Sorry you missed the

UTMB Professionalism Summit
Oct. 2, 2007 

President David L. Callender
The University of Texas Medical Branch
and

The UTMB Professionalism Board
hosted the

PROFESSIONALISM SUMMIT
Tuesday, October 2, 2007
William C. Levin Hall
11th and Market Streets
Galveston, Texas

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

10 a.m. Professionalism Poster Session
Visit with presenters from 11 a.m.–Noon
Foyer

Noon Lecture and Luncheon*
Speaker: Jordan J. Cohen, M.D.
Chairman, Arnold P. Gold Foundation Board of Directors
“Professionalism: A New Covenant for a New Era”
SEE DR. COHEN'S PRESENTATION

2 p.m. Professionalism Retreat and Roundtable Discussion*
Dining Room

In 2006, the UTMB President's Office and the John P. McGovern Academy of Oslerian Medicine sponsored the Professionalism Project Awards competition to increase the visibility of the UTMB Professionalism Charter and demonstrate the power of professionalism. 

Twenty excellent proposals were submitted;  seven were chosen for funding. Now, a year later, those awardees reported the results of their projects at a special event: the first UTMB Professionalism Summit. One of the seven projects was chosen for a newly established Presidential Professionalism Award.

 

UTMB President Dr. David L. Callender, Professionalism Charter Committee Co-Chair Dr. Rebecca Saavedra, Professionalism Charter Committee Co-Chair Dr. Alice Ann O'Donell, and keynote speaker, Dr. Jordan Cohen, Chairman, Arnold P. Gold Foundation Board of Directors.


Professionalism Project Award winners chosen for the 2007 Presidential Professionalism Summit Award for their project titled Professionalism in Pediatrics:  Education and Development of Criteria for Use in Evaluating Resident and Faculty Professionalism.  Pictured, from left, are:  Dr. John Luk, Dr. Virginia Niebuhr, and Dr. Jose Gonzalez.

Jordan J. Cohen, M.D.

Jordan J. Cohen, M.D. is currently professor of medicine and public health at George Washington University and president emeritus of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). During his presidency of the AAMC (1994 to 2006), Dr. Cohen led the Association’s support and service to the nation’s medical schools and teaching hospitals and served as the nation’s leading spokesperson for academic medicine. He expanded and modernized AAMC services for medical students, residents, and constituents; strengthened the association's communications, advocacy, and data gathering, and established new initiatives to improve medical education, research, and patient care. The Washington-based association was founded in 1876, and represents all 125 accredited U.S. and 17 accredited Canadian medical schools, nearly 400 major teaching hospitals, 94 academic and scientific societies, 109,000 faculty members, and more than 170,000 U.S. medical students and residents.

Prior to his leadership of the AAMC, he served as dean of the medical school and professor of medicine at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and president of the medical staff at University Hospital. Before that, Dr. Cohen was professor and associate chairman of Medicine at the University of Chicago-Pritzker School of Medicine, and physician-in-chief and chairman of the Department of Medicine at the Michael Reese Hospital and Medical Center.

He has held medical faculty positions at Harvard, Brown, and Tufts universities. He is a former chair of the American Board of Internal Medicine and of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, and served as president of the Association of Program Directors of Internal Medicine. A member of the American College of Physicians since 1978, he has served as vice chair of its Board of Regents and chair of its Education Policy Committee; he was awarded a mastership from the college in 1993.

Dr. Cohen currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation of New York, the Morehouse School of Medicine, the National Medical Fellowships, the National Library of Medicine, and the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science & Community Development. He is a former member of the Special Medical Advisory Group of the Department of Veterans Affairs and a former trustee of the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation, the Foundation for Biomedical Research, the China Medical Board, Research!America, and the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates. In 1994, Dr. Cohen was named a member of the National Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Medicine.

Dr. Cohen is a graduate of Yale University and Harvard Medical School and completed his postgraduate training in internal medicine on the Harvard service at the Boston City Hospital. He also completed a fellowship in nephrology at the Tufts-New England Medical Center. He has authored more than 100 publications and is a former editor of Kidney International’s Nephrology Forum.