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June-July 2012
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P7 Social Medicine
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Literature
Social Medicine
in the
Kitchen
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Future Dates
Social Medicine
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IN THIS ISSUE
Departmental NewsDepartmental News
In The NewsIn The News
Farewells/WelcomesFarewells/Welcomes
DFSM Lobbying in AlbanyDFSM Lobbying in Albany
MonteHOP Class of 2012MonteHOP Class of 2012
Pages 2Pages 2--55
“Just the Facts” About the “Just the Facts” About the
Affordable Care ActAffordable Care Act
Pages 6Pages 6
Dear SummerDear Summer
Page 8Page 8
OpportunitiesOpportunities
Page 13Page 13
Photo by: New NYC - Bronx - Bronx Zoo
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Departmental News
IN THE NEWS
Evening Edition News 12 The Bronx, April 25, 2012
Dr. Hal Strelnick was interviewed about the Air Quality in the Bronx
http://360mediawatch.com/download.php?vid=26406
ABC News, May 4, 2012
Therapy Dog 'Spirit', Once Abused, Eases Pain for Sick, Dying
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/therapy-dog-spirit-abused-comforts-sick-
dying/story?id=16270952
HealthDay News, June 1, 2012
Narrative Medicine Aims to Improve Physician-Patient Communica-
tion, and Care Paul Gross, MD, Department of Family and Social Medicine, discusses
narrative medicine, where physicians and other clinicians engage patients in
dialogue and storytelling to learn more about their lives, and how this prac-
tice can enhance patient care. Dr. Gross is founder and editor of Pulse:
Voices from the Heart of Medicine, a weekly online magazine that features
original nonfiction stories and poems written by doctors, other health pro-
fessionals and patients. Pulse submissions shed light on the emotionally
wrenching and inspirational moments that define the practice of medicine.
http://health.usnews.com/health-news/news/articles/2012/06/01/bridging-
the-doctor-patient-gap
MikeBloomberg.com, June 5, 2012
Mayor Bloomberg Highlights Health Impacts of Obesity Press release from the City of New York Office of the Mayor announcing
press conference held at Montefiore Medical Center on June 5 about the
potential positive outcomes which could result from limiting soda portion
sizes. Montefiore's efforts to combat obesity are recognized and Montefiore
representatives who attended the press conference are mentioned, includ-
ing: David Appel, MD, Director, School Health Program; Jessica Rieder,
MD, Director, B'N Fit Program; Peter Selwyn, MD, MPH, Chairman, De-
partment of Family and Social Medicine and Director of Community Health
and Wellness. Steven M. Safyer, MD, President and CEO; and Philip O.
Ozuah, MD, PhD, Executive Vice President, COO, Chair of Pediatrics and
Physician-in-Chief, CHAM, are quoted.
http://www.mikebloomberg.com/index.cfm?objectid=BD4E3DCD-C29C-
7CA2-F2BD49AA7F9ED450
NY 1 Noticias, Univision Ch. 41, June 5, 2012
Mayor Bloomberg Hosts Press Conference on 16+ Oz Soda Ban at
Montefiore Extensive coverage of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's press conference on the
effects of soda on obesity that was held at Montefiore, with quotes from
Philip Ozuah, MD, PhD, Executive Vice President, COO, Chair of Pediat-
rics and Physician-in-Chief, CHAM, about the numbers of children being
treated for diabetes increasing by 40%. Peter Selwyn, MD, MPH, Chair-
man, Department of Family and Social Medicine, Director of Community
Health & Wellness, was interviewed by the Hispanic TV stations.
http://360mediawatch.com/download.php?vid=27516
http://www.ny1noticias.com/content/162526/funcionarios-respaldan-
iniciativa-de-bloomberg-de-prohibir-bebidas-azucaradas-de-16-onzas
Left to right: Pretha Iyengar, PGY3
Social Peds. Chief (2011-2012); Milani
Patel PGY3; Maribelis Perez PGY3
Marlene McHugh,
FNP was focused in a
“Faculty Focus” article
in “The Academic
Nurse” The Journal of
Columbia University
School of Nursing and
It’s Alumni, Spring 2012. In the article
Palliative Care and family nurse practi-
tioner and Assistant Professor of Clinical
Nursing Marlene McHugh, DNP, DCC,
expresses her believes in that teaching
patient care across the settings is one of
the most valuable lessons she can impart
to her students.
Tuesday, June 17, 2012 during the Co-
lumbia University Nursing Graduation,
Marlene McHugh was given the Distin-
guished Faculty Award 2012.
“Department of Pediatrics
Research Day”
on April 25, 2012, CHAM
Departmental News
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Dr. Hillary Kunins (Director, Primary
Care/Social Internal Medicine) will be
leaving Montefiore at the end of June.
After 16 years at Montefiore and more
than 5 as Track Director, she has ac-
cepted a position in New York City’s
Department of Health as Assistant
Commissioner, leading the Bureau of Alcohol and Drugs
– Prevention Care and Treatment. Dr. Kunins looks for-
ward to staying in touch with Montefiore and RPSM!
