New Faculty Melanie Longhurst MD Instructor
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LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair
program director clerkship director chiefs etc
Department Chair ndash Peter M Thompson MD MS
Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Sarah L Martin MD
Combined IMPsych Residency Program Director ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD
Psychiatry Clerkship Director ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD
Child amp Adolescent Fellowship Program Director ndash Cecilia De Vargas MD
Chief Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry ndash Sarah L Martin MD
Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Program Directorndash Ricardo Salazar MD
Chief Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences ndash Ricardo Salazar MD
Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Transmountain ndash Moataz Ragheb MD
AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in your department including awards honors regional
appointments national appointments etc
El Paso Behavioral Health Consortium ndash Board Member ndash Peter M Thompson MD
714 (50) of our graduating medical students this year choose and matched our resident training programs here at Paul L FosterSchool of Medicine Department of Psychiatry (Historical record) ndash Kudos for our Department Faculty
In appreciation for exceptional contributions to the 30th volume of the J Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences ndash Author contributions and review of 271 manuscripts submitted to the journal between September 2017 and August 2018 ndash Ricardo Salazar MD ndash Young Investigator Award Committee Member and Program Committee Member-Abstracts Sub-Committee Member of theAmerican Neuropsychiatric Association (ANPA)
Initial Accreditation with commendation and no citations from ACGME for our first Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Training Program for West Texas ndash Ricardo Salazar MD
Leadership in Education and Development Certificate Program (LEAD) Fellow -1-year program accredited from the Association ofAmerican Medical Colleges (AAMC) Silvina Tonarelli MD amp Ricardo Salazar MD (Selected Award)
Fully operating Southwest Brain Bank A Brain Tissue Repository for Research in Mental Illness ndashPeter M Thompson MD
Texas State Psychiatric Physicians Public Mental Health Services Committee ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD
Texas Health and Human Services Commission Behavioral Health Advisory Committee ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP
Fellow American College of Physicians ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP FACP
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Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Abstracts 31
Publications 5 (peer-review journals)
Presentations 17 ndash National (7) and International (6)
Invited Speaker 21 (including faculty residents fellows) ndash Local amp National
Book Chapters NA
Grants McKee Foundation Award ndash our Chair - Thompson
Intramural Grants Seed Grant 1 SARP Educational Grant 2 - Salazar
President`s Collaborative Research Initiative ndashMarch 2018 - Tonarelli
Scholarly Activity
Child and Adolescent Fellowship Presentations
INTERNATIONAL
- Curanderos and Limpias Cultural psychiatry
Poster presented at 6th Annual Scientific conference of the European Association of PsychosomaticMedicine Verona Italy Drs Garza Meissner De Vargas Mehta June 2018
-Case presentation 0f 49XXXXY Same conference same authors same city
-Resilience etiology protective and risk factors presentation C De Vargas by invitation Annual WorldPediatric summit Madrid June 2018
-Parents and their Children Fantastic journey Same conference on June 2019 Berlin Germany
NATIONAL
-Development of Psychopathology in children at risk for Bipolar Disorders Drs Escamilla Peter Sangra C DeVargas S Martin C Alvarado Andrea Rios (Poster) American Academy of Child and Adolescent PsychiatryAnnual Conference Seattle WA October 2018
Frank William Meissner MD Cynthia Elizabeth Garza MDJD Sarah L Martin MD rdquoDrug-Induced BrugadaSyndrome in a Middle-Aged Female Patient Drugs EKG Diagnosis Electrophysiology and SurveillanceRecommendationrdquo American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting San Francisco CA May 21 2019
Delinquency in a group of school children at risk for bipolar disorder D Haque M Escamilla C De VargasPresented at UCLA LA Ca June 2019
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Residency ProgramPlease provide information regarding your departmentrsquos residency program ie recent accreditation
number of residents and program updates (if applicable)
24 General Psychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)
8 Internal MedicinePsychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)
3 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellows
1 Geriatric Psychiatry Fellow- newly accredited program
IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department
RecruitmentRetention
Short staffed
Organizational Structure
Financial incentives
Protected time
Gender balance Attrition malefemale ratio 41
Program Coordinator turnover rate
Mentoring
9102019
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Departmental Organizational
Structure
Chair
Division ChiefsProgram Directors
Clerkship Director
Adm
Organizational Structure Model
Chair
Deputy Chair for Education
Program
Directors
Deputy Chair for Research
Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs
Vicechair
9102019
33
Roles
Deputy Chair for Education
Oversee undergraduate graduate and CME including the development of teachers and educational scholars Monitor quality and safety across the department
Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs
Faculty appointments Faculty Development and Promotion andor Tenure Develop programs in different domains such as research education personal improvement and leadership Support clinical activities by improving the efficiency of operations and in helping to fit clinical programs into those in the rest of the medical center Allocation of space
Deputy Chair for Research
Develop and direct department-wide programs for faculty recruitment development and support of mentors recognition of excellence and funding of pilot grants bridge funding and grants to nurture multi-principal investigator and trans-division or trans-department projects Allocation of space among divisions
Bottom Line
We need more funds
Institutional support
The investments needed to recruit faculty are beyond the capacity of the
department`s operational revenue
Recruiting a leading investigator or one with great potential for
example may require an investment of $ 1 million and sometimes more
Endowments are the departmentrsquos foundational financial capital the
keel that maintains momentum and balance through the headwinds
and rough seas each department will navigate Endowments increase
the departmentrsquos independence in sustaining its core mission
Thus creation of endowments should be a high priority for any
department that plans for the long term and they increase capacity to
recruit the best faculty in a competitive environment
9102019
22
AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional
appointments national appointments etc
NIH or DOD study sections appointments
Dr Guohua Yi
HIV special Emphasis Panel for RFA-AI-18-058 Genetic Engineering Technologies for HIV Cure Research (U19)
Dr Laxman Gangwani
Department of Defense (DOD) Reviewer for Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) 2018 -
NIHCSR Study ldquoProgram Evaluation of NIH Peer Review Processes The Role of Anonymizationrdquo 2019 ndash
Patents filings and publications
Patent Number 9862951 Title RNA Interference-Based Therapeutic against Anthrax Inventors Mingtao Zeng and Maria T AreacutevaloDate of Patent January 9 2018
Cistola D P Patel V (2018) Method and system for non-invasive measurement of metabolic health US Non-Provisional Utility Patent Application No 15911728 filed by Texas Tech University
Cistola D P Robinson M D (2018) Methods and tools for diagnosing insulin resistance and assessing health status using NMR relaxation times for water United States Patent Application Publication US 20180020947 A1 httpspatentsgooglecompatentUS20180020947A1en
AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional
appointments national appointments etc
News and Media Coverage of Research performed at TTUHSC EP
Dr David Cistola
MedPageToday 2 January 2019 Harris Scott Could a New Biomarker Help Predict Type 2 Diabetes -- Early datashow water T2 catches abnormalities before traditional testing but experts are cautiously optimistichttpswwwmedpagetodaycomreading-roomendocrine-societydiabetes77186
KTSM Channel 9 NBC El Paso 14 November 2018 Castillo Susy Research in El Paso aimed at detectingdiabetes earlyhttpswwwktsmcomlifestylehealthresearch-in-el-paso-aimed-at-detecting-diabetes-early1596408236apt_credirect=1
El Paso Inc 29 March 2019 TTUHSC El Paso Tackling diabetes cancer httpwwwelpasoinccomttuhsc-el-paso-tackling-diabetes-cancerarticle_613144fe-526a-11e9-b916-c35b701a5ef9html
Dr Laxman Gangwani
Cure SMA Awards $150000 Grant to Laxman Gangwani PhD Texas Tech University
httpwwwcuresmaorgnewsgangwani-grant-2019html
httpswwweurekalertorgpub_releases2019-05ttuh-gw050119php
httpswwwresearchgatenetscientific-contributions11984383_Laxman_Gangwani
9102019
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Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Peer-reviewed publications 36 (In high-impact journals)
2018 highest impact factor (11561) journal Nucleic Acids Research
Abstracts 43
Presentations (i) Oral 11 (ii) Posters 28
Invited talks 13
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Peer-reviewed publications
Kannan A Bhatia K Branzei D and Gangwani L (2018) Combined deficiency of Senataxin and DNA-PKcscauses DNA damage accumulation and neurodegeneration in spinal muscular atrophy Nucleic Acids Research2018 Vol 46 No 16 8326-8346
Mishra I Jones C Patel V Deodhar S Cistola D P (2018) Early detection of metabolic dysregulation usingwater T2 analysis of biobanked samples Diabetes Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity Targets and Therapy 11 807-818
Patel V Dwivedi A K Deodhar S Mishra I Cistola D P (2018) Aptamer-based search for correlates of plasmaand serum water T2 Implications for early metabolic dysregulation and metabolic syndrome Biomarker Research6(1) 28
Garg H Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz T Joshi A 2018 Recent Advances in Zika Virus Vaccines Viruses Nov 1410 (11) Sundin OH Mendoza-Ladd A Zeng M Diaz-Areacutevalo D Morales E Fagan BMOrdontildeez J McCallum RW Does a
glucose-based hydrogen and methane breath test detect bacterial overgrowth in the jejunum NeurogastroenterolMotil 2018e13350
Zheng Z Diaz-Areacutevalo D Guan H and Mingtao Zeng Noninvasive vaccination against infectious diseases Humanvaccines amp immunotherapeutics 2018 14(7)1717-1733
Preeti Bharaj Chunting Ye Sean Petersen Qianghu Wang Baoli Hu N Manjunath Premlata Shankar Guohua Yi(2018) Gene array analysis of PD-1H overexpressing monocytes reveals a pro-inflammatory profile Heliyone00545
Bencomo-Alvarez AE Rubio AJ Gonzalez MA and Eiring AM Energy metabolism and drug response in myeloidleukaemic stem cells Br J Haematol 2019 In Press
9102019
24
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Peer-reviewed publications Yan D Pomicter AD Tantravahi S Mason CC Senina AV Ahmann JM Wang Q Than H Patel AB Heaton
WL Eiring AM Clair PM Gantz KC Redwine HM Swierczek SI Halverson BJ Baloglu E Shacham S KhorashadJS Kelley TW Salama ME Miles RR Boucher KM Prchal JT OHare T and Deininger MW Nuclear-cytoplasmic transport is a therapeutic target in myelofibrosis Clin Cancer Res 201925(7)2323-2335
Heipertz E Harper J Lopez CA Fikrig E Hughes ME Walker WE Circadian rhythms influence the severity of sepsis in mice via a TLR2-dependent leukocyte-intrinsic mechanism The Journal of Immunology 2018 201193-201
Khatri R Afzal MR Qureshi MA Maud A Huanyu D Jose Rodriguez G Pre-Existing Renal Failure Increases In-Hospital Mortality in Patients with Intracerebral Hemorrhage J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis 2019 Feb28(2)237-242
Zou L Lee SY Wu Q Zhang H Bastian A Orji C Payne G Galvez A Thomas T Zhang Z Dou H Facile Gene Delivery Derived from Branched Low Molecular Weight Polyethylenimine by High Efficient Chemistry J Biomed Nanotechnol 2018 Oct 114(10)1785-1795
Zhang C Brandon NR Koper K Tang P Xu Y Dou H Invasion of Peripheral Immune Cells into Brain Parenchyma after Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation Aging Dis 2018 Jun 19(3)412-425
Loza O Hernandez P Calderoacuten-Mora J Laks S Leiner M Reddy S Lara P amp Granados H (2018) Developing Trans-affirming health services in an underserved area An intersectional approach Transgender Health 3(1) 127-135
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Byrd T Calderoacuten-Mora J Salaiz R amp Shokar N (2019) Barriers and facilitators to colorectal cancer screening within a Hispanic population Hispanic Health Care International 17(1) 23-29 doi 1011771540415318818982
Haut SR Lipton RB Cornes S Dwivedi AK Wasson R Cotton S Strawn JR Privitera M (2018) Behavioral interventions as a treatment for epilepsy A multicenter randomized controlled trial Neurology 90(11) e963-e970 PMID 29444968
Jessica Bernica Sherif Elhanafi Neeharika Kalakota Yi Jia Christopher Dodoo Alok Dwivedi Robert J Sealock Kalpesh Patel Isaac Raijman Marc J Zuckerman Mohamed O Othman (2018) Cholangioscopy is safe and feasible in elderly patients Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology 16(8) 1293-1299
Benjamin D Wissel Alok K Dwivedi Danielle Chin Aristide Merola Cara Jacob Andrew P Duker Jennifer E Vaughan Lilia Lovera Kathrin LaFaver Ariel Levy Anthony E Lang Francesca Morgante Melissa J Nirenberg Christopher Stephen Nutan Sharma Alberto Romagnolo Leonardo Lopiano Bettina Balint Xin X Yu Kailash P Bhatia Alberto J Espay Functional neurological disorders in Parkinson disease Accepted for publication in Journal
of Neurology Neurosurgery amp Psychiatry 89(6)566-571
Danny J Avalos Marc J Zuckerman Alok Dwivedi Christopher Dodoo Jinendra Satiya Fernando J Castro(2018) Differences in prevalence of large polyps between Hispanic Americans from Mexican-and Non-Mexican-predominant states Digestive diseases and sciences PMID 30276570
Zeina Nahleh Salman Otoukesh Hamid Reza Mirshahidi Anthony Loc Nguyen Gayathri Nagaraj Nabeel Badri Gehan Botrus Nabih Diab Andres Alvarado Luis A Sanchez Alok K Dwivedi (2018) Disparities in breast cancer a multi-institutional comparative analysis focusing on American Hispanics Cancer Medicine (In press 05072018)
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Scholarly Activity Danny J Avalos Antonio Mendoza-Ladd Marc J Zuckerman Mohammad Bashashati Andres Alvarado Alok
Dwivedi Oriana M Damas (2018) Hispanics and Non-Hispanic Whites in the US have a Similar InflammatoryBowel Disease Phenotype A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis Digestive Diseases and Sciences 63(6)1558-1571
Aleli Campbell Rosalinda Heydarian Cecilia Ochoa Alok Kumar Dwivedi Zeina A Nahleh(2018) Single arm phaseII study of oral vitamin B12 for the treatment of musculoskeletal symptoms associated with aromatase inhibitors inwomen with early stage breast cancer The breast journal 24(3)260-268
