Within the household responsible for the Martin Kleiman Endowed Chair in Diabetes Research, as well as for the research scientist who received it, eradicating diabetes couldn’t be a more high-stakes family affair.

The Martin Kleiman Endowed Chair in Diabetes Research was awarded Friday, Dec. 5, to Diabetes Research Institute scientist Norma Sue Kenyon, Ph.D, during a ceremony at the Batchelor Children’s Research Institute. A renowned researcher in the area of transplant immunology, and the director of the Wallace H. Coulter Center for Translational Research, Kenyon’s daughter had a life-threatening encounter with diabetes when the child was only 14 months old.

Diabetes has also touched the family of Martin Kleiman, an early advocate and benefactor of the Diabetes Research Institute (DRI) who passed away in 1995 and who had been a DRI supporter since the early 1970s.

One of Kleiman’s sons, Gary Kleiman is the DRI’s senior development officer for major gifts, and a diabetes patient. Gary’s brother, Milwaukee businessman Glenn Kleiman, is a major DRI backer who has a daughter with the disease.

The Kleiman family’s DRI ties go deeper still: Martin Kleiman’s widow, Marge Kleiman Mintz, is a staunch DRI ally whose husband is Daniel H. Mintz, M.D. a DRI founder who’s a Miller School professor of medicine with the DRI’s Eleanor and Joseph Kosow Diabetes Treatment Center.   

“It is not often that the dean of a medical school has an opportunity to recognize an entire family that generation after generation renews it commitment to an organization that provides an extraordinary service,” said Miller School Dean Pascal J. Goldschmidt, M.D.

“I’m grateful to all of you for your diligent stewardship of the DRI,” Goldschmidt continued. “And it is my pleasure to say that the DRI Foundation is the No. 1 philanthropic contributor to the Miller School of Medicine.

“That’s quite a remarkable achievement that would not have happened without the support of the Kleiman family.”

Kenyon, who was a DRI fellow and knew Martin Kleiman well, appeared to grow emotional during her acceptance remarks. She addressed an audience that included Goldschmidt, DRI Foundation president and CEO Bob Pearlman, Gary Kleiman and Glenn Kleiman, and Kenyon’s father, Norman Kenyon, M.D., `56, president of the first graduating class of University of Miami medical students.

“Marty’s compassion and his warmth were incredible,” Norma Kenyon said. “So when I was told about the Kleiman Chair, for me it’s an honor that I can’t say enough about . . . to hold a chair with his name.

“He was a truly wonderful person, and I feel like I’ve grown up working with Gary Kleiman,” Kenyon added. “And to the Kleiman family, from the bottom of my heart, I will always honor his name and do everything I can to find a cure we’re all looking for.”

Jennifer Marks, M.D., professor of medicine and director of the J. Maxwell McKenzie Fellowship Program in the Division of Diabetes & Metabolism at the Miller School, has received the Community-Based Volunteer Award for Leadership from the American Diabetes Association.  The award was presented at the organization’s Community Volunteer Leadership Conference and Annual Meeting on November 22 in Tampa.

Faculty and staff who enrolled in any of the 2009 benefits listed below will receive their health care ID and/or flexible spending Visa cards at their preferred mailing address within the next few weeks.   

• Aetna Medical Plan
• CIGNA Dental Plan (If you were enrolled in 2008, you will not receive a new CIGNA ID card)
• Delta Dental plan
• WageWorks Health Care Flexible Spending Account Visa Card

For questions regarding UMatter benefits, visit www.miami.edu/benefits/ask. To view or edit your preferred mailing address, please visit www.miami.edu/myum.

Construction at Bob Hope Drive and NW 15th Street is now complete, and the intersection has re-opened. The next construction project is now underway on NW 14th Terrace, where new underground pipes will be installed. The project is expected to take two to three months. During this time, motorists will not be able to access Bob Hope Drive via NW 14th Terrace. Restaurants and other businesses will remain open and pedestrian walkways will be built to cross the street.

The Department of Medicine and the Diabetes Research Institute are pleased to announce the merger of clinical operations between the Eleanor and Joseph Kosow Diabetes Treatment Center and the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism (EDM). The combined clinical operation will be renamed the DRI/EDM Diabetes and Endocrinology Clinics at the Kosow Diabetes Treatment Center and will operate under the leadership of the Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, in collaboration with the Diabetes Research Institute. The planned merger and restructuring will result in a state-of-the-art center of excellence that will provide efficient and comprehensive patient-focused care.

The Center for Computational Science recently launched iBIS, a Bioinformatics Integrated Services portal that houses hundreds of analysis applications that are now available to the entire UM community. The goal of the portal is to provide a comprehensive, user friendly and customizable interface for biological and biomedical researchers worldwide. The program includes links to genomic, protein structure and clinical genetics databases, a wide spectrum of software tools and access to most components anywhere in the world. The portal also offers online tutorials for the UM community.

