Aug. 15, 2014
MEDICAL UNIVERSITY of SOUTH CAROLINA
Vol. 32, No. 50
Honeybee observation hive offers sweet view By Dawn Brazell Public Relations
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ome of the hardest workers at MUSC just got new glass digs in a palatial garden setting. It’s a well–deserved honor, according to Susan Johnson, Ph.D., director of the Office of Health Promotion at the Medical University of South Carolina who orchestrated the July 31 celebration of the new, observational hive in MUSC’s half–acre Urban Farm, located on the corner of Bee and President streets. MUSC partnered with the non-profit The Bee Cause Project in getting the hive as part of a pay–it–forward model. “Tami Enright gave us our hive for free, but we’re raising money for the next one,” Johnson said of the $2,000 hive. “We’ve decided to do an annual fundraiser for them. We want to continue to promote the cause. It’s so critical for food pollination and the bee colonies.” Honeybee populations worldwide are dwindling. Though not all causes are known, factors contributing to the decline include mite infestation and a type of beetle that can clean honey out of a hive in just weeks causing the bees to starve, said Enright, the executive director of The Bee Cause Project. Another disturbing phenomenon is known as Colony Collapse Disorder, which causes bees to abandon their hives en masse. This disorder was first documented in 2006 when beekeepers in the U.S. experienced an unprecedented loss of
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A bee gathers pollen from a sunflower in MUSC’s Urban Farm. 30 to 90 percent of their hives during the winter. That loss has continued since then, averaging about 30 percent annually. It is thought there are several causes, including pesticide exposure, pathogens and parasites, and nutrition and management practices. Beyond helping a good cause, MUSC
Fellowships Awarded Mentoring fellowship aims to support women and research.
getting the hive fits perfectly into the Urban Farm’s educational goal, Johnson said. “The mission of the urban farm is to build and teach that connection about food and health, and sustainability and wellness. It gives us a chance to partner with an organization that fits our mission
and is also connected to the schools. We want to reach out to them and create those partnerships.” Enright said it’s a great partnership. “MUSC has such a nice reach with the community and the schools, and our
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Anthony Alberg Anthony Alberg, Ph.D., the Blatt Ness Endowed Chair in Oncology and associate director of Population Sciences, Department of Public Health Sciences, has been named interim director of Hollings Cancer Center. He replaces former director Andrew Kraft, M.D. and will assume his role Aug. 15.
evenTs 50 percent discount - 20th Annual Diabetes Symposium The 20th Annual Diabetes Fall Symposium is a two-day symposium designed to update primary health care professionals on current management and treatment guidelines for people with diabetes.
Jeffrey J. Borckardt
Jeff Borckardt, Ph.D., associate professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, has accepted the position of assistant provost of Interprofessional Initiatives. Borckardt is the director of the Division of BioBehavioral Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry. He completed an internship and post-doctoral training at MUSC in 2004. He continues to conduct active research projects in the Brain Stimulation Laboratory in conjunction with the Department of Anesthesiology.
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Officer for MUSC. Gunn has worked previously as a senior official at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and was elected to the S.C. House of Representatives. He will begin his role at MUSC in January 2015.
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Carrie Branch Levesque, second left to right, Giles Branch, Barbara Branch and Tyler Branch and Parker Branch join Lauren Whiteside, HCC Development associate, and Dr. Lee Leddy, far right, as they share more than $47,000 collected from the July 19 Annual Swing for A Cure Travis Branch Memorial Golf Tourney supporting sarcoma research.
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Kathleen Brady, M.D., Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and associate provost for Clinical and Translational Science, has been named interim associate provost for The Catalyst is published once a week. Paid adver tisements, which do not represent an endorsement by MUSC or the State of South Carolina, are handled by Island Publications Inc., Moultrie News, 134 Columbus St., Charleston, S.C., 843-849-1778 or 843-958-7490. E-mail: sales@moultrienews.com.
research. She also will serve as the MUSC Chief Scientific Officer and Institutional Official.
