Dean Pascal J. Goldschmidt, M.D., has announced that Marc A. Buoniconti has been named president of The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis at the Miller School of Medicine.

Louis Calder Memorial Library is pleased to announce the purchase of QUOSA Information Manager for UM faculty, staff and students. QUOSA Information Manager streamlines literature searches, organizes article collections and allows all information to be shared with colleagues. 

One-hour training sessions on QUOSA Information Manager will be given on Thursday, Jan. 17, and Friday, Jan. 18, at 9 a.m., noon and 3 p.m. in the third-floor classroom at Louis Calder Memorial Library. To register for one of the six sessions, please contact the Reference Desk at 305-243-6648, Monday through Friday, between 7:30 a.m. and 5 p.m.

To download QUOSA Information Manager go to http://www.quosa.com/downloads.html, select the subscriber version and choose Windows or Mac, which will initiate the download. After the download is complete, follow the prompts to install the program and fill out the registration form.

Starting this Thursday, Jan. 10, the new OvidSP interface will replace the existing Ovid software at Louis Calder Memorial Library. OvidSP will offer some new features such as a ‘basic search’ option that supports natural language processing. In this 'basic search' you can enter any phrase or search question and OvidSP will effectively translate the language into a search query, limit your retrieval to no more than 500 citations, and then rank the results by relevance. The news system also contains a 'search fields' option which allows the search input to be arranged in a specific field. All usernames and saved searches in the existing system will be transferred to the new one. 

For questions about OvidSP, please contact the Reference Desk, Monday through Friday, between 7:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. at 305-243-6648 or reference@med.miami.edu.

Bascom Palmer’s Aesthetic Center now features non-surgical cosmetic enhancements including Botox, Restylane, Cosmoderm fillers and intense pulsed light for the treatment of wrinkles, age spots, sun damage and permanent hair removal. The next dates for intense pulsed light treatment are tomorrow, Jan. 9, and Wednesday, Feb. 6, at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute on the Miller School Campus, and this Friday, Jan. 11, and Friday, Feb. 8, at Bascom Palmer  Eye Institute in Palm Beach Gardens. 

All UM employees receive a 20% discount. If you need additional information or would like to make an appointment, please call 305-482-4888. 

Due to overwhelming interest in the Employee Day men’s basketball game against Georgia Tech, the event sold out. For those who did not obtain tickets for the first Employee Day game, a second game has been added on Saturday, March 1, at 2 p.m., when the men's team takes on the Virginia Cavaliers. Tickets are still available for the women’s basketball game versus Florida State on Thursday, Jan. 24, at 7 p.m. UM employees will receive one free ticket to each basketball game and can purchase up to five more tickets for $1 per ticket. To pick up Employee Day tickets, download and complete the registration form at http://hurricanesports.cstv.com/auto_pdf/p_hotos/s_chools/mifl/sports/m-baskbl/auto_pdf/08BKemployeeform. Individuals must bring the completed form and a valid UM Employee ID to receive ticket(s).

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The Jay Weiss Center for Social Medicine and Health Equity will continue its grand rounds series today at noon in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, third-floor auditorium with a seminar by Erin Kobetz, Ph.D., M.P.H., assistant professor of epidemiology and public health at the Miller School. Dr. Kobetz will present "Cancer Disparities in Little Haiti: The Role of Community-Based Participatory Research." 

Lunch will be provided. For more information, please e-mail Katie Houghton at khoughton@med.miami.edu or visit www.jayweisscenter.org.

Please join us today at noon in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, fourth-floor auditorium for a seminar by Traci Hall, Ph.D., director of the Exposure Biology Program at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences at the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Hall will present "Designing and Probing RNA Sequence Specificity of PUF Proteins." 

For more information, please contact Nilcer Aviles at 305-243-6691 or naviles@med.miami.edu.

Please join us in the Lois Pope LIFE Center, seventh-floor auditorium at noon tomorrow for the next lecture in the Gail F. Beach Memorial Visiting Lectureship series. Michael Boninger, M.D., professor and vice chair for research in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and associate dean for medical student research at the University of Pittsburgh, will present "Repetitive Strain of Shoulder and Wrist: What Can We Learn from Wheelchair Users?" 

For more information, please call Maria Chagoyen at 305-243-7108.

The Department of Orthopaedics will continue its Grand Rounds series with a lecture each Thursday in January. Starting this Thursday, Jan. 10, Lisa Plano, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of clinical pediatrics and microbiology and immunology, will present "Today’s MRSA: Not Your Grandmother’s Staphylococcus Aureus."

