e-Update
March 30,
2004
Weekly News Briefs
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up-to-date on news at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Medical Center.
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THIS WEEK'S NEWS
--Neuroscience Seminar series
--Faculty Senate Meeting on Medical Campus
--Integrative Medicine Conference
--Alpha Omega Alpha Visiting Professor Speech
--UM/Sylvester Guest Lecturer
--Best-selling Journalist Speaks at UM
--Annual Bioethics Conference
--Dean’s Patient Safety Colloquium Workshop
-- South Florida Spinal Cord Injury Model System’s Roving Symposium
--Bascom Palmer Hosts Vision Science Lecture
--Presentation of the Distinguished Faculty Award
NEUROSCIENCE CENTER SEMINAR SERIES
Peter Mombaerts, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of the Laboratory of Developmental
Biology and Neurogenetics at The Rockefeller University, will present "Olfaction
Targeted" this Friday at 4 p.m. in the seventh-floor auditorium of
the Lois Pope LIFE Center. Mombaert’s lecture is the second
in an annual series sponsored by the Neuroscience Center, the School of Medicine
and the Office of the Provost. A reception will follow. For more
information, call 305-243-6793.
FACULTY SENATE MEETING ON MEDICAL CAMPUS
There will be a Faculty Senate meeting tomorrow at 3:15 p.m. in the fourth
floor conference room of the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building. All faculty
members are welcome to attend. Visit the Senate web page http://www.miami.edu/FacultySenate for
more information.
SURGICAL GRAND ROUNDS
Hassan Y. Tehrani, M.D., assistant professor of clinical surgery, Division
of Vascular & Endovascular Surgery, will present “The Future of Vascular
Surgery” at 8 a.m. Thursday in the fourth floor auditorium of the Rosenstiel
Medical Science Building.
INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE CONFERENCE
“Integrative Medicine: Collaboration, Co-Management and Advanced Protocols,” will
be held Thursday through Sunday at the Fontainebleau Hilton Resort in Miami Beach.
This innovative conference is a series of workshops provided by paired M.D. and
C.A.M. (complementary and alternative medicine) professionals who work together
to provide fully integrated healthcare for their patients. The event will help
clinicians learn to better address patient desires for both conventional and
complementary medicine. The conference is sponsored by InnoVision Communications,
LLC, and the Division of Complementary & Integrative Medicine. Call 866-828-2962
to register.
ALPHA OMEGA ALPHA VISITING PROFESSOR TO SPEAK AT MEDICAL GRAND ROUNDS
L. D. Britt, M.D., M.P.H., Brickhouse Professor, chairman of the Department
of Surgery at Eastern Virginia Medical School and this year's Alpha Omega Alpha
Visiting Professor, will speak at the Department of Medicine Grand Rounds on
Wednesday, April 7, at noon in the fifth floor auditorium of the Rosenstiel
Medical Science Building. Dr. Britt will be speaking on "Graduate Medical
Education: Threats and Solutions." For more information, contact Dr. Alex
Mechaber, AOA Councillor for the University of Miami Alpha Chapter, at 305-243-6499.
UM/SYLVESTER COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER GUEST LECTURER
Merrill A. Biel, M.D., Ph.D., clinical associate professor in the Department
of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery at the University of Minnesota, will
be presenting “Photodynamic Therapy for Head and Neck Cancer” this
Friday at noon in room 1301 of the Sylvester Cancer Center. For more information,
please call 305-243-2287.
BEST-SELLING AUTHOR/JOURNALIST SPEAKS AT UM
Richard Cohen, veteran journalist and author of the best-seller Blindside:
Lifting Life above Illness: A Reluctant Memoir, will speak as part of the Robert
Groves Lecture Series at the University of Miami School of Communication. The
lecture will be this Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at the School of Communication’s
Studio A at 5100 Brunson Drive on the Gables campus. Cohen will talk about
building his career as a journalist, despite a longtime battle with multiple
sclerosis that has left him nearly crippled and virtually blind. For more information,
call 305-284-2235.
ANNUAL BIOETHICS CONFERENCE
The University’s 12th annual spring bioethics conference is scheduled
for April 16-17 at the Miami Beach Wyndam Hotel in Miami Beach. In collaboration
with the Florida Bioethics Network, the American Society for Bioethics and the
Humanities and the American Medical Informatics Association, the program will
feature a theme of ethics and health information technology, sessions on the
Schiavo case and plenary presentations by Dr. Carolyn Clancy, director of the
Federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and Dr. John Agwunobi, Florida's
Secretary of Health. A comprehensive array of CMEs and CEUs is available.
