Campus-Submitted Announcements
Health and Wellness
1.) Take a deep breath in this Get Healthy Now new and improved workshop
Miscellaneous
2.) Deadline extended for 2014 Trustees Award nominations
3.) Last chance to register for the 2014 Kentucky Student Success Summit
4.) Mobile mammography van on campus for mammogram screenings
5.) Jane Goldstein nominated for Most Admired Woman in Education
6.) Free legal clinic for cancer patients and families and/or caregivers
Talks
7.) The Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology seminar series
8.) Oral Biology 605: Oral Health seminars
9.) Neuroscience Lunch and Learn
10.) Anatomical Sciences and Neurobiology
11.) Pediatrics presents Fourth Annual Dr. Thomas H. Pinkstaff Memorial Lectureship
12.) Family and Geriatric Medicine: Moore discusses autoimmunity, aging immune system
13.) Parker to discuss “Cost of Care in Gynecologic Oncology”
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Campus-Submitted Announcements
Health and Wellness
1.) Take a deep breath in this Get Healthy Now new and improved workshop
Noon – 1 p.m., Wednesdays from March 19 to April 9, Student Services Annex, Center for Health Promotions and Prevention Science Conference Room
Get Healthy Now is integrating the “flourishing” techniques of Martin Seligman, PhD, into our wellness options. Are you happy, healthy and energized? Pause from your busy schedule and discover how to reset your internal GPS in order to thrive. Join us for four Wednesdays beginning March 19, noon to 1 p.m. Registration.
Additional Information: Paula Kommor, 852-0128.
Miscellaneous
2.) Deadline Extended for 2014 Trustees Award Nominations
The deadline for the university community to nominate faculty members for the 2014 Trustees Award has been extended to March 18. The Trustees Award recognizes faculty members who have had an extraordinary impact on students’ college experience. Nomination instructions and forms may be obtained through any academic department or via the web.
Additional Information: Jake Beamer, 852-5795
3.) Last chance to register for the 2014 Kentucky Student Success Summit
April 7 and 8, Louisville Marriott East
This year’s summit features a keynote session by Kati Haycock, president, Education Trust. Other featured speakers include Deborah Santiago, chief operating officer and vice president for policy and research at Excelencia for Education. Limited conference spaces are available free to faculty and staff through the Office of the Provost. Deadline to register is March 14. Learn more and register here.
4.) Mobile mammography van on campus for mammogram screenings
9 a.m. – 4 p.m. April 9, Gottschalk Circle on Belknap Campus (next to Shumaker Research Building)
Is it time for your annual mammogram? If so, you’re in luck. UofL’s Kentucky Cancer Program is pleased to bring the mobile mammography van back to Belknap campus on Wednesday, April 9. For UofL employees 40 and over, mammograms will be provided by UofL Hospital and the Brown Cancer Center. Insurance, Medicare or Medicaid will be billed. UofL insurance covers 100 percent. UofL Women’s Center will also be onsite with information. Call today to schedule your appointment at 852-6318. For more information, email Jaime Wientjes or view event flyer.
5.) Jane Goldstein nominated for Most Admired Woman in Education
Jane Goldstein, assistant dean for development and external affairs in the College of Business, has been nominated in Today’s Woman magazine’s annual Most Admired Women poll. Jane has been a respected member of the College of Business faculty and administration for more than 40 years and in 2012 had a plaza named in her honor. Vote for Jane daily until March 31 at Today’s Woman.
Additional Information: Donna Zinser Clark, 852-8523.
6.) Free legal clinic for cancer patients and families and/or caregivers
5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. April 9, second floor, Community Room, Gilda’s Club, 633 Baxter Ave.
Free, public
UofL’s Kentucky Cancer Program will be hosting a free legal clinic for cancer patients and their families and/or caregivers. Attorneys will be available to offer free help on life planning documents, employee benefits during illness and government assistance. Refreshments/dinner provided. Sponsored by KCP, Louisville Bar Association, and Louisville Pro Bono Consortium. Reservations required. Call 852-6318 to RSVP.
Additional Information: Flyer. Jaime Wientjes, 852-6318.
Talks
7.) The Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology seminar series
Noon March 13, Knoefel Conference Room 1302, Research Tower, Health Sciences Center
Free
The Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology presents two research seminars: “The Role of Sphingolipids in Chemotherapy-induced Acute Kidney Injury” by Tess Dupre and “Air Pollution and Cardiovascular Disease: What is the Role of ET-1?” by Jordan Finch.
Additional Information: Tracey Pender, 852-6255.
8.) Oral Biology 605: Oral Health Seminars
Noon – 1 p.m. March 14, Room 119, Dental School
Free
Oral Biology 605: Oral Health Seminars presents “Interplay of Microbiota, Androgens and Inmmunoregulation in Lupus” by Michele Kosiewicz, PhD, associate professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, UofL.
Additional Information: Gerard Buono.
9.) Neuroscience Lunch and Learn
12:15 p.m. – 1:15 p.m. March 20, Great Halls 3 and 4, Rudd Heart and Lung Building
Free
Maxwell Boakye, MD, will present “Developments in Spine Surgery” at this free event. Lunch will be provided, and one CME credit is available to physicians who attend. Please RSVP by March 17.
Additional Information: Emily Rollins, 407-3226.
10.) Anatomical Sciences and Neurobiology
4 p.m. – 5 p.m. March 13, auditorium, Baxter 1 Research Building
Free
Anatomical Sciences and Neurobiology presents “Chemotherapeutic Resistance in Spinal Cord Injury: Lessons from the Cancer Field” by Raymond J. Grill, PhD, Department of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology, Health Science Center, University of Texas, Houston.
Additional Information: Matt Guido, 852-6227.
11.) Fourth Annual Dr. Thomas H. Pinkstaff Memorial Lectureship
8 a.m. March 14, second floor, auditorium, Norton Hospital
Please join us Friday for the fourth annual Dr. Thomas H. Pinkstaff Memorial Lectureship featuring Gregory Neal Barnes, MD, PhD. Barnes is an associate professor and the Spafford Ackerly Chair in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in the Departments of Neurology and Pediatrics at UofL. He will present “State of Autism 2014: Challenges, Research and Vision for the Future.”
Additional Information: Brittney Luckett, 629-8828.
12.) Family and Geriatric Medicine: Moore discusses autoimmunity, aging immune system
7:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. March 14, Bottigheimer Auditorium, Jewish Hospital
Free
Charles Moore, MD; assistant professor, Department of Medicine Division of Rheumatology, presents “Autoimmunity and the Aging Immune System.” He will review basic clinical immunology and go over immune aging and senescence, particularly as it relates to autoimmune and rheumatologic diseases. He will also briefly touch on the aging immune system and the connection with malignancy and atherosclerosis. CME category 1 is available for both AAFP and ACCME accreditation and a continental breakfast will be provided.
Additional Information: Callie Booth.
13.) Parker to discuss “Cost of Care in Gynecologic Oncology”
1 p.m. March 14, basement auditorium, Ambulatory Care Building
Please join us as Lynn Parker, MD, Thomas D. Day Jr Endowed Chair in Gynecology Oncology and director, Gynecology Oncology Division, UofL School of Medicine, presents “Cost of Care in Gynecologic Oncology.” Parker will discuss indications in cancer surveillance and the benefits of palliative care in patients with gynecologic malignancies.
Additional Information: Robin Marling, 561-2717.
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