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ADVANCES JUNE 5, 2014

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A new era for health educationWith Hall Foundation gift, medical center plans for new facility

A $25 million lead gift from the Hall Family Foundation is a catalyst for the University of Kansas Medical Center to move forward on plans to construct a $75 million health education building on the main campus.

The new building – a top university priority for years – will increase the number of students the medical center can train. It also will be designed for current teaching methods that emphasize new technologies and small, problem-solving teams.

“We will now be able to train future doctors, nurses and health-care professionals in state-of-the-art facilities appropriate for the modern healthcare education curriculum,” said Robert Simari, MD, executive dean of the School of Medicine.

Don Hall, chairman of the Hall Family Foundation, said the facility will provide “unparalleled

interprofessional health education” for the region. It also will build on the momentum of the medical center’s research strength and national clinical recognition of The University of Kansas Hospital.

The building will be located on the parking lot of The Robert E. Hemenway Life Sciences Innovation Center. Construction is slated to begin spring 2016, with the facility expected to open to students in fall 2017.

With the facility, enrollment at the School of Medicine’s three

campuses will increase from about 211 incoming students per year to about 261 in 2017.

The new building will be especially helpful bringing healthcare students from different disciplines together to learn as a team, said Isaiah Logan, a third-year medical student. “Multiple disciplines have separate space for clinical skills,” he said. “But there is nowhere on campus that we can have multidisciplinary clinical skills education on a large scale.”

Fred Logan, Kansas Board of

Regents chair, said the Regents’ No. 1 priority this year was to obtain funding for the facility. “The Hall Family Foundation’s extraordinary gift makes construction possible,” he said. “It lifts the entire state.” 

This is the second major new building announced for the main campus this year. The hospital in February announced plans to build a new hospital facil-ity, Cambridge North, at 39th Avenue and Cambridge.

By the Numbers: Specialty retail pharmacy To suggest a By the Numbers, email Advances@kumc.edu.

The University of Kansas Hospital’s Retail Pharmacy fills more than 130,000 prescriptions each year. ‘Specialty’ medications – for complex conditions such as cancer and organ transplants – continue to rise, reflecting patients’ increas-ingly complex needs.

Specialty prescriptions filled Percentage of total retail prescriptions filled

Left, the new health education build-ing will support small team-based learning, such as this session led by Moya Peterson, PhD, APRN, School of Nursing assistant professor.

Above, the Hall Family Foundation and Chairman Don Hall, here at the May 20 announcement, are longtime supporters of the medical center.

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Events Sun smart at the K – The

University of Kansas Hospital will promote skin cancer awareness Sunday, June 8, at Kauffman Stadium when the Kansas City Royals take on the New York Yankees. “Play Sun Smart” is one of the hospital’s three health awareness days at the K this sea-son. The hospital is in its fourth season as the official healthcare provider of the Royals.

Legal issues? – Learn about wills, trusts, power of attorney, guardianship, disability benefits, preserving your assets, advanced directives and other issues important in planning for the future. The class is 6-7:30 p.m. Monday, June 9, at Turning Point: The Center for Hope and Healing in Leawood. Call 913-383-8700 to register.

Fundraiser at the K – Proceeds from the Kansas City Royals Diamond of Dreams June 26 will support The University of Kansas Hospital’s Neonatal Medical Home. Held on the field at Kauffman Stadium, it features food and beverages from a variety of local restaurants, a band, socializing with Royals players, auctions for sports memorabilia, fireworks and more. Tickets are $125 per person. Details are at kansascity.royals.mlb.com/kc/community/diamond_of_dreams.jsp.

Cosmetic eye fair – KU Eye will host a “cosmetic eye fair,” showcasing its new KU Eye Surgery and Laser Center. The event is 4-6 p.m. July 1 at KU Eye in Prairie Village. The fair includes prizes and gift certificates toward cosmetic services, such as eyelid surgery and botox. New designer frames also will be display. RSVP by June 27 at 913-588-6674 or snoftzger@kumc.edu.

Details and more events are at kumed.com/event-detail.

PROGRAM SPOTLIGHT

Stayin’ Alive with hands-only CPRThe Kansas City metro is

turning into a “HeartSafe” town, thanks to staff at The University of Kansas Hospital and the Kansas City, Kan., Fire Department.

Hospital and fire department staff over the past year have trained more than 3,000 people in Wyandotte County about what to do when they see someone experiencing cardiac arrest. The HeartSafe method: • Check for responsiveness.• Call 911.• Perform hands-only CPR (no

mouth-to-mouth). Compress the middle of the chest hard and fast, pressing the chest down about 2 inches 100 times a minute (to the rhythm of the Bee Gees’ Stayin’ Alive).

