“Venomous Bites and Stings” is the topic for the next Healthy-U talk at the downtown Seattle REI store, beginning at 7 p.m., Monday, August 10. Dr. Tom Martin, of UW Medical Center’s Emergency Medicine Service, will be the speaker. Martin is also director of the UW Medical Toxicology Service and associate medical director of the Washington Poison Center. He will discuss how to avoid, recognize and treat venomous bites and stings and how to stock your first-aid kit to deal with them.

“Mount Rainier and Other Hiking Adventures: Training, Conditioning and Preparing for Medical Contingencies on Hikes and Treks,” the Healthy-U program presented in July, will be broadcast several times in August on UWTV, channel 27 in the Seattle area. The presenters are Dr. Mary Watts and Mari Sullivan of Hall Health Primary Care Center. Healthy-U talks and broadcasts are sponsored by UW Physicians. For a schedule of broadcasts, see the UWTV Website at
http://www.washington.edu/uwtv/

Dr. George Ojemann, professor of neurological surgery, is the recipient of an honorary Doctor of Science degree from the Medical College of Ohio in Toledo. Ojemann is an internationally known neurosurgeon who has developed surgical techniques for treating epilepsy, brain tumors and Parkinsonism, and techniques to explore the detailed organization of the human brain for language, memory, thought and learning.

Dr. John Geyman, professor emeritus and former chair of the Department of Family Medicine, has received the 1998 Alumnus of the Year Award from the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine. Geyman graduated from UCSF in 1960 as president of his senior class. He was honored as a pioneer in developing the field of academic family medicine. He chaired the UW Department of Family Medicine from 1976 to 1990 and is now editor of the Journal of the American Board of Family Practice and teaches part-time at the UW.