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Karpf named executive vice president for health affairs
Michael Karpf, vice provost for Hospital Systems, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Medical Center, director of Practice Plans Operation for UCLA Healthcare, and professor of medicine, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, has been named executive vice president for health affairs at the University of Kentucky. The appointment, subject to approval by the UK Board of Trustees, was made by UK President Lee T. Todd Jr., who cited Karpf’s leadership in the health care arena. “I am extremely pleased to have a person of Dr. Karpf’s caliber join us at the University of Kentucky,” said Todd. “Dr. Karpf is nationally recognized and has played a major role in bringing UCLA Medical Center to its number 3 ranking, as reported recently by U.S.News & World Report. With the innovative restructuring of the UK Chandler Medical Center, I believe Dr. Karpf will provide exceptional leadership for our clinical enterprise and shares our goal to become one of the nation’s best academic health centers.” “I am very excited about the opportunity to join the leadership team at the University of Kentucky,” said Karpf. “Clearly, UK is a university on the move, and I look forward very much to the opportunity to lead its comprehensive clinical enterprise. My goals will be to help the Chandler Medical Center improve the health and health care for Kentucky and the region and become a national leader among academic health centers, recognized for its discoveries and applications of exciting clinical innovations.” Karpf will take office October 1, 2003. He will report directly to Todd and be responsible for the clinical and administrative leadership of the clinical enterprise at the UK Chandler Medical Center, including UK Hospital, UK Children’s Hospital, Kentucky Clinics, and associated health programs and entities owned and operated by the University of Kentucky to support the clinical enterprise. The dean of the College of Medicine will report to Karpf for all clinical operations. Karpf will have joint oversight with UK’s provost of the clinical activities in the colleges of Dentistry, Nursing, Pharmacy and Health Sciences. Karpf received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1967 and a Doctor of Medicine degree in 1971, both from the University of Pennsylvania. After completing an internship in medicine at Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1972, he served as a research associate in the Laboratory of Immunology, Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, at the National Institutes of Health until 1974. He returned to the Hospitals of the University of Pennsylvania to complete his medical residency from 1974 to 1977. During that time, Karpf completed a fellowship in hematology/oncology, and from 1976 to 1977, he served as chief medical resident at the Hospitals of the University of Pennsylvania and Veterans Administration Hospital. From 1976 to 1978, Karpf was an assistant professor of medicine (hematology/oncology department) in the Internal Medicine Department at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1978, Karpf went to the University of Miami School of Medicine where he served as an assistant professor of medicine. In 1979, he was recruited to the University of Pittsburgh to develop a Division of General Internal Medicine. From 1979 to 1994, Karpf served in many capacities from assistant professor of medicine to the Falk Professor of General Internal Medicine and vice chairman of the Department of Medicine. He also held a joint appointment as professor of diagnostic services, dental medicine, Department of Diagnostic Services. At the University of Pittsburgh, Karpf was instrumental in restructuring the educational programs for medical students and housestaff as well as the clinical programs of the Department of Medicine. From 1994 to 1995, Karpf served as senior vice president for clinical affairs at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh, and professor of medicine at the Medical College of Pennsylvania-Hahnemann University. In 1995, Karpf was recruited to the University of California, Los Angles. During his tenure, he integrated three hospitals into one corporate entity. He was responsible for the planning and re-building of two replacement hospitals and was instrumental in developing a primary care network for UCLA. In addition, as a member of the senior leadership team of the UCLA Medical Enterprise, Karpf was instrumental in forging a working partnership between the practice plans and the hospital system. This partnership inspired the development of UCLA Healthcare as an integrated health delivery system. He is a member of the Executive Committee of California Hospital Association and the University Health System Consortium. Karpf’s academic interests have been in developing and evaluating innovative educational and clinical programs. He also developed a strong presence in health services focusing on the evaluation and management of common medical problems at the University of Pittsburgh. At UCLA, he has been instrumental in establishing a Center for Medical Ethics and a Center for Patient Quality and Safety. He has received many honors and awards, has published extensively, and has reviewed numerous journals. In addition, he has been involved in a wide range of civic and professional organizations. topStapleton uses passion for Asian cultures as teaching tool
