Wash U expert's presentation, InclUsive Conversation on event horizon
Published on Thursday, January 10, 2019
Several interesting events are scheduled for the upcoming weeks at the Medical Center.
Friday-Wednesday, March 1-6
FaulkAl Faulk, information technology director, will present the Condensed Academic Networking and kNowledge Talk, "Organizational Tools for U," from 12:30-12:50 p.m. on Friday, March 1, in room SH198, from 4:30-4:50 p.m. on Monday, March 4, in room N-5A, and from 7:30-7:50 a.m. on Wednesday, March 6, in the Bebe Richardson Conference Room.
CANN Talks are monthly professional development seminars for UMMC faculty and staff. For more information, email Julian Gilner at jgilner@umc.edu.
Monday, March 4
WalkerDr. Jennifer Walker, postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Molecular Microbiology at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, will present the Microbiology and Immunology Seminar, "Deposition of Host Proteins on Medical Devices Provide a Bed for Staphylococcal Biofilms," at 1:30 p.m. on Monday, March 4, in room 3A.
All Medical Center faculty, staff and students are invited. For more information, email Angeline Green at agreen@umc.edu.
Wednesday. March 6
AinsworthChristy Ainsworth, child advocacy studies coordinator for Children's Advocacy Center of Mississippi, will present the Office of Diversity and Inclusion's "InclUsive" conversation, "Creating a Trauma-informed Workforce," from noon-1 p.m. on Wednesday, March 6, in room CW 106 of the Classroom Wing.
Lunch will be available on a first-come basis. For more information, call Mandy Scott at 5-7857.
GilbertDr. Yann Gibert, associate professor of cell and molecular biology, will give the Department of Physiology and Biophysics presentation, "Zebrafish as a Model of Fetal Hyperglycemia Studies," from noon-1 p.m. on Wednesday, March 6, in room CW308 of the Classroom Wing.
For more information, call Courtney Graham at 4-1820.
Participants in the Medical Center's quarterly blood drive scheduled from Monday-Thursday, March 11-14, will be automatically registered in a drawing for a parking space on campus for the upcoming quarter and will receive a Mississippi Blood Services T-shirt. For the first time, donors can schedule the time and place of their donations online.
The winner of the parking space drawing will be randomly selected from among all UMMC faculty, staff and students who participate in the blood drive or who donate to Mississippi Blood Services on behalf of UMMC during the current quarter. The winner will have parking privileges in the designated campus parking space at the learning resource center beginning Monday, April 1.
The UMMC blood drive is scheduled from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday-Tuesday, March 11-12, in the MBS donor coach in front of the medical education building and from from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Wednesday-Thursday, March 13-14, in the MBS donor coach on the Guyton Research Center walkway.
Photo identification is required to donate. Mississippi Blood Services suggests all donors eat within four hours of giving blood and drink plenty of fluids before and after the donation.
To book an appointment online, visit https://www.signupgenius.com/go/70a044ca9a723a7fb6-ummc or for more information about the drive, email bneal3@umc.edu.
Tuesday, March 12
HallSeth Hall, interim director of UMMC's Human Research Office, will lead the Group on Women in Health and Science discussion, "The Ins and Outs of Writing Your Best IRB!" at noon on Tuesday, March 12, in room CW308 in the Classroom Wing.
Those interested in donating books to the GWIMS library may bring the donation to the seminar. For more information, email gwims@umc.edu.
Wednesday, March 13
ChidgeyDr. Brooke Chidgey, assistant professor of anesthesiology in the Division of Pain Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will give the Anesthesiology Grand Rounds presentation, "Opioids in the Perioperative Period," from 6:30-7:30 a.m. on Wednesday, March 13, in room LH122 of the medical education building.
For more information, call Cathy Braboy at 4-5914 or email her at cbraboy@umc.edu or call Ellecia Cooper at 5-1010 or email her at alcooper@umc.edu.
Monday-Friday, April 1-5
FranklinDr. Elizabeth Franklin, associate professor, Doctor of Health Administration Program, School of Health Related Professions, will present the Condensed Academic Networking and kNowledge Talk, "So . . . The Room Was Cold and the Food Was Good . . . But Did You Learn Anything? Documenting Outcomes in Professional Development - It CANN Be Done!" from 4:30-4:50 p.m. on Monday, April 1, in room N-5A, from 7:30-7:50 a.m. on Wednesday, April 3, in the Bebe Richardson Conference Room, and from 12:30-12:50 p.m. on Friday, April 5, in room SH198.
CANN Talks are monthly professional development seminars for UMMC faculty and staff. For more information, email Julian Gilner at jgilner@umc.edu.
SparksLarry Sparks, University of Mississippi interim chancellor, and Dr. LouAnn Woodward, vice chancellor for health affairs, are scheduled to speak at the spring faculty meeting at noon on Tuesday, April 23, in classroom R354 (upper amphitheatre).
Lunch will be available on a first-come basis. For more information, call Dorothy Singleton at 5-4883 or email her at drsingleton@umc.edu.
Wednesday-Monday, May 1-6
WaiteSteve Waite, executive director of information security , will present the Condensed Academic Networking and kNowledge Talk, "Foam In, Foam Out - Simplifying Security," from 7:30-7:50 a.m. on Wednesday, May 1, in the Bebe Richardson Conference Room, from 12:30-12:50 p.m. on Friday, May 3, in room SH198, and from 4:30-4:50 p.m. on Monday, May 6, in room N-5A.
CANN Talks are monthly professional development seminars for UMMC faculty and staff. For more information, email Julian Gilner at jgilner@umc.edu.
Friday, April 5
HelitzerDr. Deborah Helitzer, professor and dean of the College of Health Solutions at Arizona State University, will give the John D. Bower School of Population Health's 2019 Distinguished Population Health Lecture at noon on Friday, April 5, in lecture hall 122 of the medical education building.
Lunch will be available to the first 50 in attendance. For more information, email Dr. Natalie E. Gaughf at nwgaughf1@umc.edu.