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Dr. Elma LeDoux is this year's Spirit of Charity Award recipient
Elma Ireland LeDoux, MD, FACP, FACC, Associate Dean for Admissions and Student Affairs, has been named this year's winner of the Spirit of Charity award. The award honors exceptional physicians and healthcare leaders who have truly changed lives through their invaluable contributions to medicine and the healing power of compassion cultivated during their career at Charity Hospital New Orleans. Read more here.
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Bioethics Program Sponsors Puppy Party
On Sunday, March 10th, 2024, the Tulane Chapter of the Gold Humanism Honor Society gathered with senior medical students at the Tulane University School of Medicine for camaraderie and time to play with puppies, sponsored by the Program in Medical Ethics and Human Values (PMEHV). As with fourth-year medical students around the country, anxious senior medical students were awaiting the release of “The Match” results – where each student has been placed in a residency. To blunt the trepidation over the imminent, life-altering email that would appear in their inboxes the next day, Tulane and GHHS provided quality time with friends of both the human and hound variety. PMEHV, with GHHS logistical help, sponsored the “Puppy Party” event made possible by volunteers at Take Paws Rescue. Take Paws is a non-profit rescue group based out of New Orleans, LA. Its mission is to “meet the moral obligation to protect and save the lives of pets in Louisiana” by enabling the movement of…
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Mollye Demosthenidy Named New Dean of Newcomb-Tulane College
Mollye Demosthenidy, a nationally recognized expert in healthcare and associate dean for Strategic Initiatives in the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine (SPHTM), has accepted the appointment as the new dean of Newcomb-Tulane College (NTC), effective July 1.Her appointment follows an extensive national search that attracted outstanding candidates from across the country.An award-winning and beloved professor, Demosthenidy joined Tulane University in 2011 and has been a stalwart leader in her dedication and service within her department and school, across the university and among her peers at the national level. She is active at Tulane as a Clinical Associate Professor in The Program in Medical Ethics and Human Values. Click to read more about how she desires to continue the work of making Tulane a place where all students thrive.Read full article
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First Presidential Award at the Academy for Professionalism in Health Care Annual Meeting
Presidential Award for Professionalism in Health CareOn June 8, 2023, Dr. David J. Doukas was awarded the first Presidential Award at the Academy for Professionalism in Health Care Annual Meeting. The award was presented for Dr. Doukas' efforts as Founder and President of APHC for seven years (2012-2019).The meeting was held at the Health Education Campus of Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio.The award was presented by Dennis Novack, MD, the current President of APHC. The Academy for Professionalism in Health Care’s mission is to optimize patient care through professionalism education, scholarship, policy, and practice in all health-related fields, and has over 300 members in the US and internationally.
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How to Avoid Medical Gaslighting
In 2015 Tracy Wilson tested positive for strep and flu, but her experience as a healthcare provider led her to believe it could be something more serious. She went to the emergency room to seek additional care, but was met with dismissal from her doctor. Fortunately, she went to another emergency room a couple of days later where she tested positive for viral meningitis.“Looking back at this situation, I know now and understand that I was gaslit by this healthcare provider and I could have died,” she says. “I know how to handle myself in future appointments, but not everyone knows how to do that.”Tracy Wilson takes part in panel discussion at the South by Southwest conferenceToday, Tracy uses her voice to encourage patients to be advocates for their health. She took part in a panel discussion this month at the South by Southwest conference titled “Gaslighting in Women’s Healthcare,” and raises awareness of the issue on the SHE Media digital platform.Here are Tracy’s top strategies for…
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Associate Dean for Medical Education and Academic Affairs prepares for new year in new role
Chayan Chakraborti, MD, earned his medical doctorate and completed a residency in Internal Medicine at Tulane University School of Medicine. He returned after a fellowship at Johns Hopkins, and served as Director of Career Advising, Internal Medicine Clerkship Director, Director of Student Programs and Vice-Chair of Education for the Department of Medicine along with his medical duties as an attending physician. “Dr. C” – as he’s known - was recently named the Associate Dean for Medical Education and Academic Affairs. He talks about the challenges and opportunities in his new role. How is the School of Medicine changing and adapting following the last couple of years? Two of the biggest challenges over the last couple of pandemic years have been the shift to online platforms for nearly everything and a more recognized awareness of where people are going for their sources of information. We’ve had to get hip to the idea that a lot of the content is going to be delivered more…
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James Doty, MD, visits alma mater to talk compassion, ethics and values
Becoming a more compassionate physician and better caretaker of others begins with being more compassionate with oneself. This was a key part of the message shared by James Doty, MD, at the first of many annual “James Doty Compassion Lecture” events at the Tulane University School of Medicine. The inaugural lecture recently examined the intersection of compassion, ethics and values, and how an appropriate balance can lead to better, more equitable healthcare. Dr. Doty is a 1981 graduate of Tulane School of Medicine and is now a successful neurosurgeon and professor of neurosurgery at Stanford University. He founded the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE) at Stanford University and is a New York Times Bestselling Author of Into the Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeon’s Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets of the Heart. Click the video above to watch Dr. Doty’s lecture.
