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

Presentations by:

Lorena Loarca, PhD (Wells Lab)

Maryna Perepelyuk, PhD (Wells Lab)

Presentations by:

Apple Long, MD-PhD Student (Rustgi Lab)

Makoto Senoo, PhD (Vet School)

Presentations by:

Kate Hamilton, PhD (Rustgi Lab)

Blair Madision, PhD (Rustgi Lab)

David C. Gadsby, PhD, FRS

The Rockefeller University

 "Mechanisms of Na/K-ATPase pump function and dysfunction"
Physiology Conference Room B404 Richards Building

4:00PM-5:00PM

For more information call: (215) 898-8725

David Yue, MD, Ph.D.

Professor Department of Biomedical Engineering

Johns Hopkins University

"Calcium channel modulation involves calmodulin on the move"

Physiology Conference Room B404 Richards Building

H. Criss Hartzell, Ph.D.

Professor Departments of Cell Biology, Physiology & Pharmacology

Emory University

"The anoctamin1 chloride channel complex at the crossroads of calcium and anion signaling"

Physiology Conference Room B404 Richards Building

4:00PM-5:00PM

For more information call: (215) 898-8725

Attendees: CDA, Practice Manager/Coordinator of each location, Clinical RN Manager

Call in #: 800-314-2582

Irene Diamon Professor of Immunology

The Rockefeller University

Laboratory of Lymphocyte Signaling

"Histone mimicry and its function"

Assistant Professor

Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

 “Activating ubiquitin complexes to turn the immune system off"
Speakers: Paula Oliver and Natalia Ramos-Hernandez

Class of '62

Associate Professor of Microbiology

Speakers: Kaycie Hopkins and Ryan Moy

“Intrinsic antiviral immunity against RNA viruses”

Class of '62

Presentations by:

Todd Waldron, PhD (Rustgi Lab)

Shingo Kagawa, MD, PhD (Nakagawa Lab)

Presentations by:

- Steffen Heeg, MD (Rustgi Lab)

- Basil Bakir, MD-PhD Student (Rustgi Lab)

Speaker: Ying Tian      Affiliation: University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine  

Speaker: John Merz      Affiliation:  University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine

Speaker: Tien Peng      Affiliation: University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, department of Cardiovascular Medicine    

Global Health & Innovation Conference 2013
Presented by Unite For Sight, 10th Annual Conference
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Saturday, April 13 - Sunday, April 14, 2013

http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference

"A Meeting of Minds"--CNN

The Global Health & Innovation Conference is the world's largest global health conference and social entrepreneurship conference.  This must-attend, thought-leading conference annually convenes 2,200 leaders, changemakers, students, and professionals from all fields of global health, international development, and social entrepreneurship.  Register during September to secure the lowest registration rate.

Interested in presenting at the conference? Submit an abstract for consideration.  The final abstract deadline is September 30.

The conference's confirmed speakers to date include:

Keynote Addresses

• Jeffrey Sachs, PhD, Director of Earth Institute, Columbia University; Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, Professor of Health Policy and Management, Columbia University; Special Advisor to Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon
• Sonia Ehrlich Sachs, MD, MPH, Director of Health, Millennium Village Project, Earth Institute, Columbia University
• More speakers to be announced

Design Thinking Speakers

• "Strategic Innovation in Complex Challenges," Banny Banerjee, Director, Stanford ChangeLabs; Associate Professor, Design Group, Mechanical Engineering Department, Stanford University
• "The Next Step for Design: Social Entrepreneurship," Jon Kolko, Vice President of Design, MyEdu; Executive Director, Austin Center for Design
• "Applying Business Principles to Global Health: Starting with the Customer," Amy Lockwood, Deputy Director, Center for Innovation in Global Health, Stanford University
• "Weapons of Mass Design: Taking Products to Scale," Robert HJ Miros, CEO, 3rd Stone Design Inc.
• "FAIL! Brilliant Accidents, Necessary Failures, and Improbable Breakthroughs in Public Health, And What They Mean for Innovation," Andrew Zolli, Curator, Pop!Tech
• More speakers to be announced

Education Initiatives in Global Health Speakers

• "The 'New' World Health: Building a Field Across Disciplines and Sectors," Sue Goldie, Director, Harvard Global Health Institute
• "Global Health, Education, and Development: Exploring the Critical Linkages," Brian Heuser, Assistant Professor of the Practice of International Education Policy, Peabody College, Vanderbilt University; Affiliated Faculty, Vanderbilt Institute of Global Health (VIGH)
• "International Medical Electives: The Critical Importance of Listening to Your Host," Christian Kraeker, MD, FRCPC DTM&H MSc, Department of Internal Medicine, McMaster University
• "Initiating, Fostering, and Sustaining Biomedical Engineering Education in Africa," Muhammad Zaman, PhD, Associate Professor, Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Medicine, Boston University
• More speakers to be announced

Environment, Energy, and Agriculture Speakers

• "The Agriculture, Food & Nutrition, and Health Nexus: A New Transdiciplinary Approach to Global Development," Gebisa Ejeta, 2009 World Food Prize Laureate; Science Envoy of President Barack Obama
• "The Relationships Between Human Health and Environmental Conservation: Case Studies from Madagascar," Christopher Golden, PhD, MPH, Ziff Environmental Fellow, Harvard University Center for the Environment
• "Asset-Based Financing for Smallholder Farmers," Tony Kalm, Managing Director, One Acre Fund
• Julie Beth Zimmerman, PhD, Associate Professor of Green Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies; Acting Director, Center for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering, Yale University
• More speakers to be announced

Film, Photography, Art & Global Health Speakers

• "Using Visual Methods to Investigate Urban Health Disparities," Carolyn Cannuscio, ScD, Core Investigator, VA Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, Philadelphia VA Medical Center; Assistant Professor, Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
• "Patient Empowerment: How the Visually Impaired Can Become Better Advocates for Themselves...And for Their Service Providers," Joseph Lovett, Producer/Director, Going Blind
• "Designing Social Change Programs: Lessons from the Field," Bob McKinnon, President GALEWiLL Design; Director, the GALEWiLL Center for Opportunity & Progress
• More speakers to be announced

