MUSC Catalyst 4-10-2015

April 10, 2015

MEDICAL UNIVERSITY of SOUTH CAROLINA

Vol. 33, No. 32

MUSC rocks Charleston City Paper’s 2015 ‘Best of’ lists Representing MUSC’s three missions for the Charleston City Paper’s annual “Best Of” awards and embracing the newspaper’s heavy metal theme are Anton Gunn, from left, MUHA chief diversity officer, Dr. Deboarah Deas, College of Medicine interim dean and Stephanie Collins, MUSC Physicians Affiliation Management senior director.

MUSC won in multiple categories including “Best Place to Work,” “Best Hospital” and “Best Health Club.”

Read the story at www. charlestoncitypaper.com/charleston/ BestofCharleston2015/Page. photo by Jonathan Boncek/Charleston City Paper

MUSC, Darkness to Light host ‘Happy Valley’ event Staff Report In honor of April as National Child Abuse Prevention month, MUSC and Darkness to Light are partnering to present “Happy Valley: Then and Now” from 6 to 9 p.m., Thursday, April 16, in the Drug Discovery Auditorium, room DD110. The event is free and open to the public.

This event will examine the Jerry Sandusky scandal at Penn State, the environment that allowed it to happen and the emotional aftermath felt by the community.

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A New Home MUSC Boeing Center moves to dedicated offices in West Ashley.

The evening will include a screening of the documentary film “Happy Valley,” followed by a panel discussion featuring Dr. Regina Benjamin, 18th U.S. Surgeon General; Joseph V. “Jay” Paterno Jr., son of the late Joe Paterno; Howard W. Long III, president and CEO of the Centre County YMCA in State College, Pennsylvania; and Cindy McElhinney, director of programs for Darkness to Light.

The panel will discuss the impact of the Sandusky tragedy on the State College community and highlight how community leaders are transforming the way that

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people think and talk about child sexual abuse. Acting as panel moderator will be Lyndon Haviland, Dr.PH, interim CEO of Darkness to Light and internationally recognized expert in the field of public health.

“Happy Valley” offers a tremendous opportunity to talk openly about child sexual abuse. The Sandusky tragedy is just one story among countless others reaching beyond Penn State, beyond Centre County, and well beyond football. “Incidents such as these

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Celebrate Sustainable Wellness MUSC’s Office of Health of sustainable eating Promotion is partnering with include: consuming more the Office of Sustainability in plants and going meatless; April to encourage everyone to choosing cage-free eggs and go green. In this case the “green” sustainably-sourced seafood; relates to sustainable wellness selecting organic food; meaning “what’s good for the growing one’s own produce; body is good for the planet.” and eating locally.

Enjoy several opportunities to Sodexo is highlighting its reduce the impact made on a daily commitment to sustainable basis throughout the month and efforts throughout April. beyond. Look for daily broadcast Look for daily specials messages for more ideas on emphasizing one of these Susan Johnson healthy ways to tread lightly. themes: cage-free-eggs, q Reusable Cup Promotion —Donate sustainably sourced seafood, meat-free spare, reusable beverage cups through (vegetarian) and Fresh on the Menu April 15. Donations will be sterilized, (locally-sourced items). Coupons for and then made available on a first-come 10 percent off a World Cuisine entrée basis to the MUSC community at both are available throughout April and at ART and University cafeterias. The clean the Sodexo Earth Day table. Enter for a cups can then be used for a fountain chance to win $100 on your employee drink at a 25 cent discount year-round. badge by guessing how many cage-free Collection bins are located at both eggs Sodexo serves per year at MUSC. cafeterias and the Colbert Education Center/Library lobby. Participants will Wellness Events be entered for a chance to win door q April Monthly Mindful Challenge — prizes.

Eat Sustainably. Healthy bodies. Healthy q Earth Day is Wednesday April 15, planet. To begin, take the challenge's first from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Horseshoe. survey at http://tinyurl.com/kk186ud.

The event’s goal is to provide an A link to the final survey will be sent at educational opportunity for those who month's end to those who take the first want to lessen their impact on the planet one in a more sustainable way. There will be q Employee Fitness Series — 12 to 12:45 sustainable food choices to enjoy and p.m., Wednesday, April 15, Greenway information about composting, collecting Garden Circuit at the Fitness Park. This rain water, saving energy costs, reducing provides a full body workout utilizing waste, choosing environmentally–friendly outdoor fitness equipment. Free day pass products and crafts, etc. to the MUSC Wellness Center for all q Mindful challenge — the April participants. To register, email muscchallenge is to Eat Sustainably. To begin, empwell@musc.edu. take the first April survey at http:// q Chair massages — Free massages tinyurl.com/kkl86ud. Some examples are offered midday on Wednesdays.

