The Division of Hospital Medicine will present Grand Rounds on Thursday, October 8 at 12 p.m. at UMH Seminar Centers A and B, first floor. Rafael E. Campo, M.D., Division of Infectious Diseases, Medical Director, Employee Health and Infection Control UMSOM/UMH/SCCC, will present “Patient Safety First–Influenza Vaccination and Hand Hygiene.” By attending this lecture, participants will be able to determine the epidemiology of seasonal and pandemic influenza, evaluate the benefits of influenza vaccination, and employ enhanced hand hygiene to help prevent the spread of influenza. The lecture is designed for family practitioners, emergency physicians, surgeons, internists, and hospitalists. The University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. For more information, please contact Janette Jurado at [email protected] or visit www.cme.med.miami.edu.

Lauren Ferra and Rafael Cruz conduct a finger prick to collect a drop of blood for lactate analysis. The experiment was one of many activities in which Miami-Dade County high school students participated as part of the University of Miami School of Education’s Healthy Start Summer Program. The new initiative, hosted by the school’s Department of Exercise and Sport Sciences, provided health literacy and personal wellness training for 120 high school freshmen and sophomores from local Miami-Dade County public schools. Two separate four-week summer sessions were conducted, during which students attended lectures and labs on muscle physiology and flexibility, cardiovascular physiology, nutrition and energy balance, and sports science. Social skills building and leadership training were also taught, and the students took part in supervised field trips, one of them to a local Whole Foods Market.