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In observance of Black History Month, there will be several events at KU Medical Center. Throughout the month books about black history, philosophy, personalities, dreams and more will be highlighted at the KU Medical Center Bookstore. On Feb. 14 human resources and affirmative action will sponsor a reception honoring the birthday of Frederick Douglas. Cake and punch will be served from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Murphy Lobby. From Feb. 17-22 the KU Medical Center Inspirational Choir will present a Music Arts Workshop. This weeklong event will use educational, inspirational and entertaining workshops to explore Gospel music. The workshops will be at 6 p.m.
Feb. 17, 18, 19, 20 and 22 and 7 p.m. Feb. 21 in Battenfeld Auditorium. Registration and a $10 fee is required. Call ext. 1236 for more information. On Feb. 19 the School of Medicine will sponsor a lecture, “Staring at Tomorrow’s Access to Medicine.” Leslie Becker, MD, a Kansas City, Kan., urologist, will give the presentation from noon to 1 p.m. in the Clendening Amphitheater. There will be a reception at 11:30 a.m. Call ext. 5292 for more information. On Feb. 24, human resources and affirmative action will present “Glory” in honor of black soldiers from 5 to 8 p.m. in Taylor Auditorium. The film, popcorn and soft drinks will be be free.
Quinton Mcfield has been named interim director of affirmative action. He will have overall management responsibility for all of the current functions of this office. He will be assisted by staff in the office of affirmative action, including Mary Brown, Sally Coffelt, Mary Dunkin, Brenda Estell, Iral Porter, Elwanda Richardson and Arturo Robles. Estell will handle unclassified and faculty recruitment matters. Porter, as the principal investigator, will manage the health careers pathways program.
The next CenterNet conference will be from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Feb. 12 in the Clendening Amphitheater. Steve Hyman, MD, director of the National Institute of Mental Health and director of molecular plasticity at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, will discuss “How Drugs Change Your Mind: A Molecular Approach to Psychotropic Drug Action,” and Robert Nussenblatt, MD, scientific director of the National Eye Institute, will discuss “Oral Tolerance: The NEI Diet for Better Vision.”
Laurence Cheung, MD, professor and chair of surgery, has received a five-year, $1,239,590 total costs renewal grant from the National Institutes of Health for “Gastrointestional Microcirculatory Changes During Sepsis.” This is the 19th year of funding for this grant, and he has another NIH grant in its 13th year of funding.
H. Clarke Anderson, MD, professor of pathology and laboratory medicine, presented “The Bone-Inducing Agent (BIA) in SAOS-2 Cell Products” for Orthopedic Grand Rounds Jan. 7 at the University of Osaka, Japan.
Billy Hudson, PhD, professor and chair of biochemistry and molecular biology, was the guest speaker at the Jan. 29 Clinicopathologic Conference at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City. His presentation was on “The Molecular Basics of Goodpasture Syndrome and Anti-GBM Nephritis.”
The division of cardiovascular diseases in cooperation with the division of cardiology at Truman Medical Center, Kansas City, Mo., will present “Office Cardiology for the Primary Care Team” Feb. 22 in Lied Auditorium. For more information, call continuing education, ext. 4488.
The Kansas Health Foundation training grant for cancer research, which is in its 10th year of funding, has named its scholars. The following is a list of scholars and their mentors: He-Xi Chang (C.C. Cheng, PhD, professor of pharmacology, toxicology and therapeutics); Wenjian Chu (Joan Hunt, PhD, professor of anatomy and cell biology); Chao “Charles” Xing (Walter Imagawa, PhD, research assistant professor of pharmacology, toxicology and therapeutics and associate director of the breast tissue and serum repository at the Kansas Cancer Institute); Sultan Habeebu (Kurt Klaassen, PhD, professor of pharmacology, toxicology and therapeutics); Xioaying Hou (Sara Li, PhD, associate professor of pharmacology, toxicology and therapeutics and director of the hormonal carcinogenesis laboratory at the Kansas Cancer Institute); Claudia Amura (David Morrison, PhD, professor of microbiology, molecular genetics and immunology and affiliated with the Kansas Cancer Institute); Stephem Clum (Radha Padmanabhan, PhD, professor of biochemistry and molecular biology); Denise Lepley (Jill Pelling, PhD, associate professor of pathology and laboratory medicine and director of signal transduction and molecular carcinogenesis at the Kansas Cancer Institute); Fang Fan (Stephen Russell, DVM, PhD, Wilkinson distinguished professor for cancer research, professor of pathology and laboratory medicine and affiliated with the Kansas Cancer Institute); Eishi Nagai (Tsuneo Suzuki, MD PhD, interim chair and professor of microbiology, molecular genetics and immunology); Xuelin Li (Paul Terranova, PhD, professor of physiology); Stephen Parnell (James Calvet, PhD, professor of biochemistry and molecular biology); and Thomas Peters (Michael Soares, PhD, professor of physiology). Hunt is principal investigator for the grant and Soares is program officer for the grant.
