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DEAN’S
Volume 27, Issue 4
November/December 2001
REPORT
S c h o o l . o f . M e d i c i n e
A n addition to our impressive
list of community collabora-
tions is a new group called
proposal was funded at $936,000
dollars this year. The grant is
administered through the Center
HealthLink Miami Valley Network, for Healthy Communities.
which formed about 18 months ago Kate Cauley, Ph.D., director of
to address the lack of health care the Center for Healthy Communi-
insurance for approximately 85,000 ties and associate professor of
Montgomery County residents, community health and of psychol-
almost 15 percent of the county’s ogy, and Rudy Arnold, M.D.,
Howard M. Part, M.D. population. director of the Miami Valley Health
Dean
The group has representation (continued on back page)
from 17 area organizations and has
been convening under the leader-
New Grant Addresses the
Needs of the Community
ship of Richard Schuster, M.D.,
M.M.M., Boonshoft Chair and
IN THIS ISSUE: Director of the Division of Health
DEAN’S VIEW ............ 1 Systems Management.
A brainchild of this active A joint press conference held at the Wright State
FACULTY PROFILES .... 2 group was a proposal to the Com- Kettering Center announced the receipt of the
munity Access Program initiative Community Access Program grant. (L – R) Bill
NEWS IN BRIEF ......... 3
in the Health Services and Re- Bines, Health Commissioner, Combined Health
sources Administration (HRSA) of District of Montgomery County; Congressman
Tony Hall; Dean Howard Part; Dannetta Graves,
the U.S. Department of Health and
Executive Director of the Montgomery County
Human Services. In a joint press Department of Job and Family Services; and Joe
conference with Tony Hall in Krella, President and CEO, Greater Dayton Area
October, it was announced that the Hospital Association.
S c h o o l . o f . M e d i c i n e
F AC U LT Y . P RO F I L E S
Albert E. Langley
When Albert E. Langley, Ph.D., arrived at Wright State in
1977, the School of Medicine had not yet graduated its first class.
He came to Dayton after working at Warner-Lambert Research
Institute on antihypertensive and cardiotonic drugs. Prior to that
he was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Colorado. He
received a Ph.D. in Pharmacology from Ohio State University.
Dr. Langley soon became course director for medical
pharmacology and vice chair, and later chair, of the Department
of Pharmacology and Toxicology. He chaired both the Biennium I
Curriculum Subcommittee and the Faculty Curriculum Committee
over the years. He served on the LCME Self-Study Task Force
Steering Committee in 1986 and chaired that group in 1993, and
again in 2001. In 1990, Dr. Langley was named Associate Dean
for Academic Affairs, the school’s senior academic officer, and
was instrumental in working with faculty and students to organize
the curriculum into modules based upon organ systems.
At the end of this calendar year, “Bert” Langley will retire,
officially. He and his wife Rose are not planning major changes,
just more time for family and fishing.
H. F. Pompe van Meerdervoort
H. F. Pompe van Meerdervoort, M.B.Ch.B.,
began his career in South Africa, receiving his
medical degree and completing his residency in
orthopaedic surgery in Pretoria. After a fellowship in
Canada, he returned to South Africa and was named
chair of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at
the University of the Orange Free State there. In
1979, Dr. Pompe joined Wright State University, and
became chair of the Department of Orthopaedic
Surgery in 1988. A year later, he also assumed
directorship of the Orthopaedic Surgery Residency
Program.
Dr. Pompe will retire at the end of this calendar
year, leaving as a legacy a flourishing department
and a research endowment in his name.
S c h o o l . o f . M e d i c i n e
N E W S . I N .B R I E F
Teaching Excellence Medical Student Finds
Faculty received recognition for teaching excellence at the fourth Immediate Application
annual Awards Ceremony, designed to acknowledge the achievements for Curriculum
of faculty and students.
Over the past several weeks,
This year’s class awards for Teaching Excellence were given to: our country has been besieged by
unprecedented terrorism. Amid the
✰ John F. Donnelly, M.D., associate professor of family
terror and sorrow, one of our
medicine and community health and predoctoral director for
students found himself in the
the Department of Family Medicine
position of healer.