Cary B. Chapman, M.D., assistant professor of orthopaedics, will present "The Adult Cavovarus Foot" on Thursday, Jan. 17, and on Jan. 24, Andrew J. Cooper, M.D., fifth-year resident, will speak on "Subtrochanteric Femur Fractures: IM Nails Versus Plate Fixation."

All lectures will take place from 7 to 8 a.m. in the Mailman Center for Child Development, eighth-floor auditorium. These lectures are recommended for orthopaedic surgeons, residents, fellows, practicing orthopaedists, physiatrists, physical therapists, nurses and medical students.
 
Each lecture qualifies for one continuing medical education credit for physicians. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. For more information, please contact Maya Fagundes at mfagundes@med.miami.edu or 305-243-6115.

The Institute for Women’s Health will host Melissa A. McNeil, M.D., M.P.H, chief for the Section of Women’s Health and director of the Comprehensive Women’s Health Program at  the University of Pittsburgh, for Grand Rounds this Thursday from noon to 1 p.m. in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, fifth-floor auditorium. Dr. McNeil will speak on "Managing Menopause After the Women’s Health Initiative." This presentation will review the physiology of menopause, discuss the Women's Health Initiative findings and implications, review the risks and benefits of hormone therapy, and evaluate alternatives to hormone therapy. This lecture is eligible for one continuing medical education credit or one continuing education unit. 
 
A light lunch will be served. Please RSVP with your name, profession and any other information required for continuing education credits to Marie Corrales at 305-243-2576 or mcorrales2@med.miami.edu.

The Department of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology will host Denise Hilfiker-Kleiner, Ph.D., group leader in the Department of Molecular Cardiology at Hannover Medical School, Germany. Dr. Hilfiker-Kleiner will present "Postpartum Cardiomyopathy: Is Prolactin the Heart Breaker?"

The lecture will take place this Thursday at noon in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, room 6018. For additional information, please call Nivia Machin-Gonzalez at 305-243-1078.

The Department of Microbiology and Immunology will host Ramesh Akkina, D.V.M., Ph.D., professor of microbiology, immunology and pathology at Colorado State University. Dr. Akkina will present "Modeling HIV/AIDS Pathogenesis and Gene Therapy Strategies in Humanized Mice" this Thursday at noon in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, room 3109.

The Center for Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders presents "UM Hurricane Update in the Management of Parkinson's Disease," a course that will discuss the most current advances in the treatment of early and advanced Parkinson's disease and review the current indications for deep brain stimulation.

Registration is complimentary for neurologists, psychiatrists, primary care physicians and internists. The course will be held this Thursday at Porcão Churrascaria restaurant at 6 p.m. For more information or to register, please visit www.cme.med.miami.edu or call 305-243-6716.

Please join us for Psychiatry Grand Rounds this Friday from noon to 1 p.m. in the Mailman Center for Child Development, eighth-floor auditorium. Ewald Horwath, M.D., professor and executive vice chair of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Miller School, will present "Improving the Management of Patients With HIV/AIDS."

Please join us for a discussion about "What's up With Kids in Miami and Florida?" with Judy Schaechter, M.D., associate professor of pediatrics and director of the Injury Free Coalition for Kids. Dr. Schaechter will examine policy issues affecting children and children’s health in Miami-Dade County. 

The lecture will take place from noon to 1 p.m. in the Mailman Center for Child Development, room 3023. Lunch will be provided. To RSVP, or for additional information, please contact Wanda Castro at wcastro@med.miami.edu or 305-243-4466.

Please join the Department of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology on Monday, Jan. 14, for two special seminars with Peter Sugden, Ph.D., professor of cellular biochemistry, and Angela Clerk, Ph.D., F.A.H.A., both from Imperial College London. Dr. Sugden will present "Glycogen Synthase Kinase 3 (GSK3) as a Point of Integration for Hypertrophic Growth of the Myocardium: A Sceptic's View," and Dr. Clerk will present "Acute Changes in RNA Profiles in the Cardiac Myocyte With the Hypertrophic Agonist, Endothelin-1."
 
The event will take place at 11:15 a.m. in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, fourth-floor auditorium. For additional information, please call Nivia Machin-Gonzalez at 305-243-1078.

Are you submitting an NIH proposal soon? Are you submitting electronically? Learn how to use the InfoEd Proposal Development System to prepare and submit your proposal electronically to the NIH by attending one or more of the special presentations and workshops listed below.

