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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. Below are the days, times and locations for office hours in the coming month. Faculty, staff and students are invited to stop by to share their creative ideas and innovative solutions:
Tuesday, April 29, at 4 p.m. in Kellogg Eye Center Library Conference Room 720
Wednesday, May 21, at 11 a.m. in Room 4302B Med. Sci. I.
May 19 - 20: 12th Annual Nathan Shock Workshop
Age-Related Changes in the Biology of Learning and Memory is the topic of the U-M Nathan Shock Center's 12th annual workshop May 19 - 20. This year's meeting features lectures by invited experts in the field including John Disterhoft, Karyn Frick, Michela Gallagher, Eric Klann, Marina Lynch, John Morrison and Scott Small.
For more information, visit the Web site. To register for the workshop, e-mail Jane Heibel at jheibel@umich.edu. Registration deadline is Wednesday, May 14.
Faculty Scholars Program in Integrative Healthcare 2008-2009 Application Deadline: Friday, May 2
The Faculty Scholars Program in Integrative Healthcare prepares U-M faculty to incorporate theoretical, scientific, and clinical information related to complementary, alternative, and integrative therapies into their respective field(s). Eight to ten academic faculty from the medical and allied health schools are admitted each year. Participation involves one full day a month (first Friday) over the academic year. For further information, contact Rita Benn,Ph.D., either by e-mail ritabenn@umich.edu or phone 734-998-7715.
Program and application material is available on our Web site.
May 9: Atul Gawande lecture: Leading the Leaders and Best to do 'Better'
Harvard surgeon Atul Gawande, M.D., has become nationally known for his New Yorker magazine articles and books on health care quality, patient safety and the culture of medicine.
On Friday May 9, he will give a free lecture to the Health System faculty and staff, prior to delivering the U-M Medical School commencement address.
Chief of Staff Darrell (Skip) Campbell Jr., M.D., will introduce Gawande's talk, "Leading the Leaders and Best to do 'Better'," which also will serve as the Annual Meeting for the Medical Staff.
Gawande will speak from 11 a.m. - noon in the Biomedical Science Research Building Auditorium, 109 Zina Pitcher Place; overflow seating will be available.
The lecture, hosted by the Office of Clinical Affairs and Center for Healthcare Research and Transformation, also will be "Web cast" on any U-M computer "live" at 11 a.m. and after the talk concludes. A link will be posted on the Health System's Internal Home Page, www.med.umich.edu/i.
Applications for the online Certificate in the Foundations of Public Health
The University of Michigan School of Public Health is currently accepting applications for the online Certificate in the Foundations of Public Health. This program offers public health workers, and those interested in exploring the field, the unique opportunity to earn an academic credential in public health through a convenient, part-time, distance-learning format. This 16-credit graduate program is taught by leading School of Public Health faculty and is comprised of the following five foundational courses:
Principles of Environmental Health Sciences
Psychosocial Factors in Health-Related Behavior
Introduction to Biostatistics
Strategies and Uses of Epidemiology
Survey of the U.S. Health Care System
For learn about the program and sample a "class," the visit the Online Experience.
Save the date: Medical Education Day is June 10 Medical Education Day highlights medical education activities at U-M, providing faculty, residents and students with an opportunity to interact and collaborate. The plenary speaker is William C. McGaghie, Ph.D., professor and associate director for the Office of Medical Education and Faculty Development for the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University. The topic of the plenary session is "Interdisciplinary Health Science Education." The event will take place from 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. in Dow Auditorium. Deadline to submit abstracts is May 6.
43rd Graduate Summer Session in Epidemiology Application Deadline: June 1
The University of Michigan School of Public Health will offer one-week and three-week courses for all public health professionals and those interested in health research during their 43rd Graduate Summer Session in Epidemiology to take place July 6 - 25. CME credit is available. For application and information, visit www.sph.umich.edu/epid/GSS. For questions, contact Jody Gray at 734-764-5454 or umichgss@umich.edu.
May 4: Life Sciences Orchestra Concert On Sunday, May 4, at 7 p.m. in Hill Auditorium, the University of Michigan Life Sciences Orchestra will present a free concert of listener-friendly 20th and 21st Century music - including a fanfare written for the opening of the Cardiovascular Center.
The concert is open to the public and no tickets are required. Donations are accepted at the door.
In addition to the fanfare, the program includes Copland's "Billy the Kid" suite and Barber's famous Adagio for Strings, as well as two pieces by Ottarino Respighi evoking images of Rome.
The concert will bring the orchestra's 8th season of blending science and music to a close. Tony Denton will be the MC, and Clinton Smith and Diego Piedra, graduate students at the School of Music, will conduct.
The LSO is a program of Gifts of Art, and is made up of more than 70 faculty, staff, students, volunteers and alumni from the medical, health and life science areas of the University.
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Seminars,
lectures, colloquia and events for next week
Monday,
April 28, 2008 Noon. Cancer Center Grand Rounds. Andrea I. McClatchey, Ph.D., associate professor, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School Department of Pathology, will present, "Membrane Organization in Tissue Morphogenesis and Tumorigenesis," in ford auditorium. Lunch will be provided, beginning at 11:30 a.m., in the Ford Lobby.
Tuesday,
April 28, 2008 Noon. Department of Biological Chemistry Seminar Series. Michael Marvin, graduate student research assistant, Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan, will present, "Nuclear RNase P: Composition and Substrate Interaction.," in room 6311, Med. Sci. I.
Wednesday,
April 30, 20088 10 a.m. Department of Neurology Symposium. symposium in honor of James W. Albers, M.D., Ph.D., in the Biomedical Science Research Building Auditorium.
Noon Immunology Seminar. Mitchell Kronenberg, Ph.D., president and scientific director, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, will present, "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery: NKT cells act like innate immune cells," in the North Lecture Hall Med. Sci. II.
5 p.m. Radiology Grand Rounds. David Jamadar, M.D., associate professor of radiology will present, "The Elusive Sports Hernia," in MCHC Auditorium.
Thursday,
May 1, 2008 3:30
p.m. Center for Organogenesis Seminar Series. Zena Werb, Ph.D., professor and vice-chair, Department of Anatomy, University of California at San Francisco, will present, "Tube or Not Tube: Molecular Regulation Mammary Epithelial Morphogenesis in vivo and in Organotypic Culture," in the Seminar Rooms, Biomedical Science Research Department.
4
p.m. Pathology Research Seminar Series. David O. Ferguson, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor, Pathology, University of Michigan, presents "Novel roles of the MRN complex in genomic stability and lymphocyte development," in room 4234, Med. Sci. I.
Friday,
May 2, 2008 10 a.m. Molecular Medicine and Genetics and the Center For Organogenesis Seminar. Zena Werb, Ph.D., professor and vice-chair, Department of Anatomy at the University of California. Werb's talk is titled "Transcriptional Regulation of Mammary Development and Breast Cancer Progression," in the Biomedical Science Research Building Seminar Rooms A-C.