Dr. Lanny Smith, will be moving to
Boston this summer, where he has
accepted a position at Beth Israel-
Deaconess/Harvard Medical School.
Lanny has served as a core faculty
member in our program for 12 years,
leading the PC/SIM Liberation Medi-
cine Course, the OPEN-IT Clinic, Community Medicine
Journal Club – among many other activities - and has
been a role model and mentor to our residents. Consum-
mate advocate, activist, and champion for our patients
and communities, we will miss Lanny very much!
Dr. Elliot DeHaan will be leaving at
the end of June. Dr. DeHaan came to
Montefiore as a PC/SIM core faculty
member two years ago. He has been
instrumental in developing our link
with Bronxworks’ supportive housing
facility, The Brooke, and developing a medical and edu-
cational program there. Dr. Andrea Card will be continu-
ing the program at The Brooke. Dr. DeHaan also initiat-
ed a treatment program for patients with chronic Hepati-
tis C infection at CHCC, which will be continued under
the leadership of Dr. Laura Guderian.
We would like to welcome the new Primary
Care/Social Internal Medicine leadership
team:
Drs. Linnea Capps and Lauren Shapiro
(Montefiore’s own) will take on the roles of Interim
Co-Program Directors. Dr. Capps will bring with her
many years of experience and leadership, global
health work and advocacy, including as President and
CEO of Doctors for Global Health, Program Director
for Internal Medicine Residency at Harlem Hospital,
Director of Division of General Internal Medicine at
Harlem Hospital, and as a clinical educator.
Dr. Lauren Shapiro is a 2008 graduate of the Primary
Care/Social Internal Medicine Program. Following
graduation, she served as Chief Resident of Firm III in
the Internal Medicine Program, and since then, has
served as the Assistant Firm III Director. Dr. Shapiro
will bring an intimate knowledge of the program, out-
standing organizational and educational skills, and
commitment to residency education and leadership.
Her enthusiasm for PC/SIM and for our residents is
unparalleled.
Melissa Bender will join PC/
SIM as Associate Program Di-
rector. Dr. Bender joins us from
NYU, where she has worked for
the last 2 years as a clinician,
researcher, and as a teacher of
clinical epidemiology. Melissa
was a Clinical and Research Fel-
low at MGH/Brigham in Infectious Diseases (04-07),
received an MPH in Clinical Effectiveness at Harvard
(09), and had conducted studies on TB and HIV in
low resource settings.
Farewells Welcomes
Departmental News
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C ongratulations to the many residents who spent the day in Al-
bany meeting with dozens of State Senators and Assembly
members asking them to co-sponsor the NY Medicare-for-all
Single Payer Bill.
Thanks to Asiya Tschannerl and Laurie Wen of PNHP for being a
chief organizers of the event, Matt Anderson for facilitating the logis-
tics, the photographer Bhavik Kumar, and to all the DFSM leaders
who created flexibility in schedules to help this happen. (As an FYI,
this was done as part of Health Systems course, though many resi-
dents who were not in the HS course made space in their schedules to
join the event)
Senator Duane and Assembly Member Gottfried loved the blizzard of
white coats behind them
—Dan O’Connell, MD
Here we are with Hilarious and Historic State
Senator Tom Duane (chief sponsor of NY
Marriage Equality law) and brilliant Health
Care Stalwart Assemblyman Richard Gottfried.
DFSM Lobbying in Albany for Single Payer
Departmental News
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Please Welcome Our MonteHOP Class of 2012
Tiffany Reid
Quinnipiac University
Lisa Constantine
Long Island University Reisha Armstrong York College CUNY
Morgan Betancourt Monsignor Scanlan
High School
Jafar Ali University of Buffalo
Alexis Dyer Kingsborrough
Community College
Angela Lopez Mercy College
Jihan Maria Mercy College
Indra Nandalalla Lehman College
Stephanie Nava Manhattan College
Uyen Nguyen Harry Truman High
School
Nicolette Nuñez Fordham University
Marina Ovanesyan Fordham University
Giancarlos Oviedo Leman College
Jesus Rodriguez Iona College
Edwin Rosendo Cornell University
Saba Solomon SUNY New Paltz
Tyeshawn Thigpen Lehman College
Coordinators
Tianna John
Lehman College
Hugo Ortega
St. Johns University
6
I grew up watching the TV classic Dragnet, which ran
on NBC from 1951 to 1959 and then from 1967 to
1970. Each episode opened with a dramatic four-note
brass-and-tympani musical theme and the warning,
“The story you are about to see is true. Only the names have
been changed to protect the innocent.” I still quote producer
and actor Jack Webb’s Sergeant Joe Friday, whose inter-
views with witnesses were punctuated with “Just the facts,
ma’am, just the facts!”
