Faculty Senate: 2007 - 2008 Elections
Faculty Senate for School of Medicine Faculty Only (one position open)
Dr. Cavazos is a native of Monterrey, Mexico. He obtained his medical degree in 1987 at Instituto Tecnologico de Monterrey and a Ph.D. in Neuroscience in 1993 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He did his residency in Neurology and fellowship in Clinical Neurophysiology and Epilepsy at Duke University, completing his training in 1997. He joined the faculty of the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver at the Department of Neurology and the Neurosciences Training program. In October 2000, he came to UT Health Science Center at San Antonio as an Assistant Professor in Neurology. He is in the graduate faculty for Pharmacology and Physiology. Since 2005, Dr. Cavazos has been Director of the Clinical Neurophysiology Fellowship at UT Health Science Center at San Antonio. He is one of the four Epileptologists at UHS, and has a large multidisciplinary VA out-patient clinic for Veterans with seizures. His research interests span from studying mechanisms of epileptogenesis in animal models, drug interactions and co-morbidities in epilepsy patients, post-stroke seizures, and clinical trials of new antiepileptic drugs. He currently is funded by NIH and the pharmaceutical industry. He has served as permanent member of the Clinical Neuroscience and Disease study section of the NIH, and chair of the Student and Resident Education committee at the American Epilepsy Society. While at University of Colorado, Dr. Cavazos served a 2-year term in the Faculty Senate. Given his interactions with clinicians at UHS and VA, and with graduate school departments, Dr. Cavazos believes that he can represent concerns from a broad range of faculty members at the Faculty Senate.
Mark T. Nadeau, MD, MBA serves as the program director for the Family Medicine residency at the UT Health Science Center-San Antonio and as the Medical Director for the Family Health Center at the University Health Center-Downtown. He was a faculty member at two US Air Force Family Medicine residencies before he came to UT Health Science Center at San Antonio. His final assignment in Air Force where was as the Chief of Physician Education. He is board certified by the American Board of Family Medicine and completed a faculty development fellowship at the University of California-San Francisco. He received an MBA from University of Massachusetts. He is a member of the Graduate Medical Education Committee, the Duty Hours Subcommittee, the Working Group to establish a policy for disruptive residents and a member of the University Hospital Credentials Committee. He has served for four years as a member of the National Board of Medical Examiners. Dr Nadeau’s areas of interest are leadership training and care of patients with headache.
Giacomo G. Vecil, M.D., serves as Assistant Professor for the Department of Neurosurgery at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. Dr. Vecil’s research focuses on neurosurgical oncology. Among his special interests is the surgical management of primary and secondary tumors of the brain and spine, alternative treatments for brain tumors (i.e., gene therapy) and the use of intraoperative MRI to improve tumor resection in neurosurgical procedures. Presently one of Dr. Vecil’s research projects is investigating how human bone marrow can be used to treat malignant brain tumors.
Dr. Vecil earned his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Pharmacology, as well as his M.D. degree from the University of Toronto in Ontario, Canada. After a neurosurgery residency at the University of Calgary in Alberta, he followed up with concurrent clinical and research fellowships at UT’s MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. In addition to authoring well over a dozen papers published in respected neurological publications, he presented abstracts at meetings sponsored by the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, the Congress of Neurological Surgeons and the Canadian Congress of Neurological Sciences.
Voting Instructions
Below is a link to an electronic copy of the Special Election Ballot. You can return your vote one of three ways (via e-mail, fax or intercampus mail). Please follow the instructions depending on which method you choose. Each of these methods was developed to protect the anonymity of the voter and assure that everyone votes ONLY once.
Adobe Acrobat 2007 Ballot (to print and mail)
OR
Microsoft Word 2007 Ballot (to return via e-mail)
By E-mail
Please return the MS Word ballot as an attachment with your vote electronically to cokerr@uthscsa.edu. Once your electronic ballot is received, the person voting will be noted in a voting log. If it is noted that someone has already voted, only the first vote will count and the additional ballots received (by e-mail or intercampus mail) will be discarded. The ballots will be printed and kept in a separate location until the votes are counted.
By Fax
Please fax the printed .pdf ballot with a separate face page to Ms. Rebecca Coker at 567-4418. Once your faxed ballot is received, the person voting will be noted in a voting log. If it is noted that an individual has already voted, only the first vote will count and the additional ballots received (by fax, e-mail or intercampus mail) will be discarded. The ballot will be separated from its face page and kept in a separate location until the votes are counted.
By Intercampus Mail
Please print the .pdf ballot, mark your choices, and send via intercampus mail in a separate, sealed envelope (regular or manila) to Ms. Rebecca Coker, Office of the Dean, School of Medicine, MSC 7790. Please print your name on the outside of the envelope (NOT on the ballot). Enclose the envelope with your name printed and containing your ballot in another envelope if you wish (this will be left to the discretion of the voter). Once your ballot is received, the person voting will be noted in a voting log. If we receive ballots with no name on the envelope, it will be considered an invalid vote and will be discarded. If it is noted that an individual has already voted (by fax, e-mail or intercampus mail), only the first vote will count and the additional ballots received from the same person will be discarded. The ballot will then be separated from its enclosed envelope and kept in a separate location until the votes are counted.
BALLOTS NEED TO BE RECEIVED BY: close of business on Wednesday, October 10, 2007.
BALLOTS RECEIVED AFTER THIS TIME WILL NOT BE COUNTED.