He Will Be Missed
Dean Allen S. Lichter offers the following words in remembrance of Donald Fredrickson, M.D.:

"We at the Medical School are saddened by the passing of Donald Fredrickson, a distinguished U-M Medical School alumnus, former director of the National Institutes of Health and past president of the Howard Hughes Medical Research Institute in Bethesda. Our sympathies are with his wife and two sons. Dr. Fredrickson received both his bachelor of science and medical degrees from U-M.

After graduating from the Medical School in 1949, he began a career in research and scientific leadership. Dr. Fredrickson discovered two genetic disorders and helped to illuminate our understanding of plasma lipoproteins. While serving as the NIH director, he smoothed the way for our society's acceptance of genetic engineering and the safety of recombinant DNA technology.

Physician, scientist, teacher, author and leader . . . he will be missed."

Physicians Honored for Quality Teaching
Arno Kumagai, M.D., assistant professor, Internal Medicine and Michael Shea, M.D., professor, Internal Medicine are this year's winners of the Kaiser-Permanente Awards for Excellence in Teaching. Two awards are given each year to honor physicians for their dedication to quality teaching, enthusiasm for students and their continuing effort to improve the knowledge and experience of each medical student. Dr. Kumagai received this year's honor for preclinical teaching and Dr. Shea was honored for clinical teaching. The awards are made possible by a gift from the Kaiser Foundation.

Mark Your Calendars for the First Annual Staff Appreciation Ice Cream Social
You are cordially invited to the first annual Medical School staff
appreciation Ice Cream Social on Friday, June 21, 2002 from 2:30 to 5 p.m. in the MSRB Courtyard. Dean Allen S. Lichter will present the Administrator and Staff Member-of-the-Year Awards at 2:30 p.m. Please join us!

Education Program Gets Tough on Angina
On Monday, June 17, the Cardiovascular Center will host a free education program entitled "Coping with Angina." Kim A. Eagle, M.D., clinical director of the CVC and Susan D. Housholder-Hughes, MSN, CCRN, CS, nurse practitioner in Preventive Cardiology at the U-M Health System, will discuss the effects of angina and ways to modify risk factors, cope with attacks and change the way angina affects your life. The program will be held from 7 - 8:30 p.m. at the U-M Kellogg Eye Center, 1000 Wall Street. To register, call 866-488-1212.

Barth Syndrome Foundation to Award Research Grants
Deadline for letters of intent: June 30
The Barth Syndrome Foundation will award its first grants for research on the natural history, biochemical basis and treatment of Barth Syndrome. The foundation anticipates awarding up to $100,000, which will be divided among several one- or two- year grants ranging from $10,000 to $40,000. The Barth Syndrome Foundation awards grants to principal investigators who are affiliated with nonprofit institutions. The foundation is interested in providing seed money to experienced investigators for the testing of initial hypotheses and collection of preliminary data leading to successful long-term funding by NIH and other major granting institutions, and in attracting new investigators to the field of Barth Syndrome research. For more details, visit http://www.barthsyndrome.org/.

Join the Lichters' Bike Ride to Dexter
Medical School faculty, staff, students and their families are invited to join Dr. and Mrs. Allen S. Lichter for a bicycle ride along the lovely Huron River. It takes place Sunday, June 30. The $10 per participant registration fee covers lunch and a t-shirt. The ride will begin at 10 a.m. at the NC78 parking lot on Fuller, across from the soccer/softball fields, and proceed to the Dexter-Huron Metropark, where lunch will be served. Click here for a copy of the entry form and participation agreement. Deadline for registration is Monday, June 24.

MAA Announces New Fellowships and Grants
Deadline: July 31
The Myositis Association of America (MAA) has announced new fellowships and grants supporting basic and clinical myositis research. Research fellowships are designed to support an environment conducive to beginning a career in myositis research. They will generally be awarded for two years at $40,000 per year. Research grants will fund programs supporting new or innovative research projects to $50,000 per year. More established projects will receive a maximum of $100,000 per year for two years. The details of the fellowship requirements have been expanded to include a wider range of potential researchers, and the research can include clinical trials or basic science research. July 31 is the deadline for receipt of grant requests. The MAA Medical Advisory Board will review and evaluate applications from August to September. Awardees will be notified Oct. 10 and the initial funding of awards will begin Oct. 31. The number and amount of grants and fellowships awarded will be decided upon review of all applications. For more details, visit the MAA website at http://www.myositis.org.

