Because of new voting technology and a record turnout, long waits are expected at polling places on election day November 4. To ensure that everyone gets to vote, and to minimize the potential impact on Miller School operations, faculty, staff and students are encouraged to vote early.

This is the final week for early voting, which will end on Sunday, November 2. Please note the times are different than last week. Hours of operation are from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. today (Tuesday) through this Friday, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday and 1 to 5 p.m. on Sunday. There are 20 polling places open in Miami-Dade County and 17 in Broward County between now and November 2. To help plan for early voting, you can view wait times for each location online at http://www.miamidade.gov/elections/wait-times.asp in Miami-Dade and http://www.broward.org/earlyvoting in Broward County. Absentee ballots are also still available until tomorrow (Wednesday) at 5 p.m.

For information on early or absentee voting in Miami-Dade, visit http://www.miamidade.gov/elections/vote_early.asp. For information on early or absentee voting in Broward, visit http://www.browardsoe.org/content.aspx?id=152.

Open Enrollment is your annual opportunity to enroll in medical, dental, flexible spending and short-term disability benefits for coverage beginning January 1, 2009. It is important that you actively enroll in your 2009 benefits during Open Enrollment, which runs until November 7. If you had coverage in 2008 but do not elect coverage for 2009 through myUM, you will automatically be placed in the Aetna HRA plan.

Please take time to review the literature and attend an information session. Information sessions will be held today (Tuesday) from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. and 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. at the Mailman Center for Child Development, eighth-floor auditorium. Sessions will also take place tomorrow (Wednesday) from 9 to 10 a.m., 11 a.m. to noon, 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. and 3:30 to 4:30 p.m.

Helpful information is available online at www.miami.edu/benefits/2009. Benefits Administration staff will be available to help faculty and staff enroll for their 2009 benefits online through MyUM. If you need assistance enrolling in your 2009 benefits, please visit the Louis Calder Memorial Library's electronic classroom on Thursday, November 6, or Friday, November 7, between 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m.

The Benefits Office will hold a final open enrollment information session for UMMG physicians tomorrow (Wednesday) from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. at the Mailman Center for Child Development, eighth-floor auditorium. The session will provide updated information about the new 2009 health insurance plans.

You can use the tax advantages of a flexible spending account when you purchase LASIK or any refractive eye surgery at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute. To learn about your vision correction options and allocate the cost of your treatment today call 1-877-GO-LASIK for a free consultation. All UM employees receive a 10 percent discount.

Benefits Administration is sponsoring free mammography screenings for faculty and staff members over the age of 35 as part of the UMatter Wellness Programs. To be eligible, you must be an employee enrolled in one of the University-sponsored Humana health plans and have a recent (within the past 6 months) mammography prescription from a physician. You must not have a history or diagnosis of breast cancer or received a mammogram in the last 365 days.

A massage therapist will be on site, employees will receive healthy snacks and cancer prevention information will be distributed. Screenings will take place tomorrow (Wednesday) from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Sylvester, suite 1038 and this Friday at Sylvester at Deerfield Beach from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

To schedule a free screening in Miami, call 305-243-5512. For scheduling at Sylvester at Deerfield Beach, call 954-571-0152.

The March of Dimes Florida Chapter has announced Barth Green, M.D., professor and chairman of neurological surgery, has been selected to receive the 2008 Humanitarian of the Year award. Miami-Dade County Commissioner Sally Heyman, news anchor Shannon Hori, and NBA All-Star Alonzo Mourning will also receive the award. They will be honored at the Building Our Community Awards luncheon on Friday, November 21, at 11:30 a.m. at Jungle Island in Miami.
Individual tickets are $150 and tables of ten with signage are available for $1,500.

The Iron Arrow Honor Society selected five outstanding members of the Miller School family for induction into the Society, the University’s highest honor.

At a luncheon on October 23, the Society welcomed (pictured from left), Daniel Lichtstein, M.D., senior associate regional dean for medical education and professor of medicine at the Miller School’s regional campus at FAU; Agnes Murphy, assistant director of admissions; Natasha Chida, fourth-year medical student; Marie Denise Gervais, M.D., assistant professor of family medicine; and Orlando Silva, M.D., J.D., associate professor of clinical medicine.

