Attend a stress reduction guided meditation led by Frank Willis on Thursday, May 20 at 12:15 p.m. in the Medical Wellness Center’s Educational Classroom. Do you feel tied down by stress? Do you long to soar through challenging situations without being stressed? Would you like to learn how to resolve past mistakes without adding more stress to your current situation? Learn how to reduce stress through meditation, slow and easy abdominal breathing, and connecting with positive emotions. To reserve your seat, call 305-243-7662.

The Center for Computational Science will host a Bioinformatics Learn-Over-Lunch Seminar on Thursday, May 20 at 12 p.m. in the Clinical Research Building, Room 677A. Robert Knippenberg, executive director, major account sales and service, southeast region, CambridgeSoft Corporation, will present “CambridgeSoft Bio E-Notebook and Bioinformatics Solutions.” Lunch will be provided. Please RSVP at [email protected].

CambridgeSoft is a leading supplier of life science discovery, collaboration, and knowledge management solutions, desktop software, scientific databases, and informatics consulting services. The client base encompasses over a million users at leading commercial, government, and academic institutions around the world. The Bio E-Notebook electronically organizes information that is typically stored in paper notebooks by incorporating MS Excel and Word, ChemDraw reactions, forms and report templates, stoichiometry grids, biological assay management, bio drawing tools, and graphical data. ChemBioViz is an intuitive database search and graphics engine capable of integrating the firm’s scientific software suite with third-party and user-defined databases, pulling all of the data into one decision support platform.

Mark Mighell, associate professor, Florida Orthopaedic Institute, University of South Florida, will present “Arthroscopic Rotator Cuff Repair” on Thursday, May 20 at 8 a.m. at the Mailman Center for Child Development, eighth-floor auditorium. The presentation is sponsored by the Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation. For more information, e-mail [email protected].

Nestor De La Cruz-Munoz, assistant professor of surgery and chief of the Division of Laparoendoscopic and Bariatric Surgery, will present “Metabolic Surgery: What Is It? And Where Are We Now?” on Thursday, May 20 from 7:30 to 8:30 a.m. at the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, fourth-floor auditorium. Upon completion of this lecture, participants will be able to discuss the different theories of improvement of diabetes and metabolic syndrome after GI tract surgery.

The University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit. For more information, contact Elisa Arguelles at 305-585-1280 or [email protected].

Conflict is essential to the growth of any team. In this course, offered through PDTO in partnership with FSAP, supervisors, in their role as facilitators of team effectiveness, will learn to help their staff positively channel team conflict to generate innovation and team cohesiveness. Attendees must complete the corresponding online CBL prior to enrolling for the live session. To register for the CBL and the live session, visit ulearn.miami.edu and follow the instructions to log on. For more information, call 305-284-5110 or 305-243-3090.

• Coral Gables campus: Wednesday, May 19  from 2 to 5 p.m., Max Orovitz Building, room 139.
• Miller School campus: Thursday, May 20 from 2 to 5 p.m., Professional Development and Training Office, Dominion Parking Garage (DPG), suite 155.