There is no charge for full-time University staff, but staff must pre-register
to be accorded tuition remission. For more information, including a registration
form, visit http://www.ethics.miami.edu or
e-mail ethics@miami.edu.
DEAN’S PATIENT SAFETY COLLOQUIUM WORKSHOP
Jonathan Wilwerding, M.P.A., Ph.D., will discuss “Risk Models and Medical
Errors Associated with Transitions of Care” at the Dean’s Patient
Safety Colloquium Workshop. Since 1997, Dr. Wilwerding has worked on issues
of labor economics and policy, international and domestic health economics and
policy and applied econometrics. He is currently an associate at Abt Associates,
one of the largest for-profit government and business research and consulting
firms in the world. He will be speaking to the University community on Wednesday,
April 14, in the second-floor auditorium at Jackson Memorial Hospital Central
from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. For more information please call Shirley D. Brown
at 305-585-8364 or sbrown7@med.miami.edu.
LEARN TO BE A BETTER LISTENER
The Employee Assistance Program will offer “Listening: The Active Ingredient” this
Friday from 9 to 11 a.m. at the Professional Training and Development Office,
155 Dominion Parking Garage. Participants will practice labeling the speaker’s
emotions, using voice tone to convey meaning, allowing pauses, prompting open-ended
questions and paraphrasing. Register online at http://www.miami.edu/UMH/CDA/UMH_Main/1,1770,2421-1,00.html and
click on “Register Here!” or for more information please call 305-284-5110.
GAIL F. BEACH MEMORIAL 2003-2004 VISITING LECTURESHIP SERIES
Larry W. Jenkins, Ph.D., of the University of Pittsburgh, will present "Proteomics,
Protein Synthesis, and Pediatric Head Injury" on April 7 at noon in the
seventh-floor auditorium of the Lois Pope LIFE Center. For more information,
call 305-243-7108.
SOUTH FLORIDA SPINAL CORD INJURY MODEL SYSTEM PRESENTS ROVING SYMPOSIUM
The South Florida Spinal Cord Injury Model System will sponsor a roving symposium
featuring nationally recognized motivational speaker Daniel Heumann. Heumann,
paralyzed as a result of a car accident that occurred shortly before he started
college, eventually received bachelor and law degrees and now lobbies at both
the state and national level for spinal cord research. The topic of his presentation
will be “How to Face Adversity Head On and Live Life to the Fullest.” The
symposium will be held on Tuesday, April 6, from noon to 1 p.m. in the seventh-
floor auditorium of the Lois Pope LIFE Center. Lunch will be provided. To register,
contact Mayra M. Miró, Psy.D., at 305-585-1339.
FREE MEDITATION CLASSES THIS SPRING
The Department of Wellness and Recreation will be offering “I Meditate”— free
meditation classes—throughout the spring. The classes will be held on
April 2 and 9, and May 14, 21 and 28 from 1 to 1:40 p.m. in the Dominion Towers
tenth-floor conference room. For more information, call 305-243-3209.
VISION SCIENCE LECTURE
The Bascom Palmer Eye Institute hosts Ronald Harwerth, O.D., Ph.D., from the
University of Houston, presenting "Defective Vision from Glaucoma: Structure-Function
Relationships," in the Frontiers in Vision Science series, Thursday, April
15, in the Retter Auditorium, second-floor, BPEI. The lecture is from 5:30
to 6:30 p.m., with a reception downstairs in the cafeteria beginning at 5.
For more information please call 305-326-6046 or e-mail mperez@bpei.med.miami.edu.
UM/SYLVESTER DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES
Norman M. Greenberg, Ph.D., of the Clinical Research Division at the Fred
Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, will present: “Steroid
and Peptide Hormones and Prostate Cancer: A Transgenci Perspective,” in
the UM/Sylvester conference room 1301 on Friday, April 16 from noon to 1 p.m.
This didactic lecture series provides a forum for outstanding clinical and
translational researchers to interact with UM/Sylvester faculty. The focus
of the series is to bring basic science and clinical researchers together to
discuss recent advances in the understanding and treatment of human cancer. Lunch
will be served. For more information please call 305-243-2287 or e-mail ksalce@med.miami.edu.
