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This file is provided for reference purposes only. It was current when it was produced, but it is no longer maintained and may now be out of date. Persons with disabilities having difficulty accessing information may contact us for assistance. For reliable, current information on this and other health topics, we recommend consulting the NIH Clinical Center at http://www.cc.nih.gov/.
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Clinical Center News, Building 10, Room 1C255, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892. (301) 496-2563. Fax: 402-2984. Published monthly for CC employees by the Office of Clinical Center Communications, Colleen Henrichsen, chief. News, articles ideas, calendar events, letters, and photographs are welcome. Deadline for submission is the second Monday of each month. |
Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Partnership's presentation in the design concept competition demonstrated the firm's creativity and technical ability.
Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Partnership, a 180-person architectural, planning, and interior design firm based in Portland, features a diverse portfolio of public and private projects in settings ranging from urban centers to university and research campuses.
Representatives from NIH; the project's developer, Boston Properties, Inc.; and experts from both the government and the private sector comprised the selection committee. As part of the selection process, six design teams were invited to participate in a design-concept competition to demonstrate creativity and technical ability. The candidates' models for the proposed facility were on display in the Visitor Information Center in December.
"We sought comments on the designs from throughout the Clinical Center and NIH," says Dr. John Gallin, CC director and selection team member. "We received more than 300 written comments from the NIH community. The selection team and the NIH family both came to the same conclusion in choosing this firm. They were selected based on flexibility of design, integration of the facility with the campus landscape, and adaptability for the future."
The team will devote a year to determining exactly what CC users want and need in their new facility, Dr. Gallin points out. "Staff in all departments and at all levels will be extensively consulted."
Innovation of design will be only one hallmark of the project, he adds. "The CC Renewal Steering Committee proposed and NIH approved hiring a private-sector developer to oversee construction and identify funding sources for this project. That's never been done at NIH before."
Boston Properties, Inc., was selected last August to oversee the project. "We tell the developer what we want and need in a facility and they will coordinate all phases of design, construction, and project management," Dr. Gallin says.
Working with the Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Partnership will be NBBJ, a Seattle architecture firm with specialists in planning health-care facilities; Earl Walls Associates and McLellan and Copenhagen, Inc., California firms with expertise in lab planning; and Metcalf Tobey Davis of Reston, Va., who will provide local coordination.
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"We maintained quality patient care for patients throughout the two events," says Dr. John Gallin, CC director. "But the furlough disrupted our business of clinical research. Many exciting plans and projects were put on hold simply because we could only conduct emergency business." Some 20 percent of the CC staff was furoughed.
Patient-care units were consolidated and patients relocated since there were fewer staff members to provide care, and no new patients were admitted. Some patient support services were reduced or canceled. "Furloughs in housekeeping meant that only patient-care areas got proper attention," Dr. Gallin says. "Getting supplies to research labs from the loading docks was a problem since many of the materials management staff were furloughed. Reaching our clinicians by telephone was difficult even though they were here. Callers got answering machines and routine correspondence and requests went unfilled since administrative staff were not allowed to work."
Accumulating snow brought down the canopy at the CC library entrance and heavy winds toppled one of the giant umbrellas on the sun deck, but otherwise the building weathered the snow storm with little damage.
Some 77 volunteers with all-wheel-drive vehicles ferried 200 patients and employees between the CC and home during the blizzard's worst, and 580 employees spent at least one night at the hospital. Admissions personnel fielded close to 1,000 phone calls a day, many from patients around the country whose pending hospital visits coincided with the blizzard.
It was the phone calls‹up to a thousand a day‹that makes Rhonda Hewitt shake her head and smile.
Interactive presentations by Dr. Steven Rosenberg, NCI chief of surgery, and Dr. Mark Hallett, NINDS clinical director, will be broadcast live at noon on Feb. 14 to 50 of the country's medical schools.
Rounds are presented in Lipsett Amphitheater. Seating for overflow attendees will be in Masur Auditorium.
CenterNet is a joint project of Healthcare Management Television and the Association of Academic Health Centers. Five of the CC Grand Rounds will be carried by the network in 1996.
I commend and thank those of you who put in the extra effort to keep the Clinical Center functioning during both events. I also appreciate the patience and perseverance demonstrated by those of you who were furloughed. It has been a stressful time full of uncertainty.
One source of uncertainty was removed when funding for NIH was approved for the remainder of the year. The $11.9 billion budget approved by Congress represents a 5.7 percent increase over FY95 levels, which is terrific news for the Clinical Center. Secure funding through September 30 means that we will not be vulnerable to any other furloughs this year. It also means that we can continue with architectural design and initial construction planning of the new clinical research center.
Plans for the new building, results of the Options Team review of the Clinical Center, proposals to strengthen our mission, and recent initiatives are among the topics I plan to cover during the Director's Annual Address and Awards Ceremony Feb. 29 at 2 p.m. in Masur Auditorium. I look forward to seeing you there.
He left NIH to serve as president of the Mount Sinai Medical Center and dean of the School of Medicine, posts he held until 1983.
Dr. Chalmers' Dec. 23 New York Times obituary quoted Dr. John W. Rowe, president of the Mt. Sinai Medicine Center: "[Chalmers] forced doctors to be intellectually rigorous about the treatments they recommended. He set the stage nationally for using randomized clinical tests rather than anecdote to determine treatment methods."
