University of Miami Hospital employees were welcomed to work Monday morning with balloons, breakfast and handshakes from Sebastian the Ibis in the main lobby as part of the hospital’s first birthday celebration. Birthday gifts also included a University of Miami Hospital magnet and a handout highlighting the hospital’s greatest accomplishments in its first year of operation as the centerpiece of UHealth—the University of Miami Health System.

Barth A. Green, M.D., professor and chairman of neurological surgery (pictured at left), is wrapping up the year with a prestigious award. Green has been named one of the March of Dimes’ 2008 Humanitarians of the Year. The award was given to him at the Building Our Community Awards luncheon November 21 on Jungle Island in Miami.

Green is world-renowned for his work in treating spinal cord injuries and disorders. As co-founder of The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, he has helped develop the largest and most productive spinal cord injury and paralysis research center in the world. In winning the award, Green said it is a “real privilege to serve our most deserving neighbors and patients in South Florida as well as across America and abroad. I am the one who should be honoring you, my family and friends and Miller School colleagues, who together have given me the precious time, support and therefore, the opportunity!”

Besides honoring Green, the March of Dimes also awarded Humanitarians of the Year honors to Miami-Dade County Commissioner Sally Heyman, CBS4 News Anchor Shannon Hori, and Miami Heat All-Star Alonzo Mourning for their work to help the underserved in our community.

Alonzo Mourning, Miami Heat All-Star and spokesperson for the Miami Transplant Institute, will be on the medical campus to sign his new book Resilience  tomorrow (Wednesday) from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the Medical Wellness Center. 

For more information, please contact Ellen Deller at 305-243-6068.

Sylvester is proud to host Brazilian Voices, a group of women musicians who perform at cultural, educational and health care settings. The group hopes to contribute to the healing process for cancer patients and their families as they perform. The entertainment will begin at 10 a.m. on Monday, December 8, in the hematology and surgical oncology waiting room on the second floor of Sylvester and will conclude at the spine clinic on the first floor of the University of Miami Hospital and Clinics. 

Studies have shown that the arts can have benefits for those who are facing illness. Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at Deerfield Beach will offer an Arts in Medicine program, through which patients can enjoy a variety of creative exercises while either being treated or in the waiting room. The program will begin tomorrow (Wednesday).

"Public Health Without Borders" was the theme for the 136th annual meeting of the American Public Health Association. The meeting took place in San Diego, where faculty and staff from the Jay Weiss Center for Social Medicine and Health Equity presented research focused on disabled populations in Miami and nutritional intake of kids in Overtown. At the event, Shelly Baer, L.C.S.W., presented a poster called "ACCESS Miami: A Comprehensive Resource Guide for the Physically Disabled," and Sonjia Kenya, Ed.D., assistant professor of family medicine, participated in a round table discussion on the Overtown cookbook project, a dietary improvement initiative for youth led by David Brown, M.D., assistant research professor in the Department of Family Medicine. 

Bart Chernow, M.D., vice provost of technology advancement, vice president for special programs and resource strategy, and director of the Jay Weiss Center for Social Medicine and Health Equity, said, “I am so proud of our faculty and staff for representing the University of Miami and the Jay Weiss Center at such a prominent forum dealing with global issues related to social medicine and health equity. It is through such forums that we can present the positive impact that we have made through our research and clinical and educational programs.”  

An error occurred in Humana’s claim system, which resulted in some claims being denied for lack of coverage. Claims were denied over a three-day period during the last week of October. The affected claims are being reprocessed and revised Explanation of Benefit statements are being mailed. If you have a claim which was denied for lack of coverage, please look for the revised Explanation of Benefit statement in the mail.

If you do not receive a revised statement with the correct payment from Humana, please contact Jose Candelaria at jcandelaria@miami.edu or 305-243-8720.

Did you know that for the price of five bottles of Evian water, you could actually provide clean drinkable water to a family of four in Haiti? Only 14 percent of the rural population in Haiti has access to clean water. You can help provide clean water by purchasing a LifeStraw, a portable, personal water filtration system that can change and even save a life in Haiti. Project Medishare, co-founded 14 years ago by Arthur M. Fournier, M.D., professor and vice chairman of family medicine and community health, and Barth A. Green, M.D, professor and chairman of neurological surgery, to bring basic medical care to the Central Plateau, is now turning its attention to the most basic need – clean water. 

