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November 30, 2006

UW medical lectures at Seattle Public Library resume Jan. 3

UW Medicine, in partnership with the Seattle Public Library, continues its medical lecture series at 6:30 p.m., Wednesday, Jan. 3, in the central library’s Microsoft Auditorium, 1000 Fourth Ave. Doors open at 6 p.m.

The lecture series, which was launched in September, is free to the public. Parking is available in the central library garage for $5.

The winter lecture series schedule follows:

• Jan. 3: “Talking with Doctors about End-of-Life Care.” Dr. J. Randall Curtis, founder and director of the Harborview/UW Medical Center End-of-Life Care Research Program, talks about providing better deaths through expanded end-of-life choices and improved patient-clinician communication and quality of care. Curtis is a UW professor of medicine.
  
• Feb. 7: “Pandemic Pandemonium in the Pacific?” Dr. Ann Marie Kimball, director of the APEC Asia Pacific Emerging Infections Network, , discusses challenges of pandemics of human diseases as Pacific Asian countries and the western North American continent increase interactions through trade and travel. She is a UW professor of epidemiology and health services.
  
• March 7: “Ghrelin: The Hunger Hormone.” Dr. David E. Cummings, UW associate professor of medicine, presents research findings on ghrelin, a recently discovered appetite-stimulating hormone implicated in the short-term control of meal-time hunger, as well as the long-term regulation of body weight.

To learn more, call 206-543-3620.