Newswise Michael A. Weber, MD, professor of medicine and associate dean for research at SUNY Downstate Medical Center, will deliver the New York Academy of Medicine's 2013 Nahum J. Winer Lecture on October 8, 2013, from 6:00 to 7:30 pm, at the Academy, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, New York, NY 10029. The Winer lectureship was created by the family of Nahum J. Winer, a respected clinical and research cardiologist who was an officer of the New York Academy of Medicine for many years. Dr. Winer received his medical degree from SUNY Downstate.

Dr. Webers talk is titled, "Unresolved Issues in Diagnosing and Treating Hypertension: Is Renal Sympathectomy an Answer?" He will review what blood pressure levels are appropriate for treatment, currently proposed drug strategies, and the possible role of renal sympathectomy.

Renal sympathectomy is a new but not yet FDA-approved procedure for treatment-resistant hypertension to get blood pressure below a defined goal. This technique destroys the nerves serving the kidneys, important in blood pressure control, by using a catheter to apply an electric current through the arteries that supply the kidneys. This method, although invasive, appears to be effective in many patients whose blood pressures cannot otherwise be controlled. Major clinical trials are now underway to examine this treatment more thoroughly.

Dr. Webers focus as a cardiologist has primarily been on hypertension and preventive cardiology. He has published numerous research articles in the medical literature and has authored or edited 16 books. Together with Suzanne Oparil, MD, he is responsible for the widely used reference volume, Hypertension. He is the editor-in-chief of The Journal of Clinical Hypertension and was one of the founders of The American Society of Hypertension (ASH), for which he has served as president. He also served as chair of the ASH Hypertension Specialists Program. He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians, the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association. He has also served on the Cardiovascular and Renal Drugs Advisory Board of the Food and Drug Administration, and continues as a consultant to that agency.

His main current research interests are in clinical trials of patients at high risk of cardiovascular events or strokes. He is also participating actively in trials in patients with metabolic disorders such as diabetes and kidney disease. Dr. Weber currently serves on the steering committees of several national and international clinical outcomes trials.

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SUNY Downstate Medical Center, founded in 1860, was the first medical school in the United States to bring teaching out of the lecture hall and to the patients bedside. A center of innovation and excellence in research and clinical service delivery, SUNY Downstate Medical Center comprises a College of Medicine, Colleges of Nursing and Health Related Professions, a School of Graduate Studies, a School of Public Health, University Hospital of Brooklyn, and an Advanced Biotechnology Park and Biotechnology Incubator.

SUNY Downstate ranks ninth nationally in the number of alumni who are on the faculty of American medical schools. More physicians practicing in New York City have graduated from SUNY Downstate than from any other medical school.

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About three dozen Regional Occupation Program students, together with community members, teachers and school district administrators, witnessed on Sept. 5 the unveiling of a student-designed mural representing the Health Science and Medical Technology Pathway Program at Fontana High School.

The mural, which consists of four separate panels, represents a growing program at Fohi, which includes Certified and Acute Nurse Assistant, Medical Core, Personal Fitness Training, Veterinary Assistant and Sports Medicine, among others.

The unveiling represents the end of a two-year project that began with calling local artists, mainly students, to draw pieces that depicted health and science images, said Therese Kennedy, coordinator of Career Technical Education at the Fontana Unified School District.

The original idea was to award prizes for first and second places, but due to the high amount of great artwork, there were awards given for two first places and two second places, she added.

The mural was painted by artists Molly Griffin and James Griffin, both teachers at Jurupa Hills High School, and it took them about six weeks to finish.

The mural can be seen inside building E at Fohi.

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The University of Pennsylvanias Wharton School, the worlds oldest collegiate business school, will be featured on a new Sirius XM Radio Inc. (SIRI) channel, letting listeners get business lessons directly from professors.

Sirius will train Wharton faculty, such as finance professor Jeremy Siegel and sports-business expert Kenneth Shropshire, to host shows on the channel, the satellite broadcaster said today in a statement. Many of the live programs, which will cover everything from equity markets to retailing, will include call-in segments from listeners.

Sirius is modeling the station on its medical channel Doctor Radio, which uses physicians from NYU Langone Medical Center as hosts, said Scott Greenstein, president and chief content officer of the New York-based company. The goal is to connect listeners who lack a formal business education with academics who can explain concepts clearly, he said.

The move will create the first full-time radio station focused on business management and furthers efforts to use digital technologies to expand the role of elite universities. EdX, a nonprofit online learning network, announced plans last week to team up with Google Inc. to create a new Web educational platform. That venture is working with schools such as Harvard, Stanford and the University of California at Berkeley.

Underserved Market?

The Wharton channel will be targeted at anyone from a first-time job seeker to a chief executive officer, Sirius said.

We think the market for business knowledge is underserved, Greenstein said in an e-mail. We are launching at a time when there are more entrepreneurs than ever. They are hungry for key advice from seasoned experts.

