Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Information Overload?

Here's an article from Nurse.com written by John Leighty, discussing how some nurses utilize medical librarians. Make sure you let me know if you're approaching information overload!!!

Monday, February 25, 2008

Gardasil

From the Sunday, Feb. 24 New York Times.

Vaccinating Boys for Girls' Sake?

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Healthcare (and EEE) Related Events Around Campus in February and March

These are pulled from the Today@UCI Calendar.

February 2008


-- 13 Wednesday --


Division of Undergraduate Education. Winter Teaching Colloquy: Student Learning in the Major. With Judy Shoemaker, Research & Evaluation director; De Gallow, Teaching, Learning & Technology Center director; and Natalie Schonfeld, Research & Evaluation analyst. 4:30-6:30 p.m., University Club Library. Free. Reservation required. More: Barbara Valencia Fernandez, 949.824.6060 or bvalenci@uci.edu. Web link...


-- 15 Friday --

Electronic Educational Environment. Webfiles – Internet Storage for Faculty, Staff & Grad Students. 10 a.m.-noon, Anteater Instructional & Research Building, Room 1020. For faculty and instructional staff only. Free, registration required. More: 949.824.5953 or eee@uci.edu. Web link...

-- 19 Tuesday --

Electronic Educational Environment. Introduction to Podcasting for Faculty and Staff. 10 a.m.-noon, Humanities Hall, Room 269. For faculty and instructional staff only. Free, registration required. More: 949.824.5953 or eee@uci.edu. Web link...

-- 21 Thursday --

Center for Immunology. Chemokines in the Nervous System. With Dr. Richard M. Ransohoff, Department of Molecular Medicine professor, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine. Noon-12:50 p.m., Tamkin Hall, Room F-114. Free. More: 949.824.9648. Web link...

Paul Merage School of Business. Health Politics and Policies in an Election Year. With Norm Ornstein, keynote speaker. The seventeenth annual Health Care Forecast Conference. $395-$496. Registration required. Continues Feb. 22. More: 949.824.8474 or chcmp@merage.uci.edu. Web link...

Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center. Heredity and Cancer. With Dr. Alfred Knudson, senior member Fox Chase Cancer Center Philadelphia. 4 p.m., Tamkin Student Lecture Hall. Reception follows lecture in Robert R. Sprague Family Foundation Hall, Main Lobby. Free. R.S.V.P. by Jan. 26. More: 714.456.3592 or alicia@uci.edu.


-- 22 Friday --

Pathology & Laboratory Medicine. New Approaches to Predict Inherited Colorectal Cancer Risk and Progression. With Dr. Steven M. Lipkin, medicine and biological chemistry associate professor. 9-10 a.m., Hitachi Chemical Research Center Lecture Hall. Free. More: 949.824.5534. Web link...

Sociology. Learning from Natural Experiments in Public Policy: Offspring Sex Mix and the Effect of PAC Money on Congressional Voting & The Longterm Mortality Effects of Vietnam Era Military Service. With Dalton Conley, New York University. Noon-1:30 p.m., Social Science Plaza A, Room 2112. More: 949.824.6800. Web link...

Paul Merage School of Business. Health Politics and Policies in an Election Year. With Norm Ornstein, keynote speaker. The seventeenth annual Health Care Forecast Conference. $395-$496. Registration required. More: 949.824.8474 or chcmp@merage.uci.edu. Web link...


-- 25 Monday --

Electronic Educational Environment. Get to Know PowerPoint 2007. 1-3 p.m., Anteater Instructional & Research Building, Room 1020. For faculty and instructional staff only. Free, registration required. More: 949.824.5953 or eee@uci.edu. Web link...

Electronic Educational Environment. EEE Instructional Tools. 10-11:30 a.m., Anteater Instructional & Research Building, Room 1020. For faculty and instructional staff only. Free, registration required. More: 949.824.5953 or eee@uci.edu. Web link...

-- 27 Wednesday --

Electronic Educational Environment. Photoshop Basics. 3-5 p.m., Humanities Hall, Room 269. For faculty and instructional staff only. Free, registration required. More: 949.824.5953 or eee@uci.edu. Web link...

Electronic Educational Environment. Libraries: Use RefWorks to Create Bibliographies. 1-2:30 p.m., Langson Library, TEC (Room 228). For faculty and instructional staff only. Free, registration required. More: 949.824.5953 or eee@uci.edu. Web link...

Electronic Educational Environment. Manufacturing a Survey. 10 a.m.-noon, Anteater Instructional & Research Building, Room 1020. For faculty and instructional staff only. Free, registration required. More: 949.824.5953 or eee@uci.edu. Web link...

Electronic Educational Environment. EEE Communication Tools. 3-4 p.m., Anteater Instructional & Research Building, Room 1020. For faculty and instructional staff only. Free, registration required. More: 949.824.5953 or eee@uci.edu. Web link...

