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AOA Visiting Professorship Scheduled

Dr. Charles M. Bryan, Heyward Gibbes Distinguished Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine, is the guest speaker for the University of South Alabama AΩA 2010 Visiting Professorship.

Dr. Bryan’s contributions to medical literature have been focused in the areas of infectious disease and medical history. His work has been published in more than 100 journal articles, 250 editorials, and six books. Dr. Bryan is a Master of the American College of Physicians, a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, and a Fellow in the Infectious Diseases Society of America.

Dr. Bryan attended Harvard College and received his medical degree from The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He completed his residency and fellowship at Vanderbilt University. He is one of the charter members of the USC School of Medicine, where he served as director of the division of infectious diseases and chair of the department of medicine until 2000.

All College of Medicine faculty are invited to attend the following lectures:

Wednesday, Feb. 24 – 1:00 p.m.
Oliver Wendell Holmes: Physician and Man of Letters
USAMC Conference Center

Wednesday, Feb. 24, 6:30 p.m.
Health Care Reform: Will We Ever Get It Right?
Mobile Country Club – Sponsored by the Providence Foundation

Thursday, Feb. 25, 8:00 a.m.
AOA Visiting Professorship Lecture (CME – approved)
Aequanimitas Redux: The Relevance of William Osler
USAMC Conference Center

Thursday, Feb. 25, 3:00 p.m.
Building Character: How and When for Today’s Physicians
Main Campus Library Conference Center

2010 Summer Medical Student Program Proposal Deadline Extended

The 2010 Summer Medical Student Program call for proposal deadline has been extended to Friday, Feb. 26. All faculty members are invited to submit research proposals that would provide a quality research experience for an incoming or first year medical student. Projects will be evaluated based on the testable hypothesis or objective, plan of research and educational value to the student. The proposal should state the roles and duties of the medical student and the level of commitment of mentor(s). Proposals are limited to one page.

Projects that show well-designed basic science, translational or clinical research proposals with a clear objective that is achievable within the 9 to 10 week research period will be given priority. Basic science projects focused primarily on techniques without addressing a specific aim or clinical projects that focus on chart review or data entry alone without rigorous epidemiological or biostatistical analysis of clinical data will be declined.

Students will conduct their projects from June 1 through August 5 and present their findings on August 6, 2010 at the 37th Annual Medical Student Research Day. Implicit in the submission of a proposal is that the faculty member will commit the time necessary to ensure students have a meaningful research experience and provide all materials for the research and presentation.

Please visit the COM Medical Student Research website at: http://www.southalabama.edu/com/summerresearch.shtml .

Then click or paste this link in your url address bar to submit your proposal: http://www.southalabama.edu/com/pdf/2010callforproposals.pdf .

For more information, please contact Ms. Natalie Kent, Coordinator at 461-1548.

Howard F. Mahan Lecture - "Race, Medicine and Research: Re-examining the Infamous Tuskegee Syphilis Study and Its Legacy"

The University of South Alabama Department of History will present the Ninth Annual Howard F. Mahan Lecture on Tuesday, February 23 at 7:30 p.m. in the Laidlaw Performing Arts Center.

Dr. Susan Reverby of Wellesley College will be presenting a lecture entitled "Race, Medicine and Research: Re-examining the Infamous Tuskegee Syphilis Study and Its Legacy." The lecture will be based upon her research focusing on the infamous study conducted by the U.S. Public Health Service beginning in the 1930's.

Dr. Reverby is an internationally known scholar of American women's history, the history of medicine, and the history of public health and nursing. Throughout her career, Professor Reverby has served on a number of national health advisory committees including the Legacy Committee on the Tuskegee Syphilis Study that successfully lobbied then-President Bill Clinton to offer a public apology in 1997 to the surviving men and their heirs.

The lecture and reception are free and open to the public. For more information, please call the Department of History at 460-6210 or visit www.usouthal.edu/history .

COM Alum, Former Family Medicine Chair To Be Honored

Dr. Frank V. deGruy, III, chair of family medicine at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, will receive a USA National Alumni Association Distinguished Alumni Award at the annual awards gala on March 11, 2010. The event will be held at the USA Mitchell Center on main campus.

Cocktails will begin at 6 p.m., and dinner will be served at 6:45 p.m.

Tables and individual tickets are available for purchase. For more information or to make a reservation, contact Carol Kittrell at 460-7084.