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Join the Michigan Road Scholars Tour
Application Deadline: Nov. 29
U-M instructional and research track faculty are invited to apply to be part of the 2003 Michigan Road Scholars traveling seminar. This fifth annual educational tour will expose participants to Michigan's economy, government and politics, culture, educational systems, health and social issues, history and geography. The tour is designed to increase mutual knowledge and understanding between the university and the people living in communities throughout the state.

Thirty participants will be selected for the April 28, 2003 to May 2, 2003 tour. All meals, accommodations and transportation will be provided. For more information, visit http://www.umich.edu/~govrel/mrs.html . Contact David Lossing or Lew Morrissy via e-mail or call 764-9256.

Pfizer Postdoctoral Fellowship Grants in Biological Psychiatry Available
Application Deadline: Dec. 9
The purpose of this initiative is to provide support to promising physicians (M.D. or D.O.) who wish to conduct original research in an academic environment. Applicants must demonstrate a strong career interest in academic research in biological psychiatry. Grants of $65,000 per year for 3 years are provided to the sponsoring medical school on behalf of the fellow. Deadline for submission of application to Pfizer is Jan. 10, 2003.

For consideration as the institutional nominee, submit the following by Dec. 9: a 1-2 page research summary, a CV on the nominee, and a nominating letter from the department chair. Submit all internal applications to the Office of Research and Graduate Studies, 4107 Med. Sci. I, Box 0624. Contact Denise Swayze at 763-4086 or dswayze@umich.edu, or visit http://www.physicianscientist.com for complete details.

Upcoming Professional Development Opportunities
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.

--Beyond Customer Service: The Next Steps

--Delegating Results

--Speed Reading


--Performance Appraisals

--Oral Communication Skill for English Language Learners - New for 2002-03!

Blood Battle, U-M vs. OSU
The Red Cross will host the Annual Blood Battle Blood Drive on Wednesday, Nov. 20 and Thursday, Nov. 21 from 6 a.m. - 7 p.m. in the Towsley Dining Room (UH 1G1230). Students, faculty and staff will compete with OSU to see which group can donate the most blood. To schedule an appointment call 936-1878. Go Blue!

United Way Continues
The 2002 United Way campaign has been extended for another week. You still have time to mail in your pledge card. Please take a few moments and review all the great organizations that rely on funding from United Way. Without your support, many agencies will not have the funds to provide the day to day services to our neighbors.

If you haven't received a pledge card or you can't find yours, please visit http://www.med.umich.edu/prmc/uway.htm. You can print off a card and mail it to United Way, 6080 Fleming, Box 1340. Thank you in advance for all your support. UMHS is currently at 47% of our goal.

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
Defend yourself against a brain attack

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, November 18, 2002

--1 p.m., Bone Research Center. David Fox, M.D., Rheumatology, "Novel Cell-Cell Interactions in the Pathogenesis and Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis," N. Lecture Hall, MS2

--4 p.m., Seventh Annual Anita H. Payne Lectureship. Benita Katzenellenbogen, Ph.D., professor, Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Illinois, Champagne-Urbana, IL, "Estrogen Receptors, SERMS and Women's Health," Dow Auditorium.

--4 p.m., Neuroscience Seminar. Carrie Ferrario, neuroscience graduate student, "More than Meets the Eye," Waggoner Conference Room 1057 MHRI

--4 p.m., Human Genetics Colloquium Seminar. Rick Kittle, Ph.D., assistant professor, Department of Microbiology, co-director, Molecular Genetics National Human Genome Center, Howard University, "P Haplotype Variation and Association with Skin Color," H.G. Classroom, 5915 Buhl

Tuesday, November 19, 2002

--9:30 a.m., Seminar in Children's Health Services Research. Gary L. Freed, M.D., MPH, Director, Division of General Pediatrics, "Who is Providing Health Care for America's Children?" 300 North Ingalls Building, Room 6D15

--10:30 a.m., Mental Health Research Institute Seminar. H. Christian Fibiger, Ph.D., vice president, Neuroscience Discovery Research and Clinical Investigation, Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, "Glutamate Receptors: New Frontiers in Psychopharmacology, Waggoner Conference Room, 1057 MHRI

--12 p.m., Educational Skills Workshop Series. Kent Sheets, M.D., associate professor of Family Medicine, "Principles and Practice of Adult Medicine," Towsley

--12 p.m., Lunch and Learn. Lorna Hurl, Faculty and Staff Assistance Program. Join in a discussion about types of memory and how memory works. You will learn tips to improve your ability to store and retrieve information. This event will take place at Med. Sci.I, Room 6311.

Wednesday, November 20, 2002

--7 a.m., Educational Skills Workshop Series. Kent Sheets, M.D. (repeat lecture: see Tuesday at 12 p.m).

--9 a.m., The Life Sciences Institute Seminar. Stevan R. Hubbard, Ph.D., associate professor, Department of Pharmacology and Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, "Structural Basis for Protein Recruitment to the Activated Insulin Receptor," 5623 Med. Sci. II

--10:30 a.m., Psychiatry Grand Rounds. Keith Wailoo, Ph.D., professor, Rutgers University, Department of History, Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research, New Brunswick, NJ, "Diagnosis Cancer: Psychiatry, Surgery, and Politics of Truth-telling," MCHC Auditorium

--12 p.m., Cell & Development Biology Seminar. Jeffrey W. Innis, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor, Departments of Human Genetics and Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases, "HOX Genes: Cofactors, Targets, and Regulation in Limb Development," 5623 Med. Sci. II

Thursday, November 21, 2002

--11:30 a.m., Cell and Developmental Biology Seminar. Lan Xu, Ph.D., Memorial Sloan-Kettering, Cell Biology Program, "Nucleoytoplasmic Shuttling of Smad2, A Transducer of TGFb Signal," 2710 Med. Sci. II

--12 p.m., Department of Ophthalmology Research Seminar. Christopher Passaglie, Ph.D., Northwestern University, "The Non-Classical Receptive Field of Retinal Ganglion Cells," Kellogg Eye Center, Oliphant-Marshall Auditorium

--12:10 p.m., Gifts of Art. Jazz Quartet by Chris Smith Quartet. These veteran jazz performers can be seen regularly in Ann Arbor jazz clubs, University Hospital Lobby, Floor 1

--3:30 p.m., Center for Organogenesis Seminar. Mats Ljungman, Ph.D., associate professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, "Transcription-Geaurding the Genome by Sensing DNA Damage," 5915 Buhl

--5 p.m., Radiology Grand Rounds. Gerald L. LeCarpentier, Ph.D., assistant research scientist of radiology, "A New Dual-Transducer Method of 3D Ultrasound Contrast Agent Imaging of Vascularity," and Lubomir Hadjiiski, Ph.D., assistant research scientist of radiology, "Automatic Interval Change Analysis for Characterization of Mammographic Lesions," F2305 MCHC

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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