The IU-Kenya partnership, housed within IU’s Division of General Internal Medicine, currently has an exhibit on display in the Medical Library. The display is a photographic depiction of IU’s initiatives in Kenya, and its purpose is to bring attention to the collaborative efforts of faculty, residents and students participating in the program in Kenya and the United States.

The partnership was initially established in 1989 to foster and develop future leaders in health care for both the US and Kenya. As the magnitude of the HIV/AIDS pandemic grew over the last two decades, it became apparent that the partnership would have to respond to this health care crisis.

In 2000, IU’s Dr. Joe Mamlin asked for help in treating one Kenyan medical student afflicted with HIV. Now, 6 years later, the partnership through its AMPATH (Academic Model for Prevention and Treatment of HIV/AIDS) program is following over 27,000 HIV infected patients and adding over 1100 new patients every month. Additionally, the program has established income and food security initiatives as well as creating an orphans and vulnerable children assistance program in an effort to combat all aspects of this disease.

The display is located just inside the entrance to the Ruth Lilly Medical Library located on the IUPUI campus.

A recording of the IUSM School-wide Grand Rounds: Stem Cell Research, by Dr. William Neaves, President and CEO of Stowers Institute for Medical has been posted on IUSM Angel, under “IUSM Infoshare” in the left column.

The Medical Library will be open on Saturdays starting on June 24th, 2006.

8:00 am to 9 pm

Open to the public from 8 am-5 pm.
From 5 pm-9 pm any IUPUI or IU card will have access.

The Getting Started with EndNote workshop, which is customized for medicine and health by IUSM Libraries, will cover EndNote functionality, download of citations from Ovid Medline/PubMed, and interaction with MS Word (Cite While You Write). The hands-on workshops for 2006 are from 2:30-4:00 PM in the Medical Science Basement Computer Lab (MS B16A) on:

July 11th (Tuesday)
September 6th (Wednesday)
November 8th (Wednesday)

To register and for more information contact medical librarian, Carole Gall, 274-1411 cfgall@iupui.edu

QUOSA Information Manager: Full-article Retrieval, Article Organization, & Sync&Link with EndNote / RefMan / ProCite

Demo 10 am to 11 am, June 15th in the R4 Cancer Research Institute Auditorium
Tame the beast called ‘organizing my PDFs’
Automate retrieval of full-article PDFs that you want
Integrate fully with your citation manager
Fully indexed Lab sharing–articles, PowerPoints, Word docs, etc.

Tame the beast called ‘organizing my PDFs’

Organizing and managing full-articles that you save is made simple with QUOSA’s My Article Organizer. Plus, articles are automatically and fully indexed as they are retrieved, which makes it a snap to re-find any of your saved articles. Also, you can easily integrate your existing article PDF collections—making it easy to stay on top of all of your information.

Automate retrieval of the article PDFs you want

QUOSA speeds up and simplifies downloading your full-article PDFs from PubMed, Ovid, and other searches. It’s the only tool that lets you go from searching and viewing PubMed/Ovid results to retrieving the full-article PDFs—you can retrieve them with just one click, even dozens or hundreds of articles all at one time.

Integrate fully with your citation manager

Adding articles retrieved in QUOSA to your EndNote, Reference Manager, or ProCite is fast and easy. Plus, QUOSA automatically inserts a link in the EndNote/RefMan record back to the PDF saved on your computer. We call this ‘Sync & Link.’ QUOSA can even “retrofit” your existing citation libraries/databases and automatically retrieve the PDFs and add the links to them.

Full-Text Search

– Conduct full-text searches against all of the full-articles or across locally saved PDFs—hundreds to thousands at a time
– Use the ‘batch query’ capability to automate large and/or alert-type searches of full-articles

Full-Article Retrieval and Organization

– Search PubMed, Ovid, Google Scholar, NCBI, and other sources using their native interfaces
– Retrieve full text of selected or all articles with one click, using e-journals available at your organization
– Scan through relevant, automatically highlighted sections within articles
– Set up alerts on searches
– Export citations into EndNote, Reference Manager, or ProCite, and have automatic links to saved PDFs
– Organize and save PDFs into fully indexed folders for fast and easy ‘refinding’. Also integrateexisting PDF collections

QUOSA Virtual Library supports lab sharing, annotation, and alerts.

Download your free demo version of QUOSA Information Manager from http://www.quosa.com/downloads.html

Available for PC (2000 & XP) and Mac OS X (10.3x & 10.4x)

Indiana University Center for Bioethics June events: please join us for interesting presentations, informative rounds and a Sound Ethics radio broadcast.

June Events:

• Sound Ethics: Massachusetts Insurance Plan, Sunday, June 4, 4:00pm on WFYI, 90.1 FM.
• Pediatric Grand Rounds: Parent-Physician Conflict at Borderline Gestational Age, Wednesday, June 7, 8:00am at Riley Outpatient Center Auditorium.
• Fairbanks Lecture Series: Organ Transplant and Biological Philanthropy, Wednesday, June 7, 12:00pm at Methodist Wile Hall, WG33.
• Huntington Disease Society of America Annual Convention: Kimberly A. Quaid, Ph.D. presents on Genetic Testing, Saturday, June 10, 1:00pm at Huntington Disease Society of America Annual Convention, Milwaukee City Center Hilton, Milwaukee, WI.
• Bioethics Research Rounds, Friday, June 16, 12:00pm at Center for Bioethics Conference Room (225), 714 N Senate Ave, Suite EF 200.
• All-School Grand Rounds: Stem Cell Research: Science, Religion, and Law, Wednesday, June 21, 8:30am at Emerson Hall Auditorium, EH 304.
• Fairbanks Lecture Series: Hierarchy and the Authority Gradient in Staff Communication, Wednesday, June 21, 11:30am at Petticrew Auditorium (lunch to first 100).

For your convenience and to stay current with the Center’s June schedule, here is a link to the events calendar: http://www.bioethics.iu.edu/events/default.asp?cat=all.

Visit the Center for Bioethics online at: http://www.bioethics.iu.edu/index.html