UTMB Announcements for 11/6/2009

The NIEHS Center in Environmental Toxicology cordially invites you to attend the Environmental Health Sciences Seminar Series featuring:

SO2 as a Model Asthma Magnifier

Bill T. Ameredes, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine
Associate Director, Coordination Core, NHLBI CTSA
Associate Director, NIEHS Toxicology Training Program
Distinguished Teaching Professor, Academy of Master Teachers
Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine (PACCM)
Department of Internal Medicine
University of Texas Medical Branch
Galveston, TX

Monday, November 9th, 2009
2.312 Children's Hospital
12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m.

Everyone is welcome to attend!

The McGovern Academy of Oslerian Medicine is pleased to announce the John P. McGovern Student Awards in Oslerian Medicine. These awards provide monetary support for the education of medical students whose performance and conduct exemplify those ideals of medical practice as promulgated by Sir William Osler. The fundamental principles of Oslerian medicine include:

1.  Compassionate, personalized medical care that emphasizes the doctor/patient
relationship
2.  Incorporation of a sound scientific basis for optimal patient care
3.  Professional behavior at all times

Each award will be for $10,000 per year and will continue until the expected date of graduation, however if an awardee is a MD/PhD student, funding will cease after three consecutive years of disbursement or until graduation, whichever comes first.   In 2010, awards will be presented to seven students: two rising sophomores and five entering the second, third, or fourth years that are in good standing in the UTMB School of Medicine (SOM). 

Nominations may be submitted by any of the faculty in the UTMB School of Medicine or by any UTMB medical student. Medical students may nominate themselves. Letters of nomination should be addressed to the John P. McGovern Academy of Oslerian Medicine and should be sent to Ms. Rosemary Lindley, Program Manager, John P. McGovern Academy of Oslerian Medicine, 301 University Boulevard, Galveston, Texas 77555-0162 (campus mail: Route 0162). Letters of nomination must be in the form of a hard copy and must be received by Ms. Lindley no later than 5:00 p.m., Friday, December 11, 2009.

Students whose nominations have been accepted will receive by 5:00 p.m., Friday, December 18, 2009 an invitation to apply for the award and an application form. The applicant will need to request letters of recommendation from one of his or her POM faculty members, from another member of the SOM faculty who knows the applicant, and from a medical student well acquainted with the applicant.  An optional fourth letter of recommendation may be submitted by any other person who knows the applicant well. (Current Osler scholar faculty are excluded from writing letters of recommendation for nominees unless the Osler Scholar is the student’s sole POM facilitator.) 

Letters of recommendation may be submitted in hard copy to the address above or electronically as a Word document to rmlindle@utmb.edu.  The completed application and all letters of recommendation must be received by Ms. Lindley no later than 5:00 p.m. on Friday, February 5, 2010.   For answers to questions about the application, please call Ms. Lindley at ext 79680 or by email at rmlindle@utmb.edu.

Full-time seats are available leaving from Clear Lake (Bay Area Park & Ride) to UTMB for the 8-5 workday. 

PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A SCHEDULE CHANGE FROM THE PREVIOUS MAINFRAME UPGRADE ANNOUNCEMENT: Information Services (IS) is upgrading the mainframe operating systems that support our Invision, Signature, Pharmacy and Student Information Systems. Information Services will disable access to mainframe systems for approximately 6 hrs. beginning at 2:00AM on Saturday, November 7, 2009. This downtime will allow IS time to shutdown the old systems, bring up the new systems and adequately check all critical components before allowing user access. Invision, Signature, Pharmakon, and SIS transactions will not be available during this time.
 
Thank you for your cooperation as we work to upgrade this important information system.
David Copado
Information Services

DEPARTMENT OF OPHTHALMOLOGY AND VISUAL SCIENCES    
Ethics - Grand Rounds and Patient Satisfaction

“Patient Satisfaction: Practical Guidelines for Every Health Care Provider”
Wednesday, November 11, 2009 - 7:30-8:30 am   
University Eye Center - 2nd Floor Conference Room

Erik van Kuijk, MD, PhD
Professor and Medical Director
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
University of Texas Medical Branch

Objectives: 
At the conclusion of this presentation, participants should be able to:
1. Effectively Use Open Ended Questions
2. Effectively use the AIDET system
3. Interpret Press Ganey results

Accreditation:
The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston designates this educational activity for a maximum of (1 credit) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s) TM.  Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with extent of their participation in the activity.  The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston designates this educational activity for up to (1) one hour(s) in ethics/professional responsibility credit. 

