MUSC Catalyst

January 13, 2012

MEDICAL UNIVERSITY of SOUTH CAROLINA

Vol. 30, No. 20

Football coach resizes his life

By Dawn Brazell Public Relations

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ot many people can say they’ve lost 390 pounds in life.

Clay Owens, 34, can. Now sporting a healthier 270-pound frame, the middle school history teacher from Hemingway, who recently had a skin removal procedure by Dennis K. Schimpf, M.D., said he feels he has his life back again after a long season of failures.

The former athlete took a turn for the worse after he graduated from high school. He then worked for his grandmother, whom he adored, watch in her country a ViDeO store, but she was visit http://tinyurl. murdered on a day Owens, then com/82bjgwc 18, had taken the day off to watch a bowl game during the holidays.

Guilt haunted him because he was supposed to have been there. He coped with the stress by eating emotionally, he said. To add to the problems, he was in a bad car wreck that broke nearly every rib and set him back even more. Owens settled into a routine of emotional eating and inactivity that culminated years later when he found himself in the emergency room in Georgetown in 2009 with a blood pressure of 41 over 30.

His wife, Suzie, watched as the people on either side of them in the emergency room died. She feared Clay would be next. A bariatric bed capable of weighing

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Clay Owens holds up size 72 pants he no longer wears after shedding 390 pounds.

Owens was brought in, and the scale hit 660 pounds. Owens remembers his mother started crying immediately when they read his weight.

“I was always very prideful. I thought I could do it on my own,” Owens said.

He had tried many times to lose weight, and would be successful for a time, but then gain it back. “Six hundred and sixty pounds will kill your pride.”

$800,000 grant Researchers receive help with Sea Island population to investigate genetic makeup, cancer disparities.

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Medical professionals in Georgetown wouldn’t touch him without him losing weight, he said, a catch-22 for him. He got a referral to MUSC for a gastric bypass. Surgeon T. Karl Byrne, M.D., didn’t hesitate. “He told me, ‘we can do it.’”

The next hurdle was figuring out how to pay for the $36,000 procedure

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Hollings Cancer Center, SC State win landmark grant

South Carolina’s Sea Island black population may hold answers to why African-Americans in the United States develop and die from certain cancers at a higher rate than Caucasians.

A landmark grant awarded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the NIH’s National Cancer Institute to the Hollings Cancer Center (HCC) and South Carolina State University (SCSU) is among the first of its kind in the country to support cancer disparities research that includes Sea Island residents.

The grant, exceeding $800,000, establishes the South Carolina Cancer Disparities Research Center which will have as its mission investigating cancer disparities and training future researchers in the field.

Researchers from both institutions will collaborate on both aspects.

“The more we know about how genetic makeup contributes to cancer onset and progression, the better

we will be able to develop drugs targeted toward each person’s genetic makeup, which will give us greater ammunition in our cancer-fighting arsenal,” said principal investigator Marvella Ford, Ph.D., associate director of cancer disparities at HCC. Judith Salley, Ph.D., co-principal investigator on the grant said, “In addition to conducting research that could lead to improved cancer treatment, the grant will also develop the careers of the next generation of cancer disparities researchers by training undergraduate students from SCSU, graduate students from MUSC, and junior faculty from both institutions.”

Salley is also chair of the Department of Biological Sciences at SCSU.

Grant, research hiGhliGhts q African-Americans from the Sea Islands are the most homogeneous black population in the US. They are

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direct descendants of Africans removed by force from West Africa, primarily from Sierra Leone. q The genetic distance between the Sea Island populations and those in Sierra Leone is shorter than between Sea Island populations and African-American populations in the US. q Other ethnic groups included in the research will be African-Americans who do not have Sea Island ancestry and Caucasians who have been diagnosed with cancer.

Another unique element of the grant is the formation of an advisory group, including Sea Island community advocates, which will help select future research projects. q Research will initially focus on breast and prostate cancers, two types of cancer that affect African-Americans and Caucasians at markedly disproportionate rates. Studies will explore whether genetic differences play a role in disparities.