LifeStraw is a real solution to the already devastating living conditions in Haiti that have only been made worse by a number of storms this year. With entire villages and homes swept away by mud, living conditions have become even more desperate in many rural areas. For $25, you can provide one LifeStraw, which will give one person clean water for an entire year. A family of four can have clean water for a year for $100.

To learn more about Project LifeStraw, and how you can make a donation, go to http://caneshare.org.

Join the Medical Wellness Center's U Wellness Tour de Cure cycling team. Sonia Nistal, wellness instructor and triathlete, will help you prepare for the race, which is scheduled for Sunday, February 22, at C.B. Smith Park, 900 N. Flamingo Road, Pembroke Pines. If you are interested in joining the team, a representative from the American Diabetes Association will be at the Medical Wellness Center tomorrow (Wednesday) at 5:30 p.m. to discuss the training program and details of the race.

All proceeds will benefit the American Diabetes Association. If you have any questions, please contact Nicole Nagel at nnagel@med.miami.edu or 305-243-7694.

The Jay Weiss Center for Social Medicine and Health Equity is now accepting applications from first-year medical students for the Student Pathway in Social Medicine. The pathway provides a unique opportunity to learn about the social determinants of health, clinical care in resource-poor settings, minority and immigrant health, gender equity, health as a human right and many other topics. All pathway students will participate in monthly seminars with Grand Rounds speakers, regular meetings with faculty mentors, community-based service learning partnerships, and mentored scholarly projects.

BreatheHappy, a new online smoking cessation mobile social network, is a free online service that enables users to broadcast short messages via phone or computer to friends and other members. The service was designed by the University's BeSmokeFree Program to encourage participants to support one another after the six-week classroom series and help individuals worldwide kick the habit for good! If members find themselves experiencing a weak moment, rather than lighting up, they can text their BreatheHappy circle for support.

The Braman Family Breast Cancer Institute at Sylvester is pleased to announce the support of three pilot projects in the amount of $50,000 each. The projects have been established to encourage the development of new basic, translational and clinical research in breast and ovarian cancers. The support of pilot projects fosters researchers to move findings in a scientific field toward novel clinical implementation and provocative clinical observations back to the laboratory. A goal of this funding mechanism is that research projects will ultimately grow into full R01 proposals. An applicant whose project was funded in the previous grant cycle is not eligible for funding of a new project the following year.

Only applications from junior or senior faculty will be considered, and only Cancer Center members may apply. The application deadline is March 27, 2009. For an application or additional information, please contact Claudia Balgas at 305-243-6292 or cbalgas@med.miami.edu.

The Clinical Research Subject Enrollment policy ensures that the University tracks all research subjects involved in research that tests a drug, device, biologic procedure or intervention on a patient.

The principal investigator is required to notify the Office of Clinical Research Revenue Cycle within 24 hours of a patient’s consent to participate and upon withdrawal from a project that meets this criterion. To report consent of a clinical research subject the principal investigator must submit the Research Subject Enrollment/Dis-Enrollment form to the Clinical Research Revenue Cycle electronically at www.med.miami.edu/cris or through the Velos system at velos.miami.edu. To report the dis-enrollment of a clinical research subject the principal investigator must submit the form via e-mail to crrc@med.miami.edu. 

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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. Stephen Daniels, M.D., Ph.D., professor and chairman of pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, will present "An Integrated Approach to Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease in Children."

Please join us today (Tuesday) at noon in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, fourth-floor auditorium for a seminar by Jochen Reiser, M.D., Ph.D., chief of nephrology and hypertension,  and professor of medicine. Dr. Reiser will present a lecture titled "Molecular Determinants of Proteinuria."

For additional information, call 305-243-6691 or send an e-mail to naviles@med.miami.edu.

The Cardiovascular Division will host Grand Rounds today (Tuesday) from noon to 1 p.m. at University of Miami Hospital, Seminar Center. Alison D. Schecter, M.D., adjunct associate professor of medicine at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York, will present "CXCR4 and the Heart."

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

The Center for Computational Science is pleased to announce an introductory glimpse into its Bioinformatics Program, Software Engineering Core and High Performance Computing Core. This lunch-and-learn presentation is geared toward Miller School researchers who would like to learn about the Center and how to interact with its faculty and staff. The session will take place today (Tuesday) at noon in the Lois Pope LIFE Center, seventh-floor auditorium.

Please join us for Dermatology & Cutaneous Surgery Grand Rounds tomorrow (Wednesday) from 11:45 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, room 2090. Anne Burdick, M.D., M.P.H., associate dean for telemedicine and clinical outreach, and professor of dermatology and cutaneous surgery, will present "Teledermatology."