Ian Valerio, a second-year
✰ Thomas Mathews, M.D., chair and professor of neurology
medical student, was one of many
and associate professor for pathology
whose flights were cancelled on
September 11. He was vacationing
✰ Stuart J. Nelson, Ph.D., associate professor of pathology
in Hawaii at the time and used the
time extension to hike Diamond
✰ Jane N. Scott, Ph.D., chair and associate professor of
Head. The climb to a 761-foot
anatomy.
lookout point is about a mile walk
through a tunnel and up 271 steps.
The Mentors’ Awards were given to:
At the top, he noticed a young
✰ Nancy J. Bigley, Ph.D., professor for anatomy Japanese woman who was having
trouble breathing.
✰ Sidney F. Miller, M.D., professor for surgery, associate Ian went to help, prepared by a
program director for general surgery, and director of post- recent segment of his curriculum
graduate and continuing education for Miami Valley Hospital. that covered the signs of
dehydration. The young woman was
The Excellence in Medical Education Awards were presented to: hyperventilating, could not swallow
✰ Robert D. Reece, Ph.D., chair and professor of community liquids, and her body was clenching
health and of religion into a fetal position.
Ian was creative in his approach,
✰ Mary T. White, Ph.D., associate professor for community even though the woman did not
health and director of the Division of Medical Humanities. speak English. He borrowed a pair
of swim trunks a tourist had in a
pack, wet them with water and
Academic Support placed them behind the young
Recently, donors and scholarship recipients met at the Dayton Art woman’s neck to help cool her body
Institute for the annual Thelma Fordham Pruett Recognition temperature. From another tourist,
Ceremony, designed to recognize the generosity of our donors and he took a plastic sandwich bag for
the merits of our students. More than 70 outstanding students the woman to breath into, reversing
received scholarship support, and three newly established funds were the effects of too much oxygen. Still
announced: another onlooker called 911 and Ian
✺ Greene County Medical Society Endowed Scholarship talked with paramedics until they
arrived by helicopter.
✺ The Pole Family Endowed Scholarship “If the day had played out
differently, I would not have been
✺ Zoe and Bob Hittner Community Health Fund. there to help,” Ian says.
D E A N ’ S .V I E W
(continued from front page) Note:
Improvement Council and clinical instructor of family medicine, The HealthLink Miami Valley
Network includes representatives
will serve as co-directors for the grant.
from the following organizations:
Pilot programs will increase outreach efforts to link people to available the Center for Healthy Communi-
resources and use advanced technology to better coordinate health care and ties; the Department of Pediatrics,
human services. Working with the Medicaid outreach efforts of the Mont- the Department of Community
gomery County Department of Job and Family Services, specially trained Health and its Division of Health
Systems Management at Wright
outreach workers with the project will assist in matching residents with
State University School of
health care providers. Medicine; the Miami Valley Health
The project will also integrate two information technology systems: Improvement Council; the
GDAHIN—Greater Dayton Area Health Information Network, the nation- Combined Health District of
ally recognized network of the Greater Dayton Area Hospital Association; Montgomery County; the Greater
Dayton Area Hospital Association;
and AgencyLink, a management information system being piloted as a
CareSource; Montgomery County
national model in the Dayton community through the Montgomery County Job and Family Services; the
Family and Children First Council. This relationship will reduce paperwork Alcohol Drug Addiction and
and increase coordination and integration of health and human services. Mental Health Services Board; the
At the end of this planning year, the HealthLink Miami Valley Network Dayton Area Chamber of Com-
merce; the Gem City Medical,
hopes to implement a long-term plan to ensure that every Montgomery
Dental, and Pharmaceutical
County resident has access to health care services, strengthening the Society; the Dayton Foundation;
community’s safety net and creating a healthier Dayton community. and the Health Ministries Associa-
— Howard Part, M.D. tion of Southwest Ohio.
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