On July 26, Nathan Berg, Ph.D., will present “Unlocking the Urban Food Chain: Food Access, Food Deserts, and Community Health” at the Library’s Summer Showcase Health Policy Forum. Jay Horton, M.D., Director, UT Southwestern Task Force on Obesity Research, will host the forum.
The forum will be begin at 12 noon in the McDermott Lecture Hall (Room D1.700), and it is open to everyone. A light lunch will be served so please come early! Pre-registration to attend the forum is not required. For more information, contact John Fullinwider by phone at 214.648.3801 or by email.
Dr. Berg’s groundbreaking study – “Access to Grocery Stores in Dallas”, which was conducted with James Murdoch – provides the first mapping of food access in the city’s various communities (International Journal of Behavioural and Healthcare Research, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2008).
The term “food deserts” describes communities that lack grocery stores but often abound in fast-food restaurants and convenience stores that sell unhealthy, processed foods and offer few healthy options. Food deserts are the result of a convergence of social, economic, and public policy factors, including the flight of supermarkets to the suburbs, inadequate public transportation, and the lack of healthy foods at corner stores. Texas has one of the largest “grocery gaps” in the nation, with the fewest number of supermarkets per capita of any state.
Dr. Berg is associate professor of economics in the School of Economic, Political, and Policy Sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD). Since joining UTD in 2001, he has published numerous articles and chapters in the field of behavioral economics in such journals as the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Psychological Review, Social Choice and Welfare, and Contemporary Economic Policy. Dr. Berg was a Fulbright Scholar in 2003 and a Visiting Research Scientist at the Max Planck Institute-Berlin in 2005. His research has been cited in Business Week, The Village Voice, The Advocate, Atlantic Monthly, and Canada’s National Post.
Dr. Berg teaches microeconomics, psychology and economics, financial markets, econometrics, and mathematical economics. His research focuses on behavioral economics, judgment and decision making, economic demography, and urban economics. This work has attracted repeated coverage, with mentions in national print media and television appearances, including MSNBC, Fox News, Science News, and the Financial Times. Since 2006, he has served as an elected board member of the Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics.
Dr. Horton is professor of internal medicine and molecular genetics and the Robert C. and Veronica Atkins Chair in Obesity and Diabetes Research at UT Southwestern Medical Center. He obtained his bachelor’s and medical degrees from the University of Iowa and completed his internal medicine residency, gastroenterology fellowship, and Howard Hughes post-doctoral fellowship at UT Southwestern Medical Center. Dr. Horton is a former PEW scholar and member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation and Association of American Physicians. He serves as a consulting editor for The Journal of Clinical Investigation and associate editor of The Journal of Lipid Research.

On Wednesday, July 27, Jay Horton, M.D., director of the UT Southwestern Task Force for Obesity Research (TORS), will lead an intimate seminar from 12 noon to 1 p.m. about the work of the task force. The seminar will be held in the South Campus (main) Library’s Administration Conference Room (Room E3.314E).
This is your chance to interact with one of the foremost obesity/diabetes researchers in the country. Join Dr. Horton for a thought-provoking dialogue in an informal setting. Refreshments will be provided. Bring your lunch – and your ideas!
Pre-registration is not required, but seating is limited to 30 participants! For more information, contact John Fullinwider by phone at 214.648.3801 or by email.
The TORS is a team of endocrinologists, neuroscientists, biochemists, geneticists, nutritionists, gastroenterologists, cardiologists, and psychiatrists who are based at UT Southwestern and are conducting cutting-edge research to develop new approaches for the prevention of obesity and the treatment of related conditions, such as heart disease, diabetes, stroke, and fatty liver disease.
Dr. Horton is professor of internal medicine and molecular genetics and the Robert C. and Veronica Atkins Chair in Obesity and Diabetes Research at UT Southwestern Medical Center. He obtained his bachelor’s and medical degrees from the University of Iowa and completed his internal medicine residency, gastroenterology fellowship, and Howard Hughes post-doctoral fellowship at UT Southwestern. Dr. Horton is a former PEW scholar and member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation and Association of American Physicians. He serves as a consulting editor for The Journal of Clinical Investigation and associate editor of The Journal of Lipid Research.
Dr. Horton presented the February 2011 President’s Lecture Series on “The Obesity Epidemic: Why Is Your Brain Not Listening?”.