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Faculty members of MUSC’s Department of Public Health Sciences gathered April 6 to kick off the recognition of National Public Health Week, April 6-12. The group planned activities throughout the week, including the APHA Healthiest Nation Pledge Drive on Friday, April 10 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the Portico. Anyone signing the pledge will be entered into a drawing to win an iPad Mini. The event also is coordinated by the Public Health Interest Group of the COM students.

New area code prompts 10-digit dialing The tri-county and coastal areas of South Carolina are adding a new area code to its existing 843 overlay for telephone numbers. The new area code overlay is 854 and will serve communities in the Charleston, Hilton Head Island, Myrtle Beach and Florence areas.

Beginning immediately, callers on MUSC’s campus should begin using 10-digit dialing (area code + telephone number) for local calls. Calls made using seven-digit dialing will still be accepted until Sept. 19. After Sept. 19, calls made without using 10-digit dialing will not be completed and a recording will instruct the user to hang up and dial again.

When calling from MUSC, users will

need to dial 9 followed by the 10-digit local number, or 9 followed by 1+ area code + telephone number for long distance calls. Calls within MUSC to 792 or 876 numbers will continue to use the 5-digit extension to extension dialing.

This new overlay will not affect current telephone numbers and area codes.

Everyone is reminded to make the necessary adjustments to accommodate this new dialing procedure by setting and reprogramming equipment such as fax machines, alarms, Internet dial-up numbers, security systems, speed dialing, call forwarding settings, voicemail services and similar functions. Employees also should check their websites, business cards and stationery, contact lists, etc.

Information on updating abbreviated dial buttons on your MUSC phone can be found on the University Communications website at https:// sp.musc.edu/ocio-is/infrastructure/uct on the Basic Phone Information and Instructions page.

For more information, contact University Communications at 792-9980 or email uctdir@musc.edu.

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Campus musicians create ensemble for fun, community

By Jane Ma Public Relations

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eet some of the members of MUSiC, otherwise known as Musicians United for Service in Charleston. When asked how they arrived at the name, Frank Shary laughed and said, “Okay, the name was a bit of a stretch; we’re not great with acronyms.” Shary and Kaileen Yeh are the co-founders and co-presidents of the organization. What is even more remarkable is the fact that they are also both second-year medical students in addition to musicians.

“Frank and I met as first-years,” recalls Yeh. “We immediately bonded over our love of music and Eastman School of Music, where I had applied and he had attended for undergraduate.”

“I was actually a music education major,” Shary adds.

“I worked for a year after undergraduate as a music teacher in the area before applying to medical school.”

They decided to establish an official organization for MUSC musicians and open it to students of all six colleges as well as any faculty and staff members.

Currently they have a total of about 45 members with varying levels of involvement.

There are many smaller bands involved in the organization, playing a wide range of music from classical chamber music to rock. Group members focus not only on practicing their crafts but also giving back to the community. They play music for free and often

for MUSC events; for example, they provide music and vocals for the annual memorial service that honors those who have donated their bodies to the medical school for science, as well as their families; play gigs at graduations; and sing Christmas carols at the Ronald McDonald House during the holiday season. Their biggest event, however, is their annual benefit concert, MUSC Live!, which features several medical student and physician acts, as well as acts from other members of the MUSC and local communities.

Michael Green and John Motts, both medical

students and musicians, are organizing this year’s MUSC Live! concert. Green said, “We’re really hoping that this will grow every year; we enjoy all the activities we do in MUSiC, but MUSC Live! is really our baby.” This year, the beneficiary of the proceeds, the Charleston Autism Academy, was voted on and chosen by MUSiC members because they found the organization’s story compelling and their program inspiring. In particular, they want to help the music therapy program at CAA. Laura Misenhelter, president of the CAA board of trustees since 2008, has been with the non-profit organization from the beginning. She and her mother are both co-founders who still serve on theboard.

“Charleston Autism Academy was originally started by a group of parents who wanted a better option for educational services in the area for their autism-affected children. We began meeting in 2007 and officially opened our doors in 2009. Over the years, it’s become more than just a group of friends and parents; it’s now a professional collaboration of caring individuals, including therapists, instructors and volunteers,” Misenhelter said.

The organization’s official mission is to provide exceptional therapy services to children with autism at a reasonable cost. But more, Misenhelter says, “Our mission is to help children with autism be successful.”

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Cancer registrars praised for compassion, focus Staff Report Cancer registrars at MUSC and throughout the country will join their colleagues, fellow medical professionals to observe National Cancer Registrars Week, April 6-10. The recognition week emphasizes the important role cancer registrars play in capturing the data that informs cancer research, prevention, and treatment programs.

