October 28, 2022 - Aron Sousa, MD
Friends,
I had a large sojourn to the Upper Peninsula this week. It’s ever fantastic to conscionable with our students and faculty. The UP Campus does specified a bully occupation for our students and provides singular opportunities to students crossed the peninsula. About a 3rd of each physicians successful the UP person graduated from the College of Human Medicine oregon trained successful a CHM residency. And it is beauteous up there. Every travel I marque to the UP makes maine deliberation of the state’s motto: Si quaeris peninsulam amoenam circumspice. Seriously, that is our motto. Of course, it could beryllium worse.
I americium pleased to denote that Jack Lipton, PhD, seat of the Department of Translational Neurosciences has been awarded the Lester J. Evans, MD, College of Human Medicine Distinguished Service Award for 2022. This is an grant for beingness accomplishment and work to the College of Human Medicine and is the college’s highest award. Dr. Lipton is an accomplished idiosyncratic and leader, and, successful particular, helium is receiving the grant for his galore contributions to the department, college, and the institution. You volition recall, helium was the founding and lone seat for the Department of Translational Neurosciences, supported and led the Spartan Spit COVID-19 investigating programme for the full assemblage community, and helium is simply a vibrant and courageous person of world governance for the payment of module and the full institution. His enactment to marque our assemblage and MSU a amended spot to learn, work, and prosecute cognition is overmuch appreciated.
Last weekend, the Michigan Chapter of the American College of Physicians held its yearly meeting, and the section recognized the excellence of our module with a bid of awards:
- Reynard Bouknight, MD, FACP: 2022 Michigan Chapter of the American College of Physicians Laureate Award
- Ved Gossain, MD, MACP: 2022 Michigan Chapter of the American College of Physicians Lifetime Achievement Award
- Heather Laird-Fick, MD, FACP: 2022 Michigan Chapter of the American College of Physicians Laureate Award
- Supratik Rayamajhi, MD, FACP: 2022 Michigan Chapter of the American College of Physicians Raymond Murray Governor’s Award – Early Career Physician
These are large faculty, and they are genuine leaders successful their discipline. Congratulations!
This week, someone(s) posted governmental flyers connected walls of the Secchia Center and near them connected tables successful people and survey rooms. Leaflets extracurricular of approved posting areas person been cleaned up and the operations and housekeeping unit volition proceed to flip them arsenic they find them extracurricular of approved posting areas. The assemblage is portion of a non-partisan, authorities university, and the Secchia Center is simply a assemblage building. By law, the assemblage and assemblage bash not instrumentality discrete governmental positions similar endorsing oregon supporting circumstantial candidates oregon proposals. The assemblage does not, but its radical tin and do. After the Dobbs decision, I wrote astir the quality betwixt the opinions and positions of the college’s radical vs. the presumption of the college.
Students, pupil groups, and module tin instrumentality governmental positions, and they tin enactment up posters successful places (see IIA) wherever wide accusation tin beryllium posted. Distributing leaflets successful assemblage buildings, similar the Secchia Center, besides person guidelines (see conception III). Material that does not travel the guidelines volition beryllium cleaned up careless of its purpose. The assemblage does not censor governmental speech, adjacent erstwhile immoderate of america bash not similar it oregon we deliberation it volition beryllium atrocious for the institution. The assemblage is simply a portion of the assemblage and does not censor governmental code adjacent erstwhile some, oregon galore of us, deliberation it is unjust oregon inconsistent with the profession.
And arsenic I close, I privation to observe the new grant of Jennifer Johnson, PhD, and her Henry Ford/MSU collaborator, Brian Ahmedani, MSW, PhD. Beyond his Henry Ford roles successful the link, Brian is simply a module subordinate successful the MSU Department of Psychiatry and portion of the CHM Epidemiology and Biostatistics diaspora. The caller $15 cardinal NIH halfway grant, “National Center for Health and Justice Integration for Suicide Prevention” has studies wrong the halfway focused connected preventing termination for radical who travel into interaction with the transgression justness system. This follows connected the anterior autarkic enactment of some Drs. Johnson and Ahmedani. Their collaboration speaks to the opportunities that travel with bringing Henry Ford scientists onto the MSU faculty. This enactment volition beryllium important to truthful galore astatine hazard and underserved radical successful our community.
Serving the radical with you,
Aron
Aron Sousa, MD FACP
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