Electronic Educational Environment. Dreamweaver, Intro. to Creating Course Web Pages. 1-3 p.m., Anteater Instructional & Research Building, Room 1020. For faculty and instructional staff only. Free, registration required. More: 949.824.5953 or eee@uci.edu. Web link...

-- 28 Thursday --

Center for Immunology. G-Protein Coupled Receptors and Lymphocyte Trafficking 'In,' 'Through,' and 'Out' of Lymph Nodes. With Dr. John H. Kehrl, Laboratory of Immunregulation, NIAID, NIH. Noon-12:50 p.m., Tamkin Hall, Room F-114. Free. More: 949.824.9648. Web link...

Electronic Educational Environment. ARTSTOR: Organizing and Teaching with Visual Images. 10 a.m.-noon, Science Library, Interactive Learning Center, Room 166. For faculty and instructional staff only. Free, registration required. More: 949.824.5953 or eee@uci.edu. Web link...

Electronic Educational Environment. From WebRoster to GradeBook to WebGrades. 10 a.m.-noon, Anteater Instructional & Research Building, Room 1020. For faculty and instructional staff only. Free, registration required. More: 949.824.5953 or eee@uci.edu. Web link...

Electronic Educational Environment. Copyright and Fair Use Basics for the Web. 1-3 p.m., Anteater Instructional & Research Building, Room 1020. For faculty and instructional staff only. Free, registration required. More: 949.824.5953 or eee@uci.edu. Web link...


-- 29 Friday --

Electronic Educational Environment. Instructional Web Design Basics. 2-4 p.m., Anteater Instructional & Research Building, Room 1020. For faculty and instructional staff only. Free, registration required. More: 949.824.5953 or eee@uci.edu. Web link...

Electronic Educational Environment. Creating Video with iMovie. 10 a.m.-noon, Science Library Mac Lab, Room 160. For faculty and instructional staff only. Free, registration required. More: 949.824.5953 or eee@uci.edu. Web link...

Electronic Educational Environment. Getting to Know Your SmartClassroom. 10-11:30 a.m., Anteater Instructional & Research Building, Room 1020. For faculty and instructional staff only. Free, registration required. More: 949.824.5953 or eee@uci.edu. Web link...

March 2008

-- 1 Saturday --


Susan Samueli Center for Integrative Medicine. 2nd Annual Conference on Nutrition & Supplements: An Evidence-Based Approach. Continuing medical education conference. 7:15 a.m.-9:30 p.m., Hilton Irvine/OC Airport. $265-$315 before Feb. 1; $290-$365 by Feb. 25. Registration required. Continues March 2. More: 949.824.0087 or jymontan@uci.edu. Web link...


-- 2 Sunday --

Susan Samueli Center for Integrative Medicine. 2nd Annual Conference on Nutrition & Supplements: An Evidence-Based Approach. Continuing medical education conference. 7:30 a.m.-1:15 p.m., Hilton Irvine/OC Airport. $265-$315 before Feb. 1; $290-$365 by Feb. 25. Registration required. More: 949.824.0087 or jymontan@uci.edu. Web link...


-- 3 Monday --

Medical Scientist Lecture Series. Comparative Proteomics in Pediatrics – Diagnostics and Prognostics for the 21st Century. With Dr. Harvey Cohen, pediatrics professor, Stanford University. 4 p.m., Tamkin Building, Room F-114. Free. More: 949.824.5264. Web link...

-- 7 Friday --

Pathology & Laboratory Medicine. Life and Death in Midbrain Dopamine Neurons. With Dr. Eric J. Huang, associate professor in residence, pathology & laboratory medicine, UC San Francisco. 9-10 a.m. Hitachi Chemical Research Center Lecture Hall. Free. More: 949.824.5534. Web link...

-- 14 Friday --

Academic & Administrative Calendar. Instruction ends


-- 17 Monday --

Academic & Administrative Calendar. Final examinations


-- 18 Tuesday --

Academic & Administrative Calendar. Final examinations


-- 19 Wednesday --

Academic & Administrative Calendar. Final examinations


-- 20 Thursday --

Academic & Administrative Calendar. Final examinations


-- 21 Friday --

Academic & Administrative Calendar. Final examinations

Academic & Administrative Calendar. Quarter ends


-- 26 Wednesday --

Academic & Administrative Calendar. Quarter begins

Academic & Administrative Calendar. Orientation


-- 27 Thursday --

Academic & Administrative Calendar. Orientation

Center for Immunology. TBA. With Kimberly J. Payne, Department of Pathology and Human Anatomy assistant professor, Loma Linda University School of Medicine. Noon-12:50 p.m., Tamkin Hall, Room F-114. Free. More: 949.824.9648. Web link...


-- 28 Friday --

Academic & Administrative Calendar. Cesar Chavez Day Holiday


-- 31 Monday --

Academic & Administrative Calendar. Instruction begins