Anton Gunn Anton Gunn has been named Executive Director of Community Health Innovation and Chief Diversity
The program includes workshops with topics such as pharmacology, hospital guidelines for diabetes, and diet and nutrition, and is specifically designed for primary care physicians, endocrinologists, dieticians, pharmacists, PharmDs, RPhs and other professionals. The event will be held on Sept. 11 and 12 at the North Charleston Convention Center. Note that MUHA and MUSC Physicians and staff receive a 50 percent discount off the registration fee when registering for both days of the program. Contact Julie Benke-Bennett, 876-0968 or benkej@musc.edu. For information visit: http://www.musc. edu/diabetes.
Women’s Club accepting nominees for scholarships The Medical University Women’s Club is accepting applications for 2014 MUWC Scholarship Awards. The group plans to award a total of $15,000 in scholarships. All full-time MUSC students in their second or subsequent years from any of the six colleges are eligible. Previous applicants may also apply. Applications may be downloaded
from http://academicdepartments. musc.edu/womensclub/scholarship. htm. Deadline for submission is 4 p.m., Sept. 8. Applications may be submitted via email to muwcscholarship@gmail. com. For information, email Megan Zwerner at muwcscholarship@gmail. com.
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HCC celebrates state’s increase in HPV vaccine use By allison leggeTT Hollings Cancer Center The Center for Disease Control and Prevention in late July released the National Immunization Survey for Teens data showing that Human papillomavirus coverage increased “significantly” from 2012 to 2013 in only five states, with South Carolina among those states and heralded as an example of positive response to advocacy. South Carolina was mentioned by Anne Schuchat, M.D., director, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, in the July 24 CDC media telebriefing and in a corresponding article. In responding to media questions, Schuchat specifically noted Cervical Cancer Free South Carolina as an example of strategies states have used to help increase HPV coverage rates. Cervical Cancer Free SC was co– founded by MUSC assistant professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Hollings Cancer Prevention and Control Program member Jennifer Young Pierce, M.D., along with Heather Brandt, Ph.D., of the University
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Dr. Jennifer Young Pierce, assistant professor of obstetrics & gynecology and the Hollings Cancer Prevention and Control Program, is cofounder of Cervical Cancer Free SC.
of South Carolina. Hollings Cancer Center sponsored the first Cervical Cancer Free SC Summit in January to bring together stakeholders from the medical community, public health, community health workers, lawmakers, and HPV–related–cancer survivors to
discuss issues about HPV–related cancers and the need for greater awareness of the HPV vaccine. While South Carolina continues to lag behind national rates of coverage for many other recommended vaccines, the state is now above the national HPV vaccination coverage rate in females receiving one or more HPV vaccines and for females receiving the full course of three doses of HPV vaccine. Officials are quick to note that there is still much work to be done. “We are excited to see that our efforts to educate the public on the need to protect our children from a variety of cancers with the HPV vaccine is making a difference in South Carolina,” Pierce said. “However, there is much more to be done,” she continued. “Half of South Carolina females, ages 13 to 17, still have not received all HPV vaccine doses, and eight out of ten South Carolina males, ages 13 to 17, have not received the HPV vaccine. We can do better.” The HPV vaccine is now recommended by the CDC and major medical groups, including the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Academy of Family Physicians cases of cancer, for 11– or 12–year– old boys and girls for protection from HPV infection and HPV–related disease. According to the CDC, HPV causes more than 20,000 cancers in women and about 12,000 cancers in men annually in the U.S.
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Fellowship honors three women faculty Staff Reports The MUSC Initiative for the Advancement, Recruitment and Retention of Women, otherwise known as the ARROW program, recently held an awards ceremony to honor the recipients of the 2014–2015 John R. Raymond Fellowship. The fellowship was established to honor John R. Raymond, M.D., former MUSC vice president for academic affairs and provost from 2002 to 2010. Raymond was a strong advocate for recruiting and retaining women faculty and was integral in establishing the Women Scholars Initiative, which was later renamed ARROW. Recently, three outstanding women were honored by ARROW: Teresa Atz, Ph.D., R.N., assistant professor
Teresa Atz, Ph.D., R.N.
Jane E. Joseph, Ph.D.
