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The American Medical Student Association said it awarded a grade of "incomplete" to University of South Florida College of Medicine as part of a review of conflict of interest policies caused by pharmaceutical industry marketing at medical schools nationwide.
Two medical schools in Florida, Miller School of Medicine at University of Miami and the Florida State University College of Medicine in Tallahassee, received grades of B on the AMSA PharmFree scorecard. They were among only 21 of the 150 medical schools surveyed that received As or Bs, the association said in a release.
USF College of Medicine responded, but the response was lost in the mail, according to AMSA. AMSA said it has requested another response and will assess USF once that is received.
The scorecard evaluates restrictions on gifts, paid speaking for products, acceptance of drug promotion samples, interaction with sales representatives and industry-funded education, among other criteria. Pharmaceutical industry marketing to doctors has been estimated at $28 billion to $46 billion per year with additional promotion by the medical device industry, according to the release.
AMSA, which represents the concerns of physicians-in-training, collaborated with The Prescription Project, an industry watchdog group working to eliminate conflicts of interest in medicine. The two organizations developed an interactive Web site that evaluates each school's policies in 11 areas.
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ELLENSBURG, Wash. — Central Washington University shortstop Jamie Nilsen (Federal Way, Wash./Decatur HS) has been named a Division II First Team All-American by both Daktronics and the National Collegiate Baseball Writers' Association (NCBWA).
Nilsen, one of the Wildcats' co-captains and two-time Great Northwest Athletic Conference Player of the Year (2007 & 2008), was chosen to the first team All-American squad on two of the three All-American teams. The Daktronics, Inc., team is voted upon by sports information directors nationwide, while the NCBWA squad is selected by a committee of voters who also rank teams regionally and nationally throughout the season.
As a senior, Nilsen finished a .468 batting average — the third-highest average in the nation at the NCAA Division II level entering the national tournament. He was the offensive catalyst on a Wildcat squad that finished 30-21 overall and 20-12 in GNAC play for a second place finish. In addition to his batting average, Nilsen set four other single-season conference records including slugging percentage (.780), on-base percentage (.557), total bases (145), and hit by pitch (25). He finished his career as the only four-year first-team all-conference selection in the history of the GNAC and set virtually every offensive record in the baseball history of Central Washington University.
Nilsen, who was also previously named the Daktronics and NCBWA Division II West Region Player of the Year, and on May 10 was named the 2007-08 CWU Male Athlete of the Year, will now await the 2008 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft that takes place June 5-6. Only one player, former first baseman Brian Viafore (2002-03; 28th round pick in 2003 by Arizona), has been drafted previously during the Wildcats' seven years at the NCAA Division II level. One of Nilsen's former teammates, Troy Martin (2004-05), did sign a free-agent contract with Tampa Bay and played for one season in the Rays' farm system.

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Among the reports and updates were notes on the university’s recent success in many areas and information on the school’s diversity.
University President David Skorton shared news with the trustees about faculty and student honors, and grants received by the school. About 100 people, including the trustees, attended the session at the university’s business school.
Skorton spent several minutes congratulating Cornell for becoming the first American medical school to give medical degrees outside the U.S. through Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar. Medical degrees were earned by 15 students of seven nationalities May 8. Nine of the graduates were women.
“It was a great honor to travel to Doha and be a part of this graduation,” Skorton said.
Three undergraduate students at Cornell traveled with Kent Hubble, dean of students, to Doha as the first step to setting up a student ambassador’s link between the Ithaca and Doha campuses.
“It’s a fascinating idea and it was all conceived by the students with advice and counsel by Kent and others,” Skorton said.
One of the ideas coming from the partnership will be the selection of one student at the Doha campus to report and write columns for the Cornell Daily Sun on happenings in Doha.
The trustees also heard from Robert L. Harris Jr., vice provost for diversity and faculty development at the school.
Women have shown strides on campus in the past decade. Women represented 20 percent of faculty in the 1997-98 school year. Today women are 26 percent of the school faculty.
“Over the past decade the number of women on the faculty has increased from 304 to 420,” Harris said. “We’ve had the highest percentage point gain among Ivy League schools over the past decade.”

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Dr. Paul Anastas, director of the Green Chemistry Institute at the American Chemical Society, will present the 10th Annual Samuel R. Scholes Jr. Lecture at Alfred University, on Tuesday, April 15, 2008, from 8- 9:30 p.m. in Powell Campus Center’s Nevins Theatre.
The late Dr. Joshua Fierer, a 1959 AU graduate, created the Samuel R. Scholes Jr. Lecture in honor of his long-time mentor and friend. Scholes came to Alfred in 1932 when his father joined the faculty of the College of Ceramics at Alfred University. A 1937 graduate of Alfred University, the younger Scholes earned a Ph.D. degree from Yale University. He returned to Alfred in 1946 as a member of the faculty in the chemistry department, where he taught until his retirement in 1980.
Anastas is currently a visiting professor in the Chemistry Department at the University of Nottingham, U.K., and serves on the editorial board of the journal “Environmental Science and Technology.”
He also serves in the National Security and International Activities Division in the White House on Science and Technology Policy. His responsibilities consist of furthering the science and technology relationship between the United States and China, and international public-private cooperation in areas of science for the sustainability such as green chemistry.
Anastas is the author/editor of nine scientific and technical books including “Green Chemistry: Theory and Practice,” which has been translated into five languages.
He earned a bachelor of science degree in chemistry from the University of Massachusetts at Boston and a master of arts and Ph.D. in organic chemistry from Brandeis University.
Anastas previously served as the chief of the Industrial Chemistry Branch of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). During that time, he was responsible for regulatory review of industrial chemicals under the Toxic Substances Control Act and the development of rules, policy and guidance.

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CLEVELAND — In the waning minutes, as it became increasingly obvious that Eastern Michigan University’s basketball season was about to end in Thursday’s Mid-American Conference Tournament quarterfinals, frustration engulfed the face of Travis Lewis.
By the time the senior swingman and former Loy Norrix standout finished his duties at the postgame podium, his mood had turned somber.
Lewis, a scholarship member of the football team who walked on to the basketball team in the middle of the 2005-06 season, is done as an athlete at Eastern Michigan.
“Both with football and basketball, I’m going to miss putting on an Eastern Michigan jersey,” Lewis said, after scoring three points and grabbing eight rebounds before fouling out with 1:37 left in the Eagles’ 70-61 loss to Western Michigan.
“My entire career I’ve been the underdog, but it made our team come closer together. It’s been a great experience, it’s been fun. The only thing I didn’t accomplish was getting a ring, so that’s the thing that really hurts the most.
“I experienced a lot of things that made me better as a person, from the struggles and ups and downs that we had here. It’s just, it’s going to be a hard step to take now, not being able to put on that jersey in the fall and put it on again in the winter. Man, it’s … I’m going to miss it.”

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