Calendar

Monday, April 20

"Interactive Applications: Databases and PDF Forms"

Speaker: Deane Eastwood, assistant director for internet applications, Office of Academic Communications

Sponsor: Office of Academic Communications, Web Site Development Seminar

FXB G-11, 1:00-2:00 p.m.

"Learning Curves: The Adoption of a New Surgical Technique"

Speakers: From Harvard Business School: Gary Pisano, professor of business administration; and Richard Bohmer, lecturer

Sponsor: Center for Quality of Care Research and Education

Kresge G-2, 12:30-1:25 p.m.

"Missing Data: Are We Doing the Right Thing?"

Speaker: Karin Michels, instructor in medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital

Sponsor: Channing Laboratory, Epidemiology of Chronic Disease Seminar

5th floor conference room, Channing Laboratory, 181 Longwood Avenue, 12:30 p.m.

"Malaria's Eve: Recent Evolution of an Ancient Parasite"

Speaker: Stephen Rich, University of Rochester

Sponsor: Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases

FXB G-12, 12:30-1:30 p.m.

"Investigating Boston's Teaching Hospitals' Response to Employees Affected by Domestic Violence"

Speaker: Melissa Dimond, master's student, Department of Health and Social Behavior

Sponsor: Resolution-The Violence Prevention Working Group

Kresge 203, 12:30-1:30 p.m.

Thursday, April 23

"The Anorexiant Debacle: Lessons for and from Pharmacoepidemiology"

Speakers: Cochairs: Jerome Avorn, associate professor of medicine, HMS; Alexander Walker, professor, Department of Epidemiology. Presenters: Lucien Abenheim, professor of epidemiology, McGill University; Thomas Moore, Center for Health Policy Studies, George Washington University School of Medicine; Robert Nelson, former associate director of epidemiology, Food and Drug Administration; and Arthur Weyman, professor of medicine, HMS

Sponsor: International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology

Best Western Boston-Inn at Children's, 342 Longwood Avenue, 8:15 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

($65 symposium fee. Call 617-278-0936 for more information.)

"Statistical Issues in a Comparative Technology Assessment Experiment Involving Multivariate Categorical Data with Clustering"

Speaker: J. Richard Landis, director, Division of Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center

Sponsor: Department of Biostatistics, Statistical Methods in Epidemiology Seminar

Kresge 606, 1:30-3:00 p.m.

"GIS Partnerships: Improving Access to Public Data?"

Speaker: David Cobb and Arlene Olivero, Harvard Map Collection, Pusey Library, Harvard College

Sponsor: Department of Biostatistics

FXB G-11, 4:00-5:00 p.m.

"Social Capital in Mali: Theory, Measurement and Relevance for Development"

Speaker: Alayne Adams, Center for Population and Family Health, Columbia School of Public Health

Sponsor: Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies

9 Bow Street, Cambridge, 4:30-6:00 p.m.

Friday, April 24

"Proteolytic Mechanisms Regulating Genome Ploidy in Schizosaccharo-myces Pombe"

Speaker: Dieter Wolf, Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine

Sponsor: Department of Cancer Cell Biology

FXB G-11, 11:00 a.m.

"Ethical and Human Rights Implications of HIV Surveillance: An International Perspective"

Speakers: From the Department of Population and International Health: Daniel Tarantola, lecturer; and Sophia Gruskin, instructor

Sponsor: Human Subjects Committee

FXB G-12, 12:30-1:30 p.m.

"Cytotoxic T Lymphocyte Responses to Trypanosoma Cruzi: From Experimental Murine Infection Model to Human Chagas' Disease"

Speaker: Benjamin Wizel-Cohen, research associate, department of cellular biology, University of Georgia

Sponsor: Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases

FXB G-11, 12:30-1:30 p.m.

"Applications of Epidemiology in the Pharmaceutical Field: An Industry Perspective"

Speaker: Susanne Prez Gutthann, head, Global Pharmacoepide-miology, Novartis Pharmaceuticals

Sponsor: Department of Epidemiology, Pharmacoepidemiology Seminar

Kresge 204, 12:30-1:30 p.m.

"Blood Lead, Pregnancy, and Bone Density"

Speaker: Irva Hertz-Picciotto, associate professor, Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Sponsor: Department of Environmental Health

Kresge 904, 12:30-1:30 p.m.