Healthcare Delivery Models and Impact Measurement

• "Achieving the Health MDGs Through Reliable and Cost-Effective Transportation: Case Studies from Africa," Lisa Bakker, Development Director, Riders for Health
• "Tackling U.S. Health Disparities through Reverse Innovation: Community Health Workers Increase Value-Based Care," Heidi Behforouz, Medical and Executive Director, Prevention and Access to Care and Treatment (PACT) Project
• "The Cuban Health System Today," Peter Bourne, Senior Research Fellow, Green Templeton College, University of Oxford; Chair, Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba (MEDICC)
• "Middle East 'Doctors With Borders' Ophthalmology Opportunities," Michael Brennan, American Academy of Ophthalmology Past President; Ophthalmologist, Alamance Eye Center
• James Clarke, MD, Ophthalmologist and Medical Director, Crystal Eye Clinic, Ghana; Unite For Sight Ghana Medical Director
• "Disruptive Innovation in Healthcare/Wellness for the Base of the Pyramid," Al Hammond, Co-Founder and Chairman of Healthpoint Services; Director of Health for All, Ashoka
• "Partners In Health at 25: A Generation of Solidarity and Partnership," Ali Lutz, Haiti Special Projects Manager, Partners In Health
• "Frontline Healthworkers: Village Health for Liberia," Rajesh Panjabi, Executive Director, Tiyatien Health; Associate Physician, Division of Global Health Equity, Harvard Medical School
• "5 Ways to Empower Health Entrepreneurs: With Mobile, Micro-Finance, Merchandise and More," Chuck Slaughter, President and Founder, Living Goods
• More speakers to be announced

Health Policy & Advocacy

• "Trading in Global Health: The Politics of Innovation," Tahir Amin, Co-Founder and Director of Intellectual Property, I-MAK
• "Is There the Courage to Change the Nation’s Diet?" Kelly Brownell, Professor of Psychology, Epidemiology and Public Health; Director, Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity, Yale University
• "The Art of the Patient Narrative: Using Narrative to Enhance Diagnosis and Transform International Policy," Leana Wen, MD, MSc, Emergency Physician, Brigham and Women’s and Massachusetts General Hospitals; Clinical Fellow, Harvard MEdical School
• More speakers to be announced

Maternal and Child Health Speakers

• "Improving Maternal and Child Health: A Look at Community Level Interventions that Save Lives," Koki Agarwal, Director MCHIP, JHPIEGO
• "State of the World's Children: A Tragedy in the Making," Jane Aronson, MD, CEO, Founder, Worldwide Orphans Foundation; Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Cornell Weill Medical College and Columbia University
• "The Role of Nutritious Products to Combat Stunting as One of the Key Long-Term Strategies," Martin Bloem, Global Coordinator, WFP UNAIDS
• "Children as Key Participants in Health Promotion," Mary Carlson, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
• "Collective Efficacy as a Protective Factor in Child Health Promotion," Felton James Earls, Research Professor of Human Development, Harvard School of Public Health
• "Intimate Partner Violence Against Women: The Forgotten Aspect of Gender-Based Violence in Conflict Affected Settings," Jhumka Gupta, ScD, Assistant Professor, Global Health Epidemiology, Yale School of Public Health
• "The Global Landscape of Cross-border Reproductive Care: Twenty Key Findings for the New Millennium," Marcia Inhorn, MPH, PhD, William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs; Editor, Journal of Middle East Women's Studies, Council on Middle East Studies, Yale University
• "Clinical and Community Action to Address Postpartum Hemorrhage Plus," Ellen Israel, Senior Technical Advisor for Women’s Health and Rights, Pathfinder International
• "Friends of Low-Cost IVF: Empowering Infertile Women Globally," Pasquale Patrizio, Professor of Obestrics and Gynecology, Yale School of Medicine; Director, Yale Fertility Center
• "Eliminating Pediatric AIDS, One Mother at a Time," Robin Smalley, Co-Founder/International Director, mothers2mothers International
• More speakers to be announced

Non-Communicable Diseases Speakers

• "Challenges and Strategies for Assessing Mental Health in Cross-Cultural Contexts," Judith Bass, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Applied Mental Health Research Group, Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
• "Let's Close the Billion Person Treatment Gap for Common Mental Disorders: Rethinking Integration, Knowledge, Delivery, and the Future of Health Systems Improvement through a Billion Minds and Lives," Gary Belkin, MD, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor and Director, Program in Global Mental Health, New York University School of Medicine; Senior Director for Psychiatric Services, New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation
• "Association of Sexual Violence, Human Rights Violations, and Mental Health Outcomes in Liberia, Kenya and the Democratic Republic of Congo," Kirsten Johnson, MD, MPH, Director, Humanitarian Studies Initiative, McGill University; Affiliated Faculty, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Harvard University
• "Closing the Cancer Divide: Opportunities for Health System Strengthening," Felicia Knaul, Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School; Director, Harvard Global Equity Initiative
• "Innovative Partnership for Vision Research Integration: Leveraging Existing Health and Development Platforms for the Eye Diseases," John Prakash, PhD, MBA, Associate Director, International Programs, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health
• "Ensuring Right to Sight by Eliminating Needless Blindness through Public Private Community Participation Model," Sarang Samal, Founder, Kalinga Eye Hospital, NYSASDRI, India; Unite For Sight Partner
• "Tropical Dermatology: Role in Global Health," Aisha Sethi, Assistant Professor, Dermatology and Infectious Diseases, Associate Residency Program Director, Section of Dermatology, University of Chicago
• More speakers to be announced

Organization Management Speakers

• "Innovation in Health Systems," Rifat Atun, Professor of International Health Management, Imperial College London
• More speakers to be announced

