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Art-Rage-Us: Exhibition of artworks by artists with breast cancer, April 4 - June 16, 2002
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Friday, April 26 through Sunday, May 5, 2002
Jazz Fest
Offices open.
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Wednesday , May 1, 2002, 7:30 am
Breast Tumor Board
Location: Tulane Cancer Center Comprehensive Clinic, room CL-34
Contact Tumor Registrar, (504) 988-5432
Meets every Wednesday, same time and place
Next meeting: Wednesday, May 8, 2002.
Wednesday, May 1, 2002, noon - 7:00 pm
Research Days
noon - 1:00 pm
TUMS first floor
auditorium 		Clinical & Population Sciences Lecture:
"TGF-beta-based Immunotherapy for Cancer"
Chung Lee, Ph.D.
Northwestern University Medical School, Chigaco
Sponsored by the Department of Urology
1:00 - 2:00 pm
TUMS room 6545 		"Meet the Speaker" session with Dr. Chung Lee
2:00 - 4:00 pm
JBJ first floor 		Poster Session and Center Exhibits
4:00 - 6:00 pm
JBJ first floor 		Poster discussion sessions
6:00 - 7:00 pm
JBJ first floor 		Reception with the Senior Vice President for Health Sciences
Continues on Thursday, May 2, 2002.
Wednesday, May 1, 2002, 1 - 2:00 pm
Multidisciplinary Tumor Board
Location: Tulane Cancer Center Comprehensive Clinic, room CL-34
Contact Tumor Registrar, (504) 988-5432
Meets every Wednesday, same time and place
Next meeting: Wednesday, May 8, 2002.
Wednesday, May 1, 2002, 4:00 pm
Leukemia/Lymphoma Tumor Board
Location: Tulane Cancer Center Comprehensive Clinic, room CL-34
Contact Tumor Registrar, (504) 988-5432
Meets first and fifth Wednesdays of each month, same time and place
Next meeting: Wednesday, May 29, 2002.
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Thursday, May 2, 2002
Bone Marrow Transplant Conference
Location: Tulane Comprehensive Cancer Care Clinic room CL-34
Contact Rosalind Huntington at (504) 988-6070, or by e-mail at rhuntin@tulane.edu
Meets every Thursday, same time and place.
Next meeting: Thursday, May 9, 2002
Thursday, May 2, 2002, noon - 7:00 pm
Research Days
10:00 am - noon
JBJ first floor 		Poster Session and Center Exhibits
noon - 1:00 pm
TUMS room 6545 		"Meet the Speaker" session with Dr. Daniel Perl
1:00 - 3:30 pm Tour of Center Facilities
4:00 - 5:00 pm
TUMS first floor
auditorium 		Michael A. Gerber Memorial Lecture:
"Etiology and Pathogenic Mechanisms of Age-Related Neurodegeneration:
Lessons from the Western Pacific"
Daniel P. Perl, Ph.D.
Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York
5:00 - 6:00 pm
TUMS first floor
auditorium 		Awards Ceremony
6:00 - 7:00 pm
TUMS first floor 		Reception
Continuing from Wednesday, May 1, 2002.
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Friday , May 3, 2002, 12:00 noon
Hematology-Oncology Fellows Journal Club
Speaker to be announced.
Location: Tulane Medical School Building, room 7022
Contact Dr. Zaydan, 588-5263, for weekly topics
Meets every Friday, same time and place
Next meeting: Friday, May 10, 2002.
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Monday , May 6, 2002, 12:00 noon
Lung Tumor Board
Location: Tulane Cancer Center Comprehensive Clinic, room CL-34
Contact Tumor Registrar, (504) 988-5432
Meets every Monday, same time and place
Next meeting: Monday, May 13, 2002.
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Tuesday , May 7, 2002, 12:00 noon
VA Tumor Board
Location: VA Hospital, 1601 Perdido St., fifth floor Medicine Conference Room
Contact V.A. Tumor Registrar, (504) 568-0811 x5477
Meets every Tuesday, same time and place
Next meeting: Tuesday, May 14, 2002.
