January 20, 2023 - Aron Sousa, MD
Friends,
One of the large privileges of my occupation is gathering with alumni and assemblage friends whose lives person been touched by the assemblage and who successful crook marque the satellite a amended place. Last week, I had the accidental to drawback up with Chad Klochko, MD (CHM ’13), MS, who is simply a musculoskeletal radiologist astatine Henry Ford. You mightiness person noticed past outpouring that helium won the MSU Resource Center for Persons with Disabilities’ 2022 Outstanding Alumni Award. Chad has had galore orthopedic surgeries dating backmost to erstwhile helium was 13 months aged – you truly should work the grant nonfiction I linked above.
Chad came to CHM with a BS successful machine subject from MSU and a master’s grade successful biomedical engineering from UM, and helium has brought that inheritance to carnivore successful his artificial intelligence probe astatine Henry Ford. Starting with the announcement of the HFH+MSU partnership, Chad began moving with MSU module members Adam Alessio, PhD (IQ and BME) and Mohammad Ghassemi, PhD (Computer Science and Engineering). Now the squad includes PhD students from some of those departments.
Together they person been utilizing artificial intelligence methods to amended radiology protocols and look for hidden diagnostic clues successful radiology images. The subject is precise interesting, and arsenic a collaboration, they person published papers, submitted NIH grants, and MSU postgraduate students person had the accidental to enactment with information sets and projects they could not different bash successful our system. This is precisely what the HFH+MSU concern is designed to do, and I’m excited that Chad has agreed to sermon his travel astatine a aboriginal Town Hall.
As galore of you know, the College of Human Medicine’s Strategic Plan includes a extremity to summation the nationalist intelligence enactment disposable to our staff, students, and faculty. Specifically, we person a extremity to enactment vocation maturation and improvement of our people, and 1 of the strategies is to enactment and physique capableness of our unit and module to bash nationalist intelligence work.
I deliberation this nationalist enactment is important for our nine fixed the struggles of the pandemic, and it helps our estimation due to the fact that astir of america entree accusation and developments extracurricular our circumstantial fields from nationalist media alternatively than scholarly publications.
As a caller example, I’d similar to constituent you to a piece successful The Conversation by Dr. Morteza Mahmoudi connected nanomedicines and the challenges the tract faces. Dr. Mahmoudi is successful the Department of Radiology and the Precision Health Program. (You tin find an “Ask the Expert” summary from MSU Today.) This benignant of nonfiction helps radical spot our work, improves the estimation of MSU, and galore radical find nationalist intelligence enactment fun, and possibly adjacent a spot joyous (part of strategical extremity fig 4.) As we instrumentality the plan, we volition supply much grooming and enactment for this benignant of work.
You each cognize we are headed into our MD accreditation tract sojourn and completed our MPH accreditation tract sojourn past spring. We person besides had Continuing Medical Education (CME) arsenic good arsenic residency accreditation this autumn and winter. So, fto maine connection my congratulations to our squad successful Graduate Medical Education (GME) for receiving continuing accreditation for our sponsored residency programs and to our CME squad for continuing accreditation successful CME. Assistant Dean Randy Pearson, MD, and his squad person done large enactment keeping america connected the consecutive and constrictive for galore years successful GME. Kathy Collins and Associate Dean Carol Parker, PhD (CHM ‘17) person kept the aforesaid absorption connected excellence for our CME work. These are invaluable accomplishments resulting from galore module dedicated to educating their colleagues. My heavy acknowledgment and appreciation to each involved.
As you caput into the adjacent portion of your week, I suggest you ticker the State of the University presumption by our Interim President, and assemblage module member, Teresa Woodruff, PhD. She highlights truthful overmuch bully and absorbing enactment happening astatine the university. Included successful her telephone outs are breathtaking projects by our faculty. Whether your enactment makes the callout database oregon not, convey you for your dedication to our students, faculty, and staff.
Serving the radical with you,
Aron
Aron Sousa, MD, FACP
Dean
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