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Caduceus Newsletter: Fall 2009.12, Week of November 9

Dr. Stan Eisen, Director Preprofessional Health Programs Christian Brothers University 650 East Parkway South Memphis, TN 38104 Home page: http://www.cbu.edu/~seisen/ Caduceus Newsletter Archives: http://www.cbu.edu/~seisen/Caduceus.html

Halloween Post-script:

Thanks to Mrs. Vincent for sending me this photo. (I did ask for “fire-engine red” hair rinse at Sally’s Beauty Supplies…)

Table of Contents:

1. Events coming up.
2. The University of Queensland-Ochsner Program allows students to complete their first two years at the University of Queensland’s medical school, located in Brisbane, Australia.
3. The University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy Accepts applications from all qualified individuals.

4. Marginalia: Behold Le Comte du Monet (pr. Count da Money) (AKA Matt Vincent, vocalist for Death Warmed Over).

1. Events coming up.

· Tuesday, November 10, 2009: Neuroscience Seminar Series at UTHSC, starting at 12 noon -- Evan S. Deneris, Ph.D., Neurosciences, Case Western Reserve University, Host - Dr. Fu-Ming Zhou

· Wednesday, November 11, 2009: The Cardiovascular-Renal Center of The University of Tennessee Health Science Center presents: E. Eric Muirhead Hypertension Research Day, North Auditorium, E. P. and Kate Coleman College of Medicine Building, 956 Court Avenue, Memphis, Tennessee: Program website: http://hrd.utmem.edu

1. 8:00 a.m. Session Chair: William C. Cushman, MD: Medicine Grand Rounds -- ³Hypertension 2009: lessons from observational studies and clinical trials to guide patient care", Daniel Levy, MD, FACC, Director, Framingham Heart Study, National Institutes of Health, Professor, Boston University School of Medicine

2. 9:00 a.m. Session Chair: Jonathan Jaggar, PhD: "The (Blood) Pressure's on Salt!  But, how does salt do it?², Leonard Share Distinguished Visiting Professor, Mordecai P. Blaustein, MD, Professor, Departments of Physiology and Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine

3. 10:00 a.m.   Break for refreshments, Presentation of Young Investigator Award

4. 10:15 a.m. Session Chair: Kafait Malik, PhD, DSc, ³Angiotensin-(1-12) and Angiotensin-(1-7) Reveal Complex Regulation of Renin Angiotensin System Mechanism of Action², E. Eric Muirhead Hypertension Research Day Lecture, Carlos M. Ferrario, MD, FASA, FACC, Professor, Hypertension and Vascular Disease Center, Wake Forest University School of Medicine

5. 11:15 a.m. Session Chair: Barry Wall, MD, ³Natriuretic Peptide System in Heart Failure and Myocardial Infarction², Guy Reed, MS, MD, Diggs Professor and Chair, Department of Medicine The University of Tennessee Health Science Center

6. 12:15 p.m.  Adjournment

7. 2:00 p.m.  A round-table discussion will be held. The discussion will be located in the Doctors Building, 66 N. Pauline, in room 400. All interested persons are invited. Chair: William Cushman, M.D., Faculty: Daniel Levy, MD, FACC, Continental Breakfast will be served, Free Parking available in the Plaza Garage (located across from the Coleman Building). For more information contact Michelle Lester at 901-448-2634 or email mlester@physio1.utmem.edu .

· Thursday, November 12, 2009 – University of Memphis Department of Biology, 4:00 p.m. Ellington Hall Auditorium, Dr. James Dale (host, Dr. Ourth), Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases and Associate Vice-Chancellor for Research, UTCHS Memphis. “Molecular Pathogenesis of Streptococcus Group A and Vaccine Development”.

2. The University of Queensland-Ochsner Program allows students to complete their first two years at the University of Queensland’s medical school, located in Brisbane, Australia.

We know many of you have a qualified student or two from last year’s application cycle who did not get a medical school place. Some of these students could begin medical school in January 2010, and we want to alert you to an excellent opportunity for qualified American students to obtain a superb medical education.

The University of Queensland-Ochsner program allows students to complete their first two years at the University of Queensland’s medical school, which is ranked number 32 in the world, according to a “Times” of London survey of international medical schools, and which is located in Brisbane, Australia. Students then complete their second two years of clinical rotations at the Ochsner Clinical School in New Orleans. They are supported by the faculty at Ochsner in their residency applications and participate in Match Day.

This is a wonderful opportunity for students who are committed to a career in medicine and who have otherwise solid applications but who have struggled a bit with the MCAT. We are looking for MCAT scores of 8, 8, 8, M and a B average.

If you have questions, please do call us at 877.777.0155 ext.104 and we’ll be happy to explain the program to you. Alternatively please give our  contact information directly to any students you may know of who might be interested. The url of our website is listed below.

Best,

Thea Volpe, Ph.D.

Vice President, Enrollment Management

MedEdPath, Inc.

163 William St. 3rd Floor

877.777.0155 ext. 104

646.648.0213 Cell

tvolpe@mededpath.org

www.mededpath.org

Wendy Monk

Director

MedEdPath, Inc.

163 William Street, Suite 318

New York, N.Y.  10038

877-777-0155 ext: 103

wmonk@mededpath.org

3. The University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy Accepts applications from all qualified individuals.

Dear Dr. Eisen:

I am privileged to serve as the Associate Dean for Academic and Student Affairs at the University of Mississippi, School of Pharmacy. It is my understanding that you serve as the academic advisor to pre-pharmacy students at your institution and I am contacting you in this capacity. If per chance this communication should have been directed to another individual on your campus would you be so kind as to forward it to his/her attention.

It has been brought to our attention that there is a serious misconception on the part of some non-Mississippi residents that the School of Pharmacy does not accept non-residents into the Doctor of Pharmacy program unless they had enrolled at Ole Miss as freshmen. This is totally inaccurate. The School welcomes applications from all qualified individuals. We are very concerned that perhaps some of your students had been misinformed and declined application to our program.  Given the well documented academic quality of your institution, we certainly wanted to correct that misunderstanding and request that you so inform your majors.

Our program has an excellent national reputation based partly on the performance of our graduates on the national pharmacy licensure exam, the scholarly activities of our faculty, the size of our graduate programs, and the accomplishments of our alumni. In addition, our tuition is among the lowest in the nation. We are concerned that perhaps your students may have researched our program because of its reputation, but due to this mis-perception regarding residency issues, did not apply. Our priority application deadline had originally been listed as November 1. However, due to these circumstances the absolute deadline for consideration has been extended to February 1. We would deeply appreciate your encouragement of your advisees to apply to our program. We are not a PharmCAS school so applicants must apply directly to our program ( www.olemiss.edu/application). Program information is available online at www.pharmacy.olemiss.edu .        

Sincerely,


Dr. Marvin Wilson
Associate Dean for Academic and Student Affairs

4. Marginalia: Behold Le Comte du Monet (pr. Count da Money) (AKA Matt Vincent, vocalist for Death Warmed Over).

Dr. Stan Eisen, Director
Preprofessional Health Programs
Biology Department
Christian Brothers University
650 East Parkway South
Memphis, TN 38104
E-mail: seisen@cbu.edu
http://www.cbu.edu/~seisen/
Caduceus Newsletter Archives: http://www.cbu.edu/~seisen/Caduceus.html