Policies & Procedures
Gorman-Smith, Colleague, Receive over $1M in Foundation Grant Awards
Deborah Gorman-Smith, Ph.D., along with Jon Baron, Executive Director of the Coalition for Evidence Based Policy in Washington D.C. received $750,000 over three years from the MacArthur Foundation to continue their work with OMB, Congress and federal agencies to focus public funds on social programs meeting the highest standard of evidence of sustained benefits to society. Dr. Gorman-Smith and Mr. Baron also received $300,000 from the William T. Grant Foundation to support work providing workshops and in-depth consulting on evidence-based policy to OMB and other federal agency staff. This work is an extension of work completed through a Distinguished Fellow award from the W.T. Grant Foundation awarded to Dr. Gorman-Smith.
Grayson Elected to Board of Epigenetics Society, Publishes Hypothesis in SRF
Dennis Grayson, Ph.D., recently was elected to the Board of the Epigenetics Society. His term began Jan. 1. In separate news, A hypothesis written by Dr. Grayson for The Schizophrenia Research Foundation will be published this week. The reference is: Grayson DR, Guidotti A, Costa E. An epigenetic promoter methylation hypothesis for schizophrenia (Sz) pathophysiology. Schizophrenia Research Forum. January 15, 2007. Please visit http://www.schizophreniaforum.org/for/curr/Grayson/default.asp
Pickett-Schenk Publishes Psychiatric Services Article on Journey of Hope Study
The current edition of Psychiatric Services includes an article by Sue Pickett-Schenk, Ph.D., on her Journey of Hope study. The article, “Improving Knowledge About Mental Illness Through Family-Led Education: The Journey of Hope,” describes how participation in a family-led educational intervention increases family members’ knowledge about the causes and treatment of mental illness, and provides them with information to better cope with their relative’s mental illness. Results presented in this article are from Dr. Pickett-Schenk’s randomized controlled trial of the Journey of Hope family-led education program.
Authors: Susan Pickett-Schenk, Ph.D., Richard Lippincott, M.D., Cynthia Bennett, M.A., and Pamela Steigman, M.A.
Full citation: Pickett-Schenk, S.A., Lippincott, R.C., Bennett, C., & Steigman, P.J. (2008). Improving knowledge about mental illness through family-led education: The Journey of Hope. Psychiatric Services, 59(1), 49-56.
Policies & Procedures
Over the next few months we will be providing and implementing Department Electronic, Network, Computing Policies and Procedures. All Department Policies and Procedures will be reviewed and endorsed by the Information Technology Steering Committee (ITSC) prior to presenting to the Department.
Because of our relationship to UIC and College of Medicine there are some Policies we automatically inherit. Two such policies:
- Information Security Policy - The University of Illinois
- University Guidelines on the Sale, Donation, or Transfer of Computer Hard Drives and Other Magnetic Media
These policies can be found on our web site using the following link: https://intranet.psych.uic.edu/is/ you will be required to “log-in” to access these policies.
We will make both of these policies (along with others forth coming) a part of new employee orientation, but to those of us already in the system we are asking that each of you please take the time to read these policies.
If you have any questions concerning any policy or procedure please contact Lloyd Keith, thank you.
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