Tuesday, May 7, 2002, noon
Hematology-Oncology Fellows Weekly Seminar
Location: Tulane Medical School Building, room 7022
Meets every Tuesday, noon - 1:00 pm
Next meeting: Tuesday, May 14, 2002.
Tuesday , May 7, 2002, 12:00 noon
Pediatric Tumor Board
CANCELLED
Location: Tulane Cancer Center Comprehensive Clinic, room CL-34
Contact Lynette Williams, Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, (504) 988-5412
Meets every Tuesday, same time and place
Next meeting: Tuesday, May 14, 2002.
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Wednesday , May 8, 2002, 7:30 am
Breast Tumor Board
Location: Tulane Cancer Center Comprehensive Clinic, room CL-34
Contact Tumor Registrar, (504) 988-5432
Meets every Wednesday, same time and place
Next meeting: Wednesday, May 15, 2002.
Wednesday, May 8, 2002, 12 noon - 1:00 pm
Dept. of Microbiology & Immunology Seminar
"Dendritic Cell Responses to Cryptococcal Antigens"
James McCracken, Graduate Student
Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Tulane Medical School
Location: Tulane Medical School Building room 5150
Next meeting: Wednesday, May 15, 2002.
Wednesday, May 8, 2002, 1 - 2:00 pm
Multidisciplinary Tumor Board
Location: Tulane Cancer Center Comprehensive Clinic, room CL-34
Contact Tumor Registrar, (504) 988-5432
Meets every Wednesday, same time and place
Next meeting: Wednesday, May 15, 2002.
Wednesday, May 8, 2002, 4:00 pm
Benign Hematology Conference
Location: Tulane Cancer Center Comprehensive Clinic, room CL-34
Meets second Wednesday of each month, same time and place
Next meeting: Wednesday, June 12, 2002.
Tuesday, May 8, 2002, 6:00 pm
General Cancer Support Group
Contact Tim Pearman, Ph.D., (504) 988-6313, tpearman@tulane.edu
See also: Tulane's Friedler Cancer Counseling Center.
Meets biweekly.
Next meeting: Wednesday, May 22, 2002.
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Thursday, May 9, 2002, 7:30 - 9:00 am
Bone Marrow Transplant Conference
Location: Tulane Comprehensive Cancer Care Clinic room CL-34
Contact Rosalind Huntington at (504) 988-6070, or by e-mail at rhuntin@tulane.edu
Meets every Thursday, same time and place.
Next meeting: Thursday, May 16, 2002
Thursday, May 9, 2002, 12 noon - 1:00 pm
Tulane Cancer Center Research Seminar Series
"Signal Processing by Heterotrimeric G-Proteins: Unexpected Modes of Signal Input and Regulation"
Stephen M. Lanier, Ph.D., Chairman of Pharmacology,
Lederle Laboratories/David R. Bethune Professor of Pharmacology
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center
Location: J. Bennett Johnston Building room 403
Sponsored by Nabi
Contact Robin Alexander at (504) 988-6061 or by e-mail at rjalex@tulane.edu.
Lunch will be served at 11:45; lecture begins at noon.
Next seminar: Thursday, May 16, 2002
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Friday , May 10, 2002, 12:00 noon
Hematology-Oncology Fellows Journal Club
Speaker to be announced.
Location: Tulane Medical School Building, room 7022
Contact Dr. Zaydan, 588-5263, for weekly topics
Meets every Friday, same time and place
Next meeting: Friday, May 17, 2002.
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Saturday, May 11, 2002
"Art-Rage-Us": Exhibition of artwork by artists with breast cancer , April 4 through June 16, 2002
The Breast Cancer Fund
Location: Woldenburg Art Center, Newcomb College, Tulane University uptown campus
Events: Directions:
Turn from Claiborne Ave. toward the river (SW), or St. Charles Ave. toward the lake (SW), onto Broadway. Turn downriver (SE) from Broadway onto Freret. Turn left at the light onto McAlister Dr. Take the first left, just past the playing fields, and drive one block to Newcomb Place and park. The Woldenberg Art Center is the second building on the righthand side of the Newcomb Quad, behind the Newcomb Art Building. See campus map.