The Center for Computational Science's Bioinformatics Program will provide regular training workshops for new users. For more information, please visit http://web.ccs.miami.edu:8080/ibis.

Coupons for a Cure is the perfect hassle-free gift idea that will always be appreciated. Through the years, funds raised by Coupons for a Cure have helped support research programs at Sylvester. By using Coupons for a Cure, everyone has the ability to become a donor at Sylvester, and by becoming a donor at South Florida’s only research-based cancer center, you become part of the team of physician-scientists that are leading the way towards a cancer cure. Last year’s Holiday Cards program raised an outstanding $30,000 over the holiday season.

To order your Holiday Coupons, please download the form at http://sylvester.org/ and fax it to 305-243-8758. For more information, please call 305-243-9088.

The Controller’s Office has become aware that UM employees are receiving e-mails that appear to be from the IRS. The e-mails usually include official-looking forms that request information such as social security number, date of birth, address and bank account number. Recipients are then instructed to return the form to a provided fax number. 

These e-mails are a scam and should be deleted without opening. The IRS does not initiate taxpayer communications through e-mail. If you receive an e-mail from someone claiming to be the IRS or directing you to an IRS site:
• Do not reply
• Do not open any attachments
• Do not click on any links

If you receive one of these e-mails and are in doubt, please contact Aida Diaz-Piedra at adiazpie@miami.edu or Ana Paneda at apaneda@miami.edu.

Representatives from Fidelity Investments and TIAA-CREF will visit the medical campus today to answer financial questions about your retirement plan.

• University Compliance (anonymous hotline): 866-YOURCALL
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• 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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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. Deborah Barbouth, M.D., assistant professor and interim clinical director at the Dr. John T. Macdonald Foundation Department of Human Genetics, will present "The Primary Care of Children with Down Syndrome."

The Cardiovascular Division will present Grand Rounds today (Tuesday) from noon to 1 p.m. at University of Miami Hospital, Seminar Center. Thomas A. Traill, M.D., professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, will present a lecture titled "Three Congenital Case Histories."  

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

The Jay Weiss Center for Social Medicine and Health Equity will present a Grand Rounds lecture by Jennifer Staple, president, founder and CEO of Unite for Sight. Ms. Staple will present “High Impact Quality Care Through Social Entrepreneurship" today (Tuesday) at noon in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, third-floor auditorium.

Lunch will be served, and the lecture is approved for one continuing medical education credit.
For more information, e-mail Katie Houghton at Khoughton@med.miami.edu or visit www.jayweisscenter.org.

Please join us today (Tuesday) 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.

The Division of Plastic Surgery will present Grand Rounds featuring Ramiro Perez, M.D., plastic surgery resident, who will present "Patient Safety: Safety Issues Involving Laser-Assisted Liposuction" from 7:30 to 8:30 a.m. Afterward, Robert J. Allen, M.D., clinical professor of plastic surgery at NYU Medical Center, the Medical University of South Carolina, and LSU Health Sciences Center, will present "Blood Vessel Anatomy is Everything" from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m.

Both events will be held at University of Miami Hospital, Seminar Center. For more information, please contact Teresa Shipman at 305-585-5285 or visit www.cme.med.miami.edu.

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. Sarah Stechschulte, medical student, will present a lecture titled "Vitamin D and Skin."

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

You are invited to a Pediatric Clinical Research Forum tomorrow (Wednesday) 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 "An Example-Based Introduction to Basic Computer Intensive Statistical Methodologies."

Please RSVP to Luisa Napoles at 305-243-1722 or lnapoles22@med.miami.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. 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 this Thursday 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 Otolaryngology Grand Rounds this Thursday from 8 to 9 a.m. at the Clinical Research Building, room 989. Fred Telischi, M.D., vice chairman of otolaryngology, and Richard Vivero, M.D., otolaryngology resident, will present "Inner Ear Malformations - Clinical Implications." By attending the lecture, participants will be able to review common inner ear malformations and discuss appropriate therapeutic approaches.

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

Please join us for Surgical Grand Rounds this Thursday 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.

Please join us for a Pathology Journal Club meeting this Thursday at noon at Holtz Children's Hospital, conference room 2034. Charles Glenn, M.D., pathology resident, will present a lecture titled "DNA Sequencing of a Cytogenetically Normal Acute Myeloid Leukemia Genome" and Artur Rangel, M.D., pathology resident, will present a lecture titled "Requirement of bic/microRNA-155 for Normal Immune Function."

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

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 this Thursday 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 this Thursday 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" this Thursday 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.

Please join us for Neurology Grand Rounds this Friday from 10 to 11 a.m. in the Clinical Research Building, room 989. Roberto Heros, M.D., professor, co-chairman and program director of neurological surgery, will present "Intracranial Dural Fistulas."

For more information, please contact Violeta Maldonado at 305-243-3902 or VMaldona@med.miami.edu.