After listening to the news coverage and audiotapes of the
unprecedented three days of U.S. Supreme Court hearings
on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act—all re-
lated to speculations about what might happen in 2014 and
beyond (when the government might even mandate broccoli
consumption, according to one justice)—I began to hear
Sergeant Friday’s gravelly voice: “Just the facts, ma’am!”
I thought you might be interested in what the Affordable
Care Act (ACA) has actually already done in the two years
since President Obama signed it into law on March 23, 2010
(with apologies to Harper’s Magazine’s “Index”):
• Individuals with preexisting conditions who now have
secured health insurance: 48,879
• Children with preexisting conditions protected against
health-insurance denials: 17,600,000
• Insured patients who received preventive services without
co-payments or deductibles: 54,000,000
• Medicare patients who received such co-payment- and
deductible-free preventive services: 32,500,000
• Seniors who used new Medicare pharmacy bene-
fits: 3,600,000
• Average annual savings in prescription-drug costs for the-
se seniors: $604
• Increase in senior participation in Medicare Ad-
vantage: 17%
• Reduction in premiums for Medicare Advantage: 16%
• Insured individuals who no longer have lifetime coverage
limits: 105,000,000
• Individuals whose insurance companies must now devote
80% of their income to paying for healthcare: 76,000,000
• Small businesses receiving tax credits for providing health
coverage for their employees: 360,000
• Small-business employees receiving health insurance sup-
ported by these tax credits: 2,000,000
• States already building health-insurance exchang-
es: 33 (plus the District of Columbia and, as of April 12,
2012, New York)
• Federally recognized Accountable Care Organiza-
tions: 32 Pioneers; 27 added on April 10, 2012; and 150 in
the application pipeline (Montefiore is the only Pioneer in
New York)
• Medicare and Medicaid fraud prosecutions in
FY2011: 1,430
• Increase in such prosecutions compared to FY2008 with
tools provided by the ACA: 74%
• Correction in the 10-year projection for deficit reduction
by the Congressional Budget Office for the impact of the
ACA: $50,000,000,000 more than the original projection
of $143,000,000,000
Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Whenever I lecture on what the ACA does now and plans
for the future, I always first ask my audience members, pri-
marily health and social-service professionals, to raise their
hands if they understand the law. Never are more than one
or two hands raised. According to tracking polls by the Kai-
ser Family Foundation, opinions are strongly and equally
divided for and against the law and largely unchanged since
its passage. From the poll:
• Americans who believe the U.S. Supreme Court has al-
ready overturned the ACA and believe it is no longer law:
14%; those polled who don’t know: 28%
• Americans who say they have not been personally affect-
ed by the ACA: 67%
As the facts above show, the ACA has already had a huge
impact. To adapt a familiar phrase, never have so many felt
so strongly based on so little information. And never have
the benefits of legislation been so invisible to the public.
“Just the Facts” About the Affordable Care Act
By Hal Strelnick , MD
Social Medicine in the Literature...
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Patients With Multiple Chronic Conditions:
Ubiquitous, and Poorly Served
People with two or more chronic disorders — multimorbidity — are often not well served by a healthcare sys-
tem focused on single disease entities. How prevalent is multimorbidity in the general population?
In a study about to be published in the Lancet, researchers used national primary care data to identify 40 com-
mon chronic physical and mental conditions in 1.7 million patients in Scotland. Forty-two percent had at least
one morbidity; of those patients, 55% had multimorbidity, and 20% had physical and mental health multimor-
bidity. Multimorbidity rose markedly with age, although most multimorbid patients were younger than 65.
Adults younger than 65 in the poorest socioeconomic decile had rates of multimorbidity equivalent to those of
people 10 to 15 years older in the most affluent decile.
Mental health disorders were present in 36% of patients with multimorbidity and were more common in those
with more multimorbid conditions. The socioeconomic gradient for physical and mental health multimorbidity
was steeper than that for multimorbidity in general; after adjustment for age, physical and mental health multi-
morbidity was more than twice as prevalent among the poorest decile as in the most affluent decile.
Comment: Although patients with multimorbidity disproportionately use clinical services, their care is often
fragmented, poorly coordinated, potentially unsafe, and unnecessarily costly, and their circumstances are inad-
equately addressed in professional training, research, and clinical guidelines. Primary care providers are
uniquely qualified to treat patients with multimorbidity, but — particularly in poor communities — primary
care panels are too large and visits too brief to adequately address this need. Academic primary care physi-
cians--and adequate funding-- are needed to develop the educational programs and research needed to improve
the quality of care for this large and complex population.
The prevalence of multimorbidity makes a powerful epidemiologic case for the essential role of generalist
physicians in improving the health of communities. And the prevalence of physical and mental health multi-
morbidity argues strongly for the tight integration of mental health professionals into primary care teams. The
epidemiology of multimorbidity in the U.S. is probably not much different from that in Scotland. Knowledge
of this epidemiology should help us advocate for and develop the more robust and comprehensive primary care
services our patients require.