5K Race to Benefit Michigan Congenital Heart Program
Tortoise and Hare Running and Fitness Centers is sponsoring a 5K event to benefit SAVE A HEART on July 4. The race/walk will begin at 8 a.m. at the Tortoise and Hare store located at 209 E. Liberty, downtown Ann Arbor. Runners are asked to collect pledges that will be donated to SAVE A HEART. The first 1000 5K entries will receive a Reebok Hydromove t-shirt. First place finishers in each age group will receive Reebok shoes and special awards will be given to the overall male and female finishers. All those who finish the Kid's Dash, a 200 meter walk/run that starts at 9 a.m., will receive awards.

You can pick up your race registration form at either Tortoise and Hare location. For more information or driving directions, contact the Liberty Street store at(734) 769-9510 or the Plymouth Road store at(734) 623-9649. Registration forms are also available at the Pediatric Cardiology Clinic. If you are not a runner but would like to volunteer, please attend a volunteer orientation at Tortoise and Hare's Plymouth Road store on Thursday, June 20 at 7:00 p.m. Course marshalls and registrars are needed. Call (734) 623-9649 for details.

Bi-lingual (Spanish/English) Volunteers Needed
The Program for Multicultural Health needs bi-lingual persons to assist in an educational health intervention research project designed to help prevent the increase of Type 2 diabetes in Latino youth. The project will need assistants during three phases:
• Recruitment (2 weeks)
• Educational Intervention (8 weeks)
• Maintenance (4 weeks)
The recruitment phase started on June 10. To participate, e-mail pmch@med.umich.edu or phone: 615-1404

U-M Signs New Contract with Sigma-Aldrich
The University has awarded Sigma-Aldrich a one-year contract for chemicals, biochemicals, laboratory products for research and development, and other like applications as offered by Sigma, Aldrich, Fluka, Riedel-de Haën, Supelco, and Isotec. Orders can still be placed using ShortCodes.

This contract offers discount pricing on over 7,100 items. Current U-M contract pricing for all Sigma-Aldrich products is available at http://www.sigma-aldrich.com/pipeline. A Discount Structure Table, delivery and freight costs, and further contract details are available at http://www.umich.edu/~purch/purch/contract/chem/sigindex.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
- Gentlemen, start your engines - and your helicopter?
- Nation's leading hospitals serving up fast food
- Fibromyalgia pain isn't all in patients' heads

Next week's Health Minute:
Identifying pre-diabetes: just look in your mirror

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

Saturday, June 15, 2002
--1:30 p.m., Biological Chemistry Symposium on Cellular Oxidation in honor of Donald E. Hultquist. Dr. Paul Ortiz de Montellano, professor of pharmaceutical chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, "Protein Radicals and Modification of the Prosthetic Heme in Proteins"; Dr. H. Franklin Bunn, professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School, "The Cloning, Biochemical and Biological Characterization of b5/b5R, a Novel Flavo-Heme Protein"; Dr. Paul Boyer, professor emeritus of biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, "A Research Journey with ATP Synthase," North Lecture Hall, Med. Sci. II

Tuesday, June 18, 2002
--12 p.m., SCI Lecture Series. Marie Csete, M.D., Ph.D., Anesthesiology, Cell & Developmental Biology, Center for Organogenesis, Institute of Gerontology, "Manipulating Stem Cells with Gases," UH 1H205

--3:30 p.m., Mental Health Research Institute Seminar. Bernd Hamprecht, Ph.D., professor of physiological chemistry and biochemistry, Institute of Physiological Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy, University of Tuebingen, Germany, "Metabolic Interactions of Astrocytes and Neurons," Waggoner Conference Room, 1057 MHRI

Wednesday, June 19, 2002
--11 a.m., Neurology Grand Rounds. Derk Krieger, M.D., Ph.D., staff physician, Cerebrovascular Center, Section of Stroke and Critical Care, Department of Neurology, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, "How Can We Make it Work for Stroke?" UH 2C108

Friday, June 21, 2002
--1 p.m., Transplant Grand Rounds. Thomas M. Coffman, M.D., professor of medicine, Chief, Division of Nephrology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, N.C., "New Roles for Angiotensin in Vascular Inflammation and Transplantation," UH 2C108

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