Fitzsimons blood drive
A blood drive for the Bonfils Blood Center will be held on the Fitzsimons
campus Tuesday, Sept. 19, 10-11:40 a.m. and 1-3:30 p.m., in RC-1 North,
2nd floor atrium. The blood drive is being presented by the UCD
Graduate Student Council.
Did you know that
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Your blood donation can save or enhance up to three lives?
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Every two seconds, someone in the United States receives a blood transfusion?
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Whole blood can be donated every 56 days?
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The local Bonfils Blood Center needs 4,350 volunteers each week to meet
the needs of the community?
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Blood donation is one of the easiest ways to volunteer and help others,
in less than an hour's time?
To make an appointment, call the Bonfils Appointment Center directly
at 303-363-2300 or email at appointment_center@bonfils.org!
(Appointments are every 10 minutes during the times listed above)
If you have any questions about donor eligibility, please call the Bonfils
Donor Relations Department at 303-363-2202. You may also visit their
website at www.bonfils.org.
Questions regarding organization of the blood drive can be sent to Holly
Stephens at sarah.stephens@uchsc.edu.
Free prostate screenings offered
for Prostate Cancer Awareness Week
In recognition of National Prostate Cancer Awareness Week, the University
of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center’s Cancer Center
is offering free prostate cancer screenings Sept. 18-21 at the Anschutz
Cancer Pavilion at Fitzsimons in Aurora.
The screenings last approximately 15 minutes and include a digital rectal
examination (DRE) and a blood test to measure prostate specific antigen
(PSA) levels. PSA is a protein that is secreted by the prostate, and
elevated levels may indicate that prostate cancer is present.
The Prostate Cancer Education Council (PCEC), a national organization
created to improve the detection and treatment of prostate cancer, recommends
that all men 40 and older be screened annually. Men who are at high risk
of prostate cancer due to a family history of the disease or ethnic background,
such as African-Americans or Hispanics, should begin annual screenings
when they are 35.
“
Research shows that deaths from prostate cancer nationwide have decreased
due to prostate screenings and better treatments,” said E. David
Crawford, MD, professor of urologic oncology at UCD and chairman of
the PCEC.
Last year during Prostate Cancer Awareness Week, the Cancer Center screened
more than 1,400 men, making it the largest, free prostate cancer screening
site in the Rocky Mountain region.
Screenings will be offered:
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Monday, Sept. 18, 9–11 a.m. and 1–6 p.m.;
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Tuesday, Sept. 19, 9–11 a.m. and 1–5 p.m.;
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Wednesday, Sept. 20, 9–11 a.m. and 1 –6 p.m.;
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Thursday, Sept. 21, 9–11 a.m. and 1 –5 p.m.
No appointment is needed for the screenings. Call 720-848-9999 for more
information.
Celebrate Diversity Series starts with
talk on health care disparities
Celebrate Diversity Series 2006- 2007 will kick off with a talk on Racial
and Ethnic Disparities In American Health Care: What Can Be Done, presented
by Dayna Bowen Matthew, JD, associate dean for Academic Affairs and associate
professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder School of Law.
The presentation will be held Friday, Sept. 22, 12:30 to 1:30 p.m., in
Denison Auditorium on the Ninth Ave. campus.
Matthew earned her JD from the University of Virginia Law School. She
is an associate professor at the University of Colorado School of Law,
and in the Department of Preventive Medicine and Biometrics at the University
of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center. She teaches Health
Law I (Health Finance and Administration Law); Health Law II (Medical
Malpractice and Public Health Litigation); Comparative Public Health
Law; and Bioethics, Law and Literature. Matthew also teaches topics in
Health Law and Policy as well as Public Health Law to health sciences
students.
Chipotle Mexican Grill to treat Fitzsimons campus
Chipotle Mexican Grill will open its new restaurant at 13700 E. Colfax
Ave. on Wednesday, Sept. 27.
In honor of the opening and Chipotle’s ongoing commitment to community
outreach, the new restaurant will give away a free menu item to any employee
of the Fitzsimons site who visits the restaurant on Tuesday, Sept. 26,
11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Through its vision of Food with Integrity, Chipotle is seeking better
food not only from a variety of fresh ingredients, but ingredients that
are sustainably grown and naturally raised with respect for the animals,
the land, and the farmers who produce the food.
Volunteer physicians needed
for prostate screening
The Center for African American Health is hosting a prostate screening
and education event Sept. 30, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., in honor of National
Prostate Cancer Awareness Month. The event will be held at the Inner
City Health Clinic located at 3405 Downing Street.
Volunteer physicians are needed to conduct DREs. If you would like to
volunteer please contact Lucille Johnson, director of Health Initiatives,
Center for African American Health,
at Lucille@caahealth.org or 303-355-3423 ext 110.
Leadership Book Group
You are invited to attend the next meeting of the Leadership Book Group
on Tuesday, Oct. 3 at 4:30 pm in the UCD Bookstore on the Ninth Ave.
campus.
