We kindly invite you to attend today’s seminar on Monday, October 30, 2:00 PM-3:00 PM CDT. The speaker is Joseph (Kip) Handwerker from the Department of Preventive Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, and the School of Public Health at the University of Memphis.
Join the Health Sciences Library Historical Collections on November 8th for a drop-in event exploring the magical world of medicinal plants!
Join us for this week’s Medicine Grand Rounds presented by Andrea Malkin on health care liability. This Grand Rounds presentation will take place in the Freeman Auditorium in the Hamilton Eye Institute (Madison building 930, room 304).
Dr. Richard Plemper will present “Exacerbated disease after consecutive respiratory virus infections”. His research is directed at developing antiviral therapeutics against major respiratory RNA viruses such as influenza viruses, respiratory syncytial virus, and SARS-CoV-2. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Plemper co-developed molnupiravir, first demonstrating oral activity and pharmacological suppression of SARS-CoV-2 transmission in an animal model Welcome to join & learn more!
Drs. Theodore Cory and Santosh Kumar are enrolling African American women for a research
project “Isolation of Blood from Healthy Control Donors”, to find out how the immune system
responds to infection with infectious diseases.
Subjects must be between the ages of 18-50, and generally healthy. Subjects must not be
heavy alcohol users, use illicit substances, have liver damage, have HIV, the human
papillomavirus (HPV), or be pregnant.
Subjects will be asked to provide 4 tablespoons of blood in one blood draw and will be
compensated $25.
Please contact Dr. Theodore Cory at tcory1@uthsc.edu, or 901-448-7216.
Please consider volunteering for an upcoming Poverty Simulation scheduled for Monday, October 30th. Poverty Simulations are an educational experience for both volunteers and participants, and they truly take a village to accomplish. Help students learn about the challenges people in poverty face in their daily lives. No experience is required, and multiple roles are needed. Learn more and sign up to volunteer here: https://uthsc.givepulse.com/event/406274
(Log in with your UTHSC credentials.)
Interested in having your class participate in a poverty simulation? Email Jess Guthrie to learn more about upcoming opportunities!
UNITE is excited to partner with Community Engaged Care and SASSI to offer UTHSC SafeZone training on Tuesday, October 24!
UTHSC Safe Zone is a training opportunity for students, faculty, and staff to learn about LGBTQ+ identities, and examine prejudice, assumptions, and privilege within the scope of Healthcare and Health education.
“UTHSC SafeZone Certificates” available upon completion of the training. Dinner will be provided to those who RSVP by 5PM on Friday, October 20. RSVP via this link: https://uthsc.campuslabs.com/engage/event/9509151 The training will be in GEB A104 from 5-8 PM.
This SafeZone training will serve as an intensive credit on the Co-Curricular Certificate on the Social Determinants of Health.
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