The station will debut in early 2014 on channel 111, as well as through the Sirius XM Internet radio application. Sirius, which has more than 25 million subscribers, approached Philadelphia-based Wharton with the idea earlier this year. Patrick Reilly, a spokesman for the company, declined to discuss financial compensation for the hosts.

It was the only school we approached, said Greenstein, citing Whartons extensive academic and alumni network, which we feel will be an incredibly valuable resource for expert guest appearances on the channel.

To contact the reporter on this story: Alex Sherman in New York at asherman6@bloomberg.net

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Family physician Dr. Roland A. Goertz received the 2011 Distinguished Alumni Award from the School of Medicine Alumni Association at The University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio.

Goertz was honored Oct. 22 at the 2011 Reunion Weekend Gala. The award is given each year to an alumnus or alumna and is based on three criteria: The nominee's service to the medical profession, to his community, and to the School of Medicine.

After earning his medical degree from the School of Medicine in 1981, Goertz completed a residency in family medicine at John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth. He subsequently completed a clinical teaching fellowship in family medicine in 1986 and received his M.B.A. from Baylor University in 2003.

In addition, he is a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), an earned degree awarded to family physicians for distinguished service and continuing medical education.

For the past 15 years, Goertz has served as chief executive officer of the three foundations that oversee all operations of the Waco Family Health Center, which operates one of the oldest family medicine residency programs west of the Mississippi River. In 2010 the Waco Family Health Center provided care to 50,000 patients in McLennan County. He also holds an appointment at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas.

Goertz currently serves as board chair of the AAFP, having previously served one-year terms as president and president-elect. In 2006 he was awarded the AFFP's Robert Graham Family Physician Executive Award.

Goertz was nominated by Dr. Martha Medrano, a fellow graduate from the Class of 1981 and director of behavioral health at CommuniCare Health Centers in San Antonio. Medrano received the Distinguished Alumni Award in 2004.

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Four Minot State University alumni, Lona Anderson, Robert Anderson, Gary Cederstrom and Clint Severson, will receive the MSU Alumni Association's Golden Award at 6 p.m. on Sept. 26 in the conference center on the third floor of the MSU Student Center.

Nathan Conway will receive the Young Alumni Achievement Award, according to a press release issued by MSU.

The Golden Award is the highest award bestowed by the MSU Alumni Association, and selections are based on outstanding service to the university or alumni association and distinguished career or community leadership. The Young Alumni Achievement Award recipient is between the ages of 21 and 39.

Lona Anderson, a retired realtor, graduated from Minot State University in 1968 with a bachelor of science in education. After teaching business classes in Casselton, New Town and Rugby, she moved to Minot and began a real estate career in 1978.

The Bottineau native was part owner of two real estate companies, Brokers 12 and Signal Realtors. During her 30-year career, she received many honors. She was president of the Minot Board of Realtors in 1984, Realtor of the Year for Minot in 1985 and 2001, North Dakota Association president in 2000, North Dakota Realtor of the Year in 2001 and North Dakota/South Dakota Certified Residential Specialist of the Year in 2001.

For MSU, Lona Anderson served on the Board of Regents, the MSU Development Foundation board, the College of Business Advisory Board, the Inauguration Committee for President David Fuller and a chancellor search committee. She initiated the MSU Business Mentor Scholarship Program in 2013. Her dream is that this program will have a lasting impression on the students who receive this scholarship money and the people who donate money and mentor students.

A founding member of the Minot Community Foundation's Power of the Purse, Lona Anderson is also involved in the Minot Symphony League. She is a past member of the YWCA board of directors and North Dakota State Fair Advisory Committee and a past trustee of Vincent Methodist Church.

Robert Anderson, MSU art adjunct professor, graduated from Minot State with a bachelor's degree in elementary education in 1983. Later he returned to MSU to earn a master's degree in elementary education in 1999. As an undergraduate student, he belonged to the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity.

After teaching for Minot Public Schools for 25 years, the New Rockford native retired in 2011. However, he was quickly called back into service to become the special assistant to the MSU president, or "flood ombudsman," after the 2011 Souris River flood.

As a member of the MSU Alumni Association board of directors, Anderson has co-chaired Gala, the association's major fundraiser, and Gala's Presentation Committee and participated on the Promotions Committee.

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AUSTIN (KXAN) - University of Texas students are passing at high rates and dropping out at a lower rate than student before them since the university launched its effort to increase four-year graduation rates, university president Bill Powers said on Wednesday.

Powers announced the improvements at his annual State of the University address to students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends of the university.

"We have significant work left to do, but we are moving the needle," Powers said of the improved retention and graduation rates.

The early signs of success include:

The president also addressed the construction of the Dell Medical School, which is on track to open in 2016. University leaders are currently conducting a nationwide search for the schools inaugural dean.

"The medical school will increase health care, and the quality of health care, especially for uninsured and low income residents in Central Texas," Powers said. "Over a long period of time there will be medical breakthroughs in the research that is done, and that will attract specialties where Central Texans will not need to go elsewhere to get a whole array of specialty."

Powers says thanks to voters and donors, UT will become the first major research university to open a medical teaching hospital in more than 35 years.

