More than 120 art works by UT Southwestern employees and students are now on display in the South Campus (main) Library. Categories include works on canvas, works on paper, photographs, sculpture, and textiles. The art will remain on display until October 1, 2012.

Visitors to the Library may vote for their favorite art work – the “People’s Choice” award – until 3 p.m. on August 3, 2012. Ballots are available at the Library’s Information Desk from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., Monday through Friday, and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. on weekends.

Date: Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Time: 12-1 pm
Location: D1.600

On June 28, 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its landmark decision to uphold President Obama’s signature piece of legislation – the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The Court held that the individual mandate was permissible under Congress’s taxing powers and that the Medicaid expansion was constitutional, though limited.

The law has several implications going forward, both in terms of several provisions already in effect and new provisions that will unfold over the next several years. How did the Supreme Court make its decision? What will this mean for Medicaid? What will this mean for public hospitals, private hospitals, doctors, patients, the uninsured, and our country?
Open to the public.

Participants:
Thomas Mayo, J.D.
Altshuler University Distinguished Teaching Professor and Associate Professor of Law
Dedman School of Law, Southern Methodist University
Adjunct Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, UT Southwestern Medical School

Jose L. Gonzalez, M.D., J.D., M.S.Ed.
Medical Director, Cook Children’s Health Plan
Former Medical Director, Texas Medicaid/SCHIP

W. Stephen Love
President and CEO, Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council

Moderator:
Stephen Inrig, PhD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Sciences (History of Medicine and Health Policy), UT Southwestern Medical School

Sponsored by:
UT Southwestern Division of Outcomes and Health Services Research; UT Southwestern Program for Ethics in Science and Medicine; UT Southwestern Public Policy and Healthcare Financing elective; UT Southwestern Medical Center Library

The National Library of Medicine’s (NLM) traveling exhibit, A Voyage To Health, explores the recent revival of the ancient arts of navigation and voyaging that first brought the people of Hawaiʻi to their island homes. Much of the valuable knowledge of voyaging was lost as a consequence of the suppression of traditional ways. As part of a wider movement to reintroduce traditional ways, Native Hawaiians are mastering the knowledge and skills of their elders. By restoring their heritage, this new generation seeks to heal the people.

A Voyage to Health explores this resurgence and its significance for health, well-being, and self-determination.

The NLM online teaching module, Healing Elements: A Native Hawaiian Perspective, explores various themes and writings on this subject.

About 45 works of art created by 2012 graduates of the Biomedical Communications medical illustration program are on display in the South Campus (main) Library through June 22. The art portrays a variety of subjects, from human anatomy to reptile in their native habitat.

The annual campus “On My Own Time” art show and competition is now accepting online entries for the exhibit to begin in the Library on July 23. UT Southwestern employees, students and their spouses are invited to enter. The drop-off date for the art is July 17 or 18. Details can be found at www.utsouthwestern.edu/omot.

Art in a wide variety of formats is eligible to be entered:
• Works on canvas or paper
• Photography: color or black & white
• Enhanced photography & computer art
• Sculpture
• Ceramics or wood
• Jewelry & metal
• Textiles/fiber art
• Mixed media

Exercise your creativity and enter the show!

Resources from the UT Southwestern Medical Center Library
Library Home Page
Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation – Electronic Journals and Books
Biomedical & General Resources / Databases

Journal Articles by Scientific Day Speakers
Dr. M. Elizabeth Sandel
Stroke Rehabilitation Outcomes
Traumatic Brain Injury

Dr. Mark P. Goldberg
“New light on white matter”, Stroke. 2003; 34: 330-332

For Library assistance, contact:
Catherine Schack, 214-648-7684
Catherine.Schack@utsouthwestern.edu
Library Liaison to Departments of Neurology and
Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation

The Library is sponsoring a special presentation by Carol Tamminga, M.D., entitled A Psychiatrist Then & Now: Reflections on a Changing Profession. This presentation, which will be held on Wednesday, April 25, 2012, from 12 to 1 p.m. in McDermott Lecture Hall D1.602, focuses on the many changes that have affected clinical research and practice in psychiatry over the years.

For example, the first edition of the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM, 1952) had 130 pages and included 106 mental disorders. The current edition (DSM-IV-TR, 2000), describes 287 conditions in more than 900 pages. A fifth edition is expected to be published next year. From its psychoanalytic premises, dominant in the immediate Post-war Era, to its emerging approaches in neurobiology and genetics, psychiatry has undergone a sea-change in the past half century, responding to profound changes in society (e.g., removal of homosexuality from the category of disorders) and to progress in neuroscience (e.g., neuroimaging).

Dr. Tamminga is Chair of Psychiatry and Chief of Translational Neuroscience Research in Schizophrenia at UT Southwestern. She holds the Communities Foundation of Texas Chair in Brain Science along with the Lou and Ellen McGinley Distinguished Chair and the McKenzie Chair in Psychiatry.

