Penn School of Medicine Events Calendar

The American Heart Association's
Philadelphia Heart Walk 2009

We cannot achieve our mission without each one of you!

Event Information:
(610) 234-2415
philadelphia.ahw@heart.org

Event Registration:
http://www.pennmedicine.org/heartwalk/

4:00 PM in 123C Abramson Pediatric Research Center, CHOP

Peripheral Artery Disease: Diagnosis and Treatment

Emile R. Mohler, III, M.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine
Director, Vascular Medicine
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

123C Abramson Research Center

Ronald Swanstrom, PhD, Director, UNC Center for AIDS Research, Porfessor of Biochemistry & Biophysics, UNC

TBA

8AM-6PM

2009 CAMB Symposium at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Keynote address::Understanding the Words of Chromatin Remodeling

Dr. Gerald R. Crabtree, Stanford University

Melissa Rolls, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Penn State University

Carla J. Shatz, Ph.D.
Professor
Departments of Biology and Neurobiology
Stanford University

“Tuning up the Brain: Moonlighting MHCI and Synapse Plasticity During Developmental Critical Periods”

Rebecca Beerman - Jongens Lab
"Characterizing a novel N-terminal extension in Drosophila Fragile X protein"

Kim Chapman - Falk Lab
"Beyond the deficiency, Investigating the stress response in metabolic disease"

Tishina Okegbe - DiNardo Lab
"A requirement for Notch signaling in the establishment of the Drosophila testis stem cell-niche system"

Christopher Weber - Fisher Lab
"Interrogating transcriptional control of extracellular BMP modulators in craniofacial development"

Staci Kallish - Bennett Lab
"Quantification of Acyl-Coenzyme A profiles in white blood cells using tandem mass spectrometry"

Sanjida Rangwala - Kazazian Lab
"LINE1 elements - parasites on the transcriptional machinery"

Yi Li - Carstens Lab

Isabel Xiaorong Wang - Cheung Lab

Learn how to write valid, reliable, effective multiple choice questions in the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME) format.  This session, taught by two experienced clinical educators, will help you to develop better examinations for assessing student learning.  Register on KnowledgeLink (http://knowledgelink.upenn.edu).

Wood Conference Room, 2nd Floor, John Morgan Bldg.

Learn about the policies and processes around phased retirement, the retirement incentive program (FIAP, the Faculty Income Allowance Program), retirement benefits (e.g., continued medical benefits), qualifying for emeritus status, and the rights and privileges of retired faculty. Register on KnowledgeLink (http://knowledgelink.upenn.edu).

Reunion Hall, John Morgan Bldg.

Learn about compiling and assembling your “Educational Database”, the collection of evaluation data, records and information that documents your teaching activities in the School of Medicine, in preparation for going up for promotion.  This workshop is recommended for any faculty member in the Academic Clinician, Clinician Educator, or Tenure Track who will be going up for promotion within the next year. Register on KnowledgeLink (http://knowledgelink.upenn.edu).

Room 251 BRB II/III

Explore some of the more advanced features in Photoshop. Learn manual adjustments for brightness, contrast and color balance; overlay techniques, actions and adding measurement rulers. Final exercise includes a start-to-finish composite complete with multiple images, labels and rulers.  Register on KnowledgeLink (http://knowledgelink.upenn.edu).

Room 202 (Computer Training Lab), Anatomy-Chemistry Bldg.

Learn about the faculty tracks, the processes for reappointment and promotion, responsibilities and expectations, and resources to help you succeed.  Session led by staff from the Office of Faculty Affairs and Professional Development (FAPD).  Register on KnowledgeLink (http://knowledgelink.upenn.edu).

ONSITE at Penn Presbyterian Hospital Medical Center

51 N. 39th Street, Gardner Conference Room

As the first opportunity to elaborate and sustain the proposal's central argument, the background and significance section depends upon establishing a coherent line of argument.  This workshop focuses on creating integration and flow, sentence by sentence, through specific strategies for effective revision.  Register on Knowledgelink (http://knowledgelink.upenn.edu).

Room 1412 BRB II/III

The Discussion answers the question posed in the Introduction, explains how the results support the answer, and shows how the answer fits in with existing knowledge. Good discussions rely on making sound arguments. This session will focus on four elements of a sound argument: claims, evidence, warrants, and qualifications.  Register on KnowledgeLink (http://knowledgelink.upenn.edu).

Room 104 Stellar Chance Laboratories

Explore the construction of simple to complex schematics using Illustrator. Find out how to use layers to organize your illustrations. Learn to lay out graphics using shapes, drawing options, gradients, and shading. Learn to master techniques for exporting your illustrations to other programs.   Register on KnowledgeLink (http://knowledgelink.upenn.edu).