Shaimaa Elzamly Nabeel Badri Osvaldo Padilla Alok Kumar Dwivedi Luis A Alvarado Matthew Hamilton NabihDiab Crosby Rock Ahmed Elfar Marwa Teleb Luis Sanchez Zeina Nahleh (2018) Epithelial-mesenchymaltransition markers in breast cancer and pathological responseafter neoadjuvant chemotherapy Breast Cancer
(Auckl) 2018 Aug 1121178223418788074
Jennifer C Molokwu Eribeth Penaranda Alok Dwivedi Indika Mallawaarachchi Navkiran Shokar (2018) Effect ofEducational Intervention on Self-Sampling Acceptability and Follow-Up Paps in Border Dwelling Hispanic FemalesJournal of Lower Genital Tract Disease
Ritika Suri Federico Rodriguez-Porcel Kelly Donohue Erin Jesse Lilia Lovera Alok Kumar Dwivedi Alberto JEspay (2018) Post-Stroke Movement Disorders The Clinical Neuroanatomic and Demographic Portrait of 284Published Cases Accepted for publication in Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases (In press05212018)
Zeina Nahleh Gehan Botrus Alok Dwivedi Nabeel Badri Salman Otoukesh Nabih Diab Sandip BiswasMichael Jennings Shaimaa Elzamly(2018) Clinico-pathologic disparities of breast cancer in HispanicLatina womenBreast disease 1-8
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Robert Gonzalez Trisha Suppes Jamie Zeitzer Colleen McClung Carol Tamminga Mauricio Tohen Angelica Forero Alok DwivediAndres Alvarado (2018) The association between mood state and chronobiological characteristics in bipolar I disorder a naturalisticvariable cluster analysis-based study International Journal of Bipolar Disorders 6(1)5Mohamed Teleb Aaron Shanker Alok Kumar Dwivedi Debabrata Mukherjee (2018) Effect of exercise on left ventricular mass index byechocardiography in mild and moderate hypertension a meta-analysis Res Cardiovasc Med 6(4)50-6Garnica O Das K Devasundaram S and Dhandayuthapani S Enhanced delivery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigens to antigenpresenting cells using RVG peptide Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Das K Garnica O and Dhandayuthapani S Utility of an oxidative stress response system for the expression of recombinant proteinsin mycobacteria and for the delivery of M tuberculosis antigens to the phagosomal compartments Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Palanichamy K Joshi A Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz T Fernando B Milan S Schiro F Naeem Y Garg H Braunschweig A 2019 Anti-ZikaActivity of a Library of Synthetic Carbohydrate Receptors Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 6284110-4119Anjali Joshi Erin B Punke Tugba Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz Diego P Peralta and Himanshu Garg 2019 TLR9 polymorphism correlates withimmune activation CD4 decline and plasma IP10 levels in HIV patients BMC Infect Dis 19 56Vargas-Medrano J Yang B Garza N T Segura-Ulate I and Perez R G (2018) Up-regulation of protective neuronal MicroRNAs byFTY720 and novel FTY720-derivatives Neuroscience letters 690 178-180Vidal-Martinez G Yang B Vargas-Medrano J and Perez R G (2018) Could alpha-Synuclein Modulation of Insulin and DopamineIdentify a Novel Link Between Parkinsons Disease and Diabetes as Well as Potential Therapies Frontiers in molecular
neuroscience 11 465
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Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Gil-Tommee C Vidal-Martinez G Annette Reyes C Vargas-Medrano J Herrera G V Martin S M Chaparro S A andPerez R G (2019) Parkinsonian GM2 synthase knockout mice lacking mature gangliosides develop urinary dysfunction andneurogenic bladder Experimental neurology 311265-273Vidal-Martinez G Najera K Miranda JD Gil-Tommee C Yang B Vargas-Medrano J Diaz-Pacheco V Barragan J ChaparroS Vargas-Medrano J Chinnasamy R Arterburn JB Perez RG FTY720 improves behavior increases Brain Derived NeurotrophicFactor and reduces α-synuclein pathology in parkinsonian GM2+minus
mice Neuroscience httpsdoiorg101016jneuroscience201905029Tasnim N Thakur V Chattopadhyay M Joddar B (2018) The efficacy of Graphene-foams towards the adhesion proliferationand expression of neuronal-phenotype by dopaminergic neurons differentiated from mesenchymal stem cells Stem cell
international Jun 3 20183410168 doi 10115520183410168Anil Kumar S Allen SC Tasnim N Akter T Park S Kumar A Chattopadhyay M Ito Y Suggs LJ Joddar B (2019) The applicabilityof furfuryl-gelatin as a novel bioink for tissue engineering applications J Biomed Mater Res B Appl Biomater 2019 107(2)314-323 doi 101002jbmb34123 Epub 2018 Apr 15Thakur V Chattopadhyay M (2018) Early urinary markers for diabetic and other kidney diseases Current drug targets 2018 Mar19Joddar B Tasnim N Thakur V Kumar A Mccallum R Chattopadhyay M (2018) Delivery of mesenchymal stem cells fromgelatin-alginate hydrogels to stomach lumen for treatment of gastroparesis Bioengineering 2018 5(1)Camacho CV Choudhari R Gadad SS (2018) Long noncoding RNAs and cancer an overview Steroids 13393-95
IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department
Large net loss (9) of MTM faculty members over the past 5 years
Vacant Director positions (i) Center for Neuroscience (ii) Center for InfectiousDiseases and (iii) Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
No steps have been taken to fill directors positions for more than 2 years
Neurosciences Center at the verge of collapse Only one faculty will be left at theend of this fiscal year
The size of Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology is shrinking
Lack of communication regarding vision and strategic plan for growing department
No faculty salary raises for the past 3 years
Serious concerns about recruitment retention and tenure and promotion decisionsmade in the department Faculty morale is extremely low
Lack of functional research core facility
Gradual elimination of service contracts of equipment essential for research trainingand education of graduate and medical students
A plethora of other issues with the department administration
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Questions
Departmental Report
Psychiatry
Ricardo Salazar MDAssociate Professor Psychiatry
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Department ReportPsychiatryPRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCIL
BY RICARDO SALAZAR MD
DATE MONDAY JULY 15 2019
Department BreakdownPlease provide the total number of faculty members in your department and break down this number by
rank Please list new faculty members that have joined your department within the last six months
Total Number of Faculty 12
Number of Instructors 1
Number of Assistant Professors 8
Number of Associate Professors 2
Number of Professors 2
New Faculty Melanie Longhurst MD Instructor
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LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair
program director clerkship director chiefs etc
Department Chair ndash Peter M Thompson MD MS
Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Sarah L Martin MD
Combined IMPsych Residency Program Director ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD
Psychiatry Clerkship Director ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD
Child amp Adolescent Fellowship Program Director ndash Cecilia De Vargas MD
Chief Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry ndash Sarah L Martin MD
Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Program Directorndash Ricardo Salazar MD
Chief Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences ndash Ricardo Salazar MD
Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Transmountain ndash Moataz Ragheb MD
AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in your department including awards honors regional
appointments national appointments etc
El Paso Behavioral Health Consortium ndash Board Member ndash Peter M Thompson MD
714 (50) of our graduating medical students this year choose and matched our resident training programs here at Paul L FosterSchool of Medicine Department of Psychiatry (Historical record) ndash Kudos for our Department Faculty
In appreciation for exceptional contributions to the 30th volume of the J Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences ndash Author contributions and review of 271 manuscripts submitted to the journal between September 2017 and August 2018 ndash Ricardo Salazar MD ndash Young Investigator Award Committee Member and Program Committee Member-Abstracts Sub-Committee Member of theAmerican Neuropsychiatric Association (ANPA)
Initial Accreditation with commendation and no citations from ACGME for our first Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Training Program for West Texas ndash Ricardo Salazar MD
Leadership in Education and Development Certificate Program (LEAD) Fellow -1-year program accredited from the Association ofAmerican Medical Colleges (AAMC) Silvina Tonarelli MD amp Ricardo Salazar MD (Selected Award)
Fully operating Southwest Brain Bank A Brain Tissue Repository for Research in Mental Illness ndashPeter M Thompson MD
Texas State Psychiatric Physicians Public Mental Health Services Committee ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD
Texas Health and Human Services Commission Behavioral Health Advisory Committee ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP
Fellow American College of Physicians ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP FACP
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Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Abstracts 31
Publications 5 (peer-review journals)
Presentations 17 ndash National (7) and International (6)
Invited Speaker 21 (including faculty residents fellows) ndash Local amp National
Book Chapters NA
Grants McKee Foundation Award ndash our Chair - Thompson
Intramural Grants Seed Grant 1 SARP Educational Grant 2 - Salazar
President`s Collaborative Research Initiative ndashMarch 2018 - Tonarelli
Scholarly Activity
Child and Adolescent Fellowship Presentations
INTERNATIONAL
- Curanderos and Limpias Cultural psychiatry
Poster presented at 6th Annual Scientific conference of the European Association of PsychosomaticMedicine Verona Italy Drs Garza Meissner De Vargas Mehta June 2018
-Case presentation 0f 49XXXXY Same conference same authors same city
-Resilience etiology protective and risk factors presentation C De Vargas by invitation Annual WorldPediatric summit Madrid June 2018
-Parents and their Children Fantastic journey Same conference on June 2019 Berlin Germany
NATIONAL
-Development of Psychopathology in children at risk for Bipolar Disorders Drs Escamilla Peter Sangra C DeVargas S Martin C Alvarado Andrea Rios (Poster) American Academy of Child and Adolescent PsychiatryAnnual Conference Seattle WA October 2018
Frank William Meissner MD Cynthia Elizabeth Garza MDJD Sarah L Martin MD rdquoDrug-Induced BrugadaSyndrome in a Middle-Aged Female Patient Drugs EKG Diagnosis Electrophysiology and SurveillanceRecommendationrdquo American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting San Francisco CA May 21 2019
Delinquency in a group of school children at risk for bipolar disorder D Haque M Escamilla C De VargasPresented at UCLA LA Ca June 2019
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Residency ProgramPlease provide information regarding your departmentrsquos residency program ie recent accreditation
number of residents and program updates (if applicable)
24 General Psychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)
8 Internal MedicinePsychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)
3 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellows
1 Geriatric Psychiatry Fellow- newly accredited program
IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department
RecruitmentRetention
Short staffed
Organizational Structure
Financial incentives
Protected time
Gender balance Attrition malefemale ratio 41
Program Coordinator turnover rate
Mentoring
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Departmental Organizational
Structure
Chair
Division ChiefsProgram Directors
Clerkship Director
Adm
Organizational Structure Model
Chair
Deputy Chair for Education
Program
Directors
Deputy Chair for Research
Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs
Vicechair
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Roles
Deputy Chair for Education
Oversee undergraduate graduate and CME including the development of teachers and educational scholars Monitor quality and safety across the department
Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs
Faculty appointments Faculty Development and Promotion andor Tenure Develop programs in different domains such as research education personal improvement and leadership Support clinical activities by improving the efficiency of operations and in helping to fit clinical programs into those in the rest of the medical center Allocation of space
Deputy Chair for Research
Develop and direct department-wide programs for faculty recruitment development and support of mentors recognition of excellence and funding of pilot grants bridge funding and grants to nurture multi-principal investigator and trans-division or trans-department projects Allocation of space among divisions
Bottom Line
We need more funds
Institutional support
The investments needed to recruit faculty are beyond the capacity of the
department`s operational revenue
Recruiting a leading investigator or one with great potential for
example may require an investment of $ 1 million and sometimes more
Endowments are the departmentrsquos foundational financial capital the
keel that maintains momentum and balance through the headwinds
and rough seas each department will navigate Endowments increase
the departmentrsquos independence in sustaining its core mission
Thus creation of endowments should be a high priority for any
department that plans for the long term and they increase capacity to
recruit the best faculty in a competitive environment
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Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Peer-reviewed publications 36 (In high-impact journals)
2018 highest impact factor (11561) journal Nucleic Acids Research
Abstracts 43
Presentations (i) Oral 11 (ii) Posters 28
Invited talks 13
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Peer-reviewed publications
Kannan A Bhatia K Branzei D and Gangwani L (2018) Combined deficiency of Senataxin and DNA-PKcscauses DNA damage accumulation and neurodegeneration in spinal muscular atrophy Nucleic Acids Research2018 Vol 46 No 16 8326-8346
Mishra I Jones C Patel V Deodhar S Cistola D P (2018) Early detection of metabolic dysregulation usingwater T2 analysis of biobanked samples Diabetes Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity Targets and Therapy 11 807-818
Patel V Dwivedi A K Deodhar S Mishra I Cistola D P (2018) Aptamer-based search for correlates of plasmaand serum water T2 Implications for early metabolic dysregulation and metabolic syndrome Biomarker Research6(1) 28
Garg H Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz T Joshi A 2018 Recent Advances in Zika Virus Vaccines Viruses Nov 1410 (11) Sundin OH Mendoza-Ladd A Zeng M Diaz-Areacutevalo D Morales E Fagan BMOrdontildeez J McCallum RW Does a
glucose-based hydrogen and methane breath test detect bacterial overgrowth in the jejunum NeurogastroenterolMotil 2018e13350
Zheng Z Diaz-Areacutevalo D Guan H and Mingtao Zeng Noninvasive vaccination against infectious diseases Humanvaccines amp immunotherapeutics 2018 14(7)1717-1733
Preeti Bharaj Chunting Ye Sean Petersen Qianghu Wang Baoli Hu N Manjunath Premlata Shankar Guohua Yi(2018) Gene array analysis of PD-1H overexpressing monocytes reveals a pro-inflammatory profile Heliyone00545