The book selected for the October meeting is Talking 9 to 5, Men
and Women in
Conversation at Work by Deborah Tannen.
The Health Science Center campus bookstore has graciously agreed to have copies
of the book available for purchase and will send the book directly to you if
needed. The list price for the book is $13.95 but the bookstore is discounting
them to $11.50. Although the book can be purchased through other venders we ask
that you make your purchase though the campus bookstore. The campus bookstore
will also provide snacks and refreshment for the next meeting.
The Leadership Book Group was created to build collegiality and to specifically
focus on developing leadership potential in individuals from underrepresented
groups (e.g., women, minorities, those with disabilities, and members of the
GLBT community), although the program is open to anyone. Participants will read
and discuss books on leadership and professional development. The Leadership
Book Group meets on the first Tuesday of every other month.
The Leadership Book Group is sponsored by the HSC Faculty Women’s Committee,
Ethnic Minority Affairs Committee, HSC GLBTI Friends and Allies Committee and
the Office of Diversity
Carol M. Rumack, MD, chair, HSC Faculty Women’s Committee, will lead the
book discussion.
Bring your ideas for the next book selection for the Dec. 5 meeting.
RSVP to Vicky Saulsberry at 303-315-8558 or email at Vicky.Saulsberry@uchsc.edu.
General’s Park re-opening ceremony scheduled
The grand re-opening of General’s Park at Fitzsimons will be held Thursday,
Oct. 5, 6-7 p.m. Celebration activities will include music from the Hinkley
High School Marching Thunderbirds, light refreshments and a formal ribbon cutting
ceremony.
General’s Park is located at 1561 N. Quentin St., on the northeast corner
of Colfax Ave. and Peoria St.
For more information about this event, please contact Jenna Baker 303-739-7165
or jbaker@auroragov.org
CU president to hold open hours
University of Colorado President Hank Brown will continue to hold "President
Brown’s Open Hours" on each campus during 2006-2007 to give faculty,
staff, and students the opportunity to speak with him directly.
President Brown is scheduled to meet with the UCD community Tuesday,
Dec. 19, 7-8:30 a.m., on the Ninth Ave. campus, in the Chancellor's Conference
Room.
First CU Art in Science/Science in Art
exhibition
seeking entries
Scientists, does your work produce images that could be considered art?
Artists, have you made works that illustrate aspects of science?
Submit your images to the first CU Art in Science/Science in Art exhibition.
This is a juried exhibition with cash prizes for the top entries. The selected
works will be printed and hung in a traveling gallery show in Colorado, displayed
on-line, and reproduced in an exhibition catalogue.
Students, faculty, and staff (and significant others) at all CU campuses and
affiliated institutes are invited to enter.
Images can be easily submitted online as electronic files. Full information,
exhibition rules, and entry forms are on the Web at http://ArtSci.uchsc.edu
The deadline to submit artwork is Oct. 13.
The show will open with a reception and award presentation at the Denver Museum
of Nature & Science on Jan. 18, 2007.
Massively Parallel Technologies and CU partner for
large-scale proteomics development
Massively Parallel Technologies, Inc. (Massively), a provider of on-demand
high-performance computing (HPC), has entered into a cooperative agreement
with the University
of Colorado for the development and commercialization of an innovative breakthrough
in proteomics analysis.
Working with Mark Duncan, PhD, professor at the University of Colorado Denver (UCD), departments of pediatrics, medicine and
cellular and departmental biology and director of Proteomics Shared Resources,
and his team, the two groups will apply Massively’s patented parallel
processing software technology to a protein identification software application
developed
by UCD.
The novel analysis software is used to identify proteins from tandem mass spectrometry.
UCD’s unique approach will enable faster and more accurate results
than what is currently possible but requires tremendous compute power to process
the
massive amounts of data in a practical timeframe.
Proteomics aims to define all proteins that are expressed by a cell, organ
or organism. Identifying and fully characterizing the human proteome holds
enormous
potential to aid in clinical medicine and to enhance our understanding of human
biology. The use of biomarkers for early disease diagnosis, better disease
classification, predicting the outcome and response to a given therapy, and
identifying new and
high-quality targets for therapeutic intervention are just some of the potential
benefits arising through proteomics.
“
We have invested a tremendous amount of resources to develop and validate the
science behind this application. As a result, our application delivers high sequence
coverage while reducing false positives and negatives in comparison to existing
applications,” Duncan said. “The reality for us, however, is that
without the high-performance computing resources, expertise and innovation
that Massively brings to the table, this application would not be of practical
use
due to its computational demands.”
For more information on Massively Parallel Technologies’ products and
services, call (303) 926-8555 or visit their Web site at www.massivelyparallel.com.
Community events at the University of Colorado Cancer Center
Please see the events listed below for community calendar postings offered
through the University of Colorado Cancer Center.
