The cornerstone of the Weight Watchers program is nutrition, coupled with exercise advice and a very effective behavior modification program that leads to new eating management skills, safe weight loss, and maintenance. The cost is $123 for the 12-week course, which will be offered on both the Gables and medical campuses. If this is your first time attending the Weight Watchers at Work program at UM, you are eligible for 100 percent reimbursement if you attend each of the 12 sessions. If this is your second Weight Watchers at Work at UM, you are eligible for 50-percent reimbursement if you attend all 12 sessions. If you have any questions, please e-mail Sheri Virok at [email protected]. This is a taxable benefit. For more information, click here. Schedules for the upcoming courses are as follows:

Coral Gables
Course starts Thursday, June 18
Meetings held at 12 p.m.
Room 4051, School of Communication

Miller School of Medicine
Course starts Wednesday, June 17
Meetings held at 11:30 a.m., 12:30 p.m., and 1:30 p.m.
Medical Wellness Center, Instructional Classroom
Clinical Research Building

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will host a virtual environmental microbiology seminar entitled “Derivation and Use of a New Discrete Growth Probability Distribution of Microbes in Environmental Samples and Associated Dose-Response Function.” In this talk, an explanation for the occurrence of highly skewed, not bell-shaped probability distributions of the number of microbes in a glass of drinking water and other complex system outcomes will be offered, along with implications for risk assessment. Access is free and open to the public.

The seminar, which will be presented virtually by James D. Englehardt, UM professor of environmental engineering, takes place on Wednesday, June 17 from 2 to 3 p.m. The seminar can be accessed from your computer through the EPA’s Oracle Web Conference Tool. If you are a first-time user of this conference tool, it is recommended that you download the conference software in advance of the seminar.

This series of seminars has been created to provide an opportunity to hear about state-of-the-art scientific research being conducted by leaders in the field of environmental microbiology and to encourage the exchange of information among interested scientists. Speakers have been invited to discuss recently completed or ongoing research that involves the use of innovative approaches that can be used to address issues of concern to the agency.

For questions about the seminar or assistance in using the Oracle Web Conference Tool, contact Jatin Mistry at 513-569-7794 or e-mail [email protected].

Along with fun in the sun, summertime can bring a variety of home and outdoor poison risks. These risks range from contact with venomous animals to exposure to household chemicals used incorrectly. The Employee Assistance Program (EAP) seminar “Summer Safety: Preventing Poison Hazards” will identify hazardous species of animals native to our South Florida environment, evaluate common poisoning scenarios for adults and children, and discuss prevention tips and resources. Wendy Blair Stephan, health educator for the Florida Poison Information Center-Miami, will present.

Miller School campus: Wednesday, June 17 from 12 to 1 p.m. in the Dominion Parking Garage, Room 155

Coral Gables campus: Thursday, June 18 from 12 to 1 p.m. in the Max Orovitz Building, Room 139

To register, go to http://ulearn.miami.edu. For help with ULearn, call PDTO at 305-284-5110 or 305-243-3090.

Miller School resident Rajiv Iyer presents “Ear Reconstruction” on Wednesday, June 17 at 7:30 a.m. at University of Miami Hospital, Seminar Center C. For more information, call Mayra Ramos at 305-585-5285.

Learn how to use the InfoEd Proposal Development System to prepare and submit your proposal electronically to the National Institutes of Health (NIH). InfoEd streamlines the proposal development process. It is Web-based and accessible almost anywhere by Mac and PC users. No additional software is required. InfoEd populates agency forms, includes built-in agency validations, stores proposals in a secure environment, and provides a database of all proposals submitted. This session will help participants create, route, submit, and track proposals using the InfoEd System. It will be held on Wednesday, June 17 from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. at Dominion Towers, tenth-floor computer lab. Register through ULearn at http://Ulearn.miami.edu. For more information, contact the Sponsored Programs Education and Training Team at [email protected].