Rarely does a person know in high school what he or she wants to be. Kristin Stapleton, director of the Asia Center at the University of Kentucky, did just that. Stapleton grew up near Detroit, with parents who encouraged her and her siblings to learn about various cultures. Her parents hosted eight foreign exchange students at various times. But high school was when her interest in Asian cultures was piqued. She had a teacher who introduced her class to some of China’s great literature and taught them about its long and complex history. “I became very curious about how a country with so many people managed to organize its society,” said Stapleton. “Eventually, I became so interested I ended up studying it at the University of Michigan and at Harvard graduate school.” Stapleton’s interest increased when she got the opportunity to spend her junior year in Taipei, Taiwan, where she fell in love with the lively and exciting city. In 1993 Stapleton came to UK where she has taught courses on East Asian history, Westerners in East Asia, and China in Revolution. Her research specialty is Chinese urban history, particularly in the first half of the 20th century, a period spanning the last years of the Qing dynasty and the early decades of the Republic of China. Many faculty and staff have felt that UK students did not have enough opportunities to study Asian languages and cultures that would allow them to take advantage of study abroad and career opportunities relating to Asia. So, in 2002, the new Asia Center at UK was established through a $1 million grant from the Freeman Foundation. Stapleton is currently serving as director. Recently, she published “Civilizing Chengdu: Chinese Urban Reform, 1895 to 1937.” The book explores how the management of a Chinese city changed in the years since the people first became strongly interested in European and American society and government. Currently, she is working on a book about the historical background of one of China’s most famous novels, “Family,” by Ba Jin. The novel tells the story of an old-style Confucian Chinese family that gradually breaks apart under the strain of the new culture entering China from abroad in the 1910s and 1920s. In this book, she will show how the historical background of Ba Jin’s life in Chengdu influenced his novel. Stapleton says that Ba Jin will be 100 years old next year, and she wants to finish the book in time to celebrate. Danielle Hinson topFirst-year UK medical students receive white coatsThe 99 members of the University of Kentucky College of Medicine’s Class of 2007 marked the beginning of their medical education in August at the UK Singletary Center for the Arts. During the ceremony, UK medical students received the short white coats that they will wear while seeing patients. The first-year students took a “Pledge of Professionalism for Students of Medicine,” promising a relationship of compassion and respect with patients, teachers and colleagues. UK’s Medical Alumni Association co-sponsored the annual ceremony, which is designed to encourage humanism in medicine. The speaker at the event was Jamshed F. Kanga, professor of pediatrics, chief, division of pediatric pulmonology, and director of the UK Cystic Fibrosis Center. He is a cystic fibrosis specialist and the father of a student in the College of Medicine Class of 2007. Faculty, staff and medical students welcomed the new class during a reception immediately following the ceremony. The class consists of 41 women and 58 men, including seven African Americans and 13 Asian students. Eighty-eight are Kentucky residents. Virginia Nix toptopNeal writes for SPJ convention newspaper
Rebecca Neal, a junior in the University of Kentucky School of Journalism, was one of 12 students selected nationwide to report for The Working Press, the official newspaper at the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) convention held in Tampa, Fla., Sept. 11-13. Neal was one of seven reporters, two photographers, and three designers who published the newspaper during the convention. The newspaper was distributed each morning to about 1,000 professional journalists, educators and students who attended the SPJ convention. SPJ paid Neal’s convention registration, hotel costs, and other convention-related expenses for her newspaper work. The Bluegrass chapter of the SPJ paid Neal’s airfare to Tampa. Neal is the 2003-2004 assistant news editor of the Kentucky Kernel, UK’s independent daily student newspaper. She has served journalism internships with the Advocate-Messenger newspaper in Danville, Ky.; WKYT-TV and WTVQ-TV in Lexington; and WUKY-FM, the UK public broadcasting radio station. toptoptop
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McGuire, assistant professor, UK College of Nursing, is the
recipient of the 2003 Best Dissertation Award, sponsored by the American
Organization of Nurse Executives’ Institute for Patient Care Research
and Education. The award for his dissertation, “Critical Elements of
Organizational Capacity and Resource Needs for Successful Clinical
Information Systems Implementation,” will be presented at the 10th
National Conference on Nursing Administration Research at the University
of North Carolina in October. McGuire is a 2002 graduate of the UK
College of Nursing doctorate program.
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