Highlights from Meeting at Warm Springs on 9/20/2007

Dear Colleagues,

The following announcements for special programs were made during the Consortium meeting on Thursday.Catherine Williams announced that Morehouse School of Medicine Library will hold a special program for high school students and college undergradutes on October 3 entitled: "Walking Through the Door: A Morehouse School of Medicine Library Afternoon Symposium on Careers in Academic Surgery."

Designed to attract young people into a career in academic surgery, the program begins at 4 p.m. and will include a panel of Morehouse surgeons and a presentation of a trauma scenario. The program will also include a tour of "Opening Doors: Contemporary African American Academic Surgeons," a traveling exhibit from the NLM that opened at the Morehouse School of Medicine in August. The exhibit will remain at Morehouse until Oct. 26. For more information, you can contact Williams at 404-752-1756.

Geetha Sridaran announced that the NLM will be sponsoring two more sessions of its "Biomedical Informatics" class at the Marine Biological Library in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. NLM pays all of the costs of this week-long program for those who are accepted. For more information about the class, you can visit the class web page at http://www.mbl.edu/education/courses/special_topics/med.html.



Thank you for hosting the meeting at your campus, Mike! Mike was also kind enough to give us a tour of the campus after the meeting.

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