The Center on Aging is pleased to announce a 2006 - 2007 graduate fellowship program. The fellowships, made possible by Forest Laboratories, are available to any graduate students interested in research projects related to the topic of aging.  Four awards will be funded and are limited to a maximum of $3,000. Two of these awards are restricted to issues related to mental health and older adults. For more information, please contact ajaret@med.miami.edu.

University of Miami workforce members must be mindful of their responsibilities when given access to University information systems. Such access is a privilege and should only be used for legitimate, job-related activity. Using such access to look up family members, friends, celebrities and other employees without a genuine, job-related need is an abuse of such privilege and may subject the individual to sanctions, up to and including termination. In particular, the HIPAA federal law protects the privacy and security of patients’ health data. University of Miami medical school employees sign HIPAA confidentiality statements and are governed by both University HIPAA policies as well as University information system policies. These policies apply to all workforce members regardless of tenure or rank.

Effective September 15, the Biomedical Engineering group’s support number will change from 305-243-6336 to 305-243-5999, to integrate it into Medical Information Technology’s 24/7 Help Desk service. If you call the old number after that date, you’ll be forwarded to 305-243-5999, but eventually the old number will be retired. Biomedical support will be menu option #5 at 305-243-5999, in case you want to press ahead without waiting for the automated voice prompt.

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• University Compliance (anonymous hotline): 866-YOURCALL
• Billing (anonymous hotline): 305-243-HELP or 877-415-HELP
• Research Integrity and Compliance: 305-243-6415
• Financial Improprieties: 305-284-2605
• Privacy Office/HIPAA: 305-243-5000 or 1-866-366-HUSH
• University Ombudsperson: 305-284-4922

Any University of Miami employee reporting or deciding whether to report activity that may be in violation of a law, rule, or regulation is protected against retaliation by the Whistleblower Protection Statement. For more information, visit the Office of Compliance site.

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The following presentation takes place from noon to 1 p.m. There is no charge to attend and a light lunch will be served. RSVP is required. Please call 1-800-545-2292 to register.

The following presentations take place from noon to 1 p.m. They are free and a light lunch will be served. RSVP is required. Please call 1-800-545-2292 to register.

The Gail F. Beach Memorial 2006-2007 Visiting Lectureship Series will host John Steeves, Ph.D., professor, British Columbia Leadership Chair and Director of the International Collaboration on Repair Discoveries ( ICORD).  He will present "Challenges of Clinical Translational Research in SCI: Who, What, Where, When, Why and Let’s Not Forget, How!” tomorrow (Wednesday) at noon in the Lois Pope LIFE Center seventh-floor auditorium. For more information, call 305-243-7108 or visit us online at: www.miamiproject.med.miami.edu/x381.xml.

A representative from TIAA-CREF will be at the medical campus tomorrow (Wednesday) and Thursday as well as November 15 and 16, and December 13 and 14. to conduct individual counseling sessions. To schedule an appointment, visit http://www.tiaa-cref.com/moc, or call 1-800-842-2003, ext 3522.

The next Sponsored Programs Special Seminar Series will be held tomorrow (Wednesday) from 10 a.m. to noon at the Storer Auditorium, located on the first floor of the School of Business Administration on UM's Coral Gables campus.  Adrian Boloix from the Human Subjects Research Office will present “E-Prost Re-Designed” to discuss updates on the Human Subjects Research Office and specifically the deployment of e-Prost, the electronic submission and tracking software. Registration for the Special Seminar Series is through NetLearning at http://netlearning.miami.edu.

Cristobal dos Remedios, Ph.D., professor of anatomy and biophysics, Muscle Research Unit, Institute for Biomedical Research, University of Sydney, Australia, is presenting “Using Antibody Microarrays for Inflammation (IHD), Autoimmune Disease (SLE) and Cancer (Melanoma),” as part of the Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology Seminars series on Thursday, September 14 at noon in RMSB, room 6018. For more information, please call the Department of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology at 305-243-5909. !

The University of Miami Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center and Jackson Memorial Hospital will host a town hall meeting on colorectal cancer on September 15 at JMH. It will run from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Diagnostic Treatment Center, room 259, and is free and open to the public and includes lunch. Speakers include cancer surgeons, radiation and medical oncologists, and colon cancer survivors. Topics include diagnosis and treatment of colorectal cancer, determining family history and genetic risk, what to expect from diagnosis through treatment, and tips to reduce risk. For more information please call 305-585-6038.

Fariba Behbod, Ph.D. from the Dept. of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, will present her seminar entitled "Role of Stem/Progenitor Cells in the Development and Malignant Progression of Breast Cancer" on Tuesday, September 19th, at 1 p.m. in room 6018 of the Rosenstiel building.

"Question and Answer Session on the Use of Electronic Records in Research" will be discussed during the next Human Subjects Protection Educational Seminar. The event is set for Tuesday, September 19, at the Mailman Center, room 3023 from noon to 1 p.m.  Presenters include  Kathy Roach, office of research compliance assessment, and Audra Lazarus, assistant general counsel.  Registration through NetLearning at: https://netlearning.miami.edu.

Participate with the Employee Assistance Program (EAP) in a workshop designed to help attendees learn to communicate more effectively in conflict situations.  The course is designed in a blended format, combining a prerequisite online computer-based training component with a live workshop where participants can strengthen their skills through practice. It will be held on the medical campus on Tuesday, September 19, from 2 to 4 p.m. in Dominion Parking Garage, room 155.

The Department of Orthopaedics has weekly Grand Rounds for continuing medical education credits.  All Grand Rounds take place on Thursdays in the Mailman Center, eighth floor auditorium, at 7 a.m. 
 
Two guest speakers are scheduled for upcoming presentations. On
September 21, Luiz Pimenta, M.D., chief of surgery, Santa Rita Hospital in Sao Paulo, Brazil, will be speaking on “Access to the Spine Via the Lateral Approach.”
 
On September 28, Raj Rao, M.D., associate professor, Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, will be speaking on “Operative Intervention in Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy.”

Badri Roysam, DSc., from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, will be the guest speaker at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute’s Frontiers in Vision Science Seminar on Thursday, September 28, at 12:30 p.m.  Roysam will be speaking on "Bayesian Approaches to Automated Analysis of Changes in Retinal Images," in Bascom Palmer Eye Institute's Retter Auditorium. A lunch reception will begin at noon in front of the auditorium. For more information, please contact Johnny Y. Shum at 305-326-6047, or e-mail jshum@med.miami.edu.

Appointments

Danuta Szczesna-Cordary, Ph.D.,  associate professor of molecular and cellular pharmacology, will serve a four-year term helping the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Szczesna-Cordary will be a member of the Cardiac Contractility, Hypertrophy, and Failure Study Section Center for Scientific Review.  

In that capacity, she will help review grant applications submitted to the NIH, make recommendations on the applications to the appropriate NIH national advisory council and study the status of research in molecular and cellular pharmacology.

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