UMass FMCH Tuesday Talk - June 17, 2025/COMMUNITY

Welcome to the FMCH Tuesday Talk. Please continue to send us your announcements, celebrations, and accomplishments to FMCHtuesdaytalk@umassmed.edu. 

Table of Contents

Upcoming Events

Focus of the Week - Community

Announcements

Presentations and Publications

Frankly Speaking Podcast

Resources

Upcoming Events


Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences

Tuesday, June 17th, 8:00 - 5:00pm"Early Childhood Mental Health: a Primer for Pediatric Primary Care Clinicians".

https://umassmed.ungerboeck.com/prod/emc00/PublicSignIn.aspx?&aat=6d7637774c6f7967462f4a4e6d693431483859376a43514e32384a573455357633426855627055475071453d.

Focus of the Week - Community

Hugh Silk, MD, MPH, Vice Chair of Community Health


Summer is here - so check out these important and fun events and ideas for you, your family, and for your patients:

There are resources in Worcester for youth summer jobs through the City of Worcester (https://www.worcesterma.gov/youth-opportunities/youth-employment) and YouthWorks (https://wcac.net/youthworks-summer-jobs/).


Summer Eats - free food for children and teens through age 18 Monday- Friday at different locations https://www.worcesterschools.org/page/summer-eats.


Movies on the Common for family fun - three more movie nights to come. 

(https://www.downtownworcester.org/things-to-do/movies-on-the-common/)


Out to Lunch Wednesdays on the Common Oval 11am-3pm every Wednesday until August 20th - food trucks, farmers market, music and performances, community organizations, artists and more.

https://www.downtownworcester.org/things-to-do/outtolunch/


Taste of Shrewsbury Street June 18th over 30 restaurants will be providing food. Check it out https://www.tasteofshrewsburystreet.com/2025.


The Telegram and Gazette has a calendar of events with events everyday.

https://www.telegram.com/things-to-do/events/?_evDiscoveryPath=/


Free Bus service in Worcester Celebration. We have the longest regional free transportation service in the country! Join the celebration on June 24th at Union Station. RSVP here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScVs0aQ-qkbbEnxoClxXNQYH_BfDWJ3gm5hukIZgfRa2ljtsg/viewform

Announcements


Thanks to the efforts of Josephine Fowler, Jeanne Cawse-Lucas and Maryanne Adams, we are able each year to deliver high quality, AAFP approved CME via our Grand Rounds structure. To better address your needs, WE NEED YOUR HELP. Please answer this 4 question (3 minutes, max) survey to help us learn what you want.

https://umassmed.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0694x39bXoIE42W


Summer Scholarship Writing Circles

Mondays in June & July, 12:00-1:00pm

Have you been putting off that scholarly project? Have you had difficulty making time to write? Summer Scholarship Writing Circles provide the space and time for you to make progress on that paper, presentation or curriculum. The hybrid (in-person and virtual) sessions will consist mostly of quiet writing time, with an opportunity to get support from your faculty peers. In-person (Lamar Soutter Library Conference Room at UMass Chan Medical School) & virtual options for participation.

REGISTER


Film Premiere of VITAL SIGNS and Panel - Advocating for Deaf Health Access

Tuesday, June 17th, 4-6pm

Hosted by UMass Chan Medical School, Center for Living and Working, and DEAF YE - Center for Deaf Empowerment and Recovery. 18 Chestnut Street, Worcester, MA.

RSVP melissa.anderson@umassmed.edu.


UMass Chan has announced the timeline for application for this year’s Remillard Family Community Service Fund. The Fund is dedicated solely to providing ongoing support for a variety of community outreach programs provided by faculty, clinical staff, residents and students of UMass Chan Medical School. As such, the chancellor of the Medical School or his assignees will use the annual distributions of this endowed fund to support community service programs designed and executed by these groups for the benefit of the community. Proposals are due no later than June 23rd, 2025 and the budget cannot exceed $20,000 for one year of duration. More information is available here.