In the speech, Powers also touted UT's ranking as one of the best universities in the world and talked about a U.S. Supreme Court decision in June , which sent the case back to a lower court.

"We are more diverse, both in our student body and in our faculty, and we're fighting to protect that diversity in the (Abigail) Fisher case."

Powers also spoke about the Texas Legislature's decision to increase higher education funding and is glad the school will receive an addition $25 million over the next two years.

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PITTSBURG, Kan. The story behind the gift was as great as the gift itself, one supporter of Pittsburg State University noted after a ceremony Tuesday in which an alumnus gave $1 million to the Department of Nursing.

Dr. Fay Bradley, a 1960 PSU graduate who at one point had all but given up his hope of going on to medical school, returned to campus to present the largest gift made to a department.

At the same time, university officials announced that the department had been elevated to the rank of a school, making it one of three schools on campus. It is now the Irene Ransom Bradley School of Nursing, named in honor of Bradleys mother.

In 1919, she began working as a domestic in a private home in Independence, making $3.50 a week, and did not complete high school. Neither did Bradleys father, Henry. Her opportunities for education and employment at that time were limited by the fact that she was black, her son noted.

Four of their children, however, including Fay Bradley, earned college degrees. Fay Bradley also was well-known during his stint at PSU as a champion hurdler on the track team. After graduation, he was drafted by the Army and served at Fort Benning, Ga. He said after the ceremony Tuesday that he wanted to go on to medical school, but doors didnt open the way he hoped.

I didnt have a very good reference, he said. I had to just go out and find my way.

He gave up hope at one point, he said, but after working for a hospital from the mid to late 1960s, he unexpectedly landed a scholarship to law school, completed his course of studies and began working for Freedmens Hospital at Howard University in Washington, D.C.

Thats the hospital that served slaves when they sought freedom, Bradley said.

He said that while working there, he was approached by a physician who asked if he could help get him into medical school; the physician was on the schools admissions board.

I had tried for seven years, Bradley said. In 1970, his dream came true.

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The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio enrolled more than 200 aspiring doctors Sunday during its 17th White Coat Ceremony a rite of passage marking students' entrance into medical school as they first don their white laboratory coats.

It's a thrilling event for all of you, Vice Dean for Undergraduate Medical Education Dr. Florence Eddins-Folensbee told the science center's class of 2017. This is the time we carry on the profession of medicine.

About 1,000 friends and family members packed into Holly Auditorium and two overflow seating areas to witness the commencement of their loved ones' medical careers. Eddins-Folensbee recognized the dozens of faculty members on stage and then joked that the incoming students would take their first exam at the conclusion of the ceremony to identify all the professors.

The symbolism of the Sunday ceremony was stark, with Dr. Francisco Gonzlez-Scarano, dean of the University of Texas School of Medicine and vice president of medical affairs, referring to incoming students as his colleagues-in-training, and noting that faculty members are still students themselves, even as they teach a younger generation the inner workings of the profession.

The dean also told the class members they're entering the field of medicine during a dynamic period marked by the most significant changes in medicine since Medicare was enacted in the 1960s.

The class of '17 will face a field with a greater focus on outcomes than progress, he said. As a result of those changes, Gonzlez-Scarano said their education would emphasize outcomes as well.

The class will also be one of the first at UTHSCSA to exclusively employ electronic textbooks.

Gonzlez-Scarano and others emphasized how important relating to people is in medicine. The matriculating students were told they already have shown they have native intelligence, and over the four years of training, they can expect to develop emotional intelligence, learning how to care for all patients equally regardless of their age, race, income, sex or other factors.

Dr. Valerie Pronio-Stelluto, president of the UTHSCSA Alumni Board of Directors, emphasized how important it is for doctors to listen to their patients.

Healing starts when you take time to listen, Pronio-Stelluto said. Make sure that you really, really listen.

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UH Medical School named one of America's most beautiful

The University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine has been named for having one of the most beautiful medical school campuses in the United States.

JABSOM was named the third most beautiful medical school by BestMedicalDegrees.com. The University of Vermont and Boston University surpassed JABSOM.

According to BestMedicalDegrees.com, the laboratories, faculty, and programs are worth the consideration of future medical professionals.

The UH medical schoolhas also been named as one of the "Best Medical Schools" in the U.S. by US News and World Report for several years running (including 2014), and nearly 80% of the "Best DoctorsinHawai`i" in 2014 (identified by Best Doctors, Inc.)are JABSOM alumni and faculty.

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Thousands march and rally against GMOs on Kauai

Approximately 3,000 people marched and rallied on Sunday in support of a measure that would place a moratorium on the farming of genetically modified organisms on Kauai.

Organizers of the "Mana March" said the event drew at least 3,000 people who marched from Vidinha Stadium to the historic Kauai County Building to show their support for Bill 2491.

Besides the GMO moratorium, the bill would also require industrial farmers to disclose to the public what chemicals are in the pesticides they are using. It also would establish buffer zones, where pesticides couldn't be used near schools, hospitals, residential areas and waterways.

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