Perelman School of Medicine Events Calendar

New staff orientation is a half-day program that provides an overview of the Perelman SOM as well as specific useful information about key functions and resources that are important to Perelman SOM staff. Specifically, the program will help new staff:

• feel welcome
• understand the Perelman School of Medicine's past, mission, and vision for the future
• understand the Perelman School of Medicine's organizational and reporting structure
• learn relevant functional departments contacts and numbers
• identify resources that are available to support you as a Perelman School of Medicine employee

It is expected that all new employees and transfers to the Perelman School of Medicine will participate in the orientation as soon after their start date as possible. Orientation sessions are generally scheduled monthly, but may vary with the volume of new hires. Invitations are sent directly to all new staff and transfers at their home address. There are three ways to register:

• Call our office at 215-573-0682
• Email to oe@mail.med.upenn.edu
• Register on Knowledge Link (Course title: New Staff Orientation SOM)

Democracy, Governance and Curbing Corruption in Sub-Saharan Africa

Location: Cheyney University of Pennsylvania

An international conference organized by the Master of Public Administration Program, in collaboration with The African & Caribbean Business Council.

While other regions of the world are making strides in improving the living standards of their citizens, Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is still trapped in poverty with more than 40% of its 600 million people living below the internationally recognised absolute poverty level of US$ 1 per day. Several reports highlight corruption as one of the institutional and systemic problems responsible for keeping million of Africans under absolute poverty. In fact, the 2008 Transparency International report demonstrates a direct link between corruption and failure of societal institutions to effectively achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in SSA. It is a serious concern that the goals of halving poverty in SSA by the year 2015 from the level of 1990 will not be met.

For additional information including call for papers, registration and lodging, please visit the conference website at: http://www.cheyney.edu/international-anticorruption/index.cfm

Yale University

Bacterial cell cycle regulation in time and space

Austrian Auditoroium

Speaker:  Mervyn Merrilees     Affiliation:  University of Auckland, New Zealand

Abramson Cancer Center

Scientific Symposium on Cancer Immunology

 KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Drew Pardoll, M.D., Ph.D.

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins Medicine

INVITED SPEAKERS

Carl June, M.D., Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute

Dan Powell, Jr. Ph.D., Penn Ovarian Cancer Research Center

Stephan Grupp, M.D., Ph.D., Center for Childhood Cancer Research, CHOP

Avinash Bhandoola, Ph.D., Dept. of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, PSOM

 Nicola Mason, Ph.D., Penn School of Veterinary Medicine

David Weiner, Ph.D., Cell and Molecular Biology Graduate Group, PSOM

REGISTRATION DEADLINE

Friday, November 9

Attendance is free; registration is required.

This month's outreach lecture: HIV and Cancer 

As ever if you have any HIV/internal medicine clinical questions, please free to contact Dr Mike Reid (+267 724 78 777) or Dr Miriam Haverkamp (+269 765 16 520).