Rafael E. Campo, M.D., professor of medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases, has been invited as the keynote speaker for the annual Asociación Médico Mexicana de VIH-SIDA conference, which will take place November 20 through 28 in Cancun, Mexico. Dr. Campo will be presenting two lectures, "Immune Reconstitution with Antiretroviral Therapy" and "Co-Infection with HIV and Hepatitis B and C." By attending the lectures, participants will receive the most up-to-date information on these diseases, treatment options and University research initiatives.

The Mitchell Wolfson Sr. Department of Community Service will host an Upper Keys Health Fair on Saturday, November 15, at Coral Shores High School, 89901 Old Highway in Tavernier, and a South Miami-Dade Health Fair on Sunday, November 16, at the Bargain Town Flea Market, 24400 Packinghouse Road in Homestead. At the fairs, Miller School faculty and medical students will provide free health screenings, health education and more. Screenings will include cholesterol, diabetes, blood pressure, vision, cancer, etc. Children will also be seen, but must be accompanied by an adult. Both will take place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Are you developing budgets for grant applications? If so, this computer-based learning course is for you. Through the online course, you will learn the do’s and don’ts of budget planning, examine the process of preparing a realistic budget for a grant application, and review UM and funding agency standards.

To register, please visit http://Ulearn.miami.edu. For assistance, please send an e-mail to ResEDU@med.miami.edu.

TIAA-CREF and Fidelity Investments, University-approved retirement vendors, will be on the Miller School campus to answer your questions about retirement plans. TIAA-CREF will conduct individual counseling sessions on Wednesday, Nov. 12, Thursday, Nov. 13, and Thursday, Nov. 20. To schedule an appointment, please call 866-842-3357, ext. 261304, or visit www.tiaa-cref.org/moc. 

The Physician Referral Office is hosting a Halloween candy sale this Thursday and Friday. Festive treats will be available for $1 and $2. Also, on Halloween day, the office invites you to its haunted office tour at Park Plaza West Breezeway from 9:30 to 11 a.m. and from 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Entrance is $1.

The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences has moved its private, clinical outpatient office, UHealth Psychiatry, from Dominion Tower to the third floor of the Mental Health Hospital Center located at 1695 NW 9th Avenue. The transition to the newly renovated location took place yesterday (Monday). 

The office provides a full-range of psychiatric and psychological services including psychotherapy and psychopharmacology, neuropsychological assessment, psychological testing, forensic psychiatry and psychology, and treatment for substance abuse. “Our practice has continued to grow beyond the physical limitations of the Dominion Tower office,” said Joseph Henry, M.D., assistant professor of clinical psychiatry and director of the outpatient practice. “We are expanding our outpatient practice, increasing services and adding experts to our faculty. The department now inhabits almost the entire third floor of the mental health hospital, making the facility much more conducive to user-friendly patient care.”

The Miller School's class of 2010 will be selling holiday cookies. Packaged in decorative tins, they will make a thoughtful gift for the upcoming season, so be sure to place your order between November 10 and December 8. Orders can be picked up outside the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building from December 15 to 19.
 
Select from an assortment of cookies (snickers surprise, cookies and cream, chocolate dipped almond crescents, oatmeal, sugar cookies) or one specific type of cookie. Prices range from $10 to $15 for a dozen. Please e-mail your orders to Eileen Bernal at EMBernal@med.miami.edu no later than December 8 or stop by the table outside the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building the week of November 17 to place your order.

The Professional Development and Training Office has purchased access to HealthStream, an
extensive online contact hours library, for UM nurses. The library contains topics in critical care nursing, cultural competency, disease states, emergency nursing, career advancement, obstetrics, oncology, patient care basics, pharmacotherapy and special populations.

You will have unlimited access to this library until May 15, regardless of when you join the program. If you fail to complete any training within the first 90 days, your department will be charged a $35 fee. In order to receive contact hours credit, you must self‐report all trainings in ULearn by May 15, 2009. To gain access to this library, you must first complete two computer‐based learning modules through ULearn at http://ulearn.miami.edu. The modules are "Contact Hour Library-Module I" and "Contact Hour Library-Module II."