Annie Simpson, Ph.D.
assitant professor, College of Nursing
professor and director of neuroimaging Department of Neurosciences
assistant professor College of Health Professions
in the College of Nursing; Jane E. Joseph, Ph.D., professor, Department of Neurosciences; and Annie Simpson, Ph.D., assistant professor in the College of Health Professions. At the June 24 ceremony, last year’s fellowship recipient Elizabeth Crabtree, Ph.D., spoke about her fellowship experience. Crabtree, an assistant
professor in the Department of Library Science and Informatics, works in the Center for Evidence–based Practice which supports clinicians in providing high quality health care. Nurses are a critical link in integrating research into practice, but experience preparing nurses to engage in evidence– based practices is limited, according to Crabtree. In spring 2013, Crabtree partnered with Emily Brennan, a medical librarian, to offer a project–based course on evidence–based practice for nurses at MUSC. The John R. Raymond Fellowship allowed Crabtree to begin work with Susan Stillwell, DNP, an associate professor at the University of Portland School of Nursing, to develop an EBP nursing curriculum and mentoring programs for nurses. Together, they worked on reformatting and improving the MUSC EBP Nurse Scholars course, implementing practice changes and evaluating results. Crabtree and Stillwell invited the hospital’s performance improvement team to work with them, and now they are linking nurses’ projects to quality improvement work in the hospital so they can see real, measurable improvements in patient care and outcomes. They met in Portland in late July to develop a follow–up program for nurses who have completed the course with a focus on dissemination and publication, and equipping nurses with the skills needed to transition their
projects into scholarly products. “I’m really grateful for the experiences I’ve had over the last year as a John R. Raymond fellow and am so thankful to the Women’s Scholars Initiative, and to my department chair, Dr. Tom Basler, and especially to Dr. Raymond for making this opportunity possible,” Crabtree said. “It’s really fun to come to work every day when you’re in an environment where innovative ideas are not only encouraged, but also supported. The Women’s Scholars Initiative, through this program and others, does a great deal toward fostering that kind of environment at MUSC. The fellowship and my relationship with Dr. Stillwell enhanced the quality of our EBP nurse mentor program at MUSC. The structure of the fellowship was really helpful in that it cemented our relationship and my mentor felt committed to helping me succeed. As a result of how responsive she was to my initial request to work with her, I’ve since felt more comfortable reaching out to others, and have formed a number of really helpful, positive professional relationships.” The John R. Raymond Mentoring Fellowship provides financial support to a faculty member to initiate a a mentor– expert relationship in the faculty’s field of interest — research, clinical practice or education/teaching.
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MEET CHRIS
Chris Dwiggins Department Purchasing and Supply–MUSC Physicians How you are changing what’s possible at MUSC Making the purchasing and supply effort as efficient as possible to ensure our clinics have all they need to care for our patients How long at MUSC 3.5 years Children, pets and their names Audrey Jane — due Sept. 1 and dog, Gracie, a boxer-Boston terrier mix A unique talent you have I’m a drummer. Favorite summer activity Visit the beach and fish as much as possible Favority restaurant Circa 1886 Your idea of a dream vacation I’ve always wanted to visit London, England. Favorite quote “Don’t be in a party, be a party.”—Kid President
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Tami Enright, executive director of The Bee Cause Project, checks out the bees at the Urban Farm before the new hive is installed.
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MUSC’s new observational bee hive opened to the public July 31. Bees exit from the rear of the hive (shown bottom left).
