33
FACULTY COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES Monday, July 15, 2019 Noon – 1:00 p.m. MEB, Room 1120 and WebEx TTUHSC El Paso PLFSOM 7/15/2019 FACULTY COUNCIL MEMBERS IN ATTENDANCE: Marc Orlandi, M.D., Anesthesiology Stormy Monks, Ph.D., Emergency Medicine Jennifer Molokwu, M.D., M.P.H., Family and Community Medicine Jorge Cervantes-Gonzalez, M.D., Ph.D., Medical Education Laxman Gangwani, Ph.D., Molecular & Translational Medicine Anantha Vellipuram, M.D., Neurology Lisa Kafchinski, M.D., Orthopaedic Surgery & Rehabilitation Daniel Bustamante, M.D., Pathology, President-Elect Lisa Ayoub-Rodriguez, M.D., Pediatrics Ricardo Salazar, M.D., Psychiatry, President Jose Gavito, M.D., Radiology KoKo Aung, M.D., M.P.H., Assistant Vice President for Faculty Affairs, TTUHSC El Paso, Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, PLFSOM, Ex-Officio, Non-Voting Richard Lange, M.D., M.B.A., President, TTUHSC El Paso, Dean, PLFSOM, Ex-Officio, Non-Voting MEMBERS NOT IN ATTENDANCE: Hernando Garcia, M.D., Internal Medicine Mahesh Gajendran, M.D., M.P.H., Internal Medicine – Transmountain Sandra Lopez, M.D., OB/GYN Brian Davis, M.D., Surgery Richard McCallum, M.D., Community Representative, EPCMS, Non-Voting GUESTS: Sanja Kupesic, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Dean for Faculty Development, PLFSOM Zuber Mulla, Ph.D., Assistant Dean for Faculty Development, PLFSOM J. Manuel de la Rosa, M.D., Vice President for Outreach & Community Engagement Richard Brower, M.D., Chair for Curriculum & Educational Policy Committee Pedro Maldonado, M.D., OB/GYN (sub) Olof Sundin, Ph.D., Molecular & Translational Medicine Alok Dwivedi, Ph.D., Molecular & Translational Medicine Bharat Prakash, M.D., Internal Medicine – Transmountain (via webex) Leslie Cortes, M.D., M.D., Pediatrics (via webex) David Muron, M.D., Surgery (via webex) Subramanian Dhandayuthapani, Ph.D., Molecular & Translational Medicine Wendy Walker, Ph.D., Molecular & Translational Medicine David Cistola, M.D., Ph.D., Molecular & Translational Medicine Jennifer Salinas, Ph.D., Molecular & Translational Medicine Sudhagar Thangarasu, M.D., Internal Medicine – Transmountain Peter Catinella, M.D., Family Medicine – Transmountain (via webex) Dan Schuller, M.D., Internal Medicine – Transmountain (via webex) Moataz Ragheb, M.D., Psychiatry – Transmountain (via webex) Cindy Camarillo, Faculty Affairs Miranda Alvarez, Faculty Affairs Rita Nicolini, Faculty Affairs I. CALL TO ORDER Ricardo Salazar, M.D. Faculty Council President Ricardo Salazar, M.D., President of the Faculty Council, called the meeting to order at 12:07 p.m., and welcomed faculty participating via WebEx from the Kenworthy and Transmountain locations.

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Page 1: FACULTY COUNCIL MEETING · 7/15/2019  · FACULTY COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES Monday, July 15, 2019 Noon – 1:00 p.m. MEB, Room 1120 and WebEx TTUHSC El Paso PLFSOM 7/15/2019 FACULTY

FACULTY COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES Monday July 15 2019

Noon ndash 100 pm MEB Room 1120 and WebEx

TTUHSC El Paso PLFSOM 7152019 FACULTY COUNCIL

MEMBERS IN ATTENDANCE Marc Orlandi MD Anesthesiology Stormy Monks PhD Emergency Medicine Jennifer Molokwu MD MPH Family and Community Medicine Jorge Cervantes-Gonzalez MD PhD Medical Education Laxman Gangwani PhD Molecular amp Translational Medicine Anantha Vellipuram MD Neurology Lisa Kafchinski MD Orthopaedic Surgery amp Rehabilitation

Daniel Bustamante MD Pathology President-Elect Lisa Ayoub-Rodriguez MD Pediatrics Ricardo Salazar MD Psychiatry President Jose Gavito MD Radiology KoKo Aung MD MPH Assistant Vice President for Faculty Affairs TTUHSC El Paso Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs PLFSOM Ex-Officio Non-Voting Richard Lange MD MBA President TTUHSC El Paso Dean PLFSOM Ex-Officio Non-Voting

MEMBERS NOT IN ATTENDANCE Hernando Garcia MD Internal Medicine Mahesh Gajendran MD MPH Internal Medicine ndash Transmountain Sandra Lopez MD OBGYN

Brian Davis MD Surgery Richard McCallum MD Community Representative EPCMS Non-Voting

GUESTS Sanja Kupesic MD PhD Associate Dean for Faculty Development PLFSOM Zuber Mulla PhD Assistant Dean for Faculty Development PLFSOM J Manuel de la Rosa MD Vice President for Outreach amp Community Engagement Richard Brower MD Chair for Curriculum amp Educational Policy Committee Pedro Maldonado MD OBGYN (sub) Olof Sundin PhD Molecular amp Translational Medicine Alok Dwivedi PhD Molecular amp Translational Medicine Bharat Prakash MD Internal Medicine ndash Transmountain (via webex) Leslie Cortes MD MD Pediatrics (via webex) David Muron MD Surgery (via webex)

Subramanian Dhandayuthapani PhD Molecular amp Translational Medicine Wendy Walker PhD Molecular amp Translational Medicine David Cistola MD PhD Molecular amp Translational Medicine Jennifer Salinas PhD Molecular amp Translational Medicine Sudhagar Thangarasu MD Internal Medicine ndash Transmountain Peter Catinella MD Family Medicine ndash Transmountain (via webex) Dan Schuller MD Internal Medicine ndash Transmountain (via webex) Moataz Ragheb MD Psychiatry ndash Transmountain (via webex) Cindy Camarillo Faculty Affairs Miranda Alvarez Faculty Affairs Rita Nicolini Faculty Affairs

I CALL TO ORDER Ricardo Salazar MD

Faculty Council President Ricardo Salazar MD President of the Faculty Council called the meeting to order at 1207 pm and welcomed faculty participating via WebEx from the Kenworthy and Transmountain locations

2 TTUHSC El Paso PLFSOM

7152019 FACULTY COUNCIL

II REVIEW AND APPROVAL OF MINUTES Ricardo Salazar MD

Faculty Council President Having met quorum the Faculty Council members unanimously approved the June 17 2019 meeting minutes

III DEANrsquoS REPORT Richard Lange MD MBA

Dean PLFSOM President TTUHSC El Paso

Dr Lange reported the following bull A campus-wide values summit gathered to define the core values of the Paul L Foster School of Medicine A

total of 65 employees and learners ndash faculty staff medical students and residents ndash were selected to begin drafting a comprehensive article of the institutionrsquos values which will be used to guide the strategic plan as well as enable the community to evaluate one another and aid in accountability Seven to eight town hall meetings are scheduled across the next month to allow everyone an opportunity to present their thoughts and questions Additionally a video is being created for release at a later date to assist in reaching all employees

QampA Q What is the function or goal of the summit A To define the values that are important to us to detail what respect innovation and integrity actually look like These values will govern how we treat one another how we behave and guide us along the ideals of the strategic plan They will tell us if we have acceptable behavior and keep us accountable to one another These are not ldquowalk awayrdquo values or a single event values but rather a lens by which we view everything They are not handed down from above but rather cultivated among us Q When and how will the video be available A The video is just in draft form right now as are the values after only the first meeting They will be added to refined and compared with our sister institutions to be sure we didnrsquot miss anything Eventually the video will be edited voiced over and distributed campus-wide Q How are the values different than our current mission and vision statements A Values are often formed at a young age by our families culture and community whereas your mission equates with your profession or role We must ask ourselves how we live out the values important to us in order to achieve our common mission We come from very diverse backgrounds so this will require great cooperation

IV STANDING COMMITTEE REPORTS

Jorge Cervantes-Gonzalez MD PhD Chair Committee on Medical School Admissions

Dr Cervantes-Gonzalez reported the following

3 TTUHSC El Paso PLFSOM

7152019 FACULTY COUNCIL

CMSA CONTINUEDhellip

PLFSOM Committee on Medical School Admissions

ReportPresented to Faculty Council ndash 7152019

See attached report QampA Q When do prospective students take the CASPerreg How is it evaluated A It is a part of the application process Each individual is shown a series of videos and they respond to them Q Does everyone take it Who pays for the test A I am not certain but I will relay your questions to Dr Cynthia Perry Assistant Academic Dean for Admissions

IV STANDING COMMITTEE REPORTS (CONT) Richard Brower MD

Chair Curriculum and Educational Policy Committee

Dr Brower reported the following

Curriculum amp Educational Policy

Committee Report to the PLFSOM Faculty Council

Presented by Richard Brower MD

Date July 15 2019

See attached report QampA Q The MD MPH and the MD MBA programs seem to be going in opposite directions We have had direction from Lubbock on the MD MPH program but not for the MBA program Why the difference A Lubbock provides great instruction and support for the MPH program because like us they are an HSC We have a tighter relationship to them in general However there is a great advantage to having a local program with UTEP that allows for regional participation This allows students to study local issues and get to know our area more intimately There will always be the question ndash do we stay within the system which yields a less personal approach or do we partner locally

4 TTUHSC El Paso PLFSOM

7152019 FACULTY COUNCIL

CEPC Continuedhellip Q I see that two of your goals ndash class size expansion and curriculum 20 revision ndash seem to be competing How will you accommodate both of these A I see them as complementary to one another If there is a political a financial or an increased physician production desire from this region we must talk about class size growth and curriculum development which must be done effectively and efficiently

V OLD BUSINESS Ricardo Salazar MD

Faculty Council President

Dr Salazar reported the following bull Dr Salazar acknowledged and appreciated new members recently elected for the following

o Committee on Student Grading and Promotion Dr Lynn Hernan o Committee on Medical School Admissions Dr Lynn Hernan Dr Anantha Vellipuram and Dr Jose

Gavito bull Dr Salazar reminded the Council that representative seats were up for electionre-election for the following

departments o Anesthesiology o Emergency Medicine o Family amp Community Medicine o Molecular amp Translational Medicine

Dr Salazar reminded the Council that the Chairs of the departments would coordinate the election process

VI NEW BUSINESS Ricardo Salazar MD

Faculty Council President Dr Salazar reported the following

bull Dr Salazar introduced the 2019-2020 Faculty Council President-Elect nominees and invited them to speak bull Dr Ayoub-Rodriguez Assistant Professor of Pediatrics a native El Pasoan focused on border health and the

El Paso region and acknowledged the importance of recruitment and retention of talent that would transform healthcare along the border for the better

bull Dr Cervantes-Gonzalez Assistant Professor of Medical Education offered to lend an ear to the concerns of faculty particularly in the field of research in which many are struggling

bull Voting will take place by e-vote following the meeting The new President-Elect will take office in September VII DEPARTMENTAL REPORT Laxman Gangwani PhD

Representative Molecular amp Translational Medicine

Dr Gangwani reported the following

Department of Molecular and Translational Medicine (formerly Biomedical Sciences) ReportPRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCILBY LAXMAN GANGWANI

DATE JULY 15 2019

9102019

3

PLFSOM Committee on

Medical School Admissions

Report

Presented to Faculty Council ndash 7152019

Committee Composition and Terms of Service 22 committee members 20 Voting Members

Chair Jorge Cervantes MD PhD

Vice-Chair Diana Pettit PhD

EPCMS Rep Raj Marwah MD

2 Ex-Officio (non-voting) Associate Dean of Admissions and Director of Admissions

Last Name First Name Degree Academic Rank Department Committee Position Term Start Date

Chambers Karinn MD Assistant Professor Surgery 2018

Chheda Sadhana MD Assistant Professor Peds 2018

Duran Patricia DNP RN CENP Assistant Professor GGHSON 2018

Patek Gregory MD Assistant Professor Emergency Med 2018

Rao Jo MD Assistant Professor Peds 2018

Chattopadhyay Munmun PhD Assistant Professor Biomedical Sciences 2018

Hogg Tanis PhD Associate Professor Medical Education 2018

Lakshmanaswamy Rajkumar PhD Professor Biomedical Sciences 2018

Andrade Alonso MD Assistant Professor Surgery 2017

Castro Jose MD Clinical Instructor Surgery 2017

Cervantes Jorge MD PhD Assistant Professor Medical Education Chair 2017

Belmares Ricardo PhD Instructor Medical Education 2017

Kafchinski Lisa MD Assistant Professor Orthopedics 2017

Tonarelli Sylvina MD Assistant Professor Psychiatry 2017

Rojas-Mendez Patricia MD Assistant Professor ObGyn 2017

Martinez Carla MD Assistant Professor ObGyn 2017

Marwah Raj MD Clinical Assistant Professor Family Medicine 2019

Manglik Niti MD Assistant Professor Medical Education 2019

Pettit Diana PhD Associate Professor Medical Education Vice Chair 2019

Hernan Lynn MD Associate Professor Peds 2019

Vellipuram Anantha MD Assistant Professor Neurology 2019

Gavito Jose MD Assistant Professor Radiology 2019

Perry Cynthia PhD Interim Assistant Dean for Admissions Admissions Ex Officio

Olivas Laura MBA Senior Director of Admissions Admissions Ex Officio

9102019

4

Committee Charge

The Committee shall have full authority to select members of

the medical school entering class based on screening

assessments and interview evaluation reports and to fill

vacancies that may occur in any of the medical school classes

A list of recommended candidates to be offered positions

through the Texas Medical and Dental School Application Service

(TMDSAS) matching process will be prepared based on a ranking

determined following deliberations by the Committee

The Committee also shall have the responsibility to review the

requirements for admission and if necessary to recommend

revisions to the faculty

Actions taken since last report (Jan 2019)

Approval of Handbook revisions

Added COI policy Attendance policy CASPer Assessment

requirement (Pilot)

Sat 104 new students 12 repeaters

Interviewed 14 JAMP students on June 24th

(Round 1 eligible students here for JAMP Internship)

9102019

5

No right wrong answers

Rating not influenced by-ESL -Age-Coaching -Reading Level

Rating is relative

What are raters looking for

Actions taken since last report Received 4471 primary applications amp 3079 completed applications

(increase of 350 complete appl compared to last year)

127 TX pre-match and 13 Out-of-state offers extended

Currently have 109 acceptances leading up to TMDSAS match

9102019

6

EY2018

Received 3983 primary applications amp 2729 completed

applications

130 acceptances leading up to TMDSAS match

TTUHSC EP PLFSOM First Year Entering Students

EY 2019

38

(27506)

TX 37 (30) 37 (29) 37 (30) 37 (30) 37 (30) 37 (31) 373 (31) 38 (507) 38 (509)376

(266506)

US 37 (31) 37 (31) 37 (31) 37 (31) 37 (31) 37 (31) 37(31) 37 (509) 37 (510) 38 (27506)

Hispanic 8 (20) 6 (10) 5 (6) 12 (15) 23 (24) 32 (31) 24 (23) 35 (35) 37 (36) 24 (24) 28 (269)

Border Counties - - 7 (9) 13 (16) 24 (24) 28 (27) 26 (25) 32 (31) 33 (32) 21 (21) 27 (26)

El Paso 7 (17) 8 (13) 5 (6) 12 (15) 19 (19) 23 (22) 24 (23) 29 (28) 25 (24) 19 (19) 23 (221)

African American 0 0 0 0 0 1 (1) 3 (3) 1 (1) 3 (3) 2 (2) 6 (58)

Native American 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Class Size 40 60 81 80 100 104 104 103 103 100 104

Male 16 (40) 35 (58) 44 (54) 42 (52) 65 (65) 47 (45) 67 (64) 59 (57) 56 (54) 49 (49) 52 (50)

Female 24 (60) 25 (42) 37 (46) 38 (48) 35 (35) 57 (55) 37 (36) 44 (43) 47 (46) 51 (51) 52 (50)

Total Applicants 2503 2531 2719 2946 3105 3375 3694 4043 3950 3982 4472

Interviewed 389 378 593 548 626 566 538 510 535 546 602

EY 2018

374

(5077)

Underrepresented minority(URM)-Diversity ()

Class Size amp Gender ()

Applicants

37 (28) 37 (29)37

(28503)

368

(26505)

EY 2014 EY 2015 EY 2016 EY 2017

GPA(MCAT) 37 (28) 36 (29) 36 (29) 35 (29) 36 (29)

EY 2009 EY 2010 EY 2011 EY 2012 EY 2013

9102019

7

Candidates discussed

Voting (high priority acceptable reject)

Categorized by vote

1 High Priority (unanimous high priority votes)

2 Highly Acceptable -1 -2 -3

3 Very Acceptable (4+ acceptable votes)

4 Acceptable (majority acceptable votes)

5 Reject

Ranked within category by weighted scores (Interview 30 MCAT 30 SGPA 35 GPA 5)

Rank list is generated after the first interview date and updated weekly throughout interview season

Admissions Committee Process

Upcoming actions

Joint Admission Medical Program (JAMP) Round 2 Match

(Friday Jan 25th) will match with 2

Rolling admissions continues until June 1

Created additional interview date for EY2020 (22 days)

New requirement added for EY2020 CASPer Assessment ndash

Situational Judgement Test (SJT)

Propose revision to By-Laws to add minimum attendance

requirements for committee members

9102019

8

Current IssuesConcerns

Ongoing need to recruit more interviewers

Anticipating class size expansion

Meeting quorum

Standing Committee Report

Curriculum and Educational Policy

Committee

Richard Brower MD PhDAssociate Dean for Medical Education

9102019

9

Curriculum amp

Educational Policy

Committee Report to the PLFSOM Faculty Council

Presented by Richard Brower MD

Date July 15 2019

Committee Composition and Terms of

Service

ldquoCandidates for lsquoat largersquo positions are to be

recommended by the associate dean for medical

education and appointed by the deanrdquo

ldquoTerms may be renewed by recommendation of the

associate dean for medical education and appointment by

the deanrdquo

ldquohelliplsquoat largersquo members may be appointed for no more than

two consecutive terms after which they are ineligible to

serve for 4 yearsrdquo

ldquoCandidates for these positions should demonstrate an

ongoing interest in medical educationrdquo

9102019

10

Committee Composition and Terms of ServiceLast Name First Name Degree Academic Rank Department Committee Position Term Start Date

Term Expiration Date

Frances Mark MD ProfessorMedical Education

Member (College Master)

9120168312020

Pfarr Curt PhD ProfessorMedical Education

Member (College Master) 9242015 8312019

Gajendran Mahesh MD Assistant ProfessorInternal Medicine

Member (Clinician) 912017 8312021

Uga Aghaegbulam MD Assistant Professor

Psychiatry and Internal Medicine

Member (Clinician) 11192015 10312019

Kassar Darine MD Assistant Professor NeurologyMember (Clinician) 972016 8312020

Wojciechowska Joanna MD Assistant Professor Pediatrics

Member (Clinician) 212018 8312022

Nino DiegoMD PhD Assistant Professor

Medical Education

Member (Basic Sciences) 1142019 1142023

Padilla Osvaldo MD Assistant Professor PathologyMember (Basic Sciences) 12152014 8312022

Cervantes JorgeMD PhD Assistant Professor

Medical Education

Member (Basic Sciences) 8232016 8312020

Perry Cynthia PhD Assistant ProfessorMedical Education

Member (Basic Sciences) 9282015 8312019

Brower Richard MDAssociate Professor

Medical Education Chair NA NA

Three positions

opening soon ndash-

should have

demonstrated

interest and

engagement in

UME and a

willingness to

attend all

meetings and

participate in

team

assignments

Committee Composition and Terms of

Service Leadership

This committee is chaired by the associate dean for medical education

The committee reports to the Faculty Council

Membership will include

2 college masters (one basic scientist one clinician) with 4-year terms

4 members from the basic sciences faculty with 4-year terms (staggered)

4 members from the clinical sciences faculty with 4-year terms (staggered)

Ex Officio members

Dean or their designee

Associate dean for student affairs

Assistant deans for medication education

Managing director of the libraries (ldquoAssociate Director of the Libraryrdquo)

Director of information technology or their designee

Director of assessment and evaluation (position no longer exists)

Two student reps from each of the four classes (from the Student Curriculum and Evaluation Committee)

9102019

11

Committee Charge Faculty Bylaws Article IX Section C2

The Committee on Curriculum and Educational Policy is charged with planning coordinating

reviewing and evaluating the curriculum to ensure that it adheres to the

written educational policies goals and objectives of the Paul L Foster School

of Medicine Further the Committee shall have full authority to make changes in

educational policy or in the organization of the curriculum with the

concurrence of the Dean and with comment and input from the Faculty Council The Faculty of the Paul L Foster School of Medicine has the responsibility to define course objectives create

and deliver content to meet those objectives and modify their activities in response to appropriate feedback

from peers and students The Committee will provide updates on its activities at least

twice a year to the Faculty Council In order to accomplish the mission of the Committee the

Chair may appoint subcommittees that may include members who are not

members of the Committee It shall be the responsibility of the Committee to coordinate the

activities and reports of these subcommittees In addition the Committee receives reports

from the Committee on Evaluation of Educational Programs

Current IssuesConcerns

Curriculum enhancementimprovement

Preparation for class size expansion

Preparation for next round of curriculum reviews

(ldquocurriculum as a wholerdquo)

9102019

12

CEPC actions since last report

January 2019 (1 meeting)

Reviewed and approved revisions to the following

educational program polices

Clerkship Administration

Clerkship DirectorAssistant Director Position Description

Approval of two new 4th Year Electives

Pediatric Gastroenterology Hepatology and Nutrition

Emergency Medicine Ultrasound

Clerkship phase review FM and Surgery

CEPC actions since last report

February 2019 (2 meetings)

New educational program policy reviewed and approved

Grade Changes and Transcript Notations

Rollover of established educational program goals and

objectives (the ldquoPGOsrdquo) approved

Clerkship phase review Pediatrics and ObGyn

Preliminary data-driven discussion of revised educational

program policy covering Grading Promotion and Academic

Standing (ldquoGPASrdquo)

9102019

13

CEPC actions since last report

March 2019 (2 meetings)

Clerkship phase review IM and Psych Critical Care and Sub-I

Selectives

Approval of new educational program policy

Grading Promotion and Academic Standing (ldquoGPASrdquo)

Notification of changes in clerkship directorship

Elimination of the PICE course (PICE 7001) from the year 2

curriculum approved (primarily administrative educational

elements re-distributed)

Associated review and approval of an updated PLSOM degree

plan (based on 157 credit hours)

CEPC actions since last report

April 2019 (1 meetings)

Clerkship phase review EM Neurology and Intersessions

Review and approval of revised educational program policy

Pre-Clerkship Phase Student Attendance and Participation

Policy

9102019

14

CEPC actions since last report

May 2019 (1 meetings)

Review and approval of the ldquoCommon Clerkship Policiesrdquo

Notification of additional changes in the clerkship

directorship

Clerkship phase review

Phase data review (AAMC GQ NBME subject exams

USMLE Step 2 CK and CS Step 3 final grades EOY OSCE

and procedure workshop residency director survey)

Introduction of a 10-point plan for curriculum revision

(ldquoPLFSOM v20rdquo)

June 2019 (no quorum) July 2019 (cancelled)

CEPC actions since last report

Challenges and opportunities for improvement identified

through the AY208-19 clerkship phase review

Clear identification of contacts at affiliated sites

Academic support and remediation planning

Consistent resident preparation for participation in UME

Timeliness of grading (Sub-I and Critical Care Selectives)

Orientation modules for Sub-Q and Critical Care Selectives)

Scaling clerkships for anticipated class expansion

The summer doldrums

June 2019 (no quorum) July 2019 (cancelled)

9102019

15

Upcoming actions

Ongoing educational program policy development

Maintain accreditation compliance related curriculum

review cycle (2019-20 ldquoCurriculum as a Wholerdquo)

Review and advance plans for curriculum renewalrevision

Review proposal to re-direct our MD-MPH affiliation to

TTUHSC GSBS Lubbock

Consider development of an MD-MBA option (potentially

with UTEP)

Links to related information

PLFSOM Committee on Curriculum and Educational Policy main page

httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCdefaultaspx

MD degree program policies

httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCpoliciesaspx

MD degree program information

httpselpasottuhscedusomomeUMEinfoaspx

Course and clerkship syllabi

httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCcoursereviewaspx

AY2017-18 medical education program evaluation report (e-Raider required)

httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPC_documentssecureAY2017-

2018MEPEvaluationAnnualReport-Draft-v2pdf

9102019

19

Departmental Report

Molecular and Translational

Medicine

Laxman Gangwani PhDAssociate Professor Molecular amp

Translational Medicine

9102019

20

Department of Molecular and

Translational Medicine (formerly

Biomedical Sciences) Report

PRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCIL

BY LAXMAN GANGWANI

DATE JULY 15 2019

Department BreakdownPlease provide the total number of faculty members in your department and break down this number by

rank Please list new faculty members that have joined your department within the last six months

Total Number of Faculty

Number of Faculty Associates 1

Number of Instructors 1

Number of Research Assistant Professor 1

Number of Assistant Professors 6

Number of Associate Professors 7

Number of Professors 4

New Faculty

None

9102019

21

LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair

program director clerkship director chiefs etc

Department Chair Dr Peter Rotwein (VP Research Associate

Dean GSBS)

Director Center of Emphasis in Cancer Dr Rajkumar

Lakshmanaswamy (Dean GSBS) Co-Director Dr N Shokar

Director Center of Emphasis in Diabetes and Metabolism Dr

David Cistola

Director Center of Emphasis in Infectious Diseases Vacant

Director Center of Emphasis in Neurosciences Vacant

Chief Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology Vacant

AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional

appointments national appointments etc

Awards

Dr Mingtao Zeng

2018 The American Association of Immunologists (AAI) AAI Travel Grant for the 5th European Congress of Immunology

2018 Defense Techconnect Fall Summit amp Expo (2018) Techconnect Defense Innovation Award

Dr Shrikant Gadad

Eugenia Rosemberg Outstanding Abstract Award Endocrine Society Annual Meeting New Orleans March 23-26 2019

Dr Huanyu Dou

National Innovation Award Techconnect 2019

Honors

Dr Alok Dwivedi

Appointed as associated faculty at the Border Biomedical Research Center (BBRC) University of Texas El Paso (UTEP)

Dr Shrikant Gadad

Session Chair (OR09 Steroid Hormone Biology in Physiology and Disease) Endocrine Society Annual Meeting New Orleans March 23-26 2019

9102019

22

AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional

appointments national appointments etc

NIH or DOD study sections appointments

Dr Guohua Yi

HIV special Emphasis Panel for RFA-AI-18-058 Genetic Engineering Technologies for HIV Cure Research (U19)

Dr Laxman Gangwani

Department of Defense (DOD) Reviewer for Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) 2018 -

NIHCSR Study ldquoProgram Evaluation of NIH Peer Review Processes The Role of Anonymizationrdquo 2019 ndash

Patents filings and publications

Patent Number 9862951 Title RNA Interference-Based Therapeutic against Anthrax Inventors Mingtao Zeng and Maria T AreacutevaloDate of Patent January 9 2018

Cistola D P Patel V (2018) Method and system for non-invasive measurement of metabolic health US Non-Provisional Utility Patent Application No 15911728 filed by Texas Tech University

Cistola D P Robinson M D (2018) Methods and tools for diagnosing insulin resistance and assessing health status using NMR relaxation times for water United States Patent Application Publication US 20180020947 A1 httpspatentsgooglecompatentUS20180020947A1en

AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional

appointments national appointments etc

News and Media Coverage of Research performed at TTUHSC EP

Dr David Cistola

MedPageToday 2 January 2019 Harris Scott Could a New Biomarker Help Predict Type 2 Diabetes -- Early datashow water T2 catches abnormalities before traditional testing but experts are cautiously optimistichttpswwwmedpagetodaycomreading-roomendocrine-societydiabetes77186

KTSM Channel 9 NBC El Paso 14 November 2018 Castillo Susy Research in El Paso aimed at detectingdiabetes earlyhttpswwwktsmcomlifestylehealthresearch-in-el-paso-aimed-at-detecting-diabetes-early1596408236apt_credirect=1

El Paso Inc 29 March 2019 TTUHSC El Paso Tackling diabetes cancer httpwwwelpasoinccomttuhsc-el-paso-tackling-diabetes-cancerarticle_613144fe-526a-11e9-b916-c35b701a5ef9html

Dr Laxman Gangwani

Cure SMA Awards $150000 Grant to Laxman Gangwani PhD Texas Tech University

httpwwwcuresmaorgnewsgangwani-grant-2019html

httpswwweurekalertorgpub_releases2019-05ttuh-gw050119php

httpswwwresearchgatenetscientific-contributions11984383_Laxman_Gangwani

9102019

23

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Peer-reviewed publications 36 (In high-impact journals)

2018 highest impact factor (11561) journal Nucleic Acids Research

Abstracts 43

Presentations (i) Oral 11 (ii) Posters 28

Invited talks 13

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Peer-reviewed publications

Kannan A Bhatia K Branzei D and Gangwani L (2018) Combined deficiency of Senataxin and DNA-PKcscauses DNA damage accumulation and neurodegeneration in spinal muscular atrophy Nucleic Acids Research2018 Vol 46 No 16 8326-8346

Mishra I Jones C Patel V Deodhar S Cistola D P (2018) Early detection of metabolic dysregulation usingwater T2 analysis of biobanked samples Diabetes Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity Targets and Therapy 11 807-818

Patel V Dwivedi A K Deodhar S Mishra I Cistola D P (2018) Aptamer-based search for correlates of plasmaand serum water T2 Implications for early metabolic dysregulation and metabolic syndrome Biomarker Research6(1) 28

Garg H Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz T Joshi A 2018 Recent Advances in Zika Virus Vaccines Viruses Nov 1410 (11) Sundin OH Mendoza-Ladd A Zeng M Diaz-Areacutevalo D Morales E Fagan BMOrdontildeez J McCallum RW Does a

glucose-based hydrogen and methane breath test detect bacterial overgrowth in the jejunum NeurogastroenterolMotil 2018e13350

Zheng Z Diaz-Areacutevalo D Guan H and Mingtao Zeng Noninvasive vaccination against infectious diseases Humanvaccines amp immunotherapeutics 2018 14(7)1717-1733

Preeti Bharaj Chunting Ye Sean Petersen Qianghu Wang Baoli Hu N Manjunath Premlata Shankar Guohua Yi(2018) Gene array analysis of PD-1H overexpressing monocytes reveals a pro-inflammatory profile Heliyone00545

Bencomo-Alvarez AE Rubio AJ Gonzalez MA and Eiring AM Energy metabolism and drug response in myeloidleukaemic stem cells Br J Haematol 2019 In Press

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Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Peer-reviewed publications Yan D Pomicter AD Tantravahi S Mason CC Senina AV Ahmann JM Wang Q Than H Patel AB Heaton

WL Eiring AM Clair PM Gantz KC Redwine HM Swierczek SI Halverson BJ Baloglu E Shacham S KhorashadJS Kelley TW Salama ME Miles RR Boucher KM Prchal JT OHare T and Deininger MW Nuclear-cytoplasmic transport is a therapeutic target in myelofibrosis Clin Cancer Res 201925(7)2323-2335

Heipertz E Harper J Lopez CA Fikrig E Hughes ME Walker WE Circadian rhythms influence the severity of sepsis in mice via a TLR2-dependent leukocyte-intrinsic mechanism The Journal of Immunology 2018 201193-201

Khatri R Afzal MR Qureshi MA Maud A Huanyu D Jose Rodriguez G Pre-Existing Renal Failure Increases In-Hospital Mortality in Patients with Intracerebral Hemorrhage J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis 2019 Feb28(2)237-242

Zou L Lee SY Wu Q Zhang H Bastian A Orji C Payne G Galvez A Thomas T Zhang Z Dou H Facile Gene Delivery Derived from Branched Low Molecular Weight Polyethylenimine by High Efficient Chemistry J Biomed Nanotechnol 2018 Oct 114(10)1785-1795

Zhang C Brandon NR Koper K Tang P Xu Y Dou H Invasion of Peripheral Immune Cells into Brain Parenchyma after Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation Aging Dis 2018 Jun 19(3)412-425

Loza O Hernandez P Calderoacuten-Mora J Laks S Leiner M Reddy S Lara P amp Granados H (2018) Developing Trans-affirming health services in an underserved area An intersectional approach Transgender Health 3(1) 127-135

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Byrd T Calderoacuten-Mora J Salaiz R amp Shokar N (2019) Barriers and facilitators to colorectal cancer screening within a Hispanic population Hispanic Health Care International 17(1) 23-29 doi 1011771540415318818982

Haut SR Lipton RB Cornes S Dwivedi AK Wasson R Cotton S Strawn JR Privitera M (2018) Behavioral interventions as a treatment for epilepsy A multicenter randomized controlled trial Neurology 90(11) e963-e970 PMID 29444968

Jessica Bernica Sherif Elhanafi Neeharika Kalakota Yi Jia Christopher Dodoo Alok Dwivedi Robert J Sealock Kalpesh Patel Isaac Raijman Marc J Zuckerman Mohamed O Othman (2018) Cholangioscopy is safe and feasible in elderly patients Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology 16(8) 1293-1299

Benjamin D Wissel Alok K Dwivedi Danielle Chin Aristide Merola Cara Jacob Andrew P Duker Jennifer E Vaughan Lilia Lovera Kathrin LaFaver Ariel Levy Anthony E Lang Francesca Morgante Melissa J Nirenberg Christopher Stephen Nutan Sharma Alberto Romagnolo Leonardo Lopiano Bettina Balint Xin X Yu Kailash P Bhatia Alberto J Espay Functional neurological disorders in Parkinson disease Accepted for publication in Journal

of Neurology Neurosurgery amp Psychiatry 89(6)566-571

Danny J Avalos Marc J Zuckerman Alok Dwivedi Christopher Dodoo Jinendra Satiya Fernando J Castro(2018) Differences in prevalence of large polyps between Hispanic Americans from Mexican-and Non-Mexican-predominant states Digestive diseases and sciences PMID 30276570

Zeina Nahleh Salman Otoukesh Hamid Reza Mirshahidi Anthony Loc Nguyen Gayathri Nagaraj Nabeel Badri Gehan Botrus Nabih Diab Andres Alvarado Luis A Sanchez Alok K Dwivedi (2018) Disparities in breast cancer a multi-institutional comparative analysis focusing on American Hispanics Cancer Medicine (In press 05072018)

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Scholarly Activity Danny J Avalos Antonio Mendoza-Ladd Marc J Zuckerman Mohammad Bashashati Andres Alvarado Alok

Dwivedi Oriana M Damas (2018) Hispanics and Non-Hispanic Whites in the US have a Similar InflammatoryBowel Disease Phenotype A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis Digestive Diseases and Sciences 63(6)1558-1571

Aleli Campbell Rosalinda Heydarian Cecilia Ochoa Alok Kumar Dwivedi Zeina A Nahleh(2018) Single arm phaseII study of oral vitamin B12 for the treatment of musculoskeletal symptoms associated with aromatase inhibitors inwomen with early stage breast cancer The breast journal 24(3)260-268

Shaimaa Elzamly Nabeel Badri Osvaldo Padilla Alok Kumar Dwivedi Luis A Alvarado Matthew Hamilton NabihDiab Crosby Rock Ahmed Elfar Marwa Teleb Luis Sanchez Zeina Nahleh (2018) Epithelial-mesenchymaltransition markers in breast cancer and pathological responseafter neoadjuvant chemotherapy Breast Cancer

(Auckl) 2018 Aug 1121178223418788074

Jennifer C Molokwu Eribeth Penaranda Alok Dwivedi Indika Mallawaarachchi Navkiran Shokar (2018) Effect ofEducational Intervention on Self-Sampling Acceptability and Follow-Up Paps in Border Dwelling Hispanic FemalesJournal of Lower Genital Tract Disease

Ritika Suri Federico Rodriguez-Porcel Kelly Donohue Erin Jesse Lilia Lovera Alok Kumar Dwivedi Alberto JEspay (2018) Post-Stroke Movement Disorders The Clinical Neuroanatomic and Demographic Portrait of 284Published Cases Accepted for publication in Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases (In press05212018)

Zeina Nahleh Gehan Botrus Alok Dwivedi Nabeel Badri Salman Otoukesh Nabih Diab Sandip BiswasMichael Jennings Shaimaa Elzamly(2018) Clinico-pathologic disparities of breast cancer in HispanicLatina womenBreast disease 1-8

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Robert Gonzalez Trisha Suppes Jamie Zeitzer Colleen McClung Carol Tamminga Mauricio Tohen Angelica Forero Alok DwivediAndres Alvarado (2018) The association between mood state and chronobiological characteristics in bipolar I disorder a naturalisticvariable cluster analysis-based study International Journal of Bipolar Disorders 6(1)5Mohamed Teleb Aaron Shanker Alok Kumar Dwivedi Debabrata Mukherjee (2018) Effect of exercise on left ventricular mass index byechocardiography in mild and moderate hypertension a meta-analysis Res Cardiovasc Med 6(4)50-6Garnica O Das K Devasundaram S and Dhandayuthapani S Enhanced delivery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigens to antigenpresenting cells using RVG peptide Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Das K Garnica O and Dhandayuthapani S Utility of an oxidative stress response system for the expression of recombinant proteinsin mycobacteria and for the delivery of M tuberculosis antigens to the phagosomal compartments Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Palanichamy K Joshi A Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz T Fernando B Milan S Schiro F Naeem Y Garg H Braunschweig A 2019 Anti-ZikaActivity of a Library of Synthetic Carbohydrate Receptors Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 6284110-4119Anjali Joshi Erin B Punke Tugba Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz Diego P Peralta and Himanshu Garg 2019 TLR9 polymorphism correlates withimmune activation CD4 decline and plasma IP10 levels in HIV patients BMC Infect Dis 19 56Vargas-Medrano J Yang B Garza N T Segura-Ulate I and Perez R G (2018) Up-regulation of protective neuronal MicroRNAs byFTY720 and novel FTY720-derivatives Neuroscience letters 690 178-180Vidal-Martinez G Yang B Vargas-Medrano J and Perez R G (2018) Could alpha-Synuclein Modulation of Insulin and DopamineIdentify a Novel Link Between Parkinsons Disease and Diabetes as Well as Potential Therapies Frontiers in molecular

neuroscience 11 465

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Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Gil-Tommee C Vidal-Martinez G Annette Reyes C Vargas-Medrano J Herrera G V Martin S M Chaparro S A andPerez R G (2019) Parkinsonian GM2 synthase knockout mice lacking mature gangliosides develop urinary dysfunction andneurogenic bladder Experimental neurology 311265-273Vidal-Martinez G Najera K Miranda JD Gil-Tommee C Yang B Vargas-Medrano J Diaz-Pacheco V Barragan J ChaparroS Vargas-Medrano J Chinnasamy R Arterburn JB Perez RG FTY720 improves behavior increases Brain Derived NeurotrophicFactor and reduces α-synuclein pathology in parkinsonian GM2+minus

mice Neuroscience httpsdoiorg101016jneuroscience201905029Tasnim N Thakur V Chattopadhyay M Joddar B (2018) The efficacy of Graphene-foams towards the adhesion proliferationand expression of neuronal-phenotype by dopaminergic neurons differentiated from mesenchymal stem cells Stem cell

international Jun 3 20183410168 doi 10115520183410168Anil Kumar S Allen SC Tasnim N Akter T Park S Kumar A Chattopadhyay M Ito Y Suggs LJ Joddar B (2019) The applicabilityof furfuryl-gelatin as a novel bioink for tissue engineering applications J Biomed Mater Res B Appl Biomater 2019 107(2)314-323 doi 101002jbmb34123 Epub 2018 Apr 15Thakur V Chattopadhyay M (2018) Early urinary markers for diabetic and other kidney diseases Current drug targets 2018 Mar19Joddar B Tasnim N Thakur V Kumar A Mccallum R Chattopadhyay M (2018) Delivery of mesenchymal stem cells fromgelatin-alginate hydrogels to stomach lumen for treatment of gastroparesis Bioengineering 2018 5(1)Camacho CV Choudhari R Gadad SS (2018) Long noncoding RNAs and cancer an overview Steroids 13393-95

IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department

Large net loss (9) of MTM faculty members over the past 5 years

Vacant Director positions (i) Center for Neuroscience (ii) Center for InfectiousDiseases and (iii) Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology

No steps have been taken to fill directors positions for more than 2 years

Neurosciences Center at the verge of collapse Only one faculty will be left at theend of this fiscal year

The size of Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology is shrinking

Lack of communication regarding vision and strategic plan for growing department

No faculty salary raises for the past 3 years

Serious concerns about recruitment retention and tenure and promotion decisionsmade in the department Faculty morale is extremely low

Lack of functional research core facility

Gradual elimination of service contracts of equipment essential for research trainingand education of graduate and medical students

A plethora of other issues with the department administration

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Questions

Departmental Report

Psychiatry

Ricardo Salazar MDAssociate Professor Psychiatry

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Department ReportPsychiatryPRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCIL

BY RICARDO SALAZAR MD

DATE MONDAY JULY 15 2019

Department BreakdownPlease provide the total number of faculty members in your department and break down this number by

rank Please list new faculty members that have joined your department within the last six months

Total Number of Faculty 12

Number of Instructors 1

Number of Assistant Professors 8

Number of Associate Professors 2

Number of Professors 2

New Faculty Melanie Longhurst MD Instructor

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LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair

program director clerkship director chiefs etc

Department Chair ndash Peter M Thompson MD MS

Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Sarah L Martin MD

Combined IMPsych Residency Program Director ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD

Psychiatry Clerkship Director ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD

Child amp Adolescent Fellowship Program Director ndash Cecilia De Vargas MD

Chief Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry ndash Sarah L Martin MD

Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Program Directorndash Ricardo Salazar MD

Chief Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences ndash Ricardo Salazar MD

Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Transmountain ndash Moataz Ragheb MD

AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in your department including awards honors regional

appointments national appointments etc

El Paso Behavioral Health Consortium ndash Board Member ndash Peter M Thompson MD

714 (50) of our graduating medical students this year choose and matched our resident training programs here at Paul L FosterSchool of Medicine Department of Psychiatry (Historical record) ndash Kudos for our Department Faculty

In appreciation for exceptional contributions to the 30th volume of the J Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences ndash Author contributions and review of 271 manuscripts submitted to the journal between September 2017 and August 2018 ndash Ricardo Salazar MD ndash Young Investigator Award Committee Member and Program Committee Member-Abstracts Sub-Committee Member of theAmerican Neuropsychiatric Association (ANPA)

Initial Accreditation with commendation and no citations from ACGME for our first Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Training Program for West Texas ndash Ricardo Salazar MD

Leadership in Education and Development Certificate Program (LEAD) Fellow -1-year program accredited from the Association ofAmerican Medical Colleges (AAMC) Silvina Tonarelli MD amp Ricardo Salazar MD (Selected Award)

Fully operating Southwest Brain Bank A Brain Tissue Repository for Research in Mental Illness ndashPeter M Thompson MD

Texas State Psychiatric Physicians Public Mental Health Services Committee ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD

Texas Health and Human Services Commission Behavioral Health Advisory Committee ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP

Fellow American College of Physicians ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP FACP

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Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Abstracts 31

Publications 5 (peer-review journals)

Presentations 17 ndash National (7) and International (6)

Invited Speaker 21 (including faculty residents fellows) ndash Local amp National

Book Chapters NA

Grants McKee Foundation Award ndash our Chair - Thompson

Intramural Grants Seed Grant 1 SARP Educational Grant 2 - Salazar

President`s Collaborative Research Initiative ndashMarch 2018 - Tonarelli

Scholarly Activity

Child and Adolescent Fellowship Presentations

INTERNATIONAL

- Curanderos and Limpias Cultural psychiatry

Poster presented at 6th Annual Scientific conference of the European Association of PsychosomaticMedicine Verona Italy Drs Garza Meissner De Vargas Mehta June 2018

-Case presentation 0f 49XXXXY Same conference same authors same city

-Resilience etiology protective and risk factors presentation C De Vargas by invitation Annual WorldPediatric summit Madrid June 2018

-Parents and their Children Fantastic journey Same conference on June 2019 Berlin Germany

NATIONAL

-Development of Psychopathology in children at risk for Bipolar Disorders Drs Escamilla Peter Sangra C DeVargas S Martin C Alvarado Andrea Rios (Poster) American Academy of Child and Adolescent PsychiatryAnnual Conference Seattle WA October 2018

Frank William Meissner MD Cynthia Elizabeth Garza MDJD Sarah L Martin MD rdquoDrug-Induced BrugadaSyndrome in a Middle-Aged Female Patient Drugs EKG Diagnosis Electrophysiology and SurveillanceRecommendationrdquo American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting San Francisco CA May 21 2019

Delinquency in a group of school children at risk for bipolar disorder D Haque M Escamilla C De VargasPresented at UCLA LA Ca June 2019

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Residency ProgramPlease provide information regarding your departmentrsquos residency program ie recent accreditation

number of residents and program updates (if applicable)

24 General Psychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)

8 Internal MedicinePsychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)

3 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellows

1 Geriatric Psychiatry Fellow- newly accredited program

IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department

RecruitmentRetention

Short staffed

Organizational Structure

Financial incentives

Protected time

Gender balance Attrition malefemale ratio 41

Program Coordinator turnover rate

Mentoring

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32

Departmental Organizational

Structure

Chair

Division ChiefsProgram Directors

Clerkship Director

Adm

Organizational Structure Model

Chair

Deputy Chair for Education

Program

Directors

Deputy Chair for Research

Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs

Vicechair

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33

Roles

Deputy Chair for Education

Oversee undergraduate graduate and CME including the development of teachers and educational scholars Monitor quality and safety across the department

Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs

Faculty appointments Faculty Development and Promotion andor Tenure Develop programs in different domains such as research education personal improvement and leadership Support clinical activities by improving the efficiency of operations and in helping to fit clinical programs into those in the rest of the medical center Allocation of space

Deputy Chair for Research

Develop and direct department-wide programs for faculty recruitment development and support of mentors recognition of excellence and funding of pilot grants bridge funding and grants to nurture multi-principal investigator and trans-division or trans-department projects Allocation of space among divisions

Bottom Line

We need more funds

Institutional support

The investments needed to recruit faculty are beyond the capacity of the

department`s operational revenue

Recruiting a leading investigator or one with great potential for

example may require an investment of $ 1 million and sometimes more

Endowments are the departmentrsquos foundational financial capital the

keel that maintains momentum and balance through the headwinds

and rough seas each department will navigate Endowments increase

the departmentrsquos independence in sustaining its core mission

Thus creation of endowments should be a high priority for any

department that plans for the long term and they increase capacity to

recruit the best faculty in a competitive environment

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2 TTUHSC El Paso PLFSOM

7152019 FACULTY COUNCIL

II REVIEW AND APPROVAL OF MINUTES Ricardo Salazar MD

Faculty Council President Having met quorum the Faculty Council members unanimously approved the June 17 2019 meeting minutes

III DEANrsquoS REPORT Richard Lange MD MBA

Dean PLFSOM President TTUHSC El Paso

Dr Lange reported the following bull A campus-wide values summit gathered to define the core values of the Paul L Foster School of Medicine A

total of 65 employees and learners ndash faculty staff medical students and residents ndash were selected to begin drafting a comprehensive article of the institutionrsquos values which will be used to guide the strategic plan as well as enable the community to evaluate one another and aid in accountability Seven to eight town hall meetings are scheduled across the next month to allow everyone an opportunity to present their thoughts and questions Additionally a video is being created for release at a later date to assist in reaching all employees

QampA Q What is the function or goal of the summit A To define the values that are important to us to detail what respect innovation and integrity actually look like These values will govern how we treat one another how we behave and guide us along the ideals of the strategic plan They will tell us if we have acceptable behavior and keep us accountable to one another These are not ldquowalk awayrdquo values or a single event values but rather a lens by which we view everything They are not handed down from above but rather cultivated among us Q When and how will the video be available A The video is just in draft form right now as are the values after only the first meeting They will be added to refined and compared with our sister institutions to be sure we didnrsquot miss anything Eventually the video will be edited voiced over and distributed campus-wide Q How are the values different than our current mission and vision statements A Values are often formed at a young age by our families culture and community whereas your mission equates with your profession or role We must ask ourselves how we live out the values important to us in order to achieve our common mission We come from very diverse backgrounds so this will require great cooperation

IV STANDING COMMITTEE REPORTS

Jorge Cervantes-Gonzalez MD PhD Chair Committee on Medical School Admissions

Dr Cervantes-Gonzalez reported the following

3 TTUHSC El Paso PLFSOM

7152019 FACULTY COUNCIL

CMSA CONTINUEDhellip

PLFSOM Committee on Medical School Admissions

ReportPresented to Faculty Council ndash 7152019

See attached report QampA Q When do prospective students take the CASPerreg How is it evaluated A It is a part of the application process Each individual is shown a series of videos and they respond to them Q Does everyone take it Who pays for the test A I am not certain but I will relay your questions to Dr Cynthia Perry Assistant Academic Dean for Admissions

IV STANDING COMMITTEE REPORTS (CONT) Richard Brower MD

Chair Curriculum and Educational Policy Committee

Dr Brower reported the following

Curriculum amp Educational Policy

Committee Report to the PLFSOM Faculty Council

Presented by Richard Brower MD

Date July 15 2019

See attached report QampA Q The MD MPH and the MD MBA programs seem to be going in opposite directions We have had direction from Lubbock on the MD MPH program but not for the MBA program Why the difference A Lubbock provides great instruction and support for the MPH program because like us they are an HSC We have a tighter relationship to them in general However there is a great advantage to having a local program with UTEP that allows for regional participation This allows students to study local issues and get to know our area more intimately There will always be the question ndash do we stay within the system which yields a less personal approach or do we partner locally

4 TTUHSC El Paso PLFSOM

7152019 FACULTY COUNCIL

CEPC Continuedhellip Q I see that two of your goals ndash class size expansion and curriculum 20 revision ndash seem to be competing How will you accommodate both of these A I see them as complementary to one another If there is a political a financial or an increased physician production desire from this region we must talk about class size growth and curriculum development which must be done effectively and efficiently

V OLD BUSINESS Ricardo Salazar MD

Faculty Council President

Dr Salazar reported the following bull Dr Salazar acknowledged and appreciated new members recently elected for the following

o Committee on Student Grading and Promotion Dr Lynn Hernan o Committee on Medical School Admissions Dr Lynn Hernan Dr Anantha Vellipuram and Dr Jose

Gavito bull Dr Salazar reminded the Council that representative seats were up for electionre-election for the following

departments o Anesthesiology o Emergency Medicine o Family amp Community Medicine o Molecular amp Translational Medicine

Dr Salazar reminded the Council that the Chairs of the departments would coordinate the election process

VI NEW BUSINESS Ricardo Salazar MD

Faculty Council President Dr Salazar reported the following

bull Dr Salazar introduced the 2019-2020 Faculty Council President-Elect nominees and invited them to speak bull Dr Ayoub-Rodriguez Assistant Professor of Pediatrics a native El Pasoan focused on border health and the

El Paso region and acknowledged the importance of recruitment and retention of talent that would transform healthcare along the border for the better

bull Dr Cervantes-Gonzalez Assistant Professor of Medical Education offered to lend an ear to the concerns of faculty particularly in the field of research in which many are struggling

bull Voting will take place by e-vote following the meeting The new President-Elect will take office in September VII DEPARTMENTAL REPORT Laxman Gangwani PhD

Representative Molecular amp Translational Medicine

Dr Gangwani reported the following

Department of Molecular and Translational Medicine (formerly Biomedical Sciences) ReportPRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCILBY LAXMAN GANGWANI

DATE JULY 15 2019

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3

PLFSOM Committee on

Medical School Admissions

Report

Presented to Faculty Council ndash 7152019

Committee Composition and Terms of Service 22 committee members 20 Voting Members

Chair Jorge Cervantes MD PhD

Vice-Chair Diana Pettit PhD

EPCMS Rep Raj Marwah MD

2 Ex-Officio (non-voting) Associate Dean of Admissions and Director of Admissions

Last Name First Name Degree Academic Rank Department Committee Position Term Start Date

Chambers Karinn MD Assistant Professor Surgery 2018

Chheda Sadhana MD Assistant Professor Peds 2018

Duran Patricia DNP RN CENP Assistant Professor GGHSON 2018

Patek Gregory MD Assistant Professor Emergency Med 2018

Rao Jo MD Assistant Professor Peds 2018

Chattopadhyay Munmun PhD Assistant Professor Biomedical Sciences 2018

Hogg Tanis PhD Associate Professor Medical Education 2018

Lakshmanaswamy Rajkumar PhD Professor Biomedical Sciences 2018

Andrade Alonso MD Assistant Professor Surgery 2017

Castro Jose MD Clinical Instructor Surgery 2017

Cervantes Jorge MD PhD Assistant Professor Medical Education Chair 2017

Belmares Ricardo PhD Instructor Medical Education 2017

Kafchinski Lisa MD Assistant Professor Orthopedics 2017

Tonarelli Sylvina MD Assistant Professor Psychiatry 2017

Rojas-Mendez Patricia MD Assistant Professor ObGyn 2017

Martinez Carla MD Assistant Professor ObGyn 2017

Marwah Raj MD Clinical Assistant Professor Family Medicine 2019

Manglik Niti MD Assistant Professor Medical Education 2019

Pettit Diana PhD Associate Professor Medical Education Vice Chair 2019

Hernan Lynn MD Associate Professor Peds 2019

Vellipuram Anantha MD Assistant Professor Neurology 2019

Gavito Jose MD Assistant Professor Radiology 2019

Perry Cynthia PhD Interim Assistant Dean for Admissions Admissions Ex Officio

Olivas Laura MBA Senior Director of Admissions Admissions Ex Officio

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4

Committee Charge

The Committee shall have full authority to select members of

the medical school entering class based on screening

assessments and interview evaluation reports and to fill

vacancies that may occur in any of the medical school classes

A list of recommended candidates to be offered positions

through the Texas Medical and Dental School Application Service

(TMDSAS) matching process will be prepared based on a ranking

determined following deliberations by the Committee

The Committee also shall have the responsibility to review the

requirements for admission and if necessary to recommend

revisions to the faculty

Actions taken since last report (Jan 2019)

Approval of Handbook revisions

Added COI policy Attendance policy CASPer Assessment

requirement (Pilot)

Sat 104 new students 12 repeaters

Interviewed 14 JAMP students on June 24th

(Round 1 eligible students here for JAMP Internship)

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5

No right wrong answers

Rating not influenced by-ESL -Age-Coaching -Reading Level

Rating is relative

What are raters looking for

Actions taken since last report Received 4471 primary applications amp 3079 completed applications

(increase of 350 complete appl compared to last year)

127 TX pre-match and 13 Out-of-state offers extended

Currently have 109 acceptances leading up to TMDSAS match

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6

EY2018

Received 3983 primary applications amp 2729 completed

applications

130 acceptances leading up to TMDSAS match

TTUHSC EP PLFSOM First Year Entering Students

EY 2019

38

(27506)

TX 37 (30) 37 (29) 37 (30) 37 (30) 37 (30) 37 (31) 373 (31) 38 (507) 38 (509)376

(266506)

US 37 (31) 37 (31) 37 (31) 37 (31) 37 (31) 37 (31) 37(31) 37 (509) 37 (510) 38 (27506)

Hispanic 8 (20) 6 (10) 5 (6) 12 (15) 23 (24) 32 (31) 24 (23) 35 (35) 37 (36) 24 (24) 28 (269)

Border Counties - - 7 (9) 13 (16) 24 (24) 28 (27) 26 (25) 32 (31) 33 (32) 21 (21) 27 (26)

El Paso 7 (17) 8 (13) 5 (6) 12 (15) 19 (19) 23 (22) 24 (23) 29 (28) 25 (24) 19 (19) 23 (221)

African American 0 0 0 0 0 1 (1) 3 (3) 1 (1) 3 (3) 2 (2) 6 (58)

Native American 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Class Size 40 60 81 80 100 104 104 103 103 100 104

Male 16 (40) 35 (58) 44 (54) 42 (52) 65 (65) 47 (45) 67 (64) 59 (57) 56 (54) 49 (49) 52 (50)

Female 24 (60) 25 (42) 37 (46) 38 (48) 35 (35) 57 (55) 37 (36) 44 (43) 47 (46) 51 (51) 52 (50)

Total Applicants 2503 2531 2719 2946 3105 3375 3694 4043 3950 3982 4472

Interviewed 389 378 593 548 626 566 538 510 535 546 602

EY 2018

374

(5077)

Underrepresented minority(URM)-Diversity ()

Class Size amp Gender ()

Applicants

37 (28) 37 (29)37

(28503)

368

(26505)

EY 2014 EY 2015 EY 2016 EY 2017

GPA(MCAT) 37 (28) 36 (29) 36 (29) 35 (29) 36 (29)

EY 2009 EY 2010 EY 2011 EY 2012 EY 2013

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7

Candidates discussed

Voting (high priority acceptable reject)

Categorized by vote

1 High Priority (unanimous high priority votes)

2 Highly Acceptable -1 -2 -3

3 Very Acceptable (4+ acceptable votes)

4 Acceptable (majority acceptable votes)

5 Reject

Ranked within category by weighted scores (Interview 30 MCAT 30 SGPA 35 GPA 5)

Rank list is generated after the first interview date and updated weekly throughout interview season

Admissions Committee Process

Upcoming actions

Joint Admission Medical Program (JAMP) Round 2 Match

(Friday Jan 25th) will match with 2

Rolling admissions continues until June 1

Created additional interview date for EY2020 (22 days)

New requirement added for EY2020 CASPer Assessment ndash

Situational Judgement Test (SJT)

Propose revision to By-Laws to add minimum attendance

requirements for committee members

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8

Current IssuesConcerns

Ongoing need to recruit more interviewers

Anticipating class size expansion

Meeting quorum

Standing Committee Report

Curriculum and Educational Policy

Committee

Richard Brower MD PhDAssociate Dean for Medical Education

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9

Curriculum amp

Educational Policy

Committee Report to the PLFSOM Faculty Council

Presented by Richard Brower MD

Date July 15 2019

Committee Composition and Terms of

Service

ldquoCandidates for lsquoat largersquo positions are to be

recommended by the associate dean for medical

education and appointed by the deanrdquo

ldquoTerms may be renewed by recommendation of the

associate dean for medical education and appointment by

the deanrdquo

ldquohelliplsquoat largersquo members may be appointed for no more than

two consecutive terms after which they are ineligible to

serve for 4 yearsrdquo

ldquoCandidates for these positions should demonstrate an

ongoing interest in medical educationrdquo

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10

Committee Composition and Terms of ServiceLast Name First Name Degree Academic Rank Department Committee Position Term Start Date

Term Expiration Date

Frances Mark MD ProfessorMedical Education

Member (College Master)

9120168312020

Pfarr Curt PhD ProfessorMedical Education

Member (College Master) 9242015 8312019

Gajendran Mahesh MD Assistant ProfessorInternal Medicine

Member (Clinician) 912017 8312021

Uga Aghaegbulam MD Assistant Professor

Psychiatry and Internal Medicine

Member (Clinician) 11192015 10312019

Kassar Darine MD Assistant Professor NeurologyMember (Clinician) 972016 8312020

Wojciechowska Joanna MD Assistant Professor Pediatrics

Member (Clinician) 212018 8312022

Nino DiegoMD PhD Assistant Professor

Medical Education

Member (Basic Sciences) 1142019 1142023

Padilla Osvaldo MD Assistant Professor PathologyMember (Basic Sciences) 12152014 8312022

Cervantes JorgeMD PhD Assistant Professor

Medical Education

Member (Basic Sciences) 8232016 8312020

Perry Cynthia PhD Assistant ProfessorMedical Education

Member (Basic Sciences) 9282015 8312019

Brower Richard MDAssociate Professor

Medical Education Chair NA NA

Three positions

opening soon ndash-

should have

demonstrated

interest and

engagement in

UME and a

willingness to

attend all

meetings and

participate in

team

assignments

Committee Composition and Terms of

Service Leadership

This committee is chaired by the associate dean for medical education

The committee reports to the Faculty Council

Membership will include

2 college masters (one basic scientist one clinician) with 4-year terms

4 members from the basic sciences faculty with 4-year terms (staggered)

4 members from the clinical sciences faculty with 4-year terms (staggered)

Ex Officio members

Dean or their designee

Associate dean for student affairs

Assistant deans for medication education

Managing director of the libraries (ldquoAssociate Director of the Libraryrdquo)

Director of information technology or their designee

Director of assessment and evaluation (position no longer exists)

Two student reps from each of the four classes (from the Student Curriculum and Evaluation Committee)

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Committee Charge Faculty Bylaws Article IX Section C2

The Committee on Curriculum and Educational Policy is charged with planning coordinating

reviewing and evaluating the curriculum to ensure that it adheres to the

written educational policies goals and objectives of the Paul L Foster School

of Medicine Further the Committee shall have full authority to make changes in

educational policy or in the organization of the curriculum with the

concurrence of the Dean and with comment and input from the Faculty Council The Faculty of the Paul L Foster School of Medicine has the responsibility to define course objectives create

and deliver content to meet those objectives and modify their activities in response to appropriate feedback

from peers and students The Committee will provide updates on its activities at least

twice a year to the Faculty Council In order to accomplish the mission of the Committee the

Chair may appoint subcommittees that may include members who are not

members of the Committee It shall be the responsibility of the Committee to coordinate the

activities and reports of these subcommittees In addition the Committee receives reports

from the Committee on Evaluation of Educational Programs

Current IssuesConcerns

Curriculum enhancementimprovement

Preparation for class size expansion

Preparation for next round of curriculum reviews

(ldquocurriculum as a wholerdquo)

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12

CEPC actions since last report

January 2019 (1 meeting)

Reviewed and approved revisions to the following

educational program polices

Clerkship Administration

Clerkship DirectorAssistant Director Position Description

Approval of two new 4th Year Electives

Pediatric Gastroenterology Hepatology and Nutrition

Emergency Medicine Ultrasound

Clerkship phase review FM and Surgery

CEPC actions since last report

February 2019 (2 meetings)

New educational program policy reviewed and approved

Grade Changes and Transcript Notations

Rollover of established educational program goals and

objectives (the ldquoPGOsrdquo) approved

Clerkship phase review Pediatrics and ObGyn

Preliminary data-driven discussion of revised educational

program policy covering Grading Promotion and Academic

Standing (ldquoGPASrdquo)

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13

CEPC actions since last report

March 2019 (2 meetings)

Clerkship phase review IM and Psych Critical Care and Sub-I

Selectives

Approval of new educational program policy

Grading Promotion and Academic Standing (ldquoGPASrdquo)

Notification of changes in clerkship directorship

Elimination of the PICE course (PICE 7001) from the year 2

curriculum approved (primarily administrative educational

elements re-distributed)

Associated review and approval of an updated PLSOM degree

plan (based on 157 credit hours)

CEPC actions since last report

April 2019 (1 meetings)

Clerkship phase review EM Neurology and Intersessions

Review and approval of revised educational program policy

Pre-Clerkship Phase Student Attendance and Participation

Policy

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14

CEPC actions since last report

May 2019 (1 meetings)

Review and approval of the ldquoCommon Clerkship Policiesrdquo

Notification of additional changes in the clerkship

directorship

Clerkship phase review

Phase data review (AAMC GQ NBME subject exams

USMLE Step 2 CK and CS Step 3 final grades EOY OSCE

and procedure workshop residency director survey)

Introduction of a 10-point plan for curriculum revision

(ldquoPLFSOM v20rdquo)

June 2019 (no quorum) July 2019 (cancelled)

CEPC actions since last report

Challenges and opportunities for improvement identified

through the AY208-19 clerkship phase review

Clear identification of contacts at affiliated sites

Academic support and remediation planning

Consistent resident preparation for participation in UME

Timeliness of grading (Sub-I and Critical Care Selectives)

Orientation modules for Sub-Q and Critical Care Selectives)

Scaling clerkships for anticipated class expansion

The summer doldrums

June 2019 (no quorum) July 2019 (cancelled)

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15

Upcoming actions

Ongoing educational program policy development

Maintain accreditation compliance related curriculum

review cycle (2019-20 ldquoCurriculum as a Wholerdquo)

Review and advance plans for curriculum renewalrevision

Review proposal to re-direct our MD-MPH affiliation to

TTUHSC GSBS Lubbock

Consider development of an MD-MBA option (potentially

with UTEP)

Links to related information

PLFSOM Committee on Curriculum and Educational Policy main page

httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCdefaultaspx

MD degree program policies

httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCpoliciesaspx

MD degree program information

httpselpasottuhscedusomomeUMEinfoaspx

Course and clerkship syllabi

httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCcoursereviewaspx

AY2017-18 medical education program evaluation report (e-Raider required)

httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPC_documentssecureAY2017-

2018MEPEvaluationAnnualReport-Draft-v2pdf

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19

Departmental Report

Molecular and Translational

Medicine

Laxman Gangwani PhDAssociate Professor Molecular amp

Translational Medicine

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20

Department of Molecular and

Translational Medicine (formerly

Biomedical Sciences) Report

PRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCIL

BY LAXMAN GANGWANI

DATE JULY 15 2019

Department BreakdownPlease provide the total number of faculty members in your department and break down this number by

rank Please list new faculty members that have joined your department within the last six months

Total Number of Faculty

Number of Faculty Associates 1

Number of Instructors 1

Number of Research Assistant Professor 1

Number of Assistant Professors 6

Number of Associate Professors 7

Number of Professors 4

New Faculty

None

9102019

21

LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair

program director clerkship director chiefs etc

Department Chair Dr Peter Rotwein (VP Research Associate

Dean GSBS)

Director Center of Emphasis in Cancer Dr Rajkumar

Lakshmanaswamy (Dean GSBS) Co-Director Dr N Shokar

Director Center of Emphasis in Diabetes and Metabolism Dr

David Cistola

Director Center of Emphasis in Infectious Diseases Vacant

Director Center of Emphasis in Neurosciences Vacant

Chief Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology Vacant

AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional

appointments national appointments etc

Awards

Dr Mingtao Zeng

2018 The American Association of Immunologists (AAI) AAI Travel Grant for the 5th European Congress of Immunology

2018 Defense Techconnect Fall Summit amp Expo (2018) Techconnect Defense Innovation Award

Dr Shrikant Gadad

Eugenia Rosemberg Outstanding Abstract Award Endocrine Society Annual Meeting New Orleans March 23-26 2019

Dr Huanyu Dou

National Innovation Award Techconnect 2019

Honors

Dr Alok Dwivedi

Appointed as associated faculty at the Border Biomedical Research Center (BBRC) University of Texas El Paso (UTEP)

Dr Shrikant Gadad

Session Chair (OR09 Steroid Hormone Biology in Physiology and Disease) Endocrine Society Annual Meeting New Orleans March 23-26 2019

9102019

22

AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional

appointments national appointments etc

NIH or DOD study sections appointments

Dr Guohua Yi

HIV special Emphasis Panel for RFA-AI-18-058 Genetic Engineering Technologies for HIV Cure Research (U19)

Dr Laxman Gangwani

Department of Defense (DOD) Reviewer for Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) 2018 -

NIHCSR Study ldquoProgram Evaluation of NIH Peer Review Processes The Role of Anonymizationrdquo 2019 ndash

Patents filings and publications

Patent Number 9862951 Title RNA Interference-Based Therapeutic against Anthrax Inventors Mingtao Zeng and Maria T AreacutevaloDate of Patent January 9 2018

Cistola D P Patel V (2018) Method and system for non-invasive measurement of metabolic health US Non-Provisional Utility Patent Application No 15911728 filed by Texas Tech University

Cistola D P Robinson M D (2018) Methods and tools for diagnosing insulin resistance and assessing health status using NMR relaxation times for water United States Patent Application Publication US 20180020947 A1 httpspatentsgooglecompatentUS20180020947A1en

AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional

appointments national appointments etc

News and Media Coverage of Research performed at TTUHSC EP

Dr David Cistola

MedPageToday 2 January 2019 Harris Scott Could a New Biomarker Help Predict Type 2 Diabetes -- Early datashow water T2 catches abnormalities before traditional testing but experts are cautiously optimistichttpswwwmedpagetodaycomreading-roomendocrine-societydiabetes77186

KTSM Channel 9 NBC El Paso 14 November 2018 Castillo Susy Research in El Paso aimed at detectingdiabetes earlyhttpswwwktsmcomlifestylehealthresearch-in-el-paso-aimed-at-detecting-diabetes-early1596408236apt_credirect=1

El Paso Inc 29 March 2019 TTUHSC El Paso Tackling diabetes cancer httpwwwelpasoinccomttuhsc-el-paso-tackling-diabetes-cancerarticle_613144fe-526a-11e9-b916-c35b701a5ef9html

Dr Laxman Gangwani

Cure SMA Awards $150000 Grant to Laxman Gangwani PhD Texas Tech University

httpwwwcuresmaorgnewsgangwani-grant-2019html

httpswwweurekalertorgpub_releases2019-05ttuh-gw050119php

httpswwwresearchgatenetscientific-contributions11984383_Laxman_Gangwani

9102019

23

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Peer-reviewed publications 36 (In high-impact journals)

2018 highest impact factor (11561) journal Nucleic Acids Research

Abstracts 43

Presentations (i) Oral 11 (ii) Posters 28

Invited talks 13

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Peer-reviewed publications

Kannan A Bhatia K Branzei D and Gangwani L (2018) Combined deficiency of Senataxin and DNA-PKcscauses DNA damage accumulation and neurodegeneration in spinal muscular atrophy Nucleic Acids Research2018 Vol 46 No 16 8326-8346

Mishra I Jones C Patel V Deodhar S Cistola D P (2018) Early detection of metabolic dysregulation usingwater T2 analysis of biobanked samples Diabetes Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity Targets and Therapy 11 807-818

Patel V Dwivedi A K Deodhar S Mishra I Cistola D P (2018) Aptamer-based search for correlates of plasmaand serum water T2 Implications for early metabolic dysregulation and metabolic syndrome Biomarker Research6(1) 28

Garg H Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz T Joshi A 2018 Recent Advances in Zika Virus Vaccines Viruses Nov 1410 (11) Sundin OH Mendoza-Ladd A Zeng M Diaz-Areacutevalo D Morales E Fagan BMOrdontildeez J McCallum RW Does a

glucose-based hydrogen and methane breath test detect bacterial overgrowth in the jejunum NeurogastroenterolMotil 2018e13350

Zheng Z Diaz-Areacutevalo D Guan H and Mingtao Zeng Noninvasive vaccination against infectious diseases Humanvaccines amp immunotherapeutics 2018 14(7)1717-1733

Preeti Bharaj Chunting Ye Sean Petersen Qianghu Wang Baoli Hu N Manjunath Premlata Shankar Guohua Yi(2018) Gene array analysis of PD-1H overexpressing monocytes reveals a pro-inflammatory profile Heliyone00545

Bencomo-Alvarez AE Rubio AJ Gonzalez MA and Eiring AM Energy metabolism and drug response in myeloidleukaemic stem cells Br J Haematol 2019 In Press

9102019

24

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Peer-reviewed publications Yan D Pomicter AD Tantravahi S Mason CC Senina AV Ahmann JM Wang Q Than H Patel AB Heaton

WL Eiring AM Clair PM Gantz KC Redwine HM Swierczek SI Halverson BJ Baloglu E Shacham S KhorashadJS Kelley TW Salama ME Miles RR Boucher KM Prchal JT OHare T and Deininger MW Nuclear-cytoplasmic transport is a therapeutic target in myelofibrosis Clin Cancer Res 201925(7)2323-2335

Heipertz E Harper J Lopez CA Fikrig E Hughes ME Walker WE Circadian rhythms influence the severity of sepsis in mice via a TLR2-dependent leukocyte-intrinsic mechanism The Journal of Immunology 2018 201193-201

Khatri R Afzal MR Qureshi MA Maud A Huanyu D Jose Rodriguez G Pre-Existing Renal Failure Increases In-Hospital Mortality in Patients with Intracerebral Hemorrhage J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis 2019 Feb28(2)237-242

Zou L Lee SY Wu Q Zhang H Bastian A Orji C Payne G Galvez A Thomas T Zhang Z Dou H Facile Gene Delivery Derived from Branched Low Molecular Weight Polyethylenimine by High Efficient Chemistry J Biomed Nanotechnol 2018 Oct 114(10)1785-1795

Zhang C Brandon NR Koper K Tang P Xu Y Dou H Invasion of Peripheral Immune Cells into Brain Parenchyma after Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation Aging Dis 2018 Jun 19(3)412-425

Loza O Hernandez P Calderoacuten-Mora J Laks S Leiner M Reddy S Lara P amp Granados H (2018) Developing Trans-affirming health services in an underserved area An intersectional approach Transgender Health 3(1) 127-135

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Byrd T Calderoacuten-Mora J Salaiz R amp Shokar N (2019) Barriers and facilitators to colorectal cancer screening within a Hispanic population Hispanic Health Care International 17(1) 23-29 doi 1011771540415318818982

Haut SR Lipton RB Cornes S Dwivedi AK Wasson R Cotton S Strawn JR Privitera M (2018) Behavioral interventions as a treatment for epilepsy A multicenter randomized controlled trial Neurology 90(11) e963-e970 PMID 29444968

Jessica Bernica Sherif Elhanafi Neeharika Kalakota Yi Jia Christopher Dodoo Alok Dwivedi Robert J Sealock Kalpesh Patel Isaac Raijman Marc J Zuckerman Mohamed O Othman (2018) Cholangioscopy is safe and feasible in elderly patients Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology 16(8) 1293-1299

Benjamin D Wissel Alok K Dwivedi Danielle Chin Aristide Merola Cara Jacob Andrew P Duker Jennifer E Vaughan Lilia Lovera Kathrin LaFaver Ariel Levy Anthony E Lang Francesca Morgante Melissa J Nirenberg Christopher Stephen Nutan Sharma Alberto Romagnolo Leonardo Lopiano Bettina Balint Xin X Yu Kailash P Bhatia Alberto J Espay Functional neurological disorders in Parkinson disease Accepted for publication in Journal

of Neurology Neurosurgery amp Psychiatry 89(6)566-571

Danny J Avalos Marc J Zuckerman Alok Dwivedi Christopher Dodoo Jinendra Satiya Fernando J Castro(2018) Differences in prevalence of large polyps between Hispanic Americans from Mexican-and Non-Mexican-predominant states Digestive diseases and sciences PMID 30276570

Zeina Nahleh Salman Otoukesh Hamid Reza Mirshahidi Anthony Loc Nguyen Gayathri Nagaraj Nabeel Badri Gehan Botrus Nabih Diab Andres Alvarado Luis A Sanchez Alok K Dwivedi (2018) Disparities in breast cancer a multi-institutional comparative analysis focusing on American Hispanics Cancer Medicine (In press 05072018)

9102019

25

Scholarly Activity Danny J Avalos Antonio Mendoza-Ladd Marc J Zuckerman Mohammad Bashashati Andres Alvarado Alok

Dwivedi Oriana M Damas (2018) Hispanics and Non-Hispanic Whites in the US have a Similar InflammatoryBowel Disease Phenotype A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis Digestive Diseases and Sciences 63(6)1558-1571

Aleli Campbell Rosalinda Heydarian Cecilia Ochoa Alok Kumar Dwivedi Zeina A Nahleh(2018) Single arm phaseII study of oral vitamin B12 for the treatment of musculoskeletal symptoms associated with aromatase inhibitors inwomen with early stage breast cancer The breast journal 24(3)260-268

Shaimaa Elzamly Nabeel Badri Osvaldo Padilla Alok Kumar Dwivedi Luis A Alvarado Matthew Hamilton NabihDiab Crosby Rock Ahmed Elfar Marwa Teleb Luis Sanchez Zeina Nahleh (2018) Epithelial-mesenchymaltransition markers in breast cancer and pathological responseafter neoadjuvant chemotherapy Breast Cancer

(Auckl) 2018 Aug 1121178223418788074

Jennifer C Molokwu Eribeth Penaranda Alok Dwivedi Indika Mallawaarachchi Navkiran Shokar (2018) Effect ofEducational Intervention on Self-Sampling Acceptability and Follow-Up Paps in Border Dwelling Hispanic FemalesJournal of Lower Genital Tract Disease

Ritika Suri Federico Rodriguez-Porcel Kelly Donohue Erin Jesse Lilia Lovera Alok Kumar Dwivedi Alberto JEspay (2018) Post-Stroke Movement Disorders The Clinical Neuroanatomic and Demographic Portrait of 284Published Cases Accepted for publication in Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases (In press05212018)

Zeina Nahleh Gehan Botrus Alok Dwivedi Nabeel Badri Salman Otoukesh Nabih Diab Sandip BiswasMichael Jennings Shaimaa Elzamly(2018) Clinico-pathologic disparities of breast cancer in HispanicLatina womenBreast disease 1-8

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Robert Gonzalez Trisha Suppes Jamie Zeitzer Colleen McClung Carol Tamminga Mauricio Tohen Angelica Forero Alok DwivediAndres Alvarado (2018) The association between mood state and chronobiological characteristics in bipolar I disorder a naturalisticvariable cluster analysis-based study International Journal of Bipolar Disorders 6(1)5Mohamed Teleb Aaron Shanker Alok Kumar Dwivedi Debabrata Mukherjee (2018) Effect of exercise on left ventricular mass index byechocardiography in mild and moderate hypertension a meta-analysis Res Cardiovasc Med 6(4)50-6Garnica O Das K Devasundaram S and Dhandayuthapani S Enhanced delivery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigens to antigenpresenting cells using RVG peptide Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Das K Garnica O and Dhandayuthapani S Utility of an oxidative stress response system for the expression of recombinant proteinsin mycobacteria and for the delivery of M tuberculosis antigens to the phagosomal compartments Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Palanichamy K Joshi A Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz T Fernando B Milan S Schiro F Naeem Y Garg H Braunschweig A 2019 Anti-ZikaActivity of a Library of Synthetic Carbohydrate Receptors Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 6284110-4119Anjali Joshi Erin B Punke Tugba Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz Diego P Peralta and Himanshu Garg 2019 TLR9 polymorphism correlates withimmune activation CD4 decline and plasma IP10 levels in HIV patients BMC Infect Dis 19 56Vargas-Medrano J Yang B Garza N T Segura-Ulate I and Perez R G (2018) Up-regulation of protective neuronal MicroRNAs byFTY720 and novel FTY720-derivatives Neuroscience letters 690 178-180Vidal-Martinez G Yang B Vargas-Medrano J and Perez R G (2018) Could alpha-Synuclein Modulation of Insulin and DopamineIdentify a Novel Link Between Parkinsons Disease and Diabetes as Well as Potential Therapies Frontiers in molecular

neuroscience 11 465

9102019

26

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Gil-Tommee C Vidal-Martinez G Annette Reyes C Vargas-Medrano J Herrera G V Martin S M Chaparro S A andPerez R G (2019) Parkinsonian GM2 synthase knockout mice lacking mature gangliosides develop urinary dysfunction andneurogenic bladder Experimental neurology 311265-273Vidal-Martinez G Najera K Miranda JD Gil-Tommee C Yang B Vargas-Medrano J Diaz-Pacheco V Barragan J ChaparroS Vargas-Medrano J Chinnasamy R Arterburn JB Perez RG FTY720 improves behavior increases Brain Derived NeurotrophicFactor and reduces α-synuclein pathology in parkinsonian GM2+minus

mice Neuroscience httpsdoiorg101016jneuroscience201905029Tasnim N Thakur V Chattopadhyay M Joddar B (2018) The efficacy of Graphene-foams towards the adhesion proliferationand expression of neuronal-phenotype by dopaminergic neurons differentiated from mesenchymal stem cells Stem cell

international Jun 3 20183410168 doi 10115520183410168Anil Kumar S Allen SC Tasnim N Akter T Park S Kumar A Chattopadhyay M Ito Y Suggs LJ Joddar B (2019) The applicabilityof furfuryl-gelatin as a novel bioink for tissue engineering applications J Biomed Mater Res B Appl Biomater 2019 107(2)314-323 doi 101002jbmb34123 Epub 2018 Apr 15Thakur V Chattopadhyay M (2018) Early urinary markers for diabetic and other kidney diseases Current drug targets 2018 Mar19Joddar B Tasnim N Thakur V Kumar A Mccallum R Chattopadhyay M (2018) Delivery of mesenchymal stem cells fromgelatin-alginate hydrogels to stomach lumen for treatment of gastroparesis Bioengineering 2018 5(1)Camacho CV Choudhari R Gadad SS (2018) Long noncoding RNAs and cancer an overview Steroids 13393-95

IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department

Large net loss (9) of MTM faculty members over the past 5 years

Vacant Director positions (i) Center for Neuroscience (ii) Center for InfectiousDiseases and (iii) Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology

No steps have been taken to fill directors positions for more than 2 years

Neurosciences Center at the verge of collapse Only one faculty will be left at theend of this fiscal year

The size of Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology is shrinking

Lack of communication regarding vision and strategic plan for growing department

No faculty salary raises for the past 3 years

Serious concerns about recruitment retention and tenure and promotion decisionsmade in the department Faculty morale is extremely low

Lack of functional research core facility

Gradual elimination of service contracts of equipment essential for research trainingand education of graduate and medical students

A plethora of other issues with the department administration

9102019

27

Questions

Departmental Report

Psychiatry

Ricardo Salazar MDAssociate Professor Psychiatry

9102019

28

Department ReportPsychiatryPRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCIL

BY RICARDO SALAZAR MD

DATE MONDAY JULY 15 2019

Department BreakdownPlease provide the total number of faculty members in your department and break down this number by

rank Please list new faculty members that have joined your department within the last six months

Total Number of Faculty 12

Number of Instructors 1

Number of Assistant Professors 8

Number of Associate Professors 2

Number of Professors 2

New Faculty Melanie Longhurst MD Instructor

9102019

29

LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair

program director clerkship director chiefs etc

Department Chair ndash Peter M Thompson MD MS

Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Sarah L Martin MD

Combined IMPsych Residency Program Director ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD

Psychiatry Clerkship Director ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD

Child amp Adolescent Fellowship Program Director ndash Cecilia De Vargas MD

Chief Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry ndash Sarah L Martin MD

Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Program Directorndash Ricardo Salazar MD

Chief Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences ndash Ricardo Salazar MD

Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Transmountain ndash Moataz Ragheb MD

AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in your department including awards honors regional

appointments national appointments etc

El Paso Behavioral Health Consortium ndash Board Member ndash Peter M Thompson MD

714 (50) of our graduating medical students this year choose and matched our resident training programs here at Paul L FosterSchool of Medicine Department of Psychiatry (Historical record) ndash Kudos for our Department Faculty

In appreciation for exceptional contributions to the 30th volume of the J Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences ndash Author contributions and review of 271 manuscripts submitted to the journal between September 2017 and August 2018 ndash Ricardo Salazar MD ndash Young Investigator Award Committee Member and Program Committee Member-Abstracts Sub-Committee Member of theAmerican Neuropsychiatric Association (ANPA)

Initial Accreditation with commendation and no citations from ACGME for our first Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Training Program for West Texas ndash Ricardo Salazar MD

Leadership in Education and Development Certificate Program (LEAD) Fellow -1-year program accredited from the Association ofAmerican Medical Colleges (AAMC) Silvina Tonarelli MD amp Ricardo Salazar MD (Selected Award)

Fully operating Southwest Brain Bank A Brain Tissue Repository for Research in Mental Illness ndashPeter M Thompson MD

Texas State Psychiatric Physicians Public Mental Health Services Committee ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD

Texas Health and Human Services Commission Behavioral Health Advisory Committee ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP

Fellow American College of Physicians ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP FACP

9102019

30

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Abstracts 31

Publications 5 (peer-review journals)

Presentations 17 ndash National (7) and International (6)

Invited Speaker 21 (including faculty residents fellows) ndash Local amp National

Book Chapters NA

Grants McKee Foundation Award ndash our Chair - Thompson

Intramural Grants Seed Grant 1 SARP Educational Grant 2 - Salazar

President`s Collaborative Research Initiative ndashMarch 2018 - Tonarelli

Scholarly Activity

Child and Adolescent Fellowship Presentations

INTERNATIONAL

- Curanderos and Limpias Cultural psychiatry

Poster presented at 6th Annual Scientific conference of the European Association of PsychosomaticMedicine Verona Italy Drs Garza Meissner De Vargas Mehta June 2018

-Case presentation 0f 49XXXXY Same conference same authors same city

-Resilience etiology protective and risk factors presentation C De Vargas by invitation Annual WorldPediatric summit Madrid June 2018

-Parents and their Children Fantastic journey Same conference on June 2019 Berlin Germany

NATIONAL

-Development of Psychopathology in children at risk for Bipolar Disorders Drs Escamilla Peter Sangra C DeVargas S Martin C Alvarado Andrea Rios (Poster) American Academy of Child and Adolescent PsychiatryAnnual Conference Seattle WA October 2018

Frank William Meissner MD Cynthia Elizabeth Garza MDJD Sarah L Martin MD rdquoDrug-Induced BrugadaSyndrome in a Middle-Aged Female Patient Drugs EKG Diagnosis Electrophysiology and SurveillanceRecommendationrdquo American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting San Francisco CA May 21 2019

Delinquency in a group of school children at risk for bipolar disorder D Haque M Escamilla C De VargasPresented at UCLA LA Ca June 2019

9102019

31

Residency ProgramPlease provide information regarding your departmentrsquos residency program ie recent accreditation

number of residents and program updates (if applicable)

24 General Psychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)

8 Internal MedicinePsychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)

3 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellows

1 Geriatric Psychiatry Fellow- newly accredited program

IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department

RecruitmentRetention

Short staffed

Organizational Structure

Financial incentives

Protected time

Gender balance Attrition malefemale ratio 41

Program Coordinator turnover rate

Mentoring

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32

Departmental Organizational

Structure

Chair

Division ChiefsProgram Directors

Clerkship Director

Adm

Organizational Structure Model

Chair

Deputy Chair for Education

Program

Directors

Deputy Chair for Research

Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs

Vicechair

9102019

33

Roles

Deputy Chair for Education

Oversee undergraduate graduate and CME including the development of teachers and educational scholars Monitor quality and safety across the department

Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs

Faculty appointments Faculty Development and Promotion andor Tenure Develop programs in different domains such as research education personal improvement and leadership Support clinical activities by improving the efficiency of operations and in helping to fit clinical programs into those in the rest of the medical center Allocation of space

Deputy Chair for Research

Develop and direct department-wide programs for faculty recruitment development and support of mentors recognition of excellence and funding of pilot grants bridge funding and grants to nurture multi-principal investigator and trans-division or trans-department projects Allocation of space among divisions

Bottom Line

We need more funds

Institutional support

The investments needed to recruit faculty are beyond the capacity of the

department`s operational revenue

Recruiting a leading investigator or one with great potential for

example may require an investment of $ 1 million and sometimes more

Endowments are the departmentrsquos foundational financial capital the

keel that maintains momentum and balance through the headwinds

and rough seas each department will navigate Endowments increase

the departmentrsquos independence in sustaining its core mission

Thus creation of endowments should be a high priority for any

department that plans for the long term and they increase capacity to

recruit the best faculty in a competitive environment

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3 TTUHSC El Paso PLFSOM

7152019 FACULTY COUNCIL

CMSA CONTINUEDhellip

PLFSOM Committee on Medical School Admissions

ReportPresented to Faculty Council ndash 7152019

See attached report QampA Q When do prospective students take the CASPerreg How is it evaluated A It is a part of the application process Each individual is shown a series of videos and they respond to them Q Does everyone take it Who pays for the test A I am not certain but I will relay your questions to Dr Cynthia Perry Assistant Academic Dean for Admissions

IV STANDING COMMITTEE REPORTS (CONT) Richard Brower MD

Chair Curriculum and Educational Policy Committee

Dr Brower reported the following

Curriculum amp Educational Policy

Committee Report to the PLFSOM Faculty Council

Presented by Richard Brower MD

Date July 15 2019

See attached report QampA Q The MD MPH and the MD MBA programs seem to be going in opposite directions We have had direction from Lubbock on the MD MPH program but not for the MBA program Why the difference A Lubbock provides great instruction and support for the MPH program because like us they are an HSC We have a tighter relationship to them in general However there is a great advantage to having a local program with UTEP that allows for regional participation This allows students to study local issues and get to know our area more intimately There will always be the question ndash do we stay within the system which yields a less personal approach or do we partner locally