Access to the library is limited and will be granted on a first-come, first-served basis.

Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Frost School of Music are proud to announce that they will begin musical performances at Sylvester. The program is made possible by generous support from the Ress Family Hospital Performance Project. The inaugural performance will take place at the Sylvester hematology/oncology and surgical oncology waiting area this Thursday at 1:30 p.m. 

For more information, please contact Giselle Salzmann at 305-243-3663 or gsalzmann@med.miami.edu.  

The Office of Medical Development has teddy bears available to give to your patients when they come to clinic, courtesy of John K. Schulte and Frank Herbert, generous and longstanding friends of the University of Miami. The bears will provide comfort to your adult or pediatric patients when they need it most. Herbert and Schulte have maintained this tradition at the Miller School for the past few years and are convinced of the wonderful effect and power these bears have on our patients.

If you would like to give these bears to your patients, please contact Ana Bezanilla or Jennifer Rodriguez at 305-243-6256. 

The Calder Library's annual book sale to benefit the UnitedWay continues this week. Books are deeply discounted at $1 to $5 each. The book sale will be held in the library lobby during regular library hours.

As the holidays approach, the Office of Environmental Health and Safety wants to remind you of some decorating do's and don'ts.

Do use UL listed decorative lights, decorations and ornaments, artificial holiday trees that are fire-resistant and place indoor trees away from traffic. Make sure to unplug all holiday lights when you leave the office for the day, and remove all decorations, displays, lights and/or ornaments after the holiday event or before the University’s annual holiday closure.

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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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Please join us for Pediatric Grand Rounds today (Tuesday) from 8 to 9 a.m. in the Mailman Center for Child Development, eighth-floor auditorium. Jeffrey P. Brosco, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of clinical pediatrics, will present "Autism, Vaccines and You."

The Miami Institute for Human Genomics will present a lecture by Mayana Zatz, Ph.D., professor of genetics and director of the Center for the Study of the Human Genome at the Institute of Biosciences at the University of São Paulo. Dr. Zatz will present "Neuromuscular Diseases: From Gene Mapping to Pre-Clinical Research" today (Tuesday) from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Lois Pope LIFE Center, seventh-floor auditorium.

Lunch will be served after the lecture. For more information, please contact Nora Matelis at 305-243-8408 or nmatelis@miami.edu.

The Cardiovascular Division will present Grand Rounds today (Tuesday) from noon to 1 p.m. at University of Miami Hospital, Seminar Center. Ray E. Hershberger, M.D., professor of medicine and associate chief of the Cardiovascular Division, will present "The Genetics of Dilated Cardiomyopathy."  

Please join us today (Tuesday) at noon, in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, fourth-floor auditorium for a seminar by Shu Wu, M.D., assistant professor of clinical pediatrics. Dr. Wu will present a lecture titled "CTGF in Lung Development and Remodeling."

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

Genetic tests for specific maladies are known to raise ethical issues. These issues, including sharing results with patients and appropriate secondary use of data, are considerably magnified with the recent success of whole-genome sequencing. Today (Tuesday) Kenneth W. Goodman, Ph.D., director of the Bioethics Program, will present a Human Subjects Protections Program seminar on "Whole-Genome Sequencing: Ethical, Legal and Social Issues."

The event will be held from noon to 1 p.m. at the Mailman Center for Child Development, eighth-floor auditorium. Please register at http://Ulearn.miami.edu. For more information, please send an e-mail to resEDU@med.miami.edu.

The Sponsored Programs Education Workshop is a required institutional program for all key personnel listed on proposals. The goal of the program is to educate key personnel with the fiscal and compliance issues of pre- and post-award management. The workshop will focus on federal grants and will cover the most recent information on the grant process from finding funding opportunities to closing an account. The workshop will also review the principal investigator's role in administering sponsored projects, explain established policies and procedures, and provide an overview of the central support services available. 

The next session will be held tomorrow (Wednesday) from 9 to 11 a.m. at Dominion Tower, room 1003. Space is limited. Please register at http://Ulearn.miami.edu. For more information, please send an e-mail to ResEDU@med.miami.edu.  