Bees Continued from Page One of the importance of honey bees and to bridge the gap between where their food comes from and the farmer. It reconnects kids back to nature. This urban farm is so beautiful. To have bees in this environment puts both pieces of the puzzle together.” Enright, who has four young children, keeps bees at home as well. All of her family got beekeeping suits for Christmas. Children are naturally curious and the observational hives her group is installing in schools, as well as at MUSC, get out important educational messages. “One in three bites of our food requires pollination, and honey bees are amazing pollinators. But bees are declining in population because of colony collapse disorder. The bees are like the canary in the coal mine, and they are dying off.” Enright got involved with the cause when she attended a weekend beekeeping class at The Citadel. “At the end of the weekend, I ordered bees. I was like ‘Wow, I had no idea how this superorganism worked.’ The intelligence within this bee colony is just mind
blowing. It’s amazing what they do for us and how little they take back — everything they do in nature is good for the greater whole.” The cause is gaining momentum, she said. Four years ago there were only 40 or 50 people in the Charleston Area Beekeeper Association and now there are several hundred, she said. In her work with The Bee Cause Project, she has found once hives go into schools, the interest just blossoms, she said. In the last year, the group has installed more than 30 observation hives in Charleston and Savannah. The group worked with MUSC to get its old hive removed and divided up into two hives to go to other sites. The observation hive hosts a new queen bee as well as a new set of bees. It provides a safe platform for viewing at the front through glass plates with the bees exiting from the back. The hive has a fraction — 25 percent — of the bee population of a normal hive, she said, so it’s safer in that sense as well. “Another benefit is that only a portion of the bees at any point in time are foragers. They become foragers the last three weeks of their life cycle. They work
through six or seven different types of jobs during their six–week life cycle, the last two to three weeks, becoming foragers.” The Urban Farm will serve as an outdoor classroom to educate visitors about the role of honey bees, what nectar is flowing in what season and what they can do in their own yards to attract native pollinators. “I’m super excited. It’s going to be a great outdoor classroom,” Enright said, adding that on the new hive’s opening night visitors already were able to see a queen laying an egg within the hive, pupating larva and a hatching bee — the full cycle. Seeing that goes a long way in helping to reduce fears about bees and is a platform to help visitors see the tie between insects, food and health, especially since most fruits and vegetables rely on pollinators. “We have such a bug phobia that we’re spraying and killing everything — butterflies, ladybugs. We’re killing the good things too. There are good bugs that eat the bad bugs.” Enright said she can see the difference having observation hives in schools is making, and she loves to share the
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Honey from MUSC’s former hive was harvested and sold at MUSC’s Urban Farm Bee Party & Honey Harvest.
incredible workings of the complex world of a superorganism. “The worker bees have to have the queen and work together in the hive. They all have a job to do and know by being a part of the family what their job is to do. You can watch a bee hatch and immediately after it hatches it will turn around and clean the cell where it came out of so it’s ready for the queen to lay another egg. It just knows that innately,” she said. “When pesticides or other pollutants or toxins are introduced so that bees aren’t functioning the way they should because they’ve been dazed or stressed in some way, then it really throws off the balance in the hive.” MUSC’s hive will help in the push to shift public perception from seeing bees as menacing stingers to critical foragers so that the next generation will less likely reach for that bottle of pesticide, she said. “There are so many life lessons that can come from slowing down and realizing where our food comes from and all the different spokes on the wheel. It’s all an interconnected web. Bees are as important as sunlight and water when it comes to growing our food.”
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MUSC employee harvests joys of beekeeping CheCk It Out
With MUSC opening the door to its new observational hive, some MUSC employees are joining the cause as well on a personal level. The following is an interview with Allyson Crowell, communications specialist with MUSC’s Office of Development & Alumni Affairs, about why she recently decided to put a hive into her backyard.
q Visit MUSC News Center to see the full, bee multimedia package at www. musc.edu/pr/newscenter/2014/bees. html. q Special honey bee sessions in the Urban Farm are scheduled to begin soon. Watch for updates in The Catalyst, visit the Urban Farm’s website at www. musc.edu/urbanfarm/ or email urbanfarm@musc.edu to receive a weekly farm newsletter.
BeekeePer Q&a How long have you been keeping bees and how did you get into it? We started keeping bees this past April. Bees are a hot topic right now, because their population is in such crisis — and they are so very necessary. My husband, Adam, makes musical instruments for a living and is just a really handy guy. Because of his woodworking background, Adam was able to build a lot of the components that we use in the hive. He posed the idea more as, “Why not keep bees?” and I couldn’t think of a good reason. Now that we have them, I look forward to our hive inspections and just observing them at work every day.
What’s the appeal? It’s not honey, although our bees make some delicious stuff. We don’t plan to take much honey this year, since it’s the bees’ food supply, and we want to leave them with plenty of reserves to get through the winter. We have a third of an acre of land in our backyard and really just wanted to do our part to keep some bees alive.
