Posts Tagged ‘lecture’

From Bench to Business: Navigating the Labyrinth Friday, October 12, 12 to 1 pm in Mac Hall 2201 All graduate students and postdocs are invited for a brown bag lunch session with Dr. Jennifer Hooper McCarty, Marketing and Promotions Specialist at CH2M HILL/IDC Architects. You can look forward to an interesting, informal discussion and Q&A about Dr. McCarty’s unique career path.  Please bring your own lunch. Organized by Women in Science OHSU. Contact Kateri Spinelli with … Read More

The Marquam Hill Lecture Series continues with Tamara Phillips, PhD., speaking on “Unraveling Addiction Using Behavioral Genetics.” The lecture will be held in the OHSU Auditorium and will begin at 7:30 p.m. on October 18, 2012. About the lecture Like cake or sex, the effects of drugs cause some people to increase activities to get more drugs, cruelly reinforcing the stranglehold of addiction. OHSU scientists are studying this compelling effect of drug and alcohol use, … Read More

Thursday, September 27, 2012 Confidentiality and Privacy: Consent, Authorization and Beyond Presented by Andrea Johnson 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in UHS 8B60 This brown bag session will provide guidance on the Institutional Review Board’s requirements for protecting human subjects’ confidentiality and privacy during and after research studies. Discussion points will include: describing confidentiality risks and protections in the consent form; using authorizations, waivers of authorization, and other HIPAA mechanisms appropriately; obtaining a Certificate of … Read More

The Knight Cancer Institute Seminar Series continues with a presentation on the “Characterization and Targeting of Leukemia Stem Cells” by Craig T. Jordan, PhD. Dr. Jordan is a Phillip and Marilyn Wehreim Professor of Medicine from the Division of Hematology/Oncology at the James P. Wilmot Cancer Center and Professor of Biomedical Genetics and the University of Rochester School of Medicine. The presentation will take place in the OHSU Hospital’s 8th floor conference room, 8B60, at 4 … Read More

This Oregon Evidence-based Practice Center sponsored event hosts Joy A. Melnikow, M.D., M.P.H., director of the Center for Healthcare Policy and Research and professor of Family and Community Medicine at the University of California, Davis. Dr. Melnikow’s presentation, “Breast Cancer Screening: Cost-effectiveness and Health Benefits Model,” will demonstrate a model developed to project costs and health benefits of breast cancer screening program policies. This event, located in BICC room 124, starts at 10 a.m. this Thursday, … Read More

The OHSU Brain Institute continues its Meeting of the Minds lecture series with a one-time forum, “Where are we headed…with neuroscience research and its funding?”  featuring Story Landis, Ph.D., director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS). The forum will be held Monday, June 25 at 1 p.m. in the Doernbecher Vey Conference Center and will be followed by a reception at 2 p.m. All neuroscience-related faculty, post-docs and students are encouraged … Read More

The Macy Easom Cancer Research Foundation has partnered with world-class cancer and stem cell physician-scientists to bring together some of the best minds in the field in hopes of stimulating hepatoblastoma and other pediatric cancer research. OHSU is proud to host the Macy Easom Memorial Lectureship, which will be held in the OHSU Hospital’s eighth-floor auditorium on Tuesday, June 5th at 4 p.m. Dr. Stefano Cairo, Ph.D., a human geneticist at XenTech in Paris, France has … Read More

The Department of Physiology and Pharmacology invites you to attend the 22nd Annual John M. Brookhart Lecture. This year, we’re pleased to be hosting William A. Catterall, Ph.D, Professor and Chair of the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Washington. Dr. Catterall will be discussing the “Structure and Function of Voltage-Gated Sodium Channels at Atomic Resolution.” The lecture will begin at 4:00 p.m. in the Medical Student Lecture Hall, Richard Jones Hall 4320, on … Read More

The Fourth Annual Jungers Center Symposium, “New Imaging Technologies, New Insights Into the Brain,” will be taking place from 9 a..m. to 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 8, 2012 in the Doernbecher Vey Auditorium. This year’s speakers include: Jeff Lichtman, M.D., professor of molecular and cellular biology from Harvard University on “Using Connectomics to Reveal Circuit Motifs” Tim Holy, Ph.D., associate professor of anatomy and neurobiology from Washington University in St. Louis on “Getting a … Read More

OHSU resarchers have been invited to a lecture and workshop by Sue V. Rosser, Ph.D., Provost at San Francisco State University and expert in bridging women’s studies and the sciences, at Oregon State University in Corvallis on April 30, 2012. The talks will be about advancing opportunities for women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). Her workshop for STEM faculty and administrators focuses on how National Science Foundation ADVANCE Institutional Transformation grants have especially helped women … Read More