Research, Monitoring, and Evaluation Speakers

• "Measuring Performance and Outcomes of Health Programs in Low and Middle Income Countries: A Health Systems Perspective," Juan-Carlos Alegre, Director, Monitoring and Evaluation, Management Sciences for Health
• "Controlled Trials as Program Evaluation: Not Just for Researchers Anymore," Paul Bolton, Associate Scientist, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
• "Evaluating Mexico’s Habitat Program: Does Improved Slum Infrastructure Lead to Better Health Outcomes?" Craig McIntosh, Associate Professor of Economics, Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California - San Diego
• "Low Grade Inflammation and Glaucoma," James Tsai, MD, Robert R. Young Professor and Chairman, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Yale University School of Medicine; Chief of Ophthalmology, Yale-New Haven Hospital
• "But How Generalizable is That? A Framework for Examining the External Validity of Development Interventions," Michael Woolcock, Lead Social Development Specialist, Development Research Group, The World Bank
• More speakers to be announced

Philanthropy and Investment Speakers

• "Gender Lens Investing in Healthcare," Natalia Oberti Noguera, Founder and CEO, Pipeline Fellowship
• "Piloting the 'Health Impact Fund' Idea," Thomas Pogge, Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs, Yale University
• "Impact Investing in Healthcare for Low-Income Communities," Keely Stevenson, CEO, Bamboo Finance USA
• More speakers to be announced

Social Enterprise Speakers

• "Transparency as a Brand Culture," Kyle Berner, Creator, Feelgoodz LLC
• "Lessons Learned From Doing Social Enterprise Start Ups," Jeffrey Church, Founder, Nika Water
• "Creative Failure: How Culture, Economics, and Projection Can Screw Up a Great Program, and What to Learn from That," Dean Cycon, Founder and CEO, Dean's Beans Organic Coffee Co.
• "Money in the Jungle: Investments and Earned Income Opportunities in the Amazon," Tyler Gage, Co-Founder and President, Runa
• "The Fig Food Movement: From Tikkun Olam to the Whole Foods Shelf," Joel Henry, President and Founder, Fig Food Company, LLC
• "Separating Consumer Products From Profit: Using a Non-Profit Model in a For-Profit Industry," Krista Lampe, CORE Foods Chief of Operations and Co-Founder
• Ken Lee, Co-founder and Co-owner, Lotus Foods
• "Building from the Inside Out: Co-opertives as an Egalitarian, Democratic, Grassroots, Free-Market Development Strategy," Rodney North, The Answer Man - Information for the Public and Media, Equal Exchange Coop
• "Lessons Learned from 28 Days in Captivity," Alastair Onglingswan, CEO, Green Souls Shoes
• Frederick Schilling, Co-Creator, Big Tree Farms
• "Improving Our Economy and Our Health with Real Food," Noha Waibsnaider, Founder and CEO, Peeled Snacks
• "From the Congo to the Center of the Universe: How Chocolate Can Help Save the World," Joe Whinney, Founder and CEO, Theo Chocolate, Inc.
• More speakers to be announced

Social Entrepreneurship Speakers

• "The Coming Prosperity: How Entrepreneurs are Transforming the Global Economy," Philip Auerswald, Associate Professor, School of Public Policy, George Mason University
• "From Start-Up to Scale-Up: The Path to Becoming Industry Leaders in Reducing Indoor Air Pollution," Ron Bills, Chairman and CEO, Envirofit International
• "Can Good Products Drive Out Bad? Experimental Evidence from Local Markets for Antimalarial Medicine in Uganda," David Yanagizawa-Drott, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
• "Post Conflict Nations: A Framework for Change in the Era of Total Global Competition - The Case Study of Rwanda," Michael Fairbanks, Fellow, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
• "Collaborative Interdependence: Building Better Partnerships Across Sectors," Ted London, PhD, Senior Research Fellow, William Davidson Institute and Faculty, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
• " The Low Take-up of Welfare Improving Products Among Poor Consumers: Lessons from Randomized Controlled Trials in Bangladesh, India and Malawi," A. Mushfiq Morabak, Associate Professor of Economics, Yale University School of Management
• "Design and Policy for Humanitarian Impact," Tim Zak, Associate Teaching Professor; Director, Institute for Social Innovation, H. John Heinz III College, Carnegie Mellon University
• More speakers to be announced

Social Media & Marketing Speakers

• "A Global Study of Marketing and Preschool Children: Young Children’s Awareness of Fast Food, Beverages, Chips & Candy, Alcohol, and Tobacco," Dina Borzekowski, EdD, Associate Professor, Department of Health, Behavior and Society, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
• "The Medium, the Message, and the Muppets: How Sesame Workshop Delivers Locally-Specific Health Education Across the Globe," Charlotte Cole, Senior Vice President, Global Education, Sesame Workshop
• "Integrated Impact: Aligning Internal Resources and Engaging External Stakeholders to Make a Difference," Scott Henderson, Managing Director, CauseShift
• "Marketing Strategies for Non-Profit and For-Benefit Organizations," Naomi Hirabayashi, Director of Marketing, Do Something
• "The Animated Activist," Firdaus Kharas, Chairman, Chocolate Moose Media and Cultural Shift
• More speakers to be announced

Surgery & Global Health Speakers

• "Three Years of Championing the Fight Against Needless Cataract Blindness in Ghana: Experiences and Challenges at Save The Nation's Sight Clinic," Thomas Baah, MD, Ophthalmologist and Director, Save The Nation's Sight Clinic, Ghana
• "Evolution of Conceptual Approaches for NGO Intervention," Scott Corlew, ReSurge
• "Glaucoma Care in West Africa: Challenges and Opportunities," Leon Herndon, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology Duke Glaucoma Service
• "The Evolving Role of Anesthesia and Surgery Within Global Health," Kelly McQueen, MD, MPH, Director, Vanderbilt Anesthesia Global Health and Development; President, Global Surgical Consortium; Co-founder, Alliance for Surgery and Anesthesia Presence
• "Implementation of Surgical Services in Low and Middle Income Countries," Selwyn Rogers, Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School
• More speakers to be announced