What have you found surprising? When we inspect the hive, literally pulling pieces out of their home to make sure everything is healthy and free of pests, the bees are surprisingly cool about the whole thing. They fly around a bit and then, as soon as we put the hive back together, they go right back to work. That still blows my mind every time.
How has being a beekeeper changed you? We are much more aware of when everything blooms around town. Adam pointed out, when we saw a bee on a flower in our neighborhood, that maybe it was one of ours — which is a neat perspective. We also pay closer attention to products that use honey and beeswax.
Where would you like to see the cause go? Bees are basically contracted out on farms that use pesticides. We need better regulations in that area to help preserve the bee population — and just to be more humane toward an animal working so hard. And even if
q If you wish to make a donation for the next pay-it-forward hive, contact urbanfarm@musc.edu. q The Horticulture Society of Charleston also will host an educational event for The Bee Cause Project on Aug. 27th. photo provided
MUSC employee Allyson Crowell enjoys keeping her own bees. you don’t care about bees, it’s still a little disturbing to think of how those harsh chemicals translate into what you consume. I also think more people should keep bees. Whenever Adam and I talk about keeping bees, we always hear how someone’s father or grandfather kept bees — and that’s just not the case today. Bees aren’t expensive. They don’t need a lot of space, and they don’t require much upkeep. Although they seem far more exotic than getting a puppy, they are infinitely less demanding. Plus, they’re a great learning tool for children, and they play a key role in our environment and food supply. There’s great community support both within Charleston and online, so I’d like to see more people keeping bees. What are some of the more interesting things you’ve learned? Bees just have a really unique culture. A lot of beekeeping starter kits come with a basic instruction manual, and you learn about all the roles within the hive. For example, the worker bees you see are all female. They literally carry out their jobs until they perish, sometimes even destroying their own wings from working so hard. The single queen mates with multiple males from the hive, and then she rips out their reproductive organs and kills them. “Game of Thrones” (HBO show) has nothing on bees.
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Training an ‘Epic’ part of new electronic health record By Molly o’Quinn Epic Program
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t seems only a short time ago that MUSC began its “Epic” journey. First, it was the Ambulatory Go-Live in 2012. Then, throughout 2013, we unveiled our new physician portal, Care Everywhere and Ophthalmology applications — smaller versions of go-live culminating in the “Big Bang” enterprise Go-Live on July 1. As we pass the one month anniversary of the enterprise-wide rollout, let’s look back at training and the massive mountain we climbed. From the beginning of our enterprise implementation planning, it was clear that training would be a critical piece of the puzzle. It turns out it was one of the biggest challenges we faced. MUSC’s Epic training team of 22 instructional designers and coordinators was led by training manager, Nick Whichard. Being quite small, the team expanded its resources by hiring 100 temporary credentialed trainers and 44 medical students in an effort to prepare for the training schedule. Additionally, the team enlisted the assistance of approximately 1,000 SuperUsers who came from various areas of the organization. The SuperUsers were connected with the training team from the start — collaborating across the training spectrum by offering input for curriculum development, serving as backup classroom trainers and providing at-the-elbow go-live support. “Our SuperUsers, system analysts, credentialed trainers, and medical students made this
epic Training at a Glance q 956 staff trained per week for eight weeks; more than 7650 total q 367 classes taught per week q 21 separate applications, requiring 292 customized courses q 89,772 hours of training received q 2,941 total classes taught q 92 percent of users felt more confident after training
process a huge success,” Whichard said. “Fortunately, we were able to introduce our SuperUsers to Epic at an early stage through our block release training methodology, which was introduced in the fall of last year.” Whichard spoke passionately about the support staff and how beneficial they were in taking their knowledge and the appropriate tools out to the floors where it mattered most. Chief Nursing Informatics officer Rebecca Freeman also recognized the SuperUser effort. “This was one of the most amazing performances of collaboration I’ve ever seen,” Freeman said. “Especially for the group I worked with — nurses and allied health workers of all kinds — I couldn’t be more proud of their efforts.” With more than 7,600 employees needing to be trained, the task required the support of all those with an impact on patient care. The training team played a crucial part in the overall implementation, however, the other critical piece of the equation laid in the hands of our clinical, revenue and administrative staff. The 367 classes taught per week were a mutual endeavor between those providing the training and those receiving it. Over the eight-week period, employees provided both positive feedback and constructive criticism regarding classroom training as they learned new tools and established strong relationships with the support staff. In the spirit of collaboration, sacrifices were made by everyone in the organization: hospital and program leadership, clinicians, non-clinicians, and the Office of the Chief Information Officer — as an undertaking of this size requires interdisciplinary involvement. This partnership of technical and clinical disciplines was established as an early priority and is a major factor in the evolution of the initiative. "As an organization, we were all pulling in the same direction at the same time, with the same intensity," Whichard said. “I attribute our success to this united and steadfast effort.” The efforts require constant cooperation and interdisciplinary teamwork.