4 TTUHSC El Paso PLFSOM

7152019 FACULTY COUNCIL

CEPC Continuedhellip Q I see that two of your goals ndash class size expansion and curriculum 20 revision ndash seem to be competing How will you accommodate both of these A I see them as complementary to one another If there is a political a financial or an increased physician production desire from this region we must talk about class size growth and curriculum development which must be done effectively and efficiently

V OLD BUSINESS Ricardo Salazar MD

Faculty Council President

Dr Salazar reported the following bull Dr Salazar acknowledged and appreciated new members recently elected for the following

o Committee on Student Grading and Promotion Dr Lynn Hernan o Committee on Medical School Admissions Dr Lynn Hernan Dr Anantha Vellipuram and Dr Jose

Gavito bull Dr Salazar reminded the Council that representative seats were up for electionre-election for the following

departments o Anesthesiology o Emergency Medicine o Family amp Community Medicine o Molecular amp Translational Medicine

Dr Salazar reminded the Council that the Chairs of the departments would coordinate the election process

VI NEW BUSINESS Ricardo Salazar MD

Faculty Council President Dr Salazar reported the following

bull Dr Salazar introduced the 2019-2020 Faculty Council President-Elect nominees and invited them to speak bull Dr Ayoub-Rodriguez Assistant Professor of Pediatrics a native El Pasoan focused on border health and the

El Paso region and acknowledged the importance of recruitment and retention of talent that would transform healthcare along the border for the better

bull Dr Cervantes-Gonzalez Assistant Professor of Medical Education offered to lend an ear to the concerns of faculty particularly in the field of research in which many are struggling

bull Voting will take place by e-vote following the meeting The new President-Elect will take office in September VII DEPARTMENTAL REPORT Laxman Gangwani PhD

Representative Molecular amp Translational Medicine

Dr Gangwani reported the following

Department of Molecular and Translational Medicine (formerly Biomedical Sciences) ReportPRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCILBY LAXMAN GANGWANI

DATE JULY 15 2019

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3

PLFSOM Committee on

Medical School Admissions

Report

Presented to Faculty Council ndash 7152019

Committee Composition and Terms of Service 22 committee members 20 Voting Members

Chair Jorge Cervantes MD PhD

Vice-Chair Diana Pettit PhD

EPCMS Rep Raj Marwah MD

2 Ex-Officio (non-voting) Associate Dean of Admissions and Director of Admissions

Last Name First Name Degree Academic Rank Department Committee Position Term Start Date

Chambers Karinn MD Assistant Professor Surgery 2018

Chheda Sadhana MD Assistant Professor Peds 2018

Duran Patricia DNP RN CENP Assistant Professor GGHSON 2018

Patek Gregory MD Assistant Professor Emergency Med 2018

Rao Jo MD Assistant Professor Peds 2018

Chattopadhyay Munmun PhD Assistant Professor Biomedical Sciences 2018

Hogg Tanis PhD Associate Professor Medical Education 2018

Lakshmanaswamy Rajkumar PhD Professor Biomedical Sciences 2018

Andrade Alonso MD Assistant Professor Surgery 2017

Castro Jose MD Clinical Instructor Surgery 2017

Cervantes Jorge MD PhD Assistant Professor Medical Education Chair 2017

Belmares Ricardo PhD Instructor Medical Education 2017

Kafchinski Lisa MD Assistant Professor Orthopedics 2017

Tonarelli Sylvina MD Assistant Professor Psychiatry 2017

Rojas-Mendez Patricia MD Assistant Professor ObGyn 2017

Martinez Carla MD Assistant Professor ObGyn 2017

Marwah Raj MD Clinical Assistant Professor Family Medicine 2019

Manglik Niti MD Assistant Professor Medical Education 2019

Pettit Diana PhD Associate Professor Medical Education Vice Chair 2019

Hernan Lynn MD Associate Professor Peds 2019

Vellipuram Anantha MD Assistant Professor Neurology 2019

Gavito Jose MD Assistant Professor Radiology 2019

Perry Cynthia PhD Interim Assistant Dean for Admissions Admissions Ex Officio

Olivas Laura MBA Senior Director of Admissions Admissions Ex Officio

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4

Committee Charge

The Committee shall have full authority to select members of

the medical school entering class based on screening

assessments and interview evaluation reports and to fill

vacancies that may occur in any of the medical school classes

A list of recommended candidates to be offered positions

through the Texas Medical and Dental School Application Service

(TMDSAS) matching process will be prepared based on a ranking

determined following deliberations by the Committee

The Committee also shall have the responsibility to review the

requirements for admission and if necessary to recommend

revisions to the faculty

Actions taken since last report (Jan 2019)

Approval of Handbook revisions

Added COI policy Attendance policy CASPer Assessment

requirement (Pilot)

Sat 104 new students 12 repeaters

Interviewed 14 JAMP students on June 24th

(Round 1 eligible students here for JAMP Internship)

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5

No right wrong answers

Rating not influenced by-ESL -Age-Coaching -Reading Level

Rating is relative

What are raters looking for

Actions taken since last report Received 4471 primary applications amp 3079 completed applications

(increase of 350 complete appl compared to last year)

127 TX pre-match and 13 Out-of-state offers extended

Currently have 109 acceptances leading up to TMDSAS match

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6

EY2018

Received 3983 primary applications amp 2729 completed

applications

130 acceptances leading up to TMDSAS match

TTUHSC EP PLFSOM First Year Entering Students

EY 2019

38

(27506)

TX 37 (30) 37 (29) 37 (30) 37 (30) 37 (30) 37 (31) 373 (31) 38 (507) 38 (509)376

(266506)

US 37 (31) 37 (31) 37 (31) 37 (31) 37 (31) 37 (31) 37(31) 37 (509) 37 (510) 38 (27506)

Hispanic 8 (20) 6 (10) 5 (6) 12 (15) 23 (24) 32 (31) 24 (23) 35 (35) 37 (36) 24 (24) 28 (269)

Border Counties - - 7 (9) 13 (16) 24 (24) 28 (27) 26 (25) 32 (31) 33 (32) 21 (21) 27 (26)

El Paso 7 (17) 8 (13) 5 (6) 12 (15) 19 (19) 23 (22) 24 (23) 29 (28) 25 (24) 19 (19) 23 (221)

African American 0 0 0 0 0 1 (1) 3 (3) 1 (1) 3 (3) 2 (2) 6 (58)

Native American 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Class Size 40 60 81 80 100 104 104 103 103 100 104

Male 16 (40) 35 (58) 44 (54) 42 (52) 65 (65) 47 (45) 67 (64) 59 (57) 56 (54) 49 (49) 52 (50)

Female 24 (60) 25 (42) 37 (46) 38 (48) 35 (35) 57 (55) 37 (36) 44 (43) 47 (46) 51 (51) 52 (50)

Total Applicants 2503 2531 2719 2946 3105 3375 3694 4043 3950 3982 4472

Interviewed 389 378 593 548 626 566 538 510 535 546 602

EY 2018

374

(5077)

Underrepresented minority(URM)-Diversity ()

Class Size amp Gender ()

Applicants

37 (28) 37 (29)37

(28503)

368

(26505)

EY 2014 EY 2015 EY 2016 EY 2017

GPA(MCAT) 37 (28) 36 (29) 36 (29) 35 (29) 36 (29)

EY 2009 EY 2010 EY 2011 EY 2012 EY 2013

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7

Candidates discussed

Voting (high priority acceptable reject)

Categorized by vote

1 High Priority (unanimous high priority votes)

2 Highly Acceptable -1 -2 -3

3 Very Acceptable (4+ acceptable votes)

4 Acceptable (majority acceptable votes)

5 Reject

Ranked within category by weighted scores (Interview 30 MCAT 30 SGPA 35 GPA 5)

Rank list is generated after the first interview date and updated weekly throughout interview season

Admissions Committee Process

Upcoming actions

Joint Admission Medical Program (JAMP) Round 2 Match

(Friday Jan 25th) will match with 2

Rolling admissions continues until June 1

Created additional interview date for EY2020 (22 days)

New requirement added for EY2020 CASPer Assessment ndash

Situational Judgement Test (SJT)

Propose revision to By-Laws to add minimum attendance

requirements for committee members

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8

Current IssuesConcerns

Ongoing need to recruit more interviewers

Anticipating class size expansion

Meeting quorum

Standing Committee Report

Curriculum and Educational Policy

Committee

Richard Brower MD PhDAssociate Dean for Medical Education

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9

Curriculum amp

Educational Policy

Committee Report to the PLFSOM Faculty Council

Presented by Richard Brower MD

Date July 15 2019

Committee Composition and Terms of

Service

ldquoCandidates for lsquoat largersquo positions are to be

recommended by the associate dean for medical

education and appointed by the deanrdquo

ldquoTerms may be renewed by recommendation of the

associate dean for medical education and appointment by

the deanrdquo

ldquohelliplsquoat largersquo members may be appointed for no more than

two consecutive terms after which they are ineligible to

serve for 4 yearsrdquo

ldquoCandidates for these positions should demonstrate an

ongoing interest in medical educationrdquo

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10

Committee Composition and Terms of ServiceLast Name First Name Degree Academic Rank Department Committee Position Term Start Date

Term Expiration Date

Frances Mark MD ProfessorMedical Education

Member (College Master)

9120168312020

Pfarr Curt PhD ProfessorMedical Education

Member (College Master) 9242015 8312019

Gajendran Mahesh MD Assistant ProfessorInternal Medicine

Member (Clinician) 912017 8312021

Uga Aghaegbulam MD Assistant Professor

Psychiatry and Internal Medicine

Member (Clinician) 11192015 10312019

Kassar Darine MD Assistant Professor NeurologyMember (Clinician) 972016 8312020

Wojciechowska Joanna MD Assistant Professor Pediatrics

Member (Clinician) 212018 8312022

Nino DiegoMD PhD Assistant Professor

Medical Education

Member (Basic Sciences) 1142019 1142023

Padilla Osvaldo MD Assistant Professor PathologyMember (Basic Sciences) 12152014 8312022

Cervantes JorgeMD PhD Assistant Professor

Medical Education

Member (Basic Sciences) 8232016 8312020

Perry Cynthia PhD Assistant ProfessorMedical Education

Member (Basic Sciences) 9282015 8312019

Brower Richard MDAssociate Professor

Medical Education Chair NA NA

Three positions

opening soon ndash-

should have

demonstrated

interest and

engagement in

UME and a

willingness to

attend all

meetings and

participate in

team

assignments

Committee Composition and Terms of

Service Leadership

This committee is chaired by the associate dean for medical education

The committee reports to the Faculty Council

Membership will include

2 college masters (one basic scientist one clinician) with 4-year terms

4 members from the basic sciences faculty with 4-year terms (staggered)

4 members from the clinical sciences faculty with 4-year terms (staggered)

Ex Officio members

Dean or their designee

Associate dean for student affairs

Assistant deans for medication education

Managing director of the libraries (ldquoAssociate Director of the Libraryrdquo)

Director of information technology or their designee

Director of assessment and evaluation (position no longer exists)

Two student reps from each of the four classes (from the Student Curriculum and Evaluation Committee)

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11

Committee Charge Faculty Bylaws Article IX Section C2

The Committee on Curriculum and Educational Policy is charged with planning coordinating

reviewing and evaluating the curriculum to ensure that it adheres to the

written educational policies goals and objectives of the Paul L Foster School

of Medicine Further the Committee shall have full authority to make changes in

educational policy or in the organization of the curriculum with the

concurrence of the Dean and with comment and input from the Faculty Council The Faculty of the Paul L Foster School of Medicine has the responsibility to define course objectives create

and deliver content to meet those objectives and modify their activities in response to appropriate feedback

from peers and students The Committee will provide updates on its activities at least

twice a year to the Faculty Council In order to accomplish the mission of the Committee the

Chair may appoint subcommittees that may include members who are not

members of the Committee It shall be the responsibility of the Committee to coordinate the

activities and reports of these subcommittees In addition the Committee receives reports

from the Committee on Evaluation of Educational Programs

Current IssuesConcerns

Curriculum enhancementimprovement

Preparation for class size expansion

Preparation for next round of curriculum reviews

(ldquocurriculum as a wholerdquo)

9102019

12

CEPC actions since last report

January 2019 (1 meeting)

Reviewed and approved revisions to the following

educational program polices

Clerkship Administration

Clerkship DirectorAssistant Director Position Description

Approval of two new 4th Year Electives

Pediatric Gastroenterology Hepatology and Nutrition

Emergency Medicine Ultrasound

Clerkship phase review FM and Surgery

CEPC actions since last report

February 2019 (2 meetings)

New educational program policy reviewed and approved

Grade Changes and Transcript Notations

Rollover of established educational program goals and

objectives (the ldquoPGOsrdquo) approved

Clerkship phase review Pediatrics and ObGyn

Preliminary data-driven discussion of revised educational

program policy covering Grading Promotion and Academic

Standing (ldquoGPASrdquo)

9102019

13

CEPC actions since last report

March 2019 (2 meetings)

Clerkship phase review IM and Psych Critical Care and Sub-I

Selectives

Approval of new educational program policy

Grading Promotion and Academic Standing (ldquoGPASrdquo)

Notification of changes in clerkship directorship

Elimination of the PICE course (PICE 7001) from the year 2

curriculum approved (primarily administrative educational

elements re-distributed)

Associated review and approval of an updated PLSOM degree

plan (based on 157 credit hours)

CEPC actions since last report

April 2019 (1 meetings)

Clerkship phase review EM Neurology and Intersessions

Review and approval of revised educational program policy

Pre-Clerkship Phase Student Attendance and Participation

Policy

9102019

14

CEPC actions since last report

May 2019 (1 meetings)

Review and approval of the ldquoCommon Clerkship Policiesrdquo

Notification of additional changes in the clerkship

directorship

Clerkship phase review

Phase data review (AAMC GQ NBME subject exams

USMLE Step 2 CK and CS Step 3 final grades EOY OSCE

and procedure workshop residency director survey)

Introduction of a 10-point plan for curriculum revision

(ldquoPLFSOM v20rdquo)

June 2019 (no quorum) July 2019 (cancelled)

CEPC actions since last report

Challenges and opportunities for improvement identified

through the AY208-19 clerkship phase review

Clear identification of contacts at affiliated sites

Academic support and remediation planning

Consistent resident preparation for participation in UME

Timeliness of grading (Sub-I and Critical Care Selectives)

Orientation modules for Sub-Q and Critical Care Selectives)

Scaling clerkships for anticipated class expansion

The summer doldrums

June 2019 (no quorum) July 2019 (cancelled)

9102019

15

Upcoming actions

Ongoing educational program policy development

Maintain accreditation compliance related curriculum

review cycle (2019-20 ldquoCurriculum as a Wholerdquo)

Review and advance plans for curriculum renewalrevision

Review proposal to re-direct our MD-MPH affiliation to

TTUHSC GSBS Lubbock

Consider development of an MD-MBA option (potentially

with UTEP)

Links to related information

PLFSOM Committee on Curriculum and Educational Policy main page

httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCdefaultaspx

MD degree program policies

httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCpoliciesaspx

MD degree program information

httpselpasottuhscedusomomeUMEinfoaspx

Course and clerkship syllabi

httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCcoursereviewaspx

AY2017-18 medical education program evaluation report (e-Raider required)

httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPC_documentssecureAY2017-

2018MEPEvaluationAnnualReport-Draft-v2pdf

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19

Departmental Report

Molecular and Translational

Medicine

Laxman Gangwani PhDAssociate Professor Molecular amp

Translational Medicine

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20

Department of Molecular and

Translational Medicine (formerly

Biomedical Sciences) Report

PRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCIL

BY LAXMAN GANGWANI

DATE JULY 15 2019

Department BreakdownPlease provide the total number of faculty members in your department and break down this number by

rank Please list new faculty members that have joined your department within the last six months

Total Number of Faculty

Number of Faculty Associates 1

Number of Instructors 1

Number of Research Assistant Professor 1

Number of Assistant Professors 6

Number of Associate Professors 7

Number of Professors 4

New Faculty

None

9102019

21

LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair

program director clerkship director chiefs etc

Department Chair Dr Peter Rotwein (VP Research Associate

Dean GSBS)

Director Center of Emphasis in Cancer Dr Rajkumar

Lakshmanaswamy (Dean GSBS) Co-Director Dr N Shokar

Director Center of Emphasis in Diabetes and Metabolism Dr

David Cistola

Director Center of Emphasis in Infectious Diseases Vacant

Director Center of Emphasis in Neurosciences Vacant

Chief Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology Vacant

AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional

appointments national appointments etc

Awards

Dr Mingtao Zeng

2018 The American Association of Immunologists (AAI) AAI Travel Grant for the 5th European Congress of Immunology

2018 Defense Techconnect Fall Summit amp Expo (2018) Techconnect Defense Innovation Award

Dr Shrikant Gadad

Eugenia Rosemberg Outstanding Abstract Award Endocrine Society Annual Meeting New Orleans March 23-26 2019

Dr Huanyu Dou

National Innovation Award Techconnect 2019

Honors

Dr Alok Dwivedi

Appointed as associated faculty at the Border Biomedical Research Center (BBRC) University of Texas El Paso (UTEP)

Dr Shrikant Gadad

Session Chair (OR09 Steroid Hormone Biology in Physiology and Disease) Endocrine Society Annual Meeting New Orleans March 23-26 2019

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22

AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional

appointments national appointments etc

NIH or DOD study sections appointments

Dr Guohua Yi

HIV special Emphasis Panel for RFA-AI-18-058 Genetic Engineering Technologies for HIV Cure Research (U19)

Dr Laxman Gangwani

Department of Defense (DOD) Reviewer for Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) 2018 -

NIHCSR Study ldquoProgram Evaluation of NIH Peer Review Processes The Role of Anonymizationrdquo 2019 ndash

Patents filings and publications

Patent Number 9862951 Title RNA Interference-Based Therapeutic against Anthrax Inventors Mingtao Zeng and Maria T AreacutevaloDate of Patent January 9 2018

Cistola D P Patel V (2018) Method and system for non-invasive measurement of metabolic health US Non-Provisional Utility Patent Application No 15911728 filed by Texas Tech University

Cistola D P Robinson M D (2018) Methods and tools for diagnosing insulin resistance and assessing health status using NMR relaxation times for water United States Patent Application Publication US 20180020947 A1 httpspatentsgooglecompatentUS20180020947A1en

AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional

appointments national appointments etc

News and Media Coverage of Research performed at TTUHSC EP

Dr David Cistola

MedPageToday 2 January 2019 Harris Scott Could a New Biomarker Help Predict Type 2 Diabetes -- Early datashow water T2 catches abnormalities before traditional testing but experts are cautiously optimistichttpswwwmedpagetodaycomreading-roomendocrine-societydiabetes77186

KTSM Channel 9 NBC El Paso 14 November 2018 Castillo Susy Research in El Paso aimed at detectingdiabetes earlyhttpswwwktsmcomlifestylehealthresearch-in-el-paso-aimed-at-detecting-diabetes-early1596408236apt_credirect=1

El Paso Inc 29 March 2019 TTUHSC El Paso Tackling diabetes cancer httpwwwelpasoinccomttuhsc-el-paso-tackling-diabetes-cancerarticle_613144fe-526a-11e9-b916-c35b701a5ef9html

Dr Laxman Gangwani

Cure SMA Awards $150000 Grant to Laxman Gangwani PhD Texas Tech University

httpwwwcuresmaorgnewsgangwani-grant-2019html

httpswwweurekalertorgpub_releases2019-05ttuh-gw050119php

httpswwwresearchgatenetscientific-contributions11984383_Laxman_Gangwani

9102019

23

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Peer-reviewed publications 36 (In high-impact journals)

2018 highest impact factor (11561) journal Nucleic Acids Research

Abstracts 43

Presentations (i) Oral 11 (ii) Posters 28

Invited talks 13

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Peer-reviewed publications

Kannan A Bhatia K Branzei D and Gangwani L (2018) Combined deficiency of Senataxin and DNA-PKcscauses DNA damage accumulation and neurodegeneration in spinal muscular atrophy Nucleic Acids Research2018 Vol 46 No 16 8326-8346

Mishra I Jones C Patel V Deodhar S Cistola D P (2018) Early detection of metabolic dysregulation usingwater T2 analysis of biobanked samples Diabetes Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity Targets and Therapy 11 807-818

Patel V Dwivedi A K Deodhar S Mishra I Cistola D P (2018) Aptamer-based search for correlates of plasmaand serum water T2 Implications for early metabolic dysregulation and metabolic syndrome Biomarker Research6(1) 28

Garg H Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz T Joshi A 2018 Recent Advances in Zika Virus Vaccines Viruses Nov 1410 (11) Sundin OH Mendoza-Ladd A Zeng M Diaz-Areacutevalo D Morales E Fagan BMOrdontildeez J McCallum RW Does a

glucose-based hydrogen and methane breath test detect bacterial overgrowth in the jejunum NeurogastroenterolMotil 2018e13350

Zheng Z Diaz-Areacutevalo D Guan H and Mingtao Zeng Noninvasive vaccination against infectious diseases Humanvaccines amp immunotherapeutics 2018 14(7)1717-1733

Preeti Bharaj Chunting Ye Sean Petersen Qianghu Wang Baoli Hu N Manjunath Premlata Shankar Guohua Yi(2018) Gene array analysis of PD-1H overexpressing monocytes reveals a pro-inflammatory profile Heliyone00545

Bencomo-Alvarez AE Rubio AJ Gonzalez MA and Eiring AM Energy metabolism and drug response in myeloidleukaemic stem cells Br J Haematol 2019 In Press

9102019

24

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Peer-reviewed publications Yan D Pomicter AD Tantravahi S Mason CC Senina AV Ahmann JM Wang Q Than H Patel AB Heaton

WL Eiring AM Clair PM Gantz KC Redwine HM Swierczek SI Halverson BJ Baloglu E Shacham S KhorashadJS Kelley TW Salama ME Miles RR Boucher KM Prchal JT OHare T and Deininger MW Nuclear-cytoplasmic transport is a therapeutic target in myelofibrosis Clin Cancer Res 201925(7)2323-2335

Heipertz E Harper J Lopez CA Fikrig E Hughes ME Walker WE Circadian rhythms influence the severity of sepsis in mice via a TLR2-dependent leukocyte-intrinsic mechanism The Journal of Immunology 2018 201193-201

Khatri R Afzal MR Qureshi MA Maud A Huanyu D Jose Rodriguez G Pre-Existing Renal Failure Increases In-Hospital Mortality in Patients with Intracerebral Hemorrhage J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis 2019 Feb28(2)237-242

Zou L Lee SY Wu Q Zhang H Bastian A Orji C Payne G Galvez A Thomas T Zhang Z Dou H Facile Gene Delivery Derived from Branched Low Molecular Weight Polyethylenimine by High Efficient Chemistry J Biomed Nanotechnol 2018 Oct 114(10)1785-1795

Zhang C Brandon NR Koper K Tang P Xu Y Dou H Invasion of Peripheral Immune Cells into Brain Parenchyma after Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation Aging Dis 2018 Jun 19(3)412-425

Loza O Hernandez P Calderoacuten-Mora J Laks S Leiner M Reddy S Lara P amp Granados H (2018) Developing Trans-affirming health services in an underserved area An intersectional approach Transgender Health 3(1) 127-135

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Byrd T Calderoacuten-Mora J Salaiz R amp Shokar N (2019) Barriers and facilitators to colorectal cancer screening within a Hispanic population Hispanic Health Care International 17(1) 23-29 doi 1011771540415318818982

Haut SR Lipton RB Cornes S Dwivedi AK Wasson R Cotton S Strawn JR Privitera M (2018) Behavioral interventions as a treatment for epilepsy A multicenter randomized controlled trial Neurology 90(11) e963-e970 PMID 29444968

Jessica Bernica Sherif Elhanafi Neeharika Kalakota Yi Jia Christopher Dodoo Alok Dwivedi Robert J Sealock Kalpesh Patel Isaac Raijman Marc J Zuckerman Mohamed O Othman (2018) Cholangioscopy is safe and feasible in elderly patients Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology 16(8) 1293-1299

Benjamin D Wissel Alok K Dwivedi Danielle Chin Aristide Merola Cara Jacob Andrew P Duker Jennifer E Vaughan Lilia Lovera Kathrin LaFaver Ariel Levy Anthony E Lang Francesca Morgante Melissa J Nirenberg Christopher Stephen Nutan Sharma Alberto Romagnolo Leonardo Lopiano Bettina Balint Xin X Yu Kailash P Bhatia Alberto J Espay Functional neurological disorders in Parkinson disease Accepted for publication in Journal

of Neurology Neurosurgery amp Psychiatry 89(6)566-571

Danny J Avalos Marc J Zuckerman Alok Dwivedi Christopher Dodoo Jinendra Satiya Fernando J Castro(2018) Differences in prevalence of large polyps between Hispanic Americans from Mexican-and Non-Mexican-predominant states Digestive diseases and sciences PMID 30276570

Zeina Nahleh Salman Otoukesh Hamid Reza Mirshahidi Anthony Loc Nguyen Gayathri Nagaraj Nabeel Badri Gehan Botrus Nabih Diab Andres Alvarado Luis A Sanchez Alok K Dwivedi (2018) Disparities in breast cancer a multi-institutional comparative analysis focusing on American Hispanics Cancer Medicine (In press 05072018)

9102019

25

Scholarly Activity Danny J Avalos Antonio Mendoza-Ladd Marc J Zuckerman Mohammad Bashashati Andres Alvarado Alok

Dwivedi Oriana M Damas (2018) Hispanics and Non-Hispanic Whites in the US have a Similar InflammatoryBowel Disease Phenotype A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis Digestive Diseases and Sciences 63(6)1558-1571

Aleli Campbell Rosalinda Heydarian Cecilia Ochoa Alok Kumar Dwivedi Zeina A Nahleh(2018) Single arm phaseII study of oral vitamin B12 for the treatment of musculoskeletal symptoms associated with aromatase inhibitors inwomen with early stage breast cancer The breast journal 24(3)260-268

Shaimaa Elzamly Nabeel Badri Osvaldo Padilla Alok Kumar Dwivedi Luis A Alvarado Matthew Hamilton NabihDiab Crosby Rock Ahmed Elfar Marwa Teleb Luis Sanchez Zeina Nahleh (2018) Epithelial-mesenchymaltransition markers in breast cancer and pathological responseafter neoadjuvant chemotherapy Breast Cancer

(Auckl) 2018 Aug 1121178223418788074

Jennifer C Molokwu Eribeth Penaranda Alok Dwivedi Indika Mallawaarachchi Navkiran Shokar (2018) Effect ofEducational Intervention on Self-Sampling Acceptability and Follow-Up Paps in Border Dwelling Hispanic FemalesJournal of Lower Genital Tract Disease

Ritika Suri Federico Rodriguez-Porcel Kelly Donohue Erin Jesse Lilia Lovera Alok Kumar Dwivedi Alberto JEspay (2018) Post-Stroke Movement Disorders The Clinical Neuroanatomic and Demographic Portrait of 284Published Cases Accepted for publication in Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases (In press05212018)

Zeina Nahleh Gehan Botrus Alok Dwivedi Nabeel Badri Salman Otoukesh Nabih Diab Sandip BiswasMichael Jennings Shaimaa Elzamly(2018) Clinico-pathologic disparities of breast cancer in HispanicLatina womenBreast disease 1-8

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Robert Gonzalez Trisha Suppes Jamie Zeitzer Colleen McClung Carol Tamminga Mauricio Tohen Angelica Forero Alok DwivediAndres Alvarado (2018) The association between mood state and chronobiological characteristics in bipolar I disorder a naturalisticvariable cluster analysis-based study International Journal of Bipolar Disorders 6(1)5Mohamed Teleb Aaron Shanker Alok Kumar Dwivedi Debabrata Mukherjee (2018) Effect of exercise on left ventricular mass index byechocardiography in mild and moderate hypertension a meta-analysis Res Cardiovasc Med 6(4)50-6Garnica O Das K Devasundaram S and Dhandayuthapani S Enhanced delivery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigens to antigenpresenting cells using RVG peptide Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Das K Garnica O and Dhandayuthapani S Utility of an oxidative stress response system for the expression of recombinant proteinsin mycobacteria and for the delivery of M tuberculosis antigens to the phagosomal compartments Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Palanichamy K Joshi A Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz T Fernando B Milan S Schiro F Naeem Y Garg H Braunschweig A 2019 Anti-ZikaActivity of a Library of Synthetic Carbohydrate Receptors Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 6284110-4119Anjali Joshi Erin B Punke Tugba Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz Diego P Peralta and Himanshu Garg 2019 TLR9 polymorphism correlates withimmune activation CD4 decline and plasma IP10 levels in HIV patients BMC Infect Dis 19 56Vargas-Medrano J Yang B Garza N T Segura-Ulate I and Perez R G (2018) Up-regulation of protective neuronal MicroRNAs byFTY720 and novel FTY720-derivatives Neuroscience letters 690 178-180Vidal-Martinez G Yang B Vargas-Medrano J and Perez R G (2018) Could alpha-Synuclein Modulation of Insulin and DopamineIdentify a Novel Link Between Parkinsons Disease and Diabetes as Well as Potential Therapies Frontiers in molecular

neuroscience 11 465

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26

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Gil-Tommee C Vidal-Martinez G Annette Reyes C Vargas-Medrano J Herrera G V Martin S M Chaparro S A andPerez R G (2019) Parkinsonian GM2 synthase knockout mice lacking mature gangliosides develop urinary dysfunction andneurogenic bladder Experimental neurology 311265-273Vidal-Martinez G Najera K Miranda JD Gil-Tommee C Yang B Vargas-Medrano J Diaz-Pacheco V Barragan J ChaparroS Vargas-Medrano J Chinnasamy R Arterburn JB Perez RG FTY720 improves behavior increases Brain Derived NeurotrophicFactor and reduces α-synuclein pathology in parkinsonian GM2+minus

mice Neuroscience httpsdoiorg101016jneuroscience201905029Tasnim N Thakur V Chattopadhyay M Joddar B (2018) The efficacy of Graphene-foams towards the adhesion proliferationand expression of neuronal-phenotype by dopaminergic neurons differentiated from mesenchymal stem cells Stem cell

international Jun 3 20183410168 doi 10115520183410168Anil Kumar S Allen SC Tasnim N Akter T Park S Kumar A Chattopadhyay M Ito Y Suggs LJ Joddar B (2019) The applicabilityof furfuryl-gelatin as a novel bioink for tissue engineering applications J Biomed Mater Res B Appl Biomater 2019 107(2)314-323 doi 101002jbmb34123 Epub 2018 Apr 15Thakur V Chattopadhyay M (2018) Early urinary markers for diabetic and other kidney diseases Current drug targets 2018 Mar19Joddar B Tasnim N Thakur V Kumar A Mccallum R Chattopadhyay M (2018) Delivery of mesenchymal stem cells fromgelatin-alginate hydrogels to stomach lumen for treatment of gastroparesis Bioengineering 2018 5(1)Camacho CV Choudhari R Gadad SS (2018) Long noncoding RNAs and cancer an overview Steroids 13393-95

IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department

Large net loss (9) of MTM faculty members over the past 5 years

Vacant Director positions (i) Center for Neuroscience (ii) Center for InfectiousDiseases and (iii) Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology

No steps have been taken to fill directors positions for more than 2 years

Neurosciences Center at the verge of collapse Only one faculty will be left at theend of this fiscal year

The size of Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology is shrinking

Lack of communication regarding vision and strategic plan for growing department

No faculty salary raises for the past 3 years

Serious concerns about recruitment retention and tenure and promotion decisionsmade in the department Faculty morale is extremely low

Lack of functional research core facility

Gradual elimination of service contracts of equipment essential for research trainingand education of graduate and medical students

A plethora of other issues with the department administration

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27

Questions

Departmental Report

Psychiatry

Ricardo Salazar MDAssociate Professor Psychiatry

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28

Department ReportPsychiatryPRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCIL

BY RICARDO SALAZAR MD

DATE MONDAY JULY 15 2019

Department BreakdownPlease provide the total number of faculty members in your department and break down this number by

rank Please list new faculty members that have joined your department within the last six months

Total Number of Faculty 12

Number of Instructors 1

Number of Assistant Professors 8

Number of Associate Professors 2

Number of Professors 2

New Faculty Melanie Longhurst MD Instructor

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29

LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair

program director clerkship director chiefs etc

Department Chair ndash Peter M Thompson MD MS

Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Sarah L Martin MD

Combined IMPsych Residency Program Director ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD

Psychiatry Clerkship Director ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD

Child amp Adolescent Fellowship Program Director ndash Cecilia De Vargas MD

Chief Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry ndash Sarah L Martin MD

Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Program Directorndash Ricardo Salazar MD

Chief Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences ndash Ricardo Salazar MD

Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Transmountain ndash Moataz Ragheb MD

AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in your department including awards honors regional

appointments national appointments etc

El Paso Behavioral Health Consortium ndash Board Member ndash Peter M Thompson MD

714 (50) of our graduating medical students this year choose and matched our resident training programs here at Paul L FosterSchool of Medicine Department of Psychiatry (Historical record) ndash Kudos for our Department Faculty

In appreciation for exceptional contributions to the 30th volume of the J Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences ndash Author contributions and review of 271 manuscripts submitted to the journal between September 2017 and August 2018 ndash Ricardo Salazar MD ndash Young Investigator Award Committee Member and Program Committee Member-Abstracts Sub-Committee Member of theAmerican Neuropsychiatric Association (ANPA)

Initial Accreditation with commendation and no citations from ACGME for our first Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Training Program for West Texas ndash Ricardo Salazar MD

Leadership in Education and Development Certificate Program (LEAD) Fellow -1-year program accredited from the Association ofAmerican Medical Colleges (AAMC) Silvina Tonarelli MD amp Ricardo Salazar MD (Selected Award)

Fully operating Southwest Brain Bank A Brain Tissue Repository for Research in Mental Illness ndashPeter M Thompson MD

Texas State Psychiatric Physicians Public Mental Health Services Committee ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD

Texas Health and Human Services Commission Behavioral Health Advisory Committee ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP

Fellow American College of Physicians ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP FACP

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30

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Abstracts 31

Publications 5 (peer-review journals)

Presentations 17 ndash National (7) and International (6)

Invited Speaker 21 (including faculty residents fellows) ndash Local amp National

Book Chapters NA

Grants McKee Foundation Award ndash our Chair - Thompson

Intramural Grants Seed Grant 1 SARP Educational Grant 2 - Salazar

President`s Collaborative Research Initiative ndashMarch 2018 - Tonarelli

Scholarly Activity

Child and Adolescent Fellowship Presentations

INTERNATIONAL

- Curanderos and Limpias Cultural psychiatry

Poster presented at 6th Annual Scientific conference of the European Association of PsychosomaticMedicine Verona Italy Drs Garza Meissner De Vargas Mehta June 2018

-Case presentation 0f 49XXXXY Same conference same authors same city

-Resilience etiology protective and risk factors presentation C De Vargas by invitation Annual WorldPediatric summit Madrid June 2018

-Parents and their Children Fantastic journey Same conference on June 2019 Berlin Germany

NATIONAL

-Development of Psychopathology in children at risk for Bipolar Disorders Drs Escamilla Peter Sangra C DeVargas S Martin C Alvarado Andrea Rios (Poster) American Academy of Child and Adolescent PsychiatryAnnual Conference Seattle WA October 2018

Frank William Meissner MD Cynthia Elizabeth Garza MDJD Sarah L Martin MD rdquoDrug-Induced BrugadaSyndrome in a Middle-Aged Female Patient Drugs EKG Diagnosis Electrophysiology and SurveillanceRecommendationrdquo American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting San Francisco CA May 21 2019

Delinquency in a group of school children at risk for bipolar disorder D Haque M Escamilla C De VargasPresented at UCLA LA Ca June 2019

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31

Residency ProgramPlease provide information regarding your departmentrsquos residency program ie recent accreditation

number of residents and program updates (if applicable)

24 General Psychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)

8 Internal MedicinePsychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)

3 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellows

1 Geriatric Psychiatry Fellow- newly accredited program

IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department

RecruitmentRetention

Short staffed

Organizational Structure

Financial incentives

Protected time

Gender balance Attrition malefemale ratio 41

Program Coordinator turnover rate

Mentoring

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32

Departmental Organizational

Structure

Chair

Division ChiefsProgram Directors

Clerkship Director

Adm

Organizational Structure Model

Chair

Deputy Chair for Education

Program

Directors

Deputy Chair for Research

Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs

Vicechair

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33

Roles

Deputy Chair for Education

Oversee undergraduate graduate and CME including the development of teachers and educational scholars Monitor quality and safety across the department

Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs

Faculty appointments Faculty Development and Promotion andor Tenure Develop programs in different domains such as research education personal improvement and leadership Support clinical activities by improving the efficiency of operations and in helping to fit clinical programs into those in the rest of the medical center Allocation of space

Deputy Chair for Research

Develop and direct department-wide programs for faculty recruitment development and support of mentors recognition of excellence and funding of pilot grants bridge funding and grants to nurture multi-principal investigator and trans-division or trans-department projects Allocation of space among divisions

Bottom Line

We need more funds

Institutional support

The investments needed to recruit faculty are beyond the capacity of the

department`s operational revenue

Recruiting a leading investigator or one with great potential for

example may require an investment of $ 1 million and sometimes more

Endowments are the departmentrsquos foundational financial capital the

keel that maintains momentum and balance through the headwinds

and rough seas each department will navigate Endowments increase

the departmentrsquos independence in sustaining its core mission

Thus creation of endowments should be a high priority for any

department that plans for the long term and they increase capacity to

recruit the best faculty in a competitive environment

Page 4: FACULTY COUNCIL MEETING · 7/15/2019  · FACULTY COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES Monday, July 15, 2019 Noon – 1:00 p.m. MEB, Room 1120 and WebEx TTUHSC El Paso PLFSOM 7/15/2019 FACULTY

4 TTUHSC El Paso PLFSOM

7152019 FACULTY COUNCIL

CEPC Continuedhellip Q I see that two of your goals ndash class size expansion and curriculum 20 revision ndash seem to be competing How will you accommodate both of these A I see them as complementary to one another If there is a political a financial or an increased physician production desire from this region we must talk about class size growth and curriculum development which must be done effectively and efficiently

V OLD BUSINESS Ricardo Salazar MD

Faculty Council President

Dr Salazar reported the following bull Dr Salazar acknowledged and appreciated new members recently elected for the following

o Committee on Student Grading and Promotion Dr Lynn Hernan o Committee on Medical School Admissions Dr Lynn Hernan Dr Anantha Vellipuram and Dr Jose

Gavito bull Dr Salazar reminded the Council that representative seats were up for electionre-election for the following

departments o Anesthesiology o Emergency Medicine o Family amp Community Medicine o Molecular amp Translational Medicine

Dr Salazar reminded the Council that the Chairs of the departments would coordinate the election process

VI NEW BUSINESS Ricardo Salazar MD

Faculty Council President Dr Salazar reported the following

bull Dr Salazar introduced the 2019-2020 Faculty Council President-Elect nominees and invited them to speak bull Dr Ayoub-Rodriguez Assistant Professor of Pediatrics a native El Pasoan focused on border health and the

El Paso region and acknowledged the importance of recruitment and retention of talent that would transform healthcare along the border for the better

bull Dr Cervantes-Gonzalez Assistant Professor of Medical Education offered to lend an ear to the concerns of faculty particularly in the field of research in which many are struggling

bull Voting will take place by e-vote following the meeting The new President-Elect will take office in September VII DEPARTMENTAL REPORT Laxman Gangwani PhD

Representative Molecular amp Translational Medicine

Dr Gangwani reported the following

Department of Molecular and Translational Medicine (formerly Biomedical Sciences) ReportPRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCILBY LAXMAN GANGWANI

DATE JULY 15 2019

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3

PLFSOM Committee on

Medical School Admissions

Report

Presented to Faculty Council ndash 7152019

Committee Composition and Terms of Service 22 committee members 20 Voting Members

Chair Jorge Cervantes MD PhD

Vice-Chair Diana Pettit PhD

EPCMS Rep Raj Marwah MD

2 Ex-Officio (non-voting) Associate Dean of Admissions and Director of Admissions

Last Name First Name Degree Academic Rank Department Committee Position Term Start Date

Chambers Karinn MD Assistant Professor Surgery 2018

Chheda Sadhana MD Assistant Professor Peds 2018

Duran Patricia DNP RN CENP Assistant Professor GGHSON 2018

Patek Gregory MD Assistant Professor Emergency Med 2018

Rao Jo MD Assistant Professor Peds 2018

Chattopadhyay Munmun PhD Assistant Professor Biomedical Sciences 2018

Hogg Tanis PhD Associate Professor Medical Education 2018

Lakshmanaswamy Rajkumar PhD Professor Biomedical Sciences 2018

Andrade Alonso MD Assistant Professor Surgery 2017

Castro Jose MD Clinical Instructor Surgery 2017

Cervantes Jorge MD PhD Assistant Professor Medical Education Chair 2017

Belmares Ricardo PhD Instructor Medical Education 2017

Kafchinski Lisa MD Assistant Professor Orthopedics 2017

Tonarelli Sylvina MD Assistant Professor Psychiatry 2017

Rojas-Mendez Patricia MD Assistant Professor ObGyn 2017

Martinez Carla MD Assistant Professor ObGyn 2017

Marwah Raj MD Clinical Assistant Professor Family Medicine 2019

Manglik Niti MD Assistant Professor Medical Education 2019

Pettit Diana PhD Associate Professor Medical Education Vice Chair 2019

Hernan Lynn MD Associate Professor Peds 2019

Vellipuram Anantha MD Assistant Professor Neurology 2019

Gavito Jose MD Assistant Professor Radiology 2019

Perry Cynthia PhD Interim Assistant Dean for Admissions Admissions Ex Officio

Olivas Laura MBA Senior Director of Admissions Admissions Ex Officio

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4

Committee Charge

The Committee shall have full authority to select members of

the medical school entering class based on screening

assessments and interview evaluation reports and to fill

vacancies that may occur in any of the medical school classes

A list of recommended candidates to be offered positions

through the Texas Medical and Dental School Application Service

(TMDSAS) matching process will be prepared based on a ranking

determined following deliberations by the Committee

The Committee also shall have the responsibility to review the

requirements for admission and if necessary to recommend

revisions to the faculty

Actions taken since last report (Jan 2019)

Approval of Handbook revisions

Added COI policy Attendance policy CASPer Assessment

requirement (Pilot)

Sat 104 new students 12 repeaters

Interviewed 14 JAMP students on June 24th

(Round 1 eligible students here for JAMP Internship)

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5

No right wrong answers

Rating not influenced by-ESL -Age-Coaching -Reading Level

Rating is relative

What are raters looking for

Actions taken since last report Received 4471 primary applications amp 3079 completed applications

(increase of 350 complete appl compared to last year)

127 TX pre-match and 13 Out-of-state offers extended

Currently have 109 acceptances leading up to TMDSAS match

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6

EY2018

Received 3983 primary applications amp 2729 completed

applications

130 acceptances leading up to TMDSAS match

TTUHSC EP PLFSOM First Year Entering Students

EY 2019

38

(27506)

TX 37 (30) 37 (29) 37 (30) 37 (30) 37 (30) 37 (31) 373 (31) 38 (507) 38 (509)376

(266506)

US 37 (31) 37 (31) 37 (31) 37 (31) 37 (31) 37 (31) 37(31) 37 (509) 37 (510) 38 (27506)

Hispanic 8 (20) 6 (10) 5 (6) 12 (15) 23 (24) 32 (31) 24 (23) 35 (35) 37 (36) 24 (24) 28 (269)

Border Counties - - 7 (9) 13 (16) 24 (24) 28 (27) 26 (25) 32 (31) 33 (32) 21 (21) 27 (26)

El Paso 7 (17) 8 (13) 5 (6) 12 (15) 19 (19) 23 (22) 24 (23) 29 (28) 25 (24) 19 (19) 23 (221)

African American 0 0 0 0 0 1 (1) 3 (3) 1 (1) 3 (3) 2 (2) 6 (58)

Native American 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Class Size 40 60 81 80 100 104 104 103 103 100 104

Male 16 (40) 35 (58) 44 (54) 42 (52) 65 (65) 47 (45) 67 (64) 59 (57) 56 (54) 49 (49) 52 (50)

Female 24 (60) 25 (42) 37 (46) 38 (48) 35 (35) 57 (55) 37 (36) 44 (43) 47 (46) 51 (51) 52 (50)

Total Applicants 2503 2531 2719 2946 3105 3375 3694 4043 3950 3982 4472

Interviewed 389 378 593 548 626 566 538 510 535 546 602

EY 2018

374

(5077)

Underrepresented minority(URM)-Diversity ()

Class Size amp Gender ()

Applicants

37 (28) 37 (29)37

(28503)

368

(26505)

EY 2014 EY 2015 EY 2016 EY 2017

GPA(MCAT) 37 (28) 36 (29) 36 (29) 35 (29) 36 (29)

EY 2009 EY 2010 EY 2011 EY 2012 EY 2013

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7

Candidates discussed

Voting (high priority acceptable reject)

Categorized by vote

1 High Priority (unanimous high priority votes)

2 Highly Acceptable -1 -2 -3

3 Very Acceptable (4+ acceptable votes)

4 Acceptable (majority acceptable votes)

5 Reject

Ranked within category by weighted scores (Interview 30 MCAT 30 SGPA 35 GPA 5)

Rank list is generated after the first interview date and updated weekly throughout interview season

Admissions Committee Process

Upcoming actions

Joint Admission Medical Program (JAMP) Round 2 Match

(Friday Jan 25th) will match with 2

Rolling admissions continues until June 1

Created additional interview date for EY2020 (22 days)

New requirement added for EY2020 CASPer Assessment ndash

Situational Judgement Test (SJT)

Propose revision to By-Laws to add minimum attendance

requirements for committee members

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8

Current IssuesConcerns

Ongoing need to recruit more interviewers

Anticipating class size expansion

Meeting quorum

Standing Committee Report

Curriculum and Educational Policy

Committee

Richard Brower MD PhDAssociate Dean for Medical Education

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9

Curriculum amp

Educational Policy

Committee Report to the PLFSOM Faculty Council

Presented by Richard Brower MD

Date July 15 2019

Committee Composition and Terms of

Service

ldquoCandidates for lsquoat largersquo positions are to be

recommended by the associate dean for medical

education and appointed by the deanrdquo

ldquoTerms may be renewed by recommendation of the

associate dean for medical education and appointment by

the deanrdquo

ldquohelliplsquoat largersquo members may be appointed for no more than

two consecutive terms after which they are ineligible to

serve for 4 yearsrdquo

ldquoCandidates for these positions should demonstrate an

ongoing interest in medical educationrdquo

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10

Committee Composition and Terms of ServiceLast Name First Name Degree Academic Rank Department Committee Position Term Start Date

Term Expiration Date

Frances Mark MD ProfessorMedical Education

Member (College Master)

9120168312020

Pfarr Curt PhD ProfessorMedical Education

Member (College Master) 9242015 8312019

Gajendran Mahesh MD Assistant ProfessorInternal Medicine

Member (Clinician) 912017 8312021

Uga Aghaegbulam MD Assistant Professor

Psychiatry and Internal Medicine

Member (Clinician) 11192015 10312019

Kassar Darine MD Assistant Professor NeurologyMember (Clinician) 972016 8312020

Wojciechowska Joanna MD Assistant Professor Pediatrics

Member (Clinician) 212018 8312022

Nino DiegoMD PhD Assistant Professor

Medical Education

Member (Basic Sciences) 1142019 1142023

Padilla Osvaldo MD Assistant Professor PathologyMember (Basic Sciences) 12152014 8312022

Cervantes JorgeMD PhD Assistant Professor

Medical Education

Member (Basic Sciences) 8232016 8312020

Perry Cynthia PhD Assistant ProfessorMedical Education

Member (Basic Sciences) 9282015 8312019

Brower Richard MDAssociate Professor

Medical Education Chair NA NA

Three positions

opening soon ndash-

should have

demonstrated

interest and

engagement in

UME and a

willingness to

attend all

meetings and

participate in

team

assignments

Committee Composition and Terms of

Service Leadership

This committee is chaired by the associate dean for medical education

The committee reports to the Faculty Council

Membership will include

2 college masters (one basic scientist one clinician) with 4-year terms

4 members from the basic sciences faculty with 4-year terms (staggered)

4 members from the clinical sciences faculty with 4-year terms (staggered)

Ex Officio members

Dean or their designee

Associate dean for student affairs

Assistant deans for medication education

Managing director of the libraries (ldquoAssociate Director of the Libraryrdquo)

Director of information technology or their designee

Director of assessment and evaluation (position no longer exists)

Two student reps from each of the four classes (from the Student Curriculum and Evaluation Committee)

9102019

11

Committee Charge Faculty Bylaws Article IX Section C2

The Committee on Curriculum and Educational Policy is charged with planning coordinating

reviewing and evaluating the curriculum to ensure that it adheres to the

written educational policies goals and objectives of the Paul L Foster School

of Medicine Further the Committee shall have full authority to make changes in

educational policy or in the organization of the curriculum with the

concurrence of the Dean and with comment and input from the Faculty Council The Faculty of the Paul L Foster School of Medicine has the responsibility to define course objectives create

and deliver content to meet those objectives and modify their activities in response to appropriate feedback

from peers and students The Committee will provide updates on its activities at least

twice a year to the Faculty Council In order to accomplish the mission of the Committee the

Chair may appoint subcommittees that may include members who are not

members of the Committee It shall be the responsibility of the Committee to coordinate the

activities and reports of these subcommittees In addition the Committee receives reports

from the Committee on Evaluation of Educational Programs

Current IssuesConcerns

Curriculum enhancementimprovement

Preparation for class size expansion

Preparation for next round of curriculum reviews

(ldquocurriculum as a wholerdquo)

9102019

12

CEPC actions since last report

January 2019 (1 meeting)

Reviewed and approved revisions to the following

educational program polices

Clerkship Administration

Clerkship DirectorAssistant Director Position Description

Approval of two new 4th Year Electives

Pediatric Gastroenterology Hepatology and Nutrition

Emergency Medicine Ultrasound

Clerkship phase review FM and Surgery

CEPC actions since last report

February 2019 (2 meetings)

New educational program policy reviewed and approved

Grade Changes and Transcript Notations

Rollover of established educational program goals and

objectives (the ldquoPGOsrdquo) approved

Clerkship phase review Pediatrics and ObGyn

Preliminary data-driven discussion of revised educational

program policy covering Grading Promotion and Academic

Standing (ldquoGPASrdquo)

9102019

13

CEPC actions since last report

March 2019 (2 meetings)

Clerkship phase review IM and Psych Critical Care and Sub-I

Selectives

Approval of new educational program policy

Grading Promotion and Academic Standing (ldquoGPASrdquo)

Notification of changes in clerkship directorship

Elimination of the PICE course (PICE 7001) from the year 2

curriculum approved (primarily administrative educational

elements re-distributed)

Associated review and approval of an updated PLSOM degree

plan (based on 157 credit hours)

CEPC actions since last report

April 2019 (1 meetings)

Clerkship phase review EM Neurology and Intersessions

Review and approval of revised educational program policy

Pre-Clerkship Phase Student Attendance and Participation

Policy

9102019

14

CEPC actions since last report

May 2019 (1 meetings)

Review and approval of the ldquoCommon Clerkship Policiesrdquo

Notification of additional changes in the clerkship

directorship

Clerkship phase review

Phase data review (AAMC GQ NBME subject exams

USMLE Step 2 CK and CS Step 3 final grades EOY OSCE

and procedure workshop residency director survey)

Introduction of a 10-point plan for curriculum revision

(ldquoPLFSOM v20rdquo)

June 2019 (no quorum) July 2019 (cancelled)

CEPC actions since last report

Challenges and opportunities for improvement identified

through the AY208-19 clerkship phase review

Clear identification of contacts at affiliated sites

Academic support and remediation planning

Consistent resident preparation for participation in UME

Timeliness of grading (Sub-I and Critical Care Selectives)

Orientation modules for Sub-Q and Critical Care Selectives)

Scaling clerkships for anticipated class expansion

The summer doldrums

June 2019 (no quorum) July 2019 (cancelled)

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15

Upcoming actions

Ongoing educational program policy development

Maintain accreditation compliance related curriculum

review cycle (2019-20 ldquoCurriculum as a Wholerdquo)

Review and advance plans for curriculum renewalrevision

Review proposal to re-direct our MD-MPH affiliation to

TTUHSC GSBS Lubbock

Consider development of an MD-MBA option (potentially

with UTEP)

Links to related information

PLFSOM Committee on Curriculum and Educational Policy main page

httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCdefaultaspx

MD degree program policies

httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCpoliciesaspx

MD degree program information

httpselpasottuhscedusomomeUMEinfoaspx

Course and clerkship syllabi

httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCcoursereviewaspx

AY2017-18 medical education program evaluation report (e-Raider required)

httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPC_documentssecureAY2017-

2018MEPEvaluationAnnualReport-Draft-v2pdf

9102019

19

Departmental Report

Molecular and Translational

Medicine

Laxman Gangwani PhDAssociate Professor Molecular amp

Translational Medicine

9102019

20

Department of Molecular and

Translational Medicine (formerly

Biomedical Sciences) Report

PRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCIL

BY LAXMAN GANGWANI

DATE JULY 15 2019

Department BreakdownPlease provide the total number of faculty members in your department and break down this number by

rank Please list new faculty members that have joined your department within the last six months

Total Number of Faculty

Number of Faculty Associates 1

Number of Instructors 1

Number of Research Assistant Professor 1

Number of Assistant Professors 6

Number of Associate Professors 7

Number of Professors 4

New Faculty

None

9102019

21

LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair

program director clerkship director chiefs etc

Department Chair Dr Peter Rotwein (VP Research Associate

Dean GSBS)

Director Center of Emphasis in Cancer Dr Rajkumar

Lakshmanaswamy (Dean GSBS) Co-Director Dr N Shokar

Director Center of Emphasis in Diabetes and Metabolism Dr

David Cistola

Director Center of Emphasis in Infectious Diseases Vacant

Director Center of Emphasis in Neurosciences Vacant

Chief Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology Vacant

AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional

appointments national appointments etc

Awards

Dr Mingtao Zeng

2018 The American Association of Immunologists (AAI) AAI Travel Grant for the 5th European Congress of Immunology

2018 Defense Techconnect Fall Summit amp Expo (2018) Techconnect Defense Innovation Award

Dr Shrikant Gadad

Eugenia Rosemberg Outstanding Abstract Award Endocrine Society Annual Meeting New Orleans March 23-26 2019

Dr Huanyu Dou

National Innovation Award Techconnect 2019

Honors

Dr Alok Dwivedi

Appointed as associated faculty at the Border Biomedical Research Center (BBRC) University of Texas El Paso (UTEP)

Dr Shrikant Gadad

Session Chair (OR09 Steroid Hormone Biology in Physiology and Disease) Endocrine Society Annual Meeting New Orleans March 23-26 2019

9102019

22

AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional

appointments national appointments etc

NIH or DOD study sections appointments

Dr Guohua Yi

HIV special Emphasis Panel for RFA-AI-18-058 Genetic Engineering Technologies for HIV Cure Research (U19)

Dr Laxman Gangwani

Department of Defense (DOD) Reviewer for Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) 2018 -

NIHCSR Study ldquoProgram Evaluation of NIH Peer Review Processes The Role of Anonymizationrdquo 2019 ndash

Patents filings and publications

Patent Number 9862951 Title RNA Interference-Based Therapeutic against Anthrax Inventors Mingtao Zeng and Maria T AreacutevaloDate of Patent January 9 2018

Cistola D P Patel V (2018) Method and system for non-invasive measurement of metabolic health US Non-Provisional Utility Patent Application No 15911728 filed by Texas Tech University

Cistola D P Robinson M D (2018) Methods and tools for diagnosing insulin resistance and assessing health status using NMR relaxation times for water United States Patent Application Publication US 20180020947 A1 httpspatentsgooglecompatentUS20180020947A1en

AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional

appointments national appointments etc

News and Media Coverage of Research performed at TTUHSC EP

Dr David Cistola

MedPageToday 2 January 2019 Harris Scott Could a New Biomarker Help Predict Type 2 Diabetes -- Early datashow water T2 catches abnormalities before traditional testing but experts are cautiously optimistichttpswwwmedpagetodaycomreading-roomendocrine-societydiabetes77186

KTSM Channel 9 NBC El Paso 14 November 2018 Castillo Susy Research in El Paso aimed at detectingdiabetes earlyhttpswwwktsmcomlifestylehealthresearch-in-el-paso-aimed-at-detecting-diabetes-early1596408236apt_credirect=1

El Paso Inc 29 March 2019 TTUHSC El Paso Tackling diabetes cancer httpwwwelpasoinccomttuhsc-el-paso-tackling-diabetes-cancerarticle_613144fe-526a-11e9-b916-c35b701a5ef9html

Dr Laxman Gangwani

Cure SMA Awards $150000 Grant to Laxman Gangwani PhD Texas Tech University

httpwwwcuresmaorgnewsgangwani-grant-2019html

httpswwweurekalertorgpub_releases2019-05ttuh-gw050119php

httpswwwresearchgatenetscientific-contributions11984383_Laxman_Gangwani

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23

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Peer-reviewed publications 36 (In high-impact journals)

2018 highest impact factor (11561) journal Nucleic Acids Research

Abstracts 43

Presentations (i) Oral 11 (ii) Posters 28

Invited talks 13

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Peer-reviewed publications

Kannan A Bhatia K Branzei D and Gangwani L (2018) Combined deficiency of Senataxin and DNA-PKcscauses DNA damage accumulation and neurodegeneration in spinal muscular atrophy Nucleic Acids Research2018 Vol 46 No 16 8326-8346

Mishra I Jones C Patel V Deodhar S Cistola D P (2018) Early detection of metabolic dysregulation usingwater T2 analysis of biobanked samples Diabetes Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity Targets and Therapy 11 807-818

Patel V Dwivedi A K Deodhar S Mishra I Cistola D P (2018) Aptamer-based search for correlates of plasmaand serum water T2 Implications for early metabolic dysregulation and metabolic syndrome Biomarker Research6(1) 28

Garg H Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz T Joshi A 2018 Recent Advances in Zika Virus Vaccines Viruses Nov 1410 (11) Sundin OH Mendoza-Ladd A Zeng M Diaz-Areacutevalo D Morales E Fagan BMOrdontildeez J McCallum RW Does a

glucose-based hydrogen and methane breath test detect bacterial overgrowth in the jejunum NeurogastroenterolMotil 2018e13350

Zheng Z Diaz-Areacutevalo D Guan H and Mingtao Zeng Noninvasive vaccination against infectious diseases Humanvaccines amp immunotherapeutics 2018 14(7)1717-1733

Preeti Bharaj Chunting Ye Sean Petersen Qianghu Wang Baoli Hu N Manjunath Premlata Shankar Guohua Yi(2018) Gene array analysis of PD-1H overexpressing monocytes reveals a pro-inflammatory profile Heliyone00545

Bencomo-Alvarez AE Rubio AJ Gonzalez MA and Eiring AM Energy metabolism and drug response in myeloidleukaemic stem cells Br J Haematol 2019 In Press

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24

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Peer-reviewed publications Yan D Pomicter AD Tantravahi S Mason CC Senina AV Ahmann JM Wang Q Than H Patel AB Heaton

WL Eiring AM Clair PM Gantz KC Redwine HM Swierczek SI Halverson BJ Baloglu E Shacham S KhorashadJS Kelley TW Salama ME Miles RR Boucher KM Prchal JT OHare T and Deininger MW Nuclear-cytoplasmic transport is a therapeutic target in myelofibrosis Clin Cancer Res 201925(7)2323-2335

Heipertz E Harper J Lopez CA Fikrig E Hughes ME Walker WE Circadian rhythms influence the severity of sepsis in mice via a TLR2-dependent leukocyte-intrinsic mechanism The Journal of Immunology 2018 201193-201

Khatri R Afzal MR Qureshi MA Maud A Huanyu D Jose Rodriguez G Pre-Existing Renal Failure Increases In-Hospital Mortality in Patients with Intracerebral Hemorrhage J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis 2019 Feb28(2)237-242

Zou L Lee SY Wu Q Zhang H Bastian A Orji C Payne G Galvez A Thomas T Zhang Z Dou H Facile Gene Delivery Derived from Branched Low Molecular Weight Polyethylenimine by High Efficient Chemistry J Biomed Nanotechnol 2018 Oct 114(10)1785-1795

Zhang C Brandon NR Koper K Tang P Xu Y Dou H Invasion of Peripheral Immune Cells into Brain Parenchyma after Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation Aging Dis 2018 Jun 19(3)412-425

Loza O Hernandez P Calderoacuten-Mora J Laks S Leiner M Reddy S Lara P amp Granados H (2018) Developing Trans-affirming health services in an underserved area An intersectional approach Transgender Health 3(1) 127-135

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Byrd T Calderoacuten-Mora J Salaiz R amp Shokar N (2019) Barriers and facilitators to colorectal cancer screening within a Hispanic population Hispanic Health Care International 17(1) 23-29 doi 1011771540415318818982

Haut SR Lipton RB Cornes S Dwivedi AK Wasson R Cotton S Strawn JR Privitera M (2018) Behavioral interventions as a treatment for epilepsy A multicenter randomized controlled trial Neurology 90(11) e963-e970 PMID 29444968

Jessica Bernica Sherif Elhanafi Neeharika Kalakota Yi Jia Christopher Dodoo Alok Dwivedi Robert J Sealock Kalpesh Patel Isaac Raijman Marc J Zuckerman Mohamed O Othman (2018) Cholangioscopy is safe and feasible in elderly patients Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology 16(8) 1293-1299

Benjamin D Wissel Alok K Dwivedi Danielle Chin Aristide Merola Cara Jacob Andrew P Duker Jennifer E Vaughan Lilia Lovera Kathrin LaFaver Ariel Levy Anthony E Lang Francesca Morgante Melissa J Nirenberg Christopher Stephen Nutan Sharma Alberto Romagnolo Leonardo Lopiano Bettina Balint Xin X Yu Kailash P Bhatia Alberto J Espay Functional neurological disorders in Parkinson disease Accepted for publication in Journal

of Neurology Neurosurgery amp Psychiatry 89(6)566-571

Danny J Avalos Marc J Zuckerman Alok Dwivedi Christopher Dodoo Jinendra Satiya Fernando J Castro(2018) Differences in prevalence of large polyps between Hispanic Americans from Mexican-and Non-Mexican-predominant states Digestive diseases and sciences PMID 30276570

Zeina Nahleh Salman Otoukesh Hamid Reza Mirshahidi Anthony Loc Nguyen Gayathri Nagaraj Nabeel Badri Gehan Botrus Nabih Diab Andres Alvarado Luis A Sanchez Alok K Dwivedi (2018) Disparities in breast cancer a multi-institutional comparative analysis focusing on American Hispanics Cancer Medicine (In press 05072018)

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25

Scholarly Activity Danny J Avalos Antonio Mendoza-Ladd Marc J Zuckerman Mohammad Bashashati Andres Alvarado Alok

Dwivedi Oriana M Damas (2018) Hispanics and Non-Hispanic Whites in the US have a Similar InflammatoryBowel Disease Phenotype A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis Digestive Diseases and Sciences 63(6)1558-1571

Aleli Campbell Rosalinda Heydarian Cecilia Ochoa Alok Kumar Dwivedi Zeina A Nahleh(2018) Single arm phaseII study of oral vitamin B12 for the treatment of musculoskeletal symptoms associated with aromatase inhibitors inwomen with early stage breast cancer The breast journal 24(3)260-268

Shaimaa Elzamly Nabeel Badri Osvaldo Padilla Alok Kumar Dwivedi Luis A Alvarado Matthew Hamilton NabihDiab Crosby Rock Ahmed Elfar Marwa Teleb Luis Sanchez Zeina Nahleh (2018) Epithelial-mesenchymaltransition markers in breast cancer and pathological responseafter neoadjuvant chemotherapy Breast Cancer

(Auckl) 2018 Aug 1121178223418788074

Jennifer C Molokwu Eribeth Penaranda Alok Dwivedi Indika Mallawaarachchi Navkiran Shokar (2018) Effect ofEducational Intervention on Self-Sampling Acceptability and Follow-Up Paps in Border Dwelling Hispanic FemalesJournal of Lower Genital Tract Disease

Ritika Suri Federico Rodriguez-Porcel Kelly Donohue Erin Jesse Lilia Lovera Alok Kumar Dwivedi Alberto JEspay (2018) Post-Stroke Movement Disorders The Clinical Neuroanatomic and Demographic Portrait of 284Published Cases Accepted for publication in Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases (In press05212018)

Zeina Nahleh Gehan Botrus Alok Dwivedi Nabeel Badri Salman Otoukesh Nabih Diab Sandip BiswasMichael Jennings Shaimaa Elzamly(2018) Clinico-pathologic disparities of breast cancer in HispanicLatina womenBreast disease 1-8

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Robert Gonzalez Trisha Suppes Jamie Zeitzer Colleen McClung Carol Tamminga Mauricio Tohen Angelica Forero Alok DwivediAndres Alvarado (2018) The association between mood state and chronobiological characteristics in bipolar I disorder a naturalisticvariable cluster analysis-based study International Journal of Bipolar Disorders 6(1)5Mohamed Teleb Aaron Shanker Alok Kumar Dwivedi Debabrata Mukherjee (2018) Effect of exercise on left ventricular mass index byechocardiography in mild and moderate hypertension a meta-analysis Res Cardiovasc Med 6(4)50-6Garnica O Das K Devasundaram S and Dhandayuthapani S Enhanced delivery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigens to antigenpresenting cells using RVG peptide Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Das K Garnica O and Dhandayuthapani S Utility of an oxidative stress response system for the expression of recombinant proteinsin mycobacteria and for the delivery of M tuberculosis antigens to the phagosomal compartments Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Palanichamy K Joshi A Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz T Fernando B Milan S Schiro F Naeem Y Garg H Braunschweig A 2019 Anti-ZikaActivity of a Library of Synthetic Carbohydrate Receptors Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 6284110-4119Anjali Joshi Erin B Punke Tugba Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz Diego P Peralta and Himanshu Garg 2019 TLR9 polymorphism correlates withimmune activation CD4 decline and plasma IP10 levels in HIV patients BMC Infect Dis 19 56Vargas-Medrano J Yang B Garza N T Segura-Ulate I and Perez R G (2018) Up-regulation of protective neuronal MicroRNAs byFTY720 and novel FTY720-derivatives Neuroscience letters 690 178-180Vidal-Martinez G Yang B Vargas-Medrano J and Perez R G (2018) Could alpha-Synuclein Modulation of Insulin and DopamineIdentify a Novel Link Between Parkinsons Disease and Diabetes as Well as Potential Therapies Frontiers in molecular

neuroscience 11 465

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26

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Gil-Tommee C Vidal-Martinez G Annette Reyes C Vargas-Medrano J Herrera G V Martin S M Chaparro S A andPerez R G (2019) Parkinsonian GM2 synthase knockout mice lacking mature gangliosides develop urinary dysfunction andneurogenic bladder Experimental neurology 311265-273Vidal-Martinez G Najera K Miranda JD Gil-Tommee C Yang B Vargas-Medrano J Diaz-Pacheco V Barragan J ChaparroS Vargas-Medrano J Chinnasamy R Arterburn JB Perez RG FTY720 improves behavior increases Brain Derived NeurotrophicFactor and reduces α-synuclein pathology in parkinsonian GM2+minus

mice Neuroscience httpsdoiorg101016jneuroscience201905029Tasnim N Thakur V Chattopadhyay M Joddar B (2018) The efficacy of Graphene-foams towards the adhesion proliferationand expression of neuronal-phenotype by dopaminergic neurons differentiated from mesenchymal stem cells Stem cell

international Jun 3 20183410168 doi 10115520183410168Anil Kumar S Allen SC Tasnim N Akter T Park S Kumar A Chattopadhyay M Ito Y Suggs LJ Joddar B (2019) The applicabilityof furfuryl-gelatin as a novel bioink for tissue engineering applications J Biomed Mater Res B Appl Biomater 2019 107(2)314-323 doi 101002jbmb34123 Epub 2018 Apr 15Thakur V Chattopadhyay M (2018) Early urinary markers for diabetic and other kidney diseases Current drug targets 2018 Mar19Joddar B Tasnim N Thakur V Kumar A Mccallum R Chattopadhyay M (2018) Delivery of mesenchymal stem cells fromgelatin-alginate hydrogels to stomach lumen for treatment of gastroparesis Bioengineering 2018 5(1)Camacho CV Choudhari R Gadad SS (2018) Long noncoding RNAs and cancer an overview Steroids 13393-95

IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department

Large net loss (9) of MTM faculty members over the past 5 years

Vacant Director positions (i) Center for Neuroscience (ii) Center for InfectiousDiseases and (iii) Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology

No steps have been taken to fill directors positions for more than 2 years

Neurosciences Center at the verge of collapse Only one faculty will be left at theend of this fiscal year

The size of Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology is shrinking

Lack of communication regarding vision and strategic plan for growing department

No faculty salary raises for the past 3 years

Serious concerns about recruitment retention and tenure and promotion decisionsmade in the department Faculty morale is extremely low

Lack of functional research core facility

Gradual elimination of service contracts of equipment essential for research trainingand education of graduate and medical students

A plethora of other issues with the department administration

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27

Questions

Departmental Report

Psychiatry

Ricardo Salazar MDAssociate Professor Psychiatry

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28

Department ReportPsychiatryPRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCIL

BY RICARDO SALAZAR MD

DATE MONDAY JULY 15 2019

Department BreakdownPlease provide the total number of faculty members in your department and break down this number by

rank Please list new faculty members that have joined your department within the last six months

Total Number of Faculty 12

Number of Instructors 1

Number of Assistant Professors 8

Number of Associate Professors 2

Number of Professors 2

New Faculty Melanie Longhurst MD Instructor

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29

LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair

program director clerkship director chiefs etc

Department Chair ndash Peter M Thompson MD MS

Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Sarah L Martin MD

Combined IMPsych Residency Program Director ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD

Psychiatry Clerkship Director ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD

Child amp Adolescent Fellowship Program Director ndash Cecilia De Vargas MD

Chief Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry ndash Sarah L Martin MD

Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Program Directorndash Ricardo Salazar MD

Chief Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences ndash Ricardo Salazar MD

Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Transmountain ndash Moataz Ragheb MD

AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in your department including awards honors regional

appointments national appointments etc

El Paso Behavioral Health Consortium ndash Board Member ndash Peter M Thompson MD

714 (50) of our graduating medical students this year choose and matched our resident training programs here at Paul L FosterSchool of Medicine Department of Psychiatry (Historical record) ndash Kudos for our Department Faculty

In appreciation for exceptional contributions to the 30th volume of the J Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences ndash Author contributions and review of 271 manuscripts submitted to the journal between September 2017 and August 2018 ndash Ricardo Salazar MD ndash Young Investigator Award Committee Member and Program Committee Member-Abstracts Sub-Committee Member of theAmerican Neuropsychiatric Association (ANPA)

Initial Accreditation with commendation and no citations from ACGME for our first Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Training Program for West Texas ndash Ricardo Salazar MD

Leadership in Education and Development Certificate Program (LEAD) Fellow -1-year program accredited from the Association ofAmerican Medical Colleges (AAMC) Silvina Tonarelli MD amp Ricardo Salazar MD (Selected Award)

Fully operating Southwest Brain Bank A Brain Tissue Repository for Research in Mental Illness ndashPeter M Thompson MD

Texas State Psychiatric Physicians Public Mental Health Services Committee ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD

Texas Health and Human Services Commission Behavioral Health Advisory Committee ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP

Fellow American College of Physicians ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP FACP

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30

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Abstracts 31

Publications 5 (peer-review journals)

Presentations 17 ndash National (7) and International (6)

Invited Speaker 21 (including faculty residents fellows) ndash Local amp National

Book Chapters NA

Grants McKee Foundation Award ndash our Chair - Thompson

Intramural Grants Seed Grant 1 SARP Educational Grant 2 - Salazar

President`s Collaborative Research Initiative ndashMarch 2018 - Tonarelli

Scholarly Activity

Child and Adolescent Fellowship Presentations

INTERNATIONAL

- Curanderos and Limpias Cultural psychiatry

Poster presented at 6th Annual Scientific conference of the European Association of PsychosomaticMedicine Verona Italy Drs Garza Meissner De Vargas Mehta June 2018

-Case presentation 0f 49XXXXY Same conference same authors same city

-Resilience etiology protective and risk factors presentation C De Vargas by invitation Annual WorldPediatric summit Madrid June 2018

-Parents and their Children Fantastic journey Same conference on June 2019 Berlin Germany

NATIONAL

-Development of Psychopathology in children at risk for Bipolar Disorders Drs Escamilla Peter Sangra C DeVargas S Martin C Alvarado Andrea Rios (Poster) American Academy of Child and Adolescent PsychiatryAnnual Conference Seattle WA October 2018

Frank William Meissner MD Cynthia Elizabeth Garza MDJD Sarah L Martin MD rdquoDrug-Induced BrugadaSyndrome in a Middle-Aged Female Patient Drugs EKG Diagnosis Electrophysiology and SurveillanceRecommendationrdquo American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting San Francisco CA May 21 2019

Delinquency in a group of school children at risk for bipolar disorder D Haque M Escamilla C De VargasPresented at UCLA LA Ca June 2019

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31

Residency ProgramPlease provide information regarding your departmentrsquos residency program ie recent accreditation

number of residents and program updates (if applicable)

24 General Psychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)

8 Internal MedicinePsychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)

3 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellows

1 Geriatric Psychiatry Fellow- newly accredited program

IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department

RecruitmentRetention

Short staffed

Organizational Structure

Financial incentives

Protected time

Gender balance Attrition malefemale ratio 41

Program Coordinator turnover rate

Mentoring

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Departmental Organizational

Structure

Chair

Division ChiefsProgram Directors

Clerkship Director

Adm

Organizational Structure Model

Chair

Deputy Chair for Education

Program

Directors

Deputy Chair for Research

Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs

Vicechair

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33

Roles

Deputy Chair for Education

Oversee undergraduate graduate and CME including the development of teachers and educational scholars Monitor quality and safety across the department

Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs

Faculty appointments Faculty Development and Promotion andor Tenure Develop programs in different domains such as research education personal improvement and leadership Support clinical activities by improving the efficiency of operations and in helping to fit clinical programs into those in the rest of the medical center Allocation of space

Deputy Chair for Research

Develop and direct department-wide programs for faculty recruitment development and support of mentors recognition of excellence and funding of pilot grants bridge funding and grants to nurture multi-principal investigator and trans-division or trans-department projects Allocation of space among divisions

Bottom Line

We need more funds

Institutional support

The investments needed to recruit faculty are beyond the capacity of the

department`s operational revenue

Recruiting a leading investigator or one with great potential for

example may require an investment of $ 1 million and sometimes more

Endowments are the departmentrsquos foundational financial capital the

keel that maintains momentum and balance through the headwinds

and rough seas each department will navigate Endowments increase

the departmentrsquos independence in sustaining its core mission

Thus creation of endowments should be a high priority for any

department that plans for the long term and they increase capacity to

recruit the best faculty in a competitive environment

Page 5: FACULTY COUNCIL MEETING · 7/15/2019  · FACULTY COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES Monday, July 15, 2019 Noon – 1:00 p.m. MEB, Room 1120 and WebEx TTUHSC El Paso PLFSOM 7/15/2019 FACULTY

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3

PLFSOM Committee on

Medical School Admissions

Report

Presented to Faculty Council ndash 7152019

Committee Composition and Terms of Service 22 committee members 20 Voting Members

Chair Jorge Cervantes MD PhD

Vice-Chair Diana Pettit PhD

EPCMS Rep Raj Marwah MD

2 Ex-Officio (non-voting) Associate Dean of Admissions and Director of Admissions

Last Name First Name Degree Academic Rank Department Committee Position Term Start Date

Chambers Karinn MD Assistant Professor Surgery 2018

Chheda Sadhana MD Assistant Professor Peds 2018

Duran Patricia DNP RN CENP Assistant Professor GGHSON 2018

Patek Gregory MD Assistant Professor Emergency Med 2018

Rao Jo MD Assistant Professor Peds 2018

Chattopadhyay Munmun PhD Assistant Professor Biomedical Sciences 2018

Hogg Tanis PhD Associate Professor Medical Education 2018

Lakshmanaswamy Rajkumar PhD Professor Biomedical Sciences 2018

Andrade Alonso MD Assistant Professor Surgery 2017

Castro Jose MD Clinical Instructor Surgery 2017

Cervantes Jorge MD PhD Assistant Professor Medical Education Chair 2017

Belmares Ricardo PhD Instructor Medical Education 2017

Kafchinski Lisa MD Assistant Professor Orthopedics 2017

Tonarelli Sylvina MD Assistant Professor Psychiatry 2017

Rojas-Mendez Patricia MD Assistant Professor ObGyn 2017

Martinez Carla MD Assistant Professor ObGyn 2017

Marwah Raj MD Clinical Assistant Professor Family Medicine 2019

Manglik Niti MD Assistant Professor Medical Education 2019

Pettit Diana PhD Associate Professor Medical Education Vice Chair 2019

Hernan Lynn MD Associate Professor Peds 2019

Vellipuram Anantha MD Assistant Professor Neurology 2019

Gavito Jose MD Assistant Professor Radiology 2019

Perry Cynthia PhD Interim Assistant Dean for Admissions Admissions Ex Officio

Olivas Laura MBA Senior Director of Admissions Admissions Ex Officio

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4

Committee Charge

The Committee shall have full authority to select members of

the medical school entering class based on screening

assessments and interview evaluation reports and to fill

vacancies that may occur in any of the medical school classes

A list of recommended candidates to be offered positions

through the Texas Medical and Dental School Application Service

(TMDSAS) matching process will be prepared based on a ranking

determined following deliberations by the Committee

The Committee also shall have the responsibility to review the

requirements for admission and if necessary to recommend

revisions to the faculty

Actions taken since last report (Jan 2019)

Approval of Handbook revisions

Added COI policy Attendance policy CASPer Assessment

requirement (Pilot)

Sat 104 new students 12 repeaters

Interviewed 14 JAMP students on June 24th

(Round 1 eligible students here for JAMP Internship)

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5

No right wrong answers

Rating not influenced by-ESL -Age-Coaching -Reading Level

Rating is relative

What are raters looking for

Actions taken since last report Received 4471 primary applications amp 3079 completed applications

(increase of 350 complete appl compared to last year)

127 TX pre-match and 13 Out-of-state offers extended

Currently have 109 acceptances leading up to TMDSAS match

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6

EY2018

Received 3983 primary applications amp 2729 completed

applications

130 acceptances leading up to TMDSAS match

TTUHSC EP PLFSOM First Year Entering Students

EY 2019

38

(27506)

TX 37 (30) 37 (29) 37 (30) 37 (30) 37 (30) 37 (31) 373 (31) 38 (507) 38 (509)376

(266506)

US 37 (31) 37 (31) 37 (31) 37 (31) 37 (31) 37 (31) 37(31) 37 (509) 37 (510) 38 (27506)

Hispanic 8 (20) 6 (10) 5 (6) 12 (15) 23 (24) 32 (31) 24 (23) 35 (35) 37 (36) 24 (24) 28 (269)

Border Counties - - 7 (9) 13 (16) 24 (24) 28 (27) 26 (25) 32 (31) 33 (32) 21 (21) 27 (26)

El Paso 7 (17) 8 (13) 5 (6) 12 (15) 19 (19) 23 (22) 24 (23) 29 (28) 25 (24) 19 (19) 23 (221)

African American 0 0 0 0 0 1 (1) 3 (3) 1 (1) 3 (3) 2 (2) 6 (58)

Native American 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Class Size 40 60 81 80 100 104 104 103 103 100 104

Male 16 (40) 35 (58) 44 (54) 42 (52) 65 (65) 47 (45) 67 (64) 59 (57) 56 (54) 49 (49) 52 (50)

Female 24 (60) 25 (42) 37 (46) 38 (48) 35 (35) 57 (55) 37 (36) 44 (43) 47 (46) 51 (51) 52 (50)

Total Applicants 2503 2531 2719 2946 3105 3375 3694 4043 3950 3982 4472

Interviewed 389 378 593 548 626 566 538 510 535 546 602

EY 2018

374

(5077)

Underrepresented minority(URM)-Diversity ()

Class Size amp Gender ()

Applicants

37 (28) 37 (29)37

(28503)

368

(26505)

EY 2014 EY 2015 EY 2016 EY 2017

GPA(MCAT) 37 (28) 36 (29) 36 (29) 35 (29) 36 (29)

EY 2009 EY 2010 EY 2011 EY 2012 EY 2013

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7

Candidates discussed

Voting (high priority acceptable reject)

Categorized by vote

1 High Priority (unanimous high priority votes)

2 Highly Acceptable -1 -2 -3

3 Very Acceptable (4+ acceptable votes)

4 Acceptable (majority acceptable votes)

5 Reject

Ranked within category by weighted scores (Interview 30 MCAT 30 SGPA 35 GPA 5)

Rank list is generated after the first interview date and updated weekly throughout interview season

Admissions Committee Process

Upcoming actions

Joint Admission Medical Program (JAMP) Round 2 Match

(Friday Jan 25th) will match with 2

Rolling admissions continues until June 1

Created additional interview date for EY2020 (22 days)

New requirement added for EY2020 CASPer Assessment ndash

Situational Judgement Test (SJT)

Propose revision to By-Laws to add minimum attendance

requirements for committee members

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8

Current IssuesConcerns

Ongoing need to recruit more interviewers

Anticipating class size expansion

Meeting quorum

Standing Committee Report

Curriculum and Educational Policy

Committee

Richard Brower MD PhDAssociate Dean for Medical Education

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9

Curriculum amp

Educational Policy

Committee Report to the PLFSOM Faculty Council

Presented by Richard Brower MD

Date July 15 2019

Committee Composition and Terms of

Service

ldquoCandidates for lsquoat largersquo positions are to be

recommended by the associate dean for medical

education and appointed by the deanrdquo

ldquoTerms may be renewed by recommendation of the

associate dean for medical education and appointment by

the deanrdquo

ldquohelliplsquoat largersquo members may be appointed for no more than

two consecutive terms after which they are ineligible to

serve for 4 yearsrdquo

ldquoCandidates for these positions should demonstrate an

ongoing interest in medical educationrdquo

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10

Committee Composition and Terms of ServiceLast Name First Name Degree Academic Rank Department Committee Position Term Start Date

Term Expiration Date

Frances Mark MD ProfessorMedical Education

Member (College Master)

9120168312020

Pfarr Curt PhD ProfessorMedical Education

Member (College Master) 9242015 8312019

Gajendran Mahesh MD Assistant ProfessorInternal Medicine

Member (Clinician) 912017 8312021

Uga Aghaegbulam MD Assistant Professor

Psychiatry and Internal Medicine

Member (Clinician) 11192015 10312019

Kassar Darine MD Assistant Professor NeurologyMember (Clinician) 972016 8312020

Wojciechowska Joanna MD Assistant Professor Pediatrics

Member (Clinician) 212018 8312022

Nino DiegoMD PhD Assistant Professor

Medical Education

Member (Basic Sciences) 1142019 1142023

Padilla Osvaldo MD Assistant Professor PathologyMember (Basic Sciences) 12152014 8312022

Cervantes JorgeMD PhD Assistant Professor

Medical Education

Member (Basic Sciences) 8232016 8312020

Perry Cynthia PhD Assistant ProfessorMedical Education

Member (Basic Sciences) 9282015 8312019

Brower Richard MDAssociate Professor

Medical Education Chair NA NA

Three positions

opening soon ndash-

should have

demonstrated

interest and

engagement in

UME and a

willingness to

attend all

meetings and

participate in

team

assignments

Committee Composition and Terms of

Service Leadership

This committee is chaired by the associate dean for medical education

The committee reports to the Faculty Council

Membership will include

2 college masters (one basic scientist one clinician) with 4-year terms

4 members from the basic sciences faculty with 4-year terms (staggered)

4 members from the clinical sciences faculty with 4-year terms (staggered)

Ex Officio members

Dean or their designee

Associate dean for student affairs

Assistant deans for medication education

Managing director of the libraries (ldquoAssociate Director of the Libraryrdquo)

Director of information technology or their designee

Director of assessment and evaluation (position no longer exists)

Two student reps from each of the four classes (from the Student Curriculum and Evaluation Committee)

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11

Committee Charge Faculty Bylaws Article IX Section C2

The Committee on Curriculum and Educational Policy is charged with planning coordinating

reviewing and evaluating the curriculum to ensure that it adheres to the

written educational policies goals and objectives of the Paul L Foster School

of Medicine Further the Committee shall have full authority to make changes in

educational policy or in the organization of the curriculum with the

concurrence of the Dean and with comment and input from the Faculty Council The Faculty of the Paul L Foster School of Medicine has the responsibility to define course objectives create

and deliver content to meet those objectives and modify their activities in response to appropriate feedback

from peers and students The Committee will provide updates on its activities at least

twice a year to the Faculty Council In order to accomplish the mission of the Committee the

Chair may appoint subcommittees that may include members who are not

members of the Committee It shall be the responsibility of the Committee to coordinate the

activities and reports of these subcommittees In addition the Committee receives reports

from the Committee on Evaluation of Educational Programs

Current IssuesConcerns

Curriculum enhancementimprovement

Preparation for class size expansion

Preparation for next round of curriculum reviews

(ldquocurriculum as a wholerdquo)

9102019

12

CEPC actions since last report

January 2019 (1 meeting)

Reviewed and approved revisions to the following

educational program polices

Clerkship Administration

Clerkship DirectorAssistant Director Position Description

Approval of two new 4th Year Electives

Pediatric Gastroenterology Hepatology and Nutrition

Emergency Medicine Ultrasound

Clerkship phase review FM and Surgery

CEPC actions since last report

February 2019 (2 meetings)

New educational program policy reviewed and approved

Grade Changes and Transcript Notations

Rollover of established educational program goals and

objectives (the ldquoPGOsrdquo) approved

Clerkship phase review Pediatrics and ObGyn

Preliminary data-driven discussion of revised educational

program policy covering Grading Promotion and Academic

Standing (ldquoGPASrdquo)

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13

CEPC actions since last report

March 2019 (2 meetings)

Clerkship phase review IM and Psych Critical Care and Sub-I

Selectives

Approval of new educational program policy

Grading Promotion and Academic Standing (ldquoGPASrdquo)

Notification of changes in clerkship directorship

Elimination of the PICE course (PICE 7001) from the year 2

curriculum approved (primarily administrative educational

elements re-distributed)

Associated review and approval of an updated PLSOM degree

plan (based on 157 credit hours)

CEPC actions since last report

April 2019 (1 meetings)

Clerkship phase review EM Neurology and Intersessions

Review and approval of revised educational program policy

Pre-Clerkship Phase Student Attendance and Participation

Policy

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14

CEPC actions since last report

May 2019 (1 meetings)

Review and approval of the ldquoCommon Clerkship Policiesrdquo

Notification of additional changes in the clerkship

directorship

Clerkship phase review

Phase data review (AAMC GQ NBME subject exams

USMLE Step 2 CK and CS Step 3 final grades EOY OSCE

and procedure workshop residency director survey)

Introduction of a 10-point plan for curriculum revision

(ldquoPLFSOM v20rdquo)

June 2019 (no quorum) July 2019 (cancelled)

CEPC actions since last report

Challenges and opportunities for improvement identified

through the AY208-19 clerkship phase review

Clear identification of contacts at affiliated sites

Academic support and remediation planning

Consistent resident preparation for participation in UME

Timeliness of grading (Sub-I and Critical Care Selectives)

Orientation modules for Sub-Q and Critical Care Selectives)

Scaling clerkships for anticipated class expansion

The summer doldrums

June 2019 (no quorum) July 2019 (cancelled)

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Upcoming actions

Ongoing educational program policy development

Maintain accreditation compliance related curriculum

review cycle (2019-20 ldquoCurriculum as a Wholerdquo)

Review and advance plans for curriculum renewalrevision

Review proposal to re-direct our MD-MPH affiliation to

TTUHSC GSBS Lubbock

Consider development of an MD-MBA option (potentially

with UTEP)

Links to related information

PLFSOM Committee on Curriculum and Educational Policy main page

httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCdefaultaspx

MD degree program policies

httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCpoliciesaspx

MD degree program information

httpselpasottuhscedusomomeUMEinfoaspx

Course and clerkship syllabi

httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCcoursereviewaspx

AY2017-18 medical education program evaluation report (e-Raider required)

httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPC_documentssecureAY2017-