Technology in Global Health Speakers

• "Comparative Effectiveness Evaluations of Health Care Technology in Low to Middle Income Countries," Rajesh Balkrishnan, PhD, Associate Director for Research and Education, University of Michigan Center for Global Health
• "Health Information Systems: Design Thinking in the Context of Quality Improvement," Leo Anthony Celi, MD, MS, MPH, Executive Director, Sana, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT; Research Director, Laboratory of Computational Physiology, MIT; Staff Intensivist, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
• "Building Sustainable Health Technology for the Developing World," Ndubuisi Ekekwe, Founder, African Institution of Technology
• "Breakthrough: Driving Better Access, Quality, and Efficiency through Collaboration, Technology, and Innovation," Paul Ellingstad, Parter and Program Development Director, Sustainability and Social Innovation, Hewlett-Packard
• "Remote Biosensing in Resource-Limited Settings," Jessica Haberer, MD, MS, Research Scientist, Harvard Institute for Global Health; Assistant in Health Decision Sciences, Massachusetts General Hospital; Instructor, Harvard Medical School
• "Using mHealth, eHealth and iHealth in PMTCT and OVC Programs," Bobby Jefferson, Senior Informatics Advisor, Futures Group
• "Bridging the Communication Gap with Speaking Books," Brian Julius, Owner, Books of Hope
• "Technology For Better Healthcare: Using Technology to Leapfrog Traditional Models of Healthcare Delivery in the Developing World," Shainoor Khoja, Managing Director, Roshan
• Paul Meyer, Chairman and President, Voxiva, Inc.
• "The Social Nature of Digital Disease Detection," Robert Munro, CEO, Ibidon; Graduate Fellow, Stanford University
• "Can mHealth Bridge the Gap Between the Haves and Have Nots?" John Piette, Associate Director for Global Health Communications, Center for Global Health, University of Michigan
• "Mobile Phone Technology in the Developing World: Driving Supply Chain Transparency and Worker Empowerment," Todd Stark, President, Good World Solutions
• More speakers to be announced

Water and Sanitation Speakers

• "Re-Imagining Reporting Live: Lessons on Transparency When It's All Out There," Ned Breslin, Chief Executive Officer, Water For People
• More speakers to be announced

"Advice From The Experts" Panels

• "Careers in Social Entrepreneurship: Advice From The Experts"
• "Careers in Global Health: Advice From The Experts"
• More panels to be announced

Interactive Workshops

• "Camp for Orphans: Building Independence and Leadership Skills in At-Risk Youth,"Jane Aronson, MD, CEO, Founder, Worldwide Orphans Foundation; Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Cornell Weill Medical College and Columbia University
• "Youth Programming in Developing Countries: All About Training!"Jane Aronson, MD, CEO, Founder, Worldwide Orphans Foundation; Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Cornell Weill Medical College and Columbia University
• "Scaling Your Social Venture: Becoming an Impact Entrepreneur," Paul Bloom, Ph.D., Faculty Director, Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE), Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
• "The Practicalities of Where, When, and How to Implement Controlled Trials as Program Evaluation,"Paul Bolton, Associate Scientist, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Judith Bass, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Applied Mental Health Research Group, Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
• "The Coming Wave of Social Entrepreneurship," Jeffrey Church, Founder, Nika Water
• "What You Won't Learn in Business School: How to Structure a Social Enterprise for Real and Lasting Change," Dean Cycon, Founder and CEO, Dean's Beans Organic Coffee Co.
• "Meeting Global Public Challenges through the Private Sector,"Michael Fairbanks, Fellow, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
• "From Concept to Reality: Exploring Methods to Bring Products to Scale in Developing Markets," Elizabeth Johansen, Director of Product Development, Design that Matters
• More workshops to be announced

Psychoanalytic Module

Andrew Gerber, MD, PhD.
Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Brain Imaging Lab

New York State Psychiatric Institute
Columbia University
"Neuroimaging of Universal Mechanisms of Action in Psychotherapy"

Location:   BRB II/III Auditorium

Psychoanalytic Module

Newell Fischer, MD
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
Perlman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst
Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia
Past President, The American Psychoanalytic Association.
“Case Conference - The Psychoanalytic Treatment of an Adolescent with Anorexia Nervosa”

Location:   TBD

Location: Reunion Hall, JMB

Mentor: Dr. Craig Thompson

Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

"Establishing T-cell Identity"

Austrian Auditorium

Robert T. Haslam Professor of

Chemical Engineering

Department of Biological

Engineering

Massachusetts Institute of

Technology

"How to Hit HIV Where It Hurts"

Austrian  Auditorium, CRB

Head, Division of Immunoregulation,

The MRC National Institute for Medical Research, UK

“The Immune Response in Tuberculosis; from Mouse Models to Human Disease”

Professor, Director of Graduate Studies in Pathology

Depts. of Pathology, Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, and Immunology      

Duke University Medical Center

Austrian Auditorium

Professor, Department of Microbiology

University of Chicago

 "Commensal bacteria and retroviruses."

Austrian Auditorium

Associate Professor, Department of Animal Biology

"Endothelial Cell-Intrinsic Non-Canonical NF-kB: A New Player in Immune Development?"

Austrian Auditorium

May 3, 2013

Kian Eftekhari, MD - Neurology/Resident
Matthew Kayser, MD - Psychiatry/Resident
Ashesh Thaker, MD - Radiology/Resident
"Why I Chose to be a Research Resident in…"

Northwestern University

Targets and functions of Kaposi’s Sarcoma-associated herpesvirus microRNAs

Austrian Auditorium, CRB

University of California, Davis 

Food from the fire: How the host response feeds Salmonella

Austrian Auditorium, CRB

New York University School of Medicine

HIV accessory proteins and their cellular targets: Starved for attention

Austrian Auditorium CRB

Co-Sponsored by CFAR and HIV Grand Rounds

Philadelphia VA Medical Center

Immune pathogenesis of human HCV infection

Austrian Auditorium, CRB

Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Unmasking the Houdini traits of mycobacterium tuberculosis: Persistence in the presence of drugs and immune effectors

Austrian Auditorium, CRB

The Center for Public Health Initiatives (CPHI) and the Community Engagement and Research (CEAR) core of the CTSA at the University of Pennsylvania are collaborating on a pilot grant program to fund research with public and community health relevance. The full text for this pilot grant program can be found online at http://www.med.upenn.edu/cphi/2013CallforProposals.shtml

Deadline: 

April 5^th, 2013 by 5:00pm                                      

Purpose: 

This call for proposals is open to faculty with significant public and community health-related experience at Penn and is intended to:

·         Foster interdisciplinary research in public health at Penn that will have meaningful results at the community level.

