Calendar
January 29 - February 2, 2001

NOTE: Institutions are listed with speakers who are not Health Science Center faculty or staff. No weekend events were reported.

Monday January 29

6:00 a.m. Podiatry Residency Training Program "Fracture Healing, Osteonecrosis and Bone Graft," Dr. Animesh Agarwal (MED: 309L)

7:00 a.m. Orthopaedic Teaching Conference "Overcoming Paralysis in Spinal Cord Injury ­ Neuroprosthesis," Dr. Michael Keith (MED: 309L)

7:00 a.m. Continuing Medical Education "X-Ray Mammography, Basic Physics and Quality Assurance," Dr. Robert Waggener (two-day course) (Call 7-6076 for information.)

7:30 a.m. Surgery Grand Rounds, Dr. Isaiah Fidler (MED: 209L)

8:00 a.m. Rehab Medicine Lecture "Wheelchair Sports," Ross Davis (UH: Third-floor Reeves Rehab Center classroom)

Noon Physiology Seminar "Amiloride-Sensitive Sodium Channels and the Cytoskeleton," Dr. Dale Benos (MED: 444B)

4:00 p.m. Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Seminar "Cell Adhesion and Trans-membrane Signaling," Dr. Kenneth Olden, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (MED: 409L)

Tuesday January 30

8:00 a.m. Rehab Medicine Lecture "Burns in Children," Dr. Basil Pruitt (UH: Third-floor Reeves Rehab Center classroom)

4:00 p.m. Molecular Medicine Seminar "Does p53 Regulate Organismal Aging?" Dr. Lawrence Donehower, Baylor College of Medicine (IBT: Conference Room 3.002)

Wednesday January 31

6:30 a.m. Podiatry Grand Rounds "First MTPJ Arthritis," Dr. Sharada Penugonda (MED: 309L)

7:00 a.m. Vascular Surgery Grand Rounds, Dr. Mellick Sykes (MED: 209L)

7:00 a.m. Continuing Medical Education "Physics Review in Magnetic Resonance Imaging," Dr. Robert Waggener (Call 7-6076 for information.)

8:00 a.m. Medicine Grand Rounds "Clinical Approach to Neuromuscular Disease in the Intensive Care Unit," Dr. Carlayne Jackson (MED: 409L)

Noon Pharmacology Seminar "G Protein Signaling and the Cytoskeleton: Form and Function in Signal Transduction," Dr. Mark Rasenick, University of Illinois College of Medicine (MED: 444B)

Noon Cellular and Structural Biology Seminar, Dr. F. Brad Johnson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MED: 209L)

1:00 p.m. Training Office "Processing State and Local Vouchers," Donna Henckel (Call 7-2320 to enroll.)

Thursday February 1

7:30 a.m. Obstetrics and Gynecology Grand Rounds "The Ethics of Fetal Surgery," Dr. Albert Jonsen, University of Washington School of Medicine, Second Annual Salinger-Forland Visiting Scholar in Medical Ethics and the Humanities (MED: 309L)

8:00 a.m. Neurology Grand Rounds "Neuropsychiatric Lupus: An Update from the San Antonio NPSLE Cohort Study," Dr. Robin Brey (MED: 444B)

Noon Teleconference Network of Texas (TNT) "Primary Care Forum: Unlocking the Secret to Domestic Violence," Dr. Yolanda Davila (Call 7-2700 for information.)

Noon Combined Thoracic, Pulmonary & Oncology Conference (MED: 309L)

Noon Microbiology Seminar "Investigation of Vibrio cholerae Gene Expression During Infection," Dr. Andrew Camilli, Tufts University School of Medicine (MED: 444B)

3:00 p.m. Surgery Tumor Conference, Dr. Anatolio Cruz (MED: 209L)

4:30 p.m. Citywide Thoracic Grand Rounds Conference "Challenges to Surgical Professionalism," Dr. Albert Jonsen, University of Washington School of Medicine, Second Annual Salinger-Forland Visiting Scholar in Medical Ethics and the Humanities (MED: 309L)

5:00 p.m. Plastic Surgery Grand Rounds, Dr. Chet Nastala (MED: 444B)

Friday February 2

7:30 a.m. Pediatric Grand Rounds "The Ethics of Fetal Surgery," Dr. Albert Jonsen, University of Washington School of Medicine, Second Annual Salinger-Forland Visiting Scholar in Medical Ethics and the Humanities (MED: 409L)

8:00 a.m. Rehab Medicine Lecture "Weakness in Children," Dr. Donald Currie (UH: Third-floor Reeves Rehab Center classroom)

8:00 a.m. Organ Transplant Grand Rounds "Use of Growth Hormones in Pediatric Transplant Recipients," Dr. Rita Swinford, Hermann Children's Hospital, Houston (MED: 444B)

8:30 a.m. Training Office "The Art of Listening," Anita Glass (Call 7-2320 to enroll.)

Noon Department of Medicine Housestaff Conference "The Four-Quadrant Approach to Clinical Ethics Issues," Dr. Albert Jonsen, University of Washington School of Medicine, Second Annual Salinger-Forland Visiting Scholar in Medical Ethics and the Humanities (MED: 3.102B)