Welcome to the University of Michigan Medical School E-News, your source for quick and current news from the medical school community.

From the Dean's Office

Nov. 13: Attend Dean Woolliscroft's office hours program
Since beginning the office hours program, Dean Woolliscroft has met informally with many faculty, staff and students who have provided him with valuable comments and suggestions on how to enhance our efforts and make a great school even better. Faculty, staff and students are invited to stop by with their creative ideas and innovative solutions from 9 - 10 a.m. Friday, Nov. 13, in University Hospital room 2G209.

Research

Nov. 11: NIH Comes to Michigan
From new leadership to ARRA funding programs to enhanced peer review, there are significant changes at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 2009 and 2010. We invite you to participate in any of three sessions being held Wednesday, November 11, to hear from NIH program staff about what is happening at NIH. Learn how to take advantage of these changes and new funding opportunities:

• 10 - 11:30 a.m. - NIH Funding for Academic Institutions: Ch ch ch changes… (sponsored by Michigan’s University Research Corridor)
• 1:30 - 4:30 p.m. - Meet one-on-one with NIH (15 minute meetings, sponsored by Biotechnology Business Consultants)
• 5 - 7 p.m. - NIH Funding for Life Science Companies and Entrepreneurs: SBIR/STTR and Beyond… (sponsored by BioArbor)

For details on locations and how to register, please visit the Web site.

Dec. 4: New faculty orientation to U-M clinical research practices
New faculty and U-M faculty who are new to the practice of clinical research are invited to attend this half-day workshop to provide an overview and resources for navigating the U-M clinical research environment. Personnel and faculty from offices that manage and govern clinical research practices will present key information on the topics of initiating, conducting and collaborating on clinical and translational research.

The workshop will take place from 8 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 4, in Med. Sci. I M-3330 auditorium. For more information or to register, visit the Web site.

NIH stimulus awards to U-M Medical School top $47 million 
On Thursday, UMHS announced that researchers at the University of Michigan Medical School have received 182 stimulus-package awards totaling nearly $47.5 million from the National Institutes of Health, as of November 1. The grants will enable our scientists and physicians to continue or begin projects that explore innovative approaches to important health issues. The NIH awards, given through a competitive process, are part of the $787 billion federal economic stimulus package known as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act or ARRA, approved in February.

The release is available at the UMHS online press room .

Four U-M researchers receive prestigious NIH awards
Four University of Michigan researchers have been awarded National Institutes of Health grants totaling $4.7 million for research in chemistry, medicine and engineering. The awards were given through the Exceptional, Unconventional Research Enabling Knowledge Acceleration -- EUREKA -- program, whose goal is to allow scientists to test new, unconventional ideas and tackle methodological and technical challenges in their areas of research. The research supported by the program is meant to provide new concepts, tools and approaches that are expected to have a profound impact on the understanding of biology—from fundamental life processes to human diseases and behavior. More than $67.4 million in the form of 56 grants were given to researchers across the country. Award winners are:

• Joseph Holoshitz, M.D., professor of internal medicine and associate chief for research in the Division of Rheumatology at the U-M School of Medicine
• Jon-Kar Zubieta, M.D., Ph.D., professor of psychiatry and radiology at the U-M Medical School and a member of the Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Institute
• Matthew B. Soellner, Ph.D., assistant professor of medicinal chemistry at the U-M College of Pharmacy
• H.V. Jagadish, Ph.D., professor of electrical engineering and computer science, U-M College of Engineering, and associate director, Center for Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics

The release is available at the UMHS online press room .

Nov. 9: Mass spectrometry seminar -- LC and MS innovations
Waters Inc. will present a seminar about applications of LC and MS innovation from 12:30 - 4 p.m. Monday, Nov. 9, in Med. Sci. I room 6311. The seminar topic will be "Ultraperformance LC, Bioanalytical method development for therapeutic peptides and SYNAPT G2 mass spectrometry." For more information or to register for the free seminar, visit the Web site.

Nov. 12: William Warner Brockman Memorial Symposium -- Tumor Virology
The William Warner Brockman Memorial Symposium will take place from 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 12, in the Biomedical Science Research Building D. Dan and Betty Kahn Auditorium. The symposium will feature:

• Paul Lambert, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, who will present "Contributions of Human Papillomavirus oncogenes and host factors in cervical cancer"
• Stanley Lemon, M.D., University of Texas, Medical Branch, who will present "Contrasts in virus persistence: Evasion of innate immune responses by hepatitis A & hepatitis C viruses."
• Hung Fan, Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, who will present "Jaagsiekte sheep retrovirus and lung cancer"
• James Pipas, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, who will present "Viral proteins as probes of cellular pathways: SV40 & beyond"

Registration is not necessary. For more information, call 734-764-1466.

Education

Upcoming workshops sponsored by U-M Teaching and Technology Collaborative
Apple Keynote, how to creat stunning presentations
9 - 11 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 17
Taught by an Apple software specialist, this workshop will help participants learn how to effortlessly create stunning presentations, complete with Apple-designed themes, cinema-quality animations and voice-over narration. Participants will learn to export their presentations in a variety of formats: as a set of image files or as Flash, QuickTime, PowerPoint, HTML or PDF format.

Introduction to MERLOT workshop
9:30 - 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 19
Multimedia Educational Resources for Learning and Online Teaching, repository -- called MERLOT -- is a peer-reviewed repository of online resources freely available for use in teaching. Workshop participants will learn how to search for materials, create their own account and create their own collection. The instructor will focus on selections for nurse educators as examples. Individual sessions to target your interest are available by appointment.

