Events

UC Health Systemwide Grand Rounds

This webinar will provide an overview of recent trends and issues in the nursing workforce with a description of state and regional differences and guidance on how to anticipate your organization’s needs and optimize the contributions of nurses. The speakers will share strategies for retaining the workforce and promoting healthy work environments. Finally, the presentation will feature exemplars of UC nursing innovations in education and practice.

2024 Community Lecture Series

Topic: COVID-19 and the Impact on Alzheimer’s Disease Neuropathology
Speaker: Tom Lane, Ph.D.; Chancellor’s Professor, Neurobiology and Behavior; School of Biological Sciences
Location: Gross Hall, Thorp Conference Center

7th Annual UCI Advanced International Men’s Health Course

UCI Urology invites you to join the 7th Annual UCI Advanced International Men’s Health Course. A FREE comprehensive virtual course on Men’s Health, learning from 75 world-renowned experts across 67 institutions from the comfort of your home! This two-day virtual course will cover specialized training for men’s health urologists, urinary incontinence specialists, and andrology specialists.

Physician Scientist Collective: Distinguished Speaker Series

Translational research leadership in the global context: it’s all about sharing, by Eric Vilain, MD, PhD, associate vice chancellor, director of the Institute for the Clinical & Translational Science, professor in the Department of Pediatrics, UCI School of Medicine

UCI MIND Seminar Series: Lance Johnson, PhD

Speaker: Lance Johnson, Ph.D. Dr. Johnson earned his Ph.D. under the eminent Professor Nobuyo Maeda and Nobel Laureate Oliver Smithies, studying apolipoprotein E’s (APOE) impact on atherosclerosis. In this seminar, Dr. Johnson will delve into the role of Apolipoprotein E (APOE) in late-onset Alzheimer’s disease (AD). He will focus on how the E4 allele increases AD risk while the E2 allele offers strong protection against AD. Dr. Johnson will further explore the potential of late-life ‘allelic switching’ from E4 to E2 to mitigate various neuropathological deficits linked to the risk allele, using a novel inducible mouse model.

UCI Conte Center Seminar Series: Cameron Carter, MD

Topic: Understanding Cognition and Neurodevelopment in Psychosis
Speaker: Cameron Carter, MD; Professor and Chair; Psychiatry and Human Behavior, UCI
Host: Tallie Z. Baram, MD, PhD

GIS Mapping with Tableau

An in-person hands on workshop in which the participants will use Tableau Prep to map data points onto a GIS map visualization. Participants will be introduced to Tableau Prep, the freely available version of the Tableau reporting platform. Geospatial data will be explained and participants will learn about its format, where to download it, and how it can be used in Tableau Prep to create high quality maps suitable for publication.

UCI Conte Center Seminar Series: Pat Levitt, PhD

Topic: Functional Implications of Developmental Heterogeneity
Speaker: Pat Levitt, PhD; Chief Scientific Officer, Senior Vice President and Director, The Saban Research Institute Simms/Mann Chair in Developmental Neurogenetics; Children’s Hospital Los Angeles; WM Keck Provost Professor of Neurogenetics; Keck School of Medicine of USC
Host: Tallie Z. Baram, MD, PhD
In-Person Location: Plumwood House (Across From Medical Education) But also via Zoom.

Community Health Research Exchange Presents: Community-Academic Partnered Research Presentations

Come engage with community-academic research teams to discuss important aspects of partnerships, partnership development for research projects, potential pitfalls to avoid, and managing competing interests. They will discuss their research partnerships within the context of the Campus-Community Research Incubator (CCRI) projects they completed.

Introduction to Tableau Prep Builder

In this one-hour online demo we will introduce the Tableau Prep Builder data management tool. Using one of the sample datasets that come with the software we will see how Tableau Prep Builder allows you to perform several common data management tasks using an intuitive graphical user interface, without having to write or maintain any code.

2023 Community Lecture Series

Topic: Novel Diagnostics and Treatments for Vitiligo
Speakers: Drs. Anand Ganesan, M.D., Ph.D and Katie Hinchee-Rodriquez, M.D., Ph.D.
Location: Gross Hall, Thorp Conference Center