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

The next Gail F. Beach Memorial Visiting Lectureship will take place tomorrow (Wednesday) from noon to 1 p.m. at the Lois Pope LIFE Center, seventh-floor auditorium. Edward D. Hall, Ph.D., director of the Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Center and endowed professor of anatomy and neurobiology, neurology, neurosurgery and physical medicine and rehabilitation at the University of Kentucky, will present "Newer Concepts Concerning the Role of Oxidative Damage and its Treatment in Acute Spinal Cord Injury."

For more information, call 305-243-7108 or visit http://www.themiamiproject.org/lectures

Join the Miller School Physicians for Human Rights at a World AIDS Day recognition and support event for the fight against AIDS. The evening will consist of informative speakers who will share their insight on the AIDS epidemic and artistic performances displaying students' recognition and promise to help end this battle. The event will take place tomorrow (Wednesday) from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. at Soya y Pomodoro in Downtown Miami. Dinner and drinks will be available, and proceeds will benefit Empower "U," a local Miami AIDS charity.

For more information, please contact Kavita Desai at kndesai@umiami.edu.

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. Girish Joshi, M.D., professor of anesthesiology and pain management at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, will present "Perioperative Fluid Therapy for Major Elective Surgery:  Does Fluid Minimization Improve Outcome?"

The Department of Orthopaedics will present Grand Rounds this Thursday from 7 to 8 a.m. at the Mailman Center for Child Development, eighth-floor auditorium. Peter A. W. Ostermann, M.D., Ph.D., professor and chairman of orthopaedics at St. Agnes Medical Center in Bocholt, Germany, will present "Osteoporosis: Why Should We Care as Orthopaedic Surgeons?"

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 7 to 8 a.m. at the Lois Pope LIFE Center, seventh-floor auditorium. Garrett Zoeller, M.D., neurological surgery resident, will present "Management of Intracranial Arachnoid Cysts."

For more information or to add your name to our educational announcement distribution list, please contact Ingrid Menendez at 305-243-6751 or nrstraining@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. Gillian A. Hotz, Ph.D., research associate professor of surgery in the Division of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, will present “The Effects of MSE in Children Recovering From Severe Brain Injury."

For more information or to add your name to our educational announcement distribution list, please contact Ingrid Menendez at 305-243-6751 or nrstraining@med.miami.edu.

Please join us for Surgical Grand Rounds this Thursday at 8 a.m. in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, fourth-floor auditorium. Alan S. Livingstone, M.D., professor and chairman of surgery will present, “Modern Management of Colorectal Liver Metastases.” Upon completion of this lecture, participants will be able to demonstrate rationale for resection of liver metastases and analyze factors determining outcome after resection of metastases.

The Division of Hospital Medicine will present Grand Rounds this Thursday at noon at University of Miami Hospital, Seminar Center. Dao M. Nguyen, M.D., associate professor and chief of thoracic surgery, will present "Management of Pleural Effusions in Hospitalized Patients - 2008." By attending the lecture, participants will be able to determine pathophysiology of pleural effusion, assess clinical investigation of pleural effusion, and choose appropriate therapeutic strategy for the management of pleural effusion. The lecture is designed for family practitioners, emergency physicians, surgeons, internists and hospitalists.

The lecture is designated for one continuing medical education credit. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. For more information, please contact Janette Jurado at jjurado2@med.miami.edu or visit www.cme.med.miami.edu.

The Department of Molecular and Celluar Pharmacology will host Pieter de Tombe, Ph.D., professor and chair of cell and molecular physiology at Loyola University Chicago, to present a seminar on "Myocardial Sarcomere Dynamics in Health and Disease." The seminar will be held this Thursday, at noon in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, room 6018.

For additional information, please call 305-243-1078.

Please join us for Otolaryngology Grand Rounds this Thursday from 8 to 9 a.m. at the Clinical Research Building, room 989. Lisa Grunebaum, M.D., assistant professor of otolaryngology, and Michael Lipan, M.D., otolaryngology resident, will present “Injectables and Fillers.” By attending the lecture, participants will be able to evaluate the indications of commonly used facial fillers, review the risks and benefits of different types of fillers and describe techniques for proper use of fillers.

Did you know that there is a revised Proposal Transmittal Form? Bring your brown bag lunch and join us for a Sponsored Programs Roundtable Series on completing the new Proposal Transmittal Form. The session will give you the tools you need to succeed, including tips to avoid common errors when preparing the form. The form is required in order to submit grant applications.