Lancet 2012 May 10 (article and editorial published on-line ahead of print)
http://www.lancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(12)60240-2/fulltext
A slightly different version of this article is scheduled for publication in "Journal Watch General Medicine" in
June.
—Bruce Soloway, MD
Dear Summer
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111 Wear Sunscreen
Wearing sunscreen is an important
summer safety tip. Getting sunburned
is not comfortable and is definitely unhealthy
for your skin. Skin cancer is very common in
people that get sunburned too much. Wear
sunscreen so you can protect your skin from
damaging your skin.
222 Stay Hydrated
Drink plenty of fluids and stay hydrat-
ed during the hot summer months.
Drinking water, gatorade, lemonade and iced
tea are popular cold drink choices during the
summer. It is important to drink enough so
you don't get dehydrated.
333 Stay Cool
Staying cool is important during sum-
mer. You may want to cool off inside
your home or in a store. Sometimes the fore-
cast may recommend that you stay indoors
because of the extreme heat.
4 Get Outside
Yes, getting outside is an important
summer safety tip. It is important for
your health to get a breath of fresh air every
once in a while. Getting outside for a physical
activity is very important.
555 Dress For the Weather
Heat stroke is very common if you are
outside in the heat for too long. If you
dress for the weather it is helpful for you to
keep cool. Wearing shirts, tank tops and shirts
will keep you cooler than wearing pants and
long sleeved shirts.
1. Wilma Burgos “Un Verano en NY” By El Gran Combo
http://youtu.be/Xq3t3GLMwJU
2. Josephine Byfield “Umbrella” By Rihanna
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3. Paul Gross “In The Summertime” By Mungo Jerry
http://youtu.be/zc9wIzi96_E
4. Rose Guilbe “Sail Away” By Earth, Wind & Fire
http://youtu.be/L4036Bw7_2Q
5. Angela Jeffers “Summertime” By DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh
Prince http://youtu.be/Kr0tTbTbmVA
6. Star Lyles “It’s a Beautiful Morning” By The Rascals
http://youtu.be/WrwhfhncPfM
7. Tami Rivera “Cruel Summer” By Bananrama
http://youtu.be/5n6chxpEINs
8. Jenna Scholnick “American Pie” By Don Mclean
http://youtu.be/Y0Y_XRiJsCI
9. Reene Shanker “Summer Time” By Ella Fitzgerald & Louis
Armstrong http://youtu.be/MIDOEsQL7lA
10. Nicole Towolawi “Turn!Turn! Turn!” By The Byrds
http://youtu.be/W4ga_M5Zdn4
Minted Mango Tea Makes: 6 servings
Serving size: 8 ounce
Prep: 10 mins Cool: 1 hr
Ingredients
1 cup chopped refrigerated mango slices
1 cup pineapple juice
8 green tea bags
2 mint sprigs
4 cups boiling water
1 - 2 tablespoons sugar
Ice cubes
Directions
1. Place the chopped mango and pineapple juice in a blender
container or food processor bowl. Cover and blend or process
until smooth. Cover and refrigerate the pureed mixture.
2. Meanwhile, in a large glass bowl, pour boiling water over the
tea bags and mint sprigs. Cover and let steep 5 minutes. Re-
move and discard the tea bags and mint sprigs. Cool, cov-
ered, for 1 hour. Chill for 2 hours.
3. Transfer the chilled tea to a 2-quart pitcher; add the pureed
mango mixture and sugar. Stir until the sugar is dissolved.
4. To serve, pour the tea mixture into ice-filled glasses. Garnish
each glass with an additional mango slice and a pineapple
star. Makes 6 (8-ounce) servings.
Nutrition Facts (Minted Mango Tea)
Servings Per Recipe 6,
Calories 66,
Carbohydrate (gm) 16,
Vitamin A (RE) 52,
Vitamin C (mg) 18,
Sodium (mg) 4,
Calcium (DV %) 10,
Iron (DV %) 1,
Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet
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Social Medicine in the Kitchen...
Serves 8
Photo and recipe adapted from:
http://www.eatingwell.com/recipes/sausage_gumbo.html
Serves 4-6
Modifications
1. Got another can of beans on hand? Substitute another bean for
chickpeas to use what’s in your pantry.
2. Add variety! Use half okra, half Brussels sprouts.
3. Make it a meal. Serve over brown rice for a hearty vegetarian
main course!
