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Thursday, May 24, 2018
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“Training for surgery”
Michigan Medicine
works with patients to
prepare for surgery
By SAYALI AMIN
Daily Staff Reporter
For the past five years, the
Michigan Surgical and Health
Optimization Program at Mich-
igan Medicine has been work-
ing with patients undergoing
large operations, such as can-
cer surgeries or transplants, to
help them better prepare for
their procedures during the
waiting period. MSHOP has
led to reduced costs of care and
improvements in recovery.
Dr.
Michael
Englesbe,
a
transplant
surgeon
running
MSHOP, said there could be up
to a two-month gap between
when a patient schedules a sur-
gery and when they undergo the
procedure.
“It can be a really scary time
for patients, they’re just waiting
for the big operation,” Engles-
be said. “So during that time,
instead of waiting and worrying
we’ve started training patients.”
Englesbe uses the analogy
of a 5K race, pointing out most
people train for a race. Trans-
lating that into surgery, patients
work toward meeting health
and wellness goals in time for
their surgery to optimize their
recovery. These goals include
focusing on nutrition, walking,
exercising, stopping smoking
and other wellness activities.
The feedback for the pro-
gram has been overall posi-
tive, Englesbe said. The patient
compliance for the study is 80
percent, which is much higher
than most other lifestyle-inter-
vention and wellness studies or
programs.
“Patients
appreciate
the
opportunity to be empowered
and actively engaged in their
care,” Englesbe said. “It helps
them reduce stress and gives
them something to focus on.”
Dr. Stewart Wang, a profes-
sor of surgery at the Medical
School, helped create some of
the technology for the program.
In an email interview, Wang
wrote the program has been
made to be more customizable
for the patient.
“We have markedly improved
our technology based moni-
toring of patient progress so
that we can intervene (or just
provide
encouragement)
as
needed to optimize progress,”
Wang wrote. “We make patient
progress over the course of the
program easier for the patient
themselves to monitor and also
allow them to recruit friends
and family to help them achieve
their goals.”
Wang wrote he has been
working with patient-better-
ment technologies and software
algorithms in conjunction with
the U-M Department of Surgery
to make MSHOP a more stream-
lined program.
“My group is also adapting
the original MSHOP technology
I developed so that it can work
in settings other than an aca-
demic medical center, which is
where the vast majority of clini-
cal care in the US takes place,”
Wang wrote. “We are translat-
ing the program out into the
real-world healthcare market-
place.”
According
to
a
previous
Michigan Medicine newsletter,
“Program facilitators worked to
craft notes with positive, natu-
ral-sounding language to make
the exchanges personal and
more effective.”
Currently, MSHOP is pri-
marily available at Michigan
Medicine and certain practices
across the state of Michigan.
Applying the program on a
larger scale is a slow process,
Englesbe said.
“The program takes time for
nurses and doctors, and most
nurses and doctors are already
working full time,” Englesbe
said. “Any additional kind of
work is difficult to implement;
you need to pay them.”
Englesbe said they’ve begun
working with Blue Cross and
Blue Shield to discuss a way
to compensate those spending
time training patients.
A MSHOP study of the pro-
gram wrapped up a few months
ago and Englesbe hopes the new
data will help prove the benefits
and even accelerate the adop-
tion of the program.
“I think it’ll become stan-
dard of care slowly, but it’s just
going to take a long, long time,”
Englesbe
said.
“Hopefully
patients will start to expect it,
to demand it.”
University approves $19M dance building
By ELIZABETH
LAWRENCE
Daily Staff Reporter
Last Thursday, the University
of Michigan Board of Regents
approved plans for a new $19
million dance building for the
School of Music, Theatre &
Dance to be built on North Cam-
pus. The building will have state-
of-the-art facilities, including
a 100-seat performance space,
larger studios, smart classrooms,
faculty offices and more. It will
further expand upon the Earl V.