·         Assist in garnering external support for large-scale studies in the field of public health.

·         Encourage additional faculty and staff at Penn to become involved in public health research.

·         Identify innovative methodologies in the field of public health that have the potential of informing local, state and national policy and programming

Eligibility:

The PI for the grant must be a Penn faculty member.  More than one grant can be submitted by any one team and/or PI. If you want your application to be considered by the CPHI, one of the researchers on the team must be a CPHI Senior Fellow or Associate.

For additional selection and eligibility criteria see the full CFP text at http://www.med.upenn.edu/cphi/2013CallforProposals.shtml

Notification and Project Period:

Awards will be announced by May 24^th, 2013.  All project funds must be expended by June 30, 2014.

Total Award:

Most grants awarded will be in the range of $2,000 to $20,000

Questions:

Contact Wendy Voet, CPHI Managing Director, at wvoet@exchange.upenn.edu or

Erica Cavanaugh, CHBR Research Project Manager, at ecav@upenn.edu.

Advisor: Dr. Mitchell Lazar

Location: Austrian Auditorium, CRB

Penn Medicine

Neuroscience of Behavior Initiative

Invites:

Professor, Departments of Pediatrics, Cellular & Molecular Medicine, and Neurosciences

University of California, San Diego / Rady Children’s Hospital

Presents:

"Neurodegenerative disease pathogenesis links metabolic control pathways with proteostasis regulation"

Monday, April 15^th, 2013 at 12:00pm

Class of ’62 Auditorium

http://werblab.ucsf.edu/

 "Of Mice and Women: How studying mammary development informs us about breast cancer metastasis"

Penn Medicine

Neuroscience of Behavior Initiative

Invites:

Chairman, Molecular and Experimental Medicine

The Scripps Research Institute

Presents:

“Adapting proteostasis to ameliorate disease”

Monday, April 1, 2013 at 1:30pm

Biomedical Research Building, Room 251

Moses Morakortoi Darpolor, PH.D

“A Gene Expression Profiling Integration with

Metabolic Pathways in Human Hepatocellular Carcinoma”

 Monday, April 1, 2013                                                         

2:00-3:30 p.m. 

8030 Maloney, HUP

Girl Rising Screening
Presented by Partners in Health | Engage Philly

The evidence is overwhelming—educating girls dramatically improves the well-being of their families, communities and countries.  Girl Rising is a groundbreaking film, directed by Academy Award nominee Richard Robbins, which tells the stories of 9 extraordinary girls from 9 countries, written by 9 celebrated writers and narrated by 9 renowned actresses. Girl Rising showcases the strength of the human spirit and the power of education to change the world. This is a brand new documentary released in March 2013! It features the talents of Meryl Streep, Anne Hathway, Alicia Keys, Selena Gomez and many more.  Explore the film in detail at girlrising.com.

This event will only take place if enough people commit to attending, so go to http://gathr.us/screening/1816 to reserve your spot and make this happen!  Tickets are $10 and the screening is being held at the Riverview Plaza on S. Colombus Blvd.  Check out the facebook event for more details: https://www.facebook.com/events/165474623606039/

For more info on  PIH | Engage Philly, go to http://www.facebook.com/pages/PIH-Engage-Philly/481574081906598

"Good Things Come in Small Packages - Cancer Nanomedicine"

Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
University of Pennsylvania PSOM
"ALK: The ultimate oncogene and therapeutic target"

 Austrian Auditorium, CRB

Department of Cell and Developmental Biology
University of Pennsylvania PSOM
"Hematopoietic stem cell formation in the embryo"

Austrian Auditorium, CRB

The Pharmacology Graduate Group is pleased to announce the Doctoral dissertation defense of -

MARY FALCONE

April 1, 2013
2:00 PM
12-146 Smilow Center for Translational Research

Advisor: Dr. Caryn Lerman

Dissertation title:  “Influence of Individual Nicotine Metabolism Rate on Cognitive Effects of Nicotine Withdrawal”

Penn Medicine

Neuroscience of Behavior Initiative

Invites:

Director, Neuroinflammation Research Center, Department of Neurosciences, The Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation

Professor, Department of Molecular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine

Presents:

"Neuroinflammation from development to disease"

Thursday, April 18^th, 2013 at 4:00pm

Class of ’62 Auditorium

Lama Chahine, MD

PMI Seminar – Dr. Matthew Lord

University of Vermont

'Bar-coding of the actin track and myosin motor function in the cell'

4/1/2013 2pm in the CRB Austrian Auditorium

The Pharmacology Graduate Group is pleased to announce the

PH.D. CANDIDACY EXAMINATION
of
SHUANG CI

10:00 a.m., April 24, 2013
10-146 SCTR

Presentation Title:  “Regulation of Angiogenesis by PKC-epsilon in Prostate Cancer”

Thesis Advisor: Marcelo Kazanietz

Committee Chair: Judy Meinkoth

Committee Members:

Margaret Chou
Jeffrey Field
Constantinos Koumenis

Yuxiang Zhang (K. Kaestner Lab) - "The role of the Polycomb protein Ezh2 in Pancreatic alpha-cells and Intestinal L-cells"

Elisia Clark (C. Lerman Lab) - "The Relationship Between Nicotine Metabolism and Alcohol Consumption in Smokers"

Cory Alvey (D. Discher Lab) -
 
Sarah McKee (T. Reyes Lab) - "Maternal diet alteration of stress induced DNA Methyltransferase Activity"

Integrated Biology Symposium: Multi-omics Approaches and Technologies at Penn: Genomics, Transcriptomics, Proteomics and Metabolomics

Date: Thursday, April 18, 2013

Location: BRB II/III Auditorium and Lobby

Time: 8:30am -1:00pm

See attached flyer for details.