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Bioethics and Medical Humanities M.S. student receives 2nd Crest Award
Vid Raturi, who will graduate this summer with an MS in Bioethics and Medical Humanities, has been awarded a prestigious Crest Award, one of Tulane’s highest honors recognizing graduate and undergraduate students.The Crest Awards are a unified campus recognition of student efforts outside the classroom, demonstrating excellence in leadership, scholarship, and community service, as well as initiative and promise in campus leadership, and are sponsored annually by the Division of Student Affairs. Ms. Raturi received the 2022 James F. Kilroy Provost Award for academic scholarship, research achievements, community involvement, and leadership. This award is given to one senior undergraduate and one graduating graduate student a year who have excelled scholastically either through academic achievement or research, have distinguished records of involvement, and have excelled in the area of student leadership on campus.This is not the first time Ms. Raturi has received such a prestigious…
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Dr. Roig Becomes Next Chief of Staff at Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System
On June 21, Dr. Roig will become the next Chief of Staff at Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System, the New Orleans VA Hospital. Dr. Roig is a graduate of the Tulane University School of Engineering and the LSU School of Medicine. He completed a residency in physical medicine and rehabilitation at Louisiana State University (LSU), where he served as chief resident. He served as president of the Resident Physician Council of the American Academy of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (PM&R) and as the chair of the Organization of Resident Representatives of the Association of American Medical Colleges. He is American Board of Medical Specialties board-certified in PM&R, pain medicine, and spinal cord injury medicine.Dr. Roig returned academic practice at VA after 15 years of private practice. He is now the Associate Chief of Staff for education, assistant chief of the PM&R service, and chief of the pain medicine section. He is on the faculty at Tulane Program in…
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Dr. Marcia Glass Receives Scholarly Retreat
Congratulations to Dr. Marcia Glass for receiving a scholarly retreat in A Studio in the Wood.Glass used her time in residence to create a year-long curriculum in palliative care, and compose a poem entitled Cleveland Clinic to be published in Annals of Internal Medicine.Dr. Glass has been recognized for teaching with various awards, including theTulane Medicine 2008 Best Inpatient Attending Award2011 Tulane C. Thorpe Ray Internal Medicine Educator Award2014 UCSF Core Clerkship Teaching Award2017 UCSF Pathways to Discovery Mentor AwardShe is also currently on the Fulbright Specialist Program Roster for teaching.
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Hope for the dying
Experimental drugs might offer a terminally ill patient another chance to live, or live longer. But outside of clinical trials, such drugs are hard to acquire and surrounded by murky legal and ethical issues of patient access and priority and company liability. On Wednesday, Sept. 26, at noon, the Program in Medical Ethics and Human Values of Tulane School of Medicine will present a lecture by Arthur L. Caplan, the Drs. William F. and Virginia Connolly Mitty Professor of Bioethics at New York University School of Medicine. The lecture titled “The Ethics of Compassion: Requests for Unapproved Drugs and the Right to Try” will take place in the first-floor auditorium of the Tulane University School of Medicine, 1430 Tulane Ave. The lecture is free and open to the public. RSVPs may be made in advance by emailing tulanemedicalethics@tulane.edu. Lunch is served on a first-come, first-served basis. On the surface, it might seem like a kindness to provide a dying patient with hope in the…
