MUSC Catalyst 6-5-2015

June 5, 2015

MEDICAL UNIVERSITY of SOUTH CAROLINA

Vol. 33, No. 39

Jenkins family funds largest gift to Children’s Hospital Family’s relationship with Children’s Hospital comes full circle

By Allyson Crowell Office of Development & Alumni Affairs

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hawn Jenkins carries eight pages of paper with him wherever he goes.

From family vacations to international business trips to the day his company went public on Wall Street, he makes sure that those eight pages – now yellowed with two decades of time and travel – remain close at hand. They are, after all, where this chapter of his life began.

Jenkins’ daughter, Olivia, was born in 1995 with torticollis, a fairly common but alarming condition in which a baby’s neck tilts to one side. At the time, Jenkins pulled in about $18,000 a year, selling cars and copiers and working nights and weekends managing databases for the man who would later become his business partner.

“The bills were coming in, and I was a young guy overwhelmed with the pressure,” Jenkins said. “That experience was the birth of Benefitfocus. I wrote down on those eight pages how we could simplify the process, how we could use the internet to manage health care in one place.”

He told this story during a recent interview at the Daniel Island headquarters of Benefitfocus, a company that does just what he outlined; it provides an online platform where employers, insurance companies and customers can manage benefits. Beside him sat Olivia, now a healthy 20-year-old woman who works as a corporate event planner for the company.

“Benefitfocus was created out of interaction with the MUSC Children’s Hospital. It was the key spark,” Jenkins said. “Being able to do this is kind of like coming full circle for us.”

By this, he means his family’s $25 million pledge to build a new MUSC Children’s Hospital. The facility will provide not only the most technologically-advanced equipment but a place most conducive to healing -- where patients with cancer and blood disorders can overlook outdoor spaces, where newborn babies can stay close to their mothers and where physicians

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Charleston businessman Shawn Jenkins, second left, celebrates a special moment with Children’s Hospital patient Zion Thomas, far left, Jenkins’ wife, Jocelyn and daughter, Ryleigh; son, Alex; daughter, Olivia; patient Hunter Taylor and former NICU patient Hana Dorman at the May 21 program and reception held at MUSC’s campus. can provide the best care across the miles through telemedicine.

As MUSC President David Cole, M.D., FACS, put it, “This is not an MUSC-Charleston thing. This is providing care for the state.”

The MUSC Shawn Jenkins Children’s Hospital, a $350 million project, opens in 2019 at Calhoun Street and Courtenay Drive, near Ashley River Tower.

“It’s a blessing for us to be able to do this,”

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Olivia said. “I think we are going to help each other a lot. We want to bring our culture to MUSC and bring MUSC’s culture to us.”

The culture at Benefitfocus includes a red 1959 Chevrolet Corvette convertible in the lobby and a Ducati motorcycle in the common space upstairs. Guitars hang from the walls, and employees are encouraged not only to share

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‘Making a difference every day’ Employees of the Month Award Justyn Lamb ART Cardiac Acute Care “The first morning I saw a patient on 5E when he was admitted, he told me during PT how much he loves reading and the newspaper.

The patient explained that his son works for the newspaper and that is one of the only things they still have left to converse over. After working with this patient, I relayed to his R.N. Justyn what he told me; within minutes I saw Justyn gathering all the change she could to go downstairs and purchase the daily paper.

This was on a Thursday. When I came back to see him on Monday morning he was in great spirits and began telling me the days’ current events. I saw the pile of newspapers on his bedside table and he excitedly told me how Justyn had been getting him the daily paper along with many magazines. He explained that his son had visited over the weekend and because of Justyn he was able to talk to him about current events for the first time in weeks. The smile on this

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patient’s face was priceless and because of Justyn simple gesture of delivering him the newspaper every morning he was in great spirits all around. I see Justyn going above and beyond for her patients every day but this specific gesture did not go unnoticed.”

Nominated by Sinead Farrelly Thomas Flathman Safety & Security “On Friday, March 21 a technician from an outside vendor was performing repair work on the entry doors to the 10 west nursing unit.

