William and Rose Styron to Speak About Depression (Feb. 9)—"A Family’s Experience with Depression: A Conversation with Rose & William Styron" will be the special combined presentation for the Dean’s Hour/Humanities and Medicine Program on Wednesday, February 9, at 5 pm in Uris Auditorium. Mr. and Mrs. Styron will speak about their experiences during Mr. Styron’s serious illness with depression. Several copies of Mr. Styron’s book Darkness Visible (A Memoir of Madness), an extraordinary and candid work about his illness, are on reserve in the Medical College Library. (Mr. Styron’s works also include Lie Down in Darkness, Set This House on Fire, The Confessions of Nat Turner, and Sophie’s Choice, among others.) Rose Styron is a noted human-rights activist, poet, and journalist. She is the author of three volumes of poetry (From Summer to Summer, Thieves’ Afternoon, and By Vineyard Light) and is co-author and translator of Modern Russian Poetry. The presentation promises to be powerful and provocative. All are invited.

The Arthur Ashe Visiting Professor Lecture (Medical Grand Rounds) (Feb. 10)—Dr. Robert Gallo, Director of the Institute of Human Virology, Medical Biotechnology Center, and Professor of Medicine at the University of Maryland, will deliver The 2000 Arthur Ashe Visiting Professor Lecture entitled "Some Biological Approaches to Controlling HIV and HIV-Disease" in Uris Auditorium at 11 a.m. The lecture is sponsored by the Department of Medicine. 

Chamber Music Concert (Feb. 13)—The Mobius String Quartet, featuring Weill Medical College MD-PhD student-musicians, will perform a program of Haydn and Beethoven at 3 pm in Rockefeller’s Caspary Auditorium (1230 York Ave. at 66th St.).  Admission is free.

Benefit for Rogosin Institute and Kidney Foundation (Feb. 14)—The Rogosin Institute (RI) and the National Kidney Foundation of New York/New Jersey are co-hosting a joint benefit on Valentine’s Day at The Pierre. At the black-tie dinner-dance, Dr. William Stubenbord, Professor of Surgery at New York Weill Cornell and Surgical Director of RI’s Transplantation Program, will receive the Hope and Humanity Award in recognition of his contributions to kidney transplant surgery; and philanthropists Iris Cantor and Sidney Knafel will receive the "Woman/Man of the Twenty-First Century" awards. For ticket information, call The Rogosin Institute at 746-1552. 

2nd International Conference on Screening for Lung Cancer (Feb. 25-27)—The 2nd International Conference, hosted by Weill-Cornell’s Department of Radiology, takes place February 25-27 (Friday-Sunday). Plenary sessions will be in Uris Auditorium. No registration fee. For program information, call the Division of Chest Imaging, 746-2011.

Volunteers Needed for Chronic Pain Study—Investigators in the Department of Anesthesiology are conducting a study of a new system for giving intrathecal morphine to patients with chronic, intractable pain. Volunteers, age 18-75, who are eligible for a therapeutic trial of intrathecal morphine, may be eligible to receive this therapy using a new intraspinal low profile delivery system (approved for clinical trials by the Food and Drug Administration). For more information, call Bernadette Abaya at 746-2774 or 746-2952.

OSHA In-Service Training—As part of the continuing in-service training on Health and Safety regulations, educational sessions on the Medical College’s Chemical Hygiene Plan and Bloodborne Exposure Plan will be held on the following dates in Room A-950: Chemical Hygiene Plan: Feb. 23 (10 am -12 pm); March 15 (2 - 4 pm); Bloodborne Pathogens Exposure Plan: Feb. 16 (2 - 4 pm); March 7 (10 am -12 pm).  Participation in one session per year is mandatory under Federal (OSHA) regulations for all laboratory workers, including graduate students, medical students and postdoctoral fellows as well as their faculty supervisors, who work with chemicals or with human blood as well as other potentially infectious materials.  OSHA requires that the names of attendees at these sessions be recorded.