Room 202 (Computer Training Lab), Anatomy-Chemistry

This session will feature three senior faculty members who serve as editors of prestigious journals in their fields.  Learn about common mistakes that authors make, how to choose the right journal for your work, what journal impact factors mean, and other important topics.  All three faculty editors are either current, or former, COAP members.  Register on KnowledgeLink (www.knowledgelink.upenn.edu). 

Class of '62 Auditorium, John Morgan Building

Michael A. Pack, MD, University of Pennsylvania

"Genetic Analysis of Hepatic Metabolic in Zebrafish"

Laurie J. Goodyear, PhD, Harvard Medica; Scjpp;

"Novel Signals Regulating Glucose Transport in Skeletal Muscle"

Doris A. Stoffers, MD, PhD, University of Pennsylvania

"Pdx1 Partners and Targets in the Pancreatic Beta Cell"

Eduardo A. Nillni, PhD, Brown University

"The Role of Hypothamlamic TRH Neuron in Energy Balance"

Shawn C. Burgess, Ph.D. , UT Southwestern Medical Center

"Mitochondrial Fluxes in the Liver During Insulin Resistance and Diabetes"

Sponsored by Abramson Cancer Center Tumor Virology Program

Raluca Vrabie, MD
Chang Lab
Floor Meeting

Josh Abrams
Graduate Student
Pack Lab
Floor Meeting

Hyosun Cho, PhD
Chang Lab
Floor Meeting

Yonghai Li, Research Specialist
Kaplan Lab
Floor Meeting

Title to be announced
 

Katrina Karkazis, PhD, MPH

Center for Bioethics

Stanford University

To assure seating, please RSVP to clinksca@mail.med.upenn.edu or call the Center for Bioethics at (215) 898-7136.

Katrina Karkazis, PhD, MPH, Center for Bioethics
Stanford University

4:00pm • Speaker Reception
4:30pm • Lecture

3401 Market St.
Suite 331

To assure seating, please RSVP to jpringle@mail.med.upenn.edu or call the Center for Bioethics at 215-898-7136

Professor Nick Bostrom - University of Oxford
Director, Future of Human Institute
Faculty of Philosophy & James Martin 21st Century School

4:00pm • Speaker Reception
4:30pm • Lecture

3401 Market St.
Suite 331

To assure seating, please RSVP to jpringle@mail.med.upenn.edu or call the Center for Bioethics at 215-898-7136

CAMB Thesis Defense::Gregory Del Prete (MVP)

9AM in Austrian Auditorium (CRB)

Attending Physician - Stephanie Fish

Joseph Buxbaum, M.Sc., Ph.D., Professor of Psychiatry, Neuroscience, Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Joseph Buxbaum, M.Sc., Ph.D., Professor of Psychiatry, Neuroscience, Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Title: Incretin Therapy

Presenter: Dr. Mark Schutta                       

Title: Case Conference

Title: Diabetes & Pregnancy Journal Club

 

Title: Journal Club

Presenter: Dr. Gabe Smolarz

“Folding pathways and cooperativity in linear symmetrical proteins”

“Mechanism of protein sorting at the trans Golgi membrane”

“Structural Biology of Neurodegenerative Disease”

Find out what you need to know as a Manager/Supervisor about Conflict Management. Learn about:

• How to handle conflicts that arise in the workplace
• Cooperative vs. competitive situations
• Productive vs. destructive approaches to conflict

This session offers career advice to staff.

Some topics which will be discussed include:

• Why it is crucial for you to take control of your career path
• How networking helps you succeed in your current job and helps you get noticed for your next job
• How to do an internal job search
• Tips on writing resumes
• Continuing education opportunities at Penn for staff
• How to grow and be more successful without having to change jobs

Whether you write e-mails, reports, letters, memos, job procedures or guidelines, you can learn how to use your words for maximum impact.

This course will give you techniques for writing clearly and compellingly.

Find out how to improve your communications through positive listening approaches.

Learn about:

• Communication Barriers
• Your own personal listening style
• How to use different listening approaches to improve communication

A seminar for those who don’t know a great deal about investing. Learn your own level of risk tolerance, and what to avoid as an investor. Some topics which will be discussed include:

• How to diversify
• The difference between cash, stocks and bonds
• What a diversified portfolio looks like
• How to create an investment plan that’s appropriate for you

Using a Mixture Model for Multiple Imputation in the Presence of Outliers

Penn CVI Seminar

"Transcriptional Control of Cardiovascular Development"

Brian Black, PhD
Professor and Associate Director Cardiovascular Research Institute
University of California, San Francisco

PLEASE NOTE LOCATION:
Austrian Auditorium, Ground Floor CRB

PLEASE NOTE EVENT CONTACT:
Denice Susini denice.susini@uphs.upenn.edu

"Hair Follicle Stem Cells: From Hair to Eternity"

"Caveolins in Breast Cancer Diagnosis, Therapy and Prevention"