Dr. Tamminga’s lecture will be hosted by Raul Caetano, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H., Dean of the UT School of Public Health, Dallas Regional Campus, and Dean of the UT Southwestern School of Health Professions.

The program is free and open to all. Pre-registration is not required. A light lunch will be served; come early!  For more information, please contact John Fullinwider by phone at 214-648-3801 or by email at john.fullinwider@utsouthwestern.edu.

Monday – April 23:OvidSP Trainer Glenn McAlpine will be conducting the following Monday training sessions on both South and North campuses. Registration is recommended. Space is limited.
9:30-11 a.m. – Library Classroom (E2.310A)
OvidSP: MEDLINE & PsycINFO Databases.
Presenter: Glenn McAlpine, Training Manager, Wolters Kluwer Heath Medical Research.

11 a.m.-12 noon – Library Classroom (E2.310A)
OvidSP: Advanced MEDLINE searching.
Presenter:  Glenn McAlpine.

2-3 p.m. – NL3.120 Graduate School Lecture Hall
OvidSP: Introduction to PsycINFO Database.
Presenter: Glenn McAlpine.

3-4 p.m. – NL3.120 Graduate School Lecture Hall
OvidSP: Introduction to MEDLINE Database.
Presenter: Glenn McAlpine.

Tuesday – April 24:
11:00 a.m.-12 noon – Library Classroom (E2.310A)
Designing Your Best Academic Poster.
Presenter: Jane Scott, Design and Promotion Specialist, UT Southwestern Medical Center Library.

Learn a step-by-step process for creating a poster: evaluate software pros and cons, identify effective basic principles of design, explore formatting tips and tricks for easy graphics and table creation within a poster. Evaluate sample posters for effective use of design principles, readability and impact. Bring your poster samples and questions for technical troubleshooting and individual assistance. Registration is recommended. Space is limited.

Wednesday – April 25:
12 noon-1 p.m. – D1.602
A Psychiatrist Then & Now: Reflections on a Changing Profession.
Presenter: Carol Tamminga, MD, Chairman of Psychiatry and Chief of Translational Neuroscience Research in Schizophrenia, UT Southwestern Medical Center.
Host: Raul Caetano, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H., Dean of the UT School of Public Health, Dallas Regional Campus, and Dean of the UT Southwestern School of Health Professions.

Dr. Tamminga will explore the rise of neuroscience as the basis for psychiatry and the policy/practice dilemmas that have emerged as a result.  DSM revisions occurring this year, reported shortages of Ritalin and other drugs, and recent research controversies fuel changes in the profession.

In celebration of National Public Health Week, the Student Public Health Association of Dallas presents a full week of lectures and discussions that focus on both local and global public health initiatives. The programs, which are co-sponsored by the UT School of Public Health/Dallas Regional Campus and the UT Southwestern Medical Center Library, are listed as follows:

Monday, April 2, 2012
Global Public Health
Elizabeth Race, M.D.
Room C2.106, 12-1 p.m.

Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Ignaz Semmelweis & The History of Epidemiology
Robert Haley, M.D.
Room D1.100, 12-1 p.m.

Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Infectious Disease Epidemiology in Dallas: Making a Difference Locally
Wendy Chung, M.D.
Room D1.106, 12-1 p.m.

Thursday, April 5, 2012
Improving the Development of Children: A Public Health Perspective
Margaret Caughy, Sc.D.
Room C2.106, 12-1 p.m.

Friday, April 6, 2012
Bioterrorism, Disaster Preparedness & Public Health
John T. Carlo, M.D., M.S.
Room C2.106, 12-1 p.m.

Everyone is invited. For more information, please contact David Bennett Grinsfelder by email at david.grinsfelder@utsouthwestern.edu or by phone at 214-226-0668.

A traveling banner exhibition, and online exhibition with education resources developed and produced by the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health will be on display for a limited engagement at the South Campus (main) Library from March 19 – April 28, 2012.

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) created characters that are among the richest and most humanly recognizable in all of literature. Yet Shakespeare understood human personality in the terms available to his age—that of the now-discarded theory of the four bodily humors –blood, bile, melancholy, and phlegm. These four humors were thought to define peoples’ physical and mental health, and determined their personalities, as well.

The language of the four humors pervades Shakespeare’s plays, and their influence is felt above all in a belief that emotional states are physically determined. Carried by the bloodstream, the four humors bred the core passions of anger, grief, hope, and fear—the emotions conveyed so powerfully in Shakespeare’s comedies and tragedies.

“And there’s the humor of it” Shakespeare and the four humors explores these themes in a special display featuring images of rare books and incunables from the collection of the National Library of Medicine and the Folger Shakespeare Library.

Curated by Gail Kern Paster, PhD and Theodore Brown, PhD and exhibition design by Riggs Ward Design.