STUDENT CORNER: BACK-TO-SCHOOL EDITION · STUDENT CORNER: BACK-TO-SCHOOL EDITION ... We welcome our newest students in the School of Medicine, the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences

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STUDENT CORNER: BACK-TO-SCHOOL EDITION

August is back-to-school time and Baylor College of Medicine is no exception to this. We welcome our newest students in the School of Medicine, the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and the School of Allied Health Sciences.

First-year medical students gathered in Alkek Lobby for breakfast and introductions before heading to their annual orientation at the Retreat at Artesian Lakes in East Texas, where they participated in team-building and other activities.

Graduate students were welcomed at a reception on their first day of orientation.

Here’s a breakdown of our newest students joining the BCM family this summer.

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185 entering studentsFemales: 91, Males: 94

Average GPA: 3.86Total Mean MCAT: 34.47From Texas: 149From other U.S. States: 36 From 62 undergraduate institutions

From 32 different majors

102 entering studentsFemales: 53, Males: 49

From Texas: 36From Other U.S. States: 51International: 15, representing 6 different countries

Master of Science in Orthotics and Prosthetics

20 entering studentsFemales: 12, Males: 8

Average GPA: 3.43From Texas: 5From Other U.S. States: 15

Physician Assistant Program

40 entering studentsFemales: 29, Males: 11

Average GPA: 3.63From Texas: 16From Other U.S. States: 24

Baylor College of Medicine Board names Fred Lummis as chair, adds four board membersThe Baylor College of Medicine Board of Trustees has elected investment company owner Fred R. Lummis as its Chair, and named four new members to the board.

Joining Lummis, Chairman of Platform Partners LLC, as Officers of the Board are U.S. Circuit Judge Carolyn Dineen King as Vice Chair and Secretary, SCF Partners Co-President David Baldwin as Vice Chair and Transwestern President and CEO Larry P. Heard as Vice Chair.

Lummis has served on the Baylor Board since 1996 and most recently served as Vice Chair. His first official event as Chair was the 2015 Commencement Ceremony for Baylor’s School of Medicine and Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences.

Four new Trustees were added to the board: Michael G. MacDougall, Ralph Eads III, Kirk Townsend and William E. Mearse.

MacDougall is a partner at TPG Capital, L.P. and leads the firm’s global energy and natural resources investing efforts. He currently serves on corporate boards for select TPG Capital portfolio companies. Before joining TPG Capital 13 years ago, MacDougall was a vice president in the principal investment area of the merchant banking division of Goldman, Sachs & Co. Additionally, he is a member of the board of directors for The Opportunity Network and The University of Texas Development Board.

Eads is Vice Chairman of leading investment bank, Jefferies LLC. He and his team have raised approximately $70 billion in joint venture, merger and private equity transactions to finance shale development in North America. Prior to joining Jefferies, Eads was president of Randall & Dewey, an investment bank that was sold to Jefferies. Previously Eads has held other senior positions at firms after beginning his career at Merrill Lynch.

Townsend is Vice President of International Operations with Ariel Corp., a privately held oilfield equipment manufacturing company. He is the past president of the North American group of Universal Compression. Townsend has more than 30 years of sales and executive management experience. He currently serves on the boards for Yellowstone Academy School, Post Oak Bank and Baylor University’s Hankamer Business School Advisory Board. He has previously served as a board member for the Palmer Drug Abuse Program, Epilepsy Foundation of Texas, Baylor Foundation Advisory Board, Lakeside Country Club and Star of Hope.

Mearse retired as the Chief Operating Officer for Accenture’s Resources business and as Managing Director of the Houston office. During his 33 years with Accenture, he served in numerous roles and worked with resources clients globally to deliver valued business outcomes. Since retiring, Mearse remains involved in several private investment and service activities. Additionally, he chairs the Board of Advocates for Baylor University’s School of Engineering and Computer Science and the Houston Baylor Business Network Advisory Committee. He also is a member of the Baylor Angel Network, the advisory committee for Baylor University’s new Master’s in Social Work program in Houston and the advisory board for Houston Baptist University’s business school and Center for Christianity and Business.

