News on the Go #635, January 29, 2008

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Topics at a glance: The Leader Update ... Road closure ... Rice U Farmers MArket ... Wellness Fair ... Free student workshop ... Preventive Cardiology Forum ... Ethical Leadership talk ... HOOP update ... Clinical Research Practice ... Worklife Tip of the Week

The Leader Update

• Main story: Genetic Makeup May Affect Blood Pressure Medications
• Stars: GSBS Research Stars Shine Brightly

Road closure

Moursund Street is one lane in each direction between Bertner Avenue and M. D. Anderson Boulevard until 5 a.m., Monday, Feb. 18, for installation of phase one underground utilities for the Texas Children’s Hospital Neurological Research Institute Building.

Shop at Rice U Farmers Market

UT Auxiliary Enterprises is partnering with Rice University to on the new Rice U Farmers Market, which takes place, 3:30-7 p.m. Tuesdays, on the Rice campus. The Tuesday Market is located in the parking lot south of Rice Stadium, University Blvd near Montclair. Free parking in the lot at University Blvd near Montclair. Free parking in the lot at Entrance 9 or in the Greenbriar Lot, entrances 13A and 13B. For information about produce and other products, visit http://www.houstonfarmersmarket.org/

To Your Health Wellness Fair

The fourth annual UT Wellness Fair takes place 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Wednesday, Jan. 30, at the IMM Sarofim Research Building. Visit more than 30 health and wellness exhibitors providing a range of information plus blood pressure, bone density, asthma and vision screenings. This event is open to all health science center students, faculty and staff with UT ID.

For more information about Wellness Fair activities, visit http://ae.uth.tmc.edu and click on Recreation Center. To volunteer for the Wellness Fair, contact Pauline.M.Habetz@uth.tmc.edu, 713-500-8425.

CO2 Forum

Rice's Center for the Study of Environment and Society is hosting a CO2 Forum, 7-9:30 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 31, Rice Memorial Center, 6100 Main St., featuring guest speakers Rice President David Leebron, Houston Mayor Bill White, former National Science Foundation Director and presidential science advisor Neal Lane, Shell USA President John Hofmeister, and IPCC Climatologist Dominique Raynaud. Free; open to the public.

Free student technical writing workshop

The Office of Cultural and Institutional Diversity will offer a free Technical Writing Workshop focusing on APA documentation style & methodologies, 5-8 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 6,open to all health science center first-year and second-year students in Spring 2008. RSVP by Friday, Feb. 1, to MKJohnsonPhD@sbcglobal.net. Limit: 25.

Preventive Cardiology Forum XVIII

The 18th Preventive Cardiology Forum, a free conference in collaboration with The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Memorial Hermann Hospital, the American Heart Association, Texas Tech University Health Science Center at El Paso, UT School of Public Health Brownsville Regional Campus, Memorial Health System of East Texas and Baylor College of Medicine, will focus on prevention, reduction and regression of cardiovascular disease. It will take place at the UT Medical School Building, Room 3.001, 7:30 a.m.-1 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 2.

Organized by Francisco Fuentes, M.D., speakers include L. Maximilian Buja, M.D., K. Lance Gould, M.D., Susan T. Laing, M.D. and Gurur Biliciler-Denktas, M.D. Questions?  Please call Sandra Vick, 713-500-6576, or e-mail ms.pcfreg@uth.tmc.edu.

Ethical Leadership talk

Howard T. Prince II, Ph.D., clinical professor and director of the Center for Ethical Leadership of the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs of UT Austin, will speak on “Ethical Leadership,” noon, Monday, Feb. 11, School of Public Health Auditorium.  This presentation will describe why and how ethical breaches occur, how they can be prevented and what you can do in your current and future responsibilities to strengthen the likelihood that your employees will do the right thing and not do things that land you and your organization on the front page of your local newspaper for the wrong reasons. Lunch provided for the first 70 attendees. More information: http://www.sph.uth.tmc.edu/course/envi/Spring08colloquia/hprince.pdf. 

HOOP update

The Web Site Linking and Privacy Policy (No. 17.05A, http://legal.uth.tmc.edu/hoop/17/17_05A.html) in the Handbook of Operating Procedures (HOOP), has been edited for readability.  Direct questions regarding this policy to Jennifer Canup, interim director of university web communications, 713-500-3296.

Clinical Research Practice

• The Clinical Research Budgeting/Billing Training, 9-11 a.m., Thursday, Feb. 28, Medical School Building Room B.620, will offer you help in simplifying and clarifying the clinical research budgeting and billing process. Please pre-register byvisiting the Office of Research Clinical Research Budgeting and Billing Compliance Web page at  http://www.uth.tmc.edu/research/events/crtraining.htm or contact Catey Carter, 713-500-3524, Catharine.V.Carter@uth.tmc.edu; or Kimberly Wilson at Kimberly.Wilson@uth.tmc.edu.
• A Nursing Education Program in Clinical Research: A Model of Safe and Ethical Research Practice for Clinicians, beginning March 25, provides a model of practice in conducting clinical research based on the principles of Good Clinical Practice; focusing on research compliance, protecting the safety and well-being of research subjects and ensuring the integrity of the research. Topics will include: research ethics, consent process, budget development and more. Pre-registration is required.

Please visit http://www.uth.tmc.edu/research/events/crevents.htm for additional information and to register. This course is free for health science center employees and $300 per person for participants from outside agencies.

WorkLife Tip of the Week

It's a New Year, so how about giving yourself a new financial outlook? Have you been affected by the sub-prime mortgage lending crisis or is your consumer debt getting close to the out-of-control point? Visit the WorkLife resources Web site (password UTH), and take the financial checkup quiz. Then, if you have concerns, please call 713-500-3327 or visit http://www.uthouston.edu/worklife/ to see how we can help.