Bencomo-Alvarez AE Rubio AJ Gonzalez MA and Eiring AM Energy metabolism and drug response in myeloidleukaemic stem cells Br J Haematol 2019 In Press
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Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Peer-reviewed publications Yan D Pomicter AD Tantravahi S Mason CC Senina AV Ahmann JM Wang Q Than H Patel AB Heaton
WL Eiring AM Clair PM Gantz KC Redwine HM Swierczek SI Halverson BJ Baloglu E Shacham S KhorashadJS Kelley TW Salama ME Miles RR Boucher KM Prchal JT OHare T and Deininger MW Nuclear-cytoplasmic transport is a therapeutic target in myelofibrosis Clin Cancer Res 201925(7)2323-2335
Heipertz E Harper J Lopez CA Fikrig E Hughes ME Walker WE Circadian rhythms influence the severity of sepsis in mice via a TLR2-dependent leukocyte-intrinsic mechanism The Journal of Immunology 2018 201193-201
Khatri R Afzal MR Qureshi MA Maud A Huanyu D Jose Rodriguez G Pre-Existing Renal Failure Increases In-Hospital Mortality in Patients with Intracerebral Hemorrhage J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis 2019 Feb28(2)237-242
Zou L Lee SY Wu Q Zhang H Bastian A Orji C Payne G Galvez A Thomas T Zhang Z Dou H Facile Gene Delivery Derived from Branched Low Molecular Weight Polyethylenimine by High Efficient Chemistry J Biomed Nanotechnol 2018 Oct 114(10)1785-1795
Zhang C Brandon NR Koper K Tang P Xu Y Dou H Invasion of Peripheral Immune Cells into Brain Parenchyma after Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation Aging Dis 2018 Jun 19(3)412-425
Loza O Hernandez P Calderoacuten-Mora J Laks S Leiner M Reddy S Lara P amp Granados H (2018) Developing Trans-affirming health services in an underserved area An intersectional approach Transgender Health 3(1) 127-135
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Byrd T Calderoacuten-Mora J Salaiz R amp Shokar N (2019) Barriers and facilitators to colorectal cancer screening within a Hispanic population Hispanic Health Care International 17(1) 23-29 doi 1011771540415318818982
Haut SR Lipton RB Cornes S Dwivedi AK Wasson R Cotton S Strawn JR Privitera M (2018) Behavioral interventions as a treatment for epilepsy A multicenter randomized controlled trial Neurology 90(11) e963-e970 PMID 29444968
Jessica Bernica Sherif Elhanafi Neeharika Kalakota Yi Jia Christopher Dodoo Alok Dwivedi Robert J Sealock Kalpesh Patel Isaac Raijman Marc J Zuckerman Mohamed O Othman (2018) Cholangioscopy is safe and feasible in elderly patients Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology 16(8) 1293-1299
Benjamin D Wissel Alok K Dwivedi Danielle Chin Aristide Merola Cara Jacob Andrew P Duker Jennifer E Vaughan Lilia Lovera Kathrin LaFaver Ariel Levy Anthony E Lang Francesca Morgante Melissa J Nirenberg Christopher Stephen Nutan Sharma Alberto Romagnolo Leonardo Lopiano Bettina Balint Xin X Yu Kailash P Bhatia Alberto J Espay Functional neurological disorders in Parkinson disease Accepted for publication in Journal
of Neurology Neurosurgery amp Psychiatry 89(6)566-571
Danny J Avalos Marc J Zuckerman Alok Dwivedi Christopher Dodoo Jinendra Satiya Fernando J Castro(2018) Differences in prevalence of large polyps between Hispanic Americans from Mexican-and Non-Mexican-predominant states Digestive diseases and sciences PMID 30276570
Zeina Nahleh Salman Otoukesh Hamid Reza Mirshahidi Anthony Loc Nguyen Gayathri Nagaraj Nabeel Badri Gehan Botrus Nabih Diab Andres Alvarado Luis A Sanchez Alok K Dwivedi (2018) Disparities in breast cancer a multi-institutional comparative analysis focusing on American Hispanics Cancer Medicine (In press 05072018)
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Scholarly Activity Danny J Avalos Antonio Mendoza-Ladd Marc J Zuckerman Mohammad Bashashati Andres Alvarado Alok
Dwivedi Oriana M Damas (2018) Hispanics and Non-Hispanic Whites in the US have a Similar InflammatoryBowel Disease Phenotype A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis Digestive Diseases and Sciences 63(6)1558-1571
Aleli Campbell Rosalinda Heydarian Cecilia Ochoa Alok Kumar Dwivedi Zeina A Nahleh(2018) Single arm phaseII study of oral vitamin B12 for the treatment of musculoskeletal symptoms associated with aromatase inhibitors inwomen with early stage breast cancer The breast journal 24(3)260-268
Shaimaa Elzamly Nabeel Badri Osvaldo Padilla Alok Kumar Dwivedi Luis A Alvarado Matthew Hamilton NabihDiab Crosby Rock Ahmed Elfar Marwa Teleb Luis Sanchez Zeina Nahleh (2018) Epithelial-mesenchymaltransition markers in breast cancer and pathological responseafter neoadjuvant chemotherapy Breast Cancer
(Auckl) 2018 Aug 1121178223418788074
Jennifer C Molokwu Eribeth Penaranda Alok Dwivedi Indika Mallawaarachchi Navkiran Shokar (2018) Effect ofEducational Intervention on Self-Sampling Acceptability and Follow-Up Paps in Border Dwelling Hispanic FemalesJournal of Lower Genital Tract Disease
Ritika Suri Federico Rodriguez-Porcel Kelly Donohue Erin Jesse Lilia Lovera Alok Kumar Dwivedi Alberto JEspay (2018) Post-Stroke Movement Disorders The Clinical Neuroanatomic and Demographic Portrait of 284Published Cases Accepted for publication in Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases (In press05212018)
Zeina Nahleh Gehan Botrus Alok Dwivedi Nabeel Badri Salman Otoukesh Nabih Diab Sandip BiswasMichael Jennings Shaimaa Elzamly(2018) Clinico-pathologic disparities of breast cancer in HispanicLatina womenBreast disease 1-8
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Robert Gonzalez Trisha Suppes Jamie Zeitzer Colleen McClung Carol Tamminga Mauricio Tohen Angelica Forero Alok DwivediAndres Alvarado (2018) The association between mood state and chronobiological characteristics in bipolar I disorder a naturalisticvariable cluster analysis-based study International Journal of Bipolar Disorders 6(1)5Mohamed Teleb Aaron Shanker Alok Kumar Dwivedi Debabrata Mukherjee (2018) Effect of exercise on left ventricular mass index byechocardiography in mild and moderate hypertension a meta-analysis Res Cardiovasc Med 6(4)50-6Garnica O Das K Devasundaram S and Dhandayuthapani S Enhanced delivery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigens to antigenpresenting cells using RVG peptide Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Das K Garnica O and Dhandayuthapani S Utility of an oxidative stress response system for the expression of recombinant proteinsin mycobacteria and for the delivery of M tuberculosis antigens to the phagosomal compartments Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Palanichamy K Joshi A Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz T Fernando B Milan S Schiro F Naeem Y Garg H Braunschweig A 2019 Anti-ZikaActivity of a Library of Synthetic Carbohydrate Receptors Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 6284110-4119Anjali Joshi Erin B Punke Tugba Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz Diego P Peralta and Himanshu Garg 2019 TLR9 polymorphism correlates withimmune activation CD4 decline and plasma IP10 levels in HIV patients BMC Infect Dis 19 56Vargas-Medrano J Yang B Garza N T Segura-Ulate I and Perez R G (2018) Up-regulation of protective neuronal MicroRNAs byFTY720 and novel FTY720-derivatives Neuroscience letters 690 178-180Vidal-Martinez G Yang B Vargas-Medrano J and Perez R G (2018) Could alpha-Synuclein Modulation of Insulin and DopamineIdentify a Novel Link Between Parkinsons Disease and Diabetes as Well as Potential Therapies Frontiers in molecular
neuroscience 11 465
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Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Gil-Tommee C Vidal-Martinez G Annette Reyes C Vargas-Medrano J Herrera G V Martin S M Chaparro S A andPerez R G (2019) Parkinsonian GM2 synthase knockout mice lacking mature gangliosides develop urinary dysfunction andneurogenic bladder Experimental neurology 311265-273Vidal-Martinez G Najera K Miranda JD Gil-Tommee C Yang B Vargas-Medrano J Diaz-Pacheco V Barragan J ChaparroS Vargas-Medrano J Chinnasamy R Arterburn JB Perez RG FTY720 improves behavior increases Brain Derived NeurotrophicFactor and reduces α-synuclein pathology in parkinsonian GM2+minus
mice Neuroscience httpsdoiorg101016jneuroscience201905029Tasnim N Thakur V Chattopadhyay M Joddar B (2018) The efficacy of Graphene-foams towards the adhesion proliferationand expression of neuronal-phenotype by dopaminergic neurons differentiated from mesenchymal stem cells Stem cell
international Jun 3 20183410168 doi 10115520183410168Anil Kumar S Allen SC Tasnim N Akter T Park S Kumar A Chattopadhyay M Ito Y Suggs LJ Joddar B (2019) The applicabilityof furfuryl-gelatin as a novel bioink for tissue engineering applications J Biomed Mater Res B Appl Biomater 2019 107(2)314-323 doi 101002jbmb34123 Epub 2018 Apr 15Thakur V Chattopadhyay M (2018) Early urinary markers for diabetic and other kidney diseases Current drug targets 2018 Mar19Joddar B Tasnim N Thakur V Kumar A Mccallum R Chattopadhyay M (2018) Delivery of mesenchymal stem cells fromgelatin-alginate hydrogels to stomach lumen for treatment of gastroparesis Bioengineering 2018 5(1)Camacho CV Choudhari R Gadad SS (2018) Long noncoding RNAs and cancer an overview Steroids 13393-95
IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department
Large net loss (9) of MTM faculty members over the past 5 years
Vacant Director positions (i) Center for Neuroscience (ii) Center for InfectiousDiseases and (iii) Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
No steps have been taken to fill directors positions for more than 2 years
Neurosciences Center at the verge of collapse Only one faculty will be left at theend of this fiscal year
The size of Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology is shrinking
Lack of communication regarding vision and strategic plan for growing department
No faculty salary raises for the past 3 years
Serious concerns about recruitment retention and tenure and promotion decisionsmade in the department Faculty morale is extremely low
Lack of functional research core facility
Gradual elimination of service contracts of equipment essential for research trainingand education of graduate and medical students
A plethora of other issues with the department administration
9102019
27
Questions
Departmental Report
Psychiatry
Ricardo Salazar MDAssociate Professor Psychiatry
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28
Department ReportPsychiatryPRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCIL
BY RICARDO SALAZAR MD
DATE MONDAY JULY 15 2019
Department BreakdownPlease provide the total number of faculty members in your department and break down this number by
rank Please list new faculty members that have joined your department within the last six months
Total Number of Faculty 12
Number of Instructors 1
Number of Assistant Professors 8
Number of Associate Professors 2
Number of Professors 2
New Faculty Melanie Longhurst MD Instructor
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LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair
program director clerkship director chiefs etc
Department Chair ndash Peter M Thompson MD MS
Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Sarah L Martin MD
Combined IMPsych Residency Program Director ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD
Psychiatry Clerkship Director ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD
Child amp Adolescent Fellowship Program Director ndash Cecilia De Vargas MD
Chief Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry ndash Sarah L Martin MD
Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Program Directorndash Ricardo Salazar MD
Chief Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences ndash Ricardo Salazar MD
Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Transmountain ndash Moataz Ragheb MD
AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in your department including awards honors regional
appointments national appointments etc
El Paso Behavioral Health Consortium ndash Board Member ndash Peter M Thompson MD
714 (50) of our graduating medical students this year choose and matched our resident training programs here at Paul L FosterSchool of Medicine Department of Psychiatry (Historical record) ndash Kudos for our Department Faculty
In appreciation for exceptional contributions to the 30th volume of the J Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences ndash Author contributions and review of 271 manuscripts submitted to the journal between September 2017 and August 2018 ndash Ricardo Salazar MD ndash Young Investigator Award Committee Member and Program Committee Member-Abstracts Sub-Committee Member of theAmerican Neuropsychiatric Association (ANPA)
Initial Accreditation with commendation and no citations from ACGME for our first Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Training Program for West Texas ndash Ricardo Salazar MD
Leadership in Education and Development Certificate Program (LEAD) Fellow -1-year program accredited from the Association ofAmerican Medical Colleges (AAMC) Silvina Tonarelli MD amp Ricardo Salazar MD (Selected Award)
Fully operating Southwest Brain Bank A Brain Tissue Repository for Research in Mental Illness ndashPeter M Thompson MD
Texas State Psychiatric Physicians Public Mental Health Services Committee ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD
Texas Health and Human Services Commission Behavioral Health Advisory Committee ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP
Fellow American College of Physicians ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP FACP
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Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Abstracts 31
Publications 5 (peer-review journals)
Presentations 17 ndash National (7) and International (6)
Invited Speaker 21 (including faculty residents fellows) ndash Local amp National
Book Chapters NA
Grants McKee Foundation Award ndash our Chair - Thompson
Intramural Grants Seed Grant 1 SARP Educational Grant 2 - Salazar
President`s Collaborative Research Initiative ndashMarch 2018 - Tonarelli
Scholarly Activity
Child and Adolescent Fellowship Presentations
INTERNATIONAL
- Curanderos and Limpias Cultural psychiatry
Poster presented at 6th Annual Scientific conference of the European Association of PsychosomaticMedicine Verona Italy Drs Garza Meissner De Vargas Mehta June 2018
-Case presentation 0f 49XXXXY Same conference same authors same city
-Resilience etiology protective and risk factors presentation C De Vargas by invitation Annual WorldPediatric summit Madrid June 2018
-Parents and their Children Fantastic journey Same conference on June 2019 Berlin Germany
NATIONAL
-Development of Psychopathology in children at risk for Bipolar Disorders Drs Escamilla Peter Sangra C DeVargas S Martin C Alvarado Andrea Rios (Poster) American Academy of Child and Adolescent PsychiatryAnnual Conference Seattle WA October 2018
Frank William Meissner MD Cynthia Elizabeth Garza MDJD Sarah L Martin MD rdquoDrug-Induced BrugadaSyndrome in a Middle-Aged Female Patient Drugs EKG Diagnosis Electrophysiology and SurveillanceRecommendationrdquo American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting San Francisco CA May 21 2019
Delinquency in a group of school children at risk for bipolar disorder D Haque M Escamilla C De VargasPresented at UCLA LA Ca June 2019
9102019
31
Residency ProgramPlease provide information regarding your departmentrsquos residency program ie recent accreditation