Sponsored by:

Abramson Cancer Center

ITMAT

Penn Medicine

Agilent Technologies

The Center for Global Communication Studies & The School of Medicine will host the following event as part of the series, M&E in International Development Seminar
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"Dissemination and Implementation Research in Low and Middle Income Countries"

April 2, 2013
12:30 - 1:30
Smilow Center for Translational Research (next to the Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine), Room 12-146AB

Lunch we be served at 12:15 - First come, first served.

Talk abstract:
This presentation will give a brief overview of implementing evidence-based practices in global health and global mental health research. Specifically,
it will address challenges and lessons learned around M&E implementation in low and middle income countries (LMIC). Various implementation strategies
that have been used in studies in LMIC will be outlined, such as the Apprenticeship Model of Training lay workers. Implementation evaluations
from multiple studies will be reviewed including: a) client and counselor perspectives of implementing an evidence based mental health treatment for
children in Zambia, and b) two randomized controlled trials of a Common Elements Treatment Approach for adult torture survivors in Southern Iraq
and the Thailand-Burma border. Discussion will include future directions for implementation science and bi-directional learning with global and
domestic D&I research.

Laura Murray, Ph.D.
Dr. Murray is a clinical psychologist and an Assistant Scientist at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health in the Department of
Mental Health.  Dr. Murray is part of the Applied Mental Health Research Group that uses a validated methodology (both qualitative and quantitative)
on the Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation of programs. This group strives to infuse evidence-based assessments, treatments and
evaluations into existing programs by international aid organizations.  Dr. Murray has a specialty in evidence-based interventions for children,
adolescents and families, particularly in the area of trauma and traumatic grief.  She has also developed a version of a Common Elements Treatment
Approach for use in low-and middle- income countries (LMIC), specifically training lay persons.  Dr. Murray's specific area of interest is
researching the implementation processes of mental health work in low-resource countries. Some of Dr. Murray's funded projects include: a)
examining the implementation and feasibility of a trauma-focused evidence-based treatment in Zambia (NIMH K23), b) a randomized clinical
trial of TF-CBT and psychosocial counseling in Zambia (NICHD, RO1), c) researching the dissemination and implementation process of mental health
treatments in low-resource countries (USAID), c) implementing a common elements intervention for adult survivors of torture in both Southern Iraq
and the Thailand/Burma border - both of which include a RCT (USAID), and d) developing a manual for the inter-correlation of Mental Health and HIV in
low-resource countries (USAID).  She works closely with local organizations and populations to train on treatment models, appropriately adapt them for
the culture and setting, and examine training and supervision models needed for implementation and sustainability in LMIC.

Community Engagement Seminar Series

Please RSVP by Monday, April 8th!

Best Practices in Community-Based Participatory Research

Wednesday, April 10^th

12:00-1:30_PM

Biomedical Research Building (BRB), Room 253

Panel Discussion, including:

Ernestine Delmoor, MPH

President of the National Black Leadership Initiative on Cancer

Ted Emmett, MD, MS

Former Director of the CEET’s (Center of Excellence in Environmental Toxicology) Community Outreach and Engagement Core

Jerry Johnson, MD

Chief of the Division of Geriatric Medicine, academic leader of PARCC (Philadelphia Area Research Community Coalition)

Nicole Thomas, MBA

Program manager and community liaison

Introductions by Janet Weiner, MPH and Moderated by Karen Glanz, PhD, MPH

Join us for a panel discussion introducing the newly released LDI Issue Brief on CBPR best practices. Come learn about CBPR and hear perspectives from researchers and community members. 

What is Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR)?

To RSVP, click here! Please RSVP by Monday, April 8^th.

A light lunch will be provided.

For more information about the Center for Health Behavior Research, visit http://www.med.upenn.edu/chbr/

Sponsored by Center for Health Behavior Research & Community Engagement & Research (CEAR) Core of the UPENN CTSA

PMI Seminar Series- 2pm CRB Austrian Auditorium

4/8/2013

Susan Gilbert, Ph.D.

“Kinesin-14: A League of their Own”

PMI Seminar Series- 2pm CRB Austrian Auditorium

4/15/2013

Don C. Rockey, M.D.

“Actin in myofibroblast function”

Special PMI Seminar Series- 3pm CRB Austrian Auditorium

4/17/2013

Michael Sheetz, Ph.D

Lasker Award and Wiley Prize Winner

“Cellular Mechanosensing of Microenvironment by Local Sarcomere Contractions of Matrix"

PMI Seminar Series- 2pm CRB Austrian Auditorium

4/29/2013

Frank Gertler, Ph.D.

“Coordination of signaling by cell surface receptors with actin polymerization".

PMI Seminar Series- 2pm CRB Austrian Auditorium

4/22/2013

David Drubin, Ph.D.

"Harnessing actin dynamics for endocytic trafficking".

The Endocrinology Grand Rounds Series presents:

Debbie Cohen, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Renal Electrolyte and Hypertension Division

Topic: "Pheochromocytomas"

Date: Wednesday, April 3,  2012

Time: 12:00 noon - 1:00 pm

Location: 12th Floor - TRC - Translational Research Center 12-146

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Educational Objectives

After completing this activity, participants should be able to:

• Apply the latest clinical guidelines in the management of endocrine diseases
• Evaluate and efficacy of therapeutic options in endocrine disorders
• Describe the results of translational research as it pertains to endocrine diseases

Accreditation

The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education to physicians

Designation of Credit

The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM.  Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

The Institute for Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism; the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism; and the Diabetes Research Center Combined Spring 2013 Seminar Series presents:

Rexford S. Ahima, M.D., Ph.D.