Photo and recipe adapted from:
http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Curried-Okra-with-
Chickpeas-and-Tomatoes-232795
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Recipe Submitted by: Ann Votaw & Renee Shanker
Ingredients
1 1/4 lb small fresh okra, trimmed: cut
off bottoms, leaving the tops intact (be
careful not to cut into pods)
1 1/2 tablespoons vegetable oil
1 medium onion, chopped
2 garlic cloves, finely chopped
4 teaspoons finely chopped peeled
fresh ginger
2 teaspoons curry powder
1 (15-oz) can chickpeas, drained and rinsed (2 cups)
14 to 15 oz can diced tomatoes in juice
2/3 cup water
3/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon black pepper
Ingredients
12 ounces hot Italian turkey sausage
links, removed from casings
2 teaspoons olive oil
1 large onion, diced
4 cloves garlic, minced
1 teaspoon Cajun seasoning
2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
4 cups chopped tomatoes
4 cups reduced-sodium chicken broth
2 1/2 cups okra, trimmed and chopped
3/4 cup instant brown rice
1 bunch scallions, trimmed and sliced
Curried Okra with Chickpeas
Direction:
1. Heat oil in large heavy skillet over medium high heat until-
hot. Add onion, garlic with ginger and curry powder to
skillet. Sauté, stirring, about 2 minutes.
2. Add chickpeas, tomatoes and water and bring to a boil,
uncovered.
3. Stir in okra, salt, and pepper. Cook, stirring occasionally,
until okra is tender, about 10 minutes.
Key Points
Choose bright green pods, about 3-4 inches long that are firm
and moist. Avoid okra that is spotted, moldy, limp or dry.
Store okra in a plastic bag in the refrigerator up to 2-3 days.
Wash well in cold water just before using.
Cook okra with acid like lemon juice, tomato, or vinegar, to
keep it from getting slimy
Sausage Gumbo
Directions 1. Cook sausage in a large soup pot over medium-high heat,
breaking it up into small pieces with a wooden spoon, until
cooked through, about 5 minutes. Transfer to a medium bowl
lined with paper towels to absorb excess fat.
2. Return the pan to medium-high heat and add oil. Add onion and
cook, stirring often, until translucent, about 2 minutes. Add
garlic and Cajun seasoning and cook, stirring often, until fra-
grant, about 30 seconds. Add flour and cook, stirring to coat the
vegetables, until the flour browns, about 1 minute. Add toma-
toes and cook, stirring occasionally, until they begin to release
their juices, about 2 minutes. Stir in broth, cover, increase heat
to high and bring to a boil. 3. Return the sausage to the pan, along with okra and rice; reduce
the heat to a simmer. Cook until the okra is heated through and
the rice is tender, about 10 minutes. Serve sprinkled with sliced scallions, if using.
Health Benefits of Okra
Low calorie: ½ cup of okra has only 25 calories.
Okra contains antioxidants which protect the body from illnesses
such as heart disease and cancer.
Okra is a good source of vitamins, minerals, and fiber. It has:
Vitamin C—for wound healing, fighting off illness, and keeping
gums healthy
Folate—needed to make red blood cells and for metabolism.
Especially important for women of child-bearing age or who are
pregnant to support proper spinal cord and brain development
Fiber—helps with digestion, weight loss/maintenance, and can
lower cholesterol
Publications
Blais C, Selwyn P, Tucker R, Hutton N, Merlin J. Pallia-
tive Care for Patients With HIV: Challenges and Controver-
sies . Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. Feb
2012;43(2):406-407.
Bonuck K, Freeman K, Chervin R, Xu L. Sleep Disor-
dered Breathing in a Population-Based Cohort: Behavioral
Effects at 4 and 7 years. Pediatrics 2012 Apr: 129(4):e857-
865.
Bonuck K, Grant R. Sleep Problems and Early Develop-
mental Delay: Implications for Early Intervention Programs.
Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. Feb 2012;50
(1):41-52.
Freeman K, Bonuck K. Snoring, mouth-breathing, and ap-
nea trajectories in a population-based cohort followed from
infancy to 81 months: A cluster analysis. International Jour-
nal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology. Jan 2012;76(1):122-
130.
Herbitter C, Greenberg M, Fletcher J, Query C, Dalby J,
Gold M. Family Planning Training in U.S Family Medicine
Residencies. Family Medicine 2011 Sep: 43(8):574-581.
Lucan SC, “This is Progress?”, Families, Systems and
Health. 2011, Vol. 29, No. 4330.
Milan FB, Dyche L, Fletcher J. “How am I doing” Teach
ing Medical Students to Elic It Feedback During Their
Clerkships. Medical Teacher, 2011:33(11):904-910.
O'Callaghan K, Moadel A, Blank A, Rainone F, Kolidas
E, Martinez M. The Voice of the Hispanic Cancer Patient:
Is it Being Heard? A Psychosocial Needs Assessment.
Psycho-Oncology. Feb 2012;21:32-33.
Rubin SE, Davis K, McKee MD. Providing Long-Acting
Reversible Contraception to Adolescents: What are Urban
Primary Care Providers Thinking? Journal of Adolescent
Health. Feb 2012;50(2):S14-S15.
Voskanian A, Merlin J, Selwyn P. HIV/AIDS: Past, Pre
sent, and Future. Journal of Pain and Symptom
Management. Feb 2012;43(2):359-359.
