“Family Camping” is the topic for the next Healthy-U presentation at the downtown REI store. Dr. David Pomeroy of the UW Physicians Issaquah Clinic will speak at 7 p.m., Monday, June 8. The event is free.

Hearing Research Day: The third annual Prentice Bloedel Hearing Research Day will be Monday, June 8, with presentations from 1 to 3 p.m. in room CD-150 of the Center on Human Development and Disability. A poster session within the Virginia Merrill Bloedel Hearing Research Center will begin at noon and continue after the talks. Speakers are Dr. James Phillips on inner ear and eye coordination, Dr. Edwin Rubel on hair cell regeneration, and Dr. Jay Goldberg of the University of Chicago on “type 1” hair cells. For more information, call 685-2962.

Vicki Luna, a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Public Health and Community Medicine’s Department of Pathobiology, has won the North American Pasteur Merieux Connaught Award in Communicable Disease Epidemiology from the International Society for Infectious Diseases. The award, presented this month in Boston at the 8th International Congress on Infectious Diseases, was for her project “The Identification of a Multi-Drug Resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae Clone in Washington.” The work showed that the bacteria's drug resistance, a relatively new phenomenon in the state, is being spread clonally. Luna conducted the study in the lab of Dr. Marilyn Roberts, professor of pathobiology.

Dr. Dianne Georgian-Smith, assistant professor of radiology and director of the Breast Imaging Center at UW Medical Center, has been named a fellow of the Society of Breast Imaging, a national organization that recognizes outstanding research and clinical achievements in the field of mammography and breast imaging. Georgian-Smith joined the UW faculty in 1996, and was previously director of breast imaging at the University of Cincinnati. She is a graduate of Yale University and received her medical degree from Case Western Reserve University. She serves on a number of national radiology boards and committees.

Dr. Richard P. Mills, professor and acting chair of the School of Medicine’s Department of Ophthalmology, was elected to the American Ophthalmological Society at its May meeting. The AOS is the oldest U.S. ophthalmic organization, dating from 1864. Membership is by invitation to established leaders of the profession, and requires the acceptance of an original thesis, which is published in Transactions of the AOS. Mills’ thesis was “Correlation of Quality of Life with Clinical Symptoms and Signs at the Time of Glaucoma Diagnosis.” ¶