2018MEPEvaluationAnnualReport-Draft-v2pdf

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19

Departmental Report

Molecular and Translational

Medicine

Laxman Gangwani PhDAssociate Professor Molecular amp

Translational Medicine

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20

Department of Molecular and

Translational Medicine (formerly

Biomedical Sciences) Report

PRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCIL

BY LAXMAN GANGWANI

DATE JULY 15 2019

Department BreakdownPlease provide the total number of faculty members in your department and break down this number by

rank Please list new faculty members that have joined your department within the last six months

Total Number of Faculty

Number of Faculty Associates 1

Number of Instructors 1

Number of Research Assistant Professor 1

Number of Assistant Professors 6

Number of Associate Professors 7

Number of Professors 4

New Faculty

None

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21

LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair

program director clerkship director chiefs etc

Department Chair Dr Peter Rotwein (VP Research Associate

Dean GSBS)

Director Center of Emphasis in Cancer Dr Rajkumar

Lakshmanaswamy (Dean GSBS) Co-Director Dr N Shokar

Director Center of Emphasis in Diabetes and Metabolism Dr

David Cistola

Director Center of Emphasis in Infectious Diseases Vacant

Director Center of Emphasis in Neurosciences Vacant

Chief Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology Vacant

AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional

appointments national appointments etc

Awards

Dr Mingtao Zeng

2018 The American Association of Immunologists (AAI) AAI Travel Grant for the 5th European Congress of Immunology

2018 Defense Techconnect Fall Summit amp Expo (2018) Techconnect Defense Innovation Award

Dr Shrikant Gadad

Eugenia Rosemberg Outstanding Abstract Award Endocrine Society Annual Meeting New Orleans March 23-26 2019

Dr Huanyu Dou

National Innovation Award Techconnect 2019

Honors

Dr Alok Dwivedi

Appointed as associated faculty at the Border Biomedical Research Center (BBRC) University of Texas El Paso (UTEP)

Dr Shrikant Gadad

Session Chair (OR09 Steroid Hormone Biology in Physiology and Disease) Endocrine Society Annual Meeting New Orleans March 23-26 2019

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22

AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional

appointments national appointments etc

NIH or DOD study sections appointments

Dr Guohua Yi

HIV special Emphasis Panel for RFA-AI-18-058 Genetic Engineering Technologies for HIV Cure Research (U19)

Dr Laxman Gangwani

Department of Defense (DOD) Reviewer for Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) 2018 -

NIHCSR Study ldquoProgram Evaluation of NIH Peer Review Processes The Role of Anonymizationrdquo 2019 ndash

Patents filings and publications

Patent Number 9862951 Title RNA Interference-Based Therapeutic against Anthrax Inventors Mingtao Zeng and Maria T AreacutevaloDate of Patent January 9 2018

Cistola D P Patel V (2018) Method and system for non-invasive measurement of metabolic health US Non-Provisional Utility Patent Application No 15911728 filed by Texas Tech University

Cistola D P Robinson M D (2018) Methods and tools for diagnosing insulin resistance and assessing health status using NMR relaxation times for water United States Patent Application Publication US 20180020947 A1 httpspatentsgooglecompatentUS20180020947A1en

AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional

appointments national appointments etc

News and Media Coverage of Research performed at TTUHSC EP

Dr David Cistola

MedPageToday 2 January 2019 Harris Scott Could a New Biomarker Help Predict Type 2 Diabetes -- Early datashow water T2 catches abnormalities before traditional testing but experts are cautiously optimistichttpswwwmedpagetodaycomreading-roomendocrine-societydiabetes77186

KTSM Channel 9 NBC El Paso 14 November 2018 Castillo Susy Research in El Paso aimed at detectingdiabetes earlyhttpswwwktsmcomlifestylehealthresearch-in-el-paso-aimed-at-detecting-diabetes-early1596408236apt_credirect=1

El Paso Inc 29 March 2019 TTUHSC El Paso Tackling diabetes cancer httpwwwelpasoinccomttuhsc-el-paso-tackling-diabetes-cancerarticle_613144fe-526a-11e9-b916-c35b701a5ef9html

Dr Laxman Gangwani

Cure SMA Awards $150000 Grant to Laxman Gangwani PhD Texas Tech University

httpwwwcuresmaorgnewsgangwani-grant-2019html

httpswwweurekalertorgpub_releases2019-05ttuh-gw050119php

httpswwwresearchgatenetscientific-contributions11984383_Laxman_Gangwani

9102019

23

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Peer-reviewed publications 36 (In high-impact journals)

2018 highest impact factor (11561) journal Nucleic Acids Research

Abstracts 43

Presentations (i) Oral 11 (ii) Posters 28

Invited talks 13

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Peer-reviewed publications

Kannan A Bhatia K Branzei D and Gangwani L (2018) Combined deficiency of Senataxin and DNA-PKcscauses DNA damage accumulation and neurodegeneration in spinal muscular atrophy Nucleic Acids Research2018 Vol 46 No 16 8326-8346

Mishra I Jones C Patel V Deodhar S Cistola D P (2018) Early detection of metabolic dysregulation usingwater T2 analysis of biobanked samples Diabetes Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity Targets and Therapy 11 807-818

Patel V Dwivedi A K Deodhar S Mishra I Cistola D P (2018) Aptamer-based search for correlates of plasmaand serum water T2 Implications for early metabolic dysregulation and metabolic syndrome Biomarker Research6(1) 28

Garg H Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz T Joshi A 2018 Recent Advances in Zika Virus Vaccines Viruses Nov 1410 (11) Sundin OH Mendoza-Ladd A Zeng M Diaz-Areacutevalo D Morales E Fagan BMOrdontildeez J McCallum RW Does a

glucose-based hydrogen and methane breath test detect bacterial overgrowth in the jejunum NeurogastroenterolMotil 2018e13350

Zheng Z Diaz-Areacutevalo D Guan H and Mingtao Zeng Noninvasive vaccination against infectious diseases Humanvaccines amp immunotherapeutics 2018 14(7)1717-1733

Preeti Bharaj Chunting Ye Sean Petersen Qianghu Wang Baoli Hu N Manjunath Premlata Shankar Guohua Yi(2018) Gene array analysis of PD-1H overexpressing monocytes reveals a pro-inflammatory profile Heliyone00545

Bencomo-Alvarez AE Rubio AJ Gonzalez MA and Eiring AM Energy metabolism and drug response in myeloidleukaemic stem cells Br J Haematol 2019 In Press

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24

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Peer-reviewed publications Yan D Pomicter AD Tantravahi S Mason CC Senina AV Ahmann JM Wang Q Than H Patel AB Heaton

WL Eiring AM Clair PM Gantz KC Redwine HM Swierczek SI Halverson BJ Baloglu E Shacham S KhorashadJS Kelley TW Salama ME Miles RR Boucher KM Prchal JT OHare T and Deininger MW Nuclear-cytoplasmic transport is a therapeutic target in myelofibrosis Clin Cancer Res 201925(7)2323-2335

Heipertz E Harper J Lopez CA Fikrig E Hughes ME Walker WE Circadian rhythms influence the severity of sepsis in mice via a TLR2-dependent leukocyte-intrinsic mechanism The Journal of Immunology 2018 201193-201

Khatri R Afzal MR Qureshi MA Maud A Huanyu D Jose Rodriguez G Pre-Existing Renal Failure Increases In-Hospital Mortality in Patients with Intracerebral Hemorrhage J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis 2019 Feb28(2)237-242

Zou L Lee SY Wu Q Zhang H Bastian A Orji C Payne G Galvez A Thomas T Zhang Z Dou H Facile Gene Delivery Derived from Branched Low Molecular Weight Polyethylenimine by High Efficient Chemistry J Biomed Nanotechnol 2018 Oct 114(10)1785-1795

Zhang C Brandon NR Koper K Tang P Xu Y Dou H Invasion of Peripheral Immune Cells into Brain Parenchyma after Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation Aging Dis 2018 Jun 19(3)412-425

Loza O Hernandez P Calderoacuten-Mora J Laks S Leiner M Reddy S Lara P amp Granados H (2018) Developing Trans-affirming health services in an underserved area An intersectional approach Transgender Health 3(1) 127-135

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Byrd T Calderoacuten-Mora J Salaiz R amp Shokar N (2019) Barriers and facilitators to colorectal cancer screening within a Hispanic population Hispanic Health Care International 17(1) 23-29 doi 1011771540415318818982

Haut SR Lipton RB Cornes S Dwivedi AK Wasson R Cotton S Strawn JR Privitera M (2018) Behavioral interventions as a treatment for epilepsy A multicenter randomized controlled trial Neurology 90(11) e963-e970 PMID 29444968

Jessica Bernica Sherif Elhanafi Neeharika Kalakota Yi Jia Christopher Dodoo Alok Dwivedi Robert J Sealock Kalpesh Patel Isaac Raijman Marc J Zuckerman Mohamed O Othman (2018) Cholangioscopy is safe and feasible in elderly patients Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology 16(8) 1293-1299

Benjamin D Wissel Alok K Dwivedi Danielle Chin Aristide Merola Cara Jacob Andrew P Duker Jennifer E Vaughan Lilia Lovera Kathrin LaFaver Ariel Levy Anthony E Lang Francesca Morgante Melissa J Nirenberg Christopher Stephen Nutan Sharma Alberto Romagnolo Leonardo Lopiano Bettina Balint Xin X Yu Kailash P Bhatia Alberto J Espay Functional neurological disorders in Parkinson disease Accepted for publication in Journal

of Neurology Neurosurgery amp Psychiatry 89(6)566-571

Danny J Avalos Marc J Zuckerman Alok Dwivedi Christopher Dodoo Jinendra Satiya Fernando J Castro(2018) Differences in prevalence of large polyps between Hispanic Americans from Mexican-and Non-Mexican-predominant states Digestive diseases and sciences PMID 30276570

Zeina Nahleh Salman Otoukesh Hamid Reza Mirshahidi Anthony Loc Nguyen Gayathri Nagaraj Nabeel Badri Gehan Botrus Nabih Diab Andres Alvarado Luis A Sanchez Alok K Dwivedi (2018) Disparities in breast cancer a multi-institutional comparative analysis focusing on American Hispanics Cancer Medicine (In press 05072018)

9102019

25

Scholarly Activity Danny J Avalos Antonio Mendoza-Ladd Marc J Zuckerman Mohammad Bashashati Andres Alvarado Alok

Dwivedi Oriana M Damas (2018) Hispanics and Non-Hispanic Whites in the US have a Similar InflammatoryBowel Disease Phenotype A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis Digestive Diseases and Sciences 63(6)1558-1571

Aleli Campbell Rosalinda Heydarian Cecilia Ochoa Alok Kumar Dwivedi Zeina A Nahleh(2018) Single arm phaseII study of oral vitamin B12 for the treatment of musculoskeletal symptoms associated with aromatase inhibitors inwomen with early stage breast cancer The breast journal 24(3)260-268

Shaimaa Elzamly Nabeel Badri Osvaldo Padilla Alok Kumar Dwivedi Luis A Alvarado Matthew Hamilton NabihDiab Crosby Rock Ahmed Elfar Marwa Teleb Luis Sanchez Zeina Nahleh (2018) Epithelial-mesenchymaltransition markers in breast cancer and pathological responseafter neoadjuvant chemotherapy Breast Cancer

(Auckl) 2018 Aug 1121178223418788074

Jennifer C Molokwu Eribeth Penaranda Alok Dwivedi Indika Mallawaarachchi Navkiran Shokar (2018) Effect ofEducational Intervention on Self-Sampling Acceptability and Follow-Up Paps in Border Dwelling Hispanic FemalesJournal of Lower Genital Tract Disease

Ritika Suri Federico Rodriguez-Porcel Kelly Donohue Erin Jesse Lilia Lovera Alok Kumar Dwivedi Alberto JEspay (2018) Post-Stroke Movement Disorders The Clinical Neuroanatomic and Demographic Portrait of 284Published Cases Accepted for publication in Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases (In press05212018)

Zeina Nahleh Gehan Botrus Alok Dwivedi Nabeel Badri Salman Otoukesh Nabih Diab Sandip BiswasMichael Jennings Shaimaa Elzamly(2018) Clinico-pathologic disparities of breast cancer in HispanicLatina womenBreast disease 1-8

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Robert Gonzalez Trisha Suppes Jamie Zeitzer Colleen McClung Carol Tamminga Mauricio Tohen Angelica Forero Alok DwivediAndres Alvarado (2018) The association between mood state and chronobiological characteristics in bipolar I disorder a naturalisticvariable cluster analysis-based study International Journal of Bipolar Disorders 6(1)5Mohamed Teleb Aaron Shanker Alok Kumar Dwivedi Debabrata Mukherjee (2018) Effect of exercise on left ventricular mass index byechocardiography in mild and moderate hypertension a meta-analysis Res Cardiovasc Med 6(4)50-6Garnica O Das K Devasundaram S and Dhandayuthapani S Enhanced delivery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigens to antigenpresenting cells using RVG peptide Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Das K Garnica O and Dhandayuthapani S Utility of an oxidative stress response system for the expression of recombinant proteinsin mycobacteria and for the delivery of M tuberculosis antigens to the phagosomal compartments Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Palanichamy K Joshi A Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz T Fernando B Milan S Schiro F Naeem Y Garg H Braunschweig A 2019 Anti-ZikaActivity of a Library of Synthetic Carbohydrate Receptors Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 6284110-4119Anjali Joshi Erin B Punke Tugba Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz Diego P Peralta and Himanshu Garg 2019 TLR9 polymorphism correlates withimmune activation CD4 decline and plasma IP10 levels in HIV patients BMC Infect Dis 19 56Vargas-Medrano J Yang B Garza N T Segura-Ulate I and Perez R G (2018) Up-regulation of protective neuronal MicroRNAs byFTY720 and novel FTY720-derivatives Neuroscience letters 690 178-180Vidal-Martinez G Yang B Vargas-Medrano J and Perez R G (2018) Could alpha-Synuclein Modulation of Insulin and DopamineIdentify a Novel Link Between Parkinsons Disease and Diabetes as Well as Potential Therapies Frontiers in molecular

neuroscience 11 465

9102019

26

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Gil-Tommee C Vidal-Martinez G Annette Reyes C Vargas-Medrano J Herrera G V Martin S M Chaparro S A andPerez R G (2019) Parkinsonian GM2 synthase knockout mice lacking mature gangliosides develop urinary dysfunction andneurogenic bladder Experimental neurology 311265-273Vidal-Martinez G Najera K Miranda JD Gil-Tommee C Yang B Vargas-Medrano J Diaz-Pacheco V Barragan J ChaparroS Vargas-Medrano J Chinnasamy R Arterburn JB Perez RG FTY720 improves behavior increases Brain Derived NeurotrophicFactor and reduces α-synuclein pathology in parkinsonian GM2+minus

mice Neuroscience httpsdoiorg101016jneuroscience201905029Tasnim N Thakur V Chattopadhyay M Joddar B (2018) The efficacy of Graphene-foams towards the adhesion proliferationand expression of neuronal-phenotype by dopaminergic neurons differentiated from mesenchymal stem cells Stem cell

international Jun 3 20183410168 doi 10115520183410168Anil Kumar S Allen SC Tasnim N Akter T Park S Kumar A Chattopadhyay M Ito Y Suggs LJ Joddar B (2019) The applicabilityof furfuryl-gelatin as a novel bioink for tissue engineering applications J Biomed Mater Res B Appl Biomater 2019 107(2)314-323 doi 101002jbmb34123 Epub 2018 Apr 15Thakur V Chattopadhyay M (2018) Early urinary markers for diabetic and other kidney diseases Current drug targets 2018 Mar19Joddar B Tasnim N Thakur V Kumar A Mccallum R Chattopadhyay M (2018) Delivery of mesenchymal stem cells fromgelatin-alginate hydrogels to stomach lumen for treatment of gastroparesis Bioengineering 2018 5(1)Camacho CV Choudhari R Gadad SS (2018) Long noncoding RNAs and cancer an overview Steroids 13393-95

IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department

Large net loss (9) of MTM faculty members over the past 5 years

Vacant Director positions (i) Center for Neuroscience (ii) Center for InfectiousDiseases and (iii) Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology

No steps have been taken to fill directors positions for more than 2 years

Neurosciences Center at the verge of collapse Only one faculty will be left at theend of this fiscal year

The size of Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology is shrinking

Lack of communication regarding vision and strategic plan for growing department

No faculty salary raises for the past 3 years

Serious concerns about recruitment retention and tenure and promotion decisionsmade in the department Faculty morale is extremely low

Lack of functional research core facility

Gradual elimination of service contracts of equipment essential for research trainingand education of graduate and medical students

A plethora of other issues with the department administration

9102019

27

Questions

Departmental Report

Psychiatry

Ricardo Salazar MDAssociate Professor Psychiatry

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28

Department ReportPsychiatryPRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCIL

BY RICARDO SALAZAR MD

DATE MONDAY JULY 15 2019

Department BreakdownPlease provide the total number of faculty members in your department and break down this number by

rank Please list new faculty members that have joined your department within the last six months

Total Number of Faculty 12

Number of Instructors 1

Number of Assistant Professors 8

Number of Associate Professors 2

Number of Professors 2

New Faculty Melanie Longhurst MD Instructor

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29

LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair

program director clerkship director chiefs etc

Department Chair ndash Peter M Thompson MD MS

Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Sarah L Martin MD

Combined IMPsych Residency Program Director ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD

Psychiatry Clerkship Director ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD

Child amp Adolescent Fellowship Program Director ndash Cecilia De Vargas MD

Chief Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry ndash Sarah L Martin MD

Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Program Directorndash Ricardo Salazar MD

Chief Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences ndash Ricardo Salazar MD

Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Transmountain ndash Moataz Ragheb MD

AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in your department including awards honors regional

appointments national appointments etc

El Paso Behavioral Health Consortium ndash Board Member ndash Peter M Thompson MD

714 (50) of our graduating medical students this year choose and matched our resident training programs here at Paul L FosterSchool of Medicine Department of Psychiatry (Historical record) ndash Kudos for our Department Faculty

In appreciation for exceptional contributions to the 30th volume of the J Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences ndash Author contributions and review of 271 manuscripts submitted to the journal between September 2017 and August 2018 ndash Ricardo Salazar MD ndash Young Investigator Award Committee Member and Program Committee Member-Abstracts Sub-Committee Member of theAmerican Neuropsychiatric Association (ANPA)

Initial Accreditation with commendation and no citations from ACGME for our first Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Training Program for West Texas ndash Ricardo Salazar MD

Leadership in Education and Development Certificate Program (LEAD) Fellow -1-year program accredited from the Association ofAmerican Medical Colleges (AAMC) Silvina Tonarelli MD amp Ricardo Salazar MD (Selected Award)

Fully operating Southwest Brain Bank A Brain Tissue Repository for Research in Mental Illness ndashPeter M Thompson MD

Texas State Psychiatric Physicians Public Mental Health Services Committee ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD

Texas Health and Human Services Commission Behavioral Health Advisory Committee ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP

Fellow American College of Physicians ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP FACP

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30

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Abstracts 31

Publications 5 (peer-review journals)

Presentations 17 ndash National (7) and International (6)

Invited Speaker 21 (including faculty residents fellows) ndash Local amp National

Book Chapters NA

Grants McKee Foundation Award ndash our Chair - Thompson

Intramural Grants Seed Grant 1 SARP Educational Grant 2 - Salazar

President`s Collaborative Research Initiative ndashMarch 2018 - Tonarelli

Scholarly Activity

Child and Adolescent Fellowship Presentations

INTERNATIONAL

- Curanderos and Limpias Cultural psychiatry

Poster presented at 6th Annual Scientific conference of the European Association of PsychosomaticMedicine Verona Italy Drs Garza Meissner De Vargas Mehta June 2018

-Case presentation 0f 49XXXXY Same conference same authors same city

-Resilience etiology protective and risk factors presentation C De Vargas by invitation Annual WorldPediatric summit Madrid June 2018

-Parents and their Children Fantastic journey Same conference on June 2019 Berlin Germany

NATIONAL

-Development of Psychopathology in children at risk for Bipolar Disorders Drs Escamilla Peter Sangra C DeVargas S Martin C Alvarado Andrea Rios (Poster) American Academy of Child and Adolescent PsychiatryAnnual Conference Seattle WA October 2018

Frank William Meissner MD Cynthia Elizabeth Garza MDJD Sarah L Martin MD rdquoDrug-Induced BrugadaSyndrome in a Middle-Aged Female Patient Drugs EKG Diagnosis Electrophysiology and SurveillanceRecommendationrdquo American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting San Francisco CA May 21 2019

Delinquency in a group of school children at risk for bipolar disorder D Haque M Escamilla C De VargasPresented at UCLA LA Ca June 2019

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Residency ProgramPlease provide information regarding your departmentrsquos residency program ie recent accreditation

number of residents and program updates (if applicable)

24 General Psychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)

8 Internal MedicinePsychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)

3 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellows

1 Geriatric Psychiatry Fellow- newly accredited program

IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department

RecruitmentRetention

Short staffed

Organizational Structure

Financial incentives

Protected time

Gender balance Attrition malefemale ratio 41

Program Coordinator turnover rate

Mentoring

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Departmental Organizational

Structure

Chair

Division ChiefsProgram Directors

Clerkship Director

Adm

Organizational Structure Model

Chair

Deputy Chair for Education

Program

Directors

Deputy Chair for Research

Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs

Vicechair

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Roles

Deputy Chair for Education

Oversee undergraduate graduate and CME including the development of teachers and educational scholars Monitor quality and safety across the department

Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs

Faculty appointments Faculty Development and Promotion andor Tenure Develop programs in different domains such as research education personal improvement and leadership Support clinical activities by improving the efficiency of operations and in helping to fit clinical programs into those in the rest of the medical center Allocation of space

Deputy Chair for Research

Develop and direct department-wide programs for faculty recruitment development and support of mentors recognition of excellence and funding of pilot grants bridge funding and grants to nurture multi-principal investigator and trans-division or trans-department projects Allocation of space among divisions

Bottom Line

We need more funds

Institutional support

The investments needed to recruit faculty are beyond the capacity of the

department`s operational revenue

Recruiting a leading investigator or one with great potential for

example may require an investment of $ 1 million and sometimes more

Endowments are the departmentrsquos foundational financial capital the

keel that maintains momentum and balance through the headwinds

and rough seas each department will navigate Endowments increase

the departmentrsquos independence in sustaining its core mission

Thus creation of endowments should be a high priority for any

department that plans for the long term and they increase capacity to

recruit the best faculty in a competitive environment

Page 6: FACULTY COUNCIL MEETING · 7/15/2019  · FACULTY COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES Monday, July 15, 2019 Noon – 1:00 p.m. MEB, Room 1120 and WebEx TTUHSC El Paso PLFSOM 7/15/2019 FACULTY

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Committee Charge

The Committee shall have full authority to select members of

the medical school entering class based on screening

assessments and interview evaluation reports and to fill

vacancies that may occur in any of the medical school classes

A list of recommended candidates to be offered positions

through the Texas Medical and Dental School Application Service

(TMDSAS) matching process will be prepared based on a ranking

determined following deliberations by the Committee

The Committee also shall have the responsibility to review the

requirements for admission and if necessary to recommend

revisions to the faculty

Actions taken since last report (Jan 2019)

Approval of Handbook revisions

Added COI policy Attendance policy CASPer Assessment

requirement (Pilot)

Sat 104 new students 12 repeaters

Interviewed 14 JAMP students on June 24th

(Round 1 eligible students here for JAMP Internship)

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No right wrong answers

Rating not influenced by-ESL -Age-Coaching -Reading Level

Rating is relative

What are raters looking for

Actions taken since last report Received 4471 primary applications amp 3079 completed applications

(increase of 350 complete appl compared to last year)

127 TX pre-match and 13 Out-of-state offers extended

Currently have 109 acceptances leading up to TMDSAS match

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6

EY2018

Received 3983 primary applications amp 2729 completed

applications

130 acceptances leading up to TMDSAS match

TTUHSC EP PLFSOM First Year Entering Students

EY 2019

38

(27506)

TX 37 (30) 37 (29) 37 (30) 37 (30) 37 (30) 37 (31) 373 (31) 38 (507) 38 (509)376

(266506)

US 37 (31) 37 (31) 37 (31) 37 (31) 37 (31) 37 (31) 37(31) 37 (509) 37 (510) 38 (27506)

Hispanic 8 (20) 6 (10) 5 (6) 12 (15) 23 (24) 32 (31) 24 (23) 35 (35) 37 (36) 24 (24) 28 (269)

Border Counties - - 7 (9) 13 (16) 24 (24) 28 (27) 26 (25) 32 (31) 33 (32) 21 (21) 27 (26)

El Paso 7 (17) 8 (13) 5 (6) 12 (15) 19 (19) 23 (22) 24 (23) 29 (28) 25 (24) 19 (19) 23 (221)

African American 0 0 0 0 0 1 (1) 3 (3) 1 (1) 3 (3) 2 (2) 6 (58)

Native American 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Class Size 40 60 81 80 100 104 104 103 103 100 104

Male 16 (40) 35 (58) 44 (54) 42 (52) 65 (65) 47 (45) 67 (64) 59 (57) 56 (54) 49 (49) 52 (50)

Female 24 (60) 25 (42) 37 (46) 38 (48) 35 (35) 57 (55) 37 (36) 44 (43) 47 (46) 51 (51) 52 (50)

Total Applicants 2503 2531 2719 2946 3105 3375 3694 4043 3950 3982 4472

Interviewed 389 378 593 548 626 566 538 510 535 546 602

EY 2018

374

(5077)

Underrepresented minority(URM)-Diversity ()

Class Size amp Gender ()

Applicants

37 (28) 37 (29)37

(28503)

368

(26505)

EY 2014 EY 2015 EY 2016 EY 2017

GPA(MCAT) 37 (28) 36 (29) 36 (29) 35 (29) 36 (29)

EY 2009 EY 2010 EY 2011 EY 2012 EY 2013

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Candidates discussed

Voting (high priority acceptable reject)

Categorized by vote

1 High Priority (unanimous high priority votes)

2 Highly Acceptable -1 -2 -3

3 Very Acceptable (4+ acceptable votes)

4 Acceptable (majority acceptable votes)

5 Reject

Ranked within category by weighted scores (Interview 30 MCAT 30 SGPA 35 GPA 5)

Rank list is generated after the first interview date and updated weekly throughout interview season

Admissions Committee Process

Upcoming actions

Joint Admission Medical Program (JAMP) Round 2 Match

(Friday Jan 25th) will match with 2

Rolling admissions continues until June 1

Created additional interview date for EY2020 (22 days)

New requirement added for EY2020 CASPer Assessment ndash

Situational Judgement Test (SJT)

Propose revision to By-Laws to add minimum attendance

requirements for committee members

9102019

8

Current IssuesConcerns

Ongoing need to recruit more interviewers

Anticipating class size expansion

Meeting quorum

Standing Committee Report

Curriculum and Educational Policy

Committee

Richard Brower MD PhDAssociate Dean for Medical Education

9102019

9

Curriculum amp

Educational Policy

Committee Report to the PLFSOM Faculty Council

Presented by Richard Brower MD

Date July 15 2019

Committee Composition and Terms of

Service

ldquoCandidates for lsquoat largersquo positions are to be

recommended by the associate dean for medical

education and appointed by the deanrdquo

ldquoTerms may be renewed by recommendation of the

associate dean for medical education and appointment by

the deanrdquo

ldquohelliplsquoat largersquo members may be appointed for no more than

two consecutive terms after which they are ineligible to

serve for 4 yearsrdquo

ldquoCandidates for these positions should demonstrate an

ongoing interest in medical educationrdquo

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10

Committee Composition and Terms of ServiceLast Name First Name Degree Academic Rank Department Committee Position Term Start Date

Term Expiration Date

Frances Mark MD ProfessorMedical Education

Member (College Master)

9120168312020

Pfarr Curt PhD ProfessorMedical Education

Member (College Master) 9242015 8312019

Gajendran Mahesh MD Assistant ProfessorInternal Medicine

Member (Clinician) 912017 8312021

Uga Aghaegbulam MD Assistant Professor

Psychiatry and Internal Medicine

Member (Clinician) 11192015 10312019

Kassar Darine MD Assistant Professor NeurologyMember (Clinician) 972016 8312020

Wojciechowska Joanna MD Assistant Professor Pediatrics

Member (Clinician) 212018 8312022

Nino DiegoMD PhD Assistant Professor

Medical Education

Member (Basic Sciences) 1142019 1142023

Padilla Osvaldo MD Assistant Professor PathologyMember (Basic Sciences) 12152014 8312022

Cervantes JorgeMD PhD Assistant Professor

Medical Education

Member (Basic Sciences) 8232016 8312020

Perry Cynthia PhD Assistant ProfessorMedical Education

Member (Basic Sciences) 9282015 8312019

Brower Richard MDAssociate Professor

Medical Education Chair NA NA

Three positions

opening soon ndash-

should have

demonstrated

interest and

engagement in

UME and a

willingness to

attend all

meetings and

participate in

team

assignments

Committee Composition and Terms of

Service Leadership

This committee is chaired by the associate dean for medical education

The committee reports to the Faculty Council

Membership will include

2 college masters (one basic scientist one clinician) with 4-year terms

4 members from the basic sciences faculty with 4-year terms (staggered)

4 members from the clinical sciences faculty with 4-year terms (staggered)

Ex Officio members

Dean or their designee

Associate dean for student affairs

Assistant deans for medication education

Managing director of the libraries (ldquoAssociate Director of the Libraryrdquo)

Director of information technology or their designee

Director of assessment and evaluation (position no longer exists)

Two student reps from each of the four classes (from the Student Curriculum and Evaluation Committee)

9102019

11

Committee Charge Faculty Bylaws Article IX Section C2

The Committee on Curriculum and Educational Policy is charged with planning coordinating

reviewing and evaluating the curriculum to ensure that it adheres to the

written educational policies goals and objectives of the Paul L Foster School

of Medicine Further the Committee shall have full authority to make changes in

educational policy or in the organization of the curriculum with the

concurrence of the Dean and with comment and input from the Faculty Council The Faculty of the Paul L Foster School of Medicine has the responsibility to define course objectives create

and deliver content to meet those objectives and modify their activities in response to appropriate feedback

from peers and students The Committee will provide updates on its activities at least

twice a year to the Faculty Council In order to accomplish the mission of the Committee the

Chair may appoint subcommittees that may include members who are not

members of the Committee It shall be the responsibility of the Committee to coordinate the

activities and reports of these subcommittees In addition the Committee receives reports

from the Committee on Evaluation of Educational Programs

Current IssuesConcerns

Curriculum enhancementimprovement

Preparation for class size expansion

Preparation for next round of curriculum reviews

(ldquocurriculum as a wholerdquo)

9102019

12

CEPC actions since last report

January 2019 (1 meeting)

Reviewed and approved revisions to the following

educational program polices

Clerkship Administration

Clerkship DirectorAssistant Director Position Description

Approval of two new 4th Year Electives

Pediatric Gastroenterology Hepatology and Nutrition

Emergency Medicine Ultrasound

Clerkship phase review FM and Surgery

CEPC actions since last report

February 2019 (2 meetings)

New educational program policy reviewed and approved

Grade Changes and Transcript Notations

Rollover of established educational program goals and

objectives (the ldquoPGOsrdquo) approved

Clerkship phase review Pediatrics and ObGyn

Preliminary data-driven discussion of revised educational

program policy covering Grading Promotion and Academic

Standing (ldquoGPASrdquo)

9102019

13

CEPC actions since last report

March 2019 (2 meetings)

Clerkship phase review IM and Psych Critical Care and Sub-I

Selectives

Approval of new educational program policy

Grading Promotion and Academic Standing (ldquoGPASrdquo)

Notification of changes in clerkship directorship

Elimination of the PICE course (PICE 7001) from the year 2

curriculum approved (primarily administrative educational

elements re-distributed)

Associated review and approval of an updated PLSOM degree

plan (based on 157 credit hours)

CEPC actions since last report

April 2019 (1 meetings)

Clerkship phase review EM Neurology and Intersessions

Review and approval of revised educational program policy

Pre-Clerkship Phase Student Attendance and Participation

Policy

9102019

14

CEPC actions since last report

May 2019 (1 meetings)

Review and approval of the ldquoCommon Clerkship Policiesrdquo

Notification of additional changes in the clerkship

directorship

Clerkship phase review

Phase data review (AAMC GQ NBME subject exams

USMLE Step 2 CK and CS Step 3 final grades EOY OSCE

and procedure workshop residency director survey)

Introduction of a 10-point plan for curriculum revision

(ldquoPLFSOM v20rdquo)

June 2019 (no quorum) July 2019 (cancelled)

CEPC actions since last report

Challenges and opportunities for improvement identified

through the AY208-19 clerkship phase review

Clear identification of contacts at affiliated sites

Academic support and remediation planning

Consistent resident preparation for participation in UME

Timeliness of grading (Sub-I and Critical Care Selectives)

Orientation modules for Sub-Q and Critical Care Selectives)

Scaling clerkships for anticipated class expansion

The summer doldrums

June 2019 (no quorum) July 2019 (cancelled)

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15

Upcoming actions

Ongoing educational program policy development

Maintain accreditation compliance related curriculum

review cycle (2019-20 ldquoCurriculum as a Wholerdquo)

Review and advance plans for curriculum renewalrevision

Review proposal to re-direct our MD-MPH affiliation to

TTUHSC GSBS Lubbock

Consider development of an MD-MBA option (potentially

with UTEP)

Links to related information

PLFSOM Committee on Curriculum and Educational Policy main page

httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCdefaultaspx

MD degree program policies

httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCpoliciesaspx

MD degree program information

httpselpasottuhscedusomomeUMEinfoaspx

Course and clerkship syllabi

httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCcoursereviewaspx

AY2017-18 medical education program evaluation report (e-Raider required)

httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPC_documentssecureAY2017-

2018MEPEvaluationAnnualReport-Draft-v2pdf

9102019

19

Departmental Report

Molecular and Translational

Medicine

Laxman Gangwani PhDAssociate Professor Molecular amp

Translational Medicine

9102019

20

Department of Molecular and

Translational Medicine (formerly

Biomedical Sciences) Report

PRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCIL

BY LAXMAN GANGWANI

DATE JULY 15 2019

Department BreakdownPlease provide the total number of faculty members in your department and break down this number by

rank Please list new faculty members that have joined your department within the last six months

Total Number of Faculty

Number of Faculty Associates 1

Number of Instructors 1

Number of Research Assistant Professor 1

Number of Assistant Professors 6

Number of Associate Professors 7

Number of Professors 4

New Faculty

None

9102019

21

LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair

program director clerkship director chiefs etc

Department Chair Dr Peter Rotwein (VP Research Associate

Dean GSBS)

Director Center of Emphasis in Cancer Dr Rajkumar

Lakshmanaswamy (Dean GSBS) Co-Director Dr N Shokar

Director Center of Emphasis in Diabetes and Metabolism Dr

David Cistola

Director Center of Emphasis in Infectious Diseases Vacant

Director Center of Emphasis in Neurosciences Vacant

Chief Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology Vacant

AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional

appointments national appointments etc

Awards

Dr Mingtao Zeng

2018 The American Association of Immunologists (AAI) AAI Travel Grant for the 5th European Congress of Immunology

2018 Defense Techconnect Fall Summit amp Expo (2018) Techconnect Defense Innovation Award

Dr Shrikant Gadad

Eugenia Rosemberg Outstanding Abstract Award Endocrine Society Annual Meeting New Orleans March 23-26 2019

Dr Huanyu Dou

National Innovation Award Techconnect 2019

Honors

Dr Alok Dwivedi

Appointed as associated faculty at the Border Biomedical Research Center (BBRC) University of Texas El Paso (UTEP)

Dr Shrikant Gadad

Session Chair (OR09 Steroid Hormone Biology in Physiology and Disease) Endocrine Society Annual Meeting New Orleans March 23-26 2019

9102019

22

AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional

appointments national appointments etc

NIH or DOD study sections appointments

Dr Guohua Yi

HIV special Emphasis Panel for RFA-AI-18-058 Genetic Engineering Technologies for HIV Cure Research (U19)

Dr Laxman Gangwani

Department of Defense (DOD) Reviewer for Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) 2018 -

NIHCSR Study ldquoProgram Evaluation of NIH Peer Review Processes The Role of Anonymizationrdquo 2019 ndash

Patents filings and publications

Patent Number 9862951 Title RNA Interference-Based Therapeutic against Anthrax Inventors Mingtao Zeng and Maria T AreacutevaloDate of Patent January 9 2018

Cistola D P Patel V (2018) Method and system for non-invasive measurement of metabolic health US Non-Provisional Utility Patent Application No 15911728 filed by Texas Tech University

Cistola D P Robinson M D (2018) Methods and tools for diagnosing insulin resistance and assessing health status using NMR relaxation times for water United States Patent Application Publication US 20180020947 A1 httpspatentsgooglecompatentUS20180020947A1en

AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional

appointments national appointments etc

News and Media Coverage of Research performed at TTUHSC EP

Dr David Cistola

MedPageToday 2 January 2019 Harris Scott Could a New Biomarker Help Predict Type 2 Diabetes -- Early datashow water T2 catches abnormalities before traditional testing but experts are cautiously optimistichttpswwwmedpagetodaycomreading-roomendocrine-societydiabetes77186

KTSM Channel 9 NBC El Paso 14 November 2018 Castillo Susy Research in El Paso aimed at detectingdiabetes earlyhttpswwwktsmcomlifestylehealthresearch-in-el-paso-aimed-at-detecting-diabetes-early1596408236apt_credirect=1

El Paso Inc 29 March 2019 TTUHSC El Paso Tackling diabetes cancer httpwwwelpasoinccomttuhsc-el-paso-tackling-diabetes-cancerarticle_613144fe-526a-11e9-b916-c35b701a5ef9html

Dr Laxman Gangwani

Cure SMA Awards $150000 Grant to Laxman Gangwani PhD Texas Tech University

httpwwwcuresmaorgnewsgangwani-grant-2019html

httpswwweurekalertorgpub_releases2019-05ttuh-gw050119php

httpswwwresearchgatenetscientific-contributions11984383_Laxman_Gangwani

9102019

23

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Peer-reviewed publications 36 (In high-impact journals)

2018 highest impact factor (11561) journal Nucleic Acids Research

Abstracts 43

Presentations (i) Oral 11 (ii) Posters 28

Invited talks 13

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Peer-reviewed publications

Kannan A Bhatia K Branzei D and Gangwani L (2018) Combined deficiency of Senataxin and DNA-PKcscauses DNA damage accumulation and neurodegeneration in spinal muscular atrophy Nucleic Acids Research2018 Vol 46 No 16 8326-8346

Mishra I Jones C Patel V Deodhar S Cistola D P (2018) Early detection of metabolic dysregulation usingwater T2 analysis of biobanked samples Diabetes Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity Targets and Therapy 11 807-818

Patel V Dwivedi A K Deodhar S Mishra I Cistola D P (2018) Aptamer-based search for correlates of plasmaand serum water T2 Implications for early metabolic dysregulation and metabolic syndrome Biomarker Research6(1) 28

Garg H Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz T Joshi A 2018 Recent Advances in Zika Virus Vaccines Viruses Nov 1410 (11) Sundin OH Mendoza-Ladd A Zeng M Diaz-Areacutevalo D Morales E Fagan BMOrdontildeez J McCallum RW Does a

glucose-based hydrogen and methane breath test detect bacterial overgrowth in the jejunum NeurogastroenterolMotil 2018e13350

Zheng Z Diaz-Areacutevalo D Guan H and Mingtao Zeng Noninvasive vaccination against infectious diseases Humanvaccines amp immunotherapeutics 2018 14(7)1717-1733

Preeti Bharaj Chunting Ye Sean Petersen Qianghu Wang Baoli Hu N Manjunath Premlata Shankar Guohua Yi(2018) Gene array analysis of PD-1H overexpressing monocytes reveals a pro-inflammatory profile Heliyone00545

Bencomo-Alvarez AE Rubio AJ Gonzalez MA and Eiring AM Energy metabolism and drug response in myeloidleukaemic stem cells Br J Haematol 2019 In Press

9102019

24

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Peer-reviewed publications Yan D Pomicter AD Tantravahi S Mason CC Senina AV Ahmann JM Wang Q Than H Patel AB Heaton

WL Eiring AM Clair PM Gantz KC Redwine HM Swierczek SI Halverson BJ Baloglu E Shacham S KhorashadJS Kelley TW Salama ME Miles RR Boucher KM Prchal JT OHare T and Deininger MW Nuclear-cytoplasmic transport is a therapeutic target in myelofibrosis Clin Cancer Res 201925(7)2323-2335

Heipertz E Harper J Lopez CA Fikrig E Hughes ME Walker WE Circadian rhythms influence the severity of sepsis in mice via a TLR2-dependent leukocyte-intrinsic mechanism The Journal of Immunology 2018 201193-201

Khatri R Afzal MR Qureshi MA Maud A Huanyu D Jose Rodriguez G Pre-Existing Renal Failure Increases In-Hospital Mortality in Patients with Intracerebral Hemorrhage J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis 2019 Feb28(2)237-242

Zou L Lee SY Wu Q Zhang H Bastian A Orji C Payne G Galvez A Thomas T Zhang Z Dou H Facile Gene Delivery Derived from Branched Low Molecular Weight Polyethylenimine by High Efficient Chemistry J Biomed Nanotechnol 2018 Oct 114(10)1785-1795

Zhang C Brandon NR Koper K Tang P Xu Y Dou H Invasion of Peripheral Immune Cells into Brain Parenchyma after Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation Aging Dis 2018 Jun 19(3)412-425

Loza O Hernandez P Calderoacuten-Mora J Laks S Leiner M Reddy S Lara P amp Granados H (2018) Developing Trans-affirming health services in an underserved area An intersectional approach Transgender Health 3(1) 127-135

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Byrd T Calderoacuten-Mora J Salaiz R amp Shokar N (2019) Barriers and facilitators to colorectal cancer screening within a Hispanic population Hispanic Health Care International 17(1) 23-29 doi 1011771540415318818982

Haut SR Lipton RB Cornes S Dwivedi AK Wasson R Cotton S Strawn JR Privitera M (2018) Behavioral interventions as a treatment for epilepsy A multicenter randomized controlled trial Neurology 90(11) e963-e970 PMID 29444968

Jessica Bernica Sherif Elhanafi Neeharika Kalakota Yi Jia Christopher Dodoo Alok Dwivedi Robert J Sealock Kalpesh Patel Isaac Raijman Marc J Zuckerman Mohamed O Othman (2018) Cholangioscopy is safe and feasible in elderly patients Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology 16(8) 1293-1299

Benjamin D Wissel Alok K Dwivedi Danielle Chin Aristide Merola Cara Jacob Andrew P Duker Jennifer E Vaughan Lilia Lovera Kathrin LaFaver Ariel Levy Anthony E Lang Francesca Morgante Melissa J Nirenberg Christopher Stephen Nutan Sharma Alberto Romagnolo Leonardo Lopiano Bettina Balint Xin X Yu Kailash P Bhatia Alberto J Espay Functional neurological disorders in Parkinson disease Accepted for publication in Journal

of Neurology Neurosurgery amp Psychiatry 89(6)566-571

Danny J Avalos Marc J Zuckerman Alok Dwivedi Christopher Dodoo Jinendra Satiya Fernando J Castro(2018) Differences in prevalence of large polyps between Hispanic Americans from Mexican-and Non-Mexican-predominant states Digestive diseases and sciences PMID 30276570

Zeina Nahleh Salman Otoukesh Hamid Reza Mirshahidi Anthony Loc Nguyen Gayathri Nagaraj Nabeel Badri Gehan Botrus Nabih Diab Andres Alvarado Luis A Sanchez Alok K Dwivedi (2018) Disparities in breast cancer a multi-institutional comparative analysis focusing on American Hispanics Cancer Medicine (In press 05072018)

9102019

25

Scholarly Activity Danny J Avalos Antonio Mendoza-Ladd Marc J Zuckerman Mohammad Bashashati Andres Alvarado Alok

Dwivedi Oriana M Damas (2018) Hispanics and Non-Hispanic Whites in the US have a Similar InflammatoryBowel Disease Phenotype A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis Digestive Diseases and Sciences 63(6)1558-1571

Aleli Campbell Rosalinda Heydarian Cecilia Ochoa Alok Kumar Dwivedi Zeina A Nahleh(2018) Single arm phaseII study of oral vitamin B12 for the treatment of musculoskeletal symptoms associated with aromatase inhibitors inwomen with early stage breast cancer The breast journal 24(3)260-268

Shaimaa Elzamly Nabeel Badri Osvaldo Padilla Alok Kumar Dwivedi Luis A Alvarado Matthew Hamilton NabihDiab Crosby Rock Ahmed Elfar Marwa Teleb Luis Sanchez Zeina Nahleh (2018) Epithelial-mesenchymaltransition markers in breast cancer and pathological responseafter neoadjuvant chemotherapy Breast Cancer

(Auckl) 2018 Aug 1121178223418788074

Jennifer C Molokwu Eribeth Penaranda Alok Dwivedi Indika Mallawaarachchi Navkiran Shokar (2018) Effect ofEducational Intervention on Self-Sampling Acceptability and Follow-Up Paps in Border Dwelling Hispanic FemalesJournal of Lower Genital Tract Disease

Ritika Suri Federico Rodriguez-Porcel Kelly Donohue Erin Jesse Lilia Lovera Alok Kumar Dwivedi Alberto JEspay (2018) Post-Stroke Movement Disorders The Clinical Neuroanatomic and Demographic Portrait of 284Published Cases Accepted for publication in Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases (In press05212018)

Zeina Nahleh Gehan Botrus Alok Dwivedi Nabeel Badri Salman Otoukesh Nabih Diab Sandip BiswasMichael Jennings Shaimaa Elzamly(2018) Clinico-pathologic disparities of breast cancer in HispanicLatina womenBreast disease 1-8

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Robert Gonzalez Trisha Suppes Jamie Zeitzer Colleen McClung Carol Tamminga Mauricio Tohen Angelica Forero Alok DwivediAndres Alvarado (2018) The association between mood state and chronobiological characteristics in bipolar I disorder a naturalisticvariable cluster analysis-based study International Journal of Bipolar Disorders 6(1)5Mohamed Teleb Aaron Shanker Alok Kumar Dwivedi Debabrata Mukherjee (2018) Effect of exercise on left ventricular mass index byechocardiography in mild and moderate hypertension a meta-analysis Res Cardiovasc Med 6(4)50-6Garnica O Das K Devasundaram S and Dhandayuthapani S Enhanced delivery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigens to antigenpresenting cells using RVG peptide Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Das K Garnica O and Dhandayuthapani S Utility of an oxidative stress response system for the expression of recombinant proteinsin mycobacteria and for the delivery of M tuberculosis antigens to the phagosomal compartments Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Palanichamy K Joshi A Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz T Fernando B Milan S Schiro F Naeem Y Garg H Braunschweig A 2019 Anti-ZikaActivity of a Library of Synthetic Carbohydrate Receptors Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 6284110-4119Anjali Joshi Erin B Punke Tugba Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz Diego P Peralta and Himanshu Garg 2019 TLR9 polymorphism correlates withimmune activation CD4 decline and plasma IP10 levels in HIV patients BMC Infect Dis 19 56Vargas-Medrano J Yang B Garza N T Segura-Ulate I and Perez R G (2018) Up-regulation of protective neuronal MicroRNAs byFTY720 and novel FTY720-derivatives Neuroscience letters 690 178-180Vidal-Martinez G Yang B Vargas-Medrano J and Perez R G (2018) Could alpha-Synuclein Modulation of Insulin and DopamineIdentify a Novel Link Between Parkinsons Disease and Diabetes as Well as Potential Therapies Frontiers in molecular

neuroscience 11 465

9102019

26

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Gil-Tommee C Vidal-Martinez G Annette Reyes C Vargas-Medrano J Herrera G V Martin S M Chaparro S A andPerez R G (2019) Parkinsonian GM2 synthase knockout mice lacking mature gangliosides develop urinary dysfunction andneurogenic bladder Experimental neurology 311265-273Vidal-Martinez G Najera K Miranda JD Gil-Tommee C Yang B Vargas-Medrano J Diaz-Pacheco V Barragan J ChaparroS Vargas-Medrano J Chinnasamy R Arterburn JB Perez RG FTY720 improves behavior increases Brain Derived NeurotrophicFactor and reduces α-synuclein pathology in parkinsonian GM2+minus

mice Neuroscience httpsdoiorg101016jneuroscience201905029Tasnim N Thakur V Chattopadhyay M Joddar B (2018) The efficacy of Graphene-foams towards the adhesion proliferationand expression of neuronal-phenotype by dopaminergic neurons differentiated from mesenchymal stem cells Stem cell

international Jun 3 20183410168 doi 10115520183410168Anil Kumar S Allen SC Tasnim N Akter T Park S Kumar A Chattopadhyay M Ito Y Suggs LJ Joddar B (2019) The applicabilityof furfuryl-gelatin as a novel bioink for tissue engineering applications J Biomed Mater Res B Appl Biomater 2019 107(2)314-323 doi 101002jbmb34123 Epub 2018 Apr 15Thakur V Chattopadhyay M (2018) Early urinary markers for diabetic and other kidney diseases Current drug targets 2018 Mar19Joddar B Tasnim N Thakur V Kumar A Mccallum R Chattopadhyay M (2018) Delivery of mesenchymal stem cells fromgelatin-alginate hydrogels to stomach lumen for treatment of gastroparesis Bioengineering 2018 5(1)Camacho CV Choudhari R Gadad SS (2018) Long noncoding RNAs and cancer an overview Steroids 13393-95

IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department

Large net loss (9) of MTM faculty members over the past 5 years

Vacant Director positions (i) Center for Neuroscience (ii) Center for InfectiousDiseases and (iii) Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology

No steps have been taken to fill directors positions for more than 2 years

Neurosciences Center at the verge of collapse Only one faculty will be left at theend of this fiscal year

The size of Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology is shrinking

Lack of communication regarding vision and strategic plan for growing department

No faculty salary raises for the past 3 years

Serious concerns about recruitment retention and tenure and promotion decisionsmade in the department Faculty morale is extremely low

Lack of functional research core facility

Gradual elimination of service contracts of equipment essential for research trainingand education of graduate and medical students

A plethora of other issues with the department administration

9102019

27

Questions

Departmental Report

Psychiatry

Ricardo Salazar MDAssociate Professor Psychiatry

9102019

28

Department ReportPsychiatryPRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCIL

BY RICARDO SALAZAR MD

DATE MONDAY JULY 15 2019

Department BreakdownPlease provide the total number of faculty members in your department and break down this number by

rank Please list new faculty members that have joined your department within the last six months

Total Number of Faculty 12

Number of Instructors 1

Number of Assistant Professors 8

Number of Associate Professors 2

Number of Professors 2

New Faculty Melanie Longhurst MD Instructor

9102019

29

LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair

program director clerkship director chiefs etc

Department Chair ndash Peter M Thompson MD MS

Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Sarah L Martin MD

Combined IMPsych Residency Program Director ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD

Psychiatry Clerkship Director ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD

Child amp Adolescent Fellowship Program Director ndash Cecilia De Vargas MD

Chief Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry ndash Sarah L Martin MD

Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Program Directorndash Ricardo Salazar MD

Chief Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences ndash Ricardo Salazar MD

Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Transmountain ndash Moataz Ragheb MD

AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in your department including awards honors regional

appointments national appointments etc

El Paso Behavioral Health Consortium ndash Board Member ndash Peter M Thompson MD

714 (50) of our graduating medical students this year choose and matched our resident training programs here at Paul L FosterSchool of Medicine Department of Psychiatry (Historical record) ndash Kudos for our Department Faculty

In appreciation for exceptional contributions to the 30th volume of the J Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences ndash Author contributions and review of 271 manuscripts submitted to the journal between September 2017 and August 2018 ndash Ricardo Salazar MD ndash Young Investigator Award Committee Member and Program Committee Member-Abstracts Sub-Committee Member of theAmerican Neuropsychiatric Association (ANPA)

Initial Accreditation with commendation and no citations from ACGME for our first Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Training Program for West Texas ndash Ricardo Salazar MD

Leadership in Education and Development Certificate Program (LEAD) Fellow -1-year program accredited from the Association ofAmerican Medical Colleges (AAMC) Silvina Tonarelli MD amp Ricardo Salazar MD (Selected Award)

Fully operating Southwest Brain Bank A Brain Tissue Repository for Research in Mental Illness ndashPeter M Thompson MD

Texas State Psychiatric Physicians Public Mental Health Services Committee ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD

Texas Health and Human Services Commission Behavioral Health Advisory Committee ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP

Fellow American College of Physicians ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP FACP

9102019

30

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Abstracts 31

Publications 5 (peer-review journals)

Presentations 17 ndash National (7) and International (6)

Invited Speaker 21 (including faculty residents fellows) ndash Local amp National

Book Chapters NA

Grants McKee Foundation Award ndash our Chair - Thompson

Intramural Grants Seed Grant 1 SARP Educational Grant 2 - Salazar

President`s Collaborative Research Initiative ndashMarch 2018 - Tonarelli

Scholarly Activity

Child and Adolescent Fellowship Presentations

INTERNATIONAL

- Curanderos and Limpias Cultural psychiatry

Poster presented at 6th Annual Scientific conference of the European Association of PsychosomaticMedicine Verona Italy Drs Garza Meissner De Vargas Mehta June 2018

-Case presentation 0f 49XXXXY Same conference same authors same city

-Resilience etiology protective and risk factors presentation C De Vargas by invitation Annual WorldPediatric summit Madrid June 2018

-Parents and their Children Fantastic journey Same conference on June 2019 Berlin Germany

NATIONAL

-Development of Psychopathology in children at risk for Bipolar Disorders Drs Escamilla Peter Sangra C DeVargas S Martin C Alvarado Andrea Rios (Poster) American Academy of Child and Adolescent PsychiatryAnnual Conference Seattle WA October 2018

Frank William Meissner MD Cynthia Elizabeth Garza MDJD Sarah L Martin MD rdquoDrug-Induced BrugadaSyndrome in a Middle-Aged Female Patient Drugs EKG Diagnosis Electrophysiology and SurveillanceRecommendationrdquo American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting San Francisco CA May 21 2019

Delinquency in a group of school children at risk for bipolar disorder D Haque M Escamilla C De VargasPresented at UCLA LA Ca June 2019

9102019

31

Residency ProgramPlease provide information regarding your departmentrsquos residency program ie recent accreditation

number of residents and program updates (if applicable)

24 General Psychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)

8 Internal MedicinePsychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)

3 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellows

1 Geriatric Psychiatry Fellow- newly accredited program

IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department

RecruitmentRetention

Short staffed

Organizational Structure

Financial incentives

Protected time

Gender balance Attrition malefemale ratio 41

Program Coordinator turnover rate

Mentoring

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32

Departmental Organizational

Structure

Chair

Division ChiefsProgram Directors

Clerkship Director

Adm

Organizational Structure Model

Chair

Deputy Chair for Education

Program

Directors

Deputy Chair for Research

Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs

Vicechair

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33

Roles

Deputy Chair for Education

Oversee undergraduate graduate and CME including the development of teachers and educational scholars Monitor quality and safety across the department

Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs

Faculty appointments Faculty Development and Promotion andor Tenure Develop programs in different domains such as research education personal improvement and leadership Support clinical activities by improving the efficiency of operations and in helping to fit clinical programs into those in the rest of the medical center Allocation of space

Deputy Chair for Research

Develop and direct department-wide programs for faculty recruitment development and support of mentors recognition of excellence and funding of pilot grants bridge funding and grants to nurture multi-principal investigator and trans-division or trans-department projects Allocation of space among divisions

Bottom Line

We need more funds

Institutional support

The investments needed to recruit faculty are beyond the capacity of the

department`s operational revenue

Recruiting a leading investigator or one with great potential for

example may require an investment of $ 1 million and sometimes more

Endowments are the departmentrsquos foundational financial capital the

keel that maintains momentum and balance through the headwinds

and rough seas each department will navigate Endowments increase

the departmentrsquos independence in sustaining its core mission

Thus creation of endowments should be a high priority for any

department that plans for the long term and they increase capacity to

recruit the best faculty in a competitive environment

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5

No right wrong answers

Rating not influenced by-ESL -Age-Coaching -Reading Level

Rating is relative

What are raters looking for

Actions taken since last report Received 4471 primary applications amp 3079 completed applications

(increase of 350 complete appl compared to last year)

127 TX pre-match and 13 Out-of-state offers extended

Currently have 109 acceptances leading up to TMDSAS match

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6

EY2018

Received 3983 primary applications amp 2729 completed

applications

130 acceptances leading up to TMDSAS match

TTUHSC EP PLFSOM First Year Entering Students

EY 2019

38

(27506)

TX 37 (30) 37 (29) 37 (30) 37 (30) 37 (30) 37 (31) 373 (31) 38 (507) 38 (509)376

(266506)

US 37 (31) 37 (31) 37 (31) 37 (31) 37 (31) 37 (31) 37(31) 37 (509) 37 (510) 38 (27506)

Hispanic 8 (20) 6 (10) 5 (6) 12 (15) 23 (24) 32 (31) 24 (23) 35 (35) 37 (36) 24 (24) 28 (269)

Border Counties - - 7 (9) 13 (16) 24 (24) 28 (27) 26 (25) 32 (31) 33 (32) 21 (21) 27 (26)

El Paso 7 (17) 8 (13) 5 (6) 12 (15) 19 (19) 23 (22) 24 (23) 29 (28) 25 (24) 19 (19) 23 (221)

African American 0 0 0 0 0 1 (1) 3 (3) 1 (1) 3 (3) 2 (2) 6 (58)

Native American 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Class Size 40 60 81 80 100 104 104 103 103 100 104

Male 16 (40) 35 (58) 44 (54) 42 (52) 65 (65) 47 (45) 67 (64) 59 (57) 56 (54) 49 (49) 52 (50)

Female 24 (60) 25 (42) 37 (46) 38 (48) 35 (35) 57 (55) 37 (36) 44 (43) 47 (46) 51 (51) 52 (50)

Total Applicants 2503 2531 2719 2946 3105 3375 3694 4043 3950 3982 4472

Interviewed 389 378 593 548 626 566 538 510 535 546 602

EY 2018

374

(5077)

Underrepresented minority(URM)-Diversity ()

Class Size amp Gender ()

Applicants

37 (28) 37 (29)37

(28503)

368

(26505)

EY 2014 EY 2015 EY 2016 EY 2017

GPA(MCAT) 37 (28) 36 (29) 36 (29) 35 (29) 36 (29)

EY 2009 EY 2010 EY 2011 EY 2012 EY 2013

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7

Candidates discussed

Voting (high priority acceptable reject)

Categorized by vote

1 High Priority (unanimous high priority votes)

2 Highly Acceptable -1 -2 -3

3 Very Acceptable (4+ acceptable votes)

4 Acceptable (majority acceptable votes)

5 Reject

Ranked within category by weighted scores (Interview 30 MCAT 30 SGPA 35 GPA 5)

Rank list is generated after the first interview date and updated weekly throughout interview season

Admissions Committee Process

Upcoming actions

Joint Admission Medical Program (JAMP) Round 2 Match

(Friday Jan 25th) will match with 2

Rolling admissions continues until June 1

Created additional interview date for EY2020 (22 days)

New requirement added for EY2020 CASPer Assessment ndash

Situational Judgement Test (SJT)

Propose revision to By-Laws to add minimum attendance

requirements for committee members

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8

Current IssuesConcerns

Ongoing need to recruit more interviewers

Anticipating class size expansion

Meeting quorum

Standing Committee Report

Curriculum and Educational Policy

Committee

Richard Brower MD PhDAssociate Dean for Medical Education

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9

Curriculum amp

Educational Policy

Committee Report to the PLFSOM Faculty Council

Presented by Richard Brower MD

Date July 15 2019

Committee Composition and Terms of

Service

ldquoCandidates for lsquoat largersquo positions are to be

recommended by the associate dean for medical

education and appointed by the deanrdquo

ldquoTerms may be renewed by recommendation of the

associate dean for medical education and appointment by

the deanrdquo

ldquohelliplsquoat largersquo members may be appointed for no more than

two consecutive terms after which they are ineligible to

serve for 4 yearsrdquo

ldquoCandidates for these positions should demonstrate an

ongoing interest in medical educationrdquo

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10

Committee Composition and Terms of ServiceLast Name First Name Degree Academic Rank Department Committee Position Term Start Date

Term Expiration Date

Frances Mark MD ProfessorMedical Education

Member (College Master)

9120168312020

Pfarr Curt PhD ProfessorMedical Education

Member (College Master) 9242015 8312019

Gajendran Mahesh MD Assistant ProfessorInternal Medicine

Member (Clinician) 912017 8312021

Uga Aghaegbulam MD Assistant Professor

Psychiatry and Internal Medicine

Member (Clinician) 11192015 10312019

Kassar Darine MD Assistant Professor NeurologyMember (Clinician) 972016 8312020

Wojciechowska Joanna MD Assistant Professor Pediatrics

Member (Clinician) 212018 8312022

Nino DiegoMD PhD Assistant Professor

Medical Education

Member (Basic Sciences) 1142019 1142023

Padilla Osvaldo MD Assistant Professor PathologyMember (Basic Sciences) 12152014 8312022

Cervantes JorgeMD PhD Assistant Professor

Medical Education

Member (Basic Sciences) 8232016 8312020

Perry Cynthia PhD Assistant ProfessorMedical Education

Member (Basic Sciences) 9282015 8312019

Brower Richard MDAssociate Professor

Medical Education Chair NA NA

Three positions

opening soon ndash-

should have

demonstrated

interest and

engagement in

UME and a

willingness to

attend all

meetings and

participate in

team

assignments

Committee Composition and Terms of

Service Leadership

This committee is chaired by the associate dean for medical education

The committee reports to the Faculty Council

Membership will include

2 college masters (one basic scientist one clinician) with 4-year terms

4 members from the basic sciences faculty with 4-year terms (staggered)

4 members from the clinical sciences faculty with 4-year terms (staggered)

Ex Officio members

Dean or their designee

Associate dean for student affairs

Assistant deans for medication education

Managing director of the libraries (ldquoAssociate Director of the Libraryrdquo)

Director of information technology or their designee

Director of assessment and evaluation (position no longer exists)

Two student reps from each of the four classes (from the Student Curriculum and Evaluation Committee)

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11

Committee Charge Faculty Bylaws Article IX Section C2

The Committee on Curriculum and Educational Policy is charged with planning coordinating

reviewing and evaluating the curriculum to ensure that it adheres to the

written educational policies goals and objectives of the Paul L Foster School

of Medicine Further the Committee shall have full authority to make changes in

educational policy or in the organization of the curriculum with the

concurrence of the Dean and with comment and input from the Faculty Council The Faculty of the Paul L Foster School of Medicine has the responsibility to define course objectives create

and deliver content to meet those objectives and modify their activities in response to appropriate feedback

from peers and students The Committee will provide updates on its activities at least

twice a year to the Faculty Council In order to accomplish the mission of the Committee the

Chair may appoint subcommittees that may include members who are not

members of the Committee It shall be the responsibility of the Committee to coordinate the

activities and reports of these subcommittees In addition the Committee receives reports

from the Committee on Evaluation of Educational Programs

Current IssuesConcerns

Curriculum enhancementimprovement

Preparation for class size expansion

Preparation for next round of curriculum reviews

(ldquocurriculum as a wholerdquo)

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12

CEPC actions since last report

January 2019 (1 meeting)

Reviewed and approved revisions to the following

educational program polices

Clerkship Administration

Clerkship DirectorAssistant Director Position Description

Approval of two new 4th Year Electives

Pediatric Gastroenterology Hepatology and Nutrition

Emergency Medicine Ultrasound

Clerkship phase review FM and Surgery

CEPC actions since last report

February 2019 (2 meetings)

New educational program policy reviewed and approved

Grade Changes and Transcript Notations

Rollover of established educational program goals and

objectives (the ldquoPGOsrdquo) approved

Clerkship phase review Pediatrics and ObGyn

Preliminary data-driven discussion of revised educational

program policy covering Grading Promotion and Academic

Standing (ldquoGPASrdquo)

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13

CEPC actions since last report

March 2019 (2 meetings)

Clerkship phase review IM and Psych Critical Care and Sub-I

Selectives

Approval of new educational program policy

Grading Promotion and Academic Standing (ldquoGPASrdquo)

Notification of changes in clerkship directorship

Elimination of the PICE course (PICE 7001) from the year 2

curriculum approved (primarily administrative educational

elements re-distributed)

Associated review and approval of an updated PLSOM degree

plan (based on 157 credit hours)

CEPC actions since last report

April 2019 (1 meetings)

Clerkship phase review EM Neurology and Intersessions

Review and approval of revised educational program policy

Pre-Clerkship Phase Student Attendance and Participation

Policy

9102019

14

CEPC actions since last report

May 2019 (1 meetings)

Review and approval of the ldquoCommon Clerkship Policiesrdquo

Notification of additional changes in the clerkship

directorship

Clerkship phase review

Phase data review (AAMC GQ NBME subject exams

USMLE Step 2 CK and CS Step 3 final grades EOY OSCE

and procedure workshop residency director survey)

Introduction of a 10-point plan for curriculum revision

(ldquoPLFSOM v20rdquo)

June 2019 (no quorum) July 2019 (cancelled)

CEPC actions since last report

Challenges and opportunities for improvement identified

through the AY208-19 clerkship phase review

Clear identification of contacts at affiliated sites

Academic support and remediation planning

Consistent resident preparation for participation in UME

Timeliness of grading (Sub-I and Critical Care Selectives)

Orientation modules for Sub-Q and Critical Care Selectives)

Scaling clerkships for anticipated class expansion

The summer doldrums

June 2019 (no quorum) July 2019 (cancelled)

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15

Upcoming actions

Ongoing educational program policy development

Maintain accreditation compliance related curriculum

review cycle (2019-20 ldquoCurriculum as a Wholerdquo)

Review and advance plans for curriculum renewalrevision

Review proposal to re-direct our MD-MPH affiliation to

TTUHSC GSBS Lubbock

Consider development of an MD-MBA option (potentially

with UTEP)

Links to related information

PLFSOM Committee on Curriculum and Educational Policy main page

httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCdefaultaspx

MD degree program policies

httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCpoliciesaspx

MD degree program information

httpselpasottuhscedusomomeUMEinfoaspx

Course and clerkship syllabi

httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCcoursereviewaspx

AY2017-18 medical education program evaluation report (e-Raider required)

httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPC_documentssecureAY2017-

2018MEPEvaluationAnnualReport-Draft-v2pdf

9102019

19

Departmental Report

Molecular and Translational

Medicine

Laxman Gangwani PhDAssociate Professor Molecular amp

Translational Medicine

9102019

20

Department of Molecular and

Translational Medicine (formerly

Biomedical Sciences) Report

PRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCIL

BY LAXMAN GANGWANI

DATE JULY 15 2019

Department BreakdownPlease provide the total number of faculty members in your department and break down this number by

rank Please list new faculty members that have joined your department within the last six months

Total Number of Faculty

Number of Faculty Associates 1

Number of Instructors 1

Number of Research Assistant Professor 1

Number of Assistant Professors 6

Number of Associate Professors 7

Number of Professors 4

New Faculty

None

9102019

21

LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair

program director clerkship director chiefs etc

Department Chair Dr Peter Rotwein (VP Research Associate

Dean GSBS)

Director Center of Emphasis in Cancer Dr Rajkumar

Lakshmanaswamy (Dean GSBS) Co-Director Dr N Shokar

Director Center of Emphasis in Diabetes and Metabolism Dr

David Cistola

Director Center of Emphasis in Infectious Diseases Vacant

Director Center of Emphasis in Neurosciences Vacant

Chief Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology Vacant

AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional

appointments national appointments etc

Awards

Dr Mingtao Zeng

2018 The American Association of Immunologists (AAI) AAI Travel Grant for the 5th European Congress of Immunology

2018 Defense Techconnect Fall Summit amp Expo (2018) Techconnect Defense Innovation Award

Dr Shrikant Gadad

Eugenia Rosemberg Outstanding Abstract Award Endocrine Society Annual Meeting New Orleans March 23-26 2019

Dr Huanyu Dou

National Innovation Award Techconnect 2019

Honors

Dr Alok Dwivedi

Appointed as associated faculty at the Border Biomedical Research Center (BBRC) University of Texas El Paso (UTEP)

Dr Shrikant Gadad

Session Chair (OR09 Steroid Hormone Biology in Physiology and Disease) Endocrine Society Annual Meeting New Orleans March 23-26 2019

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22

AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional

appointments national appointments etc

NIH or DOD study sections appointments

Dr Guohua Yi

HIV special Emphasis Panel for RFA-AI-18-058 Genetic Engineering Technologies for HIV Cure Research (U19)

Dr Laxman Gangwani

Department of Defense (DOD) Reviewer for Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) 2018 -

NIHCSR Study ldquoProgram Evaluation of NIH Peer Review Processes The Role of Anonymizationrdquo 2019 ndash

Patents filings and publications

Patent Number 9862951 Title RNA Interference-Based Therapeutic against Anthrax Inventors Mingtao Zeng and Maria T AreacutevaloDate of Patent January 9 2018

Cistola D P Patel V (2018) Method and system for non-invasive measurement of metabolic health US Non-Provisional Utility Patent Application No 15911728 filed by Texas Tech University

Cistola D P Robinson M D (2018) Methods and tools for diagnosing insulin resistance and assessing health status using NMR relaxation times for water United States Patent Application Publication US 20180020947 A1 httpspatentsgooglecompatentUS20180020947A1en

AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional

appointments national appointments etc

News and Media Coverage of Research performed at TTUHSC EP

Dr David Cistola

MedPageToday 2 January 2019 Harris Scott Could a New Biomarker Help Predict Type 2 Diabetes -- Early datashow water T2 catches abnormalities before traditional testing but experts are cautiously optimistichttpswwwmedpagetodaycomreading-roomendocrine-societydiabetes77186

KTSM Channel 9 NBC El Paso 14 November 2018 Castillo Susy Research in El Paso aimed at detectingdiabetes earlyhttpswwwktsmcomlifestylehealthresearch-in-el-paso-aimed-at-detecting-diabetes-early1596408236apt_credirect=1

El Paso Inc 29 March 2019 TTUHSC El Paso Tackling diabetes cancer httpwwwelpasoinccomttuhsc-el-paso-tackling-diabetes-cancerarticle_613144fe-526a-11e9-b916-c35b701a5ef9html

Dr Laxman Gangwani

Cure SMA Awards $150000 Grant to Laxman Gangwani PhD Texas Tech University

httpwwwcuresmaorgnewsgangwani-grant-2019html

httpswwweurekalertorgpub_releases2019-05ttuh-gw050119php

httpswwwresearchgatenetscientific-contributions11984383_Laxman_Gangwani

9102019

23

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Peer-reviewed publications 36 (In high-impact journals)

2018 highest impact factor (11561) journal Nucleic Acids Research

Abstracts 43

Presentations (i) Oral 11 (ii) Posters 28

Invited talks 13

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Peer-reviewed publications

Kannan A Bhatia K Branzei D and Gangwani L (2018) Combined deficiency of Senataxin and DNA-PKcscauses DNA damage accumulation and neurodegeneration in spinal muscular atrophy Nucleic Acids Research2018 Vol 46 No 16 8326-8346

Mishra I Jones C Patel V Deodhar S Cistola D P (2018) Early detection of metabolic dysregulation usingwater T2 analysis of biobanked samples Diabetes Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity Targets and Therapy 11 807-818

Patel V Dwivedi A K Deodhar S Mishra I Cistola D P (2018) Aptamer-based search for correlates of plasmaand serum water T2 Implications for early metabolic dysregulation and metabolic syndrome Biomarker Research6(1) 28

Garg H Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz T Joshi A 2018 Recent Advances in Zika Virus Vaccines Viruses Nov 1410 (11) Sundin OH Mendoza-Ladd A Zeng M Diaz-Areacutevalo D Morales E Fagan BMOrdontildeez J McCallum RW Does a

glucose-based hydrogen and methane breath test detect bacterial overgrowth in the jejunum NeurogastroenterolMotil 2018e13350

Zheng Z Diaz-Areacutevalo D Guan H and Mingtao Zeng Noninvasive vaccination against infectious diseases Humanvaccines amp immunotherapeutics 2018 14(7)1717-1733

Preeti Bharaj Chunting Ye Sean Petersen Qianghu Wang Baoli Hu N Manjunath Premlata Shankar Guohua Yi(2018) Gene array analysis of PD-1H overexpressing monocytes reveals a pro-inflammatory profile Heliyone00545

Bencomo-Alvarez AE Rubio AJ Gonzalez MA and Eiring AM Energy metabolism and drug response in myeloidleukaemic stem cells Br J Haematol 2019 In Press

9102019

24

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Peer-reviewed publications Yan D Pomicter AD Tantravahi S Mason CC Senina AV Ahmann JM Wang Q Than H Patel AB Heaton

WL Eiring AM Clair PM Gantz KC Redwine HM Swierczek SI Halverson BJ Baloglu E Shacham S KhorashadJS Kelley TW Salama ME Miles RR Boucher KM Prchal JT OHare T and Deininger MW Nuclear-cytoplasmic transport is a therapeutic target in myelofibrosis Clin Cancer Res 201925(7)2323-2335

Heipertz E Harper J Lopez CA Fikrig E Hughes ME Walker WE Circadian rhythms influence the severity of sepsis in mice via a TLR2-dependent leukocyte-intrinsic mechanism The Journal of Immunology 2018 201193-201

Khatri R Afzal MR Qureshi MA Maud A Huanyu D Jose Rodriguez G Pre-Existing Renal Failure Increases In-Hospital Mortality in Patients with Intracerebral Hemorrhage J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis 2019 Feb28(2)237-242

Zou L Lee SY Wu Q Zhang H Bastian A Orji C Payne G Galvez A Thomas T Zhang Z Dou H Facile Gene Delivery Derived from Branched Low Molecular Weight Polyethylenimine by High Efficient Chemistry J Biomed Nanotechnol 2018 Oct 114(10)1785-1795

Zhang C Brandon NR Koper K Tang P Xu Y Dou H Invasion of Peripheral Immune Cells into Brain Parenchyma after Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation Aging Dis 2018 Jun 19(3)412-425

Loza O Hernandez P Calderoacuten-Mora J Laks S Leiner M Reddy S Lara P amp Granados H (2018) Developing Trans-affirming health services in an underserved area An intersectional approach Transgender Health 3(1) 127-135

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Byrd T Calderoacuten-Mora J Salaiz R amp Shokar N (2019) Barriers and facilitators to colorectal cancer screening within a Hispanic population Hispanic Health Care International 17(1) 23-29 doi 1011771540415318818982

Haut SR Lipton RB Cornes S Dwivedi AK Wasson R Cotton S Strawn JR Privitera M (2018) Behavioral interventions as a treatment for epilepsy A multicenter randomized controlled trial Neurology 90(11) e963-e970 PMID 29444968

Jessica Bernica Sherif Elhanafi Neeharika Kalakota Yi Jia Christopher Dodoo Alok Dwivedi Robert J Sealock Kalpesh Patel Isaac Raijman Marc J Zuckerman Mohamed O Othman (2018) Cholangioscopy is safe and feasible in elderly patients Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology 16(8) 1293-1299

Benjamin D Wissel Alok K Dwivedi Danielle Chin Aristide Merola Cara Jacob Andrew P Duker Jennifer E Vaughan Lilia Lovera Kathrin LaFaver Ariel Levy Anthony E Lang Francesca Morgante Melissa J Nirenberg Christopher Stephen Nutan Sharma Alberto Romagnolo Leonardo Lopiano Bettina Balint Xin X Yu Kailash P Bhatia Alberto J Espay Functional neurological disorders in Parkinson disease Accepted for publication in Journal

of Neurology Neurosurgery amp Psychiatry 89(6)566-571

Danny J Avalos Marc J Zuckerman Alok Dwivedi Christopher Dodoo Jinendra Satiya Fernando J Castro(2018) Differences in prevalence of large polyps between Hispanic Americans from Mexican-and Non-Mexican-predominant states Digestive diseases and sciences PMID 30276570

Zeina Nahleh Salman Otoukesh Hamid Reza Mirshahidi Anthony Loc Nguyen Gayathri Nagaraj Nabeel Badri Gehan Botrus Nabih Diab Andres Alvarado Luis A Sanchez Alok K Dwivedi (2018) Disparities in breast cancer a multi-institutional comparative analysis focusing on American Hispanics Cancer Medicine (In press 05072018)

9102019

25

Scholarly Activity Danny J Avalos Antonio Mendoza-Ladd Marc J Zuckerman Mohammad Bashashati Andres Alvarado Alok

Dwivedi Oriana M Damas (2018) Hispanics and Non-Hispanic Whites in the US have a Similar InflammatoryBowel Disease Phenotype A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis Digestive Diseases and Sciences 63(6)1558-1571

Aleli Campbell Rosalinda Heydarian Cecilia Ochoa Alok Kumar Dwivedi Zeina A Nahleh(2018) Single arm phaseII study of oral vitamin B12 for the treatment of musculoskeletal symptoms associated with aromatase inhibitors inwomen with early stage breast cancer The breast journal 24(3)260-268

Shaimaa Elzamly Nabeel Badri Osvaldo Padilla Alok Kumar Dwivedi Luis A Alvarado Matthew Hamilton NabihDiab Crosby Rock Ahmed Elfar Marwa Teleb Luis Sanchez Zeina Nahleh (2018) Epithelial-mesenchymaltransition markers in breast cancer and pathological responseafter neoadjuvant chemotherapy Breast Cancer

(Auckl) 2018 Aug 1121178223418788074

Jennifer C Molokwu Eribeth Penaranda Alok Dwivedi Indika Mallawaarachchi Navkiran Shokar (2018) Effect ofEducational Intervention on Self-Sampling Acceptability and Follow-Up Paps in Border Dwelling Hispanic FemalesJournal of Lower Genital Tract Disease

Ritika Suri Federico Rodriguez-Porcel Kelly Donohue Erin Jesse Lilia Lovera Alok Kumar Dwivedi Alberto JEspay (2018) Post-Stroke Movement Disorders The Clinical Neuroanatomic and Demographic Portrait of 284Published Cases Accepted for publication in Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases (In press05212018)

Zeina Nahleh Gehan Botrus Alok Dwivedi Nabeel Badri Salman Otoukesh Nabih Diab Sandip BiswasMichael Jennings Shaimaa Elzamly(2018) Clinico-pathologic disparities of breast cancer in HispanicLatina womenBreast disease 1-8

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Robert Gonzalez Trisha Suppes Jamie Zeitzer Colleen McClung Carol Tamminga Mauricio Tohen Angelica Forero Alok DwivediAndres Alvarado (2018) The association between mood state and chronobiological characteristics in bipolar I disorder a naturalisticvariable cluster analysis-based study International Journal of Bipolar Disorders 6(1)5Mohamed Teleb Aaron Shanker Alok Kumar Dwivedi Debabrata Mukherjee (2018) Effect of exercise on left ventricular mass index byechocardiography in mild and moderate hypertension a meta-analysis Res Cardiovasc Med 6(4)50-6Garnica O Das K Devasundaram S and Dhandayuthapani S Enhanced delivery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigens to antigenpresenting cells using RVG peptide Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Das K Garnica O and Dhandayuthapani S Utility of an oxidative stress response system for the expression of recombinant proteinsin mycobacteria and for the delivery of M tuberculosis antigens to the phagosomal compartments Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Palanichamy K Joshi A Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz T Fernando B Milan S Schiro F Naeem Y Garg H Braunschweig A 2019 Anti-ZikaActivity of a Library of Synthetic Carbohydrate Receptors Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 6284110-4119Anjali Joshi Erin B Punke Tugba Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz Diego P Peralta and Himanshu Garg 2019 TLR9 polymorphism correlates withimmune activation CD4 decline and plasma IP10 levels in HIV patients BMC Infect Dis 19 56Vargas-Medrano J Yang B Garza N T Segura-Ulate I and Perez R G (2018) Up-regulation of protective neuronal MicroRNAs byFTY720 and novel FTY720-derivatives Neuroscience letters 690 178-180Vidal-Martinez G Yang B Vargas-Medrano J and Perez R G (2018) Could alpha-Synuclein Modulation of Insulin and DopamineIdentify a Novel Link Between Parkinsons Disease and Diabetes as Well as Potential Therapies Frontiers in molecular

neuroscience 11 465

9102019

26

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Gil-Tommee C Vidal-Martinez G Annette Reyes C Vargas-Medrano J Herrera G V Martin S M Chaparro S A andPerez R G (2019) Parkinsonian GM2 synthase knockout mice lacking mature gangliosides develop urinary dysfunction andneurogenic bladder Experimental neurology 311265-273Vidal-Martinez G Najera K Miranda JD Gil-Tommee C Yang B Vargas-Medrano J Diaz-Pacheco V Barragan J ChaparroS Vargas-Medrano J Chinnasamy R Arterburn JB Perez RG FTY720 improves behavior increases Brain Derived NeurotrophicFactor and reduces α-synuclein pathology in parkinsonian GM2+minus

mice Neuroscience httpsdoiorg101016jneuroscience201905029Tasnim N Thakur V Chattopadhyay M Joddar B (2018) The efficacy of Graphene-foams towards the adhesion proliferationand expression of neuronal-phenotype by dopaminergic neurons differentiated from mesenchymal stem cells Stem cell

international Jun 3 20183410168 doi 10115520183410168Anil Kumar S Allen SC Tasnim N Akter T Park S Kumar A Chattopadhyay M Ito Y Suggs LJ Joddar B (2019) The applicabilityof furfuryl-gelatin as a novel bioink for tissue engineering applications J Biomed Mater Res B Appl Biomater 2019 107(2)314-323 doi 101002jbmb34123 Epub 2018 Apr 15Thakur V Chattopadhyay M (2018) Early urinary markers for diabetic and other kidney diseases Current drug targets 2018 Mar19Joddar B Tasnim N Thakur V Kumar A Mccallum R Chattopadhyay M (2018) Delivery of mesenchymal stem cells fromgelatin-alginate hydrogels to stomach lumen for treatment of gastroparesis Bioengineering 2018 5(1)Camacho CV Choudhari R Gadad SS (2018) Long noncoding RNAs and cancer an overview Steroids 13393-95

IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department

Large net loss (9) of MTM faculty members over the past 5 years

Vacant Director positions (i) Center for Neuroscience (ii) Center for InfectiousDiseases and (iii) Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology

No steps have been taken to fill directors positions for more than 2 years

Neurosciences Center at the verge of collapse Only one faculty will be left at theend of this fiscal year

The size of Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology is shrinking

Lack of communication regarding vision and strategic plan for growing department

No faculty salary raises for the past 3 years

Serious concerns about recruitment retention and tenure and promotion decisionsmade in the department Faculty morale is extremely low

Lack of functional research core facility

Gradual elimination of service contracts of equipment essential for research trainingand education of graduate and medical students

A plethora of other issues with the department administration

9102019

27

Questions

Departmental Report

Psychiatry

Ricardo Salazar MDAssociate Professor Psychiatry

9102019

28

Department ReportPsychiatryPRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCIL

BY RICARDO SALAZAR MD

DATE MONDAY JULY 15 2019

Department BreakdownPlease provide the total number of faculty members in your department and break down this number by

rank Please list new faculty members that have joined your department within the last six months

Total Number of Faculty 12

Number of Instructors 1

Number of Assistant Professors 8

Number of Associate Professors 2

Number of Professors 2

New Faculty Melanie Longhurst MD Instructor

9102019

29

LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair

program director clerkship director chiefs etc

Department Chair ndash Peter M Thompson MD MS

Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Sarah L Martin MD

Combined IMPsych Residency Program Director ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD

Psychiatry Clerkship Director ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD

Child amp Adolescent Fellowship Program Director ndash Cecilia De Vargas MD

Chief Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry ndash Sarah L Martin MD

Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Program Directorndash Ricardo Salazar MD

Chief Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences ndash Ricardo Salazar MD

Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Transmountain ndash Moataz Ragheb MD

AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in your department including awards honors regional

appointments national appointments etc

El Paso Behavioral Health Consortium ndash Board Member ndash Peter M Thompson MD

714 (50) of our graduating medical students this year choose and matched our resident training programs here at Paul L FosterSchool of Medicine Department of Psychiatry (Historical record) ndash Kudos for our Department Faculty

In appreciation for exceptional contributions to the 30th volume of the J Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences ndash Author contributions and review of 271 manuscripts submitted to the journal between September 2017 and August 2018 ndash Ricardo Salazar MD ndash Young Investigator Award Committee Member and Program Committee Member-Abstracts Sub-Committee Member of theAmerican Neuropsychiatric Association (ANPA)

Initial Accreditation with commendation and no citations from ACGME for our first Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Training Program for West Texas ndash Ricardo Salazar MD

Leadership in Education and Development Certificate Program (LEAD) Fellow -1-year program accredited from the Association ofAmerican Medical Colleges (AAMC) Silvina Tonarelli MD amp Ricardo Salazar MD (Selected Award)

Fully operating Southwest Brain Bank A Brain Tissue Repository for Research in Mental Illness ndashPeter M Thompson MD

Texas State Psychiatric Physicians Public Mental Health Services Committee ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD

Texas Health and Human Services Commission Behavioral Health Advisory Committee ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP

Fellow American College of Physicians ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP FACP

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30

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Abstracts 31

Publications 5 (peer-review journals)

Presentations 17 ndash National (7) and International (6)

Invited Speaker 21 (including faculty residents fellows) ndash Local amp National

Book Chapters NA

Grants McKee Foundation Award ndash our Chair - Thompson

Intramural Grants Seed Grant 1 SARP Educational Grant 2 - Salazar

President`s Collaborative Research Initiative ndashMarch 2018 - Tonarelli

Scholarly Activity

Child and Adolescent Fellowship Presentations

INTERNATIONAL

- Curanderos and Limpias Cultural psychiatry

Poster presented at 6th Annual Scientific conference of the European Association of PsychosomaticMedicine Verona Italy Drs Garza Meissner De Vargas Mehta June 2018

-Case presentation 0f 49XXXXY Same conference same authors same city

-Resilience etiology protective and risk factors presentation C De Vargas by invitation Annual WorldPediatric summit Madrid June 2018

-Parents and their Children Fantastic journey Same conference on June 2019 Berlin Germany

NATIONAL

-Development of Psychopathology in children at risk for Bipolar Disorders Drs Escamilla Peter Sangra C DeVargas S Martin C Alvarado Andrea Rios (Poster) American Academy of Child and Adolescent PsychiatryAnnual Conference Seattle WA October 2018

Frank William Meissner MD Cynthia Elizabeth Garza MDJD Sarah L Martin MD rdquoDrug-Induced BrugadaSyndrome in a Middle-Aged Female Patient Drugs EKG Diagnosis Electrophysiology and SurveillanceRecommendationrdquo American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting San Francisco CA May 21 2019

Delinquency in a group of school children at risk for bipolar disorder D Haque M Escamilla C De VargasPresented at UCLA LA Ca June 2019

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31

Residency ProgramPlease provide information regarding your departmentrsquos residency program ie recent accreditation

number of residents and program updates (if applicable)

24 General Psychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)

8 Internal MedicinePsychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)

3 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellows

1 Geriatric Psychiatry Fellow- newly accredited program

IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department

RecruitmentRetention

Short staffed

Organizational Structure

Financial incentives

Protected time

Gender balance Attrition malefemale ratio 41

Program Coordinator turnover rate

Mentoring

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32

Departmental Organizational

Structure

Chair

Division ChiefsProgram Directors

Clerkship Director

Adm

Organizational Structure Model

Chair

Deputy Chair for Education

Program

Directors

Deputy Chair for Research

Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs

Vicechair

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33

Roles

Deputy Chair for Education

Oversee undergraduate graduate and CME including the development of teachers and educational scholars Monitor quality and safety across the department

Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs

Faculty appointments Faculty Development and Promotion andor Tenure Develop programs in different domains such as research education personal improvement and leadership Support clinical activities by improving the efficiency of operations and in helping to fit clinical programs into those in the rest of the medical center Allocation of space

Deputy Chair for Research

Develop and direct department-wide programs for faculty recruitment development and support of mentors recognition of excellence and funding of pilot grants bridge funding and grants to nurture multi-principal investigator and trans-division or trans-department projects Allocation of space among divisions