A Quarter Century Landmark Plus! Update Your Medicine June 2000 Course (June 26-30)—Sponsored by the Weill Medical College and the Association of Practicing Physicians of The New York Hospital, the Update Your Medicine Program presents a practical CME course—including lectures, workshops, and Meet-the-Professor luncheons. (37.50 Category I AMA-PRA credits.)  Additional 11.5 credits available for Hands-on Workshops.  This program has also been reviewed and is acceptable for 37.50 elective hours by the American Academy of Family Physicians.  For further information, contact Dr. Lila Wallis, Director, or Debora Laan, Coordinator, at 212-746-4752; website: www.med.cornell.edu/update.your.medicine.

Flu Shots for Employees—Employees at New York Weill Cornell Center may receive flu shots at the Occupational Health Service, Stich Medical Building (1315 York Ave.), mezzanine level, on an express basis and without an appointment Monday through Friday from 8 - 11:30 am, and Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday from 1 - 4 pm, through Feb. 25th.

Monday, February 7

12:30 pm Endocrine/Metabolic Bone Conf.—"Case Presentations"—Dr. David Zackson—Payson 2 Conf. Rm. (lunch served).

4:00 pm SKI Molecular Biology Seminar—"The Repair of DNA Double-Strand Breaks in Human Cells"—Dr. Stephen West, Imperial Cancer Research Fund, UK—MSKCC (RRL-116).

5:00 pm Ob/Gyn Grand Rounds—"Hormone Replacement Therapy and Breast Cancer"—Dr. Mark Woodland, MCP/Hahnemann Univ. Hospital—Uris Aud.

6:00 p.m. NYPH-Westchester Community Ed. Program—"Let’s Talk About the Empty Nest, Aging Parents, Love and Sex, and Other Matters of Midlife"—Dr. Steven and Judith Estrine—Center Bldg. Aud. (Westchester).

Tuesday, February 8

11:00 a.m. NYPH-Westchester Clinical Grand Rounds—TBA—Center Bldg. Aud. (Westchester).

11:00 pm R.U. Physics and Biology Seminar—"Tracing Nuclear Uptake of DNA by Single-Molecule Manipulation"— Dr. Michael Elbaum, Weizmann Institute of Science—RU’s B Level Conf. Rm., Smith Hall Annex.

1:30 pm Dermatology Grand Rounds—"Patient Viewing"—ST-301.

2:15 pm Dermatology Grand Rounds—"Case Discussion"—A-950.

3:00 pm Neuroscience Recruitment Team Seminar—"Mice Deficient in the Parkinson’s Disease Gene a-Synuclein Display Functional Deficits in the Nigrostriatal System"—Dr. Asa Abeliovich, Genentech Inc.—F-1190.

4:00 pm Infectious Diseases Conf.—"Clinical Presentations"—Drs. Barry Hartman and Warren Johnson—A-450.

4:00 pm Progress in Neuroscience Seminar—Neural Selection and Control of Eye Movements"—Dr. Jeffrey Schall, Vanderbilt Univ.—Weill Aud. (C-2).

Wednesday, February 9

11:00 am Psychiatry Grand Rounds—"Faculty Council: Hypertension and the Unconscious"—Dr. Samuel Mann—Uris Aud.

1:00 pm David Rogers Health Policy Colloquium—"The Rockefeller Foundation’s Public Health Programs in 1920’s Mexico"—Dr. Anne Birn, The New School—A-126.

5:00 pm Dean’s Hour (Humanities in Medicine Program)—"A Family’s Experience with Depression: A Conversation with Rose and William Styron"—Uris Aud.

7:00 pm Clinical Nephrology Conf.—"Vasopeptidases and Hypertension/ Genetics of Hypertension"—New York Society of Nephrology—Uris Aud.

Thursday, February 10

8:30 am Pediatrics Grand Rounds—"Lyme Disease Epidemiology and Prevention"—Dr. Daniel New, East Tennessee Children’s Hospital—Uris Aud.

11:00 am Medical Grand Rounds (Arthur Ashe Visiting Professor)—"Some Biological Approaches to Controlling HIV and HIV-Disease"—Dr. Robert Gallo, Univ. of Maryland—Uris Aud.

