What You Helped Us Achieve in 2017 UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
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UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI HEALTH SYSTEM Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Common Purpose Transforming lives through teaching, research and service. Our mission is to conduct research that deepens our understanding of the development, pathophysiology, and prevention of psychiatric illness; offer comprehensive treatment and consultation to our patients, their families and the community; and provide outstanding mental health education and multidisciplinary training to the next generation of health care providers and investigators. Soffer Clinical Research Center 1120 NW 14th Street | Suite 1457 Miami, Florida 33136 Telephone: 305.243.4000 psychiatry@med.miami.edu Executive Editor Samantha Richter Assistant Director, Communications
A Message from Dr. Charles B. Nemeroff Chairman, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
As the year draws to a close, I must take a moment to hit “pause” and look back on the remarkable accomplishments we have witnessed in the last 12 months.
None of our attained major milestones in 2017 would have been reached without all of your continued support and generosity. It is my belief that all of you have closely followed the now oft-quoted biblical passage from Luke 12:48 “to whom much is given, much shall be required.”
Together we have implemented the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention’s Interactive Screening Program for our medical students, gained approval from the state to build our new comprehensive behavioral health campus, improved our NIH research grant ranking among Departments of Psychiatry nationwide and held a very successful and growing golf tournament. In an increasingly challenging time for mental health, our ability to actionize these life-saving initiatives are made possible by your selfless contributions and steadfast belief that we are in pursuit of the same common purpose—transforming lives through teaching, research and service.
If I’ve learned anything in my 30+ years as a psychopharmacologist, it is that no one is immune to the weight of mental health disorders. While one in five people will suffer from mental illness, the other four will more than likely be affected by the detriments of depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety and the other illnesses that grip our families, friends, communities and our nation. However, I know that with your ongoing commitment, we will continue to fuel the scientific change that will propel the next generation of treatments and therapies into the clinics. As you read this publication, I hope you will take as much pride as I do in knowing What You Helped Us Achieve in 2017. My best wishes to all of you and your families for a happy and healthy new year. Charlie
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Increased our number of faculty to by recruiting talented new members of the department:
Chief, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Professor
Barbara Coffey, MD, MS
Stacy Cutrono, PhD, RCEP Assistant Professor
Firdaus Dhabhar, PhD Professor
Elisa Diaz, PsyD
Luca Pani, MD
Chief, Psychiatric Oncology Associate Professor
William Pirl, MD, MPH
Vasthie Prudent, MD
Rachel Lerner Zeichner, PsyD
Professor
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
Clinical trials are the backbone of evidence-based medicine.
Broadly speaking, clinical trials evaluate the safety and eectiveness of a medical strategy, treatment, or device. Moreover, clinical trials provide an opportunity for the general public to participate in the process of developing novel treatments for a variety of conditions. The results from these clinical trials provide the data necessary to assist in future medical decision-making.
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In 2017, we activated new clinical trials bringing our total to in the areas of thought disorders (4), mood and substance disorders (5) and cognitive decline (5).
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Number of new grants awarded:
$26,673,740
Total value of these new grants: *over multiple years
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Total number of grants in the department:
Bringing our portfolio of annual grant funding to
$13.6M #25
Climbed to in National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding for Departments of Psychiatry across the country
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$220,000, a 40% increase over our Inaugural Tournament in 2016. Founded and hosted Our Second Annual Golf Tournament at Turnberry Isle Resort and Club raised more
by our External Advisory Board Chair Alfredo Frohlich, the day-long event brings together members
of the South Florida community and friends from across the country. Our donors’ extreme generosity and commitment to ďŹ nding and furthering innovative treatments for mental health disorders will continue to help fund life-changing initiatives in the department.
Friend and supporter of the department Karen Taylor
External Advisory Board member Ozzie Torres and his wife Stacy
Marty Berger, Matt Gutauskas, Michael Klinger, Paul Salver
Jon Fels, Jared Abramson, Matthew Gutauskas and Marty Berger
Tournament host Alfredo Frohlich, Samantha Richter and Irwin Saltiel
Stephen Greenberger, Sebastian Malo, Gerald Glass, Wayne Spath
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Launched
2 new major initiatives:
The Psychopharmacology Mentorship Program
A privately funded program established to offer select junior faculty member(s) in the department the opportunity for formal mentorship under our world-renowned psychopharmacologist and department Chairman Dr. Charles Nemeroff. The program is designed to span two years with no more than three mentees enrolled simultaneously. At a time when the field of psychiatry is in the midst of a severe workforce crisis and 1 in 5 adults is afflicted by a mental illness, it is critical that we expertly train the next generation of leaders.
