Kudos for Rodger Kessler

Rodger Kessler, PhD, Assistant Professor of Family Medicine and CTS Faculty Scholar has been appointed Field Editor for the Society of Behavioral Medicine’s new journal, Translational Behavioral Medicine: Practice, Policy, Research.

Congratulations, Rodger!

New In the CTS Library - Case Study Research

Two new books inaugurate our new section on Qualitative Methods in the CTS library on S4 of the Given Courtyard.

Robert K. Yin.Case Study Research: Design and Methods. 4th edition. Sage, 2009.
Robert K. Yin. Applications of Case Study Research. 2nd edition. Sage, 2003.

Online chat with Whitehouse Senior Advisor on Health care reform

On Monday, November 2nd at 3:30 p.m. EST, Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett will hold an extended online chat to discuss how health insurance reform will impact minority communities and all Americans. You can submit questions in advance at the below link and also click on the link to get all the details:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/ope/webform/valerie-jarrett-health-insurance-reform-all-americans

Kareem Dale
Special Assistant to the President
The White House
Phone: 202.456.4767
kdale@who.eop.gov

VERMONT CANCER CENTER 2009 Clinical & Translational Research Symposium

 REGISTRATION AND POSTER ABSTRACT DEADLINES  EXTENDED TO OCTOBER 30, 2009

WALK-INS WELCOME!

 VERMONT CANCER CENTER

2009 Clinical & Translational Research Symposium

Environmental Cancers: Risk Factors, Mechanisms and Therapies

 Friday, November 6, 2009

Grand Maple Ballroom

Dudley H. Davis Center

University of Vermont

Burlington, VT

Please join the Vermont Cancer Center, at the University of Vermont and Fletcher Allen Health Care, in collaboration with Dartmouth-Hitchcock Norris Cotton Cancer Center, for a free day-long research symposium featuring presentations focused on clinical and translational research at the Vermont Cancer Center, Norris Cotton Cancer Center, and other cancer research institutions, with particular emphasis on lung cancer/mesothelioma and skin cancers/melanoma.

For symposium agenda, online registration, and poster submission details, visit http://vermontcancer.org/researchsymposium09.

Registration for this event is free, but required by October 30, 2009. 

Please note: This event will focus on Environmental Cancers and not on Genitourinary/Gynecologic Cancers,

as was incorrectly listed on the Registration Page.

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CALL FOR SYMPOSIUM POSTER SUBMISSIONS

Participants may present posters on any area of cancer-related research, not only those relating to the symposium topics. Posters may have been presented elsewhere. A $125 award will be given in each of two categories: (1) Pre-doc/Post-doc or (2) Faculty/Staff. Poster abstract deadline extended: October 30, 2009. Space is limited.

This symposium is made possible with support from the Lake Champlain Cancer Research Organization.

For more information, please contact: Kelly O'Malley, Vermont Cancer Center Events Coordinator, 802-656-2176 / kelly.omalley@uvm.edu.

Veteran Administration Seminars

MARK your calendars for these cyber seminars in NOVEMBER 2009! Monday, November 2, 1:00pm ET VIReC Database and Methods Seminar Measuring Veterans Health Services Use in VA and Medicare (Part 1) by Denise Hynes, PhD,RN Linda Kok, MA Monday, November 9, 12:00pm ET QUERI Implementation Practice Seminar Does improving quality save money? A review of research and research methods. by John Ovretveit, PhD Tuesday, November 10, 12:00pm ET QUERI Implementation Research Deriving insights from naturally occurring implementation and QI processes: An overview of research methods and issues. by John Ovretveit, PhD Thursday, November 12, 12:00pm ET VIReC Clinical Informatics Seminar Survey of Clinical Reminder Use in the VA by Emily Patterson, PhD Wednesday, November 18, 2:00pm ET HERC Health Economics Seminar Methods of Calculating Costs by Kevin Frick, PhD

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For more information on these and other HSR&D
Cyber Seminars see the Cyber Seminar catalog online.

Questions? Email cyberseminar@va.gov

Roberto Fabri Fialho Scholarship

An annual scholarship of $1,500 will be awarded to a student in the final year of his or her Ph.D. dissertation research in the life sciences. It is awarded in memory of Roberto Fabri Fialho, Ph.D., (posthumous), Biology, 2001.

Roberto Fabri Fialho, Ph.D. was born and received his primary education in his hometown of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In 1989 he arrived at the University of Vermont to pursue his graduate education in Biology. He received his M.S. degree in 1993 and completed his Ph.D. just weeks before his untimely death in 1999 following an extended struggle with cancer. Despite his illness, Rob was an active member of the Biology Department, a creative and brilliant scholar and scientist, an admired teacher of UVM undergraduates, and a much loved friend to many.

Applications for the award are solicited from students pursuing Ph.D.s in the life sciences who expect to complete their degrees in the current academic year. An application form is available from the Graduate College and must be received no later than Monday, November 30, 2009. Selection of the scholarship recipient will be made by a faculty panel convened for this purpose by the Dean of the Graduate College.

This scholarship is made available through the generosity of Michael D. Upton, MD (College of Medicine `94), and friends and family of Roberto Fialho.

Applications must be made through the Graduate College. The deadline for receipt of materials is November 30, 2009

CTS Solstice Retreat

Save the date, Thursday, December 10, for our Solstice Retreat which will be held at the Littenbergs. Dr Alan Wertheimer, CTS and NIH Bioethicist will be our guest. We need to know if you can came so we can plan with the Littenbergs. Please let Deb Henry know if you would like to attend, and we will send out a more precise invitation closer to the date.
Thanks so much!

Alan Rubin