April 2006

CONFERENCES/TALKS DURING APRIL  

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R I C H A R D    R O O T      S E R V I C E S :  Memorial services will be held at St. Dunstan's of the Highlands, 722 North 145th (just east of
        Greenwood Avenue) Saturday, April 1 at 2:00 pm.  A reception will be held at 6:45pm that evening at Lake Washington Rowing Club, 910 North
        Northlake Way.  Bring your musical instruments and voice.  In lieu of flowers, please send donations to:  University of Pennsylvania Botswana
        Richard K. Root Memorial Fund, c/o Dr. H. Friedman, Chief, Infectious Diseases, Director, Pennsylvania Botswana Program, University of
        Pennsylvania, 502 Johnson Pavilion, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6073.

C O N G R A T U L A T I O N S :  to Catherine Blish and Sloan Ginn on the birth of their daughter, born March 5th.

I D     R E T R E A T :  A total of 48 faculty and fellows participated in a very successful retreat at the Friday Harbor Laboratories March 23
        and 24.  For those not attending, the program is attached and shows what you missed.

N E W    A P P O I N T M E N T S:  Welcome to Paul S. Pottinger who became an Acting Instructor March 16th.  Paul was a fellow in our program,
        working under the direction of Wes Van Voorhis, identifying antigens which could be utilized for a malaria vaccine.  He has also established himself
        as an excellent clinician and teacher.  Paul recently received a KO8 award entitled, "Phosphodiesterase Function and Activity in Plasmodium
        Falciparum."

C O N G R A T U  L A T I O N S   to David Spach for being chosen by the Faculty Council on Academic Affairs to present the School of Medicine's
        spring Education in Medicine Lecture, part of a new quarterly series that was inaugurated last fall by Dean Ramsey.  David will present, "The Role
        of Education in the Rapidly Changing Field of HIV: Strategies for Establishing and Maintaining Clinical Excellence," at noon on April 4 in
        the Hogness Auditorium.

        Congratulations also to Karol Bomsztyk for being elected to the American Association of Physicians!

C O N G R A T U L A T I O N S     O N     N E W     A W A R D S :
        to David Koelle who recently received a Royalty Research award, entitled "Control of T-cell Homing to Skin";    
        to Catherine Blish, who has been awarded a 5 year KO8 award, entitled, "Defining Immune Deficits in HIV-1 Infected Women"; and
        to Susan Graham for receiving a 5 year K23 award entitled, "Genital HIV-1 Shedding among Women Starting Second-Line Antiretroviral Therapy."

H U G O    G A R C I A  , M. D. :  The Department of Neurology will be hosting Hugo Garcia, MD, PhD in April. Hugo is from Cayetano Heredia
        University in Lima, Peru and is one of the world's leading experts on neurocysticercosis. He has published more than 70 articles on cysticercosis
        and receives funding from the NIH, the Gates Foundation and the Wellcome-Trust. He will be speaking on April 27th from 5 - 6 PM in room
        K-069 at the University of Washington.

M A N D A T O R Y       U W P     C O M P L I A N C E     T R A I N I N G:
        Thanks to all UWP faculty for completing the UWP Corporate Integrity Agreement (CIA) training!  As of today, 94% of our faculty have completed
        the 3-hour live session but only 76% have completed the 1-hour online session.

        The general compliance 1-hour online training course is at:
        https://depts.washington.edu/uwpsite/ComplianceSite/index.html

        The course must be completed in its entirety. At the end of the course, participants will be asked to take a Knowledge Assessment. Participants will
        need to complete, print and retain a copy of the Knowledge Assessment for their records and also send to Myrna. This will ensure that the participant
        receives credit for completing the training.

        If there are problems with the training course or if you have questions, please contact Bonnie Ruehs-Lutz at (206) 221-3345.

F O R E I G N    F I N A N C I A L    A C C O U N T S :  US citizens, residents, or persons doing business in the US, who maintain an account with a
        foreign financial entity must keep records and file reports regarding that account with the Treasury Department.  This includes UW employees working
        in foreign countries.  The information must be submitted on Form TDF 90-22.1 annually, on or before June 30th, of the succeeding year. 
        For more information, see http://www.washington.edu/admin/sp/office/foreignaccounts.htm

U W M C     L O G I N S :  Starting March 13th UWMC staff will receive email messages from the Computing and Communications Department asking
        them to change their password.  The process will happen over the next 4 weeks in batches of 1,200 users.  They will be instructed to go to MyUW
        and change their UW Medicine and UW NetID account passwords.  They will receive reminder notifications until they change their passwords.  After
        14 days their UW Medicine password will be automatically changed.  If this happens, they will have to call the IT Services Helpdesk to get a
        temporary password.

G R A N T S . g o v :  NIH has moved the timeline for initiating all electronic NIH RO1 proposal submissions to February 1, 2007.  Updates on the status
        of the transition to electronic submission and the new forms are posted on the NIH eRA Electronic Submission of Grant Applications Website.  To
        prepare for the implementation of Grants.gov electronic submission of NIH grant proposals, training is offered by OSP the following days:
                Monday April 10, 2006, 11:00 to noon
                Monday May 8, 2006, 11:00 to noon
                Monday June 12, 2006 from 11 to noon
        All sessions will be in the OSP Conference Room.  There is no charge for the training but space is limited to 30 participants per session in the
        hands-on sessions at OSP.  Make your reservations to osprsvp@u.washington.edu to reserve your space.  Please see OSP's home page for updates.

S O M    L E C T U R E    S E R I E S :  The School of Medicine Office of Research and Graduate Education 2005-2006 Science in Medicine Lecture
        Series presents Cynthia Kenyon, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Neuroscience, University of California at San Francisco, Annual Science Lecturer,
        Thursday, April 20, 2006.  These lectures will be simultaneously video televised at HMC and VAPSHCS.  Please see
        http://www.uwmedicine.org/Research/ResearchTrainingAndSeminars/SIM.htm for details.

P E R F O R M A N C E    E V A L U A T I O N S :  All Classified and Professional staff should submit completed performance evaluations to Myrna by
        May 10th.  Should the state legislature approve merit increases this year, the performance evaluations will be used to determine merit increases for
        Professional Staff.  This year we are asking for updated job descriptions to be submitted along with the performance evaluations. Supervisors should
        meet with their staff and discuss job performance based the individual's job description.  If the duties and responsibilities have changed significantly,
        reclassification of the job should be considered (seeClassification/Reclassification at the website below):

        Performance evaluations forms (see bottom of the middle column) can be found at :  http://www.washington.edu/admin/hr/forms/

M A R K    Y O U R    C A L E N D A R S :
                December 6 and 7:      William M.M. Kirby Dinner and Lecture
                July 3, 5, 6, 7:              New Fellows Orientation
                July 5:                          ID Picnic
                July 10-14:                  New Fellows Micro Course
                July 17-27:                  2006 Principles of STD/HIV Research Course
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