InScope: Weekly news for faculty, staff and students from the IU School of Medicine
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Feb. 6, 2014
top headlines
Strategic plan
IUSM has officially launched the Transforming Research Initiative, a plan to make its research enterprise more competitive.
Healing music
A new study by IU researchers found music therapy has a positive effect on young cancer patients' coping skills.
New leadership role
David Crabb has been named the new chief of internal medicine at Eskenazi Health.
editor’s picks
News to Use
Remembering a colleague IUSM faculty member Vince Gattone bravely shared his experience with terminal illness to educate his students and the public.
Opportunities
Mobile computing
Proposals are now being accepted for this year's Mobile Computing in Medical Education Conference.
Grants
Grant program extended
features of the week story
Ten years of care
The IU Health Proton Therapy Center, whose physicians are primarily members of the IUSM Department of Radiation
Oncology, will celebrate 10 years of
innovative cancer treatment during a special ceremony Feb. 10. Discover the center's history, and watch its video segment that aired Jan. 30 after the IU-Nebraska men's basketball game on the Big Ten Network.
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InScope: Weekly news for faculty, staff and students from the IU School of Medicine
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The Indiana Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Fund Grant Program deadline has been extended to Feb. 24.
Kudos
Excellence in teaching The American Psychiatric
Association has award David Diaz the Irma Bland Award for
Excellence in Teaching Residents.
faculty & staff spotlight
Feels like home
Cardiovascular researcher Ching- Pin Chang joined IU after 20 years at Stanford to expand his research horizons.
student spotlight
AMA meeting
The IU School of Medicine will host this year's American Medical Association - Medical Student Section Region V Meeting.
'Sound Medicine'
This week, "Sound Medicine" reviews the history of the iron lung, which was created to treat patients who lost a lung to polio in the 1950s but inspired fear in the public due to its frightful and claustrophobic design.
Other topics include the regulation of antibiotics in animals, the myth of "right brained versus left brained" and male contraception.
events & lectures
TB testing clinic dates and locations
02-06-2014
The Changing Role of Imaging in Neuro-Oncology
02-12-2014
IUSM Dean TRIP keynote lecture 03-13-2014
IU School of Medicine Calendar
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