Policies & Procedures
Tolan Receives Star of Science Award from Children’s Brain Research Foundation
At a gala dinner Wed Sept 5, Patrick Tolan, Ph.D., received the Children's Brain Research Foundation's Star of Science Award for years of careful work and dedication to understanding, preventing and treating children's mental disorders. At the same dinner, Justice Ann Burke of the Illinois Supreme Court, received the Star of Leadership Award for her decades of work with children, including her major role in the founding of the Special Olympics. Part of the program included a roundtable discussion on children's mental disorders by three distinguished women scientists, including Deborah Gorman-Smith, Ph.D. Joining in honoring Dr. Tolan and Justice Burke were Chancellor Michael Tanner, Provost Michael Tanner and Dean Joseph Flaherty, along with 20 other UIC faculty and scholars.
Washington Post Quotes Gibbons on Black Box Warning on Anti-Depressants
Robert Gibbons, Ph.D., was quoted last week in a front page Washington Post article on his study on how the black box warning on anti-depressants might actually increase the risk of youth suicide. The study appears in the September issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry. The article may be read at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/05/
AR2007090502303.html?wpisrc=newsletter
Psychiatric Times Interviews Connolly on Practice Parameters for Child Anxiety
Sucheta Connolly, M.D., was interviewed for “Practice Parameter Provides Guidance on Childhood Anxiety” in Psychiatric Times, (Vol XXIV, No.9). The article summarizes information and clinical guidelines presented in the AACAP Practice Parameter on childhood anxiety disorders that appeared in JAACAP Feb 2007. It emphasizes the importance of screening and early identification of childhood anxiety disorders and recommends evidence-based treatments such as CBT and SSRIs. Dr. Connolly developed the parameter along with Gail Bernstein, M.D., and the AACAP Work Group on Quality Issues. The formal citation for the practice parameter is: Connolly, S.D., Bernstein, G.A. and members of the AACAP Work Group on Quality Issues (2007). Practice Parameter for the Assessment and Treatment of Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents, Journal American Academy of Child Adolescent Psychiatry, 46(2): 267-283.
NSF Funds Fall to Study Mathematical Models of Intracellular Processes, Memory
Chris Fall, Ph.D. recently received a three-year research grant from the National Science Foundation to create and study mathematical models of intracellular signaling in prefrontal cortical neurons. The goal is to understand how intracellular processes might contribute to working memory and how these systems might be broken in diseases such as schizophrenia.
LA Times Quotes Larson in Series on Former Graduate Adviser Lynch
John Larson, Ph.D., was quoted in a recent, four-part Los Angeles Times series on his former graduate adviser Gary Lynch, Ph.D., Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at the University of California, Irvine. The article can be found at:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-memory-series,0,3457863.special
Pliskin Presents to MS Society on Invisible Symptoms of Disease
Neil Pliskin, Ph.D., gave a presentation last Friday at a meeting of Multiple Sclerosis Society in Oakbrook. The topic of his speech was “Recognition and Treatment of the Invisible Symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis.”
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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