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Post by Minion on Apr 19, 2017 7:49:13 GMT -6
UTRGV nearing appointment of new School of Medicine Dean www.themonitor.com/news/local/article_fe6d65fa-23db-11e7-b820-eb2f08f25b2c.htmlEDINBURG— New faces are visiting the year-old School of Medicine at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley as officials are nearing the hiring of its new dean. Three candidates have already visited the university, where they completed interviews and met with students and faculty, said UTRGV President Guy Bailey, and a fourth and final candidate will be visiting this week. “We are in the interview process right now,” Bailey said. “Once that person comes and we interview him, we will try in the next 10 days to get an appointment. We would like to get an appointment by the end of April.” The spot for a dean opened in June, when Founding Dean Francisco Fernandez stepped down for the role of seeking other opportunities within the school. Since then Dr. Steven Lieberman, professor and senior dean of medicine at UT-Medical Branch in Galveston, took the spot as interim dean. Lieberman was confirmed to be one of the final four candidates along with Dr. John Krouse, senior associate dean at Temple University School of Medicine; Dr. Michael Gomez, assistant professor at Baylor College of Medicine; and Saul Weiner professor of medicine and pediatrics at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Krouse is the last candidate to visit this week. “It was a pretty robust pool,” Bailey said of the 20 applicants. “It’s one of the strongest pools that I’ve been associated with.” The university formed a 29-person committee to select the candidates in November, and moved to begin the hiring process, which at the time was estimated to take up to six months. The committee was formed of 13 UTRGV faculty and staff and 16 external members including McAllen Mayor Jim Darling, Doctors Hospital at Renaissance Chief Administrative Officer Dr. Carlos Cardenas, and Dr. Amy Shaw Thomas, UT-System Vice Chancellor of Academic and Health Affairs. In the middle of the search the university encountered a hurdle as a temporary state-wide hiring freeze was implemented by Gov. Greg Abbott in January, which is scheduled to last up until August in order to free $200 million in the current budget. The university then filed an exemption to move on with the hiring of the new dean for the recently opened school and Bailey said they received the green light to continue moving forward. “We were able to get exceptions from the governor for the medical school,” Bailey said. “We were also able to get exceptions for all of our student worker positions, and the governor also approved positions that directly affect students like recruiting and advising.” For the dean position Bailey said the focus has been to find someone who has experience dealing with the nuances that arise in a newly created school. “You look at these factors: If the person understands the accreditation process well, medical education, graduate medical education and residency programs, research and research infrastructure, clinical operations, affiliations with partner hospitals and practice plans,” he said. “Those seven areas are absolutely key.”
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Post by Minion on May 12, 2017 7:41:06 GMT -6
UTRGV NAMES NEW MEDICAL SCHOOL DEANEDINBURG — University of Texas Rio Grande Valley officials tapped a veteran of one of the top medical schools in the country for the new dean of the School of Medicine on Thursday. Dr. John Krouse, of Temple University in Philadelphia, will lead the new school as dean and vice president for medical affairs. “Temple has traditionally been ranked as one of the top research-oriented medical schools in the nation, so to attract someone of Dr. Krouse’s caliber is a credit to the faculty, staff and students we already have in place,” said UTRGV President Guy Bailey in a news release. Krouse holds the positions of senior associate dean for clinical affairs and president of Temple University Physicians, among other titles, and he will take over the position on July 1, relieving interim Dean Dr. Steven Lieberman who was also a top candidate for the role. Dr. Lieberman filled the position since July 2016, after founding Dean Dr. Francisco Fernandez stepped down. The official search for the new dean began in the fall and Krouse was one of four top candidates to visit the campus and meet with UTRGV administrators, students and staff. “It is uncommon that new medical schools are opened, and to play a role in the development of this new college is a personal and professional honor and privilege,” Krouse said in the news release. Dr. Lieberman will remain with UTRGV School of Medicine for several months to assist with the transition, the release states. Lieberman served as dean for administration and professor of internal medicine at the UT Medical Branch in Galveston, and came to the Valley as part of an agreement between the two institutions. It is still unclear whether he will be returning to UTMB-Galveston after the transition. The search was led by a 29-member committee formed in November and co-chaired by Dr. Kenneth Shine, consultant to the president of UTRGV, and Dr. Michael Lehker, dean of the UTRGV College of Health Affairs. It included 13 UTRGV faculty and staff and 16 external members including McAllen Mayor Jim Darling and Dr. Carlos Cardenas, chief administrative officer at Doctors Hospital at Renaissance. “An accomplished leader and administrator, Dr. Krouse has demonstrated extraordinary skills in developing educational and clinical programs, recruiting faculty, leading research efforts and in commitment to community,” Shine said. “He is a proverbial ‘quadruple threat.’” The School of Medicine received provisional accreditation in October 2015 and accepted its first cohort of 55 students in 2016. The expectation is to eventually have a full cohort of about 220 students. For now, the main issues facing the long-awaited school have been mainly financial with a tight state budget that will more than likely cut its funding for the next biennium and several Hidalgo County cities that have backtracked promises to allocate funding for the institution. For Bailey, the main goal was to find candidates with enough experience to lead the newly created school and deal with some of the nuances or complications that might arise in the process. “You look at these factors: If the person understands the accreditation process well, medical education and residency programs, research and research infrastructure, clinical operations, affiliations with partner hospitals and practice plans. … Those seven areas are absolutely key,” Bailey said in an interview last month. www.themonitor.com/news/local/article_9065ae76-3689-11e7-9915-dfcc74cad5a9.html
