UTMB Announcements for 11/20/2009

Healthy 12 - 17 year old female volunteers may be eligible to participate in a Cytomegalovirus (CMV) vaccine clinical trial. Travel Reimbursement is provided. Send Text or e-mail to gecasey@utmb.edu or mashafer@utmb.edu ; or call (409) 772-5278 for additional information.
 

Jonathan Mwiindi
Galveston Global Health Consortium
Division of Infectious Diseases

A KENYAN IN TEXAS

Friday, November 20th
12pm-1pm
Levin Hall 3.324

COOKIES AND PUNCH

EVERYONE WELCOME!

The deadline for UTMB Health Care employees who have direct patient contact, handle blood and body fluids, enter patient rooms in the normal course of their duties is Friday, November 20, 2009.

You can receive your free H1N1 vaccine at the Employee Health Clinic 6th floor UHC from 8am-9pm No appointment necessary. Please wear your UTMB employee id badge to receive the vaccine.

The BMB Graduate Program and the Biochemistry Student Organization is pleased to announce Dr. Wayne Fairbrother.  He will be the speaker for our 2009 Pioneering Biological Discovery Seminar at 4pm, Monday November 30, 2009 in the BSB Auditorium (BSB 2.212).  Please join us after the Seminar for a social Happy Hour outside the BSB Auditorium.

Dr. Fairbrother is the director of Protein Engineering at Genentech in San Francisco, CA and a pioneer in the study of chemokine structure and function using NMR and anti-cancer drug design. Genentech ranks 1st of all bio-tech companies as the best place to work by Science (October 1, 2009) for the eighth year in a row! Genentech ranks 7th out of all U.S. companies as the best place to work by Fortune 500 (February 2, 2009).

The link to Dr. Fairbrother's Website is http://www.gene.com/gene/research/sci-profiles/proteng/fairbrother/profile.html

Department of Pathology Grand Rounds

"Novel Therapeutics and Diagnosis of Clostridium difficile Infection"

Presented by
Tor Savidge, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Department of Internal Medicine
UTMB-Galveston

Monday, November 23, 2009
12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Room 1.100 GNL

If you do not have access to the GNL,
please provide your name and employee number to
Sherrill Hebert @ smhebert@utmb.edu

New Policies

No New Policies for this Review Period

Routine Maintenance

2.1.4     Records and Information Management and Retention
2.6.2     Special Use Facilities
2.6.3     Naming of Buildings, Other Facilities and Entities
2.7.1     Signage and Wayfinding Graphics
3.1.1     Staffing During Adverse Conditions
3.7.10   Work Schedules and Work Week
6.1.1      Clinical Conflicts of Interest
9.1.14    Patient Discharge
9.1.16    Admission of Interfacility Transfer Patients
9.11.5    Physician Orders
9.13.3    Patient Owned Medical Equipment/Devices
9.13.4    Governance of Point of Care Testing
9.13.13  Unusual Event Reporting  
9.13.16  Sentinel Events  
9.13.17  Use of Mobile Communications and/or Wireless Devices on Patient Care Units
9.13.19  Patient Care Alarm Systems: Maintenance, Testing and Activation
9.13.22  Handling of Malfunctioning of Defective Equipment, Devices and Supplies

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 No Policies Deleted at this time

You are cordially invited to attend the next IMH Brown Bag, which will be held on Monday, November 23, 2009, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m., in 2.268 Primary Care Pavilion (PCP). 

Please note the change in day—fourth Monday rather than the usual fourth Tuesday of the month.

Ryan Greysen, M.D., M.A., will give a presentation titled Medical Students Online - Threat to Professionalism or Window into the Profession?  Dr. Greysen is currently a Research Scholar in the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at the Yale University School of Medicine. 

Dr. Greysen (formerly Gregory) received his Master's degree from the IMH in 2001.  In 2003, he earned a Master of Arts degree in history and sociology of medicine from the University of Pennsylvania.  He then came back to UTMB and earned his M.D. degree  After completing his residency in primary care internal medicine at the George Washington University, he joined the faculty as a hospitalist at the Washington VAMC and researcher in the Department of Health Policy.  Dr. Greysen’s research interests focus on intersections of health policy and medical education including quality improvement, disparities in care, workforce expansion, medical student debt, diversity, and primary care.