• Use an automatic external defibrillator (AED) if available.

The hospital and KCK fire department received an award last month from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment for their efforts to make Wyandotte County a HeartSafe community. Wyandotte County is the first in the metro and second in Kansas recognized as a HeartSafe community.

Now, thanks to an agreement among Heart of America Fire Chiefs throughout the metro, as well as an invitation for all area hospitals to join, HeartSafe training is expanding to other communities.

The kickoff was May 17 at a Boy Scout event at Kansas Speedway. Our hospital staff, along with EMS personnel and others, trained 850 scouts and parents on HeartSafe methods. (Go to hoaheartsafe.org for more about the metrowide rollout.)

The hands-only CPR method, also known as the bystander method, is different from CPR

administered in the hospital, said Jerilyn Rodgers, RN, chest pain program coordinator.

“You don’t need to be a nurse or doctor to deliver hands-only CPR,” said Rodgers, also co-chair of the HeartSafe effort. She noted 21 percent of CPR administered in our community is by bystanders, not healthcare professionals. “CPR buys us a ton of time,” she said. “The training is absolutely, posi-tively a lifesaving skill to learn.”

EXPOSURE

Partners in heart care More than 1,000 employees, friends and family members from The University of Kansas Hospital participated in the annual Heart & Stroke Walk/5K, which was May 31 near the Plaza. Among them: Orthopedic Surgery’s (Unit 43) Korri Anderson (left) and Heidi Boehm, RN. After the walk, our participants enjoyed a pancake breakfast provided by the hospital.

Left, at Kansas Speedway last month, our hospital’s Max Zimmerman, LPN, taught hands-only CPR to a young scout.

Above, Wyandotte County is the first HeartSafe Community in the Kansas City metro, thanks to Jerilyn Rodgers, RN, chest pain program coordinator, and others.

Chiefs at the bedsideKansas City Chiefs running backs on May 20 visited patients and staff at The University of Kansas Hospital’s neuroscience units. The visit, in honor of

National Stroke Awareness Month, in-cluded running backs Jordan Campbell (38), Cyrus Gray (32), Jamaal Charles (25) and Knile Davis (34). Colleen Lechtenberg, MD, helped coordinate the visit.

Weight loss method curbs views of foodHow we lose weight affects the way our brains respond to

images of food, according to brain imaging research at the University of Kansas School of Medicine.

Researchers used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to measure the brain responses among people in two different groups: people who lost weight after bariatric surgery and those who lost weight by traditional measures.

When shown images of pizza and other food, the brains of people in the traditional group were more active in the medial prefontal cortex – the part of the brain that regulates emotion and how we feel.

The findings suggest food means more to people who lose weight by changing their behavior – calorie watching, regular exercise – than it does to people who undergo laparoscopic banding surgery.

The authors of the study say the surgery patients appear to be more “disconnected” from the experience of hunger. “They’re not as interested in eating,” said lead author Amanda Bruce, PhD. “They’re not as motivated by food.”

The study, published in the journal Obesity, is the first to look at brain changes associated with different methods of weight loss.

$19M grant supports bioscience effortThe University of Kansas Medical Center has received a

five-year, $19 million grant that continues a Kansas cell and developmental biology research program.

The award, one of the largest biomedical research grants in Kansas, is for the Kansas Institutional Development Award Network of Biomedical Research Excellence.

K-INBRE is a multidisciplinary program to enhance the state’s research capacity through faculty development, retention and infrastructure, as well as inspire undergraduate researchers to pursue careers in biomedical research. Ten university campuses in Kansas and Oklahoma are a part of the initiative.

The grant is from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health. The grant will fund numerous research initiatives, including research projects and startup funds for new faculty, post-doctoral fellowships and undergraduate student research projects.

“This program allows our medical center, working with our partners in higher education throughout the state, to keep the biosciences in Kansas growing and thriving,” said Doug Girod, MD, executive vice chancellor of the University of Kansas Medical Center.

“Through this funding, we are ensuring that future genera-tions of scientists will continue to build healthy communities in Kansas and make world-changing discoveries in the field of biomedical research.”

In the NewsA recap of recent articles, TV segments and other media coverage of the region’s leading academic medical center

Report: Kansas City near top in medical access – KCUR, May 29. Kansas City ranks No. 4 among U.S. cities regarding access to quality physi-cians and hospitals, according to a report. The report examined provider-to-resident ratios, physician quality, ease of getting an appointment and wait times. Mid-America Regional Council’s Dean Katerndahl, who authored a report on medical care locally, said providers like The University of Kansas Hospital contributed significantly to high-quality healthcare here.