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Epic credentialed trainer Lucas Moreira guides a group of researchers through the Epic system. The system officially went live enterprise-wide on July 1. For information on the Epic Enterprise Program visit http:// mcintranet.musc.edu/epic/index.htm.
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Staff welcome Epic with Go-Live events The MUSC Medical Center was abuzz with activity as hospital departments, units and teams geared up for the Big Bang Go–Live event on July 1 formally introducing the Epic enterprise–wide rollout. Top left photo: Children’s Hospital’s Pediatric Procedure
Area displays a cheerful go-live banner. Bottom left: Nurse Karen Fry and the 8 West night crew celebrate the launch of the new system. Middle: Epic SuperUser nurse Randi Gaines suits up to support colleagues in Psychiatry 1–North. Below: MSICU has an “epic” July 4th.
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MUHA green smoothie club leads to positive changes The seed for Kim Duncan’s green Wellness Events smoothie journey was planted a q Take the monthly couple of years ago. Mindful Challenge and be An enthusiastic comment during eligible for prizes by coma department meeting by co–worker pleting a short survey at Mike Vanderhurst from the Equal the beginning and end of Employment/Affirmative Action the month. An employee office on just how much better he will be featured in our felt since he started drinking green “Spotlight for Wellness” smoothies led Duncan to consider column in The Catalyst. the beverage addition. The August challenge is to But it wasn’t until her co–worker, replace sweetened drinks Donna Bouissey, purchased a with water. Get hydrated. Susan Johnson blender and started making her To begin, take the first own smoothies this past spring that August Monthly Mindful Duncan, MUHA Human Resources Challenge survey at http://tinurl.com/ Information Systems manager, decided nwmxp6u (A link to final surey will be to give it a try. sent at month’s end to those who take She invited Vanderhorst to stop by the first survey). and conduct a Lunch and Learn for the q Chair massages — Free massages department to teach them about green are offered to employees on midday smoothies. He whipped up a couple of Wednesdays. Look for broadcast batches for the group — inspiring them messages for locations and times. to take action. q Farmers markets — Enjoy fresh fruits Duncan bought a Nutribullet and then and vegetables from local farmers on on May 24, she bought her first batch of Tuesdays, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. (Harborview); green smoothie ingredients. Wednesdays and Thursdays, 8 a.m. to 6 Since then, she tries to have at least p.m. (ART); and Fridays, 7 a.m. to 3:30 one green smoothie every day. p.m. (Horseshoe). She reports “my energy level has q Employee Fitness Series — Wednesday, improved dramatically. I have lost ten Aug. 20, 4:15 to 4:45 p.m. Body Bar: use pounds so far and my headaches are a bar for weighted exercise movements less frequent and less intense. Best of for a great total body training. Instructor all, just adding one green smoothie per is Katie Blaylock from the MUSC Huday has changed my relationship with man Performance Lab. Free day pass to food. My sugar cravings have dropped the Wellness Center for all participants. along with the pounds. I now crave Check in at the Wellness Center memclean food. Best of all, it just feels good bership desk for information or email to make a smoothie with fresh, healthy musc-empwell@musc.edu to register. ingredients.” q Worksite screening — Thursday, Aug. A typical morning smoothie may 28, University hospital, room 109, include the following: almond milk, Colbert Library.The screening, valued