number of residents and program updates (if applicable)
24 General Psychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)
8 Internal MedicinePsychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)
3 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellows
1 Geriatric Psychiatry Fellow- newly accredited program
IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department
RecruitmentRetention
Short staffed
Organizational Structure
Financial incentives
Protected time
Gender balance Attrition malefemale ratio 41
Program Coordinator turnover rate
Mentoring
9102019
32
Departmental Organizational
Structure
Chair
Division ChiefsProgram Directors
Clerkship Director
Adm
Organizational Structure Model
Chair
Deputy Chair for Education
Program
Directors
Deputy Chair for Research
Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs
Vicechair
9102019
33
Roles
Deputy Chair for Education
Oversee undergraduate graduate and CME including the development of teachers and educational scholars Monitor quality and safety across the department
Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs
Faculty appointments Faculty Development and Promotion andor Tenure Develop programs in different domains such as research education personal improvement and leadership Support clinical activities by improving the efficiency of operations and in helping to fit clinical programs into those in the rest of the medical center Allocation of space
Deputy Chair for Research
Develop and direct department-wide programs for faculty recruitment development and support of mentors recognition of excellence and funding of pilot grants bridge funding and grants to nurture multi-principal investigator and trans-division or trans-department projects Allocation of space among divisions
Bottom Line
We need more funds
Institutional support
The investments needed to recruit faculty are beyond the capacity of the
department`s operational revenue
Recruiting a leading investigator or one with great potential for
example may require an investment of $ 1 million and sometimes more
Endowments are the departmentrsquos foundational financial capital the
keel that maintains momentum and balance through the headwinds
and rough seas each department will navigate Endowments increase
the departmentrsquos independence in sustaining its core mission
Thus creation of endowments should be a high priority for any
department that plans for the long term and they increase capacity to
recruit the best faculty in a competitive environment
9102019
24
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Peer-reviewed publications Yan D Pomicter AD Tantravahi S Mason CC Senina AV Ahmann JM Wang Q Than H Patel AB Heaton
WL Eiring AM Clair PM Gantz KC Redwine HM Swierczek SI Halverson BJ Baloglu E Shacham S KhorashadJS Kelley TW Salama ME Miles RR Boucher KM Prchal JT OHare T and Deininger MW Nuclear-cytoplasmic transport is a therapeutic target in myelofibrosis Clin Cancer Res 201925(7)2323-2335
Heipertz E Harper J Lopez CA Fikrig E Hughes ME Walker WE Circadian rhythms influence the severity of sepsis in mice via a TLR2-dependent leukocyte-intrinsic mechanism The Journal of Immunology 2018 201193-201
Khatri R Afzal MR Qureshi MA Maud A Huanyu D Jose Rodriguez G Pre-Existing Renal Failure Increases In-Hospital Mortality in Patients with Intracerebral Hemorrhage J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis 2019 Feb28(2)237-242
Zou L Lee SY Wu Q Zhang H Bastian A Orji C Payne G Galvez A Thomas T Zhang Z Dou H Facile Gene Delivery Derived from Branched Low Molecular Weight Polyethylenimine by High Efficient Chemistry J Biomed Nanotechnol 2018 Oct 114(10)1785-1795
Zhang C Brandon NR Koper K Tang P Xu Y Dou H Invasion of Peripheral Immune Cells into Brain Parenchyma after Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation Aging Dis 2018 Jun 19(3)412-425
Loza O Hernandez P Calderoacuten-Mora J Laks S Leiner M Reddy S Lara P amp Granados H (2018) Developing Trans-affirming health services in an underserved area An intersectional approach Transgender Health 3(1) 127-135
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Byrd T Calderoacuten-Mora J Salaiz R amp Shokar N (2019) Barriers and facilitators to colorectal cancer screening within a Hispanic population Hispanic Health Care International 17(1) 23-29 doi 1011771540415318818982
Haut SR Lipton RB Cornes S Dwivedi AK Wasson R Cotton S Strawn JR Privitera M (2018) Behavioral interventions as a treatment for epilepsy A multicenter randomized controlled trial Neurology 90(11) e963-e970 PMID 29444968
Jessica Bernica Sherif Elhanafi Neeharika Kalakota Yi Jia Christopher Dodoo Alok Dwivedi Robert J Sealock Kalpesh Patel Isaac Raijman Marc J Zuckerman Mohamed O Othman (2018) Cholangioscopy is safe and feasible in elderly patients Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology 16(8) 1293-1299
Benjamin D Wissel Alok K Dwivedi Danielle Chin Aristide Merola Cara Jacob Andrew P Duker Jennifer E Vaughan Lilia Lovera Kathrin LaFaver Ariel Levy Anthony E Lang Francesca Morgante Melissa J Nirenberg Christopher Stephen Nutan Sharma Alberto Romagnolo Leonardo Lopiano Bettina Balint Xin X Yu Kailash P Bhatia Alberto J Espay Functional neurological disorders in Parkinson disease Accepted for publication in Journal
of Neurology Neurosurgery amp Psychiatry 89(6)566-571
Danny J Avalos Marc J Zuckerman Alok Dwivedi Christopher Dodoo Jinendra Satiya Fernando J Castro(2018) Differences in prevalence of large polyps between Hispanic Americans from Mexican-and Non-Mexican-predominant states Digestive diseases and sciences PMID 30276570
Zeina Nahleh Salman Otoukesh Hamid Reza Mirshahidi Anthony Loc Nguyen Gayathri Nagaraj Nabeel Badri Gehan Botrus Nabih Diab Andres Alvarado Luis A Sanchez Alok K Dwivedi (2018) Disparities in breast cancer a multi-institutional comparative analysis focusing on American Hispanics Cancer Medicine (In press 05072018)
9102019
25
Scholarly Activity Danny J Avalos Antonio Mendoza-Ladd Marc J Zuckerman Mohammad Bashashati Andres Alvarado Alok
Dwivedi Oriana M Damas (2018) Hispanics and Non-Hispanic Whites in the US have a Similar InflammatoryBowel Disease Phenotype A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis Digestive Diseases and Sciences 63(6)1558-1571
Aleli Campbell Rosalinda Heydarian Cecilia Ochoa Alok Kumar Dwivedi Zeina A Nahleh(2018) Single arm phaseII study of oral vitamin B12 for the treatment of musculoskeletal symptoms associated with aromatase inhibitors inwomen with early stage breast cancer The breast journal 24(3)260-268
Shaimaa Elzamly Nabeel Badri Osvaldo Padilla Alok Kumar Dwivedi Luis A Alvarado Matthew Hamilton NabihDiab Crosby Rock Ahmed Elfar Marwa Teleb Luis Sanchez Zeina Nahleh (2018) Epithelial-mesenchymaltransition markers in breast cancer and pathological responseafter neoadjuvant chemotherapy Breast Cancer
(Auckl) 2018 Aug 1121178223418788074
Jennifer C Molokwu Eribeth Penaranda Alok Dwivedi Indika Mallawaarachchi Navkiran Shokar (2018) Effect ofEducational Intervention on Self-Sampling Acceptability and Follow-Up Paps in Border Dwelling Hispanic FemalesJournal of Lower Genital Tract Disease
Ritika Suri Federico Rodriguez-Porcel Kelly Donohue Erin Jesse Lilia Lovera Alok Kumar Dwivedi Alberto JEspay (2018) Post-Stroke Movement Disorders The Clinical Neuroanatomic and Demographic Portrait of 284Published Cases Accepted for publication in Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases (In press05212018)
Zeina Nahleh Gehan Botrus Alok Dwivedi Nabeel Badri Salman Otoukesh Nabih Diab Sandip BiswasMichael Jennings Shaimaa Elzamly(2018) Clinico-pathologic disparities of breast cancer in HispanicLatina womenBreast disease 1-8
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Robert Gonzalez Trisha Suppes Jamie Zeitzer Colleen McClung Carol Tamminga Mauricio Tohen Angelica Forero Alok DwivediAndres Alvarado (2018) The association between mood state and chronobiological characteristics in bipolar I disorder a naturalisticvariable cluster analysis-based study International Journal of Bipolar Disorders 6(1)5Mohamed Teleb Aaron Shanker Alok Kumar Dwivedi Debabrata Mukherjee (2018) Effect of exercise on left ventricular mass index byechocardiography in mild and moderate hypertension a meta-analysis Res Cardiovasc Med 6(4)50-6Garnica O Das K Devasundaram S and Dhandayuthapani S Enhanced delivery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigens to antigenpresenting cells using RVG peptide Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Das K Garnica O and Dhandayuthapani S Utility of an oxidative stress response system for the expression of recombinant proteinsin mycobacteria and for the delivery of M tuberculosis antigens to the phagosomal compartments Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Palanichamy K Joshi A Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz T Fernando B Milan S Schiro F Naeem Y Garg H Braunschweig A 2019 Anti-ZikaActivity of a Library of Synthetic Carbohydrate Receptors Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 6284110-4119Anjali Joshi Erin B Punke Tugba Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz Diego P Peralta and Himanshu Garg 2019 TLR9 polymorphism correlates withimmune activation CD4 decline and plasma IP10 levels in HIV patients BMC Infect Dis 19 56Vargas-Medrano J Yang B Garza N T Segura-Ulate I and Perez R G (2018) Up-regulation of protective neuronal MicroRNAs byFTY720 and novel FTY720-derivatives Neuroscience letters 690 178-180Vidal-Martinez G Yang B Vargas-Medrano J and Perez R G (2018) Could alpha-Synuclein Modulation of Insulin and DopamineIdentify a Novel Link Between Parkinsons Disease and Diabetes as Well as Potential Therapies Frontiers in molecular
neuroscience 11 465
9102019
26
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Gil-Tommee C Vidal-Martinez G Annette Reyes C Vargas-Medrano J Herrera G V Martin S M Chaparro S A andPerez R G (2019) Parkinsonian GM2 synthase knockout mice lacking mature gangliosides develop urinary dysfunction andneurogenic bladder Experimental neurology 311265-273Vidal-Martinez G Najera K Miranda JD Gil-Tommee C Yang B Vargas-Medrano J Diaz-Pacheco V Barragan J ChaparroS Vargas-Medrano J Chinnasamy R Arterburn JB Perez RG FTY720 improves behavior increases Brain Derived NeurotrophicFactor and reduces α-synuclein pathology in parkinsonian GM2+minus
mice Neuroscience httpsdoiorg101016jneuroscience201905029Tasnim N Thakur V Chattopadhyay M Joddar B (2018) The efficacy of Graphene-foams towards the adhesion proliferationand expression of neuronal-phenotype by dopaminergic neurons differentiated from mesenchymal stem cells Stem cell
international Jun 3 20183410168 doi 10115520183410168Anil Kumar S Allen SC Tasnim N Akter T Park S Kumar A Chattopadhyay M Ito Y Suggs LJ Joddar B (2019) The applicabilityof furfuryl-gelatin as a novel bioink for tissue engineering applications J Biomed Mater Res B Appl Biomater 2019 107(2)314-323 doi 101002jbmb34123 Epub 2018 Apr 15Thakur V Chattopadhyay M (2018) Early urinary markers for diabetic and other kidney diseases Current drug targets 2018 Mar19Joddar B Tasnim N Thakur V Kumar A Mccallum R Chattopadhyay M (2018) Delivery of mesenchymal stem cells fromgelatin-alginate hydrogels to stomach lumen for treatment of gastroparesis Bioengineering 2018 5(1)Camacho CV Choudhari R Gadad SS (2018) Long noncoding RNAs and cancer an overview Steroids 13393-95
IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department
Large net loss (9) of MTM faculty members over the past 5 years
Vacant Director positions (i) Center for Neuroscience (ii) Center for InfectiousDiseases and (iii) Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
No steps have been taken to fill directors positions for more than 2 years
Neurosciences Center at the verge of collapse Only one faculty will be left at theend of this fiscal year
The size of Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology is shrinking
Lack of communication regarding vision and strategic plan for growing department
No faculty salary raises for the past 3 years
Serious concerns about recruitment retention and tenure and promotion decisionsmade in the department Faculty morale is extremely low
Lack of functional research core facility
Gradual elimination of service contracts of equipment essential for research trainingand education of graduate and medical students
A plethora of other issues with the department administration
9102019
27
Questions
Departmental Report
Psychiatry
Ricardo Salazar MDAssociate Professor Psychiatry
9102019
28
Department ReportPsychiatryPRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCIL
BY RICARDO SALAZAR MD
DATE MONDAY JULY 15 2019
Department BreakdownPlease provide the total number of faculty members in your department and break down this number by
rank Please list new faculty members that have joined your department within the last six months
Total Number of Faculty 12
Number of Instructors 1
Number of Assistant Professors 8
Number of Associate Professors 2
Number of Professors 2
New Faculty Melanie Longhurst MD Instructor
9102019
29
LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair
program director clerkship director chiefs etc
Department Chair ndash Peter M Thompson MD MS
Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Sarah L Martin MD
Combined IMPsych Residency Program Director ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD
Psychiatry Clerkship Director ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD
Child amp Adolescent Fellowship Program Director ndash Cecilia De Vargas MD
Chief Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry ndash Sarah L Martin MD
Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Program Directorndash Ricardo Salazar MD
Chief Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences ndash Ricardo Salazar MD
Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Transmountain ndash Moataz Ragheb MD
AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in your department including awards honors regional
appointments national appointments etc
El Paso Behavioral Health Consortium ndash Board Member ndash Peter M Thompson MD
714 (50) of our graduating medical students this year choose and matched our resident training programs here at Paul L FosterSchool of Medicine Department of Psychiatry (Historical record) ndash Kudos for our Department Faculty
In appreciation for exceptional contributions to the 30th volume of the J Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences ndash Author contributions and review of 271 manuscripts submitted to the journal between September 2017 and August 2018 ndash Ricardo Salazar MD ndash Young Investigator Award Committee Member and Program Committee Member-Abstracts Sub-Committee Member of theAmerican Neuropsychiatric Association (ANPA)
Initial Accreditation with commendation and no citations from ACGME for our first Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Training Program for West Texas ndash Ricardo Salazar MD
Leadership in Education and Development Certificate Program (LEAD) Fellow -1-year program accredited from the Association ofAmerican Medical Colleges (AAMC) Silvina Tonarelli MD amp Ricardo Salazar MD (Selected Award)
Fully operating Southwest Brain Bank A Brain Tissue Repository for Research in Mental Illness ndashPeter M Thompson MD
Texas State Psychiatric Physicians Public Mental Health Services Committee ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD
Texas Health and Human Services Commission Behavioral Health Advisory Committee ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP
Fellow American College of Physicians ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP FACP
9102019
30
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Abstracts 31
Publications 5 (peer-review journals)
Presentations 17 ndash National (7) and International (6)
Invited Speaker 21 (including faculty residents fellows) ndash Local amp National
Book Chapters NA
Grants McKee Foundation Award ndash our Chair - Thompson
Intramural Grants Seed Grant 1 SARP Educational Grant 2 - Salazar
President`s Collaborative Research Initiative ndashMarch 2018 - Tonarelli
Scholarly Activity
Child and Adolescent Fellowship Presentations
INTERNATIONAL
- Curanderos and Limpias Cultural psychiatry
Poster presented at 6th Annual Scientific conference of the European Association of PsychosomaticMedicine Verona Italy Drs Garza Meissner De Vargas Mehta June 2018
-Case presentation 0f 49XXXXY Same conference same authors same city
-Resilience etiology protective and risk factors presentation C De Vargas by invitation Annual WorldPediatric summit Madrid June 2018
-Parents and their Children Fantastic journey Same conference on June 2019 Berlin Germany
NATIONAL
-Development of Psychopathology in children at risk for Bipolar Disorders Drs Escamilla Peter Sangra C DeVargas S Martin C Alvarado Andrea Rios (Poster) American Academy of Child and Adolescent PsychiatryAnnual Conference Seattle WA October 2018
Frank William Meissner MD Cynthia Elizabeth Garza MDJD Sarah L Martin MD rdquoDrug-Induced BrugadaSyndrome in a Middle-Aged Female Patient Drugs EKG Diagnosis Electrophysiology and SurveillanceRecommendationrdquo American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting San Francisco CA May 21 2019
Delinquency in a group of school children at risk for bipolar disorder D Haque M Escamilla C De VargasPresented at UCLA LA Ca June 2019
9102019
31
Residency ProgramPlease provide information regarding your departmentrsquos residency program ie recent accreditation
number of residents and program updates (if applicable)
24 General Psychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)
8 Internal MedicinePsychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)
3 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellows
1 Geriatric Psychiatry Fellow- newly accredited program
IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department
RecruitmentRetention
Short staffed
Organizational Structure
Financial incentives
Protected time
Gender balance Attrition malefemale ratio 41
Program Coordinator turnover rate
Mentoring
9102019
32
Departmental Organizational
Structure
Chair
Division ChiefsProgram Directors
Clerkship Director
Adm
Organizational Structure Model
Chair
Deputy Chair for Education
Program
Directors
Deputy Chair for Research
Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs
Vicechair
9102019
33
Roles
Deputy Chair for Education
Oversee undergraduate graduate and CME including the development of teachers and educational scholars Monitor quality and safety across the department
Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs
Faculty appointments Faculty Development and Promotion andor Tenure Develop programs in different domains such as research education personal improvement and leadership Support clinical activities by improving the efficiency of operations and in helping to fit clinical programs into those in the rest of the medical center Allocation of space
Deputy Chair for Research
Develop and direct department-wide programs for faculty recruitment development and support of mentors recognition of excellence and funding of pilot grants bridge funding and grants to nurture multi-principal investigator and trans-division or trans-department projects Allocation of space among divisions
Bottom Line
We need more funds
Institutional support
The investments needed to recruit faculty are beyond the capacity of the
department`s operational revenue
Recruiting a leading investigator or one with great potential for
example may require an investment of $ 1 million and sometimes more
Endowments are the departmentrsquos foundational financial capital the
keel that maintains momentum and balance through the headwinds
and rough seas each department will navigate Endowments increase
the departmentrsquos independence in sustaining its core mission
Thus creation of endowments should be a high priority for any
department that plans for the long term and they increase capacity to
recruit the best faculty in a competitive environment
9102019
25
Scholarly Activity Danny J Avalos Antonio Mendoza-Ladd Marc J Zuckerman Mohammad Bashashati Andres Alvarado Alok
Dwivedi Oriana M Damas (2018) Hispanics and Non-Hispanic Whites in the US have a Similar InflammatoryBowel Disease Phenotype A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis Digestive Diseases and Sciences 63(6)1558-1571
Aleli Campbell Rosalinda Heydarian Cecilia Ochoa Alok Kumar Dwivedi Zeina A Nahleh(2018) Single arm phaseII study of oral vitamin B12 for the treatment of musculoskeletal symptoms associated with aromatase inhibitors inwomen with early stage breast cancer The breast journal 24(3)260-268
Shaimaa Elzamly Nabeel Badri Osvaldo Padilla Alok Kumar Dwivedi Luis A Alvarado Matthew Hamilton NabihDiab Crosby Rock Ahmed Elfar Marwa Teleb Luis Sanchez Zeina Nahleh (2018) Epithelial-mesenchymaltransition markers in breast cancer and pathological responseafter neoadjuvant chemotherapy Breast Cancer
(Auckl) 2018 Aug 1121178223418788074
Jennifer C Molokwu Eribeth Penaranda Alok Dwivedi Indika Mallawaarachchi Navkiran Shokar (2018) Effect ofEducational Intervention on Self-Sampling Acceptability and Follow-Up Paps in Border Dwelling Hispanic FemalesJournal of Lower Genital Tract Disease
Ritika Suri Federico Rodriguez-Porcel Kelly Donohue Erin Jesse Lilia Lovera Alok Kumar Dwivedi Alberto JEspay (2018) Post-Stroke Movement Disorders The Clinical Neuroanatomic and Demographic Portrait of 284Published Cases Accepted for publication in Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases (In press05212018)
Zeina Nahleh Gehan Botrus Alok Dwivedi Nabeel Badri Salman Otoukesh Nabih Diab Sandip BiswasMichael Jennings Shaimaa Elzamly(2018) Clinico-pathologic disparities of breast cancer in HispanicLatina womenBreast disease 1-8
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Robert Gonzalez Trisha Suppes Jamie Zeitzer Colleen McClung Carol Tamminga Mauricio Tohen Angelica Forero Alok DwivediAndres Alvarado (2018) The association between mood state and chronobiological characteristics in bipolar I disorder a naturalisticvariable cluster analysis-based study International Journal of Bipolar Disorders 6(1)5Mohamed Teleb Aaron Shanker Alok Kumar Dwivedi Debabrata Mukherjee (2018) Effect of exercise on left ventricular mass index byechocardiography in mild and moderate hypertension a meta-analysis Res Cardiovasc Med 6(4)50-6Garnica O Das K Devasundaram S and Dhandayuthapani S Enhanced delivery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigens to antigenpresenting cells using RVG peptide Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Das K Garnica O and Dhandayuthapani S Utility of an oxidative stress response system for the expression of recombinant proteinsin mycobacteria and for the delivery of M tuberculosis antigens to the phagosomal compartments Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Palanichamy K Joshi A Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz T Fernando B Milan S Schiro F Naeem Y Garg H Braunschweig A 2019 Anti-ZikaActivity of a Library of Synthetic Carbohydrate Receptors Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 6284110-4119Anjali Joshi Erin B Punke Tugba Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz Diego P Peralta and Himanshu Garg 2019 TLR9 polymorphism correlates withimmune activation CD4 decline and plasma IP10 levels in HIV patients BMC Infect Dis 19 56Vargas-Medrano J Yang B Garza N T Segura-Ulate I and Perez R G (2018) Up-regulation of protective neuronal MicroRNAs byFTY720 and novel FTY720-derivatives Neuroscience letters 690 178-180Vidal-Martinez G Yang B Vargas-Medrano J and Perez R G (2018) Could alpha-Synuclein Modulation of Insulin and DopamineIdentify a Novel Link Between Parkinsons Disease and Diabetes as Well as Potential Therapies Frontiers in molecular
neuroscience 11 465
9102019
26
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Gil-Tommee C Vidal-Martinez G Annette Reyes C Vargas-Medrano J Herrera G V Martin S M Chaparro S A andPerez R G (2019) Parkinsonian GM2 synthase knockout mice lacking mature gangliosides develop urinary dysfunction andneurogenic bladder Experimental neurology 311265-273Vidal-Martinez G Najera K Miranda JD Gil-Tommee C Yang B Vargas-Medrano J Diaz-Pacheco V Barragan J ChaparroS Vargas-Medrano J Chinnasamy R Arterburn JB Perez RG FTY720 improves behavior increases Brain Derived NeurotrophicFactor and reduces α-synuclein pathology in parkinsonian GM2+minus
mice Neuroscience httpsdoiorg101016jneuroscience201905029Tasnim N Thakur V Chattopadhyay M Joddar B (2018) The efficacy of Graphene-foams towards the adhesion proliferationand expression of neuronal-phenotype by dopaminergic neurons differentiated from mesenchymal stem cells Stem cell
international Jun 3 20183410168 doi 10115520183410168Anil Kumar S Allen SC Tasnim N Akter T Park S Kumar A Chattopadhyay M Ito Y Suggs LJ Joddar B (2019) The applicabilityof furfuryl-gelatin as a novel bioink for tissue engineering applications J Biomed Mater Res B Appl Biomater 2019 107(2)314-323 doi 101002jbmb34123 Epub 2018 Apr 15Thakur V Chattopadhyay M (2018) Early urinary markers for diabetic and other kidney diseases Current drug targets 2018 Mar19Joddar B Tasnim N Thakur V Kumar A Mccallum R Chattopadhyay M (2018) Delivery of mesenchymal stem cells fromgelatin-alginate hydrogels to stomach lumen for treatment of gastroparesis Bioengineering 2018 5(1)Camacho CV Choudhari R Gadad SS (2018) Long noncoding RNAs and cancer an overview Steroids 13393-95
IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department
Large net loss (9) of MTM faculty members over the past 5 years
Vacant Director positions (i) Center for Neuroscience (ii) Center for InfectiousDiseases and (iii) Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
No steps have been taken to fill directors positions for more than 2 years
Neurosciences Center at the verge of collapse Only one faculty will be left at theend of this fiscal year
The size of Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology is shrinking
Lack of communication regarding vision and strategic plan for growing department
No faculty salary raises for the past 3 years
Serious concerns about recruitment retention and tenure and promotion decisionsmade in the department Faculty morale is extremely low
Lack of functional research core facility
Gradual elimination of service contracts of equipment essential for research trainingand education of graduate and medical students
A plethora of other issues with the department administration
9102019
27
Questions
Departmental Report
Psychiatry
Ricardo Salazar MDAssociate Professor Psychiatry
9102019
28
Department ReportPsychiatryPRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCIL
BY RICARDO SALAZAR MD
DATE MONDAY JULY 15 2019
Department BreakdownPlease provide the total number of faculty members in your department and break down this number by
rank Please list new faculty members that have joined your department within the last six months
Total Number of Faculty 12
Number of Instructors 1
Number of Assistant Professors 8
Number of Associate Professors 2
Number of Professors 2
New Faculty Melanie Longhurst MD Instructor
9102019
29
LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair
program director clerkship director chiefs etc
Department Chair ndash Peter M Thompson MD MS
Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Sarah L Martin MD
Combined IMPsych Residency Program Director ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD
Psychiatry Clerkship Director ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD
Child amp Adolescent Fellowship Program Director ndash Cecilia De Vargas MD
Chief Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry ndash Sarah L Martin MD
Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Program Directorndash Ricardo Salazar MD
Chief Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences ndash Ricardo Salazar MD
Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Transmountain ndash Moataz Ragheb MD
AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in your department including awards honors regional
appointments national appointments etc
El Paso Behavioral Health Consortium ndash Board Member ndash Peter M Thompson MD
714 (50) of our graduating medical students this year choose and matched our resident training programs here at Paul L FosterSchool of Medicine Department of Psychiatry (Historical record) ndash Kudos for our Department Faculty
In appreciation for exceptional contributions to the 30th volume of the J Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences ndash Author contributions and review of 271 manuscripts submitted to the journal between September 2017 and August 2018 ndash Ricardo Salazar MD ndash Young Investigator Award Committee Member and Program Committee Member-Abstracts Sub-Committee Member of theAmerican Neuropsychiatric Association (ANPA)
Initial Accreditation with commendation and no citations from ACGME for our first Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Training Program for West Texas ndash Ricardo Salazar MD
Leadership in Education and Development Certificate Program (LEAD) Fellow -1-year program accredited from the Association ofAmerican Medical Colleges (AAMC) Silvina Tonarelli MD amp Ricardo Salazar MD (Selected Award)
Fully operating Southwest Brain Bank A Brain Tissue Repository for Research in Mental Illness ndashPeter M Thompson MD
Texas State Psychiatric Physicians Public Mental Health Services Committee ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD
Texas Health and Human Services Commission Behavioral Health Advisory Committee ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP
Fellow American College of Physicians ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP FACP
9102019
30
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Abstracts 31
Publications 5 (peer-review journals)
Presentations 17 ndash National (7) and International (6)
Invited Speaker 21 (including faculty residents fellows) ndash Local amp National
Book Chapters NA
Grants McKee Foundation Award ndash our Chair - Thompson
Intramural Grants Seed Grant 1 SARP Educational Grant 2 - Salazar
President`s Collaborative Research Initiative ndashMarch 2018 - Tonarelli
Scholarly Activity
Child and Adolescent Fellowship Presentations
INTERNATIONAL
- Curanderos and Limpias Cultural psychiatry
Poster presented at 6th Annual Scientific conference of the European Association of PsychosomaticMedicine Verona Italy Drs Garza Meissner De Vargas Mehta June 2018
-Case presentation 0f 49XXXXY Same conference same authors same city
-Resilience etiology protective and risk factors presentation C De Vargas by invitation Annual WorldPediatric summit Madrid June 2018
-Parents and their Children Fantastic journey Same conference on June 2019 Berlin Germany
NATIONAL