University of Pennsylvania

"Connecting Myokines and Metabolism"

April 2, 2013

4:00 PM

Smilow Center for Translational Research, 12th Floor

**Special IDOM Seminar Co-Hosted by ACC**

Ian G. Mills, Ph.D.

University of Oslo

“Biological Insights into Prostate Cancer from the

Study of Transcription”

April 11, 2013

4:00 PM

Smilow Center for Translational Research, Ground Floor

The Institute for Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism; the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism;
and the Diabetes Research Center Combined Spring 2013 Seminar Series presents:

Diva D. De Leon-Crutchlow, MD

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

"Unraveling the Pathophysiology of Congenital Hyperinsulinism:

the Quest for New Therapeutic Targets"

April 9, 2013

4:00 PM

Smilow Center for Translational Research, 12th Floor

Rodebaugh Diabetes Center Conference Series Presents:

Topic: Inpatient DM Conference

Rodebaugh Diabetes Center Conference Series Presents:

Topic: Diabetes and Hepatitis C

Rodebaugh Diabetes Center Conference Series Presents:

Topic: Dermatology in Diabetes

Rodebaugh Diabetes Center Conference Series Presents:

Topic: MODY

Rodebaugh Diabetes Center Conference Series Presents:

Topic: NASH/NAFLD

Botswana-UPenn Partnership Research Update, 

5/1/2013, 3-5PM at UPenn, BRB 252

Speakers include Robert Gross, Carrie Kovarik, and Charlene Compher. Light refreshments will be served. 

Send questions to: Cordelia Biddle 
215-573-7527
biddlec@mail.med.upenn.edu 

The Endocrinology Grand Rounds Series presents:

Michael J. Econs, MD, Professor of Medicine; Glenn W. Irwin, Jr., Professor in Endocrinology and Metabolism,

Indiana University School of Medicine

Topic: "Osteopetrosis Update"

Date: Wednesday, April 10,  2013

Time: 12:00 noon - 1:00 pm

Location: 12th Floor - TRC - Translational Research Center 12-146

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Educational Objectives

After completing this activity, participants should be able to:

• Apply the latest clinical guidelines in the management of endocrine diseases
• Evaluate and efficacy of therapeutic options in endocrine disorders
• Describe the results of translational research as it pertains to endocrine diseases

Accreditation

The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education to physicians

Designation of Credit

The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM.  Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

April 19, 2013 (Friday), 9:00am - 1:00pm 

TEDMED Viewing Event 

Location: 701 Blockley Hall, 423 Guardian Drive

For 3½ days TEDMED offers an amazing experience. It inspires innovation. It creates unexpected collaborations. It provokes multidisciplinary thinking on health's greatest challenges.

Experience the event for yourself at our TEDMED viewing event!

We'll be playing highlights from the conference on a projector and screen. A list of featured speakers will be released closer to the event. Refreshments will be available.

| RSVP  

Community Engagement Seminar Series

Please RSVP by Thursday, April 18th!

Using Mixed Methods for Community Health Assessment in West Philadelphia

Monday, April 22^nd

11:30_AM-1:00_PM

Biomedical Research Building (BRB), Room 252

There are several resources available to researchers who are interested in using a mixed methods approach to better characterize neighborhoods and answer research questions; specifically, the Mixed Methods Research Lab (MMRL) and the Cartographic Modeling Lab (CML). 

Together, the MMRL, the CML, and the Community Engagement and Research Core (CEAR Core) have been working on the West Philadelphia Asthma Mixed Methods Project.  The goal of this project is to demonstrate how existing community data and qualitative data can be combined to identify patterns of health indicators and to learn about the perceptions and neighborhood factors related to asthma control.

Join us as to learn more about the West Philadelphia Asthma Mixed Methods Project from the project team members, including:

School of Nursing

Maureen George, PhD, RN, AE-C

Mixed Methods Research Lab

Fran Barg, PhD, MEd and Shimrit Keddem, MS

Tara Jackson, PhD

Community Engagement and Research Core

Karen Glanz, PhD, MPH

To RSVP, click here! Please RSVP by Thursday, April 18^th.  

A light lunch will be provided.

For more information about the Center for Health Behavior Research, visit http://www.med.upenn.edu/chbr/

Sponsored by Center for Health Behavior Research & Community Engagement and Research (CEAR) Core of the UPENN CTSA

 Professor and Vice Chair for Research
Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics
New Jersey Medical School - UMDNJ    
 
"Trypanosome gene expression: how these parasites mimic their larger schistosome cousins"

132 Hill Pavilion

New York University School of Medicine

“Microbiota limit the induction of intestinal immune responses by restricting trafficking of bacteria to the mesenteric lymph nodes”

Class of '62, JMB

Penn Medicine

Neuroscience of Behavior Initiative

Invites:

Distinguished Professor

Chancellor’s Professor

Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Professor of Medical and Molecular Genetics

Indiana University School of Medicine

Presents:

"Genomics of Alcoholism"

Thursday, May 2^nd, 2013 at 1:00pm

Barchi Library, 140 John Morgan Building

Community Engagement Seminar Series

Please RSVP by Thursday, April 18th!

Using Mixed Methods for Community Health Assessment in West Philadelphia 

Monday, April 22^nd

11:30_AM-1:00_PM

Biomedical Research Building (BRB), Room 252

There are several resources available to researchers who are interested in using a mixed methods approach to better characterize neighborhoods and answer research questions; specifically, the Mixed Methods Research Lab (MMRL) and the Cartographic Modeling Lab (CML). 

Together, the MMRL, the CML, and the Community Engagement and Research Core (CEAR Core) have been working on the West Philadelphia Asthma Mixed Methods Project.  The goal of this project is to demonstrate how existing community data and qualitative data can be combined to identify patterns of health indicators and to learn about the perceptions and neighborhood factors related to asthma control.

