When: Friday, Dec. 11, 3-4 p.m.
Where: A110 Mayo
When: 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m., Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Where: D325/327 Mayo Building
]]>When: Wednesday, Dec. 2, 3:30 p.m.
Where: 2-120 Weaver-Densford Hall
]]>When: Dec. 2, 3-4:30 p.m.
Where: Wilder Center-, Amherst A. Wilder Auditorium, 451 Lexington Parkway North, St. Paul
This event is free and open to all but seating is limited. Please RSVP to Laurie Ukestad at ukest001@umn.edu. More information online.
]]> Robert (Clarence) Jones, MA, Community Outreach Director for Southside Community Health Services/Q Health Connections will address the cultural shifts that are challenging stereotypes of fatherhood and re-defining parental roles and explore the new role men may have in optimizing pre-conception health and family planning. Following the 45-minute presentation participants will be invited to engage in a small-group discussion to share personal perceptions of fatherhood and suggest next steps to optimizing healthy fatherhood. ]]>When: Friday, Dec. 4, 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Where: Coffman Union Theatre
More information: 612-625-7849
The workshop will also be broadcast live to host sites in Greater Minnesota. This workshop is sponsored by the Center for Excellence in Children's Mental Health.
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When: Friday, Dec. 4, 10 a.m.
Where: D199 Mayo
]]>A group of student leaders from the Academic Health Center and experts on health reform will meet to learn about, debate on, and make recommendations on various aspects of health care reform.
When:Saturday, Dec. 5
Where: Radisson University Hotel ballroom
Register Online
When: Monday, Dec. 7, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Where: Weaver-Densford Hall, Room 2-120 / 2-130
Project Homeless is on a Monday, starting from 9am. I've already talked to several professors who have classes on Monday. Professors have said that if students are interested in volunteering during Monday classes, it is alright to volunteer as long as they any assignments are handed in early.
Contact leex4900@umn.edu or perdu011@umn.edu with questions
When: Monday, Dec. 7, 9 a.m.
Where: Minneapolis Convention Center
When you register for Project Homeless Connect, type "UMN SPH" in the company/affiliation box. This will help organize the volunteers.
]]>When: Tuesday, Dec. 8, noon-1 p.m.
Where: 3M Auditorium, Carlson School of Management
Mayo Clinic's Center for Innovation percolates many types of innovation to redefine what can be done better today and what will be done tomorrow. Focused on the goals of understanding human need, innovating care delivery, fostering open collaboration, and generating economic value the Center for Innovation is transforming the way healthcare is experienced and delivered.
Nicholas F. LaRusso, M.D., Charles H. Weinman Endowed Professor of Medicine, is Medical Director of the Center for Innovation at Mayo Clinic and a Distinguished Investigator of the Mayo Foundation. Prior to becoming Center Director in 2008, he held positions as Vice Chair for Research of the Department of Medicine, Chair of the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, and Chair of the Department of Medicine, all at Mayo Clinic. He received his undergraduate degree (magna cum laude) from Boston College, his M.D. degree from New York Medical College, and his training in internal medicine and gastroenterology at Mayo, the latter as an NIH fellow in the laboratory of Alan Hofmann. Before assuming a faculty position at Mayo in 1977, he was a guest investigator at the Rockefeller University in the laboratory of the Noble laureate, Christian de Duve. A member of the American Association of Clinical Investigation and the Association of American Physicians, he is the former editor of GASTROENTEROLOGY and past president of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) and the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA). Among other honors, he is a recipient of a MERIT Award and the Principle Investigator on two R01s from the NIH; he also received Distinguished Achievement Awards from both the AGA and the AASLD, and the Distinguished Mentor award from the AGA. He is currently past president of the AGA.
When: Thursday, Dec. 10, 2:15-4:30 p.m.
Where: Weisman Art Museum
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When: Friday, Dec.11, 3:30-4:30 p.m.
Where: Mayo A110
Allan Horwitz (Ph.D., Yale, 1975), professor of sociology, is the co‐director of the Institute's NIMH postdoctoral program in mental health services and systems training research. He has studied the response of social networks to persons with serious mental illness and the role of family processes in treatment. He has been particularly concerned with the various informal help‐seeking mechanisms within families and friendship groups and with the labeling of mental illness. Most recently,Dr. Horwitz is studying how categorical mental illnesses have emerged as the dominant subject matter in the psychiatric profession since the 1980's. His book on this subject,Creating Mental Illness, was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2002. His mostrecent book,The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry is Transforming Normal Misery into Depressive Disorder(Oxford University Press) appeared in 2007. Another book,Diagnosis, Evidence, and Therapy: Conundrums in American Medicine, co‐authored with historian Gerald Grob, will be published by Rutgers University Press later this year. Dr. Horwitz is also Dean of Social and Behavioral Sciences in the School of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers.
SPH Faculty-eligible-to-vote are required by SPH Policy to have 80 percent attendance at the APT portions of the meeting. The 1st item to be voted on by all tenured, tenure-track, and contract faculty will be discussion and approval of revisions of the 7.12 document that establishes SPH policies for appointment, promotion, and tenure of faculty.
