Dean’s Award Program for Staff with Medical School appointments
Nominations for the Dean’s Award Program for Staff with Medical School appointments will be accepted through June 12.
In 2008, the Staff Awards Program was expanded to up to 12 annual awards in three categories: managerial, professional and support. The top awardee in each category will receive a check for $1,500 and an invitation to attend the Annual Faculty and Staff Awards Banquet. Up to three “honorable mention” awardees will be named in each award category. Each honoree will receive a check for $500. A selection committee will make sure awardees represent all components of the Medical School mission:
“The mission of the U-M Medical School is to educate students, physicians, and biomedical scholars and to provide a spectrum of comprehensive knowledge, research, patient care and service of the highest quality to the people of the State of Michigan and beyond.” Details about the awards program, and procedures for nomination, are on the Web. Use this opportunity to recognize the stellar work of your colleagues. Winners will be announced in September.
June 4: Inauguration of the Ruth Heyn Professorship in Pediatric Oncology James O. Woolliscroft, M.D., dean of the Medical School, cordially invites you to the inauguration of the Ruth Heyn Professorship in Pediatric Oncology and the installation of James L. M. Ferrara, M.D., as the first Heyn Professor at 4 p.m. Thursday, June 4, in the Cardiovascular Center Danto Auditorium. For more information, e-mail Gina Jennings or call 734-998-7597.
June 2: Medical Education Day Medical Education Day highlights medical education activities at U-M, providing faculty, residents and students with an opportunity to interact. The plenary speaker is Geoff Norman, Ph.D., professor of clinical epidemiology and biostatistics and assistant dean for Educational Research and Development, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada. Norman's lecture, "The Role of Experience in the Development of Medical Diagnostic Expertise," will begin at noon Tuesday, June 2, in the MCHC Auditorium. It will be followed immediately by a local panel discussion. Poster presentations, computer demonstrations and a reception will take place from 1:30 - 3:30 p.m. in the Towsley Center Lobby. For more information, visit the Web site .
June 3: All are welcome at the memorial for Transplant and Survival Flight team The entire U-M community is invited to celebrate the memories of the Transplant and Survival Flight team we lost in a tragic air crash two years ago. We will dedicate the sculpture that has been erected to honor them at this memorial event. It will begin at 1 p.m. Wednesday, June 3, in the main lobby of University Hospital, with remarks by President Mary Sue Coleman and former Executive VP for Medical Affairs Robert Kelch, M.D.
Light refreshments will be served until 3 p.m., and everyone will have a chance to gather, remember our friends and view the new sculpture, titled "Rotations." It was commissioned for the occasion and created by Douglas Hollis. The sculpture is located just outside the main University Hospital and Taubman Center entrance.
You can watch the memorial event online. See a live interview with the sculptor on June 3 or anytime afterward. Memories and condolences may also be posted on the site.
June 4: 'Why Hospitals Should Fly,' author John Nance Survival Flight welcomes everyone to the capstone event of its second-annual Safety Day, featuring renowned author and ABC News aviation correspondent John Nance. The lecture and discussion will begin at 5 p.m. Thursday, June 4, in Ford Auditorium, and will continue for several hours.
Nance is the author of "Why Hospitals Should Fly - The Ultimate Flight Plan to Patient Safety and Quality Care," which uses a fictitious hospital to show how hospitals can adopt the same approach to safety and quality that airlines have used for decades. The book has won the prestigious Book of the Year award for 2009 from the American College of Healthcare Executives.
Deborah Gumucio, Ph.D., director for the Center for Organogenesis, stepping down - search committee looking for successor After 14 years of leadership, Deborah Gumucio, Ph.D., is stepping down as director for the Center for Organogenesis. Dean Woolliscroft has appointed a search committee to review candidates and help find a successor.
In view of the center's increased focus on translational research, candidates are being sought who have experience in both basic laboratory research and clinical medicine. The ideal candidate will be an M.D. or M.D., Ph.D. physician-scientist with clinical experience and at least eight to ten years of experience directing a basic research laboratory, including training graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. Ph.D. candidates with interest and experience in clinical and translational research will also be considered. Participation in one of the new UMHS Destination Programs would be an added benefit. Details about the requirements for the position can be found at www.med.umich.edu/medschool/organo/about/announcements.html. Interested candidates should submit a CV and a letter of intent that includes the reasons for interest and a summary of qualifications for the position. These documents should be submitted to the Dean's Office by June 12, to Suzanne Weintraub by e-mail weintras@med.umich.edu or fax 734-615-4397.
Call for Nominations - UMMS Dean's Faculty Research Awards Deadline: June 12
The Medical School Dean’s Office is soliciting nominations for the Basic Science Research Award and the Clinical & Health Services Research Award. Each award recognizes a faculty member or group of faculty members identified as having made outstanding contributions to the Medical School in the designated area of research. Each award carries a $5,000 discretionary academic support prize, which will be given to the faculty member or group. Nominees must be University of Michigan Medical School faculty. Please access the Web site for each award for the specific faculty rankings that are eligible as well as instructions for submission.
