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There will be several events in celebration of Martin Luther King's birthday. Frank Rushton Elementary School students will display artwork depicting their understanding of Martin Luther King outside the KU Hospital cafeteria Jan. 15-22. The Intercultural Center will present, as the first in a series, "King, Montgomery to Memphis" at 6 p.m. Jan. 16 in Sudler Auditorium. James Kitchen, EdD, dean of Student Life at KU, Lawrence, will lead a discussion after the film. Narissa Bond will sing African-American folk songs from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Jan. 17 in the Wyandotte Room. All three events are a collaborative effort of the Executive Vice Chancellor's Office and the Hospital Executive Offices.
The first Kansas Primary Care Forum will be at 5:30 p.m. Jan. 29 in Roberts Amphitheater at the Wichita campus. There will be a reception at 4:30 p.m. Ruth Hanft, PhD, a consultant who chairs the technical review committee for the Primary Care Physician Education initiative, will discuss "How Many Physicians Does America Need? Who Pays for Their Education?" She has served as a research professor of health services management and policy at George Washington University and as deputy assistant secretary for health with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The lecture is sponsored by the office of primary care.
The Institutional Transgenic Facility is now open. Its purpose is to allow Medical Center faculty to access the facility for DNA injection and generation of founder mice on a fee-for-service basis. During
the past year, Joe Besharse, PhD, professor and chair of anatomy and cell biology, was chair of the oversight committee. The committee will continue to oversee the facility, but it will be chaired by Glen Andrews, PhD, professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, who will also serve as facility director. Besharse will remain as a committee member. The committee also includes Jill Pelling, PhD, associate professor of pathology and laboratory medicine; Mike Parmely, PhD, professor of microbiology, molecular genetics and immunology; Jeff Johnson, PhD, assistant professor of pharmacology, toxicology and therapeutics; Tony David, DVM, director of the Lab Animal Resources Research Support Facility; and Girish Shah, PhD, associate professor of surgery and physiology. Wenhao Xu, senior research associate, is associate director of the facility. He has experience in generation of transgenic mice and will be responsible for facility operations. The facility is housed in Lab Animal Resources. Those interested in more information should contact Andrews, ext. 6935, or Xu, ext. 6936, or visit the transgenic home page (http://www.kumc.edu/TGIF).
James Voogt, PhD, professor and chair of physiology, has been named chair of the reproductive endocrinology study section by the National Institutes of Health. He will begin his service immediately and will continue through June 30, 1998.
The KU School of Medicine-Wichita has been sanctioned by the Accreditation Council for
Graduate Medical Education to operate Kansas' only accredited geriatric psychiatry residency fellowship. Two resident fellows will be accepted annually into the one-year track. George Dyck, MD, clinical professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, will serve as director. Via Christi
Regional Medical Center is a joint sponsor of the program.
A book review by Julia Hagemaster, RN, PhD, ARNP, assistant professor, was published in the December issue of Substance Abuse. The book she reviewed is Cocaine.
Two School of Nursing master's programs have been approved by the Kansas State Board of Nursing. The two programs are: 1. Revisions to the psychiatric-mental health clinical nurse specialist (CNS) and nurse practitioner (NP) programs. 2. Adult-geriatric CNS and NP programs. The psychiatric track will provide family nurse practitioner students the opportunity to develop additional knowledge and skills in acute and chronic psychiatric illnesses. The adult-gerontology track meets a growing need for advanced practice nurses to provide health care and case management for the growing elderly population and other individuals with chronic illnesses.
Khatab Hassanein, PhD, professor and chair of biometry, co-authored a paper with Pierre Mardelli, MD, who is with the department of ophthalmology at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. The paper, "Slit-Lamp Needle Revision of Failed Filtering Blebs Using Mitomycin C," was presented at the American Academy of Ophthalmology annual meeting last fall in Atlanta. It was published in the November 1996 issue of Ophthalmology.
Barbara Loveless, MS, RD, LD, courtesy instructor of dietetics and nutrition, is now certified as a nutrition support dietitian by the National Board of Nutrition Support Certification, which was established by the American Society of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition in 1984.
The next Kansas Cancer Institute Research Round Table Seminar will be at noon Jan. 21 in Wahl West Auditorium. Kazuhiko Imakawa, PhD, research associate professor of pathology and laboratory medicine, will present "Is Implantation a Model for Controlled Invasion? Comparison To Colon Cancer." Free lunch will be provided for the first 35 attendees.
The next Center on Aging Research Seminar will be from 4 to 5 p.m. Jan. 21 in 5030 Robinson. Tim Musch, PhD, who is with anatomy and physiology at the College of Veterinary Medicine, Kansas State University, Manhattan, will discuss "Skeletal Muscle Blood Blow Abnormalities in Heart Failure." Refreshments will be served.
The next Multimedia Education Group Meeting will be from noon to 1 p.m. Jan. 27 in 1014 Orr-Major. Chris Ernst Taft, reference librarian and education specialist, will address how faculty can integrate Dykes Library information management resources with course content. Relevant Pulse sites and the training needs of students, on-campus and remote, will be highlighted. For more information, check the home page on Pulse at http://www.kumc.edu/service/acadsupt/mmeg/mmeg..html or contact Kim Shaw, ext. 7361.
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