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Don't Miss the Medical School All Staff Meeting
The Medical School All Staff Meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, Jan. 21 at 12 p.m. in room M3330 Med. Sci. I. The agenda includes Medical School announcements and updates on the BSRB and chair searches. Dean Allen S. Lichter will also answer questions. Everyone is encouraged to attend.

Medical Education Day Abstract Deadline Reminder
Abstract Deadline: Tuesday, Jan. 21
A reminder that the abstract deadline for a poster presentation, exhibit, computer demonstration or small group discussion/workshop for Medical Education Day is Tuesday, Jan. 21. Please send your abstract electronically to Debbie Grifka. Please call 6-1649 with questions. Complete details of the day can be found on the MESP web site.

Upcoming Professional Development Opportunities
The Human Resources Development Department is offering several professional development courses. Complete details regarding the course program, dates and times offered can be viewed by visiting each of the web sites listed below. Timely registration is very important.

--Behaviorally-Based Interviewing Skills
--Masterful Coaching Skills
--Managing Departmental Conflict for Managers, Directors and Department Heads
--Employee Orientation and Training: How to Make It More Successful

Alvin F. Poussaint, M.D., to Speak at the MLK Symposium
On Monday, Jan. 20 at 12 p.m., Alvin Poussaint, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, will give a talk entitled, " Be the Change You Wish to See in the World, " as part of the University of Michigan's 16th Annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Symposium. His talk entitled,"Be the Change You Wish to See in the World," will cover how to balance changing family patters, workplace and other issues in order to create positive solutions for the future. The Medical School and the Health Centers are among the sponsors.

Software Training Set To Begin
Response to a recent faculty/staff/student survey has demonstrated a great deal of interest in software training. As a result, the Taubman Medical Library, the Faculty Exploratory of the University Library and the Medical School Learning Resource Center (LRC) are sponsoring computer software classes for Medical School faculty, staff, and students. All classes are given at no charge. You must register to participate. Classes offered include Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Excel, Powerpoint, among others. To view a complete list of classes or to register, visit www.lib.umich.edu/taubman/facexpclasses2.html .

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
- U-M Health System, M-CARE partner to run Kids Care
- Study: 15 percent of pregnant women drink alcohol

Next Week's Health Minute
Outlook much brighter today for kids with cleft lip and palate

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, January 20, 2003

--11 a.m., Cell and Developmental Biology Seminar. Raymond Habas, Faculty Candidate, "The role of Wnt Signaling in Vertebrate Gastrulation," 5623 Med. Sci. II

--12 p.m., Center for Bone Research Seminar. MaryFran Sowers, Ph.D., M.S., "The Bone and Hormone Dialogue at the Perimenopause: When does loss really begin?" LRC 2903. Contact Michelle Nasers at 734-615-6835 for more information.

Tuesday, January 21, 2003

--9:30 a.m., Children's Health Services Research Seminar. Michael Cabana, M.D., MPH, "Parent-Reported Duration of Asthma Symptoms before Diagnosis," 300 North Ingalls Building, Room 6D15

--10 a.m., Neuroscience Seminar. Mohamed H. Farah, Neuroscience Graduate Student, "Cell Birth and Death in the Ganglion Cell Layer of Mouse Retina," Waggoner Conference Room 1057 MHRI

--12 p.m., Educational Skills Workshop. Robert M. Anderson, Ed.D. and Gwen Alexander, Ph.D., "Leading Small Group Discussions," G2315 Towsley

--1 p.m., Life Science Seminar. Stephen Blacklow, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, "Affinity Modulation of Vascular Cell-surface receptors," 3913-3917 Med. Sci. II

Wednesday, January 22, 2003

--7 a.m., Educational Skills Workshop. Robert M. Anderson, Ed.D. and Gwen Alexander, Ph.D., "Leading Small Group Discussions," G2315 Towsley

--10 a.m., Psychiatry MLK Grand Rounds. Harold W. Neighbors, Ph.D., associate professor of Health Behavior and Health Education, associate director for Research Training Center for Research on Ethnicity, Culture and Health, School of Public Health, "The (Mis) Classification of Mental Disorder in African Americans: Implementing the DSM Criteria in the Hospital and Community," MCHC Auditorium

--12 p.m., Cell and Developmental Biology Seminar. Klaus H. Kaestner, Ph.D., Associate Professor from the Department of Genetics from the University of Pennsylvania, "Transcriptional Control in Gastrointestinal Development and Cancer," 2813/2817 Med. Sci. II

--3:45 p.m., Hearing and Chemical Senses Seminar. Ewan A. MacPherson, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow, "The Duplex Theory of sound localization revisited: Listener weighting of cues for lateral angle," Maxwell Conference Room, HR 4054 KHRI

Thursday, January 23, 2003

--12 p.m., Vision Lunch Seminar. John R. Heckenlively, M.D., Underwood Family Professor of Ophthalmology, Jules Stein Eye Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, "Mouse Models of Hereditary Eye Diseases," Kellogg Eye Center, Oliphant-Marshall Auditorium

--12 p.m., Multicultural Health Series. John Vasques, B.A., "Communicating Across Borders: Latinos in the U.S. Health System," UH 2G321

--12:10 p.m., Gifts of Art. Book Reading, Book Signing and Artist Demonstration by Michael & Colleen Moore. Concurrent with the exhibit of original illustrations for "The Christmas Humbugs," Ms. Moore will read and Mr. Moore will do an artist demonstration. Books will be available for purchase. University Hospital Lobby, Floor 1

 

 

 

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