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Feb. 11: Installation of Jorge Marrero, M.D., as Keith S. Henley, M.D. Collegiate Professorship in Gastroenterology
James O. Woolliscroft, M.D., dean of the Medical School, cordially invites you to the Feb. 11, inauguration of the Keith S. Henley, M.D. Collegiate Professorship in Gastroenterology and the installation of Jorge A. Marrero, M.D., as the first Henley Professor. The ceremony will take place at 4 p.m. in the Ford Amphitheatre. For more information, e-mail Dawn Bednarski or call 734-998-7622.
March 11: Otolarygology Chair Reception Faculty, staff and students are invited to a reception from 4 - 6 p.m. Wednesday, March 11, in the Cardiovascular Center Danto Auditorium, to honor and thank Gregory T. Wolf, M.D., for his tenure as chair of the Department of Otolaryngology. We will also be welcoming Carol Bradford, M.D., as the new department chair. Please come and wish them both well. Remarks will begin at 5 p.m.
Feb. 10 - 11: Annual Dinner Buffet/Pancake Breakfast for Health System Faculty and Staff Join Health System leadership for the annual Dinner Buffet or Pancake Breakfast for Health System faculty and staff hosted by Robert Kelch, M.D., executive vice president for Medical Affairs and chief executive officer, UMHS; Doug Strong, chief executive officer, UMHHC; James Woolliscroft, M.D., dean of the U-M Medical School; and members of the senior management teams of the hospitals, health centers and medical school. Members of Health System leadership will be serving dinner to afternoon shift employees from 6 - 8 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 10, and breakfast to day and midnight shift employees from 6:30 - 9:15 a.m. Wednesday, Feb.11, in the University Hospital Cafeteria lines 3 and 4. To be served, please wear your Health System ID badge.
Request for Proposals for Translational Research in the Life Sciences Deadline: ongoing Michigan Institute for Clinical and Health Research is partnering with U-M Life Sciences Institute in support of translational research in LSI's Center for Chemical Genomics. Funding is available to support high-throughput screening projects using the CCG's chemical, natural product extract collection and RNAi libraries. Of particular interest are projects that encompass novel or innovative targets, biomarkers or platforms that have the potential to increase our understanding of disease at the molecular and cellular levels. Applications related to metabolic disease are especially welcome. All U-M faculty members holding the rank of assistant professor, assistant research scientist, or above, are eligible to apply for these funds. Grant awards may be up to $10,000. For specific details on how to submit an application and who to contact for questions, download the Request for Proposals at www.lsi.umich.edu/ccg or www.michr.umich.edu. For questions, e-mail santee@umich.edu.
Is Healthcare the prescription for what ails Michigan's economy? Watch Sat., Feb. 7th
"Rx for Michigan: is healthcare the prescription for what ails Michigan's economy?" is a television special which will air on Saturday, Feb. 7 at 9 p.m. on WWJ-TV/CBS Detroit. According to WWJ-TV, “'Rx for Michigan," is the latest installment in its “Eye on the Future” series, and it features exclusive interviews with major leaders and decision-makers.
The programs' moderator, Carol Cain, worked closely with UMHS in the development of "Rx for Michigan." In addition to the interviews, the WWJ-TV video crew took considerable background footage in our Emergency Room, in Dr. Eva Feldman's lab, at the CVC Intensive Care Unit, and external shots of the hospital complex. So our special thanks goes many UMHS people, including our dedicated people in the Emergency Room, the CVC Intensive Care Unit, Internal Medicine, and Dr. Feldman's lab; their cooperation was invaluable. Special thanks also goes to the people interviewed by Cain and the people who helped make those interviews happen.
Cain interviewed numerous people, including the following from UMHS:
Robert P. Kelch, M.D., U-M Executive Vice President for Medical Affairs
Steven Kunkel, Ph.D., Endowed Professor Pathology Research and Senior Associate Dean for Research, Medical School
Juanita Parry, R.N., B.S.N., M.Sc., director, Nurse Recruitment and Retention
Eva L. Feldman, M.D. Ph.D., director, A. Alfred Taubman Medical Research Institute
Jennifer Knoester, third year medical student
Cardiovascular Center Research Award Competition The U-M Cardiovascular Center seeks applications for the Cardiovascular Center Research Award Competition. There are four grant programs this year:
McKay Grant: Five to eight grants are generally awarded from $5,000 to $25,000 for new cardiovascular investigators in any U-M discipline related to cardiovascular disease, to initiate projects that will lead to extramural funding.