Please join us for Dermatology Grand Rounds tomorrow (Wednesday) from 11:45 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, room 2090. Javier Alonso, M.D., assistant professor of dermatology, will present a lecture titled "My Best Cases."

For more information, please call 305-243-4472.

The Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute will present a lecture "NOS1 and NOS3: The Yin and Yang of Nitric Oxide Regulation of Cardiac Contractility" by Mark T. Ziolo, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of physiology and cell biology at Ohio State University. The lecture will take place tomorrow (Wednesday) from noon to 1 p.m. at the Clinical Research Building, room 1179. 

For more information, contact Yanay Tabraue at 305-243-1998 or ytabraue@med.miami.edu.

Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center will host an oncogenomics seminar tomorrow (Wednesday) from noon to 1 p.m. at Sylvester, conference room 1301. Brian Rabinovich, Ph.D., director of genetic engineering and molecular imaging and senior research scientist in the Department of Melanoma Medical Oncology at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, will present a lecture titled "Engineering a  Highly Optimized Firefly Luciferase for Imaging Mouse T Cells in Model Adoptive Immunotherapy of Solid Tumors."

Sylvester at Deerfield Beach will hold a Conversations About Cancer Seminar tomorrow (Wednesday) from 1 to 2 p.m. Maria Restrepo, M.D., assistant professor of clinical medicine,  and Monica Yepes, M.D., assistant professor of clinical radiology, will be presenting "Important Breast Health Education Every Woman Should Know." A raffle for a free mamogram will also take place. 

Reservations are required by calling 1-800-545-2292.

There will be a Faculty Senate meeting tomorrow (Wednesday) at 3:30 p.m. on the Coral Gables campus in the McLamore Executive Education Center, third-floor dining room. All faculty members are welcome to attend.

For more information, please visit http://www.miami.edu/FacultySenate.

Join us for "Party on the Patio" tomorrow (Wednesday) from 5 to 9 p.m. at the University Restaurant and Patio located next to the Clinical Research Building. Admission is $15 and includes delicious Greek food, beer, wine and music. Proceeds will benefit the spinal cord injury research programs at The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis. 

For more information, please call 305-243-2267.

The Department of Anesthesiology will present Grand Rounds this Thursday from 6:45 to 7:45 a.m. in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, third-floor auditorium. Salahadin Abdi, M.D., Ph.D., professor of clinical anesthesiology, will present "Discogenic Back Pain: Current Challenges and Future Directions."

The lecture is approved for one continuing medical education credit. For further information, please contact Marsha Williams at 305-585-6973 ext. 5 or mwilliams@med.miami.edu.

The Department of Neurological Surgery will present Grand Rounds this Thursday from 7 to 8 a.m. at the Lois Pope LIFE Center, seventh-floor auditorium. Allan Levi, M.D., Ph.D., professor of neurological surgery, will present "Hypothermia for Acute Cervical Complete Spinal Cord Injury – Results of a Phase I Study."

Steven P. Kalandiak, M.D., assistant professor of orthopaedics, will present Orthopaedic Grand Rounds this Thursday from 7 to 8 a.m. at the Mailman Center for Child Development, eighth-floor auditorium. Dr. Kalandiak will present "First Do No Harm - Recognizing an Inadequate Shoulder Film and Reading it Properly."

For more information, please contact Ledi Figueroa at 305-243-6725 or lfigueroa@med.miami.edu.

The Department of Neurological Surgery will present Grand Rounds this Thursday from 8 to 9 a.m. at the Lois Pope LIFE Center, seventh-floor auditorium. Jonathan R. Jagid, M.D., assistant professor of clinical neurological surgery, will present "Deep Brain Stimulation in Traumatic Brain Injury."

Please join us for Surgical Grand Rounds this Thursday at 8 a.m. in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, fourth-floor auditorium. Eduardo Martinez, M.D., assistant professor of clinical surgery, will present: “Endovascular Repair of Complex Aortic Anatomy.” Upon completion of this lecture, participants will be able to review complex aortic anatomy and discuss new therapeutic approaches.