-Development of Psychopathology in children at risk for Bipolar Disorders Drs Escamilla Peter Sangra C DeVargas S Martin C Alvarado Andrea Rios (Poster) American Academy of Child and Adolescent PsychiatryAnnual Conference Seattle WA October 2018
Frank William Meissner MD Cynthia Elizabeth Garza MDJD Sarah L Martin MD rdquoDrug-Induced BrugadaSyndrome in a Middle-Aged Female Patient Drugs EKG Diagnosis Electrophysiology and SurveillanceRecommendationrdquo American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting San Francisco CA May 21 2019
Delinquency in a group of school children at risk for bipolar disorder D Haque M Escamilla C De VargasPresented at UCLA LA Ca June 2019
9102019
31
Residency ProgramPlease provide information regarding your departmentrsquos residency program ie recent accreditation
number of residents and program updates (if applicable)
24 General Psychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)
8 Internal MedicinePsychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)
3 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellows
1 Geriatric Psychiatry Fellow- newly accredited program
IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department
RecruitmentRetention
Short staffed
Organizational Structure
Financial incentives
Protected time
Gender balance Attrition malefemale ratio 41
Program Coordinator turnover rate
Mentoring
9102019
32
Departmental Organizational
Structure
Chair
Division ChiefsProgram Directors
Clerkship Director
Adm
Organizational Structure Model
Chair
Deputy Chair for Education
Program
Directors
Deputy Chair for Research
Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs
Vicechair
9102019
33
Roles
Deputy Chair for Education
Oversee undergraduate graduate and CME including the development of teachers and educational scholars Monitor quality and safety across the department
Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs
Faculty appointments Faculty Development and Promotion andor Tenure Develop programs in different domains such as research education personal improvement and leadership Support clinical activities by improving the efficiency of operations and in helping to fit clinical programs into those in the rest of the medical center Allocation of space
Deputy Chair for Research
Develop and direct department-wide programs for faculty recruitment development and support of mentors recognition of excellence and funding of pilot grants bridge funding and grants to nurture multi-principal investigator and trans-division or trans-department projects Allocation of space among divisions
Bottom Line
We need more funds
Institutional support
The investments needed to recruit faculty are beyond the capacity of the
department`s operational revenue
Recruiting a leading investigator or one with great potential for
example may require an investment of $ 1 million and sometimes more
Endowments are the departmentrsquos foundational financial capital the
keel that maintains momentum and balance through the headwinds
and rough seas each department will navigate Endowments increase
the departmentrsquos independence in sustaining its core mission
Thus creation of endowments should be a high priority for any
department that plans for the long term and they increase capacity to
recruit the best faculty in a competitive environment
9102019
26
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Gil-Tommee C Vidal-Martinez G Annette Reyes C Vargas-Medrano J Herrera G V Martin S M Chaparro S A andPerez R G (2019) Parkinsonian GM2 synthase knockout mice lacking mature gangliosides develop urinary dysfunction andneurogenic bladder Experimental neurology 311265-273Vidal-Martinez G Najera K Miranda JD Gil-Tommee C Yang B Vargas-Medrano J Diaz-Pacheco V Barragan J ChaparroS Vargas-Medrano J Chinnasamy R Arterburn JB Perez RG FTY720 improves behavior increases Brain Derived NeurotrophicFactor and reduces α-synuclein pathology in parkinsonian GM2+minus
mice Neuroscience httpsdoiorg101016jneuroscience201905029Tasnim N Thakur V Chattopadhyay M Joddar B (2018) The efficacy of Graphene-foams towards the adhesion proliferationand expression of neuronal-phenotype by dopaminergic neurons differentiated from mesenchymal stem cells Stem cell
international Jun 3 20183410168 doi 10115520183410168Anil Kumar S Allen SC Tasnim N Akter T Park S Kumar A Chattopadhyay M Ito Y Suggs LJ Joddar B (2019) The applicabilityof furfuryl-gelatin as a novel bioink for tissue engineering applications J Biomed Mater Res B Appl Biomater 2019 107(2)314-323 doi 101002jbmb34123 Epub 2018 Apr 15Thakur V Chattopadhyay M (2018) Early urinary markers for diabetic and other kidney diseases Current drug targets 2018 Mar19Joddar B Tasnim N Thakur V Kumar A Mccallum R Chattopadhyay M (2018) Delivery of mesenchymal stem cells fromgelatin-alginate hydrogels to stomach lumen for treatment of gastroparesis Bioengineering 2018 5(1)Camacho CV Choudhari R Gadad SS (2018) Long noncoding RNAs and cancer an overview Steroids 13393-95
IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department
Large net loss (9) of MTM faculty members over the past 5 years
Vacant Director positions (i) Center for Neuroscience (ii) Center for InfectiousDiseases and (iii) Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
No steps have been taken to fill directors positions for more than 2 years
Neurosciences Center at the verge of collapse Only one faculty will be left at theend of this fiscal year
The size of Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology is shrinking
Lack of communication regarding vision and strategic plan for growing department
No faculty salary raises for the past 3 years
Serious concerns about recruitment retention and tenure and promotion decisionsmade in the department Faculty morale is extremely low
Lack of functional research core facility
Gradual elimination of service contracts of equipment essential for research trainingand education of graduate and medical students
A plethora of other issues with the department administration
9102019
27
Questions
Departmental Report
Psychiatry
Ricardo Salazar MDAssociate Professor Psychiatry
9102019
28
Department ReportPsychiatryPRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCIL
BY RICARDO SALAZAR MD
DATE MONDAY JULY 15 2019
Department BreakdownPlease provide the total number of faculty members in your department and break down this number by
rank Please list new faculty members that have joined your department within the last six months
Total Number of Faculty 12
Number of Instructors 1
Number of Assistant Professors 8
Number of Associate Professors 2
Number of Professors 2
New Faculty Melanie Longhurst MD Instructor
9102019
29
LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair
program director clerkship director chiefs etc
Department Chair ndash Peter M Thompson MD MS
Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Sarah L Martin MD
Combined IMPsych Residency Program Director ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD
Psychiatry Clerkship Director ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD
Child amp Adolescent Fellowship Program Director ndash Cecilia De Vargas MD
Chief Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry ndash Sarah L Martin MD
Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Program Directorndash Ricardo Salazar MD
Chief Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences ndash Ricardo Salazar MD
Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Transmountain ndash Moataz Ragheb MD
AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in your department including awards honors regional
appointments national appointments etc
El Paso Behavioral Health Consortium ndash Board Member ndash Peter M Thompson MD
714 (50) of our graduating medical students this year choose and matched our resident training programs here at Paul L FosterSchool of Medicine Department of Psychiatry (Historical record) ndash Kudos for our Department Faculty
In appreciation for exceptional contributions to the 30th volume of the J Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences ndash Author contributions and review of 271 manuscripts submitted to the journal between September 2017 and August 2018 ndash Ricardo Salazar MD ndash Young Investigator Award Committee Member and Program Committee Member-Abstracts Sub-Committee Member of theAmerican Neuropsychiatric Association (ANPA)
Initial Accreditation with commendation and no citations from ACGME for our first Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Training Program for West Texas ndash Ricardo Salazar MD
Leadership in Education and Development Certificate Program (LEAD) Fellow -1-year program accredited from the Association ofAmerican Medical Colleges (AAMC) Silvina Tonarelli MD amp Ricardo Salazar MD (Selected Award)
Fully operating Southwest Brain Bank A Brain Tissue Repository for Research in Mental Illness ndashPeter M Thompson MD
Texas State Psychiatric Physicians Public Mental Health Services Committee ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD
Texas Health and Human Services Commission Behavioral Health Advisory Committee ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP
Fellow American College of Physicians ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP FACP
9102019
30
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Abstracts 31
Publications 5 (peer-review journals)
Presentations 17 ndash National (7) and International (6)
Invited Speaker 21 (including faculty residents fellows) ndash Local amp National
Book Chapters NA
Grants McKee Foundation Award ndash our Chair - Thompson
Intramural Grants Seed Grant 1 SARP Educational Grant 2 - Salazar
President`s Collaborative Research Initiative ndashMarch 2018 - Tonarelli
Scholarly Activity
Child and Adolescent Fellowship Presentations
INTERNATIONAL
- Curanderos and Limpias Cultural psychiatry
Poster presented at 6th Annual Scientific conference of the European Association of PsychosomaticMedicine Verona Italy Drs Garza Meissner De Vargas Mehta June 2018
-Case presentation 0f 49XXXXY Same conference same authors same city
-Resilience etiology protective and risk factors presentation C De Vargas by invitation Annual WorldPediatric summit Madrid June 2018
-Parents and their Children Fantastic journey Same conference on June 2019 Berlin Germany
NATIONAL
-Development of Psychopathology in children at risk for Bipolar Disorders Drs Escamilla Peter Sangra C DeVargas S Martin C Alvarado Andrea Rios (Poster) American Academy of Child and Adolescent PsychiatryAnnual Conference Seattle WA October 2018
Frank William Meissner MD Cynthia Elizabeth Garza MDJD Sarah L Martin MD rdquoDrug-Induced BrugadaSyndrome in a Middle-Aged Female Patient Drugs EKG Diagnosis Electrophysiology and SurveillanceRecommendationrdquo American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting San Francisco CA May 21 2019
Delinquency in a group of school children at risk for bipolar disorder D Haque M Escamilla C De VargasPresented at UCLA LA Ca June 2019
9102019
31
Residency ProgramPlease provide information regarding your departmentrsquos residency program ie recent accreditation
number of residents and program updates (if applicable)
24 General Psychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)
8 Internal MedicinePsychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)
3 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellows
1 Geriatric Psychiatry Fellow- newly accredited program
IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department
RecruitmentRetention
Short staffed
Organizational Structure
Financial incentives
Protected time
Gender balance Attrition malefemale ratio 41
Program Coordinator turnover rate
Mentoring
9102019
32
Departmental Organizational
Structure
Chair
Division ChiefsProgram Directors
Clerkship Director
Adm
Organizational Structure Model
Chair
Deputy Chair for Education
Program
Directors
Deputy Chair for Research
Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs
Vicechair
9102019
33
Roles
Deputy Chair for Education
Oversee undergraduate graduate and CME including the development of teachers and educational scholars Monitor quality and safety across the department
Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs
Faculty appointments Faculty Development and Promotion andor Tenure Develop programs in different domains such as research education personal improvement and leadership Support clinical activities by improving the efficiency of operations and in helping to fit clinical programs into those in the rest of the medical center Allocation of space
Deputy Chair for Research
Develop and direct department-wide programs for faculty recruitment development and support of mentors recognition of excellence and funding of pilot grants bridge funding and grants to nurture multi-principal investigator and trans-division or trans-department projects Allocation of space among divisions
Bottom Line
We need more funds
Institutional support
The investments needed to recruit faculty are beyond the capacity of the
department`s operational revenue
Recruiting a leading investigator or one with great potential for
example may require an investment of $ 1 million and sometimes more
Endowments are the departmentrsquos foundational financial capital the
keel that maintains momentum and balance through the headwinds
and rough seas each department will navigate Endowments increase
the departmentrsquos independence in sustaining its core mission
Thus creation of endowments should be a high priority for any
department that plans for the long term and they increase capacity to
recruit the best faculty in a competitive environment
9102019
27
Questions
Departmental Report
Psychiatry
Ricardo Salazar MDAssociate Professor Psychiatry
9102019
28
Department ReportPsychiatryPRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCIL
BY RICARDO SALAZAR MD
DATE MONDAY JULY 15 2019
Department BreakdownPlease provide the total number of faculty members in your department and break down this number by
rank Please list new faculty members that have joined your department within the last six months
Total Number of Faculty 12
Number of Instructors 1
Number of Assistant Professors 8
Number of Associate Professors 2
Number of Professors 2
New Faculty Melanie Longhurst MD Instructor
9102019
29
LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair
program director clerkship director chiefs etc
Department Chair ndash Peter M Thompson MD MS
Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Sarah L Martin MD
Combined IMPsych Residency Program Director ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD
Psychiatry Clerkship Director ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD
Child amp Adolescent Fellowship Program Director ndash Cecilia De Vargas MD
Chief Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry ndash Sarah L Martin MD
Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Program Directorndash Ricardo Salazar MD
Chief Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences ndash Ricardo Salazar MD
Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Transmountain ndash Moataz Ragheb MD
AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in your department including awards honors regional
appointments national appointments etc
El Paso Behavioral Health Consortium ndash Board Member ndash Peter M Thompson MD
714 (50) of our graduating medical students this year choose and matched our resident training programs here at Paul L FosterSchool of Medicine Department of Psychiatry (Historical record) ndash Kudos for our Department Faculty