After he left on Friday afternoon it was discovered that the doors could not be opened from the monitor at the nursing station; a staff member had to physically walk to the entrance of the unit and hand swipe the pad to open the doors. Thomas came up Friday night to check out the problem with the doors himself. He had the technician return to assess the problem. The technician returned, checked the equipment he

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had switched out earlier and deemed that it was working properly. The technician then took apart the monitor at the nurse’s station and after putting it back together told the charge nurse that the monitor needed a part, and it could not be ordered until Monday.

The technician reported all of this information to facilities staff. Facilities stated they would order the part but that it would be installed on Tuesday at the earliest. It was around 11 p.m. when the technician left. Thomas was getting off his shift and told the charge nurse he would be back the next day possibly with a replacement monitor. Saturday afternoon about 4 p.m. Thomas showed up with a replacement monitor he found over in the old Charleston Memorial Hospital building. He switched out the monitors hoping it would fix the problem; unfortunately it did not.

Thomas then decided to call the door company back hoping maybe we would get a different technician this time.

Thomas and 10 West staff felt that it was not the monitor because the doors did not stop functioning properly until after the equipment had been switched on Friday. A different technician came out and had the problem fixed in 2 minutes. He found that there was a component on this replaced equipment

that had been improperly wired. It was Thomas’ unrelenting drive that resulted in our doors being repaired.

He took the initiative to listen to the staff and to troubleshoot the problem.

He understood that with the doors being inoperable it was more than an inconvenience to staff but also a safety issue. It took someone away from the desk who was answering call bells and telephones or staff away from patients to answer the door. Thomas recognized leaving the doors to the unit open was not an option either due to the patient population. He exhibited professionalism and excellence as he looked for creative ways to fix our problem. The doors have worked great since then. The doors were operational again on Saturday evening rather than Tuesday afternoon. Thank you to Thomas for going over and beyond your duties.”

Nominated by Linda McDonald

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Research and Development Foundation leader remembered

By J. ryne DAnielson Public Relations

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etired Naval Vice Admiral Albert Joseph Baciocco Jr. was a founding member and board chairman of the MUSC Foundation for Research and Development, a non-profit organization that collaborates with the business community to commercialize new inventions and discoveries made at the medical university.

Baciocco died May 22 at age 84.

When MUSC launched the FRD in 1995, Baciocco must have seemed tailor-made for a leadership role.

Born in San Francisco, he attended the United States Naval Academy, graduating just in time to serve out the final days of the Korean War. During a 2014 interview for the Veterans History Project, Baciocco shared that his ship, the USS St. Paul, fired what might have been the final shot of the war. “I think the round landed in North Korea about 23 seconds after the cease-fire,” he said. “I always thought that was an appropriate end to the war.”

As the interview continued, Baciocco explained that aboard ship, there was a lot of downtime. “We had a Monopoly board so we played Monopoly all the way across the Pacific.” He soon learned two things: how to be prepared for anything and how to beat Marines at Monopoly. “While I’m very proud of the Marines, and I love that service, I must say, they were not the best Monopoly players.”

In 1957, Baciocco transferred to the USS Wahoo, a diesel-electric submarine, before becoming one of the first volunteers for the Navy’s new nuclear submarine program. “I learned to be a naval officer on the St. Paul,” he said. “I learned to be a submariner on the Wahoo.”

Baciocco quickly went from student to teacher, teaching undergraduate-level physics and reactor engineering to enlisted men at the Nuclear Power School in New London, Connecticut. “That was a great experience. I learned to speak on my feet. I learned to teach. I used to say that Enrico Fermi was rolling over in his grave at some of the examples I used in class,” he said, referring to the Italian physicist who built the first nuclear reactor at the University of Chicago.

Baciocco wasn’t in the classroom for long. After serving on the commissioning crew of the USS Scorpion, he went on to serve as executive officer of the USS Barb and commanding officer of the USS Gato— all nuclear-powered attack submarines.

From 1969 to 1982, Baciocco served as commander of Submarine Division 42, Submarine Squadron 4 and Submarine Group 6, during which time he was responsible for more than 40 submarines and 20,000 military personnel. In 1982, he was appointed commander of Naval Base Charleston.