The Department of Otolaryngology will present Grand Rounds this Thursday from 8 to 9 a.m. at ACC East in Chandler Library, room 356. Adrien Eshraghi, M.D., associate professor of otolaryngology, and Samuel Reyes, M.D., resident, will present "Otolaryngologic Aspects of Autism."

The Department of Microbiology and Immunology will present a seminar on "The Role of IL-15 in Vaccines and Mediating or Replacing CD4 T Cell Help for Long-Lived Memory CD8 T Cell Responses." Guest speaker Jay A. Berzofsky, M.D., Ph.D., chief of the Vaccine Branch at the Center for Cancer Research at the National Cancer Institute, will speak this Thursday at noon in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, room 3109.

Please join us for Pathology Journal Club this Thursday at noon at Holtz Children's Hospital, conference room 2034. Carlos Parra-Herra, M.D., pathology resident, will present "Expression of X-Linked Inhibitor-of-Apoptosis Protein in Hepatocellular Carcinoma Promotes Metastasis and Tumor Recurrence," and Naomi Montague, M.D., Ph.D., pathology resident, will present "Inclusion Body Myositis with Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection: Four Cases with Clonal Expansion of Viral-Specific T Cells."

For more information, please contact Winnie Tang at 305-585-7017 or wtang@med.miami.edu.

Sylvester will present a seminar this Friday from noon to 1 p.m. at the Medical Training and Simulation Laboratory, auditorium. Sankar Swaminathan, M.D., professor of medicine at the University of Florida, will present "Regulation of Cellular and Viral Genes by Gamma Herpesviruses."

Lunch will be provided on a first-come, first-served basis. No RSVP is necessary. For more information, please contact Sheela Dominguez at SDominguez@med.miami.edu.

The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and the Department of Neurology cordially invite you to attend Psychiatry Grand Rounds this Friday from noon to 1 p.m. at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, Retter Auditorium. Sara Czaja, Ph.D., co-director of the Center on Aging, will present a lecture on "The Implications of Age-Related Changes in Cognition for Everyday Task Performance." Upon completion of the lecture, participants will be able to assess age-related cognitive changes in older adults and how these cognitive difficulties affect their performance of everyday tasks. 

The lecture is approved for one continuing education credit for physicians, psychologists, social workers and nurses. For additional information, please contact Carmen Bou-Crick at cbou@med.miami.edu.

Please join us for a Dialogues in Research Ethics seminar this Friday at noon in the Clinical Research Building, first-floor conference room. Paul Braunschweiger, Ph.D., chair of the UM Animal Care and Use Committee, will present "Promoting Integrity in the UM Animal Care and Use Program."

Lunch will be served. No RSVP is required. For more information, call 305-243-5723, send an e-mail to ethics@miami.edu or visit http://www.miami.edu/ethics.

The Department of Medical Education will present a Grand Rounds lecture by Morton Levitt, M.D., clinical professor of biomedical science at the Miller School's FAU campus. Dr. Levitt's lecture is titled "Medical Education for the Echo Boomer Generation."

The event will take place this Friday at noon in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, fifth-floor auditorium. For more information, please contact Tanyika Stephenson at 305-243-7482.

Join the Miller School's professor and interim chair of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, Ewald Horwath, M.D., at Tropical Park this Saturday for the 2008 Out of the Darkness Community Walk. The event, sponsored by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and co-chaired by Dr. Horwath, will raise funds for survivor and awareness programs, research and education to help prevent suicide and assist those affected by suicide.

Registration is free and everyone is encouraged to bring friends and/or family members. Please register online at www.outofthedarkness.org. Registration at the event will take place at 9 a.m. and the walk starts at 10 a.m. For more information, please contact Lorie Simmons at 561-392-7877.

The kickoff event of South Florida’s fall social season, the "In the Garden Gala" that benefits the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, will take place this Saturday at the Miami Beach Convention Center, Grand Ballroom. The "In the Garden Gala" attracts nearly 1,000 philanthropic, community and business leaders from Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach Counties and raises more than $1.5 million for cancer research. A highlight of the gala is the presentation of the Caroline W. Halpern Award. This award will be given to an individual or family with a proven record of exceptional generosity through volunteerism in support of Sylvester. The award is named in memory of Caroline W. Halpern, a dedicated supporter of Sylvester, long before her battle with lung cancer. The 2008 Caroline Halpern W. Award will be presented to Joan and J. David Sheiner. 

