November 29, 2007
Dr. Mary Kay Murphy Selected As One of Gwinnett County's Most Influential Women MSM Associate Vice President of Institutional Advancement Mary Kay Murphy, Ph.D., has been selected as one of Gwinnett County's "Most Influential Women." Murphy and nine others were chosen for the award based on their positions of leadership by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Having served on the Gwinnett County Board of Education for 11 years, Murphy is being honored for her educational contributions.

For the complete story, please see the link below.
D. Aileen Dodd
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Monday, Nov. 26, 2007
http://www.ajc.com/search/content/metro/gwinnett/stories/2007/11/26/women1126.htmlhtml

November 28, 2007
Director of the Satcher Health leadership Institute at Morehouse School of Medicine Dr. David Satcher is featured in an article in the Lehigh University Nov. 2, 2007 edition of The Brown and White. Satcher spoke to administrators, students and faculty at the Bethlehem, Penn. School on Oct. 30. The former U.S. Surgeon General addressed global health issues.

November 21, 2007
Director of the Satcher Health Leadership Institute at MSM Dr. David Satcher was featured yesterday, Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2007 on New Orleans CBS affiliate WWLTV. Satcher led an international group of experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) Commission on Social Determinants of Health to the hurricane-ravaged Gulf region Nov. 17-20 to assess the socioeconomic status and health needs of those affected by the storms. The journey included a meeting with New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, a tour of the Lower Ninth Ward, and two days of workshops featuring internationally recognized speakers. Satcher appeared on the WWLTV morning news show to discuss the work and recommendations of the commission in New Orleans.

A feature story on the trip also appeared in today's Times Picayune; see link below.
N.O. suggested as health lab

Commission looking at poverty, illness

By Kate Moran
Times Picayune

Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2007

http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/neworleans/index.ssf?/base/news-25/1195626949247670.xml&coll=1

November 16, 2007

Nationally-Recognized Georgia Diabetes Project Honored

PRNewswire - USNewswire

Thursday, Nov. 15, 2007

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/11-15-2007/0004706840&EDATE=

Ask The Secretary

By  Bridget Gutierrez

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Wednesday, Nov.14, 2007

http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/education/entries/2007/11/14/ask_the_secreta.html?cxntfid=blogs_get_schooled

November 14, 2007

Grady to lose its source of doctors?
Change or else: Emory, Morehouse threaten to stop supplying their residents if the hospital doesn't fix its leadership.
By Craig Schneider
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2007

http://www.ajc.com/search/content/metro/stories/2007/11/14/grady1114.html

Concierge medicine: Rx for stressed health care system?
For $1,500 a year or more, doctors will give you 24/7 access, more face time
By Andy Miller 
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Thursday, Nov. 8, 2007

http://www.ajc.com/health/content/business/stories/2007/11/07/concierge_1108.html

Regents name McGaha president of Atlanta Metropolitan College

The Associated Press

Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2007

http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/251/story/176175.html

November 12, 2007

Chair of the MSM Alumni Golf Tournament and longtime MSM supporter Hank Aaron may be preparing to assist in purchasing a professional sports team. According to the Nov. 9-15, 2007 edition of the Atlanta Business Chronicle, the former Atlanta Braves player and current executive and Hall of Fame honoree, Aaron may partner with MLB's Tony Tavares, former New York Governor Mario Cuomo and former NFL quarterback and vice presidential candidate Jack Kemp. The story can be found on page 3A of the Chronicle.

