Policies & Procedures
Naylor Testifies on IJR’s Work with DCFS Before U.S. House Subcommittee
Mike Naylor, M.D., testified July 19 before the House Committee on Ways and Means Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support. Dr. Naylor presented IJR’s collaborative work with DCFS on the centralized consent process and oversight program for psychotropic medications and UIC’s role as expert consultants in the process. The document entered into the testimony was entitled “Improving the Quality of Care for State Wards: The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services Centralized Psychotropic Medication Consent Unit.”
New Paikoff Book on HIV Prevention Research Includes Chapters by IJR Faculty
A new book entitled Community Collaborative Partnerships: The Foundation for HIV Prevention Research Efforts, co-edited by Roberta Paikoff, Ph.D., and Mary McKay, Ph.D., has been published by Haworth Press, Inc. The book includes many chapters co-written by Dr. Paikoff, Donna Baptiste, Ph.D.; Carl Bell, M.D.; Lindyann Wright; and Sybil Madison-Boyd, Ph.D.
Undergrad Rydygier Receives Sarah Madonna Kabbes Scholarship for Research
The UIC Sarah Madonna Kabbes Scholarship for Undergraduate Research in the amount of $1,000 recently was awarded to undergraduate Psychology honors student Lisa Rydygier for the 2007-2008 school year. The award was granted through the Honors College. Brian Mustanski, Ph.D., nominated Ms. Rydygier, who works with him on his longitudinal study of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender youth. Dr. Mustanski is supervising Ms. Rydygier on her honors thesis.
NIDA Director’s Report Quotes Paper by Martin and Colleagues
A recent NIDA Director’s Report to the National Advisory Council on Drug Abuse (May 2007, Clinical Neuroscience Research Section), quoted a paper published by UIC faculty members. The article, by Vassileva, J., Petkova, P., Georgiev, S., Martin, E.M., Tersiyski, R., Raycheva, M., Velinov, V., and Marinov, P. Impaired decision-making in psychopathic heroin addicts, Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 86(2-3), pp. 287-289, 2007, is available at: http://www.nida.nih.gov/DirReports/DirRep507/DirectorReport4.html
Canadian Newspaper Quotes Gibbons Antidepressants, Lower Suicide Risk
Province newspaper in British Columbia last week mentioned research conducted by Robert Gibbons, Ph.D., , that found antidepressants lower the risk of suicide attempt in adults with depression. The article is available at: http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/story.html? id=a260a697-4524-45f8-ad7c-3f50d53fc9be
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 let me know, thank you.
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