This year’s gala is being chaired by the dynamic leadership of Lily and David Serviansky. In addition to a luxury silent auction at 7 p.m., the gala will once again feature Sylvester “Lifesaver Wishes.” Guests will have the opportunity to purchase a variety of research equipment and tools that are necessary to carry out leading-edge work in Sylvester laboratories. Individual tickets are priced from $500. Dinner and dancing begin at 8:30 p.m.

To learn more about underwriting opportunities, sponsorships, or to purchase tickets, please call 305-243-9088 or visit www.sylvester.org.

The sixth annual Luminare Awards Gala for UM's Life Alliance Organ Recovery Agency will be held this Saturday at the JW Marriott Hotel in Miami at 7:30 p.m. The event will honor medical professionals for their support and dedication to saving lives through organ donation and transplantation. WQBA-AM radio personality, Humberto Cortina, will DJ  the event, that will also feature world renowned flamenco dancers, fine food and drink, dancing and a silent auction.

Tickets are $100 per person. All proceeds will benefit the Life Alliance Organ Recovery Agency community and donor family services programs. For more information, visit http://lifealliance.iviproductions.com.

WageWorks will be the flexible spending account administrator for 2009. Flexible spending accounts are valuable benefits to you and your family because they use pre-tax dollars to pay for everyday expenses such as co-pays and day care. You can learn how to get the most out of your health care and dependent care flexible spending account next year by attending a lunch-and-learn session. Topics will include how to use the new WageWorks Visa debit card, flexible spending account deadlines and how to file claims.

The session will take place on Monday, November 3, from noon to 1 p.m. at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute's Retter Auditorium. Please RSVP to benefitsrsvp@miami.edu. Lunch will be served.

The Division of Hospital Medicine cordially invites you to its open house on Monday, November 3, at 5:30 p.m. at University of Miami Hospital, Seminar Center. Please join Dean Pascal J. Goldschmidt, M.D.; William O’Neill, M.D., executive dean for clinical affairs and chief medical officer for the University of Miami Health System; Marc E. Lippman, M.D., professor and chairman of the Department of Medicine; and Anthony Degina, CEO of University of Miami Hospital, as they welcome the division’s new hospitalists.

Refreshments will be served. Please RSVP to Janette Jurado at jjurado2@med.miami.edu or 305-243-1960.

The Developmental Center for AIDS Research will present Grand Rounds on Tuesday, November 4, from noon to 1 p.m. at the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, third-floor auditorium. Savita Pahwa, M.D. and Helena Schmidtmayerova, Ph.D., will present a lecture titled "Immunopathogenesis of HIV Infection: Current Concepts, Questions and Investigative Approaches." 

The Cardiovascular Division will present Grand Rounds on Tuesday, November 4, from noon to 1 p.m. at University of Miami Hospital, Seminar Center. Antony Y. Kim, M.D., assistant professor of medicine at the University of Chicago, will present "Endocardial Thrombosis: Are All Endothelial Cells Created Equally?"

Sylvester at Deerfield Beach will present a Conversations About Cancer Seminar on Wednesday, November 5, from noon to 1 p.m. Christine Savage, M.D., assistant professor of rheumatology and immunology, will present "Common Autoimmune Diseases."

Reservations are required by calling 1-800-545-2292.

The next Gail F. Beach Memorial Visiting Lectureship Series seminar will take place on Wednesday, November 5, from noon to 1 p.m. at the Lois Pope LIFE Center, seventh-floor auditorium. Andreas S. Beutler, M.D., assistant professor of medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, will present "Chronic Pain: Gene Therapy to (Epi-)Genomics." 

For more information, call 305-243-7108.

The Department of Otolaryngology will present Grand Rounds on Thursday, November 6, from 8 to 9 a.m. at ACC East in Chandler Library, room 356. Giovana Thomas, M.D., associate professor of head and neck surgery; George Hatoum, assistant professor of clinical radiation oncology; and D. Michael Patterson, M.D., otolaryngology resident, will present "Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy in the Head and Neck." The lecture will review the latest diagnosis and treatment options for malignant skin lesions of the head and neck.

