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What are the medical school's
strengths?
"There are pockets of excellence in
many areas with the Detroit Medical
Center — cancer at the Karmanos
Cancer Institute, multiple sclerosis,
the burn and trauma center, neonatol-
ogy, ophthalmology. The Perinatology
Research Branch of the National
Institutes of Health (NIH), (a part-
nership with WSU and DMC located
on the DMC campus) is the world's
leader in research in prematurity. The
Department of Psychiatry under Dr.
David Rosenberg is heavily funded
for research by the state and fed-
eral governments. Wayne will open a
major new research building, the Ibio
Building, in a few weeks:'
What are your priorities for the
school?
"I want it to be superior academical-
ly and clinically with special sensitivity
to the urban challenge, particularly the
needs of underserved populations. We
want to be a preeminent tertiary cen-
ter of excellence, and the DMC shares
this goal. I am reorganizing the basic
sciences into a thematic approach
rather than a departmental structure.
We will bring back or strengthen pro-
grams like orthopedics and ENT, and
we are hiring additional faculty.
"I am reaching out to alumni, espe-
cially in the Jewish community, to
restore a link and positive relations.
Many of the Jewish physicians in the
suburbs are alumni of Wayne. There is
a legacy of Jewish graduates of Wayne
The Liaison Committee for
Medical Education recently cited
the School of Medicine for some
deficiencies related to accreditation.
Do you have a plan to resolve these
issues?
"We dropped the ball in student
diversity, so I have established a new
interim vice chair for diversity as we
do a national search for this position.
At one time, Wayne had more African
American students than any other
medical school except the historically
African American schools, and we
took it for granted. I've hired a new
dean of admissions and a dean for
medical education. Our graduates are
great. The citations mainly concern
curriculum. We haven't been innova-
tive in teaching, and we need smaller
classes:'
As healthcare changes in the U.S.,
due to the Affordable Care Act and
other factors, is medical education
also changing?
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are changing. An impending problem
is the lack of positions for medical res-
idencies. Since there are more medical
schools and graduates in Michigan
now, we are considering reducing
class size slightly. Genetics, advances
in imaging and monoclonal antibod-
ies are the cutting edge of medicine
today:'
What is the makeup of the student
body in terms of Michigan, out-of-
state and foreign students?
"Fifteen percent of students are
from out of state, although we can go
as high as 20 percent. The only foreign
students are from Canada:'
What proportion of the medical
graduates stay in this area?
"Thirty percent remain in southeast
Michigan:'
What is the School of Medicine's
research funding?
"The medical school had $96 mil-
lion in research funding in 2014,
which represents 70 percent of Wayne
State's total research. During the last
six months, there has been an increase
in research productivity at the School
of Medicine with new grants being
received:'
As an infectious disease specialist,
do you work in the area of drug-
resistant antibiotics? Why are we
developing immunity to some drugs
that were effective in the past?
"Keith Kaye, M.D., M.P.H., [also a
professor at the medical school], is
studying this. The problem of drug-
resistant antibiotics is due to antibiotic
abuse by physicians and the public,
who demand antibiotics even when
they aren't needed, and the animal
[food] industry and its use of antibiot-
ics:"
Do you still see patients, teach and
conduct research?
"I see patients two and a half days
a week, and I'm still involved in
research:'

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WSU Med School Facts:

The WSU School of Medicine was
established in Detroit in 1868.
It is the largest single-campus
medical school in the U.S., with
1,000 undergraduate medical
students and 400 master's and
Ph.D. students. Approximately
30 percent of Michigan's prac-
ticing physicians received all
or part of their training there.
The School of Medicine has 164
research projects funded by the
National Institutes for Health.

