The Department of Otolaryngology will host grand rounds on Thursday, February 3 from 8 to 9 a.m. at the Clinical Research Building, Room 989. Francisco Civantos, associate professor, and Joshua Rosenberg, otolaryngology fellow and instructor, will present “Laryngopharyngeal Reconstruction.” For more information or to add your name to the department’s distribution list, please contact Mayte Ruiz-Sexton at 305-585-8776 or e-mail [email protected].

Andrew A. Pieper, assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, will present “In Vivo Discovery of Molecules for Treatment of Neuropsychiatric Disease” on Wednesday, February 2 from 12 to 1 p.m. as part of the Gail F. Beach Memorial Visiting Lectureship Series at the Lois Pope LIFE Center, seventh-floor auditorium. For more information, call 305-243-7108 or visit www.themiamiproject.org/lectures.

The Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology will host grand rounds on Thursday, February 3 at 7 a.m. in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, fifth-floor auditorium. Frederick R. Ueland, associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology in the Division of Gynecologic Oncology at the University of Kentucky Medical Center, will present “Is This Ovary Malignant? Separating the Wheat from the Chaff.” For more information, contact Tameka A. Collins at 305-243-5741.

Scientists and Engineers Expanding Diversity and Success (SEEDS) will host a half-day workshop with Ellen Daniell, writer, consultant, and former assistant professor of molecular biology at the University of California, Berkeley, on Tuesday, February 8 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Lois Pope LIFE Center auditorium.

For more than 30 years, Daniell has been part of a professional problem-solving group of women (and some men) who have attained extraordinary distinction in various scientific fields. The group meets every other week to help one another with the professional and personal challenges of managing highly competitive careers and fulfilling lives. Daniell is author of Every Other Thursday: Stories and Strategies from Successful Women Scientists.

As part of the half-day workshop, titled “Strategies from a Professional Problem-Solving Group,” Daniell will give a talk, hold a book-signing session, and conduct two small breakout sessions to practice the techniques discussed in her talk. Lunch will be provided. The workshop is supported by a SEEDS You Choose award to Paula Monje, a lecturer at The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis. To RSVP, please visit www.as.miami.edu/seeds.

The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences will host grand rounds on Wednesday, February 2 from 12 to 1:30 p.m. in the Mailman Center for Child Development, eighth-floor auditorium. Charles B. Nemeroff, Miller Professor and chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, will present “Heartache and Heartbreak: The Remarkable Relationship Between Depression and Heart Disease.” The University of Miami Miller School of Medicine designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. This activity will provide 1.50 CE to psychologists, social workers, marriage and family therapists, and mental health counselors who attend. For more information, please contact Carmen Bou-Crick at 305-355-9073, e-mail [email protected], or visit the departmental website.