COMING UP

The fall meeting of an international organization of bioengineers, the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES), is taking place Oct. 12 to 14 at the DoubleTree Hotel at SeaTac. The meeting is co-chaired by Dr. Francis Spelman, UW professor of bioengineering, and Dr. Nitish Thakor of Johns Hopkins University. For more on the meeting, or to register, see the Web site
http://www.engr.washington.edu/epp/bmes

A Women’s Health Workshop, “What Women Need to Know about Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Migraines, Sleep, Fibromyalgia and Depression,” will be offered from 9 a.m. to noon, Saturday, Oct. 14, at the UW Tacoma Conference Center. The workshop is sponsored by the UW Center for Women’s Health research, the UW Center of Excellence in Women’s Health and the Glaxo Wellcome Co. Admission is free. To register, call (206) 543-1414 or use the Web site at
http://www.son.washington.edu/centers/cwhr/

Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, and Prosthetic-Orthotic student training programs will be featured at an Open House in the School of Medicine’s Department of Rehabilitation Medicine from 4 to 5 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 26, in room BB-912 of the Health Sciences Center. Interested students and others who would like to know more about the programs are invited to attend. The Open House is free and registration is not required. For more information, call 548-5412.