MUSC has a team of nine cancer registrars who are data specialists trained as certified tumor registrars and are certified by the National Cancer Registrars Association. Their job involves reviewing patient records and translating medical narratives of cancer patients into a searchable database and submit their findings to HCC’s cancer program committee. CTRs document

the type of cancer and treatments as well as outcomes for patients. Their goal is to collect information about cancer to identify better ways to prevent and treat cancer.

“All of us are involved in doing meaningful work every day,” said Linda J. Cope, Hollings Cancer Center Cancer Registry Coordinator. “Recognizing the work of CTRs underscores their commitment to cancer care and treatments for new advances.”

This year’s national theme, Cancer Registrars: The Lighthouse in a Storm of Change, reflects on how cancer registrars have stayed the course through many changes from how cancer is diagnosed to new treatment protocols and advancements for care. They know that each case they abstract helps to provide the critical data needed to find effective, evidence-based treatments.

Cancer registrars work in a variety of cancer treatment and research settings and manage a wide range of demographic and medical data on those with cancer. The information is both submitted to and utilized by state and national cancer registries to enable cancer programs to accurately determine cancer patient populations, measure outcomes of treatment and survival,

and formulate plans for improvement.

The data are included in several publications including the Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Cancer Institute, and the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries, For more information , visit www.hcc. musc.edu.

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MUSC Boeing Center for Children’s Wellness has new home

By Mikie hayes Public Relations

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t’s amazing what new office space will do for a program: a little fresh paint, new carpet, colorful paintings and most of all, dedicated space. It all lends itself to lots of excitement and enthusiasm. And that was the case for Janice Key, M.D., the director of the Boeing Center for Children’s Wellness, and the entire staff as they celebrated the March 6 grand opening of their new headquarters, located on Carriage Lane in Charleston.

Dressed in matching red BCCW polo shirts and surrounded by multi-colored balloons and enormous laminated posters displaying their research, Key and the team were on hand to welcome teachers, health care professionals, school district representatives, social workers, supporters and patrons of their various programs to the new facility.

They proudly introduced the new space and updated guests on the impact their programs have been making.

Lucie Kramer, senior program coordinator, explained that the BCCW had previously been scattered around the MUSC campus and temporary available spaces in Burke High School.

Now the team is all in one location.

“We could not be more thrilled about our beautiful new space,” said Kramer.

“We have an amazing team of dedicated and passionate individuals who love what they do for the children and the tri-county area. They give so much of themselves and this office allows our team to work together in a space we can call our own. Our programs continue to grow and thrive and being in this new space where we can all work together will help us continue that momentum.”

Created in 2010, the center’s programs have, year to year, made steady progress and growth, both in the tri-county area and even considerably beyond those boundaries. Some of its programs are active in as many as eight South Carolina counties as well as in Pennsylvania.

They are proud of the fact that the ever-growing program doesn’t cost the taxpayers a cent. In fact, according to Key, in 2014 the program reached more than 60,000 children and is on tap to reach more than 137,000

in the next two years. The most exciting part, she believes, is the fact they are able to accomplish this for approximately $12 per student, per year. They do this through grants from major supporters such as Boeing and the Duke Endowment; local charities and civic groups; local companies and foundations; donors; and South Carolina agencies; as well as fundraising efforts by the schools and students themselves.

WHat doeS tHe center do?

For one, they focus on school-based wellness through healthy initiatives that encourage physical activity; healthy eating and drinking; and a more involved and sustainable school environment. The programs are bearing fruit. For instance, in Charleston County, which boasts 71 out of 84 schools participating, 43 percent of the schools offered regular fruit and vegetable tastings and 78 percent created outdoor or indoor school fruit and vegetable gardens.

A key to the success of the schoolbased initiatives is the wellness committees. Each school must have an active wellness committee — a group comprised of teachers, health care professionals, staff, parents, and in some cases, students dedicated to increasing health and decreasing obesity in their student population. The BCCW works hand in hand and provides a wealth of resources, ideas and encouragement to the schools’ committees.

One of BCCW’s programs, Docs Adopt, assigns a volunteer doctor to each school, who then serves as a health advocate for that school’s wellness committee and provides guidance as they implement strategies from a carefully designed School Wellness Checklist, which recommends proven strategies to help their students be healthier. From offering fun and inventive exercise opportunities to planting school gardens to removing deep fryers from the cafeteria kitchen, the committees have an abundance of choices to select from as they work within their unique culture to make substantive changes.