Nominations from faculty, students being accepted for Teaching Excellence awards A call for nominations is under way to all faculty and students. The purpose of these awards is to recognize members of the MUSC faculty who have made outstanding contributions to the university through teaching.

Awards may be given from the following categories: q Clinical/Professional (EducatorMentor): For teaching excellence in nontraditional roles with individuals or small groups, specifically those who teach, mentor or serve as role models in their clinical and professional development. q Scholarship/Academic (EducatorMentor): For teaching excellence in nontraditional roles with individuals or small groups, specifically those who teach, mentor or serve as role models in their scholarly or academic development. q Educator-Lecturer: For teaching excellence in traditional, didactic or classroom teaching. q Developing Teacher: For teaching excellence demonstrated by a junior faculty member in either of the above categories.

Any regular, full-time faculty member who holds an academic rank of instructor or higher in a college or department of MUSC, who has not

been the recipient of this award within the previous three years is eligible for nomination. Faculty who are nominated in the Clinical/Professional (EducatorMentor), Scholarship/Academic (Educator-Mentor), or Educator-Lecturer categories must have taught at MUSC for three or more years.

Those nominated for the Developing Teacher category must have taught for a minimum of two years at MUSC and for no more than four years total at an institute of higher education.

Presented for the first time in 1995, these universitywide teaching awards were proposed as part of MUSC’s Educational Strategic Plan. In addition to a commemorative medallion, each recipient will receive a cash award from the MUSC Foundation.

The deadline for nominations is 5 p.m., Friday, Jan. 27. Nominees will be invited to submit supporting materials, and a committee of faculty and students representing MUSC’s six colleges, Library Sciences and Informatics, and the Student Government Association will review the nominations and select the recipients for this year’s awards.

Forms may be obtained and submitted at http://www.carc.musc.edu/ nomination/.

For more information, call Marcia Higaki at 792-2228.

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Dean reviews strategic plan, space, new EMR system E

Clinical enterprise strategic plan Since last spring, leaders in the College of Medicine, MUHA and MUSC Physicians (formerly known as University Medical Associates), have worked with the Beckham Company, a health care strategy company, to devise a plan that will guide MUSC’s strategic efforts for the next several years. The plan will focus on MUSC being nationally recognized as a premier academic medical center, with the intent of being ranked among the top 25 academic medical centers for reputation, quality, service, efficiency and financial performance by 2015.

“This is the first time this organization has done a strategic plan that crosses the boundaries between the hospital, practice plan and medical school. I’m really excited about this effort and I think the plan is achievable, because the organization has collectively

decided to commit itself to the vision and strategies set forth in the plan.”

After months of discussion, participants identified seven driving strategies to focus on with leaders. q Unify and align the clinical enterprise to facilitate decision making, enhance coordination of care, build accountability and drive down costs. Strategy leaders— Jack Feussner, M.D., and Stuart Smith; q Expand awareness, preference and market leadership for the MUSC brand—Phil Costello, M.D., and Smith; q Strategically expand access and capacity—Peter Zwerner, M.D., and Patrick Cawley, M.D.; q Aggressively grow primary care and outpatient services—Feussner and Zwerner; q Establish statewide partnerships to provide the right care in the right place at the right time—Phil Saul, M.D., and Mark Lyles, M.D.; q Build human and financial capital to grow expertise, learning, discovery and reputation—Steve Valerio and Lisa Montgomery; q Intensify investment in information and communications systems to leverage MUSC’s expertise and access—Bob Warren, M.D., and Mike Balassone.

The plan and strategies were approved by the MUSC board of trustees at its December meeting.

Implementation of the strategic plan officially began Jan. 9, and strategy leaders are constituting their teams,

establishing metrics to measure success, identifying resources needed and setting timelines. According to Pisano, each strategy team will share their progress throughout the plan’s implementation. A Leadership Development Institute focused on the clinical enterprise strategic plan is scheduled for Feb. 3.

Space management Efforts around space management within the College of Medicine continue to progress with the shifting of responsibility for space management from the provost's office to the six college deans. According to Pisano, the university’s new funds flow process will shift the financial responsibility for space to the colleges, which necessitates each college having authority over management of space. “We need to ensure that space is available for whatever priority there is on campus,” said Pisano.

