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 with their creative ideas and innovative solutions:
Monday, Feb. 25 at 11 a.m. in 2738 Cardiovascular Center
Thursday, March 6 at 4:30 p.m. in VA, room A917, 9th floor
Wednesday, March 19 at 11:30 a.m. in 2955 Taubman Library, CAP Conference Room
2008 Research Partnership Program Deadline: Monday, March 10
The Spring/Summer Research Grants Program will award a maximum of 40 grants to faculty members to enable them to hire doctoral students to assist with their research and scholarly projects, while providing both financial support and tasks of intellectual benefit to participating doctoral students. In addition, there will be two Sokol Grants for Faculty and Graduate Student Research Projects in the Sciences awarded as a part of this program. The same application is used for consideration for the Sokol Grants. Guidelines and application forms are available at the Rackham Web site.
The Distinguished Faculty and Graduate Student Seminars Program will provide a maximum of 5 awards to groups of faculty, students or graduate programs proposing innovative seminars and colloquia to foster collaboration and stimulate new research. Guidelines and application forms are available at the OVPR Web site.
Please review the attached materials carefully to note the differing purposes of the two types of awards in order to guide your faculty and students to apply to the most appropriate program for their planned activity.
Feb. 27: State of the Cancer Center address
Max S. Wicha, M.D., professor of oncology, director, U-M Comprehensive Cancer Center presents the Cancer Center's "State of the Cancer Center" address at noon Wednesday, Feb. 27, in Ford Auditorium. For more information, contact Barbara Robbins at barbb@umich.edu or 734-936-2516.
March 7 and 8: 90th Annual Galens Smoker: "Billy Medicine"
The Galens Smoker is a theatrical production written and produced entirely by medical students. The annual show pokes fun at the medical community at-large through singing, dancing, music and acting. This year's show, "Billy Medicine" follows a group of U-M doctors who are discovered to never have passed medical school, and thus must go back and complete all four years in a matter of weeks or risk losing their jobs. Hilarity and hijinx ensure as these docs stumble their way through med school! Performances will be at 7 p.m. Friday, March 7 and Saturday, March 8 in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre in the Michigan League.
Tickets can be purchased from Smoker Cast members in the Medical School Lobby and in the University Hospital Cafeteria from 11a.m. - 2 p.m. Feb. 25 - 29 and March 3 - 7. Tickets will be $10 when purchased in person, $11 online, or $12 at the door the evening of the performance.
Medical School Buildings after hour entrance door access - card key
use only
The Medical School will be converting to card key access only at all
building entry doors by the beginning of March. After normal operating
hours all Medical School building entry doors will be locked and access
will be by card key only. Hard keys will no longer work after March 3.
Please make sure that you have an up to date U-M
Medical School identification card so that, if necessary, you can
enter Medical School buildings after hours. If you have any questions
regarding whether your identification card is up-to-date, e-mail
Bonnie Brown at bgbrown@umich.edu or call the
Medical School Office of Facilities Management and Planning at 734-647-2788.
Writing a systematic review?
Writing a Systematic Review? Do you need help with literature searching for a systematic review or practice guideline? Librarians at the Health Sciences Libraries are expert searchers and can meet with you to devise search strategies in biomedical databases to ensure that you are doing a complete search. Alternately, librarians can do the searches for you for modest fees. For more information, e-mail medical.library@umich.edu, medlibrary@med.umich.edu or call the Reference Desk at 734-763-3071.
Call for nomination - UM-AAOP 2nd annual Award of Excellence
The University of Michigan Association of Administrative Office Professionals Award of Excellence is designed to honor an administrative office professional who embodies the values, skills and behaviors reflected in our mission, vision and core values statement. We will recognize and celebrate an administrative professional who, through their own personal effort, has made significant contributions to our organization, in support of established departmental/service area or overall institutional strategic goals.
The UM-AAOP Award of Excellence winner will be chosen based upon demonstrated excellence in any or all of the following:
exemplary performance
leadership
meaningful contribution to our organization
commitment to continuing professional development
To nominate an individual for this award, please submit a completed nomination form available on our Web site, via e-mail to UM--AAOP@med.umich.edu or fax to 734-936-8783. The nomination form includes examples of criteria. The deadline to submit nomination forms is Monday, March 10.
U-M
Makes the News! M-News Now features timely information about members of the UMHS
community who are in the news. See who is being interviewed or where their
comments are being published at M-News
Now! February
--Dr. Campbell in national Associated Press story
Feb. 17
--Gifts of Art, Elaine Sims in front-page Free Press story
News
releases and Health Minute
For medical press releases and details behind the
headlines, visit www.med.umich.edu/news
Medical School FAQs
Not sure where to get your questions pertaining to the U-M Medical School answered? The FAQ page links to a variety of resources on such things as information and support, educational programs, research and policy information. The site also lists some useful U-M resources.
Seminars,
lectures, colloquia and events for next week Monday,
Feb. 25, 2008 NoonCancer Center Grand Rounds. Stephen M. Hahn, M.D., professor, chair, Department of Radiation Oncology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, presents, "Clinical Radiosensitization: Targeting signaling pathways," in Ford Auditorium.
Tuesday,
Feb. 26, 2008 4 p.m. Bioethics Seminar. Badaruddin Abbasi, M.D., principal scientific officer, National Institute of Fertility, Karachi, Pakistan, fellow, Department of Bioethics, Cleveland Clinic will present "Family Planning and Unsafe Abortion: Policy implications in Pakistan," in room 7C09, North Ingalls Building.
4 p.m. Vision research Seminar. James Schummers, Ph.D., faculty candidate, postdoctoral associate, Neuroscience, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will present, "Orientation maps of neurons and astrocytes in visual cortex," in the Oliphant-Marshall Auditorium, W.K. Kellogg Eye Center.
Wednesday,
Feb. 27, 2008
10:30 a.m.
Psychiatry Grand Rounds. Grace Thrall, M.D., assistant clinical professor, director, residency education, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University Medical Center presents, "From Business Schools to Residency Training -- The Revival of Team Learning," in the Garden Level Auditorium of the Rachel Upjohn Building.
Noon Bioethics Grand Round. Peter Jacobson, M.D., director, Center for Law, Ethics and Health and Professor of Health Law and Policy, presents "Using Family History: Legal and Ethical Considerations," in the MCHC Auditorium.
4 p.m. Molecular and Integrative Physiology Seminar. Hani N. Sabbah, Ph.D., FACC, FCCP, FAHA, professor of medicine, director of cardiovascular research, Henry Ford Health System, presents "Myocardial Recovery: New Frontier in the Treatment of Heart Failure," in 7745 Med. Sci. II.
Thursday,
Feb. 28, 2008 12:10
p.m. Gifts of Art. Smooth jazz by Annette Blank, University Hospital, Main Lobby, floor 1
4
p.m. Vision Research Seminar. Salvatore L. Stella, Jr., Ph.D., faculty candidate, assistant researcher, Department of Neurobiology, UCLA School of Medicine, presents "Adenosine as a Neuromodulator of Excitatory Synaptic Transmission in the Outer Retina," in the Oliphant-Marshall Auditorium, W.K. Kellogg Eye Center.
Friday,
Feb. 29, 2008 Noon Internal Medicine Grand Round. Roger C. Wiggins, M.B., B.Chir., professor, Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, and the director of the George M. O'Brien Renal Center at U-M, presents "Preventing Progression of Kidney Disease: New Concepts and Opportunities," in Ford Auditorium.