Bottom Line

We need more funds

Institutional support

The investments needed to recruit faculty are beyond the capacity of the

department`s operational revenue

Recruiting a leading investigator or one with great potential for

example may require an investment of $ 1 million and sometimes more

Endowments are the departmentrsquos foundational financial capital the

keel that maintains momentum and balance through the headwinds

and rough seas each department will navigate Endowments increase

the departmentrsquos independence in sustaining its core mission

Thus creation of endowments should be a high priority for any

department that plans for the long term and they increase capacity to

recruit the best faculty in a competitive environment

Page 8: FACULTY COUNCIL MEETING · 7/15/2019  · FACULTY COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES Monday, July 15, 2019 Noon – 1:00 p.m. MEB, Room 1120 and WebEx TTUHSC El Paso PLFSOM 7/15/2019 FACULTY

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6

EY2018

Received 3983 primary applications amp 2729 completed

applications

130 acceptances leading up to TMDSAS match

TTUHSC EP PLFSOM First Year Entering Students

EY 2019

38

(27506)

TX 37 (30) 37 (29) 37 (30) 37 (30) 37 (30) 37 (31) 373 (31) 38 (507) 38 (509)376

(266506)

US 37 (31) 37 (31) 37 (31) 37 (31) 37 (31) 37 (31) 37(31) 37 (509) 37 (510) 38 (27506)

Hispanic 8 (20) 6 (10) 5 (6) 12 (15) 23 (24) 32 (31) 24 (23) 35 (35) 37 (36) 24 (24) 28 (269)

Border Counties - - 7 (9) 13 (16) 24 (24) 28 (27) 26 (25) 32 (31) 33 (32) 21 (21) 27 (26)

El Paso 7 (17) 8 (13) 5 (6) 12 (15) 19 (19) 23 (22) 24 (23) 29 (28) 25 (24) 19 (19) 23 (221)

African American 0 0 0 0 0 1 (1) 3 (3) 1 (1) 3 (3) 2 (2) 6 (58)

Native American 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Class Size 40 60 81 80 100 104 104 103 103 100 104

Male 16 (40) 35 (58) 44 (54) 42 (52) 65 (65) 47 (45) 67 (64) 59 (57) 56 (54) 49 (49) 52 (50)

Female 24 (60) 25 (42) 37 (46) 38 (48) 35 (35) 57 (55) 37 (36) 44 (43) 47 (46) 51 (51) 52 (50)

Total Applicants 2503 2531 2719 2946 3105 3375 3694 4043 3950 3982 4472

Interviewed 389 378 593 548 626 566 538 510 535 546 602

EY 2018

374

(5077)

Underrepresented minority(URM)-Diversity ()

Class Size amp Gender ()

Applicants

37 (28) 37 (29)37

(28503)

368

(26505)

EY 2014 EY 2015 EY 2016 EY 2017

GPA(MCAT) 37 (28) 36 (29) 36 (29) 35 (29) 36 (29)

EY 2009 EY 2010 EY 2011 EY 2012 EY 2013

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7

Candidates discussed

Voting (high priority acceptable reject)

Categorized by vote

1 High Priority (unanimous high priority votes)

2 Highly Acceptable -1 -2 -3

3 Very Acceptable (4+ acceptable votes)

4 Acceptable (majority acceptable votes)

5 Reject

Ranked within category by weighted scores (Interview 30 MCAT 30 SGPA 35 GPA 5)

Rank list is generated after the first interview date and updated weekly throughout interview season

Admissions Committee Process

Upcoming actions

Joint Admission Medical Program (JAMP) Round 2 Match

(Friday Jan 25th) will match with 2

Rolling admissions continues until June 1

Created additional interview date for EY2020 (22 days)

New requirement added for EY2020 CASPer Assessment ndash

Situational Judgement Test (SJT)

Propose revision to By-Laws to add minimum attendance

requirements for committee members

9102019

8

Current IssuesConcerns

Ongoing need to recruit more interviewers

Anticipating class size expansion

Meeting quorum

Standing Committee Report

Curriculum and Educational Policy

Committee

Richard Brower MD PhDAssociate Dean for Medical Education

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9

Curriculum amp

Educational Policy

Committee Report to the PLFSOM Faculty Council

Presented by Richard Brower MD

Date July 15 2019

Committee Composition and Terms of

Service

ldquoCandidates for lsquoat largersquo positions are to be

recommended by the associate dean for medical

education and appointed by the deanrdquo

ldquoTerms may be renewed by recommendation of the

associate dean for medical education and appointment by

the deanrdquo

ldquohelliplsquoat largersquo members may be appointed for no more than

two consecutive terms after which they are ineligible to

serve for 4 yearsrdquo

ldquoCandidates for these positions should demonstrate an

ongoing interest in medical educationrdquo

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10

Committee Composition and Terms of ServiceLast Name First Name Degree Academic Rank Department Committee Position Term Start Date

Term Expiration Date

Frances Mark MD ProfessorMedical Education

Member (College Master)

9120168312020

Pfarr Curt PhD ProfessorMedical Education

Member (College Master) 9242015 8312019

Gajendran Mahesh MD Assistant ProfessorInternal Medicine

Member (Clinician) 912017 8312021

Uga Aghaegbulam MD Assistant Professor

Psychiatry and Internal Medicine

Member (Clinician) 11192015 10312019

Kassar Darine MD Assistant Professor NeurologyMember (Clinician) 972016 8312020

Wojciechowska Joanna MD Assistant Professor Pediatrics

Member (Clinician) 212018 8312022

Nino DiegoMD PhD Assistant Professor

Medical Education

Member (Basic Sciences) 1142019 1142023

Padilla Osvaldo MD Assistant Professor PathologyMember (Basic Sciences) 12152014 8312022

Cervantes JorgeMD PhD Assistant Professor

Medical Education

Member (Basic Sciences) 8232016 8312020

Perry Cynthia PhD Assistant ProfessorMedical Education

Member (Basic Sciences) 9282015 8312019

Brower Richard MDAssociate Professor

Medical Education Chair NA NA

Three positions

opening soon ndash-

should have

demonstrated

interest and

engagement in

UME and a

willingness to

attend all

meetings and

participate in

team

assignments

Committee Composition and Terms of

Service Leadership

This committee is chaired by the associate dean for medical education

The committee reports to the Faculty Council

Membership will include

2 college masters (one basic scientist one clinician) with 4-year terms

4 members from the basic sciences faculty with 4-year terms (staggered)

4 members from the clinical sciences faculty with 4-year terms (staggered)

Ex Officio members

Dean or their designee

Associate dean for student affairs

Assistant deans for medication education

Managing director of the libraries (ldquoAssociate Director of the Libraryrdquo)

Director of information technology or their designee

Director of assessment and evaluation (position no longer exists)

Two student reps from each of the four classes (from the Student Curriculum and Evaluation Committee)

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11

Committee Charge Faculty Bylaws Article IX Section C2

The Committee on Curriculum and Educational Policy is charged with planning coordinating

reviewing and evaluating the curriculum to ensure that it adheres to the

written educational policies goals and objectives of the Paul L Foster School

of Medicine Further the Committee shall have full authority to make changes in

educational policy or in the organization of the curriculum with the

concurrence of the Dean and with comment and input from the Faculty Council The Faculty of the Paul L Foster School of Medicine has the responsibility to define course objectives create

and deliver content to meet those objectives and modify their activities in response to appropriate feedback

from peers and students The Committee will provide updates on its activities at least

twice a year to the Faculty Council In order to accomplish the mission of the Committee the

Chair may appoint subcommittees that may include members who are not

members of the Committee It shall be the responsibility of the Committee to coordinate the

activities and reports of these subcommittees In addition the Committee receives reports

from the Committee on Evaluation of Educational Programs

Current IssuesConcerns

Curriculum enhancementimprovement

Preparation for class size expansion

Preparation for next round of curriculum reviews

(ldquocurriculum as a wholerdquo)

9102019

12

CEPC actions since last report

January 2019 (1 meeting)

Reviewed and approved revisions to the following

educational program polices

Clerkship Administration

Clerkship DirectorAssistant Director Position Description

Approval of two new 4th Year Electives

Pediatric Gastroenterology Hepatology and Nutrition

Emergency Medicine Ultrasound

Clerkship phase review FM and Surgery

CEPC actions since last report

February 2019 (2 meetings)

New educational program policy reviewed and approved

Grade Changes and Transcript Notations

Rollover of established educational program goals and

objectives (the ldquoPGOsrdquo) approved

Clerkship phase review Pediatrics and ObGyn

Preliminary data-driven discussion of revised educational

program policy covering Grading Promotion and Academic

Standing (ldquoGPASrdquo)

9102019

13

CEPC actions since last report

March 2019 (2 meetings)

Clerkship phase review IM and Psych Critical Care and Sub-I

Selectives

Approval of new educational program policy

Grading Promotion and Academic Standing (ldquoGPASrdquo)

Notification of changes in clerkship directorship

Elimination of the PICE course (PICE 7001) from the year 2

curriculum approved (primarily administrative educational

elements re-distributed)

Associated review and approval of an updated PLSOM degree

plan (based on 157 credit hours)

CEPC actions since last report

April 2019 (1 meetings)

Clerkship phase review EM Neurology and Intersessions

Review and approval of revised educational program policy

Pre-Clerkship Phase Student Attendance and Participation

Policy

9102019

14

CEPC actions since last report

May 2019 (1 meetings)

Review and approval of the ldquoCommon Clerkship Policiesrdquo

Notification of additional changes in the clerkship

directorship

Clerkship phase review

Phase data review (AAMC GQ NBME subject exams

USMLE Step 2 CK and CS Step 3 final grades EOY OSCE

and procedure workshop residency director survey)

Introduction of a 10-point plan for curriculum revision

(ldquoPLFSOM v20rdquo)

June 2019 (no quorum) July 2019 (cancelled)

CEPC actions since last report

Challenges and opportunities for improvement identified

through the AY208-19 clerkship phase review

Clear identification of contacts at affiliated sites

Academic support and remediation planning

Consistent resident preparation for participation in UME

Timeliness of grading (Sub-I and Critical Care Selectives)

Orientation modules for Sub-Q and Critical Care Selectives)

Scaling clerkships for anticipated class expansion

The summer doldrums

June 2019 (no quorum) July 2019 (cancelled)

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15

Upcoming actions

Ongoing educational program policy development

Maintain accreditation compliance related curriculum

review cycle (2019-20 ldquoCurriculum as a Wholerdquo)

Review and advance plans for curriculum renewalrevision

Review proposal to re-direct our MD-MPH affiliation to

TTUHSC GSBS Lubbock

Consider development of an MD-MBA option (potentially

with UTEP)

Links to related information

PLFSOM Committee on Curriculum and Educational Policy main page

httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCdefaultaspx

MD degree program policies

httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCpoliciesaspx

MD degree program information

httpselpasottuhscedusomomeUMEinfoaspx

Course and clerkship syllabi

httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCcoursereviewaspx

AY2017-18 medical education program evaluation report (e-Raider required)

httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPC_documentssecureAY2017-

2018MEPEvaluationAnnualReport-Draft-v2pdf

9102019

19

Departmental Report

Molecular and Translational

Medicine

Laxman Gangwani PhDAssociate Professor Molecular amp

Translational Medicine

9102019

20

Department of Molecular and

Translational Medicine (formerly

Biomedical Sciences) Report

PRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCIL

BY LAXMAN GANGWANI

DATE JULY 15 2019

Department BreakdownPlease provide the total number of faculty members in your department and break down this number by

rank Please list new faculty members that have joined your department within the last six months

Total Number of Faculty

Number of Faculty Associates 1

Number of Instructors 1

Number of Research Assistant Professor 1

Number of Assistant Professors 6

Number of Associate Professors 7

Number of Professors 4

New Faculty

None

9102019

21

LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair

program director clerkship director chiefs etc

Department Chair Dr Peter Rotwein (VP Research Associate

Dean GSBS)

Director Center of Emphasis in Cancer Dr Rajkumar

Lakshmanaswamy (Dean GSBS) Co-Director Dr N Shokar

Director Center of Emphasis in Diabetes and Metabolism Dr

David Cistola

Director Center of Emphasis in Infectious Diseases Vacant

Director Center of Emphasis in Neurosciences Vacant

Chief Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology Vacant

AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional

appointments national appointments etc

Awards

Dr Mingtao Zeng

2018 The American Association of Immunologists (AAI) AAI Travel Grant for the 5th European Congress of Immunology

2018 Defense Techconnect Fall Summit amp Expo (2018) Techconnect Defense Innovation Award

Dr Shrikant Gadad

Eugenia Rosemberg Outstanding Abstract Award Endocrine Society Annual Meeting New Orleans March 23-26 2019

Dr Huanyu Dou

National Innovation Award Techconnect 2019

Honors

Dr Alok Dwivedi

Appointed as associated faculty at the Border Biomedical Research Center (BBRC) University of Texas El Paso (UTEP)

Dr Shrikant Gadad

Session Chair (OR09 Steroid Hormone Biology in Physiology and Disease) Endocrine Society Annual Meeting New Orleans March 23-26 2019

9102019

22

AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional

appointments national appointments etc

NIH or DOD study sections appointments

Dr Guohua Yi

HIV special Emphasis Panel for RFA-AI-18-058 Genetic Engineering Technologies for HIV Cure Research (U19)

Dr Laxman Gangwani

Department of Defense (DOD) Reviewer for Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) 2018 -

NIHCSR Study ldquoProgram Evaluation of NIH Peer Review Processes The Role of Anonymizationrdquo 2019 ndash

Patents filings and publications

Patent Number 9862951 Title RNA Interference-Based Therapeutic against Anthrax Inventors Mingtao Zeng and Maria T AreacutevaloDate of Patent January 9 2018

Cistola D P Patel V (2018) Method and system for non-invasive measurement of metabolic health US Non-Provisional Utility Patent Application No 15911728 filed by Texas Tech University

Cistola D P Robinson M D (2018) Methods and tools for diagnosing insulin resistance and assessing health status using NMR relaxation times for water United States Patent Application Publication US 20180020947 A1 httpspatentsgooglecompatentUS20180020947A1en

AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional

appointments national appointments etc

News and Media Coverage of Research performed at TTUHSC EP

Dr David Cistola

MedPageToday 2 January 2019 Harris Scott Could a New Biomarker Help Predict Type 2 Diabetes -- Early datashow water T2 catches abnormalities before traditional testing but experts are cautiously optimistichttpswwwmedpagetodaycomreading-roomendocrine-societydiabetes77186

KTSM Channel 9 NBC El Paso 14 November 2018 Castillo Susy Research in El Paso aimed at detectingdiabetes earlyhttpswwwktsmcomlifestylehealthresearch-in-el-paso-aimed-at-detecting-diabetes-early1596408236apt_credirect=1

El Paso Inc 29 March 2019 TTUHSC El Paso Tackling diabetes cancer httpwwwelpasoinccomttuhsc-el-paso-tackling-diabetes-cancerarticle_613144fe-526a-11e9-b916-c35b701a5ef9html

Dr Laxman Gangwani

Cure SMA Awards $150000 Grant to Laxman Gangwani PhD Texas Tech University

httpwwwcuresmaorgnewsgangwani-grant-2019html

httpswwweurekalertorgpub_releases2019-05ttuh-gw050119php

httpswwwresearchgatenetscientific-contributions11984383_Laxman_Gangwani

9102019

23

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Peer-reviewed publications 36 (In high-impact journals)

2018 highest impact factor (11561) journal Nucleic Acids Research

Abstracts 43

Presentations (i) Oral 11 (ii) Posters 28

Invited talks 13

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Peer-reviewed publications

Kannan A Bhatia K Branzei D and Gangwani L (2018) Combined deficiency of Senataxin and DNA-PKcscauses DNA damage accumulation and neurodegeneration in spinal muscular atrophy Nucleic Acids Research2018 Vol 46 No 16 8326-8346

Mishra I Jones C Patel V Deodhar S Cistola D P (2018) Early detection of metabolic dysregulation usingwater T2 analysis of biobanked samples Diabetes Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity Targets and Therapy 11 807-818

Patel V Dwivedi A K Deodhar S Mishra I Cistola D P (2018) Aptamer-based search for correlates of plasmaand serum water T2 Implications for early metabolic dysregulation and metabolic syndrome Biomarker Research6(1) 28

Garg H Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz T Joshi A 2018 Recent Advances in Zika Virus Vaccines Viruses Nov 1410 (11) Sundin OH Mendoza-Ladd A Zeng M Diaz-Areacutevalo D Morales E Fagan BMOrdontildeez J McCallum RW Does a

glucose-based hydrogen and methane breath test detect bacterial overgrowth in the jejunum NeurogastroenterolMotil 2018e13350

Zheng Z Diaz-Areacutevalo D Guan H and Mingtao Zeng Noninvasive vaccination against infectious diseases Humanvaccines amp immunotherapeutics 2018 14(7)1717-1733

Preeti Bharaj Chunting Ye Sean Petersen Qianghu Wang Baoli Hu N Manjunath Premlata Shankar Guohua Yi(2018) Gene array analysis of PD-1H overexpressing monocytes reveals a pro-inflammatory profile Heliyone00545

Bencomo-Alvarez AE Rubio AJ Gonzalez MA and Eiring AM Energy metabolism and drug response in myeloidleukaemic stem cells Br J Haematol 2019 In Press

9102019

24

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Peer-reviewed publications Yan D Pomicter AD Tantravahi S Mason CC Senina AV Ahmann JM Wang Q Than H Patel AB Heaton

WL Eiring AM Clair PM Gantz KC Redwine HM Swierczek SI Halverson BJ Baloglu E Shacham S KhorashadJS Kelley TW Salama ME Miles RR Boucher KM Prchal JT OHare T and Deininger MW Nuclear-cytoplasmic transport is a therapeutic target in myelofibrosis Clin Cancer Res 201925(7)2323-2335

Heipertz E Harper J Lopez CA Fikrig E Hughes ME Walker WE Circadian rhythms influence the severity of sepsis in mice via a TLR2-dependent leukocyte-intrinsic mechanism The Journal of Immunology 2018 201193-201

Khatri R Afzal MR Qureshi MA Maud A Huanyu D Jose Rodriguez G Pre-Existing Renal Failure Increases In-Hospital Mortality in Patients with Intracerebral Hemorrhage J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis 2019 Feb28(2)237-242

Zou L Lee SY Wu Q Zhang H Bastian A Orji C Payne G Galvez A Thomas T Zhang Z Dou H Facile Gene Delivery Derived from Branched Low Molecular Weight Polyethylenimine by High Efficient Chemistry J Biomed Nanotechnol 2018 Oct 114(10)1785-1795

Zhang C Brandon NR Koper K Tang P Xu Y Dou H Invasion of Peripheral Immune Cells into Brain Parenchyma after Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation Aging Dis 2018 Jun 19(3)412-425

Loza O Hernandez P Calderoacuten-Mora J Laks S Leiner M Reddy S Lara P amp Granados H (2018) Developing Trans-affirming health services in an underserved area An intersectional approach Transgender Health 3(1) 127-135

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Byrd T Calderoacuten-Mora J Salaiz R amp Shokar N (2019) Barriers and facilitators to colorectal cancer screening within a Hispanic population Hispanic Health Care International 17(1) 23-29 doi 1011771540415318818982

Haut SR Lipton RB Cornes S Dwivedi AK Wasson R Cotton S Strawn JR Privitera M (2018) Behavioral interventions as a treatment for epilepsy A multicenter randomized controlled trial Neurology 90(11) e963-e970 PMID 29444968

Jessica Bernica Sherif Elhanafi Neeharika Kalakota Yi Jia Christopher Dodoo Alok Dwivedi Robert J Sealock Kalpesh Patel Isaac Raijman Marc J Zuckerman Mohamed O Othman (2018) Cholangioscopy is safe and feasible in elderly patients Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology 16(8) 1293-1299

Benjamin D Wissel Alok K Dwivedi Danielle Chin Aristide Merola Cara Jacob Andrew P Duker Jennifer E Vaughan Lilia Lovera Kathrin LaFaver Ariel Levy Anthony E Lang Francesca Morgante Melissa J Nirenberg Christopher Stephen Nutan Sharma Alberto Romagnolo Leonardo Lopiano Bettina Balint Xin X Yu Kailash P Bhatia Alberto J Espay Functional neurological disorders in Parkinson disease Accepted for publication in Journal

of Neurology Neurosurgery amp Psychiatry 89(6)566-571

Danny J Avalos Marc J Zuckerman Alok Dwivedi Christopher Dodoo Jinendra Satiya Fernando J Castro(2018) Differences in prevalence of large polyps between Hispanic Americans from Mexican-and Non-Mexican-predominant states Digestive diseases and sciences PMID 30276570

Zeina Nahleh Salman Otoukesh Hamid Reza Mirshahidi Anthony Loc Nguyen Gayathri Nagaraj Nabeel Badri Gehan Botrus Nabih Diab Andres Alvarado Luis A Sanchez Alok K Dwivedi (2018) Disparities in breast cancer a multi-institutional comparative analysis focusing on American Hispanics Cancer Medicine (In press 05072018)

9102019

25

Scholarly Activity Danny J Avalos Antonio Mendoza-Ladd Marc J Zuckerman Mohammad Bashashati Andres Alvarado Alok

Dwivedi Oriana M Damas (2018) Hispanics and Non-Hispanic Whites in the US have a Similar InflammatoryBowel Disease Phenotype A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis Digestive Diseases and Sciences 63(6)1558-1571

Aleli Campbell Rosalinda Heydarian Cecilia Ochoa Alok Kumar Dwivedi Zeina A Nahleh(2018) Single arm phaseII study of oral vitamin B12 for the treatment of musculoskeletal symptoms associated with aromatase inhibitors inwomen with early stage breast cancer The breast journal 24(3)260-268

Shaimaa Elzamly Nabeel Badri Osvaldo Padilla Alok Kumar Dwivedi Luis A Alvarado Matthew Hamilton NabihDiab Crosby Rock Ahmed Elfar Marwa Teleb Luis Sanchez Zeina Nahleh (2018) Epithelial-mesenchymaltransition markers in breast cancer and pathological responseafter neoadjuvant chemotherapy Breast Cancer

(Auckl) 2018 Aug 1121178223418788074

Jennifer C Molokwu Eribeth Penaranda Alok Dwivedi Indika Mallawaarachchi Navkiran Shokar (2018) Effect ofEducational Intervention on Self-Sampling Acceptability and Follow-Up Paps in Border Dwelling Hispanic FemalesJournal of Lower Genital Tract Disease

Ritika Suri Federico Rodriguez-Porcel Kelly Donohue Erin Jesse Lilia Lovera Alok Kumar Dwivedi Alberto JEspay (2018) Post-Stroke Movement Disorders The Clinical Neuroanatomic and Demographic Portrait of 284Published Cases Accepted for publication in Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases (In press05212018)

Zeina Nahleh Gehan Botrus Alok Dwivedi Nabeel Badri Salman Otoukesh Nabih Diab Sandip BiswasMichael Jennings Shaimaa Elzamly(2018) Clinico-pathologic disparities of breast cancer in HispanicLatina womenBreast disease 1-8

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Robert Gonzalez Trisha Suppes Jamie Zeitzer Colleen McClung Carol Tamminga Mauricio Tohen Angelica Forero Alok DwivediAndres Alvarado (2018) The association between mood state and chronobiological characteristics in bipolar I disorder a naturalisticvariable cluster analysis-based study International Journal of Bipolar Disorders 6(1)5Mohamed Teleb Aaron Shanker Alok Kumar Dwivedi Debabrata Mukherjee (2018) Effect of exercise on left ventricular mass index byechocardiography in mild and moderate hypertension a meta-analysis Res Cardiovasc Med 6(4)50-6Garnica O Das K Devasundaram S and Dhandayuthapani S Enhanced delivery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigens to antigenpresenting cells using RVG peptide Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Das K Garnica O and Dhandayuthapani S Utility of an oxidative stress response system for the expression of recombinant proteinsin mycobacteria and for the delivery of M tuberculosis antigens to the phagosomal compartments Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Palanichamy K Joshi A Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz T Fernando B Milan S Schiro F Naeem Y Garg H Braunschweig A 2019 Anti-ZikaActivity of a Library of Synthetic Carbohydrate Receptors Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 6284110-4119Anjali Joshi Erin B Punke Tugba Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz Diego P Peralta and Himanshu Garg 2019 TLR9 polymorphism correlates withimmune activation CD4 decline and plasma IP10 levels in HIV patients BMC Infect Dis 19 56Vargas-Medrano J Yang B Garza N T Segura-Ulate I and Perez R G (2018) Up-regulation of protective neuronal MicroRNAs byFTY720 and novel FTY720-derivatives Neuroscience letters 690 178-180Vidal-Martinez G Yang B Vargas-Medrano J and Perez R G (2018) Could alpha-Synuclein Modulation of Insulin and DopamineIdentify a Novel Link Between Parkinsons Disease and Diabetes as Well as Potential Therapies Frontiers in molecular

neuroscience 11 465

9102019

26

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Gil-Tommee C Vidal-Martinez G Annette Reyes C Vargas-Medrano J Herrera G V Martin S M Chaparro S A andPerez R G (2019) Parkinsonian GM2 synthase knockout mice lacking mature gangliosides develop urinary dysfunction andneurogenic bladder Experimental neurology 311265-273Vidal-Martinez G Najera K Miranda JD Gil-Tommee C Yang B Vargas-Medrano J Diaz-Pacheco V Barragan J ChaparroS Vargas-Medrano J Chinnasamy R Arterburn JB Perez RG FTY720 improves behavior increases Brain Derived NeurotrophicFactor and reduces α-synuclein pathology in parkinsonian GM2+minus

mice Neuroscience httpsdoiorg101016jneuroscience201905029Tasnim N Thakur V Chattopadhyay M Joddar B (2018) The efficacy of Graphene-foams towards the adhesion proliferationand expression of neuronal-phenotype by dopaminergic neurons differentiated from mesenchymal stem cells Stem cell

international Jun 3 20183410168 doi 10115520183410168Anil Kumar S Allen SC Tasnim N Akter T Park S Kumar A Chattopadhyay M Ito Y Suggs LJ Joddar B (2019) The applicabilityof furfuryl-gelatin as a novel bioink for tissue engineering applications J Biomed Mater Res B Appl Biomater 2019 107(2)314-323 doi 101002jbmb34123 Epub 2018 Apr 15Thakur V Chattopadhyay M (2018) Early urinary markers for diabetic and other kidney diseases Current drug targets 2018 Mar19Joddar B Tasnim N Thakur V Kumar A Mccallum R Chattopadhyay M (2018) Delivery of mesenchymal stem cells fromgelatin-alginate hydrogels to stomach lumen for treatment of gastroparesis Bioengineering 2018 5(1)Camacho CV Choudhari R Gadad SS (2018) Long noncoding RNAs and cancer an overview Steroids 13393-95

IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department

Large net loss (9) of MTM faculty members over the past 5 years

Vacant Director positions (i) Center for Neuroscience (ii) Center for InfectiousDiseases and (iii) Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology

No steps have been taken to fill directors positions for more than 2 years

Neurosciences Center at the verge of collapse Only one faculty will be left at theend of this fiscal year

The size of Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology is shrinking

Lack of communication regarding vision and strategic plan for growing department

No faculty salary raises for the past 3 years

Serious concerns about recruitment retention and tenure and promotion decisionsmade in the department Faculty morale is extremely low

Lack of functional research core facility

Gradual elimination of service contracts of equipment essential for research trainingand education of graduate and medical students

A plethora of other issues with the department administration

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27

Questions

Departmental Report

Psychiatry

Ricardo Salazar MDAssociate Professor Psychiatry

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28

Department ReportPsychiatryPRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCIL

BY RICARDO SALAZAR MD

DATE MONDAY JULY 15 2019

Department BreakdownPlease provide the total number of faculty members in your department and break down this number by

rank Please list new faculty members that have joined your department within the last six months

Total Number of Faculty 12

Number of Instructors 1

Number of Assistant Professors 8

Number of Associate Professors 2

Number of Professors 2

New Faculty Melanie Longhurst MD Instructor

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29

LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair

program director clerkship director chiefs etc

Department Chair ndash Peter M Thompson MD MS

Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Sarah L Martin MD

Combined IMPsych Residency Program Director ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD

Psychiatry Clerkship Director ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD

Child amp Adolescent Fellowship Program Director ndash Cecilia De Vargas MD

Chief Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry ndash Sarah L Martin MD

Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Program Directorndash Ricardo Salazar MD

Chief Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences ndash Ricardo Salazar MD

Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Transmountain ndash Moataz Ragheb MD

AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in your department including awards honors regional

appointments national appointments etc

El Paso Behavioral Health Consortium ndash Board Member ndash Peter M Thompson MD

714 (50) of our graduating medical students this year choose and matched our resident training programs here at Paul L FosterSchool of Medicine Department of Psychiatry (Historical record) ndash Kudos for our Department Faculty

In appreciation for exceptional contributions to the 30th volume of the J Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences ndash Author contributions and review of 271 manuscripts submitted to the journal between September 2017 and August 2018 ndash Ricardo Salazar MD ndash Young Investigator Award Committee Member and Program Committee Member-Abstracts Sub-Committee Member of theAmerican Neuropsychiatric Association (ANPA)

Initial Accreditation with commendation and no citations from ACGME for our first Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Training Program for West Texas ndash Ricardo Salazar MD

Leadership in Education and Development Certificate Program (LEAD) Fellow -1-year program accredited from the Association ofAmerican Medical Colleges (AAMC) Silvina Tonarelli MD amp Ricardo Salazar MD (Selected Award)

Fully operating Southwest Brain Bank A Brain Tissue Repository for Research in Mental Illness ndashPeter M Thompson MD

Texas State Psychiatric Physicians Public Mental Health Services Committee ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD

Texas Health and Human Services Commission Behavioral Health Advisory Committee ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP

Fellow American College of Physicians ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP FACP

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30

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Abstracts 31

Publications 5 (peer-review journals)

Presentations 17 ndash National (7) and International (6)

Invited Speaker 21 (including faculty residents fellows) ndash Local amp National

Book Chapters NA

Grants McKee Foundation Award ndash our Chair - Thompson

Intramural Grants Seed Grant 1 SARP Educational Grant 2 - Salazar

President`s Collaborative Research Initiative ndashMarch 2018 - Tonarelli

Scholarly Activity

Child and Adolescent Fellowship Presentations

INTERNATIONAL

- Curanderos and Limpias Cultural psychiatry

Poster presented at 6th Annual Scientific conference of the European Association of PsychosomaticMedicine Verona Italy Drs Garza Meissner De Vargas Mehta June 2018

-Case presentation 0f 49XXXXY Same conference same authors same city

-Resilience etiology protective and risk factors presentation C De Vargas by invitation Annual WorldPediatric summit Madrid June 2018

-Parents and their Children Fantastic journey Same conference on June 2019 Berlin Germany

NATIONAL

-Development of Psychopathology in children at risk for Bipolar Disorders Drs Escamilla Peter Sangra C DeVargas S Martin C Alvarado Andrea Rios (Poster) American Academy of Child and Adolescent PsychiatryAnnual Conference Seattle WA October 2018

Frank William Meissner MD Cynthia Elizabeth Garza MDJD Sarah L Martin MD rdquoDrug-Induced BrugadaSyndrome in a Middle-Aged Female Patient Drugs EKG Diagnosis Electrophysiology and SurveillanceRecommendationrdquo American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting San Francisco CA May 21 2019

Delinquency in a group of school children at risk for bipolar disorder D Haque M Escamilla C De VargasPresented at UCLA LA Ca June 2019

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31

Residency ProgramPlease provide information regarding your departmentrsquos residency program ie recent accreditation

number of residents and program updates (if applicable)

24 General Psychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)

8 Internal MedicinePsychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)

3 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellows

1 Geriatric Psychiatry Fellow- newly accredited program

IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department

RecruitmentRetention

Short staffed

Organizational Structure

Financial incentives

Protected time

Gender balance Attrition malefemale ratio 41

Program Coordinator turnover rate

Mentoring

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32

Departmental Organizational

Structure

Chair

Division ChiefsProgram Directors

Clerkship Director

Adm

Organizational Structure Model

Chair

Deputy Chair for Education

Program

Directors

Deputy Chair for Research

Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs

Vicechair

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33

Roles

Deputy Chair for Education

Oversee undergraduate graduate and CME including the development of teachers and educational scholars Monitor quality and safety across the department

Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs

Faculty appointments Faculty Development and Promotion andor Tenure Develop programs in different domains such as research education personal improvement and leadership Support clinical activities by improving the efficiency of operations and in helping to fit clinical programs into those in the rest of the medical center Allocation of space

Deputy Chair for Research

Develop and direct department-wide programs for faculty recruitment development and support of mentors recognition of excellence and funding of pilot grants bridge funding and grants to nurture multi-principal investigator and trans-division or trans-department projects Allocation of space among divisions

Bottom Line

We need more funds

Institutional support

The investments needed to recruit faculty are beyond the capacity of the

department`s operational revenue

Recruiting a leading investigator or one with great potential for

example may require an investment of $ 1 million and sometimes more

Endowments are the departmentrsquos foundational financial capital the

keel that maintains momentum and balance through the headwinds

and rough seas each department will navigate Endowments increase

the departmentrsquos independence in sustaining its core mission

Thus creation of endowments should be a high priority for any

department that plans for the long term and they increase capacity to

recruit the best faculty in a competitive environment

Page 9: FACULTY COUNCIL MEETING · 7/15/2019  · FACULTY COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES Monday, July 15, 2019 Noon – 1:00 p.m. MEB, Room 1120 and WebEx TTUHSC El Paso PLFSOM 7/15/2019 FACULTY

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Candidates discussed

Voting (high priority acceptable reject)

Categorized by vote

1 High Priority (unanimous high priority votes)

2 Highly Acceptable -1 -2 -3

3 Very Acceptable (4+ acceptable votes)

4 Acceptable (majority acceptable votes)

5 Reject

Ranked within category by weighted scores (Interview 30 MCAT 30 SGPA 35 GPA 5)

Rank list is generated after the first interview date and updated weekly throughout interview season

Admissions Committee Process

Upcoming actions

Joint Admission Medical Program (JAMP) Round 2 Match

(Friday Jan 25th) will match with 2

Rolling admissions continues until June 1

Created additional interview date for EY2020 (22 days)

New requirement added for EY2020 CASPer Assessment ndash

Situational Judgement Test (SJT)

Propose revision to By-Laws to add minimum attendance

requirements for committee members

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8

Current IssuesConcerns

Ongoing need to recruit more interviewers

Anticipating class size expansion

Meeting quorum

Standing Committee Report

Curriculum and Educational Policy

Committee

Richard Brower MD PhDAssociate Dean for Medical Education

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Curriculum amp

Educational Policy

Committee Report to the PLFSOM Faculty Council

Presented by Richard Brower MD

Date July 15 2019

Committee Composition and Terms of

Service

ldquoCandidates for lsquoat largersquo positions are to be

recommended by the associate dean for medical

education and appointed by the deanrdquo

ldquoTerms may be renewed by recommendation of the

associate dean for medical education and appointment by

the deanrdquo

ldquohelliplsquoat largersquo members may be appointed for no more than

two consecutive terms after which they are ineligible to

serve for 4 yearsrdquo

ldquoCandidates for these positions should demonstrate an

ongoing interest in medical educationrdquo

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10

Committee Composition and Terms of ServiceLast Name First Name Degree Academic Rank Department Committee Position Term Start Date

Term Expiration Date

Frances Mark MD ProfessorMedical Education

Member (College Master)

9120168312020

Pfarr Curt PhD ProfessorMedical Education

Member (College Master) 9242015 8312019

Gajendran Mahesh MD Assistant ProfessorInternal Medicine

Member (Clinician) 912017 8312021

Uga Aghaegbulam MD Assistant Professor

Psychiatry and Internal Medicine

Member (Clinician) 11192015 10312019

Kassar Darine MD Assistant Professor NeurologyMember (Clinician) 972016 8312020

Wojciechowska Joanna MD Assistant Professor Pediatrics

Member (Clinician) 212018 8312022

Nino DiegoMD PhD Assistant Professor

Medical Education

Member (Basic Sciences) 1142019 1142023

Padilla Osvaldo MD Assistant Professor PathologyMember (Basic Sciences) 12152014 8312022

Cervantes JorgeMD PhD Assistant Professor

Medical Education

Member (Basic Sciences) 8232016 8312020

Perry Cynthia PhD Assistant ProfessorMedical Education

Member (Basic Sciences) 9282015 8312019

Brower Richard MDAssociate Professor

Medical Education Chair NA NA

Three positions

opening soon ndash-

should have

demonstrated

interest and

engagement in

UME and a

willingness to

attend all

meetings and

participate in

team

assignments

Committee Composition and Terms of

Service Leadership

This committee is chaired by the associate dean for medical education

The committee reports to the Faculty Council

Membership will include

2 college masters (one basic scientist one clinician) with 4-year terms

4 members from the basic sciences faculty with 4-year terms (staggered)

4 members from the clinical sciences faculty with 4-year terms (staggered)

Ex Officio members

Dean or their designee

Associate dean for student affairs

Assistant deans for medication education

Managing director of the libraries (ldquoAssociate Director of the Libraryrdquo)

Director of information technology or their designee

Director of assessment and evaluation (position no longer exists)

Two student reps from each of the four classes (from the Student Curriculum and Evaluation Committee)

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11

Committee Charge Faculty Bylaws Article IX Section C2

The Committee on Curriculum and Educational Policy is charged with planning coordinating

reviewing and evaluating the curriculum to ensure that it adheres to the

written educational policies goals and objectives of the Paul L Foster School

of Medicine Further the Committee shall have full authority to make changes in

educational policy or in the organization of the curriculum with the

concurrence of the Dean and with comment and input from the Faculty Council The Faculty of the Paul L Foster School of Medicine has the responsibility to define course objectives create

and deliver content to meet those objectives and modify their activities in response to appropriate feedback

from peers and students The Committee will provide updates on its activities at least

twice a year to the Faculty Council In order to accomplish the mission of the Committee the

Chair may appoint subcommittees that may include members who are not

members of the Committee It shall be the responsibility of the Committee to coordinate the

activities and reports of these subcommittees In addition the Committee receives reports

from the Committee on Evaluation of Educational Programs

Current IssuesConcerns

Curriculum enhancementimprovement

Preparation for class size expansion

Preparation for next round of curriculum reviews

(ldquocurriculum as a wholerdquo)

9102019

12

CEPC actions since last report

January 2019 (1 meeting)

Reviewed and approved revisions to the following

educational program polices

Clerkship Administration

Clerkship DirectorAssistant Director Position Description

Approval of two new 4th Year Electives

Pediatric Gastroenterology Hepatology and Nutrition

Emergency Medicine Ultrasound

Clerkship phase review FM and Surgery

CEPC actions since last report

February 2019 (2 meetings)

New educational program policy reviewed and approved

Grade Changes and Transcript Notations

Rollover of established educational program goals and

objectives (the ldquoPGOsrdquo) approved

Clerkship phase review Pediatrics and ObGyn

Preliminary data-driven discussion of revised educational

program policy covering Grading Promotion and Academic

Standing (ldquoGPASrdquo)

9102019

13

CEPC actions since last report

March 2019 (2 meetings)

Clerkship phase review IM and Psych Critical Care and Sub-I

Selectives

Approval of new educational program policy

Grading Promotion and Academic Standing (ldquoGPASrdquo)

Notification of changes in clerkship directorship

Elimination of the PICE course (PICE 7001) from the year 2

curriculum approved (primarily administrative educational

elements re-distributed)

Associated review and approval of an updated PLSOM degree

plan (based on 157 credit hours)

CEPC actions since last report

April 2019 (1 meetings)

Clerkship phase review EM Neurology and Intersessions

Review and approval of revised educational program policy

Pre-Clerkship Phase Student Attendance and Participation

Policy

9102019

14

CEPC actions since last report

May 2019 (1 meetings)

Review and approval of the ldquoCommon Clerkship Policiesrdquo

Notification of additional changes in the clerkship

directorship

Clerkship phase review

Phase data review (AAMC GQ NBME subject exams

USMLE Step 2 CK and CS Step 3 final grades EOY OSCE

and procedure workshop residency director survey)

Introduction of a 10-point plan for curriculum revision

(ldquoPLFSOM v20rdquo)

June 2019 (no quorum) July 2019 (cancelled)

CEPC actions since last report

Challenges and opportunities for improvement identified

through the AY208-19 clerkship phase review

Clear identification of contacts at affiliated sites

Academic support and remediation planning

Consistent resident preparation for participation in UME

Timeliness of grading (Sub-I and Critical Care Selectives)

Orientation modules for Sub-Q and Critical Care Selectives)

Scaling clerkships for anticipated class expansion

The summer doldrums

June 2019 (no quorum) July 2019 (cancelled)

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15

Upcoming actions

Ongoing educational program policy development

Maintain accreditation compliance related curriculum

review cycle (2019-20 ldquoCurriculum as a Wholerdquo)

Review and advance plans for curriculum renewalrevision

Review proposal to re-direct our MD-MPH affiliation to

TTUHSC GSBS Lubbock

Consider development of an MD-MBA option (potentially

with UTEP)

Links to related information

PLFSOM Committee on Curriculum and Educational Policy main page

httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCdefaultaspx

MD degree program policies

httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCpoliciesaspx

MD degree program information

httpselpasottuhscedusomomeUMEinfoaspx

Course and clerkship syllabi

httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCcoursereviewaspx

AY2017-18 medical education program evaluation report (e-Raider required)

httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPC_documentssecureAY2017-

2018MEPEvaluationAnnualReport-Draft-v2pdf

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19

Departmental Report

Molecular and Translational

Medicine

Laxman Gangwani PhDAssociate Professor Molecular amp

Translational Medicine

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20

Department of Molecular and

Translational Medicine (formerly

Biomedical Sciences) Report

PRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCIL

BY LAXMAN GANGWANI

DATE JULY 15 2019

Department BreakdownPlease provide the total number of faculty members in your department and break down this number by

rank Please list new faculty members that have joined your department within the last six months

Total Number of Faculty

Number of Faculty Associates 1

Number of Instructors 1

Number of Research Assistant Professor 1

Number of Assistant Professors 6

Number of Associate Professors 7

Number of Professors 4

New Faculty

None

9102019

21

LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair

program director clerkship director chiefs etc

Department Chair Dr Peter Rotwein (VP Research Associate

Dean GSBS)

Director Center of Emphasis in Cancer Dr Rajkumar

Lakshmanaswamy (Dean GSBS) Co-Director Dr N Shokar

Director Center of Emphasis in Diabetes and Metabolism Dr

David Cistola

Director Center of Emphasis in Infectious Diseases Vacant

Director Center of Emphasis in Neurosciences Vacant

Chief Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology Vacant

AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional

appointments national appointments etc

Awards

Dr Mingtao Zeng

2018 The American Association of Immunologists (AAI) AAI Travel Grant for the 5th European Congress of Immunology

2018 Defense Techconnect Fall Summit amp Expo (2018) Techconnect Defense Innovation Award

Dr Shrikant Gadad

Eugenia Rosemberg Outstanding Abstract Award Endocrine Society Annual Meeting New Orleans March 23-26 2019

Dr Huanyu Dou

National Innovation Award Techconnect 2019

Honors

Dr Alok Dwivedi

Appointed as associated faculty at the Border Biomedical Research Center (BBRC) University of Texas El Paso (UTEP)

Dr Shrikant Gadad

Session Chair (OR09 Steroid Hormone Biology in Physiology and Disease) Endocrine Society Annual Meeting New Orleans March 23-26 2019

9102019

22

AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional

appointments national appointments etc

NIH or DOD study sections appointments

Dr Guohua Yi

HIV special Emphasis Panel for RFA-AI-18-058 Genetic Engineering Technologies for HIV Cure Research (U19)

Dr Laxman Gangwani

Department of Defense (DOD) Reviewer for Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) 2018 -

NIHCSR Study ldquoProgram Evaluation of NIH Peer Review Processes The Role of Anonymizationrdquo 2019 ndash

Patents filings and publications

Patent Number 9862951 Title RNA Interference-Based Therapeutic against Anthrax Inventors Mingtao Zeng and Maria T AreacutevaloDate of Patent January 9 2018

Cistola D P Patel V (2018) Method and system for non-invasive measurement of metabolic health US Non-Provisional Utility Patent Application No 15911728 filed by Texas Tech University

Cistola D P Robinson M D (2018) Methods and tools for diagnosing insulin resistance and assessing health status using NMR relaxation times for water United States Patent Application Publication US 20180020947 A1 httpspatentsgooglecompatentUS20180020947A1en

AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional

appointments national appointments etc

News and Media Coverage of Research performed at TTUHSC EP

Dr David Cistola

MedPageToday 2 January 2019 Harris Scott Could a New Biomarker Help Predict Type 2 Diabetes -- Early datashow water T2 catches abnormalities before traditional testing but experts are cautiously optimistichttpswwwmedpagetodaycomreading-roomendocrine-societydiabetes77186

KTSM Channel 9 NBC El Paso 14 November 2018 Castillo Susy Research in El Paso aimed at detectingdiabetes earlyhttpswwwktsmcomlifestylehealthresearch-in-el-paso-aimed-at-detecting-diabetes-early1596408236apt_credirect=1

El Paso Inc 29 March 2019 TTUHSC El Paso Tackling diabetes cancer httpwwwelpasoinccomttuhsc-el-paso-tackling-diabetes-cancerarticle_613144fe-526a-11e9-b916-c35b701a5ef9html

Dr Laxman Gangwani

Cure SMA Awards $150000 Grant to Laxman Gangwani PhD Texas Tech University

httpwwwcuresmaorgnewsgangwani-grant-2019html

httpswwweurekalertorgpub_releases2019-05ttuh-gw050119php

httpswwwresearchgatenetscientific-contributions11984383_Laxman_Gangwani

9102019

23

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Peer-reviewed publications 36 (In high-impact journals)

2018 highest impact factor (11561) journal Nucleic Acids Research

Abstracts 43

Presentations (i) Oral 11 (ii) Posters 28

Invited talks 13

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Peer-reviewed publications

Kannan A Bhatia K Branzei D and Gangwani L (2018) Combined deficiency of Senataxin and DNA-PKcscauses DNA damage accumulation and neurodegeneration in spinal muscular atrophy Nucleic Acids Research2018 Vol 46 No 16 8326-8346

Mishra I Jones C Patel V Deodhar S Cistola D P (2018) Early detection of metabolic dysregulation usingwater T2 analysis of biobanked samples Diabetes Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity Targets and Therapy 11 807-818

Patel V Dwivedi A K Deodhar S Mishra I Cistola D P (2018) Aptamer-based search for correlates of plasmaand serum water T2 Implications for early metabolic dysregulation and metabolic syndrome Biomarker Research6(1) 28

Garg H Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz T Joshi A 2018 Recent Advances in Zika Virus Vaccines Viruses Nov 1410 (11) Sundin OH Mendoza-Ladd A Zeng M Diaz-Areacutevalo D Morales E Fagan BMOrdontildeez J McCallum RW Does a

glucose-based hydrogen and methane breath test detect bacterial overgrowth in the jejunum NeurogastroenterolMotil 2018e13350

Zheng Z Diaz-Areacutevalo D Guan H and Mingtao Zeng Noninvasive vaccination against infectious diseases Humanvaccines amp immunotherapeutics 2018 14(7)1717-1733

Preeti Bharaj Chunting Ye Sean Petersen Qianghu Wang Baoli Hu N Manjunath Premlata Shankar Guohua Yi(2018) Gene array analysis of PD-1H overexpressing monocytes reveals a pro-inflammatory profile Heliyone00545

Bencomo-Alvarez AE Rubio AJ Gonzalez MA and Eiring AM Energy metabolism and drug response in myeloidleukaemic stem cells Br J Haematol 2019 In Press

9102019

24

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Peer-reviewed publications Yan D Pomicter AD Tantravahi S Mason CC Senina AV Ahmann JM Wang Q Than H Patel AB Heaton

WL Eiring AM Clair PM Gantz KC Redwine HM Swierczek SI Halverson BJ Baloglu E Shacham S KhorashadJS Kelley TW Salama ME Miles RR Boucher KM Prchal JT OHare T and Deininger MW Nuclear-cytoplasmic transport is a therapeutic target in myelofibrosis Clin Cancer Res 201925(7)2323-2335

Heipertz E Harper J Lopez CA Fikrig E Hughes ME Walker WE Circadian rhythms influence the severity of sepsis in mice via a TLR2-dependent leukocyte-intrinsic mechanism The Journal of Immunology 2018 201193-201

Khatri R Afzal MR Qureshi MA Maud A Huanyu D Jose Rodriguez G Pre-Existing Renal Failure Increases In-Hospital Mortality in Patients with Intracerebral Hemorrhage J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis 2019 Feb28(2)237-242

Zou L Lee SY Wu Q Zhang H Bastian A Orji C Payne G Galvez A Thomas T Zhang Z Dou H Facile Gene Delivery Derived from Branched Low Molecular Weight Polyethylenimine by High Efficient Chemistry J Biomed Nanotechnol 2018 Oct 114(10)1785-1795

Zhang C Brandon NR Koper K Tang P Xu Y Dou H Invasion of Peripheral Immune Cells into Brain Parenchyma after Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation Aging Dis 2018 Jun 19(3)412-425

Loza O Hernandez P Calderoacuten-Mora J Laks S Leiner M Reddy S Lara P amp Granados H (2018) Developing Trans-affirming health services in an underserved area An intersectional approach Transgender Health 3(1) 127-135

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Byrd T Calderoacuten-Mora J Salaiz R amp Shokar N (2019) Barriers and facilitators to colorectal cancer screening within a Hispanic population Hispanic Health Care International 17(1) 23-29 doi 1011771540415318818982

Haut SR Lipton RB Cornes S Dwivedi AK Wasson R Cotton S Strawn JR Privitera M (2018) Behavioral interventions as a treatment for epilepsy A multicenter randomized controlled trial Neurology 90(11) e963-e970 PMID 29444968

Jessica Bernica Sherif Elhanafi Neeharika Kalakota Yi Jia Christopher Dodoo Alok Dwivedi Robert J Sealock Kalpesh Patel Isaac Raijman Marc J Zuckerman Mohamed O Othman (2018) Cholangioscopy is safe and feasible in elderly patients Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology 16(8) 1293-1299

Benjamin D Wissel Alok K Dwivedi Danielle Chin Aristide Merola Cara Jacob Andrew P Duker Jennifer E Vaughan Lilia Lovera Kathrin LaFaver Ariel Levy Anthony E Lang Francesca Morgante Melissa J Nirenberg Christopher Stephen Nutan Sharma Alberto Romagnolo Leonardo Lopiano Bettina Balint Xin X Yu Kailash P Bhatia Alberto J Espay Functional neurological disorders in Parkinson disease Accepted for publication in Journal

of Neurology Neurosurgery amp Psychiatry 89(6)566-571

Danny J Avalos Marc J Zuckerman Alok Dwivedi Christopher Dodoo Jinendra Satiya Fernando J Castro(2018) Differences in prevalence of large polyps between Hispanic Americans from Mexican-and Non-Mexican-predominant states Digestive diseases and sciences PMID 30276570

Zeina Nahleh Salman Otoukesh Hamid Reza Mirshahidi Anthony Loc Nguyen Gayathri Nagaraj Nabeel Badri Gehan Botrus Nabih Diab Andres Alvarado Luis A Sanchez Alok K Dwivedi (2018) Disparities in breast cancer a multi-institutional comparative analysis focusing on American Hispanics Cancer Medicine (In press 05072018)

9102019

25

Scholarly Activity Danny J Avalos Antonio Mendoza-Ladd Marc J Zuckerman Mohammad Bashashati Andres Alvarado Alok

Dwivedi Oriana M Damas (2018) Hispanics and Non-Hispanic Whites in the US have a Similar InflammatoryBowel Disease Phenotype A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis Digestive Diseases and Sciences 63(6)1558-1571

Aleli Campbell Rosalinda Heydarian Cecilia Ochoa Alok Kumar Dwivedi Zeina A Nahleh(2018) Single arm phaseII study of oral vitamin B12 for the treatment of musculoskeletal symptoms associated with aromatase inhibitors inwomen with early stage breast cancer The breast journal 24(3)260-268

Shaimaa Elzamly Nabeel Badri Osvaldo Padilla Alok Kumar Dwivedi Luis A Alvarado Matthew Hamilton NabihDiab Crosby Rock Ahmed Elfar Marwa Teleb Luis Sanchez Zeina Nahleh (2018) Epithelial-mesenchymaltransition markers in breast cancer and pathological responseafter neoadjuvant chemotherapy Breast Cancer

(Auckl) 2018 Aug 1121178223418788074

Jennifer C Molokwu Eribeth Penaranda Alok Dwivedi Indika Mallawaarachchi Navkiran Shokar (2018) Effect ofEducational Intervention on Self-Sampling Acceptability and Follow-Up Paps in Border Dwelling Hispanic FemalesJournal of Lower Genital Tract Disease

Ritika Suri Federico Rodriguez-Porcel Kelly Donohue Erin Jesse Lilia Lovera Alok Kumar Dwivedi Alberto JEspay (2018) Post-Stroke Movement Disorders The Clinical Neuroanatomic and Demographic Portrait of 284Published Cases Accepted for publication in Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases (In press05212018)

Zeina Nahleh Gehan Botrus Alok Dwivedi Nabeel Badri Salman Otoukesh Nabih Diab Sandip BiswasMichael Jennings Shaimaa Elzamly(2018) Clinico-pathologic disparities of breast cancer in HispanicLatina womenBreast disease 1-8

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Robert Gonzalez Trisha Suppes Jamie Zeitzer Colleen McClung Carol Tamminga Mauricio Tohen Angelica Forero Alok DwivediAndres Alvarado (2018) The association between mood state and chronobiological characteristics in bipolar I disorder a naturalisticvariable cluster analysis-based study International Journal of Bipolar Disorders 6(1)5Mohamed Teleb Aaron Shanker Alok Kumar Dwivedi Debabrata Mukherjee (2018) Effect of exercise on left ventricular mass index byechocardiography in mild and moderate hypertension a meta-analysis Res Cardiovasc Med 6(4)50-6Garnica O Das K Devasundaram S and Dhandayuthapani S Enhanced delivery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigens to antigenpresenting cells using RVG peptide Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Das K Garnica O and Dhandayuthapani S Utility of an oxidative stress response system for the expression of recombinant proteinsin mycobacteria and for the delivery of M tuberculosis antigens to the phagosomal compartments Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Palanichamy K Joshi A Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz T Fernando B Milan S Schiro F Naeem Y Garg H Braunschweig A 2019 Anti-ZikaActivity of a Library of Synthetic Carbohydrate Receptors Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 6284110-4119Anjali Joshi Erin B Punke Tugba Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz Diego P Peralta and Himanshu Garg 2019 TLR9 polymorphism correlates withimmune activation CD4 decline and plasma IP10 levels in HIV patients BMC Infect Dis 19 56Vargas-Medrano J Yang B Garza N T Segura-Ulate I and Perez R G (2018) Up-regulation of protective neuronal MicroRNAs byFTY720 and novel FTY720-derivatives Neuroscience letters 690 178-180Vidal-Martinez G Yang B Vargas-Medrano J and Perez R G (2018) Could alpha-Synuclein Modulation of Insulin and DopamineIdentify a Novel Link Between Parkinsons Disease and Diabetes as Well as Potential Therapies Frontiers in molecular

neuroscience 11 465

9102019

26

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Gil-Tommee C Vidal-Martinez G Annette Reyes C Vargas-Medrano J Herrera G V Martin S M Chaparro S A andPerez R G (2019) Parkinsonian GM2 synthase knockout mice lacking mature gangliosides develop urinary dysfunction andneurogenic bladder Experimental neurology 311265-273Vidal-Martinez G Najera K Miranda JD Gil-Tommee C Yang B Vargas-Medrano J Diaz-Pacheco V Barragan J ChaparroS Vargas-Medrano J Chinnasamy R Arterburn JB Perez RG FTY720 improves behavior increases Brain Derived NeurotrophicFactor and reduces α-synuclein pathology in parkinsonian GM2+minus

mice Neuroscience httpsdoiorg101016jneuroscience201905029Tasnim N Thakur V Chattopadhyay M Joddar B (2018) The efficacy of Graphene-foams towards the adhesion proliferationand expression of neuronal-phenotype by dopaminergic neurons differentiated from mesenchymal stem cells Stem cell

international Jun 3 20183410168 doi 10115520183410168Anil Kumar S Allen SC Tasnim N Akter T Park S Kumar A Chattopadhyay M Ito Y Suggs LJ Joddar B (2019) The applicabilityof furfuryl-gelatin as a novel bioink for tissue engineering applications J Biomed Mater Res B Appl Biomater 2019 107(2)314-323 doi 101002jbmb34123 Epub 2018 Apr 15Thakur V Chattopadhyay M (2018) Early urinary markers for diabetic and other kidney diseases Current drug targets 2018 Mar19Joddar B Tasnim N Thakur V Kumar A Mccallum R Chattopadhyay M (2018) Delivery of mesenchymal stem cells fromgelatin-alginate hydrogels to stomach lumen for treatment of gastroparesis Bioengineering 2018 5(1)Camacho CV Choudhari R Gadad SS (2018) Long noncoding RNAs and cancer an overview Steroids 13393-95

IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department

Large net loss (9) of MTM faculty members over the past 5 years

Vacant Director positions (i) Center for Neuroscience (ii) Center for InfectiousDiseases and (iii) Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology

No steps have been taken to fill directors positions for more than 2 years

Neurosciences Center at the verge of collapse Only one faculty will be left at theend of this fiscal year

The size of Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology is shrinking

Lack of communication regarding vision and strategic plan for growing department

No faculty salary raises for the past 3 years

Serious concerns about recruitment retention and tenure and promotion decisionsmade in the department Faculty morale is extremely low

Lack of functional research core facility

Gradual elimination of service contracts of equipment essential for research trainingand education of graduate and medical students

A plethora of other issues with the department administration

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27

Questions

Departmental Report

Psychiatry

Ricardo Salazar MDAssociate Professor Psychiatry

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28

Department ReportPsychiatryPRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCIL

BY RICARDO SALAZAR MD

DATE MONDAY JULY 15 2019

Department BreakdownPlease provide the total number of faculty members in your department and break down this number by

rank Please list new faculty members that have joined your department within the last six months

Total Number of Faculty 12

Number of Instructors 1

Number of Assistant Professors 8

Number of Associate Professors 2

Number of Professors 2

New Faculty Melanie Longhurst MD Instructor

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29

LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair

program director clerkship director chiefs etc

Department Chair ndash Peter M Thompson MD MS

Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Sarah L Martin MD

Combined IMPsych Residency Program Director ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD

Psychiatry Clerkship Director ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD

Child amp Adolescent Fellowship Program Director ndash Cecilia De Vargas MD

Chief Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry ndash Sarah L Martin MD

Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Program Directorndash Ricardo Salazar MD

Chief Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences ndash Ricardo Salazar MD

Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Transmountain ndash Moataz Ragheb MD

AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in your department including awards honors regional

appointments national appointments etc

El Paso Behavioral Health Consortium ndash Board Member ndash Peter M Thompson MD

714 (50) of our graduating medical students this year choose and matched our resident training programs here at Paul L FosterSchool of Medicine Department of Psychiatry (Historical record) ndash Kudos for our Department Faculty

In appreciation for exceptional contributions to the 30th volume of the J Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences ndash Author contributions and review of 271 manuscripts submitted to the journal between September 2017 and August 2018 ndash Ricardo Salazar MD ndash Young Investigator Award Committee Member and Program Committee Member-Abstracts Sub-Committee Member of theAmerican Neuropsychiatric Association (ANPA)

Initial Accreditation with commendation and no citations from ACGME for our first Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Training Program for West Texas ndash Ricardo Salazar MD

Leadership in Education and Development Certificate Program (LEAD) Fellow -1-year program accredited from the Association ofAmerican Medical Colleges (AAMC) Silvina Tonarelli MD amp Ricardo Salazar MD (Selected Award)

Fully operating Southwest Brain Bank A Brain Tissue Repository for Research in Mental Illness ndashPeter M Thompson MD

Texas State Psychiatric Physicians Public Mental Health Services Committee ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD

Texas Health and Human Services Commission Behavioral Health Advisory Committee ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP

Fellow American College of Physicians ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP FACP

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30

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Abstracts 31

Publications 5 (peer-review journals)

Presentations 17 ndash National (7) and International (6)

Invited Speaker 21 (including faculty residents fellows) ndash Local amp National

Book Chapters NA

Grants McKee Foundation Award ndash our Chair - Thompson

Intramural Grants Seed Grant 1 SARP Educational Grant 2 - Salazar

President`s Collaborative Research Initiative ndashMarch 2018 - Tonarelli

Scholarly Activity

Child and Adolescent Fellowship Presentations

INTERNATIONAL

- Curanderos and Limpias Cultural psychiatry

Poster presented at 6th Annual Scientific conference of the European Association of PsychosomaticMedicine Verona Italy Drs Garza Meissner De Vargas Mehta June 2018

-Case presentation 0f 49XXXXY Same conference same authors same city

-Resilience etiology protective and risk factors presentation C De Vargas by invitation Annual WorldPediatric summit Madrid June 2018

-Parents and their Children Fantastic journey Same conference on June 2019 Berlin Germany

NATIONAL

-Development of Psychopathology in children at risk for Bipolar Disorders Drs Escamilla Peter Sangra C DeVargas S Martin C Alvarado Andrea Rios (Poster) American Academy of Child and Adolescent PsychiatryAnnual Conference Seattle WA October 2018

Frank William Meissner MD Cynthia Elizabeth Garza MDJD Sarah L Martin MD rdquoDrug-Induced BrugadaSyndrome in a Middle-Aged Female Patient Drugs EKG Diagnosis Electrophysiology and SurveillanceRecommendationrdquo American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting San Francisco CA May 21 2019

Delinquency in a group of school children at risk for bipolar disorder D Haque M Escamilla C De VargasPresented at UCLA LA Ca June 2019

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31

Residency ProgramPlease provide information regarding your departmentrsquos residency program ie recent accreditation

number of residents and program updates (if applicable)

24 General Psychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)

8 Internal MedicinePsychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)

3 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellows

1 Geriatric Psychiatry Fellow- newly accredited program

IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department

RecruitmentRetention

Short staffed

Organizational Structure

Financial incentives

Protected time

Gender balance Attrition malefemale ratio 41

Program Coordinator turnover rate

Mentoring

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Departmental Organizational

Structure

Chair

Division ChiefsProgram Directors

Clerkship Director

Adm

Organizational Structure Model

Chair

Deputy Chair for Education

Program

Directors

Deputy Chair for Research

Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs

Vicechair

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33

Roles

Deputy Chair for Education

Oversee undergraduate graduate and CME including the development of teachers and educational scholars Monitor quality and safety across the department

Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs

Faculty appointments Faculty Development and Promotion andor Tenure Develop programs in different domains such as research education personal improvement and leadership Support clinical activities by improving the efficiency of operations and in helping to fit clinical programs into those in the rest of the medical center Allocation of space

Deputy Chair for Research

Develop and direct department-wide programs for faculty recruitment development and support of mentors recognition of excellence and funding of pilot grants bridge funding and grants to nurture multi-principal investigator and trans-division or trans-department projects Allocation of space among divisions

Bottom Line

We need more funds

Institutional support

The investments needed to recruit faculty are beyond the capacity of the

department`s operational revenue

Recruiting a leading investigator or one with great potential for

example may require an investment of $ 1 million and sometimes more

Endowments are the departmentrsquos foundational financial capital the

keel that maintains momentum and balance through the headwinds

and rough seas each department will navigate Endowments increase

the departmentrsquos independence in sustaining its core mission

Thus creation of endowments should be a high priority for any

department that plans for the long term and they increase capacity to

recruit the best faculty in a competitive environment

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Current IssuesConcerns

Ongoing need to recruit more interviewers

Anticipating class size expansion

Meeting quorum

Standing Committee Report

Curriculum and Educational Policy

Committee

Richard Brower MD PhDAssociate Dean for Medical Education

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9

Curriculum amp

Educational Policy

Committee Report to the PLFSOM Faculty Council

Presented by Richard Brower MD

Date July 15 2019

Committee Composition and Terms of

Service

ldquoCandidates for lsquoat largersquo positions are to be

recommended by the associate dean for medical

education and appointed by the deanrdquo

ldquoTerms may be renewed by recommendation of the

associate dean for medical education and appointment by

the deanrdquo

ldquohelliplsquoat largersquo members may be appointed for no more than

two consecutive terms after which they are ineligible to

serve for 4 yearsrdquo

ldquoCandidates for these positions should demonstrate an

ongoing interest in medical educationrdquo

9102019

10

Committee Composition and Terms of ServiceLast Name First Name Degree Academic Rank Department Committee Position Term Start Date

Term Expiration Date

Frances Mark MD ProfessorMedical Education

Member (College Master)

9120168312020

Pfarr Curt PhD ProfessorMedical Education

Member (College Master) 9242015 8312019

Gajendran Mahesh MD Assistant ProfessorInternal Medicine

Member (Clinician) 912017 8312021

Uga Aghaegbulam MD Assistant Professor

Psychiatry and Internal Medicine

Member (Clinician) 11192015 10312019

Kassar Darine MD Assistant Professor NeurologyMember (Clinician) 972016 8312020

Wojciechowska Joanna MD Assistant Professor Pediatrics

Member (Clinician) 212018 8312022

Nino DiegoMD PhD Assistant Professor

Medical Education

Member (Basic Sciences) 1142019 1142023

Padilla Osvaldo MD Assistant Professor PathologyMember (Basic Sciences) 12152014 8312022

Cervantes JorgeMD PhD Assistant Professor

Medical Education

Member (Basic Sciences) 8232016 8312020

Perry Cynthia PhD Assistant ProfessorMedical Education

Member (Basic Sciences) 9282015 8312019

Brower Richard MDAssociate Professor

Medical Education Chair NA NA

Three positions

opening soon ndash-

should have

demonstrated

interest and

engagement in

UME and a

willingness to

attend all

meetings and

participate in

team

assignments

Committee Composition and Terms of

Service Leadership

This committee is chaired by the associate dean for medical education

The committee reports to the Faculty Council

Membership will include

2 college masters (one basic scientist one clinician) with 4-year terms

4 members from the basic sciences faculty with 4-year terms (staggered)

4 members from the clinical sciences faculty with 4-year terms (staggered)

Ex Officio members

Dean or their designee

Associate dean for student affairs

Assistant deans for medication education

Managing director of the libraries (ldquoAssociate Director of the Libraryrdquo)

Director of information technology or their designee

Director of assessment and evaluation (position no longer exists)

Two student reps from each of the four classes (from the Student Curriculum and Evaluation Committee)

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Committee Charge Faculty Bylaws Article IX Section C2

The Committee on Curriculum and Educational Policy is charged with planning coordinating

reviewing and evaluating the curriculum to ensure that it adheres to the

written educational policies goals and objectives of the Paul L Foster School

of Medicine Further the Committee shall have full authority to make changes in

educational policy or in the organization of the curriculum with the

concurrence of the Dean and with comment and input from the Faculty Council The Faculty of the Paul L Foster School of Medicine has the responsibility to define course objectives create

and deliver content to meet those objectives and modify their activities in response to appropriate feedback

from peers and students The Committee will provide updates on its activities at least

twice a year to the Faculty Council In order to accomplish the mission of the Committee the

Chair may appoint subcommittees that may include members who are not

members of the Committee It shall be the responsibility of the Committee to coordinate the

activities and reports of these subcommittees In addition the Committee receives reports

from the Committee on Evaluation of Educational Programs

Current IssuesConcerns

Curriculum enhancementimprovement

Preparation for class size expansion

Preparation for next round of curriculum reviews

(ldquocurriculum as a wholerdquo)

9102019

12

CEPC actions since last report

January 2019 (1 meeting)

Reviewed and approved revisions to the following

educational program polices

Clerkship Administration

Clerkship DirectorAssistant Director Position Description

Approval of two new 4th Year Electives

Pediatric Gastroenterology Hepatology and Nutrition

Emergency Medicine Ultrasound

Clerkship phase review FM and Surgery

CEPC actions since last report

February 2019 (2 meetings)

New educational program policy reviewed and approved

Grade Changes and Transcript Notations

Rollover of established educational program goals and

objectives (the ldquoPGOsrdquo) approved

Clerkship phase review Pediatrics and ObGyn

Preliminary data-driven discussion of revised educational

program policy covering Grading Promotion and Academic

Standing (ldquoGPASrdquo)

9102019

13

CEPC actions since last report

March 2019 (2 meetings)

Clerkship phase review IM and Psych Critical Care and Sub-I

Selectives

Approval of new educational program policy

Grading Promotion and Academic Standing (ldquoGPASrdquo)

Notification of changes in clerkship directorship

Elimination of the PICE course (PICE 7001) from the year 2

curriculum approved (primarily administrative educational

elements re-distributed)

Associated review and approval of an updated PLSOM degree

plan (based on 157 credit hours)

CEPC actions since last report

April 2019 (1 meetings)

Clerkship phase review EM Neurology and Intersessions

Review and approval of revised educational program policy

Pre-Clerkship Phase Student Attendance and Participation

Policy

9102019

14

CEPC actions since last report

May 2019 (1 meetings)

Review and approval of the ldquoCommon Clerkship Policiesrdquo

Notification of additional changes in the clerkship

directorship

Clerkship phase review

Phase data review (AAMC GQ NBME subject exams

USMLE Step 2 CK and CS Step 3 final grades EOY OSCE

and procedure workshop residency director survey)

Introduction of a 10-point plan for curriculum revision

(ldquoPLFSOM v20rdquo)

June 2019 (no quorum) July 2019 (cancelled)

CEPC actions since last report

Challenges and opportunities for improvement identified

through the AY208-19 clerkship phase review

Clear identification of contacts at affiliated sites

Academic support and remediation planning

Consistent resident preparation for participation in UME

Timeliness of grading (Sub-I and Critical Care Selectives)

Orientation modules for Sub-Q and Critical Care Selectives)

Scaling clerkships for anticipated class expansion

The summer doldrums

June 2019 (no quorum) July 2019 (cancelled)

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15

Upcoming actions

Ongoing educational program policy development

Maintain accreditation compliance related curriculum

review cycle (2019-20 ldquoCurriculum as a Wholerdquo)

Review and advance plans for curriculum renewalrevision

Review proposal to re-direct our MD-MPH affiliation to

TTUHSC GSBS Lubbock

Consider development of an MD-MBA option (potentially

with UTEP)

Links to related information

PLFSOM Committee on Curriculum and Educational Policy main page

httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCdefaultaspx

MD degree program policies

httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCpoliciesaspx

MD degree program information

httpselpasottuhscedusomomeUMEinfoaspx

Course and clerkship syllabi

httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCcoursereviewaspx

AY2017-18 medical education program evaluation report (e-Raider required)

httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPC_documentssecureAY2017-

2018MEPEvaluationAnnualReport-Draft-v2pdf

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19

Departmental Report

Molecular and Translational

Medicine

Laxman Gangwani PhDAssociate Professor Molecular amp

Translational Medicine

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20

Department of Molecular and

Translational Medicine (formerly

Biomedical Sciences) Report

PRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCIL

BY LAXMAN GANGWANI

DATE JULY 15 2019

Department BreakdownPlease provide the total number of faculty members in your department and break down this number by

rank Please list new faculty members that have joined your department within the last six months

Total Number of Faculty

Number of Faculty Associates 1

Number of Instructors 1

Number of Research Assistant Professor 1

Number of Assistant Professors 6

Number of Associate Professors 7

Number of Professors 4

New Faculty

None

9102019

21

LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair

program director clerkship director chiefs etc

Department Chair Dr Peter Rotwein (VP Research Associate

Dean GSBS)

Director Center of Emphasis in Cancer Dr Rajkumar

Lakshmanaswamy (Dean GSBS) Co-Director Dr N Shokar

Director Center of Emphasis in Diabetes and Metabolism Dr

David Cistola

Director Center of Emphasis in Infectious Diseases Vacant

Director Center of Emphasis in Neurosciences Vacant

Chief Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology Vacant

AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional

appointments national appointments etc

Awards

Dr Mingtao Zeng

2018 The American Association of Immunologists (AAI) AAI Travel Grant for the 5th European Congress of Immunology

2018 Defense Techconnect Fall Summit amp Expo (2018) Techconnect Defense Innovation Award

Dr Shrikant Gadad

Eugenia Rosemberg Outstanding Abstract Award Endocrine Society Annual Meeting New Orleans March 23-26 2019

Dr Huanyu Dou

National Innovation Award Techconnect 2019

Honors

Dr Alok Dwivedi

Appointed as associated faculty at the Border Biomedical Research Center (BBRC) University of Texas El Paso (UTEP)

Dr Shrikant Gadad

Session Chair (OR09 Steroid Hormone Biology in Physiology and Disease) Endocrine Society Annual Meeting New Orleans March 23-26 2019

9102019

22

AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional

appointments national appointments etc

NIH or DOD study sections appointments

Dr Guohua Yi

HIV special Emphasis Panel for RFA-AI-18-058 Genetic Engineering Technologies for HIV Cure Research (U19)

Dr Laxman Gangwani

Department of Defense (DOD) Reviewer for Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) 2018 -

NIHCSR Study ldquoProgram Evaluation of NIH Peer Review Processes The Role of Anonymizationrdquo 2019 ndash

Patents filings and publications

Patent Number 9862951 Title RNA Interference-Based Therapeutic against Anthrax Inventors Mingtao Zeng and Maria T AreacutevaloDate of Patent January 9 2018

Cistola D P Patel V (2018) Method and system for non-invasive measurement of metabolic health US Non-Provisional Utility Patent Application No 15911728 filed by Texas Tech University

Cistola D P Robinson M D (2018) Methods and tools for diagnosing insulin resistance and assessing health status using NMR relaxation times for water United States Patent Application Publication US 20180020947 A1 httpspatentsgooglecompatentUS20180020947A1en

AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional

appointments national appointments etc

News and Media Coverage of Research performed at TTUHSC EP

Dr David Cistola

MedPageToday 2 January 2019 Harris Scott Could a New Biomarker Help Predict Type 2 Diabetes -- Early datashow water T2 catches abnormalities before traditional testing but experts are cautiously optimistichttpswwwmedpagetodaycomreading-roomendocrine-societydiabetes77186

KTSM Channel 9 NBC El Paso 14 November 2018 Castillo Susy Research in El Paso aimed at detectingdiabetes earlyhttpswwwktsmcomlifestylehealthresearch-in-el-paso-aimed-at-detecting-diabetes-early1596408236apt_credirect=1

El Paso Inc 29 March 2019 TTUHSC El Paso Tackling diabetes cancer httpwwwelpasoinccomttuhsc-el-paso-tackling-diabetes-cancerarticle_613144fe-526a-11e9-b916-c35b701a5ef9html

Dr Laxman Gangwani

Cure SMA Awards $150000 Grant to Laxman Gangwani PhD Texas Tech University

httpwwwcuresmaorgnewsgangwani-grant-2019html

httpswwweurekalertorgpub_releases2019-05ttuh-gw050119php

httpswwwresearchgatenetscientific-contributions11984383_Laxman_Gangwani

9102019

23

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Peer-reviewed publications 36 (In high-impact journals)

2018 highest impact factor (11561) journal Nucleic Acids Research

Abstracts 43

Presentations (i) Oral 11 (ii) Posters 28

Invited talks 13

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Peer-reviewed publications

Kannan A Bhatia K Branzei D and Gangwani L (2018) Combined deficiency of Senataxin and DNA-PKcscauses DNA damage accumulation and neurodegeneration in spinal muscular atrophy Nucleic Acids Research2018 Vol 46 No 16 8326-8346

Mishra I Jones C Patel V Deodhar S Cistola D P (2018) Early detection of metabolic dysregulation usingwater T2 analysis of biobanked samples Diabetes Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity Targets and Therapy 11 807-818

Patel V Dwivedi A K Deodhar S Mishra I Cistola D P (2018) Aptamer-based search for correlates of plasmaand serum water T2 Implications for early metabolic dysregulation and metabolic syndrome Biomarker Research6(1) 28

Garg H Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz T Joshi A 2018 Recent Advances in Zika Virus Vaccines Viruses Nov 1410 (11) Sundin OH Mendoza-Ladd A Zeng M Diaz-Areacutevalo D Morales E Fagan BMOrdontildeez J McCallum RW Does a

glucose-based hydrogen and methane breath test detect bacterial overgrowth in the jejunum NeurogastroenterolMotil 2018e13350

Zheng Z Diaz-Areacutevalo D Guan H and Mingtao Zeng Noninvasive vaccination against infectious diseases Humanvaccines amp immunotherapeutics 2018 14(7)1717-1733

Preeti Bharaj Chunting Ye Sean Petersen Qianghu Wang Baoli Hu N Manjunath Premlata Shankar Guohua Yi(2018) Gene array analysis of PD-1H overexpressing monocytes reveals a pro-inflammatory profile Heliyone00545

Bencomo-Alvarez AE Rubio AJ Gonzalez MA and Eiring AM Energy metabolism and drug response in myeloidleukaemic stem cells Br J Haematol 2019 In Press

9102019

24

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Peer-reviewed publications Yan D Pomicter AD Tantravahi S Mason CC Senina AV Ahmann JM Wang Q Than H Patel AB Heaton

WL Eiring AM Clair PM Gantz KC Redwine HM Swierczek SI Halverson BJ Baloglu E Shacham S KhorashadJS Kelley TW Salama ME Miles RR Boucher KM Prchal JT OHare T and Deininger MW Nuclear-cytoplasmic transport is a therapeutic target in myelofibrosis Clin Cancer Res 201925(7)2323-2335

Heipertz E Harper J Lopez CA Fikrig E Hughes ME Walker WE Circadian rhythms influence the severity of sepsis in mice via a TLR2-dependent leukocyte-intrinsic mechanism The Journal of Immunology 2018 201193-201

Khatri R Afzal MR Qureshi MA Maud A Huanyu D Jose Rodriguez G Pre-Existing Renal Failure Increases In-Hospital Mortality in Patients with Intracerebral Hemorrhage J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis 2019 Feb28(2)237-242

Zou L Lee SY Wu Q Zhang H Bastian A Orji C Payne G Galvez A Thomas T Zhang Z Dou H Facile Gene Delivery Derived from Branched Low Molecular Weight Polyethylenimine by High Efficient Chemistry J Biomed Nanotechnol 2018 Oct 114(10)1785-1795

Zhang C Brandon NR Koper K Tang P Xu Y Dou H Invasion of Peripheral Immune Cells into Brain Parenchyma after Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation Aging Dis 2018 Jun 19(3)412-425

Loza O Hernandez P Calderoacuten-Mora J Laks S Leiner M Reddy S Lara P amp Granados H (2018) Developing Trans-affirming health services in an underserved area An intersectional approach Transgender Health 3(1) 127-135

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Byrd T Calderoacuten-Mora J Salaiz R amp Shokar N (2019) Barriers and facilitators to colorectal cancer screening within a Hispanic population Hispanic Health Care International 17(1) 23-29 doi 1011771540415318818982

Haut SR Lipton RB Cornes S Dwivedi AK Wasson R Cotton S Strawn JR Privitera M (2018) Behavioral interventions as a treatment for epilepsy A multicenter randomized controlled trial Neurology 90(11) e963-e970 PMID 29444968

Jessica Bernica Sherif Elhanafi Neeharika Kalakota Yi Jia Christopher Dodoo Alok Dwivedi Robert J Sealock Kalpesh Patel Isaac Raijman Marc J Zuckerman Mohamed O Othman (2018) Cholangioscopy is safe and feasible in elderly patients Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology 16(8) 1293-1299

Benjamin D Wissel Alok K Dwivedi Danielle Chin Aristide Merola Cara Jacob Andrew P Duker Jennifer E Vaughan Lilia Lovera Kathrin LaFaver Ariel Levy Anthony E Lang Francesca Morgante Melissa J Nirenberg Christopher Stephen Nutan Sharma Alberto Romagnolo Leonardo Lopiano Bettina Balint Xin X Yu Kailash P Bhatia Alberto J Espay Functional neurological disorders in Parkinson disease Accepted for publication in Journal

of Neurology Neurosurgery amp Psychiatry 89(6)566-571

Danny J Avalos Marc J Zuckerman Alok Dwivedi Christopher Dodoo Jinendra Satiya Fernando J Castro(2018) Differences in prevalence of large polyps between Hispanic Americans from Mexican-and Non-Mexican-predominant states Digestive diseases and sciences PMID 30276570

Zeina Nahleh Salman Otoukesh Hamid Reza Mirshahidi Anthony Loc Nguyen Gayathri Nagaraj Nabeel Badri Gehan Botrus Nabih Diab Andres Alvarado Luis A Sanchez Alok K Dwivedi (2018) Disparities in breast cancer a multi-institutional comparative analysis focusing on American Hispanics Cancer Medicine (In press 05072018)

9102019

25

Scholarly Activity Danny J Avalos Antonio Mendoza-Ladd Marc J Zuckerman Mohammad Bashashati Andres Alvarado Alok

Dwivedi Oriana M Damas (2018) Hispanics and Non-Hispanic Whites in the US have a Similar InflammatoryBowel Disease Phenotype A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis Digestive Diseases and Sciences 63(6)1558-1571

Aleli Campbell Rosalinda Heydarian Cecilia Ochoa Alok Kumar Dwivedi Zeina A Nahleh(2018) Single arm phaseII study of oral vitamin B12 for the treatment of musculoskeletal symptoms associated with aromatase inhibitors inwomen with early stage breast cancer The breast journal 24(3)260-268

Shaimaa Elzamly Nabeel Badri Osvaldo Padilla Alok Kumar Dwivedi Luis A Alvarado Matthew Hamilton NabihDiab Crosby Rock Ahmed Elfar Marwa Teleb Luis Sanchez Zeina Nahleh (2018) Epithelial-mesenchymaltransition markers in breast cancer and pathological responseafter neoadjuvant chemotherapy Breast Cancer

(Auckl) 2018 Aug 1121178223418788074

Jennifer C Molokwu Eribeth Penaranda Alok Dwivedi Indika Mallawaarachchi Navkiran Shokar (2018) Effect ofEducational Intervention on Self-Sampling Acceptability and Follow-Up Paps in Border Dwelling Hispanic FemalesJournal of Lower Genital Tract Disease

Ritika Suri Federico Rodriguez-Porcel Kelly Donohue Erin Jesse Lilia Lovera Alok Kumar Dwivedi Alberto JEspay (2018) Post-Stroke Movement Disorders The Clinical Neuroanatomic and Demographic Portrait of 284Published Cases Accepted for publication in Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases (In press05212018)

Zeina Nahleh Gehan Botrus Alok Dwivedi Nabeel Badri Salman Otoukesh Nabih Diab Sandip BiswasMichael Jennings Shaimaa Elzamly(2018) Clinico-pathologic disparities of breast cancer in HispanicLatina womenBreast disease 1-8

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Robert Gonzalez Trisha Suppes Jamie Zeitzer Colleen McClung Carol Tamminga Mauricio Tohen Angelica Forero Alok DwivediAndres Alvarado (2018) The association between mood state and chronobiological characteristics in bipolar I disorder a naturalisticvariable cluster analysis-based study International Journal of Bipolar Disorders 6(1)5Mohamed Teleb Aaron Shanker Alok Kumar Dwivedi Debabrata Mukherjee (2018) Effect of exercise on left ventricular mass index byechocardiography in mild and moderate hypertension a meta-analysis Res Cardiovasc Med 6(4)50-6Garnica O Das K Devasundaram S and Dhandayuthapani S Enhanced delivery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigens to antigenpresenting cells using RVG peptide Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Das K Garnica O and Dhandayuthapani S Utility of an oxidative stress response system for the expression of recombinant proteinsin mycobacteria and for the delivery of M tuberculosis antigens to the phagosomal compartments Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Palanichamy K Joshi A Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz T Fernando B Milan S Schiro F Naeem Y Garg H Braunschweig A 2019 Anti-ZikaActivity of a Library of Synthetic Carbohydrate Receptors Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 6284110-4119Anjali Joshi Erin B Punke Tugba Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz Diego P Peralta and Himanshu Garg 2019 TLR9 polymorphism correlates withimmune activation CD4 decline and plasma IP10 levels in HIV patients BMC Infect Dis 19 56Vargas-Medrano J Yang B Garza N T Segura-Ulate I and Perez R G (2018) Up-regulation of protective neuronal MicroRNAs byFTY720 and novel FTY720-derivatives Neuroscience letters 690 178-180Vidal-Martinez G Yang B Vargas-Medrano J and Perez R G (2018) Could alpha-Synuclein Modulation of Insulin and DopamineIdentify a Novel Link Between Parkinsons Disease and Diabetes as Well as Potential Therapies Frontiers in molecular

neuroscience 11 465

9102019

26

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Gil-Tommee C Vidal-Martinez G Annette Reyes C Vargas-Medrano J Herrera G V Martin S M Chaparro S A andPerez R G (2019) Parkinsonian GM2 synthase knockout mice lacking mature gangliosides develop urinary dysfunction andneurogenic bladder Experimental neurology 311265-273Vidal-Martinez G Najera K Miranda JD Gil-Tommee C Yang B Vargas-Medrano J Diaz-Pacheco V Barragan J ChaparroS Vargas-Medrano J Chinnasamy R Arterburn JB Perez RG FTY720 improves behavior increases Brain Derived NeurotrophicFactor and reduces α-synuclein pathology in parkinsonian GM2+minus

mice Neuroscience httpsdoiorg101016jneuroscience201905029Tasnim N Thakur V Chattopadhyay M Joddar B (2018) The efficacy of Graphene-foams towards the adhesion proliferationand expression of neuronal-phenotype by dopaminergic neurons differentiated from mesenchymal stem cells Stem cell

international Jun 3 20183410168 doi 10115520183410168Anil Kumar S Allen SC Tasnim N Akter T Park S Kumar A Chattopadhyay M Ito Y Suggs LJ Joddar B (2019) The applicabilityof furfuryl-gelatin as a novel bioink for tissue engineering applications J Biomed Mater Res B Appl Biomater 2019 107(2)314-323 doi 101002jbmb34123 Epub 2018 Apr 15Thakur V Chattopadhyay M (2018) Early urinary markers for diabetic and other kidney diseases Current drug targets 2018 Mar19Joddar B Tasnim N Thakur V Kumar A Mccallum R Chattopadhyay M (2018) Delivery of mesenchymal stem cells fromgelatin-alginate hydrogels to stomach lumen for treatment of gastroparesis Bioengineering 2018 5(1)Camacho CV Choudhari R Gadad SS (2018) Long noncoding RNAs and cancer an overview Steroids 13393-95

IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department

Large net loss (9) of MTM faculty members over the past 5 years

Vacant Director positions (i) Center for Neuroscience (ii) Center for InfectiousDiseases and (iii) Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology

No steps have been taken to fill directors positions for more than 2 years

Neurosciences Center at the verge of collapse Only one faculty will be left at theend of this fiscal year

The size of Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology is shrinking

Lack of communication regarding vision and strategic plan for growing department

No faculty salary raises for the past 3 years

Serious concerns about recruitment retention and tenure and promotion decisionsmade in the department Faculty morale is extremely low

Lack of functional research core facility

Gradual elimination of service contracts of equipment essential for research trainingand education of graduate and medical students

A plethora of other issues with the department administration

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27

Questions

Departmental Report

Psychiatry

Ricardo Salazar MDAssociate Professor Psychiatry

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28

Department ReportPsychiatryPRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCIL

BY RICARDO SALAZAR MD

DATE MONDAY JULY 15 2019

Department BreakdownPlease provide the total number of faculty members in your department and break down this number by

rank Please list new faculty members that have joined your department within the last six months

Total Number of Faculty 12

Number of Instructors 1

Number of Assistant Professors 8

Number of Associate Professors 2

Number of Professors 2

New Faculty Melanie Longhurst MD Instructor

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29

LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair

program director clerkship director chiefs etc

Department Chair ndash Peter M Thompson MD MS

Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Sarah L Martin MD

Combined IMPsych Residency Program Director ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD

Psychiatry Clerkship Director ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD

Child amp Adolescent Fellowship Program Director ndash Cecilia De Vargas MD

Chief Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry ndash Sarah L Martin MD

Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Program Directorndash Ricardo Salazar MD

Chief Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences ndash Ricardo Salazar MD

Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Transmountain ndash Moataz Ragheb MD

AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in your department including awards honors regional

appointments national appointments etc

El Paso Behavioral Health Consortium ndash Board Member ndash Peter M Thompson MD

714 (50) of our graduating medical students this year choose and matched our resident training programs here at Paul L FosterSchool of Medicine Department of Psychiatry (Historical record) ndash Kudos for our Department Faculty

In appreciation for exceptional contributions to the 30th volume of the J Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences ndash Author contributions and review of 271 manuscripts submitted to the journal between September 2017 and August 2018 ndash Ricardo Salazar MD ndash Young Investigator Award Committee Member and Program Committee Member-Abstracts Sub-Committee Member of theAmerican Neuropsychiatric Association (ANPA)