Baciocco served as chief of naval research from 1978 to 1981. In 1983, he was promoted to vice admiral and

appointed director of Research, Development, Test and Evaluation in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, where he was responsible for oversight of naval research and development and tasked with managing a budget in excess of $10 billion.

While on active duty, Baciocco was awarded many commendations and unit citations, including the Distinguished Service Medal, Legion of Merit, United Nations Medal, and French National Order of Merit.

After 34 years of service, Baciocco Jr. Baciocco retired from the Navy in 1987 but remained very active in the Charleston community. Among his many ventures, he raised more than $2 million to fund the Cold War Submarine Memorial at Patriot’s Point, which features the actual sail and rudder of the USS Lewis and Clark, a ballistic missile submarine stationed in Charleston throughout the Cold War. “The legacy of Charleston is built on deeper things than wine and cheese and social gatherings,” Baciocco said in the Veterans History Project interview.

Baciocco went on to serve as a member of the National Research Council, Naval Studies Board and Army Science Board and as a trustee for the South Carolina Research Authority. He was a senior fellow and regent of the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies and a lifetime national associate of the National Academies, which includes the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine and National Research Council.

Baciocco served on the boards of several private companies, including Honeywell, Nekton Research and Pacific Nuclear Systems, of which he was the president and chief executive. He holds honorary doctorates from Florida Atlantic University and MUSC. Michael Rusnak, executive director of the FRD, called Baciocco an indispensable leader. “As a founding member and former chairman of the Foundation for Research and Development, Admiral Baciocco’s commitment and contributions to MUSC have been unparalleled. We owe him a debt of gratitude for his tireless dedication to our board and our cause.”

Baciocco is survived by his wife, Mary Jane Baciocco, whom he married in June 1955, four children and nine grandchildren.

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Top photo: Sgt. Brandon Carter, left, and Sgt. Christopher Williams distribute information at the 16th annual Hurricane Awareness Day. Left photo: Occupational Health and Safety’s Chloe Blackman talks to employees about preparedness. The event was held in the MUSC Horseshoe May 28. Sponsored

by Risk Management, representatives were present from Charleston County Emergency Management Division, The South Carolina Emergency Response Task force, the National Weather Service, East Cooper Community Outreach, the South Carolina National Guard, and the American Red Cross. Hurricane season began June 1.

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photos by Anne Thompson, Digital Imaging Shawn Jenkins, founder and CEO of Benefitfocus, donated $25 million to MUSC to help build the new children’s hospital. The Jenkins family greeted employees at the May 21 naming celebration held on the lawn behind the Drug Discovery building.

FAmily Continued from Page One meals but to jam together after hours and to create the work environment that best stimulates their talents. On Fridays, they can bring their dogs in.

Benefitfocus would fit right in with Silicon Valley corporations – think Apple’s on-campus orchard, Google’s giant slides and bicycles and Facebook’s music studio and arcade – but it departs from the norm in Charleston. Then again, Jenkins always has been a little ahead of his time.

He grew up in Daytona Beach, Florida, with the intention of becoming a commercial pilot and flight instructor.

Raised by a single mom, Jenkins knew what it meant to worry about money – but his mother also taught him that someone else always has even less.

Shortly after graduation from flight school, Jenkins met a man who ran a Summerville-based nonprofit that sent construction teams to developing countries. Jenkins decided to take a detour and accept a job with the mission, making $10,000 a year.

By the time the mission relocated five years later, Jenkins had started a family.

He chose to stay in Charleston and began pursuing his master’s in business administration.

He picked up part-time work with Mason Holland, founder of the Mount

Pleasant investment firm American Pensions, while he completed his degree.

Jenkins later became a full-time employee and eventual part owner of American Pensions. In the meantime, Olivia was born – and so was the spark for a new company.

Jenkins and Holland founded Benefitfocus in June of 2000, three months after the NASDAQ crashed and the dot-com bubble burst – and a little more than a year before Sept. 11 changed the way every company in America handled commerce. To top it off, many businesses in Charleston still didn’t have the internet, and those that did were reluctant to trust websites with private medical information or even credit cards for payment.

“It was really a contrarian time to start a tech company,” Jenkins said.

“I’ve gotten every objection in the book, including, ‘I don’t have the internet.’”