"Skin Microbiome in Health and Disease"

 Co-sponsored by by Center for Public Health Initiatives & the Health Care Management Department, Wharton School

"The Japanese Experience: Long Term Care, End-of-life Decision-making, & Healthcare Reform"

Please join

University of Pennsylvania Center for Bioethics and its Director, Arthur Caplan, PhD

for a conversation with

The Honorable Tom Ridge
Former Governor of Pennsylvania and
Secretary of Homeland Security

on

"Public Health and National Security"

Friday, November 6, 2009
3:30pm - 5:00pm
Light refreshments to follow

The Inn at Penn
Woodlands AB Roo
3600 Sansom Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

RSVP by October 30th
Inquiries: Janice Pringle at 215-573-3984

Erol Fikrig, M.D.

Professor of Medicine, Microbial Pathogenesis, Epidemiology and Public Health

Cjielf of Infectious Disease

Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Yale University

CAMB Thesis Defense::Jiangbin Ye (CB)

1PM in Class of '62 Auditorium (JMB)

CAMB Thesis Defense::Boxun Lu (CBP)

10AM in 1001 BRB II/III

CAMB Thesis Defense::David Wise (CB)

2PM in Austrian Auditorium (CRB)

Neuroscience & Society Talk Series with Brian Knutson, PhD
Associate Professor of Psychology & Neuroscience, Stanford University
Location: Irvine Building, Room G 16. (Building on the NW corner of 34th and Spruce)

University community and public welcome. Please RSVP to info@neuroethics.upenn.edu
and check our website for locations and updates at www.neuroethics.upenn.edu

Neuroscience & Society Talk Series with Nick Bostrom, PhD
Professor of Applied Ethics & Director of the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University
Location: Houston Hall, 314 – Class of 1947 Room
Whole Brain Emulation

University community and public welcome. Please RSVP to info@neuroethics.upenn.edu
and check our website for locations and updates at www.neuroethics.upenn.edu

Featuring Senior Fellow Jonathan Moreno, and moderated by Visiting Scholar Ana Lita: 

The Appignani Bioethics Center, a project of the American Humanist Association, will hold a press conference and panel discussion to examine controversies in biomedical and environmental science and policy, including stem cell research, brain and cognition, and climate change technologies.

Date & Place: Monday, November 9, 2009 at the); 9:30am-10:00am (press conference) and 10:00am-11:30am (panel discussion)

The Appignani Bioethics Center welcomes two distinguished speakers to lead this discussion: ProfessorJonathan Moreno, David and Lyn Silfen University Professor, University of Pennsylvania and Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress (www.americanprogress.org) and Professor Andrew Light, Senior Fellow at Center for American Progress and Director of the Center for Global Ethics at George Mason University. The panel discussion will be moderated by Ana Lita, Ph.D., Director - Appignani Bioethics Center

For more details about the event, and to RSVP please contact kfranz@americanhumanist.org or alita@americanhumanist.org;

Cardiovascular Grand Rounds:

Cancelled due to AHA Scientific Sessions Conference

The annual John G. Haddad, Jr. Memorial Lecture commemorates the former Chief of the Endocrinology Division at Penn, who was a leader in the field of bone and mineral metabolism. 

Keynote Speaker:

Dwight A. Towler MD, PhD
Ira M. Lang Professor of Medicine
Department of Medicine
Washington University in St. Louis

Topic: "Msx2-Wnt Signaling In Diabetic Vascular Disease: Peroxide Paves An Osteogenic Path"

Location: BRB II/III

Time: 4:00 PM

JMB, Class of '62

Kevin  A. Strauss, M.D.

Medical Director, Clinic for Special Children, Strasburg, PA

Brenda Porter, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics

Michael Stiefel, MD

Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery and Radiology

Associate Director, Neurocritical Care

Carolyn Rouse, Ph.D.
Princeton University
Department of Anthropology

Author of: Uncertain Suffering: Racial Health Disparities and Sickle Cell Disease (2009)

CAMB Thesis Defense::Kathryn Claiborn (GGR)

The Role of a Ubiquitin Ligase Adaptor Protein in Glucose Homeostasis and Beta Cell Mass

9AM in Class of '62 Auditorium (JMB)

CAMB Thesis Defense::Uma Sachdeva (GGR)

The Circadian Clock as a Sensor of Cell Metabolic State: Interactions Between Nutrients, Growth Factors, and the Mammalian Clock Machinery

1PM in Dunlop Auditorium (Stemmler)

CAMB Thesis Defense::Amy Tsou (MVP)

Novel Targets and a Cofactor for the Vibrio Cholerae Quorum Sensing Transcriptional Regulator, HapR

12pm in 209 Johnson Pavilion

"From Therapy to Enhancement in the Brain Sciences - Do we have Ethical Reasons for Concern?"

