This seminar, offered by the Faculty and Staff Assistance Program (FSAP) in partnership with the Center for Complementary and Integrative Medicine, provides participants with guidelines for achieving optimal health. Forget diets and counting calories. Forget thinking that you need to train like a professional or Olympic athlete. If you are willing to unlearn what you have learned from years of misinformation and propaganda from the mass media, then you can follow very simple principles to eating and exercising that will put you in a state of optimal health.

If you eat a mostly whole-food, plant-based diet and follow a consistent and intense exercise program that includes cardiovascular and strength conditioning, then you will be healthy and free from chronic disease. The scheduled presenter is John E. Lewis, assistant professor, director of research for complementary and integrative medicine, and associate director of the Medical Wellness Center.

Coral Gables campus: Tuesday, May 25 from 12 to 1 p.m., University Center Flamingo Ballroom A.

Rosenstiel School campus: Wednesday, May 26 from 12 to 1 p.m., Library Map and Chart Room.

Miller School campus: Friday, May 28 from 12 to 1 p.m., Medical Wellness Center classroom.

To register, visit http://ulearn.miami.edu. For help with ULearn, call the Professional Development and Training Office at 305-284-5110 or 305-243-3090. Mac users: Please call the FSAP office at 305-284-6604 to register by phone.

The Office of Research Education and Training Office presents a workshop with Jeffrey Brosco, who will speak on the subject of “Should Journals Publish Unethical Research if a Local IRB Approved It?” Discuss the role of a journal in research ethics and other related questions of research ethics on Tuesday, May 25 at 12 p.m. in the Mailman Center for Child Development, room 3023.

Recently, major journals such as The Journal of the American Medical Association and The New England Journal of Medicine have published strict rules regarding conflicts of interest and particularly the role of industry in research. More fundamental questions also arise regarding human subjects protection, yet there are no clear guidelines. This case discussion will focus on a particular episode in which the editors had concerns about human subject protection in an IRB-approved study.

Registration is available through ULearn. If you have any questions, contact the Office of Research Education and Training at 305-243-5092.

Attend pediatric grand rounds on Tuesday, May 25 from 8 to 9 a.m. in the Mailman Center for Child Development, eighth-floor auditorium.  Manuel Gonzalez-Brito, assistant professor of clinical pediatrics, will present “Developmental Responses to and Recovery from Spinal Cord Injury: Translating Bench Therapies to Children at the Bedside.” For more information, call 305-585-6042 or e-mail [email protected].

Attend Cardiology Grand Rounds on Tuesday, May 25 for “Understanding and Treating Hyponatremia” by Ronald Zolty, director of the Heart Failure Program in the Division of Cardiology and associate professor in the Department of Medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Zolty will  present from 12 to 1 p.m. at the University of Miami Hospital, South Building, first-floor seminar center, rooms A and B.  For more information, call 305-243-1998 or e-mail [email protected].

Each of us is responsible for our own learning. It only takes ambition, determination, and a plan of action. This plan of action is called a development plan: a goal-oriented, specific, and actionable document that provides a road map to success. A well-crafted development plan can provide focus to your learning and facilitate self-directed learning that is more tailored to your individual needs while enabling you to personalize your educational experience. To complete the CBL and register for 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: Tuesday, May 25 from 2 to 4 p.m. in the Max Orovitz Building, room 139.
• Miller School campus: Thursday, May 27 from 2 to 4 p.m. at Professional Development and Training Offcie, Dominion Parking Garage (DPG), suite 155.