August 21, 2003
Health Sciences News Briefs
For clinical researchers
A new lecture series, called THINK (The Investigator Needs to Know), will begin next month for clinical researchers and their research and administrative staff members. Sponsored by the UW Medicine Office of Clinical Research, the series includes four sessions, with the first on Sept. 23 and the final session on March 23. Investigators at UW Medicine affiliates may also register. The title for the Sept. 23 session, at 4:30 p.m. in room D-209 of the Health Sciences Center, is “Legal Issues Associated with Conducting Clinical Trials: What You Need to Know.” For more information, or to register, send e-mail to clinres@u.washington.edu or call 206-616-8025.
Mini-Med on TV, Web
Programs from UW Medicine’s 2003 Mini-Medical School, originally presented in the spring, are now being shown on UWTV and are available as streaming video on the Research Channel. The new series is shown on UWTV at 8 p.m. on Wednesdays, with repeats at other times during the week. See the full schedule at http://www.uwtv.org The streaming videos are at http://www.researchchannel.org In all, 14 new shows from that series will be available for TV and video.
Injury prevention courses
Harborview’s Injury Prevention and Research Center is sponsoring a two-day course Sept. 15 to 17 on “Injury Prevention and Mass Trauma Preparedness” for public health officials and first-responders throughout the Northwest. The cost is $200 and more information is available by calling Marni Levy at 206-521-1249 or on the Web at http://depts. washington.edu/hiprc/injprevtrain.htm On the same site is information on a week-long course on how to conduct injury prevention research, geared for health-care providers and public health leaders. That course will be taught Sept. 8 to 12.
SCI peer support gets funds
The Northwest Regional Spinal Cord Injury System, based in the UW Departmment of Rehabilitation Medicine, has received a $10,000 Quality of Life Grant from the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation. The funds will allow development of a new Spinal Cord Injury Peer Support Program. Trained peer counselors, who themselves have spinal cord injuries, will be matched with newly injured patients at UW Medical Center and Harborview. Dr. Diana Cardenas, professor and director of the regional program, applied for the funds. “We believe that trained peer counselors who have long-standing SCI not only can provide emotional support, practical guidance and advocacy, but can serve as role models for the newly injured, who may be unable to imagine a satisfying or fulfilling future for themselves,” she said.
