The UT Southwestern Library and the Medical Humanities Interest Group are presenting three dialogues on the subject of Suffering & Medicine. Join the conversation in an informal, intimate setting with three outstanding scholars. All dialogues will be from noon to 1 p.m. in the South Campus Library 3rd Floor Conference Room(E3.314.E).
Wednesday, November 3 – Suffering & Medicine, An Introduction: Dr. Beverly Davenport, University of North Texas, Department of Anthropology. Dr. Davenport has a B.A. in Anthropology from Harvard, a Master’s of Science in Public Health (M.S.P.H.) from the University of North Carolina, and a Ph.D. in medical anthropology from the Joint Program in Medical Anthropology of the University of California, San Francisco and Berkeley. She specializes in the anthropology and social epidemiology of chronic disease in the United States, focusing on race and class as determinants of health disparities. Her current research projects focus on school-based interventions for adolescents at risk for Type II diabetes.
Wednesday, November 10 – Representation of Suffering in Literature: Dr. David Markham, M.D., UT Southwestern Medical Center, Department of Internal Medicine / Cardiology. Dr. Markham is a specialist in heart failure, assist devices, and transplant medicine. Having been involved in various Humanities and Medicine Programs around the country, he has a long interest in the relationship between literature, poetry, art, and medicine. Dr. Markham helped organize one of the first national conferences on poetry and medicine at Duke University.
Wednesday, November 17 – Christian Bioethics and Suffering: Dr. Charles Curran, Ph.D., Elizabeth Scurlock University Professor of Human Values, Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University. Dr. Curran has served as president of The American Theological Society, The Catholic Theological Society of America, and The Society of Christian Ethics. He has authored and edited more than fifty books in the area of moral theology. His latest book, Catholic Moral Theology in the United States: A History, from Georgetown University Press, won the 2008 American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence in Theology and Religion. In 2010 he was elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Refreshments will be served. Bring your lunch – and your ideas!
Seating is limited. To register: www.utsouthwestern.edu/libraryclasses.
For info, contact: john.fullinwider@utsouthwestern.edu, jennifer.harris@utsouthwestern.edu

Library classes can help you find:

• Publications on your research topic
• An easier way to manage your bibliographies
• Evidence-based medicine (EBM) resources
• And more

Classes begin at 11 a.m. and generally last one hour (unless otherwise noted), plus optional extra time for practice or personal assistance from the instructor. Whether you are just starting out or need a refresher to help you dig deeper, these interactive courses provide essential tools for continued professional development.
Attendance is free to the UT Southwestern community, as well as staff of Parkland Health & Hospital System and Children’s Medical Center. Classes meet in the South Campus (main) Library classroom (Room E2.310A). To register for one or more classes, click on the links below.
Fall Class Schedule:

On March 2, the Library will offer a class from 11 a.m. to 12 noon titled “Identifying Evidence-Based Medicine Resources.” You can sign up on the Library’s Class Registration page.
The class will explore the three major EBM databases on the Library web site:

• ACP PIER: Presents evidence-based clinical information on diagnosis and treatment. Produced by the American College of Physicians (ACP), and presented on the STAT!Ref platform.
• DynaMed: Gives evidence-based, clinically-oriented summaries of more than 3,000 topics, including 800+ pharmaceutical summaries based on AHFS Drug Information.
• UpToDate: Provides specific practical recommendations for diagnosis and treatment. Access allowed only from on campus.

For more information about EBM resources or the class, or to request an individual training session on EBM resources, contact Laura Wilder by email or by phone at 214-648-3518.

The National Library of Medicine and University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth are hosting an all-day symposium on February 26, 2010, entitled New Trends in Scholarly Communication: Maximizing Author Impact.
The scientific symposium is available for academic professionals and other interested individuals and will be held at the Embassy Suites Hotel in downtown Fort Worth (600 Commerce St, Fort Worth, TX 76102). Lectures and discussion will include:

• Author rights
• Discipline and institutional repositories
• New methods of publishing
• Preservation of intellectual assets
• NIH Public Access Policy

Registration is available through February 24th and costs $50, which covers light breakfast, lunch, and valet parking. For more information or to register, please refer to the symposium Web site.

Health policy issues take center stage November 18 & 19 at two Fall Library Showcase events.
Wednesday’s forum, “End of Life Care in the Real World,” (12 – 1 p.m. in the St. Paul Auditorium) had its origin in a quote this past summer from Senator Charles Grassley. Speaking on “Face the Nation,” August 23, Grassley said, “We’re not going to have any of this end of life stuff because it scares people.” John Fullinwider, the Library’s manager of research support, remembers thinking, “How did a proposal to provide for doctor/patient conferences on advance care planning, which once enjoyed bi-partisan support, become so controversial that it couldn’t even be discussed?” Fullinwider took the idea for the forum to Dr. Raul Caetano, Dean of the UT School of Public Health/Dallas Regional Campus and of UT Southwestern’s School of Health Professions, who agreed that the issues deserved a scholarly discussion. They invited Robert Fine, Director of Clinical Ethics and Palliative Care for Baylor Health Care Systems and a nationally recognized expert on end-of-life care, to be the keynote speaker. At the suggestion of Simon Lee, of UT Southwestern’s Department of Clinical Sciences/Division of Ethics and Health Policy, they asked Ramona Rhodes to appear as well. Dr. Rhodes, who recently joined the UT Southwestern faculty from Brown University, is a specialist in health disparities, particularly surrounding end of life care for African-Americans.
Arrive a bit before noon if you want a free lunch (served to the first 100 attendees). St. Paul’s Auditorium is on the first floor of UT Southwestern University Hospital/St. Paul (building SP or 8 on campus maps). Registration for the forum is not necessary – just come!
Thursday’s workshop, “Perspectives on Health and Human Rights,” (11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. in the Library) grew out of the ongoing work of an informal health justice group of UT Southwestern faculty. Patti Pagels, with the Department of Family Medicine/Division of Community Medicine, will lead the discussion. She has been active with local clinics caring for homeless and other underserved people, and has done work in Nicaragua. Host David Markham, a cardiologist with the Department of Internal Medicine, has worked in Haiti for the past several years. The workshop will be in the South Campus (main) Library Administrative Conference Room, E3.314E. Bring your lunch; drinks will be provided. Space is limited! Registration is required.
For more information, contact John Fullinwider by email or phone at 214-648-3801.