A weight-loss seminar will be held on Wednesday, Jan. 16, at 7 p.m. in University of Miami Hospital's first-floor seminar center. Atul Madan, M.D., F.A.C.S., chief of the Division of Laparoendoscopic and Bariatric Surgery, will present a seminar on "Obesity and Your Surgical Options." Dr. Madan is a recognized expert in weight-loss surgery and has performed more than 1,000 bariatric procedures.

To register for the seminar, please call 305-325-5000. For more information, please visit www.umiamihospital.com.

Learn how the CRIS Office can assist you with your clinical trials. Please join us on Thursday, Jan. 17, from noon to 1 p.m. in the Batchelor Children's Research Institute, Baxter Conference Room for a roundtable discussion on CRIS Office updates and procedures. Suzanne Page, director of CRIS, will present: "Working with Clinical Research Initiation Services (CRIS): An Overview of the Process and Services Provided."

The world's premier recognition of achievement in cancer research, hosted by UM/Sylvester, presents Richard D. Kolodner, Ph.D., professor of medicine at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, and recipient of the Sixth Annual Kirk A. Landon-AACR Prize for Basic Cancer Research, who will lecture on "DNA Mismatch Repair: From Basic Genetic and Mechanistic Studies to Human Cancer Genetics." Douglas R. Lowy, M.D., chief of the Laboratory of Cellular Oncology in the Center for Cancer Research at the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health, and John T. Schiller, Ph.D., senior investigator of the Laboratory of Cellular Oncology at the Center for Cancer Research at the National Institutes of Health, the recipients of the Sixth Annual Dorothy P. Landon-AACR Prize for Translational Cancer Research, will lecture on "HPV Vaccines for the Prevention of Cervical Cancer." The lectures take place on Friday, Jan. 18, from noon to 1:30 p.m. at the Jackson Memorial Hospital Diagnostic Treatment Center, second-floor conference center. For more information, call 305-243-2287.

Bascom Palmer Eye Institute invites you to the Grove Isle Hotel and Spa in Coconut Grove to determine the ACC Glaucoma Grovetrotter Finals champion. This final will present new strategies in the clinical practice of glaucoma, comparison of current surgical techniques, new techniques being developed and controversial topics for 2008. 

This course is intended for general ophthalmologists and glaucoma specialists. It will take place from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Friday, Jan.18, and from 7:30 a.m. to 12:05 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 19. For more information, please contact Karen Davila at 305-326-6110 or kdavila@med.miami.edu. 

The Neuroscience Center will host Richard H. Kramer, Ph.D., associate professor of neurobiology at the University of California, who will present a seminar on "Inventing New Ways to Control Neuronal Activity with Light." The seminar will take place on Friday, Jan. 18, at 1 p.m. in the Lois Pope LIFE Center, seventh-floor auditorium. 

For more information, please call Maria Chagoyen 305-243-7108 or visit http://www.miamiproject.med.miami.edu/x381.xml.

On Saturday, Jan. 19 at 8 p.m., Orchestra Miami will present a gala concert celebrating the bicentennial of the founding of Casa Ricordi, a benefit spearheaded by Camillo Ricordi, M.D., director of the Diabetes Research Institute, and seventh-generation descendant of Giovanni Ricordi, the founder of Casa Ricordi in 1808. Honorary chairs are South Florida arts patrons Patricia and Phillip Frost, and opera legend Renata Scotto and her husband Lorenzo Anselmi. In recognition of Casa Ricordi's unparalleled importance in the world of opera, Orchestra Miami director Elaine Rinaldi has invited many Metropolitan Opera stars to join Orchestra Miami in arias, duets and ensembles.

More than 400 community leaders, aviation industry executives and grateful CURED patients are expected to gather on Sunday, Jan. 20, at 6 p.m. for a "High Flying Celebration" in honor of Mark S. Soloway, M.D., professor and chairman of the Department of Urology at the Miller School.

The event will be held at the Aerospace Aviation Center, raising funds for CURED, the University of Miami’s Center for Urologic Research, Education and Diseases. By taking part in this fundraiser, guests will have the opportunity for an unforgettable evening, including the opportunity to fly one of the biggest and fastest planes in the world through the same simulators used by airline pilots.

