Cardiothoracic Surgery Visiting Scholar
“Investigating the Mechanism of Neurologic Injury in Cardiac Surgery” is the topic for Dr. William Baumgartner, chief cardiac surgeon and vice dean for clinical affairs at Johns Hopkins Medicine, when he gives the Visiting Scholar Lecture for the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery. His presentation will be at 3:30 p.m., Friday, May 13, in room K-069 of the Health Sciences Center.
While at the UW as a visiting scholar, he will also give teaching rounds with residents and attend research presentations.
After earlier research on organ transplantation, Baumgartner has been investigating how cardiac surgery affects the body’s nervous system and how cases in which damage occurs could be prevented. In 2002 he received a Javits Neuroscience Research Award from the National Institutes of Health for the work. He has been at Johns Hopkins since 1982 and is also president of the medical group practice there.
David Baltimore Lecture
Nobel Laureate David Baltimore, president of the California Institute of Technology, will be on campus Tuesday, May 10, and will give an open presentation organized by the Departments of Microbiology and Pathobiology at 4 p.m. in Hogness Auditorium at the Health Sciences Center. His topic is “Specificity of NF-kappaB Action.”
Baltimore, one of the world’s most influential biologists, shared the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine in 1975, at the age of 37, for research in virology. He has significantly influenced national science policy on issues including recombinant DNA research and the AIDS epidemic. He was recently appointed to the Independent Citizens Oversight Committee for the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, funded by a $3 billion initiative.
Coclear implants and music
Dr. Kate Gfeller, director of the Music Therapy Program at the University of Iowa, will speak on “Beauty and Meaning in Music: Lend Me Your (Bionic) Ear” at 3 p.m., Friday, May 20 in Turner Auditorium, room D-209 of the Health Sciences Center. The lecture, sponsored by the Virginia Merrill Bloedel Hearing Research Center, is free and open to everyone.
Gfeller, who has a joint appointment in music and in speech pathology and audiology, is principal investigator for the Music Perception Project, part of the Iowa Cochlear Implant Clinical Research Center. She is particularly interested in how musical meaning is affected by cochlear implants, which are used to restore some hearing in profoundly deaf people. Gfeller is a coauthor of An Introduction to Music Therapy: Theory and Practice.