New dates: May faculty meeting and Dean Woolliscroft's State of the School address
The May faculty meeting has been rescheduled for 5 p.m. Tuesday, May 5, in the Ford Amphitheatre. This is a change from its original date of May 19. As usual, a reception will follow. Margaret Gyetko, M.D., professor Department of Internal Medicine, and associate dean for Faculty Affairs, U-M Medical School, will present "How to Build a Successful Promotion Packet" and will share the results from the recent Faculty Satisfaction Survey.
Dean Woolliscroft's State of the School address is scheduled for 5 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2009, in the Dow Auditorium. This annual address is usually held in the spring.
If you have any questions, please contact Carol Jarema at 734-615-6981.
May 14 - 15: 13th Annual Nathan Shock Center Research Retreat Nathan Shock Center for the Biology of Aging: Annual Research Retreat will take place Thursday, May 14, and Friday, May 15, in the Biomedical Science Research Building. Internationally known biogerontologists will explore recent, and possible discoveries that may provide new directions for research in the biology of aging in the coming five to 10 years. Keynote lecturers include:
Adam Antebi, Ph.D., Huffington Center on Aging, Baylor School of Medicine
Andrzej Bartke, Ph.D., Southern Illinois School of Medicine
Matt Kaeberlein, Ph.D., University of Washington
Richard Loeser, M.D., Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Daniel Promislow, Ph.D., University of Georgia
Nicholas Schork, Ph.D., Scripps Research Institute
Morris White, Ph.D., Harvard University
To register for the workshop or for more information, e-mail Jane Heibel.
Medical School faculty win innovative teaching award
Several Medical School faculty are being honored with U-M’s first Provost’s Teaching Innovation Prize and a $5,000 award for the most original approaches to teaching and creativity in the classroom. The Medical School award winners are:
Professors Arno Kumagai, M.D., clinical associate professor, Departments of Internal Medicine and Medical Education and Rachel Perlman, M.D., clinical assistant professor, Department of Internal Medicine – The Family Centered Experience Program
The Family Centered Experience (FCE) is an innovative two-year program that is part of the required Medical School curriculum and involves using patients’ stories to foster empathy and patient-centered care. Pairs of medical students make scheduled visits to the homes of volunteer patients and their families in order to listen to the volunteers’ stories about chronic illness and its care. This enables the students to explore the experience of chronic illness from the patient's perspective.
Professors Lloyd Stoolman, M.D., professor, Depatment of Pathology and Matthew Velkey, Ph.D., lecturer, Cell and Developmental Biology – Virtual Microscopy for Life Sciences Education
This innovative project was designed to address the challenges of using light microscopes to study diseased organs and tissues. Assembling, maintaining, and updating sets of glass slides for education is not ideal. The goal was to preserve the interactive laboratory experience by generating high-resolution digital replicas of the best tissue sections, compiling online image repositories, and deploying computer-based "viewers" that replicated the operation of a microscope. This combination of technologies retained the best aspects of light microscopy while overcoming its limitations.
44th 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 44th Graduate Summer Session in Epidemiology July 12-31, 2009. CME credit 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.
Faculty authors and editors: get listed in Medicine at Michigan magazine
The Medical School's Medicine at Michigan magazine wants news of books authored or edited by our faculty – or guest editorships of full journal issues – for the In Print section of the magazine’s summer 2009 issue.
Please send publication information, including title, co-authors/editors, publisher and publication date, to Rick Krupinski, rkrup@umich.edu, 734-998-7523, by May 1 for inclusion in the summer issue. If possible, please forward the book or journal to the Office of Medical Development and Alumni Relations, 301 E. Liberty, Suite 400, Ann Arbor, 48104, campus zip 2251. The cover will be scanned to print specifications, and the image will likely appear with the publication announcement.
New U-M program offers help in financial hardship Recently, the U-M Emergency Hardship Program was established to assist staff or faculty when an immediate, severe and temporary financial hardship occurs due to an emergency. Unexpected circumstances such as a sudden illness, family crisis or natural disaster can affect us all and lead to unplanned financial burdens. The U-M Emergency Hardship Program was established to help with these situations.
The program provides resource information and potentially a one-time financial grant of up to a maximum of $700 to those who are eligible and meet certain criteria. The University of Michigan Hardship Fund provides limited financial assistance when staff members are unable to meet immediate, essential expenses and have exhausted available avenues of assistance.
