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School of Medicine Faculty Accomplishments
I am very pleased to announce the
appointment of Judith L. Rowen, MD as holder of the Dr. C.W. Daeschner, Jr.
‘45 Professorship in Pediatrics. Dr. Rowen serves in multiple
roles throughout the University. She is Assistant Dean for Educational
Affairs, Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics- Division of
Pediatric Infectious Diseases, and Director of the Office of Clinical
Education. This endowment, which bears the name of the late Dr. Charles
William Daeschner, Jr., one of UTMB’s most respected and loved
pediatric physicians who was the first full-time Chair of the Department of
Pediatrics, was created with a gift from an anonymous donor in 1999, and
established as a professorship by the Department of Pediatrics in 2004.
 In the
educational realm, Dr. Rowen is recognized as an innovative medical educator
and leader among her peers. As Assistant Dean for Educational Affairs,
Dr. Rowen is responsible for overseeing and coordinating the clinical
clerkships as well as working with her counterpart, Dr. Greg Asimakis, in
assuring the integration of basic and clinical science across all four years
of the curriculum. Dr. Rowen is a dedicated and excellent teacher with a long
track record of mentoring students. She served for ten years as Clerkship
Director for Pediatrics and led the change of the clerkship from a four-week
inpatient rotation to an eight-week combined ambulatory and inpatient
rotation. She has served on many education-related committees for the
School of Medicine, including as Chair of the
Electives Committee. She chaired the task force that set new guidelines for
medical school electives, thus instituting a new system for course evaluation
and tracking which has subsequently been adapted by the Basic Science and
Humanities Selective (BSHS) and Ambulatory Community Selective (ACS)
committees. Dr. Rowen’s contributions to medical education have
been recognized at the national level. She is a member of the Council
on Medical Student Education in Pediatrics and served as editor of their
Journal Club. Dr. Rowen is an inspirational teacher at all levels as
exemplified by her multiple teaching awards. She received the Golden
Rattle Award by the Pediatrics residents for best teacher, a Course Award for
Excellence in Lecturing Pathobiology and Host Defense, and the Department of
Pediatrics Award for Excellence in Support of Pediatric Education. She
has also been selected multiple times by the medical students for the
American Medical Women’s Association (AMWA) Women in Medicine Award for
excellence in teaching, mentoring and the awareness of gender equity, and was
recently honored with this award at
the 2009 Honors and Awards and The White Coat Ceremony, where she also served
as the keynote speaker. Among her many accolades, Dr.
Rowen was the Senior Faculty Marshal at the 2009 School of Medicine
Commencement.
Dr. Rowen has played a valuable
role within our institution. She provided outstanding assistance in our
institutional self-study for the Liaison Committee on Medical Education
(LCME) site visit in December, 2006. The LCME is the accrediting authority
for medical education programs leading to the MD degree in U.S. and
Canadian medical schools. In addition, she worked arduously in successfully
placing our students in rotations throughout the state in the aftermath of
Hurricane Ike.
Dr. Rowen is a well-respected
physician-scientist, who has made important contributions in developing
effective therapies for neonatal infections. Her research has also
focused on the prevention of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and group B
streptococcal infections in this same population. Dr. Rowen has contributed
to the peer-reviewed literature and has been successful in obtaining support
for her research.
Dr. Rowen earned her MD from the
University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore
and was an intern, resident, and chief resident in Pediatrics at the University of California,
Davis Medical
Center in Sacramento. She subsequently
completed a Pediatric Infectious Diseases fellowship and served as a Research
Instructor in the Department of Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. Dr. Rowen joined
the UTMB faculty in 1996.
Dr.
Rowen is a highly regarded educator, clinician and investigator within UTMB
and across the country. Please join me in congratulating her on this well-deserved
honor.
Sincerely,
Garland D.
Anderson, MD
Executive
Vice President and Provost
Dean, School of Medicine
Thomas N.
and Gleaves T. James Distinguished Chair
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