In her first year, Pisano broadly discussed within the College of Medicine and with university leadership the space management process being implemented within the college. From the beginning, Pisano has been committed to creating a process that is data driven, transparent, consistent and inclusive. To manage this, separate clinical and academic space committees were

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Currents Jan. 10 People – Fostering employee pride and loyalty

HR update Mark Stimpson, MUHA Benefits manager, presented the following: q Supplemental retirement plans — Effective Jan. 1, the IRS has increased the annual contribution limits to MUSC’s supplemental retirement plans from $16,500 to $17,000; traditional 401K, Roth 401K and 403B plans share an annual contribution limit of $17,000; the 457 plan has its own separate annual contribution limit of $17,000; participants older than or who turn 50 in 2012 may contribute an additional $5,500 to the 457 and/or one or a combination of the other three plans; employees, 50 years and older, can potentially contribute $45,000 to a combination of these plans, in addition to the 6.5 percent contributed to the South Carolina Retirement System.

q Retirement open enrollment — The open enrollment period for all state optional Retirement Program (State ORP) participants will run from Jan. 1 through March.

During open enrollment, State ORP participants may change investment providers or, if eligible, may irrevocably elect to join the SC Retirement Systems (SCRS). Any changes made during the open enrollment period is not effective until April 1; any State ORP participant who wishes to change to one of the other three approved investment providers should complete and submit to the HR office a State ORP Notice of Termination or Change (Form 1162) along with the enrollment form for that company (i.e. Met Life, TIAA-Cref, Hartford or VALIC); changing from the ORP to State pension plan: State ORP participants are eligible to switch to SCRS (pension plan) during the 2012 Open Enrollment period if at any point during the open enrollment period they have a minimum of 12 months and a

maximum of 60 months of participation from their initial enrollment in the State ORP (initial enrollment between Jan. 1, 2007 and March 1, 2011); any State ORP participant who decides to irrevocably join SCRS must complete and submit to the HR office the following two forms: Retirement Plan Enrollment (Form 1100) and a Beneficiary Designation (Form 1102); these forms, plus an explanatory guide and video are available on the SC Retirement System website, http:// retirement.sc.gov/newhires.

For information, contact Stimpson at 792-9320 or Cindy Locklair at792-0826.

PEACH form update Pam Marek, Decision Support Services manager, spoke about an extension to the existing Planning, Establishing and Activating Clinical Housing (PEACH) form that is used for inpatient transfers.

The outpatient (OP) PEACH form was devised to respond to requests from hospital-based, hospital facilitybased off campus and outpatient procedure/ancillary areas (clinical service lines) throughout the hospital.

The online form will be available via the MUHA intranet to users with a NetID and password. Input from managers, administrators, coordinators, supervisors and business managers was involved in creating this form. OP PEACH will be supported by Mango, the new management directory. The form is scheduled to go live Feb. 1 and is currently going through testing in different areas. To be added to the OP PEACH notification or for more information, contact 792-8793 or email marekp@musc.edu.

Emergency training opportunities Brian Fletcher, R.N., clinical disaster preparedness coordinator, spoke about upcoming training opportunities in a variety of health care disaster preparedness topics available at the Noble Training Center in Anniston, Ala. All training, transportation, meals and lodging for this program is free.

A HazMat for HealthCare training is scheduled for Feb. 10-11, from 8

To Medical Center Employees A series of medical center town hall meetings are scheduled to take place from Jan. 25 through Feb. 8 at the times and locations listed below. There will also be some department-based town hall sessions not included in the schedule below.

Years ago the medical center leadership team made a commitment to thoroughly communicate through a variety of methods, and our town hall meetings serve as one of our communication tools. Approximately 1,175 individuals attended the town hall meetings conducted in September 2011. Our goal has Smith been to increase attendance significantly, and we have sought to do this through using a 30-minute format, including questions and answers, and by scheduling department-based town hall meetings to the extent practical. Everyone’s attendance is encouraged.

The upcoming town hall agenda will include: medical center goals update; recognition of exceptional accomplishments; Employee Partnership & Culture of Safety update; key components of the clinical enterprise strategic plan; and “key words” for the Tobacco-Free Campus policy implementation.