coconut water, organic fruit (apples, at about $350, is available to employees banana, berries, lemon, limes); a mixture of the State Health Plan (including of baby greens (kale, baby spinach); seeds the MUSC Health Plan) for only $15 (chia seeds, ground sunflower and flax (covered spouses also can participate seeds); herbs (mint, cilantro); and maca for $15). Employees and spouses powder known also as Peruvian ginseng. without this insurance can participate By making the smoothies themselves, the for $42. Register at www.musc.edu/ team members are assurred they keep the employeewellness.org or call 556-8451 calories low and the nutrients high. The group has started a Green MUSC Urban Farm Smoothie club in their department, q Sunset Work & Learns – Thursday, sharing ingredients and recipes to whip 4 to 5 p.m. Take home fresh produce up in the Magic Bullet blender. “It’s so in return for work efforts. Open to all much fun to work together on a journey employees, students and the community to better health,” said Duncan. q Third Thursday Lunch & Learn
Health at work
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MUHA Human Resources’ Kim Duncan, far right, joins co-workers Dasha Walker, from left, Avis Scott, Michelle Foreman and Latonia Allen as they show off the various fruits and other fresh ingredients they use to create their delicious healthy smoothie drinks. Not pictured is Marlena Davis. — 12:15 to 12:45 p.m., Aug. 21. Join Debbie Petitpain, R.D., for “Conquering Carbs - so you can have your cake and eat it too!” q Third Saturday Family Friendly Work & Learn — 9 to 11 a.m., Aug. 21. Bring a plastic bag and take home fresh produce and please wear closed toe shoes. Open
to all MUSC employees, students and the general community. q Early Bird Maintenance —7:30 to 8:30 a.m. Get your day started at the farm. For information about Employee Welllness, contact Dr. Susan Johnson, johnsusa@musc.edu or Suzan Benenson Whelan, whela@musc.edu.
MUSC Global Health Certificate Program Courses begin Aug. 19 Expand your training in global health and gain an opportunity to participate in international fieldwork by enrolling in this certificate program. To enroll, visit the College of Graduate Studies Dean’s Office, Room 101, Bioengineering Building. For information about course descriptions and fees, visit http://globalthealmusc. edu/certificat-program-global-health. Contact Dr. Andrea Summer, summera@musc.edu or Kathleen Ellis, ellisk@musc.edu in the Center of Global Health.
Nomination currently being accepted for honorary degrees The Office of the President is accepting nominations for people to receive honorary degrees from MUSC, to be awarded at Commencement in May 2015. In general, honorary degrees go to individuals in the following broad categories: Contribution(s) to the nation; Contribution(s) to science; and Contribution(s) to the state or MUSC. Consider submitting nominations
of candidates along with supporting materials such as letters, articles, curriculum vitae, etc., in the above mentioned categories. The nominations should be forwarded to Marcia Higaki, Office of the President, Colcock Hall, 179 Ashley Ave., MSC 001, higakimc@musc.edu, no later than Oct. 31. Nominations of MUSC alumni are generally discouraged.
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The annual MUSC Parking Renewal takes place from Aug. 13 to Sept. 30. Renewal may be conducted online through Sept. 15 or in the Office of Parking Management through Sept. 30. Renewal/reregistration applies to employees assigned to park in the ungrated MUSC parking locations; after-hours employee parking program; Hagood communter parkand-ride system; and departments wishing to renew their parking permits. For information, visit http://tinyurl.com/ lgt399j.