Compared with cancer care, testicular self-exams a bargain – Medscape, May 22. The low cost of physician evaluations prompted by a patient’s testicular self-examination is modest compared to the overall cost of treating late-stage testicular cancer, according to a new analysis. “We can calculate that 300,000 negative clinical examinations, based on a testicular self-examination, could have been performed for the cost of all the metastatic testicular cancer treated in 2013,” said investigator Michael Aberger, MD, urology resident at the University of Kansas Medical Center.

New way for surgeons to locate breast tumors – Fox 4 News, May 23. Many women having surgical biopsies or lumpectomies for breast cancer must have a wire inserted in the breast beforehand. Now there’s an alternative at The University of Kansas Hospital: breast seed localiza-tion. The technique is more comfortable and convenient for patients and allows surgeons to precisely identify and remove only cancerous tissue.

Exercise aids in stroke recovery – U.S. News & World Report, May 20. Exercise is an important, though often underused, way to improve recovery in stroke survivors, according to a report in the journal Stroke. “There is strong evidence that physical activity and exercise after stroke can improve cardiovascular fitness, walking ability and upper arm strength,” said author Sandra Billinger, PhD, PT, at the University of Kansas Medical Center. Despite these benefits, “too few healthcare professionals prescribe exercise as a form of therapy for stroke,” she said.

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Our People New award honors top

residents – Nurses at The University of Kansas Hospital have launched a new recognition: Outstanding Resident Award.

The award, which will be given quarterly, honors a resident who demonstrates excellence in practice. Any of the approximately 500 residents at the hospital are eligible.

“Nurses brought the idea of this award to the Acute Care Committee as a way to formally acknowledge outstanding residents,” said Karen Wray, RN, Acute Care nursing direc-tor. “We felt there has not been a clear way to recognize those residents who truly exhibit excellence from the perspective of the interprofessional team in their day-to-day work.

The first recipient of the award is Chris Avila, MD, Internal Medicine (on renal rotation), who was honored May 21.

“Dr. Avila exemplifies the true meaning of teamwork, making him an excellent physician,” said Mona Urbina, RN, Unit 64. “He is always polite, focused and attentive to the needs of all patients and nurses.”

“Dr. Avila always makes the effort to find each nurse and ask if they have any concerns or questions regarding their patient,” added Karli Lapointe, RN, Unit 64. “I felt very involved in each patient’s plan of care. As a first-year nurse, that was very helpful and encouraging for me.”

Helping women in jail fight cancer – Cervical cancer rates among women in jail or prison are up to five times higher than aver-age – an alarming statistic Megha Ramaswamy, MD, PhD, and others at the University of Kansas Medical Center hope to change.

Ramaswamy, assistant professor of preventive medicine and public health, will lead a project to lower the cervical cancer rates among incarcerated women. The research is backed by a $1.5 million grant from the National Cancer Institute.

Cervical cancer “is very treatable if women get Pap screenings once every three years,” she said. “Doctors can detect cancerous cells, and then women can get treated.”

The study will follow 200 incarcer-ated women in Wyandotte and Jackson counties for three years. The researchers will test whether a 10-hour interactive session conducted over a weeklong period in jail will help women increase their reproduc-tive health knowledge and lead to positive changes in health behaviors.

During the sessions, the women will be able to ask about their situ-ation and will receive information about risk factors, how to navigate healthcare services in Kansas City and other information. The women will also be able to discuss their fears and beliefs about sexual health.

The study reflects Ramaswamy’s extensive research of the subject.

She and her collaborators con-ducted earlier research that attempted to understand incarcer-ated women’s experiences with Pap tests and follow-up.

“The findings of that study showed that these women indeed had incredible deficits in knowl-

edge. They also had problems with self-efficacy and confidence navigating the system,” she said. “In many cases, they also lacked money, transportation and social support.”

For many incar-cerated women, their lives are com-

plex already. About a third lacked a high school diploma, 85 percent smoked cigarettes and more than two-thirds reported substance dependence. More than 60 percent had dealt with childhood violence, and about half had experienced intimate partner violence.

Ramaswamy and colleagues also found that half of the women they surveyed in previous studies were from some of the metro’s poorest areas, specifically in urban cores characterized by high rates of poverty, racial/ethnic segregation, violence and crime.

Excellence and innovation – Steffani Webb, vice chancellor for administration at the University of Kansas Medical Center, is one of 14 executives around the country chosen to participate in the Baldrige Executive Fellows program.

During the year-long fellowship, participants will use the Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence as their foundation in a study of how orga-nizations and senior leaders achieve excellence and stimulate innovation.

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