The checklist is merely a framework they can use, as the committees are encouraged to develop their own creative ways of motivating their students. Some

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The BCCW team proudly introduce their new conference room. They include Chrissy Gregg, from left, Jennifer Adams, Aynsley Birkner, Kerrie Schnake, Ellen Munson, Carolyn Lindstrom, Coleen Martin, Dr. Janice Key and Lucie Kramer.

Dr. Janice Key introduces the BCCW’s new offices on Carriage Lane in West Ashley to guests and shares the numerous successes they’ve experienced.

schools, like Angel Oak Elementary School on Johns Island, have started running clubs and, once the students are trained, they participate in marathons, 5Ks and track meets.

Over the course of the school year, schools earn points by selecting recommended options from the checklist. Students work together, trying to score enough points in the School Wellness Checklist contest to qualify for $1,000 awards from the Boeing Center for Children’s Wellness at the end of the school year. These grants fund special projects or items like the kinesthetic active learning desks that Harbor View Elementary School in Charleston purchased with their winnings. These desks allow the children to quietly move naturally – they can twist, turn, bounce,

rock and peddle as kids are inclined to, without disrupting the class. The kids love them and they present an incentive for continuing to participate in the program. In 2014, all but two participating Charleston County schools received the grant at year’s end.

Key, who recently was appointed to the Governor’s Council on Physical Fitness, can’t stress enough how important these programs are in combating obesity and encouraging better health habits. “Our work at the Boeing Center for Children’s Wellness focuses on helping schools create a culture of wellness to combat today’s “obesogenic environment.” Not only do those who are obese need to make changes; very few kids eat enough fruits and vegetables or get enough

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Phone safety app connects users at touch of a button

By Ryne Danielson Public Relations

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he Department of Public Safety, in collaboration with the Office of the Chief Information Officer, has launched MUSC Notify, a new smartphone application for Android and iOS (a Windows Phone version will be released soon). The app provides a direct line to Public Safety as well as briefings on campus safety topics, an MUSC directory and links to important information such as campus advisories and safety data sheets.

“The idea was to have an easy-to-use app that, with just the touch of a button, you could be connected to us immediately.”

Chief Kevin Kerley “The idea was to have an easy-touse app that, with just the touch of a button, you could be connected to us immediately,” said Kevin Kerley, chief of Public Safety. “Along with that, we have lots of useful information that we can share with our faculty, students, and clinical staff through this app.

The bottom line is that you can find information you need quickly, when you need it.”

Layne Thompson, Public Safety training manager, and Mark Daniels, director of Enterprise IT Architecture, were tasked with bringing the app to MUSC. Their chief goals for the app included the “Big Red Button,” a one– touch link that directly calls Public Safety dispatch, as well as easily accessible instructions for crisis and emergency situations, such as what to do in the event of an active shooter, bomb threat, chemical spill or severe weather.

“There’s a wealth of information within the app,” Thompson said, “from information you might need in case of

an emergency, to how to properly assist people with disabilities on our campus, to the number to call for utility outages.

“It’s a one–stop shop for information.

And it’s not just for emergencies.

Some people just don’t have Public Safety’s number. I tell students during orientation to make it the first number in their phone, but that doesn’t mean they always do it. With this app, they have it right there when they need it. If they’re walking down the street at night, and they don’t feel safe for whatever reason, they can call us and say, ‘Would you mind sending an officer over to walk me to my car?’”

The MUSC Notify app is built on Worklight, a mobile development platform designed by IBM. Worklight allows for simultaneous hybrid development across multiple platforms and operating systems, as well as secure distribution through a private MUSC app store.

To install the app, visit appstore. musc.edu. You will be prompted to enter your netID and password. After authenticating, you can install the MUSC app store, which is called MUSC App Center. Once installed, you can then sign in and download the MUSC Notify app from the App Center.

MUSC Notify is the only app in the App Center, but more apps are planned for the future. “We really learned a lot building this app,” Daniels said. “With this new platform, this is just the tip of the iceberg for mobile development at MUSC.” For detailed instructions on installing the app, visit: http:// academicdepartments.musc.edu/ocio/ MUSCNotify.pdf.

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demonstrate the need for child sexual abuse prevention to be included in national strategy,” said Haviland. “MUSC is an unequivocal leader in children’s health, and we are thrilled to partner with them to bring this discussion to the Charleston community.

For information, visit www.D2L. org/HappyValley.

The MUSC Notify app, for Android and iOS, features a “Big Red Button” to call MUSC Public Safety immediately. The new app can be downloaded from the MUSC App Center at appstore.musc.edu.

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Gullah-Geechee Queen bridges cultures, heals relationships

By Ryne Danielson Public Relations

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t must have seemed strange to anyone arriving late — a circle of MUSC students, faculty and staff, holding hands while a woman in a brightly colored dress moved amongst them, singing and clapping her hands in a ritual known as a shout, a form of worship first practiced by religions native to West Africa and adapted to the Christian tradition by enslaved peoples in the American South.