Presentations
Sean Lucan. 4/13/12 Invited lecture for Health Disparities
Workshop Series: “Food environments and the urban under-
served: food deserts, swamps, oases: disparities”, Underserv-
ed/Urban Health Program, College of Medicine University
of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL
Sean Lucan. 5/15/12 Invited lecture: “Measuring the food
environment: approaches, challenges, and future directions”,
health geography course in MPH program at The Dartmouth
Institute and Geography program at Dartmouth College,
Hanover, NH
Victor Sidel, Barry Levy 5/11/12. “The Health Conse-
quences of the ‘War on Terror’: Lessons for the Future” Pro-
gram in Science and Global Security, Woodrow Wilson
School of Public and International Affairs. Princeton Uni-
versity.
Recent Publications & Presentations
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STFM 45th Annual Spring Conference
April 25-29, 2012
Seattle, Washington
“Advocacy for Reproductive Health: Successes and Challenges.”
Sharon Phillips, Dana Schonberg, Lin-Fan Wang, Marji Gold.
“Addressing LCME and ACGME Requirements: Adapting a Tool
for Medical Student Assessment of Resident Clinical Teaching.”
Pablo Joo, Lisa Baron, William Jordan, Ellen Tattleman, Ma-
ria T. Santos, Jennifer Purcell.
“Ambivalence About Pregnancy Planning: A Qualitative Study of
Providers and the Women They Counsel.” Sarah Miller, Ariana
Bennett, Marji Gold.
“Bringing Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Medical Edu-
cation Into the Mainstream: Competencies, Resources, and Collab-
oration” Abbas Hyderi, Keisa Bennett, Anita Brakman, Shelly
Henderson, Cara Herbitter, Jae Truesdell.
“Contraceptive Needs of Women Incarcerated at Rikers Island Jail
Complex” Dana Schonberg, Ariana Bennett, Marji Gold.
“Countering Misinformation From Crisis Pregnancy Centers: Is-
sues for Resident and Patient Education.” Marji Gold, Dana
Schonberg, Lin-Fan Wang, Finn Schubert, Cara Herbitter.
“Creating Development Milestones in a Family Medicine Residen-
cy Program” Mary Duggan.
“Determining Resident’s OMT Comfort Contraceptive Needs of
Women Incarcerated at Rikers Island Jail Complex.” Dana
Schongerg, Ariana Bennett, Marji Gold.
“Equal or Same? Responding to Differences in Education for Male
and Female Residents.” Heather Paladine, Janice Spalding, Viv-
iana Martinez- Bianchi, Marji Gold, Roberta Gebhard, Lisa
Singh.
“Implementing Group Well-child Visits as an Alternative to the
Individual provider Model.” Elizabeth Alt, Margaret Rosen-
berg, Carol Mendez, Alice Teich, Rebecca Williams.
“Lost in Translation: Examining Impact of Electronic Health Rec-
ords on Family Systems and Biopsychosocial Integration.”
Anu Kotay, Eliana Korin, William Jordan, Mary Duggan.
“Mystery in Medicine: Comfort With the Unknown.” Ellen Tat-
tleman, Margaret Rosenburg, Marji Gold.
“Representations of Abortion in Pop Culture: Helping Learners
Develop Media Awareness and Teaching Skills.” Marji Gold,
Dana Schonberg, Lin-Fan Wang, Cara Herbitter, Finn Schu-
bert, Ariana Bennett.
“Self-Portrait of a Teacher: Writing a Teaching Philosophy.” Ha-
rini Kumar, Lisa Lapman, Jennifer Purcell, Stacia Maher,
Ellen Tattleman.
“Social Medicine and Physician Activism in the Era of Occupy
Wall Street.” Asiya Tschannerl, Himabindu Ekanandham, Ern-
esto Guevara, Angelina Shigura, Roona Ray, Jun Mitsumoto,
Matthew Anderson, Manisha Sharma, Alisha Liggett, Dan
O’Connell, William Jordan.
“Strong, Black, and Hurting—Eliminating the Disparity.”
Michelle St. Fleur, Tanya White-Davis, Eliana Korin.
“The Benefits of Fellowship Training for New Behavioral Science
Educators.” Deborah Taylor, Victoria Gorski.
“The Three Cs for Developing a Psychosocial Curriculum: Con-
text, Content, Competencies.” Eliana Korin, Victoria Gorski.
“Training Family Physicians to Provide HIV Care in the Medical
Home” Peter Selwyn, Carolyn Chu, John Nusser, Clay Roscoe,
David Spach.
“Where is the Family in Family Medicine? A National Survey of
Family Medicine Residency Programs.” Eliana Korin, Nancy
Newman, Amy Odom.
“Williamsbridge Wellness Initiative: A Patient Survey in the
Bronx, NY.” Ruth Chritoforetti, Mark Polisar.
“Working Part Time in Academic Family Medicine: A Panel Dis-
cussion” Sarina Schrager, Tracy Juliao, Marji Gold, MD, Mari
Egan, Cheryl Seymour.