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Administrative Updates

Dean, School of Allied Health Sciences

Dr. Robert McLaughlin has been named Dean of the School of Allied Health Sciences. He has been serving as the Interim Dean since February. Dr. McLaughlin completed his internship in Clinical Psychology at Baylor in 1980-81 and joined the Baylor faculty in 1983 after receiving his doctorate from The University of Texas at Austin. He was named Assistant Dean of the School of Allied Health Sciences in 2011. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Iowa in 1975.

Dr. McLaughlin will oversee all allied health programs, including the Doctor of Nursing Practice Graduate Program in Nurse Anesthesia, Master of Science Physician Assistant Program and Master of Science in Orthotics and Prosthetics Program.

Interim Chair, Department of Medicine

Dr. Ashok Balasubramanyam has agreed to serve as Interim Chair of Medicine while a search for a new chair is completed. Dr. Rob Todd announced last year that he will retire as Chair of Medicine effecitve June 30. Dr. Balasubramanyam is a Professor in the Department of Medicine in the Section of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism and in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology. He received his bachelor’s degree from Yale University and medical degree from St. John’s Medical College in Bangalore, India. He was a resident and chief resident in Internal Medicine at Baylor,

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Administrative Updates Continuedafter which he completed a fellowship and postdoctoral fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Balasubramanyam served for many years as director of the Endocrine Fellowship Program and is currently director of Baylor’s Clinical Scientist Training Program. He has been a member of the Baylor faculty since 1994 and has served in education roles for the School of Medicine and Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. He is an NIH-funded translational researcher within the Diabetes Research Center and is chief of the Endocrine Service at Ben Taub Hospital.

Interim Chief of the Medical Service – Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center

Dr. Prasad Manian has been named Interim Chief of the Medical Service at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center. An Assistant Professor of Medicine in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Dr. Manian received his undergraduate and medical degrees from Government Medical College in Surat, India, and B.J. Medical College in Ahmedabad, India. He completed residency training at Baylor. Dr. Manian has served as a physician leader at St. Luke’s since 2004 and was named Chief of Staff-Elect at Baylor St. Luke’s when the joint venture began in January 2014.

Dr. Eric Rohren named Chair of Radiology at Baylor College of Medicine Dr. Eric Rohren, a national leader in radiology and nuclear medicine, has been named Chair of Radiology at Baylor College of Medicine. His appointment is effective Oct. 1.

Rohren currently serves as a Professor in the Departments of Nuclear Medicine and Diagnostic Radiology, Division of Diagnostic Imaging, at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and is chief of the Section of Positron Emission Tomography (PET).

Dr. Rohren is nationally recognized for his leadership in nuclear medicine, a funded researcher and skilled educator. He is an ideal leader for the radiology department, with his clear understanding of the College’s strategic mission in

education, research and patient care.

Rohren has held leadership positions in several national groups, including the American College of Radiology, the Radiologic Society of North America, the American Board of Nuclear Medicine and the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. His research interests include cancer imaging, novel radiotracers in oncology and neurology and targeted radioisotope therapies. He has worked extensively on PET/CT reporting and has developed guidelines for report structure and content through his work with the PET Utilization Task Force.

“Baylor College of Medicine embodies the triad of academic medicine: outstanding patient care, innovative and clinically-driven research and a strong commitment to education for the next generation of physicians and scientists,” Rohren said. “Imaging touches all aspects of medicine, and emerging techniques in molecular imaging and therapeutics will open up new vistas in patient care. I am excited to be joining the College and look forward to helping fulfill its objectives through the integration of transformative imaging technologies.”

Rohren received his bachelor’s degree from St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minn., and earned his medical degree from Mayo Medical School in Rochester, Minn., and his doctorate from Mayo Graduate School in immunology. He completed residency in diagnostic radiology and fellowship training in nuclear medicine at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C., and is board certified by the American Board of Radiology and the American Board of Nuclear Medicine.

