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Honors, awards & achievements
Ameed Raoof, Ph.D., lecturer in Cell and Developmental Biology, is the recipient of the 2001 University of Michigan Medical School Humanism in Medical Education Award. As the award winner, Dr. Raoof will serve as our nominee for the American Association of Medical Colleges - Office of Student Representatives National Award for Humanism in Medical Education.

Jeremiah G. Turcotte, M.D., professor of Surgery emeritus, was elected president of the United Network for Organ Sharing and will serve on its Board of Directors.

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

- Grant allows U-M to expand study on treatment choices for breast cancer patients
- Procedure improves quality of life for chronic heartburn sufferers
- U-M Health System named tops in recycling among state's public institutions

This week's Health Minute: Does being fat mean you can't be fit? Not necessarily, says exercise specialist
http://www.med.umich.edu/1libr/1week.htm

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

M o n d a y, J u n e 4
--4 p.m. Neuroscience Program. Lisa Marie Montney, "Using Guinea Pig Models to Examine the Relation Between Psychophysical and Neural Responses to Electrical Stimulation of Cochlear Implants," Waggoner Conference Room 1057, MHRI

W e d n e s d a y, J u n e 6
--11 a.m. Neurology Grand Rounds. Dawn Kleindorfer, M.D., "Neurologic Outcomes in Adults After ECMO," UH 2C108

--4 p.m. Physiology Research Seminar, Anthony J. Muslin, M.D., associate professor, departments of Medicine, Cell Biology and Physiology, Washington University, School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, "RGS Protein Function in Cardiac Hypertrophy and Congestive Heart Failure," 7745 Med Sci II

T h u r s d a y, J u n e 7
--7:30 a.m. PM&R Grand Rounds. Peter Henke, M.D., "Lower Extremity PVOD with Amputations," UH 1H205

--12 p.m. Summer Jazz by The Community High Jazz Program. Ann Arbor’s special award-winning high school jazz program. University Hospital courtyard.

In case of rain, the performance will be held in University Hospital Lobby, Level 1.

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