Recent Publications & Presentations
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SGIM 35th Annual Meeting
May 9-12, 2012
Walt Disney World Swan & Dolphin Resort
Orlando, Florida
Labor: Not Your Typical Pain in the Neck. Lauren
Shapiro; Maeema Ginwala.
Beyond the Themes: Applying Best Practices in Quali-
tative and Mixed Methods Research from Grant Prepa-
ration to Meaningful Translation. Marcella Nunez-
Smith; Palav Babaria; Chinazo Cunningham; Leslie
Curry; Calie Santana; Karen Wang
Urine Drug Testing in Primary Care Settings: Practical
Considerations for Clinicians and Educators. Eliza-
beth Warner; Jane Liebschutz; Emily Lorch; Joan-
na Starrels; Melissa Weimer
Relative Influence of Physicians versus Patients in
Measures of Diabetes Control. Calie Santana; Joseph
Deluca; Elisabeth Ihler; Marta Rico; William
Southern; Yuming Ning.
Sign-out; What really goes on? Lauren Shapiro; Na-
talie Zelta; Kevin Hauck; Joseph Deluca; Hillary
Kunins.
Hydronephrosis in a healthy 40 year old: what’s the
role of routine screening? Christian Suarez-Fuentes;
Ashwin Sridharan; Ari Kriegsman; Lauren Shapiro.
A Questionable Clot. Samuel E. Cohen; Manuela
Calvo; David de Gijsel.
Foraging for Liver Failure. Alvin Htut; Lauren
Shapiro.
Improvements in Diabetes Quality Over Time Are As-
sociated with Differences in Payer Mix, Teaching Sta-
tus, and the Presence of Diabetes Personnel in a Large
Urban Ambulatory Network. Calie Santana; James
Grigg; Yuming Ning.
They don’t know what they don’t know: Internal medi-
cine residents’ knowledge and confidence in urine drug
test interpretation for patients with chronic pain. Joan-
na L. Starrels; Aaron Fox; Hillary Kunins; Chinazo
Cunningham.
Does Transition to a Patient Centered Medical Home
effect Teamwork and Burnout at Residency and Non-
Residency Clinics Similarly? Erin J. Goss; Jason
Fletcher; Claudia Lechuga; Paul Meissner; David
Lounsbury; Arthur Blank; Diane McKee.
An 8-Module Intern Night Float Curriculum: Enhanc-
ing the Educational Value of Intern “Night Float” and
the Teaching Skills of Senior Residents. Erin Goss;
Danit Arad.
Update in Addiction Medicine. Adam Gordon; Hilla-
ry Kunins; Darius A. Rastegar; Jeanette M.
Tetrault; Alexander Y. Walley
Teaching Transitions of Care Through Home Visits
Linda DeCherrie; Bruce Konosian; Justin
Lafreniere; Rachel Miller; Ania Wajnberg; Christi-
Recent Publications & Presentations
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Opportunities
UCSF Family and Community Medicine
Director of UCSF-SF General Hospital Family
Medicine Residency Program The Department of
Family and Community Medicine at the Universi-
ty of California San Francisco seeks a Family
Physician for faculty appointment as the Director
of the UCSF Family Medicine Residency Pro-
gram at San Francisco General Hospital. Founded
in 1972, the residency has trained over 400 family
physicians and is expanding to a 15-15-15 pro-
gram. The Residency Program’s mission is to
prepare Family Physicians to care for patients and
families in urban underserved areas.
The candidate must be a board certified Family
Physician with at least 5 years experience in a
leadership position in residency and/or predoctor-
al medical education programs in family medi-
cine, including development of curricular innova-
tions, demonstrated excellence in teaching, and
strong commitment to the care of underserved
populations and workforce diversity. The ideal
candidate will also have experience in scholarly
activity, faculty development, and successful ac-
quisition and management of educational grants.
The Program Director appointment will be at the
Associate or Professor rank in the Clinical X or
HS Clinical Professor series.
UCSF seeks candidates whose experience, teach-
ing, research, or community service has prepared
them to contribute to our commitment to diversity
and excellence. UCSF is an Equal Opportunity/
Affirmative Action Employer. The University
undertakes affirmative action to assure equal em-
ployment opportunity for underrepresented minor-
ities and women, for persons with disabilities, and
for covered veterans. All qualified applicants are
encouraged to apply, including minorities and
women.
By May 31st, candidates should submit an elec-
tronic CV and a statement of interest to:
George Saba, PhD,
Search Committee Chair
Residency Director Position
Family and Community
Future Dates
Save the Date: Join us at the next DGH Annual Gen-
eral Assembly as we explore this year's
theme:
"Challenging Scarcity: Health Justice
for All."
Keynote Speakers:
Heidi Behforouz, MD, Director of
PACT Project, Partners in Health
M. Brinton Lykes, PhD, Associate
Director of the Center for Human
Rights and International Justice, Profes-
sor of Community/Social Psychology,
Boston College
Panel Discussions:
Themes of Music & Arts, Local Activism, Occupy Health, Youth and Compli-
mentary & Alternative Medicine.