Saturday, April 25

"Harvard-MIT Conference on Alternative Medicine: An Interactive Exploration of Non-Traditional Medicine"

Speakers: Herbert Benson, director, Mind-Body Institute, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; James Gordon, director, Center for Mind-Body Medicine, Washington, DC; Steve Wolf, Emory School of Medicine; Bill Mueller, former chair, National Commission to Certify Acupuncture; Mary Ann Richardson, University of Texas School of Public Health; and others

Sponsor: Hippocratic Society

Science Center, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

(Continues on Sunday, April 26. Conference fees are $20. Call 617-493-6390 for more information.)

"Harvard International Women's Health Conference"

Speakers: From HSPH: Sofia Gruskin, instructor, Department of Population and International Health; Norma Swenson, lecturer, Department of Maternal and Child Health; and Daniel Tarantola, lecturer, Department of Population and International Health; together with other women's health scholars and professionals

Sponsors: Harvard Project for International Health and Development

Harvard Hall, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, 9:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.

(For more information, call 617-493-7328)

Monday, April 27

"Hsp70, a Molecular Chaperone That Controls Stress-Activated Kinases JNK and p38"

Speaker: Michael Sherman, Boston Biomedical Research Institute

Sponsor: Department of Cancer Cell Biology

Kresge 502, 11:00 a.m.

"HIV/AIDS in Zimbabwe: The Southern African Story"

Speaker: David Katzenstein, Stanford University Medical School

Sponsor: Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases

FXB G-12, 12:30-1:30 p.m.

"Effectiveness of Alternative Approaches for Coordinating Patient Care Within and Across Settings"

Speaker: Jody Hofer Gittell, assistant professor of business administration, HBS

Sponsor: Center for Quality of Care Research and Education

Kresge G-2, 12:30-1:30 p.m.

"Protein-Directed Molecular Interactions in Recombination and Repair"

Speaker: Stephen West, Imperial Cancer Research Fund

Sponsor: Division of Biological Sciences, Distinguished Lecture

FXB G-13, 4:00-5:00 p.m.

Wednesday, April 29

"NCI's New Cancer Incidence Maps"

Speaker: Susan Devesa, chief, Descriptive Studies Section, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute

Sponsor: Harvard Center for Cancer Prevention

Kresge 904, 12:30-1:30 p.m.

Thursday, April 30

"The Role of Trypanosoma Cruzi Oligopeptidase B in Host Cell Signaling and Invasion"

Speaker: Barbara Burleigh, Department of Cell Biology, Yale University School of Medicine

Sponsor: Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases

FXB G-12, 12:00-1:00 p.m.

Alonzo Yerby Memorial Lecture: "Drug Policy and Violence"

Speaker: Kurt Schmoke, mayor, City of Baltimore

Sponsors: Division of Public Health Practice, Department of Health Policy and Management, Violence Prevention Working Group

Snyder Auditorium, 4:00-5:00 p.m.

Friday, May 1

"Confidentiality in Public Health Research"

Speaker: Felton Earls, professor, Department of Maternal and Child Health

Sponsor: Human Subjects Committee

FXB G-12, 12:30-1:30 p.m.

"The Transmission/Disequilibrium Test (TDT) and Its Generalizations"

Speaker: W.J. Ewens, professor of biology, University of Pennsylvania

Sponsors: Department of Bioststatistics, Program for Population Genetics, Genome Therapeutics Corporation

FXB G-12, 4:00-5:00 p.m.

• Frank Minore Memorial Gathering
  Frank Minore, a master of public health student, passed away on March 18. Friends and colleagues of Minore are invited to attend a memorial gathering to share their memories and thoughts about his life. The gathering begins at 4:00 p.m. on April 22 in Kresge 101. For more information, contact the Office for Students at 432-1036.
  
  
• WANTED
  Photographs of HSPH researchers in the field, for use in the 1998-99 Official Register. Please send photos to Kresge 1012, or call 432-3952 for more information. Photographs will be returned to owners.
  
  
• Around the School will not be published next week. The next issue will be distributed on May 1, 1998.
  
  
• Advisors to foreign students and scholars from the Harvard International Office will hold office hours at HSPH on April 23 and 30 from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. in Kresge G-10. Drop by or call 432-0488 to schedule an appointment. Please remember to bring your passport and other visa documents.
  
  
• An orientation session for recently hired exempt staff will be held from 9:00 to 11:30 a.m. on April 21 in the Club Room, Vanderbilt Hall, 107 Avenue Louis Pasteur. The program includes an overview of Harvard's organizational structure and mission, benefits, retirement plans, facilities, programs, and services. Benefits Office consultants will be on hand to answer questions.
  
  
• Submit calendar listings to Ethan Cohen, Kresge 1005, by noon on Monday, the week before the event. Listings may be transmitted via Email ecohen@sph. harvard.edu.

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