Don’t miss the next Sponsored Programs quarterly meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 22, from 1 to 2 p.m. in the Mailman Center for Child Development, eighth-floor auditorium. These meetings, which are open to all faculty and staff, take place every three months to promote communication among all departments. At the meetings, the University community learns about important updates related to UM sponsor policies and procedures, UM sponsor forms, new systems and system requirements. Attendees may ask questions about compliance issues, special circumstances and how to avoid mistakes. They will also receive information about other available resources, share experiences and find solutions to various problems.

To register, or for more information, please visit http://ulearn.miami.edu. For questions, please contact Sofia Aymerich at saymerich@med.miami.edu.

The Sponsored Programs Education Workshop, a required institutional program for all key personnel listed on proposals, is scheduled for Wednesday, Jan. 23, from 3 to 5 p.m. in the Batchelor Children's Research Institute, Baxter Conference Room. The goal is to educate key personnel about the fiscal and compliance issues of pre- and post-award management. The workshop covers the most recent information on the grant process from finding funding opportunities to closing an account. Maria Valero-Martinez and Sofia Aymerich will review the principle investigator's role and responsibility for administering sponsored projects, explain established policies and procedures, and provide an overview of the central support services available to the investigator.

Are you submitting electronic applications through Grants.gov? Join us for a Grants.gov hands-on workshop on Thursday, Jan. 24, from 9 a.m. to noon, in the Louis Calder Memorial Library computer lab.

Margaret Pericak-Vance, Ph.D., director of the Miami Institute for Human Genomics, invites you to attend a special seminar by Walter E. Nance, Ph.D, M.D., professor and chair emeritus in the Department of Human Genetics at Virginia Commonwealth University. Dr Nance will speak on "Genetic Deafness, Human Evolution and the Conflict Between Science and Theology."

The lecture will take place on Friday, Jan. 25, from 11 a.m. to noon in Bascom Palmer Eye Institute's Retter Auditorium. Lunch will be served following the lecture at Au Bon Pain on the first-level of Bascom Palmer Eye Institute. To RSVP, or for more information, please contact Lourdes Landa at llanda@med.miami.edu or 305-243-5386.

The Department of Pathology will conduct its 33rd annual "Review and Recent Practical Advances in Pathology" course, at the Miami Beach Resort and Spa Monday, Jan. 28, through Friday, Feb. 1. This year's topics include neuropathology, prostate, pediatric, urologic, GI, and breast pathology, kidney and soft tissue tumors, automation, and cytopathology.

The conference will be attended by pathologists from across the United States and abroad. For more information, please contact Linda Hung at 1-866-794-9942, lhung@med.miami.edu or visit the Web site at http://pathology.med.miami.edu.

Bascom Palmer Eye Institute invites you to the fifth angiogenesis symposium on Feb. 22 and 23 at The Ritz-Carlton on Key Biscayne, where there will be a review of the latest in angiogenesis research, and the cause and treatments of retinal exudation and degeneration. Emphasis will be placed on early drug development, the on-label and off-label use of drugs for the treatment of retinal diseases, and the impact of these drugs on the economics of healthcare.

This symposium is intended for retinal specialists, general ophthalmologists and basic scientists interested in the basic molecular mechanisms of angiogenesis and pharmacotherapy for the management of ophthalmic diseases. The event will take place from 7 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 22, and from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 23. For more information, please contact Karen Davila at 305-326-6110 or kdavila@med.miami.edu.

Join the Institute for Women’s Health on Monday, March 17, for the inaugural University of Miami Women’s Health Research Day, where UM graduate students and faculty from all disciplines are invited to submit abstracts of their recent research in women’s health. 

Women’s Health Research Day is an opportunity to present research, gain feedback from peers and network with researchers. Posters will be judged by an expert panel for research originality, scientific vigor and importance to women's health. Two awards of $500 each will be given. The submission deadline is Friday, Feb. 1, and the event will be held on Monday, March 17, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Lois Pope LIFE Center, seventh-floor auditorium. Lunch will be served at noon. Participation in this event qualifies for one continuing medical education credit or one continuing education unit. For submission guidelines or more information, please contact Meghan Mayhew at mmayhew@med.miami.edu.

Melasma Study
Heather Woolery-Lloyd, M.D., of the Division of Cosmetic Dermatology is looking for female subjects between the ages of 18 and 50 who have melasma, brown spots on the face, to participate in a research study to determine whether an oral sunscreen is safe and effective in the treatment of melasma. If interested, please contact a member of the research staff at 305-531-5788 or cosmeticresearch@med.maimi.edu.

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