Changing the Face of Medicine, Celebrating America’s Women Physicians

April 9 – June 15, 2009

Health Sciences Library, University of Colorado Denver
Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado

Discover the many ways that women have influenced and enhanced the practice of medicine. The National Library of Medicine traveling exhibit, Changing the Face of Medicine, Celebrating America’s Women Physicians will arrive in Aurora, Colorado at the Health Sciences Library on the Anschutz Medical Campus of the University of Colorado Denver.

Nine weeks of public and special events featuring Colorado’s leading women physicians.

For details on the programs and exhibit visit their website.

Abbreviated event schedule:

Most events take place at noon in the Health Sciences Library Reading Room, 3rd floor

• April 28 – A Historical Perspective on Gender and the Practice of Medicine – Marjorie Levine-Clark, PhD
• May 5 – From Persuasion to Satisfaction: if you listen to your parents, it all works out well in the end – Aliya Hasan, MD
• May 7 – 10,000 feet is not just for cowboys – Lisa Zwerdlinger, MD
• And – Teaching, Caring and Curing in Medicine – Robin Deterding, M.D.
• May 12 – Academic careers: bench, bedside, home and back again – Judy Regensteiner, PhD, and Jane Reusch, MD,
• May 14 – A Lady Alone, Elizabeth Blackwell – Linda Gray Kelley as Elizabeth BlackwellElizabeth Blackwell, M.D., the first American woman doctor to graduate from medical school. Script written by Lynn Eckhert, M.D. performed by actress Linda Gray Kelly. At the Hensel Phelps Auditorium, Research 1, P18-1006 – 1:30 – 3:00 p.m. – Reception follow, Health Sciences Library, Reading Room, 3rd floor
• May 19 – Female physicians in Film – Howard Movshovitz,
• May 21 – How did I get here? A path to academic leadership – Jean Kutner, MD, MSPH
• May 28 – Working with Vulnerable Populations as a Physician – Ingrid Binswanger, MD, MPH
• June 2 – Women in medicine: what sustains us? What feeds our hearts and minds: what makes us grow? – Allegra Melillo, MD, M.S.
• June 9 – 50 years of a life in science and what has changed – especially for women – Peggy Neville, Ph.D – 3:00 p.m.

Pickwickian Syndrome: obesity – hypovent- ilation syndrome

Pickwickian

Mr Pickwick, illustrated by Frederick Barnard

From Wordsmith.org – The Magic of Words

PRONUNCIATION:  (pik-WIK-ee-uhn)

MEANING:
adjective:
1. Marked by generosity, naivete, or innocence.
2. Not intended to be taken in a literal sense.

ETYMOLOGY:
After Samuel Pickwick, a character in the novel Pickwick Papers (serialized 1836-1837) by Charles Dickens. Mr Pickwick is known for his simplicity and kindness. In the novel Mr. Pickwick and Mr. Blotton call each other names and it appears later that they were using the offensive words only in a Pickwickian sense and had the highest regard for each other.
Another term that arose from the book is Pickwickian syndrome, which refers to a combination of interlinked symptoms such as extreme obesity, shallow breathing, tiredness, sleepiness, etc. The character with these symptoms was not Mr. Pickwick, but Fat Joe, so the term is really coined after the book’s title. The medical term for the condition is obesity-hypoventilation syndrome.

USAGE:
“I kept a happiness diary, after the discovery by Professor Sonia Lyubomirsky that collating one’s daily blessings resulted in Pickwickian good cheer.”
Hannah Betts; The Pursuit of Happiness is Driving Me to Despair; The Daily Telegraph (London, UK); Apr 3, 2009.

“Mr. Tribe: Now, anybody reading that would realize that’s a deadline only in a kind of Pickwickian sense. It’s not a real deadline.”

A Transcript of Arguments in the Supreme Court Over the Florida Recount; The New York Times; Dec 2, 2000.

“A Pickwickian chairman, rosy-cheeked, in frock coat and old-fashioned cravat, adopted the role of Santa Claus.”
Mungo MacCallum; Growing Up: The Day Had Come; Sydney Morning Herald (Australia); Jan 21, 1987.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice – that is, until we have stopped saying ‘It got lost,’ and say, ‘I lost it.’ -Sydney J. Harris, journalist (1917-1986)

Journal Changes at Tucker Library Due to Global Economic Downturn

Because of the global economic downturn, the Tucker Library budget for FY09 has been reduced. This, combined with a 7-10% inflation factor on the journals, all access to 118 titles has been eliminated for 2009. The print copy for 30 titles has been canceled, as well as various databases and other resources. They are listed below.