But with every contemporary who questioned his decision, Jenkins just pushed harder. Whenever a prospective client lacked internet, he would give over his own AOL account for that person to use and try out Benefitfocus. He often returned home from work at night to find that a potential customer was still logged on to his AOL account.

Benefitfocus worked out of an old Walmart building in Mount Pleasant back in those startup days. The company

Jenkins met with pediatric heart patient Hunter Taylor and mom, Nikki Taylor, left, at the MUSC event celebrating the naming of the new MUSC Shawn Jenkins Children’s Hospital.

“What’s really compelling to us and what got me really excited — is this is going to be a fun 40 years of my life.

This isn’t a one-time thing.”

Shawn Jenkins relied on angel investors to get off the ground but soon landed its first large customer, Piggly Wiggly supermarkets.

When Jenkins and Holland sold American Pensions in 2003, they used those assets to further grow Benefitfocus.

Benefitfocus now operates in Charleston, Greenville, San Francisco and Tulsa, Oklahoma. The company went public in 2013 and broke ground that same year to expand its headquarters from 13 acres to its current 40 acres on Daniel Island.

Jenkins describes his family’s gift to the children’s hospital as the next leg of their career together. “What’s really compelling to us – and what got me really excited – is this is going to be a fun 40 years of my life,” he said. “This isn’t a one-time thing.”

Jenkins wants to help take MUSC’s medical ideas to market, “to bridge the chasm between research science and commercialization” and to pitch in with old-fashioned volunteering. He describes his role as “standing in the gap” for patients and families in need in South Carolina.

In Jenkins’ quiet moments — when he wakes up in the middle of the night, when he’s driving home from work or sitting in the airport — he thinks about the people at the MUSC Children’s Hospital, changing diapers, monitoring machines, caring for sick kids. “Our contributions as the Jenkins family seem so small, compared to what you do,” he said at a recent dedication ceremony.

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FAmily Continued from Page Six Long before he considered this donation, Jenkins sought counsel from Anita Zucker, the CEO of InterTech Group who is well known for her generous philanthropy. Zucker shared at the recent MUSC Shawn Jenkins Children’s Hospital dedication how she and her late husband, Jerry, once led their nowgrown children on a shopping spree, encouraging them to choose any toys that they wanted. The kids picked out so much that the couple rented a van to pick it up. As the family pulled away with their loot, Anita and Jerry delivered the news: “These toys aren’t for you. We are driving them to the Jenkins Orphanage, and you are giving them to kids who don’t have anything.”

Their children cried, Zucker said.

But then they saw the children at the orphanage, kids with no possessions, receiving these gifts — and they understood. “They presented the gifts to the children at Jenkins, and that truly touched them,” she said.

The Zuckers used that day to teach their children about service and philanthropy. “It’s not always about money,” Zucker said. “It’s about time, talent and treasure.”

After learning Zucker’s philosophy on giving, Jenkins adopted her method of choosing philanthropic projects: by holding a family meeting.

A month before announcing the gift to MUSC, the Jenkins family gathered around the dinner table. Shawn presented the opportunity and various options and then asked for feedback from his wife, Jocelyn; 22-year-old son,

Alex; Olivia; and 3-year-old daughter, Ryleigh.

“I had to make them work a little bit to think of the downsides,” he said. He reminded them of the increased publicity and the fact that, for the children, this decision put their inheritance on the line. He and Jocelyn also are expecting twins, a boy and a girl, in October.

Ryleigh remained quiet for more than an hour, as the family weighed the decision. “She understood that something big was going on,” Jenkins said.

Historically, his family had given anonymously. When Jenkins recently met a prominent volunteer at MUSC’s Hollings Cancer Center, he said only, “Nice to meet you. I’m helping out with the new children’s hospital.”

Despite their modesty, the family members realized that they wanted a certain level of attachment and accountability with this project. They looked to Arnold Palmer as a model.

The former golf legend and his late wife, Winnie, helped with fundraising for the Orlando facility that became the Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children.

Jenkins wanted to stay involved with MUSC in the same way, not only in the years leading up to the 2019 hospital opening but for decades to come. He turned the decision over to his family, a moment Olivia said she will never forget.

“He went around the table and asked, ‘Why shouldn’t we do this?’” she said.