The woman takes the stage, offering a libation to God and her ancestors and welcoming those who have gathered to hear her speak.

She is Marquetta Goodwine, head of state of the Gullah–Geechee Nation, who goes by the name Queen Quet. Goodwine visited MUSC March 27 to speak about the importance of outreach to the isolated Sea Island communities which form the Gullah–Geechee Nation, consisting of roughly 80 barrier islands and adjacent coastal counties and extending from Jacksonville, North Carolina to Jacksonville, Florida.

Sponsored by the Department of Public Health Sciences, the South Carolina Clinical and Translational Research Center, the Multi–cultural Student Association and the Student National Medical Association, her presentation covered the long history of distrust between minority communities and medical

photos by J. Ryne Danielson, Public Relations

Marquett Goodwine, Queen Quet, performs a “shout,” a traditional Gullah musical form, as an invocation before her presentation.

institutions like MUSC, as well as ways to overcome these challenges, build bridges with the community and foster relationships built on trust.

Gullah–Geechee culture, according to Goodwine, originated as an amalgam of English, Native American and West African cultures and languages among enslaved Africans working sea island rice and indigo plantations off the coast of South Carolina and Georgia. Before the Civil War, these plantations were isolated from the mainland, run almost entirely by slaves themselves. The hot, humid climate and endemic diseases like malaria and yellow fever, born by mosquitoes that plagued the inundated rice fields, kept most white people away. This independence bred an almost continuous, low–level insurgency which flared, from time to time, into full rebellion.

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Scientists win Governor’s Awards for Excellence Two MUSC scientists, one with an impressive body of work at MUSC spanning four decades and the other relatively early in his career, have been named Governor’s Award for Excellence in Science winners. Only five awards were given statewide.

The governor honored Perry Halushka, M.D., with the Award for Excellence in Scientific Awareness, stating in a proclamation: “Dr. Halushka’s efforts have had a significant impact on medical education in South Carolina, touching middle school through graduate students. He has clearly been an innovator and his accomplishments demonstrate the depth and quality deserving of this award.”

The proclamation noted that Halushka transformed the College of Graduate Studies during his time as dean by revamping the curriculum to reflect the changing needs of students.

He also created programs to reach out to children in the Charleston area, encouraging them to consider science as a career path and showing them how science can do and explain amazing things.

Halushka, who joined MUSC in 1974, is currently a distinguished university professor, professor of pharmacology and medicine, dean emeritus of the College of Graduate Studies, director of the Medical Scientist Training Program and co-principal investigator at the South Carolina Clinical and Translational Research Institute.

Matthew Carpenter, Ph.D., earned the Governor’s Young Scientist Award for Excellence in Scientific Research.

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Letter from the Office of the April 6, 2015 Dear MUSC Family, In light of the recent national attention

President

research discoveries, we must make ALL of those

Integrity and Innovation is through community

who touch MUSC in some way feel like they are

members engaging in vibrant dialogue and

in the right place, and that they belong here.

working together to gain knowledge and solve

A diverse university community breeds

problems. Our university community must be a

around hate speech, religious intolerance and

innovation, and innovation is the key to better

safe place for all of its members. We must stand

other bias-related incidents, I feel compelled

healthcare. The more open we are to different

up for each other. We must value each other’s

to reiterate the Medical University of South

opinions, ideas, expertise, education, culture

contributions. We must reflect the level of

Carolina’s community-wide commitment to

and background, the more flexible, effective

inclusive excellence that we espouse. Incidents

creating an inclusive experience for the lives we

and accurate we become as an academic medical

like the ones at Duke, Oklahoma University and

touch.

center and biomedical research leader in a

the state of Indiana recently, remind us that we

constantly changing industry. This approach also

all must stay vigilant, speak out against hate and

to equal opportunity for

fosters the development of tolerance and open-

intolerance, and reiterate our commitment to

its patients, faculty, staff,

mindedness, preparing our students to become

who we are.

and students. To that end,

active, engaged citizens within a democratic

the University does not

society.