The session will take place this Thursday from noon to 1 p.m. at the Batchelor Children's Research Institute, Baxter Conference Room. To register, please visit Ulearn at http://Ulearn.com. For help with registration or if you have questions, please send an e-mail to ResEDU@med.miami.edu.

The Disparities and Community Outreach Core of Sylvester, along with the Coastal Cancer Information Service and the Jay Weiss Center for Social Medicine and Health Equity, will sponsor a seminar on health disparities and community cancer research. The seminar will feature guest speaker Lovell Jones, Ph.D., director of the Center for Research on Minority Health at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, who will present “The Fresno Project – A Biopsychosocial Approach to Addressing Health Disparities in the 21st Century." 

The seminar will be held this Friday from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. at Sylvester, conference room 1301. To RSVP, send an e-mail to mstevens2@med.miami.edu.

The Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology will host a seminar by Stephen C. Harvey, Ph.D., professor of biology at the Georgia Institute of Technology, this Friday at noon in the R. Bunn Gautier Building, room 118. Dr. Harvey will present "The Puzzle of Viral Packaging: What We Know and What Still Puzzles Us."

If you wish to meet with the speaker, please contact Sylka Perez at 305-243-6265 or sperez6@med.miami.edu.

The Neuroscience Center will present a seminar by Michael P. Stryker, Ph.D., professor of physiology at the University of California in San Francisco. Dr. Stryker will present "A New View of Competition in the Developing Brain" this Friday from 1 to 2 p.m. at the Lois Pope LIFE Center, seventh-floor auditorium.

For more information, call 305-243-7108 or visit http://www.themiamiproject.org/lectures.

The Department of Microbiology and Immunology will present a seminar on Monday, December 8, at noon in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, room 3109. Noula Shembade, Ph.D., post-doctoral associate in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, will present "Negative Regulation of NFkB and JNK."
 
For more information, please contact Ilse W. Duarte at iduarte@med.miami.edu.

Please join us on Tuesday, December 9, at noon, in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, fourth-floor auditorium for a seminar by John F. Engelhardt, Ph.D., professor of anatomy and cell biology and director of the Center for Gene Therapy at the University of Iowa. Dr. Engelhardt will present a lecture titled "The Glandular Stem/Progenitor Cell Niche in Airway Development and Repair."

For additional information, call 305-243-6691 or send an e-mail to naviles@med.miami.edu.

Please join us for Dermatology & Cutaneous Surgery Grand Rounds on Wednesday, December 10, from 11:45 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, room 2090. Paolo Romanelli, M.D., associate professor of dermatology & cutaneous surgery, will present "Histopathology of Cutaneous Wounds."

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

You are invited to a Pediatric Clinical Research Forum on Wednesday, December 10, from noon to 1 p.m. at the Batchelor Children’s Research Institute, Coulter-Jones Family Conference Center on the fifth floor. The speaker will be David A. Ludwig, Ph.D., professor of pediatrics and epidemiology and public health. Dr. Ludwig will present "What is Clinical Research and How Should Data from Clinical Investigations be Evaluated?"

Please RSVP to Luisa Napoles at 305-243-1722 or lnapoles22@med.miami.edu. 

The Department of Anesthesiology will present Grand Rounds on Thursday, December 11, from 6:45 to 7:45 a.m. in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, third-floor auditorium. Bruce Saltzman, M.D., assistant professor of anesthesiology, will present "Central Line Placement and Ultrasound for Dummies."

The lecture is designated 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 Orthopaedics will host Grand Rounds on Thursday, December 11, from 7 to 8 a.m. at the Mailman Center for Child Development, eighth-floor auditorium. David A. Wong, M.D., director of the Advanced Center for Spinal Microsurgery at Presbyterian/St. Luke's Medical Center, and assistant clinical professor of orthopaedic surgery at the University of Colorado, will present “Medical Errors and Risk Management in Orthopaedics.” 

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

Please join us for Surgical Grand Rounds on Thursday, December 11, from 8 to 9 a.m. in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, fourth-floor auditorium. Robert Sawyer, M.D., professor of surgery at the University of Virginia Health System, will present "Infections & Antimicrobials in the Transplant ICU." Upon completion of the lecture, participants will be able to illustrate the spectrum of host immune deficits and compare infections in different hosts.

Please join fellow researchers for a day of scientific presentations using genomic tools from Agilent Technologies and UM. Agilent Technologies is the premier measurement company – advancing electronics, communication, life science and chemical analysis. Seminar topics will include recent copy number variant breakthroughs, Agilent’s differentiating miRNA platform, the creation of custom arrays, detection of miRNA expression, and more.

