The Division of Hospital Medicine grand rounds for the month of October presents “Pulmonary hypertension: When the problem is the right side of the heart,” on Tuesday, October 20 from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. at Jackson Memorial Hospital , Central Building, second floor auditorium. For more information, please call Karen Harvey at 305-243-1497.

Forget about donuts. These proud men and women in blue love serving up pizza, and it’s all for a good cause. The University of Miami Police Department will host its United Way Pizza Day fundraiser on Tuesday, October 20 from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at UMPD headquarters, located on the first floor of the Flipse Building/Ponce Garage. Pizzas must be pre-ordered by 12 p.m. on Monday, October 19. Menu and costs include: Plain cheese pizza $11, one topping $13, two toppings $15, three to six toppings $17. To pre-order, call 305-284-3075 or e-mail [email protected]. For every pizza ordered, Gables Pizza and Salad and the University of Miami Police Department will make a donation to United Way. For more information, call 305-284-3075 or click here to see the flyer.

Attend the Benefits Fair from Monday, October 19 through Friday, October 23 and visit with representatives from Aetna, CIGNA, Delta Dental, the UM Retirement vendors, LTSave investment advice, UM Gables and Medical Wellness Centers, and others to get valuable information about your UM benefits. Raffle tickets will be available at the fair. Fill them out for your chance to win prizes. Due to a positive response to the University’s seasonal flu vaccine distribution efforts and the nationwide flu supply challenges, seasonal flu shots will not be available at the Benefits Fair. Employees who have not received their seasonal flu shot are strongly encouraged to visit other local retail locations for the vaccine. UM/Aetna health plan members can obtain free flu shots at the following locations: (If you are charged for a flu shot at any of the locations, please e-mail a copy of the invoice to Benefits Administration at [email protected].

• Target
• Wal-Mart
• Publix
• Minute Clinics (in select CVS locations)
• Take Care Clinics (in select Walgreens locations)
• PCP office

CVS and Walgreens do NOT provide free flu shots to Aetna members outside of their walk–in clinics.  Please contact your local retailers and doctor’s offices prior to your visit to ensure that they have seasonal flu shots available.

Benefits Fairs will be held on the Coral Gables, Rosenstiel, and Miller School campuses, as well as at University of Miami Hospital.

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Shirin Shafazand, assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine at the Miller School of Medicine, will present “Pulmonary Hypertension” on Tuesday, October 20 from 12 to 1 p.m. at Jackson Memorial Hospital, Central Building, second-floor auditorium. For more information, call Karen Harvey at 305-243-1497.

Pulitzer Prize-winner Patrick Farrell and internationally recognized photojournalist Maggie Steber will discuss photo coverage in Haiti.

A photo from Patrick Farrell's Pulitzer Prize-winning entry.

The University of Miami School of Communication’s Visual Journalism Program will host a conversation with award-winning photojournalists on Tuesday, October 20 at 5 p.m. Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist and School of Communication alumnus Patrick Farrell and internationally recognized photographer Maggie Steber will discuss experiences regarding photo coverage in Haiti, and show the images from their work in the country.

Farrell, A.B. ’81, has been a staff photographer for The Miami Herald since 1987. In 2008, he was sent to Haiti in midst of a volatile hurricane season. Haiti was devastated by three major hurricanes—Gustav, Hanna, and Ike—and Farrell experienced the damage first-hand. For his photography of Haiti during that year, he won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography.

Steber is a highly honored and internationally known documentary photographer, educator, and photo editor. In 1992, she published Dancing on Fire: Photographs from Haiti based on her work documenting life and death in Haiti during the 1980s and ’90s. From 1999 to 2003, Steber was the director of photography for The Miami Herald. Under Steber’s leadership, the newspaper was twice a finalist for its coverage of the Elian Gonzalez case and received a Pulitzer Prize in feature photography in 2000. She was also the Knight Center for International Media resident professional at the School of Communication in 2007.

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