MUSC is committed

MUSC has become more diverse and

discriminate on the basis of

If you witness or experience any intolerance, bigotry or discrimination at MUSC, please let someone know. You may talk with any member

inclusive over the years, but we still have work

of management or leadership, your Dean’s

to do. As you know, our board and leadership

office, or speak with someone in Human

ethnicity, national origin,

have made a commitment to diversity and

Resources, and/or call the MUSC Compliance

age, disability, religion, sexual orientation,

inclusion excellence as a foundational priority

Hotline @ 1-800-296-0269.

gender identity or expression, veteran status

by approving a strategic plan. The Diversity and

If you would like to learn more about how to

or other legally protected characteristics. More

Inclusion Implementation Committee, charged

help make MUSC a more diverse and inclusive

importantly, we recognize a diverse and free

in October 2014, has been hard at work to better

university, please visit our Diversity & Inclusion

community is critical to the success of a great

understand where we are, learn about key ways

home page: http://academicdepartments.musc.

university, and MUSC has a long-standing

to develop and positively influence inclusion

edu/muscdiversity/ and learn how you can get

commitment to fostering an atmosphere of

initiatives, determine measurable goals for the

involved.

tolerance, understanding and interconnection

journey, and support and celebrate our results

with each other and with the world around us.

along the way.

sex, gender, marital status, pregnancy, race, color,

Cole

MUSC’s equal opportunity policy is essential to

Yours in service,

The only way to realize a diverse and

our mission of excellence. Whether providing

inclusive community that reflects our values

patient care, educating students, or making new

of Compassion, Collaboration, Respect,

David J. Cole, M.D., FACS, MUSC President

Nominees sought for 2015 Distinguished Faculty Service Award Nominations for the MUSC Foundation’s Distinguished Faculty Service Award are being accepted.

This annual award was enacted by MUSC’s Board of Trustees to recognize and honor faculty members of the institution who, over a substantial portion of their careers, have provided exceptional and sustained service and contributions in teaching, research, health care or

public service to the university and the citizens of South Carolina.

Up to three awards may be made and each honoree will receive a $3,000 award.

To nominate someone, submit a written justification to include a typed or printed narrative and a copy of the nominee’s curriculum vitae or professional resumé.

Deadline for submissions is Friday, April 24. For information, contact 792-2228 or email higakimc@ musc.edu.

Nominations should be submitted to the attention of Mark S. Sothmann, Ph.D., vice president for academic affairs and provost, 179 Ashley Avenue, Colcock Hall, MSC 002, MUSC.

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exercise. It is only by getting out to where kids are, in schools, that we can improve the health of all our children.”

Why is this important? Key explained that in South Carolina, 39.2 percent — nearly four out of every 10 children — are obese, ranking South Carolina as number three in the nation in childhood obesity. Kids tend to stay indoors more these days, playing on laptops or watching TV, and to make matters worse, they are bombarded with ads pushing McDonalds and Lucky Charms, which for many families have become staples. Fortunately, these school–based programs are taking aim at this type of unhealthy eating and lack of physical activity. Schools that participate in the School Wellness Checklist contest have found that their students have healthier weights, miss fewer days of school, stay better focused, have more energy and overall exhibit better behavior in school. Key feels this proves health-based programs at school, where children spend the majority of their weekday hours, are valuable and make a difference.

As schools embrace a culture of

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“The experiences children have and the habits they form during this time [birth to 3 years old] lay the foundation for their later well-being.”

Dr. Janice Key wellness, Key believes they become the “heart of health.” “There has been an amazing shift in the direction of wellness in our state. Although we still have a long way to go, I am confident that we are going to get healthier because of the work of the dedicated staff of the Boeing Center for Children’s Wellness, the many schools who are part of this work, and the organizations and individuals across the state who are committed to wellness,” she said.

ScPitc In 2014, a new program joined the BCCW that allows the team to reach children not yet in school, from birth through 3 years of age. The South Carolina Program for Infant/Toddler

Care (SCPIT) works to improve the quality of child care throughout the state by focusing on healthy nutrition and increased physical activity. Its network of certified infant and toddler specialists provides intensive monitoring and training to child care workers and supports high standards for child care facilities.

Kerrie Schnake, the director of the program, explained, “The most critical point in human development is between birth and 3 years old. The experiences children have and the habits they form during this time lay the foundation for their later well-being. The South Carolina Program for Infant/Toddler Care works to help the adults who care for young children better understand how to establish sensitive, respectful and responsive relationships with infants and toddlers so that these young citizens grow into happy, productive and healthy adults. Intervening early to provide positive experiences and model positive and healthy behaviors is the best way to ensure that we become a more peaceful and healthy society.”

The SCPITC also provides training, technical assistance and resources for home visiting programs that

“Come sit down with us and get to know us. Because when you come in and ask our community to give you information, especially medical history, you’re asking us to expose who we are.”

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more isolated due to poverty and poor infrastructure, as did the populations living there. This isolation allowed a unique culture to develop. The Gullah language, for example, is a distinct creole made up of English and several West African languages, including Krio, Swahili, Igbo, Mandinka and Yoruba, as well as a smattering of Spanish, Portuguese and Native American loanwords. It developed beyond a simple pidgin into a natural language in its own right, with its own unique grammatical structure.