In appreciation for exceptional contributions to the 30th volume of the J Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences ndash Author contributions and review of 271 manuscripts submitted to the journal between September 2017 and August 2018 ndash Ricardo Salazar MD ndash Young Investigator Award Committee Member and Program Committee Member-Abstracts Sub-Committee Member of theAmerican Neuropsychiatric Association (ANPA)
Initial Accreditation with commendation and no citations from ACGME for our first Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Training Program for West Texas ndash Ricardo Salazar MD
Leadership in Education and Development Certificate Program (LEAD) Fellow -1-year program accredited from the Association ofAmerican Medical Colleges (AAMC) Silvina Tonarelli MD amp Ricardo Salazar MD (Selected Award)
Fully operating Southwest Brain Bank A Brain Tissue Repository for Research in Mental Illness ndashPeter M Thompson MD
Texas State Psychiatric Physicians Public Mental Health Services Committee ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD
Texas Health and Human Services Commission Behavioral Health Advisory Committee ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP
Fellow American College of Physicians ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP FACP
9102019
30
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Abstracts 31
Publications 5 (peer-review journals)
Presentations 17 ndash National (7) and International (6)
Invited Speaker 21 (including faculty residents fellows) ndash Local amp National
Book Chapters NA
Grants McKee Foundation Award ndash our Chair - Thompson
Intramural Grants Seed Grant 1 SARP Educational Grant 2 - Salazar
President`s Collaborative Research Initiative ndashMarch 2018 - Tonarelli
Scholarly Activity
Child and Adolescent Fellowship Presentations
INTERNATIONAL
- Curanderos and Limpias Cultural psychiatry
Poster presented at 6th Annual Scientific conference of the European Association of PsychosomaticMedicine Verona Italy Drs Garza Meissner De Vargas Mehta June 2018
-Case presentation 0f 49XXXXY Same conference same authors same city
-Resilience etiology protective and risk factors presentation C De Vargas by invitation Annual WorldPediatric summit Madrid June 2018
-Parents and their Children Fantastic journey Same conference on June 2019 Berlin Germany
NATIONAL
-Development of Psychopathology in children at risk for Bipolar Disorders Drs Escamilla Peter Sangra C DeVargas S Martin C Alvarado Andrea Rios (Poster) American Academy of Child and Adolescent PsychiatryAnnual Conference Seattle WA October 2018
Frank William Meissner MD Cynthia Elizabeth Garza MDJD Sarah L Martin MD rdquoDrug-Induced BrugadaSyndrome in a Middle-Aged Female Patient Drugs EKG Diagnosis Electrophysiology and SurveillanceRecommendationrdquo American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting San Francisco CA May 21 2019
Delinquency in a group of school children at risk for bipolar disorder D Haque M Escamilla C De VargasPresented at UCLA LA Ca June 2019
9102019
31
Residency ProgramPlease provide information regarding your departmentrsquos residency program ie recent accreditation
number of residents and program updates (if applicable)
24 General Psychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)
8 Internal MedicinePsychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)
3 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellows
1 Geriatric Psychiatry Fellow- newly accredited program
IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department
RecruitmentRetention
Short staffed
Organizational Structure
Financial incentives
Protected time
Gender balance Attrition malefemale ratio 41
Program Coordinator turnover rate
Mentoring
9102019
32
Departmental Organizational
Structure
Chair
Division ChiefsProgram Directors
Clerkship Director
Adm
Organizational Structure Model
Chair
Deputy Chair for Education
Program
Directors
Deputy Chair for Research
Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs
Vicechair
9102019
33
Roles
Deputy Chair for Education
Oversee undergraduate graduate and CME including the development of teachers and educational scholars Monitor quality and safety across the department
Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs
Faculty appointments Faculty Development and Promotion andor Tenure Develop programs in different domains such as research education personal improvement and leadership Support clinical activities by improving the efficiency of operations and in helping to fit clinical programs into those in the rest of the medical center Allocation of space
Deputy Chair for Research
Develop and direct department-wide programs for faculty recruitment development and support of mentors recognition of excellence and funding of pilot grants bridge funding and grants to nurture multi-principal investigator and trans-division or trans-department projects Allocation of space among divisions
Bottom Line
We need more funds
Institutional support
The investments needed to recruit faculty are beyond the capacity of the
department`s operational revenue
Recruiting a leading investigator or one with great potential for
example may require an investment of $ 1 million and sometimes more
Endowments are the departmentrsquos foundational financial capital the
keel that maintains momentum and balance through the headwinds
and rough seas each department will navigate Endowments increase
the departmentrsquos independence in sustaining its core mission
Thus creation of endowments should be a high priority for any
department that plans for the long term and they increase capacity to
recruit the best faculty in a competitive environment
9102019
28
Department ReportPsychiatryPRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCIL
BY RICARDO SALAZAR MD
DATE MONDAY JULY 15 2019
Department BreakdownPlease provide the total number of faculty members in your department and break down this number by
rank Please list new faculty members that have joined your department within the last six months
Total Number of Faculty 12
Number of Instructors 1
Number of Assistant Professors 8
Number of Associate Professors 2
Number of Professors 2
New Faculty Melanie Longhurst MD Instructor
9102019
29
LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair
program director clerkship director chiefs etc
Department Chair ndash Peter M Thompson MD MS
Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Sarah L Martin MD
Combined IMPsych Residency Program Director ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD
Psychiatry Clerkship Director ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD
Child amp Adolescent Fellowship Program Director ndash Cecilia De Vargas MD
Chief Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry ndash Sarah L Martin MD
Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Program Directorndash Ricardo Salazar MD
Chief Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences ndash Ricardo Salazar MD
Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Transmountain ndash Moataz Ragheb MD
AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in your department including awards honors regional
appointments national appointments etc
El Paso Behavioral Health Consortium ndash Board Member ndash Peter M Thompson MD
714 (50) of our graduating medical students this year choose and matched our resident training programs here at Paul L FosterSchool of Medicine Department of Psychiatry (Historical record) ndash Kudos for our Department Faculty
In appreciation for exceptional contributions to the 30th volume of the J Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences ndash Author contributions and review of 271 manuscripts submitted to the journal between September 2017 and August 2018 ndash Ricardo Salazar MD ndash Young Investigator Award Committee Member and Program Committee Member-Abstracts Sub-Committee Member of theAmerican Neuropsychiatric Association (ANPA)
Initial Accreditation with commendation and no citations from ACGME for our first Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Training Program for West Texas ndash Ricardo Salazar MD
Leadership in Education and Development Certificate Program (LEAD) Fellow -1-year program accredited from the Association ofAmerican Medical Colleges (AAMC) Silvina Tonarelli MD amp Ricardo Salazar MD (Selected Award)
Fully operating Southwest Brain Bank A Brain Tissue Repository for Research in Mental Illness ndashPeter M Thompson MD
Texas State Psychiatric Physicians Public Mental Health Services Committee ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD
Texas Health and Human Services Commission Behavioral Health Advisory Committee ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP
Fellow American College of Physicians ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP FACP
9102019
30
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Abstracts 31
Publications 5 (peer-review journals)
Presentations 17 ndash National (7) and International (6)
Invited Speaker 21 (including faculty residents fellows) ndash Local amp National
Book Chapters NA
Grants McKee Foundation Award ndash our Chair - Thompson
Intramural Grants Seed Grant 1 SARP Educational Grant 2 - Salazar
President`s Collaborative Research Initiative ndashMarch 2018 - Tonarelli
Scholarly Activity
Child and Adolescent Fellowship Presentations
INTERNATIONAL
- Curanderos and Limpias Cultural psychiatry
Poster presented at 6th Annual Scientific conference of the European Association of PsychosomaticMedicine Verona Italy Drs Garza Meissner De Vargas Mehta June 2018
-Case presentation 0f 49XXXXY Same conference same authors same city
-Resilience etiology protective and risk factors presentation C De Vargas by invitation Annual WorldPediatric summit Madrid June 2018
-Parents and their Children Fantastic journey Same conference on June 2019 Berlin Germany
NATIONAL
-Development of Psychopathology in children at risk for Bipolar Disorders Drs Escamilla Peter Sangra C DeVargas S Martin C Alvarado Andrea Rios (Poster) American Academy of Child and Adolescent PsychiatryAnnual Conference Seattle WA October 2018
Frank William Meissner MD Cynthia Elizabeth Garza MDJD Sarah L Martin MD rdquoDrug-Induced BrugadaSyndrome in a Middle-Aged Female Patient Drugs EKG Diagnosis Electrophysiology and SurveillanceRecommendationrdquo American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting San Francisco CA May 21 2019
Delinquency in a group of school children at risk for bipolar disorder D Haque M Escamilla C De VargasPresented at UCLA LA Ca June 2019
9102019
31
Residency ProgramPlease provide information regarding your departmentrsquos residency program ie recent accreditation
number of residents and program updates (if applicable)
24 General Psychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)
8 Internal MedicinePsychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)
3 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellows
1 Geriatric Psychiatry Fellow- newly accredited program
IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department
RecruitmentRetention
Short staffed
Organizational Structure
Financial incentives
Protected time
Gender balance Attrition malefemale ratio 41
Program Coordinator turnover rate
Mentoring
9102019
32
Departmental Organizational
Structure
Chair
Division ChiefsProgram Directors
Clerkship Director
Adm
Organizational Structure Model
Chair
Deputy Chair for Education
Program
Directors
Deputy Chair for Research
Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs
Vicechair
9102019
33
Roles
Deputy Chair for Education
Oversee undergraduate graduate and CME including the development of teachers and educational scholars Monitor quality and safety across the department
Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs
Faculty appointments Faculty Development and Promotion andor Tenure Develop programs in different domains such as research education personal improvement and leadership Support clinical activities by improving the efficiency of operations and in helping to fit clinical programs into those in the rest of the medical center Allocation of space
Deputy Chair for Research
Develop and direct department-wide programs for faculty recruitment development and support of mentors recognition of excellence and funding of pilot grants bridge funding and grants to nurture multi-principal investigator and trans-division or trans-department projects Allocation of space among divisions
Bottom Line
We need more funds
Institutional support
The investments needed to recruit faculty are beyond the capacity of the
department`s operational revenue
Recruiting a leading investigator or one with great potential for
example may require an investment of $ 1 million and sometimes more
Endowments are the departmentrsquos foundational financial capital the
keel that maintains momentum and balance through the headwinds
and rough seas each department will navigate Endowments increase
the departmentrsquos independence in sustaining its core mission
Thus creation of endowments should be a high priority for any
department that plans for the long term and they increase capacity to
recruit the best faculty in a competitive environment
9102019
29
LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair
program director clerkship director chiefs etc
Department Chair ndash Peter M Thompson MD MS
Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Sarah L Martin MD
Combined IMPsych Residency Program Director ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD
Psychiatry Clerkship Director ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD
Child amp Adolescent Fellowship Program Director ndash Cecilia De Vargas MD
Chief Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry ndash Sarah L Martin MD
Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Program Directorndash Ricardo Salazar MD
Chief Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences ndash Ricardo Salazar MD
Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Transmountain ndash Moataz Ragheb MD
AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in your department including awards honors regional
appointments national appointments etc
El Paso Behavioral Health Consortium ndash Board Member ndash Peter M Thompson MD
714 (50) of our graduating medical students this year choose and matched our resident training programs here at Paul L FosterSchool of Medicine Department of Psychiatry (Historical record) ndash Kudos for our Department Faculty
In appreciation for exceptional contributions to the 30th volume of the J Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences ndash Author contributions and review of 271 manuscripts submitted to the journal between September 2017 and August 2018 ndash Ricardo Salazar MD ndash Young Investigator Award Committee Member and Program Committee Member-Abstracts Sub-Committee Member of theAmerican Neuropsychiatric Association (ANPA)
Initial Accreditation with commendation and no citations from ACGME for our first Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Training Program for West Texas ndash Ricardo Salazar MD
Leadership in Education and Development Certificate Program (LEAD) Fellow -1-year program accredited from the Association ofAmerican Medical Colleges (AAMC) Silvina Tonarelli MD amp Ricardo Salazar MD (Selected Award)
