ROUNDS, 01-28-08: Go Red For Your Heart This February ROUNDS, 01-28-08: Go Red For Your Heart This February

 

Welcome to ROUNDS! This weekly e-newsletter goes out to all OU-COM and CORE personnel.

 

Those of you who were OU-COMers prior to 2004 will recall the previous print versions of ROUNDS, the internal publication that covered a variety of news, announcements and just about anything happening in the college or our CORE system.

I encourage you to send me your news/announcements each week by Wednesday by 3 p.m., which will make up the following week’s ROUNDS. If you have any questions or suggestions, and I imagine you might, please contact me, 3-0896 or sanders@oucom.ohiou.edu. The ROUNDS archive is here.

 

 

NEWS

 

Go Red For Your Heart This February

Go Red For Women is the American Heart Association’s nationwide movement that celebrates the passion and power that we — men and women — have to band together and wipe out heart disease. Heart disease claims more than 870,000 people each year, of which 460,000 are women. That’s one woman who dies almost every minute because of cardiovascular disease. More women die of heart disease than the next five causes of death combined, including cancer. February is American Heart Month, and the Go Red For Women movement challenges women to know their risk for heart disease and take action to reduce it.

On Feb. 1, National Wear Red Day, the American Heart Association encourages women to wear red — whether it is a red dress, a red t-shirt, a red dress pin or red lipstick. Show the world you passionately support Go Red For Women, the movement to improve women’s heart health and save lives. For more information, please visit www.goredforwomen.org and www.americanheart.org. Also, please consider making a donation to the American Heart Association in honor of Go Red.

 

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS

 

OU-COM Undergraduate American Academy of Osteopathy Auction

The annual OU-COM Undergraduate American Academy of Osteopathy (UAAO) Auction takes place Wednesday, Feb. 6, 6 p.m., in Irvine 199, and you are invited to attend. Proceeds from the auction funds lectures, workshops and other activities that the UAAO sponsors to further the education of future osteopathic physicians.

In previous years, items for the auction have come from the generous donations of businesses, faculty, staff, students and friends. Again this year, the academy is requesting your support in providing items to be auctioned. Previous donations have included gift certificates, clothing, books, care baskets, etc.

For more information or to make a donation, please contact Mirna Martinez (740.707.8272 or mm110106@ohio.edu).

 

Annual Winter Red Cross Blood Drive

Community Health Program’s COMCorps and the Charles Ping Center are teaming up again to help replenish Ohio’s blood supply through a Jan. 29 blood drive, held at the Ping Center from 1 to 7 p.m. If you give blood, you can win a $2,000 travel voucher from AAA to help pay for the vacation of your choice. Donors should be in good health, at least 17 years old and weigh at least 110 pounds. Photo identification with birth date is required, and donors may only give blood every 56 days. To sign up, please call Greta Black at 593-2274. You also may e-mail donatebloodathens@yahoo.com to register to give blood.  

 

FMS104: Grants & Contract Management-Project Status Inquiry

OU Grants and Contract Accounting is offering a seminar dedicated specifically for grants, contract and plant funds management (Oracle Financial Management System) Wednesday, Feb. 20 [Please note: changed to March 19], 1 to 4 p.m., HDL 175. This seminar is designed for those who manage, track or work with externally funded projects and will prove valuable if your responsibilities include tracking project transactions, monitoring project account balances and reading project reports

“If you are responsible for managing grant accounts,” says Kathy Brooks, OU-COM chief financial officer, “this training is helpful for someone new to the system, or as a refresher.”

To register for this training session, please go to http://iliad.cats.ohiou.edu/html/adminsys/onlineseminar/ or contact Angie LeMaster (lemasta1@ohio.edu or 593-1867).

 

SOUPer Bowl Wednesday

OU-COM’s SOUPer Bowl returns Wednesday, Jan. 30, at noon on the Irvine Bricks. It is one of the college’s favorite events, and we hope you will be able to attend this year.    

For those of you in the chili/soup competition, please bring your dish to the Irvine no later than 11:30 a.m.; others should have their dishes there by 11:50 a.m. Judges will select the first, second and third prize entries, but anyone chowing down can vote for the People’s Choice Award. Split-the-pot tickets are available now and will be sold during the SOUPer Bowl. Please RSVP with Carol Blue (blue@oucom.ohiou.edu or 593-2178) if you haven’t already.

 

Faculty Development Tidbit: Teach Students to be Better Listeners!

·         Begin by asking students to write for one minute on “What do I hope to get out of this lecture?”  Explain how this will help them to listen more effectively. 

·         Tell students you’ll give them 5-minutes at the end to summarize the main points for someone sitting near them.  End by asking what effect this had on their listening, and point out they can use this approach even if they only summarize in their own notes.

Condensed from: McKeachie’s Teaching Tips, 3rd edition, Houghton Mifflin Co. Available for review upon request.

 

 

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

 

Publications

Acharya, Utkarsh, third-year student. “Pulmonary Fibrosis” and “Respiratory Diseases.” Encyclopedia of Global Health, ed. Yawei Zhang. Vol. 1. pp. 1455-6 and 1483-7. (Sage Publications, Jan. 3, 2008)

 

 

EMPLOYEE NEWS

 

Renee Walker, research assistant, joined the Department of Geriatric Medicine/Gerontology Jan. 15. Walker can be reached in Parks Hall 128, phone: 597-3206.

 

Godwin Dogbey, CORE biostatistician, will join Academic Affairs March 1. Dogbey can be reached in Grosvenor Hall 030, phone: 593-2370.

 

 

CALENDAR

 

Annual Winter Red Cross Blood Drive

Jan 29, 1 to 7 p.m., Charles Ping Center

 

SOUPer Bowl Lunch

Jan 30, Noon, Irvine Bricks

 

National Wear Red Day

Feb 1

 

Go Red for Women Day Screening Clinic (Community Health Programs)

Feb 1, 9 a.m. to noon, Wesleyan Church, Nelsonville

 

“Vascular Adhesion in Pathology and Drug Delivery” (COM Research Seminar)

Feb 1, Noon to 1 p.m., Grosvenor West 111

 

 

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Kevin M. Sanders

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