The Road to Care Mobile Clinic will be hosting the final cohort of Transforming Care ECHO: Harm Reduction, Overdose Prevention, and Management of Opioid Use Disorder. This is a unique remote learning opportunity that will cover the basics of caring for patients with OUD as well as offer feedback and expert guidance on patient cases. Sessions will run remotely on Thursdays from 12-1pm every other week now through June 26th. This ECHO is made possible through the generous support of the RIZE foundation. Registration: https://forms.office.com/r/X8z25aNFsH


The 2025-2026 BRC Fellowship Call for Applications Is Open

The Building Research Capacity (BRC) Fellowship has 3 aims:

  • Coaching: Provide coaching support to build research and scholarship capacity within a program or institution
  • Support: Develop a peer support network among other individuals or teams trying to build research capacity
  • Strategic Planning: Create a strategic plan for research and scholarship within their home program/institution

Applications are due July 30, 2025. Learn more and apply here!


Private Funding Opportunities

The Corporate and Foundation Relations (CFR) team distributes via email a bi-weekly digest summarizing upcoming private funding opportunities to the UMass Chan Medical School community. Sign up today by emailing DevelopmentFundingDigest@umassmed.edu. The CFR team is here to help members of the UMass Chan community generate curated lists of foundation and institutional philanthropy opportunities. Contact us to learn about tools and foundations that support faculty, postdocs, predocs, graduate students and medical school students. Please contact the CFR team before approaching any foundation or private philanthropic funder.

Another funding resource is: https://www.rwjf.org/en/grants/active-funding-opportunities/2025/exploring-equitable-futures.html?rid=003VN00000FHgqEYAT&et_cid=2199758

Due October 15th, 2025.

Presentations and Publications


Philip Day and colleagues recently published an open access article in BMC Medical Ethics reviewing the literature on non-financial conflicts of interest in healthcare: Bauer, D., Orchard, D.A., Day, P.G. et al. A literature review of non-financial conflicts of interest in healthcare research and publication. BMC Med Ethics 26, 61 (2025). 

https://doi.org/10.1186/s12910-025-01221-5

50th Anniversary Video!


Check out this video about our Department’s 50 years: 

https://vimeo.com/1067353936/5af9ebbea9?share=copy

Daniel H. Lasser Family Medicine Education Innovation Fund




You can contribute by credit card to this link or QR code:

https://alumni.umassmed.edu/lasserinnovationfund. Or you can send a check payable to UMass Chan Medical School with "Lasser Fund" in the memo to: UMass Chan Medical School Office of Advancement, 333 South St. Shrewsbury, MA 01545.

Frankly Speaking Podcast


Please join us for a weekly Podcast series for an overview: This episode reviews the remarkable impact of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine from 2008-2022, including significant declines in cervical precancer rates. Tune in for key data insights and updated HPV vaccination guidelines to help you close care gaps and strengthen cancer prevention efforts in your practice. Guest: Jill M. Terrien, PhD, ANP-BC, presents, 

"A Success Story: The HPV Vaccine". Frankly Speaking Ep 437.

Listen on Apple Podcasts:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/frankly-speaking-about-family-medicine/id1194659367

Resources


Resources to promote Family Medicine Proud and celebrate our 50th Anniversary

a PowerPoint template, Zoom backgrounds, logo etc:  

https://www.umassmed.edu/fmch/faculty-resources/department-logos/


Past editions of the Tuesday Talk are available at 

https://www.umassmed.edu/fmch/ under Resources.


The UMass Memorial Caring for Caregivers Program is available at 508-334-HELP,

EAP at 866-263-3525, and the UMass Chan EAP at 800-322-5327.

www.LiveandWorkWell.com 


Yoga Classes with Dr. Liz Erban.

New members always welcome. 

Please join us on Wednesday(s), 6:30-7:30am, for a gentle awakening yoga session led by the talented Liz Erban.

https://umassmed.zoom.us/j/91343267992?pwd=ZHF3NHVrVlR1MVdMV09HSE5lTzdsQT09