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New executive director joins University Physicians Inc.
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University Physicians Inc. (UPI), the University of Colorado School of Medicine practice plan, has a new leader.
Jane T. Schumaker on March 1 will become executive director and chief executive officer of UPI, which provides support for the clinical business and professional contracting operations for CU medical school doctors. She also will serve as senior associate dean for finance and administration in the medical school.
"UPI has been and will continue to be critical to the success of the medical school, which benefits Colorado," said medical school Dean Richard Krugman, M.D. "Jane will be a wonderful addition to UPI, to our team at the school and to the community. She understands the financial complexities of supporting academic medicine and is experienced and knowledgeable in all aspects of health care practice management."
Schumaker, who has more than 30 years of experience in academic health care, most recently served as associate dean for administration at the University of Chicago medical school.
"UPI doctors are key to the success of one of the top medical schools in the country," Schumaker said. "I want to keep that momentum going in education and to support our doctors as they continue to serve Coloradans with excellent health care, research and community involvement."
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Schumaker succeeds Lilly Marks, who was named CU vice president for health affairs and University of Colorado Denver's executive vice chancellor of the Anschutz Medical Campus.
Physicians at UPI work at University of Colorado Hospital and The Children's Hospital, both on the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora.
UPI members also recently elected Benjamin Honigman, M.D., professor and interim chair of emergency medicine, to succeed Randy Wilkening, professor of pediatrics, as vice president, and re-elected Steven C. Johnson, M.D., professor of medicine (infectious diseases) for another three-year term as director-at-large.
Research associate named to national grant-making board
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Beverly Buck, senior research associate at the Buechner Institute for Governance at the University of Colorado Denver School of Public Affairs, is one of five new members appointed to the national board of Grantmakers in Children, Youth, and Families (GCYF).
As research associate at the institute, Buck focuses on collaboration across systems and disciplines to obtain better public policy outcomes for children and families. She brings three decades of experience in strategic planning and facilitation, program design, assessment and evaluation, research and analysis, philanthropic efforts, public presentations and capacity building, all related to systems affecting children and families.
"GCYF's mission exactly parallels our work at the Buechner Institute and the School of Public Affairs," Buck said. "That is to facilitate and advance conversations so that we achieve better policy outcomes, especially for Colorado families and communities."
GCYF, headquartered in Silver Spring, Md., engages funders across all sectors to continually improve their grant making on behalf of children, youth, and families. It serves as a forum to review and analyze grant-making strategies, exchange information about effective programs, examine public policy developments, and maintain discussions with national leaders. It supports a network of more than 400 private, corporate, community and family foundations that fund program in early childhood, youth development and family support.
Buck becomes part of a 14-member board that serves to provide guidance and direction to GCYF's overall efforts.
Mini Med School creator earns national award
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J. John Cohen, M.D., Ph.D., professor of immunology and medicine and founder of the University of Colorado's Mini Med School, has been named the recipient of the 2010 Award for Public Understanding of Science & Technology, given by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
The award committee said Cohen "has dedicated his career to thinking of new ways to share the excitement and importance of science with the general public." Previous recipients of the award include Carl Sagan, NOAA Administrator Jane Lubchenco, and Neil DeGrasse Tyson.
More than 17,000 people, from kids to grandparents, have attended Mini Med School, the free series of talks on medical science that began in 1989. Cohen also started Denver's Café Scientifique, a public forum for scientific discussions.
Scholarship named for doctor will boost global health leadership
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In recognition for Calvin Wilson, M.D.'s passion as a global health physician and his contributions as director of the Center for Global Health, the Calvin L. Wilson Scholarship for Future Leaders in Global Health will be established.
In the face of natural disasters, famine, disease and political unrest, communities around the world are challenged to provide access to basic medical and public health services. The Center for Global Health is committed to tackling these challenges by training future generations of global health professionals and physicians at home and abroad.
Wilson, a physician at the University of Colorado School of Medicine whose career spans countries and cultures, has served as center director since 2004. After taking the helm, Wilson expanded the center's ability to train physicians overseas, mentor students at home and develop relationships in support of a shared global mission. As a result, people around the world now have improved access to health care and trained health providers.
The goal is to raise $50,000 to endow the new scholarship and secure the future of global health training at UC-Denver. To make a contribution, visit http://www.cufund.org/giving-opportunities/fund-description/?id=7978.
Dropping names ...
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Geri DiPalma, coordinator in the University of Colorado Denver School of Education and Human Development, has been promoted to assistant director of Early Intervention Projects at the PAR2A Center. DiPalma will oversee the center's new funded paraprofessional grant as well as the statewide contract training and supervision of paraprofessionals in early intervention services. She also will share overall leadership and administrative responsibilities with the center's executive director. ... Shelley Zion, executive director of the Center for Continued/Professional Education at UC-Denver, recently was invited to serve on the National Association for Multicultural Educators Communications/Outreach Committee for 2011-12. The committee is responsible for coordinating use of electronic media for connecting and engaging members of the association, as well as connecting the association with relevant external constituencies. ... UC-Denver College of Engineering and Applied Science Professor Anu Ramaswami recently chaired the National Science Foundation-sponsored "Joint U.S.-China Workshop - Pathways Toward Low Carbon Cities: Quantifying Baselines and Interventions" at Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Atmospheric chemists, infrastructure modelers, engineers, industrial ecologists, planners, policymakers and social scientists met to discuss and explore methods, tools and frameworks to address the challenges in achieving low-carbon cities of the future. Other UC-Denver faculty who participated include Assistant Professor Jason Ren(College of Engineering and Applied Science) and Assistant Professor Chris Weible (School of Public Affairs). ... Janice Gould, assistant professor in women's and ethnic studies at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs, will soon publish "Doubters and Dreamers," a collection of poetry. Feb. 24 is the scheduled release date, according to the book's publisher, the University of Arizona Press. ... Kevin J. Krizek, associate professor of Planning and Design at UC-Denver, co-director of the Active Communities/Transportation (ACT) Research Group and director of the Ph.D. program in design and planning, was co-principal investigator on the research team that produced "Measuring Walking and Cycling Using the PABS (Pedestrian and Bicycling Survey) Approach: A Low-Cost Survey Method for Local Communities," a report issued last month by the Mineta Transportation Institute. The research developed a low-budget survey method and related sampling strategy for communities to easily, affordably and reliably document the amount of local walking and cycling happening among their residents. ... Willard D. "Wick" Rowland, Jr., president and CEO of Colorado Public Television, dean and professor emeritus of the University of Colorado Boulder School of Journalism and Mass Communication, recently was named 2010 Television Person of the Year by The Denver Post.
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