The Gullah language has been viewed by many whites as simply broken English, a mark of poor education, and Gullah–Geechees have been stigmatized as a result.

Goodwine says this leads many in the community to be mistrustful of strangers.

“If folks don’t know you, they’ll hide who they are,” she said. “They’ll protect themselves.”

This can present obvious difficulties for researchers and health care professionals interacting with these populations.

“We remember Tuskeegee,” Goodwine said, referring to the infamous medical experiments conducted between 1932 and 1972 by the U.S. Public Health Service, in which rural African–American populations were intentionally infected with syphilis under the guise of free health care in order to study the disease.

A long history of what Goodwine calls “medical apartheid” has tainted the relationship between

encourage positive parenting and child development, school readiness and also help prevent child abuse.

Another important function of SCPITC is advocating for mothers to breastfeed their babies. They point to research that proves breastfed babies are less likely to become overweight children and have a lower lifetime risk of developing Type 2 diabetes. Recognizing that mothers often stop breastfeeding when they return to work and place their child in day care, SCPITC educates child care providers on how to help mothers continue to breast feed their babies.

Key is happy that the entire age spectrum from birth through high school is now covered under the center’s roof.

“Kerrie and her team joining the BCCW team allows for close collaboration between our similar programs. Reaching children and their families from the start is especially important.”

Schnake is thrilled to be a part of the MUSC BCCW. “It’s an incredible opportunity for SCPITC and Docs Adopt to learn from and enhance each program's work,” she said. “Dr. Key is an amazing partner. We’re so fortunate to have found such a visionary advocate for children’s well–being!”

Marquetta Goodwine

Queen Quet pours a libation, a ritual offering of water, to her ancestors and God. communities of color and the medical establishment.

To overcome this legacy, she said, the community needs to be included in the research process.

“You need to explain to us what you’re doing,” Goodwine said. “Don’t think we’re stupid and can’t understand. Come sit down with us and get to know us.

Because when you come in and ask our community to give you information, especially medical history, you’re asking us to expose who we are. Would you do that with a total stranger?

“So, instead of coming and waving your papers you want filled out, just talk to the people, let them see you

and get to know you. That’s how you open the door, a door that otherwise won’t open unless you come by ambulance.”

The view among the Gullah–Geechee community, Goodwine said, is this: “They see doctors come to their houses and they think they’re hospice — they run you off like buzzards. They don’t want you there.”

But, Gullah–Geechee culture, Goodwine believes, offers a way forward. As a pidgin language, she explained, Gullah was used to bridge differences and facilitate communication between vastly different groups.

“Gullah–Geechee,” she said, “is a culture of collaboration. If we want to change the attitude of the community, the only way we do that is the way our ancestors did it — though we may speak different languages at first, we need to find the things we have in common and start building a new language that we can all understand.”

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Misenhalter hopes to provide more music therapy opportunities in the future, because it helps the students learn, focus and feel good.

The MUSiC musicians clearly feel the same way.

These multi-talented individuals are said to use both the left and right side of their brains to make creative connections between science and art. They understand the benefits music brings to patient interaction and patient care. Green explained, “It was easy to see the therapeutic relevance — the burden of autism centers around an inability to communicate and music therapy provides a novel approach to allow these kids to foster social communications skills and express themselves through a musical channel.”

Motts agreed. “It's profoundly compelling, as is CAA as a whole — it’s run by people who care and want the best for their kids.”

Yeh, too, concurs that music is a powerful social connector. She believes her experience as an artist and performer will make her a better physician and professional. “The thing is, through music, you come to realize you can connect to all sorts, to anyone.

The act of playing an instrument itself is a form of communication.”

MUSC Live Bands and Performers: Personality Man: John Booker (Research Specialist); Voodoo Doctor: Dr. Peter Zwerner (cardiologist, et al.); William Clinckscales and Joseph "Pud" Ivey (COM2);Trigemigals: Anna Williams, Johanna Nunez, Rabun Jones, Katie Gray, and Kathryn Oelsner (COM2);Jon Turner (COM2); Corey Hopkins (COM2); MG and the Hazmats: Mike Green (COM2); Thomas Anderson (neurosurgeon, MUSC East Cooper); Milanak and Rublee (Melissa Milanak is a Ph.D., Department of Psychiatry); NOTA: Dr. Bayne Selby, (Interventional Radiology et al.); Casey Kundert (College of Nursing) and Susan Noh (College of Dental Medicine)

MUSC Live Benefit Concert April 18 Doors open at 7:30 p.m.

The Royal American Tickets: $5, available at https://www. eventbrite.com/e/musc-live-tickets or call (644) 922-5075.

