University Swine Flu Updates

The Columbia Pandemic Planning Working Group is working hard to disseminate timely, accurate information to the Columbia community. The information is developed collaboratively by those experts on campus who are charged with the responsibility for ensuring the general health and safety of the Columbia community.

Visit http://www.columbia.edu/cu/studentservices/preparedness/ for the most up-to-date information.

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Alternative Spring Break to Costa Rica

Application Deadline: Dec. 14*

*Space is Limited; Apply Today

Are you a pre-medical, pre-veterinary, pre-dental, pre-nursing, medical, dental or nursing student at Columbia University? Do you want to spend nine days in Costa Rica over spring break learning more about your profession and getting hands-on experience while helping communities in need?

Trip Dates: March 13-21, 2010

Trip Details
The group will visit Cartago and Turrialba where clinics will be set-up in various locations such as schools and churches.

Trip Experience Video

About the Organization
VIDA is an exciting not-for-profit humanitarian volunteer program that offers hands–on, eye-opening and mind-enriching international volunteer experiences to students of medicine, dentistry and veterinary medicine. We offer unparalleled volunteer experiences for those who want to learn about medicine, discover new cultures and share with those less fortunate while providing free health services to improve the quality of life of impoverished people and of animals in Central America.

Cost
-Application Fee: $100 due by 12/14/09
-Total: $1,395; Deposit: $500 due by 12/14/09
-Price includes: ground transportation; airport pick up/drop off; lodging; bilingual, health professionals; guides; interpreters; supplies/materials for clinics; most meals and tours; Not included: airfare or the application fee of $100)

More Information

Contact
Rachelle Meyer
rdm2110@columbia.edu
Postbac Premed Program student
VIDA Campus Coordinator for Columbia University*

*This is not a Columbia University sponsored trip.

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Narrative Medicine Rounds

Event Date and Time: Wed., Dec. 2, 5-6:30 p.m.

Next Session
Virgil Wong
Artist and filmmaker Wong’s work grapples with bioethically vexed medical technologies – including nanorobots, a smart-as-human genetically engineered mouse, and a male pregnancy program. His fictional “RYT-Dwayne Medical Center” (www.rythospital.com) had been called “disarmingly authentic” by the New York Times.

Upcoming Sessions

Event Location
Faculty Club
P&S Building
630 West 168th Street (between Broadway and Fort Washington Avenue)
4th floor, Room 446

About the Program
Narrative Medicine Rounds are lectures or readings presented by scholars, clinicians, or writers engaged in work at the interface between narrative and health care. Rounds are held on the first Wednesday of each month from 5-6:30 p.m. in the Columbia University Medical Center Faculty Club, followed by a reception. Rounds are free and open to the public. Students, staff, faculty, patients, friends, and interested others are warmly welcome to join us.

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Prehealth Summer Opportunities Panel

Event Date and Time: Mon., Nov. 30, 6:10-7:30 p.m.

It's already time to think about what you will do this summer. Come to get tips about how to begin your search for summer opportunities and hear from your premedical peers who have each had interesting and rewarding summer experiences. This is a program not to be missed. This program is co-sponsored by the Office of Preprofessional Advising and CU AMSA.

Register

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University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Visit to Campus

Event Date: Thurs., Nov. 19, 6-8 p.m.

Event Location: W & J Warren Room 311

Register

Presenters

Hilda Luiggi, M.S., Associate Director for the Office for Diversity and Community Outreach in Undergraduate Medical Education

Dr. Iris Reyes, Associate Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine

Lauren Matthews, M2

Sponsor
Charles Drew Premedical Society Chapter of Columbia University

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Flu Shot Fair

Free Flu Shots: Wed., Nov. 11, 11 a.m.-3 p.m.


The "Flu Shot Fair" is coming to campus at no cost to you. Last year, Health Services vaccinated more than 3,000 members of the Columbia community. We will continue to provide free flu shots for students, faculty and staff interested in receiving the vaccine this fall. No appointments are necessary!

Columbia University School of Social Work
Date: Wednesday, November 11
Time: 11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Location: CUSSW, Student Lounge, Room 214

Teachers College
Date: Tuesday, November 17
Time: 12:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Location: Teachers College, Grace Dodge Hall, Room 179

For more information, please visit:
http://www.health.columbia.edu/docs/services/immunizations/flu_shot.html

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Self Defense Class

Event Date and Time: Tues., Nov. 10, 6-8 p.m.

The Department of Public Safety & The Sexual Violence Prevention & Response Program Presents: A Class on Basic Self Defense

Event Location
Medical Center Campus
622 West 168 Street
PH Cafe 1st floor, Rear Conference Room

RSVP
Email: rm29@columbia.edu
You must RSVP to attend this class, however please do not RSVP if you’re not sure you can make it.

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Seminars on Narrative Genetics, 2009-2010

Next Seminar: Tues., Nov. 10, 5-6:30 p.m.

Organization
Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy

About the Program
Narrative genetics is a new and interdisciplinary way to understand genetics in our lives, our culture and our politics. The Faculty Seminar on Narrative Genetics, like all ISERP seminars, is free and open to the public. Each workshop will focus on an aspect of narrative genetics and will include a presentation of work in progress. Readings will be posted to the seminar website and on our open Google site (or suggested if a published book) by the presenter to enhance the discussion. Others are encouraged to share their work at these sessions in brief informal presentations, and, if they wish, to post manuscripts to the seminar for comment and discussion.

Schedule of Seminar Meetings 2009-2010
Light refreshments will be served.

November 10, 2009, 5-6:30 p.m., Lerner Hall, Satow Room
The Ethics of Choice, Revisited: A response to the 1983 Ms. Magazine article by Rayna Rapp
Rachel Adams, Ph.D., Columbia University, English and Comparative Literature
Jointly Sponsored with the Disability Studies Seminar.

December 3, 2009, 6-8 p.m.
Location: 801 International Affairs Building, Columbia University
Patient and genetic counselor perspectives regarding pre-implantation genetic testing for hereditary breast/ovarian cancer risk
Katayoun Chamany, Ph.D., Eugene Lang College, and Lisa Rubin, Ph.D., New School for Social Research, Health Psychology

January 21, 2010, 6-8 p.m.
Location: 801 International Affairs Building, Columbia University
Genes and Plays: Using theatre to enhance understanding of the ethical, legal, and social implications of genetics
Karen Rothenberg, JD, MPA. Scholar-in-Residence at Columbia Law and Senior Sabbatical Fellow at its Center for the Study of Law and Culture; Visiting Professor, Berman Institute of Bioethics, Johns Hopkins University; and Marjorie Cook Professor of Law and Former Dean, University of Maryland School of Law

February 25, 2010, 6-8 p.m.
Location: 801 International Affairs Building, Columbia University
The Social Life of DNA: Traditional and genetic 'root-seeking' and the implications of these practices for contemporary understandings of race and ethnicity, diaspora, ancestry, and memory
Alondra Nelson, Ph.D., Columbia University, Sociology

April 8, 2010, 6-8 p.m.
Location: 801 International Affairs Building, Columbia University
[topic TBA]
Susan Squier, Ph.D. Brill Professor of Women's Studies, English, and STS, The Pennsylvania State University

May 6, 2010, 6-8 p.m.
Location: 801 International Affairs Building, Columbia University
Social Determinants of Autism
Peter Bearman, Ph.D. Columbia, Sociology, ISERP

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