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MICROBIOLOGY/IMMUNOLOGY SEMINAR

"DEVELOPMENT OF A CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS BASED ORAL VACCINE AGAINST SIV/HIV"

PRESENTED BY
PHALGUNI GUPTA, PH.D.
Professor
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Graduate School of Public Health
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA

HOST: Chuck Wira

Monday

DATE: November 16, 2009

TIME: 4:00 PM

PLACE: 658W Borwell

This is made possible by administrative, technical, fiscal resources and contributions of the Department of
Microbiology and Immunology, M2P2, and the Immunology Program.

****Please remember****
Advance Transit Blue Line shuttle departs from DHMC and DMS every 15 minutes. The DHMC stop is the new East Entrance, adjacent to the Cancer Center. The DMS stop is the Remsen/Vail Circle.

Speaker: Alexander Fuld, MD, MS, Hematology/Oncology Fellow, Norris Cotton Cancer Center

Auditorium E, Level 3, Rubin Building, DHMC

Lecture podcast, live and archived webcast at www.cancer.dartmouth.edu/events/media.shtml
Info: 653-3619 or Elizabeth.r.wood@dartmouth.edu

The US House of Representatives just recently passed a historic Health Care Reform bill. In a few weeks, the US Senate will have their chance to decide the fate of the legislation. A group of first-year Dartmouth Medical Students in AMSA (American Medical Student Association) are holding a Candlelight Vigil on November 19, 2009 from 5:30-6:15pm. This Vigil will be a way to gather support and thoughtful reflection on what healthcare reform means to us.

We invite you to join us on the evening of November 19th as we show the New Hampshire Senators and the rest of the country that our community of medical students, grad and undergrad students, healthcare professionals, and community members have carefully thought about what healthcare reform means to us. Please stop by, if for only 10 or 15 minutes, as we gather on the Dartmouth Green and hold a candle in support of Healthcare Reform!

What: Candlelight Vigil in support of Healthcare Reform
When: Thursday, November 19, 2009
Time: 5:30-6:15pm
Where: Dartmouth Green
**If you have a candle, bring one! If not, we will have them available at the Vigil**

Charles R. Wira, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Department of Physiology at Dartmouth Medical School.

Dr. Wira will present a seminar entitled: Puzzling Out How HIV and Other Pathogens Infect Women: Identification of a Window of Vulnerability During the Menstrual Cycle.

This Seminar will be held in Auditorium G

With an eye to small-town health professionals as well as to the people training students to practice medicine beyond metropolitan settings, Dartmouth's Department of Community and Family Medicine is unveiling the Handbook for Rural Health Care Ethics.

At its most benign, the autoimmune disease scleroderma can discolor parts of the skin of its sufferers. At its most pernicious, it can thicken and harden their skin, their blood vessels, and their internal organs before, in many cases, killing them.

Richard B. Freeman, Jr., M.D., a veteran transplant surgeon and medical educator at Tufts, has just been named chair of the Department of Surgery at Dartmouth Medical School.

People who live in rural areas may run a greater risk of suffering a perforated appendix than those dwelling in suburbs and cities, according to a new study from Dartmouth Medical School (DMS) researchers.

Drug labels—the main way that the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) communicates the prescribing information physicians need—frequently don't include basic information required to fully understand the harms and benefits of these products, two Dartmouth Medical School (DMS) professors declare in the Oct. 29 edition of the New England Journal of Medicine.

Seven weeks into their first year at Dartmouth Medical School, the 47 women and 37 men of the Class of 2013 marched into DMS's Kellogg Auditorium and donned the symbol of their new profession at the School's White Coat Ceremony on Saturday, Oct. 3.

Thomas M. Dodds, M.D., has been named chair of the Department of Anesthesiology at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC), after serving as acting chair for the past 18 months. His appointment follows the previous departmental leadership of David Glass, M.D., who chaired anesthesiology from 1983 to 2008.

Hazelden, a nonprofit organization, and the Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center (PRC)—both leaders in the research and development of evidence-based practices—today announced a partnership to develop a variety of resources for the mental health and addiction treatment industries. These resources, including curricula, books, multimedia tools, and staff-development trainings, will be published under a new "Dartmouth PRC-Hazelden" imprint.

Prevention versus treatment? Cost versus efficacy? So go two of the dilemmas looming over Dartmouth's Paul E. Palumbo, M.D., and his fellow researchers in the race to fight HIV and other infectious diseases in the developing world—especially among women and their young children.

The Dartmouth-New Hampshire lung diseases partnership has been awarded almost $2 million in economic stimulus funding from the National Institutes of Health for a fiberoptic backbone to connect Northern New England. The two-year supplement, effective this month, will provide for development of an internet network to link higher education and research institutions for large-scale collaborative regional studies.

Dartmouth Medical School ushered in a new academic year when 84 first-year medical students, broadly educated and bringing a diversity of experience in work and service from around the country and world, arrived for orientation.