Jill RachBeisel, MD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, has been appointed to serve as the Chair of the Department of Psychiatry, effective immediately. Dr. RachBeisel has served as the Department s Interim Chair for the past two years and was previously Acting Chair and Vice Chair of the Department. A prominent leader at UMSOM, she has garnered tremendous support among faculty and staff for her efforts to forge partnerships among various entities in an effort to strengthen mental health services provided to patients and the community at large. Dr. RachBeisel will be named The Dr. Irving J. Taylor Endowed Professor and Chair, Department of Psychiatry, when she is invested March 18.
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“As I did my job, I told myself that maybe a human touch, a smile, a comforting voice, a squeeze on the hand would remind these people that we, as a society, have not forgotten … that they are loved, even in their dementia, they have value and yes, they are worth putting my health at risk to help them.”
This was posted by Stephanie Dupont, a nursing resource manager at the Montreal Children’s Hospital, who, with her husband, volunteered in the COVID-hit CHSLDs last spring. They both subsequently contracted the disease.
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Dave Luther Young, a fan of Sparrows Point High School athletics, was surrounded by loved ones when he died from complications of COVID-19 at University of Maryland Medical Center. The North Point Village resident was 70.
2021 State of the State Address
As Prepared for Delivery
Maryland State House, Annapolis
Although it seems like a lifetime ago, just a year has passed since we last gathered with members of the General Assembly for the annual State of the State address.
Last year, I spoke about how Maryland was setting a shining example for the rest of America because of our shared conviction that there is no problem we face that hard work, honesty, and courage cannot solve if we work together.
Over this past year, as we have faced unimaginable challenges, those words were truly put to the test. But together we rose to the challenge, and it is because of the courage, the sacrifices, and the strength of the people of Maryland that the state of our state is more resilient than it has ever been before.