Fall Volunteer opportunity at Mount Sinai for prehealth

 

The Brain Injury Research Center of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City is a nationally and internationally known center conducting research to improve the lives of people with a traumatic brain injury (TBI). The Brain Injury Research Center has been continually funded since 1987 by the National Institute for Disability and Rehabilitation Research and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Under current funding, our research program includes:

 

·         A group treatment program that provides people with TBI ways to deal with the cognitive and emotional challenges they face in day-to-day life.

·         A program of aerobic exercise on a treadmill to produce benefits such as reduced depression and better cognitive skills.

·         A study of sleep and fatigue.

·         A project to produce a better tool for identifying TBI in people who have experienced a brain injury but are unaware that TBI is the probably cause of the long-term symptoms they experience.

 

You can find more information about our research at www.tbicentral.org.

 

Volunteers will spend about half of the time in an office environment scoring psychological testing measures and conducting data entry. The remaining time will be spent shadowing clinicians and attending presentations and grand rounds of their choosing within the medical center.

 

Volunteers will ideally spend at least eight hours per week at our center and are available for an entire semester, if not the entire school year. Please send your resume and availability to Michael Nguyen via email at michael.nguyen@mountsinai.org.

 

Michael Nguyen, M.S. | Research Coordinator | Brain Injury Research Center | Department of Rehabilitation Medicine

Mount Sinai School of Medicine | 5 E. 98th St. B-12 | New York NY 10029 | O: 212-241-4886 | F: 212-241-0137

 

 

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New Columbia Summer Course: Lectures in Global Strategy

Lectures in Global Strategy
Instructor: Sara M. Bergstresser
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 6 p.m. - 8 p.m., July 5-August 11
2 Points

Join experts from academia and government to help plan for the next
pandemic. This class will meet twice a week for a discussion and
lecture related to "The History and Future of Pandemic Threats and
Global Public Health." Each Thursday, students will hear a lecture by a
prominent expert from the academic or policy world on how citizens,
governments, and NGOs might approach pandemics and other global public
health threats.

Visiting speakers will include David Heymann, Chairman of The Health
Protection Agency; Vincent Racaniello, Professor of Microbiology &
Immunology at Columbia University; John Lange, Senior Program Officer of
Global Health Policy & Advocacy at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation;
Stephen C. Redd, Assistant Surgeon General for the United States Public
Health Service and Director of the Centers for Disease Control Influenza
Coordination Unit; Anthony Fauci, Director of The National Institute of
Allergy and Infectious Diseases; and Allan Brandt, Dean of the Graduate
School of Arts and Sciences and Professor of the History of Science and
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Journal of Global Health now Accepting Submissions

: The Journal of Global Health: Now Accepting Submissions!

Call for Submissions: The Journal of Global Health  Based at Columbia University in the City of New York, The Journal of Global Health is a student-run, international publication that seeks to highlight innovative solutions to global health problems.   Our inaugural spring 2011 issue of JGH features the work of undergraduate and graduate students at over twelve different institutions in six countries and covers topics from four different continents. It can be found at www.ghjournal.org/current-issue. The Fall 2011 Issue of JGH: "Global Health is Local" Although disease outbreaks and the major health problems of the future often have no boundaries, all public health is arguably local in scope. Despite the moniker "global health," all medical care is ultimately patient-centered.   This fall 2011 issue of JGH will spotlight on community health, and we encourage the submission of pieces that specifically address public health at the community level. Some relevant topics include: environmental health, infectious and chronic disease, health care disparities, risk factors for disease incidence, health literacy, disease surveillance, interventions to promote healthy lifestyles, and health psychology.  In addition, as with our recent spring 2011 issue, we welcome the submission of all papers that address behavioral, biological, environmental, political, or socioeconomic factors that affect the health of populations and individuals.   Until September 30, 2011, we will be accepting: Original Academic Research Papers – Research-based works addressing a specific area of global health Perspectives – Opinion pieces that address fresh and exciting developments in global health Field notes  – Written with a more personal voice, pieces that are based on your direct involvement in the field Information on submissions can be found at www.ghjournal.org. For all inquiries, please email submissions@ghjournal.org. Please submit all pieces via our online submission form at www.ghjournal.org/submit.

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