This APT portion of the meeting is essential, and faculty are strongly urged to attend. Without an 80 percent quorum in attendance on Dec. 17, the APT meeting will have to be canceled and rescheduled.
Following the Fall Faculty meeting with Dean John Finnegan (8:15-9:15 a.m.)
Agenda (starting at 9:30 a.m.)
When: Thursday, Dec. 17, 8-11 a.m.
Where: 3-125 Mayo Memorial Building
Important: RSVP online by Dec. 14 at www.sph.umn.edu/aptcal
If you are unable to attend the voting meeting in person, you may participate via conference call. Please contact Stefannie Anderson at stef@umn.edu by Dec. 14 with your request to join the meeting by phone.
When: Jan. 16-18, departing at 12:45 p.m. on Jan. 16 and returning around 4 p.m. on Jan. 18.
Where: Camp Courage (60 miles northwest of the Twin Cities)
Participants are requested to pay a $20 materials fee (Scholarships are available upon request. No one will be turned away for financial reasons). All other expenses, including transportation, food, and lodging, will be covered by the University of Minnesota. The fee does not need to be paid until early December. The application deadline for the retreat is Thursday, November 12.
Additional information online
When: Wednesday, Jan. 20, noon-1 p.m.
Where: 1155 Mayo
To RSVP or for more information, contact Khosi Nkosi at 5-0622 or enhsss@umn.edu
]]>When: Jan. 20, 2010, 3-4 p.m.
Where: Wilder Center, Amherst A. Wilder Auditorium, 451 Lexington Parkway North, St. Paul
RSVPs will be requested by email at a later date. Please contact Laurie Ukestad at ukest001@umn.edu for further information.
]]>When: Jan. 20, 2010, 10 a.m.
Where: TBD.
]]>When: Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m
Where: McNamara Alumni Center
]]>When: Feb. 3, 2010, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.
Where: Coffman Memorial Union Theater
]]>When: Feb. 10, 2010, 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Where: Mississippi Room, Coffman Memorial Union
]]>When: Feb. 17, 2010, 10 a.m.
Where: TBD.
]]>When: Thursday, Feb.18, 2010, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.
Where: Mississippi Room, Coffman Memorial Union
]]> Prof. Capron will discuss how biobanks -- repositories of human biological samples and associated information about the lives and health of the samples' sources -- have been established to assist in studies of particular diseases and, more broadly, of the effects of genes and the environment on human health and disease. Many involve collaboration across boundaries, including the gathering of samples in developing countries (sometimes from culturally isolated populations) by researchers from developed countries. He suggests that biobanks, therefore, raise many difficult normative issues:Although numerous ethical codes and guidelines have been promulgated about these issues, many remain controverted. Prof. Capron will also analyze the methodology and results of an international study of expert opinion on such issues and will offer his reflections on how we might think about these controversies.
]]>When: Thursday, Feb. 19, 10 a.m.
Where: Weisman Art Museum, Sheppard Room
When: March 5, 2010, 4-5:30 p.m.
Where: Braemar Golf Dome, Edina
]]>When: March 17, 2010, 10 a.m.
Where: TBD.
]]>When: Monday, April 5, 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
Where: Coffman Memorial Union, Mississippi Room
]]>When: Monday, April, 5, 2010.
Where: Mayo Memorial Auditorium. Doors open at 5 p.m., and event will begin at 5:30 p.m.
Read more information about the PSA contest.
]]> Want to tell the world how you feel about global warming, vaccinations, sexual health, hand-washing or another global public health topic? Here's your chance. Create a public service announcement that is 30 seconds or less and enter the 2010 "It's Global" Public Service Announcement (PSA) contest.Novice and seasoned filmmakers are encouraged to participate.
The deadline to enter is March 5, 2010.
]]>When: April 5-9, 2010
Where: Mayo Memorial Auditorium
The School of Public Health will celebrate National Public Health Week by sponsoring its sixth annual week-long film festival. Films that highlight public health issues and topics will be screened.
]]>When: April 15, 2010, 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Where: Cowles Auditorium, Hubert H. Humphrey Center
]]> The project has assessed 5 historical oversight models: for drugs, devices, gene transfer, genetically engineered organisms in the food supply, and chemicals in the workplace using a comparative approach, and developed recommendations for future nanobiotechnology oversight. The conference will assemble a multi-disciplinary group of investigators with strengths in nanotechnology research and development, public policy, law, health, environment, economics, and bioethics as well as collaborators representing a range of perspectives to present their findings to key leaders from related oversight agencies and the public.The conference will include sessions providing background information in nanobiotechnology and existing oversight systems. The investigators will then present their recommendations and a panel of experts will provide input before opening up the discussion to the audience. Break-out sessions will focus on nanoethics, risk assessment, public engagement, and law and regulatory approaches.
]]>When: Apr. 17-18, 2010
Where: Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
]]>When: Apr. 21, 2010, 10 a.m.
Where: TBD.
]]>When: April 22, 2010, 5:30-7:30 p.m
Where: McNamara Alumni Center
]]>When: May 17, 2010
Where: McNamara Alumni Center; Johnson Great Room
]]>When: May 17, 2010
Where: Northrop Memorial Auditorium
Congratulations to the graduating class of 2010!
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