November 9, 2007

Morehouse School of Medicine was a key contributor to a recent national "Symposium on Health Disparities in Male Depression." The Nov. 6, 2007 event was held in Washington, D.C., and featured from MSM Dr. David Satcher, former U.S. Surgeon General and Poussaint-Satcher-Cosby Chair in Mental Health at MSM; Dr. Henrie Treadwell, director, W.K. Kellogg Foundation Community Voices and Dr. Kisha Braithwaite, assistant professor, clinical psychiatry, National Center for Primary Care. The event launched a national education outreach campaign to increase awareness of depression, reduce stigma, prevent suicide and promote screening and treatment for male depression. The campaign will have a special focus on African Americans. John Head, author of Standing in the Shadows: Black Men Face Depression, and U.S. Congressman Patrick J. Kennedy, D-R.I., also participated with other national mental health experts. More info: http://www.kaisernetwork.org/

A story on Gary H. Gibbons, M.D., director, MSM's Cardiovascular Research Institute, appears in the Nov. 8-Nov. 14 issue of the Atlanta Daily World newspaper. The coverage relates to Gibbons' election in October to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies-considered one of the highest honors in medicine and health. Gibbons is the fifth IOM member from Morehouse School of Medicine.

Gary H. Gibbons, M.D., Featured on theheart.org from WebMD http://www.theheart.org/article/819505.do

Owned and produced by WebMD, theheart.org provides information on caring for people with disorders of the heart and circulation, and on preventing such disorders.

Washington, DC - Among the latest names elected to the Institute of Medicine (IoM) are four doctors with cardiovascular interests.

They are Dr Harlan Krumholz (Harold H Hines Jr Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology and Public Health and professor of internal medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT), Dr Gary Gibbons (director, Cardiovascular Research Institute, and professor of medicine, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta. GA), Dr Jonathan Seidman (Henrietta B and Frederick H Bugher Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA) and Dr Arthur Garson (executive vice president and provost, school of medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville).

The Institute of Medicine is a nonprofit organization set up to advise the nation on matters of biomedical science, medicine, and health. Part of the National Academy of Sciences, the institute provides unbiased, evidence-based, and authoritative information and advice concerning health and science policy to policy makers, professionals, leaders in every sector of society, and the public at large. With their election, members make a commitment to devote a significant amount of volunteer time as members of IoM committees, which engage in a broad range of studies on health-policy issues.

President of the institute, Dr Harvey Fineberg, said: "Members are elected through a highly selective process that recognizes people who have made major contributions to the advancement of the medical sciences, healthcare, and public health. Election is considered one of the highest honors in the fields of medicine and health."

Krumholz commented to heartwire that it was a great honor to be elected to the Institute of Medicine. Noting that his achievements have been aided by many other people who have contributed to his work, Krumholz added that he welcomed the great opportunity to influence future health-policy issues.

November 8, 2007

Gary H. Gibbons, M.D., Featured in The AUC Digest

News on Gary H. Gibbons, M.D., director, MSM's Cardiovascular Research Institute, appears in the Monday, Oct. 22, 2007 issue of the The AUC Digest. The news relates to Gibbons' election in October to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.

November 5, 2007

MSM President Emeritus Dr. Louis W. Sullivan and his Symphony of Health Care national tour were mentioned in the Sat., Nov. 3, 2007 issue of The New York Times. The article appears on the publication's front page.

November 1, 2007

New Atlanta facility will ease sickle cell's misery (This story appeared on the front page of Wednesday's paper. Dr. Beatrice Gee is quoted.)
By Gayle White 
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2007

http://www.ajc.com/search/content/metro/atlanta/stories/2007/10/30/sickle_1031.html

An air date has been scheduled for the national television network trauma story featuring Morehouse School of Medicine Chief Surgical Resident Dr. April Spencer, residents Drs. Eric Capriles, Derrick Allen, S. Alzubaidi, and Q. Pan and Dr. Leslie R. Matthews, assistant professor of Trauma/Surgical Critical Care/General Surgery, MSM Dept. of Surgery.

The story, which was videotaped Sat., Oct. 13, 2007 at Grady Memorial Hospital, is scheduled to air during next Tuesday evening's (Nov. 6, 2007) broadcast of the "CBS Evening News with Katie Couric."

The national television network has produced the story to highlight the importance of trauma centers in the United States. The five MSM surgical residents and Trauma Attending Matthews were recorded as an example of a first-rate trauma team at work as it manned the Grady Memorial Hospital Trauma Center.