March 2006

FINAL CALL: Coast to Coast AZ/CA Seminars

The Florida Seminars are a wrap and were a huge success. Now we turn out sights toward the Desert Southwest. Our programs are quickly filling up, and we want you to be there. Leading U-M medical faculty will present and discuss recent medical findings and the most promising prospects for the future. Bring a guest or two and enjoy one of the remaining seminars and subsequent receptions and strolling suppers.

Thursday, April 6, 2006 in Scottsdale, Arizona Friday, April 7, 2006 in La Quinta, California

Also, we remind you of the secured special rates for our alumni at La Quinta Resort and Club, including the three days prior to and the three days following our event. These rates will hold as long as rooms are available, so call soon if you wish to benefit from this special offer. Come for an extended vacation with friends and colleagues, and enjoy the splendor of the desert Southwest during its most beautiful season.

If you have any questions, please contact B. J. Bess at (734) 998-6044 or bjbess@umich.edu.

At the Corner of Huron and Glen: Biomedical Science at the Frontiers

Alumni and friends enjoy the opening

EVPMA Robert Kelch and Dean Allen Lichter

Dean Allen Lichter addresses a captive audience

The long awaited Biomedical Science Research Building on the U-M medical campus was previewed by nearly 300 faculty, benefactors, alumni and other guests on the evening of February 9 at a festive dinner hosted by the University’s Executive Vice President for Medical Affairs and CEO of the Health System Robert Kelch, M.D., and Medical School Dean Allen Lichter, M.D.. Inaugural pre-dinner speakers in the attached 300-seat auditorium (already nicknamed the “Pringle” by students for its potato-chip-like structure) included U-M President Mary Sue Coleman, U-M Regent Andrea Fischer Newman, Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm, building architect Todd Schliemann of Polshek Partnership Architects in New York and Thomas Cech, Ph.D., president of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Regent Rebecca McGowan was also in attendance. MCAS board attendees included Don and Elsie Overy and Steve and Katie Newman.

For more about the BSRB please CLICK HERE.

Alumni on Campus: Major General Schoomaker, M.D. '79

Every day Alumni come back to the University of Michigan to populate the campus as leaders of grand rounds, presenters, professors, and even students. This Tuesday, April 4, 2006, U-M welcomes Major General Eric B. Schoomaker, M.D. to speak about medicine and the Army. Major Schoomaker is a native of Detroit, Michigan. In 1970 he graduated from the University of Michigan as a Second Lieutenant with a Bachelor of Science degree. He received his medical degree from the University of Michigan Medical School in 1979 and went on to complete his PhD in Human Genetics. He is Board Certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine and Hematology. In August 2002, The Surgeon General appointed General Schoomaker to the position of Chief of the Army Medical Corps. All are invited to join him over their lunch break as he chronicles his career in medicine and the military.

When: Tuesday, April 4, 2006 from 11:30-1:00 pm
Location: Conference Rooms A&B (Next to House Officers Lounge at UM Hospital)
RSVP Deadline: March 31, 2006 - Toll Free (888) 571-5053 or Jacqueline.Durant@usarec.army.mil

Provide a White Coat Welcome to a Member of the Class of 2010

The Annual White Coat Ceremony is the symbolic beginning of the four year journey of medical students here at the University of Michigan. This celebration of many great things to come takes place this year on Sunday, August 6, 2006 at Rackham. For the first time, alumni are invited to be a part of the White Coat Ceremony by providing a student’s white coat for a gift of $100. A recognition card will provide each student with the name(s) of the alumnus who provided their coat. We invite you to join these students as they embark on their medical school adventure, and as alumnus, welcome them warmly as they become part of the proud legacy that is medicine at Michigan. Support a student and sponsor a white coat!

If you would like to sponsor a white coat, click here. Print the form, fill it out completely, and mail it with your check or credit card information to University of Michigan, Medical Development and Alumni Relations, attn: White Coat, 301 E. Liberty, Suite 400, Ann Arbor, MI 48104-2251. If you have any questions, please contact Theresa Finney Dumais
at 734-998-7584 ordumaist@umich.edu.

 

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