Department of Medicine Faculty Meeting

February 21, 2012

AnnouncementsEducation Update

Clinical UpdateResearch Update

Budget UpdateHigh Throughput Screening Core

Tom Grammatopoulos, Ph.D.

Announcements

Solomont Simulation Center to open July, 2012BMC Gala Saturday, May 5, 2012 SeaportPA Program being established at BUSM- Mary

Warner, PA-C to be founding director and a Medical Director to be sought soon

Evans Centennial Celebration, Friday-Saturday, October 5 and 6, 2012

Dim Sum - 11 a.m.- 1 p.m., March 24, 2012, China Pearl Restaurant, 9 Tyler Street, Boston (http://www.bumc.bu.edu/medicine/research-in-the-department/annual-dim-sum-social/)

Medical Grand RoundsFebruary 24th – Paget’s Disease “Update”

Joseph Tucci, M.D.

March 2nd – CPS CaseRobert Lowe, M.D.

March 9th – Epidemiology of Congestive Heart Failure: Current Perspectives and Non-Cardio-Centric View

Vasan Ramachandran, M.D.

March 16th – Nonsurgical Treatment of Osteoarthritis: Past Frustration, Future Promise?

David Felson, M.D.

March 23rd – Mark Moskowitz Memorial LectureOverdiagnosed: Making People Sick in the Pursuit of Health

H. Gilbert Welch, M.D., Ph.D.

Update on Searches

Section Chiefs– GI– Geriatrics

Director, Primary Care

Director, Quality of Clinical Operations

Director, Hospital Medicine Unit

Faculty Development and DiversityAcademy for Faculty Advancement

– Information session Thurs., Feb. 23 @ 12 in EBRC 715

– Application deadline March 2 – http://www.bumc.bu.edu/facdev-medicine/mentoring/ecfdp/

CV Boot Camp with A and P Committee– Tues., March 5 from 12-1 p.m. in Wilkins– Send CVs in advance to pcahn@bu.edu

Walk and Talk– Mon., March 12 at 5:30 p.m. in medical school lobby– Hosted by Emelia Benjamin and Michael Ieong

Faculty Friday Social– Fri., March 23 from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m.– Estragon Tapas Bar, 700 Harrison Ave.

Successful FellowshipACGME Reviews

Pulmonary-Critical Care

Endocrine

Geriatrics

Rheumatology

Cardiology– General– EP– Interventional

Gastroenterology (3 yrs)

Education Update

General Medicine Attendings needed for three week slots in March-May

Match update

ACGME questionnaire completed

ACGME site visit anticipated in spring, 2012

Rachel Simmons, M.D., new Associate Program Director will be starting August, 2012

Clinical Update

Nearing completion of Alternative Quality Contract with BCBS – in partnership with Neighborhood Health Centers

Meaningful Use Contracts will require faculty signature to get institutional reimbursement

Inpatient reorganization– One fewer medical team in ’12-’13– HMU being expanded– Observation patients to be increasingly diverted from

HS teams

Clinical Update

BMC financial outlook continues to improve (improved bond rating)

Volume-YTD– wRVU’s up 4.1%% – Visits up 7.7%– Discharges down 2.6%

Access– Primary care and medicine specialties have slipped

Compliance– Sections range from 79-86% correctly coded by

clinicians! (best ever!)

Access to Outpatient Clinics

Discharges from Boston AMC’sYTD

FY 12 Dec FY 11 Dec %Discharges Discharges Change

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center 3,131 3,422 -8.5%Boston Medical Center 2,267 2,470 -8.2%Brigham and Women's Hospital 4,277 4,381 -2.4%Children's Hospital 1,456 1,537 -5.3%Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 88 102 -13.7%Lahey Clinic 1,947 1,890 3.0%Massachusetts General Hospital 4,428 4,293 3.1%St. Elizabeth's Medical Center 1,131 1,165 -2.9%Tufts Medical Center 1,745 1,739 0.3%Total 20,470 20,999 -2.5%

According to the Attorney General, BMC has the lowest price for services of any AMC in Boston, by a significant margin

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Research Update

Metabolomics core under reviewBiostatistical Core services being expandedRevenue from research cores substantially

ahead of budgetResearch space allocation will be reviewed

in ongoing manner by Space Advisory group under Dr. Corkey

NIH Salary cap lowered by $20K/yrK awardee support initiatives underway

THEMATIC SEMINAR SERIES Jointly Sponsored by The

Evans Center & The Department of BiochemistryMitochondria: Engines of Life, Drivers of Disease

All talks are in Keefer Auditorium, at 3pm

All speakers meet with the graduate students and post docs over lunch

March 27, 2012, David G. Nicholls, Ph.D., Professor of Mitochondrial Physiology, Buck Institute for Research on Aging, Novato, CA, and Visiting Professor, University of Lund, Sweden

“The Bioenergetics of Mitochondria in the Cell”

April 3, 2012, Douglas C. Wallace, Ph.D., Director, Center for Mitochondrial and Epigenomic Medicine (CMEM), Children’s

Hospital of Philadelphia,

“Energyomics-Energenomics: A Mitochondrial Etiology of Complex Diseases”

April 10, 2012Richard Youle, Ph.D.Senior Investigator, Chief Biochemistry Section, NIH, NINDS, Bethesda, MD

“Mitochondrial Quality Control and Parkinson’s Disease”

New Committee to Discuss and Provide Recommendations

Bridges between Basic and Clinical Researchers

Evans Center ARC Directors and other Interested Faculty will convene to outline

• Realistic Goals• Current barriers• Potential activities and resources to increase

interactions and collaborationsFaculty interested to participate should contact

us (D. Coleman , K. Ravid or B Corkey)First meeting March 15, 2012 at 3:30 pm

Budget Update

In negotiation with BMC re funding of departmental services using CARTS model

Clinical section budget planning currently on hold pending resolution of BMC funding

Finance Committee meeting to make recommendations concerning funds flows and financial support of faculty

YTD financial performance better than budget

2012-13 DOM budget likely to be constrained