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The CVC Seeks Applicants for Research Grant Competition
Deadline: Monday, Feb. 3
The U-M Cardiovascular Center is seeking applications for the CVC McKay

Health System leaders to discuss financial picture, capital projects and other key issues
A review of the Health System's financial situation, and update on major capital projects, including the Clinical Information System, and a report on the numerous leadership searches taking place are a few of the highlights of a forum set for 5 - 6 p.m. Monday, Feb. 24, in the Ford Amphitheater. Interim executive vice president for Medical Affairs Lazar J. Greenfield, M.D., will provide a brief mid-year review for all faculty and staff. Dr. Greenfield will also cover goals we have achieved, opportunities that remain and immediate challenges we face.

Allen Lichter, M.D., Medical School dean; Larry Warren, UMHHC executive director; and Zelda Geyer-Sylvia, M-CARE executive director, will join Dr. Greenfield for specific questions form the audience.

Medschool Faculty Member Becomes the State's First Surgeon General
On Wednesday, Feb. 5, Governor Jennifer Granholm named Kimberlydawn Wisdom, M.D., assistant professor in the Department of Medical Education, the state's first surgeon general. Dr. Wisdom, also an emergency room physician with Henry Ford Health System in Detroit, will assume the cabinet-level post to oversee long-term health care initiatives to reduce smoking, obesity, HIV, teen pregnancy and lead poisoning. To view the article in the Detroit Free Press, visit http://www.freep.com/news/mich/sos6_20030206.htm .

 


 

 


News Releases and Health Minute
For medical press releases and the details behind the headlines, visit http://www.med.umich.edu/opm/newspage/relarch.htm

Next Week's Health Minute
How can you mend a broken heart?

Seminars, lectures, colloquia and events for next week
To access the entire UMHS events database, see:
http://www.academic.med.umich.edu/LassoPages/ProStaffEvents.lasso


Monday, February 17, 2003

--9 a.m., Molecular Medicine & Genetics Seminar. Matthew Bogyo, Ph.D., Group Leader, Head of Chemical Proteomics, Celera Genomics, "Small Molecule Probes of Protease Function: Applications from Cancer to Malaria," 2901 LRC

--12 p.m., Multicultural Health Series. Carmen R. Green, M.D., "The Impact of Chronic Pain in African - Americans," UH 2G321

--5 p.m., Research Responsibility Program Seminar. Edward B. Goldman, Health Systems Attorney, and adjunct Lecturer, School of Public Health; and John M. O'Shea, Professor of Anthropology, College of Literature, Science and the Arts, Human Participant Protections - Social Sciences," Maize & Blue Auditorium????

--4 p.m., Neuroscience Seminar. Timothy Marzullo, Neuroscience Graduate Student, "Awareness of Space and Multisensory Convergence in the Parietal Cortex," Waggoner Conference Room 1057 MHRI

Tuesday, February 18, 2003

--12 p.m., Biochemistry Seminar. Dr. Min-Hao Kuo, Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michigan State University, "Histone Acetylation, Its Binding Proteins, and Transcriptional Regulation," Room 5330 Med. Sci. I

Wednesday, February 19, 2003

--10:30 a.m., Psychiatry Grand Rounds. Max Fink, M.C., Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology Emeritus, State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY, "Dispelling New ECT Myths," MCHC Auditorium

--3 p.m., Epidemiology Seminar. Richard J. Bauer, MPH, "Molecular Epidemiologic Discovery of Uropathogenic Escherichia coli Virulence & Transmission Factors," Room 3040 SPH I

--3:45 p.m., Hearing and Chemical Senses Seminar. Robert Keith Duncan, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, Department of Otolaryngology, "Molecular variation along the cochlea: the characteristics of hair cell BK channels," Maxwell Conference Room, HR4054 KHRI

Thursday, February 20, 2003

--11 a.m., ?????Seminar. Victoria Herman, Ph.D., Faculty Candidate, Department of Biological Chemistry, UCLA School of Medicine, Center for the Health Sciences, "Singel Cell Analysis of Synaptic Target Selection in Dropsophila, 5915 Buhl

--12:10 p.m., Gifts of Art. Classical Music by U-M School of Music Student Artist Outreach Program, University Hospital Lobby, floor 1

--5 p.m., NeuroOtology Conference. Kevin Kerber, M.D., "Evaulation of dizziness by a Neurologist," DeJong Library

 

 

 

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