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Baptist Health of South Florida Joins AUPN
The newly created Department of Neurology at Baptist Health South Florida in Miami joined the AUPN as an active member in September 2023. The department is academically affiliated with Florida International University and is involved in pre-clinical medical education at FIU and in the clinical neurology clerkship, for which they are a major training site. They host a neurointerventional fellowship and have applied to the ACGME for a neurology residency, with plans to interview for their first resident class next year.
Diego Torres-Russotto, M.D., is the new chair of neurology at Baptist Health Miami Neuroscience Institute. Dr. Torres-Russotto specializes in movement disorders, including Parkinson’s disease, dystonia, tremors, and other neurological illnesses. Prior to joining Miami Neuroscience Institute in 2023, Torres-Russotto served as professor and vice-chair for education and chief of movement disorders at the Department of Neurological Sciences at University of Nebraska Medical Center. He has published more than 50 scientific papers including one of the largest international studies of orthostatic tremor. He is a member of multiple national and international research consortia: the Huntington Study Group, the Parkinson Study Group, the Tremor Research Group and Tremor Study Group. His research interests include tremor, orthostatic tremor, evidence-based physical examination, chemodenervation, Parkinson’s disease, dystonia, and provider burnout, wellness and resilience. He has received numerous recognitions as an educator, such as the Distinguished Mentor Award and a campus-wide Outstanding Teacher Award from the University of Nebraska Medical Center and the Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award from the Gold Humanism Honor Society.
Please welcome Dr. Torres-Russotto to the AUPN!
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Register Now for our January Webinar: Balancing Fulfillment and Career
The next AUPN Webinar entitled “Balancing Fulfillment and Career,” will be presented by Jessica G. Moreland, MD (UT Southwestern) on Friday, January 26th from 2:00-2:45 PM CST/ 3:00-3:45 PM EST. Dr. Moreland is Associate Dean for Faculty Development, Professor of Pediatrics & Microbiology, and the Thomas Fariss Marsh, Jr. Chair in Pediatrics at UT Southwestern Medical Center. Her webinar is focused on helping participants recognize their own avenues for a healthy and long career. Fulfillment means something different for every faculty member, and this program will help you recognize what it means for you and what tools help you determine the alignment of success and fulfillment. The talk will explore what work-life integration means across your career, and how to understand the ambiguities of a successful academic career.
This webinar is free to AUPN members but please pre-register here.
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Leadership Minute
This month’s leadership minute, entitled “What to do when you have too much to do?“ is presented by Laurie Gutmann (Indiana University) and introduced by Alissa Willis (University of Mississippi). As most chairs and other department leaders quickly realize, the number of possible obligations for any leader in an organization is infinite. There is no perfect method to “protect” yourself, but you need to be able to place limits in order to do the best job possible on things that are really essential. This brief program provides some guidelines that can help you prioritize: What is strategically important for your role? What is important to you personally? What is important to success of your team and cannot be delegated? Lastly, it is vital to be honest to yourself and others. Don’t miss these important words of wisdom – they may save you a lot of time and frustration!
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ANA Neurogenetics CME Program
The ANA has developed an online neurogenetic testing didactic program and is making it available to all AUPN members at no cost! The course is entitled “Neurogenetic Testing 101 - Everything You Need to Know.” The ANA Highlights Neurogenetics program is chaired by Dr. M. Elizabeth Ross (Weill Cornell Medicine). The course consists of 4 chapters with short 15-minute videos, which will help you understand the different types of neurogenetic testing available today, and prospects for future developments.
The program will help you:
- advise patients knowledgeably about the utility and advisability of genetic testing
- communicate and collaborate more effectively with genetic counselors
- recognize the legal and ethical issues involved with neurogenetic testing
After viewing all the modules, you can take a quiz to allow you to claim ABPN Self-Assessment CME credit. Please wait to complete the quiz/evaluation until after you have watched all the videos.
You can claim up to 5.75 hours of CME credit for free by using promo code CNSNG, and CME credit will be automatically reported to the ABPN.
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AAN Chair Summit
The AAN Ralph L. Sacco Neurology Chair Summit will occur on March 17 & 18, 2024 in Chicago. This fourth Summit will once again bring together chairs and business administrators from across the country to discuss the needs of academic neurology departments and the challenges facing academic neurology leaders. The AAN covers travel and lodging for chairs, and individual departments cover travel and lodging for their BAs.
Please reach out to Lauren Klaffke (lklaffke@aan.com) for more information.
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Chairs: Please pay your dues!
It’s that time of year again. Please support the missions of the AUPN by keeping your membership dues up to date. If you need information to give your Dean about the value provided by AUPN membership, we are happy to provide talking points.
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Until next month,
L. John Greenfield, Jr, MD PhD
AUPN President
AUPN encourages you to forward this newsletter to other faculty in your department, or anyone else who might benefit from our programs.
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Open Neurology Leadership Positions
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