“And it was silent.”

photos by Anne Thompson, Digital Imaging Jenkins and his family met with MUSC employees and Children’s Hospital patients and their families throughout the May 21 reception.

Editor’s note: Reprinted with permission from Thank You Notes, Office of Development and Alumni Affairs

photo by Sarah Pack, Public Relations Anita Zucker, InterTech Group CEO, right, talks with Dr. Charles Darby, founder of the MUSC Children’s Hospital, prior to the celebration.

Shawn Jenkins shares a hug with Abigail Lee, 4, a pediatric patient who recently finished her last round of chemotherapy at the Children’s Hospital. To view a photo gallery of the event, visit https://depthtml. musc.edu/pr/

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Photos and fun activities mark hospital week events By mikie hAyes Public Relations

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s he thought about his schedule, he worried the itinerary for National Hospital Week might be overly ambitious. Grueling, even. But during this celebratory week, this new sheriff in town knew his presence was expected far and wide. He would not disappoint. He couldn’t. He was the Cawbblehead.

That being said, at certain times during the week, it was imperative that the man of the hour make a point to conceal himself from the masses. But to no avail. His loyal followers were never far behind, snapping selfies with him in bushes, on hospital wards and outside of operating rooms. At one point, as personal appearances became simply unrelenting, it appeared he was headed for total exhaustion. Thankfully, he was in the right place – Ashley River Tower – when Margaret Stark and Jennifer Caldwell, both certified registered nurse anesthetists, stumbled upon him face down on a ledge, near a planter.

Immediately, Stark started chest compressions as Caldwell began to intubate him.

Stark admitted, it was a close call, “We found him down, without a pulse, obviously resulting from his strenuous responsibilities surrounding National Hospital Week,” she said.

“We resuscitated him, and while he rebounded quickly, we were not prepared for what came next.” With a smile plastered on his face, and giving them two thumbs up, signaling he was OK, he hopped off the ledge and left ART – against medical advice. “We did our best to dissuade him, but apparently, he had places to be. He just bobbled his way out the door,” she said, amazed at his resilience.

Paparazzi stalkings around campus grew to such a point, that try as he might to covertly grab a meatball on parmesan bread at Subway, there proved to be no rest for a man of his stature – diminutive though that may be. In fact, he was heard saying, “I now truly know what life is like for Tom Cruise.” And then he nodded his head vigorously as if to agree with himself.

On May 10, MUSC CEO Patrick

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Kidney Transplant Program’s Amy Nowacki’s photo entry, “Don’t Burst My Bubble,” won in the Hospital Week’s Online Photo Contest’s Pets Category.

Medicine Acute Service Line’s Sharon DeGrace, Transplant Services’ Amy Hauser and Dr. Patrick Cawley scooped out bowls of ice cream at the Main Hospital cafeteria, IOP Cafe and ART cafeteria for evening shift employees.

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Anesthesia’s Margaret Stark and Jennifer Caldwell prepare to intubate the Cawbblehead.

Cawley, M.D., kicked off National Hospital week and served as an allaround good sport as his “mini-me,” a

bobblehead named Cawbblehead, served as the master of ceremonies of sorts.

Inviting the MUSC Health team to get involved and celebrate National Hospital Week, the full-sized Cawley said, via video, “This is a great time to celebrate what happens in hospitals all around the nation. Each and every one of you should be proud that you work in a hospital because we do things every day that could be called miracles. That’s the theme this year: ‘Where miracles happen every day.’”

He congratulated everyone for working at the MUSC hospital and gave a bit of a heads up of what was to come during Hospital Week. “We’re going to have a lot of fun activities, so please take part,” he said to people. And with that, he introduced his “buddy” the Cawbblehead. It seemed there were exciting developments to come.

National Hospital Week, the nation's largest health care event, is a celebration

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ACTiviTies Continued from Page Eight of the history, technology and dedicated professionals who make facilities like MUSC beacons of confidence and care.

The CREW team, which stands for Collaboratively Recognizing Employees Within MUSC, served as the planning committee for Hospital Week, and they set out in a big way to outdo what they had done in years past.