Initial Accreditation with commendation and no citations from ACGME for our first Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Training Program for West Texas ndash Ricardo Salazar MD

Leadership in Education and Development Certificate Program (LEAD) Fellow -1-year program accredited from the Association ofAmerican Medical Colleges (AAMC) Silvina Tonarelli MD amp Ricardo Salazar MD (Selected Award)

Fully operating Southwest Brain Bank A Brain Tissue Repository for Research in Mental Illness ndashPeter M Thompson MD

Texas State Psychiatric Physicians Public Mental Health Services Committee ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD

Texas Health and Human Services Commission Behavioral Health Advisory Committee ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP

Fellow American College of Physicians ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP FACP

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30

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Abstracts 31

Publications 5 (peer-review journals)

Presentations 17 ndash National (7) and International (6)

Invited Speaker 21 (including faculty residents fellows) ndash Local amp National

Book Chapters NA

Grants McKee Foundation Award ndash our Chair - Thompson

Intramural Grants Seed Grant 1 SARP Educational Grant 2 - Salazar

President`s Collaborative Research Initiative ndashMarch 2018 - Tonarelli

Scholarly Activity

Child and Adolescent Fellowship Presentations

INTERNATIONAL

- Curanderos and Limpias Cultural psychiatry

Poster presented at 6th Annual Scientific conference of the European Association of PsychosomaticMedicine Verona Italy Drs Garza Meissner De Vargas Mehta June 2018

-Case presentation 0f 49XXXXY Same conference same authors same city

-Resilience etiology protective and risk factors presentation C De Vargas by invitation Annual WorldPediatric summit Madrid June 2018

-Parents and their Children Fantastic journey Same conference on June 2019 Berlin Germany

NATIONAL

-Development of Psychopathology in children at risk for Bipolar Disorders Drs Escamilla Peter Sangra C DeVargas S Martin C Alvarado Andrea Rios (Poster) American Academy of Child and Adolescent PsychiatryAnnual Conference Seattle WA October 2018

Frank William Meissner MD Cynthia Elizabeth Garza MDJD Sarah L Martin MD rdquoDrug-Induced BrugadaSyndrome in a Middle-Aged Female Patient Drugs EKG Diagnosis Electrophysiology and SurveillanceRecommendationrdquo American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting San Francisco CA May 21 2019

Delinquency in a group of school children at risk for bipolar disorder D Haque M Escamilla C De VargasPresented at UCLA LA Ca June 2019

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Residency ProgramPlease provide information regarding your departmentrsquos residency program ie recent accreditation

number of residents and program updates (if applicable)

24 General Psychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)

8 Internal MedicinePsychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)

3 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellows

1 Geriatric Psychiatry Fellow- newly accredited program

IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department

RecruitmentRetention

Short staffed

Organizational Structure

Financial incentives

Protected time

Gender balance Attrition malefemale ratio 41

Program Coordinator turnover rate

Mentoring

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Departmental Organizational

Structure

Chair

Division ChiefsProgram Directors

Clerkship Director

Adm

Organizational Structure Model

Chair

Deputy Chair for Education

Program

Directors

Deputy Chair for Research

Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs

Vicechair

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33

Roles

Deputy Chair for Education

Oversee undergraduate graduate and CME including the development of teachers and educational scholars Monitor quality and safety across the department

Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs

Faculty appointments Faculty Development and Promotion andor Tenure Develop programs in different domains such as research education personal improvement and leadership Support clinical activities by improving the efficiency of operations and in helping to fit clinical programs into those in the rest of the medical center Allocation of space

Deputy Chair for Research

Develop and direct department-wide programs for faculty recruitment development and support of mentors recognition of excellence and funding of pilot grants bridge funding and grants to nurture multi-principal investigator and trans-division or trans-department projects Allocation of space among divisions

Bottom Line

We need more funds

Institutional support

The investments needed to recruit faculty are beyond the capacity of the

department`s operational revenue

Recruiting a leading investigator or one with great potential for

example may require an investment of $ 1 million and sometimes more

Endowments are the departmentrsquos foundational financial capital the

keel that maintains momentum and balance through the headwinds

and rough seas each department will navigate Endowments increase

the departmentrsquos independence in sustaining its core mission

Thus creation of endowments should be a high priority for any

department that plans for the long term and they increase capacity to

recruit the best faculty in a competitive environment

Page 11: FACULTY COUNCIL MEETING · 7/15/2019  · FACULTY COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES Monday, July 15, 2019 Noon – 1:00 p.m. MEB, Room 1120 and WebEx TTUHSC El Paso PLFSOM 7/15/2019 FACULTY

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Curriculum amp

Educational Policy

Committee Report to the PLFSOM Faculty Council

Presented by Richard Brower MD

Date July 15 2019

Committee Composition and Terms of

Service

ldquoCandidates for lsquoat largersquo positions are to be

recommended by the associate dean for medical

education and appointed by the deanrdquo

ldquoTerms may be renewed by recommendation of the

associate dean for medical education and appointment by

the deanrdquo

ldquohelliplsquoat largersquo members may be appointed for no more than

two consecutive terms after which they are ineligible to

serve for 4 yearsrdquo

ldquoCandidates for these positions should demonstrate an

ongoing interest in medical educationrdquo

9102019

10

Committee Composition and Terms of ServiceLast Name First Name Degree Academic Rank Department Committee Position Term Start Date

Term Expiration Date

Frances Mark MD ProfessorMedical Education

Member (College Master)

9120168312020

Pfarr Curt PhD ProfessorMedical Education

Member (College Master) 9242015 8312019

Gajendran Mahesh MD Assistant ProfessorInternal Medicine

Member (Clinician) 912017 8312021

Uga Aghaegbulam MD Assistant Professor

Psychiatry and Internal Medicine

Member (Clinician) 11192015 10312019

Kassar Darine MD Assistant Professor NeurologyMember (Clinician) 972016 8312020

Wojciechowska Joanna MD Assistant Professor Pediatrics

Member (Clinician) 212018 8312022

Nino DiegoMD PhD Assistant Professor

Medical Education

Member (Basic Sciences) 1142019 1142023

Padilla Osvaldo MD Assistant Professor PathologyMember (Basic Sciences) 12152014 8312022

Cervantes JorgeMD PhD Assistant Professor

Medical Education

Member (Basic Sciences) 8232016 8312020

Perry Cynthia PhD Assistant ProfessorMedical Education

Member (Basic Sciences) 9282015 8312019

Brower Richard MDAssociate Professor

Medical Education Chair NA NA

Three positions

opening soon ndash-

should have

demonstrated

interest and

engagement in

UME and a

willingness to

attend all

meetings and

participate in

team

assignments

Committee Composition and Terms of

Service Leadership

This committee is chaired by the associate dean for medical education

The committee reports to the Faculty Council

Membership will include

2 college masters (one basic scientist one clinician) with 4-year terms

4 members from the basic sciences faculty with 4-year terms (staggered)

4 members from the clinical sciences faculty with 4-year terms (staggered)

Ex Officio members

Dean or their designee

Associate dean for student affairs

Assistant deans for medication education

Managing director of the libraries (ldquoAssociate Director of the Libraryrdquo)

Director of information technology or their designee

Director of assessment and evaluation (position no longer exists)

Two student reps from each of the four classes (from the Student Curriculum and Evaluation Committee)

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Committee Charge Faculty Bylaws Article IX Section C2

The Committee on Curriculum and Educational Policy is charged with planning coordinating

reviewing and evaluating the curriculum to ensure that it adheres to the

written educational policies goals and objectives of the Paul L Foster School

of Medicine Further the Committee shall have full authority to make changes in

educational policy or in the organization of the curriculum with the

concurrence of the Dean and with comment and input from the Faculty Council The Faculty of the Paul L Foster School of Medicine has the responsibility to define course objectives create

and deliver content to meet those objectives and modify their activities in response to appropriate feedback

from peers and students The Committee will provide updates on its activities at least

twice a year to the Faculty Council In order to accomplish the mission of the Committee the

Chair may appoint subcommittees that may include members who are not

members of the Committee It shall be the responsibility of the Committee to coordinate the

activities and reports of these subcommittees In addition the Committee receives reports

from the Committee on Evaluation of Educational Programs

Current IssuesConcerns

Curriculum enhancementimprovement

Preparation for class size expansion

Preparation for next round of curriculum reviews

(ldquocurriculum as a wholerdquo)

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12

CEPC actions since last report

January 2019 (1 meeting)

Reviewed and approved revisions to the following

educational program polices

Clerkship Administration

Clerkship DirectorAssistant Director Position Description

Approval of two new 4th Year Electives

Pediatric Gastroenterology Hepatology and Nutrition

Emergency Medicine Ultrasound

Clerkship phase review FM and Surgery

CEPC actions since last report

February 2019 (2 meetings)

New educational program policy reviewed and approved

Grade Changes and Transcript Notations

Rollover of established educational program goals and

objectives (the ldquoPGOsrdquo) approved

Clerkship phase review Pediatrics and ObGyn

Preliminary data-driven discussion of revised educational

program policy covering Grading Promotion and Academic

Standing (ldquoGPASrdquo)

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13

CEPC actions since last report

March 2019 (2 meetings)

Clerkship phase review IM and Psych Critical Care and Sub-I

Selectives

Approval of new educational program policy

Grading Promotion and Academic Standing (ldquoGPASrdquo)

Notification of changes in clerkship directorship

Elimination of the PICE course (PICE 7001) from the year 2

curriculum approved (primarily administrative educational

elements re-distributed)

Associated review and approval of an updated PLSOM degree

plan (based on 157 credit hours)

CEPC actions since last report

April 2019 (1 meetings)

Clerkship phase review EM Neurology and Intersessions

Review and approval of revised educational program policy

Pre-Clerkship Phase Student Attendance and Participation

Policy

9102019

14

CEPC actions since last report

May 2019 (1 meetings)

Review and approval of the ldquoCommon Clerkship Policiesrdquo

Notification of additional changes in the clerkship

directorship

Clerkship phase review

Phase data review (AAMC GQ NBME subject exams

USMLE Step 2 CK and CS Step 3 final grades EOY OSCE

and procedure workshop residency director survey)

Introduction of a 10-point plan for curriculum revision

(ldquoPLFSOM v20rdquo)

June 2019 (no quorum) July 2019 (cancelled)

CEPC actions since last report

Challenges and opportunities for improvement identified

through the AY208-19 clerkship phase review

Clear identification of contacts at affiliated sites

Academic support and remediation planning

Consistent resident preparation for participation in UME

Timeliness of grading (Sub-I and Critical Care Selectives)

Orientation modules for Sub-Q and Critical Care Selectives)

Scaling clerkships for anticipated class expansion

The summer doldrums

June 2019 (no quorum) July 2019 (cancelled)

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15

Upcoming actions

Ongoing educational program policy development

Maintain accreditation compliance related curriculum

review cycle (2019-20 ldquoCurriculum as a Wholerdquo)

Review and advance plans for curriculum renewalrevision

Review proposal to re-direct our MD-MPH affiliation to

TTUHSC GSBS Lubbock

Consider development of an MD-MBA option (potentially

with UTEP)

Links to related information

PLFSOM Committee on Curriculum and Educational Policy main page

httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCdefaultaspx

MD degree program policies

httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCpoliciesaspx

MD degree program information

httpselpasottuhscedusomomeUMEinfoaspx

Course and clerkship syllabi

httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCcoursereviewaspx

AY2017-18 medical education program evaluation report (e-Raider required)

httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPC_documentssecureAY2017-

2018MEPEvaluationAnnualReport-Draft-v2pdf

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19

Departmental Report

Molecular and Translational

Medicine

Laxman Gangwani PhDAssociate Professor Molecular amp

Translational Medicine

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20

Department of Molecular and

Translational Medicine (formerly

Biomedical Sciences) Report

PRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCIL

BY LAXMAN GANGWANI

DATE JULY 15 2019

Department BreakdownPlease provide the total number of faculty members in your department and break down this number by

rank Please list new faculty members that have joined your department within the last six months

Total Number of Faculty

Number of Faculty Associates 1

Number of Instructors 1

Number of Research Assistant Professor 1

Number of Assistant Professors 6

Number of Associate Professors 7

Number of Professors 4

New Faculty

None

9102019

21

LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair

program director clerkship director chiefs etc

Department Chair Dr Peter Rotwein (VP Research Associate

Dean GSBS)

Director Center of Emphasis in Cancer Dr Rajkumar

Lakshmanaswamy (Dean GSBS) Co-Director Dr N Shokar

Director Center of Emphasis in Diabetes and Metabolism Dr

David Cistola

Director Center of Emphasis in Infectious Diseases Vacant

Director Center of Emphasis in Neurosciences Vacant

Chief Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology Vacant

AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional

appointments national appointments etc

Awards

Dr Mingtao Zeng

2018 The American Association of Immunologists (AAI) AAI Travel Grant for the 5th European Congress of Immunology

2018 Defense Techconnect Fall Summit amp Expo (2018) Techconnect Defense Innovation Award

Dr Shrikant Gadad

Eugenia Rosemberg Outstanding Abstract Award Endocrine Society Annual Meeting New Orleans March 23-26 2019

Dr Huanyu Dou

National Innovation Award Techconnect 2019

Honors

Dr Alok Dwivedi

Appointed as associated faculty at the Border Biomedical Research Center (BBRC) University of Texas El Paso (UTEP)

Dr Shrikant Gadad

Session Chair (OR09 Steroid Hormone Biology in Physiology and Disease) Endocrine Society Annual Meeting New Orleans March 23-26 2019

9102019

22

AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional

appointments national appointments etc

NIH or DOD study sections appointments

Dr Guohua Yi

HIV special Emphasis Panel for RFA-AI-18-058 Genetic Engineering Technologies for HIV Cure Research (U19)

Dr Laxman Gangwani

Department of Defense (DOD) Reviewer for Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) 2018 -

NIHCSR Study ldquoProgram Evaluation of NIH Peer Review Processes The Role of Anonymizationrdquo 2019 ndash

Patents filings and publications

Patent Number 9862951 Title RNA Interference-Based Therapeutic against Anthrax Inventors Mingtao Zeng and Maria T AreacutevaloDate of Patent January 9 2018

Cistola D P Patel V (2018) Method and system for non-invasive measurement of metabolic health US Non-Provisional Utility Patent Application No 15911728 filed by Texas Tech University

Cistola D P Robinson M D (2018) Methods and tools for diagnosing insulin resistance and assessing health status using NMR relaxation times for water United States Patent Application Publication US 20180020947 A1 httpspatentsgooglecompatentUS20180020947A1en

AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional

appointments national appointments etc

News and Media Coverage of Research performed at TTUHSC EP

Dr David Cistola

MedPageToday 2 January 2019 Harris Scott Could a New Biomarker Help Predict Type 2 Diabetes -- Early datashow water T2 catches abnormalities before traditional testing but experts are cautiously optimistichttpswwwmedpagetodaycomreading-roomendocrine-societydiabetes77186

KTSM Channel 9 NBC El Paso 14 November 2018 Castillo Susy Research in El Paso aimed at detectingdiabetes earlyhttpswwwktsmcomlifestylehealthresearch-in-el-paso-aimed-at-detecting-diabetes-early1596408236apt_credirect=1

El Paso Inc 29 March 2019 TTUHSC El Paso Tackling diabetes cancer httpwwwelpasoinccomttuhsc-el-paso-tackling-diabetes-cancerarticle_613144fe-526a-11e9-b916-c35b701a5ef9html

Dr Laxman Gangwani

Cure SMA Awards $150000 Grant to Laxman Gangwani PhD Texas Tech University

httpwwwcuresmaorgnewsgangwani-grant-2019html

httpswwweurekalertorgpub_releases2019-05ttuh-gw050119php

httpswwwresearchgatenetscientific-contributions11984383_Laxman_Gangwani

9102019

23

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Peer-reviewed publications 36 (In high-impact journals)

2018 highest impact factor (11561) journal Nucleic Acids Research

Abstracts 43

Presentations (i) Oral 11 (ii) Posters 28

Invited talks 13

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Peer-reviewed publications

Kannan A Bhatia K Branzei D and Gangwani L (2018) Combined deficiency of Senataxin and DNA-PKcscauses DNA damage accumulation and neurodegeneration in spinal muscular atrophy Nucleic Acids Research2018 Vol 46 No 16 8326-8346

Mishra I Jones C Patel V Deodhar S Cistola D P (2018) Early detection of metabolic dysregulation usingwater T2 analysis of biobanked samples Diabetes Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity Targets and Therapy 11 807-818

Patel V Dwivedi A K Deodhar S Mishra I Cistola D P (2018) Aptamer-based search for correlates of plasmaand serum water T2 Implications for early metabolic dysregulation and metabolic syndrome Biomarker Research6(1) 28

Garg H Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz T Joshi A 2018 Recent Advances in Zika Virus Vaccines Viruses Nov 1410 (11) Sundin OH Mendoza-Ladd A Zeng M Diaz-Areacutevalo D Morales E Fagan BMOrdontildeez J McCallum RW Does a

glucose-based hydrogen and methane breath test detect bacterial overgrowth in the jejunum NeurogastroenterolMotil 2018e13350

Zheng Z Diaz-Areacutevalo D Guan H and Mingtao Zeng Noninvasive vaccination against infectious diseases Humanvaccines amp immunotherapeutics 2018 14(7)1717-1733

Preeti Bharaj Chunting Ye Sean Petersen Qianghu Wang Baoli Hu N Manjunath Premlata Shankar Guohua Yi(2018) Gene array analysis of PD-1H overexpressing monocytes reveals a pro-inflammatory profile Heliyone00545

Bencomo-Alvarez AE Rubio AJ Gonzalez MA and Eiring AM Energy metabolism and drug response in myeloidleukaemic stem cells Br J Haematol 2019 In Press

9102019

24

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Peer-reviewed publications Yan D Pomicter AD Tantravahi S Mason CC Senina AV Ahmann JM Wang Q Than H Patel AB Heaton

WL Eiring AM Clair PM Gantz KC Redwine HM Swierczek SI Halverson BJ Baloglu E Shacham S KhorashadJS Kelley TW Salama ME Miles RR Boucher KM Prchal JT OHare T and Deininger MW Nuclear-cytoplasmic transport is a therapeutic target in myelofibrosis Clin Cancer Res 201925(7)2323-2335

Heipertz E Harper J Lopez CA Fikrig E Hughes ME Walker WE Circadian rhythms influence the severity of sepsis in mice via a TLR2-dependent leukocyte-intrinsic mechanism The Journal of Immunology 2018 201193-201

Khatri R Afzal MR Qureshi MA Maud A Huanyu D Jose Rodriguez G Pre-Existing Renal Failure Increases In-Hospital Mortality in Patients with Intracerebral Hemorrhage J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis 2019 Feb28(2)237-242

Zou L Lee SY Wu Q Zhang H Bastian A Orji C Payne G Galvez A Thomas T Zhang Z Dou H Facile Gene Delivery Derived from Branched Low Molecular Weight Polyethylenimine by High Efficient Chemistry J Biomed Nanotechnol 2018 Oct 114(10)1785-1795

Zhang C Brandon NR Koper K Tang P Xu Y Dou H Invasion of Peripheral Immune Cells into Brain Parenchyma after Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation Aging Dis 2018 Jun 19(3)412-425

Loza O Hernandez P Calderoacuten-Mora J Laks S Leiner M Reddy S Lara P amp Granados H (2018) Developing Trans-affirming health services in an underserved area An intersectional approach Transgender Health 3(1) 127-135

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Byrd T Calderoacuten-Mora J Salaiz R amp Shokar N (2019) Barriers and facilitators to colorectal cancer screening within a Hispanic population Hispanic Health Care International 17(1) 23-29 doi 1011771540415318818982

Haut SR Lipton RB Cornes S Dwivedi AK Wasson R Cotton S Strawn JR Privitera M (2018) Behavioral interventions as a treatment for epilepsy A multicenter randomized controlled trial Neurology 90(11) e963-e970 PMID 29444968

Jessica Bernica Sherif Elhanafi Neeharika Kalakota Yi Jia Christopher Dodoo Alok Dwivedi Robert J Sealock Kalpesh Patel Isaac Raijman Marc J Zuckerman Mohamed O Othman (2018) Cholangioscopy is safe and feasible in elderly patients Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology 16(8) 1293-1299

Benjamin D Wissel Alok K Dwivedi Danielle Chin Aristide Merola Cara Jacob Andrew P Duker Jennifer E Vaughan Lilia Lovera Kathrin LaFaver Ariel Levy Anthony E Lang Francesca Morgante Melissa J Nirenberg Christopher Stephen Nutan Sharma Alberto Romagnolo Leonardo Lopiano Bettina Balint Xin X Yu Kailash P Bhatia Alberto J Espay Functional neurological disorders in Parkinson disease Accepted for publication in Journal

of Neurology Neurosurgery amp Psychiatry 89(6)566-571

Danny J Avalos Marc J Zuckerman Alok Dwivedi Christopher Dodoo Jinendra Satiya Fernando J Castro(2018) Differences in prevalence of large polyps between Hispanic Americans from Mexican-and Non-Mexican-predominant states Digestive diseases and sciences PMID 30276570

Zeina Nahleh Salman Otoukesh Hamid Reza Mirshahidi Anthony Loc Nguyen Gayathri Nagaraj Nabeel Badri Gehan Botrus Nabih Diab Andres Alvarado Luis A Sanchez Alok K Dwivedi (2018) Disparities in breast cancer a multi-institutional comparative analysis focusing on American Hispanics Cancer Medicine (In press 05072018)

9102019

25

Scholarly Activity Danny J Avalos Antonio Mendoza-Ladd Marc J Zuckerman Mohammad Bashashati Andres Alvarado Alok

Dwivedi Oriana M Damas (2018) Hispanics and Non-Hispanic Whites in the US have a Similar InflammatoryBowel Disease Phenotype A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis Digestive Diseases and Sciences 63(6)1558-1571

Aleli Campbell Rosalinda Heydarian Cecilia Ochoa Alok Kumar Dwivedi Zeina A Nahleh(2018) Single arm phaseII study of oral vitamin B12 for the treatment of musculoskeletal symptoms associated with aromatase inhibitors inwomen with early stage breast cancer The breast journal 24(3)260-268

Shaimaa Elzamly Nabeel Badri Osvaldo Padilla Alok Kumar Dwivedi Luis A Alvarado Matthew Hamilton NabihDiab Crosby Rock Ahmed Elfar Marwa Teleb Luis Sanchez Zeina Nahleh (2018) Epithelial-mesenchymaltransition markers in breast cancer and pathological responseafter neoadjuvant chemotherapy Breast Cancer

(Auckl) 2018 Aug 1121178223418788074

Jennifer C Molokwu Eribeth Penaranda Alok Dwivedi Indika Mallawaarachchi Navkiran Shokar (2018) Effect ofEducational Intervention on Self-Sampling Acceptability and Follow-Up Paps in Border Dwelling Hispanic FemalesJournal of Lower Genital Tract Disease

Ritika Suri Federico Rodriguez-Porcel Kelly Donohue Erin Jesse Lilia Lovera Alok Kumar Dwivedi Alberto JEspay (2018) Post-Stroke Movement Disorders The Clinical Neuroanatomic and Demographic Portrait of 284Published Cases Accepted for publication in Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases (In press05212018)

Zeina Nahleh Gehan Botrus Alok Dwivedi Nabeel Badri Salman Otoukesh Nabih Diab Sandip BiswasMichael Jennings Shaimaa Elzamly(2018) Clinico-pathologic disparities of breast cancer in HispanicLatina womenBreast disease 1-8

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Robert Gonzalez Trisha Suppes Jamie Zeitzer Colleen McClung Carol Tamminga Mauricio Tohen Angelica Forero Alok DwivediAndres Alvarado (2018) The association between mood state and chronobiological characteristics in bipolar I disorder a naturalisticvariable cluster analysis-based study International Journal of Bipolar Disorders 6(1)5Mohamed Teleb Aaron Shanker Alok Kumar Dwivedi Debabrata Mukherjee (2018) Effect of exercise on left ventricular mass index byechocardiography in mild and moderate hypertension a meta-analysis Res Cardiovasc Med 6(4)50-6Garnica O Das K Devasundaram S and Dhandayuthapani S Enhanced delivery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigens to antigenpresenting cells using RVG peptide Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Das K Garnica O and Dhandayuthapani S Utility of an oxidative stress response system for the expression of recombinant proteinsin mycobacteria and for the delivery of M tuberculosis antigens to the phagosomal compartments Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Palanichamy K Joshi A Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz T Fernando B Milan S Schiro F Naeem Y Garg H Braunschweig A 2019 Anti-ZikaActivity of a Library of Synthetic Carbohydrate Receptors Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 6284110-4119Anjali Joshi Erin B Punke Tugba Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz Diego P Peralta and Himanshu Garg 2019 TLR9 polymorphism correlates withimmune activation CD4 decline and plasma IP10 levels in HIV patients BMC Infect Dis 19 56Vargas-Medrano J Yang B Garza N T Segura-Ulate I and Perez R G (2018) Up-regulation of protective neuronal MicroRNAs byFTY720 and novel FTY720-derivatives Neuroscience letters 690 178-180Vidal-Martinez G Yang B Vargas-Medrano J and Perez R G (2018) Could alpha-Synuclein Modulation of Insulin and DopamineIdentify a Novel Link Between Parkinsons Disease and Diabetes as Well as Potential Therapies Frontiers in molecular

neuroscience 11 465

9102019

26

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Gil-Tommee C Vidal-Martinez G Annette Reyes C Vargas-Medrano J Herrera G V Martin S M Chaparro S A andPerez R G (2019) Parkinsonian GM2 synthase knockout mice lacking mature gangliosides develop urinary dysfunction andneurogenic bladder Experimental neurology 311265-273Vidal-Martinez G Najera K Miranda JD Gil-Tommee C Yang B Vargas-Medrano J Diaz-Pacheco V Barragan J ChaparroS Vargas-Medrano J Chinnasamy R Arterburn JB Perez RG FTY720 improves behavior increases Brain Derived NeurotrophicFactor and reduces α-synuclein pathology in parkinsonian GM2+minus

mice Neuroscience httpsdoiorg101016jneuroscience201905029Tasnim N Thakur V Chattopadhyay M Joddar B (2018) The efficacy of Graphene-foams towards the adhesion proliferationand expression of neuronal-phenotype by dopaminergic neurons differentiated from mesenchymal stem cells Stem cell

international Jun 3 20183410168 doi 10115520183410168Anil Kumar S Allen SC Tasnim N Akter T Park S Kumar A Chattopadhyay M Ito Y Suggs LJ Joddar B (2019) The applicabilityof furfuryl-gelatin as a novel bioink for tissue engineering applications J Biomed Mater Res B Appl Biomater 2019 107(2)314-323 doi 101002jbmb34123 Epub 2018 Apr 15Thakur V Chattopadhyay M (2018) Early urinary markers for diabetic and other kidney diseases Current drug targets 2018 Mar19Joddar B Tasnim N Thakur V Kumar A Mccallum R Chattopadhyay M (2018) Delivery of mesenchymal stem cells fromgelatin-alginate hydrogels to stomach lumen for treatment of gastroparesis Bioengineering 2018 5(1)Camacho CV Choudhari R Gadad SS (2018) Long noncoding RNAs and cancer an overview Steroids 13393-95

IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department

Large net loss (9) of MTM faculty members over the past 5 years

Vacant Director positions (i) Center for Neuroscience (ii) Center for InfectiousDiseases and (iii) Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology

No steps have been taken to fill directors positions for more than 2 years

Neurosciences Center at the verge of collapse Only one faculty will be left at theend of this fiscal year

The size of Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology is shrinking

Lack of communication regarding vision and strategic plan for growing department

No faculty salary raises for the past 3 years

Serious concerns about recruitment retention and tenure and promotion decisionsmade in the department Faculty morale is extremely low

Lack of functional research core facility

Gradual elimination of service contracts of equipment essential for research trainingand education of graduate and medical students

A plethora of other issues with the department administration

9102019

27

Questions

Departmental Report

Psychiatry

Ricardo Salazar MDAssociate Professor Psychiatry

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28

Department ReportPsychiatryPRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCIL

BY RICARDO SALAZAR MD

DATE MONDAY JULY 15 2019

Department BreakdownPlease provide the total number of faculty members in your department and break down this number by

rank Please list new faculty members that have joined your department within the last six months

Total Number of Faculty 12

Number of Instructors 1

Number of Assistant Professors 8

Number of Associate Professors 2

Number of Professors 2

New Faculty Melanie Longhurst MD Instructor

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29

LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair

program director clerkship director chiefs etc

Department Chair ndash Peter M Thompson MD MS

Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Sarah L Martin MD

Combined IMPsych Residency Program Director ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD

Psychiatry Clerkship Director ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD

Child amp Adolescent Fellowship Program Director ndash Cecilia De Vargas MD

Chief Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry ndash Sarah L Martin MD

Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Program Directorndash Ricardo Salazar MD

Chief Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences ndash Ricardo Salazar MD

Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Transmountain ndash Moataz Ragheb MD

AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in your department including awards honors regional

appointments national appointments etc

El Paso Behavioral Health Consortium ndash Board Member ndash Peter M Thompson MD

714 (50) of our graduating medical students this year choose and matched our resident training programs here at Paul L FosterSchool of Medicine Department of Psychiatry (Historical record) ndash Kudos for our Department Faculty

In appreciation for exceptional contributions to the 30th volume of the J Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences ndash Author contributions and review of 271 manuscripts submitted to the journal between September 2017 and August 2018 ndash Ricardo Salazar MD ndash Young Investigator Award Committee Member and Program Committee Member-Abstracts Sub-Committee Member of theAmerican Neuropsychiatric Association (ANPA)

Initial Accreditation with commendation and no citations from ACGME for our first Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Training Program for West Texas ndash Ricardo Salazar MD

Leadership in Education and Development Certificate Program (LEAD) Fellow -1-year program accredited from the Association ofAmerican Medical Colleges (AAMC) Silvina Tonarelli MD amp Ricardo Salazar MD (Selected Award)

Fully operating Southwest Brain Bank A Brain Tissue Repository for Research in Mental Illness ndashPeter M Thompson MD

Texas State Psychiatric Physicians Public Mental Health Services Committee ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD

Texas Health and Human Services Commission Behavioral Health Advisory Committee ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP

Fellow American College of Physicians ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP FACP

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30

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Abstracts 31

Publications 5 (peer-review journals)

Presentations 17 ndash National (7) and International (6)

Invited Speaker 21 (including faculty residents fellows) ndash Local amp National

Book Chapters NA

Grants McKee Foundation Award ndash our Chair - Thompson

Intramural Grants Seed Grant 1 SARP Educational Grant 2 - Salazar

President`s Collaborative Research Initiative ndashMarch 2018 - Tonarelli

Scholarly Activity

Child and Adolescent Fellowship Presentations

INTERNATIONAL

- Curanderos and Limpias Cultural psychiatry

Poster presented at 6th Annual Scientific conference of the European Association of PsychosomaticMedicine Verona Italy Drs Garza Meissner De Vargas Mehta June 2018

-Case presentation 0f 49XXXXY Same conference same authors same city

-Resilience etiology protective and risk factors presentation C De Vargas by invitation Annual WorldPediatric summit Madrid June 2018

-Parents and their Children Fantastic journey Same conference on June 2019 Berlin Germany

NATIONAL

-Development of Psychopathology in children at risk for Bipolar Disorders Drs Escamilla Peter Sangra C DeVargas S Martin C Alvarado Andrea Rios (Poster) American Academy of Child and Adolescent PsychiatryAnnual Conference Seattle WA October 2018

Frank William Meissner MD Cynthia Elizabeth Garza MDJD Sarah L Martin MD rdquoDrug-Induced BrugadaSyndrome in a Middle-Aged Female Patient Drugs EKG Diagnosis Electrophysiology and SurveillanceRecommendationrdquo American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting San Francisco CA May 21 2019

Delinquency in a group of school children at risk for bipolar disorder D Haque M Escamilla C De VargasPresented at UCLA LA Ca June 2019

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Residency ProgramPlease provide information regarding your departmentrsquos residency program ie recent accreditation

number of residents and program updates (if applicable)

24 General Psychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)

8 Internal MedicinePsychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)

3 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellows

1 Geriatric Psychiatry Fellow- newly accredited program

IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department

RecruitmentRetention

Short staffed

Organizational Structure

Financial incentives

Protected time

Gender balance Attrition malefemale ratio 41

Program Coordinator turnover rate

Mentoring

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Departmental Organizational

Structure

Chair

Division ChiefsProgram Directors

Clerkship Director

Adm

Organizational Structure Model

Chair

Deputy Chair for Education

Program

Directors

Deputy Chair for Research

Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs

Vicechair

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33

Roles

Deputy Chair for Education

Oversee undergraduate graduate and CME including the development of teachers and educational scholars Monitor quality and safety across the department

Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs

Faculty appointments Faculty Development and Promotion andor Tenure Develop programs in different domains such as research education personal improvement and leadership Support clinical activities by improving the efficiency of operations and in helping to fit clinical programs into those in the rest of the medical center Allocation of space

Deputy Chair for Research

Develop and direct department-wide programs for faculty recruitment development and support of mentors recognition of excellence and funding of pilot grants bridge funding and grants to nurture multi-principal investigator and trans-division or trans-department projects Allocation of space among divisions

Bottom Line

We need more funds

Institutional support

The investments needed to recruit faculty are beyond the capacity of the

department`s operational revenue

Recruiting a leading investigator or one with great potential for

example may require an investment of $ 1 million and sometimes more

Endowments are the departmentrsquos foundational financial capital the

keel that maintains momentum and balance through the headwinds

and rough seas each department will navigate Endowments increase

the departmentrsquos independence in sustaining its core mission

Thus creation of endowments should be a high priority for any

department that plans for the long term and they increase capacity to

recruit the best faculty in a competitive environment

Page 12: FACULTY COUNCIL MEETING · 7/15/2019  · FACULTY COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES Monday, July 15, 2019 Noon – 1:00 p.m. MEB, Room 1120 and WebEx TTUHSC El Paso PLFSOM 7/15/2019 FACULTY

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Committee Composition and Terms of ServiceLast Name First Name Degree Academic Rank Department Committee Position Term Start Date

Term Expiration Date

Frances Mark MD ProfessorMedical Education

Member (College Master)

9120168312020

Pfarr Curt PhD ProfessorMedical Education

Member (College Master) 9242015 8312019

Gajendran Mahesh MD Assistant ProfessorInternal Medicine

Member (Clinician) 912017 8312021

Uga Aghaegbulam MD Assistant Professor

Psychiatry and Internal Medicine

Member (Clinician) 11192015 10312019

Kassar Darine MD Assistant Professor NeurologyMember (Clinician) 972016 8312020

Wojciechowska Joanna MD Assistant Professor Pediatrics

Member (Clinician) 212018 8312022

Nino DiegoMD PhD Assistant Professor

Medical Education

Member (Basic Sciences) 1142019 1142023

Padilla Osvaldo MD Assistant Professor PathologyMember (Basic Sciences) 12152014 8312022

Cervantes JorgeMD PhD Assistant Professor

Medical Education

Member (Basic Sciences) 8232016 8312020

Perry Cynthia PhD Assistant ProfessorMedical Education

Member (Basic Sciences) 9282015 8312019

Brower Richard MDAssociate Professor

Medical Education Chair NA NA

Three positions

opening soon ndash-

should have

demonstrated

interest and

engagement in

UME and a

willingness to

attend all

meetings and

participate in

team

assignments

Committee Composition and Terms of

Service Leadership

This committee is chaired by the associate dean for medical education

The committee reports to the Faculty Council

Membership will include

2 college masters (one basic scientist one clinician) with 4-year terms

4 members from the basic sciences faculty with 4-year terms (staggered)

4 members from the clinical sciences faculty with 4-year terms (staggered)

Ex Officio members

Dean or their designee

Associate dean for student affairs

Assistant deans for medication education

Managing director of the libraries (ldquoAssociate Director of the Libraryrdquo)

Director of information technology or their designee

Director of assessment and evaluation (position no longer exists)

Two student reps from each of the four classes (from the Student Curriculum and Evaluation Committee)

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Committee Charge Faculty Bylaws Article IX Section C2

The Committee on Curriculum and Educational Policy is charged with planning coordinating

reviewing and evaluating the curriculum to ensure that it adheres to the

written educational policies goals and objectives of the Paul L Foster School

of Medicine Further the Committee shall have full authority to make changes in

educational policy or in the organization of the curriculum with the

concurrence of the Dean and with comment and input from the Faculty Council The Faculty of the Paul L Foster School of Medicine has the responsibility to define course objectives create

and deliver content to meet those objectives and modify their activities in response to appropriate feedback

from peers and students The Committee will provide updates on its activities at least

twice a year to the Faculty Council In order to accomplish the mission of the Committee the

Chair may appoint subcommittees that may include members who are not

members of the Committee It shall be the responsibility of the Committee to coordinate the

activities and reports of these subcommittees In addition the Committee receives reports

from the Committee on Evaluation of Educational Programs

Current IssuesConcerns

Curriculum enhancementimprovement

Preparation for class size expansion

Preparation for next round of curriculum reviews

(ldquocurriculum as a wholerdquo)

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12

CEPC actions since last report

January 2019 (1 meeting)

Reviewed and approved revisions to the following

educational program polices

Clerkship Administration

Clerkship DirectorAssistant Director Position Description

Approval of two new 4th Year Electives

Pediatric Gastroenterology Hepatology and Nutrition

Emergency Medicine Ultrasound

Clerkship phase review FM and Surgery

CEPC actions since last report

February 2019 (2 meetings)

New educational program policy reviewed and approved

Grade Changes and Transcript Notations

Rollover of established educational program goals and

objectives (the ldquoPGOsrdquo) approved

Clerkship phase review Pediatrics and ObGyn

Preliminary data-driven discussion of revised educational

program policy covering Grading Promotion and Academic

Standing (ldquoGPASrdquo)

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13

CEPC actions since last report

March 2019 (2 meetings)

Clerkship phase review IM and Psych Critical Care and Sub-I

Selectives

Approval of new educational program policy

Grading Promotion and Academic Standing (ldquoGPASrdquo)

Notification of changes in clerkship directorship

Elimination of the PICE course (PICE 7001) from the year 2

curriculum approved (primarily administrative educational

elements re-distributed)

Associated review and approval of an updated PLSOM degree

plan (based on 157 credit hours)

CEPC actions since last report

April 2019 (1 meetings)

Clerkship phase review EM Neurology and Intersessions

Review and approval of revised educational program policy

Pre-Clerkship Phase Student Attendance and Participation

Policy

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14

CEPC actions since last report

May 2019 (1 meetings)

Review and approval of the ldquoCommon Clerkship Policiesrdquo

Notification of additional changes in the clerkship

directorship

Clerkship phase review

Phase data review (AAMC GQ NBME subject exams

USMLE Step 2 CK and CS Step 3 final grades EOY OSCE

and procedure workshop residency director survey)

Introduction of a 10-point plan for curriculum revision

(ldquoPLFSOM v20rdquo)

June 2019 (no quorum) July 2019 (cancelled)

CEPC actions since last report

Challenges and opportunities for improvement identified

through the AY208-19 clerkship phase review

Clear identification of contacts at affiliated sites

Academic support and remediation planning

Consistent resident preparation for participation in UME

Timeliness of grading (Sub-I and Critical Care Selectives)

Orientation modules for Sub-Q and Critical Care Selectives)

Scaling clerkships for anticipated class expansion

The summer doldrums

June 2019 (no quorum) July 2019 (cancelled)

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15

Upcoming actions

Ongoing educational program policy development

Maintain accreditation compliance related curriculum

review cycle (2019-20 ldquoCurriculum as a Wholerdquo)

Review and advance plans for curriculum renewalrevision

Review proposal to re-direct our MD-MPH affiliation to

TTUHSC GSBS Lubbock

Consider development of an MD-MBA option (potentially

with UTEP)

Links to related information

PLFSOM Committee on Curriculum and Educational Policy main page

httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCdefaultaspx

MD degree program policies

httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCpoliciesaspx

MD degree program information

httpselpasottuhscedusomomeUMEinfoaspx

Course and clerkship syllabi

httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCcoursereviewaspx

AY2017-18 medical education program evaluation report (e-Raider required)

httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPC_documentssecureAY2017-

2018MEPEvaluationAnnualReport-Draft-v2pdf

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19

Departmental Report

Molecular and Translational

Medicine

Laxman Gangwani PhDAssociate Professor Molecular amp

Translational Medicine

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20

Department of Molecular and

Translational Medicine (formerly

Biomedical Sciences) Report

PRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCIL

BY LAXMAN GANGWANI

DATE JULY 15 2019

Department BreakdownPlease provide the total number of faculty members in your department and break down this number by

rank Please list new faculty members that have joined your department within the last six months

Total Number of Faculty

Number of Faculty Associates 1

Number of Instructors 1

Number of Research Assistant Professor 1

Number of Assistant Professors 6

Number of Associate Professors 7

Number of Professors 4

New Faculty

None

9102019

21

LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair

program director clerkship director chiefs etc

Department Chair Dr Peter Rotwein (VP Research Associate

Dean GSBS)

Director Center of Emphasis in Cancer Dr Rajkumar

Lakshmanaswamy (Dean GSBS) Co-Director Dr N Shokar

Director Center of Emphasis in Diabetes and Metabolism Dr

David Cistola

Director Center of Emphasis in Infectious Diseases Vacant

Director Center of Emphasis in Neurosciences Vacant

Chief Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology Vacant

AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional

appointments national appointments etc

Awards

Dr Mingtao Zeng

2018 The American Association of Immunologists (AAI) AAI Travel Grant for the 5th European Congress of Immunology

2018 Defense Techconnect Fall Summit amp Expo (2018) Techconnect Defense Innovation Award

Dr Shrikant Gadad

Eugenia Rosemberg Outstanding Abstract Award Endocrine Society Annual Meeting New Orleans March 23-26 2019

Dr Huanyu Dou

National Innovation Award Techconnect 2019

Honors

Dr Alok Dwivedi

Appointed as associated faculty at the Border Biomedical Research Center (BBRC) University of Texas El Paso (UTEP)

Dr Shrikant Gadad

Session Chair (OR09 Steroid Hormone Biology in Physiology and Disease) Endocrine Society Annual Meeting New Orleans March 23-26 2019

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22

AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional

appointments national appointments etc

NIH or DOD study sections appointments

Dr Guohua Yi

HIV special Emphasis Panel for RFA-AI-18-058 Genetic Engineering Technologies for HIV Cure Research (U19)

Dr Laxman Gangwani

Department of Defense (DOD) Reviewer for Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) 2018 -

NIHCSR Study ldquoProgram Evaluation of NIH Peer Review Processes The Role of Anonymizationrdquo 2019 ndash

Patents filings and publications

Patent Number 9862951 Title RNA Interference-Based Therapeutic against Anthrax Inventors Mingtao Zeng and Maria T AreacutevaloDate of Patent January 9 2018

Cistola D P Patel V (2018) Method and system for non-invasive measurement of metabolic health US Non-Provisional Utility Patent Application No 15911728 filed by Texas Tech University

Cistola D P Robinson M D (2018) Methods and tools for diagnosing insulin resistance and assessing health status using NMR relaxation times for water United States Patent Application Publication US 20180020947 A1 httpspatentsgooglecompatentUS20180020947A1en

AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional

appointments national appointments etc

News and Media Coverage of Research performed at TTUHSC EP

Dr David Cistola

MedPageToday 2 January 2019 Harris Scott Could a New Biomarker Help Predict Type 2 Diabetes -- Early datashow water T2 catches abnormalities before traditional testing but experts are cautiously optimistichttpswwwmedpagetodaycomreading-roomendocrine-societydiabetes77186

KTSM Channel 9 NBC El Paso 14 November 2018 Castillo Susy Research in El Paso aimed at detectingdiabetes earlyhttpswwwktsmcomlifestylehealthresearch-in-el-paso-aimed-at-detecting-diabetes-early1596408236apt_credirect=1

El Paso Inc 29 March 2019 TTUHSC El Paso Tackling diabetes cancer httpwwwelpasoinccomttuhsc-el-paso-tackling-diabetes-cancerarticle_613144fe-526a-11e9-b916-c35b701a5ef9html

Dr Laxman Gangwani

Cure SMA Awards $150000 Grant to Laxman Gangwani PhD Texas Tech University

httpwwwcuresmaorgnewsgangwani-grant-2019html

httpswwweurekalertorgpub_releases2019-05ttuh-gw050119php

httpswwwresearchgatenetscientific-contributions11984383_Laxman_Gangwani

9102019

23

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Peer-reviewed publications 36 (In high-impact journals)

2018 highest impact factor (11561) journal Nucleic Acids Research

Abstracts 43

Presentations (i) Oral 11 (ii) Posters 28

Invited talks 13

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Peer-reviewed publications

Kannan A Bhatia K Branzei D and Gangwani L (2018) Combined deficiency of Senataxin and DNA-PKcscauses DNA damage accumulation and neurodegeneration in spinal muscular atrophy Nucleic Acids Research2018 Vol 46 No 16 8326-8346

Mishra I Jones C Patel V Deodhar S Cistola D P (2018) Early detection of metabolic dysregulation usingwater T2 analysis of biobanked samples Diabetes Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity Targets and Therapy 11 807-818

Patel V Dwivedi A K Deodhar S Mishra I Cistola D P (2018) Aptamer-based search for correlates of plasmaand serum water T2 Implications for early metabolic dysregulation and metabolic syndrome Biomarker Research6(1) 28

Garg H Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz T Joshi A 2018 Recent Advances in Zika Virus Vaccines Viruses Nov 1410 (11) Sundin OH Mendoza-Ladd A Zeng M Diaz-Areacutevalo D Morales E Fagan BMOrdontildeez J McCallum RW Does a

glucose-based hydrogen and methane breath test detect bacterial overgrowth in the jejunum NeurogastroenterolMotil 2018e13350

Zheng Z Diaz-Areacutevalo D Guan H and Mingtao Zeng Noninvasive vaccination against infectious diseases Humanvaccines amp immunotherapeutics 2018 14(7)1717-1733

Preeti Bharaj Chunting Ye Sean Petersen Qianghu Wang Baoli Hu N Manjunath Premlata Shankar Guohua Yi(2018) Gene array analysis of PD-1H overexpressing monocytes reveals a pro-inflammatory profile Heliyone00545

Bencomo-Alvarez AE Rubio AJ Gonzalez MA and Eiring AM Energy metabolism and drug response in myeloidleukaemic stem cells Br J Haematol 2019 In Press

9102019

24

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Peer-reviewed publications Yan D Pomicter AD Tantravahi S Mason CC Senina AV Ahmann JM Wang Q Than H Patel AB Heaton

WL Eiring AM Clair PM Gantz KC Redwine HM Swierczek SI Halverson BJ Baloglu E Shacham S KhorashadJS Kelley TW Salama ME Miles RR Boucher KM Prchal JT OHare T and Deininger MW Nuclear-cytoplasmic transport is a therapeutic target in myelofibrosis Clin Cancer Res 201925(7)2323-2335

Heipertz E Harper J Lopez CA Fikrig E Hughes ME Walker WE Circadian rhythms influence the severity of sepsis in mice via a TLR2-dependent leukocyte-intrinsic mechanism The Journal of Immunology 2018 201193-201

Khatri R Afzal MR Qureshi MA Maud A Huanyu D Jose Rodriguez G Pre-Existing Renal Failure Increases In-Hospital Mortality in Patients with Intracerebral Hemorrhage J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis 2019 Feb28(2)237-242

Zou L Lee SY Wu Q Zhang H Bastian A Orji C Payne G Galvez A Thomas T Zhang Z Dou H Facile Gene Delivery Derived from Branched Low Molecular Weight Polyethylenimine by High Efficient Chemistry J Biomed Nanotechnol 2018 Oct 114(10)1785-1795

Zhang C Brandon NR Koper K Tang P Xu Y Dou H Invasion of Peripheral Immune Cells into Brain Parenchyma after Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation Aging Dis 2018 Jun 19(3)412-425

Loza O Hernandez P Calderoacuten-Mora J Laks S Leiner M Reddy S Lara P amp Granados H (2018) Developing Trans-affirming health services in an underserved area An intersectional approach Transgender Health 3(1) 127-135

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Byrd T Calderoacuten-Mora J Salaiz R amp Shokar N (2019) Barriers and facilitators to colorectal cancer screening within a Hispanic population Hispanic Health Care International 17(1) 23-29 doi 1011771540415318818982

Haut SR Lipton RB Cornes S Dwivedi AK Wasson R Cotton S Strawn JR Privitera M (2018) Behavioral interventions as a treatment for epilepsy A multicenter randomized controlled trial Neurology 90(11) e963-e970 PMID 29444968

Jessica Bernica Sherif Elhanafi Neeharika Kalakota Yi Jia Christopher Dodoo Alok Dwivedi Robert J Sealock Kalpesh Patel Isaac Raijman Marc J Zuckerman Mohamed O Othman (2018) Cholangioscopy is safe and feasible in elderly patients Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology 16(8) 1293-1299

Benjamin D Wissel Alok K Dwivedi Danielle Chin Aristide Merola Cara Jacob Andrew P Duker Jennifer E Vaughan Lilia Lovera Kathrin LaFaver Ariel Levy Anthony E Lang Francesca Morgante Melissa J Nirenberg Christopher Stephen Nutan Sharma Alberto Romagnolo Leonardo Lopiano Bettina Balint Xin X Yu Kailash P Bhatia Alberto J Espay Functional neurological disorders in Parkinson disease Accepted for publication in Journal

of Neurology Neurosurgery amp Psychiatry 89(6)566-571

Danny J Avalos Marc J Zuckerman Alok Dwivedi Christopher Dodoo Jinendra Satiya Fernando J Castro(2018) Differences in prevalence of large polyps between Hispanic Americans from Mexican-and Non-Mexican-predominant states Digestive diseases and sciences PMID 30276570

Zeina Nahleh Salman Otoukesh Hamid Reza Mirshahidi Anthony Loc Nguyen Gayathri Nagaraj Nabeel Badri Gehan Botrus Nabih Diab Andres Alvarado Luis A Sanchez Alok K Dwivedi (2018) Disparities in breast cancer a multi-institutional comparative analysis focusing on American Hispanics Cancer Medicine (In press 05072018)

9102019

25

Scholarly Activity Danny J Avalos Antonio Mendoza-Ladd Marc J Zuckerman Mohammad Bashashati Andres Alvarado Alok

Dwivedi Oriana M Damas (2018) Hispanics and Non-Hispanic Whites in the US have a Similar InflammatoryBowel Disease Phenotype A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis Digestive Diseases and Sciences 63(6)1558-1571

Aleli Campbell Rosalinda Heydarian Cecilia Ochoa Alok Kumar Dwivedi Zeina A Nahleh(2018) Single arm phaseII study of oral vitamin B12 for the treatment of musculoskeletal symptoms associated with aromatase inhibitors inwomen with early stage breast cancer The breast journal 24(3)260-268

Shaimaa Elzamly Nabeel Badri Osvaldo Padilla Alok Kumar Dwivedi Luis A Alvarado Matthew Hamilton NabihDiab Crosby Rock Ahmed Elfar Marwa Teleb Luis Sanchez Zeina Nahleh (2018) Epithelial-mesenchymaltransition markers in breast cancer and pathological responseafter neoadjuvant chemotherapy Breast Cancer

(Auckl) 2018 Aug 1121178223418788074

Jennifer C Molokwu Eribeth Penaranda Alok Dwivedi Indika Mallawaarachchi Navkiran Shokar (2018) Effect ofEducational Intervention on Self-Sampling Acceptability and Follow-Up Paps in Border Dwelling Hispanic FemalesJournal of Lower Genital Tract Disease

Ritika Suri Federico Rodriguez-Porcel Kelly Donohue Erin Jesse Lilia Lovera Alok Kumar Dwivedi Alberto JEspay (2018) Post-Stroke Movement Disorders The Clinical Neuroanatomic and Demographic Portrait of 284Published Cases Accepted for publication in Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases (In press05212018)

Zeina Nahleh Gehan Botrus Alok Dwivedi Nabeel Badri Salman Otoukesh Nabih Diab Sandip BiswasMichael Jennings Shaimaa Elzamly(2018) Clinico-pathologic disparities of breast cancer in HispanicLatina womenBreast disease 1-8

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Robert Gonzalez Trisha Suppes Jamie Zeitzer Colleen McClung Carol Tamminga Mauricio Tohen Angelica Forero Alok DwivediAndres Alvarado (2018) The association between mood state and chronobiological characteristics in bipolar I disorder a naturalisticvariable cluster analysis-based study International Journal of Bipolar Disorders 6(1)5Mohamed Teleb Aaron Shanker Alok Kumar Dwivedi Debabrata Mukherjee (2018) Effect of exercise on left ventricular mass index byechocardiography in mild and moderate hypertension a meta-analysis Res Cardiovasc Med 6(4)50-6Garnica O Das K Devasundaram S and Dhandayuthapani S Enhanced delivery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigens to antigenpresenting cells using RVG peptide Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Das K Garnica O and Dhandayuthapani S Utility of an oxidative stress response system for the expression of recombinant proteinsin mycobacteria and for the delivery of M tuberculosis antigens to the phagosomal compartments Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Palanichamy K Joshi A Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz T Fernando B Milan S Schiro F Naeem Y Garg H Braunschweig A 2019 Anti-ZikaActivity of a Library of Synthetic Carbohydrate Receptors Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 6284110-4119Anjali Joshi Erin B Punke Tugba Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz Diego P Peralta and Himanshu Garg 2019 TLR9 polymorphism correlates withimmune activation CD4 decline and plasma IP10 levels in HIV patients BMC Infect Dis 19 56Vargas-Medrano J Yang B Garza N T Segura-Ulate I and Perez R G (2018) Up-regulation of protective neuronal MicroRNAs byFTY720 and novel FTY720-derivatives Neuroscience letters 690 178-180Vidal-Martinez G Yang B Vargas-Medrano J and Perez R G (2018) Could alpha-Synuclein Modulation of Insulin and DopamineIdentify a Novel Link Between Parkinsons Disease and Diabetes as Well as Potential Therapies Frontiers in molecular

neuroscience 11 465

9102019

26

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Gil-Tommee C Vidal-Martinez G Annette Reyes C Vargas-Medrano J Herrera G V Martin S M Chaparro S A andPerez R G (2019) Parkinsonian GM2 synthase knockout mice lacking mature gangliosides develop urinary dysfunction andneurogenic bladder Experimental neurology 311265-273Vidal-Martinez G Najera K Miranda JD Gil-Tommee C Yang B Vargas-Medrano J Diaz-Pacheco V Barragan J ChaparroS Vargas-Medrano J Chinnasamy R Arterburn JB Perez RG FTY720 improves behavior increases Brain Derived NeurotrophicFactor and reduces α-synuclein pathology in parkinsonian GM2+minus

mice Neuroscience httpsdoiorg101016jneuroscience201905029Tasnim N Thakur V Chattopadhyay M Joddar B (2018) The efficacy of Graphene-foams towards the adhesion proliferationand expression of neuronal-phenotype by dopaminergic neurons differentiated from mesenchymal stem cells Stem cell

international Jun 3 20183410168 doi 10115520183410168Anil Kumar S Allen SC Tasnim N Akter T Park S Kumar A Chattopadhyay M Ito Y Suggs LJ Joddar B (2019) The applicabilityof furfuryl-gelatin as a novel bioink for tissue engineering applications J Biomed Mater Res B Appl Biomater 2019 107(2)314-323 doi 101002jbmb34123 Epub 2018 Apr 15Thakur V Chattopadhyay M (2018) Early urinary markers for diabetic and other kidney diseases Current drug targets 2018 Mar19Joddar B Tasnim N Thakur V Kumar A Mccallum R Chattopadhyay M (2018) Delivery of mesenchymal stem cells fromgelatin-alginate hydrogels to stomach lumen for treatment of gastroparesis Bioengineering 2018 5(1)Camacho CV Choudhari R Gadad SS (2018) Long noncoding RNAs and cancer an overview Steroids 13393-95

IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department

Large net loss (9) of MTM faculty members over the past 5 years

Vacant Director positions (i) Center for Neuroscience (ii) Center for InfectiousDiseases and (iii) Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology

No steps have been taken to fill directors positions for more than 2 years

Neurosciences Center at the verge of collapse Only one faculty will be left at theend of this fiscal year

The size of Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology is shrinking

Lack of communication regarding vision and strategic plan for growing department

No faculty salary raises for the past 3 years

Serious concerns about recruitment retention and tenure and promotion decisionsmade in the department Faculty morale is extremely low

Lack of functional research core facility

Gradual elimination of service contracts of equipment essential for research trainingand education of graduate and medical students

A plethora of other issues with the department administration

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27

Questions

Departmental Report

Psychiatry

Ricardo Salazar MDAssociate Professor Psychiatry

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28

Department ReportPsychiatryPRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCIL

BY RICARDO SALAZAR MD

DATE MONDAY JULY 15 2019

Department BreakdownPlease provide the total number of faculty members in your department and break down this number by

rank Please list new faculty members that have joined your department within the last six months

Total Number of Faculty 12

Number of Instructors 1

Number of Assistant Professors 8

Number of Associate Professors 2

Number of Professors 2

New Faculty Melanie Longhurst MD Instructor

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29

LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair

program director clerkship director chiefs etc

Department Chair ndash Peter M Thompson MD MS

Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Sarah L Martin MD

Combined IMPsych Residency Program Director ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD

Psychiatry Clerkship Director ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD

Child amp Adolescent Fellowship Program Director ndash Cecilia De Vargas MD

Chief Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry ndash Sarah L Martin MD

Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Program Directorndash Ricardo Salazar MD

Chief Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences ndash Ricardo Salazar MD

Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Transmountain ndash Moataz Ragheb MD

AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in your department including awards honors regional

appointments national appointments etc

El Paso Behavioral Health Consortium ndash Board Member ndash Peter M Thompson MD

714 (50) of our graduating medical students this year choose and matched our resident training programs here at Paul L FosterSchool of Medicine Department of Psychiatry (Historical record) ndash Kudos for our Department Faculty

In appreciation for exceptional contributions to the 30th volume of the J Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences ndash Author contributions and review of 271 manuscripts submitted to the journal between September 2017 and August 2018 ndash Ricardo Salazar MD ndash Young Investigator Award Committee Member and Program Committee Member-Abstracts Sub-Committee Member of theAmerican Neuropsychiatric Association (ANPA)

Initial Accreditation with commendation and no citations from ACGME for our first Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Training Program for West Texas ndash Ricardo Salazar MD

Leadership in Education and Development Certificate Program (LEAD) Fellow -1-year program accredited from the Association ofAmerican Medical Colleges (AAMC) Silvina Tonarelli MD amp Ricardo Salazar MD (Selected Award)

Fully operating Southwest Brain Bank A Brain Tissue Repository for Research in Mental Illness ndashPeter M Thompson MD

Texas State Psychiatric Physicians Public Mental Health Services Committee ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD

Texas Health and Human Services Commission Behavioral Health Advisory Committee ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP

Fellow American College of Physicians ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP FACP

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30

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Abstracts 31

Publications 5 (peer-review journals)

Presentations 17 ndash National (7) and International (6)

Invited Speaker 21 (including faculty residents fellows) ndash Local amp National

Book Chapters NA

Grants McKee Foundation Award ndash our Chair - Thompson

Intramural Grants Seed Grant 1 SARP Educational Grant 2 - Salazar

President`s Collaborative Research Initiative ndashMarch 2018 - Tonarelli

Scholarly Activity

Child and Adolescent Fellowship Presentations

INTERNATIONAL

- Curanderos and Limpias Cultural psychiatry

Poster presented at 6th Annual Scientific conference of the European Association of PsychosomaticMedicine Verona Italy Drs Garza Meissner De Vargas Mehta June 2018

-Case presentation 0f 49XXXXY Same conference same authors same city

-Resilience etiology protective and risk factors presentation C De Vargas by invitation Annual WorldPediatric summit Madrid June 2018

-Parents and their Children Fantastic journey Same conference on June 2019 Berlin Germany

NATIONAL

-Development of Psychopathology in children at risk for Bipolar Disorders Drs Escamilla Peter Sangra C DeVargas S Martin C Alvarado Andrea Rios (Poster) American Academy of Child and Adolescent PsychiatryAnnual Conference Seattle WA October 2018

Frank William Meissner MD Cynthia Elizabeth Garza MDJD Sarah L Martin MD rdquoDrug-Induced BrugadaSyndrome in a Middle-Aged Female Patient Drugs EKG Diagnosis Electrophysiology and SurveillanceRecommendationrdquo American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting San Francisco CA May 21 2019

Delinquency in a group of school children at risk for bipolar disorder D Haque M Escamilla C De VargasPresented at UCLA LA Ca June 2019

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Residency ProgramPlease provide information regarding your departmentrsquos residency program ie recent accreditation

number of residents and program updates (if applicable)

24 General Psychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)

8 Internal MedicinePsychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)

3 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellows

1 Geriatric Psychiatry Fellow- newly accredited program

IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department

RecruitmentRetention

Short staffed

Organizational Structure

Financial incentives

Protected time

Gender balance Attrition malefemale ratio 41

Program Coordinator turnover rate

Mentoring

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Departmental Organizational

Structure

Chair

Division ChiefsProgram Directors

Clerkship Director

Adm

Organizational Structure Model

Chair

Deputy Chair for Education

Program

Directors

Deputy Chair for Research

Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs

Vicechair

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Roles

Deputy Chair for Education

Oversee undergraduate graduate and CME including the development of teachers and educational scholars Monitor quality and safety across the department

Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs

Faculty appointments Faculty Development and Promotion andor Tenure Develop programs in different domains such as research education personal improvement and leadership Support clinical activities by improving the efficiency of operations and in helping to fit clinical programs into those in the rest of the medical center Allocation of space

Deputy Chair for Research

Develop and direct department-wide programs for faculty recruitment development and support of mentors recognition of excellence and funding of pilot grants bridge funding and grants to nurture multi-principal investigator and trans-division or trans-department projects Allocation of space among divisions

Bottom Line

We need more funds

Institutional support

The investments needed to recruit faculty are beyond the capacity of the

department`s operational revenue

Recruiting a leading investigator or one with great potential for

example may require an investment of $ 1 million and sometimes more

Endowments are the departmentrsquos foundational financial capital the

keel that maintains momentum and balance through the headwinds

and rough seas each department will navigate Endowments increase

the departmentrsquos independence in sustaining its core mission

Thus creation of endowments should be a high priority for any

department that plans for the long term and they increase capacity to

recruit the best faculty in a competitive environment

Page 13: FACULTY COUNCIL MEETING · 7/15/2019  · FACULTY COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES Monday, July 15, 2019 Noon – 1:00 p.m. MEB, Room 1120 and WebEx TTUHSC El Paso PLFSOM 7/15/2019 FACULTY

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Committee Charge Faculty Bylaws Article IX Section C2

The Committee on Curriculum and Educational Policy is charged with planning coordinating

reviewing and evaluating the curriculum to ensure that it adheres to the

written educational policies goals and objectives of the Paul L Foster School

of Medicine Further the Committee shall have full authority to make changes in

educational policy or in the organization of the curriculum with the

concurrence of the Dean and with comment and input from the Faculty Council The Faculty of the Paul L Foster School of Medicine has the responsibility to define course objectives create

and deliver content to meet those objectives and modify their activities in response to appropriate feedback

from peers and students The Committee will provide updates on its activities at least

twice a year to the Faculty Council In order to accomplish the mission of the Committee the

Chair may appoint subcommittees that may include members who are not

members of the Committee It shall be the responsibility of the Committee to coordinate the

activities and reports of these subcommittees In addition the Committee receives reports

from the Committee on Evaluation of Educational Programs

Current IssuesConcerns

Curriculum enhancementimprovement

Preparation for class size expansion

Preparation for next round of curriculum reviews

(ldquocurriculum as a wholerdquo)

9102019

12

CEPC actions since last report

January 2019 (1 meeting)

Reviewed and approved revisions to the following

educational program polices

Clerkship Administration

Clerkship DirectorAssistant Director Position Description

Approval of two new 4th Year Electives

Pediatric Gastroenterology Hepatology and Nutrition

Emergency Medicine Ultrasound

Clerkship phase review FM and Surgery

CEPC actions since last report

February 2019 (2 meetings)

New educational program policy reviewed and approved

Grade Changes and Transcript Notations

Rollover of established educational program goals and

objectives (the ldquoPGOsrdquo) approved

Clerkship phase review Pediatrics and ObGyn

Preliminary data-driven discussion of revised educational

program policy covering Grading Promotion and Academic

Standing (ldquoGPASrdquo)

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13

CEPC actions since last report

March 2019 (2 meetings)

Clerkship phase review IM and Psych Critical Care and Sub-I

Selectives

Approval of new educational program policy

Grading Promotion and Academic Standing (ldquoGPASrdquo)

Notification of changes in clerkship directorship

Elimination of the PICE course (PICE 7001) from the year 2

curriculum approved (primarily administrative educational

elements re-distributed)

Associated review and approval of an updated PLSOM degree

plan (based on 157 credit hours)

CEPC actions since last report

April 2019 (1 meetings)

Clerkship phase review EM Neurology and Intersessions

Review and approval of revised educational program policy

Pre-Clerkship Phase Student Attendance and Participation

Policy

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14

CEPC actions since last report

May 2019 (1 meetings)

Review and approval of the ldquoCommon Clerkship Policiesrdquo

Notification of additional changes in the clerkship

directorship

Clerkship phase review

Phase data review (AAMC GQ NBME subject exams

USMLE Step 2 CK and CS Step 3 final grades EOY OSCE

and procedure workshop residency director survey)

Introduction of a 10-point plan for curriculum revision

(ldquoPLFSOM v20rdquo)

June 2019 (no quorum) July 2019 (cancelled)

CEPC actions since last report

Challenges and opportunities for improvement identified

through the AY208-19 clerkship phase review

Clear identification of contacts at affiliated sites

Academic support and remediation planning

Consistent resident preparation for participation in UME

Timeliness of grading (Sub-I and Critical Care Selectives)

Orientation modules for Sub-Q and Critical Care Selectives)

Scaling clerkships for anticipated class expansion

The summer doldrums

June 2019 (no quorum) July 2019 (cancelled)

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15

Upcoming actions

Ongoing educational program policy development

Maintain accreditation compliance related curriculum

review cycle (2019-20 ldquoCurriculum as a Wholerdquo)

Review and advance plans for curriculum renewalrevision

Review proposal to re-direct our MD-MPH affiliation to

TTUHSC GSBS Lubbock

Consider development of an MD-MBA option (potentially

with UTEP)

Links to related information

PLFSOM Committee on Curriculum and Educational Policy main page

httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCdefaultaspx

MD degree program policies

httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCpoliciesaspx

MD degree program information

httpselpasottuhscedusomomeUMEinfoaspx

Course and clerkship syllabi

httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCcoursereviewaspx

AY2017-18 medical education program evaluation report (e-Raider required)

httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPC_documentssecureAY2017-

2018MEPEvaluationAnnualReport-Draft-v2pdf

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19

Departmental Report

Molecular and Translational

Medicine

Laxman Gangwani PhDAssociate Professor Molecular amp

Translational Medicine

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20

Department of Molecular and

Translational Medicine (formerly

Biomedical Sciences) Report

PRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCIL

BY LAXMAN GANGWANI

DATE JULY 15 2019

Department BreakdownPlease provide the total number of faculty members in your department and break down this number by

rank Please list new faculty members that have joined your department within the last six months

Total Number of Faculty

Number of Faculty Associates 1

Number of Instructors 1

Number of Research Assistant Professor 1

Number of Assistant Professors 6

Number of Associate Professors 7

Number of Professors 4

New Faculty

None

9102019

21

LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair

program director clerkship director chiefs etc

Department Chair Dr Peter Rotwein (VP Research Associate

Dean GSBS)

Director Center of Emphasis in Cancer Dr Rajkumar

Lakshmanaswamy (Dean GSBS) Co-Director Dr N Shokar

Director Center of Emphasis in Diabetes and Metabolism Dr

David Cistola

Director Center of Emphasis in Infectious Diseases Vacant

Director Center of Emphasis in Neurosciences Vacant

Chief Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology Vacant

AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional

appointments national appointments etc

Awards

Dr Mingtao Zeng

2018 The American Association of Immunologists (AAI) AAI Travel Grant for the 5th European Congress of Immunology

2018 Defense Techconnect Fall Summit amp Expo (2018) Techconnect Defense Innovation Award

Dr Shrikant Gadad

Eugenia Rosemberg Outstanding Abstract Award Endocrine Society Annual Meeting New Orleans March 23-26 2019

Dr Huanyu Dou

National Innovation Award Techconnect 2019

Honors

Dr Alok Dwivedi

Appointed as associated faculty at the Border Biomedical Research Center (BBRC) University of Texas El Paso (UTEP)

Dr Shrikant Gadad

Session Chair (OR09 Steroid Hormone Biology in Physiology and Disease) Endocrine Society Annual Meeting New Orleans March 23-26 2019

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22

AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional

appointments national appointments etc

NIH or DOD study sections appointments

Dr Guohua Yi

HIV special Emphasis Panel for RFA-AI-18-058 Genetic Engineering Technologies for HIV Cure Research (U19)

Dr Laxman Gangwani

Department of Defense (DOD) Reviewer for Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) 2018 -

NIHCSR Study ldquoProgram Evaluation of NIH Peer Review Processes The Role of Anonymizationrdquo 2019 ndash

Patents filings and publications

Patent Number 9862951 Title RNA Interference-Based Therapeutic against Anthrax Inventors Mingtao Zeng and Maria T AreacutevaloDate of Patent January 9 2018

Cistola D P Patel V (2018) Method and system for non-invasive measurement of metabolic health US Non-Provisional Utility Patent Application No 15911728 filed by Texas Tech University

Cistola D P Robinson M D (2018) Methods and tools for diagnosing insulin resistance and assessing health status using NMR relaxation times for water United States Patent Application Publication US 20180020947 A1 httpspatentsgooglecompatentUS20180020947A1en

AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional

appointments national appointments etc

News and Media Coverage of Research performed at TTUHSC EP

Dr David Cistola

MedPageToday 2 January 2019 Harris Scott Could a New Biomarker Help Predict Type 2 Diabetes -- Early datashow water T2 catches abnormalities before traditional testing but experts are cautiously optimistichttpswwwmedpagetodaycomreading-roomendocrine-societydiabetes77186

KTSM Channel 9 NBC El Paso 14 November 2018 Castillo Susy Research in El Paso aimed at detectingdiabetes earlyhttpswwwktsmcomlifestylehealthresearch-in-el-paso-aimed-at-detecting-diabetes-early1596408236apt_credirect=1

El Paso Inc 29 March 2019 TTUHSC El Paso Tackling diabetes cancer httpwwwelpasoinccomttuhsc-el-paso-tackling-diabetes-cancerarticle_613144fe-526a-11e9-b916-c35b701a5ef9html

Dr Laxman Gangwani

Cure SMA Awards $150000 Grant to Laxman Gangwani PhD Texas Tech University

httpwwwcuresmaorgnewsgangwani-grant-2019html

httpswwweurekalertorgpub_releases2019-05ttuh-gw050119php

httpswwwresearchgatenetscientific-contributions11984383_Laxman_Gangwani

9102019

23

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Peer-reviewed publications 36 (In high-impact journals)

2018 highest impact factor (11561) journal Nucleic Acids Research

Abstracts 43

Presentations (i) Oral 11 (ii) Posters 28

Invited talks 13

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Peer-reviewed publications

Kannan A Bhatia K Branzei D and Gangwani L (2018) Combined deficiency of Senataxin and DNA-PKcscauses DNA damage accumulation and neurodegeneration in spinal muscular atrophy Nucleic Acids Research2018 Vol 46 No 16 8326-8346

Mishra I Jones C Patel V Deodhar S Cistola D P (2018) Early detection of metabolic dysregulation usingwater T2 analysis of biobanked samples Diabetes Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity Targets and Therapy 11 807-818

Patel V Dwivedi A K Deodhar S Mishra I Cistola D P (2018) Aptamer-based search for correlates of plasmaand serum water T2 Implications for early metabolic dysregulation and metabolic syndrome Biomarker Research6(1) 28

Garg H Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz T Joshi A 2018 Recent Advances in Zika Virus Vaccines Viruses Nov 1410 (11) Sundin OH Mendoza-Ladd A Zeng M Diaz-Areacutevalo D Morales E Fagan BMOrdontildeez J McCallum RW Does a

glucose-based hydrogen and methane breath test detect bacterial overgrowth in the jejunum NeurogastroenterolMotil 2018e13350

Zheng Z Diaz-Areacutevalo D Guan H and Mingtao Zeng Noninvasive vaccination against infectious diseases Humanvaccines amp immunotherapeutics 2018 14(7)1717-1733

Preeti Bharaj Chunting Ye Sean Petersen Qianghu Wang Baoli Hu N Manjunath Premlata Shankar Guohua Yi(2018) Gene array analysis of PD-1H overexpressing monocytes reveals a pro-inflammatory profile Heliyone00545

Bencomo-Alvarez AE Rubio AJ Gonzalez MA and Eiring AM Energy metabolism and drug response in myeloidleukaemic stem cells Br J Haematol 2019 In Press

9102019

24

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Peer-reviewed publications Yan D Pomicter AD Tantravahi S Mason CC Senina AV Ahmann JM Wang Q Than H Patel AB Heaton

WL Eiring AM Clair PM Gantz KC Redwine HM Swierczek SI Halverson BJ Baloglu E Shacham S KhorashadJS Kelley TW Salama ME Miles RR Boucher KM Prchal JT OHare T and Deininger MW Nuclear-cytoplasmic transport is a therapeutic target in myelofibrosis Clin Cancer Res 201925(7)2323-2335

Heipertz E Harper J Lopez CA Fikrig E Hughes ME Walker WE Circadian rhythms influence the severity of sepsis in mice via a TLR2-dependent leukocyte-intrinsic mechanism The Journal of Immunology 2018 201193-201

Khatri R Afzal MR Qureshi MA Maud A Huanyu D Jose Rodriguez G Pre-Existing Renal Failure Increases In-Hospital Mortality in Patients with Intracerebral Hemorrhage J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis 2019 Feb28(2)237-242

Zou L Lee SY Wu Q Zhang H Bastian A Orji C Payne G Galvez A Thomas T Zhang Z Dou H Facile Gene Delivery Derived from Branched Low Molecular Weight Polyethylenimine by High Efficient Chemistry J Biomed Nanotechnol 2018 Oct 114(10)1785-1795

Zhang C Brandon NR Koper K Tang P Xu Y Dou H Invasion of Peripheral Immune Cells into Brain Parenchyma after Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation Aging Dis 2018 Jun 19(3)412-425

Loza O Hernandez P Calderoacuten-Mora J Laks S Leiner M Reddy S Lara P amp Granados H (2018) Developing Trans-affirming health services in an underserved area An intersectional approach Transgender Health 3(1) 127-135

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Byrd T Calderoacuten-Mora J Salaiz R amp Shokar N (2019) Barriers and facilitators to colorectal cancer screening within a Hispanic population Hispanic Health Care International 17(1) 23-29 doi 1011771540415318818982

Haut SR Lipton RB Cornes S Dwivedi AK Wasson R Cotton S Strawn JR Privitera M (2018) Behavioral interventions as a treatment for epilepsy A multicenter randomized controlled trial Neurology 90(11) e963-e970 PMID 29444968

Jessica Bernica Sherif Elhanafi Neeharika Kalakota Yi Jia Christopher Dodoo Alok Dwivedi Robert J Sealock Kalpesh Patel Isaac Raijman Marc J Zuckerman Mohamed O Othman (2018) Cholangioscopy is safe and feasible in elderly patients Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology 16(8) 1293-1299

Benjamin D Wissel Alok K Dwivedi Danielle Chin Aristide Merola Cara Jacob Andrew P Duker Jennifer E Vaughan Lilia Lovera Kathrin LaFaver Ariel Levy Anthony E Lang Francesca Morgante Melissa J Nirenberg Christopher Stephen Nutan Sharma Alberto Romagnolo Leonardo Lopiano Bettina Balint Xin X Yu Kailash P Bhatia Alberto J Espay Functional neurological disorders in Parkinson disease Accepted for publication in Journal

of Neurology Neurosurgery amp Psychiatry 89(6)566-571

Danny J Avalos Marc J Zuckerman Alok Dwivedi Christopher Dodoo Jinendra Satiya Fernando J Castro(2018) Differences in prevalence of large polyps between Hispanic Americans from Mexican-and Non-Mexican-predominant states Digestive diseases and sciences PMID 30276570

Zeina Nahleh Salman Otoukesh Hamid Reza Mirshahidi Anthony Loc Nguyen Gayathri Nagaraj Nabeel Badri Gehan Botrus Nabih Diab Andres Alvarado Luis A Sanchez Alok K Dwivedi (2018) Disparities in breast cancer a multi-institutional comparative analysis focusing on American Hispanics Cancer Medicine (In press 05072018)

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25

Scholarly Activity Danny J Avalos Antonio Mendoza-Ladd Marc J Zuckerman Mohammad Bashashati Andres Alvarado Alok

Dwivedi Oriana M Damas (2018) Hispanics and Non-Hispanic Whites in the US have a Similar InflammatoryBowel Disease Phenotype A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis Digestive Diseases and Sciences 63(6)1558-1571

Aleli Campbell Rosalinda Heydarian Cecilia Ochoa Alok Kumar Dwivedi Zeina A Nahleh(2018) Single arm phaseII study of oral vitamin B12 for the treatment of musculoskeletal symptoms associated with aromatase inhibitors inwomen with early stage breast cancer The breast journal 24(3)260-268

Shaimaa Elzamly Nabeel Badri Osvaldo Padilla Alok Kumar Dwivedi Luis A Alvarado Matthew Hamilton NabihDiab Crosby Rock Ahmed Elfar Marwa Teleb Luis Sanchez Zeina Nahleh (2018) Epithelial-mesenchymaltransition markers in breast cancer and pathological responseafter neoadjuvant chemotherapy Breast Cancer

(Auckl) 2018 Aug 1121178223418788074

Jennifer C Molokwu Eribeth Penaranda Alok Dwivedi Indika Mallawaarachchi Navkiran Shokar (2018) Effect ofEducational Intervention on Self-Sampling Acceptability and Follow-Up Paps in Border Dwelling Hispanic FemalesJournal of Lower Genital Tract Disease

Ritika Suri Federico Rodriguez-Porcel Kelly Donohue Erin Jesse Lilia Lovera Alok Kumar Dwivedi Alberto JEspay (2018) Post-Stroke Movement Disorders The Clinical Neuroanatomic and Demographic Portrait of 284Published Cases Accepted for publication in Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases (In press05212018)

Zeina Nahleh Gehan Botrus Alok Dwivedi Nabeel Badri Salman Otoukesh Nabih Diab Sandip BiswasMichael Jennings Shaimaa Elzamly(2018) Clinico-pathologic disparities of breast cancer in HispanicLatina womenBreast disease 1-8

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Robert Gonzalez Trisha Suppes Jamie Zeitzer Colleen McClung Carol Tamminga Mauricio Tohen Angelica Forero Alok DwivediAndres Alvarado (2018) The association between mood state and chronobiological characteristics in bipolar I disorder a naturalisticvariable cluster analysis-based study International Journal of Bipolar Disorders 6(1)5Mohamed Teleb Aaron Shanker Alok Kumar Dwivedi Debabrata Mukherjee (2018) Effect of exercise on left ventricular mass index byechocardiography in mild and moderate hypertension a meta-analysis Res Cardiovasc Med 6(4)50-6Garnica O Das K Devasundaram S and Dhandayuthapani S Enhanced delivery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigens to antigenpresenting cells using RVG peptide Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Das K Garnica O and Dhandayuthapani S Utility of an oxidative stress response system for the expression of recombinant proteinsin mycobacteria and for the delivery of M tuberculosis antigens to the phagosomal compartments Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Palanichamy K Joshi A Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz T Fernando B Milan S Schiro F Naeem Y Garg H Braunschweig A 2019 Anti-ZikaActivity of a Library of Synthetic Carbohydrate Receptors Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 6284110-4119Anjali Joshi Erin B Punke Tugba Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz Diego P Peralta and Himanshu Garg 2019 TLR9 polymorphism correlates withimmune activation CD4 decline and plasma IP10 levels in HIV patients BMC Infect Dis 19 56Vargas-Medrano J Yang B Garza N T Segura-Ulate I and Perez R G (2018) Up-regulation of protective neuronal MicroRNAs byFTY720 and novel FTY720-derivatives Neuroscience letters 690 178-180Vidal-Martinez G Yang B Vargas-Medrano J and Perez R G (2018) Could alpha-Synuclein Modulation of Insulin and DopamineIdentify a Novel Link Between Parkinsons Disease and Diabetes as Well as Potential Therapies Frontiers in molecular

neuroscience 11 465

9102019

26

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Gil-Tommee C Vidal-Martinez G Annette Reyes C Vargas-Medrano J Herrera G V Martin S M Chaparro S A andPerez R G (2019) Parkinsonian GM2 synthase knockout mice lacking mature gangliosides develop urinary dysfunction andneurogenic bladder Experimental neurology 311265-273Vidal-Martinez G Najera K Miranda JD Gil-Tommee C Yang B Vargas-Medrano J Diaz-Pacheco V Barragan J ChaparroS Vargas-Medrano J Chinnasamy R Arterburn JB Perez RG FTY720 improves behavior increases Brain Derived NeurotrophicFactor and reduces α-synuclein pathology in parkinsonian GM2+minus

mice Neuroscience httpsdoiorg101016jneuroscience201905029Tasnim N Thakur V Chattopadhyay M Joddar B (2018) The efficacy of Graphene-foams towards the adhesion proliferationand expression of neuronal-phenotype by dopaminergic neurons differentiated from mesenchymal stem cells Stem cell

international Jun 3 20183410168 doi 10115520183410168Anil Kumar S Allen SC Tasnim N Akter T Park S Kumar A Chattopadhyay M Ito Y Suggs LJ Joddar B (2019) The applicabilityof furfuryl-gelatin as a novel bioink for tissue engineering applications J Biomed Mater Res B Appl Biomater 2019 107(2)314-323 doi 101002jbmb34123 Epub 2018 Apr 15Thakur V Chattopadhyay M (2018) Early urinary markers for diabetic and other kidney diseases Current drug targets 2018 Mar19Joddar B Tasnim N Thakur V Kumar A Mccallum R Chattopadhyay M (2018) Delivery of mesenchymal stem cells fromgelatin-alginate hydrogels to stomach lumen for treatment of gastroparesis Bioengineering 2018 5(1)Camacho CV Choudhari R Gadad SS (2018) Long noncoding RNAs and cancer an overview Steroids 13393-95

IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department

Large net loss (9) of MTM faculty members over the past 5 years

Vacant Director positions (i) Center for Neuroscience (ii) Center for InfectiousDiseases and (iii) Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology

No steps have been taken to fill directors positions for more than 2 years

Neurosciences Center at the verge of collapse Only one faculty will be left at theend of this fiscal year

The size of Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology is shrinking

Lack of communication regarding vision and strategic plan for growing department

No faculty salary raises for the past 3 years

Serious concerns about recruitment retention and tenure and promotion decisionsmade in the department Faculty morale is extremely low

Lack of functional research core facility

Gradual elimination of service contracts of equipment essential for research trainingand education of graduate and medical students

A plethora of other issues with the department administration

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Questions

Departmental Report

Psychiatry

Ricardo Salazar MDAssociate Professor Psychiatry

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Department ReportPsychiatryPRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCIL

BY RICARDO SALAZAR MD

DATE MONDAY JULY 15 2019

Department BreakdownPlease provide the total number of faculty members in your department and break down this number by

rank Please list new faculty members that have joined your department within the last six months

Total Number of Faculty 12

Number of Instructors 1

Number of Assistant Professors 8

Number of Associate Professors 2

Number of Professors 2

New Faculty Melanie Longhurst MD Instructor

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LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair

program director clerkship director chiefs etc

Department Chair ndash Peter M Thompson MD MS

Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Sarah L Martin MD

Combined IMPsych Residency Program Director ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD

Psychiatry Clerkship Director ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD

Child amp Adolescent Fellowship Program Director ndash Cecilia De Vargas MD

Chief Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry ndash Sarah L Martin MD

Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Program Directorndash Ricardo Salazar MD

Chief Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences ndash Ricardo Salazar MD

Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Transmountain ndash Moataz Ragheb MD

AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in your department including awards honors regional

appointments national appointments etc

El Paso Behavioral Health Consortium ndash Board Member ndash Peter M Thompson MD

714 (50) of our graduating medical students this year choose and matched our resident training programs here at Paul L FosterSchool of Medicine Department of Psychiatry (Historical record) ndash Kudos for our Department Faculty

In appreciation for exceptional contributions to the 30th volume of the J Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences ndash Author contributions and review of 271 manuscripts submitted to the journal between September 2017 and August 2018 ndash Ricardo Salazar MD ndash Young Investigator Award Committee Member and Program Committee Member-Abstracts Sub-Committee Member of theAmerican Neuropsychiatric Association (ANPA)

Initial Accreditation with commendation and no citations from ACGME for our first Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Training Program for West Texas ndash Ricardo Salazar MD

Leadership in Education and Development Certificate Program (LEAD) Fellow -1-year program accredited from the Association ofAmerican Medical Colleges (AAMC) Silvina Tonarelli MD amp Ricardo Salazar MD (Selected Award)

Fully operating Southwest Brain Bank A Brain Tissue Repository for Research in Mental Illness ndashPeter M Thompson MD

Texas State Psychiatric Physicians Public Mental Health Services Committee ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD

Texas Health and Human Services Commission Behavioral Health Advisory Committee ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP

Fellow American College of Physicians ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP FACP

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Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Abstracts 31

Publications 5 (peer-review journals)

Presentations 17 ndash National (7) and International (6)

Invited Speaker 21 (including faculty residents fellows) ndash Local amp National

Book Chapters NA

Grants McKee Foundation Award ndash our Chair - Thompson

Intramural Grants Seed Grant 1 SARP Educational Grant 2 - Salazar

President`s Collaborative Research Initiative ndashMarch 2018 - Tonarelli

Scholarly Activity

Child and Adolescent Fellowship Presentations

INTERNATIONAL

- Curanderos and Limpias Cultural psychiatry

Poster presented at 6th Annual Scientific conference of the European Association of PsychosomaticMedicine Verona Italy Drs Garza Meissner De Vargas Mehta June 2018

-Case presentation 0f 49XXXXY Same conference same authors same city

-Resilience etiology protective and risk factors presentation C De Vargas by invitation Annual WorldPediatric summit Madrid June 2018

-Parents and their Children Fantastic journey Same conference on June 2019 Berlin Germany

NATIONAL

-Development of Psychopathology in children at risk for Bipolar Disorders Drs Escamilla Peter Sangra C DeVargas S Martin C Alvarado Andrea Rios (Poster) American Academy of Child and Adolescent PsychiatryAnnual Conference Seattle WA October 2018

Frank William Meissner MD Cynthia Elizabeth Garza MDJD Sarah L Martin MD rdquoDrug-Induced BrugadaSyndrome in a Middle-Aged Female Patient Drugs EKG Diagnosis Electrophysiology and SurveillanceRecommendationrdquo American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting San Francisco CA May 21 2019

Delinquency in a group of school children at risk for bipolar disorder D Haque M Escamilla C De VargasPresented at UCLA LA Ca June 2019

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Residency ProgramPlease provide information regarding your departmentrsquos residency program ie recent accreditation

number of residents and program updates (if applicable)

24 General Psychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)

8 Internal MedicinePsychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)

3 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellows

1 Geriatric Psychiatry Fellow- newly accredited program

IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department

RecruitmentRetention

Short staffed

Organizational Structure

Financial incentives

Protected time

Gender balance Attrition malefemale ratio 41

Program Coordinator turnover rate

Mentoring

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Departmental Organizational

Structure

Chair

Division ChiefsProgram Directors

Clerkship Director

Adm

Organizational Structure Model

Chair

Deputy Chair for Education

Program

Directors

Deputy Chair for Research

Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs

Vicechair

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Roles

Deputy Chair for Education

Oversee undergraduate graduate and CME including the development of teachers and educational scholars Monitor quality and safety across the department

Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs

Faculty appointments Faculty Development and Promotion andor Tenure Develop programs in different domains such as research education personal improvement and leadership Support clinical activities by improving the efficiency of operations and in helping to fit clinical programs into those in the rest of the medical center Allocation of space