Disclosure Statement:  Erik van Kuijk, MD, PhD does not have any relevant financial interest or affiliation with the manufacturer of any products, devices or services to disclose.

Everyone is welcome to attend.  Please RSVP to Karen Long: klong@utmb.edu or 409 747 5801

                  Kronos Time Keeper Servers to be Updated                    
All Users of the Kronos Time Capture System
11-07-09 to 11-08-09
On November 7th, Saturday 5pm until Sunday morning, November 8th, 8am the Kronos Timekeeping System will be unavailable for system maintenance. All employees will continue to be able to use the phones to clock in and out and should do so as normal.  Any busy signals or long rings should immediately be reported to 25200.  Once the application is brought back up the punches for this period of time will be brought into the application. My Time Detail will not be available until we bring the systems back up. Employees using PC functionality will not have access to their time cards during this upgrade thus employees using time stamp only function should track their time with a paper time form to enable the manager or time keeper to later enter the time.  You may use this form for time tracking purposes.

http://intranet.utmb.edu/finance/payrollservices/forms/Daily%20Time%20Log.doc

KECK/SCSB Teleconference*

"The Origin of Anomalous Mesoscopic Phases in Protein Solutions"

Vassiliy Lubchenko,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
University of Houston

November 6, 2009
5.521 Levin Hall
4 PM

iSpace (Xythos) unavailable for system upgrade

iSpace (Xythos) will be temporarily unavailable on November 6, 2009 from 6:00pm to 9:00pm. in order to perform a system upgrade. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. Please call Helpdesk at 25200 for any problems.

Medical Mycology Symposium: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

Celebrating the career of Dr. Michael R. McGinnis

Monday, December 7, 2009
8:30-5:00 p.m.
Levin Hall South Auditorium
Registration is required and free of charge.
Email Robert Leslie at rolslie@utmb.edu to register.

This symposium will provide current information on medically significant and emerging fungi, treatment of fungal infections, and laboratory diagnosis.

Symposium Faculty:
Dr. David Walker - UTMB
Dr. Michael Rinaldi - UTHSC - San Antonio
Dr. Luis Ostrosky - UTHSC - Houston
Dr. Judith Rowen - UTMB
Dr. Peter Pappas - Univerisity of Alabama @ Birmingham
Dr. Davise Larone - WEill Cornell Medical Center - New York
Dr. Michael McGinnis - UTMB

At the conclusion of this symposium, participants will be able to:

• Describe several emerging or re-emerging fungal pathogens.
• Assess treatment regimens for various diseases.
• Discuss laboratory approaches for the identification of fungi.

Accreditation:  The University of Texas Medical Branch is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Designation Statement:  The University of Texas Medical Branch designates this educational activity for a maximum of one 5.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM .  Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Are you thinking about quitting smoking but not quite ready to take the plunge? Maybe the GREAT AMERICAN SMOKEOUT is for you!! It is an opportunity to join millions of other smokers in saying "NO" to cigarettes (and other tobacco products) for 24-hours.

The UTMB Employee Health Promotion Program will sponsor a health station located in the Cafe on the Court on 11/19/09 from 11am-1pm. Staff will be available to provide encouragement and support, quit smoking self-help material, tobacco awareness information, and carbon monoxide testing.

A FREE "COLD TURKEY" SANDWICH, A BOTTLE OF WATER AND A PIECE OF FRUIT WILL BE PROVIDED TO THE FIRST 100 SMOKERS WHO VISIT THE HEALTH STATION AND TURN IN AT LEAST A HALF PACK OF CIGARETTES.

The Great American Smokeout, for many, has been the beginning of a journey - free of  tobacco use.
For those tobacco users who desire to quit long-term, please contact Patrice Houson with the Commit to Quit Program

INSTRUMENTS FOR RESEARCH

gentleMACS dissociator, autoMACS Pro separator and MACSQuant Flow cytometer

Presented by:  Dr. Jennifer Horner, MACSQuant Specialist, Miltenyi Biotec

Friday, November 6, 2009
MRB Breakroom 9.141
9:30am - 10:30am

Automated workflow solutions from sample to result.
Prepare single cell suspension from your tissue samples with the gentleMACS dissociator....
Isolate your desired cell population with the autoMACS Pro Separator....
Analyze your cells with the MACSQuant Flow cytometer

For more information, please contact:
Bruce George, Regional Manager, 832-266-8750