Biomedical News Online - June 2009
The June 2009 issue of Biomedical News is now online. This issue contains information on: BMRC New Initiative Grants awarded, extended deadline for BMRC Bridging Support Program for Basic Science Research, UMMS Dean’s Faculty Research Awards, research compliance training and education, frequently asked questions, updates from Washington, funding and award opportunities, and UMMS awarded grants and research publications.
Registration available for IRBMED Workshops IRBMED offers workshops to aid researchers in using eResearch, writing informed consent documents, documenting consent for non-English speaking participants, and other topics related to understanding federal regulations that apply to human subjects research. Upcoming classes include:
June 3: Applications 102 eResearch Amendments and Continuing Review Submissions
June 10: Applications 201 Part I Adverse Event and Unanticipated Problem Reporting G
June 17: Applications 201 Part II Adverse Event Reporting eResearch Forms
June 24: Applications 202 ORIO's, Guidance and eResearch Forms
For a complete listing of available workshops, dates, and to register, click here. Also note, you can request a workshop or special presentation on a needed topic for your department or unit. IRBMED will come to you -- simply e-mail irbmed@umich.edu with the topic you want covered and proposed dates and times.
Parking Permit Renewal - Reminder
Current U-M parking permits will expire on June 30. If you plan to purchase a parking permit for 2009-2010, please do so by June 6 to make sure you have the new permits when they become effective on July 1. AVI permits are automatically renewed, but Yellow and Orange hang-tag or windshield permits must be renewed.
Parking and Transportation Services is asking all faculty and staff to order their parking permits online. For more information, e-mail umpark@umich.edu.
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An egress corridor is generally a main corridor/hallway with an exit sign at the end of it that provides a primary route to stairwells and other exits in the event of fire.
1. Which of the following items can temporarily rest in egress corridors?
A. Anything on wheels
B. Items that are "actively in use"
C. Non-combustible or low-combustible items stored in alcoves where there is no encroachment on corridor clearance
D. All of the above
E. B and C only
2. Computers on wheels can remain in an egress corridor while charging and not in use.
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Seminars,
lectures, colloquia and events for next week
Wednesday,
June 3, 2009
11 a.m.
CANCELED - Eighth Annual Michael S. Aldrich Commemorative Lecture. The lecture will be rescheduled for a later date. Colin E. Sullivan, MBBS, Ph.D., FRCAP, professor of medicine and head of the David Read Research Laboratory at the University of Sydney, will present "Sleep Disorders in Pregnancy and the Impact on Maternal and Fetal Health," in Med. Sci. I in room M3330.
Thursday,
June 4, 2009 Noon. Gifts of Art. Swingin' Blues by the Bluescasters, University Hospital Courtyard; rain location, UH Main Lobby, floor 1.
4
p.m. Diabetes Grand Rounds Lecture. Richard E. Gilbert, M.D., Ph.D., professor of medicine and endocrinology, University of Toronto and scientist at the Keenan Research Centre, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael's Hospital. will present "Targeting fibrosis: A new therapeutic strategy in diabetic cardio-renal disease," Med. Sci. II room 7745.
James O. Woolliscroft, M.D., dean of the Medical School, cordially invites you to the inauguration of the Ruth Heyn Professorship in Pediatric Oncology and the installation of James L. M. Ferrara, M.D., as the first Heyn Professor at 4 p.m. Thursday, June 4, in the Cardiovascular Center Danto Auditorium. For more information, e-mail 
Medical Education Day highlights medical education activities at U-M, providing faculty, residents and students with an opportunity to interact. The plenary speaker is Geoff Norman, Ph.D., professor of clinical epidemiology and biostatistics and assistant dean for Educational Research and Development, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada. Norman's lecture, "The Role of Experience in the Development of Medical Diagnostic Expertise," will begin at noon Tuesday, June 2, in the MCHC Auditorium. It will be followed immediately by a local panel discussion. Poster presentations, computer demonstrations and a reception will take place from 1:30 - 3:30 p.m. in the Towsley Center Lobby. For more information, visit the 
The entire U-M community is invited to celebrate the memories of the Transplant and Survival Flight team we lost in a tragic air crash two years ago. We will dedicate the sculpture that has been erected to honor them at this memorial event. It will begin at 1 p.m. Wednesday, June 3, in the main lobby of University Hospital, with remarks by President Mary Sue Coleman and former Executive VP for Medical Affairs Robert Kelch, M.D. 
Survival Flight welcomes everyone to the capstone event of its second-annual Safety Day, featuring renowned author and ABC News aviation correspondent John Nance. The lecture and discussion will begin at 5 p.m. Thursday, June 4, in Ford Auditorium, and will continue for several hours.