Jennifer Gowder and Ali McAbee co-chaired the committee and were grateful to the entire team for the time and energy they devoted to making the week special. Gowder said, “It was a great week. The team worked really hard, and everybody got a big kick out of all the events, especially the Cawbblehead.

I’m really proud of the entire week. The photos were exceptional and the ice cream social for the night staff had the best participation we’ve seen in years.

Children’s Hospital’s Ryan Curry won second place in the Cawley on Campus Contest.

Sometimes it’s hard for them to feel included with the hours they work – it was nice to do something for them.

This year, we also combined efforts with MUSCP and the university side. It was very, very rewarding.”

After hours and hours spent planning and organizing to make it a special and enjoyable event for all of MUSC, the committee’s efforts were positively received and greatly appreciated.

Cawley spoke enthusiastically of the week as a whole and the planners in particular. “National Hospital Week was a great success in every way. I want to thank the CREW team who planned each event with such care, making it a banner week of celebration. Thanks, too, to everyone who came out and participated in the events and contests and made it a huge success. As this year’s theme reminds us, MUSC truly is a place where miracles happen every day.”

To celebrate the week, the committee offered everything from an ice cream social to trivia, baking and photography contests. The week leading up featured food trucks onsite every day in the Horseshoe and at Harbor View Office Tower. Employees could choose from a wide array of offerings from seven different vendors. When the food trucks roll up, it always signifies something fun will be happening on campus, and employees flocked from as far away as Cannon and Calhoun streets.

One of the highlights was a weeklong contest the team introduced called “Cawley on Campus” that encouraged everyone to find the hidden Cawbblehead. As he hid in remote areas around campus, Cawbblehead stealthily peaked out of plants and baskets, inviting all to take selfies with him. A dozen or so photos of people or teams posing with him were submitted. Three winners were

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Respiratory Therapy’s Dr. Andrew Goodwin, Scott Crego and Jeremy Blevins have some fun posing with the Cawbblehead. photo provided

chosen from among a hilarious array of entries.

First place went to Stark for her photo with Caldwell, resuscitating Pat Cawbblehead. Second place was awarded to Ryan Curry, R.N., a pediatric burn nurse, who tied a fishing pole around his neck in an effort to fish him out of Ashley “River” Tower. Jill Evans, a pediatric burn coordinator, took third place for doing a spot-on impersonation of his signature smile and thumbs up.

Other activities included fresh fruit

and granola bars being handed out all over campus and an online photo contest that yielded dozens of entries, proving that talent at MUSC far exceeds just medical skills.

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Celebrate the Urban Farm

Bring on summer: juicy to the sun: make sunscreen tomatoes, a more relaxed pace and part of your morning casual footwear. This month special routine. Begin by taking the Urban Farm events provide new challenge’s first survey at opportunities to take advantage of http://tinyurl.com/pcojr4f. this beautiful greenspace on the A link to the final survey MUSC campus. Social gatherings, will be sent at month’s end stress-relieving activities and urban to those who take the first bee lunch and learning are offered survey. as soil-free ways to appreciate the q Employee Fitness Series: relaxing atmosphere.

4:15 to 4:45 p.m., June q Walking Meditation in the 17; Pilates: A total body Urban Farm, 8:45 to 9 a.m., non-impact workout that Susan Johnson June 3 through June 24 (weatherstretches, strengthens and permitting) — A brief instruction lengthens the entire body with emphasis in mindfulness will be offered by on the core muscles. Free day pass to the Ramita Bonadonna, followed by slow, MUSC Wellness Center for participants. silent, mindful walking on the paths in Register at musc-empwell@musc.edu.

MUSC’s Urban Farm. q Fit Family Challenge — MUSC is q Beekeeping Lunch & Learn: Secrets partnering with Coca–Cola, Lowcountry of a happy hive, 12:15 to 12:45 p.m., Parent magazine, the S.C. Hospital Thursday, June 4 — Carmen Ketron, the Association and CVS for an 8–week new farm educator, the inter-dependence program in which residents are of honeybees and the growing trend challenged to get out and get active of urban beekeeping at the MUSC until June 29. As partners, MUSC is Honeybee Hive. Bring a lunch. providing resources to support families q Family-Friendly Yoga, 9 to 9:30 across the state to create healthier a.m., Saturday, June 13 — Join certified lifestyles. Participants can find support instructor Megan Fink at the MUSC via blogs, expert advice, wellness tips Urban Farm for a family-friendly yoga and informtion on activities at www. session appropriate for all. Limited musc.edu/ffc. Help MUSC become quantity of mats or bring one to class. the most active hospital in the state. q Herbal Potluck 4:30 to 6 p.m., For information, visit http://www.