Throughout his career, Dr. Chalmers was an advocate of controlled clinical trials to evaluate drugs and therapeutic techniques. His primary research interests while at the CC were liver disease, clinical trials, and epidemiology. Under his guidance, the Mt. Sinai medical school established the country's first department of geriatrics. He developed the department of biostatistics there, now the department of biomathematical sciences, and pioneered the use of meta-analysis in medical research. The approach pools and analyzes results of similar studies conducted independently.
After leaving Mt. Sinai, Dr. Chalmers held positions at Harvard, Tufts, and Boston University, and served as chairman of the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center from 1983-1993. In 1992, he founded a company‹Meta Works‹that used meta-analysis to study the effectiveness of treatment of diseases such as heart disease and cancer.
The son and grandson of doctors, Dr. Chalmers was born in Forest Hills, N.Y., attended Phillips Exeter Academy and Yale University, and earned the M.D. degree from Columbia University in 1943. He is survived by his wife of 53 years, Frances Talcott of West Lebanon, N.H., and four children. Memorial services were held Jan. 5 at Tufts Medical School in Boston.
€Learning from Conflict, a class covering the seven stages of the conflict cycle, common reactions, causes, and methods for resolving conflict. Feb. 13, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., 6100 Executive Blvd.
€Illness Across the Life Span: An Interdisciplinary Educational Series. Participants will gain an understanding of how the special needs, behaviors, and issues related to specific age groups apply to patient care. Feb. 20, noon-1 p.m., Lipsett Amphitheater.
On tap for March are:
€Motivating Your Employees, offering a theoretical and practical framework for developing supervisory and management skills. It fulfills the 40-hour training requirement for probationary supervisors. March 4, 6, 8, 12, and 14, 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m., 6100 Executive Blvd.
€Illness Across the Life Span: An Interdisciplinary Educational Series. March 19, noon-1 p.m., Lipsett Amphitheater.
Call 496-1618 for details on these and other classes.
A world traveller by nature and design, Dr. Goldenberg retired Dec. 31 after working 36 years in and around hospitals across the nation.
Recently returned from a pleasure trip to Japan, Dr. Goldenberg says there is more to life than what we see in our own backyards. "We are not the only culture on this planet," he explains. "It's good to put yourself in another culture and experience a different way of life."
Understanding other cultures and viewing life from other perspectives is what motivated him with his first job and what leads him to travel all over the world today. He has visited 29 different countries so far, and plans to visit many more.
After earning a Ph.D. in microbiology from Yale University in 1960, Dr. Goldenberg began his career in Hawaii fighting an outbreak of the plague. What followed that first year in Hawaii became a decade of plague study for the CDC in San Francisco and then Colorado, including a month on a team fighting an epidemic of bubonic and pneumonic plague in central Java.
"I have always felt that the work I've done has been worthwhile," Dr. Goldenberg says. "Whether I was working as a bench scientist or an administrator, some purpose was served that improved lives."
Improving the future lives of federal prison inmates was one rewarding task for Dr. Goldenberg when he was director of the clinical laboratory at the Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Missouri in 1970.
"Along with operating a clinical laboratory for the 1000-bed hospital, we trained inmates to be laboratory technologists. And it was so successful that 95 percent of the inmates we trained did not return to prison. We gave them a skill they could use in just about any hospital laboratory, so they could earn an honest living when they left prison."
Over the years, Dr. Goldenberg has worked for various PHS agencies across the United States. He was chief of the human resources section in the Bureau of Medical Services, where he staffed the PHS hospitals and outpatient clinics with physicians and other health professionals. In the Health Resources and Services Administration he administered grants given to hospitals for training physicians in family medicine. In 1985 he came to the NIH as the Clinical Center's assistant director for special programs, overseeing the normal volunteer patient program, the NIH medical staff fellowship program, the clinical elective program for medical and dental students, and working on special initiatives in the Office of the Associate Director for Quality Assurance and Medical Education. Three years later, he was named the executive secretary of the Medical Board, the committee that provides advice to the director to ensure that the medical care given here is of the highest quality.
Retiring is nothing new to Dr. Goldenberg; he retired once before in 1989 after 30 years in the Commissioned Corps. But that retirement didn't stick. At the request of the then CC director, Dr. John Decker, he returned to continue his work with the Medical Board.
He also organized the CC's Board of Scientific Counselors and served as its executive secretary, and he wrote and maintained the administrative and medical administrative policies that guide the Clinical Center's operation.
Dr. Goldenberg and his wife, NCI microbiologist Sarah K. Goldenberg (who has no intention of retiring), have two grown children, two grandchildren, and one grandchild "due to arrive in March."
"We have a list of countries we want to visit," Dr. Goldenberg says. "And I have books to read, lots of work to do around the house and in the garden, a stamp collection to catalogue, and grandchildren to visit. I'm going to be very busy."‹by Laura Bradbard
DeCederfelt joined the department as a student in 1987 and went on to become a pharmacy technician. That experience led him to pursue his degree in pharmacy at Howard University. He joined the department as a pharmacist last summer. Recent projects have included rebuilding the department's work area to include increased shelf capacity and efficiency and expansion and reorganization of the department's computer system. He also initiated audit procedures in support of the department's first formal quality assurance programs.
Wallace, a pharmacy technician, was named for her commitment to both the department and CC patients. Her citation noted that she had provided new ideas to improve departmental work flow. She has received two promotions in her two years as a CC employee.
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