MSM on a Mission
 On April 21, 2016, more than 300 guests attended the 9th annual Hugh M. Gloster Society Celebration, which raised more than $250,000 for students and presented the Fulton-DeKalb Hospital
Authority with the 2016 Louis C. Brown Vanguard Award. <<MORE>>
 MSM Executive Director of Government Relations, Health Policy & External Affairs Daniel E. Dawes to sign copies of his new book, 150 Years of Obamacare -- which examines the Affordable Care Act from a historical health reform perspective,
at the TCC Health Policy Research Summit on April 28, 2016. <<MORE>>
 MSM's Prevention Research Center Community Coalition Board, faculty and staff (Drs.
Tabia Henry Akintobi, Natalie Hernandez, Latrice Rollins and Assia Miller, and LaShawn Hoffman, Calvin McAllister and Lisa Goodin)'s paper "Assessing the Oral Health Needs of African American Men in Low-Income,
Urban Communities," was recently accepted by the American Journal of Men's Health.
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 On April 30, 2016, Dr. Omar Danner will present two abstracts (Multidisciplinary, Hospital-based Youth Mentoring and Medical Exposure Program Positively
Influences Health Care Career Choice: The Reach One Each One Experience and Physiologically-based, Predictive Analytics Using the Heart-Rate-to-Systolic-Ratio
Significantly Improves the Timeliness and Accuracy of Sepsis Prediction Compared to
SIRS) at the 26th Annual Society of Black Academic Surgeons Scientific Meeting.
 On May 16, 2016, Dr. Sarah Herbert will receive the 2016 Barbara Gittings Award. The award, which is presented to a
woman who demonstrates exceptional leadership and advocacy for LGBT issues, will be presented
during the American Psychiatric Association's Annual Meeting in Atlanta at the Carter
Center.
 On May 1, 2016, Drs. Brian McGregor, Fengxia Yan, Ronald Braithwaite and Crystal Mitchell's paper titled "Program Success of Mental Health Clients in Day Reporting Centers"
will be published in the upcoming supplement issue 27.2 of the Journal of Health Care
for the Poor and Underserved. The paper compares indicators of program success between
adult offenders with a substance use disorder and those with co-morbid mental illness
at three day-reporting centers. <<MORE>>
MSM in the News
 On April 29, 2016, two University of Rochester Medical Center faculty members, Drs.
Robert Fortuna and Ann Marie White, will be honored with the 7th annual Dr. David Satcher Community Health Improvement Awards. <<MORE>>
 Dr. David Satcher's 1999 campaign to counter suicide referenced in newspaper op-ed addressing rising
rate of suicides in US. <<MORE>>
Strategic Plan Updates
Are you in need of a Strategic Plan refresher? Do you want to discuss the Annual Goal
Template process? Contact Blair Edwards, director of Strategic Initiatives & Special
Projects, at baedwards@msm.edu for a one-on-one meeting or to speak at a meeting or retreat.
Mandatory for ALL Employees
HR & Compliance Fiscal Year 2016 Mandatory Training Schedule:
- Workplace Harassment: Jul 15 - Aug 23
- Code of Conduct: Sept 25 - Oct 25
- HIPAA: Nov 1 - Dec 10
- Conflicts of Interest: Jan 11 - Feb 12
- Radiation Safety: Mar 7 - Apr 8
- Wage & Hour: Apr 18 - May 19 <<MORE>>
Announcements
 Medical student Tiffany Cochran will be MSM's March of Dimes March for Babies team leader this year. The march will
be Saturday, April 30. Please lend your support (walking and donations) to this event to help fight against
prematurity and infant mortality.
Click for more information and to donate and register with Team MSM!
Navex Ethicspoint is Morehouse School of Medicine's new compliance hotline vendor. Click for direct link and more info.
Important HR Benefits Communication
Summary of Benefits & Coverage (SBC) required by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to
be distributed by group health plans, in simple plain language, to all benefits-eligible
faculty, staff and residents.
Click here for Choice Plus High Plan
Click here for Choice Plus Basic Plan
The Satcher Health Leadership Institute (SHLI) celebrates its 10th Anniversary in 2016. Click for the full schedule of events.
From Human Resources
Have questions about Employment Verification? Contact uConfirm for all your verification needs.
Does your address or other data need to be updated? Use Banner Self-Service to make that change.
Important press release from Emory and Grady on selected brain injury patients to be enrolled in Hypothermia for Patients requiring Evacuation of Subdural Hematoma (HOPES) Trial. Click here for more information.
RCMI R-Center Needs Assessment Survey
The purpose of this survey is to gather information about the RCMI R-CENTER programs,
its resource utilization and how investigators and staff are leveraging these resources
to expand their research projects. Please complete ASAP. Click for survey and more info.
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Upcoming Events
April 27, 2016
International Cancer Research Partnership Day of Science
April 27, 2016
GEBS Dissertation Defense: Heme-Induced Depletion of Hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor
Cells in Malaria Pathogenesis
April 27, 2016
3-Part Webinar Series Pt. 2: Challenges Facing Clinicians Treating Tobacco Use Patients
April 27, 2016
OVID Training Session
April 28, 2016
GEBS Thesis Defense: Measure of the Impact of Fenofibrate on the Expression Levels
of Superoxide Dismutases (SODs) in Human Brain Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells (HBVSMC)
April 28, 2016
GEBS Thesis Defense: Opioid Effects on Outflow Facility in Mice
April 29, 2016
MSM Master of Public Health Program Spring 2016 Graduates' Culminating Experience
Presentations
April 29, 2016
GEBS Thesis Defense: The Effects of Kappa Opioid Receptor Activation on Ischemic Stress
in Human Trabecular Meshwork Cells
April 30, 2016
March of Dimes March for Babies
May 2, 2016
MSM Master of Public Health Program Spring 2016 Graduates' Culminating Experience
Presentations
May 3, 2016
Neuroscience Institute Seminar Series: Synapses, Muscular Dystrophy and Brain Disorders
May 5, 2016
AAMC LGBT Health Webinar: The Nuts and Bolts of Caring for and Teaching About Transgender
and Gender Nonconforming Youth
May 5, 2016
MSCR Final Mentored Research Project Presentations
May 5, 2016
MSM Town Hall Meeting
May 6, 2016
MSM Lampoons 2016
May 10, 2016
Annual MSM Employee Awards and Service Recognition
May 12, 2016
CVRI Seminar Series: Emerging Roles of P311, an Intrinsically Disordered Protein in
Cardiovascular Health and Disease
May 14, 2016
APA Community Knowledge Exchange: Hope for Our Children and Communities
May 18-20, 2016
National Research Mentoring Network Southeast Training
May 19-20, 2016
Board of Trustees Meeting
June 16, 2016
123rd Annual Georgia State Medical Association Annual Meeting "Integrated Care in
Advancing Health Equity" (Roundtable Discussion and Exhibit)
June 21-22, 2016
2016 Southeastern Pediatric Research Innovation Conference
June 29, 2016
3-Part Webinar Series Pt. 3: Challenges Facing Clinicians Treating Tobacco Use Patients
Save the Date
April 28, 2016
TCC Health Policy Research Summit 2016: Translating Science into Policy Impact
May 12, 2016
Retirement Reception Honoring Dr. James Densler
May 20, 2016
Class Day
May 20, 2016
By These Healing Hands
May 21, 2016
32nd Commencement Exercises
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