For information on the concert, contact gremich@musc.edu. Donations are welcome via http://gofundme.com/musclive.

For information on CAA, visit http://www. charlestonautismacademy.org/about_us.

Costumes and celebration at Match Day By helen aDaMs Public Relations Lauren Wingo loves costumes, her niece Olivia and the idea of doing her medical residency at Emory University in Atlanta. This morning she had a space suit on and Olivia in her arms, but she wasn’t sure if Emory was in her future.

Wingo is graduating from MUSC, and on March 20 she found out where she “matched” for her residency.

Like every other medical student, she had a list of favorites but no control over where she’d end up.

That was in the hands of the hospitals she expressed an interest in and the National Resident Matching Program, which uses a mathematical algorithm to pair students with hospitals that have a place for them.

The program tries to match the students with their top picks, but that’s not always possible.

So Wingo had good reason to feel anxious.

“Something great’s going to happen,” she said. “I’m just figuring out where.”

As the Charleston Music Hall filled with other medical students dressed in costumes based on a 90s movie theme, Chela Brown and her husband James were on edge too. Chela was graduating and her husband would follow where her medical career led.

“I’m a ball of nerves and energy right now,” said Chela, from Eutawville, South Carolina. “I hope I’m in the Southeast.”

Another medical student was waiting and hoping too, with the added pressure of a reality TV crew following him around. Josh Tavernier and his wife, MUSC Master’s in Health Administration student Meghan Tavernier, are about to appear on a show for the FYI Network called “Arranged,” about newlyweds.

“You’ll have to tune in if you want the lowdown,” Josh said. It starts airing next month.

There was a much shorter delay in finding out where he and his wife are heading for his residency.

They and more than 150 other medical students and

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photos by Anne Thompson, Digital Imaging

Class of 2015 medical students participated in the March 20 Match Day event at the Charleston Music Hall. their families and friends would find out at the same time: 11:30 that morning, the official moment for opening the envelopes containing their residency match information.

Medical college faculty went with the 90s movie theme as they took to the stage to welcome the students.

Interim Dean Deborah Deas dressed as Morticia from “The Addams Family,” and her colleagues filled out the rest of the cast from the Addams Family movies. “We thought we needed to get into the spirit of it and show them we’re a family,” Deas said. “This is exciting for us.

We saw them come in four years ago and the time has passed so quickly.”

At 11:30, air horns blew and confetti flew, and students ripped open their envelopes.

Wingo’s wait was over. The astronaut-suited student waved her match sheet in the air. “I got it,” she said.

“Emergency medicine at Emory University. It’s a

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contributions that are deserving of this award.”

Carpenter is an associate professor with the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences who conducts research through the Hollings Cancer Center’s Cancer Control Program. His research, mostly funded through the National Institutes of Health, focuses on tobacco use.

Kathleen Brady, M.D., Ph.D., director of the South Carolina Clinical and Translational Research Institute and provost in clinical and translational science at MUSC, said the selection of Halushka and Carpenter as Governor’s Award winners recognizes the important contributions they’re making in their field. “This is a wonderful reflection of the incredible scientific community that we have here at MUSC.”

Dr. Matthew Carpenter, center, won the Governor’s Young Scientist Award for Excellence in Scientific Research.

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big program and I really like that. I want to train somewhere that I’ll see everything.”

Chela Brown wore a costume inspired by "The Matrix." “I’m going to Augusta,” she said. “Internal medicine residency. It’s awesome! I’m so excited.”

Then it was time for the students to go on stage and announce their matches to everyone. Some were solo while others brought family members. Former professional football player-turned-med student Samkon Gado went on stage with his wife and son and announced he’s headed to St. Louis University Hospital

Lauren Wingo shares news of her residency match to Emory University’s Emergency Medicine program.

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One by one, the students shared their news with As he and his classmates wrap up their time as classmates. Tavernier, the reality show cast member, medical students, they’re preparing for the next level announced he and his wife are headed to Indiana of training. They’ll be resident physicians for three to University for a transitional year, then a radiology seven years or more, working under the supervision of residency at Vanderbilt University. “I ended up getting experienced doctors. MUSC had a 99 percent match my top picks for both years,” Tavernier said. “Both rate post SOAP (Supplemental Offer and Acceptance residencies.”

Program) with students headed to prestigious What was it like having a TV crew following him institutions from coast to coast, including Yale, during this stressful time? “I’ve kind of gotten used to Stanford, Emory, Johns Hopkins, the Mayo Clinic and it,” Tavernier said after he got off stage. “They were at the Cleveland Clinic. our wedding. They’ve been with us for a lot of things.”

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