Events/Announcements

EVENTS

Peds PLACE
The CTN sponsors Peds PLACE (Pediatric Physician Learning and Cooperative Education), a weekly Pediatric Tele-educational Conference. This is the first program of its Community Based Research and Education (CoBRE) Core Facility, that uses the facilities of the Center for Distance Health at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and Arkansas Children's Hospital. The conferences are held every Thursday from 12:15 - 1:15 PM. The conferences will cover a different pediatric problem each week with all the connecting sites being able to interact with the speaker and with each other in real time. The conference will begin with a case presentation that illustrates the topic to be discussed. The speaker will frequently have a written guideline covering the topic discussed, which will be posted on the Web, and will use the case presentation to guide us through the most important parts of the guidelines. You can view these telemedicine broadcasts online at http://www.uams.edu/cdh1 .

NEWS RELEASES

August 20, 2009: UAMS Receives $10 Million Grant to Continue Successful Center for Translational Neuroscience

May 14, 2008: CTN funded telemedicine program places UAMS neonatologists on call for regional hospitals

December 19, 2007: CTN discovery featured in NCRR Newsletter Please read about our discovery of electrical coupling in the reticular activating system

July 19, 2007: UAMS Researchers Identify Sleep-Wake Controls with Implications for Coma Patients and Those Under Anesthesia

June 16,2006: UAMS Faculty Member Receives Award for Smell Research

May 15, 2005: UAMS Enlists Arkansas Company to Build, Market New Bicycle Exercise Trainer for Spine Injury Patients

DISTINGUISHED LECTURER SERIES

Tuesday, March 31, 2009
James P. Marcin, MD, MPH, Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Section of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, University of California Davis
"Pediatric Telemedicine and its Applications in the ED and ICU"
 
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
G. William Rebeck, PhD, Department of Neurobiology, Georgetown University, Washington, DC
"Synaptic Function of Alzheimer's Proteins APP and ApoE"

Thursday, January 29, 2009
Paul Ford, PhD, Clinical Bioethicist, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine
"Innovating the Brain: Ethics of Neuro-technology"

Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Donald J. Woodward, PhD, President and Director, Neuroscience Research Institute of North Carolina, Winston Salem, NC
"Evolution of Enabling Technology for Multineuron Recording: Impact on Studies of Brain and Behavior"

Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Subimal Datta, PhD, Professor and Director, Laboratory of Sleep and Cognitive Neuroscience, Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA
"Sleep: Learning and Memory"

Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Edward Dudek, PhD, Professor and Chair, Department of Physiology, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT
"Progressive development of spontaneous seizures in experimental epilepsy"

Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Major General Bill Lefler, DDS, FACP, US Army (Ret.), Hot Springs, AR,
"The history, progress and future impact of the Tobacco Settlement in Arkansas"

Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Mark Hallett, MD, Chief, Human Motor Control Section, National Institute for neurological Disorders, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
"Pathophysiology of Focal Dystonia and Implications for Treatment"

Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Carlos H. Schenck, MD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota
"Parasomnias: REM sleep behavior disorder and Parkinsonism, and Zolpidem-Induced Sleep Related Eating Disorder"

Tuesday, April 24, 2007
David F. Dinges, Ph.D., Professor and Chief, Division of Sleep and Chronobiology, Director, Unit for Experimental Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA.
"Optimizing Neurobehavioral Performance through Biology and Technology"

Tuesday, April 3, 2007
Scott R. Whittemore, Ph.D., Henry D. Garretson Endowed Professor, Department of Neurological Surgery, Scientific Director, Kentucky Spinal Cord Injury Research Center,
University of Louisville, Louisville KY.
"The realities and possibilities of stem cell grafting for CNS repair"

Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Irving E. Vega, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, University of Puerto Rico - Rio Piedras Campus, San Juan, PR.
"Tau-associated proteins: questioning an unusual suspect in neurodegeneration"

Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Robert Greene, MD, PhD, Sherry Knopf Crasilneck Distinguished Chair in Psychiatry, Vice chair, Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
"Mediation of the homeostatic sleep response by the adenosine A1 receptor"

Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Barry W. Connors, PhD, Professor and Chair, Department of Neuroscience, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
"Eclectic electric synapses in the mammalian brain"

Tuesday, March 21, 2006
Floyd J. Thompson, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Neuroscience, University of Florida Health Science Center, Gainesville, Florida
"Neurobiology and Treatment of Spinal Cord Injury-induced Spasticity"

Tuesday, November 8, 2005
Robert P. Yezierski, Ph.D., Director, Comprehensive Center for Pain Research, Professor of Orthodontics, Neuroscience and Anesthesiology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
"The Injured Spinal Cord: A Model of Central Pain"

Tuesday, May 3, 2005
Prof. Robert McCarley, MD, Head, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard University And VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA
"Adenosine, sleep and sleep pathology"

Tuesday, April 5, 2005
Prof. Donald Humphrey, PhD, Departments of Physiology and Neurology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
"Long-term, Progressive Changes in Voluntary Activation of Motor Areas in the Human Brain After Spinal Cord Injury"

Thursday, January 20, 2005
Prof. Merlin W. Donald, PHD, FRSC, Dept. Psychology, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
"Cognitive Prehistory: A Darwinian Perspective on Memory and Consciousness"

Wednesday, November 17, 2004
Prof. Shigemi Mori, MD, PHD, National Institute for Physiologicel Sciences, Okazaki, Japan
"Cerebral Control of Upright Posture and Bipedal Walking in the Japanese Monkey, M. Fuscata"