UW News

May 19, 2005

Health Sciences News Briefs

Student Research Day

Student researchers in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences will be featured at the department’s Student Research Day, Thursday, May 19, from 12:30 to 3 p.m. in room 316 of South Campus Center. Second-year master’s degree students will present summaries of their thesis research, followed by a poster session and reception. The event is open to everyone. Look for abstracts of presentations and posters at the Web site http://depts.washington.edu/envhlth/news/researchday05.html


Graduate Project Symposium

The programs in Occupational Therapy and Physical Therapy will hold a Graduate Project Symposium from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., Wednesday, June 8, at the UW Center for Urban Horticulture. The event is open to everyone. For a brochure with a full schedule and registration information, contact Ana Wieman at 206-598-5764 or e-mail ot@u.washington.edu.


Faculty workshop

“Building Your Educator’s Portfolio” is the next faculty workshop to be offered by the Department of Medical Education and Biomedical Informatics from 8:30 a.m. to noon, Tuesday, May 24. This is a follow-up to the earlier workshop for clinician-educators. Participants will work on outlines for their personal statements and learn about materials to include in the portfolio. Dr. Teresa Massagli, associate professor of rehabilitation medicine, and Dr. Donna Ambrozy, director of faculty development in the Department of Medical Education, will be the presenters. For more information, call 206-616-0597 or e-mail leslik@u.washington.edu.


Pharmacy poster presentations

“Pharmaceutical Care in Chronic Diseases” is the topic for a poster presentation by students in the Pharm 440 class. The posters will be in the Rotunda (first floor, I wing) of the Health Sciences Building on Wednesday, May 18. From 11:30 a.m. to 12:20 p.m., the students will be available to answer questions. Chronic diseases and conditions to be covered include bipolar disorder, obesity, chronic fatique, phobias, seasonal depression, insomnia and headaches.


Pellegrini, Clowes honored

The American Surgical Association, the nation’s oldest surgical organization, has honored Dr. Carlos Pellegrini and Dr. Alexander Clowes. At the association’s annual meeting in Palm Beach, Fla., members elected Pellegrini as the association’s 126th president. Pellegrini, the Henry N. Harkins professor and chair of the Department of Surgery, has been a member of the association since 1988. Clowes, professor of surgery and head of the Division of Vascular Surgery, received one of the association’s highest honors, the Flance-Karl Award. The award is presented to a U.S. surgeon who has made a seminal contribution in basic laboratory research which has application to clinical surgery. Clowes studies the biology of the vascular response to injury.


Lifetime Achievement Award

Dr. Alan Wilensky has received the Lifetime Achievement Award, the group’s highest honor, from Epilepsy Foundation Northwest. A clinician and researcher long affiliated with the UW Epilepsy Center at Harborview Medical Center, Wilensky was recognized for “a lifetime of dedicated teaching and research on behalf of people with epilepsy.” He is an associate professor in the Department of Neurology and has a adjunct appointment in neurological surgery.


Program chair for Sleep Society meetings

Dr. Michael Vitiello, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, has been elected to a four-year term as program chair for the meetings of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies (APSS). The organization includes the Sleep Research Society and the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. He will have overall responsibility for determining the scientific program of the APSS meetings, attended by nearly 5,000 sleep researchers and sleep medicine practitioners each year. Vitiello is known for his studies of sleep and aging and is editor in chief of Sleep Medicine Reviews. He is associate director of the UW’s Northwest Geriatric Education Center and has adjunct appointments in psychology and in biobehavioral nursing and health systems.