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The Interactive Screening Program
The Interactive Screening Program is a confidential online service that offers students the opportunity to complete a questionnaire and submit it anonymously for review by a licensed mental health professional. The overarching goal is to prevent suicide on campus, and enhance student wellness by helping students identify—and do something about—stress, anxiety, depression and other issues that can interfere with academic, social and personal functioning. The implementation of this program on the medical school campus was made possible thanks to your contributions to our 2016 Inaugural Golf Tournament.
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Hosted Grand Rounds sessions given different by esteemed speakers from institutions around the world Psychiatry Grand Rounds Lecture Series takes place on the UM Miller School of Medicine campus. Each lecture is 60-90 minutes and presented by departmental chairpersons of prestigious universities, eminent scholars and distinguished professors from the most renowned medical schools and research institutes in this country and abroad. Topics include the latest research results and most up-to-date advancements in patient treatment modalities. Thanks to the continued support of The Lasdon Family Foundation, we were able to name the Grand Rounds this year and recognize them as the Cathy and Fred Seligman Grand Rounds.
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Amplified Our Impact Each year, thousands of papers are published in various scientific journals across all medical disciplines. Papers published in higher quality journals acquire an impact factor, with impact being defined as ‘the extent to which research is cited in research publications by other researchers.’ Impact factors are dynamic and change over time as articles receive more attention. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has developed a system called i-Cite to index impactful, federally funded research. Federally funded research is known to be to be of the highest quality, because it is extensively reviewed by other experts in the researcher’s field, a process referred to as “peer review.” i-Cite compares the impact of all research articles to the average impact of federally funded research articles, with the 50th percentile being an average i-Cite score. It is of substantial interest to examine the impact of work conducted at the Department of Psychiatry of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine to see just how influential it has become.
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Below, we provide the total number of papers published and indexed from 2010 to the present and the number of papers that achieved substantial milestones coming from i-Cite: 75th percentile papers are cited twice as often as 50th percentile papers (the average paper published on the basis of NIH grant support) 90th percentile papers are cited 4 times as often as the average 95th percentile papers are cited 6 times as often as the average 99th percentile papers are cited 12 times as often as average
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Total number of papers published between 2010-17:
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Total number of papers published in 2017 alone:
107
Number of papers with impact scores above 75%:
68
Number of papers with impact scores above 85%:
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Number of papers with impact scores above 95:
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Number of papers with impact scores in the 99th percentile:
This means one out of four papers published by our scientists since 2010 has double the impact of the average federally funded paper.
Department Leadership
Administration
Division Chiefs
External Advisory Board
Charles B. Nemeroff, MD, PhD
Ana Campo, MD
Alfredo Frohlich, Chair
Leonard M. Miller Professor and Chairman
Chief, Medical Student Education Barbara Coffey, MD, MS
Gabrielle Anwar* Viresh Dayal
Mary Demetree
Radu V. Saveanu, MD
Chief, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Grant Gottesman
Executive Vice Chair for Clinical Services and Education
Edmi Cortes-Torres, MD
Alyson Katz
Claes Wahlestedt, MD, PhD
Elizabeth Crocco, MD
Professor
Leonard M. Miller Professor Vice Chair for Research
Chief, UMH Psychiatry
Chief, Geriatric Psychiatry Sara Czaja, PhD
L. Jared Abramson
Vice Chair for Administration
Director, Center on Aging Spencer Eth, MD
ACOS, Mental Health, Miami VA Philip Harvey, PhD Chief, Psychology
Neisen Kasdin*
Corali Lopez-Castro Shareef Malnik Grisell Ocariz Hiram Ocariz Rick Pollack Stan Price
Susan Racher
Mark Schnapp
Donna Shepard Carol Soer
John Soloski
Ozzie Torres*
Harley Tropin
Sherry Tropin
Bill Pirl, MD, MPH
David Vickers
Ihsan Salloum, MD, MPH
*new member 2017
Chief, Psychiatric Oncology
Chief, Substance and Alcohol Abuse
Mark West
For more information, contact: Samantha Richter 305.243.7452 sfr30@med.miami.edu Betsy Stephenson 305.243.9760 b.stephenson2@med.miami.edu
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