Moore Building, which is home
to the music department of the
Music, Theatre & Dance School.
Presently, the dance build-
ing is connected to the Central
Campus Recreational Building,
while the other departments
of the Music, Theatre & Dance
School are located on North. The
current dance building, which
opened in 1977, fit the needs of
the department at the time but
was outgrown, according to Jes-
sica Fogel, professor and chair
of dance. Fogel said the plan for
a new dance building has been
brewing for some time.
“This current project rests
on the shoulders of many dance
faculty teams over many long
years,” Fogel said. “We’ve been
envisioning a new dance build-
ing for decades actually.”
University
Regent
Andrea
Fischer Newman (R) explained
it was finally approved because
funding
had
been
secured
through philanthropy, invest-
ment proceeds and other sourc-
es. She expressed her excitement
to support the dance program in
this way.
“This is an opportunity to
really move the last piece of the
School of Music, Theatre and
Dance to North Campus, and
do it in a way that it deserves,”
Newman said.
Fogel said she was looking
forward to the new building’s
upgraded spaces, such as a studio
with media allowing for projects
tying dance with technology.
With these improvements, as
well as having more space in
general, Fogel said the dance
program will be able to meet the
needs of more students.
“There will be a much better
integration of technology; this
integration has become stan-
dard in teaching dance,” Fogel
said. “We will be better able to
accommodate our very popu-
lar dance courses. We’ll also be
able to accommodate more com-
munity groups and conferences
because the new building will
have more ample facilities.”
Further, Fogel noted the relo-
cation to North Campus will
allow for more collaboration
between dance, the other Music,
Theatre & Dance branches and
the Schools of Engineering,
Architecture and Art & Design.
“The new building promises
to be an exciting collaborative
hub,” Fogel said. “We’ll have
proximity to our peers in the
SMTD and to facilities in the
Duderstadt as well as to the
School of Art & Design, Archi-
tecture,
Engineering.
We’ve
done amazing projects with
these units over the years, but
it will be much easier and more
organic to collaborate with them
on North Campus.”
Music, Theatre & Dance soph-
omore Victoria Briones echoed
this sentiment. She said the cur-
rent dance building location is
less than ideal and expressed
her eagerness to move to North
Campus in order to easily work
with the other programs.
“I’m excited to be close to
the rest of SMTD because we’re
the only school in SMTD is on
Central Campus,” Briones said.
“Even though (we) work with
other departments a lot, we col-
laborate a lot with music stu-
dents especially, there’s always
been that kind of separation.
So we’re excited to be on North
Campus with them.”
The plans for the building are
only just beginning, but already
Briones and other dance stu-
dents were able to give sugges-
tions for the design at a forum
with the architectural team.
Briones said she expressed her
desire for the building design to
embrace accessibility and inclu-
sion, making all who enter feel
welcome.
“One thing that came up in the
forum that’s really important to
me and I hope comes to fruition
with this building is we’re trying
to make it more accessible,” Brio-
nes said. “We’re going to make it
more handicap-accessible, and
we’re also pushing for gender-
inclusive bathrooms. We’re try-
ing to make it a more welcoming
space.”
Newman noted the dance pro-
gram has often been left behind
in terms of improving facilities
and resources within the Music,
Theatre & Dance School. Now
that all three divisions of the
school will be on North Campus,
Newman said, the arts program
will be even stronger — some-
thing she believes is deeply
important.
“I’m a huge advocate for the
arts,” Newman said. “Person-
ally, my husband and I have
supported SMTD and believe
in order to be a great Uni-
versity, you have to be great
in the arts, and we basically
have
a
conservatory-style
school at a big university,
which is very, very unusual.
I think the arts bring some-
thing to campus that every
student benefits from.”
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“This is an
opportunity to
really move the
last piece of the
School of Music,
Theater and
Dance to North
Campus, and do
it in a way that it
deserves.”
New building for
School, of Music
Theater and Dance on
North Campus