January 5, 2006
Mini-med school begins Feb. 7
UW Medicine’s Mini-Medical School will offer six sessions this year, Tuesday evenings from 7 to 9 p.m., beginning Feb. 7 and ending March 14.
All sessions will be in Hogness Auditorium at the UW Health Sciences Center. The lectures and demonstrations will give participants a special view of the medical education, research and clinical care at UW Medicine. The series is open to the UW community and the public, but preregistration is required.
The programs will focus on providing care for the uninsured and underinsured; advances in care for heart disease; the value of activity as we age; organ donation and body donation; forensic sciences, and the advent of bloodless surgery.
The 2006 series is hosted by Dr. Norman Beauchamp Jr., professor and chair of the Department of Radiology, and Dr. Terry Mengert, professor of medicine and a physician in UW Medical Center’s Emergency Department.
The schedule is as follows:
- Feb. 7 — “This is Our Work — Serving Those in Need” with Drs. Lawrence Robinson, Beauchamp, Mengert and Scott Barnhart.
- Feb. 14 — “And the Beat Goes On — Advances in Cardiac Care” with Drs. Karol Bomsztyk, Steven Goldberg, William Shuman and Charles Murry.
- Feb. 21 — “Be Active –It’s Never Too Late” with Drs. Itamar Abrass, Wayne McCormick and James LoGerfo.
- Feb. 28 — “The Importance of Body and Organ Donation” with Drs. Daniel Graney and Jorge Reyes.
- March 7 — “Death, Drugs, Driving and DNA: A Forensic Potpourri” with Dr. Corinne Fligner, Dr. Barry Logan and Jean Johnson.
- March 14 — “Bloodless Surgery Coming of Age” with Drs. Beauchamp, Lawrence Crum, Stephen Carter and R. Torrence Andrews.
To learn more or register, visit online at http://www.uwmedicine.org/Global/NewsAndEvents/minimed/.
