The Bill Cosford Cinema will be screening Spiritual Warriors on Thursday August 13 at 7:30 p.m.

Sponsored by the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness group, join Jsu Garcia (co-producer/co-writer and star) for a heartfelt question-and-answer session after the film, and an unveiling of  Jsu Garcia’s most recent film: the 13-minute short titled Who Are You.

General admission is $6, Students are free.  For more information, call 305-284-4861 or e-mail [email protected]. The film is in English with Spanish subtitles.

Amir K. Jaffer, associate professor of medicine, chief of the Division of Hospital Medicine, and Chief of Medicine Service at University of Miami Hospital, will present “Update in Hospital Medicine – 2009” on Thursday, August 13 at 12 p.m. at UMH Seminar Centers A and B, first floor.

By attending this lecture, participants will be able to outline high impact studies of relevance to inpatient, internal, and hospital medicine in 2008 and early 2009; review the methodology, results, and conclusions of these studies; and discuss the implications of these studies on internal and hospital medicine clinical practice. The lecture is designed for family practitioners, emergency physicians, surgeons, internists, and hospitalists. This activity has been approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

For more information, contact Janette Jurado at [email protected] or visit www.cme.med.miami.edu.

Joseph Lustgarten, associate professor in the Department of Immunology at the Cancer Center Scottsdale, Mayo Clinic Arizona, will present “Involvement of Tregs and Mac-regs in Regulating Antitumor Immune Responses in the Young and the Old” on Thursday, August 13 at 12 p.m. in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, Room 3109. For additional information, contact Ilse W. Duarte at [email protected].

The Office of Research Information Management is offering a Velos Patient Management Workshop for study team members, coordinators, research nurses, and all study personnel involved in managing patients. Come and learn how this system will help you manage your patients. This hands-on module includes discussions on patient enrollment, patient status management, and patient calendars. The workshop will be held in Dominion Towers, tenth-floor training room, on Thursdays from 4 to 5 p.m. Different dates are available. Please choose one of the upcoming sessions:

Thursday, August 6

Thursday, August 13

Thursday, August 20

Thursday, August 27

Velos eResearch is a Web-based clinical research management application that is designed specifically for investigators and their research teams. It supports processes for patient recruitment, patient scheduling, budgeting, invoicing, milestone management, data safety monitoring, adverse event reporting, system integration, data collection, and study execution. Velos eResearch allows all study-related information to be centralized and can be accessed from anywhere, any time. Password protected, the account is accessible only to authorized personnel. It is easy to use, reliable, and completely secure. Registration is required through ULearn. For more information, e-mail [email protected].