Innovative/Collaborative Faculty Research Grant - New this year: One $25,000 faculty grant will be awarded to faculty with appointments at the assistant professor level and above who are members of the CVC Basic Science Research Team.
Gelman Innovation Grant: This competition is intended to award innovative approaches to or innovators in general cardiovascular science. One grant with a maximum award of $15,000 will be awarded.
Gelman Complementary Medicine Grant: This competition is intended to award proposals to study complementary/alternative approaches to cardiovascular medicine. One grant with a maximum award of $10,000 will be awarded.
For more information or to download a grant application, visit the Web site.
Biomedical News Online - February 2009
The February 2009 issue ofBiomedical News is now online. This issue contains information on: a clinical research vendor demonstration, the Medical Innovation Center recruiting for its July 2009 Fellowship Team, the Michigan Diabetes Research and Training Center, David E. Kuhl receiving the Japan Prize for science and technology,
research compliance training and education, frequently asked questions, updates from Washington, funding and award opportunities, and UMMS awarded grants and research publications.
A new issue of Inside View is now online The January/February issue of Inside View is now available online. You'll find feature stories about Payroll, the Surgical Intensive Care Unit and the Bioethics Consultation Service. Learn about how our medical students are helping the homeless, what our employees are doing to help those with disabilities, and more! This is your look into the world of Health System faculty and staff.
Feb. 8: Library treasures exhibit Please join us for an exhibit of treasures from the Taubman Medical Library Rare Book Room, Museums Library, and Shapiro Science Library. The event is from 2 - 5 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 8, in the Library Gallery in the Hatcher Graduate Library.
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! Feb. 2
--Dr. Hoilette quoted in Washington Post, Health Day
--Burant talks to Free Press about football weights
--More than nighttime nuisance - Rubenfire
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Seminars,
lectures, colloquia and events for next week
Monday,
Feb. 9, 2009 Noon. Frontiers in Cardiovascular Science Seminar Series. Jeffrey Martens Ph.D., assistant professor, Department of Pharmacology, University of Michigan, will present, "New Therapeutic Targets for Atrial Fibrillation: The Dynamic Trafficking of Kv1.5 in the Heart," in Cardiovascular Center Danto Auditorium. Lunch will be served for the first 50 attendees.
Tuesday,
Feb. 10, 2009 Noon. Department of Biological Chemistry faculty and BSSP candidate. R. Luke Wiseman, NIH postdoctoral fellow, New York University Medical School, will present "The Role of Protein Folding Energetics in ER-associated Protein Misfolding Disease,"
in room 6311 Med. Sci. I.
Wednesday,
Feb. 11, 2009
12:15 p.m.
Immunology Seminar. Dario Vignali, Ph.D., vice chair and member of the Department of Immunology at the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, will present "Molecular control of T cell development and regulatory T cell function," in the Med. Sci. II South Lecture Hall.
3 p.m. Department of Epidemiology Seminar. The 33rd annual Thomas J. Francis Memorial Lecture with Karen Matthews, Ph.D., professor of Psychiatry, Epidemiology, and Psychology, from the University of Pittsburgh, who will present "Getting to the Heart of the Matter: Psychobiological Origins of Cardiovascular disease," in the School of Public Health I Lane Family Auditorium.
5 p.m. Radiology Grand Rounds. Venkat Krishnamurthy, M.D., clinical assistant professor of Radiology, Division of Vascular and Interventional Radiology, will present "Transarterial Chemoembolization of Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Concepts and Controverseries," in the MCHC Auditorium.
Thursday,
Feb. 12, 2009 Noon. Vision Research Seminar. X.Z. Shawn Xu, Ph.D., assistant professor, Department of Integrative and Molecular Physiology, assistant research professor, Life Sciences Institute,
University of Michigan, will present "Eyeless but not blind: light-sensitive neurons and channels mediate phototaxis in C. elegans," in the W.K. Kellogg Eye Center Oliphant-Marshall Auditorium.
12:10
p.m. Gifts of Art. Michigan folk music by Neil Woodward, UH Main Lobby, floor 1
Friday,
Feb. 13, 2009 11:45 a.m. Depression Center Colloquium Series. Steven S. Zalcman, Ph.D., associate professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, New Jersey Medical School and Alan R. Prossin, M.D., lecturer, Department of Psychiatry, U-M Medical School, will present "Neuroimmunology and Depression," in the Depression Center/Rachel Upjohn Building Garden Level Auditorium.
