Re: FTD patient referrals; Neurobehavior Clinic
Greetings, Mario -
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Key Information from the Image:
- Sender: Mark
- Recipient (implied): A researcher at UCLA, potentially involved in FTD and PPA research.
- Inquiry 1:
- Consulted on three patients with non-fluent PPA (potentially logopenic variant).
- Asks about ongoing clinical trials for pharmacotherapy of FTD.
- Inquires about PPA variants.
- Inquiry 2:
- Increased teaching at the college in Letters & Sciences.
- Meeting with Dr. Carmichael next week regarding opportunities to increase effort at the medical school and medical center.
- Asks about opportunities developed since their last conversation regarding participation as an Attending in Neurobehavior Clinic.
- Sender's Affiliation:
- Mark Jude Tramo, MD PhD
- Dept of Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
- Dept of Musicology, UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music
- Director, The Institute for Music & Brain Science
- Co-Director, University of California Multi-Campus Music Research Initiative (UC MERCI)
- Websites:
- http://www.BrainMusic.org
- http://merci.ucsd.edu
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Mark Jude Tramo, MD PhD
Dept of Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Dept of Musicology, UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music
Director, The Institute for Music & Brain Science
Co-Director, University of California Multi-Campus Music Research Initiative (UC MERCI)
Mark Jude Tramo, MD PhD
Dept of Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Dept of Musicology, UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music
Director, The Institute for Music & Brain Science
Co-Director, University of California Multi-Campus Music Research Initiative (UC MERCI)
http://www.BrainMusic.org
http://merci.ucsd.edu
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Mark Jude Tramo, MD PhD
Dept of Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Dept of Musicology, UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music
Director, The Institute for Music & Brain Science
Co-Director, University of California Multi-Campus Music Research Initiative (UC MERCI)
http://www.BrainMusic.org
http://merci.ucsd.edu
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Hi Mark,
We have lots of potential research for PPA as well as EOAD and FTD. Love to chat about attending. I am in London...back next wk
Mario
Greetings, Mario - Checking in re: the above. I am giving Professor Rounds at the California Rehabilitation Institute tomorrow at noon and teaching at Resident's Clinic Thursday Sept 28 from 1-5p - might you be available to meet a little before or after clinic on 9/28 or after CRI tomorrow late afternoon? - Best, Mark
It is difficult to make those times. Thurs Sept 28th we have our AD research meeting and conference. Did you speak with Tom about attending?
My UCLA clinic serves as the input for my research and is not as a regular teaching clinic. I see my own patients with fellows.
However, UCLA Neurological Clinics would be happy to have you step in as attending in the designated resident's clinic for beh neuro/dementia. About a year and half ago we lost three Easton AD faculty (Ringman, Apostolova, Grill) and, most recently, Ed Teng.
Mario
Greetings, Tom -
I've been in correspondence with Mario Mendez since my move to LA about attending the resident's clinic in Behavioral Neurology (please see above email) - I used to organize resident teaching in the Behavioral Neurology Clinic at Mass General and co-direct the Harvard CME Dept's annual Dementia course. Might there be an opportunity to serve as an attending in Behavioral Neurology?
Best,
Mark
Hello Mark,
There are a couple of ways to proceed on this, if Mario is in agreement. One is as Voluntary Faculty. We have Voluntary Faculty teaching in the resident clinic and in other areas, such as in concussion clinic. This is the easiest route and probably the most closely linked to the actual role that would evolve. Another route is to come in at one level of a faculty position. This would require official evaluation and approval by the Department and then the University Committee on Appointments and Promotions. It would require formal review of your academic record, current and proposed academic path and evidence of financial support of any proposed salary. This usually takes 6-8 months. We would need to more substantially discuss this because as you know, it is difficult to achieve a salary support from purely clinical billings in an academic dementia clinic.
Cordially,
Tom
Thank you for your reply, Tom -
I'm wondering if there might be a way to cobble together salary support by combining teaching work at the Schools of Music, Letters & Sciences, and Medicine with clinical work in Neurology in Behavioral Neurology and Neurorehabilitation:
I'm meeting with Barney Schlinger, the chair of Integrative Medicine & Physiology, in the weeks ahead about founding a lecture course, Auditory Neurobiology of Music & Speech Perception. Stephanie White has been enthusiastic and helpful, and Greg Miller and Barbara Knowlton in PsychoUCogSci/Psychobiol are willing to contribute partial support to a lecture course and accredit it for their majors and minors, as it would help their departmental teaching programs.
Stephanie is also contributing support through her Undergraduate Interdepartmental Program for Neuroscience to the Music Mind & Brain seminar course I started at the Music School via the Music Industry Science & Technology Program in 2010, thanks in large part to former Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Dan Neuman, who is now on the Executive Board of The Institute for Music & Brain Science.
Music School Dean Judi Smith is helping me add a third course that would then allow for an Adjunct Professor appointment at Letters & Sciences - that third course may come via the Freshman Cluster Program or by making my seminar a two-quarter seminar (discussions ongoing). With Judi's help and support, Scott Chandler tapped me to lead a Freshman Cluster Seminar Spring Quarter 2017; I deferred last year and it's likely I will start teaching one in 2018 or 2019. Once I'm on ladder faculty and eligible for intramural grants, I would then apply for a grant to teach a multi-campus course, which Stephanie identified as likely support andall the rage these days at UC - I think I'd have a good chance to get that intramural grant given my recent President's Catalyst Award with colleagues at UCSD, UCD, and UCM re: multi-Campus multi-disciplinary music research/teaching initiaitive (UC MERCI).
I haven't yet met with Kelsey Martin, Clarence Braddock, or Dr DiGiorgio re: Medical School teaching opportunities (I used to teach in the 2nd year Human Nervous System & Behavior course at Harvard Medical School and in the HMS-MIT Division of Science & Technology/Harvard and MIT graduate schools). I thought I would wait a bit to meet with them pending my discussion of the new Auditory Neurobiology course with Barney Schlinger.
There's also the possibility of contributing to my UCLA salary via income I would generate seeing patients part-time in Thousand Oaks.
Grants-wise I have a grant through the Institute for Music & Brain Science through 2018 that covers about 20% of my salary, and I have a proposal pending with a virtual reality company who is interested in doing clinical trials in neurorehabilitation and in pain/pailliative care - those initial funds would go to setting up pilot studies with David Alexander and, hopefully, Lisa Wilen - I've held off contacting Lisa until I hear back from Contact Cl/Maestro about funding that proposal.
Lots of moving parts! Perhaps we might meet after my meeting with Barney Schlinger? OR should I meet with Drs Martin and/or Braddock first? As far as teaching in Neurobehavior vs. General Resident Neurology Clinic on
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the Voluntary Faculty this year, I defer that assignment to you so I can contribute to clinical teaching wherever it would help the Department most.
Yours,
Mark