DISTINGUISHED FACULTY AWARD TO BE PRESENTED
TO DR. MYRON D. GINSBERG
Myron D. Ginsberg, M.D., of the Department of Neurology, will be presented
with this year’s Faculty Senate Distinguished Faculty Scholar award on
Friday, April 30, at 3 p.m. in the Storer Auditorium, School of Business Administration.
At the award ceremony, Dr. Ginsberg will also present "Preventing Brain
Damage After Stroke - a Journey from Bench to Bedside.” A reception will
follow. For more information, call 305-284-3721.
NIH REGIONAL SEMINAR ON PROGRAM FUNDING AND GRANTS ADMINISTRATION
The Office of Extramural Research sponsors semi-annual regional seminars on
program funding and grants, May 5 to 7 at the Wyndham Miami Beach Resort. These
seminars are intended to help demystify the application and review process,
clarify federal regulations and policies, and highlight current areas of special
interest or concern. The seminars are appropriate for grant administrators,
researchers new to NIH, and graduate students. Computer labs will be offered
in conjunction with the 2004 regional seminars; however, space is limited.
Before April 5, tuition for the NIH conference is $250, and $50 more for the
computer lab. For more information contact the Division of Continuing Medical
Education at 305-243-6716 or visit http://cme.med.miami.edu.
IDX OPEN REFERRALS TRAINING
The Office of Business Information Management Systems announces IDX open referral
training sessions, designed to train employees who enter appointments or referrals
into the IDX system. Training is mandatory for all employees who schedule appointments
and/or enter referrals. This training will allow the employee to understand,
create, and edit referrals, and link referrals to the appointment scheduling
section. There are multiple dates and sessions available. Please print out
the registration form at http://www.miami.edu/forms/idx/trainreg.pdf and
fax it to the number at the bottom of the page, 305-243-7355, with your training
date preferences. For more information please call 305-243-3665.
HUMAN SUBJECT RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES
A variety of ongoing research studies on the medical campus are seeking participants.
Researchers at the MRI Center are currently seeking healthy subjects to participate
in a magnetic resonance imaging study. For more information please visit http://midas.med.miami.edu/Research/MRStudies.htm.
DERMATOLOGY RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES
The Skin Research Group, directed by Dr. Brian Berman, is looking for subjects
who would like to participate in clinical research studies. Current studies
are focused on atopic dermatitis (eczema), keloids and actinic keratoses. If
you are interested and would like to have more information, please call 305-243-5519
or visit dermatology.research@med.miami.edu.
TAX TIME RESOURCES
To help ease the burden of filing federal income tax, the Employee Assistance
Program has developed a list of resources offered by the Internal Revenue Service.
The IRS offers free assistance to taxpayers on their website, by telephone
and in person. Visit http://www.miami.edu/UMH/CDA/UMH_Main/0,1770,2441-1;5943-2;25223-3,00.html or
visit www.miami.edu/eap and
see the “Selected Topics” section.
QUESTIONS ABOUT COMPLIANCE?
TWO UM HELPLINES CAN ASSIST YOU
Research integrity concerns? Report concerns regarding research integrity
and adherence to federal or University regulations directly to the Office of
the Vice Provost for Research at 305-243-6415, or you can call the University's
toll-free, anonymous compliance hotline at 866-YOURCALL. Billing concerns? Address
questions to Office of Billing Compliance at 305-243-HELP or 877-415-HELP. For
information regarding training programs offered by the Office of Billing Compliance,
contact Gemma Romillo or Nancy Rivero at 305-243-5842.
COMPLETING UNIVERSITY DOCUMENTS – PREVENTING IDENTITY THEFT
University systems are being changed to accept University identification numbers
instead of social security numbers. Where a University form, such as Business
Expense Reimbursements (BERFs), payroll journals and transfer forms, require
the insertion of the employee’s social security number, the UM ID# should
be entered instead (documentation attached to a BERF should be reviewed before
submission). If a credit card number is reflected in the documentation (for
example, on an airline ticket receipt or a restaurant receipt), this information
should be crossed out using a magic marker. There are some forms, however,
that still require the use of social security numbers. These include check
requisition forms to pay individuals, sole proprietorships and partnerships
where the IRS requires obtaining the social security number of the payee (the
payee in these cases should never be an employee), and certain government documents
such as IRS forms, Immigration forms, and University employment forms, to name
a few. A rule to follow: If it is a governmental form, enter a social security
number. If it is a University form other than employment, enter the UM ID#
and check any backup documentation submitted to ensure that any personal information
is crossed out.
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