October 4, 2001
Health Scienes Brief News
Lectures rescheduled
-The Department of Surgery’s Strauss Lecture, originally scheduled for Sept. 14, has been rescheduled for noon on Friday, Dec. 7. The speaker is Dr. William Krupski, professor and chief of vascular surgery at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center.
-The Science in Medicine New Investigator Lecture, with Dr. Sandra Bajjalieh speaking on “The Molecular Basis of Neurotransmitter Secretion,” has been postponed from Oct. 11 to noon on Thursday, Nov. 8. It will be in room D-209 of the Health Sciences Center.
Lasker Award
Dr. William Foege, a 1961 graduate of the UW School of Medicine, last month received the 2001 Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation Award for Public Service. The annual Lasker Foundation awards – given in clinical medicine, basic science research, and public service – are sometimes called “America’s Nobel Prizes.” Foege played a prominent role in the eradication of smallpox and in the prevention of river blindness and guinea worm disease. He has devoted his career to addressing worldwide health needs.
Foege served as director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention during the emergence of the AIDS epidemic. In 1984, he became head of the Carter Center in Atlanta, where he led non-governmental efforts to improve water quality in developing nations. He is now senior advisor on global health to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, working on child vaccination. The foundation supports a consortium, the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunizations, in Geneva.
Mini-Med School on UWTV
Starting this week, taped segments from the UW School of Medicine’s first Mini-Medical School will run on cable services carrying the UW Television signal. The segments also will be Webcast on the Internet, and will be linked to the UW Academic Medical Center Web site.
The Mini-Medical School was a pilot program held in February and March to acquaint community leaders with clinical, teaching and research facets of the UW medical school. Dr. Andy Ziskind, associate vice president for medical affairs and associate dean for clinical affairs, hosted the series. Among the topics were the brain/body connection; advances in preventing, diagnosing and treating coronary heart disease; lung diseases; digestion; and medical ethics.
The viewing schedule for UW Mini-Medical School segments on cable or on the Web is posted on the UWTV Web site at http://www.uwtv.org/.