For further information please call (504) 865-5328 or (504) 865-5361
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Sunday, May 12, 2002
Mothers' Day
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Monday , May 13, 2002, 12:00 noon
Lung Tumor Board
Location: Tulane Cancer Center Comprehensive Clinic, room CL-34
Contact Tumor Registrar, (504) 988-5432
Meets every Monday, same time and place
Next meeting: Monday, May 20, 2002.
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Tuesday , May 14, 2002, 12:00 noon
VA Tumor Board
Location: VA Hospital, 1601 Perdido St., fifth floor Medicine Conference Room
Contact V.A. Tumor Registrar, (504) 568-0811 x5477
Meets every Tuesday, same time and place
Next meeting: Tuesday, May 21, 2002.
Tuesday, May 14, 2002, noon
Hematology-Oncology Fellows Weekly Seminar
"Idiots' Guide to Depression"
Thomas Kim, M.D.
Location: Tulane Medical School Building, room 7022
Sponsored by Pharmacia & Upjohn
Meets every Tuesday, noon - 1:00 pm
Next meeting: Tuesday, May 28, 2002.
Tuesday , May 14, 2002, 12:00 noon
Pediatric Tumor Board
Location: Tulane Cancer Center Comprehensive Clinic, room CL-34
Contact Lynette Williams, Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, (504) 988-5412
Meets every Tuesday, same time and place
Next meeting: Tuesday, May 21, 2002.
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Wednesday , May 15, 2002, 7:30 am
Breast Tumor Board
Location: Tulane Cancer Center Comprehensive Clinic, room CL-34
Contact Tumor Registrar, (504) 988-5432
Meets every Wednesday, same time and place
Next meeting: Wednesday, May 22, 2002.
Tuesday, May 15, 2002, 11:30 am
Gynecological Cancer Support Group
Contact Tim Pearman, Ph.D., (504) 988-6313, tpearman@tulane.edu
Meets at 11:30 am on the third Wednesday of each month.
See also: Tulane's Friedler Cancer Counseling Center.
Next meeting: Wednesday, June 19, 2002.
Wednesday, May 15, 2002, 12 noon - 1:00 pm
Dept. of Microbiology & Immunology Seminar
"The Human Papillomavirus 16 E6 Protein Binds to TNF R1 and Protects Cells from TNF-Induced Apoptosis"
Bruno Sainz, Graduate Student
Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Tulane Medical School
Location: Tulane Medical School Building room 4150
Next meeting: Wednesday, May 29, 2002.
Wednesday, May 15, 2002, 1 - 2:00 pm
Multidisciplinary Tumor Board
Location: Tulane Cancer Center Comprehensive Clinic, room CL-34
Contact Tumor Registrar, (504) 988-5432
Meets every Wednesday, same time and place
Next meeting: Wednesday, May 22, 2002.
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Thursday, May 16, 2002, 7:30 - 9:00 am
Bone Marrow Transplant Conference
Location: Tulane Comprehensive Cancer Care Clinic room CL-34
Contact Rosalind Huntington at (504) 988-6070, or by e-mail at rhuntin@tulane.edu
Meets every Thursday, same time and place.
Next meeting: Thursday, May 23, 2002
Thursday, May 16, 2002, 12 noon - 1:00 pm
Tulane Cancer Center Research Seminar Series
"Proteolytic Sensitivity and Helper T-Cells Epitope Immunodominance Associated with the Mobile Loop in Hsp-10s"
Stephanie Carmicle
Shaffer Award for Excellence in Research
Department of Biochemistry, Tulane Medical School
Location: J. Bennett Johnston Building room 403
Contact Robin Alexander at (504) 988-6061 or by e-mail at rjalex@tulane.edu.
Lunch will be served at 11:45; lecture begins at noon.
Next seminar: Thursday, May 23, 2002
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Friday, May 17, 2002, 12:00 noon
Hematology-Oncology Fellows Journal Club
Speaker to be announced.
Location: Tulane Medical School Building, room 7022
Contact Dr. Zaydan, 588-5263, for weekly topics
Meets every Friday, same time and place
Next meeting: Friday, May 24, 2002.

Saturday, May 18, 2002
Graduation
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Monday , May 20, 2002, 12:00 noon
Lung Tumor Board
Location: Tulane Cancer Center Comprehensive Clinic, room CL-34
Contact Tumor Registrar, (504) 988-5432
Meets every Monday, same time and place
Next meeting: Monday, June 3, 2002.