Rohren has been on the MD Anderson faculty since 2007, and prior to that held appointments as a faculty physician at the Mayo Clinic and as medical director of several molecular imaging centers in Florida.

Dr. Kent Osborne, Director of the Dan L. Duncan Cancer Center, an NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center, at Baylor College of Medicine, has been named the recipient of the 2015 Ben and Margaret Love Foundation Bobby Alford Award for Academic Clinical Professionalism, an honor bestowed annually to Baylor physicians who best exemplify the trait of professionalism in the practice of medicine.

Throughout his more than 40-year career, Osborne has fought tirelessly to improve access to lifesaving breast cancer prevention and treatment for everyone in the community, most importantly the vulnerable women in the underserved communities. Osborne noted that this fight and responsibility of physicians best represents his vision of professionalism.

In the late 1970s, as a young faculty member at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Osborne recalled his shock at the sentiments of certain people who believed poor people didn’t deserve quality care. These experiences helped Osborne ferment his own beliefs, and he established two goals that have governed his approach to oncology and his vision of professionalism his entire career, he said.

Those goals included:

“First, to reduce morbidity and mortality from cancer; in my case my focus has been breast cancer. We need to integrate basic, translational and clinical research into state-of-the-art compassionate patient care,” said Osborne. “And second, we must extend what we already know today to all of our citizens, including the underserved, a goal that requires extra effort beyond one’s job description.”

Osborne and his colleagues at UTHSCA and the Bexar County Hospital District saw patients in both the private and public setting to ensure all cancer patients received the same care by the same doctors.

In 1999, Osborne was recruited to establish a breast cancer center at Baylor and the Harris Health System’s Ben Taub Hospital, a Baylor hospital affiliate partner. Most of his San Antonio colleagues moved with him.

At Ben Taub, Osborne and his team were met with alarming statistics. Women before this were hospitalized for acute care with 60 percent of them diagnosed with late-stage disease. Very few women (roughly 14 percent of eligible women in the health system) had a screening mammogram, and when they did and it yielded cancer, the average delay from abnormal mammogram to first treatment was about six months.

Rattled by the statistics, Osborne and his team set out to improve care with everything from screening

“We need to integrate basic,

translational and clinical research

into state-of-the-art compassionate

patient care.”– DR. KENT OSBORNE

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Dr. Kent Osborne honored for medical professionalism

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Osborne Continuedresources to end-of-life care. They partnered with several local and national foundations including the Susan G. Komen Foundation, the Avon Foundation and Pink Ribbons Project to obtain grants to purchase new equipment, hire patient navigators and more efficiently conduct biopsies.

Today, the time from diagnosis to treatment at Harris Health is significantly shorter, the number of screening mammograms has risen and women are being diagnosed earlier, rather than later.

“I am very proud of our team,” said Osborne, who stepped down as director of the Lester and Sue Smith Breast Center at Baylor in 2014 to focus on his role as director of the Duncan Cancer Center, a role he also has served in since 2005. “This represents professionalism at its best, using one’s skills and energies to improve the lives of others.”

“Dr. Osborne exemplifies professionalism in his

clinical care of our patients with a humble

and caring attitude.”– MARI RUDE, NP

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The Baylor College of Medicine Alumni Association is accepting nominations for Alumni Awards now through October 9, 2015. Recommend a deserving classmate — or yourself — for recognition at the Alumni Awards Dinner, May 12, 2016. Award nomination forms, categories, criteria and past winners are available at bcm.edu/alumni.

CRUISE REGAL ROUTES WITH ALUMNISail to the heart of northern

Europe with Baylor alumni June 13-24, 2016. The Regal

Routes cruise aboard the mid-sized ship Marina includes

ports of call at Le Havre, France; Bruges and Antwerp, Belgium;

Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Hamburg, Germany; Kristiansund

and Oslo, Norway; and Gothenburg, Sweden. See bcm.edu/alumni/

events or call 1-800-842-9023 for early booking discounts now through

October 15, 2015.

ALUMNI AWARDS: NOMINATION DEADLINE IS OCTOBER 9