Thursday, Sept. 21: Stage 4 Cancer Support Group
Time: 2:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Place: Anschutz Cancer Pavilion, Room 3052
Who: patients, family members, caregivers
Contact: The Cancer Resource Center, (720) 848-0268
Thursday, Sept. 21: Lung Cancer Support Group
Time: 5 p.m. – 7 p.m.
Place: Anschutz Cancer Pavilion, Room 3052
Who: patients, family members, caregivers
Contact: The Cancer Resource Center, (720) 848-0268
Wednesday, Sept. 27: Couples Support Group
for Women with Cancer and their Partners
Time: 5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Place: Anschutz Outpatient Pavilion, Room 2005
Who: Women with cancer and their partners
Contact: The Cancer Resource Center, (720) 848-0268
For more information on cancer, support, resources, and events please visit the
Cancer Resource Center in Room 2015 at the Anschutz Cancer Pavilion or call (720)
848-0268.
Also, please visit the calendar on the Web at www.uccc.info/cancercalendar.
TIAA-CREF
counseling sessions
TIAA-CREF will be holding one-on-one counseling sessions for
University of Colorado Denver employees
by appointment only.
To schedule an appointment, visit the Web site at www.tiaa-cref.org/moc
or call Colleen Asay at (800) 842-2009, ext. 2738.
Let us help you make financial decisions that are right for you.
Schedule an appointment today with a TIAA-CREF Consultant who will be available
to answer questions about your financial matters.
Dates |
Times |
Locations |
| Wednesday, Sept. 20 |
8 a.m. – 3:45 p.m. | Fitzsimons Campus Chancellors Room, Bldg. 500 C-1002 |
| Thursday, Sept. 21 |
8 a.m. – 4 p.m. | Ninth Ave. campus School of Nursing Room 1921-1 |
Technology Transfer Office seeking
proposals
The University of Colorado Technology Transfer Office (TTO) has $2.06 million
available for grants directed to development-oriented research to accelerate
commercialization by reducing CU bioscience related inventions to practice
and validating their ability to address significant therapeutic, diagnostic
and medical
device market applications. The funds for this program are available from
a State appropriation with matching funds provided by the CU Foundation
and the
CU TTO.
To be eligible for this funding, investigators must have submitted an invention
disclosure to the TTO by September 15, 2006, followed by a research proposal
before September 27, 2006. The minimum funding is $50,000 and the maximum
is $200,000, inclusive of an 8 percent overhead rate.
For additional information access the following three documents:
Program Overview, Eligibility Criteria and Selection Process at http://www.cu.edu/techtransfer/poc/state_poc.html
Proposal Submission Form at http://www.cu.edu/techtransfer/poc/StatePOCApplicationTemplate.doc
CU Invention Disclosure Form at
http://www.cu.edu/techtransfer/campus/forms.html
Calling all musicians
Orchestra musicians are invited to join Melomania, the HSC Interdisciplinary
Orchestra.
Melomania is conducted by David Brussel of the Colorado Symphony Orchestra.
Join faculty, staff, students, and other health professionals to create
music and
have fun.
For more information, please contact Christina.Yu@uchsc.edu
AIDS Education
and Training Center conference held
The fourth annual Mountain Plains AIDS Education and Training Center (MPAETC)
Faculty Development Conference was held Aug. 10-12 in Sioux Falls, SD.
Marla Corwin, MPAETC clinical education coordinator, and Lucy Bradley-Springer,
principal investigator and director of MPAETC, organized the conference
which drew 118 participants from an eight-state region. Previous conferences
have
been held Colorado, Wyoming and Utah.
“
In addition to medical and behavioral tracks, we now include oral health and
HIV, and pharma updates at all our conferences,” said Corwin. “This
year we also had approximately 30 attendees from the Midwest AIDS Training
and Education Center (MATEC), offering us the opportunity to educate providers
in
a 16-state area, doubling the eight states that have sent faculty to our
conference in the past.”
Sessions were held covering topics including Oral Health Care and Methamphetamine
Diagnosis & Treatment; Risky Cocktails, Risky Business: Street Drugs;
The Graying of the HIV Epidemic: Strategies for Management of Multiple
Intersecting
Chronic Diseases; and The Value of Cultural Competence in Working with
Diverse Consumers.
“
The annual Faculty Development Conference is an opportunity to get together,
learn from each other, and get energized for the next year’s educational
activities,” said Bradley-Springer. “The conference in Sioux Falls
provided all of that – and more.”
MPAETC is affiliated with the University of Colorado Denver in the Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases.
It is
comprised of a region of associated state HIV education and training centers,
and part of a national set of regional AETCs.
The goals of MPAETC are to educate health
care providers about HIV infection
by:
Providing
educational programs about HIV infection for health care professionals
Offering clinical training at patient care sites
Providing updates on treatment and care issues
Serving as a resource for health profession schools
Offering clinical consultation via email: hivconsultation@uchsc.edu
For more information on MPAETC, visit the web site at www.mpaetc.org.
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