Beginning PowerPoint
10 a.m. - noon Thursday, Nov. 19
In the Introductory PowerPoint class, essential elements of PowerPoint will be introduced by hands-on exercises. In two hours you will learn to quickly build and deliver effective presentations, import graphics and excel charts, animate bulleted text, print handouts, build for "Web" or stand-alone presentations and develop for a MAC or PC computer. Minimal computer experience is required.

Advanced PowerPoint
10 a.m. - noon Monday, Nov. 30
This workshop is for those who want to move beyond the basic functionality of a typical PowerPoint presentation. A hands-on approach is employed to quickly teach advanced PowerPoint practices. Prior experience using PowerPoint is a prerequisite.

Getting started with Photoshop
9 - 11 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 1
Photoshop is a powerful tool if you know how to use it. In this hands-on workshop, you'll learn the basic features of Photoshop, including how to crop and resize images, select part of one image and add it to another using "layers," add text and apply effects such as a bevel to make an image look like a button.

For more information or to register for any of these classes, visit the Web site.

The U-M Health Sciences Libraries is hosting 'Cut the Cord: Connecting to Our Mobile Users'
The U-M Health Sciences Libraries is hosting a free Webcast, "Cut the Cord: Connecting to Our Mobile Users," from 1:30 - 4 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 18, in Med. Sci. II room 2802. The Webcast will feature:

• Current and emerging mobile technologies
• Innovative initiatives using mobile devices
• Useful mobile software applications
• Funding options for projects using mobile devices

For more information, you can view the agenda online. To register, call Nadia Lalla at 734-615-9452 or e-mail nadiamar@umich.edu by Tuesday, Nov. 17.

Participants can earn up to 2.0 MLA CE contact hours. The sponsorship of this Webcast site has been funded in whole or in part with federal funds from the National Library of Medicine.

Clinical

H1N1 flu vaccine update
More H1N1 flu vaccine is arriving at UMHS this week, and so the list of patients and faculty/staff who may now receive the vaccine is able to expand. Here is a complete list of the groups that may now be vaccinated: http://www.med.umich.edu/u/flu/pdf/factsh1n1.pdf.

If you are a member of one of these groups, please seek vaccination as soon as possible so that we can assess the vaccine supply and determine if there’s enough remaining to allow more groups to be added to the list. Injectable vaccine is still in short supply and will be given only to patients, faculty and staff in the groups identified who do not qualify for nasal vaccine, while supplies last. 

Please note that Occupational Health will continue to offer H1N1 vaccination to faculty and staff in the qualifying groups on the third floor of the Med Inn from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. 

For more information on flu-related issues at UMHS, visit www.med.umich.edu/u/flu. 

Policies, What's New: Medical and Financial Identity Theft Prevention, Detection and Mitigation Program
Medical and Financial Identity Theft Prevention, Detection and Mitigation Program. A new UMHS policy 01-04-332 sets forth guidelines to identify, detect, prevent and mitigate against the improper use of sensitive and protected patient information by workforce members, vendors, patients or external persons. This policy applies to all members of the UMHS workforce and refers to all information resources, whether verbal, printed or electronic and whether individually controlled, shared, stand alone or networked. For more information on identity theft, visit the Compliance Web site.

There will be a CQI Brown Bag on the topic from noon - 1 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 17, in the MCHC Auditorium.

Other

UMHS Child Care Center offers school-age care for elementary-aged children
The UMHS Child Care Center, located at 2601 Glazier Way, is proud to offer school-age care for elementary-aged children again this year. We will offer care on the days when Ann Arbor Public Schools are closed. Information, including registration forms, is now available on our Web site. Any family affiliated with UMHS is welcome to enroll. We will continue enrollment until each day is full. For more information, call 734-998-6195 or e-mail robekris@umich.edu.

Online Kids Kare registration gives you a childcare backup
As part of the University's commitment to help all faculty and staff meet the challenge of balancing work obligations with family commitments, the U-M Work/Life Resource Center is proud to once again offer Kids Kare at Home.

Kids Kare at Home is an emergency/back-up option for those times when childcare falls through. To use the Kids Kare at Home program in the 2010 calendar year, faculty, staff and students must first register online by Friday, Nov. 20. Registration is free and there is no obligation to use the service. Many parents sign up just in case. An hourly rate of service will be determined upon registration.

Note: even if you recently enrolled for service in 2009, you must re-register for next year. For more information and to register, visit the Web site.

View and buy your tickets now for the Pathology quilts
The Annual Pathology Charity quilts are back. There's something for everyone, an M quilt, Big Ten, kaleidoscope, batiks, flannels, big, small, monkeys and monsters.

100 percent of the proceeds from these 30 beautiful, handmade quilts go to UMHS' patient families in severe financial need. Quilts will be on display:

• Monday, Nov. 9 and Wednesday, Nov. 18, University Hospital Cafeteria and glass hall by the Cancer Center
• Tuesday, Nov. 10 and Wednesday, Nov. 11, Cardiovascular Center lobby and Biomedical Science Research Building lobby
• Thursday, Nov. 12 and Friday, Nov. 13, East Ann Arbor Health and Geriatrics Center

The quilts may be viewed online or in person. Raffle tickets cost $1 each or six for $5. The winning tickets will be drawn on Friday, Nov. 20.

Everything $6 sale
The FRIENDS Gift Shop will host their annual "Everything $6" sale from 7 a.m. - 4 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 12 and Friday, Nov. 13, in the Towsley Center Lobby. Great value on items such as rings, watches, purses, totes, seasonal accessories, gadgets, gifts and more. Cash, credit card and payroll deduction (for those in our data base) are accepted. All proceeds from the sale will benefit the Trails Edge Camp for ventilator dependant children.

Seminars, lectures, colloquia and events

Basic Science Seminars

Clinical Seminars

Major Events and Conferences

Student Seminars and Thesis Defense