On another matter, Dr. Patrick Cawley, executive medical director, recently announced that due to the lack of influenza activity across the state and the Tri-county area, the requirement that non-influenza vaccinated staff wear masks while on duty beginning Jan. 1 is being delayed. We will continue to monitor activity and provide notification of the date to begin the mask requirement.

W. Stuart Smith Vice President for Clinical Operations and Executive Director, MUSC Medical Center Town Hall Meeting Schedule Jan. 25: 10 a.m., 2 West Amphitheater, and noon, Storm Eye Institute Auditorium; Jan. 26: 7:30 a.m., 2 West Amphitheater, and noon, Ashley River Tower Auditorium; Jan. 27: 11 a.m. and noon, 2 West Amphitheater; Jan. 30: 11 a.m., Hollings Cancer Center Auditorium; Jan. 31, 7:30 a.m., Ashley River Tower Auditorium, and noon, Institute of Psychiatry Auditorium; Feb. 1: noon, Storm Eye Institute Auditorium, and 3 p.m., Ashley River Tower Auditorium; Feb. 2: 7:30 a.m. and noon, 2 West Amphitheater; Feb. 6: 11 a.m., 2 West Amphitheater; Feb. 7: 10 a.m., 2 West Amphitheater; and Feb. 8: noon, 2 West Amphitheater a.m. to 4 p.m. and March 10 - 11. For information, contact Fletcher, 792-7752 or fletche@musc.edu.

Service — Serving the public with compassion, respect and excellence

Brittni Carnes, a speech pathologist and co-chair with Therapeutic Services’ patient satisfaction team, presented details of her team’s efforts representing occupational therapy (OT), physical therapy (PT) and speech therapy (ST). The group is looking for a unified location (Leeds Avenue) to provide its services. They also are in the process of

streamlining inpatient documentation to improve charting. A pilot with inpatient speech pathology was recently completed and will soon involve outpatient speech pathology, OT and PT groups. The group is considering piloting iPad use as part of the streamlining process. Among the group’s successes include progress with the 5+5 savings plan which decreased hospital re-admissions due to aspiration pneumonia (by 42 percent) and provided a cost savings of $1.65 million; progress with the modified barium swallow impairment profile online database supports data collection with more than 1,000 speech language pathologists; and Therapeutic Services’ patient satisfaction scores show moderate increase in PT, OT and ST.

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Owens Continued from Page One since his state insurance didn’t cover the procedure. As a history teacher and coach, Owens needed to raise $30,000.

“That’s what I make in a year teaching,” he said.

He fell into a depression, and wanted to give up. His wife wouldn’t let him.

“The closer we got the more agitated I got, and the more faithful she got.”

Owens said he can look back and see the wrong turns he took in life. He worked two jobs in college and made bad food choices.

His weight gain interfered with his coaching job and had caused him to be removed from the football field, with his coaching restricted to the press box.

With coaching as his passion, Owens hit a new low.

“I was miserable. I only did what I absolutely had to do. I taught behind my desk. I wasn’t a very good teacher then.

I’d sit in my truck and watch the team practice. Then I’d drive home, eat and go to bed exhausted.”

Embarrassed by his weight, Owens said he would stay home on weekends.

He would go to the mailbox and have to stop several times just to catch his breath.

Stairs were brutal. “You can imagine having to walk 660 pounds up the steps.”

He was limited in the public places he could go, including movie theaters. The worst part was to see how children were afraid of him, some even crying. “It just broke my heart.”

Somewhere along the way Owens, who used to see himself as a fighter, gave up.

Fortunately, his community did not.

After the wake-up call in the emergency room, Owens and his wife decided it was time. He put pride aside and asked for help. Owens said he was amazed how colleagues and students supported him. Each week a student would show up with a mason jar stuffed

Clay and Suzie Owens in a room at Ashley River Tower Jan. 5 following a skin removal surgery. with money and change sent from another teacher who was raising money for him. His church had a community meeting to generate ideas and a wide range of fundraisers were planned from gospel singing to an auction.

