The health sector took first place in the PAEPE 2017 Career Professionals Award given this Wednesday afternoon (6), in the auditorium of the Faculty of Medical Sciences (FCM). The winning project “Implementation of a Sepsis management protocol: reduction of mortality at UER-HC-Unicamp” was developed by a multidisciplinary team with the implementation of a modification in the Emergency Unit of the Hospital de Clínicas, to serve patients more quickly. patients with more serious infectious conditions.
“We take the patient out of the normal care queue and immediately take care of them, taking measures to reduce mortality”, stated the UER division director, Marcos Roberto da Silva, one of the two representatives of the team who went to receive the award. The protocol created by the group reduced the start of medication administration from six hours to up to 49 minutes.
Second place in the PAEPE Award went to one of the bodies of the General Coordination of the University (CGU), with the project “Towards the Digital University: Computerized Document Archival Management System – SIGAD/Unicamp”. Third place went to Interdisciplinary Centers and Nuclei with the project “Application of an Automatic Fault Analyzer for Electronic Boards”.
The first prize was presented by the rector of Unicamp Marcelo Knobel. He praised the diversity of areas recognized and recalled that the honor was maintained, despite the university's budget crisis. This year the institutional awards did not offer cash values. “It is a difficult reality that we are living in and we have many things to improve. We in the administration are convinced that the only way we can achieve this is by improving processes with the effective participation of everyone.” Knobel said that, beyond their daily lives, employees are dedicated to creating new things and that this needs to be recognized and valued.
The awards event featured the music of the century-old band Lira Itapirense, one of the oldest groups in continuous activity in the country, currently under the direction of maestro Maurício Perina. The band, with a slightly smaller lineup, came to play for the first time at Unicamp.
Zeferino Vaz
In the morning, the “Zeferino Vaz” Academic Recognition awards, Teaching Recognition for Dedication to Undergraduate Teaching, Academic Recognition for PQ Career Researchers, Scientific Merit of the XXV Unicamp Scientific Initiation Congress and Inova Unicamp of Initiation to Innovation (see article Inova)
The general coordinator of Unicamp, Teresa Atvars, represented the rector Marcelo Knobel, who was traveling. She stressed that the day was one of celebration. “It is an emblematic day on which we stop to recognize the group of people who make the university happen with the highest quality.” The teaching units nominated 14 teachers, who were awarded the highest award for teaching at Unicamp.
Next, the teachers who dedicated themselves to graduation were recognized. Dean of Undergraduate Studies Eliana Amaral highlighted that it is not so common for this type of important award to exist in other universities. “It’s a great example to have this award.” She thanked the teachers for their dedication and asked for even more collaboration from the teachers “to continue making a difference in graduation”.
Unicamp professor emeritus, Yaro Burian Junior, from the Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering (FEEC), already received the Zeferino Vaz award when it was created, and now he was one of the graduate's honorees. “In my opinion, dedication to graduation is one of the most important things we do at university”, he highlighted.
Researcher Alpina Begossi was the first honoree of the Academic Recognition for PQ Career Researchers, created this year. “I consider it to be the result of a great fight in my career. I see this administration as a huge struggle to make it more visible. Today, having our research recognized is very important,” she highlighted.
Professor Laura Sterian received the Zeferino Vaz award, which she considered “the crowning achievement of a career”, but was also an honorable mention in the scientific initiation award with high school student Matteo Vinícios Perin.
Matteo is a student at Escola Estadual Dom João Nery, in Campinas, and came to the ceremony at Unicamp accompanied by his family. The work he developed in the professor's laboratory looked for markers for diagnosing thyroid cancer. “I didn’t need to study all the biology tests all year long because I learned everything here, it changed a lot of things for me, I grew up, I became more mature”, he celebrated.
See list complete list of graduate award winners and Zeferino Vaz
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