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Register Now for Darwin-Themed Mini Medical College

   The University of Cincinnati’s Communiversity is offering the Cincinnati community a great way to keep up-to-date with new trends in medicine and disease prevention through its Mini Medical College. You don’t have to be a doctor; you don’t have to play one on TV; you don’t even have to stay in a Holiday Inn.

“All you need to bring is an inquiring mind!” says Donna Burns, director of Communiversity. “Each evening of this four-session program showcases two UC College of Medicine faculty members sharing their area of specialization—in layman’s terms. It’s educational but entertaining, too.”

This year, with a nod to the bicentennial of Charles Darwin’s birth and UC's celebration of the sesquicentennial of the publication of his “On the Origin of Species,” the theme is focused on genetics and health.

General Information:

When: Tuesdays, 6:30–8:30 p.m.; Oct. 6, 13, 20 and 27
How much: The $69 fee includes all eight topics, a notebook of materials, a Mini Medical College T-shirt and a certificate of participation. No discounts. Parking in Eden Garage is included in the fee.
Where: Kresge Auditorium in the Medical Sciences Building (MSB) (map)
How: Register here.

Here are the four sessions with each night’s two speakers:

October 6

• Fundamentals of Human Genetics and Genomics—Greg Grabowski, MD, Professor of Pediatrics and Head of Division of Human Genetics Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, UC College of Medicine
• Darwin, Evolution, and Why We Metabolize Drugs Differently—Daniel W. Nebert, MD, Professor, Department of Environmental Health, Pediatrics and Molecular Developmental Biology, Division of Human Genetics, UC College of Medicine

October 13

• Immunobiology, Allergy and Genomics—Neeru Gurjit-Hershey, MD, Professor, Department of Pediatrics/Pulmonary, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, UC College of Medicine
• Darwin, Mutations and Birth Defects—Howard Saal, MD, Professor, Department of Pediatrics/Human Genetics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, UC College of Medicine

October 20

• Vaccines and Drugs Versus the Evolving Microbe: It's Personal and It's a War—John Hutton, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, UC College of Medicine
• Genetics and Disease of the Heart and Lung—Francis McCormack, MD, Professor and Director of the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, UC College of Medicine

October 27

• Epigenetics: The “Ghost” in Our Genes—Shuk-mei Ho, PhD, Jacob G. Schmidlapp Professor and Chair, Department of Environmental Health, UC College of Medicine
• In Utero Imprinting: Fetal Origins of Adult Disease—Anil Menon, PhD, Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics, UC College of Medicine

Mini-Medical College is co-sponsored by the UC College of Medicine's Office of Development & Alumni Affairs and Communiversity.

Click here to register.

For more information, contact Donna Burns at 513-556-9197 or donna.burns@uc.edu.