Join us as to learn more about the West Philadelphia Asthma Mixed Methods Project from the project team members, including:

School of Nursing

Maureen George, PhD, RN, AE-C

Mixed Methods Research Lab

Fran Barg, PhD, MEd and Shimrit Keddem, MS

Cartographic Modeling Lab

Tara Jackson, PhD

Community Engagement and Research Core

Karen Glanz, PhD, MPH

To RSVP, click here! Please RSVP by Thursday, April 18^th.  

A light lunch will be provided.

For more information about the Center for Health Behavior Research, visit http://www.med.upenn.edu/chbr/

Sponsored by Center for Health Behavior Research & Community Engagement and Research (CEAR) Core of the UPENN CTSA

Josh McKeever, MS "Neuropsychological Disorders
Associated with Pediatric Sleep Disorders"

Christopher M. Cielo, DO “Melatonin for
Sleep Problems in Children with
Neurodevelopmental Disorders:
Randomized Double Masked Placebo Controlled Trial”

PostDoctoral Fellow in the

Laboratory of Dr. Boris Striepen

University of Georgia

 

"Identification and characterization of novel components of the Toxoplasma gondii organelles of endosymbiotic origin"

132 Hill Pavilion

Houry v. Puzantian, Ph.D.  

“The Role of Insulin and Glucose in Aortic Pulse Wave Velocity”

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

10:00-11:30am

8030 Maloney, HUP

For more information:http://www.itmat.upenn.edu/ctsa/mtr 

mtrpor@mail.med.upenn.edu 

Tammy Yang - Carstens Lab

"Exploring the complex post-transcriptional roles of the ESRPs in genome-wide regulatory programs of EMT"
 

Jacqueline Roth- Biegel Lab

"Diagnostic Application of High Resolution SNP Arrays for Children with Brain Tumors"

Maiken Nedergaard, MD, DMSc University of Rochester Medical Center

University of California, Berkley

Title: "Genetic regulation of developmental and regenerative growth"

Location: BRB  Auditorium

Host: Mary Mullins, Ph.D. (CDB)

Please join us this Thursday, April 25, 6-8pm in the Dripps Library for the 4th Annual PENN Anesthesia GLOBAL HEALTH Evening. This year's presentations focus around the theme

"Global Health and Education: a Different Paradigm"

The program begins with a very traditional concept of a training curriculum in a low-middle income economy and then progresses through unique paradigms that you may not have considered to be 'educational', highlighting individuals, governments, NGOs and private institutions who work together to teach and train all.

"7 years of training 700 physicians in Egypt - Trauma education where none existed" - M. McCunn

“Experience as a Medical Mission Volunteer” - T. Conahan

"Teaching the teachers: disease elimination strategy in Kenya and beyond" - M. Hatch

""Human Resources for Health: The Future of Healthcare in Rwanda" - J. Raiten

"Doctors of agents of political change through education: contextualizing modern medical practice in 1930's Germany" - R. Hadler

Presentations will be followed by discussion of how you can get involved in a global health project, with a focus on research.

Thai food is provided

PLEASE RSVP TO: AmyMarie.Meros@uphs.upenn.edu

 Dripps Library is located on 5 Dulles at HUP, 3400 Spruce (http://www.pennmedicine.org/hup/vi_files/maps-ground-floor.html)

Assistant Professor
Department of Veterinary Microbiology & Pathology
College of Veterinary Medicine
 
“Searching for Virulence in Reverse”

132 Hill Pavilion

M. Safwan Badr, MD, MBA, Chief, Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care and Sleep,
Wayne State University School of Medicine

Stemmler, Dunlop Auditorium

 Professor of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
Director, Adult AIDS Clinical Trials Unit

"Metabolic Complications of Antiretroviral Therapy and Immune Activation"

The Institute for Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism; the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism; and the Diabetes Research Center Combined Spring 2013 Seminar Series presents:

Frances M. Brodsky, D.Phil.

University of California, San Francisco

"The Human Side of GLUT4 Membrane Traffic"

April 30, 2013

4:00 PM

Smilow Center for Translational Research, 12th Floor

Conference Room 12-146

Endocrine Clinical Case Conference

The Endocrinology Grand Rounds Series presents:

Stanley Goldfarb, MD - Professor of Medicine, Division of Renal Electrolyte and Hypertension "Diabetic Neuropathy"

Date: Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Time: 12:00 noon - 1:00 pm

Location: 12th Floor – SCTR – Smilow Center for Translational Research - 12-146

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Educational Objectives

After completing this activity, participants should be able to:

• Apply the latest clinical guidelines in the management of endocrine diseases

• Evaluate and efficacy of therapeutic options in endocrine disorders

• Describe the results of translational research as it pertains to endocrine diseases

Accreditation

The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education to physicians

Designation of Credit

The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM.  Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

The deadline to nominate your staff member for the LeadingSuccess^TM Program is fast approaching! Nominations must be received by Friday May 3, 2013.  Please see below for more details.

Would someone you supervise benefit from a significant investment in their development?

Would you benefit from a significant investment in your own development?

Nominations are currently being accepted through May 3rd for LeadingSuccess™, a first-level program for leadership skills development sponsored by the Perelman SOM's Office of Organization Effectiveness. The program is open to both Perelman SOM faculty and staff.

We are seeking participants that have proven themselves as outstanding performers and have strong potential for future roles. To qualify, nominees must currently supervise others or be in a full-time project manager role that involves others (e.g., running a project team). 

Nominations must have the endorsement of their current supervisor, who must be committed to supporting the nominee’s attendance at the schedule of program activities over a period of nine months. The Program will include participant assessment, classroom sessions and coaching.

The content of LeadingSuccess™ differs from the Supervisory Certificate Series (SCS) in that it dives more deeply into skill development than the SCS. There is not significant overlap between the two programs. The SCS is not a prerequisite for LeadingSuccess™, and graduates of the SCS are eligible.

For more detailed information about the LeadingSuccess program, go to: http://www.med.upenn.edu/oe/leading-success.shtml.

To nominate your staff member for the program (or to request your supervisor to nominate you for the program), download the nomination form at: http://www.med.upenn.edu/oe/user_documents/LeadingSuccess_Nomination_Form-2.doc