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Tuesday , May 21, 2002, 12:00 noon
VA Tumor Board
Location: VA Hospital, 1601 Perdido St., fifth floor Medicine Conference Room
Contact V.A. Tumor Registrar, (504) 568-0811 x5477
Meets every Tuesday, same time and place
Next meeting: Tuesday, June 4, 2002.
Tuesday, May 21, 2002, noon
Hematology-Oncology Fellows Weekly Seminar
CANCELLED because of ASCO meeting.
Location: Tulane Medical School Building, room 7022
Meets every Tuesday, noon - 1:00 pm
Next meeting: Tuesday, May 28, 2002.
Tuesday , May 21, 2002, 12:00 noon
Pediatric Tumor Board
Location: Tulane Cancer Center Comprehensive Clinic, room CL-34
Contact Lynette Williams, Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, (504) 988-5412
Meets every Tuesday, same time and place

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Wednesday, May 22, 2002, 7:30 am
Breast Tumor Board
Location: Tulane Cancer Center Comprehensive Clinic, room CL-34
Contact Tumor Registrar, (504) 988-5432
Meets every Wednesday, same time and place
Next meeting: Wednesday, May 29, 2002.
Wednesday, May 22, 2002, 1 - 2:00 pm
Multidisciplinary Tumor Board
Location: Tulane Cancer Center Comprehensive Clinic, room CL-34
Contact Tumor Registrar, (504) 988-5432
Meets every Wednesday, same time and place
Next meeting: Wednesday, May 29, 2002.
Wednesday, May 22, 2002, 2:00 - 3:00 pm
Clinical Research Advisory Board (CRAB)
Location: Tulane Comphrensive Cancer Care Clinic, room CL-34
Meets fourth Wednesday of each month.
Contact the Office of Clinical Research at (504) 988-6121
Next meeting: Wednesday, June 26, 2002.
Wednesday, May 22, 2002, 4:00 pm
Morphology Conference
CANCELLED because of ASCO meeting.
Location: Tulane Cancer Center Comprehensive Clinic, room CL-34
Contact Tumor Registrar, (504) 988-5432
Meets fourth Wednesday of each month, same time and place
Next meeting: Wednesday, June 26, 2002.
Tuesday, May 22, 2002, 6:00 pm
General Cancer Support Group
Contact Tim Pearman, Ph.D., (504) 988-6313, tpearman@tulane.edu
See also: Tulane's Friedler Cancer Counseling Center.
Meets biweekly.
Next meeting: Wednesday, June 5, 2002.
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Thursday, May 23, 2002, 7:30 - 9:00 am
Bone Marrow Transplant Conference
Location: Tulane Comprehensive Cancer Care Clinic room CL-34
Contact Rosalind Huntington at (504) 988-6070, or by e-mail at rhuntin@tulane.edu
Meets every Thursday, same time and place.
Next meeting: Thursday, May 30, 2002
Thursday, May 23, 2002, 12 noon - 1:00 pm
Tulane Cancer Center Research Seminar Series
"Yeast Cancer: What's Up About That?"
Linda Hyman, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Biochemistry
Location: J. Bennett Johnston Building room 403
Sponsored by Supergen Supergen
Contact Robin Alexander at (504) 988-6061 or by e-mail at rjalex@tulane.edu.
Lunch will be served at 11:45; lecture begins at noon.
Next seminar: Thursday, May 30, 2002
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Friday , May 24, 2002, 12:00 noon
Hematology-Oncology Fellows Journal Club
Speaker to be announced.
Location: Tulane Medical School Building, room 7022
Contact Dr. Zaydan, 588-5263, for weekly topics
Meets every Friday, same time and place
Next meeting: Friday, May 31, 2002.
Friday, May 24, 2002, 3:30 pm
Steering Committee
Location: JBJohnston Building, room A122, mezzanine
Contact Robin Alexander at (504) 988-6061 or by e-mail at rjalex@tulane.edu.
Meets second and fourth Friday of each month, same time and place
Next meeting: Friday, June 28, 2002.
