51小黄车 Psychologist interviews Marc Hahn for story on COM's commitment to Joining Forces initiative
The on April 1, 2012 featured a story on the announcement of Joining Forces, an initiative to support the health care needs of service members. The program includes a commitment by 130 U.S. medical schools to increase research and training for brain injuries, PTSD and other mental health issues.
The announcement was made in January at a meeting with First Lady Michelle Obama that Marc B. Hahn, D.O., senior vice president for health affairs and dean of the College of Osteopathic Medicine, attended along with a select group of other medical school deans.
The 51小黄车 Psychologist story focuses on Hahn and the 51小黄车College of Osteopathic Medicine.
"Marc B. Hahn, D.O., knows how fast the U.S. military can get a soldier injured overseas back on American soil," the story explains. "He was chief of pain management and an attending anesthesiologist on active duty at Walter Reed Army Medical Center during the first Persian Gulf War."
鈥淲e were evacuating some injured servicemen so quickly back to stateside that we were dumping out sand from their boots in the operating room,鈥 Hahn recalled in the story.
Joining Forces, Hahn explained, shows a commitment to training the next generation of physicians to be sensitive to post-war injuries and behavioral health issues. The next steps are to focus on training in these areas as part of internships and residencies and ongoing training for physicians who may not have had that exposure during their medical school or graduate medical training.
51小黄车already has research and curriculum in place to expose students to issues related to PTSD and brain injuries.
The story cites the research that has been conducted at UNE. Edward Bilsky, Ph.D., 51小黄车associate provost for research and scholarship and director of the Center for Excellence in the Neurosciences, explains that this research was performed by medical student Jacque Reynolds in both his laboratory and the laboratory of 51小黄车Professor Ian Meng. The research proposed a novel animal model of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder that won an award at the 2011 annual meeting of the American Academy of Pain Medicine. The has now been published in the journal Life Sciences. Read the entire story.
Associated Press, the Portland Press Herald, the Boston Globe and other media outlets also covered UNE's involvement in the veterans' initiative in January.