Thursday, June 18 —Basil-inspired mock- myfitfamilychallenge.com. cocktails will be provided. Bring a dish q Worksite Screening: Thursday, to share. Email urbanfarm@musc.edu to June 25, Colbert Education Library, RSVP. Room 109. This screening is available Need culinary herbs for the dish? Stop to employees with the State Health by the farm and see what’s growing.

Plan (including the MUSC Health Carmen or Noni will be happy to cut Plan). Others can participate some to incorporate into an appetizer, for $46. Register at musc.edu/ entrée or dessert to share. employeewellness/2015Worksite The Urban Farm is a half-acre living Screening. classroom adjacent to the Dental Clinics on the corner of Bee and President MUSC Wellness Center Streets. It is open to the MUSC q HITS (High Intensity Training community and all the lives touched System) — Make yourself faster, throughout South Carolina. Weekly stronger and more agile through this sessions offer hands-on chances to plant, six-week program. Sign up at the tend and possibly harvest the many MembershipDesk. Visit www.musc.edu/ crops grown. The Farm is also available hsc or 792-5757. for lunches, departmental meetings and clubs. Email urbanfarm@musc.edu to MUSC Urban Farm learn more. q Midday Work and Learn — 12:15 to 12:45 p.m., Tuesdays Employee Wellness q Early Bird Maintenance — 7:30 to 8:30 q June Monthly Mindful Challenge — a.m., Wednesdays Protect yourself from excess exposure q Sunset Work and Learn — 4 to 5 p.m., Thursday Kiki Cooper, center, and family.

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South Carolina State Treasurer Curtis Loftis Jr., left, shakes hands with MUSC Hospital CEO Patrick Cawley.

Loftis announced the third annual Palmetto Baby grant program at MUSC on May 27. As part of the Future Scholars 529 College Savings Plan, every baby born in the state on May 29 is eligible for a $529 grant to go toward a new or existing Future Scholar account.

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ACTiviTies Continued from Page Nine “Reflection on the Ashley”; in the Pets category, Amy Nowacki with the Kidney Transplant Program took the prize for her photo “Don’t burst my bubble”; and in the Best Unit Selfie Category, Andre Hebra, M.D., Pediatric Surgery, for his work, “Helping hand.” Overall, 51 entries were received.

The ice cream social was a big hit, and staff loved having Cawley there scooping the cool treat. Employees also showed their skills as they got deliciously creative in the MUSC Bake-Off, whipping up creative confections for the judges. The submissions were judged on presentation, originality, complexity, flavor and overall impression. Three employees wowed the judges and took home first place in their categories: Tim Price of Plant Maintenance for his bread creation, Amy Steele of Ben Sawyer Family Medicine in the cakes and cupcakes category, and Colleen Cloud of the Division of Research for her stellar Thank You to the following businesses for their donations: Barre Evolution, Fort Sumer Cruises, Blush Beauty Studio, Kickin Chicken, the Charleston Battery, Matthews Book Store, Eyecare Eyewear of Summerville, Charleston Harbor Tours, Sports Clips, Charleston Stage, The Charleston Angler, Cinnebarre, Urban Nirvana, Fear No Easel, Wal-Mart, Finn's Brick Oven, MUSC Wellness Center, Five Loaves, Halo, Fleet Landing, Charleston County Parks & Recreation, Sign Me Up, and Dunes West Golf Course.

The CREW TEAM: Sarah De Barros, Children’s Hospital; Heather Plunkett, MUHA HR; Audrey Wilder, Ambulatory PreOp clinic; Angel Morton, Psychiatry; Bernice Fishburne, MUHA HR; Matthias Frye, Volunteer & Guest Services; Charlotte Reikofski, Peds Respiratory Therapy; Lauren Seidenschmidt, Surgical Trauma ICU; Toni Mullins, Clinical Neurophysiology; Cassandra Whaley, Outpatient Billing Office; Mary Shaw White, Office of Chief Analytics; Joy Burns, Ambulatory Care Admin; and Sarah Boller, Respiratory Therapy. use of a special ingredient.