Fully operating Southwest Brain Bank A Brain Tissue Repository for Research in Mental Illness ndashPeter M Thompson MD
Texas State Psychiatric Physicians Public Mental Health Services Committee ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD
Texas Health and Human Services Commission Behavioral Health Advisory Committee ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP
Fellow American College of Physicians ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP FACP
9102019
30
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Abstracts 31
Publications 5 (peer-review journals)
Presentations 17 ndash National (7) and International (6)
Invited Speaker 21 (including faculty residents fellows) ndash Local amp National
Book Chapters NA
Grants McKee Foundation Award ndash our Chair - Thompson
Intramural Grants Seed Grant 1 SARP Educational Grant 2 - Salazar
President`s Collaborative Research Initiative ndashMarch 2018 - Tonarelli
Scholarly Activity
Child and Adolescent Fellowship Presentations
INTERNATIONAL
- Curanderos and Limpias Cultural psychiatry
Poster presented at 6th Annual Scientific conference of the European Association of PsychosomaticMedicine Verona Italy Drs Garza Meissner De Vargas Mehta June 2018
-Case presentation 0f 49XXXXY Same conference same authors same city
-Resilience etiology protective and risk factors presentation C De Vargas by invitation Annual WorldPediatric summit Madrid June 2018
-Parents and their Children Fantastic journey Same conference on June 2019 Berlin Germany
NATIONAL
-Development of Psychopathology in children at risk for Bipolar Disorders Drs Escamilla Peter Sangra C DeVargas S Martin C Alvarado Andrea Rios (Poster) American Academy of Child and Adolescent PsychiatryAnnual Conference Seattle WA October 2018
Frank William Meissner MD Cynthia Elizabeth Garza MDJD Sarah L Martin MD rdquoDrug-Induced BrugadaSyndrome in a Middle-Aged Female Patient Drugs EKG Diagnosis Electrophysiology and SurveillanceRecommendationrdquo American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting San Francisco CA May 21 2019
Delinquency in a group of school children at risk for bipolar disorder D Haque M Escamilla C De VargasPresented at UCLA LA Ca June 2019
9102019
31
Residency ProgramPlease provide information regarding your departmentrsquos residency program ie recent accreditation
number of residents and program updates (if applicable)
24 General Psychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)
8 Internal MedicinePsychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)
3 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellows
1 Geriatric Psychiatry Fellow- newly accredited program
IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department
RecruitmentRetention
Short staffed
Organizational Structure
Financial incentives
Protected time
Gender balance Attrition malefemale ratio 41
Program Coordinator turnover rate
Mentoring
9102019
32
Departmental Organizational
Structure
Chair
Division ChiefsProgram Directors
Clerkship Director
Adm
Organizational Structure Model
Chair
Deputy Chair for Education
Program
Directors
Deputy Chair for Research
Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs
Vicechair
9102019
33
Roles
Deputy Chair for Education
Oversee undergraduate graduate and CME including the development of teachers and educational scholars Monitor quality and safety across the department
Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs
Faculty appointments Faculty Development and Promotion andor Tenure Develop programs in different domains such as research education personal improvement and leadership Support clinical activities by improving the efficiency of operations and in helping to fit clinical programs into those in the rest of the medical center Allocation of space
Deputy Chair for Research
Develop and direct department-wide programs for faculty recruitment development and support of mentors recognition of excellence and funding of pilot grants bridge funding and grants to nurture multi-principal investigator and trans-division or trans-department projects Allocation of space among divisions
Bottom Line
We need more funds
Institutional support
The investments needed to recruit faculty are beyond the capacity of the
department`s operational revenue
Recruiting a leading investigator or one with great potential for
example may require an investment of $ 1 million and sometimes more
Endowments are the departmentrsquos foundational financial capital the
keel that maintains momentum and balance through the headwinds
and rough seas each department will navigate Endowments increase
the departmentrsquos independence in sustaining its core mission
Thus creation of endowments should be a high priority for any
department that plans for the long term and they increase capacity to
recruit the best faculty in a competitive environment
9102019
30
Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks
publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year
Abstracts 31
Publications 5 (peer-review journals)
Presentations 17 ndash National (7) and International (6)
Invited Speaker 21 (including faculty residents fellows) ndash Local amp National
Book Chapters NA
Grants McKee Foundation Award ndash our Chair - Thompson
Intramural Grants Seed Grant 1 SARP Educational Grant 2 - Salazar
President`s Collaborative Research Initiative ndashMarch 2018 - Tonarelli
Scholarly Activity
Child and Adolescent Fellowship Presentations
INTERNATIONAL
- Curanderos and Limpias Cultural psychiatry
Poster presented at 6th Annual Scientific conference of the European Association of PsychosomaticMedicine Verona Italy Drs Garza Meissner De Vargas Mehta June 2018
-Case presentation 0f 49XXXXY Same conference same authors same city
-Resilience etiology protective and risk factors presentation C De Vargas by invitation Annual WorldPediatric summit Madrid June 2018
-Parents and their Children Fantastic journey Same conference on June 2019 Berlin Germany
NATIONAL
-Development of Psychopathology in children at risk for Bipolar Disorders Drs Escamilla Peter Sangra C DeVargas S Martin C Alvarado Andrea Rios (Poster) American Academy of Child and Adolescent PsychiatryAnnual Conference Seattle WA October 2018
Frank William Meissner MD Cynthia Elizabeth Garza MDJD Sarah L Martin MD rdquoDrug-Induced BrugadaSyndrome in a Middle-Aged Female Patient Drugs EKG Diagnosis Electrophysiology and SurveillanceRecommendationrdquo American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting San Francisco CA May 21 2019
Delinquency in a group of school children at risk for bipolar disorder D Haque M Escamilla C De VargasPresented at UCLA LA Ca June 2019
9102019
31
Residency ProgramPlease provide information regarding your departmentrsquos residency program ie recent accreditation
number of residents and program updates (if applicable)
24 General Psychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)
8 Internal MedicinePsychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)
3 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellows
1 Geriatric Psychiatry Fellow- newly accredited program
IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department
RecruitmentRetention
Short staffed
Organizational Structure
Financial incentives
Protected time
Gender balance Attrition malefemale ratio 41
Program Coordinator turnover rate
Mentoring
9102019
32
Departmental Organizational
Structure
Chair
Division ChiefsProgram Directors
Clerkship Director
Adm
Organizational Structure Model
Chair
Deputy Chair for Education
Program
Directors
Deputy Chair for Research
Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs
Vicechair
9102019
33
Roles
Deputy Chair for Education
Oversee undergraduate graduate and CME including the development of teachers and educational scholars Monitor quality and safety across the department
Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs
Faculty appointments Faculty Development and Promotion andor Tenure Develop programs in different domains such as research education personal improvement and leadership Support clinical activities by improving the efficiency of operations and in helping to fit clinical programs into those in the rest of the medical center Allocation of space
Deputy Chair for Research
Develop and direct department-wide programs for faculty recruitment development and support of mentors recognition of excellence and funding of pilot grants bridge funding and grants to nurture multi-principal investigator and trans-division or trans-department projects Allocation of space among divisions
Bottom Line
We need more funds
Institutional support
The investments needed to recruit faculty are beyond the capacity of the
department`s operational revenue
Recruiting a leading investigator or one with great potential for
example may require an investment of $ 1 million and sometimes more
Endowments are the departmentrsquos foundational financial capital the
keel that maintains momentum and balance through the headwinds
and rough seas each department will navigate Endowments increase
the departmentrsquos independence in sustaining its core mission
Thus creation of endowments should be a high priority for any
department that plans for the long term and they increase capacity to
recruit the best faculty in a competitive environment
9102019
31
Residency ProgramPlease provide information regarding your departmentrsquos residency program ie recent accreditation
number of residents and program updates (if applicable)
24 General Psychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)
8 Internal MedicinePsychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)
3 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellows
1 Geriatric Psychiatry Fellow- newly accredited program
IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department
RecruitmentRetention
Short staffed
Organizational Structure
Financial incentives
Protected time
Gender balance Attrition malefemale ratio 41
Program Coordinator turnover rate
Mentoring
9102019
32
Departmental Organizational
Structure
Chair
Division ChiefsProgram Directors
Clerkship Director
Adm
Organizational Structure Model
Chair
Deputy Chair for Education
Program
Directors
Deputy Chair for Research
Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs
Vicechair
9102019
33
Roles
Deputy Chair for Education
Oversee undergraduate graduate and CME including the development of teachers and educational scholars Monitor quality and safety across the department
Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs
Faculty appointments Faculty Development and Promotion andor Tenure Develop programs in different domains such as research education personal improvement and leadership Support clinical activities by improving the efficiency of operations and in helping to fit clinical programs into those in the rest of the medical center Allocation of space
Deputy Chair for Research
Develop and direct department-wide programs for faculty recruitment development and support of mentors recognition of excellence and funding of pilot grants bridge funding and grants to nurture multi-principal investigator and trans-division or trans-department projects Allocation of space among divisions
Bottom Line
We need more funds
Institutional support
The investments needed to recruit faculty are beyond the capacity of the
department`s operational revenue
Recruiting a leading investigator or one with great potential for
example may require an investment of $ 1 million and sometimes more
Endowments are the departmentrsquos foundational financial capital the
keel that maintains momentum and balance through the headwinds
and rough seas each department will navigate Endowments increase
the departmentrsquos independence in sustaining its core mission
Thus creation of endowments should be a high priority for any
department that plans for the long term and they increase capacity to
recruit the best faculty in a competitive environment
9102019
32
Departmental Organizational
Structure
Chair
Division ChiefsProgram Directors
Clerkship Director
Adm
Organizational Structure Model
Chair
Deputy Chair for Education
Program
Directors
Deputy Chair for Research
Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs
Vicechair
9102019
33
Roles
Deputy Chair for Education
Oversee undergraduate graduate and CME including the development of teachers and educational scholars Monitor quality and safety across the department
Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs
Faculty appointments Faculty Development and Promotion andor Tenure Develop programs in different domains such as research education personal improvement and leadership Support clinical activities by improving the efficiency of operations and in helping to fit clinical programs into those in the rest of the medical center Allocation of space
Deputy Chair for Research
Develop and direct department-wide programs for faculty recruitment development and support of mentors recognition of excellence and funding of pilot grants bridge funding and grants to nurture multi-principal investigator and trans-division or trans-department projects Allocation of space among divisions
Bottom Line
We need more funds
Institutional support
The investments needed to recruit faculty are beyond the capacity of the
department`s operational revenue
Recruiting a leading investigator or one with great potential for
example may require an investment of $ 1 million and sometimes more
Endowments are the departmentrsquos foundational financial capital the
keel that maintains momentum and balance through the headwinds
and rough seas each department will navigate Endowments increase
the departmentrsquos independence in sustaining its core mission
Thus creation of endowments should be a high priority for any
department that plans for the long term and they increase capacity to
recruit the best faculty in a competitive environment
9102019
33
Roles
Deputy Chair for Education
Oversee undergraduate graduate and CME including the development of teachers and educational scholars Monitor quality and safety across the department
Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs
Faculty appointments Faculty Development and Promotion andor Tenure Develop programs in different domains such as research education personal improvement and leadership Support clinical activities by improving the efficiency of operations and in helping to fit clinical programs into those in the rest of the medical center Allocation of space
Deputy Chair for Research
Develop and direct department-wide programs for faculty recruitment development and support of mentors recognition of excellence and funding of pilot grants bridge funding and grants to nurture multi-principal investigator and trans-division or trans-department projects Allocation of space among divisions
Bottom Line
We need more funds
Institutional support
The investments needed to recruit faculty are beyond the capacity of the
department`s operational revenue
Recruiting a leading investigator or one with great potential for
example may require an investment of $ 1 million and sometimes more
Endowments are the departmentrsquos foundational financial capital the
keel that maintains momentum and balance through the headwinds
and rough seas each department will navigate Endowments increase
the departmentrsquos independence in sustaining its core mission
Thus creation of endowments should be a high priority for any
department that plans for the long term and they increase capacity to
recruit the best faculty in a competitive environment