Other Activities: Video contest winners announcement and showing
(First prize: Video reporting trip to document one of our
partner communities).
Live music Saturday night.
Silent auction of a wide cultural range of handicrafts
from rural India and El Salvador.
Where? Simmons College in Boston, MA
When? August 11-12, 2012
If you plan to attend the GA, you can order personalized wood crafts hand made
by Santa Marta's Youth Group. Your items will be delivered to you at the GA in
Boston.
Stay tuned for more details and
registration. In the meantime, experience some
of the last DGH General Assem-
bly by reading the live blogs post-
ed during the conference.
Future dates continue next page
DGH 2012 Video Contest-July 12th Deadline
Doctors for Global Health (DGH) is
conducting it's first ever video contest
Challenging Scarcity: Health Justice
for all. We are inviting individuals and/
or groups to submit an original and
creative video exploring their vision of
scarcity today in support and in cele-
bration of health justice.
http://dghonline.org/videocontest
Future Dates
For our next issue
coming in August
Social Medicine Rounds
Every 2nd & 4th Tuesday of the Month—4:30-6PM
3544 Jerome Ave, 3rd flr conference room
For more info go to: www.socialmedicine.info
June July August September
06/12 07/10 08/14 09/11
06/26 07/24 08/28 09/25
October November December
10/09 11/13 12/11
10/30 11/27 12/25
Grand Rounds Every 1st & 3rd Friday of the Month—8:00-9AM
—Internet Broadcast: Montefiore Family Health
Center, 3rd fl. Conf. RM
—Williamsbridge Family Practice-Precepting Room
—Moses Family Inpatient Unit- NW7 Conf RM
June July August September
06/01 07/06 08/03 09/07
06/15 07/20 08/17 09/21
October November December
10/05 11/02 12/07
10/19 11/16 12/21
Upcoming Events Residency Program in Social Medicine Class of
2012
Graduation Ceremony
Saturday, June 23, 2012
5:00PM
DAVENPORT CLUB
400 Davenport Avenue
New Rochelle, New York 10805
Semi-Formal Attire
Faculty/Administrators - $25 per person.
Residents/Staff/Nursing - $15 per person.
For tickets, please contact: Star Lyles
3544 Jerome Ave 2nd Floor - 718 920-5521
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Third People’s Health Assembly (PHA3) - Cape Town
July 6-11, 2012
After travelling from Bangladesh (2000) to Cuenca
(2005), the People’s Health Assembly will land in Cape
Town South Africa! We look forward welcoming you all
from 6 to 11 July 2012 to celebrate the movement and find
a way forward in achieving Health For All! Register now!
Third People's Health Assembly website
RPSM New Intern Welcome June 26, 2012
4:30-6PM
Location:
Park across the Street from 3544 Jerome Ave
Social Medicine on the Web... "
Social Medicine / Medicina Social
The Social Medicine Portal An Alternative to Corporate Health
Social Medicine Portal, a project developed by faculty mem-
bers of the Department of Family and Social Medicine of the
Albert Einstein College of Medicine. The portal contains links
to websites, documents and presentations devoted to social
medicine. Our goal in creating this site is to link together the
diverse international community of people working in social
medicine and health activism. We encourage visitors to e-mail
us materials for inclusion.
http://www.socialmedicine.org/
Social Medicine is a bilingual, academic, open-access journal pub-
lished since 2006 by the Department of Family and Social Medi-
cine at Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of
Medicine and the Latin American Social Medicine Association
(ALAMES). Registration with the journal is not necessary to read
the content.
http://www.socialmedicine.info/index.php/socialmedicine
Pulse on the Move
Pulse--voices from the heart of medicine, the weekly online publication created by DFSM in 2008 continues to attract new read-
ers from around the world. Our weekly circulation will soon top 7,000.
Every Friday, Pulse e-mails its readers via e-mail a first-person story or poem about health care. These pieces are personal and
compelling--and written by patients, healthcare professionals and students alike, providing a rare forum where all those who are
a part of health care can share our experiences on an equal footing.
Because of their power and authenticity, Pulse stories are circulated by organizations like the IHI (Institute for Healthcare Im-
provement) and picked up by websites like Kevin MD; Pulse has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and
Los Angeles Times.
Dr. Donald Berwick, Administrator of Medicare and Medicare Services, spoke for many when he said, "I not only read Pulse, I
adore it... The supply of compelling, often poetic accounts is the best around."
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Helping Students Succeed in Health Careers
Montefiore’s Health Opportunities Program (Monte H.O.P.) is a
summer enrichment program for students from economically or
educationally disadvantaged backgrounds and/or from groups
typically considered underrepresented in the health care fields.
http://www.montehop.org/
MONTE H.O.P
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Department of Family and Social Medicine at
Montefiore Medical Center
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(718) 920-7519