Please use our Click 1-2-3 service to order interlibrary loans for articles you need. Also see our new page on efficient access to e-journals.

All access to the title eliminated:

Addictive behaviors
Advances in immunology
Allergic disease and therapy
Alpha1 news : alpha1 national association newsletter
Alpha-1-to-one / alpha-1 foundation
Action alert ; quarterly publication of the coalition for pulmonary fibrosis
American journal of cardiology
American journal of industrial medicine
American journal of preventive medicine
American journal of psychiatry
American journal of public health
Annual review of biochemistry
Annual review of cell and developmental biology
Annual review of immunology
Annual review of genetics
Annual review of medicine
Annual review of microbiology
Antioxidants and redox signaling
Archives of environmental health
Aria : allergy, rheumatology, immunology, and asthma
Biochemical and biophysical research communications
Biochemical journal
Canadian respiratory journal
Cancer epidemiology biomarkers & prevention
Cancer prevention research
Cancer research
Cancer reviews online
Cardiovascular research
Cell
Cellular immunology
Cellular microbiology
Cellular signalling
Chemical immunology and allergy
Child development
Chronic illness
Chronic respiratory disease
Clinical allergy and immunology
Clinical and experimental immunology
Clinical cancer research
Clinical immunology
Critical reviews in immunology
Current opinion in cell biology
Current Opinion in Immunology
Cytokine
Developmental cell
Emerging infectious diseases  : EID
Environmental health perspectives
Environmental health perspectives. Supplements
Environmental nutrition
European heart journal
Experimental hematology
FEBS letters
Fibromyalgia network
Food allergy news
Freshaair / asthma and allergy foundation of america
Genes & development
Genes and immunity
Harvard health letter
IDF advocate : the national newsletter of the immune deficiency foundation
Immunity
Immunological reviews
Immunology
International journal of copd
Journal of aerosol medicine
Journal of applied physiology
Journal of autoimmunity
Journal of bodywork and movement therapies
Journal of child psychology & psychiatry & allied disc
Journal of exposure science and environmental epidemiology
Journal of immunological methods
Journal of marital and family therapy
Journal of national cancer institute
Journal of national cancer institute monographs
Journal of psychosomatic research
Journal of voice
Laboratory investigation
Lancet
Lung biology in health and disease
Macworld  : the macintosh magazine
Mayo clinic health letter
Mayo clinic proceedings
Medical letter on drugs and therapeutics
Medical scientific update
Medicine
Methods : a companion to methods in enzymology
Methods in cell biology
Methods in enzymology
Molecular cancer research
Molecular cancer therapeutics
Molecular Cell
Molecular immunology
Monographs in allergy
Monographs of the society for research in child development
Nature biotechnology
Nature chemical biology
Nature structural and molecular biology
Oncogene
Pediatric allergy and immunology
Pediatric dermatology
Pediatric pulmonology
Primary care respiratory journal
Progress in respiratory research
Proteomics
Psychosomatics
Pulmonary Pharmacology and Therapeutics
Respiration
Respiratory care
Respiratory Medicine
Scandinavian journal of work, environment & health
Seminars in immunopathology
Sleep medicine reviews
Stem cell reviews and reports
Stem cells
Stem cells and development
Trends in biochemical sciences
Tends in Immunology
Tuberculosis
Year book of pulmonary disease

Move from Print and online to ONLINE ONLY:

AJN, the american journal of nursing
Allergy
American journal of medicine
Cell
Clinics in chest medicine
Current allergy and asthma reports
Current opinion in pulmonary medicine
Families systems & health
Family process
Immunology and allergy clinics of north america
JAMA  : the journal of the american medical association
Journal of amer acad of child & adoles psychiatry
Journal of american academy of dermatology
Journal of histochemistry & cytochemistry
Journal of lipid research  : jlr
Journal of pediatrics
Journal of pharmacology and experimental therapeutics
Lancet
MMWR : morbidity and mortality weekly report
MMWR. Recommendations and reports
MMWR. Surveillance summaries
Nature
Nursing
Occupational and environmental medicine
Pediatrics
Science magazine
Seminars in immunology
Tobacco control
Trends in immunology
Tuberculosis

E-Books and Databases:

Access science : encyclopedia of science and technology
Current protocols: cell biology
Current protocols: protein science
Ebsco host: corporate resourcenet
Faculty of 1000 biology
Ovid – cinahl/nursing at ovid
Ovid – embase
Patty’s industrial hygiene and toxicology online
ScienceDirect Archival Collection from Academic Press, AP IDEAL, 1993-2002
ScienceDirect and Cell Press Archives for selected titles, 1995-2008

