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Faculty awarded funding
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College of Medicine
Donna Kern, M.D., associate dean for Curriculum Integration and
Implementation in Clinical Services, received a Health Resources and
Service Administration (HRSA) grant for $281,230 to help enhance
training at MUSC. The award is part of HRSA’s Enhance Training for
Health Professionals program. It allows the Center for Clinical
Evaluation and Training space to include a digital teaching center
designed to interface with the MUSC Healthcare Simulation Center and
other potential statewide-training initiatives.
Kern, an associate professor in the Department of Family Medicine, was
assisted by grant co-author Fran Lee, DBA, director of instructional
operations for HealthCare Simulation South Carolina.
 Dr. Donna Kern
She also credited John Schaefer, M.D., assistant dean for Statewide
Clinical Effectiveness Education, and Joe DiPiro, PharmD, executive
dean of the South Carolina College of Pharmacy (SCCP).
The grant, Collaborative Care: Patient Safety through Enhanced
Communication, is designed to improve patient safety and ensure quality
care through enhanced health professions team training through the
Creating Collaborative Care initiative.
The proposed Interprofessional Patient Safety Curriculum focuses on
interprofessional communication, culturally competent team-patient
communications, and medication error reduction training in the health
care setting of an acutely-ill patient.
College of Dental
Medicine
 Dr. Elizabeth
Pilcher
Elizabeth Pilcher, DMD, associate professor, College of Dental
Medicine, won a second round of funding to support the Advanced
Education in General Dentistry in the James B. Edwards College of
Dental Medicine.
Pilcher, who is the grant’s principal investigator, will help lead
graduate general dentistry training that enhances didactic knowledge,
clinical skills and additional training.
The program complements the college’s predoctoral program, which allows
resident-practitioners to economically treat patients with special and
complex needs, thus developing practitioners with advanced dental
skills. This level of training will enhance the quality of graduate
dentists who plan to practice global dentistry and other initiatives
sponsored by the dental school and institution.
Several dental faculty and staff were recognized in this achievement
including Jon Rampton, DDS, LuAnn Harley, Mike LaTrace and Joann
Sullivan, Ph.D., Office of Research Development.
Friday, Oct. 15, 2010
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