Deputy Chair for Research

Develop and direct department-wide programs for faculty recruitment development and support of mentors recognition of excellence and funding of pilot grants bridge funding and grants to nurture multi-principal investigator and trans-division or trans-department projects Allocation of space among divisions

Bottom Line

We need more funds

Institutional support

The investments needed to recruit faculty are beyond the capacity of the

department`s operational revenue

Recruiting a leading investigator or one with great potential for

example may require an investment of $ 1 million and sometimes more

Endowments are the departmentrsquos foundational financial capital the

keel that maintains momentum and balance through the headwinds

and rough seas each department will navigate Endowments increase

the departmentrsquos independence in sustaining its core mission

Thus creation of endowments should be a high priority for any

department that plans for the long term and they increase capacity to

recruit the best faculty in a competitive environment

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CEPC actions since last report

January 2019 (1 meeting)

Reviewed and approved revisions to the following

educational program polices

Clerkship Administration

Clerkship DirectorAssistant Director Position Description

Approval of two new 4th Year Electives

Pediatric Gastroenterology Hepatology and Nutrition

Emergency Medicine Ultrasound

Clerkship phase review FM and Surgery

CEPC actions since last report

February 2019 (2 meetings)

New educational program policy reviewed and approved

Grade Changes and Transcript Notations

Rollover of established educational program goals and

objectives (the ldquoPGOsrdquo) approved

Clerkship phase review Pediatrics and ObGyn

Preliminary data-driven discussion of revised educational

program policy covering Grading Promotion and Academic

Standing (ldquoGPASrdquo)

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CEPC actions since last report

March 2019 (2 meetings)

Clerkship phase review IM and Psych Critical Care and Sub-I

Selectives

Approval of new educational program policy

Grading Promotion and Academic Standing (ldquoGPASrdquo)

Notification of changes in clerkship directorship

Elimination of the PICE course (PICE 7001) from the year 2

curriculum approved (primarily administrative educational

elements re-distributed)

Associated review and approval of an updated PLSOM degree

plan (based on 157 credit hours)

CEPC actions since last report

April 2019 (1 meetings)

Clerkship phase review EM Neurology and Intersessions

Review and approval of revised educational program policy

Pre-Clerkship Phase Student Attendance and Participation

Policy

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CEPC actions since last report

May 2019 (1 meetings)

Review and approval of the ldquoCommon Clerkship Policiesrdquo

Notification of additional changes in the clerkship

directorship

Clerkship phase review

Phase data review (AAMC GQ NBME subject exams

USMLE Step 2 CK and CS Step 3 final grades EOY OSCE

and procedure workshop residency director survey)

Introduction of a 10-point plan for curriculum revision

(ldquoPLFSOM v20rdquo)

June 2019 (no quorum) July 2019 (cancelled)

CEPC actions since last report

Challenges and opportunities for improvement identified

through the AY208-19 clerkship phase review

Clear identification of contacts at affiliated sites

Academic support and remediation planning

Consistent resident preparation for participation in UME

Timeliness of grading (Sub-I and Critical Care Selectives)

Orientation modules for Sub-Q and Critical Care Selectives)

Scaling clerkships for anticipated class expansion

The summer doldrums

June 2019 (no quorum) July 2019 (cancelled)

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Upcoming actions

Ongoing educational program policy development

Maintain accreditation compliance related curriculum

review cycle (2019-20 ldquoCurriculum as a Wholerdquo)

Review and advance plans for curriculum renewalrevision

Review proposal to re-direct our MD-MPH affiliation to

TTUHSC GSBS Lubbock

Consider development of an MD-MBA option (potentially

with UTEP)

Links to related information

PLFSOM Committee on Curriculum and Educational Policy main page

httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCdefaultaspx

MD degree program policies

httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCpoliciesaspx

MD degree program information

httpselpasottuhscedusomomeUMEinfoaspx

Course and clerkship syllabi

httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCcoursereviewaspx

AY2017-18 medical education program evaluation report (e-Raider required)

httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPC_documentssecureAY2017-

2018MEPEvaluationAnnualReport-Draft-v2pdf

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Departmental Report

Molecular and Translational

Medicine

Laxman Gangwani PhDAssociate Professor Molecular amp

Translational Medicine

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20

Department of Molecular and

Translational Medicine (formerly

Biomedical Sciences) Report

PRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCIL

BY LAXMAN GANGWANI

DATE JULY 15 2019

Department BreakdownPlease provide the total number of faculty members in your department and break down this number by

rank Please list new faculty members that have joined your department within the last six months

Total Number of Faculty

Number of Faculty Associates 1

Number of Instructors 1

Number of Research Assistant Professor 1

Number of Assistant Professors 6

Number of Associate Professors 7

Number of Professors 4

New Faculty

None

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21

LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair

program director clerkship director chiefs etc

Department Chair Dr Peter Rotwein (VP Research Associate

Dean GSBS)

Director Center of Emphasis in Cancer Dr Rajkumar

Lakshmanaswamy (Dean GSBS) Co-Director Dr N Shokar

Director Center of Emphasis in Diabetes and Metabolism Dr

David Cistola

Director Center of Emphasis in Infectious Diseases Vacant

Director Center of Emphasis in Neurosciences Vacant

Chief Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology Vacant

AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional

appointments national appointments etc

Awards

Dr Mingtao Zeng

2018 The American Association of Immunologists (AAI) AAI Travel Grant for the 5th European Congress of Immunology

2018 Defense Techconnect Fall Summit amp Expo (2018) Techconnect Defense Innovation Award

Dr Shrikant Gadad

Eugenia Rosemberg Outstanding Abstract Award Endocrine Society Annual Meeting New Orleans March 23-26 2019

Dr Huanyu Dou

National Innovation Award Techconnect 2019

Honors

Dr Alok Dwivedi

Appointed as associated faculty at the Border Biomedical Research Center (BBRC) University of Texas El Paso (UTEP)

Dr Shrikant Gadad

Session Chair (OR09 Steroid Hormone Biology in Physiology and Disease) Endocrine Society Annual Meeting New Orleans March 23-26 2019

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22

AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional

appointments national appointments etc

NIH or DOD study sections appointments

Dr Guohua Yi

HIV special Emphasis Panel for RFA-AI-18-058 Genetic Engineering Technologies for HIV Cure Research (U19)

Dr Laxman Gangwani

Department of Defense (DOD) Reviewer for Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) 2018 -

NIHCSR Study ldquoProgram Evaluation of NIH Peer Review Processes The Role of Anonymizationrdquo 2019 ndash

Patents filings and publications

Patent Number 9862951 Title RNA Interference-Based Therapeutic against Anthrax Inventors Mingtao Zeng and Maria T AreacutevaloDate of Patent January 9 2018

Cistola D P Patel V (2018) Method and system for non-invasive measurement of metabolic health US Non-Provisional Utility Patent Application No 15911728 filed by Texas Tech University

Cistola D P Robinson M D (2018) Methods and tools for diagnosing insulin resistance and assessing health status using NMR relaxation times for water United States Patent Application Publication US 20180020947 A1 httpspatentsgooglecompatentUS20180020947A1en

AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional

appointments national appointments etc

News and Media Coverage of Research performed at TTUHSC EP

Dr David Cistola

MedPageToday 2 January 2019 Harris Scott Could a New Biomarker Help Predict Type 2 Diabetes -- Early datashow water T2 catches abnormalities before traditional testing but experts are cautiously optimistichttpswwwmedpagetodaycomreading-roomendocrine-societydiabetes77186

KTSM Channel 9 NBC El Paso 14 November 2018 Castillo Susy Research in El Paso aimed at detectingdiabetes earlyhttpswwwktsmcomlifestylehealthresearch-in-el-paso-aimed-at-detecting-diabetes-early1596408236apt_credirect=1

El Paso Inc 29 March 2019 TTUHSC El Paso Tackling diabetes cancer httpwwwelpasoinccomttuhsc-el-paso-tackling-diabetes-cancerarticle_613144fe-526a-11e9-b916-c35b701a5ef9html

Dr Laxman Gangwani

Cure SMA Awards $150000 Grant to Laxman Gangwani PhD Texas Tech University

httpwwwcuresmaorgnewsgangwani-grant-2019html

httpswwweurekalertorgpub_releases2019-05ttuh-gw050119php

httpswwwresearchgatenetscientific-contributions11984383_Laxman_Gangwani

9102019

23

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Peer-reviewed publications 36 (In high-impact journals)

2018 highest impact factor (11561) journal Nucleic Acids Research

Abstracts 43

Presentations (i) Oral 11 (ii) Posters 28

Invited talks 13

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Peer-reviewed publications

Kannan A Bhatia K Branzei D and Gangwani L (2018) Combined deficiency of Senataxin and DNA-PKcscauses DNA damage accumulation and neurodegeneration in spinal muscular atrophy Nucleic Acids Research2018 Vol 46 No 16 8326-8346

Mishra I Jones C Patel V Deodhar S Cistola D P (2018) Early detection of metabolic dysregulation usingwater T2 analysis of biobanked samples Diabetes Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity Targets and Therapy 11 807-818

Patel V Dwivedi A K Deodhar S Mishra I Cistola D P (2018) Aptamer-based search for correlates of plasmaand serum water T2 Implications for early metabolic dysregulation and metabolic syndrome Biomarker Research6(1) 28

Garg H Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz T Joshi A 2018 Recent Advances in Zika Virus Vaccines Viruses Nov 1410 (11) Sundin OH Mendoza-Ladd A Zeng M Diaz-Areacutevalo D Morales E Fagan BMOrdontildeez J McCallum RW Does a

glucose-based hydrogen and methane breath test detect bacterial overgrowth in the jejunum NeurogastroenterolMotil 2018e13350

Zheng Z Diaz-Areacutevalo D Guan H and Mingtao Zeng Noninvasive vaccination against infectious diseases Humanvaccines amp immunotherapeutics 2018 14(7)1717-1733

Preeti Bharaj Chunting Ye Sean Petersen Qianghu Wang Baoli Hu N Manjunath Premlata Shankar Guohua Yi(2018) Gene array analysis of PD-1H overexpressing monocytes reveals a pro-inflammatory profile Heliyone00545

Bencomo-Alvarez AE Rubio AJ Gonzalez MA and Eiring AM Energy metabolism and drug response in myeloidleukaemic stem cells Br J Haematol 2019 In Press

9102019

24

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Peer-reviewed publications Yan D Pomicter AD Tantravahi S Mason CC Senina AV Ahmann JM Wang Q Than H Patel AB Heaton

WL Eiring AM Clair PM Gantz KC Redwine HM Swierczek SI Halverson BJ Baloglu E Shacham S KhorashadJS Kelley TW Salama ME Miles RR Boucher KM Prchal JT OHare T and Deininger MW Nuclear-cytoplasmic transport is a therapeutic target in myelofibrosis Clin Cancer Res 201925(7)2323-2335

Heipertz E Harper J Lopez CA Fikrig E Hughes ME Walker WE Circadian rhythms influence the severity of sepsis in mice via a TLR2-dependent leukocyte-intrinsic mechanism The Journal of Immunology 2018 201193-201

Khatri R Afzal MR Qureshi MA Maud A Huanyu D Jose Rodriguez G Pre-Existing Renal Failure Increases In-Hospital Mortality in Patients with Intracerebral Hemorrhage J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis 2019 Feb28(2)237-242

Zou L Lee SY Wu Q Zhang H Bastian A Orji C Payne G Galvez A Thomas T Zhang Z Dou H Facile Gene Delivery Derived from Branched Low Molecular Weight Polyethylenimine by High Efficient Chemistry J Biomed Nanotechnol 2018 Oct 114(10)1785-1795

Zhang C Brandon NR Koper K Tang P Xu Y Dou H Invasion of Peripheral Immune Cells into Brain Parenchyma after Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation Aging Dis 2018 Jun 19(3)412-425

Loza O Hernandez P Calderoacuten-Mora J Laks S Leiner M Reddy S Lara P amp Granados H (2018) Developing Trans-affirming health services in an underserved area An intersectional approach Transgender Health 3(1) 127-135

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Byrd T Calderoacuten-Mora J Salaiz R amp Shokar N (2019) Barriers and facilitators to colorectal cancer screening within a Hispanic population Hispanic Health Care International 17(1) 23-29 doi 1011771540415318818982

Haut SR Lipton RB Cornes S Dwivedi AK Wasson R Cotton S Strawn JR Privitera M (2018) Behavioral interventions as a treatment for epilepsy A multicenter randomized controlled trial Neurology 90(11) e963-e970 PMID 29444968

Jessica Bernica Sherif Elhanafi Neeharika Kalakota Yi Jia Christopher Dodoo Alok Dwivedi Robert J Sealock Kalpesh Patel Isaac Raijman Marc J Zuckerman Mohamed O Othman (2018) Cholangioscopy is safe and feasible in elderly patients Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology 16(8) 1293-1299

Benjamin D Wissel Alok K Dwivedi Danielle Chin Aristide Merola Cara Jacob Andrew P Duker Jennifer E Vaughan Lilia Lovera Kathrin LaFaver Ariel Levy Anthony E Lang Francesca Morgante Melissa J Nirenberg Christopher Stephen Nutan Sharma Alberto Romagnolo Leonardo Lopiano Bettina Balint Xin X Yu Kailash P Bhatia Alberto J Espay Functional neurological disorders in Parkinson disease Accepted for publication in Journal

of Neurology Neurosurgery amp Psychiatry 89(6)566-571

Danny J Avalos Marc J Zuckerman Alok Dwivedi Christopher Dodoo Jinendra Satiya Fernando J Castro(2018) Differences in prevalence of large polyps between Hispanic Americans from Mexican-and Non-Mexican-predominant states Digestive diseases and sciences PMID 30276570

Zeina Nahleh Salman Otoukesh Hamid Reza Mirshahidi Anthony Loc Nguyen Gayathri Nagaraj Nabeel Badri Gehan Botrus Nabih Diab Andres Alvarado Luis A Sanchez Alok K Dwivedi (2018) Disparities in breast cancer a multi-institutional comparative analysis focusing on American Hispanics Cancer Medicine (In press 05072018)

9102019

25

Scholarly Activity Danny J Avalos Antonio Mendoza-Ladd Marc J Zuckerman Mohammad Bashashati Andres Alvarado Alok

Dwivedi Oriana M Damas (2018) Hispanics and Non-Hispanic Whites in the US have a Similar InflammatoryBowel Disease Phenotype A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis Digestive Diseases and Sciences 63(6)1558-1571

Aleli Campbell Rosalinda Heydarian Cecilia Ochoa Alok Kumar Dwivedi Zeina A Nahleh(2018) Single arm phaseII study of oral vitamin B12 for the treatment of musculoskeletal symptoms associated with aromatase inhibitors inwomen with early stage breast cancer The breast journal 24(3)260-268

Shaimaa Elzamly Nabeel Badri Osvaldo Padilla Alok Kumar Dwivedi Luis A Alvarado Matthew Hamilton NabihDiab Crosby Rock Ahmed Elfar Marwa Teleb Luis Sanchez Zeina Nahleh (2018) Epithelial-mesenchymaltransition markers in breast cancer and pathological responseafter neoadjuvant chemotherapy Breast Cancer

(Auckl) 2018 Aug 1121178223418788074

Jennifer C Molokwu Eribeth Penaranda Alok Dwivedi Indika Mallawaarachchi Navkiran Shokar (2018) Effect ofEducational Intervention on Self-Sampling Acceptability and Follow-Up Paps in Border Dwelling Hispanic FemalesJournal of Lower Genital Tract Disease

Ritika Suri Federico Rodriguez-Porcel Kelly Donohue Erin Jesse Lilia Lovera Alok Kumar Dwivedi Alberto JEspay (2018) Post-Stroke Movement Disorders The Clinical Neuroanatomic and Demographic Portrait of 284Published Cases Accepted for publication in Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases (In press05212018)

Zeina Nahleh Gehan Botrus Alok Dwivedi Nabeel Badri Salman Otoukesh Nabih Diab Sandip BiswasMichael Jennings Shaimaa Elzamly(2018) Clinico-pathologic disparities of breast cancer in HispanicLatina womenBreast disease 1-8

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Robert Gonzalez Trisha Suppes Jamie Zeitzer Colleen McClung Carol Tamminga Mauricio Tohen Angelica Forero Alok DwivediAndres Alvarado (2018) The association between mood state and chronobiological characteristics in bipolar I disorder a naturalisticvariable cluster analysis-based study International Journal of Bipolar Disorders 6(1)5Mohamed Teleb Aaron Shanker Alok Kumar Dwivedi Debabrata Mukherjee (2018) Effect of exercise on left ventricular mass index byechocardiography in mild and moderate hypertension a meta-analysis Res Cardiovasc Med 6(4)50-6Garnica O Das K Devasundaram S and Dhandayuthapani S Enhanced delivery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigens to antigenpresenting cells using RVG peptide Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Das K Garnica O and Dhandayuthapani S Utility of an oxidative stress response system for the expression of recombinant proteinsin mycobacteria and for the delivery of M tuberculosis antigens to the phagosomal compartments Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Palanichamy K Joshi A Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz T Fernando B Milan S Schiro F Naeem Y Garg H Braunschweig A 2019 Anti-ZikaActivity of a Library of Synthetic Carbohydrate Receptors Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 6284110-4119Anjali Joshi Erin B Punke Tugba Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz Diego P Peralta and Himanshu Garg 2019 TLR9 polymorphism correlates withimmune activation CD4 decline and plasma IP10 levels in HIV patients BMC Infect Dis 19 56Vargas-Medrano J Yang B Garza N T Segura-Ulate I and Perez R G (2018) Up-regulation of protective neuronal MicroRNAs byFTY720 and novel FTY720-derivatives Neuroscience letters 690 178-180Vidal-Martinez G Yang B Vargas-Medrano J and Perez R G (2018) Could alpha-Synuclein Modulation of Insulin and DopamineIdentify a Novel Link Between Parkinsons Disease and Diabetes as Well as Potential Therapies Frontiers in molecular

neuroscience 11 465

9102019

26

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Gil-Tommee C Vidal-Martinez G Annette Reyes C Vargas-Medrano J Herrera G V Martin S M Chaparro S A andPerez R G (2019) Parkinsonian GM2 synthase knockout mice lacking mature gangliosides develop urinary dysfunction andneurogenic bladder Experimental neurology 311265-273Vidal-Martinez G Najera K Miranda JD Gil-Tommee C Yang B Vargas-Medrano J Diaz-Pacheco V Barragan J ChaparroS Vargas-Medrano J Chinnasamy R Arterburn JB Perez RG FTY720 improves behavior increases Brain Derived NeurotrophicFactor and reduces α-synuclein pathology in parkinsonian GM2+minus

mice Neuroscience httpsdoiorg101016jneuroscience201905029Tasnim N Thakur V Chattopadhyay M Joddar B (2018) The efficacy of Graphene-foams towards the adhesion proliferationand expression of neuronal-phenotype by dopaminergic neurons differentiated from mesenchymal stem cells Stem cell

international Jun 3 20183410168 doi 10115520183410168Anil Kumar S Allen SC Tasnim N Akter T Park S Kumar A Chattopadhyay M Ito Y Suggs LJ Joddar B (2019) The applicabilityof furfuryl-gelatin as a novel bioink for tissue engineering applications J Biomed Mater Res B Appl Biomater 2019 107(2)314-323 doi 101002jbmb34123 Epub 2018 Apr 15Thakur V Chattopadhyay M (2018) Early urinary markers for diabetic and other kidney diseases Current drug targets 2018 Mar19Joddar B Tasnim N Thakur V Kumar A Mccallum R Chattopadhyay M (2018) Delivery of mesenchymal stem cells fromgelatin-alginate hydrogels to stomach lumen for treatment of gastroparesis Bioengineering 2018 5(1)Camacho CV Choudhari R Gadad SS (2018) Long noncoding RNAs and cancer an overview Steroids 13393-95

IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department

Large net loss (9) of MTM faculty members over the past 5 years

Vacant Director positions (i) Center for Neuroscience (ii) Center for InfectiousDiseases and (iii) Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology

No steps have been taken to fill directors positions for more than 2 years

Neurosciences Center at the verge of collapse Only one faculty will be left at theend of this fiscal year

The size of Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology is shrinking

Lack of communication regarding vision and strategic plan for growing department

No faculty salary raises for the past 3 years

Serious concerns about recruitment retention and tenure and promotion decisionsmade in the department Faculty morale is extremely low

Lack of functional research core facility

Gradual elimination of service contracts of equipment essential for research trainingand education of graduate and medical students

A plethora of other issues with the department administration

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27

Questions

Departmental Report

Psychiatry

Ricardo Salazar MDAssociate Professor Psychiatry

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28

Department ReportPsychiatryPRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCIL

BY RICARDO SALAZAR MD

DATE MONDAY JULY 15 2019

Department BreakdownPlease provide the total number of faculty members in your department and break down this number by

rank Please list new faculty members that have joined your department within the last six months

Total Number of Faculty 12

Number of Instructors 1

Number of Assistant Professors 8

Number of Associate Professors 2

Number of Professors 2

New Faculty Melanie Longhurst MD Instructor

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29

LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair

program director clerkship director chiefs etc

Department Chair ndash Peter M Thompson MD MS

Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Sarah L Martin MD

Combined IMPsych Residency Program Director ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD

Psychiatry Clerkship Director ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD

Child amp Adolescent Fellowship Program Director ndash Cecilia De Vargas MD

Chief Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry ndash Sarah L Martin MD

Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Program Directorndash Ricardo Salazar MD

Chief Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences ndash Ricardo Salazar MD

Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Transmountain ndash Moataz Ragheb MD

AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in your department including awards honors regional

appointments national appointments etc

El Paso Behavioral Health Consortium ndash Board Member ndash Peter M Thompson MD

714 (50) of our graduating medical students this year choose and matched our resident training programs here at Paul L FosterSchool of Medicine Department of Psychiatry (Historical record) ndash Kudos for our Department Faculty

In appreciation for exceptional contributions to the 30th volume of the J Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences ndash Author contributions and review of 271 manuscripts submitted to the journal between September 2017 and August 2018 ndash Ricardo Salazar MD ndash Young Investigator Award Committee Member and Program Committee Member-Abstracts Sub-Committee Member of theAmerican Neuropsychiatric Association (ANPA)

Initial Accreditation with commendation and no citations from ACGME for our first Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Training Program for West Texas ndash Ricardo Salazar MD

Leadership in Education and Development Certificate Program (LEAD) Fellow -1-year program accredited from the Association ofAmerican Medical Colleges (AAMC) Silvina Tonarelli MD amp Ricardo Salazar MD (Selected Award)

Fully operating Southwest Brain Bank A Brain Tissue Repository for Research in Mental Illness ndashPeter M Thompson MD

Texas State Psychiatric Physicians Public Mental Health Services Committee ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD

Texas Health and Human Services Commission Behavioral Health Advisory Committee ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP

Fellow American College of Physicians ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP FACP

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30

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Abstracts 31

Publications 5 (peer-review journals)

Presentations 17 ndash National (7) and International (6)

Invited Speaker 21 (including faculty residents fellows) ndash Local amp National

Book Chapters NA

Grants McKee Foundation Award ndash our Chair - Thompson

Intramural Grants Seed Grant 1 SARP Educational Grant 2 - Salazar

President`s Collaborative Research Initiative ndashMarch 2018 - Tonarelli

Scholarly Activity

Child and Adolescent Fellowship Presentations

INTERNATIONAL

- Curanderos and Limpias Cultural psychiatry

Poster presented at 6th Annual Scientific conference of the European Association of PsychosomaticMedicine Verona Italy Drs Garza Meissner De Vargas Mehta June 2018

-Case presentation 0f 49XXXXY Same conference same authors same city

-Resilience etiology protective and risk factors presentation C De Vargas by invitation Annual WorldPediatric summit Madrid June 2018

-Parents and their Children Fantastic journey Same conference on June 2019 Berlin Germany

NATIONAL

-Development of Psychopathology in children at risk for Bipolar Disorders Drs Escamilla Peter Sangra C DeVargas S Martin C Alvarado Andrea Rios (Poster) American Academy of Child and Adolescent PsychiatryAnnual Conference Seattle WA October 2018

Frank William Meissner MD Cynthia Elizabeth Garza MDJD Sarah L Martin MD rdquoDrug-Induced BrugadaSyndrome in a Middle-Aged Female Patient Drugs EKG Diagnosis Electrophysiology and SurveillanceRecommendationrdquo American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting San Francisco CA May 21 2019

Delinquency in a group of school children at risk for bipolar disorder D Haque M Escamilla C De VargasPresented at UCLA LA Ca June 2019

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Residency ProgramPlease provide information regarding your departmentrsquos residency program ie recent accreditation

number of residents and program updates (if applicable)

24 General Psychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)

8 Internal MedicinePsychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)

3 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellows

1 Geriatric Psychiatry Fellow- newly accredited program

IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department

RecruitmentRetention

Short staffed

Organizational Structure

Financial incentives

Protected time

Gender balance Attrition malefemale ratio 41

Program Coordinator turnover rate

Mentoring

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Departmental Organizational

Structure

Chair

Division ChiefsProgram Directors

Clerkship Director

Adm

Organizational Structure Model

Chair

Deputy Chair for Education

Program

Directors

Deputy Chair for Research

Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs

Vicechair

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Roles

Deputy Chair for Education

Oversee undergraduate graduate and CME including the development of teachers and educational scholars Monitor quality and safety across the department

Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs

Faculty appointments Faculty Development and Promotion andor Tenure Develop programs in different domains such as research education personal improvement and leadership Support clinical activities by improving the efficiency of operations and in helping to fit clinical programs into those in the rest of the medical center Allocation of space

Deputy Chair for Research

Develop and direct department-wide programs for faculty recruitment development and support of mentors recognition of excellence and funding of pilot grants bridge funding and grants to nurture multi-principal investigator and trans-division or trans-department projects Allocation of space among divisions

Bottom Line

We need more funds

Institutional support

The investments needed to recruit faculty are beyond the capacity of the

department`s operational revenue

Recruiting a leading investigator or one with great potential for

example may require an investment of $ 1 million and sometimes more

Endowments are the departmentrsquos foundational financial capital the

keel that maintains momentum and balance through the headwinds

and rough seas each department will navigate Endowments increase

the departmentrsquos independence in sustaining its core mission

Thus creation of endowments should be a high priority for any

department that plans for the long term and they increase capacity to

recruit the best faculty in a competitive environment

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CEPC actions since last report

March 2019 (2 meetings)

Clerkship phase review IM and Psych Critical Care and Sub-I

Selectives

Approval of new educational program policy

Grading Promotion and Academic Standing (ldquoGPASrdquo)

Notification of changes in clerkship directorship

Elimination of the PICE course (PICE 7001) from the year 2

curriculum approved (primarily administrative educational

elements re-distributed)

Associated review and approval of an updated PLSOM degree

plan (based on 157 credit hours)

CEPC actions since last report

April 2019 (1 meetings)

Clerkship phase review EM Neurology and Intersessions

Review and approval of revised educational program policy

Pre-Clerkship Phase Student Attendance and Participation

Policy

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14

CEPC actions since last report

May 2019 (1 meetings)

Review and approval of the ldquoCommon Clerkship Policiesrdquo

Notification of additional changes in the clerkship

directorship

Clerkship phase review

Phase data review (AAMC GQ NBME subject exams

USMLE Step 2 CK and CS Step 3 final grades EOY OSCE

and procedure workshop residency director survey)

Introduction of a 10-point plan for curriculum revision

(ldquoPLFSOM v20rdquo)

June 2019 (no quorum) July 2019 (cancelled)

CEPC actions since last report

Challenges and opportunities for improvement identified

through the AY208-19 clerkship phase review

Clear identification of contacts at affiliated sites

Academic support and remediation planning

Consistent resident preparation for participation in UME

Timeliness of grading (Sub-I and Critical Care Selectives)

Orientation modules for Sub-Q and Critical Care Selectives)

Scaling clerkships for anticipated class expansion

The summer doldrums

June 2019 (no quorum) July 2019 (cancelled)

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Upcoming actions

Ongoing educational program policy development

Maintain accreditation compliance related curriculum

review cycle (2019-20 ldquoCurriculum as a Wholerdquo)

Review and advance plans for curriculum renewalrevision

Review proposal to re-direct our MD-MPH affiliation to

TTUHSC GSBS Lubbock

Consider development of an MD-MBA option (potentially

with UTEP)

Links to related information

PLFSOM Committee on Curriculum and Educational Policy main page

httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCdefaultaspx

MD degree program policies

httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCpoliciesaspx

MD degree program information

httpselpasottuhscedusomomeUMEinfoaspx

Course and clerkship syllabi

httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCcoursereviewaspx

AY2017-18 medical education program evaluation report (e-Raider required)

httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPC_documentssecureAY2017-

2018MEPEvaluationAnnualReport-Draft-v2pdf

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19

Departmental Report

Molecular and Translational

Medicine

Laxman Gangwani PhDAssociate Professor Molecular amp

Translational Medicine

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20

Department of Molecular and

Translational Medicine (formerly

Biomedical Sciences) Report

PRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCIL

BY LAXMAN GANGWANI

DATE JULY 15 2019

Department BreakdownPlease provide the total number of faculty members in your department and break down this number by

rank Please list new faculty members that have joined your department within the last six months

Total Number of Faculty

Number of Faculty Associates 1

Number of Instructors 1

Number of Research Assistant Professor 1

Number of Assistant Professors 6

Number of Associate Professors 7

Number of Professors 4

New Faculty

None

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21

LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair

program director clerkship director chiefs etc

Department Chair Dr Peter Rotwein (VP Research Associate

Dean GSBS)

Director Center of Emphasis in Cancer Dr Rajkumar

Lakshmanaswamy (Dean GSBS) Co-Director Dr N Shokar

Director Center of Emphasis in Diabetes and Metabolism Dr

David Cistola

Director Center of Emphasis in Infectious Diseases Vacant

Director Center of Emphasis in Neurosciences Vacant

Chief Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology Vacant

AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional

appointments national appointments etc

Awards

Dr Mingtao Zeng

2018 The American Association of Immunologists (AAI) AAI Travel Grant for the 5th European Congress of Immunology

2018 Defense Techconnect Fall Summit amp Expo (2018) Techconnect Defense Innovation Award

Dr Shrikant Gadad

Eugenia Rosemberg Outstanding Abstract Award Endocrine Society Annual Meeting New Orleans March 23-26 2019

Dr Huanyu Dou

National Innovation Award Techconnect 2019

Honors

Dr Alok Dwivedi

Appointed as associated faculty at the Border Biomedical Research Center (BBRC) University of Texas El Paso (UTEP)

Dr Shrikant Gadad

Session Chair (OR09 Steroid Hormone Biology in Physiology and Disease) Endocrine Society Annual Meeting New Orleans March 23-26 2019

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22

AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional

appointments national appointments etc

NIH or DOD study sections appointments

Dr Guohua Yi

HIV special Emphasis Panel for RFA-AI-18-058 Genetic Engineering Technologies for HIV Cure Research (U19)

Dr Laxman Gangwani

Department of Defense (DOD) Reviewer for Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) 2018 -

NIHCSR Study ldquoProgram Evaluation of NIH Peer Review Processes The Role of Anonymizationrdquo 2019 ndash

Patents filings and publications

Patent Number 9862951 Title RNA Interference-Based Therapeutic against Anthrax Inventors Mingtao Zeng and Maria T AreacutevaloDate of Patent January 9 2018

Cistola D P Patel V (2018) Method and system for non-invasive measurement of metabolic health US Non-Provisional Utility Patent Application No 15911728 filed by Texas Tech University

Cistola D P Robinson M D (2018) Methods and tools for diagnosing insulin resistance and assessing health status using NMR relaxation times for water United States Patent Application Publication US 20180020947 A1 httpspatentsgooglecompatentUS20180020947A1en

AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional

appointments national appointments etc

News and Media Coverage of Research performed at TTUHSC EP

Dr David Cistola

MedPageToday 2 January 2019 Harris Scott Could a New Biomarker Help Predict Type 2 Diabetes -- Early datashow water T2 catches abnormalities before traditional testing but experts are cautiously optimistichttpswwwmedpagetodaycomreading-roomendocrine-societydiabetes77186

KTSM Channel 9 NBC El Paso 14 November 2018 Castillo Susy Research in El Paso aimed at detectingdiabetes earlyhttpswwwktsmcomlifestylehealthresearch-in-el-paso-aimed-at-detecting-diabetes-early1596408236apt_credirect=1

El Paso Inc 29 March 2019 TTUHSC El Paso Tackling diabetes cancer httpwwwelpasoinccomttuhsc-el-paso-tackling-diabetes-cancerarticle_613144fe-526a-11e9-b916-c35b701a5ef9html

Dr Laxman Gangwani

Cure SMA Awards $150000 Grant to Laxman Gangwani PhD Texas Tech University

httpwwwcuresmaorgnewsgangwani-grant-2019html

httpswwweurekalertorgpub_releases2019-05ttuh-gw050119php

httpswwwresearchgatenetscientific-contributions11984383_Laxman_Gangwani

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23

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Peer-reviewed publications 36 (In high-impact journals)

2018 highest impact factor (11561) journal Nucleic Acids Research

Abstracts 43

Presentations (i) Oral 11 (ii) Posters 28

Invited talks 13

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Peer-reviewed publications

Kannan A Bhatia K Branzei D and Gangwani L (2018) Combined deficiency of Senataxin and DNA-PKcscauses DNA damage accumulation and neurodegeneration in spinal muscular atrophy Nucleic Acids Research2018 Vol 46 No 16 8326-8346

Mishra I Jones C Patel V Deodhar S Cistola D P (2018) Early detection of metabolic dysregulation usingwater T2 analysis of biobanked samples Diabetes Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity Targets and Therapy 11 807-818

Patel V Dwivedi A K Deodhar S Mishra I Cistola D P (2018) Aptamer-based search for correlates of plasmaand serum water T2 Implications for early metabolic dysregulation and metabolic syndrome Biomarker Research6(1) 28

Garg H Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz T Joshi A 2018 Recent Advances in Zika Virus Vaccines Viruses Nov 1410 (11) Sundin OH Mendoza-Ladd A Zeng M Diaz-Areacutevalo D Morales E Fagan BMOrdontildeez J McCallum RW Does a

glucose-based hydrogen and methane breath test detect bacterial overgrowth in the jejunum NeurogastroenterolMotil 2018e13350

Zheng Z Diaz-Areacutevalo D Guan H and Mingtao Zeng Noninvasive vaccination against infectious diseases Humanvaccines amp immunotherapeutics 2018 14(7)1717-1733

Preeti Bharaj Chunting Ye Sean Petersen Qianghu Wang Baoli Hu N Manjunath Premlata Shankar Guohua Yi(2018) Gene array analysis of PD-1H overexpressing monocytes reveals a pro-inflammatory profile Heliyone00545

Bencomo-Alvarez AE Rubio AJ Gonzalez MA and Eiring AM Energy metabolism and drug response in myeloidleukaemic stem cells Br J Haematol 2019 In Press

9102019

24

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Peer-reviewed publications Yan D Pomicter AD Tantravahi S Mason CC Senina AV Ahmann JM Wang Q Than H Patel AB Heaton

WL Eiring AM Clair PM Gantz KC Redwine HM Swierczek SI Halverson BJ Baloglu E Shacham S KhorashadJS Kelley TW Salama ME Miles RR Boucher KM Prchal JT OHare T and Deininger MW Nuclear-cytoplasmic transport is a therapeutic target in myelofibrosis Clin Cancer Res 201925(7)2323-2335

Heipertz E Harper J Lopez CA Fikrig E Hughes ME Walker WE Circadian rhythms influence the severity of sepsis in mice via a TLR2-dependent leukocyte-intrinsic mechanism The Journal of Immunology 2018 201193-201

Khatri R Afzal MR Qureshi MA Maud A Huanyu D Jose Rodriguez G Pre-Existing Renal Failure Increases In-Hospital Mortality in Patients with Intracerebral Hemorrhage J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis 2019 Feb28(2)237-242

Zou L Lee SY Wu Q Zhang H Bastian A Orji C Payne G Galvez A Thomas T Zhang Z Dou H Facile Gene Delivery Derived from Branched Low Molecular Weight Polyethylenimine by High Efficient Chemistry J Biomed Nanotechnol 2018 Oct 114(10)1785-1795

Zhang C Brandon NR Koper K Tang P Xu Y Dou H Invasion of Peripheral Immune Cells into Brain Parenchyma after Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation Aging Dis 2018 Jun 19(3)412-425

Loza O Hernandez P Calderoacuten-Mora J Laks S Leiner M Reddy S Lara P amp Granados H (2018) Developing Trans-affirming health services in an underserved area An intersectional approach Transgender Health 3(1) 127-135

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Byrd T Calderoacuten-Mora J Salaiz R amp Shokar N (2019) Barriers and facilitators to colorectal cancer screening within a Hispanic population Hispanic Health Care International 17(1) 23-29 doi 1011771540415318818982

Haut SR Lipton RB Cornes S Dwivedi AK Wasson R Cotton S Strawn JR Privitera M (2018) Behavioral interventions as a treatment for epilepsy A multicenter randomized controlled trial Neurology 90(11) e963-e970 PMID 29444968

Jessica Bernica Sherif Elhanafi Neeharika Kalakota Yi Jia Christopher Dodoo Alok Dwivedi Robert J Sealock Kalpesh Patel Isaac Raijman Marc J Zuckerman Mohamed O Othman (2018) Cholangioscopy is safe and feasible in elderly patients Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology 16(8) 1293-1299

Benjamin D Wissel Alok K Dwivedi Danielle Chin Aristide Merola Cara Jacob Andrew P Duker Jennifer E Vaughan Lilia Lovera Kathrin LaFaver Ariel Levy Anthony E Lang Francesca Morgante Melissa J Nirenberg Christopher Stephen Nutan Sharma Alberto Romagnolo Leonardo Lopiano Bettina Balint Xin X Yu Kailash P Bhatia Alberto J Espay Functional neurological disorders in Parkinson disease Accepted for publication in Journal

of Neurology Neurosurgery amp Psychiatry 89(6)566-571

Danny J Avalos Marc J Zuckerman Alok Dwivedi Christopher Dodoo Jinendra Satiya Fernando J Castro(2018) Differences in prevalence of large polyps between Hispanic Americans from Mexican-and Non-Mexican-predominant states Digestive diseases and sciences PMID 30276570

Zeina Nahleh Salman Otoukesh Hamid Reza Mirshahidi Anthony Loc Nguyen Gayathri Nagaraj Nabeel Badri Gehan Botrus Nabih Diab Andres Alvarado Luis A Sanchez Alok K Dwivedi (2018) Disparities in breast cancer a multi-institutional comparative analysis focusing on American Hispanics Cancer Medicine (In press 05072018)

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25

Scholarly Activity Danny J Avalos Antonio Mendoza-Ladd Marc J Zuckerman Mohammad Bashashati Andres Alvarado Alok

Dwivedi Oriana M Damas (2018) Hispanics and Non-Hispanic Whites in the US have a Similar InflammatoryBowel Disease Phenotype A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis Digestive Diseases and Sciences 63(6)1558-1571

Aleli Campbell Rosalinda Heydarian Cecilia Ochoa Alok Kumar Dwivedi Zeina A Nahleh(2018) Single arm phaseII study of oral vitamin B12 for the treatment of musculoskeletal symptoms associated with aromatase inhibitors inwomen with early stage breast cancer The breast journal 24(3)260-268

Shaimaa Elzamly Nabeel Badri Osvaldo Padilla Alok Kumar Dwivedi Luis A Alvarado Matthew Hamilton NabihDiab Crosby Rock Ahmed Elfar Marwa Teleb Luis Sanchez Zeina Nahleh (2018) Epithelial-mesenchymaltransition markers in breast cancer and pathological responseafter neoadjuvant chemotherapy Breast Cancer

(Auckl) 2018 Aug 1121178223418788074

Jennifer C Molokwu Eribeth Penaranda Alok Dwivedi Indika Mallawaarachchi Navkiran Shokar (2018) Effect ofEducational Intervention on Self-Sampling Acceptability and Follow-Up Paps in Border Dwelling Hispanic FemalesJournal of Lower Genital Tract Disease

Ritika Suri Federico Rodriguez-Porcel Kelly Donohue Erin Jesse Lilia Lovera Alok Kumar Dwivedi Alberto JEspay (2018) Post-Stroke Movement Disorders The Clinical Neuroanatomic and Demographic Portrait of 284Published Cases Accepted for publication in Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases (In press05212018)

Zeina Nahleh Gehan Botrus Alok Dwivedi Nabeel Badri Salman Otoukesh Nabih Diab Sandip BiswasMichael Jennings Shaimaa Elzamly(2018) Clinico-pathologic disparities of breast cancer in HispanicLatina womenBreast disease 1-8

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Robert Gonzalez Trisha Suppes Jamie Zeitzer Colleen McClung Carol Tamminga Mauricio Tohen Angelica Forero Alok DwivediAndres Alvarado (2018) The association between mood state and chronobiological characteristics in bipolar I disorder a naturalisticvariable cluster analysis-based study International Journal of Bipolar Disorders 6(1)5Mohamed Teleb Aaron Shanker Alok Kumar Dwivedi Debabrata Mukherjee (2018) Effect of exercise on left ventricular mass index byechocardiography in mild and moderate hypertension a meta-analysis Res Cardiovasc Med 6(4)50-6Garnica O Das K Devasundaram S and Dhandayuthapani S Enhanced delivery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigens to antigenpresenting cells using RVG peptide Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Das K Garnica O and Dhandayuthapani S Utility of an oxidative stress response system for the expression of recombinant proteinsin mycobacteria and for the delivery of M tuberculosis antigens to the phagosomal compartments Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Palanichamy K Joshi A Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz T Fernando B Milan S Schiro F Naeem Y Garg H Braunschweig A 2019 Anti-ZikaActivity of a Library of Synthetic Carbohydrate Receptors Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 6284110-4119Anjali Joshi Erin B Punke Tugba Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz Diego P Peralta and Himanshu Garg 2019 TLR9 polymorphism correlates withimmune activation CD4 decline and plasma IP10 levels in HIV patients BMC Infect Dis 19 56Vargas-Medrano J Yang B Garza N T Segura-Ulate I and Perez R G (2018) Up-regulation of protective neuronal MicroRNAs byFTY720 and novel FTY720-derivatives Neuroscience letters 690 178-180Vidal-Martinez G Yang B Vargas-Medrano J and Perez R G (2018) Could alpha-Synuclein Modulation of Insulin and DopamineIdentify a Novel Link Between Parkinsons Disease and Diabetes as Well as Potential Therapies Frontiers in molecular

neuroscience 11 465

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26

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Gil-Tommee C Vidal-Martinez G Annette Reyes C Vargas-Medrano J Herrera G V Martin S M Chaparro S A andPerez R G (2019) Parkinsonian GM2 synthase knockout mice lacking mature gangliosides develop urinary dysfunction andneurogenic bladder Experimental neurology 311265-273Vidal-Martinez G Najera K Miranda JD Gil-Tommee C Yang B Vargas-Medrano J Diaz-Pacheco V Barragan J ChaparroS Vargas-Medrano J Chinnasamy R Arterburn JB Perez RG FTY720 improves behavior increases Brain Derived NeurotrophicFactor and reduces α-synuclein pathology in parkinsonian GM2+minus

mice Neuroscience httpsdoiorg101016jneuroscience201905029Tasnim N Thakur V Chattopadhyay M Joddar B (2018) The efficacy of Graphene-foams towards the adhesion proliferationand expression of neuronal-phenotype by dopaminergic neurons differentiated from mesenchymal stem cells Stem cell

international Jun 3 20183410168 doi 10115520183410168Anil Kumar S Allen SC Tasnim N Akter T Park S Kumar A Chattopadhyay M Ito Y Suggs LJ Joddar B (2019) The applicabilityof furfuryl-gelatin as a novel bioink for tissue engineering applications J Biomed Mater Res B Appl Biomater 2019 107(2)314-323 doi 101002jbmb34123 Epub 2018 Apr 15Thakur V Chattopadhyay M (2018) Early urinary markers for diabetic and other kidney diseases Current drug targets 2018 Mar19Joddar B Tasnim N Thakur V Kumar A Mccallum R Chattopadhyay M (2018) Delivery of mesenchymal stem cells fromgelatin-alginate hydrogels to stomach lumen for treatment of gastroparesis Bioengineering 2018 5(1)Camacho CV Choudhari R Gadad SS (2018) Long noncoding RNAs and cancer an overview Steroids 13393-95

IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department

Large net loss (9) of MTM faculty members over the past 5 years

Vacant Director positions (i) Center for Neuroscience (ii) Center for InfectiousDiseases and (iii) Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology

No steps have been taken to fill directors positions for more than 2 years

Neurosciences Center at the verge of collapse Only one faculty will be left at theend of this fiscal year

The size of Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology is shrinking

Lack of communication regarding vision and strategic plan for growing department

No faculty salary raises for the past 3 years

Serious concerns about recruitment retention and tenure and promotion decisionsmade in the department Faculty morale is extremely low

Lack of functional research core facility

Gradual elimination of service contracts of equipment essential for research trainingand education of graduate and medical students

A plethora of other issues with the department administration

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27

Questions

Departmental Report

Psychiatry

Ricardo Salazar MDAssociate Professor Psychiatry

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28

Department ReportPsychiatryPRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCIL

BY RICARDO SALAZAR MD

DATE MONDAY JULY 15 2019

Department BreakdownPlease provide the total number of faculty members in your department and break down this number by

rank Please list new faculty members that have joined your department within the last six months

Total Number of Faculty 12

Number of Instructors 1

Number of Assistant Professors 8

Number of Associate Professors 2

Number of Professors 2

New Faculty Melanie Longhurst MD Instructor

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29

LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair

program director clerkship director chiefs etc

Department Chair ndash Peter M Thompson MD MS

Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Sarah L Martin MD

Combined IMPsych Residency Program Director ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD

Psychiatry Clerkship Director ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD

Child amp Adolescent Fellowship Program Director ndash Cecilia De Vargas MD

Chief Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry ndash Sarah L Martin MD

Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Program Directorndash Ricardo Salazar MD

Chief Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences ndash Ricardo Salazar MD

Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Transmountain ndash Moataz Ragheb MD

AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in your department including awards honors regional

appointments national appointments etc

El Paso Behavioral Health Consortium ndash Board Member ndash Peter M Thompson MD

714 (50) of our graduating medical students this year choose and matched our resident training programs here at Paul L FosterSchool of Medicine Department of Psychiatry (Historical record) ndash Kudos for our Department Faculty

In appreciation for exceptional contributions to the 30th volume of the J Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences ndash Author contributions and review of 271 manuscripts submitted to the journal between September 2017 and August 2018 ndash Ricardo Salazar MD ndash Young Investigator Award Committee Member and Program Committee Member-Abstracts Sub-Committee Member of theAmerican Neuropsychiatric Association (ANPA)

Initial Accreditation with commendation and no citations from ACGME for our first Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Training Program for West Texas ndash Ricardo Salazar MD

Leadership in Education and Development Certificate Program (LEAD) Fellow -1-year program accredited from the Association ofAmerican Medical Colleges (AAMC) Silvina Tonarelli MD amp Ricardo Salazar MD (Selected Award)

Fully operating Southwest Brain Bank A Brain Tissue Repository for Research in Mental Illness ndashPeter M Thompson MD

Texas State Psychiatric Physicians Public Mental Health Services Committee ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD

Texas Health and Human Services Commission Behavioral Health Advisory Committee ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP

Fellow American College of Physicians ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP FACP

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Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Abstracts 31

Publications 5 (peer-review journals)

Presentations 17 ndash National (7) and International (6)

Invited Speaker 21 (including faculty residents fellows) ndash Local amp National

Book Chapters NA

Grants McKee Foundation Award ndash our Chair - Thompson

Intramural Grants Seed Grant 1 SARP Educational Grant 2 - Salazar

President`s Collaborative Research Initiative ndashMarch 2018 - Tonarelli

Scholarly Activity

Child and Adolescent Fellowship Presentations

INTERNATIONAL

- Curanderos and Limpias Cultural psychiatry

Poster presented at 6th Annual Scientific conference of the European Association of PsychosomaticMedicine Verona Italy Drs Garza Meissner De Vargas Mehta June 2018

-Case presentation 0f 49XXXXY Same conference same authors same city

-Resilience etiology protective and risk factors presentation C De Vargas by invitation Annual WorldPediatric summit Madrid June 2018

-Parents and their Children Fantastic journey Same conference on June 2019 Berlin Germany

NATIONAL

-Development of Psychopathology in children at risk for Bipolar Disorders Drs Escamilla Peter Sangra C DeVargas S Martin C Alvarado Andrea Rios (Poster) American Academy of Child and Adolescent PsychiatryAnnual Conference Seattle WA October 2018

Frank William Meissner MD Cynthia Elizabeth Garza MDJD Sarah L Martin MD rdquoDrug-Induced BrugadaSyndrome in a Middle-Aged Female Patient Drugs EKG Diagnosis Electrophysiology and SurveillanceRecommendationrdquo American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting San Francisco CA May 21 2019

Delinquency in a group of school children at risk for bipolar disorder D Haque M Escamilla C De VargasPresented at UCLA LA Ca June 2019

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Residency ProgramPlease provide information regarding your departmentrsquos residency program ie recent accreditation

number of residents and program updates (if applicable)

24 General Psychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)

8 Internal MedicinePsychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)

3 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellows

1 Geriatric Psychiatry Fellow- newly accredited program

IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department

RecruitmentRetention

Short staffed

Organizational Structure

Financial incentives

Protected time

Gender balance Attrition malefemale ratio 41

Program Coordinator turnover rate

Mentoring

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Departmental Organizational

Structure

Chair

Division ChiefsProgram Directors

Clerkship Director

Adm

Organizational Structure Model

Chair

Deputy Chair for Education

Program

Directors

Deputy Chair for Research

Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs

Vicechair

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Roles

Deputy Chair for Education

Oversee undergraduate graduate and CME including the development of teachers and educational scholars Monitor quality and safety across the department

Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs

Faculty appointments Faculty Development and Promotion andor Tenure Develop programs in different domains such as research education personal improvement and leadership Support clinical activities by improving the efficiency of operations and in helping to fit clinical programs into those in the rest of the medical center Allocation of space

Deputy Chair for Research

Develop and direct department-wide programs for faculty recruitment development and support of mentors recognition of excellence and funding of pilot grants bridge funding and grants to nurture multi-principal investigator and trans-division or trans-department projects Allocation of space among divisions

Bottom Line

We need more funds

Institutional support

The investments needed to recruit faculty are beyond the capacity of the

department`s operational revenue

Recruiting a leading investigator or one with great potential for

example may require an investment of $ 1 million and sometimes more

Endowments are the departmentrsquos foundational financial capital the

keel that maintains momentum and balance through the headwinds

and rough seas each department will navigate Endowments increase

the departmentrsquos independence in sustaining its core mission

Thus creation of endowments should be a high priority for any

department that plans for the long term and they increase capacity to

recruit the best faculty in a competitive environment

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CEPC actions since last report

May 2019 (1 meetings)

Review and approval of the ldquoCommon Clerkship Policiesrdquo

Notification of additional changes in the clerkship

directorship

Clerkship phase review

Phase data review (AAMC GQ NBME subject exams

USMLE Step 2 CK and CS Step 3 final grades EOY OSCE

and procedure workshop residency director survey)

Introduction of a 10-point plan for curriculum revision

(ldquoPLFSOM v20rdquo)

June 2019 (no quorum) July 2019 (cancelled)

CEPC actions since last report

Challenges and opportunities for improvement identified

through the AY208-19 clerkship phase review

Clear identification of contacts at affiliated sites

Academic support and remediation planning

Consistent resident preparation for participation in UME

Timeliness of grading (Sub-I and Critical Care Selectives)

Orientation modules for Sub-Q and Critical Care Selectives)

Scaling clerkships for anticipated class expansion

The summer doldrums

June 2019 (no quorum) July 2019 (cancelled)

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Upcoming actions

Ongoing educational program policy development

Maintain accreditation compliance related curriculum

review cycle (2019-20 ldquoCurriculum as a Wholerdquo)

Review and advance plans for curriculum renewalrevision

Review proposal to re-direct our MD-MPH affiliation to

TTUHSC GSBS Lubbock

Consider development of an MD-MBA option (potentially

with UTEP)

Links to related information

PLFSOM Committee on Curriculum and Educational Policy main page

httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCdefaultaspx

MD degree program policies

httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCpoliciesaspx

MD degree program information

httpselpasottuhscedusomomeUMEinfoaspx

Course and clerkship syllabi

httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCcoursereviewaspx

AY2017-18 medical education program evaluation report (e-Raider required)

httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPC_documentssecureAY2017-

2018MEPEvaluationAnnualReport-Draft-v2pdf

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19

Departmental Report

Molecular and Translational

Medicine

Laxman Gangwani PhDAssociate Professor Molecular amp

Translational Medicine

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20

Department of Molecular and

Translational Medicine (formerly

Biomedical Sciences) Report

PRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCIL

BY LAXMAN GANGWANI

DATE JULY 15 2019

Department BreakdownPlease provide the total number of faculty members in your department and break down this number by

rank Please list new faculty members that have joined your department within the last six months

Total Number of Faculty

Number of Faculty Associates 1

Number of Instructors 1

Number of Research Assistant Professor 1

Number of Assistant Professors 6

Number of Associate Professors 7

Number of Professors 4

New Faculty

None

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21

LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair

program director clerkship director chiefs etc

Department Chair Dr Peter Rotwein (VP Research Associate

Dean GSBS)

Director Center of Emphasis in Cancer Dr Rajkumar

Lakshmanaswamy (Dean GSBS) Co-Director Dr N Shokar

Director Center of Emphasis in Diabetes and Metabolism Dr

David Cistola

Director Center of Emphasis in Infectious Diseases Vacant

Director Center of Emphasis in Neurosciences Vacant

Chief Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology Vacant

AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional

appointments national appointments etc

Awards

Dr Mingtao Zeng

2018 The American Association of Immunologists (AAI) AAI Travel Grant for the 5th European Congress of Immunology

2018 Defense Techconnect Fall Summit amp Expo (2018) Techconnect Defense Innovation Award

Dr Shrikant Gadad

Eugenia Rosemberg Outstanding Abstract Award Endocrine Society Annual Meeting New Orleans March 23-26 2019

Dr Huanyu Dou

National Innovation Award Techconnect 2019

Honors

Dr Alok Dwivedi

Appointed as associated faculty at the Border Biomedical Research Center (BBRC) University of Texas El Paso (UTEP)

Dr Shrikant Gadad

Session Chair (OR09 Steroid Hormone Biology in Physiology and Disease) Endocrine Society Annual Meeting New Orleans March 23-26 2019

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22

AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional

appointments national appointments etc

NIH or DOD study sections appointments

Dr Guohua Yi

HIV special Emphasis Panel for RFA-AI-18-058 Genetic Engineering Technologies for HIV Cure Research (U19)

Dr Laxman Gangwani

Department of Defense (DOD) Reviewer for Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) 2018 -

NIHCSR Study ldquoProgram Evaluation of NIH Peer Review Processes The Role of Anonymizationrdquo 2019 ndash

Patents filings and publications

Patent Number 9862951 Title RNA Interference-Based Therapeutic against Anthrax Inventors Mingtao Zeng and Maria T AreacutevaloDate of Patent January 9 2018

Cistola D P Patel V (2018) Method and system for non-invasive measurement of metabolic health US Non-Provisional Utility Patent Application No 15911728 filed by Texas Tech University

Cistola D P Robinson M D (2018) Methods and tools for diagnosing insulin resistance and assessing health status using NMR relaxation times for water United States Patent Application Publication US 20180020947 A1 httpspatentsgooglecompatentUS20180020947A1en

AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional

appointments national appointments etc

News and Media Coverage of Research performed at TTUHSC EP

Dr David Cistola

MedPageToday 2 January 2019 Harris Scott Could a New Biomarker Help Predict Type 2 Diabetes -- Early datashow water T2 catches abnormalities before traditional testing but experts are cautiously optimistichttpswwwmedpagetodaycomreading-roomendocrine-societydiabetes77186

KTSM Channel 9 NBC El Paso 14 November 2018 Castillo Susy Research in El Paso aimed at detectingdiabetes earlyhttpswwwktsmcomlifestylehealthresearch-in-el-paso-aimed-at-detecting-diabetes-early1596408236apt_credirect=1

El Paso Inc 29 March 2019 TTUHSC El Paso Tackling diabetes cancer httpwwwelpasoinccomttuhsc-el-paso-tackling-diabetes-cancerarticle_613144fe-526a-11e9-b916-c35b701a5ef9html

Dr Laxman Gangwani

Cure SMA Awards $150000 Grant to Laxman Gangwani PhD Texas Tech University

httpwwwcuresmaorgnewsgangwani-grant-2019html

httpswwweurekalertorgpub_releases2019-05ttuh-gw050119php

httpswwwresearchgatenetscientific-contributions11984383_Laxman_Gangwani

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23

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Peer-reviewed publications 36 (In high-impact journals)

2018 highest impact factor (11561) journal Nucleic Acids Research

Abstracts 43

Presentations (i) Oral 11 (ii) Posters 28

Invited talks 13

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Peer-reviewed publications

Kannan A Bhatia K Branzei D and Gangwani L (2018) Combined deficiency of Senataxin and DNA-PKcscauses DNA damage accumulation and neurodegeneration in spinal muscular atrophy Nucleic Acids Research2018 Vol 46 No 16 8326-8346

Mishra I Jones C Patel V Deodhar S Cistola D P (2018) Early detection of metabolic dysregulation usingwater T2 analysis of biobanked samples Diabetes Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity Targets and Therapy 11 807-818

Patel V Dwivedi A K Deodhar S Mishra I Cistola D P (2018) Aptamer-based search for correlates of plasmaand serum water T2 Implications for early metabolic dysregulation and metabolic syndrome Biomarker Research6(1) 28

Garg H Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz T Joshi A 2018 Recent Advances in Zika Virus Vaccines Viruses Nov 1410 (11) Sundin OH Mendoza-Ladd A Zeng M Diaz-Areacutevalo D Morales E Fagan BMOrdontildeez J McCallum RW Does a

glucose-based hydrogen and methane breath test detect bacterial overgrowth in the jejunum NeurogastroenterolMotil 2018e13350

Zheng Z Diaz-Areacutevalo D Guan H and Mingtao Zeng Noninvasive vaccination against infectious diseases Humanvaccines amp immunotherapeutics 2018 14(7)1717-1733

Preeti Bharaj Chunting Ye Sean Petersen Qianghu Wang Baoli Hu N Manjunath Premlata Shankar Guohua Yi(2018) Gene array analysis of PD-1H overexpressing monocytes reveals a pro-inflammatory profile Heliyone00545

Bencomo-Alvarez AE Rubio AJ Gonzalez MA and Eiring AM Energy metabolism and drug response in myeloidleukaemic stem cells Br J Haematol 2019 In Press

9102019

24

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Peer-reviewed publications Yan D Pomicter AD Tantravahi S Mason CC Senina AV Ahmann JM Wang Q Than H Patel AB Heaton

WL Eiring AM Clair PM Gantz KC Redwine HM Swierczek SI Halverson BJ Baloglu E Shacham S KhorashadJS Kelley TW Salama ME Miles RR Boucher KM Prchal JT OHare T and Deininger MW Nuclear-cytoplasmic transport is a therapeutic target in myelofibrosis Clin Cancer Res 201925(7)2323-2335

Heipertz E Harper J Lopez CA Fikrig E Hughes ME Walker WE Circadian rhythms influence the severity of sepsis in mice via a TLR2-dependent leukocyte-intrinsic mechanism The Journal of Immunology 2018 201193-201

Khatri R Afzal MR Qureshi MA Maud A Huanyu D Jose Rodriguez G Pre-Existing Renal Failure Increases In-Hospital Mortality in Patients with Intracerebral Hemorrhage J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis 2019 Feb28(2)237-242

Zou L Lee SY Wu Q Zhang H Bastian A Orji C Payne G Galvez A Thomas T Zhang Z Dou H Facile Gene Delivery Derived from Branched Low Molecular Weight Polyethylenimine by High Efficient Chemistry J Biomed Nanotechnol 2018 Oct 114(10)1785-1795

Zhang C Brandon NR Koper K Tang P Xu Y Dou H Invasion of Peripheral Immune Cells into Brain Parenchyma after Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation Aging Dis 2018 Jun 19(3)412-425

Loza O Hernandez P Calderoacuten-Mora J Laks S Leiner M Reddy S Lara P amp Granados H (2018) Developing Trans-affirming health services in an underserved area An intersectional approach Transgender Health 3(1) 127-135

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Byrd T Calderoacuten-Mora J Salaiz R amp Shokar N (2019) Barriers and facilitators to colorectal cancer screening within a Hispanic population Hispanic Health Care International 17(1) 23-29 doi 1011771540415318818982

Haut SR Lipton RB Cornes S Dwivedi AK Wasson R Cotton S Strawn JR Privitera M (2018) Behavioral interventions as a treatment for epilepsy A multicenter randomized controlled trial Neurology 90(11) e963-e970 PMID 29444968

Jessica Bernica Sherif Elhanafi Neeharika Kalakota Yi Jia Christopher Dodoo Alok Dwivedi Robert J Sealock Kalpesh Patel Isaac Raijman Marc J Zuckerman Mohamed O Othman (2018) Cholangioscopy is safe and feasible in elderly patients Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology 16(8) 1293-1299

Benjamin D Wissel Alok K Dwivedi Danielle Chin Aristide Merola Cara Jacob Andrew P Duker Jennifer E Vaughan Lilia Lovera Kathrin LaFaver Ariel Levy Anthony E Lang Francesca Morgante Melissa J Nirenberg Christopher Stephen Nutan Sharma Alberto Romagnolo Leonardo Lopiano Bettina Balint Xin X Yu Kailash P Bhatia Alberto J Espay Functional neurological disorders in Parkinson disease Accepted for publication in Journal

of Neurology Neurosurgery amp Psychiatry 89(6)566-571

Danny J Avalos Marc J Zuckerman Alok Dwivedi Christopher Dodoo Jinendra Satiya Fernando J Castro(2018) Differences in prevalence of large polyps between Hispanic Americans from Mexican-and Non-Mexican-predominant states Digestive diseases and sciences PMID 30276570

Zeina Nahleh Salman Otoukesh Hamid Reza Mirshahidi Anthony Loc Nguyen Gayathri Nagaraj Nabeel Badri Gehan Botrus Nabih Diab Andres Alvarado Luis A Sanchez Alok K Dwivedi (2018) Disparities in breast cancer a multi-institutional comparative analysis focusing on American Hispanics Cancer Medicine (In press 05072018)

9102019

25

Scholarly Activity Danny J Avalos Antonio Mendoza-Ladd Marc J Zuckerman Mohammad Bashashati Andres Alvarado Alok

Dwivedi Oriana M Damas (2018) Hispanics and Non-Hispanic Whites in the US have a Similar InflammatoryBowel Disease Phenotype A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis Digestive Diseases and Sciences 63(6)1558-1571

Aleli Campbell Rosalinda Heydarian Cecilia Ochoa Alok Kumar Dwivedi Zeina A Nahleh(2018) Single arm phaseII study of oral vitamin B12 for the treatment of musculoskeletal symptoms associated with aromatase inhibitors inwomen with early stage breast cancer The breast journal 24(3)260-268

Shaimaa Elzamly Nabeel Badri Osvaldo Padilla Alok Kumar Dwivedi Luis A Alvarado Matthew Hamilton NabihDiab Crosby Rock Ahmed Elfar Marwa Teleb Luis Sanchez Zeina Nahleh (2018) Epithelial-mesenchymaltransition markers in breast cancer and pathological responseafter neoadjuvant chemotherapy Breast Cancer

(Auckl) 2018 Aug 1121178223418788074

Jennifer C Molokwu Eribeth Penaranda Alok Dwivedi Indika Mallawaarachchi Navkiran Shokar (2018) Effect ofEducational Intervention on Self-Sampling Acceptability and Follow-Up Paps in Border Dwelling Hispanic FemalesJournal of Lower Genital Tract Disease

Ritika Suri Federico Rodriguez-Porcel Kelly Donohue Erin Jesse Lilia Lovera Alok Kumar Dwivedi Alberto JEspay (2018) Post-Stroke Movement Disorders The Clinical Neuroanatomic and Demographic Portrait of 284Published Cases Accepted for publication in Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases (In press05212018)

Zeina Nahleh Gehan Botrus Alok Dwivedi Nabeel Badri Salman Otoukesh Nabih Diab Sandip BiswasMichael Jennings Shaimaa Elzamly(2018) Clinico-pathologic disparities of breast cancer in HispanicLatina womenBreast disease 1-8

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Robert Gonzalez Trisha Suppes Jamie Zeitzer Colleen McClung Carol Tamminga Mauricio Tohen Angelica Forero Alok DwivediAndres Alvarado (2018) The association between mood state and chronobiological characteristics in bipolar I disorder a naturalisticvariable cluster analysis-based study International Journal of Bipolar Disorders 6(1)5Mohamed Teleb Aaron Shanker Alok Kumar Dwivedi Debabrata Mukherjee (2018) Effect of exercise on left ventricular mass index byechocardiography in mild and moderate hypertension a meta-analysis Res Cardiovasc Med 6(4)50-6Garnica O Das K Devasundaram S and Dhandayuthapani S Enhanced delivery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigens to antigenpresenting cells using RVG peptide Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Das K Garnica O and Dhandayuthapani S Utility of an oxidative stress response system for the expression of recombinant proteinsin mycobacteria and for the delivery of M tuberculosis antigens to the phagosomal compartments Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Palanichamy K Joshi A Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz T Fernando B Milan S Schiro F Naeem Y Garg H Braunschweig A 2019 Anti-ZikaActivity of a Library of Synthetic Carbohydrate Receptors Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 6284110-4119Anjali Joshi Erin B Punke Tugba Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz Diego P Peralta and Himanshu Garg 2019 TLR9 polymorphism correlates withimmune activation CD4 decline and plasma IP10 levels in HIV patients BMC Infect Dis 19 56Vargas-Medrano J Yang B Garza N T Segura-Ulate I and Perez R G (2018) Up-regulation of protective neuronal MicroRNAs byFTY720 and novel FTY720-derivatives Neuroscience letters 690 178-180Vidal-Martinez G Yang B Vargas-Medrano J and Perez R G (2018) Could alpha-Synuclein Modulation of Insulin and DopamineIdentify a Novel Link Between Parkinsons Disease and Diabetes as Well as Potential Therapies Frontiers in molecular

neuroscience 11 465

9102019

26

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Gil-Tommee C Vidal-Martinez G Annette Reyes C Vargas-Medrano J Herrera G V Martin S M Chaparro S A andPerez R G (2019) Parkinsonian GM2 synthase knockout mice lacking mature gangliosides develop urinary dysfunction andneurogenic bladder Experimental neurology 311265-273Vidal-Martinez G Najera K Miranda JD Gil-Tommee C Yang B Vargas-Medrano J Diaz-Pacheco V Barragan J ChaparroS Vargas-Medrano J Chinnasamy R Arterburn JB Perez RG FTY720 improves behavior increases Brain Derived NeurotrophicFactor and reduces α-synuclein pathology in parkinsonian GM2+minus

mice Neuroscience httpsdoiorg101016jneuroscience201905029Tasnim N Thakur V Chattopadhyay M Joddar B (2018) The efficacy of Graphene-foams towards the adhesion proliferationand expression of neuronal-phenotype by dopaminergic neurons differentiated from mesenchymal stem cells Stem cell

international Jun 3 20183410168 doi 10115520183410168Anil Kumar S Allen SC Tasnim N Akter T Park S Kumar A Chattopadhyay M Ito Y Suggs LJ Joddar B (2019) The applicabilityof furfuryl-gelatin as a novel bioink for tissue engineering applications J Biomed Mater Res B Appl Biomater 2019 107(2)314-323 doi 101002jbmb34123 Epub 2018 Apr 15Thakur V Chattopadhyay M (2018) Early urinary markers for diabetic and other kidney diseases Current drug targets 2018 Mar19Joddar B Tasnim N Thakur V Kumar A Mccallum R Chattopadhyay M (2018) Delivery of mesenchymal stem cells fromgelatin-alginate hydrogels to stomach lumen for treatment of gastroparesis Bioengineering 2018 5(1)Camacho CV Choudhari R Gadad SS (2018) Long noncoding RNAs and cancer an overview Steroids 13393-95

IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department

Large net loss (9) of MTM faculty members over the past 5 years

Vacant Director positions (i) Center for Neuroscience (ii) Center for InfectiousDiseases and (iii) Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology

No steps have been taken to fill directors positions for more than 2 years

Neurosciences Center at the verge of collapse Only one faculty will be left at theend of this fiscal year

The size of Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology is shrinking

Lack of communication regarding vision and strategic plan for growing department

No faculty salary raises for the past 3 years

Serious concerns about recruitment retention and tenure and promotion decisionsmade in the department Faculty morale is extremely low

Lack of functional research core facility

Gradual elimination of service contracts of equipment essential for research trainingand education of graduate and medical students

A plethora of other issues with the department administration

9102019

27

Questions

Departmental Report

Psychiatry

Ricardo Salazar MDAssociate Professor Psychiatry

9102019

28

Department ReportPsychiatryPRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCIL

BY RICARDO SALAZAR MD

DATE MONDAY JULY 15 2019

Department BreakdownPlease provide the total number of faculty members in your department and break down this number by

rank Please list new faculty members that have joined your department within the last six months

Total Number of Faculty 12

Number of Instructors 1

Number of Assistant Professors 8

Number of Associate Professors 2

Number of Professors 2

New Faculty Melanie Longhurst MD Instructor

9102019

29

LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair

program director clerkship director chiefs etc

Department Chair ndash Peter M Thompson MD MS

Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Sarah L Martin MD

Combined IMPsych Residency Program Director ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD

Psychiatry Clerkship Director ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD

Child amp Adolescent Fellowship Program Director ndash Cecilia De Vargas MD

Chief Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry ndash Sarah L Martin MD

Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Program Directorndash Ricardo Salazar MD

Chief Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences ndash Ricardo Salazar MD

Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Transmountain ndash Moataz Ragheb MD

AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in your department including awards honors regional

appointments national appointments etc

El Paso Behavioral Health Consortium ndash Board Member ndash Peter M Thompson MD

714 (50) of our graduating medical students this year choose and matched our resident training programs here at Paul L FosterSchool of Medicine Department of Psychiatry (Historical record) ndash Kudos for our Department Faculty

In appreciation for exceptional contributions to the 30th volume of the J Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences ndash Author contributions and review of 271 manuscripts submitted to the journal between September 2017 and August 2018 ndash Ricardo Salazar MD ndash Young Investigator Award Committee Member and Program Committee Member-Abstracts Sub-Committee Member of theAmerican Neuropsychiatric Association (ANPA)

Initial Accreditation with commendation and no citations from ACGME for our first Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Training Program for West Texas ndash Ricardo Salazar MD

Leadership in Education and Development Certificate Program (LEAD) Fellow -1-year program accredited from the Association ofAmerican Medical Colleges (AAMC) Silvina Tonarelli MD amp Ricardo Salazar MD (Selected Award)

Fully operating Southwest Brain Bank A Brain Tissue Repository for Research in Mental Illness ndashPeter M Thompson MD

Texas State Psychiatric Physicians Public Mental Health Services Committee ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD

Texas Health and Human Services Commission Behavioral Health Advisory Committee ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP

Fellow American College of Physicians ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP FACP

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Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Abstracts 31

Publications 5 (peer-review journals)

Presentations 17 ndash National (7) and International (6)

Invited Speaker 21 (including faculty residents fellows) ndash Local amp National

Book Chapters NA

Grants McKee Foundation Award ndash our Chair - Thompson

Intramural Grants Seed Grant 1 SARP Educational Grant 2 - Salazar

President`s Collaborative Research Initiative ndashMarch 2018 - Tonarelli

Scholarly Activity

Child and Adolescent Fellowship Presentations

INTERNATIONAL

- Curanderos and Limpias Cultural psychiatry

Poster presented at 6th Annual Scientific conference of the European Association of PsychosomaticMedicine Verona Italy Drs Garza Meissner De Vargas Mehta June 2018

-Case presentation 0f 49XXXXY Same conference same authors same city

-Resilience etiology protective and risk factors presentation C De Vargas by invitation Annual WorldPediatric summit Madrid June 2018

-Parents and their Children Fantastic journey Same conference on June 2019 Berlin Germany

NATIONAL

-Development of Psychopathology in children at risk for Bipolar Disorders Drs Escamilla Peter Sangra C DeVargas S Martin C Alvarado Andrea Rios (Poster) American Academy of Child and Adolescent PsychiatryAnnual Conference Seattle WA October 2018

Frank William Meissner MD Cynthia Elizabeth Garza MDJD Sarah L Martin MD rdquoDrug-Induced BrugadaSyndrome in a Middle-Aged Female Patient Drugs EKG Diagnosis Electrophysiology and SurveillanceRecommendationrdquo American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting San Francisco CA May 21 2019

Delinquency in a group of school children at risk for bipolar disorder D Haque M Escamilla C De VargasPresented at UCLA LA Ca June 2019

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31

Residency ProgramPlease provide information regarding your departmentrsquos residency program ie recent accreditation

number of residents and program updates (if applicable)

24 General Psychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)

8 Internal MedicinePsychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)

3 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellows

1 Geriatric Psychiatry Fellow- newly accredited program

IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department

RecruitmentRetention

Short staffed

Organizational Structure

Financial incentives

Protected time

Gender balance Attrition malefemale ratio 41

Program Coordinator turnover rate

Mentoring

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32

Departmental Organizational

Structure

Chair

Division ChiefsProgram Directors

Clerkship Director

Adm

Organizational Structure Model

Chair

Deputy Chair for Education

Program

Directors

Deputy Chair for Research

Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs

Vicechair

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33

Roles

Deputy Chair for Education

Oversee undergraduate graduate and CME including the development of teachers and educational scholars Monitor quality and safety across the department

Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs

Faculty appointments Faculty Development and Promotion andor Tenure Develop programs in different domains such as research education personal improvement and leadership Support clinical activities by improving the efficiency of operations and in helping to fit clinical programs into those in the rest of the medical center Allocation of space

Deputy Chair for Research

Develop and direct department-wide programs for faculty recruitment development and support of mentors recognition of excellence and funding of pilot grants bridge funding and grants to nurture multi-principal investigator and trans-division or trans-department projects Allocation of space among divisions

Bottom Line

We need more funds

Institutional support

The investments needed to recruit faculty are beyond the capacity of the

department`s operational revenue

Recruiting a leading investigator or one with great potential for

example may require an investment of $ 1 million and sometimes more

Endowments are the departmentrsquos foundational financial capital the

keel that maintains momentum and balance through the headwinds

and rough seas each department will navigate Endowments increase

the departmentrsquos independence in sustaining its core mission

Thus creation of endowments should be a high priority for any

department that plans for the long term and they increase capacity to

recruit the best faculty in a competitive environment

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Upcoming actions

Ongoing educational program policy development

Maintain accreditation compliance related curriculum

review cycle (2019-20 ldquoCurriculum as a Wholerdquo)

Review and advance plans for curriculum renewalrevision

Review proposal to re-direct our MD-MPH affiliation to

TTUHSC GSBS Lubbock

Consider development of an MD-MBA option (potentially

with UTEP)

Links to related information

PLFSOM Committee on Curriculum and Educational Policy main page

httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCdefaultaspx

MD degree program policies

httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCpoliciesaspx

MD degree program information

httpselpasottuhscedusomomeUMEinfoaspx

Course and clerkship syllabi

httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPCcoursereviewaspx

AY2017-18 medical education program evaluation report (e-Raider required)

httpselpasottuhscedusomomeCEPC_documentssecureAY2017-

2018MEPEvaluationAnnualReport-Draft-v2pdf

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19

Departmental Report

Molecular and Translational

Medicine

Laxman Gangwani PhDAssociate Professor Molecular amp

Translational Medicine

9102019

20

Department of Molecular and

Translational Medicine (formerly

Biomedical Sciences) Report

PRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCIL

BY LAXMAN GANGWANI

DATE JULY 15 2019

Department BreakdownPlease provide the total number of faculty members in your department and break down this number by

rank Please list new faculty members that have joined your department within the last six months

Total Number of Faculty

Number of Faculty Associates 1

Number of Instructors 1

Number of Research Assistant Professor 1

Number of Assistant Professors 6

Number of Associate Professors 7

Number of Professors 4

New Faculty

None

9102019

21

LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair

program director clerkship director chiefs etc

Department Chair Dr Peter Rotwein (VP Research Associate

Dean GSBS)

Director Center of Emphasis in Cancer Dr Rajkumar

Lakshmanaswamy (Dean GSBS) Co-Director Dr N Shokar

Director Center of Emphasis in Diabetes and Metabolism Dr

David Cistola

Director Center of Emphasis in Infectious Diseases Vacant

Director Center of Emphasis in Neurosciences Vacant

Chief Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology Vacant

AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional

appointments national appointments etc

Awards

Dr Mingtao Zeng

2018 The American Association of Immunologists (AAI) AAI Travel Grant for the 5th European Congress of Immunology

2018 Defense Techconnect Fall Summit amp Expo (2018) Techconnect Defense Innovation Award

Dr Shrikant Gadad

Eugenia Rosemberg Outstanding Abstract Award Endocrine Society Annual Meeting New Orleans March 23-26 2019

Dr Huanyu Dou

National Innovation Award Techconnect 2019

Honors

Dr Alok Dwivedi

Appointed as associated faculty at the Border Biomedical Research Center (BBRC) University of Texas El Paso (UTEP)

Dr Shrikant Gadad

Session Chair (OR09 Steroid Hormone Biology in Physiology and Disease) Endocrine Society Annual Meeting New Orleans March 23-26 2019

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22

AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional

appointments national appointments etc

NIH or DOD study sections appointments

Dr Guohua Yi

HIV special Emphasis Panel for RFA-AI-18-058 Genetic Engineering Technologies for HIV Cure Research (U19)

Dr Laxman Gangwani

Department of Defense (DOD) Reviewer for Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) 2018 -

NIHCSR Study ldquoProgram Evaluation of NIH Peer Review Processes The Role of Anonymizationrdquo 2019 ndash

Patents filings and publications

Patent Number 9862951 Title RNA Interference-Based Therapeutic against Anthrax Inventors Mingtao Zeng and Maria T AreacutevaloDate of Patent January 9 2018

Cistola D P Patel V (2018) Method and system for non-invasive measurement of metabolic health US Non-Provisional Utility Patent Application No 15911728 filed by Texas Tech University

Cistola D P Robinson M D (2018) Methods and tools for diagnosing insulin resistance and assessing health status using NMR relaxation times for water United States Patent Application Publication US 20180020947 A1 httpspatentsgooglecompatentUS20180020947A1en

AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional

appointments national appointments etc

News and Media Coverage of Research performed at TTUHSC EP

Dr David Cistola

MedPageToday 2 January 2019 Harris Scott Could a New Biomarker Help Predict Type 2 Diabetes -- Early datashow water T2 catches abnormalities before traditional testing but experts are cautiously optimistichttpswwwmedpagetodaycomreading-roomendocrine-societydiabetes77186

KTSM Channel 9 NBC El Paso 14 November 2018 Castillo Susy Research in El Paso aimed at detectingdiabetes earlyhttpswwwktsmcomlifestylehealthresearch-in-el-paso-aimed-at-detecting-diabetes-early1596408236apt_credirect=1

El Paso Inc 29 March 2019 TTUHSC El Paso Tackling diabetes cancer httpwwwelpasoinccomttuhsc-el-paso-tackling-diabetes-cancerarticle_613144fe-526a-11e9-b916-c35b701a5ef9html

Dr Laxman Gangwani

Cure SMA Awards $150000 Grant to Laxman Gangwani PhD Texas Tech University

httpwwwcuresmaorgnewsgangwani-grant-2019html

httpswwweurekalertorgpub_releases2019-05ttuh-gw050119php

httpswwwresearchgatenetscientific-contributions11984383_Laxman_Gangwani

9102019

23

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Peer-reviewed publications 36 (In high-impact journals)

2018 highest impact factor (11561) journal Nucleic Acids Research

Abstracts 43

Presentations (i) Oral 11 (ii) Posters 28

Invited talks 13

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Peer-reviewed publications

Kannan A Bhatia K Branzei D and Gangwani L (2018) Combined deficiency of Senataxin and DNA-PKcscauses DNA damage accumulation and neurodegeneration in spinal muscular atrophy Nucleic Acids Research2018 Vol 46 No 16 8326-8346

Mishra I Jones C Patel V Deodhar S Cistola D P (2018) Early detection of metabolic dysregulation usingwater T2 analysis of biobanked samples Diabetes Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity Targets and Therapy 11 807-818

Patel V Dwivedi A K Deodhar S Mishra I Cistola D P (2018) Aptamer-based search for correlates of plasmaand serum water T2 Implications for early metabolic dysregulation and metabolic syndrome Biomarker Research6(1) 28

Garg H Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz T Joshi A 2018 Recent Advances in Zika Virus Vaccines Viruses Nov 1410 (11) Sundin OH Mendoza-Ladd A Zeng M Diaz-Areacutevalo D Morales E Fagan BMOrdontildeez J McCallum RW Does a

glucose-based hydrogen and methane breath test detect bacterial overgrowth in the jejunum NeurogastroenterolMotil 2018e13350

Zheng Z Diaz-Areacutevalo D Guan H and Mingtao Zeng Noninvasive vaccination against infectious diseases Humanvaccines amp immunotherapeutics 2018 14(7)1717-1733

Preeti Bharaj Chunting Ye Sean Petersen Qianghu Wang Baoli Hu N Manjunath Premlata Shankar Guohua Yi(2018) Gene array analysis of PD-1H overexpressing monocytes reveals a pro-inflammatory profile Heliyone00545

Bencomo-Alvarez AE Rubio AJ Gonzalez MA and Eiring AM Energy metabolism and drug response in myeloidleukaemic stem cells Br J Haematol 2019 In Press

9102019

24

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Peer-reviewed publications Yan D Pomicter AD Tantravahi S Mason CC Senina AV Ahmann JM Wang Q Than H Patel AB Heaton

WL Eiring AM Clair PM Gantz KC Redwine HM Swierczek SI Halverson BJ Baloglu E Shacham S KhorashadJS Kelley TW Salama ME Miles RR Boucher KM Prchal JT OHare T and Deininger MW Nuclear-cytoplasmic transport is a therapeutic target in myelofibrosis Clin Cancer Res 201925(7)2323-2335

Heipertz E Harper J Lopez CA Fikrig E Hughes ME Walker WE Circadian rhythms influence the severity of sepsis in mice via a TLR2-dependent leukocyte-intrinsic mechanism The Journal of Immunology 2018 201193-201

Khatri R Afzal MR Qureshi MA Maud A Huanyu D Jose Rodriguez G Pre-Existing Renal Failure Increases In-Hospital Mortality in Patients with Intracerebral Hemorrhage J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis 2019 Feb28(2)237-242

Zou L Lee SY Wu Q Zhang H Bastian A Orji C Payne G Galvez A Thomas T Zhang Z Dou H Facile Gene Delivery Derived from Branched Low Molecular Weight Polyethylenimine by High Efficient Chemistry J Biomed Nanotechnol 2018 Oct 114(10)1785-1795

Zhang C Brandon NR Koper K Tang P Xu Y Dou H Invasion of Peripheral Immune Cells into Brain Parenchyma after Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation Aging Dis 2018 Jun 19(3)412-425

Loza O Hernandez P Calderoacuten-Mora J Laks S Leiner M Reddy S Lara P amp Granados H (2018) Developing Trans-affirming health services in an underserved area An intersectional approach Transgender Health 3(1) 127-135

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Byrd T Calderoacuten-Mora J Salaiz R amp Shokar N (2019) Barriers and facilitators to colorectal cancer screening within a Hispanic population Hispanic Health Care International 17(1) 23-29 doi 1011771540415318818982

Haut SR Lipton RB Cornes S Dwivedi AK Wasson R Cotton S Strawn JR Privitera M (2018) Behavioral interventions as a treatment for epilepsy A multicenter randomized controlled trial Neurology 90(11) e963-e970 PMID 29444968

Jessica Bernica Sherif Elhanafi Neeharika Kalakota Yi Jia Christopher Dodoo Alok Dwivedi Robert J Sealock Kalpesh Patel Isaac Raijman Marc J Zuckerman Mohamed O Othman (2018) Cholangioscopy is safe and feasible in elderly patients Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology 16(8) 1293-1299

Benjamin D Wissel Alok K Dwivedi Danielle Chin Aristide Merola Cara Jacob Andrew P Duker Jennifer E Vaughan Lilia Lovera Kathrin LaFaver Ariel Levy Anthony E Lang Francesca Morgante Melissa J Nirenberg Christopher Stephen Nutan Sharma Alberto Romagnolo Leonardo Lopiano Bettina Balint Xin X Yu Kailash P Bhatia Alberto J Espay Functional neurological disorders in Parkinson disease Accepted for publication in Journal

of Neurology Neurosurgery amp Psychiatry 89(6)566-571

Danny J Avalos Marc J Zuckerman Alok Dwivedi Christopher Dodoo Jinendra Satiya Fernando J Castro(2018) Differences in prevalence of large polyps between Hispanic Americans from Mexican-and Non-Mexican-predominant states Digestive diseases and sciences PMID 30276570

Zeina Nahleh Salman Otoukesh Hamid Reza Mirshahidi Anthony Loc Nguyen Gayathri Nagaraj Nabeel Badri Gehan Botrus Nabih Diab Andres Alvarado Luis A Sanchez Alok K Dwivedi (2018) Disparities in breast cancer a multi-institutional comparative analysis focusing on American Hispanics Cancer Medicine (In press 05072018)

9102019

25

Scholarly Activity Danny J Avalos Antonio Mendoza-Ladd Marc J Zuckerman Mohammad Bashashati Andres Alvarado Alok

Dwivedi Oriana M Damas (2018) Hispanics and Non-Hispanic Whites in the US have a Similar InflammatoryBowel Disease Phenotype A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis Digestive Diseases and Sciences 63(6)1558-1571

Aleli Campbell Rosalinda Heydarian Cecilia Ochoa Alok Kumar Dwivedi Zeina A Nahleh(2018) Single arm phaseII study of oral vitamin B12 for the treatment of musculoskeletal symptoms associated with aromatase inhibitors inwomen with early stage breast cancer The breast journal 24(3)260-268

Shaimaa Elzamly Nabeel Badri Osvaldo Padilla Alok Kumar Dwivedi Luis A Alvarado Matthew Hamilton NabihDiab Crosby Rock Ahmed Elfar Marwa Teleb Luis Sanchez Zeina Nahleh (2018) Epithelial-mesenchymaltransition markers in breast cancer and pathological responseafter neoadjuvant chemotherapy Breast Cancer

(Auckl) 2018 Aug 1121178223418788074

Jennifer C Molokwu Eribeth Penaranda Alok Dwivedi Indika Mallawaarachchi Navkiran Shokar (2018) Effect ofEducational Intervention on Self-Sampling Acceptability and Follow-Up Paps in Border Dwelling Hispanic FemalesJournal of Lower Genital Tract Disease

Ritika Suri Federico Rodriguez-Porcel Kelly Donohue Erin Jesse Lilia Lovera Alok Kumar Dwivedi Alberto JEspay (2018) Post-Stroke Movement Disorders The Clinical Neuroanatomic and Demographic Portrait of 284Published Cases Accepted for publication in Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases (In press05212018)

Zeina Nahleh Gehan Botrus Alok Dwivedi Nabeel Badri Salman Otoukesh Nabih Diab Sandip BiswasMichael Jennings Shaimaa Elzamly(2018) Clinico-pathologic disparities of breast cancer in HispanicLatina womenBreast disease 1-8