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Post by Granola on May 23, 2017 10:05:30 GMT -6
UTRGV School of Medicine is set to receive at least $55.3 million
Posted: Monday, May 22, 2017 10:40 pm
BY DANYA PEREZ-HERNANDEZ | STAFF WRITER
EDINBURG— The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine is set to receive at least $55.3 million in state funding under an agreement reached in the early morning hours on Sunday between House and Senate conferees in charge of negotiating a two year state spending plan.
Sen. Juan “Chuy” Hinojosa confirmed Monday that the conferees— five senators, including himself, and five House representatives— voted Sunday at around 1:30 a.m. on a compromise between the House and Senate budgets putting the new school of medicine less than $15 million away from its original petition of $70 million.
The proposed Senate budget had the school initially funded at about $12 million and went up to just under $25 million, while the House budget was funding it at about $55.
“It took us all session long to keep on increasing it,” Hinojosa said. “The biggest challenge was the method of financing. What source of revenue do we use to finance the budget?”
University officials, including President Guy Bailey and Vice President of Governmental and Community Relations Veronica Gonzales, have been traveling on a weekly basis to Austin to advocate for the school of medicine.
Although they expected cuts all along, the message was that in order to fund all necessary programs for the infant school and continue the momentum, the funding needed to be at about $60 million, about the same as they were awarded last session. The agreed number gets much closer to that than what had been offered by the Senate.
“We really want to thank our legislative delegation for their hard work,” Bailey said on Monday. “We’ve come a long way during the session… We started with nothing and we are still short, but until I know the final amount I won’t know exactly where we stand… one of our challenges will be to work to make up that difference.”
As far as the university as a whole, the numbers are still not ready to be disclosed, he said, adding the budget is currently being reviewed even though it’s been voted on.
Funding for UTRGV in general could change depending on special item funding, which will change this year for all higher education institutions. But in the case of the school of medicine the number is not likely to decrease, if it changes, Hinojosa said it would only go up.
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Post by Minion on Sept 25, 2017 8:19:21 GMT -6
Hinojosa: Our Medical School – Present and Future If you’ve stopped and looked around the Rio Grande Valley lately, you’ve noticed new businesses, restaurants, and housing developments that have been built or are under construction. Communities throughout the Valley have recently been energized with remarkable economic growth — new jobs, population increases, new transportation projects, prosperous economic development corporations, and record numbers of students enrolled in our higher education programs. Our regional growth is no coincidence. The economic development and progress that surrounds us is very visible and is largely attributable to a new university and first-class medical school that recently opened its doors. And while this great progress is exciting, it is just the beginning of the Valley’s potential. riograndeguardian.com/hinojosa-our-medical-school-present-and-future/
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Post by Granola on Sept 25, 2017 20:53:11 GMT -6
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Post by miles on Feb 2, 2018 21:05:00 GMT -6
Krouse: New $12 million facility to be built at UTRGV School of Medicine EDINBURG, RGV – UT-Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine is to get another building at its Edinburg campus. Dr. John H. Krouse, vice president for medical affairs at UTRGV and dean of the university’s medical school, made the announcement in an interview with reporters on Wednesday. “We have outgrown our current space. We need additional space for faculty offices, student study spaces, classrooms, meeting spaces. As we grow and get a larger class of medical students, we simply need more space,” Krouse said. “We want to build a new building adjacent to our existing medical school building in Edinburg. The projected cost is about $12 million.” riograndeguardian.com/krouse-new-12-million-facility-to-be-built-at-utrgv-school-of-medicine/
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Post by Minion on Feb 8, 2018 9:05:45 GMT -6
Krouse: New $12 million facility to be built at UTRGV School of Medicine EDINBURG, RGV – UT-Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine is to get another building at its Edinburg campus. Dr. John H. Krouse, vice president for medical affairs at UTRGV and dean of the university’s medical school, made the announcement in an interview with reporters on Wednesday. “We have outgrown our current space. We need additional space for faculty offices, student study spaces, classrooms, meeting spaces. As we grow and get a larger class of medical students, we simply need more space,” Krouse said. “We want to build a new building adjacent to our existing medical school building in Edinburg. The projected cost is about $12 million.” riograndeguardian.com/krouse-new-12-million-facility-to-be-built-at-utrgv-school-of-medicine/Awesome! Glad Edinburg got the front end of the medical school!