The judges, who included Chef Brett Cunningham of Dietary Services, Brian Whitsitt, the business manager of the Neurosciences service line, and Joanne Widener, secretary of the ambulatory care operating room, presented prizes to the lucky winners, ranging from baking pans to gift certificates to Fear No Easel.

Trivia contest winners included Robin Smith, Bridget Micka, Joanne Hair, and Andre Jennings.

The week culminated on May 15 with MUSC Night at Joe Riley Stadium watching the Charleston RiverDogs play.

Facilities’ Ashley Suzanne Grimm’s “Reflections on the Ashley” won in the Charleston Theme Category.

Early Bird Registration for Swing for a Cure Branch-Crawford Memorial Tourney Patriots Point Links-Mt. Pleasant

Friday & Saturday, July 10-11, 2015 The Branch-Crawford Memorial Kick-off Party will be at Alhambra Hall July 10 with tourney to follow on July 11. Proceeds will benefit sarcoma cancer research at MUSC. Register at http://tinyurl.com/qbekd9y For information, vsll 792-9335 or 478-2250

MUSC Wellness Center & Division of Developmental Pediatrics present the

Piece It Together Summer Program June 23 to July 30

New resource to share research successes Attention all research faculty, students and staff: Do you have exciting research news or findings that you would like to see shared with the MUSC community, other scientific institutions and/or the general public?

To help increase awareness about the research successes found here at MUSC, we have created a dedicated email address through which that information can be collected and appropriately disseminated.

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Send an email to research-comm@ musc.edu with some basic information about what you would like to have shared, and you will be contacted by a communications expert who will help deliver your message to the appropriate audience(s).

Share this address with everyone in your research cohort and encourage its use whenever appropriate. Help spread the word out about the amazing work being done here at MUSC.

An exercise, nutrition, stress reduction intervention program for teens and young adults with autism spectrum and/or mild neurodevelopmental disorders Goals of this program are to increase physical activity, improve body composition, promote healthy food choices, broaden social skills, teach relaxation skills and improve mood and calmness.

Register at http://academicdepartments.musc.edu/hsc/ programs/pieceittogether.htm Sponsored by the SC Translational Clinical Research Institute, the SC Developmental Disabilities Council, MUSC Urban Farm, Unlimited Possibilities Mentoring Services and the Lowcountry Autism Foundation

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Dental students help out at Special Olympics at Ft. Jackson

By J. ryne DAnielson Public Relations Students in the College of Dental Medicine volunteered for the Special Olympics Summer Games held at the Fort Jackson Army base in Columbia, South Carolina, May 2. “The students are to be commended for all their hard work,� said Ted McGill, DMD, associate professor and director of the Division of Restorative Dentistry, who led the team. “We registered, screened, and applied fluoride varnish to about 120 athletes. We also made protective mouth pieces, gave oral hygiene instruction, and handed out goody bags.� “Students financed their own food and travel,� McGill added, “which showed a deep commitment to the Special Olympic athletes.�

In previous years, the dental team had been led by Carlos Salinas, DMD, who passed away in January. Salinas was the South Carolina director for the Special Olympics Special Smiles program, which provides comprehensive oral health care information and preventative services to Special Olympics athletes. “I was a participant over some of those years,� McGill said. “I never realized until now how much preparation and attention to detail was involved. Dr. Salinas continues to be greatly missed.�

McGill was eager to express his gratitude to Michelle Ziegler, DDS, assistant professor in the College of Dental Medicine, who encouraged her American Academy of Developmental Medicine and Dentistry group to volunteer, as well as to the soldiers from the Fort Jackson dental clinic who participated in the event.

Top photo: Dental students Katherine Rutland, from left, Caitlin McPherson, Hanna Rustin and Anna Moorehead pose for a shot with a goldmedal winner.

Left: Dental Student Hannah Rustin practices proper brushing technique with a Special Olympics athlete.

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