A lecture series, “Concentration in Health Care Outcomes Management and Research,” at KUMC will bring together professionals from a variety of health care areas to discuss outcomes management and research. The series is sponsored by preventive medicine, the School of Nursing and health services administration and funded by Hoechst Marion Roussel Inc. The next program will be Feb. 26 when Lisa Iezzoni, MD, co-director of research in the division of general internal medicine at Beth Israel Hospital and associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, Mass., will present “”Case Mix Adjustment.” Three additional programs will be offered in March and April. On March 12, Lee Hargraves, PhD, survey scientist with the Picker Institute and a lecturer in medicine at Harvard, will discuss “Patient Satisfaction: How Do We Measure It?” On April 2, Emmett Keeler, PhD, senior mathematical economist with the RAND Corp., Santa Monica, Calif., will discuss “Evaluating Costeffectiveness of Interventions.” On April 16, Amy Haddad, RN, PhD, professor at the Center for Health Policy and Ethics at Creighton University School of Pharmacy and Allied Health Professions, Omaha, Neb., will discuss “Ethical Dilemmas in the Environment of Cost Reduction in Health Care.” All the lectures will be from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Wahl West Auditorium. For more information, call health services administration at KU, Lawrence, (913) 864-3212.
The next Pharmacology Update, “Update on Cardiovascular Drugs in Primary Care,” will be Feb. 15. The presenter will be Gloria Hiller, RN, MN, ARNP, cardiovascular clinical nurse specialist at Cardiology Services PA, Overland Park. The KU School of Nursing in cooperation with the KU Area Health Education Centers are the sponsors. Call continuing education, ext. 4488, for more information.
Sandy Johnston, RRA, teaching associate of health information management, attended the 1997 Behavioral Health Section Board and Strategic Planning meeting Feb. 7-9 in Atlanta. Johnston has a two-year appointment as director of this national board.
Paul Mathews, EdS, RRT, FCCM, associate professor of respiratory care and physical therapy education, received notification from the Society of Critical Care Medicine that he has been awarded the President’s Citation for his outstanding contributions to the society in 1996.
Betsy Beisecker, PhD, associate professor of preventive medicine and associate director of the Kansas Cancer Institute, and Carol Fabian, MD, medical director of the KU Cancer Center and director of breast cancer research at the Kansas Cancer Institute, have been award $65,000 from the Komen Foundation/Kansas City Race for the Cure. Beisecker received $25,000 to support the Kansas Cancer Institute Hispanic breast cancer education program, and Fabian received $40,000 to perform breast cancer screening mammography, clinical breast examinations and education through the Mobile Medical Unit.
The next Kansas Cancer Institute Research Round Table, “Journal Club,” will be at noon Feb. 18 in Lied Auditorium. Nadja Ramaswamy, PhD, postdoctoral fellow of pathology and laboratory medicine, will present “The Induction of Apoptosis by ASK1, a Mammalian MAPKKK That Activates SAPK/JNK and p38 Signaling Pathways.” Lunch will be provided for the first 35 attendees.
Continuing education will have a farewell reception for David Baldwin, MPA, director of continuing medical education, at 3 p.m. Feb. 13 in the Hixson Atrium. Baldwin has worked in continuing medical education at KU Medical Center for more than 18 years.
The next multimedia education group meeting will be from noon to 1 p.m. Feb. 17 in 1014 Orr-Major. Jim Fishback, MD, associate professor of pathology and laboratory medicine, will discuss how he incorporated computer-based testing on the Internet into pathology courses. The presentation will include an overview of the test(s) followed by a discussion on issues related to the use of this type of testing in instruction. For more information on the multimedia education group, check the home page on Pulse at http://www.kumc.edu/service/acadsupt/mmeg/mmeg.html or contact Kim Shaw at ext. 7361. Feel free to bring lunch. All faculty and staff are welcome.
Faculty, staff, students and volunteers are invited to attend nondenominational Ash Wednesday services at 11:15 a.m. or Catholic Ash Wednesday services at 12:15 p.m. and 4:45 p.m. Feb. 12 in Spencer Chapel.
The Rev. Jerry Spencer, Catholic staff chaplain, was granted national certification as a body, mind, spirit healing specialist at the Jesuit Retreat Center last November in Los Altos, Calif. He also participated in the 52nd annual meeting of the Conference of Diocesan Coordinators of Health Affairs Jan. 12-15 in San Diego. He has served two terms as chair of the conference and now, after 25 years as a member, he has been named an emeritus member of the organization.
The Rev. Jennie Malewski, staff chaplain, has been appointed secretary of the board of directors of the Funeral and Memorial Society of Greater Kansas City. This organization provides educational information about funeral arrangements and costs to the community.
Diane Clark, director of patient affairs, has been selected by the Citizen’s Planning Committee to become a member of the Wyandotte County Self-Image Advisory Council. She was one of 16 individuals selected from throughout the county.
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