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Former surgery clinical engineer remembered Staff Reports Retired MUSC professor and director of Clinical Engineering, Thomas “Tom” Sewell Hargest III, 89, of Savannah, Georgia, died on July 24 at Memorial University Medical Center in Savannah. After having graduated from William Penn Hargest High School in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, he served in the United States Coast Guard from 1942 to 1945 as a Radar Technician aboard the USS Harveson, Destroyer Escort 316, in the American, European and Pacific theaters. In 1950, he received his B.A. from Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, and moved to the Southwest where he spent 12 years as a geophysicist–geologist involved in oil and gas exploration in Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas. In 1964, Hargest joined Curtis P. Artz, M.D., internationally known burn specialist, at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, as an engineering consultant. When Artz was named Chairman of the MUSC Department of Surgery, Hargest joined him as assistant professor of Surgery, Bio–Engineering. He received certification as a clinical engineer by the International Certification Commission in 1975. Hargest was named a professor in the Department of Surgery and the director of Clinical Engineering in 1978, where he remained until he retired in 1985. He holds numerous patents related to medical equipment and devices. After his retirement from MUSC, he served as a consultant to various medical companies and also as
a consultant to the Asian Development Bank in structuring medical equipment maintenance programs for the governments of Burma, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Pau Pau, New Guinea. Hargest authored or co-authored more than 100 published medical papers and was awarded more than 70 patents. The development of the air fluidized hospital beds, the Clinitron and Elexis, for burns and pressure ulcers, as well as his work on the Bariatric Bed for patients weighing up to 800 pounds, brought international recognition and numerous honors. Surviving Hargest are his wife of 10 years, Neva Kennon Hargest; his four children and five step-children; eight grandchildren and ten stepgrandchildren; four great-grandchildren and three step–great–grandchildren. Hargest was a member of Wilmington Island United Methodist Church of Savannah. A memorial service was held on August 3, at James Island Presbyterian Church, in Charleston. In lieu of flowers, remembrances may be made to James Island Presbyterian Church — 1632 Fort Johnson Road, Charleston, South Carolina 39412, or to Wilmington Island United Methodist Church for the New Building Fund — 195 Wilmington Island Road, Savannah, Georgia 31410.
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Reception honors new HCC chair Staff Reports A reception was held June 27 at Hollings Cancer Center to thank the family of Dr. and Mrs. William H. Barnwell and donors for establishing the Robert K. Stuart M.D. Distinguished Endowed Chair in Hematology/ Oncology. The event also introduced the first occupant of the endowed chair, Xue-Zhong Yu, M.D., professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology and Department of Medicine. Yu, who joined MUSC in 2013, is among the nation’s leading researchers in the area of hematopoietic stem cell therapy. Barnwell, a patient of Stuart, chose to establish this chair in honor of the work and progress Stuart has made in the area of bone marrow transplant medicine at Hollings Cancer Center. Stuart is the director of MUSC’s Bone Marrow Transplant program. He performed the first transplant in 1987 and was there to supervise the 1,500th transplant on the
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Dr. Robert K. Stuart, left, and Dr. Xue-Zhong Yu, second left, join the family of Dr. and Mrs. William H. Barnwell at the June 27 event. day of this reception. The Stuart Distinguished Endowed Chair is part of the SmartState Center of Economic Excellence Program in Cancer Stem Cell Biology and Therapy. CoEE’s research has a dual purpose — to identify ways to use the body’s blood and marrow stream as treatment for cancer therapy and to develop therapies for targeting cancer stem cells.
MUSC recently was selected as the recipient of the South Carolina Government Management Information Services’ Elite Achiever award for IT projects under $500,000. The award, which recognized efforts with the Mobile Device Management and 2–Factor Authentication projects to help users protect MUSC data, was presented to MUSC-OCIO teams in Columbia on July 24. Front row: Clay Taylor, left to right, Dr. Roger Poston, Dr. Mark Sothmann, Dr. Pat Cawley, Dr. Frank Clark, Robbie Townsend, Chris Carr, Lisa Pecsuk, Dr. Mary Mauldin; Second row: Jeff Pritcher, Susan Fisher, Greg Murphy, Dion Franklin, Kurt Nendorf, Scott Deal, Andy Anderson, Jonathan Taylor, Dr. Michael Schmidt; Third row:Joshua Ivey, Corey Infinger, Scott Powell, Albert Bing, Stan Sulkowski, Dennis Slade Anthony Singleton, Tim Burnham, Lori Upshur, Denise Clark; Fourth row: Austin Starling, James Sparks, Michael McIntyre, Mike photo provided Wheeler and Jimmy Roth.