To date, 16 grants have been awarded with recipients on main campus and in our Health System. The program has responded to more than 125 inquiries and in many instances employees have been connected with community resources that have aided them.
The program was designed by the Faculty and Staff Assistance Program under the guidance of Karen Semenuk and its director, Tom Waldecker. They benchmarked with 20 other universities who have similar programs and
consulted with Borders and Domino’s Pizza, which also have established hardship programs for their employees. Financial support for the successful pilot of this program was aided by an initial contribution
from the University of Michigan Credit Union and individual donors across campus. Additionally, contributions for the program have come from staff, faculty and TCF Bank. To learn more, please go to www.emergencyhardship.umich.edu.
May 5: The integrated work modes Model, theory and practical application
Dr. Michael O'Neill from Knoll, Inc. will present research findings about a conceptual model for work flow and work space that can potentially be used to help organizations improve collaboration, teaching, and learning by optimizing space and furnishings to support the flow of work and information. The presentation will take place at 9 a.m. Tuesday, May 5, in Palmer Commons.
To register, visit the Web site. For those not able to attend in person, this event will be Web cast using Adobe Connect.
U-M
Makes the News! M-News Now! is a Web page with 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! April 22 --Dr. Davis appears on WJBK Detroit
April 21
--Wicha, Morrison quoted in The Scientist
April 20 --Dr. Heckenlively quoted in Science Daily
--Dr. Bolling receives news coverage
--Dr. Rosen quoted in American Medical News
--Dr. Morrison receives major news co
--Dr. Pescovitz named one of Modern Healthcare's Top 25 Women in Healthcare
April 19
--Dr. Riba quoted in Free Press
--Dr. Mendelow quoted in Free Press
News
Releases and Health Minute
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headlines, visit www.med.umich.edu/news
Medical School FAQs
You can find answers to many of your questions pertaining to the U-M Medical School in one place. The FAQ page links to a variety of resources including information and support, educational programs, research and policy information. The site also lists useful U-M resources.
Seminars,
lectures, colloquia and events for next week
Monday,
April 27, 2009 Noon. Cancer Center Grand Rounds. Carl H. June, M.D., professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, and investigator, Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute, University of Pennsylvania, will present "Adoptive T Cell Therapy for Hematologic Malignancies," in Ford Auditorium.
Noon. Frontiers in Cardiovascular Science Short Course. Junichi Sadoshima, M.D., Ph.D., professor, Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Medicine, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark, New Jersey, will present "Metabolic dysfunction during heart failure or autophagy in heart failure,"
in the Cardiovascular Center Danto Auditorium.
4 p.m. Neuroscience Program Seminar. Anir van Ghosh, Ph.D., chair, neurobiology section and director, Neurosciences Graduate Program, University of California-San Diego, will present "The emergence of synaptic specificity in a developing neural circuit," in the Undergraduate Science Building room 1230.
Wednesday,
April 29, 2009
10:30 a.m. 19th Annual Albert Barrett Neuroscience Lecture. Shitij Kapur, MBBS, Ph.D., FRCPC, vice dean and professor and head, Section on Schizophrenia, Imaging and Therapeutics, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College, London, will present "Psychosis and Cognition in Schizophrenia - Where Have We Been, Where Should We Be Going," in the Rachel Upjohn Building Auditorium.
Noon. Cell and Developmental Biology Seminar Series. Jane Johnson, Ph.D., professor and vice chair, Department of Neuroscience, University of Texax, Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, will present "Transcriptional Control of Neuronal Diversity," in the Biomedical Science Research Department seminar rooms A, B and C.
12:15 p.m. Immunology Seminar. David Raulet, Ph.D., professor of immunology and pathogenesis in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, will present "Education of Natural Killer Cells and their Role In Tumor Surveillance," in Med. Sci. II South Lecture Hall.
Thursday,
April 30, 2009 12:10
p.m. Gifts of Art. Vintage swing by Royal Garden Trio, UH Main Lobby, floor 1.
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p.m. Pathology Research Seminar Series. Xuetong (Snow) Shen, Ph.D., associate professor, Department of Carcinogenesis, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, will present "Chromatin responses to DNA damage," in Med. Sci. I room 4234.
