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FEBRUARY 2018    Volume 101, Number 1

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Editor-in-Chief
Joseph H. Friedman, MD

Associate Editor
Kenneth S. Korr, MD

Managing Editor
Mary Korr

Graphic Designer
Marianne Migliori

Advertising Administrator
Sarah Stevens

Advertising Rate Sheet
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For Authors
Author Guidelines
Copyright Transfer
Financial Disclosure
Letters to the Editor

 

COMMENTARY  
[8-page section]
Reflections from the editor-in-chief on 20-year tenure
Joseph H. Friedman, MD

When the competent patient refuses personal care
Herbert Rakatansky, MD

Clinical Challenges in the Growing Medical Marijuana Field
Jonathan Barker, MD

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
[5-page section]
Challenges of delivering medical care in resource-poor countries;
thoughts on personalized medicine in US
Zachary Tabb, MD ’18

Importance of screening for prevention, early detection of colorectal cancer
Samir A. Shah, MD, FACG, FASGE, AGAF
Eric Lamy
Melissa Campbell, MPH

WE ARE READ EVERYWHERE   
RIMJ Readers' Photos

Humboldt County, California

CONTRIBUTIONS
Clinical and Translational Research in Rhode Island: Results of a Needs Assessment Survey
A study performed by the Tracking and Evaluation Key Component Activity (KCA) for Advance-CTR

Cynthia Willey, PhD
Jacquelyn Fede, MA
John Stevenson, PhD
Anthony Hayward, MD, PhD
Stephen Kogut, PhD, MBA
Heather Fournier, MA
James Padbury, MD

Ghost Attack: The East Providence Carbon Monoxide Mass Casualty Incident
Catherine Cummings, MD
James Monti, MD
Leo Kobayashi, MD
John Potvin, NREMT-P
Kenneth Williams, MD
Francis Sullivan, MD

CASE REPORTS
Cocaine-Related Acute Spinal Cord Infarction
Caitlin M. Farrell, DO, MPH
Dragos F. Cucu, MD

Transient Orbital Compartment Syndrome Caused by Spontaneous Lamina Papyracea Dehiscence
Shihab Ali, MD
Megan L. Ranney, MD, MPH
Angela F. Jarman, MD

PUBLIC HEALTH
Rhode Island Unintentional Drug Overdose Death Trends and Ranking –
Office of the State Medical Examiners Database

Yongwen Jiang, PhD
James McDonald, MD, MPH
Maria E. Lena Wilson, BS
Jennifer Koziol, MPH
Ariel Goldschmidt, MD
Ewa King, PhD
Samara Viner-Brown, MS
Sandra M. Powell, BA
Nicole Alexander-Scott, MD, MPH

Vital Statistics
Roseann Giorgianni, Deputy State Registrar

RIMS NEWS   
[6-page section]
Are you reading RIMS Notes?

Best Practices for Pain Management and Opioid Prescribing:
Fulfilling the New Opioid CME Mandate

Working for You

SPOTLIGHT    
URI initiative helps older student chart a path to medical school

IN THE NEWS    
[5-page section]

Robert Parker, MD serving at the Providence VAMC and in Africa

Butler Hospital Memory and Aging Program (MAP)
participating in new Alzheimer’s prevention study

Rhode Island Hospital joins nationwide research network

Care New England, Partners HealthCare announce plans to form definitive agreement

Bradley Hospital, Riverside Community Care launch BRAVE Study for Anxious Youth

Bradley/Hasbro Children’s Research Center awarded $3.4M
to develop pediatric anxiety outpatient treatment

PEOPLE/PLACES    
[11-page section]

Peter DeBlasio, Jr, MD, receives 2017 Distinguished Service Award at Fatima

Ira Singer, MD; Jody Meharg, MD, receive 2017 Distinguished Service Award
at physician reception

Visiting Nurse of HopeHealth named as a Top Agency of the 2017 ABILITY/HomeCare Elite

Rhode Island Hospital operating room nurses earn Clinical Excellence Award

South County Hospital receives three 2018 Women’s Choice Awards

Women & Infants awards grants from Constance A. Howes
Women’s Health Innovation Research Fund

Renee Eger, MD certified as menopause practitioner

Women & Infants hospital Emergency Department achieves Level 3 certification

Kristen Matteson, MD, named Ob/Gyn Director of Division of Research

Erica Hardy, MD, named director of Women’s Infectious Disease Consult Service at W&I

Wendy Stern, MD, named President-elect of the Board of Directors for the New England
Otolaryngological Society

Joseph Brady, MD, joins South County Health medical staff

Jason Boulware, DO, named site director of Emergency Medicine at RWMC

Mary Leveillee, PhD, named URI Associate Dean of the College of Nursing

OBITUARIES
Kwang Won Ahn, MD
Joseph Ciabattoni, PhD, MD
Martin E. Felder, MD
Perry Garber, MD
Dr. Kenneth Lambert
Dr. Srecko J. Pogacar
Anthony Bruce Selman, DO
James B. Southard, III, MD

 
 
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