 All are weclome to attend.

Panelists include: Art Caplan, Ph.D, Professor of Bioethics, Director of the Center for Bioethics
Mark Pauly, Ph.D, Professor of Health Care Management and Policy
Glenna M. Crooks, Ph.D President of Strategic Health Policy Int.
Robert Field, AB, MPH, PhD, JD, Professor of Law and Health Management and Policy at Drexel

Topics will include:
• How will health reform work under the different bills being considered?
• How will it change the actual delivery of care?
• What would be the consequences of not passing any reform vs. passing the current bill
several years down the road?
• Bring your own questions! Ask the experts.

sponsored by Wharton Undergraduate Healthcare Club and Penn Bioethics Journal/Society

Golkin Room, Houston Hall

Renunion Auditorium, John Morgan Building

Marjolein van der Meulen, PhD

Professor, Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University

Senior Scientist, Laboratory for Biomedical Mechanics & Materials

Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY

Location: JMB Class of '62 Auditorium

1:30pm Luciferase Reporter Assays: Applications Beyond Promoter Bashing

Featuring Susan Reveryby
Marion Butler McLean Professor of History and Women's and Gender Studies
Wellesley College

A Richard Shryock Lecture in American History

 
Susan M. Reverby has been a pioneer in U.S. women’s history, and has written extensively on the history of nursing, health care, and medical ethics.  Her publications include Ordered to Care: The Dilemma of American Nursing (l987), Gendered Domains: Beyond the Public and Private in Women's History (1992), Health Care in America: Essays in Social History (1979), and America's Working Women: a Documentary History (1976).  An edited collection of articles and documents entitled Tuskegee’s Truths: Rethinking the Tuskegee Syphilis Study appeared in 2000.  Her latest book is Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and Legacy, published this fall by the University of North Carolina Press

Featuring Arthur L. Caplan, PhD

Free Tickets!
Call 215.448.1254 for Reservations

When is it my responsibility to get vaccinated against H1N1? Even as the H1N1 pandemic gains momentum, federal officials stress that no one is required to be vaccinated, and everyone who wants to be vaccinated against H1N1 will eventually receive vaccine.

But public institutions face a different and difficult question, especially now that the H1N1 pandemic has been declared a national emergency: What is their responsibility with regard to vaccination of their workers who serve the public during pandemic? And, what personal responsibility do workers have to be vaccinated?

This forum will explore these issues through case studies involving the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania HUP) and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP): two ey health care institutions which recently instituted mandates or seasonal flu vaccination for their health care workers.  The forum will also explore how these examples can inform hinking at other public institutions – such as museums, ibraries, and schools – that serve some of the very populations considered most at risk.

Speakers:
Susan Coffin, M.D., M.P.H.
Director, Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program
The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA

Amy J. Behrman, MD
Director, Occupational Medicine
Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Arthur L. Caplan, Ph.D.
Director, Center for Bioethics
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA

Other Speakers TBA

A program of The Franklin Institute and the Center for Vaccine Ethics and Policy.

Panelists: Arthur Caplan, Professor of Medical Ethics, Director Center for Bioethics
Rosemarie Greco, Governor Rendell’s Special Advisor on Health Care Reform
Mary Naylor, Professor of Nursing, Director of New Courtland Center for
Transitions and Health
Richard Cooper, Professor of General Internal Medicine, Leonard Davis
Institute of Health Economics
Julie Sochalski, Associate Professor of Nursing, Advisor to AARP on health
care reform legislation
Mary Ersek, Associate Professor of Nursing, Associate Director, Center for
Integrative Science in Aging

Introduction: Dean Afaf Meleis, School of Nursing
Reforming Health Care: Innovations and Strategies.
Linda Aiken, Professor of Nursing and Sociology, Director, Center for Health
Outcomes and Policy Research
Moderator: Dave Davies, Senior Writer, Philadelphia Daily News and fill in host
for National Public Radio’s Fresh Air and WHYY’s Radio Times

Join a provocative discussion with University of Pennsylvania
professors and the architect of Rx for Pennsylvania on
reforming health care in our state and across the nation.
We welcome students, faculty and staff from throughout the
University and the Philadelphia community.

with Dr. Piero Olliaro

PLEASE RSVP

Keynote Speakers:
Julie Overbaugh
Member and Associate Program Head of the Human Biology Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Cancer
Is there a role for neutralizing antibodies in protection from HIV infection? Lessons from studies of naturally infected populations

Kenneth H. Mayer*
Professor of Medicine & Community Health at Brown University
Prevention Science Core Director of the Lifespan/Tufts/Brown Center for AIDS Research
Preparing for PrEP: Panacea or Pandora's Box?

How Do We Recruit and Retain Human Subjects in Clinical Research?

Connie Ulrich, the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing
Christine Grady, National Institutes of Health

Click here to register.
 
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