For non-IMH guests who will be attending this presentation, please contact me for a visitor parking pass or simply print this message and put it in the dashboard of your car so that security can clearly see that you are a guest of the IMH.  You will enter the glass doors at Entrance A, take the elevator up to the second floor.  Enter the door marked "Family Medicine" located directly across from the elevator.  2.268 PCP will be about halfway down that long hallway on your left.  Door numbers are at the very top of the doors.   

Joanne Resh, MetLife Representative, will be on campus Monday, November 23rd, from 9:30 AM to 2:00 PM, and will be available to meet by appointment only.  Joanne is available to answer your questions regarding voluntary retirement plans (UT Saver 403(b) and 457(b)) and Optional Retirement Plans. 

Please contact Joanne at 713-962-0358 to schedule an appointment.

If you or someone you know has had a stroke, and at least 6 months has passed since the date of the stroke or he/she is not eligible for traditional therapy services, we would like to hear from you!

The Departments of Occupational and Physical Therapy in the School of Health Professions at UTMB are holding a series of free post-stroke rehabilitation clinics over the upcoming year made possible through a UTMB President's Cabinet Award.

The next session will occur November 16th-20th, 1-4PM daily, at the UTMB School of Health Professions.

For additional information or to register, please contact Dr. Barbara Doucet at 409.747.1630 or Jeane Isbell at 409.772.3060.

The deadline for UTMB Health Care employees who have direct patient contact, handle blood and body fluids, enter patient rooms in the normal course of their duties, is Friday November 20, 2009.

You can receive your free H1N1 vaccine at the Employee Health Clinic, 6th floor UHC from 8am-3pm. No appointment necessary. Please wear your UTMB id badge to receive the vaccine.

Free trees will soon be available to Island property owners who lost trees to Ike’s salty surge last year.

Nearly 2,000 trees will be given away to Galvestonians on Saturday, November 21st. The trees were donated by the Tree Folk of Austin, Apache Foundation, and Randalls.

 WHAT: Galveston Free Tree Giveaway
WHEN: Saturday, November 21st - 9a.m.-4p.m., and Sunday, November 22nd (if there are remaining trees) 1-4p.m. WHERE: Galveston City Hall parking lots 823 Rosenberg

Stipulations: Trees will be given away on a first come, first serve basis. Limit two trees per address. Identification and a city utility bill with a Galveston address are required. Recipients must sign an agreement to plant in Galveston and care for the tree. Trees may only be planted on private property; not in the city’s right-of-way. A variety of tree species, selected especially for Galveston, will be available at the giveaway. Large species include live oak, Mexican white oak, Mexican sycamore, and sweet gum. Smaller species include mountain laurel, Mexican plum, loblolly pine, and a fruited pear. Each tree is potted in a 5-gallon container. Planting and care instructions will be provided. Additionally, mulch from the City’s recycling center will be available for free. Members of the City of Galveston’s Tree Committee and the Galveston Island Tree Conservancy will be on hand to load trees and offer planting advice. More volunteers are needed.

Please contact David Schuler at (409) 599-7578 to help with the giveaway. Donations to assist with replanting Galveston will be gratefully accepted.

The Navigating the IRB series will conclude Dec. 3 with Session 3: Obtaining Informed Consent. The class will begin at 1 p.m. (Note: This is a change from the originally scheduled date and time of session 3). This program is developed for investigators, study/nurse coordinators, fellows and other individuals with responsibilities in human subjects research. The course comprises three 90-minute sessions, all in Rebecca Sealy East 4.302/304.

Session 3: Obtaining Informed Consent
Thursday, Dec. 3, 2009
1 - 2:30 p.m.
Speaker: Michele Carter, Associate Professor, Institute for the Medical Humanities, Research Subject Advocate, General Clinical Research Center
RSVP here

Please bring your lunch and join us for these sessions.

You need not have attended sessions 1 and 2 to attend this session.

KECK/SCSB Teleconference*

"Calmodulin, Intrinsic Disorder, and Cell Death - The PEP-19 Connection"

John Putkey, PhD,
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,
University of Texas Medical School at Houston.

November 20, 2009
5.521 Levin Hall
4 PM