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NEWS
WinterBlast largest ever
“This is the greatest one ever,” John Schriner, Ph.D., director of admissions and member of OU-COM’s hospitality committee, said of this year’s WinterBlast, which set a new attendance record.
The highlight of the noontime luncheon included the collection of more than 150 pounds of food, which was donated to the college’s Diabetes Free Clinic for distribution to patients.
Jennifer Lykens, OMS IV, and a family medicine fellow, won first place in the dessert contest with her Pumpkin Roll. Ginny Valentin, associate director of admissions, took second place with Cherry Almond Trifles, and Gillian Ice, Ph.D., professor of social medicine and director of Global Health Programs, received third place for Reindeer Cookies. The $212 collected in a split-the-pot generated half that amount for future gatherings, Schriner said.
Knowledge of Chagas disease expands with new findings
A discovery by a team of researchers from Ecuador, the United Kingdom and OU-COM could prove key to creating control programs for a parasite that causes a life-threatening disease in humans.
The findings were published in the article, “Sex, Subdivision, and Domestic Disperal of Trypanosoma cruzi Lineage I in Southern Ecuador,” in the most recent issue of the on-line journal PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases (http://www.plosntds.org/doi/pntd.0000915).
The team, which includes Mario Grijalva, Ph.D., associate professor of microbiology and director of the OU-COM Tropical Disease Institute, found novel evidence that the population of protozoan parasites in Southern Ecuador reproduce sexually, in stark contrast to populations across the continent and in contradiction to a belief held for thirty years that sex is largely absent from this organism. Read about the finding at
http://www.oucom.ohiou.edu/News/press/Chagas2010/index.htm.
O’Connor featured in interview
http://www.livescience.com/culture/dinosaurs-birds-connor-sl-101220.html
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Symposium to feature first multi-state poster contest
OU-COM, CORE and the Ohio Osteopathic Association will hold a Regional Osteopathic Poster Exhibition and Competition as part of the annual Ohio Osteopathic Symposium April 30, 2011, in Columbus. The event is open to students, interns and residents, faculty, medical administrators and practicing physicians from six states: Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia and Pennsylvania.
Abstracts of no more than 250 words are due Jan. 31, 2011, and should be sent to the CORE Research Office.
Read more about event at http://www.ohiocore.org/news/ooacoreresearch.htm.
CALENDAR
AOA president to visit
AOA President Karen J. Nichols, D.O., will visit OU-COM for two days next week. Besides participating in various meetings, Nichols will attend a session in which she will answer questions from OU-COM students. Faculty and staff are invited to attend the session as well.
· Event: Tuesday, Jan. 11, noon, Irvine 194
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Faculty Development Tidbit: Teaching Tip #1: BE ORGANIZED
If lecturing, put a short outline on the board or provide handouts of the lecture. Check off topics on the board as you go through the lecture. Students will be reminded throughout the class period of where you have been and where you are going.
Teaching Tip #10 from University of Tennessee Chattanooga Walker Teaching Resource Center (http://www.utc.edu/Administration/WalkerTeachingResourceCenter/FacultyDevelopment/TeachingTips.php).
NOTE FROM STEVE: In our large lecture hall use the second screen for the outline! For more on the importance of being organized see http://www.oucom.ohiou.edu/fd/Successful%20Tch%20Poster.pdf.
Find more tips at your OU-COM & CORE faculty development web resources: www.oucom.ohiou.edu/fd/programs.htm or www.ohiocore.org/cf/index.htm. If you have a great strategy that seems to always work, please send it to me, and I’ll include it in a future Faculty Development Tidbit.
Tidbits courtesy of your Office of Faculty Development with Steve Davis, Ph.D.; Robbin Kirkland, Ph.D.; and Olivia Sheehan, Ph.D.
OU-COM IN THE NEWS
Sue Meeks, manager of the Family Navigator Program in Community Health Programs, and her mother and son were featured in a holiday story on West Virginia’s WSAZ-TV. Read and watch the story at the following link:
WSAZ-TV (12-23-10)
“Christmas Home Makeover”
http://www.wsaz.com/news/headlines/Christmas_Home_Makeover_112322594.html
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