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Published
Friday by the
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information,
contact Lisa Copeland at 647-4890 or e-mail at lisacc@umich.edu.
Many internal computer users will need to cut- and-paste the
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Dean
Lichter to deliver the Annual State of the School Address
Dean Allen S. Lichter,
M.D. will deliver the Annual State of the School Address in the Dow Auditorium
on Wednesday, June 4 at 5:15 p.m. A wine and cheese reception will
immediately follow the address in the Towsley Lobby. Faculty, staff and
students are invited to attend.
Kellogg
researcher will hold the Harold F. Falls Collegiate Professor of Ophthalmology
Anand Swaroop, Ph.D., professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences,
and associate professor of Human Genetics, has been named the Harold F.
Falls Collegiate Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences. Dr. Swaroop
leads major research programs on the genetics of retinal diseases and
age-related macular degeneration (AMD) at the U-M Kellogg Eye Center.
He also directs a program to identify genes that predispose elderly individuals
to AMD, a blinding eye disease that affects 1.65 million people over the
age of 60 each year.
The installation ceremony was held at 4 p.m. on May 29 at the
Kellogg Eye Center. Among those speaking at the event were Dean Allen
S. Lichter, M.D., Paul Lichter, M.D., chair and professor of Ophthalmology
and Visual Sciences, and Paul A. Sieving, M.D., Ph.D., Director of the
National Eye Institute.
Mark
your calendars for the Annual Pediatric Urology Duckett Lectureship
The Annual John W.
Duckett, Jr., M.D., Pediatric Urology Lectureship will be held on Friday,
July 18 at 9:30 a.m. in the MCHC Auditorium. The keynote speaker
will be Barry A. Kogan, M.Dd, Falk Professor of Urology and Chief of the
Division of Urology at Albany Medical College. He will be speaking on
the evaluation and management of urinary tract infections and reflux in
children. All faculty, residents and staff are welcome to attend. For
registration information, please contact Mary Borgerson at 615-3038 or
maryborg@umich.edu.
Parking
update: North Entrance Structure
Repair work will begin
at the North Entrance Structure (Cancer/Geriatric Center) on Friday, May
30. The repairs will be done on the north side of the structure, one
level at a time, on successive weekends. Approximately 33 parking spaces
per level will be closed from Friday through Sunday for the next six weeks.
Work will begin on the sixth level this weekend.
Biomedical
News Online
The June
2003 Biomedical News is available for immediate viewing online. The
hard copy version goes out to departments the first week of each month.
This issue contains information on Award Recipients, UM
Postdoctoral Research Training Program, and plenty of funding opportunities.
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
Keeping
on guard against West Nile Virus
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, June
2, 2003
--4
p.m., Human Genetics Colloquium Seminar. Richard Hudson, Ph.D.,
professor of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago, "Analyzing
Linkage Disequilibrium with Composite Likelihood," 5915 Buhl Location:
H.G. Classroom, 5915 Buhl
Wednesday,
June 4, 2003
--12
p.m., Model Spinal Cord Injury Care System Lecture. Eva
L. Feldman, M.D., Ph.D., director, JDRF Center for the Study of
Complications in Diabetes, "Gene Therapy in the Treatment of
Spinal Cord Injury", UH 1H205
Thursday,
June 5, 2003
--7:30
a.m., Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Grand Rounds. Steven
L. Britton, Ph.D., professor, Department of Physiology and Molecular
Medicine, Medical College of Ohio, "Rat Genetic Models of Low
and High Aerobic Capacity," 1H205 UH
--12
p.m., Gifts of Art. Jazz in the Courtyard by The Community
High 2 O'Clock Jazz Group, University Hospital Courtyard, Rain location
- Hospital Lobby, floor 1
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