Daniel Brazeau, PhD

Join us on Friday, Nov. 20, 2009, from 6-9pm, in the Health Sciences Library, to hear Dr. Daniel A. Brazeau’s lecture entitled  “The Genomoics Revolution and Personalized Medicine”.

“Genomics” has revolutionized the biological and biomedical sciences, perhaps the pharmaceutical sciences most of all.  While much public press has concentrated on pharmacogenetics and “personalized medicine” this is the one area where advances may be the least certain.  Pharmacogenetics seeks to provide patients efficacious therapeutic agents with minimal adverse drug reactions based on their genotype.  However, the complexity of the human genome and the extensive genetic diversity among human populations often results in confusing relationships between patient drug response and genotype.  Pharmacogenetics will contribute greatly to improved theapeutics but it requires a more realistic understanding of the role environmental factors, multiple genes with multiple arients, and hman population genetic structure play in predicting individual drug efficacy and toxicity.

Dr. Brazeau is a Research Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Pharmaceutical Sciences at UB, and director of the Pharmaceutical Genetics Lab.   His research interests include population genetics of natural populations, DNA forensics, and the evolution of reproductive strategies in marine invertebrates.

RSVP by November 18, 2009

$15 Members
$20 non-Members
$  9  Students
$  5  Lecture only (no buffet)

Presented by the Friends of the Health Sciences Library

To register or get more information, contact Linda Lohr at 716-829-3900 x136,   lalohr@buffalo.edu.

Polygraph Testing circa 1930

Polygraph lie detection equipment does not detect falsehoods, only the physiological responses to stress.

Come and hear Dr. Ed Fine, UB Professor of Neurology, discuss the history of the discovery of physiological responses that the polygraph attempts to detect, and hear Dr. Charles Ewing, UB Professor of Law, discuss the legal aspects of polygraph testing.

Presented by the Friends of the Health Sciences Library

Buffet dinner and lecture followed by coffee & dessert reception

Friday, May 29, 2009, 6 pm – 9 pm
Austin Flint Main Reading Room
Health Sciences Library
South Campus, University at Buffalo

• Member $16
• Non-member $18
• Student $9
• Lecture only $5

Contact Linda Lohr for more information at 829-3900 x136

The Friends of the Health Sciences Library cordially invite you to attend a lecture by Dr. Monica Spaulding, MD, entitled Performance Enhancing Drugs in Elite Sports on March 20^th 2009. Dr. Spaulding is UB Professor of Medicine and Chair of the Institutional Review Board. She graduated from Radcliffe College and the Medical College of Wisconsin. Following medicine residency training at Johns Hopkins Hospital, she completed a Hematology Fellowship at Yale University School of Medicine.

After becoming certified by the US Olympic Committee in 1993 as a crew chief for their doping control program, Dr. Spaulding developed the drug testing program for the swimming events at the World University Games held in Buffalo that year. As a lead medical officer at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, she supervised drug testing for aquatic and track and field events. At the 1998 Winter Olympics in Japan Dr. Spaulding was lead doping control medical officer for figure skating, short-track skating, and some long-track skating events and she was involved in drug testing for several events at the Olympics in Salt Lake City. Dr. Spaulding currently tests 10 to 12 events a year for the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency including the Boston Marathon and several Olympic trials for track and field, fencing and curling and she has been accredited to test at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.

• Friday, March 20, 2009
• Roswell Park Room, B15 Abbott Hall
• Health Sciences Library, South Campus
• Buffet 6-7pm Presentation:7-8pm Coffee and Dessert 8-9
• Cost:
  • $16.00 Friends Members
  • $18.00 non-member
  • $ 9.00 Students
  • $ 5.00 Program only

• RSVP by March 12, 2009
• For Further information, please contact Linda Lohr @ 829-3900 x 136 or email: lalohr@buffalo.edu

We hope to see you there!

Many visitors to and residents of Buffalo may not realize that the Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RCPI) was named for an actual person. Dr. Roswell Park (1852-1914) was Professor and Chair of the Department of  Surgery at the University at Buffalo until his death in 1914.

Dr. Park and Dr. Edward H. Butler were instrumental in securing funding to begin the New York State Pathological Laboratory as it was known in 1898, and Dr. Park served as its Director until 1904.  The history of RCPI was nicely summarized recently  in The Reporter.

The History of Health Sciences Collection is proud to have Dr. Roswell Park’s death mask on exhibit.  Comparisons of his image on the death mask with photos of Dr. Park during his life show that the death mask is an exact likeness.

Death masks were plaster casts taken of of the face taken shortly after the person’s demise.  They have been used since the time of ancient Egypt, and in recent centuries were a way of memorializing the deceased.

Dr. Park was also in private practice with another notable physician, Dr. Edgar R. McGuire, who succeeded Dr. Park and served as  Chair of the Department of Surgery from 1914-1930.  Dr. McGuire’s death mask is also in the collection.

Both death masks are displayed in the History of Health Sciences controlled environment stacks area, along with the metal sign that advertised the medical offices of the two physicians.

Dr. McGuire’s daughter, Mrs. Annette Cravens, established in 1985 an instrument collection in honor of her father.  The Edgar R. McGuire Historical Medical Instrument Collection continues to grow, and displays of selected instruments are regularly rotated in the lighted display case that graces the first floor lobby of HSL.