Despite all the hard work, though, on Dec. 15 – just three days before the surgery – he was still $5,000 short, and the bill had to be paid up front.

“That Sunday morning, we went to church and I didn’t want to be there.

I didn’t think it was going to happen.

During the singing, the church phone rang. It never rings during church.”

Owens said his pastor went back to answer it and came back telling Owens he could relax, an anonymous donor just gave him the exact amount he needed. It was a miracle, he said. Scared of the huge change coming in his life, Owens knew he couldn’t let down all the people who had rallied behind him. He went in for the required psychological pre-counseling and found it very helpful.

“If your head’s not right, you don’t

need to go through it.”

Owens had the procedure done Dec. 18, 2009.

“Sometimes you need a kick in the butt and that kick in the butt can come from technology and doctors who think outside of the box. It’s not a cure. It’s a tool. I use that tool to lose weight. I knew if I didn’t do my part, it wasn’t going to happen.”

Owens certainly has done his part.

His breakfast of champions used to be a Mountain Dew with roasted peanuts and a honey bun, all staples in his grandmother’s country store. That, of course, has changed, and he’s had to get his family to support his healthier diet.

As he dropped enough weight to be able to exercise, he found he loved the gym and he exercises twice a day. He did the Cooper River Bridge run last year.

A special moment came during Hemingway High School’s 2010 football season when the team asked him to run out with them. Owens, who is back to coaching on the field, lined up with the

team and began running out. The next thing he knew the team had disappeared, and it was just him running to break through the banner. It was an emotional time, he said.

Continuing to adjust to his lighter frame, Owens said he was pleased with the skin removal procedure he recently had done on his stomach and chest, having almost 50 pounds of skin and fat removed. The excess skin was pulling on his frame and he was experiencing some curvature in the spine. “It’s a daily routine trying to keep the folds from getting infected.”

Owens said he’s grateful to his school, community and the MUSC medical staff who kept him encouraged. He’s especially thankful for his wife. “She’s taken a lot of flak for me. For the last two years, she’s put everything into getting me straight.”

His goal now is to educate youth and the public about following a healthy lifestyle and advocating for state health insurance coverage for gastric bypass.

“There’s no reason insurance companies shouldn’t cover this. The state plan will take care of things for smokers as long as you pay the $25 extra a year to let them know you smoke, but they won’t cover a person who’s overweight to get a life changing, life altering, life extending surgery. For the life of me, I can’t understand it. I went five times to the hospital in 2009 before my surgery and we added up what they spent for me for all that time in the hospital, and they could have paid for my gastric bypass two and a half times.”

Owens said it feels good to take responsibility for his health, and that the gastric bypass and skin removal surgeries have given him his life back.

“This has been a great platform for me. Obesity had become my life. Instead of eating to live, I would live to eat,” he said. “Now, I’m a fighter again.”

Gastric bypass procedure is ‘jump-start some morbidly obese people need’ to get back on track MUSC surgeon T. Karl Byrne, M.D., said he’s pleased how well Clay Owens is doing.

“Weight loss is about genetics, willpower, exercise, portion control, choosing healthy food, environmental effects, lifestyle choices, correction of maladaptive eating behavior and many

other factors.”

Owens has been doing all the right things. Byrne, who also is advocating for state health insurance to cover gastric bypass, said the procedure is the jumpstart some morbidly obese people need to be able to get back on track.

“The public needs to know that this is

not cosmetic surgery. The complications of obesity can be life threatening and very expensive over the long term.

Studies show that bariatric surgery can save lives and dramatically reduce health care costs.”

Byrne said Owens’ story shows how much stress not having coverage places

on a state worker.

“Clay had to raise the money himself with community help. Medicaid, however, covers bariatric surgery so if you are unemployed and on Medicaid you can be covered. It makes no sense that because you are a state worker you are not covered for surgery.”