This lecture is approved for one continuing medical education credit. For additional information, please contact Ebony Pye at 305-585-8776 or epye@med.miami.edu.

Learn how to reduce the need for and properly document cost transfers at this Sponsored Programs Roundtable Series, "The Good, The Bad & The Ugly of Cost Transfers." The meeting will provide a forum for administrators to discuss topics of interest related to sponsored programs. The session will take place on Thursday, November 6, from noon to 1 p.m. at Batchelor Children's Research Institute, Baxter Conference Room.

To register, please visit http://ulearn.miami.edu. For questions, please send an e-mail to ResEDU@med.miami.edu.

The Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology will host Michael J. Smerdon, Ph.D.,
Regents Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at Washington State University, for a seminar on Friday, November 7, at noon in the R. Bunn Gautier Building, room 118. Dr. Smerdon will present "DNA Repair in Chromatin: Searching for the Key to Get In."

The Department of Orthopaedics will host Grand Rounds on Thursday, November 13, from 7 to 8 a.m. at the Mailman Center for Child Development, eighth-floor auditorium. James Weinstein, D.O., professor and chairman at Dartmouth Medical School, will present "Spine Patient Outcomes Research Trial," the largest study funded by the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases at the National Institute of Health.

The Center for Computational Science is pleased to announce Microsoft’s scalable and multicore computing strategist, Daniel Reed, Ph.D., as guest speaker for its first Distinguished Lecture. Dr. Reed will present a lecture titled “ManyCore, Clouds, Research and the Future,” which will address the ever-changing technologically advanced world of multicore processors, distributed sensors and software, virtual organizations and cloud computing infrastructure and how the new experimental and computational data affect data analysis, transport, visualization and collaboration.

The seventh annual Diabetes Research Institute Harold Kart Golf Classic will be held on Monday, November 17, at 11 a.m.. The event will begin with a hearty lunch and conclude with a cocktail reception, awards dinner and live auction.

Tickets are $350 per golfer. Sponsorship opportunities are available. To purchase tickets or for more information, call 1-800-321-3437 or visit www.diabetesresearch.org. 

Sylvester at Deerfield Beach will host Jose Mena, M.D., assistant professor of rehabilitation medicine, for a seminar on Tuesday, November 18, from noon to 1 p.m. Dr. Mena will present "The ABC’s of Back Pain."

Reservations are required by calling 1-800-545-2292.

Learn how to use the InfoEd Proposal Development System to prepare and submit your proposal electronically to the NIH by attending an InfoEd hands-on workshop. InfoEd streamlines the proposal development process and is accessible almost anywhere by Mac and PC users with no additional software. The session will help participants create, route, submit and track proposals using the InfoEd System. It will be held on Wednesday, November 19, from 9 a.m. to noon in Dominion Tower, room 1003.

A Love and Hope Preview Party is scheduled for Wednesday, November 19, to officially kick off the 35th annual fundraising season of Love and Hope for supporters of the Diabetes Research Institute. This elegant evening will feature a cocktail reception followed by dinner, dancing and live entertainment. The event will take place at the Diplomat Country Club at 6:30 p.m.

Tickets are available for a minimum donation of $250. For more information, call 800-321-3437 or visit www.diabetesresearch.org.

The Love and Hope Royal Ball is slated for February 14.

Join us at the 43rd Miami Winter Symposium on January 24 through 28 at Deauville Beach Resort in Miami Beach.

Have you been diagnosed with bipolar disorder? Do you have problems with alcohol or cocaine? Do you wish you could stop? Let us guide you on your way to recovery. Researchers at the Miller School are conducting a clinical study to see if an FDA approved medication for bipolar disorders offers any benefit in reducing alcohol and cocaine use and cravings. You may be eligible if you are between the ages of 18 and 65, have a diagnosis of bipolar disorder, are dependent on alcohol or cocaine and do not have other major health problems. Study medications, laboratory studies, EKG and study procedures are provided at no cost to participants and you may be compensated for your time. To learn more, call 1-866-RECOVERY or 305-243-1571. All calls are confidential.

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