12:00 pm Dept. of Medicine/Staff Meeting with Hospital CEO Dr. Herbert Pardes (following Medical Grand Rounds at 11:00 am)—Uris Aud 

1:00 pm Cell Biology & Genetics Seminar—"Muscle A-band Structure and the Crossbridge Cycle"—Dr. John Squire, Imperial College of Science, UK—A-106.

3:30 p.m. Neuroscience Seminar—"The Role of Basic Helix-Loop-Helix (bHLH) Transcription Factors in Neuronal Precursor Determination and Neuronal Cell Signaling"—Dr. Michael Caudy— Weill Aud. (C-2).

4:00 pm MSKCC Human Genetics Seminar—"The Molecular Biology of Hematopoietic Stem Cells and their Microenvironment"—Dr. Ihor Lemischka, Princeton Univ.—MSKCC (RRL-116).

4:00 pm Nutrition Lecture—"Differentiation of Human Tumors Through PPAR-g"—Dr. Bruce Spiegelman, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, MA—D-417.

4:00 pm Radiation Oncology Grand Rounds—"Megafield Radiotherapy"—Dr. Lourdes Nisce—A-126.

5:00 pm Surgery Grand Rounds—"Surgery for Esophageal Cancer: The State of the Art"—Dr. Nasser Altorki—Uris Aud.

Friday, February 11

12:00 pm SKI Molecular Biology Seminar—"Regeneration in the Metazoans: Why Does it Happen?"—Dr. Alejandro Alvarado, Carnegie Institute of Washington—MSKCC (RRL-116).

Monday, February 14

11:00 pm Neurobiology Seminar—"Hormones, Forebrain Circuits and Reproductive Functions"—Dr. Guibao Gu, Oregon Health Sciences Univ.—Kips Bay Bldg. (229).

4:00 pm Cell Biology & Genetics Seminar—"Regulation and Function of Connexin43 in the Heart"—Dr. Glenn Fishman, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine— Weill Aud. (C-2).

5:00 pm Ob/Gyn Grand Rounds—"Uterine Fibroid Embolization"—Drs. Neil Khilnani and Robert Min—Uris Aud.

Tuesday, February 15

11:00 pm NYPH-Westchester Clinical Grand Rounds—"Psychiatric Applications of Novel Anticonvulsants"—Dr. Joseph Goldberg—Center Bldg. Aud. (Westchester).

1:30 pm Dermatology Grand Rounds—"Patient Viewing"—ST-301.

2:15 pm Dermatology Grand Rounds—"Case Discussion"—A-950.

4:00 pm Infectious Diseases Conf.—"Clinical Presentations"—Drs. Barry Hartman and Warren Johnson—A-450.

Wednesday, February 16

11:00 am Psychiatry Grand Rounds—Clinical Case Conf.: Comprehensive Evaluation Service—Uris Aud.

1:00 pm David Rogers Health Policy Colloquium—"Improving Heart Failure Care Among Minority Patients"—Dr. Jane Sisk, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine—A-126.

4:00 pm Clinical Nephrology Conf.—"Medical Ethics in End Stage Renal Disease"—Dr. Joseph Fins—M-220.

Thursday, February 17

8:30 am Pediatrics Grand Rounds—"Prevention and Risk Reduction of High Risk Behaviors in Adolescents"—Dr. Lawrence Hatterer—Uris Aud.

11:00 am Medical Grand Rounds—"Space Medicine Revisited"—Dr. Arnauld Nicogossian, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC—Uris Aud.

12:00 pm Physiology Seminar—"ATP and the Sodium Pump: A Tale of Two Sites"—Dr. José Cavieres, Univ. of Leicester, England—D-417.

5:00 pm Surgery Grand Rounds—"Basic and Clinical Research in the Burn Center"—Drs. Lisa Staiano-Coico and Roger Yurt—Uris Aud.

Friday, February 18 - (No listings received.)

Monday, February 21 - (President’s Day - No listings received.)

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