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Facilities website update Dennis Frazier, Facilities and Capitol Improvement administrator and Greg Weigle, director of construction and design, gave a presentation about available services provided by their department. Frasier’s team has been working with the hospital’s Nurse Manager Workload Steering Group regarding any facilities and maintenance work and improvements. Frazier explained that Facilities is divided into maintenance (zone maintenance and maintenance shops—boiler, electric HVAC and controls), construction and design (capital projects—planning, construction) and small projects (interior design, furniture, moves, equipment planning) and operations (maintenance call center, code compliance and document management). As for Facilities services milestones, ART’s opening in 2008 marked the first time MUHA had its own maintenance staff. The group also opened its facilities support call center line, 792-5600. By the first year total maintenance work orders

Project request update Dan Furlong, OCIO, updated managers about the OCIO clinical project request system. This supports OCIO projects requiring two or more hours of work. Furlong reviewed the project request process available on the Project Management Office web page.

Staff also can check on the status of a current project, review a list of completed projects and read frequently asked questions. The project request system is found via the MUHA intranet (forms toolbox).

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established within the College of Medicine. Both committees meet regularly to discuss space requests as well as other related issues and make their recommendations to the dean, who makes the final decision for assignments.

Ambulatory electronic medical record MUSC will launch the Epic ambulatory medical record this spring as a replacement to the current system, Practice Partner. Epic will help improve quality of care and patient safety as well as improve efficiency and effectiveness while maintaining a continuum of care for patients.

The system is expected to impact 5,000 users and is scheduled to go live starting March 22 in five pilot clinics — University Internal Medicine, Pediatric Cardiology, Carolina Family Care Practice (Two Island Court, Mount Pleasant), Pediatric Hematology/Oncology and East Cooper OB/GYN. All other users of Practice Partner will switch to Epic May 17.

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Dr. Kathie Hermayer, left, accepts the Readiness for Reform Health Care Innovation Challenge award from Dr. Joanne Conroy.

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USC’s Hospital Diabetes Program was a winner of the Association of American Medical Colleges-sponsored Readiness for Reform Health Care Innovation Challenge. The award was presented at the Council of Teaching Hospitals luncheon Nov. 7, 2011 in Denver.

Joanne Conroy, M.D., the chief health care officer for the association, gave the award to Kathie Hermayer, M.D., who was representing MUSC at the meeting. The co-authors for the award were Patrick J. Cawley, M.D., Hermayer, Pamela Arnold, R.N., Mary-Eliese Merrill, R.N., and Louis Luttrell, M.D. Overall, there were three institutional winners for the award: University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Arizona Health Sciences Center and MUSC. All three winners received a check for $5,000 to further transform health care and the practices among academic medical centers. Additionally, University of Washington and the Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin at the Medical College of Wisconsin were given honorable mentions.

A further review of the three winners’ proposals can be found at https://www. aamc.org/icollaborative/.

According to Hermayer, diabetes affects 25.8 million people in the United States and another 79 million Americans are estimated to have pre-diabetes.

Approximately 20 percent of inpatients at MUSC have a diagnosis of diabetes.

“On a daily basis at MUSC, approximately 130 to 150 patients have a diagnosis of diabetes,” said Hermayer. “In response to these steadily increasing numbers, MUSC started an interdisciplinary program focusing on diabetes in 2003. The program consists of the Hospital Diabetes Task Force and the Diabetes Management Service.”

The program has received Joint Commission Advanced Inpatient Diabetes Certification for Inpatient Diabetes Care.

“MUSC has demonstrated compliance with national standards and performance measurement tools to control costs and

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q A program champion or champion team q Written blood glucose monitoring protocols q Staff education in diabetes management q The diagnosis of diabetes is on the medical record q Diabetes nursing admission assessment and diabetes diet order q Individualized plans coordinating insulin and meal delivery q Plans for treatment of hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia q Data collection for incidence of hypoglycemia q Patient education on selfmanagement of diabetes q A web-based intravenous insulin infusion calculator for use in the emergency department, medical surgical wards, and operating room enhance productivity. These actions indicate that MUSC has the critical elements to attain success in the delivery of care to patients with diabetes,” Hermayer said.

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MUSC Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost Dr. Mark Sothmann presents the University Excellence pillar award to Wendy Littlejohn, executive director for administration, education & student support. The award was presented at the Dec. 16 MUSC Excellence University Leadership Development Institute.

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