Robin N. Fiore, Ph.D., Adelaide R. Snyder Professor of Ethics at Florida Atlantic University, will present "Beyond Conflicts of Interest: Managing Moral Hazards in Funded Research" as part of the Dialogues in Research Ethics series. The lecture will take place this Friday at noon in the Medical Training and Simulation Laboratory, auditorium. 

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

The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences cordially invites you to the Craig Beasley Memorial Lecture this Friday from noon to 1 p.m. at the Mailman Center for Child Development, eighth-floor auditorium. Invited speaker Andrea DiMartini, M.D., associate professor of psychiatry and surgery at the University of Pittsburgh, will present "Substance Use in the Liver Transplant Patient: What are the Outcomes?" 

The lecture will provide one continuing education credit to physicians, psychologists, social workers and nurses. We gratefully acknowledge an educational grant from Pfizer. For additional information, please contact Carmen Bou-Crick at cbou@med.miami.edu.

Join us this Friday for the Friday Noon Lecture Series with Dolores Mendoza, from the Miami-Dade County Public Schools Pre-kindergarten Program for Children with Disabilities. Ms Mendoza will be discussing positive behavior supports for children with challenging behaviors. The presentation will take place from noon to 1 p.m. in the Mailman Center for Child Development, room 3023. 

Lunch will be served on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information, call 305-243-4466 or send an e-mail to wcastro@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, this Friday 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 Medicine will host a research conference on "Autoreactive CD4 T-Lymphocytes Associated With Diabetes Recurrence After Pancreas Transplantation Mediate ß-Cell Destruction In Vivo." The lecture will be presented by Alberto Pugliese, M.D., professor of medicine, and immunology and microbiology, and head of the Immunogenetics Program at the Diabetes Research Institute.

Lunch will be served. For more information, send an e-mail to zrodriguez@med.miami.edu or visit http://www.med.miami.edu/medicine/x522.xml.

The Cardiovascular Division will present Grand Rounds on Tuesday, December 16, from noon to 1 p.m. at the Clinical Research Building, room 1080. Simon Chakko, M.D., chief of cardiology at the Miami VA Medical Center, will present a lecture titled "Perioperative Management of the Cardiac Patient - Too Much of a Good Thing?"

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

You are invited to attend a Pediatric Clinical Research Forum on Tuesday, December 16, 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 Samuel S. Gidding, M.D., professor of pediatrics at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. Dr. Gidding will present "Evaluating Evidence for the NHLBI Preventive Cardiology Guidelines for Children." 

Please RSVP to Natalya Bublik at 305-243-9936 or nbublik@med.miami.edu.

Healthy Steps will host a parenting presentation on Wednesday, December 17, from noon to 1 p.m. at the Mailman Center for Child Development, room 3023. Jason Jent, Ph.D. assistant professor of clinical pediatrics, will present a lecture titled "Parents’ Top 10 Behavior Concerns When Raising Young Children & What you can do About it."

Lunch will be served; RSVP is required by Monday, December 15. For more information or to RSVP, contact Indira Abraham-Pratt at 305-905-3915 or ipratt@med.miami.edu.

Please join us for Dermatology & Cutaneous Surgery Grand Rounds on Wednesday, December 17, from 11:45 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, room 2090. Martin Zaiac, M.D., voluntary associate professor of dermatology and cutaneous surgery, will present "Nail Diseases, an Overview."

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

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.

Please join us for Otolaryngology Grand Rounds on Thursday, December 18, from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. at the Clinical Research Building, room 989. Ramzi Younis, M.D., professor of otolaryngology, and Bjorn Herman, M.D., otolaryngology resident, will present "Current Management of Juvenile Nasopharyngeal Angiofibroma (JNA)." By attending the lecture, participants will be able to discuss diagnosis and management of JNA.

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

The Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology will present a seminar by Rebeca Geffin, Ph.D., assistant professor of pediatrics on Friday, December 19, at noon in the R. Bunn Gautier Building, room 118. Dr. Geffin will present a lecture titled "Can Phage Lambda Help Answer Questions on HIV Pathogenesis?"

Please join us for a special lecture on "Bio-Repository Shared Resource Facility" on Friday, December 19, at 1 p.m. at Sylvester, conference room 1301. The lecture will be presented by Sean P. Scully, M.D., Ph.D., associate director of the Office of Education and Training at Sylvester, and professor of orthopaedics and rehabilitation.

Lunch will be served; no RSVP is required. For more information, please call the
Office of Education and Training at 305-243-2287 or visit www.sylvester.org/tissuebanking.

Please join us for Dermatology & Cutaneous Surgery Grand Rounds on Wednesday, December 24, from 11:45 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, room 2090. Antonella Tosti, M.D., professor of dermatology at the University of Bologna, Italy, will present "Dealing with Nail Pigmentation."

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

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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