Conference on Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) and End-of-Life (EOL) Care
May 19-21, 2006
Plymouth, MI

Registration at early-bird prices is now open for the conference entitled “New Beginnings in End-of-Life Care: Integrating Complementary and Alternative Medicine Therapies”, to be held this May 19-21, 2006 at The Inn at St. John in Plymouth, MI.

This conference is funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Department of Health and Human Services, and is sponsored by five leading Michigan Universities and Healthcare Systems. The conference features keynote speakers and breakout sessions, and registration includes all meals. The program will review leading-edge topics related to the practice of CAM modalities, current EOL care practices, CAM & EOL research, utilization, effectiveness, barriers, resources, and integration of CAM approaches to EOL care for patients and families. CME and CEU’s are available.

For details on the conference and how to register, go to http://www.eol.wayne.edu or http://www.henryford.com/body.cfm?id=40183. For questions relating to registration, please call Charlotte Day at 313-916-8212 or email her at cday2@hfhs.org.

Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Great Lakes Section and
The Center for the Study of Complex Systems at the University of Michigan and
Wayne State University
Complexity & Business Analytics: Theory & Applications
Wayne State University
Saturday, October 14, 2006, 8:30am – 5:00pm
Call for Contributed Presentations and Posters

This symposium will showcase research and applications of complex dynamic systems, business and financial mathematical modeling, data mining and related advanced analytic methods in all areas of application.

Plenary Speakers:
Dr. Darrell D. Massie, United States Military Academy
“Using Artificial Intelligence to Optimize Power Systems”

Dr. Daniel Barth-Jones, Wayne State Univ. School of Medicine
“Modeling the Potential Public Health Impacts of HIV Vaccines”

Symposium Themes:

· Systems of systems
· Emergent behavior of complex systems
· Multiple agent systems
· Complexity in man-made and natural networks
· Complexity in organizations
· Complexity in business and financial management
· Complexity in manufacturing and work systems
· Complexity in the physical and life sciences
· Complexity in engineering and applied science
· Spatial / geographic analysis
· Financial analytics
· Network, traffic and logistics analysis
· Supply chain analysis
· Data mining methods and applications
· Public policy models and analysis
· Applied research needs and challenges

Contributors are welcome to present completed research, work in progress, open problems with mathematical approaches and other applied mathematics and computer science research within the conference themes. Contributed presentations are 25 minutes including Q&A. Poster boards (30″x40″) and stands will be provided.

Please submit title and abstract (and any questions) by email to: ptuchins@ford.com

Symposium Web Site: http://www.engin.umd.umich.edu/glsiam/symposium2.htm

Contributed Presentation and Poster titles and abstracts are due September 15, 2006. Please include full contact and affiliation information and indicate whether a presentation or poster is contributed.

Registration is free to SIAM Great Lakes Section members. The registration fee for others is not yet decided, but will not exceed $10. Parking, box lunch and refreshments are included. Please join us!

Call for Posters: Promoting the Well-Being of Children and Youth in Urban America: Best Practices to Next Practices
September 28-29, 2006

On September 28 and 29 of 2006, the Wayne State University Children’s Bridge and the Children’s Hospital of Michigan will present a children’s conference entitled, “Promoting the Well-Being of Children and Youth in Urban America: Best Practices to Next Practices.”

This interactive conference will focus on evidence-based interventions for improving the health, education and development of urban children and their families. National leaders will present strategies for translating program ideas into practice, methods for measuring and demonstrating program effectiveness, and strategies for locating and securing funding.

Successful programs in four areas will be presented during concurrent sessions: children at risk; language and learning; health and health disparities; violence, abuse and trauma. Researchers, clinicians, educators, students, policy makers and community representatives will exchange information on best practices for promoting the health, education and development of urban children and next practices for disseminating program models. Participants will address the many interrelated challenges in developing and implementing successful programs that benefit urban children and families.

Posters highlighting evidence-based interventions are invited for the September 28 afternoon session, from 4:30 to 6 p.m. Posters should present original research related to the conference theme. The poster session will facilitate additional discussion among conference participants, including potential funders and policy makers.

Abstracts will be accepted online until May 15, 2006 at http://www.wsuchildren.wayne.edu. Abstract selections and notification will be made by May 30, 2006.

For more information or inquiries on submitting an abstract, call 313.577.3474.

The Michigan Society of Toxicology
2006 Spring meeting
Topic: “Nanotechnology: Applications & Safety”
Brook Lodge
6535 N 42nd Street Augusta MI
May 19th, 8:00 am to 4 pm

Dr. Mark Worden, Michigan State University
“Overview of Nanotechnology”

Dr. Martin Philbert, University of Michigan
”Engineered Polymer Nanoparticles: Sensors, Diagnostics, Therapeutics and Toxicology”

Dr. Hayden Thomas, Pfizer Global Research & Development
“Nanosuspension – A Route to Enhanced Oral Drug Exposure in Toxicology Screening”

Dr. Dale Porter, NIOSH, Morgantown, WV.
“Overview of Nanotoxicology”

Dr. Paul Wooley, Wayne State University
“Biological Responses to Particulate Debris - Does Size Really Matter?”

Poster session: Abstract submission guidelines on the registration form.

Registration includes continental breakfast and lunch buffet

Questions concerning this meeting can be directed to:

Ali Faqi (MI SOT president elect) via email at ali.faqi@mpiresearch.com
or Paul Stemmer (MI SOT secretary/treasurer) via email at pmstemmer@wayne.edu.