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Post by miles on Feb 23, 2018 14:48:53 GMT -6
$12.2 million building to be added to UTRGV School of Medicine campus in Edinburg by UT System Board of Regentedinburgpolitics.com/2018/02/23/building-added-utrgv-school-medicine/$12.2 million building to be added to UTRGV School of Medicine campus in Edinburg by UT System Board of Regents, announce Rep. Terry Canales, Edinburg Economic Development Corporation By DAVID A. DÍAZ Legislativemedia@aol.com A plan to build a $12.2. million Classroom and Office Building for the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley’s School of Medicine in Edinburg will be considered in Austin when the University of Texas System Board of Regents meets on Monday, February 26, 2018 and Tuesday, February 27, 2018, according to Rep. Terry Canales, D-Edinburg, and the Edinburg Economic Development Corporation. In addition, the nine-member UT System Board of Regents will consider purchasing a condominium building containing approximately 17,442 square feet of space on approximately 1.27 acres of land located at the northeast Corner of South Jackson Road and Lindsay Boulevard for medical, educational, office, and clinical use, from Banco Mercantil del Norte, S.A. This property is located approximately two and a half miles from UTRGV’s Edinburg campus and is adjacent to a medically-oriented facility within one mile of Doctors Hospital at Renaissance, which is UTRGV’s Valley’s teaching hospital. Not to exceed fair market value as determined by an independent appraisal performed by Aguirre & Patterson, Inc.; appraisal confidential pursuant to Texas Education Code Section 51.951
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Post by Minion on Mar 1, 2018 11:28:43 GMT -6
$12.2 million building to be added to UTRGV School of Medicine campus in Edinburg by UT System Board of Regentedinburgpolitics.com/2018/02/23/building-added-utrgv-school-medicine/$12.2 million building to be added to UTRGV School of Medicine campus in Edinburg by UT System Board of Regents, announce Rep. Terry Canales, Edinburg Economic Development Corporation By DAVID A. DÍAZ Legislativemedia@aol.com A plan to build a $12.2. million Classroom and Office Building for the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley’s School of Medicine in Edinburg will be considered in Austin when the University of Texas System Board of Regents meets on Monday, February 26, 2018 and Tuesday, February 27, 2018, according to Rep. Terry Canales, D-Edinburg, and the Edinburg Economic Development Corporation. In addition, the nine-member UT System Board of Regents will consider purchasing a condominium building containing approximately 17,442 square feet of space on approximately 1.27 acres of land located at the northeast Corner of South Jackson Road and Lindsay Boulevard for medical, educational, office, and clinical use, from Banco Mercantil del Norte, S.A. This property is located approximately two and a half miles from UTRGV’s Edinburg campus and is adjacent to a medically-oriented facility within one mile of Doctors Hospital at Renaissance, which is UTRGV’s Valley’s teaching hospital. Not to exceed fair market value as determined by an independent appraisal performed by Aguirre & Patterson, Inc.; appraisal confidential pursuant to Texas Education Code Section 51.951 Yeah, spread that UTRGV in Hidalgo County! NICE!
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Post by Minion on May 9, 2018 12:14:18 GMT -6
UT Health RGV Pediatric Specialty officeThe University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine hosted a grand opening of its UT Health RGV Pediatric Specialty office, located at 4150 Crosspoint Blvd. in Edinburg. The specialty office aims to close gaps in access to general and specialty care for children, with services that include general pediatrics, pulmonary, developmental, and metabolic and genetic disorders (April 25, 2018).
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