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Monday, May 28, 2002
Memorial Day
Offices closed; no classes
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Tuesday , May 28, 2002, 12:00 noon
VA Tumor Board
Location: VA Hospital, 1601 Perdido St., fifth floor Medicine Conference Room
Contact V.A. Tumor Registrar, (504) 568-0811 x5477
Meets every Tuesday, same time and place
Next meeting: Tuesday, June 4, 2002.
Tuesday, May 28, 2002, noon
Hematology-Oncology Fellows Weekly Seminar
"Thrombocytopenia"
Marc J. Kahn, M.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine: Hematology/Oncology
Tulane Medical School
Location: Tulane Medical School Building, room 7022
Sponsored by Zeneca
Meets every Tuesday, noon - 1:00 pm
Next meeting: Tuesday, June 4, 2002.
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Wednesday, May 29, 2002, 7:30 am
Breast Tumor Board
Location: Tulane Cancer Center Comprehensive Clinic, room CL-34
Contact Tumor Registrar, (504) 988-5432
Meets every Wednesday, same time and place
Next meeting: Wednesday, June 5, 2002.
Wednesday, May 29, 2002, 12 noon - 1:00 pm
Dept. of Microbiology & Immunology Seminar
"Balanced Responsiveness to Chemoattractants from Adjacent Zones Determines B-Cell Position"
Chassidy Johnson, Graduate Student
Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Tulane Medical School
Location: Tulane Medical School Building room 4150
Wednesday, May 29, 2002, 1 - 2:00 pm
Multidisciplinary Tumor Board
Location: Tulane Cancer Center Comprehensive Clinic, room CL-34
Contact Tumor Registrar, (504) 988-5432
Meets every Wednesday, same time and place
Next meeting: Wednesday, June 5, 2002.
Wednesday, May 29, 2002, 4:00 pm
Leukemia/Lymphoma Tumor Board
CANCELLED
Location: Tulane Cancer Center Comprehensive Clinic, room CL-34
Contact Tumor Registrar, (504) 988-5432
Meets first and fifth Wednesdays of each month, same time and place
Next meeting: Wednesday, June 5, 2002.
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Thursday, May 31, 2002, 7:30 - 9:00 am
Bone Marrow Transplant Conference
CANCELLED
Location: Tulane Comprehensive Cancer Care Clinic room CL-34
Contact Rosalind Huntington at (504) 988-6070, or by e-mail at rhuntin@tulane.edu
Tulane Comprehensive Cancer Care Clinic room CL-34
Meets every Thursday, same time and place.
Next meeting: Thursday, June 6, 2002
Thursday, May 30, 2002, 12 noon - 1:00 pm
Tulane Cancer Center Research Seminar Series
"Hemoglobin Switching: In Vitro and In Vivo Studies in the Human Chimeric Sheep Model of Hematopoiesis"
A. Daisy Narayan, Ph.D.
Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Nevada, Reno
Candidate for post-doctoral fellow, Department of Pharmacology, Tulane Medical School
Location: J. Bennett Johnston Building room 403
Contact Robin Alexander at (504) 988-6061 or by e-mail at rjalex@tulane.edu.
Lunch will be served at 11:45; lecture begins at noon.
Next seminar: Thursday, July 25, 2002
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Friday , May 31, 2002, 12:00 noon
Hematology-Oncology Fellows Journal Club
Speaker to be announced.
Location: Tulane Medical School Building, room 7022
Contact Dr. Zaydan, 588-5263, for weekly topics
Meets every Friday, same time and place
Next meeting: Friday, June 7, 2002.
Friday, May 31, 2002, 6:30 -7:30 pm
Television interview on prostate cancer
"Real Life with Nicole Shephard", live on Cox Cable Channel 77
Rodney Davis, M.D., Betty Jurisich, R.N., and prostate cancer survivor and Tulane patient John Bankston
will discuss Tulane's prostate cancer program, free cancer screenings, treatment options, the SELECT trial, etc.
The show will air again on Cox Channel 8 on Friday, June 7, 2002, at 7:00 p.m.
For more information, contact Melanie Cross at (504) 988-6592 or by e-mail at mcross@tulane.edu
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