Recommended journals not purchased:

Cell Host and Microbe
Development
Developmental biology
Developmental dynamics
Experimental dermatology
Journal of Cystic Fibrosis
Mechanisms of Development
Molecular microbiology
Radiographics

Web 2.0: Introduction to Web Second Generation Web Tool

Due to the overwhelming interest in our summer course offering of Web 2.0: Introduction to Web Second Generation Web Tools, the course content is now linked from the Tucker Library Instructions and Guides Web page . This content is currently available as a self-paced, non-interactive course only. Web 2.0 will be offered again as an interactive class in the near future.

No prior knowledge of Web 2.0 technologies is required. This class provides an eight part hands-on introduction to 2.0 tools about the benefits and challenges of Web 2.0 as related to medicine and research and the management thereof. Content includes background readings, discovery exercises (along the lines of ‘try this tool out’).Since this was originally designed to be an eight week interactive course with National Jewish Health employees, some of the content will not be applicable as a self-paced course. Library staff will respond to questions, comments or concerns as time permits.

To view, go to the class blog, click on the green Library Labs header, and you will find a list of course content on the right side navigation bar under Library Labs. You will probably want to start with the Introduction page.

You will learn about:

• Blogging and RSS
• Wikis
• Social networking
• Social bookmarking and tagging
• Web office tools
• Photo sharing
• Online hosted video and podcasts
• Mashups

Go to the Web 2.0 class blog

The staff extend a special thanks to the Medical Library Association’s Social Networking Task Force for providing content for this course.

Connect with Colleagues: BioMedExperts.com

BioMedExperts.com is a Web 2.0 example of a mashup of MEDLINE data. It is a form of social networking where you are linked with all your co-authors and then their co-authors, and then theirs. The same can be done with subjects or institutions. Looking for someone at Johns Hopkins writing about asthma drug therapy? You might find that person here.

As an example, I have 8 papers and 7 co-authors who have written more than the one paper. They have 154 co-authors and those people have 3890 co-authors. Potentially I could contact those 3890 people to see if they would like to collaborate on a project! They are connected to me. I probably won’t do that but I could!

I would be interested in exploring this resource with any scientist who is interested, to see if it would be useful and how it could be used.

Roz Dudden, x 1483 duddenr@njc.org

From the BioMedExperts.com FAQ:

What is BioMedExperts (BME)?

BioMedExperts (BME) is a revolutionary platform to allow scientists and researchers across multiple organizations – and nations – to share data and collaborate in ways never before possible.

Is BME free?

Yes! Every feature and function you currently see on the site is FREE. In the future, BME will be supported by advertising. In addition, BME may add paid Premium Services, but all the features and functions you have currently been enjoying on the BME site will remain FREE!

How did you establish my original connections in the network?

Original network connections were generated from a disambiguation (definition: The process of rewriting or reconstructing a sentence or phrase so that one of its possible meanings is singled out) process that uses co-authors, locations, and Collexis proprietary Fingerprint technology, a valuable research tool already employed by organizations such as Johns Hopkins, the Mayo Clinic, Harvard University, and the National Institutes of Health.

How was my profile created/generated?

Profiles in BioMedExperts (BME) are generated by extracting and assigning the biomedical concepts from an article to the authors and co-authors that are listed with the published article. We have extracted from approximately six million scientific publications from over 6,500 journals. BME currently contains profiles of about 1.4 million biomedical experts from more than 150 countries, representing approximately 12 million connections in the pre-established BME network. BME experts can access the system to revise and/or update their personal details, publications, and/or preferences.

Which sources of documents/contents did you use to make my initial profile?

Profiles in BioMedExperts (BME) were automatically generated from the last 10 years of published articles in PubMed, a leading, authoritative service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 17 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. We chose only 10 years to cover a more active timeframe and to more accurately represent current experts.

How does BME know where I am located? Or where I work?

BioMedExperts does not know exactly where you are located but it does know where you have been active by extracting the country and city of the institution for which you have published. BioMedExperts does not know where you work but it does extract the city from institutions for which you have been active.

I am professionally working in the medical field but I have not published. Can I still join BME?

Yes, you will be able to join BioMedExperts but you will not be able to build a profile. You can build your own contact network by linking yourself to active members of the BME network through the “Add to my contacts” button available on BME expert profiles.