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May 3, 2007

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Scott Hultgren


Global outsourcing of clinical trials, May 4
Adriana Petryna, associate professor of anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, discusses Global Outsourcing of Clinical Trials: Ethical Challenges, Friday, May 4, from noon to 1 p.m., Turner Auditorium (D-209), HSC. Contact Helene Starks at 206-543-9724 or tigiba@u.washington.edu.




ThINK Part 2: Subject Recruitment and Retention, May 8
4:30 to 5:30 p.m., Turner Auditorium, Health Sciences Building, D-209



  • Recruiting Women by Shirley Beresford, professor of epidemiology, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Women’s Health Initiative.
  • Recruiting Subjects about a Sensitive Topic by Kathryn Korslund, associate director of Behavioral Research and Therapy Clinics (BRTC), Department of Psychology, and Angela Murray-Gregory, lead clinical assessor, BRTC.
  • Longitudinal Research with Minority Populations by Brenda Montgomery, Diabetes Research Group, Department of Medicine, VA Puget Sound Health Care System.
  • Acute/Critically Ill Populations by Margaret Neff, assistant professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, Harborview Medical Center.


The lectures will be simulcast at FHCRC, Yale Bldg., J2-108; Harborview Medical Center, Research & Training Bldg, Auditorium; VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Bldg., 1, room 524; VA Metropolitan Park West, room E-14; VA American Lake, Bldg., 8, room 323; and Children’s Hospital Regional Center, room M305. ThINK seminars are open to all faculty, staff and students. For details, visit http://www.uwmedicine.org/Research/ClinicalResearch/think.htm, or contact Vee White at veewhite@u.washington.edu or 206-543-8319.




Scott Hultgren presents Groman Lecture: Uropathogenic E. coli, May 10
Scott Hultgren will present the UW Department of Microbiology’s Neal Groman Lecture titled, Uropathogenic E. coli: More to the Picture than Meets the Eye, Thursday, May 10 at 4 p.m. in the Physics & Astronomy Auditorium, A118. Hultgren is the Helen L. Stoever Professor of Molecular Microbiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. For more information, contact Kari Johnstone at 206-543-5824 or karilj@u.washington.edu.