This new series will be held every Thursday at University of Miami Hospital. The series will include presentations made in various innovative formats. Faculty, medical staff, and house staff are encouraged to attend. The first presentation in the series will be held on Thursday, September 16 at 12 p.m. at University of Miami Hospital, first-floor Seminar Center A and B. It is titled “61-Year-Old with Shortness of Breath and Chest Pain” and will be given by Amir Jaffer, associate professor of clinical medicine and chief of the Division of Hospital Medicine at the Miller School. For more information, please contact Janette Jurado at [email protected].

The UM School of Communication welcomes Danish filmmaker Laurits Munch-Petersen for a series of screenings and discussions at the Cosford this weekend. Munch-Petersen graduated from the National Film School of Denmark in 2003, where his thesis film, Mellem Os (Between Us) won a Student Academy Award for Best Foreign film and was optioned for a feature-length adaptation by an American production company. In the years since, he has written and directed the short documentary Forestil Dig on Danish novelist Karen Blixen (author of Out of Africa), the action feature Ambulancen, and the award-winning documentary Seducer’s Fall.

Munch-Petersen’s latest film, the hybrid drama-documentary Hurry Home, explores the lives of two Danish women whose husbands have been deployed to fight in Afghanistan. The film is currently making the European film festival circuit and recently won the Audience Award at the Paris Film Festival.

Different combinations of Munch-Petersen’s films will be screened each night, followed by a question-and-answer session with the filmmaker.  For interview requests, e-mail [email protected]. The films screen on Thursday, September 16 at 7 p.m.; Friday, September 17 at 7 p.m.; and Saturday, September 18 at 7 p.m. Admission is $6 for seniors, UM alumni, faculty, non UM-students and staff. General admission is $8, cash only; free for UM students. For more information, visit www.cosfordcinema.com or call 305-284-4861.

The Department of Neurological Surgery will host grand rounds on Thursday, September 16 from 8 to 9 a.m. in the Lois Pope LIFE Center, seventh-floor auditorium. Ronald Benveniste, assistant professor of clinical neurosurgery at the Miller School of Medicine, will present “Brain metastases.” For more information or to add your name to the department’s educational announcement distribution list, please contact Ingrid Menendez at 305-243-6751 or [email protected].

The School of Business Administration will present an M.B.A. program information session in conjunction with the Network & Learn series on Thursday, September 16 at 6 p.m. in the McLamore Executive Education Center, third floor. During the session, Ram Krishnan, professor of marketing, will present “Innovation through Marketing Research.” A networking reception also will be held. University of Miami alumni and those interested in learning more about UM’s evening/weekend M.B.A. programs, including the M.B.A. for Working Professionals, Executive M.B.A., and Executive M.B.A. in Health Sector Management and Policy programs, are encouraged to attend. The event is free. For more information or to RSVP, call 305-284-2510, e-mail [email protected], or visit http://WWW.UMMBA2010.COM.

The Pulmonary Fibrosis Support Group will hold a meeting on Thursday, September 16 at 2 p.m. in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, Conference Room 1041. The meeting will provide attendees with the opportunity to meet and learn from others who are battling the same condition. A portion of the meeting will include a presentation on pulmonary fibrosis research by Marilyn Glassberg, associate professor of medicine and surgery and an expert in pulmonary fibrosis, and a tour of the research lab. For more information, contact Beth Goldberg at 305-243-3492 or [email protected].