Events Calendar
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Conference Schedule
Our 2009-2010 academic year conferences have been updated. Please check under the conferences tab to see updated information on all our speaker series and educational conferences.
Past Events
Dr. Willken's Plaque Dedication & Reception
Division's 50th Anniversary Celebration ~ October 2008
Professorship Celebration ~ June 2008
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10th Annual James J. Lane, Jr., M.D. Lecture and Reception
The James J. Lane, Jr., MD Endowed Lecture Series was established to honor Dr. Lane’s contributions to the field of clinical rheumatology. Dr. Lane was the first fellowship trainee in the Division of Arthritis at the University of Washington from 1958 to 1959. Each year on a Thursday in March, a lecture is held in honor of Dr. Lane as part of the Department of Medicine’s Grand Rounds program.
This year’s lecture will be presented by Dr. Robert Terkeltaub on March 18th, 2010 at Medicine Grand Rounds. His lecture topic will be: “Bench to Bedside Advances in Gout”. The Lane Reception will be on March 17th, 2010 at 6 pm at the Douglas Forum in the Bank of America Executive Education Center on the UW campus.
Dr. Robert Terkeltaub is Chief of Rheumatology at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in San Diego and Professor of Medicine and Associate Division Director at the University of California in San Diego. Dr. Terkeltaub received his medical degree at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, and completed residency and training programs at Montreal General Hospital in Clinical Rheumatology and Internal Medicine. Dr. Terkeltaub has been the recipient of numerous teaching awards at the University of California at San Diego. Dr. Terkeltaub regularly serves on NIH and arthritis research foundation Study Sections and was recently appointed as Associate Editor of Arthritis and Rheumatism for 2010-15. Dr. Terkeltaub's research has concentrated principally on clinical aspects of gout, chondrocalcinosis, and osteoarthritis, and in basic research on inflammation and skeletal biology and the interfaces between the two in the skeleton and in soft tissues such as the artery.
Upcoming Grand Rounds Speakers
Dr. Charles S. Via will be a visiting Grand Rounds speaker on Tuesday, February 2nd. The presentation will be in the Health Sciences Building, Room RR110 from 8:30 - 9:30 am. The title of his presentation is “Advances in lupus stemming from the parent-into-F1 model: a potentially beneficial role for cytotoxic T lymphocytes”. Click here for more information.
Dr. Philippa Marrack will be a visiting Grand Rounds speaker on Tuesday, February 9th. The presentation will be in Foege S060 from 8:30 - 9:30 am. The title of her presentation is “B Cells and Sex”. Click here for more information.
Leap For Lupus Donates Funds For Research
Every August, Leap for Lupus, a non-profit organization dedicated to help find a cure for Lupus, gathers the skydiving community together for a “boogie.” That’s skydiving lingo for a bunch of people jumping out of planes together. These events aren’t just for hardcore skydivers, everyone is welcome and tandem jumps are available with a donation.
With their last event, they raised significant donations for Lupus research. Their donation has helped to support the research of Dr. Grant Hughes who studies how female sex hormones regulate a pathway of immune activation important in lupus and this generous donation will continue to support young investigators. For more information on Leap for Lupus and their annual events, please go to: www.leapforlupus.org.
In Memoriam, Robert Willkens (1927-2009)
We recently heard the sad news that Bob Willkens passed away.
It is gratifying that we were able to pay tribute to Bob again this last summer for his 50 years of service and our wonderful professional and personal associations with him.
On July 9th, a plaque dedication was held in the Pat Steele Building at Harborview honoring Bob’s service to Harborview Rheumatology. The inscription on the plaque is Bob’s address to UW alumni at the National ACR Meeting in San Francisco in 2008.
In lieu of flowers, the family has requested that memorial donations be made to the to the Robert Willkens Endowed Fund and sent to Cathy Johnson, Division of Rheumatology, Box 356428, University of Washington, 1959 NE Pacific Street, Seattle 98195.
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