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Robert Gonzalez Trisha Suppes Jamie Zeitzer Colleen McClung Carol Tamminga Mauricio Tohen Angelica Forero Alok DwivediAndres Alvarado (2018) The association between mood state and chronobiological characteristics in bipolar I disorder a naturalisticvariable cluster analysis-based study International Journal of Bipolar Disorders 6(1)5Mohamed Teleb Aaron Shanker Alok Kumar Dwivedi Debabrata Mukherjee (2018) Effect of exercise on left ventricular mass index byechocardiography in mild and moderate hypertension a meta-analysis Res Cardiovasc Med 6(4)50-6Garnica O Das K Devasundaram S and Dhandayuthapani S Enhanced delivery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigens to antigenpresenting cells using RVG peptide Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Das K Garnica O and Dhandayuthapani S Utility of an oxidative stress response system for the expression of recombinant proteinsin mycobacteria and for the delivery of M tuberculosis antigens to the phagosomal compartments Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Palanichamy K Joshi A Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz T Fernando B Milan S Schiro F Naeem Y Garg H Braunschweig A 2019 Anti-ZikaActivity of a Library of Synthetic Carbohydrate Receptors Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 6284110-4119Anjali Joshi Erin B Punke Tugba Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz Diego P Peralta and Himanshu Garg 2019 TLR9 polymorphism correlates withimmune activation CD4 decline and plasma IP10 levels in HIV patients BMC Infect Dis 19 56Vargas-Medrano J Yang B Garza N T Segura-Ulate I and Perez R G (2018) Up-regulation of protective neuronal MicroRNAs byFTY720 and novel FTY720-derivatives Neuroscience letters 690 178-180Vidal-Martinez G Yang B Vargas-Medrano J and Perez R G (2018) Could alpha-Synuclein Modulation of Insulin and DopamineIdentify a Novel Link Between Parkinsons Disease and Diabetes as Well as Potential Therapies Frontiers in molecular

neuroscience 11 465

9102019

26

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Gil-Tommee C Vidal-Martinez G Annette Reyes C Vargas-Medrano J Herrera G V Martin S M Chaparro S A andPerez R G (2019) Parkinsonian GM2 synthase knockout mice lacking mature gangliosides develop urinary dysfunction andneurogenic bladder Experimental neurology 311265-273Vidal-Martinez G Najera K Miranda JD Gil-Tommee C Yang B Vargas-Medrano J Diaz-Pacheco V Barragan J ChaparroS Vargas-Medrano J Chinnasamy R Arterburn JB Perez RG FTY720 improves behavior increases Brain Derived NeurotrophicFactor and reduces α-synuclein pathology in parkinsonian GM2+minus

mice Neuroscience httpsdoiorg101016jneuroscience201905029Tasnim N Thakur V Chattopadhyay M Joddar B (2018) The efficacy of Graphene-foams towards the adhesion proliferationand expression of neuronal-phenotype by dopaminergic neurons differentiated from mesenchymal stem cells Stem cell

international Jun 3 20183410168 doi 10115520183410168Anil Kumar S Allen SC Tasnim N Akter T Park S Kumar A Chattopadhyay M Ito Y Suggs LJ Joddar B (2019) The applicabilityof furfuryl-gelatin as a novel bioink for tissue engineering applications J Biomed Mater Res B Appl Biomater 2019 107(2)314-323 doi 101002jbmb34123 Epub 2018 Apr 15Thakur V Chattopadhyay M (2018) Early urinary markers for diabetic and other kidney diseases Current drug targets 2018 Mar19Joddar B Tasnim N Thakur V Kumar A Mccallum R Chattopadhyay M (2018) Delivery of mesenchymal stem cells fromgelatin-alginate hydrogels to stomach lumen for treatment of gastroparesis Bioengineering 2018 5(1)Camacho CV Choudhari R Gadad SS (2018) Long noncoding RNAs and cancer an overview Steroids 13393-95

IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department

Large net loss (9) of MTM faculty members over the past 5 years

Vacant Director positions (i) Center for Neuroscience (ii) Center for InfectiousDiseases and (iii) Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology

No steps have been taken to fill directors positions for more than 2 years

Neurosciences Center at the verge of collapse Only one faculty will be left at theend of this fiscal year

The size of Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology is shrinking

Lack of communication regarding vision and strategic plan for growing department

No faculty salary raises for the past 3 years

Serious concerns about recruitment retention and tenure and promotion decisionsmade in the department Faculty morale is extremely low

Lack of functional research core facility

Gradual elimination of service contracts of equipment essential for research trainingand education of graduate and medical students

A plethora of other issues with the department administration

9102019

27

Questions

Departmental Report

Psychiatry

Ricardo Salazar MDAssociate Professor Psychiatry

9102019

28

Department ReportPsychiatryPRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCIL

BY RICARDO SALAZAR MD

DATE MONDAY JULY 15 2019

Department BreakdownPlease provide the total number of faculty members in your department and break down this number by

rank Please list new faculty members that have joined your department within the last six months

Total Number of Faculty 12

Number of Instructors 1

Number of Assistant Professors 8

Number of Associate Professors 2

Number of Professors 2

New Faculty Melanie Longhurst MD Instructor

9102019

29

LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair

program director clerkship director chiefs etc

Department Chair ndash Peter M Thompson MD MS

Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Sarah L Martin MD

Combined IMPsych Residency Program Director ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD

Psychiatry Clerkship Director ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD

Child amp Adolescent Fellowship Program Director ndash Cecilia De Vargas MD

Chief Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry ndash Sarah L Martin MD

Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Program Directorndash Ricardo Salazar MD

Chief Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences ndash Ricardo Salazar MD

Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Transmountain ndash Moataz Ragheb MD

AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in your department including awards honors regional

appointments national appointments etc

El Paso Behavioral Health Consortium ndash Board Member ndash Peter M Thompson MD

714 (50) of our graduating medical students this year choose and matched our resident training programs here at Paul L FosterSchool of Medicine Department of Psychiatry (Historical record) ndash Kudos for our Department Faculty

In appreciation for exceptional contributions to the 30th volume of the J Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences ndash Author contributions and review of 271 manuscripts submitted to the journal between September 2017 and August 2018 ndash Ricardo Salazar MD ndash Young Investigator Award Committee Member and Program Committee Member-Abstracts Sub-Committee Member of theAmerican Neuropsychiatric Association (ANPA)

Initial Accreditation with commendation and no citations from ACGME for our first Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Training Program for West Texas ndash Ricardo Salazar MD

Leadership in Education and Development Certificate Program (LEAD) Fellow -1-year program accredited from the Association ofAmerican Medical Colleges (AAMC) Silvina Tonarelli MD amp Ricardo Salazar MD (Selected Award)

Fully operating Southwest Brain Bank A Brain Tissue Repository for Research in Mental Illness ndashPeter M Thompson MD

Texas State Psychiatric Physicians Public Mental Health Services Committee ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD

Texas Health and Human Services Commission Behavioral Health Advisory Committee ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP

Fellow American College of Physicians ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP FACP

9102019

30

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Abstracts 31

Publications 5 (peer-review journals)

Presentations 17 ndash National (7) and International (6)

Invited Speaker 21 (including faculty residents fellows) ndash Local amp National

Book Chapters NA

Grants McKee Foundation Award ndash our Chair - Thompson

Intramural Grants Seed Grant 1 SARP Educational Grant 2 - Salazar

President`s Collaborative Research Initiative ndashMarch 2018 - Tonarelli

Scholarly Activity

Child and Adolescent Fellowship Presentations

INTERNATIONAL

- Curanderos and Limpias Cultural psychiatry

Poster presented at 6th Annual Scientific conference of the European Association of PsychosomaticMedicine Verona Italy Drs Garza Meissner De Vargas Mehta June 2018

-Case presentation 0f 49XXXXY Same conference same authors same city

-Resilience etiology protective and risk factors presentation C De Vargas by invitation Annual WorldPediatric summit Madrid June 2018

-Parents and their Children Fantastic journey Same conference on June 2019 Berlin Germany

NATIONAL

-Development of Psychopathology in children at risk for Bipolar Disorders Drs Escamilla Peter Sangra C DeVargas S Martin C Alvarado Andrea Rios (Poster) American Academy of Child and Adolescent PsychiatryAnnual Conference Seattle WA October 2018

Frank William Meissner MD Cynthia Elizabeth Garza MDJD Sarah L Martin MD rdquoDrug-Induced BrugadaSyndrome in a Middle-Aged Female Patient Drugs EKG Diagnosis Electrophysiology and SurveillanceRecommendationrdquo American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting San Francisco CA May 21 2019

Delinquency in a group of school children at risk for bipolar disorder D Haque M Escamilla C De VargasPresented at UCLA LA Ca June 2019

9102019

31

Residency ProgramPlease provide information regarding your departmentrsquos residency program ie recent accreditation

number of residents and program updates (if applicable)

24 General Psychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)

8 Internal MedicinePsychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)

3 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellows

1 Geriatric Psychiatry Fellow- newly accredited program

IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department

RecruitmentRetention

Short staffed

Organizational Structure

Financial incentives

Protected time

Gender balance Attrition malefemale ratio 41

Program Coordinator turnover rate

Mentoring

9102019

32

Departmental Organizational

Structure

Chair

Division ChiefsProgram Directors

Clerkship Director

Adm

Organizational Structure Model

Chair

Deputy Chair for Education

Program

Directors

Deputy Chair for Research

Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs

Vicechair

9102019

33

Roles

Deputy Chair for Education

Oversee undergraduate graduate and CME including the development of teachers and educational scholars Monitor quality and safety across the department

Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs

Faculty appointments Faculty Development and Promotion andor Tenure Develop programs in different domains such as research education personal improvement and leadership Support clinical activities by improving the efficiency of operations and in helping to fit clinical programs into those in the rest of the medical center Allocation of space

Deputy Chair for Research

Develop and direct department-wide programs for faculty recruitment development and support of mentors recognition of excellence and funding of pilot grants bridge funding and grants to nurture multi-principal investigator and trans-division or trans-department projects Allocation of space among divisions

Bottom Line

We need more funds

Institutional support

The investments needed to recruit faculty are beyond the capacity of the

department`s operational revenue

Recruiting a leading investigator or one with great potential for

example may require an investment of $ 1 million and sometimes more

Endowments are the departmentrsquos foundational financial capital the

keel that maintains momentum and balance through the headwinds

and rough seas each department will navigate Endowments increase

the departmentrsquos independence in sustaining its core mission

Thus creation of endowments should be a high priority for any

department that plans for the long term and they increase capacity to

recruit the best faculty in a competitive environment

Page 18: FACULTY COUNCIL MEETING · 7/15/2019  · FACULTY COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES Monday, July 15, 2019 Noon – 1:00 p.m. MEB, Room 1120 and WebEx TTUHSC El Paso PLFSOM 7/15/2019 FACULTY

9102019

19

Departmental Report

Molecular and Translational

Medicine

Laxman Gangwani PhDAssociate Professor Molecular amp

Translational Medicine

9102019

20

Department of Molecular and

Translational Medicine (formerly

Biomedical Sciences) Report

PRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCIL

BY LAXMAN GANGWANI

DATE JULY 15 2019

Department BreakdownPlease provide the total number of faculty members in your department and break down this number by

rank Please list new faculty members that have joined your department within the last six months

Total Number of Faculty

Number of Faculty Associates 1

Number of Instructors 1

Number of Research Assistant Professor 1

Number of Assistant Professors 6

Number of Associate Professors 7

Number of Professors 4

New Faculty

None

9102019

21

LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair

program director clerkship director chiefs etc

Department Chair Dr Peter Rotwein (VP Research Associate

Dean GSBS)

Director Center of Emphasis in Cancer Dr Rajkumar

Lakshmanaswamy (Dean GSBS) Co-Director Dr N Shokar

Director Center of Emphasis in Diabetes and Metabolism Dr

David Cistola

Director Center of Emphasis in Infectious Diseases Vacant

Director Center of Emphasis in Neurosciences Vacant

Chief Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology Vacant

AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional

appointments national appointments etc

Awards

Dr Mingtao Zeng

2018 The American Association of Immunologists (AAI) AAI Travel Grant for the 5th European Congress of Immunology

2018 Defense Techconnect Fall Summit amp Expo (2018) Techconnect Defense Innovation Award

Dr Shrikant Gadad

Eugenia Rosemberg Outstanding Abstract Award Endocrine Society Annual Meeting New Orleans March 23-26 2019

Dr Huanyu Dou

National Innovation Award Techconnect 2019

Honors

Dr Alok Dwivedi

Appointed as associated faculty at the Border Biomedical Research Center (BBRC) University of Texas El Paso (UTEP)

Dr Shrikant Gadad

Session Chair (OR09 Steroid Hormone Biology in Physiology and Disease) Endocrine Society Annual Meeting New Orleans March 23-26 2019

9102019

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AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional

appointments national appointments etc

NIH or DOD study sections appointments

Dr Guohua Yi

HIV special Emphasis Panel for RFA-AI-18-058 Genetic Engineering Technologies for HIV Cure Research (U19)

Dr Laxman Gangwani

Department of Defense (DOD) Reviewer for Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) 2018 -

NIHCSR Study ldquoProgram Evaluation of NIH Peer Review Processes The Role of Anonymizationrdquo 2019 ndash

Patents filings and publications

Patent Number 9862951 Title RNA Interference-Based Therapeutic against Anthrax Inventors Mingtao Zeng and Maria T AreacutevaloDate of Patent January 9 2018

Cistola D P Patel V (2018) Method and system for non-invasive measurement of metabolic health US Non-Provisional Utility Patent Application No 15911728 filed by Texas Tech University

Cistola D P Robinson M D (2018) Methods and tools for diagnosing insulin resistance and assessing health status using NMR relaxation times for water United States Patent Application Publication US 20180020947 A1 httpspatentsgooglecompatentUS20180020947A1en

AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional

appointments national appointments etc

News and Media Coverage of Research performed at TTUHSC EP

Dr David Cistola

MedPageToday 2 January 2019 Harris Scott Could a New Biomarker Help Predict Type 2 Diabetes -- Early datashow water T2 catches abnormalities before traditional testing but experts are cautiously optimistichttpswwwmedpagetodaycomreading-roomendocrine-societydiabetes77186

KTSM Channel 9 NBC El Paso 14 November 2018 Castillo Susy Research in El Paso aimed at detectingdiabetes earlyhttpswwwktsmcomlifestylehealthresearch-in-el-paso-aimed-at-detecting-diabetes-early1596408236apt_credirect=1

El Paso Inc 29 March 2019 TTUHSC El Paso Tackling diabetes cancer httpwwwelpasoinccomttuhsc-el-paso-tackling-diabetes-cancerarticle_613144fe-526a-11e9-b916-c35b701a5ef9html

Dr Laxman Gangwani

Cure SMA Awards $150000 Grant to Laxman Gangwani PhD Texas Tech University

httpwwwcuresmaorgnewsgangwani-grant-2019html

httpswwweurekalertorgpub_releases2019-05ttuh-gw050119php

httpswwwresearchgatenetscientific-contributions11984383_Laxman_Gangwani

9102019

23

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Peer-reviewed publications 36 (In high-impact journals)

2018 highest impact factor (11561) journal Nucleic Acids Research

Abstracts 43

Presentations (i) Oral 11 (ii) Posters 28

Invited talks 13

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Peer-reviewed publications

Kannan A Bhatia K Branzei D and Gangwani L (2018) Combined deficiency of Senataxin and DNA-PKcscauses DNA damage accumulation and neurodegeneration in spinal muscular atrophy Nucleic Acids Research2018 Vol 46 No 16 8326-8346

Mishra I Jones C Patel V Deodhar S Cistola D P (2018) Early detection of metabolic dysregulation usingwater T2 analysis of biobanked samples Diabetes Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity Targets and Therapy 11 807-818

Patel V Dwivedi A K Deodhar S Mishra I Cistola D P (2018) Aptamer-based search for correlates of plasmaand serum water T2 Implications for early metabolic dysregulation and metabolic syndrome Biomarker Research6(1) 28

Garg H Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz T Joshi A 2018 Recent Advances in Zika Virus Vaccines Viruses Nov 1410 (11) Sundin OH Mendoza-Ladd A Zeng M Diaz-Areacutevalo D Morales E Fagan BMOrdontildeez J McCallum RW Does a

glucose-based hydrogen and methane breath test detect bacterial overgrowth in the jejunum NeurogastroenterolMotil 2018e13350

Zheng Z Diaz-Areacutevalo D Guan H and Mingtao Zeng Noninvasive vaccination against infectious diseases Humanvaccines amp immunotherapeutics 2018 14(7)1717-1733

Preeti Bharaj Chunting Ye Sean Petersen Qianghu Wang Baoli Hu N Manjunath Premlata Shankar Guohua Yi(2018) Gene array analysis of PD-1H overexpressing monocytes reveals a pro-inflammatory profile Heliyone00545

Bencomo-Alvarez AE Rubio AJ Gonzalez MA and Eiring AM Energy metabolism and drug response in myeloidleukaemic stem cells Br J Haematol 2019 In Press

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24

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Peer-reviewed publications Yan D Pomicter AD Tantravahi S Mason CC Senina AV Ahmann JM Wang Q Than H Patel AB Heaton

WL Eiring AM Clair PM Gantz KC Redwine HM Swierczek SI Halverson BJ Baloglu E Shacham S KhorashadJS Kelley TW Salama ME Miles RR Boucher KM Prchal JT OHare T and Deininger MW Nuclear-cytoplasmic transport is a therapeutic target in myelofibrosis Clin Cancer Res 201925(7)2323-2335

Heipertz E Harper J Lopez CA Fikrig E Hughes ME Walker WE Circadian rhythms influence the severity of sepsis in mice via a TLR2-dependent leukocyte-intrinsic mechanism The Journal of Immunology 2018 201193-201

Khatri R Afzal MR Qureshi MA Maud A Huanyu D Jose Rodriguez G Pre-Existing Renal Failure Increases In-Hospital Mortality in Patients with Intracerebral Hemorrhage J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis 2019 Feb28(2)237-242

Zou L Lee SY Wu Q Zhang H Bastian A Orji C Payne G Galvez A Thomas T Zhang Z Dou H Facile Gene Delivery Derived from Branched Low Molecular Weight Polyethylenimine by High Efficient Chemistry J Biomed Nanotechnol 2018 Oct 114(10)1785-1795

Zhang C Brandon NR Koper K Tang P Xu Y Dou H Invasion of Peripheral Immune Cells into Brain Parenchyma after Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation Aging Dis 2018 Jun 19(3)412-425

Loza O Hernandez P Calderoacuten-Mora J Laks S Leiner M Reddy S Lara P amp Granados H (2018) Developing Trans-affirming health services in an underserved area An intersectional approach Transgender Health 3(1) 127-135

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Byrd T Calderoacuten-Mora J Salaiz R amp Shokar N (2019) Barriers and facilitators to colorectal cancer screening within a Hispanic population Hispanic Health Care International 17(1) 23-29 doi 1011771540415318818982

Haut SR Lipton RB Cornes S Dwivedi AK Wasson R Cotton S Strawn JR Privitera M (2018) Behavioral interventions as a treatment for epilepsy A multicenter randomized controlled trial Neurology 90(11) e963-e970 PMID 29444968

Jessica Bernica Sherif Elhanafi Neeharika Kalakota Yi Jia Christopher Dodoo Alok Dwivedi Robert J Sealock Kalpesh Patel Isaac Raijman Marc J Zuckerman Mohamed O Othman (2018) Cholangioscopy is safe and feasible in elderly patients Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology 16(8) 1293-1299

Benjamin D Wissel Alok K Dwivedi Danielle Chin Aristide Merola Cara Jacob Andrew P Duker Jennifer E Vaughan Lilia Lovera Kathrin LaFaver Ariel Levy Anthony E Lang Francesca Morgante Melissa J Nirenberg Christopher Stephen Nutan Sharma Alberto Romagnolo Leonardo Lopiano Bettina Balint Xin X Yu Kailash P Bhatia Alberto J Espay Functional neurological disorders in Parkinson disease Accepted for publication in Journal

of Neurology Neurosurgery amp Psychiatry 89(6)566-571

Danny J Avalos Marc J Zuckerman Alok Dwivedi Christopher Dodoo Jinendra Satiya Fernando J Castro(2018) Differences in prevalence of large polyps between Hispanic Americans from Mexican-and Non-Mexican-predominant states Digestive diseases and sciences PMID 30276570

Zeina Nahleh Salman Otoukesh Hamid Reza Mirshahidi Anthony Loc Nguyen Gayathri Nagaraj Nabeel Badri Gehan Botrus Nabih Diab Andres Alvarado Luis A Sanchez Alok K Dwivedi (2018) Disparities in breast cancer a multi-institutional comparative analysis focusing on American Hispanics Cancer Medicine (In press 05072018)

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25

Scholarly Activity Danny J Avalos Antonio Mendoza-Ladd Marc J Zuckerman Mohammad Bashashati Andres Alvarado Alok

Dwivedi Oriana M Damas (2018) Hispanics and Non-Hispanic Whites in the US have a Similar InflammatoryBowel Disease Phenotype A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis Digestive Diseases and Sciences 63(6)1558-1571

Aleli Campbell Rosalinda Heydarian Cecilia Ochoa Alok Kumar Dwivedi Zeina A Nahleh(2018) Single arm phaseII study of oral vitamin B12 for the treatment of musculoskeletal symptoms associated with aromatase inhibitors inwomen with early stage breast cancer The breast journal 24(3)260-268

Shaimaa Elzamly Nabeel Badri Osvaldo Padilla Alok Kumar Dwivedi Luis A Alvarado Matthew Hamilton NabihDiab Crosby Rock Ahmed Elfar Marwa Teleb Luis Sanchez Zeina Nahleh (2018) Epithelial-mesenchymaltransition markers in breast cancer and pathological responseafter neoadjuvant chemotherapy Breast Cancer

(Auckl) 2018 Aug 1121178223418788074

Jennifer C Molokwu Eribeth Penaranda Alok Dwivedi Indika Mallawaarachchi Navkiran Shokar (2018) Effect ofEducational Intervention on Self-Sampling Acceptability and Follow-Up Paps in Border Dwelling Hispanic FemalesJournal of Lower Genital Tract Disease

Ritika Suri Federico Rodriguez-Porcel Kelly Donohue Erin Jesse Lilia Lovera Alok Kumar Dwivedi Alberto JEspay (2018) Post-Stroke Movement Disorders The Clinical Neuroanatomic and Demographic Portrait of 284Published Cases Accepted for publication in Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases (In press05212018)

Zeina Nahleh Gehan Botrus Alok Dwivedi Nabeel Badri Salman Otoukesh Nabih Diab Sandip BiswasMichael Jennings Shaimaa Elzamly(2018) Clinico-pathologic disparities of breast cancer in HispanicLatina womenBreast disease 1-8

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Robert Gonzalez Trisha Suppes Jamie Zeitzer Colleen McClung Carol Tamminga Mauricio Tohen Angelica Forero Alok DwivediAndres Alvarado (2018) The association between mood state and chronobiological characteristics in bipolar I disorder a naturalisticvariable cluster analysis-based study International Journal of Bipolar Disorders 6(1)5Mohamed Teleb Aaron Shanker Alok Kumar Dwivedi Debabrata Mukherjee (2018) Effect of exercise on left ventricular mass index byechocardiography in mild and moderate hypertension a meta-analysis Res Cardiovasc Med 6(4)50-6Garnica O Das K Devasundaram S and Dhandayuthapani S Enhanced delivery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigens to antigenpresenting cells using RVG peptide Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Das K Garnica O and Dhandayuthapani S Utility of an oxidative stress response system for the expression of recombinant proteinsin mycobacteria and for the delivery of M tuberculosis antigens to the phagosomal compartments Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Palanichamy K Joshi A Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz T Fernando B Milan S Schiro F Naeem Y Garg H Braunschweig A 2019 Anti-ZikaActivity of a Library of Synthetic Carbohydrate Receptors Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 6284110-4119Anjali Joshi Erin B Punke Tugba Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz Diego P Peralta and Himanshu Garg 2019 TLR9 polymorphism correlates withimmune activation CD4 decline and plasma IP10 levels in HIV patients BMC Infect Dis 19 56Vargas-Medrano J Yang B Garza N T Segura-Ulate I and Perez R G (2018) Up-regulation of protective neuronal MicroRNAs byFTY720 and novel FTY720-derivatives Neuroscience letters 690 178-180Vidal-Martinez G Yang B Vargas-Medrano J and Perez R G (2018) Could alpha-Synuclein Modulation of Insulin and DopamineIdentify a Novel Link Between Parkinsons Disease and Diabetes as Well as Potential Therapies Frontiers in molecular

neuroscience 11 465

9102019

26

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Gil-Tommee C Vidal-Martinez G Annette Reyes C Vargas-Medrano J Herrera G V Martin S M Chaparro S A andPerez R G (2019) Parkinsonian GM2 synthase knockout mice lacking mature gangliosides develop urinary dysfunction andneurogenic bladder Experimental neurology 311265-273Vidal-Martinez G Najera K Miranda JD Gil-Tommee C Yang B Vargas-Medrano J Diaz-Pacheco V Barragan J ChaparroS Vargas-Medrano J Chinnasamy R Arterburn JB Perez RG FTY720 improves behavior increases Brain Derived NeurotrophicFactor and reduces α-synuclein pathology in parkinsonian GM2+minus

mice Neuroscience httpsdoiorg101016jneuroscience201905029Tasnim N Thakur V Chattopadhyay M Joddar B (2018) The efficacy of Graphene-foams towards the adhesion proliferationand expression of neuronal-phenotype by dopaminergic neurons differentiated from mesenchymal stem cells Stem cell

international Jun 3 20183410168 doi 10115520183410168Anil Kumar S Allen SC Tasnim N Akter T Park S Kumar A Chattopadhyay M Ito Y Suggs LJ Joddar B (2019) The applicabilityof furfuryl-gelatin as a novel bioink for tissue engineering applications J Biomed Mater Res B Appl Biomater 2019 107(2)314-323 doi 101002jbmb34123 Epub 2018 Apr 15Thakur V Chattopadhyay M (2018) Early urinary markers for diabetic and other kidney diseases Current drug targets 2018 Mar19Joddar B Tasnim N Thakur V Kumar A Mccallum R Chattopadhyay M (2018) Delivery of mesenchymal stem cells fromgelatin-alginate hydrogels to stomach lumen for treatment of gastroparesis Bioengineering 2018 5(1)Camacho CV Choudhari R Gadad SS (2018) Long noncoding RNAs and cancer an overview Steroids 13393-95

IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department

Large net loss (9) of MTM faculty members over the past 5 years

Vacant Director positions (i) Center for Neuroscience (ii) Center for InfectiousDiseases and (iii) Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology

No steps have been taken to fill directors positions for more than 2 years

Neurosciences Center at the verge of collapse Only one faculty will be left at theend of this fiscal year

The size of Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology is shrinking

Lack of communication regarding vision and strategic plan for growing department

No faculty salary raises for the past 3 years

Serious concerns about recruitment retention and tenure and promotion decisionsmade in the department Faculty morale is extremely low

Lack of functional research core facility

Gradual elimination of service contracts of equipment essential for research trainingand education of graduate and medical students

A plethora of other issues with the department administration

9102019

27

Questions

Departmental Report

Psychiatry

Ricardo Salazar MDAssociate Professor Psychiatry

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Department ReportPsychiatryPRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCIL

BY RICARDO SALAZAR MD

DATE MONDAY JULY 15 2019

Department BreakdownPlease provide the total number of faculty members in your department and break down this number by

rank Please list new faculty members that have joined your department within the last six months

Total Number of Faculty 12

Number of Instructors 1

Number of Assistant Professors 8

Number of Associate Professors 2

Number of Professors 2

New Faculty Melanie Longhurst MD Instructor

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29

LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair

program director clerkship director chiefs etc

Department Chair ndash Peter M Thompson MD MS

Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Sarah L Martin MD

Combined IMPsych Residency Program Director ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD

Psychiatry Clerkship Director ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD

Child amp Adolescent Fellowship Program Director ndash Cecilia De Vargas MD

Chief Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry ndash Sarah L Martin MD

Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Program Directorndash Ricardo Salazar MD

Chief Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences ndash Ricardo Salazar MD

Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Transmountain ndash Moataz Ragheb MD

AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in your department including awards honors regional

appointments national appointments etc

El Paso Behavioral Health Consortium ndash Board Member ndash Peter M Thompson MD

714 (50) of our graduating medical students this year choose and matched our resident training programs here at Paul L FosterSchool of Medicine Department of Psychiatry (Historical record) ndash Kudos for our Department Faculty

In appreciation for exceptional contributions to the 30th volume of the J Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences ndash Author contributions and review of 271 manuscripts submitted to the journal between September 2017 and August 2018 ndash Ricardo Salazar MD ndash Young Investigator Award Committee Member and Program Committee Member-Abstracts Sub-Committee Member of theAmerican Neuropsychiatric Association (ANPA)

Initial Accreditation with commendation and no citations from ACGME for our first Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Training Program for West Texas ndash Ricardo Salazar MD

Leadership in Education and Development Certificate Program (LEAD) Fellow -1-year program accredited from the Association ofAmerican Medical Colleges (AAMC) Silvina Tonarelli MD amp Ricardo Salazar MD (Selected Award)

Fully operating Southwest Brain Bank A Brain Tissue Repository for Research in Mental Illness ndashPeter M Thompson MD

Texas State Psychiatric Physicians Public Mental Health Services Committee ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD

Texas Health and Human Services Commission Behavioral Health Advisory Committee ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP

Fellow American College of Physicians ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP FACP

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Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Abstracts 31

Publications 5 (peer-review journals)

Presentations 17 ndash National (7) and International (6)

Invited Speaker 21 (including faculty residents fellows) ndash Local amp National

Book Chapters NA

Grants McKee Foundation Award ndash our Chair - Thompson

Intramural Grants Seed Grant 1 SARP Educational Grant 2 - Salazar

President`s Collaborative Research Initiative ndashMarch 2018 - Tonarelli

Scholarly Activity

Child and Adolescent Fellowship Presentations

INTERNATIONAL

- Curanderos and Limpias Cultural psychiatry

Poster presented at 6th Annual Scientific conference of the European Association of PsychosomaticMedicine Verona Italy Drs Garza Meissner De Vargas Mehta June 2018

-Case presentation 0f 49XXXXY Same conference same authors same city

-Resilience etiology protective and risk factors presentation C De Vargas by invitation Annual WorldPediatric summit Madrid June 2018

-Parents and their Children Fantastic journey Same conference on June 2019 Berlin Germany

NATIONAL

-Development of Psychopathology in children at risk for Bipolar Disorders Drs Escamilla Peter Sangra C DeVargas S Martin C Alvarado Andrea Rios (Poster) American Academy of Child and Adolescent PsychiatryAnnual Conference Seattle WA October 2018

Frank William Meissner MD Cynthia Elizabeth Garza MDJD Sarah L Martin MD rdquoDrug-Induced BrugadaSyndrome in a Middle-Aged Female Patient Drugs EKG Diagnosis Electrophysiology and SurveillanceRecommendationrdquo American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting San Francisco CA May 21 2019

Delinquency in a group of school children at risk for bipolar disorder D Haque M Escamilla C De VargasPresented at UCLA LA Ca June 2019

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Residency ProgramPlease provide information regarding your departmentrsquos residency program ie recent accreditation

number of residents and program updates (if applicable)

24 General Psychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)

8 Internal MedicinePsychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)

3 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellows

1 Geriatric Psychiatry Fellow- newly accredited program

IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department

RecruitmentRetention

Short staffed

Organizational Structure

Financial incentives

Protected time

Gender balance Attrition malefemale ratio 41

Program Coordinator turnover rate

Mentoring

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Departmental Organizational

Structure

Chair

Division ChiefsProgram Directors

Clerkship Director

Adm

Organizational Structure Model

Chair

Deputy Chair for Education

Program

Directors

Deputy Chair for Research

Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs

Vicechair

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Roles

Deputy Chair for Education

Oversee undergraduate graduate and CME including the development of teachers and educational scholars Monitor quality and safety across the department

Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs

Faculty appointments Faculty Development and Promotion andor Tenure Develop programs in different domains such as research education personal improvement and leadership Support clinical activities by improving the efficiency of operations and in helping to fit clinical programs into those in the rest of the medical center Allocation of space

Deputy Chair for Research

Develop and direct department-wide programs for faculty recruitment development and support of mentors recognition of excellence and funding of pilot grants bridge funding and grants to nurture multi-principal investigator and trans-division or trans-department projects Allocation of space among divisions

Bottom Line

We need more funds

Institutional support

The investments needed to recruit faculty are beyond the capacity of the

department`s operational revenue

Recruiting a leading investigator or one with great potential for

example may require an investment of $ 1 million and sometimes more

Endowments are the departmentrsquos foundational financial capital the

keel that maintains momentum and balance through the headwinds

and rough seas each department will navigate Endowments increase

the departmentrsquos independence in sustaining its core mission

Thus creation of endowments should be a high priority for any

department that plans for the long term and they increase capacity to

recruit the best faculty in a competitive environment

Page 19: FACULTY COUNCIL MEETING · 7/15/2019  · FACULTY COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES Monday, July 15, 2019 Noon – 1:00 p.m. MEB, Room 1120 and WebEx TTUHSC El Paso PLFSOM 7/15/2019 FACULTY

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Department of Molecular and

Translational Medicine (formerly

Biomedical Sciences) Report

PRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCIL

BY LAXMAN GANGWANI

DATE JULY 15 2019

Department BreakdownPlease provide the total number of faculty members in your department and break down this number by

rank Please list new faculty members that have joined your department within the last six months

Total Number of Faculty

Number of Faculty Associates 1

Number of Instructors 1

Number of Research Assistant Professor 1

Number of Assistant Professors 6

Number of Associate Professors 7

Number of Professors 4

New Faculty

None

9102019

21

LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair

program director clerkship director chiefs etc

Department Chair Dr Peter Rotwein (VP Research Associate

Dean GSBS)

Director Center of Emphasis in Cancer Dr Rajkumar

Lakshmanaswamy (Dean GSBS) Co-Director Dr N Shokar

Director Center of Emphasis in Diabetes and Metabolism Dr

David Cistola

Director Center of Emphasis in Infectious Diseases Vacant

Director Center of Emphasis in Neurosciences Vacant

Chief Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology Vacant

AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional

appointments national appointments etc

Awards

Dr Mingtao Zeng

2018 The American Association of Immunologists (AAI) AAI Travel Grant for the 5th European Congress of Immunology

2018 Defense Techconnect Fall Summit amp Expo (2018) Techconnect Defense Innovation Award

Dr Shrikant Gadad

Eugenia Rosemberg Outstanding Abstract Award Endocrine Society Annual Meeting New Orleans March 23-26 2019

Dr Huanyu Dou

National Innovation Award Techconnect 2019

Honors

Dr Alok Dwivedi

Appointed as associated faculty at the Border Biomedical Research Center (BBRC) University of Texas El Paso (UTEP)

Dr Shrikant Gadad

Session Chair (OR09 Steroid Hormone Biology in Physiology and Disease) Endocrine Society Annual Meeting New Orleans March 23-26 2019

9102019

22

AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional

appointments national appointments etc

NIH or DOD study sections appointments

Dr Guohua Yi

HIV special Emphasis Panel for RFA-AI-18-058 Genetic Engineering Technologies for HIV Cure Research (U19)

Dr Laxman Gangwani

Department of Defense (DOD) Reviewer for Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) 2018 -

NIHCSR Study ldquoProgram Evaluation of NIH Peer Review Processes The Role of Anonymizationrdquo 2019 ndash

Patents filings and publications

Patent Number 9862951 Title RNA Interference-Based Therapeutic against Anthrax Inventors Mingtao Zeng and Maria T AreacutevaloDate of Patent January 9 2018

Cistola D P Patel V (2018) Method and system for non-invasive measurement of metabolic health US Non-Provisional Utility Patent Application No 15911728 filed by Texas Tech University

Cistola D P Robinson M D (2018) Methods and tools for diagnosing insulin resistance and assessing health status using NMR relaxation times for water United States Patent Application Publication US 20180020947 A1 httpspatentsgooglecompatentUS20180020947A1en

AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional

appointments national appointments etc

News and Media Coverage of Research performed at TTUHSC EP

Dr David Cistola

MedPageToday 2 January 2019 Harris Scott Could a New Biomarker Help Predict Type 2 Diabetes -- Early datashow water T2 catches abnormalities before traditional testing but experts are cautiously optimistichttpswwwmedpagetodaycomreading-roomendocrine-societydiabetes77186

KTSM Channel 9 NBC El Paso 14 November 2018 Castillo Susy Research in El Paso aimed at detectingdiabetes earlyhttpswwwktsmcomlifestylehealthresearch-in-el-paso-aimed-at-detecting-diabetes-early1596408236apt_credirect=1

El Paso Inc 29 March 2019 TTUHSC El Paso Tackling diabetes cancer httpwwwelpasoinccomttuhsc-el-paso-tackling-diabetes-cancerarticle_613144fe-526a-11e9-b916-c35b701a5ef9html

Dr Laxman Gangwani

Cure SMA Awards $150000 Grant to Laxman Gangwani PhD Texas Tech University

httpwwwcuresmaorgnewsgangwani-grant-2019html

httpswwweurekalertorgpub_releases2019-05ttuh-gw050119php

httpswwwresearchgatenetscientific-contributions11984383_Laxman_Gangwani

9102019

23

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Peer-reviewed publications 36 (In high-impact journals)

2018 highest impact factor (11561) journal Nucleic Acids Research

Abstracts 43

Presentations (i) Oral 11 (ii) Posters 28

Invited talks 13

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Peer-reviewed publications

Kannan A Bhatia K Branzei D and Gangwani L (2018) Combined deficiency of Senataxin and DNA-PKcscauses DNA damage accumulation and neurodegeneration in spinal muscular atrophy Nucleic Acids Research2018 Vol 46 No 16 8326-8346

Mishra I Jones C Patel V Deodhar S Cistola D P (2018) Early detection of metabolic dysregulation usingwater T2 analysis of biobanked samples Diabetes Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity Targets and Therapy 11 807-818

Patel V Dwivedi A K Deodhar S Mishra I Cistola D P (2018) Aptamer-based search for correlates of plasmaand serum water T2 Implications for early metabolic dysregulation and metabolic syndrome Biomarker Research6(1) 28

Garg H Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz T Joshi A 2018 Recent Advances in Zika Virus Vaccines Viruses Nov 1410 (11) Sundin OH Mendoza-Ladd A Zeng M Diaz-Areacutevalo D Morales E Fagan BMOrdontildeez J McCallum RW Does a

glucose-based hydrogen and methane breath test detect bacterial overgrowth in the jejunum NeurogastroenterolMotil 2018e13350

Zheng Z Diaz-Areacutevalo D Guan H and Mingtao Zeng Noninvasive vaccination against infectious diseases Humanvaccines amp immunotherapeutics 2018 14(7)1717-1733

Preeti Bharaj Chunting Ye Sean Petersen Qianghu Wang Baoli Hu N Manjunath Premlata Shankar Guohua Yi(2018) Gene array analysis of PD-1H overexpressing monocytes reveals a pro-inflammatory profile Heliyone00545

Bencomo-Alvarez AE Rubio AJ Gonzalez MA and Eiring AM Energy metabolism and drug response in myeloidleukaemic stem cells Br J Haematol 2019 In Press

9102019

24

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Peer-reviewed publications Yan D Pomicter AD Tantravahi S Mason CC Senina AV Ahmann JM Wang Q Than H Patel AB Heaton

WL Eiring AM Clair PM Gantz KC Redwine HM Swierczek SI Halverson BJ Baloglu E Shacham S KhorashadJS Kelley TW Salama ME Miles RR Boucher KM Prchal JT OHare T and Deininger MW Nuclear-cytoplasmic transport is a therapeutic target in myelofibrosis Clin Cancer Res 201925(7)2323-2335

Heipertz E Harper J Lopez CA Fikrig E Hughes ME Walker WE Circadian rhythms influence the severity of sepsis in mice via a TLR2-dependent leukocyte-intrinsic mechanism The Journal of Immunology 2018 201193-201

Khatri R Afzal MR Qureshi MA Maud A Huanyu D Jose Rodriguez G Pre-Existing Renal Failure Increases In-Hospital Mortality in Patients with Intracerebral Hemorrhage J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis 2019 Feb28(2)237-242

Zou L Lee SY Wu Q Zhang H Bastian A Orji C Payne G Galvez A Thomas T Zhang Z Dou H Facile Gene Delivery Derived from Branched Low Molecular Weight Polyethylenimine by High Efficient Chemistry J Biomed Nanotechnol 2018 Oct 114(10)1785-1795

Zhang C Brandon NR Koper K Tang P Xu Y Dou H Invasion of Peripheral Immune Cells into Brain Parenchyma after Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation Aging Dis 2018 Jun 19(3)412-425

Loza O Hernandez P Calderoacuten-Mora J Laks S Leiner M Reddy S Lara P amp Granados H (2018) Developing Trans-affirming health services in an underserved area An intersectional approach Transgender Health 3(1) 127-135

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Byrd T Calderoacuten-Mora J Salaiz R amp Shokar N (2019) Barriers and facilitators to colorectal cancer screening within a Hispanic population Hispanic Health Care International 17(1) 23-29 doi 1011771540415318818982

Haut SR Lipton RB Cornes S Dwivedi AK Wasson R Cotton S Strawn JR Privitera M (2018) Behavioral interventions as a treatment for epilepsy A multicenter randomized controlled trial Neurology 90(11) e963-e970 PMID 29444968

Jessica Bernica Sherif Elhanafi Neeharika Kalakota Yi Jia Christopher Dodoo Alok Dwivedi Robert J Sealock Kalpesh Patel Isaac Raijman Marc J Zuckerman Mohamed O Othman (2018) Cholangioscopy is safe and feasible in elderly patients Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology 16(8) 1293-1299

Benjamin D Wissel Alok K Dwivedi Danielle Chin Aristide Merola Cara Jacob Andrew P Duker Jennifer E Vaughan Lilia Lovera Kathrin LaFaver Ariel Levy Anthony E Lang Francesca Morgante Melissa J Nirenberg Christopher Stephen Nutan Sharma Alberto Romagnolo Leonardo Lopiano Bettina Balint Xin X Yu Kailash P Bhatia Alberto J Espay Functional neurological disorders in Parkinson disease Accepted for publication in Journal

of Neurology Neurosurgery amp Psychiatry 89(6)566-571

Danny J Avalos Marc J Zuckerman Alok Dwivedi Christopher Dodoo Jinendra Satiya Fernando J Castro(2018) Differences in prevalence of large polyps between Hispanic Americans from Mexican-and Non-Mexican-predominant states Digestive diseases and sciences PMID 30276570

Zeina Nahleh Salman Otoukesh Hamid Reza Mirshahidi Anthony Loc Nguyen Gayathri Nagaraj Nabeel Badri Gehan Botrus Nabih Diab Andres Alvarado Luis A Sanchez Alok K Dwivedi (2018) Disparities in breast cancer a multi-institutional comparative analysis focusing on American Hispanics Cancer Medicine (In press 05072018)

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25

Scholarly Activity Danny J Avalos Antonio Mendoza-Ladd Marc J Zuckerman Mohammad Bashashati Andres Alvarado Alok

Dwivedi Oriana M Damas (2018) Hispanics and Non-Hispanic Whites in the US have a Similar InflammatoryBowel Disease Phenotype A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis Digestive Diseases and Sciences 63(6)1558-1571

Aleli Campbell Rosalinda Heydarian Cecilia Ochoa Alok Kumar Dwivedi Zeina A Nahleh(2018) Single arm phaseII study of oral vitamin B12 for the treatment of musculoskeletal symptoms associated with aromatase inhibitors inwomen with early stage breast cancer The breast journal 24(3)260-268

Shaimaa Elzamly Nabeel Badri Osvaldo Padilla Alok Kumar Dwivedi Luis A Alvarado Matthew Hamilton NabihDiab Crosby Rock Ahmed Elfar Marwa Teleb Luis Sanchez Zeina Nahleh (2018) Epithelial-mesenchymaltransition markers in breast cancer and pathological responseafter neoadjuvant chemotherapy Breast Cancer

(Auckl) 2018 Aug 1121178223418788074

Jennifer C Molokwu Eribeth Penaranda Alok Dwivedi Indika Mallawaarachchi Navkiran Shokar (2018) Effect ofEducational Intervention on Self-Sampling Acceptability and Follow-Up Paps in Border Dwelling Hispanic FemalesJournal of Lower Genital Tract Disease

Ritika Suri Federico Rodriguez-Porcel Kelly Donohue Erin Jesse Lilia Lovera Alok Kumar Dwivedi Alberto JEspay (2018) Post-Stroke Movement Disorders The Clinical Neuroanatomic and Demographic Portrait of 284Published Cases Accepted for publication in Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases (In press05212018)

Zeina Nahleh Gehan Botrus Alok Dwivedi Nabeel Badri Salman Otoukesh Nabih Diab Sandip BiswasMichael Jennings Shaimaa Elzamly(2018) Clinico-pathologic disparities of breast cancer in HispanicLatina womenBreast disease 1-8

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Robert Gonzalez Trisha Suppes Jamie Zeitzer Colleen McClung Carol Tamminga Mauricio Tohen Angelica Forero Alok DwivediAndres Alvarado (2018) The association between mood state and chronobiological characteristics in bipolar I disorder a naturalisticvariable cluster analysis-based study International Journal of Bipolar Disorders 6(1)5Mohamed Teleb Aaron Shanker Alok Kumar Dwivedi Debabrata Mukherjee (2018) Effect of exercise on left ventricular mass index byechocardiography in mild and moderate hypertension a meta-analysis Res Cardiovasc Med 6(4)50-6Garnica O Das K Devasundaram S and Dhandayuthapani S Enhanced delivery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigens to antigenpresenting cells using RVG peptide Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Das K Garnica O and Dhandayuthapani S Utility of an oxidative stress response system for the expression of recombinant proteinsin mycobacteria and for the delivery of M tuberculosis antigens to the phagosomal compartments Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Palanichamy K Joshi A Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz T Fernando B Milan S Schiro F Naeem Y Garg H Braunschweig A 2019 Anti-ZikaActivity of a Library of Synthetic Carbohydrate Receptors Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 6284110-4119Anjali Joshi Erin B Punke Tugba Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz Diego P Peralta and Himanshu Garg 2019 TLR9 polymorphism correlates withimmune activation CD4 decline and plasma IP10 levels in HIV patients BMC Infect Dis 19 56Vargas-Medrano J Yang B Garza N T Segura-Ulate I and Perez R G (2018) Up-regulation of protective neuronal MicroRNAs byFTY720 and novel FTY720-derivatives Neuroscience letters 690 178-180Vidal-Martinez G Yang B Vargas-Medrano J and Perez R G (2018) Could alpha-Synuclein Modulation of Insulin and DopamineIdentify a Novel Link Between Parkinsons Disease and Diabetes as Well as Potential Therapies Frontiers in molecular

neuroscience 11 465

9102019

26

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Gil-Tommee C Vidal-Martinez G Annette Reyes C Vargas-Medrano J Herrera G V Martin S M Chaparro S A andPerez R G (2019) Parkinsonian GM2 synthase knockout mice lacking mature gangliosides develop urinary dysfunction andneurogenic bladder Experimental neurology 311265-273Vidal-Martinez G Najera K Miranda JD Gil-Tommee C Yang B Vargas-Medrano J Diaz-Pacheco V Barragan J ChaparroS Vargas-Medrano J Chinnasamy R Arterburn JB Perez RG FTY720 improves behavior increases Brain Derived NeurotrophicFactor and reduces α-synuclein pathology in parkinsonian GM2+minus

mice Neuroscience httpsdoiorg101016jneuroscience201905029Tasnim N Thakur V Chattopadhyay M Joddar B (2018) The efficacy of Graphene-foams towards the adhesion proliferationand expression of neuronal-phenotype by dopaminergic neurons differentiated from mesenchymal stem cells Stem cell

international Jun 3 20183410168 doi 10115520183410168Anil Kumar S Allen SC Tasnim N Akter T Park S Kumar A Chattopadhyay M Ito Y Suggs LJ Joddar B (2019) The applicabilityof furfuryl-gelatin as a novel bioink for tissue engineering applications J Biomed Mater Res B Appl Biomater 2019 107(2)314-323 doi 101002jbmb34123 Epub 2018 Apr 15Thakur V Chattopadhyay M (2018) Early urinary markers for diabetic and other kidney diseases Current drug targets 2018 Mar19Joddar B Tasnim N Thakur V Kumar A Mccallum R Chattopadhyay M (2018) Delivery of mesenchymal stem cells fromgelatin-alginate hydrogels to stomach lumen for treatment of gastroparesis Bioengineering 2018 5(1)Camacho CV Choudhari R Gadad SS (2018) Long noncoding RNAs and cancer an overview Steroids 13393-95

IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department

Large net loss (9) of MTM faculty members over the past 5 years

Vacant Director positions (i) Center for Neuroscience (ii) Center for InfectiousDiseases and (iii) Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology

No steps have been taken to fill directors positions for more than 2 years

Neurosciences Center at the verge of collapse Only one faculty will be left at theend of this fiscal year

The size of Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology is shrinking

Lack of communication regarding vision and strategic plan for growing department

No faculty salary raises for the past 3 years

Serious concerns about recruitment retention and tenure and promotion decisionsmade in the department Faculty morale is extremely low

Lack of functional research core facility

Gradual elimination of service contracts of equipment essential for research trainingand education of graduate and medical students

A plethora of other issues with the department administration

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Questions

Departmental Report

Psychiatry

Ricardo Salazar MDAssociate Professor Psychiatry

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Department ReportPsychiatryPRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCIL

BY RICARDO SALAZAR MD

DATE MONDAY JULY 15 2019

Department BreakdownPlease provide the total number of faculty members in your department and break down this number by

rank Please list new faculty members that have joined your department within the last six months

Total Number of Faculty 12

Number of Instructors 1

Number of Assistant Professors 8

Number of Associate Professors 2

Number of Professors 2

New Faculty Melanie Longhurst MD Instructor

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LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair

program director clerkship director chiefs etc

Department Chair ndash Peter M Thompson MD MS

Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Sarah L Martin MD

Combined IMPsych Residency Program Director ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD

Psychiatry Clerkship Director ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD

Child amp Adolescent Fellowship Program Director ndash Cecilia De Vargas MD

Chief Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry ndash Sarah L Martin MD

Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Program Directorndash Ricardo Salazar MD

Chief Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences ndash Ricardo Salazar MD

Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Transmountain ndash Moataz Ragheb MD

AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in your department including awards honors regional

appointments national appointments etc

El Paso Behavioral Health Consortium ndash Board Member ndash Peter M Thompson MD

714 (50) of our graduating medical students this year choose and matched our resident training programs here at Paul L FosterSchool of Medicine Department of Psychiatry (Historical record) ndash Kudos for our Department Faculty

In appreciation for exceptional contributions to the 30th volume of the J Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences ndash Author contributions and review of 271 manuscripts submitted to the journal between September 2017 and August 2018 ndash Ricardo Salazar MD ndash Young Investigator Award Committee Member and Program Committee Member-Abstracts Sub-Committee Member of theAmerican Neuropsychiatric Association (ANPA)

Initial Accreditation with commendation and no citations from ACGME for our first Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Training Program for West Texas ndash Ricardo Salazar MD

Leadership in Education and Development Certificate Program (LEAD) Fellow -1-year program accredited from the Association ofAmerican Medical Colleges (AAMC) Silvina Tonarelli MD amp Ricardo Salazar MD (Selected Award)

Fully operating Southwest Brain Bank A Brain Tissue Repository for Research in Mental Illness ndashPeter M Thompson MD

Texas State Psychiatric Physicians Public Mental Health Services Committee ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD

Texas Health and Human Services Commission Behavioral Health Advisory Committee ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP

Fellow American College of Physicians ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP FACP

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Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Abstracts 31

Publications 5 (peer-review journals)

Presentations 17 ndash National (7) and International (6)

Invited Speaker 21 (including faculty residents fellows) ndash Local amp National

Book Chapters NA

Grants McKee Foundation Award ndash our Chair - Thompson

Intramural Grants Seed Grant 1 SARP Educational Grant 2 - Salazar

President`s Collaborative Research Initiative ndashMarch 2018 - Tonarelli

Scholarly Activity

Child and Adolescent Fellowship Presentations

INTERNATIONAL

- Curanderos and Limpias Cultural psychiatry

Poster presented at 6th Annual Scientific conference of the European Association of PsychosomaticMedicine Verona Italy Drs Garza Meissner De Vargas Mehta June 2018

-Case presentation 0f 49XXXXY Same conference same authors same city

-Resilience etiology protective and risk factors presentation C De Vargas by invitation Annual WorldPediatric summit Madrid June 2018

-Parents and their Children Fantastic journey Same conference on June 2019 Berlin Germany

NATIONAL

-Development of Psychopathology in children at risk for Bipolar Disorders Drs Escamilla Peter Sangra C DeVargas S Martin C Alvarado Andrea Rios (Poster) American Academy of Child and Adolescent PsychiatryAnnual Conference Seattle WA October 2018

Frank William Meissner MD Cynthia Elizabeth Garza MDJD Sarah L Martin MD rdquoDrug-Induced BrugadaSyndrome in a Middle-Aged Female Patient Drugs EKG Diagnosis Electrophysiology and SurveillanceRecommendationrdquo American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting San Francisco CA May 21 2019

Delinquency in a group of school children at risk for bipolar disorder D Haque M Escamilla C De VargasPresented at UCLA LA Ca June 2019

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Residency ProgramPlease provide information regarding your departmentrsquos residency program ie recent accreditation

number of residents and program updates (if applicable)

24 General Psychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)

8 Internal MedicinePsychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)

3 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellows

1 Geriatric Psychiatry Fellow- newly accredited program

IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department

RecruitmentRetention

Short staffed

Organizational Structure

Financial incentives

Protected time

Gender balance Attrition malefemale ratio 41

Program Coordinator turnover rate

Mentoring

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Departmental Organizational

Structure

Chair

Division ChiefsProgram Directors

Clerkship Director

Adm

Organizational Structure Model

Chair

Deputy Chair for Education

Program

Directors

Deputy Chair for Research

Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs

Vicechair

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Roles

Deputy Chair for Education

Oversee undergraduate graduate and CME including the development of teachers and educational scholars Monitor quality and safety across the department

Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs

Faculty appointments Faculty Development and Promotion andor Tenure Develop programs in different domains such as research education personal improvement and leadership Support clinical activities by improving the efficiency of operations and in helping to fit clinical programs into those in the rest of the medical center Allocation of space

Deputy Chair for Research

Develop and direct department-wide programs for faculty recruitment development and support of mentors recognition of excellence and funding of pilot grants bridge funding and grants to nurture multi-principal investigator and trans-division or trans-department projects Allocation of space among divisions

Bottom Line

We need more funds

Institutional support

The investments needed to recruit faculty are beyond the capacity of the

department`s operational revenue

Recruiting a leading investigator or one with great potential for

example may require an investment of $ 1 million and sometimes more

Endowments are the departmentrsquos foundational financial capital the

keel that maintains momentum and balance through the headwinds

and rough seas each department will navigate Endowments increase

the departmentrsquos independence in sustaining its core mission

Thus creation of endowments should be a high priority for any

department that plans for the long term and they increase capacity to

recruit the best faculty in a competitive environment

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LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair

program director clerkship director chiefs etc

Department Chair Dr Peter Rotwein (VP Research Associate

Dean GSBS)

Director Center of Emphasis in Cancer Dr Rajkumar

Lakshmanaswamy (Dean GSBS) Co-Director Dr N Shokar

Director Center of Emphasis in Diabetes and Metabolism Dr

David Cistola

Director Center of Emphasis in Infectious Diseases Vacant

Director Center of Emphasis in Neurosciences Vacant

Chief Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology Vacant

AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional

appointments national appointments etc

Awards

Dr Mingtao Zeng

2018 The American Association of Immunologists (AAI) AAI Travel Grant for the 5th European Congress of Immunology

2018 Defense Techconnect Fall Summit amp Expo (2018) Techconnect Defense Innovation Award

Dr Shrikant Gadad

Eugenia Rosemberg Outstanding Abstract Award Endocrine Society Annual Meeting New Orleans March 23-26 2019

Dr Huanyu Dou

National Innovation Award Techconnect 2019

Honors

Dr Alok Dwivedi

Appointed as associated faculty at the Border Biomedical Research Center (BBRC) University of Texas El Paso (UTEP)

Dr Shrikant Gadad

Session Chair (OR09 Steroid Hormone Biology in Physiology and Disease) Endocrine Society Annual Meeting New Orleans March 23-26 2019

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AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional

appointments national appointments etc

NIH or DOD study sections appointments

Dr Guohua Yi

HIV special Emphasis Panel for RFA-AI-18-058 Genetic Engineering Technologies for HIV Cure Research (U19)

Dr Laxman Gangwani

Department of Defense (DOD) Reviewer for Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) 2018 -

NIHCSR Study ldquoProgram Evaluation of NIH Peer Review Processes The Role of Anonymizationrdquo 2019 ndash

Patents filings and publications

Patent Number 9862951 Title RNA Interference-Based Therapeutic against Anthrax Inventors Mingtao Zeng and Maria T AreacutevaloDate of Patent January 9 2018

Cistola D P Patel V (2018) Method and system for non-invasive measurement of metabolic health US Non-Provisional Utility Patent Application No 15911728 filed by Texas Tech University

Cistola D P Robinson M D (2018) Methods and tools for diagnosing insulin resistance and assessing health status using NMR relaxation times for water United States Patent Application Publication US 20180020947 A1 httpspatentsgooglecompatentUS20180020947A1en

AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional

appointments national appointments etc

News and Media Coverage of Research performed at TTUHSC EP

Dr David Cistola

MedPageToday 2 January 2019 Harris Scott Could a New Biomarker Help Predict Type 2 Diabetes -- Early datashow water T2 catches abnormalities before traditional testing but experts are cautiously optimistichttpswwwmedpagetodaycomreading-roomendocrine-societydiabetes77186

KTSM Channel 9 NBC El Paso 14 November 2018 Castillo Susy Research in El Paso aimed at detectingdiabetes earlyhttpswwwktsmcomlifestylehealthresearch-in-el-paso-aimed-at-detecting-diabetes-early1596408236apt_credirect=1

El Paso Inc 29 March 2019 TTUHSC El Paso Tackling diabetes cancer httpwwwelpasoinccomttuhsc-el-paso-tackling-diabetes-cancerarticle_613144fe-526a-11e9-b916-c35b701a5ef9html

Dr Laxman Gangwani

Cure SMA Awards $150000 Grant to Laxman Gangwani PhD Texas Tech University

httpwwwcuresmaorgnewsgangwani-grant-2019html

httpswwweurekalertorgpub_releases2019-05ttuh-gw050119php

httpswwwresearchgatenetscientific-contributions11984383_Laxman_Gangwani

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Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Peer-reviewed publications 36 (In high-impact journals)

2018 highest impact factor (11561) journal Nucleic Acids Research

Abstracts 43

Presentations (i) Oral 11 (ii) Posters 28

Invited talks 13

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Peer-reviewed publications

Kannan A Bhatia K Branzei D and Gangwani L (2018) Combined deficiency of Senataxin and DNA-PKcscauses DNA damage accumulation and neurodegeneration in spinal muscular atrophy Nucleic Acids Research2018 Vol 46 No 16 8326-8346

Mishra I Jones C Patel V Deodhar S Cistola D P (2018) Early detection of metabolic dysregulation usingwater T2 analysis of biobanked samples Diabetes Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity Targets and Therapy 11 807-818

Patel V Dwivedi A K Deodhar S Mishra I Cistola D P (2018) Aptamer-based search for correlates of plasmaand serum water T2 Implications for early metabolic dysregulation and metabolic syndrome Biomarker Research6(1) 28

Garg H Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz T Joshi A 2018 Recent Advances in Zika Virus Vaccines Viruses Nov 1410 (11) Sundin OH Mendoza-Ladd A Zeng M Diaz-Areacutevalo D Morales E Fagan BMOrdontildeez J McCallum RW Does a

glucose-based hydrogen and methane breath test detect bacterial overgrowth in the jejunum NeurogastroenterolMotil 2018e13350

Zheng Z Diaz-Areacutevalo D Guan H and Mingtao Zeng Noninvasive vaccination against infectious diseases Humanvaccines amp immunotherapeutics 2018 14(7)1717-1733

Preeti Bharaj Chunting Ye Sean Petersen Qianghu Wang Baoli Hu N Manjunath Premlata Shankar Guohua Yi(2018) Gene array analysis of PD-1H overexpressing monocytes reveals a pro-inflammatory profile Heliyone00545

Bencomo-Alvarez AE Rubio AJ Gonzalez MA and Eiring AM Energy metabolism and drug response in myeloidleukaemic stem cells Br J Haematol 2019 In Press

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24

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Peer-reviewed publications Yan D Pomicter AD Tantravahi S Mason CC Senina AV Ahmann JM Wang Q Than H Patel AB Heaton

WL Eiring AM Clair PM Gantz KC Redwine HM Swierczek SI Halverson BJ Baloglu E Shacham S KhorashadJS Kelley TW Salama ME Miles RR Boucher KM Prchal JT OHare T and Deininger MW Nuclear-cytoplasmic transport is a therapeutic target in myelofibrosis Clin Cancer Res 201925(7)2323-2335

Heipertz E Harper J Lopez CA Fikrig E Hughes ME Walker WE Circadian rhythms influence the severity of sepsis in mice via a TLR2-dependent leukocyte-intrinsic mechanism The Journal of Immunology 2018 201193-201

Khatri R Afzal MR Qureshi MA Maud A Huanyu D Jose Rodriguez G Pre-Existing Renal Failure Increases In-Hospital Mortality in Patients with Intracerebral Hemorrhage J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis 2019 Feb28(2)237-242

Zou L Lee SY Wu Q Zhang H Bastian A Orji C Payne G Galvez A Thomas T Zhang Z Dou H Facile Gene Delivery Derived from Branched Low Molecular Weight Polyethylenimine by High Efficient Chemistry J Biomed Nanotechnol 2018 Oct 114(10)1785-1795

Zhang C Brandon NR Koper K Tang P Xu Y Dou H Invasion of Peripheral Immune Cells into Brain Parenchyma after Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation Aging Dis 2018 Jun 19(3)412-425

Loza O Hernandez P Calderoacuten-Mora J Laks S Leiner M Reddy S Lara P amp Granados H (2018) Developing Trans-affirming health services in an underserved area An intersectional approach Transgender Health 3(1) 127-135

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Byrd T Calderoacuten-Mora J Salaiz R amp Shokar N (2019) Barriers and facilitators to colorectal cancer screening within a Hispanic population Hispanic Health Care International 17(1) 23-29 doi 1011771540415318818982

Haut SR Lipton RB Cornes S Dwivedi AK Wasson R Cotton S Strawn JR Privitera M (2018) Behavioral interventions as a treatment for epilepsy A multicenter randomized controlled trial Neurology 90(11) e963-e970 PMID 29444968

Jessica Bernica Sherif Elhanafi Neeharika Kalakota Yi Jia Christopher Dodoo Alok Dwivedi Robert J Sealock Kalpesh Patel Isaac Raijman Marc J Zuckerman Mohamed O Othman (2018) Cholangioscopy is safe and feasible in elderly patients Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology 16(8) 1293-1299

Benjamin D Wissel Alok K Dwivedi Danielle Chin Aristide Merola Cara Jacob Andrew P Duker Jennifer E Vaughan Lilia Lovera Kathrin LaFaver Ariel Levy Anthony E Lang Francesca Morgante Melissa J Nirenberg Christopher Stephen Nutan Sharma Alberto Romagnolo Leonardo Lopiano Bettina Balint Xin X Yu Kailash P Bhatia Alberto J Espay Functional neurological disorders in Parkinson disease Accepted for publication in Journal

of Neurology Neurosurgery amp Psychiatry 89(6)566-571

Danny J Avalos Marc J Zuckerman Alok Dwivedi Christopher Dodoo Jinendra Satiya Fernando J Castro(2018) Differences in prevalence of large polyps between Hispanic Americans from Mexican-and Non-Mexican-predominant states Digestive diseases and sciences PMID 30276570

Zeina Nahleh Salman Otoukesh Hamid Reza Mirshahidi Anthony Loc Nguyen Gayathri Nagaraj Nabeel Badri Gehan Botrus Nabih Diab Andres Alvarado Luis A Sanchez Alok K Dwivedi (2018) Disparities in breast cancer a multi-institutional comparative analysis focusing on American Hispanics Cancer Medicine (In press 05072018)

9102019

25

Scholarly Activity Danny J Avalos Antonio Mendoza-Ladd Marc J Zuckerman Mohammad Bashashati Andres Alvarado Alok

Dwivedi Oriana M Damas (2018) Hispanics and Non-Hispanic Whites in the US have a Similar InflammatoryBowel Disease Phenotype A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis Digestive Diseases and Sciences 63(6)1558-1571

Aleli Campbell Rosalinda Heydarian Cecilia Ochoa Alok Kumar Dwivedi Zeina A Nahleh(2018) Single arm phaseII study of oral vitamin B12 for the treatment of musculoskeletal symptoms associated with aromatase inhibitors inwomen with early stage breast cancer The breast journal 24(3)260-268

Shaimaa Elzamly Nabeel Badri Osvaldo Padilla Alok Kumar Dwivedi Luis A Alvarado Matthew Hamilton NabihDiab Crosby Rock Ahmed Elfar Marwa Teleb Luis Sanchez Zeina Nahleh (2018) Epithelial-mesenchymaltransition markers in breast cancer and pathological responseafter neoadjuvant chemotherapy Breast Cancer

(Auckl) 2018 Aug 1121178223418788074

Jennifer C Molokwu Eribeth Penaranda Alok Dwivedi Indika Mallawaarachchi Navkiran Shokar (2018) Effect ofEducational Intervention on Self-Sampling Acceptability and Follow-Up Paps in Border Dwelling Hispanic FemalesJournal of Lower Genital Tract Disease

Ritika Suri Federico Rodriguez-Porcel Kelly Donohue Erin Jesse Lilia Lovera Alok Kumar Dwivedi Alberto JEspay (2018) Post-Stroke Movement Disorders The Clinical Neuroanatomic and Demographic Portrait of 284Published Cases Accepted for publication in Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases (In press05212018)

Zeina Nahleh Gehan Botrus Alok Dwivedi Nabeel Badri Salman Otoukesh Nabih Diab Sandip BiswasMichael Jennings Shaimaa Elzamly(2018) Clinico-pathologic disparities of breast cancer in HispanicLatina womenBreast disease 1-8

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Robert Gonzalez Trisha Suppes Jamie Zeitzer Colleen McClung Carol Tamminga Mauricio Tohen Angelica Forero Alok DwivediAndres Alvarado (2018) The association between mood state and chronobiological characteristics in bipolar I disorder a naturalisticvariable cluster analysis-based study International Journal of Bipolar Disorders 6(1)5Mohamed Teleb Aaron Shanker Alok Kumar Dwivedi Debabrata Mukherjee (2018) Effect of exercise on left ventricular mass index byechocardiography in mild and moderate hypertension a meta-analysis Res Cardiovasc Med 6(4)50-6Garnica O Das K Devasundaram S and Dhandayuthapani S Enhanced delivery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigens to antigenpresenting cells using RVG peptide Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Das K Garnica O and Dhandayuthapani S Utility of an oxidative stress response system for the expression of recombinant proteinsin mycobacteria and for the delivery of M tuberculosis antigens to the phagosomal compartments Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Palanichamy K Joshi A Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz T Fernando B Milan S Schiro F Naeem Y Garg H Braunschweig A 2019 Anti-ZikaActivity of a Library of Synthetic Carbohydrate Receptors Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 6284110-4119Anjali Joshi Erin B Punke Tugba Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz Diego P Peralta and Himanshu Garg 2019 TLR9 polymorphism correlates withimmune activation CD4 decline and plasma IP10 levels in HIV patients BMC Infect Dis 19 56Vargas-Medrano J Yang B Garza N T Segura-Ulate I and Perez R G (2018) Up-regulation of protective neuronal MicroRNAs byFTY720 and novel FTY720-derivatives Neuroscience letters 690 178-180Vidal-Martinez G Yang B Vargas-Medrano J and Perez R G (2018) Could alpha-Synuclein Modulation of Insulin and DopamineIdentify a Novel Link Between Parkinsons Disease and Diabetes as Well as Potential Therapies Frontiers in molecular

neuroscience 11 465

9102019

26

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Gil-Tommee C Vidal-Martinez G Annette Reyes C Vargas-Medrano J Herrera G V Martin S M Chaparro S A andPerez R G (2019) Parkinsonian GM2 synthase knockout mice lacking mature gangliosides develop urinary dysfunction andneurogenic bladder Experimental neurology 311265-273Vidal-Martinez G Najera K Miranda JD Gil-Tommee C Yang B Vargas-Medrano J Diaz-Pacheco V Barragan J ChaparroS Vargas-Medrano J Chinnasamy R Arterburn JB Perez RG FTY720 improves behavior increases Brain Derived NeurotrophicFactor and reduces α-synuclein pathology in parkinsonian GM2+minus

mice Neuroscience httpsdoiorg101016jneuroscience201905029Tasnim N Thakur V Chattopadhyay M Joddar B (2018) The efficacy of Graphene-foams towards the adhesion proliferationand expression of neuronal-phenotype by dopaminergic neurons differentiated from mesenchymal stem cells Stem cell

international Jun 3 20183410168 doi 10115520183410168Anil Kumar S Allen SC Tasnim N Akter T Park S Kumar A Chattopadhyay M Ito Y Suggs LJ Joddar B (2019) The applicabilityof furfuryl-gelatin as a novel bioink for tissue engineering applications J Biomed Mater Res B Appl Biomater 2019 107(2)314-323 doi 101002jbmb34123 Epub 2018 Apr 15Thakur V Chattopadhyay M (2018) Early urinary markers for diabetic and other kidney diseases Current drug targets 2018 Mar19Joddar B Tasnim N Thakur V Kumar A Mccallum R Chattopadhyay M (2018) Delivery of mesenchymal stem cells fromgelatin-alginate hydrogels to stomach lumen for treatment of gastroparesis Bioengineering 2018 5(1)Camacho CV Choudhari R Gadad SS (2018) Long noncoding RNAs and cancer an overview Steroids 13393-95

IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department

Large net loss (9) of MTM faculty members over the past 5 years

Vacant Director positions (i) Center for Neuroscience (ii) Center for InfectiousDiseases and (iii) Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology

No steps have been taken to fill directors positions for more than 2 years

Neurosciences Center at the verge of collapse Only one faculty will be left at theend of this fiscal year

The size of Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology is shrinking

Lack of communication regarding vision and strategic plan for growing department

No faculty salary raises for the past 3 years

Serious concerns about recruitment retention and tenure and promotion decisionsmade in the department Faculty morale is extremely low

Lack of functional research core facility

Gradual elimination of service contracts of equipment essential for research trainingand education of graduate and medical students

A plethora of other issues with the department administration

9102019

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Questions

Departmental Report

Psychiatry

Ricardo Salazar MDAssociate Professor Psychiatry

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28

Department ReportPsychiatryPRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCIL

BY RICARDO SALAZAR MD

DATE MONDAY JULY 15 2019

Department BreakdownPlease provide the total number of faculty members in your department and break down this number by

rank Please list new faculty members that have joined your department within the last six months

Total Number of Faculty 12

Number of Instructors 1

Number of Assistant Professors 8

Number of Associate Professors 2

Number of Professors 2

New Faculty Melanie Longhurst MD Instructor

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LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair

program director clerkship director chiefs etc

Department Chair ndash Peter M Thompson MD MS

Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Sarah L Martin MD

Combined IMPsych Residency Program Director ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD

Psychiatry Clerkship Director ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD

Child amp Adolescent Fellowship Program Director ndash Cecilia De Vargas MD

Chief Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry ndash Sarah L Martin MD

Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Program Directorndash Ricardo Salazar MD

Chief Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences ndash Ricardo Salazar MD

Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Transmountain ndash Moataz Ragheb MD

AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in your department including awards honors regional

appointments national appointments etc

El Paso Behavioral Health Consortium ndash Board Member ndash Peter M Thompson MD

714 (50) of our graduating medical students this year choose and matched our resident training programs here at Paul L FosterSchool of Medicine Department of Psychiatry (Historical record) ndash Kudos for our Department Faculty

In appreciation for exceptional contributions to the 30th volume of the J Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences ndash Author contributions and review of 271 manuscripts submitted to the journal between September 2017 and August 2018 ndash Ricardo Salazar MD ndash Young Investigator Award Committee Member and Program Committee Member-Abstracts Sub-Committee Member of theAmerican Neuropsychiatric Association (ANPA)

Initial Accreditation with commendation and no citations from ACGME for our first Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Training Program for West Texas ndash Ricardo Salazar MD

Leadership in Education and Development Certificate Program (LEAD) Fellow -1-year program accredited from the Association ofAmerican Medical Colleges (AAMC) Silvina Tonarelli MD amp Ricardo Salazar MD (Selected Award)

Fully operating Southwest Brain Bank A Brain Tissue Repository for Research in Mental Illness ndashPeter M Thompson MD

Texas State Psychiatric Physicians Public Mental Health Services Committee ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD

Texas Health and Human Services Commission Behavioral Health Advisory Committee ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP

Fellow American College of Physicians ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP FACP

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Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Abstracts 31

Publications 5 (peer-review journals)

Presentations 17 ndash National (7) and International (6)

Invited Speaker 21 (including faculty residents fellows) ndash Local amp National

Book Chapters NA

Grants McKee Foundation Award ndash our Chair - Thompson

Intramural Grants Seed Grant 1 SARP Educational Grant 2 - Salazar

President`s Collaborative Research Initiative ndashMarch 2018 - Tonarelli

Scholarly Activity

Child and Adolescent Fellowship Presentations

INTERNATIONAL

- Curanderos and Limpias Cultural psychiatry

Poster presented at 6th Annual Scientific conference of the European Association of PsychosomaticMedicine Verona Italy Drs Garza Meissner De Vargas Mehta June 2018

-Case presentation 0f 49XXXXY Same conference same authors same city

-Resilience etiology protective and risk factors presentation C De Vargas by invitation Annual WorldPediatric summit Madrid June 2018

-Parents and their Children Fantastic journey Same conference on June 2019 Berlin Germany

NATIONAL

-Development of Psychopathology in children at risk for Bipolar Disorders Drs Escamilla Peter Sangra C DeVargas S Martin C Alvarado Andrea Rios (Poster) American Academy of Child and Adolescent PsychiatryAnnual Conference Seattle WA October 2018

Frank William Meissner MD Cynthia Elizabeth Garza MDJD Sarah L Martin MD rdquoDrug-Induced BrugadaSyndrome in a Middle-Aged Female Patient Drugs EKG Diagnosis Electrophysiology and SurveillanceRecommendationrdquo American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting San Francisco CA May 21 2019

Delinquency in a group of school children at risk for bipolar disorder D Haque M Escamilla C De VargasPresented at UCLA LA Ca June 2019

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Residency ProgramPlease provide information regarding your departmentrsquos residency program ie recent accreditation

number of residents and program updates (if applicable)

24 General Psychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)

8 Internal MedicinePsychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)

3 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellows

1 Geriatric Psychiatry Fellow- newly accredited program

IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department

RecruitmentRetention

Short staffed

Organizational Structure

Financial incentives

Protected time

Gender balance Attrition malefemale ratio 41

Program Coordinator turnover rate

Mentoring

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Departmental Organizational

Structure

Chair

Division ChiefsProgram Directors

Clerkship Director

Adm

Organizational Structure Model

Chair

Deputy Chair for Education

Program

Directors

Deputy Chair for Research

Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs

Vicechair

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Roles

Deputy Chair for Education

Oversee undergraduate graduate and CME including the development of teachers and educational scholars Monitor quality and safety across the department

Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs

Faculty appointments Faculty Development and Promotion andor Tenure Develop programs in different domains such as research education personal improvement and leadership Support clinical activities by improving the efficiency of operations and in helping to fit clinical programs into those in the rest of the medical center Allocation of space

Deputy Chair for Research

Develop and direct department-wide programs for faculty recruitment development and support of mentors recognition of excellence and funding of pilot grants bridge funding and grants to nurture multi-principal investigator and trans-division or trans-department projects Allocation of space among divisions

Bottom Line

We need more funds

Institutional support

The investments needed to recruit faculty are beyond the capacity of the

department`s operational revenue

Recruiting a leading investigator or one with great potential for

example may require an investment of $ 1 million and sometimes more

Endowments are the departmentrsquos foundational financial capital the

keel that maintains momentum and balance through the headwinds

and rough seas each department will navigate Endowments increase

the departmentrsquos independence in sustaining its core mission

Thus creation of endowments should be a high priority for any

department that plans for the long term and they increase capacity to

recruit the best faculty in a competitive environment

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AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional

appointments national appointments etc

NIH or DOD study sections appointments

Dr Guohua Yi

HIV special Emphasis Panel for RFA-AI-18-058 Genetic Engineering Technologies for HIV Cure Research (U19)

Dr Laxman Gangwani

Department of Defense (DOD) Reviewer for Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) 2018 -

NIHCSR Study ldquoProgram Evaluation of NIH Peer Review Processes The Role of Anonymizationrdquo 2019 ndash

Patents filings and publications

Patent Number 9862951 Title RNA Interference-Based Therapeutic against Anthrax Inventors Mingtao Zeng and Maria T AreacutevaloDate of Patent January 9 2018

Cistola D P Patel V (2018) Method and system for non-invasive measurement of metabolic health US Non-Provisional Utility Patent Application No 15911728 filed by Texas Tech University

Cistola D P Robinson M D (2018) Methods and tools for diagnosing insulin resistance and assessing health status using NMR relaxation times for water United States Patent Application Publication US 20180020947 A1 httpspatentsgooglecompatentUS20180020947A1en

AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in you department including awards honors regional

appointments national appointments etc

News and Media Coverage of Research performed at TTUHSC EP

Dr David Cistola

MedPageToday 2 January 2019 Harris Scott Could a New Biomarker Help Predict Type 2 Diabetes -- Early datashow water T2 catches abnormalities before traditional testing but experts are cautiously optimistichttpswwwmedpagetodaycomreading-roomendocrine-societydiabetes77186

KTSM Channel 9 NBC El Paso 14 November 2018 Castillo Susy Research in El Paso aimed at detectingdiabetes earlyhttpswwwktsmcomlifestylehealthresearch-in-el-paso-aimed-at-detecting-diabetes-early1596408236apt_credirect=1

El Paso Inc 29 March 2019 TTUHSC El Paso Tackling diabetes cancer httpwwwelpasoinccomttuhsc-el-paso-tackling-diabetes-cancerarticle_613144fe-526a-11e9-b916-c35b701a5ef9html

Dr Laxman Gangwani

Cure SMA Awards $150000 Grant to Laxman Gangwani PhD Texas Tech University

httpwwwcuresmaorgnewsgangwani-grant-2019html

httpswwweurekalertorgpub_releases2019-05ttuh-gw050119php

httpswwwresearchgatenetscientific-contributions11984383_Laxman_Gangwani

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Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Peer-reviewed publications 36 (In high-impact journals)

2018 highest impact factor (11561) journal Nucleic Acids Research

Abstracts 43

Presentations (i) Oral 11 (ii) Posters 28

Invited talks 13

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Peer-reviewed publications

Kannan A Bhatia K Branzei D and Gangwani L (2018) Combined deficiency of Senataxin and DNA-PKcscauses DNA damage accumulation and neurodegeneration in spinal muscular atrophy Nucleic Acids Research2018 Vol 46 No 16 8326-8346

Mishra I Jones C Patel V Deodhar S Cistola D P (2018) Early detection of metabolic dysregulation usingwater T2 analysis of biobanked samples Diabetes Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity Targets and Therapy 11 807-818

Patel V Dwivedi A K Deodhar S Mishra I Cistola D P (2018) Aptamer-based search for correlates of plasmaand serum water T2 Implications for early metabolic dysregulation and metabolic syndrome Biomarker Research6(1) 28

Garg H Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz T Joshi A 2018 Recent Advances in Zika Virus Vaccines Viruses Nov 1410 (11) Sundin OH Mendoza-Ladd A Zeng M Diaz-Areacutevalo D Morales E Fagan BMOrdontildeez J McCallum RW Does a

glucose-based hydrogen and methane breath test detect bacterial overgrowth in the jejunum NeurogastroenterolMotil 2018e13350

Zheng Z Diaz-Areacutevalo D Guan H and Mingtao Zeng Noninvasive vaccination against infectious diseases Humanvaccines amp immunotherapeutics 2018 14(7)1717-1733

Preeti Bharaj Chunting Ye Sean Petersen Qianghu Wang Baoli Hu N Manjunath Premlata Shankar Guohua Yi(2018) Gene array analysis of PD-1H overexpressing monocytes reveals a pro-inflammatory profile Heliyone00545

Bencomo-Alvarez AE Rubio AJ Gonzalez MA and Eiring AM Energy metabolism and drug response in myeloidleukaemic stem cells Br J Haematol 2019 In Press

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24

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Peer-reviewed publications Yan D Pomicter AD Tantravahi S Mason CC Senina AV Ahmann JM Wang Q Than H Patel AB Heaton

WL Eiring AM Clair PM Gantz KC Redwine HM Swierczek SI Halverson BJ Baloglu E Shacham S KhorashadJS Kelley TW Salama ME Miles RR Boucher KM Prchal JT OHare T and Deininger MW Nuclear-cytoplasmic transport is a therapeutic target in myelofibrosis Clin Cancer Res 201925(7)2323-2335

Heipertz E Harper J Lopez CA Fikrig E Hughes ME Walker WE Circadian rhythms influence the severity of sepsis in mice via a TLR2-dependent leukocyte-intrinsic mechanism The Journal of Immunology 2018 201193-201

Khatri R Afzal MR Qureshi MA Maud A Huanyu D Jose Rodriguez G Pre-Existing Renal Failure Increases In-Hospital Mortality in Patients with Intracerebral Hemorrhage J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis 2019 Feb28(2)237-242

Zou L Lee SY Wu Q Zhang H Bastian A Orji C Payne G Galvez A Thomas T Zhang Z Dou H Facile Gene Delivery Derived from Branched Low Molecular Weight Polyethylenimine by High Efficient Chemistry J Biomed Nanotechnol 2018 Oct 114(10)1785-1795

Zhang C Brandon NR Koper K Tang P Xu Y Dou H Invasion of Peripheral Immune Cells into Brain Parenchyma after Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation Aging Dis 2018 Jun 19(3)412-425

Loza O Hernandez P Calderoacuten-Mora J Laks S Leiner M Reddy S Lara P amp Granados H (2018) Developing Trans-affirming health services in an underserved area An intersectional approach Transgender Health 3(1) 127-135

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Byrd T Calderoacuten-Mora J Salaiz R amp Shokar N (2019) Barriers and facilitators to colorectal cancer screening within a Hispanic population Hispanic Health Care International 17(1) 23-29 doi 1011771540415318818982

Haut SR Lipton RB Cornes S Dwivedi AK Wasson R Cotton S Strawn JR Privitera M (2018) Behavioral interventions as a treatment for epilepsy A multicenter randomized controlled trial Neurology 90(11) e963-e970 PMID 29444968

Jessica Bernica Sherif Elhanafi Neeharika Kalakota Yi Jia Christopher Dodoo Alok Dwivedi Robert J Sealock Kalpesh Patel Isaac Raijman Marc J Zuckerman Mohamed O Othman (2018) Cholangioscopy is safe and feasible in elderly patients Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology 16(8) 1293-1299

Benjamin D Wissel Alok K Dwivedi Danielle Chin Aristide Merola Cara Jacob Andrew P Duker Jennifer E Vaughan Lilia Lovera Kathrin LaFaver Ariel Levy Anthony E Lang Francesca Morgante Melissa J Nirenberg Christopher Stephen Nutan Sharma Alberto Romagnolo Leonardo Lopiano Bettina Balint Xin X Yu Kailash P Bhatia Alberto J Espay Functional neurological disorders in Parkinson disease Accepted for publication in Journal

of Neurology Neurosurgery amp Psychiatry 89(6)566-571

Danny J Avalos Marc J Zuckerman Alok Dwivedi Christopher Dodoo Jinendra Satiya Fernando J Castro(2018) Differences in prevalence of large polyps between Hispanic Americans from Mexican-and Non-Mexican-predominant states Digestive diseases and sciences PMID 30276570

Zeina Nahleh Salman Otoukesh Hamid Reza Mirshahidi Anthony Loc Nguyen Gayathri Nagaraj Nabeel Badri Gehan Botrus Nabih Diab Andres Alvarado Luis A Sanchez Alok K Dwivedi (2018) Disparities in breast cancer a multi-institutional comparative analysis focusing on American Hispanics Cancer Medicine (In press 05072018)

9102019

25

Scholarly Activity Danny J Avalos Antonio Mendoza-Ladd Marc J Zuckerman Mohammad Bashashati Andres Alvarado Alok

Dwivedi Oriana M Damas (2018) Hispanics and Non-Hispanic Whites in the US have a Similar InflammatoryBowel Disease Phenotype A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis Digestive Diseases and Sciences 63(6)1558-1571

Aleli Campbell Rosalinda Heydarian Cecilia Ochoa Alok Kumar Dwivedi Zeina A Nahleh(2018) Single arm phaseII study of oral vitamin B12 for the treatment of musculoskeletal symptoms associated with aromatase inhibitors inwomen with early stage breast cancer The breast journal 24(3)260-268

Shaimaa Elzamly Nabeel Badri Osvaldo Padilla Alok Kumar Dwivedi Luis A Alvarado Matthew Hamilton NabihDiab Crosby Rock Ahmed Elfar Marwa Teleb Luis Sanchez Zeina Nahleh (2018) Epithelial-mesenchymaltransition markers in breast cancer and pathological responseafter neoadjuvant chemotherapy Breast Cancer

(Auckl) 2018 Aug 1121178223418788074

Jennifer C Molokwu Eribeth Penaranda Alok Dwivedi Indika Mallawaarachchi Navkiran Shokar (2018) Effect ofEducational Intervention on Self-Sampling Acceptability and Follow-Up Paps in Border Dwelling Hispanic FemalesJournal of Lower Genital Tract Disease

Ritika Suri Federico Rodriguez-Porcel Kelly Donohue Erin Jesse Lilia Lovera Alok Kumar Dwivedi Alberto JEspay (2018) Post-Stroke Movement Disorders The Clinical Neuroanatomic and Demographic Portrait of 284Published Cases Accepted for publication in Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases (In press05212018)

Zeina Nahleh Gehan Botrus Alok Dwivedi Nabeel Badri Salman Otoukesh Nabih Diab Sandip BiswasMichael Jennings Shaimaa Elzamly(2018) Clinico-pathologic disparities of breast cancer in HispanicLatina womenBreast disease 1-8

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Robert Gonzalez Trisha Suppes Jamie Zeitzer Colleen McClung Carol Tamminga Mauricio Tohen Angelica Forero Alok DwivediAndres Alvarado (2018) The association between mood state and chronobiological characteristics in bipolar I disorder a naturalisticvariable cluster analysis-based study International Journal of Bipolar Disorders 6(1)5Mohamed Teleb Aaron Shanker Alok Kumar Dwivedi Debabrata Mukherjee (2018) Effect of exercise on left ventricular mass index byechocardiography in mild and moderate hypertension a meta-analysis Res Cardiovasc Med 6(4)50-6Garnica O Das K Devasundaram S and Dhandayuthapani S Enhanced delivery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigens to antigenpresenting cells using RVG peptide Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Das K Garnica O and Dhandayuthapani S Utility of an oxidative stress response system for the expression of recombinant proteinsin mycobacteria and for the delivery of M tuberculosis antigens to the phagosomal compartments Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Palanichamy K Joshi A Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz T Fernando B Milan S Schiro F Naeem Y Garg H Braunschweig A 2019 Anti-ZikaActivity of a Library of Synthetic Carbohydrate Receptors Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 6284110-4119Anjali Joshi Erin B Punke Tugba Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz Diego P Peralta and Himanshu Garg 2019 TLR9 polymorphism correlates withimmune activation CD4 decline and plasma IP10 levels in HIV patients BMC Infect Dis 19 56Vargas-Medrano J Yang B Garza N T Segura-Ulate I and Perez R G (2018) Up-regulation of protective neuronal MicroRNAs byFTY720 and novel FTY720-derivatives Neuroscience letters 690 178-180Vidal-Martinez G Yang B Vargas-Medrano J and Perez R G (2018) Could alpha-Synuclein Modulation of Insulin and DopamineIdentify a Novel Link Between Parkinsons Disease and Diabetes as Well as Potential Therapies Frontiers in molecular

neuroscience 11 465

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26

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Gil-Tommee C Vidal-Martinez G Annette Reyes C Vargas-Medrano J Herrera G V Martin S M Chaparro S A andPerez R G (2019) Parkinsonian GM2 synthase knockout mice lacking mature gangliosides develop urinary dysfunction andneurogenic bladder Experimental neurology 311265-273Vidal-Martinez G Najera K Miranda JD Gil-Tommee C Yang B Vargas-Medrano J Diaz-Pacheco V Barragan J ChaparroS Vargas-Medrano J Chinnasamy R Arterburn JB Perez RG FTY720 improves behavior increases Brain Derived NeurotrophicFactor and reduces α-synuclein pathology in parkinsonian GM2+minus

mice Neuroscience httpsdoiorg101016jneuroscience201905029Tasnim N Thakur V Chattopadhyay M Joddar B (2018) The efficacy of Graphene-foams towards the adhesion proliferationand expression of neuronal-phenotype by dopaminergic neurons differentiated from mesenchymal stem cells Stem cell

international Jun 3 20183410168 doi 10115520183410168Anil Kumar S Allen SC Tasnim N Akter T Park S Kumar A Chattopadhyay M Ito Y Suggs LJ Joddar B (2019) The applicabilityof furfuryl-gelatin as a novel bioink for tissue engineering applications J Biomed Mater Res B Appl Biomater 2019 107(2)314-323 doi 101002jbmb34123 Epub 2018 Apr 15Thakur V Chattopadhyay M (2018) Early urinary markers for diabetic and other kidney diseases Current drug targets 2018 Mar19Joddar B Tasnim N Thakur V Kumar A Mccallum R Chattopadhyay M (2018) Delivery of mesenchymal stem cells fromgelatin-alginate hydrogels to stomach lumen for treatment of gastroparesis Bioengineering 2018 5(1)Camacho CV Choudhari R Gadad SS (2018) Long noncoding RNAs and cancer an overview Steroids 13393-95

IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department

Large net loss (9) of MTM faculty members over the past 5 years

Vacant Director positions (i) Center for Neuroscience (ii) Center for InfectiousDiseases and (iii) Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology

No steps have been taken to fill directors positions for more than 2 years

Neurosciences Center at the verge of collapse Only one faculty will be left at theend of this fiscal year

The size of Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology is shrinking

Lack of communication regarding vision and strategic plan for growing department

No faculty salary raises for the past 3 years

Serious concerns about recruitment retention and tenure and promotion decisionsmade in the department Faculty morale is extremely low

Lack of functional research core facility

Gradual elimination of service contracts of equipment essential for research trainingand education of graduate and medical students

A plethora of other issues with the department administration

9102019

27

Questions

Departmental Report

Psychiatry

Ricardo Salazar MDAssociate Professor Psychiatry

9102019

28

Department ReportPsychiatryPRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCIL

BY RICARDO SALAZAR MD

DATE MONDAY JULY 15 2019

Department BreakdownPlease provide the total number of faculty members in your department and break down this number by

rank Please list new faculty members that have joined your department within the last six months

Total Number of Faculty 12

Number of Instructors 1

Number of Assistant Professors 8

Number of Associate Professors 2

Number of Professors 2

New Faculty Melanie Longhurst MD Instructor

9102019

29

LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair

program director clerkship director chiefs etc

Department Chair ndash Peter M Thompson MD MS

Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Sarah L Martin MD

Combined IMPsych Residency Program Director ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD

Psychiatry Clerkship Director ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD

Child amp Adolescent Fellowship Program Director ndash Cecilia De Vargas MD

Chief Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry ndash Sarah L Martin MD

Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Program Directorndash Ricardo Salazar MD

Chief Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences ndash Ricardo Salazar MD

Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Transmountain ndash Moataz Ragheb MD

AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in your department including awards honors regional

appointments national appointments etc

El Paso Behavioral Health Consortium ndash Board Member ndash Peter M Thompson MD

714 (50) of our graduating medical students this year choose and matched our resident training programs here at Paul L FosterSchool of Medicine Department of Psychiatry (Historical record) ndash Kudos for our Department Faculty

In appreciation for exceptional contributions to the 30th volume of the J Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences ndash Author contributions and review of 271 manuscripts submitted to the journal between September 2017 and August 2018 ndash Ricardo Salazar MD ndash Young Investigator Award Committee Member and Program Committee Member-Abstracts Sub-Committee Member of theAmerican Neuropsychiatric Association (ANPA)

Initial Accreditation with commendation and no citations from ACGME for our first Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Training Program for West Texas ndash Ricardo Salazar MD

Leadership in Education and Development Certificate Program (LEAD) Fellow -1-year program accredited from the Association ofAmerican Medical Colleges (AAMC) Silvina Tonarelli MD amp Ricardo Salazar MD (Selected Award)

Fully operating Southwest Brain Bank A Brain Tissue Repository for Research in Mental Illness ndashPeter M Thompson MD

Texas State Psychiatric Physicians Public Mental Health Services Committee ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD

Texas Health and Human Services Commission Behavioral Health Advisory Committee ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP

Fellow American College of Physicians ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP FACP

9102019

30

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Abstracts 31

Publications 5 (peer-review journals)

Presentations 17 ndash National (7) and International (6)

Invited Speaker 21 (including faculty residents fellows) ndash Local amp National

Book Chapters NA

Grants McKee Foundation Award ndash our Chair - Thompson

Intramural Grants Seed Grant 1 SARP Educational Grant 2 - Salazar

President`s Collaborative Research Initiative ndashMarch 2018 - Tonarelli

Scholarly Activity

Child and Adolescent Fellowship Presentations

INTERNATIONAL

- Curanderos and Limpias Cultural psychiatry

Poster presented at 6th Annual Scientific conference of the European Association of PsychosomaticMedicine Verona Italy Drs Garza Meissner De Vargas Mehta June 2018

-Case presentation 0f 49XXXXY Same conference same authors same city

-Resilience etiology protective and risk factors presentation C De Vargas by invitation Annual WorldPediatric summit Madrid June 2018

-Parents and their Children Fantastic journey Same conference on June 2019 Berlin Germany

NATIONAL

-Development of Psychopathology in children at risk for Bipolar Disorders Drs Escamilla Peter Sangra C DeVargas S Martin C Alvarado Andrea Rios (Poster) American Academy of Child and Adolescent PsychiatryAnnual Conference Seattle WA October 2018

Frank William Meissner MD Cynthia Elizabeth Garza MDJD Sarah L Martin MD rdquoDrug-Induced BrugadaSyndrome in a Middle-Aged Female Patient Drugs EKG Diagnosis Electrophysiology and SurveillanceRecommendationrdquo American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting San Francisco CA May 21 2019

Delinquency in a group of school children at risk for bipolar disorder D Haque M Escamilla C De VargasPresented at UCLA LA Ca June 2019

9102019

31

Residency ProgramPlease provide information regarding your departmentrsquos residency program ie recent accreditation

number of residents and program updates (if applicable)

24 General Psychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)

8 Internal MedicinePsychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)

3 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellows

1 Geriatric Psychiatry Fellow- newly accredited program

IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department

RecruitmentRetention

Short staffed

Organizational Structure

Financial incentives

Protected time

Gender balance Attrition malefemale ratio 41

Program Coordinator turnover rate

Mentoring

9102019

32

Departmental Organizational

Structure

Chair

Division ChiefsProgram Directors

Clerkship Director

Adm

Organizational Structure Model

Chair

Deputy Chair for Education

Program

Directors

Deputy Chair for Research

Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs

Vicechair

9102019

33

Roles

Deputy Chair for Education

Oversee undergraduate graduate and CME including the development of teachers and educational scholars Monitor quality and safety across the department

Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs

Faculty appointments Faculty Development and Promotion andor Tenure Develop programs in different domains such as research education personal improvement and leadership Support clinical activities by improving the efficiency of operations and in helping to fit clinical programs into those in the rest of the medical center Allocation of space

Deputy Chair for Research

Develop and direct department-wide programs for faculty recruitment development and support of mentors recognition of excellence and funding of pilot grants bridge funding and grants to nurture multi-principal investigator and trans-division or trans-department projects Allocation of space among divisions

Bottom Line

We need more funds

Institutional support

The investments needed to recruit faculty are beyond the capacity of the

department`s operational revenue

Recruiting a leading investigator or one with great potential for

example may require an investment of $ 1 million and sometimes more

Endowments are the departmentrsquos foundational financial capital the

keel that maintains momentum and balance through the headwinds

and rough seas each department will navigate Endowments increase

the departmentrsquos independence in sustaining its core mission

Thus creation of endowments should be a high priority for any

department that plans for the long term and they increase capacity to

recruit the best faculty in a competitive environment

Page 22: FACULTY COUNCIL MEETING · 7/15/2019  · FACULTY COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES Monday, July 15, 2019 Noon – 1:00 p.m. MEB, Room 1120 and WebEx TTUHSC El Paso PLFSOM 7/15/2019 FACULTY

9102019

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Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Peer-reviewed publications 36 (In high-impact journals)

2018 highest impact factor (11561) journal Nucleic Acids Research

Abstracts 43

Presentations (i) Oral 11 (ii) Posters 28

Invited talks 13

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Peer-reviewed publications

Kannan A Bhatia K Branzei D and Gangwani L (2018) Combined deficiency of Senataxin and DNA-PKcscauses DNA damage accumulation and neurodegeneration in spinal muscular atrophy Nucleic Acids Research2018 Vol 46 No 16 8326-8346

Mishra I Jones C Patel V Deodhar S Cistola D P (2018) Early detection of metabolic dysregulation usingwater T2 analysis of biobanked samples Diabetes Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity Targets and Therapy 11 807-818

Patel V Dwivedi A K Deodhar S Mishra I Cistola D P (2018) Aptamer-based search for correlates of plasmaand serum water T2 Implications for early metabolic dysregulation and metabolic syndrome Biomarker Research6(1) 28

Garg H Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz T Joshi A 2018 Recent Advances in Zika Virus Vaccines Viruses Nov 1410 (11) Sundin OH Mendoza-Ladd A Zeng M Diaz-Areacutevalo D Morales E Fagan BMOrdontildeez J McCallum RW Does a

glucose-based hydrogen and methane breath test detect bacterial overgrowth in the jejunum NeurogastroenterolMotil 2018e13350

Zheng Z Diaz-Areacutevalo D Guan H and Mingtao Zeng Noninvasive vaccination against infectious diseases Humanvaccines amp immunotherapeutics 2018 14(7)1717-1733

Preeti Bharaj Chunting Ye Sean Petersen Qianghu Wang Baoli Hu N Manjunath Premlata Shankar Guohua Yi(2018) Gene array analysis of PD-1H overexpressing monocytes reveals a pro-inflammatory profile Heliyone00545

Bencomo-Alvarez AE Rubio AJ Gonzalez MA and Eiring AM Energy metabolism and drug response in myeloidleukaemic stem cells Br J Haematol 2019 In Press

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Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Peer-reviewed publications Yan D Pomicter AD Tantravahi S Mason CC Senina AV Ahmann JM Wang Q Than H Patel AB Heaton

WL Eiring AM Clair PM Gantz KC Redwine HM Swierczek SI Halverson BJ Baloglu E Shacham S KhorashadJS Kelley TW Salama ME Miles RR Boucher KM Prchal JT OHare T and Deininger MW Nuclear-cytoplasmic transport is a therapeutic target in myelofibrosis Clin Cancer Res 201925(7)2323-2335

Heipertz E Harper J Lopez CA Fikrig E Hughes ME Walker WE Circadian rhythms influence the severity of sepsis in mice via a TLR2-dependent leukocyte-intrinsic mechanism The Journal of Immunology 2018 201193-201

Khatri R Afzal MR Qureshi MA Maud A Huanyu D Jose Rodriguez G Pre-Existing Renal Failure Increases In-Hospital Mortality in Patients with Intracerebral Hemorrhage J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis 2019 Feb28(2)237-242

Zou L Lee SY Wu Q Zhang H Bastian A Orji C Payne G Galvez A Thomas T Zhang Z Dou H Facile Gene Delivery Derived from Branched Low Molecular Weight Polyethylenimine by High Efficient Chemistry J Biomed Nanotechnol 2018 Oct 114(10)1785-1795

Zhang C Brandon NR Koper K Tang P Xu Y Dou H Invasion of Peripheral Immune Cells into Brain Parenchyma after Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation Aging Dis 2018 Jun 19(3)412-425

Loza O Hernandez P Calderoacuten-Mora J Laks S Leiner M Reddy S Lara P amp Granados H (2018) Developing Trans-affirming health services in an underserved area An intersectional approach Transgender Health 3(1) 127-135

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Byrd T Calderoacuten-Mora J Salaiz R amp Shokar N (2019) Barriers and facilitators to colorectal cancer screening within a Hispanic population Hispanic Health Care International 17(1) 23-29 doi 1011771540415318818982

Haut SR Lipton RB Cornes S Dwivedi AK Wasson R Cotton S Strawn JR Privitera M (2018) Behavioral interventions as a treatment for epilepsy A multicenter randomized controlled trial Neurology 90(11) e963-e970 PMID 29444968

Jessica Bernica Sherif Elhanafi Neeharika Kalakota Yi Jia Christopher Dodoo Alok Dwivedi Robert J Sealock Kalpesh Patel Isaac Raijman Marc J Zuckerman Mohamed O Othman (2018) Cholangioscopy is safe and feasible in elderly patients Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology 16(8) 1293-1299

Benjamin D Wissel Alok K Dwivedi Danielle Chin Aristide Merola Cara Jacob Andrew P Duker Jennifer E Vaughan Lilia Lovera Kathrin LaFaver Ariel Levy Anthony E Lang Francesca Morgante Melissa J Nirenberg Christopher Stephen Nutan Sharma Alberto Romagnolo Leonardo Lopiano Bettina Balint Xin X Yu Kailash P Bhatia Alberto J Espay Functional neurological disorders in Parkinson disease Accepted for publication in Journal

of Neurology Neurosurgery amp Psychiatry 89(6)566-571

Danny J Avalos Marc J Zuckerman Alok Dwivedi Christopher Dodoo Jinendra Satiya Fernando J Castro(2018) Differences in prevalence of large polyps between Hispanic Americans from Mexican-and Non-Mexican-predominant states Digestive diseases and sciences PMID 30276570

Zeina Nahleh Salman Otoukesh Hamid Reza Mirshahidi Anthony Loc Nguyen Gayathri Nagaraj Nabeel Badri Gehan Botrus Nabih Diab Andres Alvarado Luis A Sanchez Alok K Dwivedi (2018) Disparities in breast cancer a multi-institutional comparative analysis focusing on American Hispanics Cancer Medicine (In press 05072018)

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Scholarly Activity Danny J Avalos Antonio Mendoza-Ladd Marc J Zuckerman Mohammad Bashashati Andres Alvarado Alok

Dwivedi Oriana M Damas (2018) Hispanics and Non-Hispanic Whites in the US have a Similar InflammatoryBowel Disease Phenotype A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis Digestive Diseases and Sciences 63(6)1558-1571

Aleli Campbell Rosalinda Heydarian Cecilia Ochoa Alok Kumar Dwivedi Zeina A Nahleh(2018) Single arm phaseII study of oral vitamin B12 for the treatment of musculoskeletal symptoms associated with aromatase inhibitors inwomen with early stage breast cancer The breast journal 24(3)260-268

Shaimaa Elzamly Nabeel Badri Osvaldo Padilla Alok Kumar Dwivedi Luis A Alvarado Matthew Hamilton NabihDiab Crosby Rock Ahmed Elfar Marwa Teleb Luis Sanchez Zeina Nahleh (2018) Epithelial-mesenchymaltransition markers in breast cancer and pathological responseafter neoadjuvant chemotherapy Breast Cancer

(Auckl) 2018 Aug 1121178223418788074

Jennifer C Molokwu Eribeth Penaranda Alok Dwivedi Indika Mallawaarachchi Navkiran Shokar (2018) Effect ofEducational Intervention on Self-Sampling Acceptability and Follow-Up Paps in Border Dwelling Hispanic FemalesJournal of Lower Genital Tract Disease

Ritika Suri Federico Rodriguez-Porcel Kelly Donohue Erin Jesse Lilia Lovera Alok Kumar Dwivedi Alberto JEspay (2018) Post-Stroke Movement Disorders The Clinical Neuroanatomic and Demographic Portrait of 284Published Cases Accepted for publication in Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases (In press05212018)

Zeina Nahleh Gehan Botrus Alok Dwivedi Nabeel Badri Salman Otoukesh Nabih Diab Sandip BiswasMichael Jennings Shaimaa Elzamly(2018) Clinico-pathologic disparities of breast cancer in HispanicLatina womenBreast disease 1-8

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Robert Gonzalez Trisha Suppes Jamie Zeitzer Colleen McClung Carol Tamminga Mauricio Tohen Angelica Forero Alok DwivediAndres Alvarado (2018) The association between mood state and chronobiological characteristics in bipolar I disorder a naturalisticvariable cluster analysis-based study International Journal of Bipolar Disorders 6(1)5Mohamed Teleb Aaron Shanker Alok Kumar Dwivedi Debabrata Mukherjee (2018) Effect of exercise on left ventricular mass index byechocardiography in mild and moderate hypertension a meta-analysis Res Cardiovasc Med 6(4)50-6Garnica O Das K Devasundaram S and Dhandayuthapani S Enhanced delivery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigens to antigenpresenting cells using RVG peptide Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Das K Garnica O and Dhandayuthapani S Utility of an oxidative stress response system for the expression of recombinant proteinsin mycobacteria and for the delivery of M tuberculosis antigens to the phagosomal compartments Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Palanichamy K Joshi A Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz T Fernando B Milan S Schiro F Naeem Y Garg H Braunschweig A 2019 Anti-ZikaActivity of a Library of Synthetic Carbohydrate Receptors Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 6284110-4119Anjali Joshi Erin B Punke Tugba Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz Diego P Peralta and Himanshu Garg 2019 TLR9 polymorphism correlates withimmune activation CD4 decline and plasma IP10 levels in HIV patients BMC Infect Dis 19 56Vargas-Medrano J Yang B Garza N T Segura-Ulate I and Perez R G (2018) Up-regulation of protective neuronal MicroRNAs byFTY720 and novel FTY720-derivatives Neuroscience letters 690 178-180Vidal-Martinez G Yang B Vargas-Medrano J and Perez R G (2018) Could alpha-Synuclein Modulation of Insulin and DopamineIdentify a Novel Link Between Parkinsons Disease and Diabetes as Well as Potential Therapies Frontiers in molecular

neuroscience 11 465

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Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Gil-Tommee C Vidal-Martinez G Annette Reyes C Vargas-Medrano J Herrera G V Martin S M Chaparro S A andPerez R G (2019) Parkinsonian GM2 synthase knockout mice lacking mature gangliosides develop urinary dysfunction andneurogenic bladder Experimental neurology 311265-273Vidal-Martinez G Najera K Miranda JD Gil-Tommee C Yang B Vargas-Medrano J Diaz-Pacheco V Barragan J ChaparroS Vargas-Medrano J Chinnasamy R Arterburn JB Perez RG FTY720 improves behavior increases Brain Derived NeurotrophicFactor and reduces α-synuclein pathology in parkinsonian GM2+minus

mice Neuroscience httpsdoiorg101016jneuroscience201905029Tasnim N Thakur V Chattopadhyay M Joddar B (2018) The efficacy of Graphene-foams towards the adhesion proliferationand expression of neuronal-phenotype by dopaminergic neurons differentiated from mesenchymal stem cells Stem cell

international Jun 3 20183410168 doi 10115520183410168Anil Kumar S Allen SC Tasnim N Akter T Park S Kumar A Chattopadhyay M Ito Y Suggs LJ Joddar B (2019) The applicabilityof furfuryl-gelatin as a novel bioink for tissue engineering applications J Biomed Mater Res B Appl Biomater 2019 107(2)314-323 doi 101002jbmb34123 Epub 2018 Apr 15Thakur V Chattopadhyay M (2018) Early urinary markers for diabetic and other kidney diseases Current drug targets 2018 Mar19Joddar B Tasnim N Thakur V Kumar A Mccallum R Chattopadhyay M (2018) Delivery of mesenchymal stem cells fromgelatin-alginate hydrogels to stomach lumen for treatment of gastroparesis Bioengineering 2018 5(1)Camacho CV Choudhari R Gadad SS (2018) Long noncoding RNAs and cancer an overview Steroids 13393-95

IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department

Large net loss (9) of MTM faculty members over the past 5 years

Vacant Director positions (i) Center for Neuroscience (ii) Center for InfectiousDiseases and (iii) Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology

No steps have been taken to fill directors positions for more than 2 years

Neurosciences Center at the verge of collapse Only one faculty will be left at theend of this fiscal year

The size of Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology is shrinking

Lack of communication regarding vision and strategic plan for growing department

No faculty salary raises for the past 3 years

Serious concerns about recruitment retention and tenure and promotion decisionsmade in the department Faculty morale is extremely low

Lack of functional research core facility

Gradual elimination of service contracts of equipment essential for research trainingand education of graduate and medical students

A plethora of other issues with the department administration

9102019

27

Questions

Departmental Report

Psychiatry

Ricardo Salazar MDAssociate Professor Psychiatry

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28

Department ReportPsychiatryPRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCIL

BY RICARDO SALAZAR MD

DATE MONDAY JULY 15 2019

Department BreakdownPlease provide the total number of faculty members in your department and break down this number by

rank Please list new faculty members that have joined your department within the last six months

Total Number of Faculty 12

Number of Instructors 1

Number of Assistant Professors 8

Number of Associate Professors 2

Number of Professors 2

New Faculty Melanie Longhurst MD Instructor

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LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair

program director clerkship director chiefs etc

Department Chair ndash Peter M Thompson MD MS

Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Sarah L Martin MD

Combined IMPsych Residency Program Director ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD

Psychiatry Clerkship Director ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD

Child amp Adolescent Fellowship Program Director ndash Cecilia De Vargas MD

Chief Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry ndash Sarah L Martin MD

Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Program Directorndash Ricardo Salazar MD

Chief Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences ndash Ricardo Salazar MD

Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Transmountain ndash Moataz Ragheb MD

AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in your department including awards honors regional

appointments national appointments etc

El Paso Behavioral Health Consortium ndash Board Member ndash Peter M Thompson MD

714 (50) of our graduating medical students this year choose and matched our resident training programs here at Paul L FosterSchool of Medicine Department of Psychiatry (Historical record) ndash Kudos for our Department Faculty

In appreciation for exceptional contributions to the 30th volume of the J Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences ndash Author contributions and review of 271 manuscripts submitted to the journal between September 2017 and August 2018 ndash Ricardo Salazar MD ndash Young Investigator Award Committee Member and Program Committee Member-Abstracts Sub-Committee Member of theAmerican Neuropsychiatric Association (ANPA)

Initial Accreditation with commendation and no citations from ACGME for our first Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Training Program for West Texas ndash Ricardo Salazar MD

Leadership in Education and Development Certificate Program (LEAD) Fellow -1-year program accredited from the Association ofAmerican Medical Colleges (AAMC) Silvina Tonarelli MD amp Ricardo Salazar MD (Selected Award)

Fully operating Southwest Brain Bank A Brain Tissue Repository for Research in Mental Illness ndashPeter M Thompson MD

Texas State Psychiatric Physicians Public Mental Health Services Committee ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD

Texas Health and Human Services Commission Behavioral Health Advisory Committee ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP

Fellow American College of Physicians ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP FACP

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Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Abstracts 31

Publications 5 (peer-review journals)

Presentations 17 ndash National (7) and International (6)

Invited Speaker 21 (including faculty residents fellows) ndash Local amp National

Book Chapters NA

Grants McKee Foundation Award ndash our Chair - Thompson

Intramural Grants Seed Grant 1 SARP Educational Grant 2 - Salazar

President`s Collaborative Research Initiative ndashMarch 2018 - Tonarelli

Scholarly Activity

Child and Adolescent Fellowship Presentations

INTERNATIONAL

- Curanderos and Limpias Cultural psychiatry

Poster presented at 6th Annual Scientific conference of the European Association of PsychosomaticMedicine Verona Italy Drs Garza Meissner De Vargas Mehta June 2018

-Case presentation 0f 49XXXXY Same conference same authors same city

-Resilience etiology protective and risk factors presentation C De Vargas by invitation Annual WorldPediatric summit Madrid June 2018

-Parents and their Children Fantastic journey Same conference on June 2019 Berlin Germany

NATIONAL

-Development of Psychopathology in children at risk for Bipolar Disorders Drs Escamilla Peter Sangra C DeVargas S Martin C Alvarado Andrea Rios (Poster) American Academy of Child and Adolescent PsychiatryAnnual Conference Seattle WA October 2018

Frank William Meissner MD Cynthia Elizabeth Garza MDJD Sarah L Martin MD rdquoDrug-Induced BrugadaSyndrome in a Middle-Aged Female Patient Drugs EKG Diagnosis Electrophysiology and SurveillanceRecommendationrdquo American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting San Francisco CA May 21 2019

Delinquency in a group of school children at risk for bipolar disorder D Haque M Escamilla C De VargasPresented at UCLA LA Ca June 2019

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Residency ProgramPlease provide information regarding your departmentrsquos residency program ie recent accreditation

number of residents and program updates (if applicable)

24 General Psychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)

8 Internal MedicinePsychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)

3 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellows

1 Geriatric Psychiatry Fellow- newly accredited program

IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department

RecruitmentRetention

Short staffed

Organizational Structure

Financial incentives

Protected time

Gender balance Attrition malefemale ratio 41

Program Coordinator turnover rate

Mentoring

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Departmental Organizational

Structure

Chair

Division ChiefsProgram Directors

Clerkship Director

Adm

Organizational Structure Model

Chair

Deputy Chair for Education

Program

Directors

Deputy Chair for Research

Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs

Vicechair

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Roles

Deputy Chair for Education

Oversee undergraduate graduate and CME including the development of teachers and educational scholars Monitor quality and safety across the department

Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs

Faculty appointments Faculty Development and Promotion andor Tenure Develop programs in different domains such as research education personal improvement and leadership Support clinical activities by improving the efficiency of operations and in helping to fit clinical programs into those in the rest of the medical center Allocation of space

Deputy Chair for Research

Develop and direct department-wide programs for faculty recruitment development and support of mentors recognition of excellence and funding of pilot grants bridge funding and grants to nurture multi-principal investigator and trans-division or trans-department projects Allocation of space among divisions

Bottom Line

We need more funds

Institutional support

The investments needed to recruit faculty are beyond the capacity of the

department`s operational revenue

Recruiting a leading investigator or one with great potential for

example may require an investment of $ 1 million and sometimes more

Endowments are the departmentrsquos foundational financial capital the

keel that maintains momentum and balance through the headwinds

and rough seas each department will navigate Endowments increase

the departmentrsquos independence in sustaining its core mission

Thus creation of endowments should be a high priority for any

department that plans for the long term and they increase capacity to

recruit the best faculty in a competitive environment

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Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Peer-reviewed publications Yan D Pomicter AD Tantravahi S Mason CC Senina AV Ahmann JM Wang Q Than H Patel AB Heaton

WL Eiring AM Clair PM Gantz KC Redwine HM Swierczek SI Halverson BJ Baloglu E Shacham S KhorashadJS Kelley TW Salama ME Miles RR Boucher KM Prchal JT OHare T and Deininger MW Nuclear-cytoplasmic transport is a therapeutic target in myelofibrosis Clin Cancer Res 201925(7)2323-2335

Heipertz E Harper J Lopez CA Fikrig E Hughes ME Walker WE Circadian rhythms influence the severity of sepsis in mice via a TLR2-dependent leukocyte-intrinsic mechanism The Journal of Immunology 2018 201193-201

Khatri R Afzal MR Qureshi MA Maud A Huanyu D Jose Rodriguez G Pre-Existing Renal Failure Increases In-Hospital Mortality in Patients with Intracerebral Hemorrhage J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis 2019 Feb28(2)237-242

Zou L Lee SY Wu Q Zhang H Bastian A Orji C Payne G Galvez A Thomas T Zhang Z Dou H Facile Gene Delivery Derived from Branched Low Molecular Weight Polyethylenimine by High Efficient Chemistry J Biomed Nanotechnol 2018 Oct 114(10)1785-1795

Zhang C Brandon NR Koper K Tang P Xu Y Dou H Invasion of Peripheral Immune Cells into Brain Parenchyma after Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation Aging Dis 2018 Jun 19(3)412-425

Loza O Hernandez P Calderoacuten-Mora J Laks S Leiner M Reddy S Lara P amp Granados H (2018) Developing Trans-affirming health services in an underserved area An intersectional approach Transgender Health 3(1) 127-135

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Byrd T Calderoacuten-Mora J Salaiz R amp Shokar N (2019) Barriers and facilitators to colorectal cancer screening within a Hispanic population Hispanic Health Care International 17(1) 23-29 doi 1011771540415318818982

Haut SR Lipton RB Cornes S Dwivedi AK Wasson R Cotton S Strawn JR Privitera M (2018) Behavioral interventions as a treatment for epilepsy A multicenter randomized controlled trial Neurology 90(11) e963-e970 PMID 29444968

Jessica Bernica Sherif Elhanafi Neeharika Kalakota Yi Jia Christopher Dodoo Alok Dwivedi Robert J Sealock Kalpesh Patel Isaac Raijman Marc J Zuckerman Mohamed O Othman (2018) Cholangioscopy is safe and feasible in elderly patients Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology 16(8) 1293-1299

Benjamin D Wissel Alok K Dwivedi Danielle Chin Aristide Merola Cara Jacob Andrew P Duker Jennifer E Vaughan Lilia Lovera Kathrin LaFaver Ariel Levy Anthony E Lang Francesca Morgante Melissa J Nirenberg Christopher Stephen Nutan Sharma Alberto Romagnolo Leonardo Lopiano Bettina Balint Xin X Yu Kailash P Bhatia Alberto J Espay Functional neurological disorders in Parkinson disease Accepted for publication in Journal

of Neurology Neurosurgery amp Psychiatry 89(6)566-571

Danny J Avalos Marc J Zuckerman Alok Dwivedi Christopher Dodoo Jinendra Satiya Fernando J Castro(2018) Differences in prevalence of large polyps between Hispanic Americans from Mexican-and Non-Mexican-predominant states Digestive diseases and sciences PMID 30276570

Zeina Nahleh Salman Otoukesh Hamid Reza Mirshahidi Anthony Loc Nguyen Gayathri Nagaraj Nabeel Badri Gehan Botrus Nabih Diab Andres Alvarado Luis A Sanchez Alok K Dwivedi (2018) Disparities in breast cancer a multi-institutional comparative analysis focusing on American Hispanics Cancer Medicine (In press 05072018)

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25

Scholarly Activity Danny J Avalos Antonio Mendoza-Ladd Marc J Zuckerman Mohammad Bashashati Andres Alvarado Alok

Dwivedi Oriana M Damas (2018) Hispanics and Non-Hispanic Whites in the US have a Similar InflammatoryBowel Disease Phenotype A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis Digestive Diseases and Sciences 63(6)1558-1571

Aleli Campbell Rosalinda Heydarian Cecilia Ochoa Alok Kumar Dwivedi Zeina A Nahleh(2018) Single arm phaseII study of oral vitamin B12 for the treatment of musculoskeletal symptoms associated with aromatase inhibitors inwomen with early stage breast cancer The breast journal 24(3)260-268

Shaimaa Elzamly Nabeel Badri Osvaldo Padilla Alok Kumar Dwivedi Luis A Alvarado Matthew Hamilton NabihDiab Crosby Rock Ahmed Elfar Marwa Teleb Luis Sanchez Zeina Nahleh (2018) Epithelial-mesenchymaltransition markers in breast cancer and pathological responseafter neoadjuvant chemotherapy Breast Cancer

(Auckl) 2018 Aug 1121178223418788074

Jennifer C Molokwu Eribeth Penaranda Alok Dwivedi Indika Mallawaarachchi Navkiran Shokar (2018) Effect ofEducational Intervention on Self-Sampling Acceptability and Follow-Up Paps in Border Dwelling Hispanic FemalesJournal of Lower Genital Tract Disease

Ritika Suri Federico Rodriguez-Porcel Kelly Donohue Erin Jesse Lilia Lovera Alok Kumar Dwivedi Alberto JEspay (2018) Post-Stroke Movement Disorders The Clinical Neuroanatomic and Demographic Portrait of 284Published Cases Accepted for publication in Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases (In press05212018)

Zeina Nahleh Gehan Botrus Alok Dwivedi Nabeel Badri Salman Otoukesh Nabih Diab Sandip BiswasMichael Jennings Shaimaa Elzamly(2018) Clinico-pathologic disparities of breast cancer in HispanicLatina womenBreast disease 1-8

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Robert Gonzalez Trisha Suppes Jamie Zeitzer Colleen McClung Carol Tamminga Mauricio Tohen Angelica Forero Alok DwivediAndres Alvarado (2018) The association between mood state and chronobiological characteristics in bipolar I disorder a naturalisticvariable cluster analysis-based study International Journal of Bipolar Disorders 6(1)5Mohamed Teleb Aaron Shanker Alok Kumar Dwivedi Debabrata Mukherjee (2018) Effect of exercise on left ventricular mass index byechocardiography in mild and moderate hypertension a meta-analysis Res Cardiovasc Med 6(4)50-6Garnica O Das K Devasundaram S and Dhandayuthapani S Enhanced delivery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigens to antigenpresenting cells using RVG peptide Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Das K Garnica O and Dhandayuthapani S Utility of an oxidative stress response system for the expression of recombinant proteinsin mycobacteria and for the delivery of M tuberculosis antigens to the phagosomal compartments Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Palanichamy K Joshi A Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz T Fernando B Milan S Schiro F Naeem Y Garg H Braunschweig A 2019 Anti-ZikaActivity of a Library of Synthetic Carbohydrate Receptors Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 6284110-4119Anjali Joshi Erin B Punke Tugba Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz Diego P Peralta and Himanshu Garg 2019 TLR9 polymorphism correlates withimmune activation CD4 decline and plasma IP10 levels in HIV patients BMC Infect Dis 19 56Vargas-Medrano J Yang B Garza N T Segura-Ulate I and Perez R G (2018) Up-regulation of protective neuronal MicroRNAs byFTY720 and novel FTY720-derivatives Neuroscience letters 690 178-180Vidal-Martinez G Yang B Vargas-Medrano J and Perez R G (2018) Could alpha-Synuclein Modulation of Insulin and DopamineIdentify a Novel Link Between Parkinsons Disease and Diabetes as Well as Potential Therapies Frontiers in molecular

neuroscience 11 465

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26

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Gil-Tommee C Vidal-Martinez G Annette Reyes C Vargas-Medrano J Herrera G V Martin S M Chaparro S A andPerez R G (2019) Parkinsonian GM2 synthase knockout mice lacking mature gangliosides develop urinary dysfunction andneurogenic bladder Experimental neurology 311265-273Vidal-Martinez G Najera K Miranda JD Gil-Tommee C Yang B Vargas-Medrano J Diaz-Pacheco V Barragan J ChaparroS Vargas-Medrano J Chinnasamy R Arterburn JB Perez RG FTY720 improves behavior increases Brain Derived NeurotrophicFactor and reduces α-synuclein pathology in parkinsonian GM2+minus

mice Neuroscience httpsdoiorg101016jneuroscience201905029Tasnim N Thakur V Chattopadhyay M Joddar B (2018) The efficacy of Graphene-foams towards the adhesion proliferationand expression of neuronal-phenotype by dopaminergic neurons differentiated from mesenchymal stem cells Stem cell

international Jun 3 20183410168 doi 10115520183410168Anil Kumar S Allen SC Tasnim N Akter T Park S Kumar A Chattopadhyay M Ito Y Suggs LJ Joddar B (2019) The applicabilityof furfuryl-gelatin as a novel bioink for tissue engineering applications J Biomed Mater Res B Appl Biomater 2019 107(2)314-323 doi 101002jbmb34123 Epub 2018 Apr 15Thakur V Chattopadhyay M (2018) Early urinary markers for diabetic and other kidney diseases Current drug targets 2018 Mar19Joddar B Tasnim N Thakur V Kumar A Mccallum R Chattopadhyay M (2018) Delivery of mesenchymal stem cells fromgelatin-alginate hydrogels to stomach lumen for treatment of gastroparesis Bioengineering 2018 5(1)Camacho CV Choudhari R Gadad SS (2018) Long noncoding RNAs and cancer an overview Steroids 13393-95

IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department

Large net loss (9) of MTM faculty members over the past 5 years

Vacant Director positions (i) Center for Neuroscience (ii) Center for InfectiousDiseases and (iii) Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology

No steps have been taken to fill directors positions for more than 2 years

Neurosciences Center at the verge of collapse Only one faculty will be left at theend of this fiscal year

The size of Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology is shrinking

Lack of communication regarding vision and strategic plan for growing department

No faculty salary raises for the past 3 years

Serious concerns about recruitment retention and tenure and promotion decisionsmade in the department Faculty morale is extremely low

Lack of functional research core facility

Gradual elimination of service contracts of equipment essential for research trainingand education of graduate and medical students

A plethora of other issues with the department administration

9102019

27

Questions

Departmental Report

Psychiatry

Ricardo Salazar MDAssociate Professor Psychiatry

9102019

28

Department ReportPsychiatryPRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCIL

BY RICARDO SALAZAR MD

DATE MONDAY JULY 15 2019

Department BreakdownPlease provide the total number of faculty members in your department and break down this number by

rank Please list new faculty members that have joined your department within the last six months

Total Number of Faculty 12

Number of Instructors 1

Number of Assistant Professors 8

Number of Associate Professors 2

Number of Professors 2

New Faculty Melanie Longhurst MD Instructor

9102019

29

LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair

program director clerkship director chiefs etc

Department Chair ndash Peter M Thompson MD MS

Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Sarah L Martin MD

Combined IMPsych Residency Program Director ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD

Psychiatry Clerkship Director ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD

Child amp Adolescent Fellowship Program Director ndash Cecilia De Vargas MD

Chief Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry ndash Sarah L Martin MD

Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Program Directorndash Ricardo Salazar MD

Chief Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences ndash Ricardo Salazar MD

Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Transmountain ndash Moataz Ragheb MD

AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in your department including awards honors regional

appointments national appointments etc

El Paso Behavioral Health Consortium ndash Board Member ndash Peter M Thompson MD

714 (50) of our graduating medical students this year choose and matched our resident training programs here at Paul L FosterSchool of Medicine Department of Psychiatry (Historical record) ndash Kudos for our Department Faculty

In appreciation for exceptional contributions to the 30th volume of the J Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences ndash Author contributions and review of 271 manuscripts submitted to the journal between September 2017 and August 2018 ndash Ricardo Salazar MD ndash Young Investigator Award Committee Member and Program Committee Member-Abstracts Sub-Committee Member of theAmerican Neuropsychiatric Association (ANPA)

Initial Accreditation with commendation and no citations from ACGME for our first Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Training Program for West Texas ndash Ricardo Salazar MD

Leadership in Education and Development Certificate Program (LEAD) Fellow -1-year program accredited from the Association ofAmerican Medical Colleges (AAMC) Silvina Tonarelli MD amp Ricardo Salazar MD (Selected Award)

Fully operating Southwest Brain Bank A Brain Tissue Repository for Research in Mental Illness ndashPeter M Thompson MD

Texas State Psychiatric Physicians Public Mental Health Services Committee ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD

Texas Health and Human Services Commission Behavioral Health Advisory Committee ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP

Fellow American College of Physicians ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP FACP

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30

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Abstracts 31

Publications 5 (peer-review journals)

Presentations 17 ndash National (7) and International (6)

Invited Speaker 21 (including faculty residents fellows) ndash Local amp National

Book Chapters NA

Grants McKee Foundation Award ndash our Chair - Thompson

Intramural Grants Seed Grant 1 SARP Educational Grant 2 - Salazar

President`s Collaborative Research Initiative ndashMarch 2018 - Tonarelli

Scholarly Activity

Child and Adolescent Fellowship Presentations

INTERNATIONAL

- Curanderos and Limpias Cultural psychiatry

Poster presented at 6th Annual Scientific conference of the European Association of PsychosomaticMedicine Verona Italy Drs Garza Meissner De Vargas Mehta June 2018

-Case presentation 0f 49XXXXY Same conference same authors same city

-Resilience etiology protective and risk factors presentation C De Vargas by invitation Annual WorldPediatric summit Madrid June 2018

-Parents and their Children Fantastic journey Same conference on June 2019 Berlin Germany

NATIONAL

-Development of Psychopathology in children at risk for Bipolar Disorders Drs Escamilla Peter Sangra C DeVargas S Martin C Alvarado Andrea Rios (Poster) American Academy of Child and Adolescent PsychiatryAnnual Conference Seattle WA October 2018

Frank William Meissner MD Cynthia Elizabeth Garza MDJD Sarah L Martin MD rdquoDrug-Induced BrugadaSyndrome in a Middle-Aged Female Patient Drugs EKG Diagnosis Electrophysiology and SurveillanceRecommendationrdquo American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting San Francisco CA May 21 2019

Delinquency in a group of school children at risk for bipolar disorder D Haque M Escamilla C De VargasPresented at UCLA LA Ca June 2019

9102019

31

Residency ProgramPlease provide information regarding your departmentrsquos residency program ie recent accreditation

number of residents and program updates (if applicable)

24 General Psychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)

8 Internal MedicinePsychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)

3 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellows

1 Geriatric Psychiatry Fellow- newly accredited program

IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department

RecruitmentRetention

Short staffed

Organizational Structure

Financial incentives

Protected time

Gender balance Attrition malefemale ratio 41

Program Coordinator turnover rate

Mentoring

9102019

32

Departmental Organizational

Structure

Chair

Division ChiefsProgram Directors

Clerkship Director

Adm

Organizational Structure Model

Chair

Deputy Chair for Education

Program

Directors

Deputy Chair for Research

Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs

Vicechair

9102019

33

Roles

Deputy Chair for Education

Oversee undergraduate graduate and CME including the development of teachers and educational scholars Monitor quality and safety across the department

Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs

Faculty appointments Faculty Development and Promotion andor Tenure Develop programs in different domains such as research education personal improvement and leadership Support clinical activities by improving the efficiency of operations and in helping to fit clinical programs into those in the rest of the medical center Allocation of space

Deputy Chair for Research

Develop and direct department-wide programs for faculty recruitment development and support of mentors recognition of excellence and funding of pilot grants bridge funding and grants to nurture multi-principal investigator and trans-division or trans-department projects Allocation of space among divisions

Bottom Line

We need more funds

Institutional support

The investments needed to recruit faculty are beyond the capacity of the

department`s operational revenue

Recruiting a leading investigator or one with great potential for

example may require an investment of $ 1 million and sometimes more

Endowments are the departmentrsquos foundational financial capital the

keel that maintains momentum and balance through the headwinds

and rough seas each department will navigate Endowments increase

the departmentrsquos independence in sustaining its core mission

Thus creation of endowments should be a high priority for any

department that plans for the long term and they increase capacity to

recruit the best faculty in a competitive environment

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25

Scholarly Activity Danny J Avalos Antonio Mendoza-Ladd Marc J Zuckerman Mohammad Bashashati Andres Alvarado Alok

Dwivedi Oriana M Damas (2018) Hispanics and Non-Hispanic Whites in the US have a Similar InflammatoryBowel Disease Phenotype A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis Digestive Diseases and Sciences 63(6)1558-1571

Aleli Campbell Rosalinda Heydarian Cecilia Ochoa Alok Kumar Dwivedi Zeina A Nahleh(2018) Single arm phaseII study of oral vitamin B12 for the treatment of musculoskeletal symptoms associated with aromatase inhibitors inwomen with early stage breast cancer The breast journal 24(3)260-268

Shaimaa Elzamly Nabeel Badri Osvaldo Padilla Alok Kumar Dwivedi Luis A Alvarado Matthew Hamilton NabihDiab Crosby Rock Ahmed Elfar Marwa Teleb Luis Sanchez Zeina Nahleh (2018) Epithelial-mesenchymaltransition markers in breast cancer and pathological responseafter neoadjuvant chemotherapy Breast Cancer

(Auckl) 2018 Aug 1121178223418788074

Jennifer C Molokwu Eribeth Penaranda Alok Dwivedi Indika Mallawaarachchi Navkiran Shokar (2018) Effect ofEducational Intervention on Self-Sampling Acceptability and Follow-Up Paps in Border Dwelling Hispanic FemalesJournal of Lower Genital Tract Disease

Ritika Suri Federico Rodriguez-Porcel Kelly Donohue Erin Jesse Lilia Lovera Alok Kumar Dwivedi Alberto JEspay (2018) Post-Stroke Movement Disorders The Clinical Neuroanatomic and Demographic Portrait of 284Published Cases Accepted for publication in Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases (In press05212018)

Zeina Nahleh Gehan Botrus Alok Dwivedi Nabeel Badri Salman Otoukesh Nabih Diab Sandip BiswasMichael Jennings Shaimaa Elzamly(2018) Clinico-pathologic disparities of breast cancer in HispanicLatina womenBreast disease 1-8

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Robert Gonzalez Trisha Suppes Jamie Zeitzer Colleen McClung Carol Tamminga Mauricio Tohen Angelica Forero Alok DwivediAndres Alvarado (2018) The association between mood state and chronobiological characteristics in bipolar I disorder a naturalisticvariable cluster analysis-based study International Journal of Bipolar Disorders 6(1)5Mohamed Teleb Aaron Shanker Alok Kumar Dwivedi Debabrata Mukherjee (2018) Effect of exercise on left ventricular mass index byechocardiography in mild and moderate hypertension a meta-analysis Res Cardiovasc Med 6(4)50-6Garnica O Das K Devasundaram S and Dhandayuthapani S Enhanced delivery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigens to antigenpresenting cells using RVG peptide Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Das K Garnica O and Dhandayuthapani S Utility of an oxidative stress response system for the expression of recombinant proteinsin mycobacteria and for the delivery of M tuberculosis antigens to the phagosomal compartments Tuberculosis (in Press 2018)Palanichamy K Joshi A Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz T Fernando B Milan S Schiro F Naeem Y Garg H Braunschweig A 2019 Anti-ZikaActivity of a Library of Synthetic Carbohydrate Receptors Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 6284110-4119Anjali Joshi Erin B Punke Tugba Mehmetoglu-Gurbuz Diego P Peralta and Himanshu Garg 2019 TLR9 polymorphism correlates withimmune activation CD4 decline and plasma IP10 levels in HIV patients BMC Infect Dis 19 56Vargas-Medrano J Yang B Garza N T Segura-Ulate I and Perez R G (2018) Up-regulation of protective neuronal MicroRNAs byFTY720 and novel FTY720-derivatives Neuroscience letters 690 178-180Vidal-Martinez G Yang B Vargas-Medrano J and Perez R G (2018) Could alpha-Synuclein Modulation of Insulin and DopamineIdentify a Novel Link Between Parkinsons Disease and Diabetes as Well as Potential Therapies Frontiers in molecular

neuroscience 11 465

9102019

26

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Gil-Tommee C Vidal-Martinez G Annette Reyes C Vargas-Medrano J Herrera G V Martin S M Chaparro S A andPerez R G (2019) Parkinsonian GM2 synthase knockout mice lacking mature gangliosides develop urinary dysfunction andneurogenic bladder Experimental neurology 311265-273Vidal-Martinez G Najera K Miranda JD Gil-Tommee C Yang B Vargas-Medrano J Diaz-Pacheco V Barragan J ChaparroS Vargas-Medrano J Chinnasamy R Arterburn JB Perez RG FTY720 improves behavior increases Brain Derived NeurotrophicFactor and reduces α-synuclein pathology in parkinsonian GM2+minus

mice Neuroscience httpsdoiorg101016jneuroscience201905029Tasnim N Thakur V Chattopadhyay M Joddar B (2018) The efficacy of Graphene-foams towards the adhesion proliferationand expression of neuronal-phenotype by dopaminergic neurons differentiated from mesenchymal stem cells Stem cell

international Jun 3 20183410168 doi 10115520183410168Anil Kumar S Allen SC Tasnim N Akter T Park S Kumar A Chattopadhyay M Ito Y Suggs LJ Joddar B (2019) The applicabilityof furfuryl-gelatin as a novel bioink for tissue engineering applications J Biomed Mater Res B Appl Biomater 2019 107(2)314-323 doi 101002jbmb34123 Epub 2018 Apr 15Thakur V Chattopadhyay M (2018) Early urinary markers for diabetic and other kidney diseases Current drug targets 2018 Mar19Joddar B Tasnim N Thakur V Kumar A Mccallum R Chattopadhyay M (2018) Delivery of mesenchymal stem cells fromgelatin-alginate hydrogels to stomach lumen for treatment of gastroparesis Bioengineering 2018 5(1)Camacho CV Choudhari R Gadad SS (2018) Long noncoding RNAs and cancer an overview Steroids 13393-95

IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department

Large net loss (9) of MTM faculty members over the past 5 years

Vacant Director positions (i) Center for Neuroscience (ii) Center for InfectiousDiseases and (iii) Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology

No steps have been taken to fill directors positions for more than 2 years

Neurosciences Center at the verge of collapse Only one faculty will be left at theend of this fiscal year

The size of Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology is shrinking

Lack of communication regarding vision and strategic plan for growing department

No faculty salary raises for the past 3 years

Serious concerns about recruitment retention and tenure and promotion decisionsmade in the department Faculty morale is extremely low

Lack of functional research core facility

Gradual elimination of service contracts of equipment essential for research trainingand education of graduate and medical students

A plethora of other issues with the department administration

9102019

27

Questions

Departmental Report

Psychiatry

Ricardo Salazar MDAssociate Professor Psychiatry

9102019

28

Department ReportPsychiatryPRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCIL

BY RICARDO SALAZAR MD

DATE MONDAY JULY 15 2019

Department BreakdownPlease provide the total number of faculty members in your department and break down this number by

rank Please list new faculty members that have joined your department within the last six months

Total Number of Faculty 12

Number of Instructors 1

Number of Assistant Professors 8

Number of Associate Professors 2

Number of Professors 2

New Faculty Melanie Longhurst MD Instructor

9102019

29

LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair

program director clerkship director chiefs etc

Department Chair ndash Peter M Thompson MD MS

Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Sarah L Martin MD

Combined IMPsych Residency Program Director ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD

Psychiatry Clerkship Director ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD

Child amp Adolescent Fellowship Program Director ndash Cecilia De Vargas MD

Chief Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry ndash Sarah L Martin MD

Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Program Directorndash Ricardo Salazar MD

Chief Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences ndash Ricardo Salazar MD

Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Transmountain ndash Moataz Ragheb MD

AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in your department including awards honors regional

appointments national appointments etc

El Paso Behavioral Health Consortium ndash Board Member ndash Peter M Thompson MD

714 (50) of our graduating medical students this year choose and matched our resident training programs here at Paul L FosterSchool of Medicine Department of Psychiatry (Historical record) ndash Kudos for our Department Faculty

In appreciation for exceptional contributions to the 30th volume of the J Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences ndash Author contributions and review of 271 manuscripts submitted to the journal between September 2017 and August 2018 ndash Ricardo Salazar MD ndash Young Investigator Award Committee Member and Program Committee Member-Abstracts Sub-Committee Member of theAmerican Neuropsychiatric Association (ANPA)

Initial Accreditation with commendation and no citations from ACGME for our first Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Training Program for West Texas ndash Ricardo Salazar MD

Leadership in Education and Development Certificate Program (LEAD) Fellow -1-year program accredited from the Association ofAmerican Medical Colleges (AAMC) Silvina Tonarelli MD amp Ricardo Salazar MD (Selected Award)

Fully operating Southwest Brain Bank A Brain Tissue Repository for Research in Mental Illness ndashPeter M Thompson MD

Texas State Psychiatric Physicians Public Mental Health Services Committee ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD

Texas Health and Human Services Commission Behavioral Health Advisory Committee ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP

Fellow American College of Physicians ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP FACP

9102019

30

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Abstracts 31

Publications 5 (peer-review journals)

Presentations 17 ndash National (7) and International (6)

Invited Speaker 21 (including faculty residents fellows) ndash Local amp National

Book Chapters NA

Grants McKee Foundation Award ndash our Chair - Thompson

Intramural Grants Seed Grant 1 SARP Educational Grant 2 - Salazar

President`s Collaborative Research Initiative ndashMarch 2018 - Tonarelli

Scholarly Activity

Child and Adolescent Fellowship Presentations

INTERNATIONAL

- Curanderos and Limpias Cultural psychiatry

Poster presented at 6th Annual Scientific conference of the European Association of PsychosomaticMedicine Verona Italy Drs Garza Meissner De Vargas Mehta June 2018

-Case presentation 0f 49XXXXY Same conference same authors same city

-Resilience etiology protective and risk factors presentation C De Vargas by invitation Annual WorldPediatric summit Madrid June 2018

-Parents and their Children Fantastic journey Same conference on June 2019 Berlin Germany

NATIONAL

-Development of Psychopathology in children at risk for Bipolar Disorders Drs Escamilla Peter Sangra C DeVargas S Martin C Alvarado Andrea Rios (Poster) American Academy of Child and Adolescent PsychiatryAnnual Conference Seattle WA October 2018

Frank William Meissner MD Cynthia Elizabeth Garza MDJD Sarah L Martin MD rdquoDrug-Induced BrugadaSyndrome in a Middle-Aged Female Patient Drugs EKG Diagnosis Electrophysiology and SurveillanceRecommendationrdquo American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting San Francisco CA May 21 2019

Delinquency in a group of school children at risk for bipolar disorder D Haque M Escamilla C De VargasPresented at UCLA LA Ca June 2019

9102019

31

Residency ProgramPlease provide information regarding your departmentrsquos residency program ie recent accreditation

number of residents and program updates (if applicable)

24 General Psychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)

8 Internal MedicinePsychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)

3 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellows

1 Geriatric Psychiatry Fellow- newly accredited program

IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department

RecruitmentRetention

Short staffed

Organizational Structure

Financial incentives

Protected time

Gender balance Attrition malefemale ratio 41

Program Coordinator turnover rate

Mentoring

9102019

32

Departmental Organizational

Structure

Chair

Division ChiefsProgram Directors

Clerkship Director

Adm

Organizational Structure Model

Chair

Deputy Chair for Education

Program

Directors

Deputy Chair for Research

Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs

Vicechair

9102019

33

Roles

Deputy Chair for Education

Oversee undergraduate graduate and CME including the development of teachers and educational scholars Monitor quality and safety across the department

Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs

Faculty appointments Faculty Development and Promotion andor Tenure Develop programs in different domains such as research education personal improvement and leadership Support clinical activities by improving the efficiency of operations and in helping to fit clinical programs into those in the rest of the medical center Allocation of space

Deputy Chair for Research

Develop and direct department-wide programs for faculty recruitment development and support of mentors recognition of excellence and funding of pilot grants bridge funding and grants to nurture multi-principal investigator and trans-division or trans-department projects Allocation of space among divisions

Bottom Line

We need more funds

Institutional support

The investments needed to recruit faculty are beyond the capacity of the

department`s operational revenue

Recruiting a leading investigator or one with great potential for

example may require an investment of $ 1 million and sometimes more

Endowments are the departmentrsquos foundational financial capital the

keel that maintains momentum and balance through the headwinds

and rough seas each department will navigate Endowments increase

the departmentrsquos independence in sustaining its core mission

Thus creation of endowments should be a high priority for any

department that plans for the long term and they increase capacity to

recruit the best faculty in a competitive environment

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9102019

26

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Gil-Tommee C Vidal-Martinez G Annette Reyes C Vargas-Medrano J Herrera G V Martin S M Chaparro S A andPerez R G (2019) Parkinsonian GM2 synthase knockout mice lacking mature gangliosides develop urinary dysfunction andneurogenic bladder Experimental neurology 311265-273Vidal-Martinez G Najera K Miranda JD Gil-Tommee C Yang B Vargas-Medrano J Diaz-Pacheco V Barragan J ChaparroS Vargas-Medrano J Chinnasamy R Arterburn JB Perez RG FTY720 improves behavior increases Brain Derived NeurotrophicFactor and reduces α-synuclein pathology in parkinsonian GM2+minus

mice Neuroscience httpsdoiorg101016jneuroscience201905029Tasnim N Thakur V Chattopadhyay M Joddar B (2018) The efficacy of Graphene-foams towards the adhesion proliferationand expression of neuronal-phenotype by dopaminergic neurons differentiated from mesenchymal stem cells Stem cell

international Jun 3 20183410168 doi 10115520183410168Anil Kumar S Allen SC Tasnim N Akter T Park S Kumar A Chattopadhyay M Ito Y Suggs LJ Joddar B (2019) The applicabilityof furfuryl-gelatin as a novel bioink for tissue engineering applications J Biomed Mater Res B Appl Biomater 2019 107(2)314-323 doi 101002jbmb34123 Epub 2018 Apr 15Thakur V Chattopadhyay M (2018) Early urinary markers for diabetic and other kidney diseases Current drug targets 2018 Mar19Joddar B Tasnim N Thakur V Kumar A Mccallum R Chattopadhyay M (2018) Delivery of mesenchymal stem cells fromgelatin-alginate hydrogels to stomach lumen for treatment of gastroparesis Bioengineering 2018 5(1)Camacho CV Choudhari R Gadad SS (2018) Long noncoding RNAs and cancer an overview Steroids 13393-95

IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department

Large net loss (9) of MTM faculty members over the past 5 years

Vacant Director positions (i) Center for Neuroscience (ii) Center for InfectiousDiseases and (iii) Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology

No steps have been taken to fill directors positions for more than 2 years

Neurosciences Center at the verge of collapse Only one faculty will be left at theend of this fiscal year

The size of Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology is shrinking

Lack of communication regarding vision and strategic plan for growing department

No faculty salary raises for the past 3 years

Serious concerns about recruitment retention and tenure and promotion decisionsmade in the department Faculty morale is extremely low

Lack of functional research core facility

Gradual elimination of service contracts of equipment essential for research trainingand education of graduate and medical students

A plethora of other issues with the department administration

9102019

27

Questions

Departmental Report

Psychiatry

Ricardo Salazar MDAssociate Professor Psychiatry

9102019

28

Department ReportPsychiatryPRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCIL

BY RICARDO SALAZAR MD

DATE MONDAY JULY 15 2019

Department BreakdownPlease provide the total number of faculty members in your department and break down this number by

rank Please list new faculty members that have joined your department within the last six months

Total Number of Faculty 12

Number of Instructors 1

Number of Assistant Professors 8

Number of Associate Professors 2

Number of Professors 2

New Faculty Melanie Longhurst MD Instructor

9102019

29

LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair

program director clerkship director chiefs etc

Department Chair ndash Peter M Thompson MD MS

Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Sarah L Martin MD

Combined IMPsych Residency Program Director ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD

Psychiatry Clerkship Director ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD

Child amp Adolescent Fellowship Program Director ndash Cecilia De Vargas MD

Chief Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry ndash Sarah L Martin MD

Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Program Directorndash Ricardo Salazar MD

Chief Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences ndash Ricardo Salazar MD

Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Transmountain ndash Moataz Ragheb MD

AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in your department including awards honors regional

appointments national appointments etc

El Paso Behavioral Health Consortium ndash Board Member ndash Peter M Thompson MD

714 (50) of our graduating medical students this year choose and matched our resident training programs here at Paul L FosterSchool of Medicine Department of Psychiatry (Historical record) ndash Kudos for our Department Faculty

In appreciation for exceptional contributions to the 30th volume of the J Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences ndash Author contributions and review of 271 manuscripts submitted to the journal between September 2017 and August 2018 ndash Ricardo Salazar MD ndash Young Investigator Award Committee Member and Program Committee Member-Abstracts Sub-Committee Member of theAmerican Neuropsychiatric Association (ANPA)

Initial Accreditation with commendation and no citations from ACGME for our first Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Training Program for West Texas ndash Ricardo Salazar MD

Leadership in Education and Development Certificate Program (LEAD) Fellow -1-year program accredited from the Association ofAmerican Medical Colleges (AAMC) Silvina Tonarelli MD amp Ricardo Salazar MD (Selected Award)

Fully operating Southwest Brain Bank A Brain Tissue Repository for Research in Mental Illness ndashPeter M Thompson MD

Texas State Psychiatric Physicians Public Mental Health Services Committee ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD

Texas Health and Human Services Commission Behavioral Health Advisory Committee ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP

Fellow American College of Physicians ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP FACP

9102019

30

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Abstracts 31

Publications 5 (peer-review journals)

Presentations 17 ndash National (7) and International (6)

Invited Speaker 21 (including faculty residents fellows) ndash Local amp National

Book Chapters NA

Grants McKee Foundation Award ndash our Chair - Thompson

Intramural Grants Seed Grant 1 SARP Educational Grant 2 - Salazar

President`s Collaborative Research Initiative ndashMarch 2018 - Tonarelli

Scholarly Activity

Child and Adolescent Fellowship Presentations

INTERNATIONAL

- Curanderos and Limpias Cultural psychiatry

Poster presented at 6th Annual Scientific conference of the European Association of PsychosomaticMedicine Verona Italy Drs Garza Meissner De Vargas Mehta June 2018

-Case presentation 0f 49XXXXY Same conference same authors same city

-Resilience etiology protective and risk factors presentation C De Vargas by invitation Annual WorldPediatric summit Madrid June 2018

-Parents and their Children Fantastic journey Same conference on June 2019 Berlin Germany

NATIONAL

-Development of Psychopathology in children at risk for Bipolar Disorders Drs Escamilla Peter Sangra C DeVargas S Martin C Alvarado Andrea Rios (Poster) American Academy of Child and Adolescent PsychiatryAnnual Conference Seattle WA October 2018

Frank William Meissner MD Cynthia Elizabeth Garza MDJD Sarah L Martin MD rdquoDrug-Induced BrugadaSyndrome in a Middle-Aged Female Patient Drugs EKG Diagnosis Electrophysiology and SurveillanceRecommendationrdquo American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting San Francisco CA May 21 2019

Delinquency in a group of school children at risk for bipolar disorder D Haque M Escamilla C De VargasPresented at UCLA LA Ca June 2019

9102019

31

Residency ProgramPlease provide information regarding your departmentrsquos residency program ie recent accreditation

number of residents and program updates (if applicable)

24 General Psychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)

8 Internal MedicinePsychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)

3 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellows

1 Geriatric Psychiatry Fellow- newly accredited program

IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department

RecruitmentRetention

Short staffed

Organizational Structure

Financial incentives

Protected time

Gender balance Attrition malefemale ratio 41

Program Coordinator turnover rate

Mentoring

9102019

32

Departmental Organizational

Structure

Chair

Division ChiefsProgram Directors

Clerkship Director

Adm

Organizational Structure Model

Chair

Deputy Chair for Education

Program

Directors

Deputy Chair for Research

Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs

Vicechair

9102019

33

Roles

Deputy Chair for Education

Oversee undergraduate graduate and CME including the development of teachers and educational scholars Monitor quality and safety across the department

Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs

Faculty appointments Faculty Development and Promotion andor Tenure Develop programs in different domains such as research education personal improvement and leadership Support clinical activities by improving the efficiency of operations and in helping to fit clinical programs into those in the rest of the medical center Allocation of space

Deputy Chair for Research

Develop and direct department-wide programs for faculty recruitment development and support of mentors recognition of excellence and funding of pilot grants bridge funding and grants to nurture multi-principal investigator and trans-division or trans-department projects Allocation of space among divisions

Bottom Line

We need more funds

Institutional support

The investments needed to recruit faculty are beyond the capacity of the

department`s operational revenue

Recruiting a leading investigator or one with great potential for

example may require an investment of $ 1 million and sometimes more

Endowments are the departmentrsquos foundational financial capital the

keel that maintains momentum and balance through the headwinds

and rough seas each department will navigate Endowments increase

the departmentrsquos independence in sustaining its core mission

Thus creation of endowments should be a high priority for any

department that plans for the long term and they increase capacity to

recruit the best faculty in a competitive environment

Page 26: FACULTY COUNCIL MEETING · 7/15/2019  · FACULTY COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES Monday, July 15, 2019 Noon – 1:00 p.m. MEB, Room 1120 and WebEx TTUHSC El Paso PLFSOM 7/15/2019 FACULTY

9102019

27

Questions

Departmental Report

Psychiatry

Ricardo Salazar MDAssociate Professor Psychiatry

9102019

28

Department ReportPsychiatryPRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCIL

BY RICARDO SALAZAR MD

DATE MONDAY JULY 15 2019

Department BreakdownPlease provide the total number of faculty members in your department and break down this number by

rank Please list new faculty members that have joined your department within the last six months

Total Number of Faculty 12

Number of Instructors 1

Number of Assistant Professors 8

Number of Associate Professors 2

Number of Professors 2

New Faculty Melanie Longhurst MD Instructor

9102019

29

LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair

program director clerkship director chiefs etc

Department Chair ndash Peter M Thompson MD MS

Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Sarah L Martin MD

Combined IMPsych Residency Program Director ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD

Psychiatry Clerkship Director ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD

Child amp Adolescent Fellowship Program Director ndash Cecilia De Vargas MD

Chief Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry ndash Sarah L Martin MD

Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Program Directorndash Ricardo Salazar MD

Chief Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences ndash Ricardo Salazar MD

Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Transmountain ndash Moataz Ragheb MD

AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in your department including awards honors regional

appointments national appointments etc

El Paso Behavioral Health Consortium ndash Board Member ndash Peter M Thompson MD

714 (50) of our graduating medical students this year choose and matched our resident training programs here at Paul L FosterSchool of Medicine Department of Psychiatry (Historical record) ndash Kudos for our Department Faculty

In appreciation for exceptional contributions to the 30th volume of the J Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences ndash Author contributions and review of 271 manuscripts submitted to the journal between September 2017 and August 2018 ndash Ricardo Salazar MD ndash Young Investigator Award Committee Member and Program Committee Member-Abstracts Sub-Committee Member of theAmerican Neuropsychiatric Association (ANPA)

Initial Accreditation with commendation and no citations from ACGME for our first Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Training Program for West Texas ndash Ricardo Salazar MD

Leadership in Education and Development Certificate Program (LEAD) Fellow -1-year program accredited from the Association ofAmerican Medical Colleges (AAMC) Silvina Tonarelli MD amp Ricardo Salazar MD (Selected Award)

Fully operating Southwest Brain Bank A Brain Tissue Repository for Research in Mental Illness ndashPeter M Thompson MD

Texas State Psychiatric Physicians Public Mental Health Services Committee ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD

Texas Health and Human Services Commission Behavioral Health Advisory Committee ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP

Fellow American College of Physicians ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP FACP

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Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Abstracts 31

Publications 5 (peer-review journals)

Presentations 17 ndash National (7) and International (6)

Invited Speaker 21 (including faculty residents fellows) ndash Local amp National

Book Chapters NA

Grants McKee Foundation Award ndash our Chair - Thompson

Intramural Grants Seed Grant 1 SARP Educational Grant 2 - Salazar

President`s Collaborative Research Initiative ndashMarch 2018 - Tonarelli

Scholarly Activity

Child and Adolescent Fellowship Presentations

INTERNATIONAL

- Curanderos and Limpias Cultural psychiatry

Poster presented at 6th Annual Scientific conference of the European Association of PsychosomaticMedicine Verona Italy Drs Garza Meissner De Vargas Mehta June 2018

-Case presentation 0f 49XXXXY Same conference same authors same city

-Resilience etiology protective and risk factors presentation C De Vargas by invitation Annual WorldPediatric summit Madrid June 2018

-Parents and their Children Fantastic journey Same conference on June 2019 Berlin Germany

NATIONAL

-Development of Psychopathology in children at risk for Bipolar Disorders Drs Escamilla Peter Sangra C DeVargas S Martin C Alvarado Andrea Rios (Poster) American Academy of Child and Adolescent PsychiatryAnnual Conference Seattle WA October 2018

Frank William Meissner MD Cynthia Elizabeth Garza MDJD Sarah L Martin MD rdquoDrug-Induced BrugadaSyndrome in a Middle-Aged Female Patient Drugs EKG Diagnosis Electrophysiology and SurveillanceRecommendationrdquo American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting San Francisco CA May 21 2019

Delinquency in a group of school children at risk for bipolar disorder D Haque M Escamilla C De VargasPresented at UCLA LA Ca June 2019

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31

Residency ProgramPlease provide information regarding your departmentrsquos residency program ie recent accreditation

number of residents and program updates (if applicable)

24 General Psychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)

8 Internal MedicinePsychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)

3 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellows

1 Geriatric Psychiatry Fellow- newly accredited program

IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department

RecruitmentRetention

Short staffed

Organizational Structure

Financial incentives

Protected time

Gender balance Attrition malefemale ratio 41

Program Coordinator turnover rate

Mentoring

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32

Departmental Organizational

Structure

Chair

Division ChiefsProgram Directors

Clerkship Director

Adm

Organizational Structure Model

Chair

Deputy Chair for Education

Program

Directors

Deputy Chair for Research

Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs

Vicechair

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33

Roles

Deputy Chair for Education

Oversee undergraduate graduate and CME including the development of teachers and educational scholars Monitor quality and safety across the department

Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs

Faculty appointments Faculty Development and Promotion andor Tenure Develop programs in different domains such as research education personal improvement and leadership Support clinical activities by improving the efficiency of operations and in helping to fit clinical programs into those in the rest of the medical center Allocation of space

Deputy Chair for Research

Develop and direct department-wide programs for faculty recruitment development and support of mentors recognition of excellence and funding of pilot grants bridge funding and grants to nurture multi-principal investigator and trans-division or trans-department projects Allocation of space among divisions

Bottom Line

We need more funds

Institutional support

The investments needed to recruit faculty are beyond the capacity of the

department`s operational revenue

Recruiting a leading investigator or one with great potential for

example may require an investment of $ 1 million and sometimes more

Endowments are the departmentrsquos foundational financial capital the

keel that maintains momentum and balance through the headwinds

and rough seas each department will navigate Endowments increase

the departmentrsquos independence in sustaining its core mission

Thus creation of endowments should be a high priority for any

department that plans for the long term and they increase capacity to

recruit the best faculty in a competitive environment

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Department ReportPsychiatryPRESENTATION TO THE FACULTY COUNCIL

BY RICARDO SALAZAR MD

DATE MONDAY JULY 15 2019

Department BreakdownPlease provide the total number of faculty members in your department and break down this number by

rank Please list new faculty members that have joined your department within the last six months

Total Number of Faculty 12

Number of Instructors 1

Number of Assistant Professors 8

Number of Associate Professors 2

Number of Professors 2

New Faculty Melanie Longhurst MD Instructor

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LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair

program director clerkship director chiefs etc

Department Chair ndash Peter M Thompson MD MS

Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Sarah L Martin MD

Combined IMPsych Residency Program Director ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD

Psychiatry Clerkship Director ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD

Child amp Adolescent Fellowship Program Director ndash Cecilia De Vargas MD

Chief Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry ndash Sarah L Martin MD

Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Program Directorndash Ricardo Salazar MD

Chief Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences ndash Ricardo Salazar MD

Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Transmountain ndash Moataz Ragheb MD

AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in your department including awards honors regional

appointments national appointments etc

El Paso Behavioral Health Consortium ndash Board Member ndash Peter M Thompson MD

714 (50) of our graduating medical students this year choose and matched our resident training programs here at Paul L FosterSchool of Medicine Department of Psychiatry (Historical record) ndash Kudos for our Department Faculty

In appreciation for exceptional contributions to the 30th volume of the J Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences ndash Author contributions and review of 271 manuscripts submitted to the journal between September 2017 and August 2018 ndash Ricardo Salazar MD ndash Young Investigator Award Committee Member and Program Committee Member-Abstracts Sub-Committee Member of theAmerican Neuropsychiatric Association (ANPA)

Initial Accreditation with commendation and no citations from ACGME for our first Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Training Program for West Texas ndash Ricardo Salazar MD

Leadership in Education and Development Certificate Program (LEAD) Fellow -1-year program accredited from the Association ofAmerican Medical Colleges (AAMC) Silvina Tonarelli MD amp Ricardo Salazar MD (Selected Award)

Fully operating Southwest Brain Bank A Brain Tissue Repository for Research in Mental Illness ndashPeter M Thompson MD

Texas State Psychiatric Physicians Public Mental Health Services Committee ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD

Texas Health and Human Services Commission Behavioral Health Advisory Committee ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP

Fellow American College of Physicians ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP FACP

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30

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Abstracts 31

Publications 5 (peer-review journals)

Presentations 17 ndash National (7) and International (6)

Invited Speaker 21 (including faculty residents fellows) ndash Local amp National

Book Chapters NA

Grants McKee Foundation Award ndash our Chair - Thompson

Intramural Grants Seed Grant 1 SARP Educational Grant 2 - Salazar

President`s Collaborative Research Initiative ndashMarch 2018 - Tonarelli

Scholarly Activity

Child and Adolescent Fellowship Presentations

INTERNATIONAL

- Curanderos and Limpias Cultural psychiatry

Poster presented at 6th Annual Scientific conference of the European Association of PsychosomaticMedicine Verona Italy Drs Garza Meissner De Vargas Mehta June 2018

-Case presentation 0f 49XXXXY Same conference same authors same city

-Resilience etiology protective and risk factors presentation C De Vargas by invitation Annual WorldPediatric summit Madrid June 2018

-Parents and their Children Fantastic journey Same conference on June 2019 Berlin Germany

NATIONAL

-Development of Psychopathology in children at risk for Bipolar Disorders Drs Escamilla Peter Sangra C DeVargas S Martin C Alvarado Andrea Rios (Poster) American Academy of Child and Adolescent PsychiatryAnnual Conference Seattle WA October 2018

Frank William Meissner MD Cynthia Elizabeth Garza MDJD Sarah L Martin MD rdquoDrug-Induced BrugadaSyndrome in a Middle-Aged Female Patient Drugs EKG Diagnosis Electrophysiology and SurveillanceRecommendationrdquo American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting San Francisco CA May 21 2019

Delinquency in a group of school children at risk for bipolar disorder D Haque M Escamilla C De VargasPresented at UCLA LA Ca June 2019

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Residency ProgramPlease provide information regarding your departmentrsquos residency program ie recent accreditation

number of residents and program updates (if applicable)

24 General Psychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)

8 Internal MedicinePsychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)

3 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellows

1 Geriatric Psychiatry Fellow- newly accredited program

IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department

RecruitmentRetention

Short staffed

Organizational Structure

Financial incentives

Protected time

Gender balance Attrition malefemale ratio 41

Program Coordinator turnover rate

Mentoring

9102019

32

Departmental Organizational

Structure

Chair

Division ChiefsProgram Directors

Clerkship Director

Adm

Organizational Structure Model

Chair

Deputy Chair for Education

Program

Directors

Deputy Chair for Research

Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs

Vicechair

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33

Roles

Deputy Chair for Education

Oversee undergraduate graduate and CME including the development of teachers and educational scholars Monitor quality and safety across the department

Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs

Faculty appointments Faculty Development and Promotion andor Tenure Develop programs in different domains such as research education personal improvement and leadership Support clinical activities by improving the efficiency of operations and in helping to fit clinical programs into those in the rest of the medical center Allocation of space

Deputy Chair for Research

Develop and direct department-wide programs for faculty recruitment development and support of mentors recognition of excellence and funding of pilot grants bridge funding and grants to nurture multi-principal investigator and trans-division or trans-department projects Allocation of space among divisions

Bottom Line

We need more funds

Institutional support

The investments needed to recruit faculty are beyond the capacity of the

department`s operational revenue

Recruiting a leading investigator or one with great potential for

example may require an investment of $ 1 million and sometimes more

Endowments are the departmentrsquos foundational financial capital the

keel that maintains momentum and balance through the headwinds

and rough seas each department will navigate Endowments increase

the departmentrsquos independence in sustaining its core mission

Thus creation of endowments should be a high priority for any

department that plans for the long term and they increase capacity to

recruit the best faculty in a competitive environment

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LeadershipPlease provide a list of faculty who are in leadership positions in your department ie chair vice chair

program director clerkship director chiefs etc

Department Chair ndash Peter M Thompson MD MS

Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Sarah L Martin MD

Combined IMPsych Residency Program Director ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD

Psychiatry Clerkship Director ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD

Child amp Adolescent Fellowship Program Director ndash Cecilia De Vargas MD

Chief Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry ndash Sarah L Martin MD

Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Program Directorndash Ricardo Salazar MD

Chief Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences ndash Ricardo Salazar MD

Psychiatry Residency Program Director ndash Transmountain ndash Moataz Ragheb MD

AccomplishmentsPlease list the accomplishments of faculty members in your department including awards honors regional

appointments national appointments etc

El Paso Behavioral Health Consortium ndash Board Member ndash Peter M Thompson MD

714 (50) of our graduating medical students this year choose and matched our resident training programs here at Paul L FosterSchool of Medicine Department of Psychiatry (Historical record) ndash Kudos for our Department Faculty

In appreciation for exceptional contributions to the 30th volume of the J Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences ndash Author contributions and review of 271 manuscripts submitted to the journal between September 2017 and August 2018 ndash Ricardo Salazar MD ndash Young Investigator Award Committee Member and Program Committee Member-Abstracts Sub-Committee Member of theAmerican Neuropsychiatric Association (ANPA)

Initial Accreditation with commendation and no citations from ACGME for our first Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Training Program for West Texas ndash Ricardo Salazar MD

Leadership in Education and Development Certificate Program (LEAD) Fellow -1-year program accredited from the Association ofAmerican Medical Colleges (AAMC) Silvina Tonarelli MD amp Ricardo Salazar MD (Selected Award)

Fully operating Southwest Brain Bank A Brain Tissue Repository for Research in Mental Illness ndashPeter M Thompson MD

Texas State Psychiatric Physicians Public Mental Health Services Committee ndash Silvina Tonarelli MD

Texas Health and Human Services Commission Behavioral Health Advisory Committee ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP

Fellow American College of Physicians ndash Aghaegbulam H Uga MD FWACP FACP

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30

Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Abstracts 31

Publications 5 (peer-review journals)

Presentations 17 ndash National (7) and International (6)

Invited Speaker 21 (including faculty residents fellows) ndash Local amp National

Book Chapters NA

Grants McKee Foundation Award ndash our Chair - Thompson

Intramural Grants Seed Grant 1 SARP Educational Grant 2 - Salazar

President`s Collaborative Research Initiative ndashMarch 2018 - Tonarelli

Scholarly Activity

Child and Adolescent Fellowship Presentations

INTERNATIONAL

- Curanderos and Limpias Cultural psychiatry

Poster presented at 6th Annual Scientific conference of the European Association of PsychosomaticMedicine Verona Italy Drs Garza Meissner De Vargas Mehta June 2018

-Case presentation 0f 49XXXXY Same conference same authors same city

-Resilience etiology protective and risk factors presentation C De Vargas by invitation Annual WorldPediatric summit Madrid June 2018

-Parents and their Children Fantastic journey Same conference on June 2019 Berlin Germany

NATIONAL

-Development of Psychopathology in children at risk for Bipolar Disorders Drs Escamilla Peter Sangra C DeVargas S Martin C Alvarado Andrea Rios (Poster) American Academy of Child and Adolescent PsychiatryAnnual Conference Seattle WA October 2018

Frank William Meissner MD Cynthia Elizabeth Garza MDJD Sarah L Martin MD rdquoDrug-Induced BrugadaSyndrome in a Middle-Aged Female Patient Drugs EKG Diagnosis Electrophysiology and SurveillanceRecommendationrdquo American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting San Francisco CA May 21 2019

Delinquency in a group of school children at risk for bipolar disorder D Haque M Escamilla C De VargasPresented at UCLA LA Ca June 2019

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31

Residency ProgramPlease provide information regarding your departmentrsquos residency program ie recent accreditation

number of residents and program updates (if applicable)

24 General Psychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)

8 Internal MedicinePsychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)

3 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellows

1 Geriatric Psychiatry Fellow- newly accredited program

IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department

RecruitmentRetention

Short staffed

Organizational Structure

Financial incentives

Protected time

Gender balance Attrition malefemale ratio 41

Program Coordinator turnover rate

Mentoring

9102019

32

Departmental Organizational

Structure

Chair

Division ChiefsProgram Directors

Clerkship Director

Adm

Organizational Structure Model

Chair

Deputy Chair for Education

Program

Directors

Deputy Chair for Research

Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs

Vicechair

9102019

33

Roles

Deputy Chair for Education

Oversee undergraduate graduate and CME including the development of teachers and educational scholars Monitor quality and safety across the department

Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs

Faculty appointments Faculty Development and Promotion andor Tenure Develop programs in different domains such as research education personal improvement and leadership Support clinical activities by improving the efficiency of operations and in helping to fit clinical programs into those in the rest of the medical center Allocation of space

Deputy Chair for Research

Develop and direct department-wide programs for faculty recruitment development and support of mentors recognition of excellence and funding of pilot grants bridge funding and grants to nurture multi-principal investigator and trans-division or trans-department projects Allocation of space among divisions

Bottom Line

We need more funds

Institutional support

The investments needed to recruit faculty are beyond the capacity of the

department`s operational revenue

Recruiting a leading investigator or one with great potential for

example may require an investment of $ 1 million and sometimes more

Endowments are the departmentrsquos foundational financial capital the

keel that maintains momentum and balance through the headwinds

and rough seas each department will navigate Endowments increase

the departmentrsquos independence in sustaining its core mission

Thus creation of endowments should be a high priority for any

department that plans for the long term and they increase capacity to

recruit the best faculty in a competitive environment

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Scholarly ActivityPlease provide a summary of department scholarly activity to include presentations invited talks

publications book chapters and abstracted produced by faculty or residents in the last year

Abstracts 31

Publications 5 (peer-review journals)

Presentations 17 ndash National (7) and International (6)

Invited Speaker 21 (including faculty residents fellows) ndash Local amp National

Book Chapters NA

Grants McKee Foundation Award ndash our Chair - Thompson

Intramural Grants Seed Grant 1 SARP Educational Grant 2 - Salazar

President`s Collaborative Research Initiative ndashMarch 2018 - Tonarelli

Scholarly Activity

Child and Adolescent Fellowship Presentations

INTERNATIONAL

- Curanderos and Limpias Cultural psychiatry

Poster presented at 6th Annual Scientific conference of the European Association of PsychosomaticMedicine Verona Italy Drs Garza Meissner De Vargas Mehta June 2018

-Case presentation 0f 49XXXXY Same conference same authors same city

-Resilience etiology protective and risk factors presentation C De Vargas by invitation Annual WorldPediatric summit Madrid June 2018

-Parents and their Children Fantastic journey Same conference on June 2019 Berlin Germany

NATIONAL

-Development of Psychopathology in children at risk for Bipolar Disorders Drs Escamilla Peter Sangra C DeVargas S Martin C Alvarado Andrea Rios (Poster) American Academy of Child and Adolescent PsychiatryAnnual Conference Seattle WA October 2018

Frank William Meissner MD Cynthia Elizabeth Garza MDJD Sarah L Martin MD rdquoDrug-Induced BrugadaSyndrome in a Middle-Aged Female Patient Drugs EKG Diagnosis Electrophysiology and SurveillanceRecommendationrdquo American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting San Francisco CA May 21 2019

Delinquency in a group of school children at risk for bipolar disorder D Haque M Escamilla C De VargasPresented at UCLA LA Ca June 2019

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31

Residency ProgramPlease provide information regarding your departmentrsquos residency program ie recent accreditation

number of residents and program updates (if applicable)

24 General Psychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)

8 Internal MedicinePsychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)

3 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellows

1 Geriatric Psychiatry Fellow- newly accredited program

IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department

RecruitmentRetention

Short staffed

Organizational Structure

Financial incentives

Protected time

Gender balance Attrition malefemale ratio 41

Program Coordinator turnover rate

Mentoring

9102019

32

Departmental Organizational

Structure

Chair

Division ChiefsProgram Directors

Clerkship Director

Adm

Organizational Structure Model

Chair

Deputy Chair for Education

Program

Directors

Deputy Chair for Research

Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs

Vicechair

9102019

33

Roles

Deputy Chair for Education

Oversee undergraduate graduate and CME including the development of teachers and educational scholars Monitor quality and safety across the department

Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs

Faculty appointments Faculty Development and Promotion andor Tenure Develop programs in different domains such as research education personal improvement and leadership Support clinical activities by improving the efficiency of operations and in helping to fit clinical programs into those in the rest of the medical center Allocation of space

Deputy Chair for Research

Develop and direct department-wide programs for faculty recruitment development and support of mentors recognition of excellence and funding of pilot grants bridge funding and grants to nurture multi-principal investigator and trans-division or trans-department projects Allocation of space among divisions

Bottom Line

We need more funds

Institutional support

The investments needed to recruit faculty are beyond the capacity of the

department`s operational revenue

Recruiting a leading investigator or one with great potential for

example may require an investment of $ 1 million and sometimes more

Endowments are the departmentrsquos foundational financial capital the

keel that maintains momentum and balance through the headwinds

and rough seas each department will navigate Endowments increase

the departmentrsquos independence in sustaining its core mission

Thus creation of endowments should be a high priority for any

department that plans for the long term and they increase capacity to

recruit the best faculty in a competitive environment

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31

Residency ProgramPlease provide information regarding your departmentrsquos residency program ie recent accreditation

number of residents and program updates (if applicable)

24 General Psychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)

8 Internal MedicinePsychiatry Residents (8 are grant funded)

3 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellows

1 Geriatric Psychiatry Fellow- newly accredited program

IssuesConcernsPlease list and explain the issues andor concerns that are specific to your department

RecruitmentRetention

Short staffed

Organizational Structure

Financial incentives

Protected time

Gender balance Attrition malefemale ratio 41

Program Coordinator turnover rate

Mentoring

9102019

32

Departmental Organizational

Structure

Chair

Division ChiefsProgram Directors

Clerkship Director

Adm

Organizational Structure Model

Chair

Deputy Chair for Education

Program

Directors

Deputy Chair for Research

Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs

Vicechair

9102019

33

Roles

Deputy Chair for Education

Oversee undergraduate graduate and CME including the development of teachers and educational scholars Monitor quality and safety across the department

Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs

Faculty appointments Faculty Development and Promotion andor Tenure Develop programs in different domains such as research education personal improvement and leadership Support clinical activities by improving the efficiency of operations and in helping to fit clinical programs into those in the rest of the medical center Allocation of space

Deputy Chair for Research

Develop and direct department-wide programs for faculty recruitment development and support of mentors recognition of excellence and funding of pilot grants bridge funding and grants to nurture multi-principal investigator and trans-division or trans-department projects Allocation of space among divisions

Bottom Line

We need more funds

Institutional support

The investments needed to recruit faculty are beyond the capacity of the

department`s operational revenue

Recruiting a leading investigator or one with great potential for

example may require an investment of $ 1 million and sometimes more

Endowments are the departmentrsquos foundational financial capital the

keel that maintains momentum and balance through the headwinds

and rough seas each department will navigate Endowments increase

the departmentrsquos independence in sustaining its core mission

Thus creation of endowments should be a high priority for any

department that plans for the long term and they increase capacity to

recruit the best faculty in a competitive environment

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32

Departmental Organizational

Structure

Chair

Division ChiefsProgram Directors

Clerkship Director

Adm

Organizational Structure Model

Chair

Deputy Chair for Education

Program

Directors

Deputy Chair for Research

Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs

Vicechair

9102019

33

Roles

Deputy Chair for Education

Oversee undergraduate graduate and CME including the development of teachers and educational scholars Monitor quality and safety across the department

Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs

Faculty appointments Faculty Development and Promotion andor Tenure Develop programs in different domains such as research education personal improvement and leadership Support clinical activities by improving the efficiency of operations and in helping to fit clinical programs into those in the rest of the medical center Allocation of space

Deputy Chair for Research

Develop and direct department-wide programs for faculty recruitment development and support of mentors recognition of excellence and funding of pilot grants bridge funding and grants to nurture multi-principal investigator and trans-division or trans-department projects Allocation of space among divisions

Bottom Line

We need more funds

Institutional support

The investments needed to recruit faculty are beyond the capacity of the

department`s operational revenue

Recruiting a leading investigator or one with great potential for

example may require an investment of $ 1 million and sometimes more

Endowments are the departmentrsquos foundational financial capital the

keel that maintains momentum and balance through the headwinds

and rough seas each department will navigate Endowments increase

the departmentrsquos independence in sustaining its core mission

Thus creation of endowments should be a high priority for any

department that plans for the long term and they increase capacity to

recruit the best faculty in a competitive environment

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Roles

Deputy Chair for Education

Oversee undergraduate graduate and CME including the development of teachers and educational scholars Monitor quality and safety across the department

Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs

Faculty appointments Faculty Development and Promotion andor Tenure Develop programs in different domains such as research education personal improvement and leadership Support clinical activities by improving the efficiency of operations and in helping to fit clinical programs into those in the rest of the medical center Allocation of space

Deputy Chair for Research

Develop and direct department-wide programs for faculty recruitment development and support of mentors recognition of excellence and funding of pilot grants bridge funding and grants to nurture multi-principal investigator and trans-division or trans-department projects Allocation of space among divisions

Bottom Line

We need more funds

Institutional support

The investments needed to recruit faculty are beyond the capacity of the

department`s operational revenue

Recruiting a leading investigator or one with great potential for

example may require an investment of $ 1 million and sometimes more

Endowments are the departmentrsquos foundational financial capital the

keel that maintains momentum and balance through the headwinds

and rough seas each department will navigate Endowments increase

the departmentrsquos independence in sustaining its core mission

Thus creation of endowments should be a high priority for any

department that plans for the long term and they increase capacity to

recruit the best faculty in a competitive environment