Hyperlinked titles denote that space is limited and registration is recommended.
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
12 noon to 1 p.m., Room D1.700
Unlocking the Urban Food Chain: Food Access, Food Deserts, and Community Health (UT Southwestern Medical Center Library Health Policy Forum)
Nathan Berg, Ph.D., School of Economic, Political, and Policy Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
11 a.m. to 12 noon, Room E2.310A
From Image to Diagnosis Using VisualDx (Library Class)
Laura Wilder, M.L.S., Reference & Liaison Librarian, UT Southwestern Library
12 noon to 1 p.m., Room E3.314E
New Directions in Obesity Research (Dialogue)
Jay Horton, M.D., Director, UT Southwestern Task Force for Obesity Research
1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m., Room E2.310A
Scalpel, Stethoscope, Smartphone (Library Class)
Jack Bullion, M.L.S., M.F.A., Clinical Informationist, UT Southwestern Library
Thursday, July 28, 2011
8:30 a.m. to 12:30 a.m., Room D1.602
Grants and Proposal Writing (Workshop)
Michelle Malizia, M.A., Associate Director, National Network of Libraries of Medicine, South Central Region

UPDATE: As of July 1, 2011, This class has been moved to D1.602 and additional seats are now available. Please register using the link at the bottom of the article.
Michelle Malizia, M.A., associate director of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine South Central Region (NNLM/SC), will be instructing a one day course on July 28, 2011 from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in D1.602. The course is designed for beginning grant proposal writers and presents a general overview of the grant and funding processes as well as the level of detail required in a successful proposal.
Each component of the grant writing process will be addressed, including:

• documenting the need
• identifying the target population
• writing measurable objectives
• developing work, evaluation and dissemination plans

Ms. Maliza coordinates the grant writing process at the NNLM/SC and has extensive experience in the field of grant writing and evaluating. The National Network of Libraries South Central writes, evaluates and administers many grants and awards.
Registration is limited and required. Reserve your place at www.utsouthwestern.edu/libraryclasses.

Liven up your lunch break this summer with classes to enhance your patient care, research, and education. Every Thursday in June from 12 noon to 1 p.m., the Library will offer classes to help you find the information you need to care for patients, write a journal article, ace a class, conquer any bibliography, and survive your dissertation.
Classes are informal and interactive. Registration is not required, but seating is limited! Click on the individual class name link below or go to http://www.utsouthwestern.edu/libraryclasses. Bring your lunch!

For more information, contact John Fullinwider or 214-648-3801.

June 2: Drilling Down into PubMed / Expert Searching for Everyone
Instructor: John Fullinwider, M.L.S.
Location: South Campus Library Classroom, E2.310A.

Go deeper into MEDLINE using PubMed, the free, access-from-anywhere database of more than 20 million citations of health sciences literature. Find the resources you want and filter out irrelevant materials by using Medical Subject Headings, limits, field tags, clinical queries, discipline searching, and other expert strategies. The class will also feature resources for global and public health research.

June 9: Organizing Citations with Endnote
Instructor: Therona Ramos, M.A.
Location: South Campus Library Classroom, E2.310A.

Writing an article, dissertation, or grant? Compile, organize and integrate citations into Microsoft Word without stress with the just released EndNote X4. This hands-on, “how to” class covers the following major time and labor-saving EndNote features:

• Downloading or importing citation information from online databases
• Built-in full-text file (.pdf) download and search function
• Custom groups for organizing your EndNote library citations
• Flexible re-formatting of bibliographies to meet required journal/editorial guidelines.

June 16: Getting the Most Out of OvidSP
Instructor: Laura Wilder, M.L.S.
Location: South Campus Library Classroom, E2.310A.

Find higher-level evidence to enrich your practice and research using this super user-friendly interface, recently improved, to search MEDLINE and related databases. OvidSP offers you seamless and up-to-the-minute access to the latest bibliographic citations and author abstracts from more than 3,900 biomedical journals published in more than 70 countries. Abstracts are included for more than 75% of the records.

June 23: Surviving Your Dissertation
Instructors: Tracey Minzenmayer, Ph.D., M.I.S.; Claudia DeShay, Ph.D., M.L.S.
Location: South Campus Library Conference Room, E3.314E.

Save time and energy by learning how to use Library resources effectively. This class will also offer tips on writing and navigating the committee process.

June 30: Seeing Visual Dx / Visual Diagnosis at the Point of Care
Instructor: Jack Bullion, M.F.A., M.L.S.
Location: South Campus Library Classroom, E2.310A.

Visual clues are essential to accurate diagnosis. Visual Dx combines high-quality medical images into a step-by-step decision support system to assist you in making more accurate structured differential diagnoses – never eliminating possible diagnostic possibilities, but ranking the possibilities by relevance to patient findings. Mobile app available for iPhone/Touch.

The 11th Annual Biomedical Communications Graduate Student Art Show will be on display in the South Campus (main) Library. The exhibit will run from May 26 to July 22, 2011, and features selected works and projects from the student portfolios.
The opening reception will take place on Thursday, May 26 from 4 – 6 p.m. in the South Campus (main) Library.
The graduate students featured are:

• Sang-Eun Cha
• Alexandra Gordon
• Jennie Swensen
• Amanda Tomasikiewicz
• Kristin Yang