The Employee Assistance Program is pleased to offer a lunch-time seminar on ways to deal with holiday stress. Participants will learn to identify stressors during the holiday season, how to avoid or minimize stress and strategies to reduce tension and stress. The seminar will be held on Thursday, December 11, from noon to 1 p.m. at Dominion Tower Parking Garage, suite 155. 

To register, go to http://ulearn.miami.edu.  For help with ULearn, call the Professional Development and Training Office at 305-284-5110.

The Institute for Women's Health will hold its Multidisciplinary Grand Rounds on Thursday, December 11, at noon in the Lois Pope LIFE Center, seventh-floor auditorium. Nanette Santoro, M.D., professor of obstetrics and gynecology and women’s health, associate professor of medicine, and director of the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, will present “The Menopausal Transition: Physiology and Management.” 

A light lunch will be served on a first-come, first-served basis starting at 11:30 a.m. Food is not allowed in the auditorium. The lecture is eligible for one hour of continuing medical education credit or one nursing contact hour. For more information or to expedite processing of your credits, please contact the Institute for Women’s Health at 305-243-2576.

For an archive of past grand rounds, please visit http://womenshealth.med.miami.edu/x21.xml. 

The Human Subjects Research Office will host a HIPAA-oriented seminar on "Privacy, Security and Confidentiality" on Thursday, December 11, from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. at the Mailman Center for Child Development, eighth-floor auditorium. The presentations will provide an overview of privacy, confidentiality and security as it relates to our recent policy updates.

Registration is open to all interested faculty, staff and research personnel. Please register through ULearn. For more information, call 305-243-9679 or send an e-mail to mdavalos@med.miami.edu.

The Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology will host a seminar by Weidong Wang, Ph.D., senior investigator and chief of the Genome Instability and Chromatin-Remodeling Section of the Laboratory of Genetics at the National Institute on Aging, on Friday, December 12, at noon in the R. Bunn Gautier Building, room 118. Dr. Wang will present "Multiprotein Complexes in the DNA Damage Response Network of Fanconi Anemia and Breast Cancer."

If you wish to meet with the speaker, please contact Sylka Perez at 305-243-6265 or sperez6@med.miami.edu.

The Department of Neurological Surgery will present Grand Rounds on Thursday, December 18, from 7 to 8 a.m. at the Lois Pope LIFE Center, seventh-floor auditorium. Christopher Demassi, M.D., neurological surgery resident, will present "Psychosurgery and Deep Brain Stimulation."

For more information or to add your name to our educational announcement distribution list, please contact Ingrid Menendez at 305-243-6751 or nrstraining@med.miami.edu.

The Department of Orthopaedics will present Grand Rounds on Thursday, December 18, from 7 to 8 a.m. at the Mailman Center for Child Development, eighth-floor auditorium. Scott P. Steinmann, M.D., professor of orthopedic surgery at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, will present "Coronoid Fractures."

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

Please join us for Surgical Grand Rounds on Thursday, December 18, from 8 to 9 a.m. in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, fourth-floor auditorium. Norma Kenyon, Ph.D. professor of surgery, and microbiology and immunology, will present "Translational Studies in Islet Transplantation." Upon completion of this lecture, participants will be able to define the processes responsible for islet allograft loss.

Join us at the 42nd Miami Winter Symposium on January 24 through 28 at Deauville Beach Resort in Miami Beach.

Miller School deans and the College of Engineering invite you to save the date for the second Collaborative Research Exchange Forum (CREF). The “Biomedical Informatics” CREF will be held on Wednesday, January 28, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the McArthur Engineering Building Annex on the Coral Gables campus in room 202. The day will include brief presentations from Miller School faculty who will describe some of the major challenges in bioinformatics and medical informatics. There will also be a panel discussion that will focus on the engineering methodologies and approaches that can overcome these challenges. Lunch will be provided.

For more information, please contact Helena Solo-Gabriele, Ph.D., at hmsolo@miami.edu or Jennifer McCafferty-Cepero, Ph.D., at jmccafferty@med.miami.edu.

Are you having twins? 
 
The Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine is conducting a twin birth study under the direction of Victor Gonzalez-Quintero, M.D., M.P.H., and in collaboration with Sunnybrook Health Science Center and the University of Toronto in Canada. For more information please call Pam Uharriet, RN, M.P.H., at 305-243-2168.

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